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The Capital Area Tran-sit, or CAT, bus system made changes to its routes. Changes took effect Sunday and included the elimination of 13 routes and alterations to others.
Alterations included exist-ing buses covering the areas neglected by the eliminated routes.
Routes run every 30 min-utes during peak travel times, which are between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. Buses that run between 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. will run hourly and on weekends.
The CAT transit system is a lso providing addi-tional evening service and reduced headway for some
main downtown routes. These routes will operate in 15-minute intervals during peak travel times.
To help eliminate confu-sion, there will be few-er routes servicing t he sa me destina-tions.
N.C. State’s transporta-tion planner, Michael Ous-dahl, said he feels the changes are positive and make for a better experience for com-muters who use the system.
“The good thing about these CAT service changes is it makes the system friendlier and simpler to use,” Ousdahl said.
David Eatman, Transit Administrator of the city of Raleigh, feels commuters at N.C. State will not be impact-ed in a negative way from the
recent route adjustments. “These changes have been made to provide a solid foun-dation for fu-ture growth and to make
it easier for individuals who use the system,” Eatman said.
Eatman urges commuters who are traveling early in the morning or late in the eve-ning to check the CAT transit website to educate themselves about the changes that been made.
Nicole Vayo, a junior in
German studies, uses the CAT system to commute from her apartment to cam-pus and said she feels CAT could have notified com-muters about the changes in a more effective way.
“I didn’t hear anything about it or see advertise-ments on the bus for it,” Vayo said. “I looked on the website and I didn’t see anything ei-ther, so they definitely could have made it more known.”
Vayo was not the only stu-dent that was unaware of the recent changes to the CAT system.
Josh Clark, a junior in computer engineering, said he noticed some signs about some changes, but was not entirely sure of what changes the CAT system had made.
“I noticed there were some
changes on signs,” Clark said, “but I could not find anything about it online and this is the first time hearing about everything changing.”
Commuters face changes in transit systemCHANGES TO ROUTES:
1 Capital Blvd: runs from 4:30 a.m. to 11:15 p.m. with service every 15 minutes
6 Crabtree: runs from 5:55 a.m. to 8:15 p.m. Its last trip ends at Crabtree Mall.
16 Oberlin Road: runs from 6:15 a.m. to 10 p.m. and does not serve Rex Hospital after 7 p.m.
SOURCE: CAT WEBSITE
“...they definitely
could have made
it more known.”Nicole Vayo,
junior in German studies
According to Welch, neces-sary measures are also taken to ensure pantry-goers do not take advantage of the facility and use it as they would a grocery store.
With $1,500 per year, the food pantry is equipped with 20 full-time staff and about 1,600 volunteers. As far as donations go, 94 cents of ev-ery dollar goes directly to the program, Welch said.
Volunteers at the pantry assist with landscaping and stocking shelves, which re-ceive an average of 45,000 pounds of food per month.
According to Welch, the most needed and preferred donations include non-ex-pired food with a long shelf life, like dry beans and rice, though items needing refrig-eration will also be accepted.
Urban Ministries also helps Wake County residents by providing free medical care and pharmaceuticals to those who qualify. Other services include guidance for those seeking employment.
The Urban Ministries homeless shelter provides women with a safe place to stay at night and community programs with case managers during the day. The goal, ac-cording to Welch, is to make these women self-sufficient.
Women are allowed to stay at the shelter for a minimum of 30 days to a maximum of 120 days.
N.C. State can assist the food pantry by “ letting people know we need help,” Welch said.
Center for Student Eth-ics Leadership and Public Service Representative Alex Parker said he hopes CSLEPS can eventually help the Ur-ban Ministries food pantry, though it is not currently his biggest concern.
Veteran Urban Ministries volunteer Ralph Hartung said Urban Ministries is a great place to volunteer because it provides people with the op-portunity to work directly
with people who need help.“I can feel the gratitude of
the people coming [here],” Welch said.
According to Welch, the state of the economy is mak-
ing it difficult for those who fall ill to feed their children. Other visitors to the pantry may be suffering from sub-stance abuse or a chronic ill-ness like diabetes.
“Wake County has real needs and sometimes that gets lost because people as-sume we’re doing well,” Welch said.
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Leah ChevisCorresponsal
Como cualquiera persona de moda se ha notado, todas las celebridades y compañeras desde todo lugar se han estado vistiendo con un modo de ropa que se llama “estampado tribal” por más que un año hasta ahora. Faldas, pantalones, pantalones cortos, zapatos, blusas, corsés, complementos y aún el esmalte de uñas se han sido superados por diseños diversos y contrastes vívidos de color que pueden cambiar lo más básico de básicos en una declaración exótica.
Entonces, ¿Qué es exactamente lo que trae las ojeadas desde el armario de ropa hasta el Brickyard? Una estudiante de se-gundo año de universidad, Avni Satasia, dijo, “Me gusta de verdad el estampado Africano porque es único en su estilo y es bastante/muy llamativo. Me gusta la variedad de los colores y diseños.”
Sí que la apariencia de estas prendas es variada, llamativa y bonita para todo, pero, a la sorpresa de muchas personas, África no inspira estos diseños en lo más mínimo. De hecho, estos estampados se basan en diseños auténticos hispanos de los mayas.
Las prendas originales son realmente hechas en casa. Ma-quinaria básica, operada completamente por mujeres, em-plea técnicas de “back-strap weaving” para construir telas de muchos colores con filas de hilos coloridos y materiales sustitutos debido a limitaciones.
Esta tela es entonces cosida junta con unas tiras rasgadas de bolsas de plástico, aún creando prendas de vestir magníficas y duraderas.
Por el contrario, los fabricantes estadounidenses por lo gen-eral imprimen los diseños en la tela pre-construida. Si no que, entonces la maquinaria predeterminada pesada construye la tela con mezclas de fibra por medios químicos teñidos y cose la tela en la ropa con máquinas de coser. Esta ropa es hermosa y, en mayor parte, barata. Sin embargo no son tan duraderas y no coinciden con las “reglas” de la cultura maya auténtica.
Lisbeth Arias, una estudiante de tercer año en moda y dis-eño textil, unió los dos mundos. Por un mes, Lisbeth pasó el tiempo con mujeres mayas en Guatemala, aprendiendo sobre su cultura y técnicas de la fabricación mientras enseñando por su parte a las mujeres lo que sabe sobre los textiles y la industria de Estados Unidos. Sin dejar de mencionar, también obtuvo la oportunidad de iniciar por sí sola la producción en masa de las medias de Navidad en el país.
Una de las diferencias más distintas que ella notó entre nues-tra cultura y aquella de Guatemala era un complejo entre la afición y el estilo de vida. Aquí, los diseños son fabricados con el único objetivo de hacer dinero. La ropa y los accesorios se hacen tan baratos como posible y vendidos a consumidores hambrientos de la tendencia sin respeto a lo que el modelo realmente representa. En Guatemala, la creación de estos es-tampados es una parte fundamental de la vida. Sin esto, mu-chas familias irían sin la comida, el agua y otras necesidades vivas. La producción de telas es tan importante, de hecho, que la única manera de saber de donde viene alguien es basada en lo que ellos llevan.
Cada una de las 23 comunidades indígenas en Guatemala produce un juego único de colores, modelos, texturas, y estilos de sus telas. Esto representa quienes son ellos, lo que hacen, y cómo llegaron allí. Los Estados Unidos usan aspectos de todas las comunidades, sin embargo los fabricantes estadounidenses no cumplen con las reglas de las culturas—mezclando los colores, las texturas, y los modelos de comunidades diferen-tes para crear la variedad de diseños que vemos diariamente.
Si usted ve la variación estadounidense de muchos estilos que originan de la cultura hispana como una adaptación in-novadora para satisfacer los gustos americanos o como una descarada falta de respeto de una cultura original e hispana, es hasta su opinión sobre la industria. Sin embargo, esta tendencia en curso de la moda es algo más que una mera declaración de singularidad de exóticos, sino también una oda a una cultura fuerte con compromiso, tradición y belleza auténtica.
Cultura maya, latina influye la moda
alineados, proveyendo im-pulso nunca antes visto para la Casa Blanca y los legisla-dores a entregar las solucio-nes racionales que la gente es-tadounidense quiere. Esto se trata en hacer lo que es mejor para la gente estadounidense y la economía estadoun-idense, y de manera rápida.
Muchos latinos están pidi-
endo acción rápida en Caro-lina del Norte, especialmente después de que la División de Vehículos Motorizados ha negado dar licencias de conducir a los inmigrantes que han solicitado la acción diferida. La decisión puede afectar a 18,000 inmigrantes que desean obtener estado legal en Carolina del Norte, pero hasta que el presidente ponga un plan en marcha, pa-rece que los latinos tendrán que esperar.
Though the debate on immigration policies has become polarized between Democrats and Republicans, Janet Murguía, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, said this shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
“Now is the time to get im-migration reform passed,” Murguía said in a press re-lease. “This election wrote the obituary for self-deportation proposals and the fantasy that we will hunt down 11 million people. The moral, economic and political imperatives are clearly aligned, providing un-
precedented momentum for the White House and legis-lators to deliver the rational solutions that the American people want. This is about doing what is best for the American people and the American economy, and do-ing it swiftly.”
Many Latinos are calling for swift action in North Carolina, especially after the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles has denied issuing drivers licenses to immi-grants who have applied for deferred action. The ruling may affect 18,000 immigrants who wish to seek legal status in North Carolina, but until the president puts a plan in place, it seems like Latinos will have to wait.
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TECHNICIANPAGE 8 • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013
Rob McLambStaff Writer
The two basketball programs of N.C. State will both be making a trip to College Park this week to face the University of Maryland (men’s team on Wednesday and women’s team on Thursday).
The University of Maryland’s impending move to the Big Ten Conference means the match-ups between these two old rivals will soon be coming to an end, perhaps after this season pend-ing the inevitable lawsuits, but certainly no later than the 2014-2015 academic year.
The grueling, arduous trips to Charlottesville, the state of North Carolina, and Atlanta soon will wisely be replaced with more financially-sensible and appealing mid-winter flights to Madison, Iowa City, Minneapo-lis and Lincoln.
The tundra awaits the turtle.At the press conference an-
nouncing its glorious departure, Maryland president Wallace Loh declared succinctly that ending 59 years of tradition was needed “to guarantee the sustainability of Maryland Athletics for a long, long time.”
When asked about the timeta-ble of the decision to leave earlier in that same press conference, Loh stated that, in fact, at the meeting of ACC university lead-ers, his vote cast against raising the exit fee (or “sum”) was based on “legal and philosophical is-sues” and it was not a precursor to an impending move.
“When we first had those conversations (with Big Ten of-ficials),” Loh said, “we were not thinking of moving, there was no reason for us to move.”
“As those conversations began to proceed, we began to see pro-
spectus and value about joining.”Basically, the fee will not hold up
in court, but Loh had no idea the university would soon leave and actually challenge it.
OK.“Of course, it
i s never about money,” Loh said. “Somebody has to pay the bills.”
As t ime goes by, double-speak seems to be get-ting much less pro-found.
Many other no-table Maryland al-ums had opinions that toed the line with Dr. Loh. Former men’s basket-ball coach Gary Williams, long a loud voice lamenting the perceived ACC bias toward the North Caro-lina-based league members, related his support to The Baltimore Sun.
“I think Maryland is looking at what’s best for them for the future,” Williams said. “It’s not about today (the day of the announcement).”
That is fair. Of course, Wil-
liams also is re-portedly making $400,000 annually — more than his former boss Deb-bie Yow makes as athletics director at N.C. State — while working as a “special assistant” at the financially-strapped university.
His job description includes giving speaking engagements “from time to time as reasonably requested.”
Williams has a clear and con-cise view of how the University of Maryland can meet its long-term financial needs, and it is costing the
school he loves dearly over $1,000 a day for him to give that opinion — even during leap years.
Yow inherited massive debt when she took the job in 1994. There has been much conjecture as to who ul-timately has responsibility for the Terrapins’ current financial woes. What is clear is that there is quite a bit of finger pointing and deflected blame. Money has been spent un-wisely, but it is always someone else’s fault.
Loh loathed cutting Olympic pro-grams at Maryland and has vowed never to do it again. The move to the Big Ten will prevent this, he argues — the fact that other programs in that area, such as lacrosse and soc-cer, typically achieve more success in the ACC notwithstanding.
When pressed as to when they might be willing to reinstate the athletic programs that had been cut, Maryland administrators have been coy as to what that date would be, or if it will ever actually happen at all.
If someone does not give an an-swer to a question, then that person has effectively negated the ability of others to accuse him or her of being “dishonest.”
It is certainly possible that Loh is doing the prudent thing and new traditions can always be created, but based on Maryland’s current leaders’ unclear answers at its press conference, along with the secrecy of the regents meeting to discuss the move, it is hard to hold significant value to what they say — excluding the part about them wanting more money.
The final verdict in the court of public opinion has been mostly apa-thetic. Perhaps that is the best form of punishment the ACC can reserve for Maryland. The Terrapins have long felt like an outsider within the ACC. Now they are inching closer to actually being one.
And no one cares.
Daniel WilsonStaff Writer
Since N.C. State began its season by playing and eventu-ally defeating the Miami (OH) RedHawks, fans of the Wolfpack were treated to a video highlight-ing the key players on the team, major landmarks within the campus and state of North Caro-lina and the tagline of the season: “This is our State.” Throughout the non-conference schedule, this trend never changed for the home games.
Once the conference schedule began against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, this video was played before the national an-them and was replaced in its reg-ular spot with a new video fea-turing the P.O.D. song “Boom” and high-energy moments in the team’s games prior to ACC play.
“Boom” is an inspiring song for many sports teams, and with the lyric “here comes the boys from the south,” it is a good song for collegiate and professional teams in the southern part of the nation to use for their rally cries.
The only benefits of this newer video are the inclusion of fresh-man guard Rodney Purvis and freshman forward T.J. Warren in the highlight reels and the ad-ditional footage of other game-related celebrations such as the iconic “Wolfpack in the house” yell, the team in transit between the locker room and the court, fans celebrating in the seats and the cheerleaders entering the court with their flags flying high.
The original video has elements that parallel these particular points. For example, freshman guard Tyler Lewis is shown with the aforemen-tioned freshmen with the iconic Bell Tower while being left out in the “Boom” video despite playing in all 16 games thus far. Redshirt junior Jordan Vandenberg, a scholarship athlete and the Brian Scalabrine of the Pack, is another State player shrined in the “Our State” introduc-tions whose highlights were not in-cluded in the P.O.D. video.
Finally, nothing makes the impact of a video quite as lasting as the fi-nale. “This is our State” finishes its minute-long video with junior forward Calvin Leslie stating the namesake-line and dribbling on the capitol building while a wolf howls, followed by senior forward Richard Howell making a dunk off of a rebound. From there, head coach Mark Gottfried receives a bas-ketball, perceived to be from Leslie, making the well-known statement and throwing the ball containing State’s block-S logo into the camera where the ball crumbles. This end-ing sends a more powerful and in-spiring message than Mr. Wuf sped up to where it appears he is having an epileptic seizure.
All in all, both videos achieve what they aim to accomplish, and that is to motivate the fans and the team to where PNC Arena is erupting with applause and cheers and to intimi-date the opposing team. “This is our State” does a better job of this in the sense of originality and flexibility. “Boom,” while still a powerful and motivating song, has become too unoriginal for the Wolfpack to
claim as the song behind which the team will rally.
However, this school is an institu-tion that should stand out from the hoi polloi, especially in the state that has previously boasted Duke Uni-versity and the other blue school on Interstate 40 as its run-of-the-mill collegiate athletic programs.
As Athletics Director Debbie Yow made clear in the firing of former
head football coach Tom O’Brien and the hiring of the new head coach, Dave Doeren, this is a school that refuses to accept the status quo. Any normal school can use this track to pump up its fans, but this is not a normal school.
This is North Carolina State Uni-versity.
Maryland will not be missed
‘Boom’ too cliché for the Pack
ARCHIVE PHOTOSenior Richard Howell puts up a shot against Maryland in last season’s game at PNC Arena.
COMMENTARY
COMMENTRY
ACC BASKETBALL STANDINGS
TEAM ACC OVERALL
NC State 3-0 14-2
Miami 3-0 12-3
Duke 2-1 15-1
Florida State 2-1 10-6
Wake Forest 2-1 9-6
Maryland 1-2 13-3
North Carolina 1-2 11-5
Virginia 1-2 11-5
Virginia Tech 1-2 10-6
Clemson 1-2 9-6
Boston College 1-2 9-7
Georgia Tech 0-3 10-5
SOURCE: THEACC.COM
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DID YOU KNOW?N.C. State is 3-0 in the ACC for the first time since the 1988-89 season when it took the conference regular season championship. A win against Maryland Wednesday evening would improve its record to 4-0 for the first time since 1973-74. That season, State was 30-1 overall and won its first national championship.
The Wolfpack has also won 10 straight games for the first time since the 1988-89 season. Prevailing against the Terrapins would extend that streak to 11 games, the longest since Norm Sloan’s 1979-80 squad did so.
State is 76-73 all-time against its conference-founding member, Maryland. In last season’s ACC home opener, the Pack snapped a nine-game losing streak against the Terps with a 79-74 victory. It has not defeated Maryland in College Park since the 2004-05 season, losing four in a row on the road.
Gymnastics jumps three spots in the latest pollsThe N.C. State gymnastics team ranks 19th in the latest national rankings, released by Troester.com on Monday. The Wolfpack slides down three spots from its preseason ranking of 22. State boasts a team average of 194.988, which ranks as the 19th highest team scoring average in the nation, just behind Maryland and California with averages of 195.000.
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N.C. State football announces 2013 opponentsN.C. State will play eight home games in 2013, including Atlantic Coast Conference contests versus Clemson, Maryland, UNC and new member Syracuse. Head coach Dave Doeren’s first Wolfpack squad will also face Boston College, Florida State, Wake Forest and Duke on the road. The Pack will also play host to Louisiana Tech, East Carolina, Central Michigan and Richmond.
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According to CareerCast.com, university professor is the least stressful occupation of 2013. I have often won-dered whether or not this is true. I work at the help desk
for Moodle during the week, a nd we ’ l l f re -quently try and contact professors to follow up on students’ questions. I can’t begin
to tell you how many times I’ve gotten a hold of a de-partment head and asked for a particular professor and gotten this: “Oh, he’s in the Mediterranean.” This is often mid-semester, mind you.
Amid the frustration of not solving the problem at hand due to the professor’s disappearance to paradise, I am left questioning whether professors do anything but travel. But these are the out-liers.
There was such a strong blowback from the profes-sorial community, that a Twitter hashtag was formed: “#RealForbesProfessors.” A quick scan of this topic on-line, and I found an exten-sive list of what professors do with their time. Claims of 60 hour workweek norms, the constant pressure to pub-lish and the unending stream of ungraded assignments all filled the page.
“I may write a proposal while driving tomorrow (us-ing a voice recorder, not typ-ing!) #RealForbesProfessors have to multi-task,” tweeted one Notre Dame professor.
CareerCast cited financial security as one of the reasons professors are less stressed, reporting an average salary of $62,050. However, this number sits in the middle of some pretty different ex-tremes. A full-time professor at Harvard gets $198,400 as a salary, and an adjunct profes-sor at N.C. State can make as little as $20,000.
“As an adjunct,” one profes-sor from New York tweeted, “I never worry about being broke since having a negative account balance is technically less than broke.”
This ranking gives off a false notion of laziness. It supports my initial musings that professors spend more time on exotic beaches than in classrooms. Our profes-sors are workhorses when it comes to ensuring that class goes well—reading up on the most current research, add-ing to that research, planning syllabi and, yes, grading all of our assignments. And that’s just for class, saying nothing of research demands, ad-visees, and other part-time jobs some have to take to stay afloat financially. That doesn’t sound stress-free to me.
Higher Education pub-lished a study on stress and
professors back in the ‘90s. A little aged, yes, but not irrel-evant. Of the duties of a pro-fessor, the study found that teaching is the least stressful and research is at the other end. This makes sense; pro-fessors are often professors in the first place because they want to teach. Naturally, do-ing what they love keeps the cortisol levels in check.
Your counter-argument, no doubt, is that tenure ends the “publish or perish” stress, but the study found this to be un-true. Stress was much more associated with rank than with tenure. Autonomy, it seems, is more relaxing than job security.
“The distinction of hav-ing the ‘least stressful job’ in America,” Hinda Mandell, a professor at the Rochester In-stitute of Technology, wrote in USA Today Saturday, “is really about time manage-ment, and the fact that if we have f lexibility in our work—where and how we do it—then our work isn’t considered real work.”
While professors may enjoy a higher degree of autonomy than, say, a shift worker, they still have a variety of groups piling on the to-dos. At the top of the list are students, who rely on professors to pre-pare them for their futures. Dieticians, jewelers and hair-stylists—the next few items on the “least stressful” list—can hardly say the same.
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BY JOANNAH IRVIN
Should the university change its rushing the court policy?{ }IN YOUR
WORDS
“No, students should be able to rush the court if they want to. It shows excitement.”
Hayley Bucknerfreshman, zoology
“I think we should be able to rush the field, because it’s a good way to celebrate and it’s fun. This past weekend when we beat Duke there was a ton of energy.”
Annionette Leejunior, psychology
Davis Leonard, junior in science education
Georgetown professor of law, Louis Michael Seid-man, triggered a bit of stir recently with a Dec. 30 Op-Ed in The New York Times titled “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution.” In this piece, Seidman argues that because
the Constitu-tion has been neglected by leaders for severa l de-cades, Ameri-cans should stop paying
tribute to an outdated docu-ment that still dictates our system of government.
The American people, he said, are “at a stage where there is a growing realization that a lot of constitutional law is empty posturing.” He added, “This is not a stable situation.” He contends that the written Constitution is dead and because our “un-written” constitution has served Americans quite well, we should ignore the written document and follow com-
mon law precedence.Professor Seidman makes
several valid points in the piece, but he fails to answer a fundamental question clearly facing a country where rule of law is prevalent: if we give up on the supreme law of the land, what would be the replacement? A tyrant? An-other version of the Consti-tution? Or does it mean we would give up the rule of law?
The layout of the Consti-tution is meant to constrain government. The framers saw the governmental power as the biggest threat to civil liberties and a civil society. As historian Gordon Wood has pointed out, “by protecting the rights of minorities of all sorts against popular majori-ties,” the court would “be-come a major instrument for both curbing [American] de-mocracy and maintaining it.” From this point of view, the Constitution is never dated given that the nature of gov-ernment is always coercive, tyrannical and encroaching
on a civil society. But that doesn’t mean a
written constitution auto-matically guarantees civil liberties and the rule of law. Words on paper, no matter how wise, are not sufficient to preserve a nation. It’s un-necessary for every citizen to become a lawyer at this point, but every citizen should be educated on the basic func-tions of the Constitution and how the Supreme Court works to interpret it.
As Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out in an interview with C-Span that the Constitution would be hung in a museum if the American people are not well informed about how it works and do not regard the court’s decision as legitimate. Profes-sor Seidman sees the current stalemate in government as a result of an outdated consti-tution, but he ignores the fact that the U.S. has a powerful independent judicial review mechanism that keeps the Constitution alive.
Perhaps the most conten-tious point of the piece is the suggestion to follow com-mon law precedence, like the U.K. and New Zealand, which have no written con-stitution. “[These countries] have systems of parliamenta-ry supremacy and no written constitution, but are held together by longstanding traditions, ac-cepted modes of procedure and engaged citizens.” He added, “We, too, cou ld draw on these resources.”
Unfortunately, these coun-tries with a parliamentary su-premacy have slid into what concerned the founding fa-thers as “popular tyranny.” They certainly have fewer standoffs than the U.S., but the party that wins major-ity in the parliament can pass whatever laws it wants,
regardless of other parties’ opposition. Over time, they have passed legislations that are popular among majority but violate the rights of the minority.
The judicial branch in other common law countries is not as strong and unique as it is in
the U.S. Can-ada’s Supreme C ou r t , for example, can strike down a statute as unconstitu-tional, but it does not nec-essarily have the final word on the matter.
Similarly, the courts in U.K. and New Zealand are respon-sible for interpreting parlia-mentary statues so as to en-sure their compatibility with their nations’ constitutional traditions. If a court makes a decision of incompatibility, it’s up to the Parliament to decide whether to amend or repeal the legislation. Parlia-
ment could choose to leave the legislation in place, de-spite the court’s ruling.
It’s very misleading to say that because people don’t think the court’s ruling is popular, they don’t have the obligation to follow. Thus Seidman mistakenly uses cases like Brown v. Board of Education to prove his point where the Constitution is disregarded so we should abandon it. A civil society dominated by the rule of law requires its citizens to fol-low a court’s decision, even when a decision is unpopu-lar or even wrong. From this point, the Constitution with a trusted people is and will forever be a living protector of civil liberty, rather than a dusted parchment littered with structure problems.
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Joseph HaveyDeputy Viewpoint Editor
On ephemeral New Year’s resolutionsIf we jumped in a time
machine and pressed a button that read “medi-eval times” on New Year’s
Eve , we would step out a n d b e
greeted by knights re-committing themselves to chivalry in what was known as “peacock vow.” In case the name didn’t give it away, a peacock vow required men to place their hands over the peacock at the dinner table and take the pledge of chivalry — a far cry from what we see now. In-versely, if medieval people jumped in a time machine and traveled to the pres-ent, they would be more than confused. Probably appalled. How did cel-ebrating chivalry evolve into putting on the tight-est, most sparkly skirt you could find before drinking your body weight?
One common threat we’ve kept since the days of the pea-cock vow is commitment to something new in the new year with a resolution.
Most of us know the all too common feeling of fresh am-bition that ensues with a new year. We make resolutions to lose those couple — or twenty — pounds we gained during the holidays, get out of debt or stop smoking. Re-gardless of the commitment, we make resolutions that will better ourselves and give us a new and improved outlook on life ... for about a week.
Just two years ago my reso-lution, though self-centered and cliché, was to participate in some type of physical ac-tivity each and every day. I was motivated and ready to go. I even bought new run-ning shoes to aid my quest to commitment. Despite the freezing weather, I upheld my resolution. Pride kept my resolution alive.
But one afternoon, life hap-
pened. I had a lot of home-work, so I skipped one day ... then another, and another, and that trend seemed to continue until I found my-self wearing 2012 glasses, watching the ball drop from my living room sofa. My zeal evaporated as quickly as the feeling of writing 2012 on my papers became natural. I was officially one of ‘those’ people.
Though I am not proud of my three-week resolution, I know for a fact that I am not alone in this committing the crime of noncommittal. I have yet to meet someone who has upheld a resolution for an entire year.
Needless to say, we as a community need to take a page from the “Medieval Guide to Celebrating the New Year” and work on commitment — it could get us out of the dungeons of our infidelity and help us honor our commitment to our reso-lutions.
Taylor QuinnStaff Columnist
“I think they should allow it, but let us do it safely.”
Keifer Ewingsophomore, mechanical engineering
Ziyi MaiStaff Columnist
If not the Constitution, then what?
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the Constitution
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constrain
government.”
Letter to the Editor:
While looking at the front page of Technician today, I immediately noticed the chart expressing changes in average high temperatures in Raleigh, N.C. I have to say that I am disappointed to see such a misleading chart on the front page of the newspaper. In many instances the chart either neglects the difference between two data points or greatly amplifies the difference. For example, when comparing the average high temperatures between 1962 and 1982 graphically, the 44.1 degree year is shown at the same level
on the thermometer as the 49.0 year. The 5 degree difference in average high temperature is thus completely hidden by the graphic. Furthermore, the difference in average high temperature between the years 1972 and 2012 is only two degrees, yet the thermometer in the year 2012 is bubbling to the brim. This is a significant distortion. On another note, I understand the importance of the impacts that climate change (human or naturally caused) can have on the environments in which we live. Therefore, I would like to request that an article of a broader scope be written on
this subject. I currently have not seen any article discussing the multitudes of variables that play an important role in climate science, especially the natural causes. I believe it would be greatly informative to readers if they were presented a broader scope of this topic. This way, they would have a better grasp of the issue and would appreciate all of the factors that are involved in the gradual change of the earth’s climate.
Graham Pritchardgarduate student, civil engineering
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Caldwell Hall has become the temporary headquarters for Jim McLay, the New Zealand Ambas-sador to the United States. The ambassador, who is visiting classes and meeting with professors and graduate students, gave a talk Tues-day night about the International Criminal Court about his experi-ence as New Zealand’s representa-tive to the U.N.
Students in the College of Hu-manities and Social Sciences, partic-ularly in international studies, will have the opportunity throughout the week to interact with the am-bassador. On Monday he ate lunch with students and faculty discussing a broad array of political issues, in-cluding New Zealand’s vote in favor of recognizing Palestine as a non-member observer state at the Unit-ed Nations. New Zealand was the only country among Five Eyes (the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand) to ap-
prove the resolution, which passed in the U.N. General Assembly with 138 of the 190 votes.
“We have, for a long time, sup-ported a two-state solution — two states living side by side behind se-cure and defined borders, and we want to see that resolved by peace
and negotiation with the Israelis and the Palestinians,” McLay said. “The resolution that was drafted called for two things in moderate language: The execution of the two-state solution and the resumption of negotiations. If you look at the text alone, it was a no-brainer, but we
also examined the context, which at the particular time was the con-flict with Gaza, and we absolutely respect Israel’s right to exist, but also to resist. But we made this move to give support to moderate and responsible Palestinian voices in Ramallah.”
The ambassador’s experience in international politics extends to his tenure as the deputy prime minister of New Zealand when he served in the country’s parliament, but he is also a member of the U.S. Humane Society’s International Council of Advisers and served as a commis-sioner on the International Whal-ing Commission. He will give a talk during a catered lunch today at noon in Caldwell Hall to host an-other chat on foreign policy.
During McLay’s stay, he has con-nected with students and faculty interested in globalization, and he calls New Zealand an “exemplar” in terms of global trade.
“We engage with the rest of the
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Jessie HalpernSenior Staff Writer
On Friday, Dec. 21, Russian Pres-ident Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law banning all U.S. adoptions of Russian children. The law took effect immediately for all adoptions with paperwork not yet completed by the Russian courts.
In the past two decades, Ameri-cans have adopted more than 60,000 orphans from Russia, compared to 7,000 domestic Russian adoptions in recent years, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Some speculate the law is a re-sponse to the U.S. in retaliation of President Obama’s signing of the Sergei Magnitsky Act on Dec. 14.
The act is named after Russian accountant and whistleblower, Sergei Magnitsky, who revealed large-scale fraud within the Rus-sian government and was held in a Moscow prison for almost a year. According to Russian law, one can-not be held without a trial for longer than one year – Magnitsky died in prison seven days before his year was complete.
The U.S. law punishes the Rus-sian officials who were involved in Magnitsky’s death by forbidding
their entrance into the United States and prohibiting them from using the country’s banking system.
While some believe Putin pushed the law through as a direct response to the Magnitsky Act, the adoption law was introduced and supported in the Russian government, the duma, and passed with a majority of votes before making it to Putin’s
desk. But associate professor of his-tory, Gerald Surh, isn’t convinced.
“The idea that they can’t get chil-dren adopted in their own country affects their pride,” Surh said. “Most especially that their children were being adopted from the U.S.”
Based on the Cold War rivalry be-tween Russia and the U.S., Surh said Putin is shaping his laws specifically
to counter the U.S.“It’s been a political football,”
Surh said. “The Cold War rivalry and the Magnitsky law, it’s a pow-erful combination.”
In the weeks since Putin’s law was passed, Russian citizens have been in the spotlight, taking to the streets to protest the duma’s decision.
The New York Times reported that
thousands of Russian citizens orga-nized a March Against Scoundrels on Sunday, when they carried post-ers with the word “shame” written on the faces of lawmakers in their country.
“It’s a political issue that should not have been politicized if Putin had the children in mind,” Surh said. “It’s obviously a better deal for the children to be able to be adopted by U.S. families.”
Lada Kochtcheeva, Russian native and assistant professor of public and international affairs, said the issue is not that simple.
“Russian society is divided on the issue, and based on my research the majority of Russians are in fa-vor of the law,” Kochtcheeva said. “The Western media is covering the protests because they are more sensational, but if you also look at the reaction to what is going on in duma, you see a lot of Russians actu-ally support the law.”
Kochtcheeva said she keeps up with the Russian media and social media sites, and they reflect a dif-ferent story.
“Many people are saying this Rus-sian law isn’t a reaction of Putin
Jessie HalpernSenior Staff Writer
The UNC System released a Strategic Plan with goals for this year, as well as the next 12. It hopes to graduate more students from their various universities.
The plan calls for increasing the number of degree holders in the state to 32.2 percent from its current 29.5 percent. Specifical-ly, the plan targets North Caro-lina adults, and the plan outlines a goal for 36.2 percent of them to have a four-year degree by 2025.
While increasing the number of graduates is a system-wide goal, it’s one Vice Chancellor and Dean of Academic and Stu-dent Affairs Michael Mullen had on his short list for N.C. State.
CAIDE WOOTEN/TECHNICIANJim McLay, New Zealand’s representative to the United Nations, converses with Sarah Cowles, program coordinator of the Office of International Affairs, in Parks Shops Tuesday, Jan.15.
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Russian adoption ban in the face of Magnitsky Act
PHOTO COURTESY OF WHITEHOUSE.GOVPresident Barack Obama participates in a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Esperanza Resort in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, June 18, 2012.
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The Urban Ministries Food Pan-try in Raleigh is taking a new ap-proach to how it collects food: a 52-week approach.
The organization, which pro-vides food, shelter and healthcare, launched a yearlong food drive
aimed at preventing the holiday and summer slump in food donations. The kick-off event occurred Friday.
Urban Ministries has been in op-eration for 31 years.
According to Urban Ministries Director of Development John Welch, the pantry’s acquirement of food tends to “ebb and flow.” In January, the number of donations
typically dwindles after the holiday contributions. The summer months are also tough for the pantry as de-mand goes up due to children being out of school.
“If all donations were to cease today there would only be enough food to last three days [and] it is easy to run dry,” Welch said.
The pantry is currently fit to feed
about 40 families per day. Welch said he hopes to increase this num-ber with the food drive. Urban Min-istries assigns various community organizations to help the pantry col-lect food each for one week during the yearlong food drive.
The organization focuses on lower income populations whose income is equal to 185 percent of
the poverty level. Often, recipients are, “hanging on by a thread,” and by giving them a week’s worth of food, Urban Ministries helps them to focus on redistributing their finances to fulfill the payment of other expenses such as healthcare or transportation, Welch said.
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A research project involv-ing graduates and under-graduates from the College of Engineering have teamed up with students from the College of Textiles to create hyper-flexible wires, capable of stretching up to eight times their length.
Stretchable wires have been attempted in the past, usually involving an attempt to place separated electrical conduc-tors inside a polymer, which is not as effective, as it low-ers the efficiency of the wire. N.C. State’s new stretch wires are essentially made from two primary materials. A rubbery copolymer is passed through a specialized machine from the College of Textiles, creat-ing a hollow, fiber-thin ma-terial. This polymer is very elastic, but cannot conduct electricity. The hollow space inside is filled with a special alloy made from gallium and indium, which is liquid at room temperature, non-
toxic and just as conductive as copper.
Rubberizing wires is part of a larger movement to make handheld electronics more f lexible and durable. This helps counteract one of the largest flaws of mobile phones or laptops: a single drop of the cell phone, and you might need to buy a new one. A phone made of mostly liquid metal wires and poly-mer frames would handle most drops without cracking.
The research was overseen by Michael Dickey, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecu-lar Engineering. He worked with a team of undergradu-ate and graduate students to design the flexible wire.
The research was funded in part by the Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, a research group involving several North Carolina uni-versities such as N.C. State and Duke, as well as by a Na-tional Science Foundation’s Career Award grant given to
Dickey to promote his devel-opment as a professor. In this instance, the research done is waiting for a partner com-pany to help generate profits in return to the investments made. The Research Triangle MRSEC is a Durham-Chapel Hill branch of the Materials Research Science and En-gineering Center, which in turn, is also part of the Na-tional Science Foundation.
The research is a prime example of the way that col-leges innovate. Robin Mays, an intern and co-author for the project, as well as a gradu-ate student at NCSU, was sur-prised by her experience and “by the number of mistakes that have to happen.” While the materials and machinery are accessible, it took a num-ber of attempts to perfect the final product. She enjoyed her time working and being able to really contribute what she had learned in college to real product creation.
According to Mays, the research was more innova-tion than creation. The con-
ductive metal alloy and the polymer both existed before the research, but through the creativity of some graduate students, and the resources of Dickey and N.C. State, stu-dents were able to put these two components together in a new way and create some-
thing innovative.Dickey has expressed some
concern in terms of the wires — they are more difficult to reuse, and while the liquid metal alloy inside is non-toxic, if the wire were to be severed it would leak the al-loy. The wire will not likely
appear on the market imme-diately, but to promote the new stretchy wires, you can find a video on Youtube of these new wires being con-nected to headphones.
NCSU wire research: an expanding technology
Arjun PuriStaff Writer
Students who have suf-fered from frustratingly slow wireless speeds while using their laptops or mo-bile devices may no longer need to repeatedly and fu-riously hit the refresh but-ton on their machines. Re-searchers at N.C. State have been working on revamping the concept of Wi-Fi that would increase network speeds between 400 and 700 percent.
Sitting in local coffee s h o p s o r e v e n t h e University library, sev-era l users ca n of ten obstruct the single chan-nel by which network data is out-put and then received, ex-plains Arpit G u p t a , a doctoral student at the Uni-versity.
“Whenever you use a wireless device, it attempts to connect to the access point, or router. When many people want to use that single pathway of that router, there is an obvious traffic congestion. What our team tried to design is a software patch that can
actually control the traffic — almost like a traffic cop,” Gupta said.
Injong Rhee, a professor in computer science and origi-nal inventor of this technol-ogy upgrade, said that un-like previous attempts of increasing wireless speeds, they strayed away from the-oretical design and actually physically tested the model in the textiles building.
“We started with 50 dif-ferent computer simulations in order to actually repli-cate the wireless traffic that one would experience in a
public place w i t h t h e main goal of f inding the quanti-fiable gain,” Gupta said.
The maximum improve-ment found by Gupta’s tea m was speeds in-creasing 7
times that of normal Wi-Fi networks currently used at the University.
The traditional Wi-Fi sys-tem is greatly inhibited by the limited number of rout-ers which leads to a traffic line forming in front of the router that actually restricts the requests from even going to the website servers. This traffic jam could be avoided,
however, by implementing a resource that monitors the requests and allows them to pass, preventing a backlog of data.
The technology is called WiFox, playing off the phrase “Wi-Fi for Confer-ences,” and Gupta says that they hope to implement it in large settings over the course of this year.
In a world where wireless is the standard, Gupta sees this technology changing the playing field in a way that has never been seen before.
“We already have inter-est from large service pro-viders based in the United Kingdom that are eager to use our technology to make public places completely and efficiently wireless,” Gupta said.
One of the main advan-tages of WiFox is that no ad-ditional structural changes or hardware would be re-quired to update the current Wi-Fi infrastructure. Due to the advanced software upgrades, systems can be updated to welcome a data traffic monitor that would successfully control the data log and thus increase speeds.
Although the advantages are great, concerns still exist for WiFox moving forward. The quality of the actual in-ternet browsing experience may be compromised at
times. For example, indi-viduals who are video chat-ting may experience delays at times since the data is be-ing split between all users— not just data intensive users who are Skyping at that mo-ment in time.
WiFox has been working hard for over two years now to ensure that the best tech-nological product is avail-
able to consumers in all ar-eas and hope that N.C. State can benefit from their high-tech breakthrough at some point in the near future.
“This most important thing that differentiates WiFox from its competi-tors,” said Gupta, “is that we focused on getting real results. Although we spent two years trying to perfect
this model, we are proud of our tangible results that can be easily implemented anywhere to significantly improve the lives of casual web users and even profes-sionals that depend on a reliable network 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
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El presidente Ba rack Obama piensa introducir legislación al Congreso con el fin de reformar leyes de inmi-gración y expedir el camino a la ciudadanía en las prim-eras semanas de su segundo término.
El New York Times reportó que el presidente estará al frente de este esfuerzo en poner en revisión el sistema de inmigración en el Con-greso, pero el presidente no ha hecho ningún anuncio público sobre este tema. Hay más de 11 millones de inmi-grantes indocumentados en los Estados Unidos, y Obama se comprometió a tomar el mando para reformar el sistema. Su campaña con-siguió atraer la mayoría de la comunidad latina, y Obama ganó el 71 por ciento del voto hispano.
“En mi opinión fue bas-tante alentador notar un aumento importante en la participación electoral la-tina,” Obama dijo en el 14 de noviembre. “Es el grupo que ha crecido más rápido en el país, y, pues, históricamente los latinos votan en tasas más bajas del resto del público general. Y esa tendencia está empezando a cambiar.”
Los cambios que Obama aludió en noviembre ahora se
pondrán en marcha mientras que el presidente se enfoca en políticas domésticas. Los presidentes George W. Bush y Obama han mencionado la reforma inmigratoria, pero debido a 9/11, las guerras de Afganistán e Iraq, a la rece-sión, inmigración ha sido un tema podrido. En vez de bus-car reforma, Obama trató la inmigración con mano firme, deportando la mayor canti-dad de personas en la histo-ria del país — 1.4 millones. Este número y el fracaso del DREAM Act en 2010 pusier-on a pensar a la comunidad latina sobre Obama, y a pesar de ganar la mayoría del voto latino, el activismo cívico la-tino se ha incrementado.
“Estás comenzando a ver
sentido de apoderamiento y participación cívica (entre los latinos) que pienso que va a ser poderoso y bueno para el país,” Obama dijo en el 14 de noviembre. “Es por eso que estoy muy seguro que podemos llegar a la reforma inmigratoria.”
El president puede pre-senter su plan durante el dis-curso del Estado de la Unión en febrero 12. La oficina de la Casa Blanca dijo que el plan no será una dádiva gratis de amnistía, pero incluirá car-gos y pagos de impuestos. La Casa Blanca está tratando de convencer al Departamento del Estado publicar más visas para estimular la inmigración legal.
Aunque el debate sobre las
políticas inmigratorias se han polarizado entre los Demócrata y Republicanos, Janet Murguía, la presidenta y CEO del Consejo Nacional de La Raza, dijo que no se debería ser un tema parti-sano.
“Ahora es el momento que la reforma inmigratoria sea aprobada,” Murguía dijo mediante el comunicado de prensa. “Esta elección escribió el obituario para repuestas de auto-depor-tación y la fantasía que perseguiremos 11 millones de personas. Los imperati-vos morales, económicos y políticos están claramente
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Presidente Obama planea revisar reforma migratoria
Mark HerringEditor-in-Chief
President Barack Obama plans to introduce legisla-tion to Congress to reform immigration and to expe-dite the path to citizenship within the first weeks of his second term.
The New York Times re-ported that the president will man the helm of this effort to overhaul the immigra-tion system in Congress, but the president has not made any public announcements about the matter. There are more than 11 million un-documented immigrants in the United States, and Obama pledged he would lead the effort to reform the system. His campaign garnered the popularity of the Latino community, and Obama earned 71 percent of the Hispanic vote.
“I think what was incred-ibly encouraging was to see a significant increase in Latino turnout,” Obama said Nov. 14. This is the fastest-growing group in the country and, you know, his-torically what you’ve seen is Latino vote — vote at lower rates than the broader popu-lation. And that’s beginning to change.”
The changes Obama al-luded to in November will now go underway as the
president looks to focus on domestic policies this term. Presidents George W. Bush and Obama have talked about immigration reform, but due to 9/11, the wars in Afghani-stan and Iraq, and the reces-sion, immigration has been a festering issue. Instead of seeking reform, Obama dealt with immigration with a firm hand, deporting the most people in U.S. history — 1.4 million. This figure and the failure of the DREAM Act in 2010 gave the Latino com-munity mixed feelings about Obama, and though he got the majority of the Hispanic vote, Latino civic activism has swelled.
“You’re starting to see a sense of empowerment and civic participation (among Latinos) that I think is go-ing to be powerful and good for the country,” Obama said Nov. 14. “It is why I’m very confident that we can get im-migration reform done.”
The president may intro-duce his plan during the State of the Union address Feb. 12. White House office said the plan will not be a free amnes-ty handout, but will include fines and payment of taxes. The White House is looking to get the State Department to issue more visas to encour-age legal immigration.
FOTO CORTESÍA DE WHITEHOUSE.GOVEl presidente Barack Obama habla con Felicia Escobar, Director Principal de Políticas de Inmigración, a la izquierda, y Cecilia Muñoz, directora del Consejo de Política Nacional, al término de una reunión con los asesores en la Sala Roosevelt de la Casa Blanca, 10 de enero de 2013.
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himself or a reaction to the Magnitsky law,”
Kochtcheeva said. “This is a reaction to the cases of death or injury of some adopted kids and how it was treated.”
Kochtcheeva said that Putin feels many Ameri-cans are kind, good par-ents, but the way the tragic accidents that occurred were processed in the sys-tem between Russia and the U.S. is not satisfactory.
According to Psychology
of Orphans by Russian author, Ludmila Shipit-syna, the official number of orphans in Russia was at 699,200 at the end of 2004. Current numbers for the country’s orphan population vary, but some police reports indicate the number to have spiked to 2.5 million, according to bigfamilyministry.org.
It remains to be seen whether this new law will, in fact, be in these children’s best interest.
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THROUGH JOANNAH’S LENS
Design talks over a cup of joe
Mandi Geiselman and Kirsten Southwell, graphic design class of 2012, chat over coffee and muffins at Global Village on Tuesday, Jan. 15. “You see a lot of design students in here,” Southwell said, “We used to come here all the time, hole up in the back corner and get work done before class”. Global Village is located at 2428 Hillsbor-ough St. across from D.H. Hill Library.
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POLICE BLOTTERSunday12:00 A.M. | FIRE ALARMAlpha Sigma PhiUnits reponded to alarm caused by fog machine. Fraternity was referred to the university.
7:20 A.M. | LARCENYFraternity CourtEmployee reported rocking chair stolen from facility and another damaged in a nearby field
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“One of the things that we’d like to see is that more students actually finish their degrees,” Mullen said.
Currently, about 71 percent of N.C. State’s undergraduate students complete their de-grees. Mullen said he’d like to see this number increase to 77 or 78 percent by 2020. How does Mullen plan to do this? By focusing on the stu-dents.
“What we have to do at N.C. State, in my view, is to focus on the reasons why a student would leave after their second year or their third year and not finish a degree,” Mullen said. “What’s the barrier that results in us only graduating a 71 percent? That’s the route we would like to go so that the same number of students are starting, but in your se-nior classes you’d have a few more classmates in every class so, from our perspec-tive, that would be a success for us right now.”
Mullen referred to the in-crease in students who are seniors, reflecting the UNC System’s goal of reaching out to students who have not completed their degrees and getting them to come back to school.
This approach, according to Mullen, isn’t as compli-cated as it seems, and it’s been done before.
“Finding these students can be relatively easy because we have records,” Mullen said.
“If a student comes here and completes three years with us and then doesn’t come back, if they’re still in good stand-ing we could, theoretically contact the student assuming the personal address we have is still valid.”
Mullen has some experi-ence with this kind of out-reach at his previous institu-tion, the University of Ken-tucky, where administrators implemented Project Gradu-ation to get students to com-plete their degrees, whether they were current students or not.
“We didn’t get a lot of stu-dents, but in my college, the College of Agriculture, we’d have three, four, five an aca-demic year come back,” Mul-len said. “People leave college for one reason or another, financial issues, personal is-sues — whatever, and don’t see a path back, and when you open a door for them some-times they say, ‘Oh yeah, I could do that.’”
Another part of the Stra-tegic Plan involves account-ability, specifically of the system’s universities and the education they provide. Mullen said one idea that’s been discussed by the UNC System is implementing the Collegiate Learning Assess-ment — a case study based test that measures critical thinking skills and the abil-ity to solve problems.
According to Mullen, the system members are thinking of starting the program on about five campuses, thought he didn’t have information on which ones.
“For years, employers have been telling us that what we really need is for students to have the ability to work in teams, students who can communicate well orally, write clearly, solve prob-lems, basically students who can think critically, so that’s a very important goal for us,” Mullen said.
Some feel the Collegiate Learning Assessment would help universities measure whether that goal has been achieved by testing a group of incoming freshman, and testing another sample of outgoing seniors to see if their problem solving skills have developed.
“We’re interested in mak-ing sure our students come out with those skills from their general education pro-grams,” Mullen said. “It’s not a multiple choice test, it’s one form of assessment that’s used to address the critical thinking part of what we do at universities.”
Mullen said the Collegiate Learning Assessment is used by several universities, but has not been used at N.C. State in recent years—though other forms of assessment are currently in place.
Information about the Strategic Plan can be found at http://faccoun.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OurTimeOurFuture_Strate-gicDirectionsFor2013-2015_DRAFT4_2013Jan07.pdf
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSMs. Vanzant’s name was printed incorrectly in yesterday’s front page caption.
Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Mark Herring at [email protected]
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world, and we have to,” McLay said. “In New Zea-land, we look to adapt instead of resist to the changing cli-mate of international eco-nomics. We engage in trade with more countries than any other country in the world, and we’ve benefited greatly.”
Tonight, at 7:30 p.m. in Daniels 434, McLay will dis-cuss New Zealand’s influence in international politics in a talk called “Small State, Big Issues.”
McLay’s diverse experi-ences enticed the director of the School of Public and International Affairs, Dick Mahoney, to bring the am-bassador to campus.
Though New Zealand may not be as big as the U.S., McLay said that on the in-ternational stage, especially at the U.N., small countries are growing in influence.
“In this day and age of glo-balization, the small states are the biggest beneficiaries,” McLay said. “Our influence isn’t just based on size, but how we engage with the rest of the world.”
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