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Big Easy Casino Night proceeds benefit disaster-relief in Haiti
Joanna BanegasStaff Writer
Union Activity Board hosted the 2010 Red and White Charity Ball Friday at the Vaughn Towers.
This year’s theme was Mardi Gras with an Big Easy Casino Night theme, lasting from 8 to 10:30 p.m. The event was supposed to last until 12 a.m. but was canceled early due to the inclem-ent weather.
All the proceeds went to the Howl for Haiti, which benefits Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the dis-tribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world.
Jennifar Gomes, UAB’s vice presi-dent and senior in psychology, said the board wanted students to be educated more on the charity the campus chose to support Haitian relief.
“This year is different from other years because we planned it to be more upscale and for more students to come out,” Gomes said. “We want you to help out in the charity and know where your money is going.”
The tickets were $10 each and trans-portation was available. At the event, students played in the casino, won prizes and enjoyed free food.
Blanca Cohen, a sophomore in bio-logical sciences, said this year was her first time attending the Red and White Charity Ball.
“I wanted to relive my band banquet experience from high school again,” Cohen said. “By attending this event I was able to do that.”
Cohen also said she wasn’t able to play the casino games because she and her date arrived at the ball 30 minutes before the ball was canceled.
“I thought it was pretty messed up that the ball ended two hours earlier,” Cohen said. “It was disappointing that it ended so early into the night.”
Gomes said she was upset that it snowed on the day of the Ball.
“We had to cancel the event early,” Cohen said. “The cops told us to can-cel the event at 10:30 p.m. due to the dangerous weather. We had buses take students in and out of the dance.”
According to Gomes, every year UAB does a different charity with a different theme.
“We decided to do Mardi Gras because its coming up this Tuesday and it’s a fun theme for everybody,” Gomes said.
UAB publicized the cause and event around campus much more
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Students receive prizes, free food and view the Carolina game in Carmichael Gym
Jessica NevilleScience & Tech Editor
For 13 consecutive years, the Big Event has brought students together on campus to watch the N.C. State versus UNC-Chapel Hill basketball game played at Chapel Hill. Although usually held in Reynolds Coliseum, a scheduling conflict made it neces-sary for the event planners to hold the event at Carmichael Recreation Center this year.
Jennifer Gilmore, communications manager for Uni-versity Dining, said the purpose of the Big Event is to give students an alcohol-free venue in which to watch the basket-ball game.
“We usually have a good turnout for the event; last year, it was completely full,” Gilmore said before the game. “We hope there will be a lot of excitement and energy.”
Students who attended the event were treated to free Chick-fil-A, Papa John’s and Coke products, as well as numerous prizes given through raffle tickets. Other features of the event included performances by the Pack-a-belles, Fusion dance group, the marching band and the varsity cheerleaders.
Shauntia Walton, a sophomore in biological sciences, said she came to socialize with her friends.
“I just wanted to get out of my dorm room really,” Walton said. “I think this event is a positive experience and I’m glad it’s alcohol-free.”
Although Carmichael had seating for up to 1,000 students, at half time the seats were only approximately half filled.
Charles Cofield, a sophomore in biological engineering, said there was not as much excitement at the event as there was last year.
“To be honest, it seems like people have given up on our basketball team,”
Cof ield said. “I also think it was more fun last year because it was on a weeknight, so more people came.”
In addition, Co-field said he liked the open space in Car-michael but thought the compact space in Reynolds brought
everybody together more. The highlight of the Big Event was
the halftime giveaway sponsored by University Dining and Coca-Cola. Twelve students were chosen random-ly through raffle tickets given out at the entrance. The students stood on signs with different Coca-Cola prod-ucts that named different prizes un-derneath. Gilmore called for different students to turn over their signs and see what prizes they had won, narrow-ing it down to two students.
The competition, dubbed “Last Stu-dent Standing,” gave students prizes sponsored by Coca-Cola, including bikes, couches and All Campus gift certificates.
The last two students competed for
a $500 All Campus gift certificate and $3000 for tuition. The winner of the tuition prize was Darrell Palmer, a sophomore in mechanical engineer-ing.
“I’ve never been to the Big Event be-
fore, so I didn’t really have any expec-tations,” Palmer said. “This definitely made it worth it. I can’t believe I won all this money, I’m speechless.”
The Big Event changes venues, fewer fans
Red and White Ball ends early due to inclement weather Friday
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Marisa akers/TechnicianKayloni Witherspoon, a sophomore in environmental design in architecture, and Shiesha Jordan, a junior in psychology, try their luck on the slot machines at the Red and White Ball on Friday. “I came out here to support the Haiti situation and to have fun,” Witherspoon said. The ball themed Casino Night gave students an opportunity to learn how to play Blackjack, slots and other games; the money raised by selling tickets went to Stop Hunger Now.
Rule will improve water quality, decrease turbidity across the nation
Arth PandyaStaff Writer
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a regulation on Feb. 1 to help reduce water pollution from construction sites. The rule takes ef-fect in North Carolina August 2011.
The rule will place limits on the amount of turbidity in runoff from construction sites, and require sites to monitor the runoff.
This is the first time the EPA has imposed national monitoring re-quirements and enforceable numeric limitations on construction site storm water runoff, according to the EPA.
Soil and sediment runoff is one of the leading causes of water quality problems nationwide, according to Dr. Rich McLaughlin, professor of soil science and an expert in water quality protection at the University.
McLaughlin said the regulation will significantly improve the water quali-
ty, which impacts not only ecosystems, but also our drinking water supply.
“This will have a direct impact on aquatic life, whether it is fish, insects — anything that is living in the wa-ter. When water is too turbid, plants can’t get light and eventually die out. Aquatic vegetation can’t survive, which can wreck ecosystems. We get our water from lakes, and if that water is too turbid, it’s more expensive and difficult to clean it up,” he said.
The EPA was sued by a consortium of environmental groups and states, according to McLaughlin, which forced them to enforce the clean water act for construction site runoff, just as they regulate other pollutant sources.
McLaughlin said the regulation will affect mostly the larger developers in the U.S.
“It’ll affect the people who develop the Walmarts, the Targets, developers like Beazer and Centex.”
The regulation will also affect Uni-versity construction projects.
“Hunt library, the larger projects that we have, probably mostly on
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Michael shriver/TechnicianClay Campbell, junior in biological engineering, holds up his raffle prize at The Big Event in Carmichael Saturday, Feb. 13. Cambell was “very excited” to have won and as for the check, “I’m gonna pay tuition!”.
“To be honest it
seems like people
have given up on
our basketball
team.”Charles Cofield, a sophomore in
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Thursday-Sunday, Feb 17-21 • Stewart TheatreUniversity Theatre presentsInto the WoodsCockeyed characters in a fractured fairy tale delight audiences in this favorite musical. The Baker and his Wife are cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door. Breaking the spell requires embarking on a quest for special objects, and by the end of Act One, we’ve met Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Prince Charming, Rapunzel and Jack of the Beanstalk, but not like we remember them from childhood.
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CAMPUS CALENDAR
Monday, Feb. 15, 2010
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS! D.H. Hill Library East Wing9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. PC INTRODUCTIONMcKimmon CenterNoon - 8 p.m. FACES AND MAZES (LIA COOK)Gregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon - 8 p.m. WITH LATHE AND CHISEL: NORTH CAROLINA WOOD TURNERS AND CARVERSGregg Museum of Art & Design1 - 3 p.m.
ADVISOR’S DEVELOP.M.ENT INSTITUTE: ADVISING AS TEACHINGTalley Student Center, Blue Room6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
HOWL FOR HAITI BENEFIT CONCERTWitherspoon Student Center7 - 8:30 p.m.
ADVANCED BEGINNING CHINESE FOR ADULTS7 - 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS!D.H. Hill LibraryEast WingAll Day
FLASH LEVEL 2McKimmon Center 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
FACES AND MAZES (LIA COOK)Gregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon - 8 p.m.
WITH LATHE AND CHISEL: NORTH CAROLINA WOOD TURNERS AND CARVERSGregg Museum of Art & Design1 - 4 p.m.
THE PROTECTED CLASS OF DISABILITYTalley Student Center, Brown Room
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
SOIL SCIENCE SEMINARWilliams Hall Auditorium3:40 p.m
HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS!D.H. Hill Library East WingAll day
FACES AND MAZES (LIA COOK)Gregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon - 8 p.m.
WITH LATHE AND CHISEL: NORTH CAROLINA WOOD TURNERS AND CARVERSGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon - 8 p.m.
WELCOME CELEBRATION FOR CHANCELLOR-ELECT WOODSOnReynolds Coliseum4:30 p.m.
STUDENT SENATE MEETINGWitherspoon Student Center, 2nd Floor 7:30 p.m.. - Midnight
INTO THE WOODSUniversity Theatre8 p.m.
KELLYLEE EVANSThompson Hall - Titmus Theatre8 p.m.
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSSend all clarifications and corrections to Executive Editor Russell Witham at [email protected].
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Playing the slots for Haiti
Kayloni Witherspoon, a sophomore in environmental design in architecture, and Shiesha Jordan, a junior in psy-chology, try their luck on the slot machines at the Red and White Ball Friday. “I came out here to support the Haiti situation and to have fun,” Witherspoon said. The ball themed Casino Night gave students an opportunity to learn
how to play blackjack, slots and other games; the money raised by selling tickets went to Stop Hunger Now.
PHOTO BY MARISA AKERS
IN THE KNOW Peace Corps Director to visit N.C. State
The Director of Peace Corps, Aaron S. Williams, will be visiting campus Thursday. Mr. Williams will give a talk on the Peace Corps and the importance of public service, interna-tional volunteering and why today’s Peace Corps is more vital than ever. Since Peace Corps’ inception, 426 alumni of NCSU have served in the Peace Corps. The talk will take place at 2235 SAS Hall Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m.
SOURCE: STEPHEN CHAPMAN, PEACE CORPS PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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Howl for Haiti Benefit Concert
N.C. State’s campus-wide disaster relief effort “Howl for Haiti” will host a jam-packed Benefit Concert at
the Witherspoon Student Center Monday. CSLEPS and UAB have worked to-gether to put on this show as a way to get the entire campus involved with the fundraising efforts for the people of Haiti. Food will be sold at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 with all of the proceeds going to the Howl for Haiti Campaign. NCSU “Howl for Haiti” T-shirts will be available for sale for $10.
Performers include, The Grains of Time, the Pack-a-belles, Fusion Dance Crew, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and a special guest speaker. For more informa-tion contact Libby Orsega at [email protected]
SOURCE: NCSU CAMPUS CALENDAR
Welcome Celebration for Chancellor-elect Woodson
N.C. State welcomes Chancellor-elect W. Ran-dolph Woodson and his wife, Susan, to the Uni-versity family during an event at Reynolds Coliseum Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. Refreshments and an op-portunity to meet the new chancellor will follow the event’s program.
For more information contact Lauren Gregg at 919-515-6098.
SOURCE: NCSU CAMPUS CALENDAR
WORLD & NATIONSex offender law could go global with lawmaker’s bill
WASHINGTON - Me-gan’s Law soon could go international. The law, named after Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and killed by a neighbor in 1994, requires convicted sex offenders to be registered with the gov-ernment, making it easier to track their whereabouts. Their names can then be put into databases, allow-ing the public to do a quick online check to determine where they are located and allows citizens to alert local authorities.
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Americans begin medal count in Vancouver
As of Sunday, the US Na-tional team in Vancouver has 5 medals. Two are for freestyle skiing, one gold and one bronze. There are three Olympic freestyle skiing events, aerials, mo-guls and ski cross. Tricks in freestyle skiing include the twister, spread-eagle, iron cross and the helicop-ter, an upright 360-degree
spin. Nordic combined gathered one silver medal and includes the individual normal downhill race, the individual large hill race and the team event. The final victorious sport is the short track, with one silver and one bronze. The short track speed skating takes place on a 111.12-meter oval track within a hockey rink. Short track speed skaters compete against each other, instead of the clock.
SOURCE: NBC OLYMPICS AND VANCOUVER 2010
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this year by adding more visu-als at the event and advertising around campus, according to Gomes.
“On the table there was a display saying with the $10 you spend on the ticket to the dance you helped out forty people,”
Gomes said.Cohen said her favorite part
was the dance f loor and the DJ played a good selection of music throughout the evening.
Cohen said she recommends this charity ball to anyone.
“It’s like a laid back prom where you can’t go too dressed up but you can’t go in jeans either,” Cohen said. “It was unique.”
Cohen said there was some-thing different at the ball for everybody to enjoy.
“Spending money and know-ing it’s going to a really great cause makes myself become a whole different person,” Co-hen said. “I feel like I’m actu-ally contributing to something that will impact many people in a positive way.”
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Centennial Campus, most of them will have to comply,” McLaughlin said.
Ted Sherrod, a North Caro-lina Department of Transpor-tation engineer, said McLaugh-lin’s research had been an in-strumental part in formulating the rule.
“EPA looked at the work [McLaughlin] had done in for-mulating their rule,” he said. “NCSU has been one of the top sites for leading the nation in research for controlling turbid-ity from work sites.”
McLaughlin said that its op-tion allows sites to reduce the negative impact on water quali-ty without having an extremely expensive impact.
“Over many years, the EPA said there was no economical way to control [construction runoff],” he said. “We provid-ed them an alternative to what they thought was their only op-tion, portable treatment plants, and it took 8 years for us to feel really comfortable that we had options that worked.”
The EPA cites this approach
as being much more cost effec-tive than its original proposed rule.
According to McLaughlin, the EPA estimated that the fi-nancial impact on construction sites will be minimal, adding roughly 0.1 percent to con-struction costs.
“If they do it right, and plan it, they won’t even notice a change in the cost.,” he said.
The regulation, however, will be one of the greatest challeng-es the construction industry in the state and nation has ever faced, according to Sherrod.
He said North Carolina faces unique environmental chal-lenges with turbidity.
“We have a lot of clay, and clay is usually the culprit be-hind high levels of turbid-ity. North Carolina generally has consistent precipitation throughout the year — our soil type, the typography. Our slopes are steeper in the pied-mont area and it’s more dif-ficult to contain that runoff,” he said.
Sherrod said the general at-titude toward the rule is one of anxiety.
“Putting in place the right contract provisions, the correct designs, the right site manag-
ers to manage it, the right tools to use — it’s quite a task. [The rule] is certainly looked upon apprehensive-ly,” he said. “It’ll be difficult to meet the numeric limits, because right now con-struction discharge can be several hundred to several thousand NTU. Our goal is to achieve a level of 280 NTU, the EPA standard.”
NTU is a measure of wa-ter clarity, for comparison, typical drinking water has an NTU of less than 1.
Despite the challenges, Sherrod said the NCDOT will strive to accomplish the arduous feat ahead of it.
“However, as environ-mental professionals, as en-gineers in the field, we look at it as one of the challenges on the job site that we will strive to achieve,” he said.
“We’re already underway in incorporating the turbid-ity regulation in all of our projects, and through ef-forts in addressing water quality discharge from con-struction sites, there will be a positive impact on streams that are already impaired and hopefully we can see water quality ... rebound.”
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Howl for Haiti volunteers collected money and gave out ribbons at the entrance to the BIG Event to contribute to-wards the University goal of $50,000. De’Ericka Aiken, a
senior in political science and chair of the Student Govern-ment Community Service Commission, said as of Satur-day the goal had been halfway met.
“We have approximately $25,000 right now, so we are on our way to meeting our goal,” Aiken said. “I am confident
that we can get there. A lot of students are branching out on their own to meet their goals.”
D u r i ng c om merc ia l breaks, Student Body Presi-dent Jim Ceresnak gave out prizes donated by the events various sponsors through raffle tickets.
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big event benefits howl for haiti
Michael shriver/TechnicianClay graham, sophomore in mechanical engineering, and ben Powell, sophomore in construction engineering management, cheer for the wolfpack at the big event in Carmichael gym saturday. howl for haiti collected donations and University Dining provided food, beverages and toys like the soft basketball Powell is holding.
Johnson is justified
Ty Johnson’s column in Tuesday’s paper covered little new ground in the frustration by fans at this season’s men’s basketball team’s struggles, and in general, it struck me as mean-spirited and missing the point. The team is clearly not where it should be at this point in Sidney Lowe’s tenure or this season, but fans and students taking shots at a coach for standing up for his players in an emotional moment after they nearly pulled off an unthinkable comeback certainly won’t help the morale of a team that still has the potential to turn the season around. 2009-10 certainly has not been a dream come true for anyone associated with N.C. State basketball, but don’t throw the coach under the bus for showing that losing hurts him, too, and that he is willing to go to bat for his guys. Clark Leonard alumnus, class of 2008 Technician Sports Editor, 2007-2008
Johnson dead on with diagnosis
Ty Johnson finally said what has been on my, and many of the students’ minds this season — if not the past three seasons. It’s easy to attend every home game when you have a chance at running the tables in the Big Tournament, but these old folks obviously don’t know what it feels like to be a student who tries to support a team that consistently finishes at the bottom of the ACC, having to watch loss after loss. I will admit that I am a bitter fan, but I can only watch the team lose for so many years and I firmly believe that the bottom line is coaching. And Dan, I never considered Technician to be a source of good journalism.
Joseph Meinzer junior, parks, recreation and tourism management
Don’t just favor athletes
Having read Thursday’s Viewpoint on Case Dining Hall, I completely agree. Case should be opened to everyone on campus. For one thing, Clark Dining Hall is overwhelmingly crowded during peak hours, so much so that people have to stand and wait for available seats to open in order to sit down and eat. But more
importantly, the University is about education, not athletics. Why should the better food be reserved solely for athletes when students require a good diet in order to work and study effectively? If athletes get their own dining hall, why not discriminate and have a dining hall solely for Park Scholars, Caldwell Fellows, or honors and scholars students? Understand, I am not endorsing such a move — I merely point out the flawed logic in favoring athletes. I can also understand athletes’ greater need for calories; last time I checked, however, food was unlimited in both Fountain and Clark. Case may be small, but Clark is stretched to the max; it makes sense to shift at least some of the burden. I suggest that members of the Student Government and University Dining work together to remedy this situation in the near future, and I highly recommend reassessing the priorities of a public educational institution such as N.C. State — namely, education. John Millersophomore, biomedical engineering
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The aptly-named Big Event is a traditional part of the University’s
festivities before and during the big basketball game against UNC-Chapel Hill. This year’s event had all the pomp and circumstance associated with such a game, including an op-portunity for a student to win a $3,000 scholarship Saturday
Yet according to some first-hand accounts, the Big Event wasn’t all that big. In part, the venue and student apathy likely played a role in keeping the Big Event from living up to its name, even with a $3,000 giveaway. At the very least, the University can address the first problem, which may help lessen the consequences of the
second. Obviously, the great enemy within athletics is not despair at the inability of the University’s teams to win the games — students expect to win and stay competitive in the conference. The true enemy is apathy, when students do not care about athletics enough to constantly advocate for a major shake up and demand the ath-letic director start making big moves or step down and allow someone else to do so. It is this apathy that hurts us, and there can be no doubt apathy had a role in keeping attendance at the Big Event low.
Yet it doesn’t help when the Big Event is in Carmichael Gymnasium. Traditionally, the event is held at Reynolds Coli-seum; this year, it was moved due to a scheduling conflict with a gymnastics event. If the University is really interested in its traditions, then it may wish to plan ahead and block off use of Reynolds around when the Carolina game is expected to take place. Additionally, us-ing Carmicheal to host the Big Event may interfere with stu-dents’ plans to play basketball at the gym, which undoubtably added to the confusion.
With Campout returning to Reynolds, it makes sense to keep the Big Event there — re-gardless of the name, having the Carolina game on the big screen at Reynolds has been a standby. We may lose the game, but at least let us watch it someplace familiar.
Ultimately, there is no easy way to guarantee a loyal, in-volved fan base without win-ning. The planners of the Big Event cannot do anything to address that, but at least they can make watching a more en-joyable experience and strive to keep the flame of tradition burning.
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Go big and back to ReynoldsTHE ISSUE:The Big Event did not have standing-room only attendance as expected for the rivalry game against UNC-Chapel Hill Saturday.
OUr OpInIOn:The lack of attendance may be indicative of a larger problem with athletics, but Big Event planners must keep the tradition alive and move the event back to Reynolds Coliseum next year.
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Progress depends on DADT repeal
Chad Rhoades seems to be baffled not only by the oppression that is
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, he also lacks the perspective of any so-
cial progress. Yes, we are in
war. Yes, this fac t s t ra ins t he mor a le of our forces considerably. Yes, there may be some per-fect point in the future to repeal DADT; however, it is not right to
wait for that hypothetical time. This is the nature of prog-
ress in American society. Even Martin Luther King, Jr. was criticized for bringing about untimely protests to advance civ i l r ights for African Americans. Progress fol-lows f ight-ing the en-trenched op-pressors that h a v e h e l d power over the minority.In this case, the minority is homosexu-als in the mil-itary. These men and women, who are sworn to protect our freedoms, rights and privileges are denied the fundamental pursuit of life and liberty. In-stead, they are forced to live un-der a constant shroud of deceit or, at least, silence. The irony in this should be apparent even to Mr. Rhoades.
Moreover, his use of false di-chotomies and fear mongering serve little use to improve his argument. We are in a state of war. We need a large military to fight our enemies and achieve our goals. Therefore, how is it useful to keep around a policy that restricts the number of qualified people who may serve in the military?
There are many instances where well-qualified members of the armed forces have been kicked out because their sexual orientation became known. Prior to that, they had excellent service records and otherwise would not have been in danger
of being discharged. How does this policy help?
That is the question that must be answered. When we con-sider restricting liberties, the question should never be “Is it easy? Is it convenient?” This will never be the case. Mr. Rhoades claims there may be a docile acceptance of a repeal of DADT, but implies that it will just as likely erupt in vio-lence. No reason is given as to why this may be the case, but change is a big scary thing, in-deed. Why not just keep your head down? Let’s not rock the boat. Why risk it at this time he asks?
This guy would be a hit in Montgomery, Ala. in 1965.
If he does not understand how it is to exist as you are without fear of persecution or negative consequences, then
the odds are good he has never been f o r c e d t o maintain si-lence or to disguise his fundamen-tal identity. Further, if he cannot un-derstand how Americans are charged w i t h t h e
moral imperative to preserve liberty for all our citizens and to ensure all men are treated with the equality that comes by virtue of their creation, then he lacks the basic ideas that have fundamentally shaped our na-tion.
In the end, his argument asks for us to be meek. It asks us to accept oppressing some in or-der to favor the status quo. It asks that we be afraid of the future that comes from direct action on our part to solve a problem with our civil liber-ties. It asks that we set aside our moral convictions in order to placate the bigotry of some. I ask that you consider the merit of such an argument.
Send Matt your thoughts on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to [email protected].
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have held power
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Getting to know Chancellor-elect Randy Woodson
Randy Woodson is no strang-er to hard work. In fact, grow-ing up in the South, the 52 year old said he quickly learned the importance of education and a good work ethic.
“Both of my parents were teachers. My dad was a coun-selor and my mother a teacher,” Woodson said. “They felt very strongly about higher educa-tion. I certainly had a good sense from my family of the importance of education.”
Adding to this was the op-portunity to work with one of his father’s friends, Ray Mose-ley, in a nursery that he ran.
According to Woodson, this very job is the reason that he became interested in what ul-timately became his career in horticulture.
In Woodson’s eyes, Moseley had quite the green thumb. He had a real interest in the sci-ence of horticulture as a whole and the growing of plants. This wasn’t all that he had, however. He had something else that would change Woodson’s life. He had a true interest in Wood-son’s future.
“I guess I just asked too many questions while working there, and he took an interest in my interest behind the science of what we were doing and en-
couraged me to continue my education in the field,” Wood-son said.
So that’s exactly what Wood-son did. He attended the Uni-versity of Arkansas, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1979. His education didn’t stop there, as he completed his postgraduate work at Cornell, receiving a master’s degree in horticulture and a doctorate in horticulture and plant physiol-ogy as well.
“For a long time, I thought my career would be going back to that nursery and using my education to improve my career there,” Woodson said.
Once Woodson got to the university and got hooked on science and research, however, things took a turn.
In 1983, Woodson became a member of the faculty of Louisiana State University as an assistant professor of horti-culture, a capacity in which he would serve until 1985.
In 1985, Woodson made his way to Purdue University.
“I came to Purdue because of the quality of the faculty and the students,” Woodson said.
Until 1998, Woodson served in a number of faculty and administrative roles, before getting the nod to become the
associate dean for the agri-cultural research programs at Purdue.
Quickly ascending the ranks, Woodson became Dean of Ag-riculture at Purdue, a position that Woodson contends is un-like many others.
“The Dean of Agriculture at Purdue has broader respon-sibilities in serving the state because we don’t have a state department of agriculture that oversees regulatory programs, so I had a lot of state responsi-bilities legislatively and politi-cally to support the regulatory environment for agriculture,” Woodson said.
In addition to all of these added responsibilities, Wood-son was also responsible for collaborating with the College of Sciences to start a research center and for dramatically in-creasing the grants received by the college.
“It was a time when we were able to identify some new areas that would position the college well for many years to come, so we had a lot of exciting things,” Woodson said.
In 2008, Woodson got more exciting news. After more than 20 years of service, Woodson was promoted to provost, the chief academic officer at Pur-
due.Serving in the post, Woodson
has done a number of things. Perhaps the most notable is his weathering of the troubling economic crisis that is affect-ing schools across the nation.
“We’re in a more fiscally con-strained environment now, so we had to do a lot of restructur-ing of the budget to address the concerns of the ability of the state to fund higher education,” Woodson said. “Even in spite of that, we’ve been able to do some very strategic things like launch a College of Health and Human Sciences.”
According to Woodson, this was done by bringing a lot of departments together from across the university and pro-viding them with more struc-ture, visibility and academic synergy to support the stu-dents.
“While we’ve been more fi-nancially constrained than we might’ve been a few years back, we still have been able to make investments to move the university forward,” Woodson said.
For reasons like these, it’s no wonder that when it was officially announced on Jan.
8 that Woodson was the offi-cial choice of the UNC Board of Governors for chancellor at N.C. State, Purdue University officials — and even Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels — did all they could to keep the ad-ministrator from making the cross-country trip to Raleigh.
The efforts didn’t work out for Indiana.
To read more about Randy Woodson and his goals for the University, see the second install-ment of this profile in Tuesday’s Technician.
tim o’brien/technician file photoRandy Woodson, who was accepted by the UNC Board of Governors to be the next chancellor, speaks at a reception held in the Park Alumni Center Friday evening, January 8, 2010. Woodson is currently provost at Purdue University in Indiana and will start his new job by May 1.
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On Wednesday, Feb. 17, the University community will welcome a special
guest, one who will become N.C. State’s 14th chancellor in a matter of mere
months. This guest, of course, is none other than Chancellor-elect Randy Woodson.
For that reason, Technician will provide students with a proper introduction to the
future chief executive officer at NCSU along with some background information
on many of his beliefs and goals for the University.
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Wrestling team falls to Virginia and Virginia Tech Saturday at Reynolds Coliseum
Jen HankinDeputy Sports Editor
The wrestling team fell twice Saturday to top-ranked ACC teams. The Pack opened up the doubleheader against No. 24 Virginia, losing 45-6,
and followed that up with another loss against No. 14 Virginia Tech,36-9.
The Wolfpack, now 6-12 in dual matches, was only able to capitalize on one bout in each match. It also benefitted from a heavyweight forfeit against Virginia Tech.
According to head coach Carter Jordan, the Pack’s week-end performance was a huge disappointment.
“I feel embarrassed. I feel frustrated,” Jordan said. “I think everyone’s very frus-trated and ready for Tuesday so we can forget [Saturday].”
In the first match, Virginia (15-5) won four matches by fall, two by technical fall and two by major decision. The sole win for the Pack came in the 165-weight class, where Ray Ward won by injury default.
Ward, up 4-1 in the first peri-od, shot a takedown on Virgin-ia’s Pat Riley, who then suffered a leg injury that caused him to forfeit the end of the match.
“This morning wasn’t too good, but we didn’t lose our heads,” sophomore 174-pound-er Quinton Godley said. “We just got to keep the confidence up.”
Prior to the second match, State celebrated senior day by honoring Taylor Cummings.
“You get caught up in wins and losses and winning cham-pionships, but really it’s about the relationships you develop with guys like Taylor,” Jordan said. “It was a reminder for me that as much as we are strug-gling right now, he’s going to graduate in the spring and he’s going to do great. We’re going to miss him.”
Virginia Tech continued to dominate the Pack, wining two bouts by fall, two by technical fall and one by major decision.
“We are who we are,” Jor-dan said. “There are certainly things that we have to do bet-ter but when we wrestle really talented programs it shows. It’s frustrating because we can
wrestle a lot better than that.”The Hokies forfeited the
heavyweight bout, giving fresh-man Eloheim Palma the win. It was Palma’s 20th this season, a new school record for victories by a freshman heavyweight.
The only wrestler of the en-tire day to win by decision was Godley. He defeated Virginia Tech’s Taylor Knapp, 6-0.
“I came out strong,” Godley said. “I got the first takedown to keep my confidence up and played it kind of safe. I let him come to me instead of coming to him. Maybe I shouldn’t have played him so safe, but a win is a win.”
At 133, freshman Dale Shull lost a close match to Brock LiVorio, 13-14, after suffering an injury to his ankle. Accord-ing to Shull, twisting his ankle
was only minor and didn’t af-fect the match.
“If anything, the injury time helped me breathe,” Shull said. “It seems like the same story for every match. I do really good things and then some really bad things and he caught my mistakes, every single thing.”
Shull mirrored Jordan’s frus-tration, saying the entire team is in excellent shape but mak-ing mistakes that lead to lost matches.
“Really it’s all north of the neck that we’re losing,” Shull said, referring to the mental troubles that have plagued the Pack this year. State competes in its final dual meet Tuesday at Buies Creek, N.C. against Campbell and Davidson.
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michael shriver/TechnicianJunior 165-pounder Ray Ward throws a crossface and controls the ankle of Victor Hojilla, a senior at UNC-Greensboro, in Reynolds Colliseum last Wednesday. Ward won by decision, 7-5 in a Wolfpack 19-14 win over UNCG.
some baskets,” Harper said. “She was able to get to the free throw line. She gave us a spark when we needed it.”
The final two minutes of the game were full of energy from the Pack and worked the fans into a frenzy.
Kastanek’s basket gave State a 66-63 lead with 1:05 left in the game
“Amber had been on me the whole game to go re-bound because I kept for-getting,” Kastanek said. “So I ran in there, I caught the ball, and just did what I had to do to help my team out.”
With 50 seconds remain-ing in the game, the Pack
sent Miami forward Morgan Stroman to the free throw line with a chance to tie it. The noise level in Reynolds Coli-seum hit unprecedented levels. Stroman made the front end of the one and one, but the second bounced off the rim.
After a missed layup by Mi-ami’s Charmaine Clark with seconds left, the game was sealed. After the clock ran out, Harper assured the crowd that it helped the team to victory.
“We talked about this day be-ing bigger than our team, that this is more than just a basket-ball game,” Harper said. “But at the same time, we had to be very focused on the task at hand.”
The Pack returns to Reyn-olds Coliseum Friday, Feb. 19 against Boston College.
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coached for so long at State and that she died from breast cancer, but don’t expect much beyond that.
I give my full respect to coach Kellie Harper. She has done a fine job progress-ing forward with this team. I know that Yow would be proud of the direction she its taking this program in.
This isn’t a call for memori-als to be built or names to be etched in the book. Instead, it’s a need to keep Yow’s leg-acy alive. A pioneer’s work is never done, and Kay Yow was a pioneer for women’s basket-ball and for the fight against breast cancer. It doesn’t mat-ter how big or small the ef-
forts are, but I hope to see Yow’s vision continued and for women’s basketball to continue to grow. We owe it to her for all she gave to us.
Support the Pack in its fi-nal home games of the sea-son. This team has progressed far more quickly than most would have anticipated and fans should be proud. Every-one knows someone whose lives have been touched by breast cancer. Maybe you had other plans Sunday, but take the time to call up that person and tell them you’re proud and that you care. If they in-spire you, make it known.
This is probably a column Kay Yow wouldn’t be a big fan of. She was never one to boast her achievements, re-cords and accolades. But it’s what she deserves.
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COUNTDOWN• 5 days until the baseball team’s season opener
against La Salle University
INSIDE• Page 7: A recap of the wrestling team’s
weekend doubleheaderSportsTechnicianPage 8 • monday, february 15, 2010
Women’s Tennis downs Old DominionThe women’s tennis traveled to Norfolk, Va., and took down No. 60 Old Dominion 6-1, moving to 3-1 on the year. The team won two out of three matches in doubles play, winning the double’s point. Sandhya Nagaraj and Daria Petrovic lost their first doubles match in spring play, falling to Nadine Fahoum and Joanna Dobrowolska 8-6. State only singles loss came from No. 45 Nagaraj falling to No. 21 Nadine Fahoum, 4-6, 6-2 and 4-6.
Source: N.c. State athleticS
Pack loses close one to UMass, 1-0State dropped a 1-0 game to No. 20 UMass Sunday at the FIU Combat Classic. Both teams resumed the game in the bottom of the fourth inning after it was called off Friday night due to hard rain. Lindsay Campana (1-1) took the loss after allowing just five hits, including Katie Bettencourt’s game winning home run. Sara Plourde (2-1) got the win, striking out 10 and allowing five Wolfpack hits.
Source: N.c. State athleticS
No. 23 gymnastics drops George WashingtonSenior Taylor Seaman won all-around, floor and bars and placed second on the vault, helping her team to a 194.325-190.275 win over George Washington. In addition, sophomore Brook Barr earned a win on vault with a 9.875, her second best score of the year. The Pack returns home to host the Sweetheart Invitational Saturday, Feb. 20 at Reynolds Coliseum.
Source: N.c. State athleticS
athletic schedule
TodayWomen’s Golf in Hurricane invitational, Qdoba invitationalHosted by MiamiDon Shula’s Golf Resort- Miami Lakes, Fla. 8 a.m. TuesdayWomen’s Golf in Hurricane invitational, Qdoba invitational Hosted by MiamiDon Shula’s Golf Resort- Miami Lakes, Fla. 5 p.m. WrestlinG vs. campbellBuies Creek, 5 p.m. WrestlinG vs. davidsonBuies Creek, TBA WednesdayWomen’s sWimminG and divinG in acc cHampionsHipsChapel Hill, All Day softball vs. nc centralSoftball Stadium, 5 p.m. men’s basketball vs. marylandRBC Center, 9 p.m.
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Don’t give up
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ever forgetThe fifth annual Hoops 4
Hope held in Reynolds last night was a success. The Wolf-pack Women put together a 66-64 victory in the last minute of the game against Miami. Over $50,000 was raised for the Kay Yow/WBCA Foundation.
But at ten-d a n c e w a s dow n f rom an 8,650 sell-out in 2009 to 6,452 and the event raised more than half of last year’s $91,200.
Last year’s Hoops 4 Hope
game took place only 23 days after the passing of legendary coach Kay Yow, providing a reeling Wolfpack community with a reason to come together. It was Yow’s vision to have the game sell out and it did, but not just one year later, which is a bit disappointing.
The Wolfpack Women suf-fered a tough loss Jan. 25 on their home court at the hands of the UNC-Chapel Hill Tar Heels. After the game, UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell was asked what it felt like to be back in Reynolds without longtime peer and friend Yow.
“It’s not the same over here without Kay,” she responded. “I don’t think people give Kay enough credit for what she’s done for women’s basketball.
I, for one, have to agree.It would take an entire copy
of this paper to detail all that Yow accomplished on and off the court during her career. But some of her achievements are always highlight worthy.
She coached the Wolfpack to five ACC regular season titles and four tournament titles. She was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000. She led the charge in the 1980s to get women’s basketball broadcasted on television. Last night’s game was aired nation-ally on ESPN2, evidence of how far the sport has progressed in this day and age. And that’s just the top of the iceberg.
Hoops 4 Hope was her brain-child. It also launched the ThinkPink and WBCA Pink Zone initiatives, which now include over 1,550 school and organizations.
Behind the scenes is where some of Yow’s greatest work lies. She fought tooth and nail for the sport of women’s bas-ketball for everything from sponsors and programming to the athletes themselves. You name it, Yow probably had a hand in it somewhere down the line. Like Hatchell said, some folks just don’t give Kay enough credit – in part because they probably just don’t know all she devoted to the sport.
It is sad, at least to me, that you could probably ask that an underclassman on campus take a moment to tell you about Kay Yow and he or she couldn’t talk for more than fifteen sec-onds. Sure, you’ll hear that Yow
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StandingsOverall Record
9th10-15
2nd15-10
T-3rd14-11
T-3rd14-11
10th9-16
1st17-8
T-3rd14-11
T-6th13-12
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8th12-13
20 Georgia Tech vs. Wake Forest
N.C. State vs. UNC
Maryland vs. 7 Duke
4 West Virginia vs. 23 Pittsburgh
Virginia vs. Virginia Tech
State edged out Miami 66-64 in the backdrop of a significant day
Jeniece JamisonSenior Staff Writer
A Marissa Kastanek put-back wound up being the deciding marker in a 66-64 thriller against the Miami Hurricanes Sunday after-noon.
But the game paled in comparison next to the cause it supported. The fifth annual Hoops 4 Hope raised money and awareness for a lofty goal: a cure for breast cancer.
“Knowing that last year was the year was the last time that Coach [Kay] Yow was a part of it definitely motivated me because I wanted to be out there more than ever,” guard Amber White said. “I thought about it all week. It was on the ca-lander and it definitely pro-vided additional motivation for me.”
The Wolfpack Women started off slow, missing their first three attempts from the f ield. Miami scored the first five points of the game, but a steal from senior guard Amber White and two free throws put the Pack on the board.
The shooting woes contin-ued for the Pack throughout the first half, shooting 31
percent from the field. State failed to convert on its first seven three-pointer attempts.
The Pack was able to keep itself within striking distance, going 11-for-13 from the free throw line.
“They were getting good looks and even the times they took some tough shots they were making them. We weren’t scoring at the pace they were scoring,” coach Kellie Harper said.
Miami was able to keep
State at bay and led 35-29 at the half. Approximately 150 cancer survivors, grouped to-gether by decade, gathered on the court. Afterward, three banners commemorating the life of Kay Yow found a per-manent home in the Reynolds Coliseum rafters.
State began to hit its stride offensively during the second half. It started the half off with a 6-0 run, but Miami respond-ed with a 6-0 run of its own. Forward Brittney Strachan hit
the Pack’s first three of the game.
Senior forward Sharnise Beal provided much-need-ed support off the bench in the second half, when she scored all six of her points.
“I thought Sharnise came in and did some really good things for us, got a couple of rebounds, got a couple of plays, and was able to score
Basketball drops rematch with beleaguered Tar Heels late
Tyler EverettDeputy Sports Editor
Prior to Saturday’s game, UNC-Chapel Hill basket-ball coach Roy Williams lik-ened the struggles his team has experienced this season to the situation in Haiti, where a massive earthquake a few weeks ago killed about 230,000 people.
“Massage therapist told me, she said, ‘You know, coach, what happened in Haiti is a catastrophe. What you’re having is a disap-pointment.’ I told her that depends on what chair she was sitting in,” Williams said. “Because it does feel like a catastrophe to me, because it is my life.”
The Tar Heels enjoyed a brief reprieve from the ‘ca-tastrophe’ of a season they are mired in with a win over N.C. State, which is in last place in the ACC with a 2-9 record in conference play. Carolina entered the game winless in its last four games since defeating the Pack Jan. 26 in Raleigh.
Going into the rematch with the Heels, State had won just one of its past six games, with the lone vic-tory coming in the form of a blowout against North
Carolina Central. The Pack faced a struggling and injured team, as the Heels announced Friday that forward Ed Davis, who led the team in rebounds, will be out for six weeks with a broken wrist. Davis joined fel-low injured front court players Tyler Zeller and Travis Wear on the Carolina bench.
“We talked about this,” said junior forward Tracy Smith, who finished with 20 points. “This year I just don’t think they are as strong as they have been in the past couple years. So this was our time to hit them and we didn’t capitalize. It’s very disappointing.”
UNC grabbed seven offen-sive rebounds in the first half, but the Pack offset that with seven of its own and 11 first half points from Smith. As has been the case in several of the recent losses, State went to the locker room for halftime facing a narrow deficit at 33-31.
But the rebounding woes worsened over the final twenty minutes as the Heels grabbed 10 more offensive boards in the second half to finish the game with 17 offensive rebounds and the same number of second-chance points. For the game, State was outrebounded 44-32 and lost the battle of second-chance points 17-9.
“[Dexter] Strickland, Larry Drew, they were all crashing the glass,” Smith said. “We were boxing out the ‘bigs’ and the guards were coming right in and the ball was bouncing
right to them.”The Pack held the Heels to
38 percent shooting from the field during the second half while shooting 42 percent over the final twenty minutes, but coach Sidney Lowe said he was not pleased with his team’s de-cision making.
“We came out [in the second half] and made some really bad decisions,” Lowe said. “That’s one of the things that’s been
killing us here lately: really understanding how to win games. What we are lack-ing is that experience and understanding, that poise.”
State will return to action when it hosts Maryland Wednesday at 9 p.m. at the RBC Center. The Terps come to Raleigh looking to rebound from a 77-56 loss to Duke Saturday.
tiM o’brieN/techNiciaNIn the close victory against Miami, senior guard Nikitta Gartrell drives down the court at the Hoops for Hope game in Reynolds Coliseum Sunday, Feb 14, 2010. Gartrell was a starting player and was on the court for 27 minutes and scored 9 points.
luiS zapata/techNiciaNSophomore guard C.J. Williams jumps to block UNC’s Marcus Ginyard during the Saturday game in the Dean Dome. Williams finished with four defensive rebounds and had zero blocks. N.C. State lost to UNC, 74 - 61.
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