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Elizabeth MoomeyStaff Writer
Two words have been thrown around about the recent North Carolina Board of Governor’s picks: conservative and controversial.
On Sept. 13, the BOG announced 27 new members for its UNC Advi-sory Committee on Strategic Direc-
tions. The members will serve 2013 to 2018 and will decide the terms of financial spending, academic stan-dards and the missions of North Carolina’s colleges and universities to further prepare students for the workforce.
NC Policy Watch, a progressive, nonprofit and non-partisan public policy group, has been critical of
recent appointments in particular.New members include North
Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and North Carolina Senator Phil Berger, who recently signed the largest budget cuts in the UNC System’s history.
Other members are Robert In-gram, the former president and chief operating officer of GlaxoSmith-
Kline, a pharmaceutical company, donated $96,000 to the Republican Party and N.C. Chamber President Lew Ebert, who is said to be more interested in the tax-cutting agenda of the Republicans than supporting important public investments in key state institutions like universities, according to N.C. Policy Watch.
The high amount of conservatives
has already caused backpedaling on a policy that would set a certain percentage of tuition increases to low-income families to help them send their children to a UNC school. The policy also mentioned decreas-ing the amount of liberal arts pro-
Jessie HalpernNews Editor
N.C. State’s Bell Tower has been silent for more than one week due to old parts and light-ening damage.
The Bell Tower has been syn-onymous with N.C. State for more than 60 years, and assis-tant vice chancellor for facilities, Jack Colby, said it hasn’t lost it’s voice—at least since he’s been at the University.
“This is the first time as far as I know that the Bell Tower’s sound system hasn’t worked in at least 10 or 12 years,” Colby said.
Associate vice chancellor for facilities, Kevin MacNaughton, said the Bell Tower’s chimes come from an electronic system run by an office in Holladay Hall and not an actual bell.
“We believe the root of the problem was lightening dam-age,” Colby said. “We’ve had other issues relating to lighten-ing damage in the tower before, but those involved the light sys-tem.”
Colby said the original prob-lem was looked at and fixed last week, but because of the age of the components in the tower, one of the electronic systems broke. The Facilities Depart-ment has been working with a company in California for more than a week to replace the parts and they have recently been shipped, Colby said.
“The system is very old, and with older technology, it’s far more difficult to obtain replace-ment parts and make repairs,” Colby said. “The best case is that we’ll have it fixed by the end of the week, but it all depends on when we get those parts.”
Colby said there are several planned events that require the Bell Tower to chime in the near future and fixing it as soon as possible is a priority.
As of Tuesday, no students have made any inquiries about the Bell Tower’s lack of sound, according to Colby.
Jessie HalpernNews Editor
Readyforce, a social networking company that connects students with jobs at start-up companies, will be on campus Wednesday at the College of Engineering Career Fair.
The company is visiting N.C. State as part of its Hacker Tour, an ex-pedition to appear at 25 campuses across the country in eight weeks. Traveling on the tour bus is Anna Binder, vice president of client ser-vices, and two other Readyforce em-ployees who act as tour managers.
Readyforce works like a “dating site” for professionals because it’s all based on online profile matching, according to Binder.
“The student profile emphasizes what students are passionate about, not so much what they have expe-rience in because a lot of students don’t have experience,” Binder said. “There is a place to showcase interests and relevant coursework as well.”
Once a profile is made, Binder said students can start searching for the companies who are also members of Readyforce—mostly tech start-ups ranging from small to large.
In their search, students are able to learn about specific companies through information and video be-fore requesting to be “introduced.” Once that request is sent, the com-pany gets an email notification to
view a student’s profile. Three weeks, 10 campuses and
1,300 additional student profiles later, Binder said the tour is going strong.
“Eventually, we want to be the place where every student starts their career, but we’re starting out with engineering students and tech startups,” Binder said. “We live in the land of startups, and all startups are desperate to hire engineers, so it was a natural place to start.”
Though the Hacker Tour is focus-ing on engineering, Readyforce does not. Binder said the site is open for and used by students of all majors who wish to connect with any of the 100 companies registered thus far.
The Hacker Tour arrived on cam-pus Tuesday afternoon, and Binder said her team has been impressed.
“When you show up to the career fair, there’s a small army of students in red to welcome you,” Binder said. “No one was stressed out, and every-one was helpful.”
One aspect Binder said she found surprising is that the career fair is open to students from other schools, as well as alumni.
“That is unheard of, but it really makes the fair attractive,” Binder said. “I think it’s awesome.”
The Hacker Tour has set up in an engineering building on Centennial Campus and is easily found by look-ing for their colorful tour bus.
Binder’s focus has been helping
students on campus learn about start-ups and getting them to sign up on the website, but connecting with employers isn’t the only incen-tive to visiting the tour.
“No one leaves our booth without a T-shirt,” Binder said.
Readyforce is a startup company itself, yet with only a few years under its belt, the organization has raised more than $14 million. Based in San Francisco, the company was cre-ated as a means of improving the job search for students, according to its website, readyforce.com.
“Readyforce was founded on the belief that the traditional job search process is broken,” the website said. “This is true for both job seekers and hiring companies. We exist to make the job search process better and easier.”
Binder became involved with the company after working in human resources for most of her career.
“The thing I spent the most time on was figuring out how you attract, recruit, hire and motivate people to do amazing things,” Binder said. “When I left my last job, I really wanted to do something that was connected to the work that I’m pas-sionate about and made it easier for college students to connect to jobs that they’re excited about.”
In addition to connecting students with other companies, Readyforce is also looking to hire software en-gineers.
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CONTRIBUTED BY READYFORCEA Hacker Tour representative talks to students at the College of Engineering Career Fair Tuesday. The Hacker Tour is led by Readyforce, a social networking site that helps students get jobs with start-up companies.
Taylor O’QuinnStaff Writer
The Dan Allen Drive gate proj-ect that was scheduled for the weekend of Oct. 4-7 has been postponed until further no-tice, according to the N.C. State Transportation website.
Instead, crews will be work-ing on a new traffic signal at the intersection of Dan Allen Drive and Yarbrough Drive. This proj-ect will take place Wednesday at 8 p.m. until Thursday at 6 a.m.
According to Public Commu-nication Specialist for NCSU Transportation Christine Klein, Dan Allen Drive will remain open, but traffic may be reduced to one lane on this portion of the street and traffic assistance will be provided. Since this is only preliminary work, the signal will not yet be activated.
Route 7 of the Wolflink Shuttle will take a detour through Gor-man and Hillsborough streets from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednes-day.
All evening service of the Wolfline will be stopped for fall break after 10 p.m. Wednesday. The service will run for a lim-ited amount of time for faculty and staff members Thursday and Friday. Klein said Routes 6, 7 and 8 will also operate on limited schedules.
The Dan Allen Deck pay lot will be closed Friday to accom-modate two construction jobs. A permitted area of the Dan Allen Deck will be open from the Hill-sborough and Yarbrough street side only.
Signs will be posted to remind drivers about the closings.
“Anyone who normally parks in the Dan Allen Deck pay lot will need to use the Coliseum Deck pay lot,” Klein said.
The Dan Allen Gate was a piece of a 10-year project ‘puz-zle.’ Klein said the construction of the Dan Allen Gate has been postponed so N.C. State may conduct further traffic pattern studies in conjunction with the City of Raleigh.
Dan Allen project postponed
Sign up for Campout ends tonight at 10 p.m.Staff Report
Registration to attend this year’s Campout ends tonight, Oct. 3, at 10 p.m. Students who attend Campout will receive six extra loyalty points, increasing the chance of receiving men’s basketball tickets when the sea-son starts, including a ticket to the UNC game.
This year Campout has part-nered with Primetime with the Pack — the former Red and
White game — to kick off the bas-ketball team’s season. Primetime with the Pack includes two inter-squad scrimmages with the men’s basketball team and a three-on-three basketball tournament for students. Primetime with the Pack will be open to the public.
Primetime with the Pack has also been chosen as one of five midnight madness kickoff events to be shown on ESPNU.
The event will be held in the PNC Arena Friday, Oct. 12, and there is
a limit of 3,500 people who can at-tend.
Similar to previous years’ Cam-pouts, there will be random check-points throughout the night and students must follow the N.C. State Code of Student Conduct as well as Campout guidelines.
Wolfline buses will be running be-tween main campus and the PNC Arena, though there may initially be traffic delays due to State Fair traffic near the arena.
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POLICE BLOTTERSept. 291:05 A.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYOff CampusNCSU PD assisted Wake County ALE in locating student who had used fraudulent ID on Hillsborough Street who fled the scene. Student was located and arrested by ABC for underage possession, possession of fraudulent ID, and resisting, delaying or obstructing a public officer. Student was also referred to the University for violations.
1:49 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS PERSONOwen HallStudent reported belligerent non-resident roaming hallways of building. Officer checked the building but did not locate subject.
1:49 A.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST - ALCOHOLOwen HallUnits responded and transported student in need of medical assistance. Student will be referred for underage alcohol consumption.
12:06 A.M. | ALCOHOL VIOLATIONTucker HallReport of several subjects drinking alcoholic beverages. Subjects left the area prior to officer arrival.
2:40 A.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST - ALCOHOLCarroll HallUnits responded to student in need of medical assistance. Transport was refused. Student was referred to University for underage alcohol consumption.
5:04 P.M. | BURGLARYTucker HallReport student had awoken to find unknown subject in their bed. Subject left room upon her waking. Crime alert was sent out to campus community.
Sept. 302:51 A.M. | TAMPER WITH FIRE EQUIPMENTBroughton HallUnits responded to alarm caused by dust from three discharged fire extinguishers. FP notified and responded to scene. Building was aired out and alarm reset.
8:33 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS PERSONWithers HallNon-student was trespassed after being located in men’s restroom.
2:39 P.M. | INFORMATION - UNIVERSITYPublic Safety BuildingStudent felt uncomfortable after encountering non-student. Subjects have history regarding same boyfriend.
6:59 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS PERSONWestern Manor ApartmentsReport of someone breaking into mailboxes. Officers made contact with faculty member who was having difficulty opening mailbox. Misunderstanding resolved. No further action.
Oct. 110:28 A.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYWestern Boulevard/Dan Allen DriveNCSU PD assisted RPD with vehicle crash involving injury. Student was struck and injured while attempted to cross Western Boulevard. Student was transported for treatment.
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Hillsborough Street RPD requested NCSU PD check address for possible suspect in homicide. Officers determined no such address exists. RPD notified.
7:07 A.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYWood HallRPD requested NCSU PD interview student who may have had information regarding homicide. Officers interviewed student and obtained verbal statement regarding suspicious person. Information forwarded to RPD.
8:16 A.M. | LARCENYTucker HallStaff member reported theft of pieces of volleyball set.
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2:00 P.M. | LARCENYD.H. Hill LibraryStudent reported theft of unattended bookbag.
8:01 P.M. | FIRE Talley Student CenterUnits responded to alarm activated as result of electrical malfunction in lighting fixtures that caused smoke in room. No damage or injuries reported. Appropriate notifications made.
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grams at universities for a curriculum that focuses on job training instead.
Another criticism is the ad-dition of the recently resigned UNC-Chapel Hill Chancel-lor Holden Thorp. Thorp re-cently resigned amid several scandals with the university’s athletics program pertaining to allegations of academic fraud. The BOG said they will continue to watch how he response to the scandals.
Other members have sup-
ported Thorp’s member-ship. Ann Goodnight said Thorp was doing a superb job in leading a campus that brought in $767 million in research funds last year, and Ed McMahan said Thorp was just cleaning up a mess he was inherited, according to Indi-ana’s The Republic.
The net worth of the newest members has been thrown in the mix as well. In an edi-torial column in Indy Week, the spending of Art Pope, the CEO of the chain of discount stores Variety Wholesalers, was brought up.
Pope, through his foun-
dation, gave $3 million to expand UNC’s Academic Center for Stu-dent Athletes and another $600,000 to N.C. Central University for a constitutional law institute. Also, the spending of millionaire and pharmaceuti-cal entrepreneur Fred Eshelman was mentioned for his donation of $35 million to the UNC School of Pharmacy and another $3 million to
Rightchange.com, a conser-vative political group other
chancellors from East Carolina Univer-sity, UNC-Greens-boro, North Carolina A&T Uni-versity and Appala-chian State University.
However, many are upset over the lack of student and faculty repre-
sentation on the board. There is currently one student rep-resentative and one faculty representative.
The North Carolina Stu-dent Power Union, which includes N.C. State students, wrote an open letter to the new board requesting more representation and more transparency with the public.
“While these meetings are technically listed as “open” to the public, by only meeting in Chapel Hill and not al-lowing for public comment, thousands of voices are being shut out of this process. The majority of the decision mak-
ing of this body is set behind closed doors; however, the decisions being made will have a profound effect on hundreds of thousands across the state, and for generations to come. The committee will not be able to make decisions that best embody the hopes and needs of the people of North Carolina without de-veloping a critical and truly open process for gaining pub-lic input,” the letter stated.
The next BOG meeting is Oct. 11 at the Center in Cha-pel Hill.
Biden campaigns in N.C.Laura WilkinsonDeputy News Editor
Vice President Joe Biden visited North Carolina Tues-day afternoon as part of the Democratic presidential cam-paign.
After canceling a first at-tempt to land at Charlotte Douglas International Air-port due to a thunder cloud storm cell sitting on top of the airport runway, the vice president and motorcade suc-cessfully made the second landing attempt.
“Air Force Two had a ‘missed approach’ to the run-way and proceeded to circle the area while waiting for the weather to clear. Once the weather cleared, the aircraft came back in and then landed on the second approach with no problems,” the vice presi-dent’s office said.
After landing, Biden spoke at The Fillmore Charlotte, criticizing Republican can-didate Mitt Romney’s stance
on tax reform. He said the Republican’s policies would hurt the middle and lower classes by giving tax cuts to the rich and raising taxes for the middle class.
Biden blamed former presi-dent George W. Bush for the recession the country is fac-ing.
“They talk about t he Great Reces-sion like it fell out of the sky in 2008,” Biden said, also placing t he bla me on Bush’s tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “What did it do? It produced the Great Recession, which absolutely eviscerated the middle class.”
Biden also commented on the leaked video in which Romney discounted 47 per-cent of Americans, saying they will vote for President
Barack Obama because they are government freeloaders who pay no income taxes, calling themselves “victims” who will not “take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
Both Biden and Obama have made a note to mention
Romney’s off-the-cuff comments during the campaign.
After leav-i ng Cha r-lotte, Biden traveled to UNC-Ashe-ville, deliv-ering similar
remarks to the ones earlier in the day.
Obama and Romney will face off Wednesday Oct. 3 from 9-10:30 p.m. in a presi-dential debate on the topic of domestic policy.
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Sam DeGraveDeputy News Editor
N.C. State is working on a new Quality Enhancement Program focused on critical and creative thinking to se-cure its accreditation in 2014.
Every 10 years, the South-ern Association of Colleges and Schools reviews univer-sities and decides whether it will affirm their accredita-tion. In September 2013, N.C. State will present a complete draft of its QEP.
To ensure the program’s de-
velopment, Provost Warwick Arden assembled a 10-person Steering Committee to help develop the University’s QEP. The committee, which is made up of seven faculty, two administrators and one undergraduate student rep-resentative, is working with four other groups that to-gether make up the QEP Co-ordination Committee.
According to Stephen Reynolds, a professor of phys-ics and co-chair of the Steer-ing Committee, accreditation is essential to all universities,
however only universities seeking accreditation from SACS are required to present QEPs.
Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment, a pro-gram developed eight years ago as a part of a QEP, left some lasting impacts at N.C. State such as distance educa-tion classes, Reynolds said. However, he said the QEP currently in production will leave a more lasting impres-sion on the University.
Reynolds described the process of developing the
QEP as ambitious in com-parison to years past.
“I want to put N.C. State on the map for innovative think-ing,” Reynolds said.
There are at least five other universities that are focus-ing their QEPs on creative or critical thinking, including the University of Louisville, Georgia State University, Meredith University, North Carolina A&T and Wake Forest University, according to Reynolds.
Reynolds applied the focus of the QEP to the process of
developing it, which is com-posed of both a creative and critical phase. The Steering Committee is still in the cre-ative phase and is currently working on ideas for pro-grams.
“We’re still dreaming up stuff right now,” Reynolds said. “The sky is the limit right now.”
Reynolds encourages stu-dents to visit the website, http://accreditation.ncsu.edu/, to learn more about the process of developing the QEP and to suggest ideas for the program.
Some students are skepti-cal about the worth of their opinions to the Steering Committee after a spring Chancellor’s Liaison meet-ing.
Bryan Hum, a senior in in-ternational studies, attended
the meeting and said that despite asking students for QEP suggestions, the Steer-ing Committee chose a focus that was not favored by the majority of students.
According to Hum, the committee seemed to value the student’s opinions, but he did not believe the commit-tee respected what they had to say.
Though Reynolds was not involved in the Chancellor’s Liaison meeting, he encour-ages students to still submit ideas for the program.
“I have already heard about the unhappiness among the students, but for whatever reason, that decision got made, and I hope students won’t decide not to partici-pate in what I still think is a very exciting opportunity,” Reynolds said.
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What are your plans for fall break?
{ }IN YOUR WORDS
“Going to Richmond to visit my girlfriend.”
Connor Walshsophomore aerospace engineering
“Internship and work on a seven-page paper due Monday. Probably in that order.”
Nicole Guiberteauxgraduate student, social work
Rachael Jordan, junior in architecture
Presidential debates...watch themThis newspaper anticipates that at
9 p.m. tonight students will gather into crowded dorms and apartments by the tens to — not get an early, drunken start on the weekend — watch the first of the three presiden-tial debates. Perhaps it’s possible to combine the two activities into a clever drinking game in which you, the viewers, drink every time a can-didate has a gaffe. Although, with the prevailing sentiment being that these debates are a forum for candi-dates to do a lot of talking without really saying anything, maybe there won’t be much drinking.
Who knows? It might be worth a shot…
Some may feel that Technician is
beating a dead horse with copious election coverage and urging stu-dents to stay involved — and per-haps we are — but we feel it would be an affront to democracy if every student on campus didn’t vote. Of course, when we say “vote” we don’t only mean choosing between the two candidates from major political parties — although the third party candidates fall behind in celebrity, they’re still important.
So it’s equally important that third party voters watch the debates, too. Perhaps they’ll find that they can align themselves with a major
party candidate who promises to lead in a way mi-nority parties like. Or, after watching the debates, third party member may reaffirm their loy-alty to their parties.
For voters on the fence, these debates will be an oppor-tunity to watch candidates answer questions on the spot. And although a lot of their answers may be at-
tempts to avoid “dangerous” ques-tions, there will surely be genuine moments.
An op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by Doyle McMa-nus points to an interesting trend in debates between incumbent presi-dents and new can-didates: the chal-
lenger usually wins on stage. Jimmy Carter out-debated Gerald Ford in
1976 and lost four years later to Ron-ald Reagan. And Reagan “stumbled in his first debate against challenger Walter F. Mondale.”
If Romney can keep the trend go-ing to his advantage, then it’s likely that he’ll close the gap between him and Obama in major polls.
Lately, it seems that media outlets have reported on little more than gaffes in terms of election coverage. Perhaps there will be more to report on after the debate, but nonetheless, it’s an opportunity to hear the can-didates unfiltered.
Send your thoughts to [email protected]
{ }OUR VIEW
For the sake of conversation
I did some quality eavesdropping this evening. In between
class and my weekly meet-ing with Technician I sat down for a quick bite to eat at Porter’s Tavern. Sit-
ting a few chairs down from me a t t h e bar were three N.C. State
professors, one of whom I’ve had before, grabbing a beer and catching up. The trio conversed like close friends, and loudly enough for me to listen to their entire conversation.
Admittedly, I enjoy lis-tening to the conversa-tions of strangers. I find these little peaks into their lives fascinating, and often times I have to catch myself before I stare too long. I’m sure that sounds creepy, and to them it probably is, but I just can’t help myself.
My favorite game as a child was “spy,” a game in which I would hide be-hind ingenious things like sofas or, to my mother’s dismay, inside circular clothing racks. Once hid-den, I could fully enjoy the candid conversations of the mysterious “adults” that inhabited my world. I would listen as they spoke about grown up things like budgets, jobs and family. I’d imagine myself as an adult at a din-ner party, entertaining my friends with a story about my kid or empathizing with them about working
too much. The conversation between
the professors was simul-taneously everything I’d imagined it would be, and much, much more honest. They spoke about teaching - namely the frustration they felt when students expected exams to be exactly like the study guide, and the resulting sacrifices they had to make in order to appease students. There was wisdom in their stories which made me think about the college education system in a way I never have before.
As college students, we tend to think we’re pretty spe-cial. Because of this men-tality we expect things to be handed to us. We have cer-tain assumptions regarding our college classroom experi-ence, and the second our ex-periences don’t align with our expectations, it’s the profes-sor’s fault. If there’s material on the exam that wasn’t on the study guide, we freak out because it wasn’t given to us beforehand.
This mind-set is pretty silly when you actually think about it. We’ve gotten accus-tomed to only having to know what’s on the study guide in-stead of taking the material in as a whole and fully learning it. Professors now have to tell students exactly what they’ll be tested on to avoid mutiny.
We’re doing less and less analyzing and more and more regurgitating. In my opinion, exams should reflect thoughtful interaction with the learned material, not the
repetition of the study guide. We came to college to think
and to be challenged, and our professors pursued this career because they desired that dy-namic classroom. Somewhere along the way we lost some of that spark. We’ve gotten used to PowerPoints laying out exactly what’s expected of us, and therefore profes-sors present the material in that way because it’s expected of them. As a result, classes have become boring and mundane, and exams have
become pre-dictable.
E v e n a s an English major, the discussion in many of my classes is minimal. Students en-
ter the classroom ready to be spoon-fed the material and unprepared to actually engage with it. That type of environment doesn’t yield long-term knowledge - it just makes us good at cram-ming and regurgitating. It’s what we learn through active engagement with our profes-sors and classmates that really sticks with us.
College is interesting, and it’s a level of education that many people aren’t fortunate enough to have. We’re sur-rounded by opportunities for both personal and academic growth, but we’ve become lazy. Each and every student is lucky to attend this univer-sity, and we should treat our education with the respect it deserves.
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{ }CAMPUS FORUMGive credit where credit is due
I am personally disappointed that the news agency that covered the freeze in 2009 that has over 8,000 views on YouTube has steadfastly refused and forgotten about OUR Campus Freeze. Also, we had informed our people to help take part in NC State Recycles.In addition, I was PROMISED by photographers and some writers from the Technician that OUR event was to be covered. I even sent in an interview statement as asked. To further inform, OUR video will be included in a documentary by Improv Everywhere, the mega-famous YouTube site who did the original one in New York at
Grand Central Station, which will feature over 200 cities and ours is the ONLY one in RALEIGH with such recognition. As well, it is my hope that Technician knows about the 2 flash mobs planned for Oct. 12 and 19 (Primetime with the Pack and Brickyard) featuring Gangnam Style. Wolf TV, N&O, NBC, ABC, all know. I hope Tech. does too. I understand the policy Technician has regarding about writing stories on things that have passed but this is a major slap in the face to the 420 people, nearly 2,000 views in a month online, and major recognition we have done and hard work we did to 100 people (it was more like 50 cuz I was there) to holding bottles (which is a great cause, don’t get me wrong).
On behalf of Improv NC State’s 154 members and the 420 people who took part and our resources and media coverage, please resolve to give us our due credit for doing it first and better.
Michael Ramosjunior, Biological Sciences and Human Biology
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Crazy little thing called busyness
Whether you are a senior in the final stretch of
your collegiate career, a little baby freshman who is just starting this new phase in your life, or you fall some-where in between the two
extremes, you are all hear-ing the same thing: get in-volved.
If only I had a dollar for ever y t ime I have been told that suc-
cinct piece of advice over the years, I probably wouldn’t have to take up the second job that I recently acquired. It seems to be a very common theme going on, providing the ever-present soundtrack to our college lives.
It is almost as though, by nature, we are going to sit around and do nothing what-soever. Surely, this is possible but everyone has their natu-ral inclinations and ways that they will ultimately become immersed in when the right time and opportunity comes. However, the issue that arises is when we have already allot-
ted so much of our time to a few different areas, we are still told that we need to fur-ther diversify ourselves.
What are we to do? We have to stay competitive with the thousands of other students at this school, therefore we re-ally only have one choice. We are subconsciously forced to add another obligation and commitment to our ever-full plate. After all, if we don’t au-tomatically describe our feel-ings for the upcoming week as “busy,” we clearly are not doing enough to occupy our time.
This leaves us traipsing around campus like zom-bies, or even more humiliat-ing, using our fitness walking skills to power walk to every meeting, class, job or meal that we may be juggling all in one day. To put it plain and simple, it is completely exhausting.
Unfortunately for us all, we don’t have the powers to add more hours into a day, so something has to give. We are forced to make sacrifices and the hardest part is deciding where the sacrifices should fall. As the prudent and ev-er-intelligent students that we
are, we know that school is not the part of our life to put onto the chopping block. So what is the thing that we ulti-mately decide that we can live without? In most cases: sleep.
If you were to walk around D.H. Hill late at night, you will without a doubt see a plethora of students burrow-ing in an egg chair just to get a few moments of sleep and rejuvenation. It has gotten incredibly bad, ladies and gentlemen, but what else are we supposed to do to stay current with all of the pressures that are constantly placed on us?
In many ways, I wonder if this is just the training ground for the future ahead of us. Maybe not our imme-diate future, when we are go-ing to be working the lovely nine-to-five work shifts, but maybe past then. I am not a psychic, therefore I cannot predict the future. However I will tell you this, I don’t think that I have ever been as busy as I am right now, so if you want me to save you an egg chair or a coveted spot in the quiet room, just let me know.
Lauren NoriegaStaff Columnist
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Over the years, John Hubisz, a visiting professor of physics, has become a cer-tified expert in ghosts, mysti-cal creatures, UFOs and other paranormal aspects of life.
He didn’t intend to get into the paranormal initially, though; his true passion lies in teaching.
Hubisz wanted to engage his students more and talk about what they were inter-ested in. One of his main goals was to teach his stu-dents that there is always something more to learn and question.
Hubisz spent much of his teaching career working with middle school students. Ever since he began teaching in 1955, Hubisz has always re-quired each of his students to ask him at least eight ques-tions throughout the year. He then devoted part of the les-son in each class to answering each and every one of them.
“Students ask great ques-tions if you let them,” Hubisz said. “The most common question is ‘Why is the sky blue?’ Then they start asking better and better questions.”
Because this means part of the lesson plans are dictated by the students, Hubisz’s les-sons often plunge into pseu-do-science and false science - topics like Bigfoot, ancient aliens and crop circles seem to pop up every year.
“I treat all the questions as legitimate questions,” Hubisz said. “You start asking good questions, and the answers sort of drop out.”
However, this means he has had to learn along with the students, since the supernat-ural wasn’t originally his area of expertise. Hubisz found many students asked ques-tions relating to the paranor-mal. Over the years, he has
acquired a personal research library on the paranormal of more than 20,000 books on subjects like the Abominable Snowman, Nessie and the Bermuda Triangle.
For example, he has pri-mary sources to show that Nessie the Loch Ness mon-ster was made up to combat the economic depression in the area; after her inven-tion, hotels and restaurants around Loch Ness filled. The inventors even came out and explained their motivations later. However, people still believe in the lake monster, even after submarines in the 1930s were sent in search of her and came back empty-handed.
Hubisz has also done exten-sive research on the Bermuda Triangle. For enthusiasts he
recommends two books on the subject, arguing for and against the area’s mysticism: The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz and Bermu-da Triangle Mystery: Solved by Larry Kus-che.
This expertise has pulled Hubisz i n t o a l l s o r t s o f paranor-mal proj-ects.
“One time I got a call that this house was haunted, and they wanted to get out of their lease,” Hubisz said.
He has yet to see a real ghost, though. All the ghosts
he has “busted” have been easily explained through elementary physics. Often the strange noises “ghosts” produce can be stopped by
opening win-dows that tend to vibrate or replacing old floorboards that have got-ten damp and warped with the tempera-ture changes.
“There are lots and lots of simple ex-
planations for some of the things people think of as ghosts,” Hubisz said.
Hubisz also helps publish the Skeptical Inquirer, a bi-monthly magazine that ex-amines all that is new in the
world of the supernatural. Hubisz is most involved with the magazine’s investigations of UFOs.
The Skeptical Inquirer will send out group of experts in aerospace and photography to where UFOs have been spotted to ask questions and analyze the area and photo-graphs.
“Unidentified flying objects are great,” Hubisz said. “I’d really like to see one that’s unidentified. Because most often someone … is going to come back and tell you that it wasn’t unidentified at all, we know exactly what it was.”
For example, UFO sight-ings always follow Russian rocket launches because each rocket drops two fuel pack-ages. It is so predictable that members of the Skeptical In-
quirer staff can now, based on the Russian launch schedule, predict where and when they will occur.
Hubisz’ teaching method of encouraging students to ask questions has led Hubisz to more than the supernatural; it has also helped to shape some of the more practical problems he sees with the education system. Teachers at middle schools where Hubisz once taught have even begun to adopt his methods.
Hubisz believes that this line of teaching has the po-tential to reinvigorate the school system. Tight now, he says, we teach too much from often-misleading textbooks.
“Teachers have to fix this. There’s no two ways about it,” Hubisz said.
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SAM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANDr. John Hubisz, visiting faculty member of the physics department, talks about his career as a teacher. Students asking questions about myths like the Bermuda Triangle got him interested in studying physics and finding out why those myths could not possibly be true. “It’s been disproved in so many ways, and yet people still want to believe it,” he said.
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McNabb did to me when I first went to Boston Col-lege… He’s a good pocket passer but he’s much more dangerous when he gets on the perimeter, unlike Mor-ris who would get out of the pocket and want to throw it first. With Manuel, it’s prob-ably 50-50 whether he’s going to throw it or pull it down.”
Wolff echoed his coach’s sentiments.
“It’s going to be difficult,” Wollf said. “Stephen Morris ran to throw the ball; E.J. Manuel can do both, so we’re going to have to work on con-taining the quarterback.”
O’ Brien is fielding a banged up offensive line reminiscent
of his early years in Raleigh when State suffered a myriad of injures. The veteran coach knows the Pack will have its work cut out against the Florida State defense, which is loaded with upperclassmen and did not give up a touch-down until its fourth game of the season.
This Saturday night, N.C. State will look to summon more of the magic that has led the Wolfpack to have one of the more successful records against Florida State in recent years. State has won three of the last five matchups in Raleigh, including a mem-orable 28-24 win at Carter-Finley Stadium in 2010 that was sealed by Nate Irving re-covering a Christian Ponder fumble in the final minute.
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Let’s go back to the Chick-fil-A Bowl against Tennessee on Aug. 30th. A Tennes-see team, who last year was 106th in the country in total offense, managed to burn Amerson not once, but twice for huge plays. Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray aired it out for Cordarrelle Patter-son, who completed a 41-yard touchdown in the back of the endzone. On the second big play, Bray found Zach Rogers a good 10 yards behind N.C. State’s last defender, leaving Amerson shrugging, as if to ask, ‘where is my over-the-top help from the free safety?’ These total communication breakdowns in the secondary
gave Tennessee 14 points, a large momentum swing, and eventually, a win.
To be sure, not all of the loose coverage fell on Amer-son in the Tennessee game. It is one thing to get an in-terception against Southern Alabama or The Citadel in a blowout, playing against stag-nant triple option offenses. It is an entirely different story playing against high-octane offenses and the game is tight, but the coverage isn’t.
On Saturday against Mi-ami, we saw that same Am-erson shrug of disbelief that has become much too fa-miliar for State fans. State allowed 566 passing yards and five passing touchdowns from Miami quarterback Ste-phen Morris. Many will pin the loss on graduate student
quarterback Mike Glennon’s tormenting interception that couldn’t have come at a worse time, when all State had to do was run out the clock until overtime. Yes, Glennon’s turnover put a lot of pressure on a defense that had been struggling all day. But, after rewatching the next play, where Morris hurled a 62-yard prayer toward the en-dzone to Phillip Dorsett, at least one of the three backs in the area would make a play on the ball, right? To me, that concession was unacceptable.
Morris broke the all-time ACC record with his 566 passing yards on Saturday.As a defender, that is not the side of a record that you want to be on. In order for the Wolfpack to succeed in the rest of the season, they need
Amerson and his second-ary to step up and set the tone on defense. Players and coaches will be the first to tell you that to be a contender in any league, you have to be able to win close games.Doing the little things, particularly making effort plays and communicating to each other, compels a unit to be stronger than their one star player. Right now, the Pack is 97th out of 120 in pass defense, de-spite the freakishly strong and blazingly fast defend-ers they have. In order to improve that number, the initiative is simple: get Amerson, Wolff, Bishop, Johnson and Wilson on the same page, and find a way to win close games.
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would help me out / Before they ever let the other half find out / But if they could see how far I’ve let you down / Anyone with half a heart would let me drown.”
It’s getting uglier for Geor-gia Tech, who was blown out in Atlanta 49-28 by Middle Tennessee State. That is the
same Blue Raiders team who lost to McNeese State earlier in the year and then obliter-ated an ACC team in its own stadium.
Miami (4-1, 3-0 ACC) - “Young and Stupid” by Close to Home
“I’ve struggled and fought / Given all my efforts and thoughts / I’ve suffered for this / Your words show your ignorance / Let it go, let it go /
Cause we were all once young and stupid.”
Call the ‘Canes reckless and in over their heads, but Al Golden has Miami on its way back to national rel-evancy. Playing No. 9 Notre Dame up in Chicago might be a little bit too much to ask for UM, but the ACC’s leader in passing attempts by its start-ing quarterback (31 more than Mike Glennon) will have some fun throwing the
ball around the lot.
North Carolina (3-2, 0-1 ACC) - “Blue Light” by Bloc Party
“And you didn’t even no-tice / When the sky turned blue / And you couldn’t tell the difference / Between me and you.”
As expected, Carolina had no issues beating Idaho (0-5) and now hosts Virginia Tech in a match up that looks a
lot more competitive than it did in the preseason. Bryn Renner, the conference’s leader in touchdown passes, has been sensational early on for UNC and will look toward continuing that against a struggling Hokies defense.
Virginia (2-3, 0-1 ACC) - “Paper Wings” by Rise Against
“And I can’t tell if you’re laughing / Between each
smile there’s a tear in your eye / There’s a train leaving town in an hour / It’s not waiting for you, and neither am I.
After losing to a good Louisiana Tech team, Vir-ginia now has to travel to Durham for a game against a Duke team with a ton to play for. With only four rushing touchdowns this season, the running game has turned from a strength into a stag-nant part of the Cavs’ offense.
ROUNDUPcontinued from page 8
ATLANTIC DIVISIONBoston College (1-3, 0-2 ACC) -
“The Artist In The Ambulance” by Thrice
“My world goes black before I feel an angel lift me up / And I open bloodshot eyes into fluores-cent white / They flip the siren, hit the lights, close the doors and I am gone.”
After failing to beat an FBS team in the month of Septem-ber, it will take nothing short of divine intervention to get Boston College into a bowl game and save its coach’s job.
No. 15 Clemson (4-1, 1-1 ACC) - “Stu’s Song” by The Hangover Soundtrack
“What do tigers dream of when they take a little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras, or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit? Don’t you worry your pretty striped head.”
Clemson avoided a hangover by going on the road and beating BC, 45-31. Hosting a defenseless Georgia Tech team should not be an issue this weekend, and aspira-tions of a BCS at-large bid are still
very much alive with a manageable schedule and an offense that is av-eraging over 500 yards per game.
No. 3 Florida State (5-0, 2-0 ACC) - “On Top” by The Killers
“I’ve been down across a road or two / But now I’ve found the velvet sun / That shines on me and you / In the back, uh huh, I can’t crack / We’re on top.”
Florida State wasn’t perfect on the road against USF, as the Seminoles used 10 points off of three turnovers to cement a victory. A night game against a lost and confused N.C. State team awaits, but the ‘Noles can’t afford to sleepwalk if they want to stay in National Championship contention.
Maryland (2-2, 0-0 ACC) - “Tur-tle” by Alana Davis
“Little boy wishes he wasn’t small / He’d give his turtle to be six feet tall / He’s got photos of Shaq and Ewing up on his wall / And he’d try a jump shot but he’s afraid he’ll fall down.”
Maryland is the final conference team to play an ACC game as they host Wake Forest this weekend. It’s still a long road ahead up in College Park, but freshmen Stefon Diggs and Perry Hills give Randy Edsall’s team a lot of potential.
N.C. State (3-2, 0-1 ACC) - “To-night, Tonight” by Hot Chelle Rae
“I woke up with a strange tattoo /
Not sure how I got it, not a dollar in my pocket / And it kinda looks just like you / Mixed with Zach Galifianakis.”
The good news is that Mike Glen-non somehow has a reliable run-ning game going into arguably the biggest match up of his career. The bad news is the player who was sup-posed to be a star on the other side of the ball has seemingly checked out mentally, and there’s plenty of blame to go around to his team-mates — State is an embarrassing 101st in the country for pass de-fense.
COASTAL DIVISIONDuke (4-1, 1-0 ACC) - “Feels
Like The First Time” by Foreigner “I have waited a lifetime / Spent
my time so foolishly / But now that I’ve found you / Together we’ll make history.”
The 2012 Duke Blue Devils, la-dies and gentlemen... if Duke can defend its home turf this weekend against Virginia (2-3), the Devils will be one win away from getting back to a bowl game for the first time since current college fresh-men were born.
Georgia Tech (2-3, 1-2 ACC) - “Half a Heart” by Barenaked Ladies
“Anyone with a half a heart
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While watching the N.C. State vs. Miami football game on Saturday, I’m sure I was not the only one caught yelling at the TV when the Wolfpack de-fense repetitively conceded huge chunks of yardage due to blown coverage.
Let’s face it, the secondary has been having some problems this season in both communi-cation, and, although difficult to bring up, maybe in effort as well. When State plays big-name teams with capable offenses and deep threat receivers, those teams have, to put it lightly, pre-sented challenges.
Opposing wide receivers have been able to get separation far too easily and often. Fans must be confused as to how junior cornerback David Amerson, who has tied the record for most interceptions in Wolfpack his-tory with 16, can only throw his hands up in confusion after al-lowing a pair of soft touchdowns on Saturday.
N.C. State will try to rebound from its undisciplined perfor-mance last weekend in Miami when it hosts the No. 3 Florida State Seminoles at Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday. Gametime is 8 p.m. and the matchup will be televised on ESPN2.
The Wolfpack (3-2, 0-1) will look to avoid starting the con-ference season with two straight losses for the first time since 2009. State dropped its first four league games in route to a 5-7 record that season.
Head Coach Tom O’Brien was not thrilled with the Pack’s per-formance in Miami Gardens last Saturday. State had six turnovers along with 14 penalties for 100 yards in a sloppy performance that was out of character for the Pack since the former Marine took charge of the program six years ago.
“That’s what is frustrating at this point, to make those eight pre-snap penalties that we did on Saturday,” O’Brien said. “We’ve been so good the last couple of years of being the least penalized team in the conference.”
Last season, State had an equally bewildering perfor-mance on the road at Boston College before coming home to upset the 7th ranked, and future ACC champion, Clemson Tigers, 37-13. O’Brien sees some similar-
ities with the game this week and is hoping for more of the same against the favored Seminoles.
“Certainly the Clemson game, they were a top-10 team,” O’Brien said. “That’s the challenge and that’s the great part of coaching, being around kids and making sure they get focused. Sometimes here we lost our focus but I think we’ll be fo-cused on Saturday night with this team coming in.”
Graduate student safety Earl Wolff, part of the State secondary that got burned for an ACC record
566 yards passing by Miami junior quarterback Stephen Morris, will face stiffer competition this week against Florida State signal-caller E.J. Manuel. The Raeford, N.C. na-tive also feels emboldened by the Pack’s upset win over the Tigers last season.
“I would say a lot of people had that same mindset [before the 2011 Clemson game]; they didn’t think we could win,” Wolff said. But as a team it’s all up to us, it’s how we prepare, practice and play Saturday. We made a whole lot of mistakes
against Miami that shouldn’t have happened. You have to learn from it or it will continue to happen.”
In order for the Pack to have a chance, according to O’ Brien, stop-ping Manuel will be essential.
“The first thing we have to do with [EJ Manuel] is try to keep him in the pocket,” O’Brien said. “Manuel got out of the pocket last year and we missed him with six guys, he kind of ran over us.
“He looks a lot like Donovan
Payton named to Biletnikoff watch listFootball redshirt junior wide receiver Quintin Payton is one of 11 players that have been added to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List. The Biletnikoff Award is given annually to college football’s top wide receiver. This season Payton ranks sixth in ACC receiving yards per game and 10th in receptions. He also leads the Wolfpack in catches with 19 and in receiving yards with 421.
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Men’s basketball ranked No. 9The Sporting News has ranked the Wolfpack No. 9 in its preaseason top-25 poll. The publication also ranked Duke No. 6 and North Carolina No. 13. The Pack is also ranked No. 4 according to the Blue Ribbon Yearbock and No. 6 by ESPN’s Andy Katz. The Sporting News also named junior forward Calvin Leslie a preseaon All-American.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
FridayWOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL V. MIAMICoral Gables, Fla., 7 p.m.
MEN’S SOCCER V. DUKEDail Soccer Stadium, 6:30 p.m.
RIFLE V. NEBRASKALincoln, Neb., All Day
SWIMMING & DIVING AT ALL NORTH CAROLINA INVITATIONALGreensboro, N.C., TBA
SaturdayFOOTBALL V. FLORIDA STATECarter-Finley Stadium, 8 p.m.
RIFLE V. MURRAY STATELincoln, Neb., All Day
SWIMMING & DIVING AT ALL NORTH CAROLINA INVITATIONALGreensboro, N.C., TBA
WOMEN’S TENNIS AT USTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER INVITATIONALNew York, N.Y., All Day
SundayVOLLEYBALL V. FLORIDA STATETallahassee, Fla., 1 p.m.
WOMEN’S SOCCER V. MARYLANDDail Soccer Stadium, 1 p.m.
WOMEN’S TENNIS AT USTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER INVITATIONALNew York, N.Y., All Day
COMMENTARY
DID YOU KNOW?The men’s basketball team’s last appearence in the AP top-25 poll came in the 2007-08 season.
