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Pro-choice, pro-life protesters square offJonathan StoutStaff Writer
Local Christian groups took to the streets of downtown Charlotte to protest the Democratic Party’s pro-choice stance.
Though most of these demonstra-tions were nonviolent, some pass-ers-by were disturbed by the group’s use of unsettling photos.
Activist and performance artist Vermin Supreme, 62, stood at the corner of the Charlotte Convention Center challenging the anti-Obama groups with a megaphone.
“I’m exercising my First Amend-ment rights in the U.S. Constitution of free assembly, and I’m dicking with the fetus lovers over there a little bit, for fun,” Supreme said. “They’ve been dissing me, and it’s really beautiful.”
The sometimes-vulgar mega-phone conversation could be heard from blocks away, attracting crowds who chose to cheer various sides of the raucous exchange.
Along with disturbing photos of dead fetuses, the pro-life groups blared Christian music, paying no attention to the rain.
Supreme, shirtless with a rub-ber boot on his head, was watched closely by police, who did not in-terfere.
“You know, these Democrats, I don’t get as much interaction as I did with the Republicans for some reason, but it’s okay, I’m having a good time,” Supreme said.
Brenton Lengel, 29, and a member of the Occupy Wall Street move-ment, made the trip to Charlotte to
ALEX SANCHEZ/TECHNICIANPerformance artist Vermin Supreme protests at the intersection of Caldwell and Stonewall streets in Charlotte, N.C. Sept. 4, 2012.
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Paul Ryan visited Cedar Rap-ids, Iowa, appealing to students at Kirkwood Community Col-lege, continuing his campaign as the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Though this was Ryan’s first visit to Kirkwood, the college is no stranger to visits from prominent politicians. President Barack Obama visited the school in July in addition to his seven trips to Iowa since January, and Herman Cain spoke at an event in downtown Cedar Rapids Wednesday. The president, Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama plan to stop by Kirkwood’s campus Friday, ac-cording to Steve Ovel, associate vice president of government relations at Kirkwood. He said though Iowa’s a swing state, he hasn’t heard much news from campaign speeches.
“I didn’t hear anything in Mr. Ryan’s presentation that I didn’t hear before,” Ovel said. “We are a battleground state, but we’re nothing special—the issues in Iowa aren’t very much different than what this country is facing.”
Unlike many typical swing states, Iowa is economically sound, according to Ovel. The state’s robust unemployment rate of 5.2 percent and budget in sur-plus don’t imply that Iowans are hurting financially, according to
Ovel. The six electoral votes that the Romney and Obama cam-paigns are vying for boil down to hot button social issues and labor policies, Ovel said.
“Though Iowa is important be-cause of the caucus, for this elec-tion, it’s down to just the number of votes,” Ovel said.
With an election down to the wire, the presidential campaigns are taking the six electoral votes seriously.
Ryan addressed 400 people at Kirkwood, only 100 of whom were students. Harping on the mark of the national debt reach-ing $16 million, Ryan warned the crowd of the threat of staggering debt.
“Of all the broken promises from President Obama, this is probably the worst one, because this debt is threatening jobs today,” Ryan said. “An Obama re-election would signify a na-tion in debt, a nation in decline. We will not stand by and watch this country slip through our fingers.”
Ryan has struggled to appeal to students and while campaigning in Iowa in August; he was hag-gled by students while speaking at the state fair.
Ovel said the majority of the crowd visiting Kirkwood was comprised of older workers. Lisa Bolte, 43, attended the event and said she sides with Ryan because
Iowa remains a hotbed of campaign activity
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Occupy movement marches on in CharlotteProtestors gather outside the DNC. See page 2.
Carolina to Kibera inspires stu-dents far and wideStudents travel to an East African slum to volunteer. See page 6.
Religious groups sound off at conventionSee page 3.
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DNC keeps crowd fired upMark Herring Editor-in-Chief
Former president Bill Clinton announced the Democratic Party’s nomination of President Barack Obama Wednesday night during the second day of the Democratic National Convention.
Addressing a crowd of 35,000, Clinton outlined the success of Obama’s term, saying he saved the U.S. from slipping into a depression and revitalizing jobs.
“We Democrats believe the econo-my works better with a strong mid-dle class,” Clinton said. “We believe that we’re all in this together is a far better philosophy than you’re on your own.”
Clinton criticized last week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., saying the Repub-lican’s rhetoric will not result in sound policy.
“In Tampa, a few days ago, we heard a lot of talk,” Clinton said. “In Tampa, the Republican argu-ment was simple: We left [Obama] a total mess, he didn’t clean it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in. But they said it well. They looked good, they sounded good.”
Clinton said the Republicans con-vinced him they were committed to improving the nation.
“We just need to pay attention to what those commitments are,” Clinton said. “They want to go back to the same policies that got us into trouble in the first place.”
Though Clinton focused his
speech on criticizing the GOP, he also praised the president for his ef-forts to bridge party gaps.
“Why does cooperation work bet-ter than constant conflict?” Clinton asked the cheering crowd. “[The republicans] think government is always the enemy, and comprise is weakness. You don’t have to hate the president to disagree with him. One of the reasons to re-elect President Obama is because he is still commit-ted to constructive cooperation…
he chose a vice president who ran against him in 2008. President Obama appointed several members of his cabinet though they support-ed Hilary in the primary. Heck, he even appointed Hilary.”
Clinton said Washington, D.C. needs more partnership over par-tisanship, and that Obama needs another four years for his plans to come to fruition.
“No president—not me, not any of my predecessors—no one could
have fully repaired all the damage [Obama] found in just four years,” Clinton said.
Clinton commended the presi-dent’s efforts on creating the Af-fordable Care Act, creating jobs, im-proving energy security and making college more affordable, saying he believes in all his heart in Obama.
“On all these issues, I know we’re better off because President Obama made the decisions he did,” Clin-ton said. “Is the president satisfied?
Of course not, but are we better off than we were four years ago.”
Ending his speech on a wary note, Clinton said he fears that if the Re-publicans take power, they will strip Medicaid and Medicare of their functional budgets.
“We cannot afford to give the reigns of government to someone will double down on trickle down,” Clinton said. “My fellow Ameri-cans…you must vote, and you must reelect President Barack Obama.”
JORDAN MOORE/TECHNICIANPresident Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton embrace after Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night.
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Second lady Ji l l Biden spoke with members of the Democratic Youth Caucus Wednesday afternoon at the Democratic National Con-vention in Charlotte.
Biden was one of many speakers who addressed the crowd of young Democrats, all under the age of 36. She touched on an array of top-ics, including making higher education more affordable for students.
Also among the speakers at Wednesday’s caucus meeting was Juan Sepulveda, director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Sepulveda, a first-genera-tion college student, spoke to the Youth Caucus about the lack of encouragement he received from his high school counselor regard-ing his decision to apply to college. Sepulveda praised Youth Caucus member who were first-generation college students, those who had ever worked while in college, or those with family members who spoke Spanish as their first language.
Sepulveda’s address echoed the one given by Julian Cas-tro, the mayor of San Anto-nio, Texas, at the convention Tuesday night.
In his speech, Castro chid-ed Republican candidate Mitt Romney. “He’s a good guy,” Castro said. “He just has no idea how good he’s had it.”
Regina Thomas, who served in both the Georgia House and Senate, shared members of her college days with the group. “I made more noise than you [all] when I was in college,” said Thomas.
Thomas shared several per-sonal stories about her own struggles, including hav-ing to afford college for her 23-year-old son and medi-cine for her elderly mother.
Prior to the speeches of Sepulveda and Thomas, Youth Caucus attendees received a crash course on the Dashboard app and also watched the story of how President Obama met Edith Childs, the woman behind his “Fired up and ready to go!” chant, which has been heard in the convention hall several times during the DNC.
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protest the two-party system with local Oc-cupy protestors. A playwright from Harlem, N.Y., who has been involved with Occupy since October, Lengel said he plans to stay at the convention the whole week unless he is arrested.
“We have a pretty decent amount of people who have come down from New York,” Len-gel said.
According to Lengel, John Penley, a mem-ber of the local Occupy movement, was the only member arrested during their exercise on Tuesday.
“Vermin Supreme is cool as s—,“ Lengel said. “This is the same thing as when the yippies, in the ‘60s, came up with putting up a pig for President to mock the status quo.”
Supreme said he plans to run as an inde-
pendent candidate against President Obama and Mitt Romney.
Lengel said one of the things that bothers him is the similarity between the Obama and Romney campaigns.
“Honestly, the status quo is really f----- up and deserves some mockery,” Lengel said.
The local Occupy Movement set up shop in Morgan Park, located in uptown Char-lotte, and hit the streets again Wednesday afternoon. They said they plan to continue their demonstrations for the duration of the DNC.
JONATHAN STOUT/TECHNICIANA protester marches on the Democratic National Convention.
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“I’m exercising my First
Amendment rights in the
U.S. Constitution of free
assembly...”Vermin Supreme, protester
of his personality and back-ground.
“Just like everyone else, we’re excited,” Bolte said of Ryan. “I’m a conservative, he’s a conservative. We have the same values, the same principles.”
As the GOP has rallied behind hot-button issues like banning abortion and gay marriage, appealing to Heartland culture may trump sound policies, ac-cording to Ovel. Iowa, a state with a republican governor, a democratic state senate and a republican-controlled state congress has proven the fea-sibility of progress in biparti-sanship, according Ovel. All it boils down to, he said, is visceral emotion.
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JONATHAN STOUT/TECHNICIANOccuppier protester rallies outside the Democratic National Convention.
Jonathan StoutStaff Writer
Occupy movement marches on in Charlotte
The Charlotte Occupy movement, which is head-quartered in Marshall Park, began its demon-stration at the Duke En-ergy building on South Tryon Street and came to a halt at the intersection of North Tryon and 11th streets Wednesday after-noon.
Police on bicy-cles lined the mid-dle of the street and blocked inter-sections along the group’s route to prevent dem-onstrators from march-ing into traffic. Off-road vehicles equipped with water hoses also rode alongside the group as on-lookers lined the sidewalk on both sides of the street with cameras and phones.
Sean Moore, a 27-year-old demonstrator, was vis-iting the DNC from Vir-ginia, and also attended the RNC in Tampa, Fla., in support of the Occupy movement.
“I’m out here to excite the people,” Moore said. “We vote every so often, [but] we don’t really have change.”
Moore said he was hap-py with the turnout by local Occupy supporters and hopes more people join the cause.
“Get involved, tune in and tune out to the cor-poratocracy,” Moore said. “I think word of mouth is the only thing that’s going to do that.”
The Occupy marchers chanted “No papers, no fear, no fraking way,” un-til they reached center of
the city, at the intersection of Trade and Tryon streets, where they shouted at an-other protest group from Westboro Baptist Church, which gladly shouted back as officers on bicycles formed a line separating the two.
After roughly 10 minutes, the group resumed its march down North Tryon Street.
The officers kept things un-der control for the most part. There was one incident where police could be seen yelling among themselves, causing
panic and confusion in the vicin-ity, but the situation was quickly resolved.
Darla Moody, 45, marched w i t h t h e
group for the second day and held a sign that read “Obama-Israel’s b----,“ on the front, and “9-11—Israel’s job,” on the back.
“I am here to protest the Democratic National Con-vention, more so the corrupt political system in our coun-try,” Moody said. “I think if you step back and take a look at his administration, and their foreign policy, it’s per-fectly clear who’s in control of our government.”
Moody said she believes Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, was behind 9/11, and the people responsible have not been brought to justice.
“Bush didn’t do anything about it,” Moody said. “I be-lieved Obama would, I voted for Obama, [but] he didn’t do anything about 9/11,” Moody said.
After the main demonstra-tion had ended, a few mem-bers marched on before com-ing to a halt at College and Fifth streets, blocking the intersection in front of Time Warner Cable Arena. They ultimately left after police surrounded the area.
Occupy movement
marches on in Charlotte
“...it’s perfectly
clear who’s in
control of our
government.”Darla Moody
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NewsJessie HalpernNews Editor
Religious arguments in front of the Charlotte Convention Center Wednesday afternoon highlighted the variety of religious groups mak-ing their voices heard at the Demo-cratic National Convention.
When Michael Marcavage joined his peers to preach on the streets of downtown Charlotte, he said he had come as a “concerned Chris-tian.” He said he hadn’t planned to get involved in a verbal dispute with an offended passerby that would eventually last more than four hours.
“Romans Chapter 13 in the Bible is very clear that those in civil gov-ernment are to be ministers for God for good and not for evil, and we have a lot of evil men that are in civil government,” Marcavage said.
This point, however, was not the one William Robinson, a visitor from Greensboro, N.C., took issue with.
“I was walking past, and I heard him say some untruths about Le-viticus and the Old Testament, and I was trying to clear it up for him,” Robinson said. “I was unsuccess-ful, because he still believes what he said is true.”
While several police officers stood by and watched as the men’s argument stretched past the three-hour mark, none intervened.
Marcavage did not specify which denomination of Christianity he subscribes to, but Robinson said he represented the African Meth-odist Episcopal Zion Church. He said if you take Leviticus literally, as Marcavage did, many things are abominations.
“If you read Leviticus, his haircut
is an abomination, the fabrics he’s wearing are an abomination, and my tattoo is also an abomination,” Robinson said.
Over the course of their im-promptu four-hour debate, Rob-inson tried to convince Marcavage that people are not evil for inter-preting the Bible in light of modern times.
“I will vote in this election,” Mar-cavage said. “I would never vote for Romney or Obama, though. They are both wicked as hell.”
Marcavage and Robinson repre-sented only two of the many reli-gious groups making their pres-ences known at the Democratic National Convention.
Linda Flynn of Charlotte is a member of St. Peter’s Catholic Church.
“[Catholics] would support Obama because we would say his policies would do more for the eco-nomic crisis that would put people and families and veterans in a bet-ter place,” Flynn said.
Flynn said that while the Catho-lic Church’s opposition to abortion was well-known, her own Catholic community would not directly op-pose Obama’s pro-choice stance.
“We don’t see it as a conflict be-cause we feel there are more creative ways to reduce abortion versus just making it illegal and criminalizing it, because that really takes a toll on the poor,” Flynn said. “We think there are more creative ways to do it by creating policies and safety nets for women so they could choose not to have the abortion.”
She said these policies could in-clude healthcare, food stamps and welfare — the kinds of policies the Ryan budget would cut, according to Flynn.
David Willard, a member of the Hare Krishna faith whose spiritual name is David Prasta Das, said his religion also forbids abortion, but he said he would still support Presi-dent Obama.
“We don’t agree with abortion, but there are a lot of other things leading up to that that need to be addressed,” Willard said. “The people’s vocal opposition doesn’t really address why abortion is hap-pening or what people’s views of sex and relationships are. That’s really problematic. I don’t think they are getting to the root of a lot of these problems.”
Willard said the Hare Krishna faith is about “seeking spiritual consciousness.”
“Our basic understanding is that we are spiritual souls and our bodies are temporary, and the goal in life is to work toward spiritual consciousness,” Willard said. “Our life’s aim is to develop our spiritual consciousness, and there are some activities that are really not helpful for that.”
Though Willard said “there is much to be desired” in Obama’s platform, he finds the Democratic campaign a much better alternative to the “crazy Republicans.”
“Some of the Republican ideas about the economy and immigra-tion, they’re just not grounded in reality,” Willard said. “The lack of honesty I find in Republicans and the lack of critical thinking, that’s troubling. Nobody’s perfect but, man, Obama’s better than those Republican nuts.”
For some at the DNC, support-ing Obama had nothing to do with religion. Jaskirat Singh, a delegate from California and a member of the Sikh faith, said his vote will
go to Obama because of what he stands for.
“It’s not necessarily from a reli-gious standpoint that I’m supporting Obama,” Singh said. “The great thing about this nation is the free-dom of religion that we have here. I’m supporting President Obama because he’s f rom a working-class fa mi ly, a nd h e u n d e r -s t a n d s t h e middle class. H e k n o w s what it’s like to go through a s t r ug g le , and he knows what’s best for the country. That’s why I’m a Democrat, and that’s why I’m support-ing Obama.”
Religious groups sound off at convention
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ViewpointProtests and conventions go hand-
in-hand. As the political elite shape national dialog for a week to their
(party’s) gains, largely bipartisan protesters speak for the people, trying to bring focus back to oft-neglected, and arguably more
important matters. Wheth-er these protesters are at the Convention of an incumbent or not, they convey, “If you want the highest power, we’re watching you. Things aren’t as rosy as you make them sound, and we’re not letting you off the hook.” Thus, these protests are a vital part
of democracy, rather than a hindrance to its smooth functioning – they embody a vigilant citizenry, meant to keep the powers-that-be accountable.
Protests at conventions have also been par-ticularly action-packed. Just in the last decade, 1,800 people were arrested at the 2004 RNC in New York City, and 800 at the 2004 RNC in Minneapolis. The 1968 DNC in Chicago, which took place in the heyday of the radi-cal movement of the sixties, is remembered for the participation of organizations like the
Youth International Party (Yippies), the Black Panther Party and Students for a Democratic Society, and for its infamous police riot.
Uproar of such a degree was expected in 2012. Just under a year ago, the world saw Oc-cupy Wall Street breathe new life into the U.S. radical left. The American Autumn, as it was called, threatened to ignite the revolutionary fire unseen for almost half a century. When planning for the protests at the conventions began this spring, there was talk that things would explode in Tampa and Charlotte. Pro-testers were expected to show up by the thou-sands, and violent uprisings, with even more violent retaliation from the police and other State forces, were expected.
The city of Charlotte passed stringent ordi-nances for the DNC, and declared it a National Special Security Event; i.e., the Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security and the FBI were put in charge of the security and intelligence surrounding it.
But relative to the murmurs of upcom-ing chaos, proceedings have turned out to be calm. In significant part due to Mother Nature herself protesting the G.O.P. as Hur-ricane Isaac, the biggest march at the RNC only had about 500 people. The Coalition to
March on Wall St. South, comprising of over 60 groups such as Occupy chapters and other leftist organizations, was the body organizing the protests in Charlotte. Festivaliberacion, a fiesta of workshops and music, took place on Saturday and attracted over a hundred people. The main planned march took place on Sunday, for which various media sources have reported numbers ranging from 800 to 2,500. Smaller actions have been taking place through the week.
Definitely, things have not been unexciting. The march on Sunday was impassioned – the cadence of bullhorns and the exuberance of the marchers’ strides buzzed through the hot afternoon air. Presidential candidate, activist and anarchist Vermin Supreme, well-known for his parodic campaign promises and his hat (an upturned boot), marched with the people. Jill Stein, presidential candidate for the Green Party, addressed an after-rally. But by no means were the protests at either Convention as powerful as they could, and arguably should, have been.
Dissent has undoubtedly been louder in the past year, but the radical movements in the U.S. have to ask whether enough is happen-ing. If their visions for this society are
to stand a chance of achieving fruition, they must not let crest of O.W.S. fall. Conditions are adverse – the mainstream media either ignores or attacks all populist uprisings, and in vital contrast to the movement of the six-ties, there are no issues as tangible as a draft to rally the youth.
However, with U.S. imperialism and global ecocide raging, the stakes may be much higher today. And in these circumstances, one, or even two, thousand people showing up for a protest or two is not enough. Over the last year, Occupiers have chanted, “We are unstop-pable, another world is possible!”
If indeed another world is to be made pos-sible, the status quo of the culture of resistance must rise to a more eruptive level. OWS cel-ebrates its one-year anniversary on Sept. 17, and actions have been planned. If the radical left wants to retain the potency it has had for the last year, this event must not be a let-down. But right now, if “revolution is the only op-tion,” present levels of dissent are not enough.
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page 4 • thursday, september 6, 2012 Technician
People often day-d re a m a b out what it would be
like to step into a time ma-chine. The appeal of such machines stems from our curiosity—we want to know what will be differ-ent. What technologies will be commonplace 50 years from now? Will we have a cure for cancer? What will people wear?
Imagine the disappoint-ment you might feel if you stepped into this machine, and stepped out 20 years later to see that everything had stayed the same. To add to that disappoint-ment, the time machine you stepped into was re-ally just a box that took you forward into the fu-ture at regular speed. This is true of the political time machine.
“Tonight 10 million of our fellow Americans are out of work, tens of mil-lions more work harder for lower pay,” this was said by Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention. Not last night—rather, more than 20 years ago at the DNC in New York in 1992.
Those words are as rel-evant today as they were in 1992. So what has changed?
Hope and change aren’t new to the Democratic Party—ironical ly, the ideals of hope and change are quite old, and haven’t changed much at all.
I n C l i nton’s 1992 speech, aptly titled A Place Called Hope, the soon-to-be president talked about his grandfather’s little country store in Hope, Ark. In this store, Clin-ton often saw people who sometimes couldn’t afford food, but they were people who worked hard, so his grandfather would give them food anyway. It was in that little store that he learned to “look up to the folks other people looked down on.” Today we know this as a narrative meant to appeal to the coveted
middle class.Af ter a l l, the middle
class is the backbone of the U.S. economy. We should build an America in which “healthcare is a right, not a privilege…an America in which middle class incomes, not middle class taxes, are going up.” And, of course, an America in which “those making over $200 thousand a year are asked to pay their fair share.”
At this point we’re won-dering if the time machine is broken…
And of course there’s the appeal to the women voters: “Listen. Hear me now. I am not pro-abortion—I am pro-choice, strongly. I believe this difficult and painful decision should be left to the women of America. I hope the right to privacy can be protected and we will never have to discuss this issue on politi-cal platforms.”
Sounds like something President Obama might say, or perhaps even something pre-campaign Mitt Rom-ney might have agreed with. Again, Bill Clinton said this in 1992. Women still can’t legally decide what’s best for them in some cases. How is this still an issue if liberal candidates have been prom-ising to solve it for at least the last 20 years?
Last night Bill Clinton responded to alleged false-hoods from the Republi-can National Convention last week with a quote from Ronald Reagan at the 1980 Presidential Debate, “There they go again,” Clinton said. (Reagan said this to disarm Carter as the incumbent at-tacked him on his Medicare record.)
It’s hard to keep track of who’s saying what, or how many times something has been said or promised be-fore. 20 years ago we were promised hope and change. It’s safe to say that if Hope and Change were the Ameri-can citizens, they’d vote on the democrat’s ballot solely to keep Obamacare—as they are old and tired of being beaten by politicians.
{ }Our viewHope and change,
old and worn
By Erin TOOLEY
What is the strangest question you have been
asked at a job interview?
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“Do you have trouble yelling at people and screaming their names at them? This was when i applied at Sweet Frog.”
Anna DeBoysophomore, graphic design
“i thought it was odd that they asked me on how i handled parents and if i was okay with cleaning up after kid’s accidents, when i applied at Chuck E Cheese’s. Also if i could dress up as Chuckee, and i did!”
Kaitlyn Wilsonsophomore, criminology
“Tell me about yourself? Because they never say what they want to hear! i mean do they want me to tell them how i was born and grew up!?”
Ryan Doggettjunior, technology education
Dr. Marvin “Pop-Pop” Herring
{ }megan’s viewNot a drop to drink
I love to complain.Well, let me re-
phrase that. I am not the greatest at making
conversa-tion and to cover up t h is
social f law, I complain. As a grocery store clerk, I find it is easiest to con-verse with customers by commiserating. We often find common ground by complaining about how miserably hot or cold it is outside, how much we hate Carolina or how the rent is too damn high.
Despite the constant whining, seldom do I hear anyone gripe about the price of water. Accord-ing to the journalists and scientists behind Circle of Blue, there has been an 18 percent rise in the price of water since 2010. The In-stitute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University claims, “The amount that Americans pay for water is rising faster than U.S. in-flation and faster than the amount paid to any other utility service.”
It seems the effects of this increase can be seen here on campus in the Atrium where the price of bottled water surpasses the price of a medium soft drink. As someone with intolerance for car-
bonation, this is disgrun-tling. The drink fountains at the Atrium offer a single noncarbonated beverage: Hi-C. And so I am left with a choice – save some money while risking my hea lth because, my good-ness, do you know what is in Hi-C? Or I could drink water, the purest and healthi-est drink on Earth, but only at the expense of my Dining Dollars.
In most restaurants, tap wa-ter is available at no charge. So the question is no longer about the price of water itself, but whether the water comes from a fountain or a bottle. In 2008, Lisa Ledwidge of Min-neapolis told Reader’s Digest she stopped drinking bottled water because “you’re spend-ing more per gallon than you would on gasoline for this thing that you can get out of the tap virtually for free.”
In the same report by Ja-net Majeski Jemmott, Eric Goldstein from the Natural Resources Defense Council says, “No one should think that bottled water is better regulated, better protected
or safer than tap.” More than a quarter of bottled wa-ter comes from a municipal supply.
The list of “glorified tap water,” as Jemmott refers to
it, includes popular labels but namely Dasani, the Atri-um’s water of choice. “Dasani acknowl-edges on its website, but not on the label itself, that i t d raws from local
water,” says Jemmott. Thus, it has no more value than the water available from the tap in the dining halls.
This all goes through my head before I despondently fill my cup with the confec-tionery called Hi-C, so as to show I am not fooled by the deceitful bottled water com-panies everywhere. While my teeth are turning fifty shades of red due to the excess of red dye, I catch myself dreaming of the days when there was water, water, everywhere.
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THE FIFTH: named for the T9 key we practically wore away from overuse.
heyyyyy :)
Texting is and always will be the ugly step cousin of e-mail. Messages are mis-
read, emoticons misinterpreted, pieces ignored, and general con-
fusion ensues. Since 1989, when the first text message was sent, we have been learning to adapt to abbreviated messages and bizarre acronyms. Despite our best ef-
forts, there are still some aspects of texting we fail to grasp. How does one appropriately respond to an “OK.”? When do you know the conversation is officially over?
Are parents ever going to learn how to avoid CAPS LOCK? We examine these timely questions and advise you on how to handle even the most absurd texter.
Don’t you hate that? Why in the world does the word “hey” need five y’s? We may never know, but here at The Fifth we’re going to try and give you
the inside scoop: texting—what you really meant to say.
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TEXTING FOR THE SEXES
Parents, bosses, frenemies, hookups. Every relationship you have is different, which makes the texts they send different too. Why do parents type in all caps? How can you detect sarcasm? It’s time to get educated.
“Hey babe, are you hungry?” I’m too lazy to be productive, can you come over and cook me something to eat while I just sit here and collect dust?
I’m hungry, which means you need to buy me food. At the place of my choice, of course. I’m so over burgers and Taco Bell.
“OK.” That’s it. That phrase literally means what it says, no matter the context. Its an answer that’s universally known by dudes meaning an agreement or understanding.
You better rethink everything you’ve done in the last 48 hours. If she sends you back “OK.”, she’s pissed and is about to open a can of whoop a$$ on you. Prepare yourself. Its DEFCON 5.
“Hey, what are you up to?”
(sent anytime after midnight)
If you don’t know what this means then you don’t deserve to be receiving such a text. Drop whatever you’re doing and head to her house. She wants you...to help her study.
If you don’t know what this means then you don’t deserve to be receiving such a text. Drop whatever you’re doing and get into some comfy clothes. He wants you...to help him with his anatomy homework.
“I don’t care.” As the expression goes, no f#%@s are given. THE EXACT OPPOSITE. Nothing matters more to her. In fact, if it meant moving a mountain to find the answer to whatever she ‘doesn’t care about’ then she’s probably already rented a bulldozer.
The Message Who it’s from How you should respond
The Message What a guy meant What a girl meant
“HWTDYGOOCT?” Your mother What may look like an inebriated misspelling of every word in the English language just so happens to be your mom attempting to use “hip texting slang,” or some obviously made-up acronym. Responding might be hard, but one thing you shouldn’t do is not respond...but go easy on her, she’s new to this after all.
“Jimmy called and said he saw you at the mall, I thought you had pneumonia?”
Your boss You’ve got yourself into quite the predicament. Rest easy though, you have options: 1. play the twin card - everyone now and again fakes a sibling to explain why they were somewhere they shouldn’t have been, and if you haven’t, try it. 2. Don’t answer - this is probably your best option...if you’d like to keep your job, of course.
“Heyyyy” Potential hookup It’s late when you receive this, most likely between the hours of 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. You both know what it means. The sender is intoxicated, lonely and in desperate need of some attention—from you, or one of the five other people they sent this text to. Proceed with caution.
“Ha.” Frenemy While similar texts, such as “haha,” can be interpreted with genuine amusement, this text means anything but. The period and the shortness of the word indicate only one thing; You are not, in any way, funny. Fight fire with water and quit responding to this person, who is completely wasting your unlimited texting quota.
“ :) ” Generic texter Is the conversation over? Are you required to respond to this message? Does this text even warrant an “lol”? The smiley face, when used correctly, is a fun addition to texting. When used as a sign off, it’s annoying. We recommend avoiding this type of texter entirely, as they are obviously short on original thought.
Decoding text messages is an art form, and it becomes even more specialized when you consider the differences of each sex. This chart gives you a breakdown of some commonly misunderstood phrases.
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An intern for Carolina For Kibera sat at a soccer match beside an elderly man. Al-though incredibly poor, the man wanted nothing from the intern but to practice his English. Wanting to re-pay him in the only way he could, the old man struggled to teach the young man com-mon Swahili phrases. As a fi-nal remark the elder turned and said, “You always have something to give.”
Founded by Rye Barcott in 2000, Carolina For Kibera was established in order to combat the problems plagu-ing Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. CFK is different from other non-profit organiza-tions because it works direct-ly with the youth of Kibera to instill empowerment and the idea that “the place of one’s birth should not determine the outcome of his or her life.”
Leann Bankoski, executive director of CFK, is the sole operator of the United States branch of the organization. When it comes to those on the ground, there are hun-dreds more.
“There are several differ-ent levels for Carolina For Kibera,” said Bankoski. “In Kenya, there is the full time
staff, some part-time staff and literally hundreds of volunteers.”
CFK trail-blazed the idea of a participatory development model, which is the idea of implementing programs to provide progressive changes directly to communities. It addresses community needs such as education, health, gender equality, ethnic co-operation and economic empowerment.
“Just because people are poor doesn’t mean they’re all the same,” Bankoski said. “Our job is to figure out what someone is interested in and develop a program that re-lates to their interests.”
However, there have been times when projects don’t go as planned or the community wanted to implement some-thing that isn’t an option.
“I wouldn’t say there are negative things but there are lessons to be learned,” Bankoski said. “When we’re trying to start a program or an initiative we never really know if it’s going to work. We see this work as kind of an experiment. If someone had figured out how to solve poverty they would have done it a long time ago.”
With its headquarters in Chapel Hill, CFK is proud of its Carolinian roots as well as the new roots in Kenya.
“We’re trying a differ-
ent model of non-profit,” Bankoski said. “One that’s an all Kenyan staff and mostly Kiberan at that. When you look on the website of other NGO’s you’ll see a lot of white faces and it’s really important to us that it’s not that way with us.”
Through the summer read-ing assignment, the incom-ing freshman class was given insight into the birth of CFK in It Happened On The Way To War: A Marine’s Path To Peace, a memoir by Barcott himself.
Amanda McCrackan, a freshman in mechanical en-gineering, was inspired by the memoir.
“I felt compelled to hold a drive for sterilized bed sheets to send to Kibera to help solve the bedbug problem,” said McCrackan. “I felt like there was something I needed to do.”
Lubana Lanewala, a fresh-man in business manage-ment, felt the call to action but in a slightly different way.
“It fueled my wish to travel to Africa,” Lanewala said. “I’d love to do something with writing and education. These communities can be-come so encumbered by their poverty that they lose track of themselves.”
With inspiration being a common thread between both Barcott’s book and his
desire to empower Kiberan youth, it’s only right that the leaders of CFK be inspired as well.
“We want to prove to you that things can be different,” Bankoski said. “If you recog-nize where you are and who you are and the resources that you have, you can do some-thing with that.”
CFK is paving a new way for humanitarian efforts. By teaching communities to help themselves, CFK is able to bring a sense of worth to at-risk communities.
“We’re trying to paint a new picture,” Bankoski said.
“We’re trying to show Kenya and the world that this com-munity has value and a ton of potential. We’re just simply
doing it one by one.”
Carolina For Kibera inspires students far and wide
COURTESY OF MORGANA WINGARDCarloina for Kibera volunteer, Aaron Charlop-Powers greets some childern in Kibera, East Africia’s largest slum.
COURTESY OF MORGANA WINGARDTwo Kiberan boys playing at a soccer match.
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lieve that something spe-cial is about to happen. Russell has never been the tallest tree in the for-est, but if you were going to cut one of them down and use it for a Christmas tree, you’d choose the Russell Wilson tree.
Wilson will turn what would be a sack into a completion. The defensive coverage can be perfect and take away all of his re-ceivers, but he’ll still beat you by running for a first down. He’ll hit his wide outs square in the num-bers on a slant and he can drop a 50-yard throw on a dime. The guy can just do it all.
Mike Glennon is one heck of a quarterback. I think he’s one of the top-10 in the country this year, if not top five. But he’s no Russell Wilson. They play two completely different styles of quarterback. Glennon is the epitome of a pocket passer. He’s one of the best in the country at what he does, but he just doesn’t possess the “it” factor or the “hold your breath” excitement that Wilson has in spades.
In fairness to Glen-non, Wilson is a special one-of-a-kind talent. But that’s why Glennon just doesn’t quite do it for me. I got so spoiled by watch-ing Wilson over the years
that I expected nothing short of greatness from any quar-terback wearing the red and white of State. Anything less was sub-par and unaccept-able as far as I was concerned.
I’ve finally learned my les-son though. Nobody will ever impress me like Rus-
sell Wilson used to, but I’ve learned to sit back and ap-preciate Glennon for what he is: one of the most accurate quarterbacks in the country. Glennon will never be Russell Wilson, but he’s one heck of a quarterback, and I’ll take him any day of the week.
GLENNONcontinued from page 8
because the training and preparation that goes into one of these events is far from easy.
“Training’s long,” Charles Lambrecht, a sophomore in general engineering said. “We pretty much train everyday. Sometimes twice a day.”
The vigorous training schedule goes as fol-lows: a morning 6 a.m. run on Tuesday, a swim on Wednesday and a bike on Friday, repeated weekly. Athletes must monitor their own fitness levels, as well as diet, to put them in top shape for each race.
The team’s conference, called MACTC (Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Triathlon Confer-ence), is comprised of schools from North Carolina to New Jersey. As the Wolfpack travels to Williamsburg this weekend, roads will be closed down and hundreds will gather
to watch first the 750m swim across the James River, followed by the bike over Route 5 and rounded out with an asphalt-path run.
Doughtie’s presence has certainly escalated the level of intensity and expectations for this year’s N.C. State Club Triathlon team.
“I think it just makes more people want to come,” Fundanish said.
If you would like to participate, visit www.ncstatetri.com, while the rest of us ponder your choice in physical activity.
RACE continued from page 8
CONTRIBUTED BY TIM O’BRIENA member of last year’s N.C. State triathlon club prepares for the cycling portion of the race. The club member also cut the N.C. State athletics logo into the back of his head to emphasize team spirit.
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANStarting quarterback Mike Glennon throws the ball to his receiver during the second quarter of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game against Tennessee. Glennon threw for 288 yards with 1 touchdown in the Wolfpack’s 35-21 loss to the Volunteers.
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“We pretty much train
every day. Sometimes
twice a day.”Charles Lambrecht
sophomore in general engineering
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 • PAGE 7TECHNICIAN
INSIDE• Page 7: Continued commentary on
graduate student quarterback Mike Glennon
Andrew SchuettStaff Writer
I’ll get right to the point: N.C. State graduate student quarterback Mike Glennon just doesn’t impress me. I wish that he did, but he just doesn’t. I spent all of last year won-dering why, and I’ve finally figured it out.
There’s no reason for me not to like Glennon. He’s got prototypical size, plenty of talent and a cannon for an arm when he cuts loose. Like clockwork, Glennon will keep the chains moving and keep putting points on the scoreboard. In fact, he’s so good at his job that it can be borderline dull to watch the State offense operate at times. All of this spells trouble for any other team unlucky enough to have to play the Pack this season.
I’ll be the first to admit that I like Glennon. He’s as solid as they come and he’ll be a great quarterback for State this year, just as he was last season. But for all of Glennon’s skill and accolades, he has one glaring fault. He’s not Russell Wilson.
Ah, Wilson. I bet you saw this coming from a mile away didn’t you? For those who don’t know, Wilson was recently named the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks brought in fifth year veteran Matt Flynn during the offseason to become the team’s franchise quarterback. Flynn is the perfect candidate, too, after spend-ing the past four years as an able deputy to the best quarterback in the NFL, Aaron Rodgers.
Most experts believed that, at 5’11”, Wilson was too short to make an impact in the NFL.
Those of whom have seen Wilson play know he’s got the “it” factor. There’s no substitute for it and when somebody has it, it’s blatantly obvi-ous for all to see. Wilson reminds me of Tim Tebow in the fourth quarter, except Wilson makes plays throughout the entire game. Every time he touches the ball, you hold your breath because you truly be-
Will RaynorStaff Writer
If the “club” part of the Club Triathlon Team’s name leads you to believe these guys and girls are not top-notch athletes, chew on this for a second.
The Rev 3 Half Full Olympic Triathlon, set to take place Oct. 7 in Ellicot City, Md., entails a 1.5K swim, a 40K bike ride and a 10K run. You could probably count on one hand the amount of varsity athletes who could pull off something like that.
“Our hardest race? Rev 3, for sure.” said team captain Chris-topher Fundanish, a senior in environmental sciences.
In the meantime, the team will travel to Williamsburg this weekend for the Patriot’s Tri-athlon on Sunday, Sept. 9. Team members say they’re ready to make a statement after count-less hours of preparation and training.
Nothing demonstrates the team’s offseason efforts better than the hiring of experienced coach Brooks Doughtie. Dough-tie, who was a six-year triathlete, is now in his fifth year of coach-ing and has run the coaching gamut, training ITU pros, Iron-man athletes and half-Ironman athletes. The team has rallied behind his high expectations and is ready to elevate the Wolfpack’s status as one of the nation’s elite teams.
“My goal for the team is to have both men’s and women’s finish top 15,” Doughtie said. “I want to get a team atmosphere going instead of a bunch of individuals racing for N.C. State.”
Doughtie is impressed with the growth of the team, saying that attendance at practices has nearly doubled from last year. After placing
38th out of 72 in last April’s nation-als, Fundanish emphasized the im-portance of a collective team effort to reach for a better performance this year.
The team’s new coach is look-ing to provide a more uniform and structured team atmosphere, as well as alleviate some of the stress of managing and performing.
“It’s just nice to turn to someone with experience that we can rely on,” said Fundanish, who last year acted as both an athlete and team organizer. “It just makes it easier on everybody.”
Perhaps “easier” is a relative term,
Catherine GloverCorrespondent
Because of its consistent pres-ence on the football field and basketball courts, the N.C. State cheerleading program is often overlooked because it’s “expect-ed” to be at each game cheering on the Wolfpack. Unless they personally know a cheerleader, most students, fans and other athletes are not aware of the ex-pectations, responsibilities and accomplishments of the State cheerleading team.
The State cheerleading team holds four of the Pack’s eight na-tional titles, with its most recent being in 2001. Cheerleaders don’t just show up at home and away football games, home men and women’s basketball games and gymnastics meets to cheer on the Pack. They also perform at exhibitions and appear at home-coming, pep rallies and parades, as well as volunteer in the com-munity. Their season concludes in April when they compete at the National Cheerleaders Asso-ciation Collegiate Nationals in Daytona, Fla.
In 2012, State’s Small Coed team f inished in second place in the na-tion, losing by just 0.078 of a point.
“[B]eing t hat c lose to being a National Champion is a huge source of motivation,” Head Coach Harold Trammel said. “You never want to be that close but not get there.”
Losing by less than one point is the difference in bobbling a stunt, having your feet crossed on a 720 or not pointing your toes on a jump.
Such a heartbreaking loss has pushed and motivated both the Small Coed and Large Coed
teams. “We set goals at our practices,”
said Trammel, who is a former State cheerleader himself. “We work with our strength and conditioning coaches. We take every opportunity that we get to per-form in front of crowds, such as at games or at pep rallies.
“We work as a team and one
family to not just strengthen our skills and hone the mental tough-ness that the sport of cheerleading demands,” he said. “In our sport we have two minutes and 15 seconds to show the crowd and judges what we have been working on for 12 months.”
Members of the cheerleading team face the same challenges as any other student-athlete. In the last 10 years, the team has had three Park Scholars and has graduated four
lawyers and two doctors. The program has had at least two athletes in the top 10 student-athletes for the past four seasons, including one where there were three cheerleaders in the top 10.
In addition to the Coed teams, the cheerleading program also includes the mascot program. To top off the four national titles already earned by State Cheer-leading, Mr. and Mrs. Wuf have two National Championships of their own and are also two-time participants in the CapitalOne Mascot Challenge.
Trammel said the program thrives on tradition and stressed true meaning of success as an athlete.
“More important ly, the cheerleading program wants to continue graduating athletes through the program while teaching members valuable life skills that will help them become successful in their personal lives and in their academic and career pursuits,” Trammel said.
COUNTDOWN• 2 days until the football team takes on Connecticut
in East Hartford, Conn.SportsTECHNICIANPAGE 8 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Men’s soccer enters national rankingsThe N.C. State men’s soccer team earned its first national ranking since 2009. A poll by Soccer America ranked the Wolfpack at No. 20, the NSCAA poll ranked it at No. 23 and the Pack tied for No. 25 in the Soccer Times poll. State is currently 4-0 and will take on UNC-Greensboro on Friday. It is also off to its best start since 1987 and is the only ACC team with a 4-0 record.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Choi named to player to watchJunior golfer Albin Choi was named to Golf World magazine’s Top 50 Male Player to Watch in 2012-13. This is second time on the list, as he was also named to it last Sept. Choi has four collegiate victories in his two semesters in competition. He also made the cut at the PGA Tour RBC Canadian Open event, finishing tied for 73 rd at one-over 281. Choi also won the Ontario Amateur championship and tied for first in stroke play at the North & South Amateur.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Triathlon Club sets lofty goals for ‘12
CONTRIBUTED BY TIM O’BRIENTwo members of the N.C. State triathlon club receive their number identifications prior to a race last season. The club finished at No. 38 out of 72 participating clubs at nationals last April. This season also marks the first time that the team will include a full girls roster and a head coach. It’s first meet will be on Sept. 9 in Williamsburg, Va.
ALEX SANCHEZ/TECHNICIANOlivia Blackwood, a sophomore in animal science, celebrates a fourth quarter interception by Earl Wolff in the game against Maryland in Carter Finley stadium Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Wolff’s interception started a Wolfpack drive that gave N.C. State the lead for the first time in the game. The Wolfpack defeated the Terrapins in 56-41 in what was the 2nd largest comeback in ACC history.
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Cheerleaders on a quest for success after losing by a fraction
FridayWOMEN’S SOCCER V. APPALACHIAN STATEReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL V. WESTERN CAROLINADail Soccer Field, 7 p.m.
MEN’S SOCCER V. UNC-GREENSBOROGreensboro, N.C., 8 p.m.
SaturdayCROSS COUNTRY V. SAINT AUGUSTINE’SRaleigh, N.C., 8 a.m.
FOOTBALL V. CONNECTICUTEast Hartford, Conn., 12 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL V. CAMPBELLReynolds Coliseum, 12 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL V. CENTRAL MICHIGANReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
SundayWOMEN’S SOCCER V. KANSASLawrence, Kan., 1 p.m.
MEN’S SOCCER V. MARISTDail Soccer Field, 5 p.m.
WOMEN’S GOLF AT THE COUGAR CLASSICCharleston, S.C., All Day
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I want to get a
team atmosphere
going instead of
a bunch of indi-
viduals racing for
N.C. State.”Brooks Doughtie
triathlon club head coach
“[B]eing that close
to being a National
Champion is a
huge source of
motivation.”Harold Trammel
cheerleading head coach
