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Report: nearly half of N.C. State students graduate with debtThe nationwide Project on Student Debt reported debt grips 47 percent of N.C. State graduates.
Lauren VanderveenStaff Writer
N.C. State’s 2010 graduates were faced with an average debt of $19,988, according to the November report from the Project on Student Debt.
With the current suffering economy
and rising tuition, it has become in-creasingly difficult for students to pay back their debt. University Cashier’s Office and professors qualified the information and gave students sug-gestions on financial management.
Debt rates vary widely around the state with the UNC-Greensboro av-eraging $23,772, Appalachian State University averaging $16,130 and Elizabeth City State University aver-aging only $3,846 for that year.
Despite having one of the higher debt loads, NCSU tied UNC-Chapel
Hill with the lowest percentage of need-based Pell Grant recipients that year at only 18 percent.
However, Julie Mallette, the as-sociate vice provost and director of scholarships and financial aid, said the number of recipients and volume of aid awarded to NCSU students con-tinues to increase each year.
“For 2010-2011, approximately 23,000 N.C. State students, including graduate students and College of Vet-erinary Medicine students, received … approximately $289 million,” Mal-
lette said.Despite those numbers, there are
still instances where students cannot manage to get a student loan or pay back ones they have.
Martha Andre, collections manager for the University Cashier’s Office, sees this happening in the increase of deferments – the delay of payment on loans.
“We definitely see, with this econ-omy, a lot more students applying for deferments. They’ve gotten in touch with us in time before they actually
reach that stage [of defaulting] and you reach that stage when you become eight months past due,” Andre said.
Still, some NCSU students will end up defaulting completely on their loans.
For federal Perkins loans, the default rate for 2010-11 students was 5.16 per-cent, whereas for the previous year it was only 3.46 percent.
The most recent cohort default rate was a much better 2.2 percent for
Steph Daussin, a junior in sociology, sits in the circular “Wolf Ears” outside D.H. Hill Library, Monday, Nov. 21. Daussin decided to study in the ears to take advantage of the nice weather, and to stay close to her car. “My parking meter is about to expire, so I didn’t want to go to the library.” Daussin said she liked the stone sitting area, but didn’t study there much because it was often occupied by other students.
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A new class in EMT training offers emergency training and certification preparedness for students.
Jessie HalpernStaff Writer
When Spencer Shell, then a junior in political science, collapsed on Harris Field while jogging last fall, Matthew Cross, a junior in business administra-tion, was one of the students to aid in his resuscitation.
Having worked as a firefighter and been certified in CPR, he was well
equipped to help save Shell’s life, but the same cannot be said for all N.C. State students. A class that began on campus this semester is seeking to change that.
“At the end of the course, if you pass the exam and class, you can take the North Carolina EMT Basic test and become certified to work as a para-medic,” Cross said. “Imagine if we had thirty or more students who take this class and get certified, they would be trained to handle emergencies that might happen in class.”
The course, PEH/BIO 300, is cur-rently taught by Wake County para-medic chief Gene Lambert, and is a
balance of textbook use, lecture and skill training labs. While Cross said the reading load was large, he said his favorite part of class is the skills lab where students get to put their study-ing to use on one another.
The four-credit course may not fall within most major requirements, but Cross, who is currently studying den-tistry, says that it’s still well worth it.
“If you pass the class and the state exam, you’d be able to work for the fire department or EMS and actually go in the field as a paramedic,” Cross said.
Lambert, who comes to campus
A family holiday far away from familiesInternational students share their Thanksgiving plans.
Will BrooksStaff Writer
Nataliia Shymanska, a Ful-bright Scholar from Ukraine, will be spending her break traveling around to other American cities.
“[Thanksgiving] is very much a family holiday, and I don’t have any family here,” Nataliia said, “It is all very unfamiliar to me; that is why I am not going to celebrate by myself.”
Shymanska, like many interna-tional students, will be spending her Thanksgiving break away from home while American students sit around the family dinner table.
According to the stories of sev-eral international students, their Thanksgiving plans range from not celebrating at all to celebrating the holiday with state-side second families.
Shyman-ska said al-though she does not have a thorough knowledge of the holiday, she appreciates its themes of togetherness and appreciation.
Koji Tokushige, a freshman in mechanical engineering, has been a resident of North Carolina for six years. Tokushige’s parents, who once lived close by, have moved back to Japan. Tokushige said he does not celebrate Thanksgiving but will enjoy the time off.
Some international students still celebrate the holiday, however.
Ken Akiyama, an undeclared freshman from Japan, has cel-ebrated Thanksgiving every year since he moved to the U.S.
“I have a friend that lives here full time that has invited my family to eat [Thanksgiving] with them
for the past three years,” Akiyama said, “We celebrate with them by eat-ing the traditional food.”
Akiyama said there is no holiday like Thanksgiving in Japan. However, he believes that many of the themes of the holiday are celebrated everyday at his home.
“We celebrate for appreciation for food everyday before you eat some-thing, but we don’t have a specific holiday for it,” Akiyama said.
Tokushige believes that in Japan, the Japanese New Year shows similarities to Thanksgiving.
“I think that the Japanese New Year is the biggest event where family dwellers get together.” Tokushige said.
Jonathan Boffa, sophomore in graphic design from Italy, will be spending his Thanksgiving break in Raleigh without his family. He believes that Thanksgiving resembles another holiday that is widely celebrated.
“When I think of a Thanksgiving d i n ner, t he c losest t hat comes to mind is Christmas,” B of f a s a id . “You get to-get her w it h your fami ly
and eat a lot of food.”Shymanska also saw a resemblance
between Christmas and Thanksgiv-ing.
“In general, we have the same spirit, but to Americans it’s very special, like Christmas,” Shymanska said. “In my country we don’t have that kind of national allegiance holiday.”
Shymanska said there are no non-religious holidays that are celebrated so strongly in Ukraine. She also said Christmas is celebrated on January sixth to the seventh in Ukraine, as opposed to December 25.
Thanksgiving is a holiday mainly celebrated in the United States and Canada. Both European settlements
EMT class gives students certification and credit
Technician archive phoToJon Smetana, a junior in sport management, and Robert, a passing runner, stand overlooking Spencer Shell on Dan Allen Drive as paramedics perform chest compressions Sept. 2, 2010. Smetana and Robert were the first on the scene, performing CPR until EMS arrived. A new class finishing its first semester, PEH 300, includes the option to become a certified emergency medical technician. Gene Lambert, Wake County paramedic chief and teacher of the class, said, “It’s a broad class that keeps students interested, but it’s also a lot more in depth than the basic classes [students have] taken before.”
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PoliCe BlotterNovember 1811:01 a.m. | SuSpiciouS PersonDan Allen Deck Report of suspicious vehicle. It was determined vehicle was owned by non-student but vehicle was not located.
11:16 a.m. | LarcenyD.H. Hill Library Non-student reported belongings stolen but later found them.
1:15 p.m. | Drug VioLaTionTucker Hall Report of possible drug violation. Three students were referred to the University. One student was issued citation for simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
5:11 p.m. | Drug VioLaTionOwen Hall Report of possible drug violation. Officer were unable to locate any problems.
8:47 p.m. | SuSpiciouS perSonWolf Village Five students were referred to the university for Disorderly Conduct.
November 1911:12 a.m. | SpeciaL eVenTCarter Finley Stadium N.C. State police and RPD worked NCSU vs Clemson game. Thirty-three subjects were processed by law enforcement with 4 physical arrests. Twenty one of the 33 violations were for alcohol related offenses.
2:11 a.m. | aSSiST anoTher agencyCates Avenue & Pullen Road Student was arrested by Wake County Sherifs Department for DWI and Alcohol Underage and referred to the university for same. Second student who was passenger was referred for Alcohol Underage after being charged by sherif’s office.
2:37 a.m. | meDicaL aSSiST Bragaw Hall Units responded and transported student in need of medical assistance.
4:16 p.m. | SuSpiciouS perSonE.S. King Village Report of subjects loitering in the area. Officers located six juveniles who were non-residents and advised to leave the area.
4:53 p.m. | LarcenyD.H. Hill Library Student reported calculator stolen.
9:21 p.m. | aLcohoL VioLaTionTucker Beach Two students were referred to the university for Alcohol Violation.
November 203:40 a.m. | Fire aLarmWood Hall Officer responded to alarm caused by cooking.
9:24 a.m. | SuSpiciouS perSonUniversity Plaza Report of subject preaching in the area wearing only boxer shorts. Officers located non-student who did not have University approval and was issued trespass warning.
12:06 p.m. | FireHarris HallNCSU PD and RFD responDed to fire in dumpster. Fire was extinguished with no damage to surrounding property. Cause unknown. Appropriate personnel notified.
6:22 p.m. | LarcenyFountain Dining Hall Student reported iPod stolen.
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Fifth-year senior in architecture Douglas Crawford sands down a cut of wood in the shop in Leazar Hall Monday night. Crawford, as part of a small team of other students, is working on the project for ARCH 590, Digital Materials Translations.
The pieces will be assembled to create a parametric coffee table. “We basically draw one piece in the computer and mess with formulas and scripts, so each parameter adjusted affects something else in the piece. We’ve been working on it all semester,” Crawford said.
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sarah roy/TechnicianSenior in biological sciences, Mary Brehm, and senior in biological and agricultural engineering, Tim Gubitz, chat outside of Port City Java Nov. 21. Friends, Brehm and Gubitz, casually met for coffee at the Park Shops location. “It’s a great place to meet up with friends between class,” Brehm said.
from his Wake County EMS department to teach the course, believes emergency training for students would make students and faculty feel safer on campus.
“Emergencies and sickness happen every day, and the dif-ference between life and death can often be measured in sec-onds and minutes. Students having the ability to be on scene with early intervention can make a difference in some-one’s outcome,” Lambert said.
The class isn’t what students necessarily expect, Lambert said.
“With 40 chapters, each about a different topic, it’s a broad class that keeps students interested, but it’s also a lot more in depth than the basic classes they’ve taken before,” Lambert said.
Alissa Moody, a senior in hu-man biology, is glad that she enrolled in this course, spe-cifically because of how it can apply to her previous studies.
“I took a class on brain and spinal cord injury a while ago and learned about some of the new research they’re doing to change the way response to those injuries is handled. This EMT course is really a great way to implement some of those changes,” Moody said. “Students who know about re-search from other areas can use
EMT training to help change the face of medicine.”
While this semester’s stu-dents have yet to take their final, most of the class is ex-pected to pass and sit for the North Carolina EMT exam. Cross, who is excited to get another certification in emer-gency response, says that this course could really change the way emergencies are handled on campus.
“We want to implement a sys-tem that would send a text alert to the students who are regis-tered EMT Basics on campus in the event of an emergency. That way, if one of those students is near the emergency location, they could assist and get all the necessary information while waiting for an ambulance,” Cross said.
have celebrated Thanks-giving since the early 1600s in celebration of the travel overseas and to, of course, be thankful of what they have.
Canada and the U.S. share an identity as a settlement, something that Japan, Ukraine, and Italy do not possess.
Boffa said he didn’t know a lot about Thanksgiving, but as an American for only a year, it is not something he feels the need to celebrate.
“I know that it is about Indians and turkey,” Boffa said, “You break bread with the Indians.”
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NCSU students, according to Mallette.
“[That] is well below the 6.0 percent state default rate and national default rate of 8.8 percent for that year,” Mal-lette said.
The Cashier’s Office pro-motes students making a bud-get so they will not be among those who have defaulted.
“Look at the things that are absolute necessities and things that absolutely have to be paid,” Andre said. “Your student loans have to be paid back. They are reported to credit bureaus and having that negative credit history on your credit report is going to hurt you down the road when you’re trying to buy a house, buy a car, or anything like that.”
Some students have trouble finding loans to start with because lenders perceive the default rate for students to be high, according to associate professor in finance Karlyn Mitchell.
“Lenders know very well that if they charged students 30 per-cent interest rates that students who’d actually take that loan
are guaranteed to default on them. So what they do is they don’t lend at all. It’s one of these instances when the market doesn’t work,” Mitchell said.
For those receiving loans, paying them off is complicated by the job search, according to Andre.
“They either haven’t found a job, so they’re unemployed, or they’re underemployed, meaning they’re still working as a waiter or waitress. They’re basically still at the job they had while they were in school and they haven’t really found that magic career job yet,” An-dre said.
But Mitchell is seeing im-provements in students getting jobs lined up upon graduation.
“The loan situation for stu-dents [isn’t] going to improve dramatically for the next 12 months or so. Although I do think there are indications the economy is picking up because what I know from talking to students in my classes, is that students are getting ready to graduate, they are getting jobs, employers are talking about hiring,” Mitchell said.
NCSU’s Board of Trustees approved the $330 tuition in-crease Friday for in-state un-dergraduates next year, just
under the 6.5 percent cap for tuition increases. They also voted to activate the Univer-sity’s one-time catch-up op-tion, meaning tuition will top $10,000 per year in five years.
With tuition rates on the rise, students will be facing more debt—up to $27,000 if they max out Federal Direct Loans over four years, according to Mallette.
“If students take longer than four years to graduate, they could hit the limit of $31,000 [on Federal Direct Loans] be-fore they graduate,” Mallette said.
Mitchell said students should pay attention to projected in-comes when making education choices. “You want to find the cheapest education that you can find that will give you the highest possible lifetime income,” Mitchell said.“
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Class availability:PEH/BIO 300 Emergency Medical Technician Basic: four credit hours (waitlist)
Prerequisites include:
PEH 280 Responding to Emergencies: two credit hours (closed)PEH 281 First Responder: three credit hours (closed)
– Classes do not fulfill PE requirement. Optional certification is an extra fee.
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n.C. state vs. the statenorth Carolina: Nationwide rank: 38; Average debt $20,959; Proportion with debt: 53 percent
scHOOl AVG. DEBT OF 2010 GRADs
% OF GRADs WITH DEBT
% 2009-10 NEED-BAsED PEllGRANT REcIPIENTs
N.C. State $19, 988 47 18
UNC - CH $16, 165 31 18
ECU $17, 243 57 29
App. State $16, 130 55 22
UNC - Greensboro $23, 772 67 37
UNC - Wilmington $19, 277 25 21
Elizabeth City State $3. 846 44 62
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A roundabout problem
According to Newsobserver.com, there have been 84 accidents at the Hillsborough Street traffic circle.
The roundabout, or traffic circle, as it is sometimes called, is a traffic calming device installed to slow traffic without stopping it, thus accidents are usually at low speeds.
The recently installed, twin-ring traffic circle at Hillsborough and Pullen Rd., intended to enhance the flow of traffic from Hillsborough Street to Cameron Village or downtown Raleigh, has produced 84 accidents at a cost of about $206,000 with minor injuries to 8-9 motorists and an inexplicable surprise to analysts.
Raleigh Transportation Operations Manager Mike Kennoners said, ”I would chalk this up to the complexity of roundabout.” Traffic flags and signs have been installed, and written safety reminders have been issued to assist the drivers.
Senior transportation engineer, Jed Niffenegger, says the accidents have been low speed ones with few injuries.
NCSU officials, according to the Newsobserver.com report, said “There’s no sign in crash reports that drivers are learning how to navigate the Bell Tower roundabout safely.” Furthere, there is a distinct increase in accidents when school is in session, and it appears changes are already being considered.
Cameras have been installed about the roundabout to give officials a view of the drivers’ movements and the traffic flow.
But wait! There is a solution. As a Wolfline Operator bus driver, and someone who sits a bit higher than most drivers in the circle, I’ve noticed one major difference among the Hillsborough Street roundabout and those in Europe and Washington, D.C., which I’ve had to navigate at a much higher speed. They are not landscaped; they are just cold concrete, as I recall.
But as Eric Lamb, transportation manager, says, roundabouts are cheaper to maintain, safer than traditional intersections and “...more aesthetically pleasing.”
Therein lies the solution that I and several motorists have observed, and it is alluded to in the News & Observer story by Bruce Siceloff. One driver makes the comment, “I didn’t see the guy at all.” Another: “It may look pretty…”
The approach of cars from
east Raleigh going west on Hillsborough St. are not readily seen by drivers going toward downtown because of the landscaping of the shrubbery in the middle of the circle.
Eliminating the shrubbery might just solve the problem. Hey! It’s worth a try.
Daniel Young, Wolfline transit operator
Rush the field
If certain precautions had been instituted and known ahead of the game, rushing the field would have been a safe and controlled environment for all to enjoy a much deserved Wolfpack victory.
After the dust has settled, I still have yet to see a good reason why rushing the field after a victory over a top 10 football team can’t be practical or safe if we institute certain rules. It’s important to understand that no one is calling for a free for all. What a majority of students would like to see is the tens of thousands of dollars that we spend per game on security go toward the safe facilitation of rushing the field in the event of a rare, emotionally fulfilling win rather than toward threats of arrest or pepper spray.
On the practical side of things, I think most would agree that it isn’t feasible for students sitting in sections 6/7/8 to rush over the high wall. But why should that stop the thousands of students sitting in the end zone areas from either hopping over the short wall (which several did on Saturday without incident…except, you know, the arrest), or taking one of 8 sets of stairs that go from the end zone seating areas to the field? Instead of having police lining the student sections, they could just as easily form a line to provide a clear form of exit for the away team and coaches, and at the bottom of 6/7/8 to prevent kids from jumping.
If these simple things had been instituted and known ahead of the game, it would have been a safe and controlled environment for all to enjoy a much deserved Wolfpack victory.
Brady Nemeth, senior in international studies
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Thanksgiving break hap-pens to fall on the most hectic portion of fall
semester. The University calls the week immediately follow-ing Thanksgiving dead week, but in most cases, dead week is quite alive. Consequently, Thanksgiving is a rushed break filled with homework, travel and stress.
Thanksgiving is supposed to be a break from school, an op-portunity to spend time with loved ones and to enjoy eating something other than Ramen and dining hall food. The way the University structures this break makes it impossible for in-state students—much less out-of-state and international students—to enjoy Thanksgiv-ing.
As it stands now, Thanksgiv-ing spans over five days, in-cluding the weekend. For out-
of-state students, it really only covers three days, including Thanksgiving. Most of their break, if these students choose to journey home, is spent on planes, in cars or in trains. Due to traffic and expenses, simply going home is a huge hassle and teachers make it even more dif-ficult for these students by as-signing tests or making papers due the Tuesday before break or the Monday immediately after.
International students don’t even have the option of jour-neying home unless they miss significant days of class. The Monday and Tuesday immedi-ately before break are not con-venient days to miss because of the notoriously high workload,
and though students have the option of missing these class days, the consequences are not always worth it.
This doesn’t even consider the ridiculously high costs of airfare during the days around and on Thanksgiving. A flight this time of year is often hun-dreds of dollars more expen-sive than a flight the weekend prior to Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving in America is a time to get together with fam-ily and friends. However, a sig-nificant number of the student population is robbed of this opportunity all together due to the structure of Thanksgiving break.
There is an alternative to the current situation. If N.C. State
allowed a week for Thanksgiv-ing break, both international students and out-of-state stu-dents would have a better op-portunity to travel home and see their families. In-state stu-dents would also benefit from having a few extra days to tack-le the enormous Thanksgiving workload and get ready for fi-nals week.
State students love their reading days, but these have been under consideration for a while now. Students should be consulted about which days they would be willing to sur-render for a longer Thanks-giving break because most students would benefit from a few extra days and would un-doubtedly vote to have school on days which are now holi-days at some point during the semester.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the
responsibility of the editor-in-chief.
Students need a week of Thanksgiving breakThe FacTs:Thanksgiving break at N.C. State and most other universities includes Thanksgiving Day, the Wednesday prior and the Friday after. Some Universities in the North have a week of break in honor of Thanksgiving.
Our OpiniOn:Three days of break does not provide every student at N.C. State an equal opportunity to spend time with their families and enjoy break. N.C. State should replace the Monday and Tuesday before break with vacation days and borrow from previous holidays in the semester.
In Tebow we TrustWhat would Tebow do?
That’s the question, right? That’s the
only question, if you under-stand his place and why he was made for it. Take a step back, and you’ll see that Tim Tebow, the dragon slayer and protector
of all things go o d , w ho also happens to play quar-terback for the Denver Bron-cos, isn’t a football player at all.
That’s what the air blow-ers and NFL purists just d o n ’t g e t .
“The Tebow” was never meant to be taken seriously. Just listen to him. He’s the sort of person who talks about Je-s-us, instead of Jesus — think about the way that kid from Campus Cru-sades sounds, and now you’ve got it.
And then he takes that knee and plants it in the ground in the most holy of genuflections for another round of Tebow-ing — go ahead and look up the Website devoted to this topic if you’re still confused.
The legend would already be immense for this saint among regular football players, but it gets better. HE JUST WINS!
Hopefully you’re getting it by now. The football arguments are ridiculous and unimport-ant. Tebow isn’t about the games on the field. The narra-tive is his polarizing character and legions of supporters.
His detractors should be ca-pable of understanding what’s going on here, but many are naively tied to the idea that football operates as a meritoc-racy where the “most talented” athletes receive the glory and the lesser scrubs fall to the back. In other words, there are those that hope football works like an unbiased justice system where the bad guy always goes to Leavenworth.
In reality, entertainment — see football — almost never work s t h i s way. Do the best ac tors star in the highest-gross-ing blockbust-ers ? Surely not, it ’s a l l about casting.
And that’s t h e p oi nt . Tim Tebow is the perfect ac-tor for a Mid-western foot-ball franchise t hat hasn’t been relevant since John Elway, the original Andrew Luck, re-tired. He sells jerseys, tickets and foam fingers like the most valuable player in the league, not one who is questioned on grounds of NFL competency.
His actual talent, whatever it may be, will never be important as long as he delivers record rat-ings and page hits. In fact, on those grounds, you could argue Tim Tebow was a steal towards the end of the first round in the 2010 NFL Draft.
The average fan might not
want to accept this cold re-ality, but it doesn’t make it any less true. The benefactor that brought us Redzone, fantasy and towel waving is in fact an entertainment business where winning is defined by dollars, not championships.
In the excitement — and relief — of the end of the NFL lockout during the summer, we quickly forgot about the convoys of law-yers, union representatives
and own-ers f ight-ing over billions of dollars.
Not mil-lions. Bil-lions.
To h i s credit, Tim Tebow is by all ac-counts a remark-ably genu-ine human
being. The positive portray-als, for once, may actually do this young man justice. But at the end of the day, there’s really only one rea-son the Denver Broncos and the National Football League are chanting the hymn of Tim Tebow: Great big piles of the good stuff.
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Christin Kingfreshman, design studies
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Patrick Banassenior, biology
“I’m going home to spend time with my family.”
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‘Skyrim’ continues ‘Elder Scrolls’ legacyThe RPG that released Nov. 11 is a high contender for “Game of the Year”.
Brooke ShafranekStaff Writer
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is hands-down the best role-playing game that I have ever played. Having been in the running for “‘Game of the Year’ even before its release date, the open world of Skyrim offers countless hours of rich content and gameplay. I am over 20 hours in, and I still have barely scratched the surface of what Skyrim has to offer.
It’s obvious you’re playing an Elder Scrolls game when your character starts out in a prison. The opening scene alone is in-credible, and had me hooked right from the start. The char-acter-creation has improved from the last game, with more options that truly allow the player to customize his char-acter to the fullest.
The graphics are absolutely gorgeous. The snow-covered mountain tops of Skyrim are some of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. When I find myself stopping in the middle of my trek to my quest location to look at the land-scape, I know Bethesda has outdone themselves. The game doesn’t just look realistic: it looks real.
The non-playable characters
no longer have a flat, standard personality as seen in the previ-ous Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Each non-playable character has identifiable traits—a per-sonality, that really enriches the storyline. Skyrim also offers the opportunity for the player’s character to get married, which is an exciting new detail. There is an orphanage in the game; however, its existence has mis-lead players into thinking that adoption is possible.
The Elder Scrolls series has al-ways offered amazing plotlines for stories, and has been able to tell them in captivating ways. The main quest of Skyrim is no different, and is mind-blowing in its revealing. The events of the previous installment are also apparent and mentioned, bringing a sense of a true con-tinuation.
Because of its open-world format, there are seemingly infinite amounts of side-quests and dungeons. The realm of Skyrim does not let anyone get bored, that’s for sure. I found it almost impossible to stick to one storyline without being able to resist the temptation on another quest that popped up along the way.
The detail does not stop with the main storyline, however: the side-quests are well-done and exciting. One to point out is the Dark Brotherhood, a “family” of assassins whose in-depth and murderous plot-line offers one of the best that I
have seen from the Elder Scrolls series.
And, of course, there are dragons. The dragons are done so perfectly to match the gamestyle, and are absolutely
stunning when they aren’t try-ing to kill you, and are often still stunning when they are. Fighting them is enjoyable, and Bethesda giving them a mind of their own has led to
interesting fights in all sorts of locations. Some dragons prefer to fight from the skies, while others land to do battle. The variety of dragons and their fighting style only adds to their existence in the game.
Every game, though, has its cons. There are some major glitches that can’t be ignored. There is a texture glitch that affects some graphics of the game. For example, I was fight-ing a dragon and instead of his scaly back, it was a flat green-screen-esque body. There are
also some instances of char-acters freezing, which is why I recommend to save often.
Every game has its glitches, and I am sure Bethesda will fix them in an update. Skyrim has by far met and exceeded expec-tations with everything it has to offer. As far as I am concerned, the flaws are forgiven.
After playing Skyrim, it is clear why people are scream-ing “Game of the Year.”
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Technician’s weekly “Spotted in the Brickyard” highlights a fashionable student found in the Brickyard. From eclectic and vintage to classic and chic, Technician will be sure to bring you fresh looks every week.
studying on top of D.h. hill’s terrace area, junior in civil engineering, Erin beaton is wearing black jeggings from American Eagle ($60), a grey sweater from American Eagle ($60), a white Armani watch ($500) and a pair of ray bans ($120). beaton said “on a typical day being cool and classy with comfort in everything I wear is what I try to portray when I’m on campus.”
Walking out of D.h. hill library, freshman in design studies trabazz bruce is wearing white Nike’s ($65), black Label jeans ($25), a pink and white sweater from Walmart ($10), a white collar shirt from ross ($25) and a blue watch given by a friend (Free). bruce said “on a daily basis matching is pretty viable. If I have red, white and blue shoes, I’ll try to match it with something up top. today though I was dressing up for the Collegiate 100 open forum held in D.h hill so I wanted to dress up nice.”
photo courtesy of bethesda studiosThis newly released RPG, Skyrim, offers improved graphics and entertaining environments, ideal for gaming for hours.
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‘Little Women’ is not your normal holiday production University Theatre primes audiences for the holidays with Louisa May Alcott’s classic ‘Little Women.’
Trey FergusonViewpoint Editor
Little Women is a coming of age novel loosely displaying Louisa May Alcott’s childhood in Concord, Massachusetts, depicting the lives of four sis-ters undergoing the trials and tribulations of life during the Civil War. Since the first pub-lication in 1868 Alcott has writ-ten numerous books, including a second volume in response to the popularity of Little Women.
University Theatre provides an opportunity for audiences to watch this Amer-ican classic come alive on stage. With stu-dents from a l l back-grounds a nd ma-jors, none of which being the-ater, this production provides not only a heart-touching story, but also a showcase of student talent.
The atmosphere surround-ing the production upon en-try to the theater ignites an automatic sense of the holiday season with a cozy civil war era home adorned with pieces of holly and candlelight. Like so many University Theatre productions, they love their projections, which can either make or break a performance.
Luckily for this production,
the projection not only helped with creating various atmo-spheres, but physically dis-played the mood and tone of various scenes throughout the production. Allison Bergman, assistant director of Univer-sity Theatre and the director for Little Women, claimed the projections were meant to help with the changing locations and time of various scenes, but in such a way that could demonstrate the feelings of the scenes.
Bergman went on to say the biggest challenge was preparing the actors with the period of the production; the language of the Civil War era, the emotions and roles of the women in this time as well as the authentic clothing. Bergman explained
to prepare f o r t h e produc-t ion, the cast read Alcott’s novel and began re-hearsals in corsets and hoop skirts to develop t h e a p -propriate the move-ments.
After hearing this, it is evident the preparation for this produc-tion succeed.
This production takes you through a year of the life of the March family during a time of war and poverty. Characters experience various situations throughout a year all inter-twined with their sisterhood and sense of family. The cast effectively creates the charac-ters of Alcott’s novel with great skill and pose.
Leanna T. Hall, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, plays the role of Meg March, the well-mannered oldest sis-ter. Jordan Manning, a senior in communications media, portrays the lead role of Jo March, the second oldest sister and the character based off of Alcott herself. Manning brings the same sense of independent and strong-minded personality to the character as described in the books.
Jordan NeCamp, freshmen in fashion and textile man-agement, plays the second youngest march sister, Beth, who encompasses the kind-heartedness of this character.
NeCamp creates a character audiences fall in love with, bringing only heart-ache in the climatic beginning scene of act two. Kathleen Caldwell, freshmen in First Year College, brings the nativity and eager-ness of the youngest March sister Amy.
All four actresses create an exciting dynamic to their roles and interactions with other characters. The relationships between these three women create the sense of sisterhood desperately needed for this production. While the per-forming elements combined with some technical aspects helped to enhance the feeling
of the play, others took away from the moment.
Many times the lack of action or sound during transition or pivotal moments of the pro-duction took audiences out of the moment actors worked so hard to engage them in. It could benefit the overall production to have a better flow to the pro-duction as a whole, rather than the individual moments of the show.
However, these individ-ual moments helped depict the emotions of the family throughout the entire produc-tion. The play was merely a string of production snap-shots from a moment in the
time of these women’s lives. The moments nearly created what looked like illustrations straight from Alcott’s novel. These pictures of emotions and family helped create the overall tone the production attempted to achieve.
Each actress of the four sis-ters brought some different element to the end product, and as Bergman described the audience is the last piece in that equation. As Jo says in the production, this production is “about all of us, and bout you, sir. It’s a story about you. And a story about me.” This produc-tion is truly about our history and about our future.
TYLER ANDREWS/TEchNiciANSophomore in business administration Leanna Hall and senior in computer science David Johnson play the romantic parts of Meg and John in University Theatre’s presentation of Little Women on Tuesday Nov. 15 in Titmus Theatre.
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1. #5 Virginia Tech (10-1, 6-1 ACC; Last Week 2) – TheHokies continue to win thecloseones,puttingthemselvesinpositiontowintheACCforthe fourth time infiveyearsandthefifthtimesincetheyjoinedtheconferencein2004.(11/26vs.Virginia)2. #17 Clemson (9-2, 6-2 ACC; LW 1) –IsthistheteamthattheACCwants representingthemintheBCS?IftheTigerscontinuetoplayliketheydid
againstN.C.State,theanswerisno.Clemsonwasoutplayedonbothsidesof theball, enroutetoanembarrassing37-13 loss. (11/26 @ #12 SouthCarolina)
3. Virginia (8-3, 5-2 ACC ; LW 4) –Virginiaisclearlythemost improved team in theACC.Ayearaftergoing4-8,theCavaliersareincontentionfortheCoastalDivisionandtheschool’s firstappearancein the ACC Championship.(11/26 vs. #5 Virginia Tech)
4. #23 Georgia Tech (8-3, 5-3 ACC; LW 5) – Tevin Wash-ingtonhas foundhisgrooveonce again, protecting thefootballandblazingatrailontheground.Whiletherewasonce hope for a conferencechampionship,GeorgiaTechshouldbethrilledtobeintheposition they are, especiallyafterasub-.500campaignin2010.(11/26vs.#13Georgia)
5. Florida State (7-4, 5-3 ACC; LW 3) –ThereturntotheTop25wasshortlivedasFloridaState lost theirsecondhomegameoftheseason,thistimetoVirginia.Atthispointintheseason,it’shardtobelievetheSeminoleswereeverconsid-eredNationalChampionshipcontenders.(11/26@Florida)
6. Wake Forest (6-5, 5-3 ACC; LW 6) – ThefourthtimewasacharmfortheDemonDea-consasWakeForestbeatMary-landtoclinchbowleligibilityandhaltathreegamelosingstreak.(11/26vs.Vanderbilt)
7. N.C. State (6-5, 3-4 ACC; LW 11) – The inexplicablelow of the Boston CollegegamewasfollowedbyaWolf-packvictoryagainstatop-tenteam.JustasState’sseasonisjustaboutover,thePackplayslikethey’reNationalTitlecon-tenders.(11/26vs.Maryland)
8. Miami (6-5, 3-4 ACC; LW 7) –Itcamedowntothewire,but the Hurricanes reachedbowleligibilityagainstSouthFlorida. However, Miamiis self-imposing a bowl banthat will keep them out ofthisyear’spostseason.Maybe
thiswillbeenoughofapen-altyintheeyesoftheNCAAsothecurrentplayerswillnothave to continue to pay forthe mistakes of the alumni.(11/15 vs. Boston College)
9. North Carolina (6-5, 2-5 ACC; LW 8) – Atthispoint,theTarHeelsprobablywishtheywere an independent team.NorthCarolinahasbeenabys-malintheACC,going2-5aftersweeping itsnon-conferenceopponents. (11/26vs.Duke)
10. Duke (3-8, 1-6 ACC; LW 10) – The Blue Devils arestill struggling to find waysto win. Twice in the fourthquarter, Duke was within atouchdown of Georgia Techbut could not seal the deal.(11/26 @ North Carolina)
11. Boston College (3-8, 2-5 ACC ; LW 9) – The Eagleshaveshownlifelateinthesea-son, almost upsetting NotreDame inSouthBendafterawinoverN.C.State.Quietly,linebackerLukeKuechlyhasbeen among the best in thecountry and could eclipseBubba Brown as the ACC’sall-timeleaderintacklesthisweekend. (11/25 @ Miami)
12. Maryland (2-9, 1-6 ACC; LW 12) –TheopportunitytoplayspoilerpresenteditselftotheTerpsagainstWakeFor-est,but they couldnotkeeptheDeacsfromreachingbowleligibility.Marylandneedsonemorewintoavoidtheirsec-onddouble-digit lossseasoninthreeyears.(11/[email protected])
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hold rigorous, year-roundtrainingandpracticesched-ulesandstudent-athletesmustmaintainahighcommitmentlevel.Theteamstravelnation-allyandprovidehighlevelsofcompetition.Aclubsportusu-allycanonlytravelregionallyandtypicallydoesn’trequireasmuchcommitmentandskill.Benefits toprofessional andOlympic sports — Collegecoaches are responsible foridentifying the majority ofthe premier youth athletes.Ifnon-revenuesportsarecutacrossthecountry,thismeanstherewillbelesspeoplescout-ingoutthebesttalentthena-tionoffers.Giftedathletesmaythendecidetogointorevenuesportstohaveabetterchanceat a scholarship. Once theathletescometocollege,thecoaches train their student-
athletes to reach their fullpotential.Manyformernon-revenuestudent-athletesexcelattheprofessionalandgloballevels including Hope Solo,JustinVerlander,PhilMick-elson, Misty May-TreanorandTysonGay.AtN.C.State,twelveswimmershavebeenintheOlympics,including2008SummerOlympicsU.S.Agoldmedalwinner,CullenJones.Encourages involvement insportsandexercise—Manychildren become interestedinsportsbyattendingathleticevents. Due to the growingpercentageofoverweightandobesepeople,itismoreimpor-tantnowthaneverthatkidstakeaninterestinsomesportor staying physically active.Noteverykidwillbeinterestedinplayingfootballorbasket-ball.Inmanyareasacrossthecountry,collegesportsarethehighestlevelofferedandasaresultmanychildrenlookupto student-athletes. If non-
revenuesportsarecutitwillbemoredifficultforchildrenandyouthteamstoseehigh-qualitylevelsofnon-revenuesportsandboysandgirlswouldbelesslikelytogetintosports.Opportunitiesforwomen—AsaresultofTitleIX,womenandmenaregivenequalop-portunityincollegiateathlet-ics.Unfortunately,collegeath-leticsisoneofthefewplacesinsocietywherethisistrulyoffered.Since thepassageofTitleIXin1972,thenumberofwomeninvolvedwithsportshas increasedapproximatelysixtimesaccordingtotheBad-gerHerald.Allwomen’ssportsareconsiderednon-revenue;therefore,cuttingnon-revenuesportswouldcertainlymeancuttingsomewomen’ssports.This coulddamperprogressmadeingenderequalityovertheyears.
“She’senergetic;she’sintoherjob. I’ve never seen anyonethatlovestheirjoblikeKelliedoes.Kellieisday-by-daydo-ingdifferentstuff,whetherit’srecruiting,onthecourt,offthecourt,alwaysintoit.Basketballisherlife.Shelovesit.”
Goodwin-Coleman’ssenti-mentsaboutHarperarerep-resentativeoftheentireteam.SeniorforwardBonaeHolstonalsolovesplayingforHarper.
“It’s funplayingforCoachHarper because everybodygets the same opportunity,”Holston said. “Coach Kellieandthecoachingstaffalwaysdotheirbesttogetuspreparedforeachandeverygame.”
Harper admitted that herteam struggled defensively
lastseason.Shehasfocusedalotofpracticesthisseasononimprovingtheteam’sdefensefromlastyear.Theteamalsohasanewstrengthandcon-ditioningcoachthisyear,andaccordingtoHarper,theteamisalreadyshowingresults.
“Asfarasjustbasketball isconcerned, I think we havemoredepthnowthanwedidwhenIfirstgothere,”Harpersaid.“Anytimethatyouhaveanewstaffcomingin,every-bodyhastheirownphilosophy,
andplayershave to learnandbuyintothatphiloso-phy.Rightnow,ourplay-ersaretothepointwheretheycouldprobablydesignandrunapracticeforme.I probably wouldn’t haveto create it myself. Theycoulddoit,andyoucan’tgettothatpointunlessyourplayersareverycomfortablewithwhotheircoachisandwhattheircoachstandsforandwhat’simportanttoourprogram.”
coachcontinued from page 8
andersoncontinued from page 8“As far as just basketball is
concerned, I think we have more
depth now than we did when I first
got here.”Coach Kellie Harper
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Amerson among finalists for Jim Thorpe AwardSophomore cornerback David Amerson was announced as one of the three finalists for the 2011 Jim Thorpe Award on Monday. Amerson leads the nation with 11 interceptions on the season. The other finalists for the Thorpe Award, which is awarded annually to the top college defensive back, include Alabama’s Mark Barron and LSU’s Morris Claiborne. The award will be presented on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 9 p.m. on The Home Depot College Football Awards on ESPN.
Source: The Jim Thorpe ASSociATion
Men take 10th, women take 23rd in NCAA Cross Country ChampionshipThe men’s cross country team obtained 10th place and the women took 23rd at the NCAA Championship on Monday. Senior Ryan Hill and redshirt sophomore Andrew Colley took All-American honors from the competition; Hill snagged his third career All-American honors on the day.
Source: n.c. STATe AThleTicS
Three players named ACC Football Players of the WeekThree Wolfpack football players were announced as ACC Football Players of the Week on Monday. Redshirt junior quarterback Mike Glennon, redshirt freshman defensive end Art Norman and junior safety Brandan Bishop were named as the players of the week. Glennon was named the offensive back of the week, Norman was the rookie of the week and Bishop was the defensive back of the week for their 37-13 win over No. 7 Clemson.
Source: n.c. STATe AThleTicS
Kellie Harper has sights set on successful third season at State.
Allyssa PearsonStaff Writer
The 2011-2012 basketball season marks Kellie Harper’s third season coaching at N.C. State, and it’s already started off with a 3-0 record.
Prior to Harper’s years of coaching experience, she had a successful basketball career of her own. Her history with the sport is surely an asset when it comes to coaching the Wolfpack.
Harper was raised in the small Tennessee town of Spar-ta. During her high school years, Harper played for White County High School, which was nationally ranked at that time. Over the years, she was named MVP of sev-eral tournaments.
“When I was in high school, I was on a really, really good team,” Harper said. “Our team was ranked number one in the nation for a while. A lot of my former high school teammates played college bas-ketball. I think probably 15 of them at some point played college basketball. That’s what we did in my small town--girls grew up and they wanted to be basketball players. That was the cool thing.”
After high school, she went
on to play for the University of Tennessee under Pat Summitt. Summitt, the Lady Volunteer’s head coach, has been coaching at Tennessee for 38 seasons, with a remarkable 1,071-199 overall record. Among her many achievements, she was inducted in to the basketball hall of fame in October of 2000.
Summit led Harper’s team to three national championships. At that time, Harper ranked in the top 10 career leaders in several areas, includ-ing three-point field goal percentage and assists.
“[It was] an amazing experience to be in that kind of atmosphere ev-ery single night,” Harp-er said. “We played in front of 25,000 people multiple times. In the 90’s, it was the best place for women’s basketball.”
Prior to her arrival at State, Harper coached at Western Carolina. Her team went to four post-season tournaments and two conference champion-ships during her time there.
Harper began her first sea-son at State in strong fash-ion, leading her team to the NCAA’s.
“I love playing for Kellie,” sophomore guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman said.
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The University of M a r y l a n d a n -nounced yesterday
that it will be cutting eight non-revenue sports effec-tive June 30, 2012 to balance the athletic department’s budget. The program is
facing de-clining revenues f rom it s football and bas-ketball programs. The sports to be elim-inated are men’s in-
door track and field, men’s outdoor track and field, men’s cross-country, both men’s and women’s swim-ming and diving, men’s ten-nis, women’s water polo and aerobics and tumbling.
This is not the first time in recent years that multiple non-revenue sports have attempted to be cut from a major Division 1 uni-versity. Last year, Univer-sity of California-Berkeley stopped supporting five non-revenue sports, but all five teams received enough donations to stay afloat, ac-cording to Bloomberg.
Even though the vast ma-jority of non-revenue sports
lose money, they provide many benefits and should be kept at all costs.
Giving more people a chance to go to college — The main benefit of having non-revenue sports is each year, it gives thousands of young adults who might not have been able to attend college the ability to do so. Attending college provides many career and network-ing opportunities. Being on a collegiate team builds communication and leader-ship skills, establishes disci-pline, time management and fosters a strong work ethic. Higher levels of competition and training — Critics of non-revenue sports say that these sports could just be of-fered at the club level. How-ever the competition and training quality is simply not the same at the club and var-sity level. Varsity sports hire multiple full-time coaches, who are experts in the sport they coach. Club sports may or may not have a coach and those that do, the coaches aren’t ful l-time. Varsity sports have their adminis-trative duties handled by the athletic department, where as club sports must handle it themselves. Varsity sports
The importance of non-revenue sports
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athletiC sChedule
WednesdayWomen’s Volleyball Vs. north CarolinaRaleigh, 1 p.m.
Women’s basketball Vs. JaCksonVilleReynold’s Coliseum, 7 p.m.
Fridaymen’s basketball Vs. elonReynold’s Coliseum, 7 p.m.
SaturdayFootball Vs. marylandRaleigh, 12:30 p.m.
SundayWomen’s basketball at CreightonOmaha, Neb., 3 p.m.
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N.C. State defeats Texas, 77-74.
Nolan EvansCorrespondent
The N.C. State Wolfpack pulled off an unpredictable comeback at the TicketCity Legends Classic at the Izod Center Monday, edging the Texas Longhorns 77-74.
Down 18 points more than eight minutes into the second half, the ball-game was seemingly over for the Wolfpack. The de-fense was failing and the Longhorn offense was firing on all cylinders. However, with the Pack still trailing by 13, Texas guard J’Covan Brown was called for a foul on sophomore forward Cal-vin Leslie.
After sharing a few words with the referee, Brown was called for a technical foul, fouling out of the game with 8:25 left. Junior for-ward Scott Wood drained both technical foul free throws and Leslie proceed-ed to hit each of his shots from the charity stripe, cut-ting the Texas lead to single digits at 65-56 for the first time since the 5:06 mark in the first half.
These consecutive free throws led to a critical momentum shift for State. They picked up big defen-sive stops that led to three pointers by Wood and redshirt senior guard Alex Johnson, along with a thun-derous alley-oop by Leslie assisted by sophomore guard Lorenzo Brown, cut-ting the Texas lead to two at the score of 66-64.
With 5:29 to play, junior center DeShawn Painter gave the Pack the lead at
69-67 for the first time since going up 8-7 with 16:14 to play in the first half. State didn’t stop there. They continued to increase the lead, going up 75-67 with 2:58 to play on a Brown layup assisted by senior guard C.J. Williams, capping off a nearly flawless 28-2 run.
Texas didn’t go out quietly, however, as the Longhorns pulled within three points with less than a minute to play. Fol-lowing a missed three pointer by Texas freshman Sheldon McClellan, Leslie grabbed the defensive rebound and was im-mediately fouled, sending him to the free throw line.
Missing both shots, Texas grabbed the rebound and hur-ried the ball up court, only to meet an impenetrable State defense, forcing them to call a timeout with 1.6 seconds left. Following the inbound play, Texas heaved a three-point attempt that fell short of the rim, solidifying the comeback by the Wolfpack.
Nearly as big of a story as NCSU’s comeback was its bench play. Players coming off the bench for State outscored Texas starters 42-15, featuring Leslie as the game high scorer with 17, tied with the Long-horns’ J’Covan Brown.
“Our bench did a great job in the second half, and that’s how we really won this game is our bench,” Leslie said postgame. “It just shows that we can fight through anything. An 18-point deficit, you know, teams would probably give up sometimes and it just that we’ve got heart and that we can take it all. We can come back.”
The Wolfpack’s next game will be at home at historic Reynolds Coliseum at 7 p.m. Friday as they take on Elon University.
Wolfpack completes comeback after 28-2 run
BrenT KiTchen/TechniciAnsophomore guard lorenzo brown puts up a jump shot against UNC-asheville at the RbC Center Friday, Nov. 11. brown had 13 points in the Wolfpack’s 84-75 victory over the bulldogs.
Brian AndersonStaff Writer
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Quote of the day
“It just shows that
we can fight through
anything.”Calvin Leslie,
sophomore forward
