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Budget problems cause class cuts, budget cuts at the University; Campus commemorates MLK; Campout to remain on Lee Field despite cold; Plans for Centennial library finalized; From seeds to wilted stems; Dining halls’ green initiative saves money, energy; Pack looks to come together for Elon; Little fails to make weight as State falls to Duke 26-22TRANSCRIPT
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Civil rights leader Morris Dees discussed advances, setbacks since Martin Luther King Jr. was killed
Samuel T.O. BranchDeputy News Editor
Civil rights activist Morris Dees said African-Americans have come a long way, but there is still work that needs to be done to eliminate racism.
Students, faculty and alumni came to Stewart Theater in Talley Student Cen-ter Wednesday to hear Dees speak at the University’s commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The commemora-tion came at an important time in the history of the civil rights movement for the University, since the event occurred after racist messages were posted in the Free Expression Tunnel and a week be-
fore the first black president in Ameri-can history will take office.
Dees has given his all in an effort to help minorities, Janet Howard, a lec-turer for the Office for Equal Oppor-tunity, said.
“He has dedicated his life to helping under-represented groups,” Howard, who also served as the interim direc-tor of the Office of Multicultural Af-fairs during her career at the University, said. “He’s won some major victories against the [KKK] and other racist ter-rorist groups.”
Jose Picart, vice provost for diversity and inclusion, called Dees “a legendary civil rights activist.”
Dees used the commemoration as an opportunity to discuss America’s civil-rights accomplishments since King was killed, especially in light of the election
of Barack Obama. “Dr. King would be glad so many
things he wanted to see have been real-ized,” Dees said.
But the recent racist events on campus showed this nation still has improve-ments to make.
Charles Gatlin, a freshman in agri-business management, said it was key for such a prominent civil rights activist to be delivering his speech on a campus with recent racist problems.
“It’s a big step, a real big step. It’s im-portant for [Dees] to be seen here,” he said.
Dees pointed out while Obama was elected, only 10 percent of Caucasians in Alabama, Mississippi and other south-ern states voted for him.
“We need to build bridges across the
Economic downturn taking its toll on classes available
Alex VaughnStaff Writer
Budget cuts have caused a re-duction in the classes CHASS offers this semester, and fur-ther cuts may have an impact campus-wide next year.
“We’re already feeling the im-pact and it’s going to get worse,” Jim Martin, chair of the Faculty Senate, said.
Martin said CHASS seat and section cuts were an immediate reaction to budget cuts.
“Independent of the budget cuts, CHASS had a large finan-cial deficit, and the budget cuts are coming on top of that,” he said.
Louis Hunt, vice provost and university registrar, said CHASS is offering 67 fewer on-campus sections and 2024 fewer seats than at this time last year.
But though this might be the most severe set of budget cuts, Martin said that 19 out of the past 22 years there have been budget cuts at the University.
“We have had major budget cuts other times, but this is probably the worst economic situation that we’ve faced in the careers of just about everybody that’s here,” Martin said.
Martin said that as much as 7 percent, or $28 million, could be cut from the Academic Af-fairs budget for the next school year. Among faculty, adjunct professors and lecturers are the most vulnerable to being released due to these cuts, he said.
“There is no question that everybody in the University is going to be impacted,” he said. “The question is how much and how do we make the decisions.”
Ruth Gross, foreign languag-es and literatures department head, said while increasing class sizes is not ideal, it is one of the ways her department has been able to keep seat reductions to a minimum.
“Any cuts that we made were very carefully vetted by the dean’s office and then by provost’s office,” she said. “I do think that the university is trying to protect seats as much as possible,”
Gross said that 99.8 percent of the overall CHASS budget is in instructional or person-nel budgets, and as a result any cuts will have an effect on sec-tions. Adjustments to the for-eign language course schedule managed to keep most of the seats, despite the section cuts, according to Gross.
“We really try to protect the classroom as much as possible,” she said.
Buddy Bryson, a freshman in CALS attempting to transfer into CHASS, said he is taking whatever CHASS courses he can get into this semester.
“It just seems like any class that you try to go and get into is just full or they cut them, espe-cially in the college of CHASS,” he said.
Bryson said a philosophy class he had wanted to take had four sections cancelled by the time
SG recommends students prepare for sub-freezing temperatures
Derek MedlinManaging Editor
Despite forecasts for sub-freez-ing temperatures and numerous e-mails from concerned parents about safety concerns, organiz-ers decided Wednesday to keep Campout outside on Lee Field.
Morgan Donnelly, chair of the Student Senate Campus Com-munity Committee, said event planners have taken the neces-sary steps to make sure students camping out are protected from the weather conditions.
“Apparently parents had sent a letter to Chancellor Oblinger and Lee Fowler expressing concern about the safety of Campout,” Donnelly said.
Tom Stafford, vice chancel-lor for Student Affairs, said the concerns that parents expressed focused on safety.
“We have had some expres-sions of concern from parents,” Stafford said. “But the response has been that students planning the event are doing a good job to make sure this is safe.”
Donnelly said the concern
prompted planners to consider other options for Campout loca-tions, including Reynolds Coli-seum and Carmichael Gymna-sium.
Once Donnelly determined those two places were not op-tions for Campout, she said she spoke with Stafford again to make arrangements for further precautions for Friday night.
“There are a bunch of rules for students who are going to attend Campout,” Donnelly, a junior in political science, said. “Volun-teers will be checking campers as they come in to make sure they are properly layered and have all the necessary equipment with them.”
Donnelly said students attend-ing Campout must wear three layers of clothing and also bring
other items, like hats, gloves and scarves, to keep warm.
Another addition to the Cam-pout will be 13 heaters spread around Lee Field. Donnelly said students will have to remain at least three feet away from three of the heaters.
Sam Lawhorn, a senior in civil engineering and a group leader for Campout, said students just need to be prepared for the cold.
“You just have to plan for it,” he said. “I’ve made sure I have real warm sleeping bag so I’m ready for the cold. I’m also a group leader so I made sure everyone in the group has warm sleeping bags.”
Stafford said the extra precau-tions are all aimed at safety.
“Safety is the primary con-cern,” he said. “If students don’t take precautions and dress ap-propriately and don’t have sleep-ing bag that is adequate or don’t take advantage of drinks and soup they could get into some trouble.”
Donnelly said SG will provide hot chocolate for free until 11:15 p.m. and will be selling hot choc-olate and pizza throughout the night. The University may also provide hot soup.
If weather conditions make the Campout difficult for students
to complete, Donnelly said there are plans to shut it down early and send students home.
“We have set plans in place if we need to shut Campout down early,” she said. “It will be over at the point things start to go wrong. If we get to two check-points that’s where it ends no-body will be penalized.”
Stafford said he is confident the plans put into place for Friday will make Campout a success.
Staff Report
The UNC system is exploring the possibility of of a hate crime policy following the racist mes-sages left in the Free Expression Tunnel on University campus. The night after the election of President-elect Barack Obama, four students sprayed threaten-ing and racist opinions onto the tunnel wall.
The incident spurred UNC system President Erskine Bowles to start this panel. The panel will hold an open forum at 1 p.m. today. It will be held on UNC Chapel Hill campus in the board room of the Spangler Center (910 Raleigh Road).
The 11 members of the panel will hear differing opinions on the formation of a hate-crime
resolution, which could limit what can be written on the Free Expression Tunnel. The board will also consider mandatory diversity training courses for all incoming freshman in the UNC system. On March 31, the panel will give its recommenda-tions to Bowles.
The forum is open to the pub-lic, but all who wish to speak should register by sending their requests, name, organization, address, telephone number and email address to Commission Chairman Harold Martin at [email protected].
For those who cannot attend the forum, opinions can still be heard by emailing the same email address. E-mails will be accepted until March 31.
Campus commemorates MLK
Campout to remain on Lee Field despite cold
Budget problems cause class cuts
UNC system to hold a forum regarding possible hate crime policy today
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANMorris Dees, the chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center, signs a copy of his book for Katie Trimble, an employee at Peace College, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Campus Commemoration in Stewart Theatre Wednesday. His speech was both a recognition of King’s legacy and a call to action to !nish his work. “I’ve been a supporter of the SPLC for many years,” Trimble said. “I liked his speech. I thought it was terri!c very engaging. It encouraged involvement not just appreciation.”
DAVID MABE/TECHNICIANMorgan Donnelly, chair of the Campus Community Committee, strips o" layers of clothes while speaking about the dangers of cold weather this year for Cam-pout participants.
RECOMMENDED ITEMS FOR STUDENTS AT CAMPOUT:
a scarfa pair of glovesa hatblankets/sleeping bagsA minimum of three layers of clothinghand warmerswarm sockswarm shoes or boots
SOURCE: MORGAN DONNELLY
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CelebrateCollect the souvenir poster.
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It’s time for change. On Jan. 20, the United
States will inaugurate a new president. Look for a
souvenir poster in Tuesday’s paper.
Artwork by NCSU freshman Joseph Lawson.
THROUGH MEREDITH’S LENS
Sometimes actions speak louder than words
Ahmed Abdelbaki, a visiting scholar in biological and agricultural engineering, stands out in the Brickyard during a silent protest that the Egyptian Student Association put on. “[We are out in the Brickyard] to show our disagreement with what is going on in Gaza by Israel,” Abdelbaki said.
PHOTO BY MEREDITH FAGGART
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
In Tuesday’s page-one feature photo, the caption was incorrect. Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller are not married.
Technician regrets the error.
Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Saja Hindi at [email protected].
Today:
Saturday:
39/17Partly cloudy with cold winds at 19
miles per hour.
WEATHER WISE
Friday:
3321
Sunny, but very cold with tempera-tures barely above freezing.
4026
Sunny with clouds rolling in during the late evening.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TodayLITRE EXPO 2009 D.H. Hill Library, second floor, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PHILOSOPHY SEMINARDaniels Hall, 4:30 p.m.
SAW VWitherspoon Cinema, 7 to 8:40 p.m.
COLLECTION 2009: COTTON COUTUREStewart Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
W.Witherspoon Cinema, 9 to 11:10
FridayTICKET CENTRAL (ARTS N.C. STATE) CLOSES AT 5 P.M.
W.Witherspoon Cinema, 6:30 to 8:40 p.m.
SAW VWitherspoon Cinema, 9:30 to 11:05 p.m.
SAW VWitherspoon Cinema, 11:55 p.m.
SaturdaySAW VWitherspoon Cinema, 7 to 8:35 p.m.
W.Witherspoon Cinema, 9 to 11:10 p.m.
MondayMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY: UNIVERSITY CLOSED
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POLICE BLOTTERJan. 136:27 A.M. | CHECK PERSONHarrelson HallReport of suspicious subject in the area. Officers located nonstudent. Subject was trespassed from NCSU property.
11:44 A.M. | ASSISTANCEPublic Safety CenterOfficers arrested student on active RPD warrants for communicating threats.
1:02 P.M. | POLICY VIOLATIONAchievement DriveReport of subjects in the woods at-tempting to set up deer stand. Sub-jects left prior to officers’ arrival.
2:46 P.M. | CHECK PERSONPrice Music CenterOfficers responded to report of in-toxicated student being disruptive in class. Student was referred to Univer-sity and issued citation for disorderly conduct.
7:32 P.M. | LARCENYLeazar HallStudent reported bicycle stolen.
10:24 P.M. | DRUG VIOLATIONLee HallReport of possible drug violation. Of-ficers spoke with student. No contra-band was found.
Jan. 142:37 A.M. | VEHICLE STOPDan Allen DriveStudent was issued citation for stop sign violation.
IN THE KNOW Class deadlines coming up
Two major deadlines regard-ing class schedules are coming up on Wednesday, Jan. 21. The day marks the last day undergradu-ates can drop down to below 12 credit hours and is the final day for students to enroll, add classes or change a class to either credit only or audit with a tuition ad-justment. After Jan. 21, any of those actions will not result in a change of tuition, which means dropping a class would not de-crease the cost of the semester.
SOURCE: NCSU
Schulman’s work to come to campus
Starting Thursday, Jan. 22, Norm Schulman’s sculptures will go on display at the Gal-lery of Art and Design. Schul-man’s work with clay sculptures range from functional devices to simply artistic designs. “Norm Schulman: A Life in Clay” will be on display every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday until March 26.
The event will showcase Schul-man’s work from all through-out his 50 years of working with clay. For more information, visit http://www.ncsu.edu/gregg/.
SOURCE: NCSU
CampusRec to hold climbing workshop
A women’s only workshop called “Women on Rocks” will be held at Carmichael Complex Jan. 23. The event will cover all the basics surrounding rock climbing. According to Campus Recreation, the event will “cover equipment, knots, safety commands, and climbing techniques.” There will also be an opportunity to try out the newly gained skills on the imitation rock wall outside the gymnasium. The event will last from 5 to 8 p.m.
SOURCE: CAMPUS RECREATION
Final day of LITRE Expo 2009 today
The 2009 LITRE Expo will conclude today from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. LITRE, or Learn-ing In Technology-Rich Environ-ments, is a research program de-signed to enhance “the extensive learning with technology op-portunities” for both students and faculty. The Expo, which showcases those types of op-portunities, is held on the West Wing of the second floor in D. H. Hill Library. Admission is free. Registration is not required, ex-cept for some special workshops that are mingled throughout the day. Find out more at http://litre.ncsu.edu/EXPO.html.
SOURCE: NCSU
University to hold Study Abroad Fair
The University will hold the N.C. State Summer Programs Study Abroad Fair Jan. 22. The event will showcase all the study abroad opportunities offered during the summer of 2009. This summer, there will be more than 30 programs offered in 22 coun-tries all around the globe. The event will be held in the Talley Student Center ballroom and in Reynolds Coliseum from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Study abroad pro-grams are taught by University faculty and will count for credit towards graduation. For more on the event, go to http://www.face-book.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=42046505795.
SOURCE: NCSU
WORLD & NATIONPolice locate, charge pilot who tried to fake death
Authorities located Marcus Schrenker Tuesday after the busi-nessman tried to fake his own death in a plane crash on Sunday. Schrenker was on the run after he had been found out to be scam-ming his business clients.
Schrenker then took off in a small plane from Indiana, sup-posedly to go to Destin, Fla.. While over Fla., Schenker made a distress call saying his windshield had blown out and he was bleed-ing severely.
Police suspect that after the dis-tress call was made, Schrenker put the plane on auto-pilot and para-chuted to the ground. Military aircraft, who had been sent to the aircraft after the call was made, reported the door was open and watched the plane go down.
Also, no trace of blood was found in the aircraft. When Sch-renker was found at a campsite near Quincy, Fla., he was treated for apparently self-inflicted “deep cuts on his wrists.”
He is being guarded in a Florida hospital after being charged with unlawful acts by a compensated adviser and unlawful transaction by an investment adviser.
SOURCE: CNN.COM
Authorities catch suspect using Facebook
New Zealand police have caught a burglary suspect by us-ing the popular social-networking site, Facebook. The robber alleg-edly broke into a bar and tried to break into the safe, albeit unsuc-cessfully.
Because the space he was work-ing in was confined and New Zea-land is in the peak of summer, the robber became very hot, remov-ing both his gloves and balaclava.
After he removed the items, se-
curity cameras were able to get a shot of his face. Authorities posted the pictures on Facebook, and the man was recognized and captured within a day.
This is not the first time police have used the site to catch crimi-nals. In November, a restaurant owner used Facebook to find a party who had skipped out on paying a U.S. $323 bill.
SOURCE: CNN.COM
Authorities arrest man who sold daughter
A man from California has been arrested on accusations that he sold his 14 year-old daughter into marriage for $16,000, 160 cases of beer, 100 cases of soda, 50 cases of Gatorade, two cases of wine and six cases of meat.
Marcelino de Jesus Martinez faces charges of receiving money for causing a person to cohabitate, according to police. These actions are normal in Martinez’s Oaxacan culture, but obviously not legal in California, police said.
SOURCE: CNN.COM
Hudson to sing anthem at Super Bowl
Jennifer Hudson will sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. The singer and actor, who got her break on Fox’s “American Idol,” has not made a public ap-pearance since she lost family members in October. Hudson joins Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, both of whom will be performing at halftime. Hudson has also won an Oscar and been nominated for a Grammy four times in her career.
SOURCE: CNN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We need to build bridges across
the divides that separate us. The
election of Barack Obama was one
of those bridges...[but] there’s a lot
of work to be done.”
Morris Dees, a renowned civil-rights activist, on racism
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James B. Hunt Library to be the focal point of Centennial campus
Annie AlbrightStaff Writer
After the Council of State des-ignated $109 million in funds toward the construction of the James B. Hunt Library, plans for the new library to be located on Centennial Campus have been completed.
Larry Nielsen, provost and ex-ecutive vice chancellor, said that the library will be a fantastic ad-dition to N.C. State.
“It will house lots of electronic resources, lots of collaborative space, those things which are really valuable,” Nielsen said. “Besides that, it will have amaz-ing architecture and structure.”
Carolyn Axt-man, architect a nd proje c t manager, said the new build-ing wil l give Centennial Campus a focal point.
“It will pro-vide a meet-ing place and a heart for Centennial Campus,” Axtman said. “It will [also] im-prove seating that we desperately need.”
The estimated construction costs are about $78 million, ac-cording to Axtman, but the es-timates may change.
“We are not building it today, we are building it a couple years from now and prices escalate,” Axtman said.
The infrastructure and park-ing for the building was taken into consideration for the budget
as well, Axtman said.“Some of the $109 million
available will go towards sup-porting a parking deck,” Axtman said. “Another chunk is to extend the infrastructure to support the Hunt Library.”
The project is scheduled to be-ing early next summer, Axtman said.
“We are trying to pick up some time on this project by issuing early packages,” Axtman said.
“We will start working on the site early next summer, just cut-ting down trees and clearing shrubs.”
According to Axtman, actual site construction will not begin until early 2010 and building construction won’t begin until the summer of 2010.
Axtman said that the Univer-sity opened up and advertised this significant project inter-nationally and chose one of the top design firms in the country, Snohetta.
“We actually had...two days of firms design-ing imaginary solutions so we
could look at the designs before deciding which one fit us best,” Axtman said.
The Hunt Library is just one more addition to the fast grow-ing Centennial Campus, Axt-man said.
“We are planning on having a coffee shop on the oval level and there has been discussion of other food levels,” Axtman said. “There are other buildings being planned on Centennial Campus offering food service located near the library.”
Axtman said she expects the library would be put to use by everyone.
“I honestly think a lot of stu-dents will use this library,” Axt-man said. “So many students live south of Western, so it will actually be closer to them than D.H. Hill.”
Axtman said another benefit of the Hunt Library will be the elimination of book stacks.
“Rather than having stacks like in D.H. Hill, we have researched and implemented an automatic retrieval system,” she said.
The library staff has toured a number of libraries that have this system are thrilled to use it, Axtman said.
“If you can imagine a space that is 50 feet tall, that has metal racks that goes all the way from the lab up to the ceiling and on those racks are big Tupperware like bins,” Axtman said. “On the racks is a mechanism that runs on a track back and forth that re-trieves the bin from the rack and takes it to the service desk where a person can pick up a book.”
Caroline Baldwin, a sopho-more in parks, recreation and tourism management, said she was excited about the new li-brary.
“It sounds like it will be more user friendly,” said Baldwin. “It will be beneficial for future gen-erations.
Students would be able to order books from anywhere on campus and pick it up at the service desk, according to Axtman.
“The person can ask the ma-chine for the book and all of the books will be scanned so the machine will know which bin to look for the book in,” Axtman said. “Book retrieval time is esti-mated to 10-15 minutes and you no longer have to walk the stacks looking for something.”
Plans for Centennial library !nalized
“It will provide a meeting place
and a heart for Centennial
Campus.” Carolyn Axtman,
architect and pro ject manager
he registered and was no longer available. Bryson was also not able to register for any literature courses.
“I feel like as a North Carolin-
ian, that N.C. State is one of the greater institutions in North Carolina, and you get such a deal with the tuition compared with other states, but you really have to work to get your schedule,” he said.
divides that separate us,” Dees said. “The election of Barack Obama was one of those bridg-es...[but] there’s a lot of work to be done.”
Dees talked about a University of Chicago study conducted in which 5,000 near-identical re-sumes were sent to companies across the country. The only dif-ference in the applications was that some had Caucasian names, others African-American names and others had Latino names. The results showed there is still work to be done on the issue, according to Dees, who said the “LaKeisha’s” were called 50% fewer times.
But despite the warnings he is-sued, Dees remained confident that this country is moving in the right direction.
“We are going to solve these problems,” he said.
Dees also said he was confident this generation, when looked back on, will be seen as the gen-eration that leads the charge.
“Someone will tell the story of this generation and the next gen-eration...[and] it will be a story of the greatest generation,” Dees said.
Reginald Parks, a sophomore in sport management, said peo-ple like Dees will be key to that effort.
“The world will eventually seek out equality in all aspects, but without people like Dees work-ing for it, it won’t happen.”
CHRISTIN HARDY/TECHNICIANLuke Autry, a senior in political science, spends time in the Caldwell Lounge between classes. Autry had a class canceled in a previous se-mester and must take it this semester to graduate on time.
BUDGETcontinued from page 1
MLKcontinued from page 1
JAN. 2009 funding for project approved
MAY 2009 work will begin on the site by cutting down trees anD clearing shrubs
JAN. 2010 work will begin to prepare the site for foundation construction
JUNE 2010 early work will begin on the library
APRIL 2012 building will be completed, but not occupied. Out!tting the building will begin.
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Viewpoint
I found ‘Technician’ while searching “anti-Semitism”
I wanted to say that it’s you, the author of the comments on the Gaza Strip that were completely biased, bigoted and prejudiced.
You suggested students consult the United Nations for factual informa-tion. The UN is not a friend to Israel. The Arabs rule over the UN by virtue of their numbers, outnumbering Israel.
You said to find out how much money the United States gives to Israel. Maybe you should find out why the United States gives $250 million yearly to Israel and nothing to the gunmen in Gaza.
Here’s heads up: Gaza will fall... soon. Get on the right side and cheer for the Jews.
Rich FoSan Francisco
Every year the N.C. State College of Engineering has a huge event - an
event so large it spans two days. Hundreds of people
come to this event, including students from other uni-versities in North Carolina. Scores of compa-
nies send representatives. What event could a group of engineers possibly have to generate this much buzz?
The semi-annual Engineer-ing Career Fair, of course. Companies come to N.C. State and some pay more than $600 dollars to recruit students for summer intern-ships and full-time jobs. The event is an overwhelming suc-cess, and my hope is that even more students - particularly the younger ones - will attend this year’s fair.
Maybe more people don’t go to the fair because, well, its kind of intimidating. With so many students competing for a career, how could any-one possibly be competitive enough to find a good intern-ship?
I think, however, that stu-dents underestimate them-selves.
“I don’t really have enough
experience‚“ is a common la-ment, but employers are well aware that students don’t have work experience. That said, stu-dents who have gotten intern-ships earlier will certainly have an edge over seniors going to the fair for the first time.
Jessica Graham, senior in com-puter science, had a positive ex-perience.
“I talked to Cisco at the career fair and I had an interview set up for the next day,” Graham said. “I was able to do an internship with them that summer, basi-cally thanks to the career fair.”
Her experiences are not un-common among attendees.
Even if you don’t get an intern-ship, the exposure to recruiters, knowing what questions you will be asked, and the exercise of rehearsing your answers is invaluable prac-tical experience - an important part of any en-gineer’s educa-tion.
Going to a career fair is actually a really simple thing to do. Prepare your resume and include all of your work experience - even if your only work experience is at the local grocery chain. Get an ad-visor to edit it. Prepare answers to basic questions like “What is the most challenging project
you have worked on?” or “De-scribe a time you worked on a team.” Shave, shower, brush your teeth and wear decent clothes.
“Don’t be afraid to intro-duce yourself to representa-tives from different compa-nies,” Graham said. “Talk to a lot of places, even if you’re not sure if you’re interested in working with them. It will help to network with many companies.”
Finally, keep in mind that one of your main objectives is to gain rapport with differ-ent companies and recruiters. The goal is to make them aware of your skills and your interest in working for them.
I n t u r n , you should be ready to ask recruit-er s about their com-panies and determine whether or not they are a good fit for you.
T h i s se-mester’s fair is Feb. 4 and
5, from 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the McKimmon Center. I’ll certainly be there, if for no other reason than to collect company-branded pens, T-shirts and koozies for my friends.
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This week’s poll question:
Was winter break too short?
Visit www.technicianonline.com to cast your vote.
“No, it’d de!nitely be cool to have it here since we had the tunnel incident.”
Brad Foleyjunior, mechanical engineering
“No, here, Duke, Wake... anywhere around this area.”
Geo! McLawhornsenior, accounting
“Yes. probably UNC-Charlotte or other di"erent campuses around North Carolina, because we de!nitely need to know about it.”
Jeremy Claytonsophomore, management
“Yes, I guess it should be held here next.”
Miya Plummersophomore, business and marketing education
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People should not be able to smoke in the Free Ex-pression Tunnel. Why the
Free Expression Tunnel, you ask? Well, the other tunnels are still
annoying, but they are short-er, and there-fore it is easier to not breathe while walking through them. And just so you know, I don’t care if you smoke. I
really don’t. I’m not going to be that girl that coughs intermit-tently at the bar hoping you get the hint to put out your cigarette when I could just as easily move.
I’m also not going to preach to you about the health hazards of smoking. I used to do it, and I am aware that they are listed on the box. However, the point of this column is to ask your tobacco-loving self for a little lenience regarding my own personal pet peeve.
Why does this bother me when the clusters of individuals in the “smoking square” between Har-relson and Dabney do not? It is because I can’t avoid you. The tunnel is already a toxic place for my lungs, being freely filled with paint fumes, probably asbestos and whatever sort of noxious cre-ations that are living behind that little camouflaged door. Most of the time, however, I can’t smell them, so those things and I, we are cool.
In any case, the tunnel is an en-closed space and when you are stuck walking behind someone holding a lit Marlboro Light, you
quickly begin to regret the deci-sion to forego walking around the tracks in favor of perusing the latest graffiti. Especially since he/she always seems to be walk-ing slowly, whether as a result of reduced cardiovascular capacity or simply because he/she is en-joying his/her cigarette and the art, I can’t be sure.
A 2006 Surgeon General’s Re-port concluded that even short exposures to secondhand smoke can cause blood platelets to be-come stickier and damage the lining of blood vessels, poten-tially raising the risk of a heart attack, but I am not interested in that. To be quite honest, it doesn’t have anything to do with getting cancer or heart disease. I really just don’t like the smell.
I mean, I don’t like sticky blood, but I really don’t like holding my breath to walk the 30 seconds through the Tunnel.
Before you start writing into the Campus Forum shouting about how I am a hypocrite be-cause I myself used to smoke, let me make it clear that I avoided this particular smoking faux pas at all cost. And I smoked clove cigarettes, which you can smell from approximately 1.7 miles away.
Let it be known that I am not asking you to quit smoking, and I’m not even asking you to smoke 25 feet from any build-ing, as the University does. I’m only asking that as you descend into State’s haven for the First Amendment, please crush your cigarette whether half-smoked or almost to the filter. Or better yet, just wait until the other side to light up.
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If you are reading this be-tween the hours of 1 p.m. and at least 2 p.m., a UNC
commission is holding a public forum now to enact a hate crimes policy in the UNC system.
The threatening and racist mes-sages painted in N.C. State’s Free Expression Tunnel inspired UNC System President Erskine Bowles to create the commission.
It would make sense to hold the meeting at N.C. State, consider-ing it was the inspiration for the forum, right?
Apparently not, since it’s being held in Chapel Hill. And the last meeting the commission had was Dec. 17, which it also held in Cha-pel Hill and during N.C. State’s fall 2008 graduation.
It would be understandable to have a meeting in Chapel Hill, near UNC Board members’ of-fices, if it were enacting policy, but this is a public forum. Most people at the meeting that are not part of a university’s task force will probably be from — you guessed it — UNC-Chapel Hill.
How is the commission sup-posed to hear opinions from students around North Carolina when the forums are held in the same place?
Even if the meeting took place on NCSU’s campus, many stu-dents would not be able to make to a 1 p.m. meeting because of
classes. If it continues to have a series
of meetings, they should not only be held at NCSU and UNC, but the commission should convene at universities across the state, from UNC-Asheville to UNC-Wilmington.
The time and place aren’t the only problems with this forum.
The commission has not spread word about it.
Even Student Body President Jay Dawkins said he only received a preliminary e-mail about the meeting and no subsequent in-formation about the forum.
How is the commission going
to collect opinions of students from around the state if it won’t advertise it to student leaders?
We also ask the commission to not limit free speech, with an ex-ception for threats. Hate speech may be unpopular, but it is still free speech. Limiting free speech on campus is infringing on un-alienable rights and is unconsti-tutional. We encourage it to go to these meetings with an open mind and do outside research.
This forum is not something that should be swept under the rug. A potential hate crimes pol-icy is serious and it must discuss all sides. Whatever your opinion on it is, it is vital that everyone gets his/her voice heard.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the
editor-in-chief. THE ISSUE:A UNC System commission created to consider a hate crimes policy is not making a big enough effort to hear student’s opinions and has a lot to consider.
OUR OPINION:The commission needs to expand its borders outside of Chapel Hill and must be careful not to limit free speech.
THE SOLUTION:The commission must travel around the state to hear as many opinions from students as possible and change its forum to a more convenient time.
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The Department of Horticulture Science’s J.C. Raulston Arboretum, located on Beryl Road, is known for having the most cold hardy temperate zone plants in the southeastern United States. About 1,500 students use the Horticulture Field Laboratory, part of which is pictured, for research and classes each year.
Horticulture students use the greenhouses at the arboretum to do plant research. The research ranges from plant identi!cation to seeing how long it will last in a normal home. Almost of the all the research is done starting with a seed, with the exception of roses.
FROM SEEDS TO WILTED STEMSHORTICULTURE RESEARCH COMPLETED AT FIELD LABORATORY
COULD IMPROVE FLOWERS’ VASE LIVESSTORY BY ALISON HARMAN | PHOTOS BY LUIS ZAPATA
In a washed-out green trailer that sits a few acres behind the J.C.
Raulston Arboretum, it’s an average evening in an average house.
The overhead lights are on. The temperature is set to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Erin Regan, a 2008 graduate, stands by her desk that she has personalized with a picture of her boyfriend.
Red, orange and yellow flow-ers float in glass mason jars on the tables.
But it’s this last feature that immediately separates the trail-er’s atmosphere from any other house.
Flowers don’t just adorn the ta-bles; they overwhelm the tables.
The trailer, actually a work-space located in N.C. State’s Horticulture Field Laboratory, is where flowers grown in the HFL come to bloom.
It’s where Emma Locke, a doc-torate student in horticulture, completes the last leg of her re-search on this season’s L.A. lilies — a hybrid of Asiatic and Easter lilies — and sunflowers.
The trailer’s conditions need to mimic those of an average house so floraculture researchers can measure their flowers’ vase lives — or how long a particular cut f lower can live in a vase un-til the average person throws it out.
“You’ll always have the experi-ence of getting the rose that t i lts over af-ter three days. These flowers,” Re ga n s a id , motioning to t he table of Red Alert and orange l i l ies, “will hopefully help with that.”
Locke is working on a research project that attempts to correlate the relationship between a flow-er’s amount of carbohydrates and its vase life.
“I’m looking at the effects of temperature and light and their interaction on the vase life of cut lilies and cut sunflowers and how those affect carbohydrates,”
Locke said. She’s three years into the ex-
periment, in which she has used the same flowers, and said she goes through her results each year to “tweak the production to make it work — to find out what went wrong.”
“Last year I did the experiment on the other side of the green-house,” Locke said.
“In the winter, the sun comes in through the south. ... They really needed more sun than they were get-ting.”
S o L o c k e , who spent time Wednesday eve-ning maneuver-ing a garden hose a round long tables to water her li l-ies, moved the f lowers to the other side of the greenhouse this year.
Lilies grow best in areas of cool temperature and high light — a condition that is hard to come by in greenhouses.
“To let it cool in the green-house, you have to let it shade,” she said.
Shade in greenhouses comes from both the building’s natural orientation to the sun and from
automatic, man-made shades that loudly and creakily raise themselves according to which parts of the greenhouse need more sunlight.
Sunlight plays a role in deter-mining how many carbohydrates a flower has because photosyn-thesis causes a plant to accumu-late carbohydrates.
High temperatures, however, increase the rate of respiration and, at the same time, cause plants to break down carbohy-drates.
“The thought behind this is that photosynthesis and res-piration rates both increase as temperatures increase,” she said.
So this natural process would be perfect for Locke’s theory (if a f lower has high amounts of carbohydrates, its vase life will improve) if it were simple to amp up the amount of sunlight but cool down the temperature.
But it’s not. And that’s what she has to work around, and it’s part of the reason she has been working on the project for al-most three years.
With each tweak in the plant’s production, she can monitor in what possible conditions the plants grow with high amounts of carbohydrates.
Once the plants she has fin-ished watering for the day bloom, she will cut and treat them and take them to the trailer.
Here, Regan will control the settings — lights are on for 12
hours, the humidity stays be-tween 40 to 60 grams per meter — and wait, essentially, for the plants to wilt.
Before she became a research technician, Regan worked with roses that were f lown in from outside of the United States.
“I did roses, tons of roses,” she
said. “I only got red, only be-cause they’re most popular.”
She is one of the students J.C. Raulston, a former pro-fessor, envisioned when he started, in 1976, the arbore-tum that neighbors Regan’s
Alicain Carelson, graduate student in horticutural science, pulls Penstemon plugs from the tray to transplant them into a crate. This is the !rst year Carelson has been working on her research project and will !nish up her research next year.
Alicain Carelson, graduate student in horticutural science, plants Penstemon plugs from the tray into a crate. Her research is based upon experimenting planting the plugs after di"erent stages of development to see which one produces a better #ower.
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“You’ll always have the
experience of getting the rose
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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANJust put in vases today, the Red Alert lillies, sit in a stereotypical home with everything controlled from how much light it gets, to the temperature, and the humidity. These lilies are part of Emma Locke’s research project. The lilies are accompanied but orange lilies that have been there for about a week which will enter the analysis part of her research soon.
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“We’re here for the students,” Chris Glenn, programs and edu-cation coordinator for the arbo-retum, said.
“This is a living laboratory for students.”
Glenn said classes that work mainly in the HFL frequent the arboretum to cut plant stems that they can use to grow clones.
Helen Kraus, a lecturer of hor-ticulture science, started using the HFL seven years ago.
Many of her class trips to the arboretum end, she said, with students choosing plants to clone and then raise.
“Every class starts with some seeds, every class starts with some cuttings,” she said.
“At the same time, they’re tak-ing care of mature plants.”
She said she started taking classes to the HFL and the ar-boretum when she not ic e d her students “weren’t feel-ing confident because they were learning the textbook side of it but they hadn’t actually done it.”
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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANEmma Locke, a doctoral student in horticultural science, waters her lilies as part of her research project. She is looking at the e!ect of light and temperature during the growth of the lilies to see how long they last once cut and in a “typical” home.
“This is a living laboratory for
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Dining halls’ green initiative saves money, energy
Clark, Fountain and Case save hundreds a year in recycled waste pick-up
Eleanor SpicerStaff Writer
Going green at Univer-sity Dining halls doesn’t just mean hitting up the salad bar anymore. Dining services staff are making strides in a sustainability effort that af-fects the way students eat.
“We served 400,000 meals at Fountain this fall,” Direc-tor of Dining Services Randy Lait said.
Each meal served is part of the dining sustainability plan, which includes removing all trays from dining halls, buy-ing local food when possible and having used cooking oil collected for biofuel.
Sustainability is an environ-mental concept that involves conservation and waste re-duction in an effort to reduce or eliminate the depletion of resources. In other words, it’s a management effort that strives to maintain the envi-ronment for future use. Uni-versity Dining’s sustainability initiative is producing a cor-nucopia of benefits, from re-ducing waste to saving money.
Going trayless is one such initiative.
Students l ike Michael Green, junior in parks, rec-reation and tourism man-agement, said they were sur-prised at first to see there were no trays to carry food to their tables.
“In the beginning, it was a hassle not having the trays,” Green said. “But in the end,
I guess you don’t really need them.”
Going trayless saves the din-ing hall 51,000 gallons of water a week, and Lait reports a reduc-tion in food wastes because stu-dents are not able to pile their trays high with food they are not going to eat.
“We have seen savings in food wastes, and reduction in waste disposal costs overall,” Lait said of the initiative.
Another effort in sustainability is the collection of dining hall oil for biofuel.
“University Dining’s used cooking oil is picked up twice a month by Piedmont Bio-Fuels, which processes it into biodie-sel that the company sells on the
open market,” Lait said. In the first two months of
tracking, 5,288 pounds of oil were collected for recycling. Be-fore making this switch, Lait said the University paid a company hundreds of dollars to dispose of the oil. Now, Piedmont Bio-Fuels picks up the waste for free.
Buying local produce is anoth-er valuable approach to reducing environmental impact, and Lait said University Dining buys re-gional food whenever possible.
“We use North Carolina prod-ucts wherever we can, and this is normally pretty easy to do,” Lait said. “For example, we use North Carolina strawberries in April and May [when they’re in sea-son] . . . The milk and ice cream
come directly from NCSU farms and the campus dairy plant.”
Once a year, Fountain Dining Hall features the “All Carolinas Meal,” which consists entirely of North Carolina products.
In addition to conserving re-sources and reducing waste, Wolfpack dining halls are help-ing to make the world a cleaner place.
“I feel like I’m doing something good for the world just by eating there,” Green said, “and if I’m accomplishing something good just by eating some food, then I’m getting a pretty good deal.”
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Springthorpe: My expectation, first and foremost, is that we’ll play hard. We will do what we can to improve, and we will start to make a turn in our program. I haven’t necessarily set a bunch of goals. I will do that with the team when I arrive in Raleigh and we start training. From a coach’s point of view, I’d like to get here and improve the team the best that I can, positioning us to be the best soccer team in the ACC.
Technician: Because of your ties to California, do you think that will improve our recruiting on the national level?Springthorpe: We’ll ultimately look for the best players every-where. The player pool in Cali-fornia is large and there are fan-tastic players there. If you look all across the country at all the teams, you are probably going to find a California player on every team that is successful. We’ll look everywhere, and we’ll find the best players all over the coun-try, but, ultimately, the majority of our team will probably come from the east coast. But we want
to find the best players and put them in the program, no matter where they are from.
Technician: Do you plan to bring your staff with you or hire new assistants?Springthorpe: Right now the assistant coach position is open. A lot of people have applied and have contacted me about the job. It’s something we’ll look at when I get there, but we’re going to hire a good staff, people who comple-ment each other and myself. We will put together the best staff to implement our goals of winning and doing the right thing.
Technician : When will you be arriving at N.C. State? Springthorpe: I fly in Sunday night, and I’m very excited about coming in and starting work and meeting with the team. I am ex-tremely thankful for N.C. State and Lee Fowler for hiring me. It was a great, great interview and a great visit. I met a lot of fantastic people. They made my job of ac-cepting very easy. It seems like a great place to work, and there are a lot of people who I have been involved with already. I’m excited to get started.
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match started off with a pin by redshirt freshman 125-pounder Mike Moreno, who notched the first ACC victory of his career.
His pin was one of four con-secutive that started the match, three of which were won by the Pack. Jack Anderson earned the lone pin for the Blue Devils, tak-ing down Dan Brumfield, who was wrestling one weight class up. Junior 149-pounder Dar-rion Caldwell, who is ranked No. 3 nationally, was responsible for one of those pins, recording his 38th career first period pin and 11th this season. The other pin was accounted for by senior 141-pounder Joe Caramanica, who held his opponent score-less for the fourth consecutive match.
After a 10-1 major decision by redshirt senior 157-pounder Kody Hamrah, the team led Duke by a score of 22-6. Jordan said the team has come to expect that type of performance from veteran leaders Caldwell, Cara-manica and Hamrah.
“That’s kind of murderer’s row for us. They all wrestled really
well. They all knew that they needed to get extra points for us to have a chance,” Jordan said. “They gave yeoman’s efforts.”
The rest of the match went in Duke’s favor, as State gave up the last 20 points of the contest to the strength of Duke’s lineup and to the crucial forfeit at the 197-pound weight class. Jor-dan was pleased, though, with the performances by freshman 174-pounder Jake Burge, who fell just short in overtime, and sophomore heavyweight Bobby Isola, who lost a heartbreaker in the evening’s final match by a score of 3-2 to Duke’s Konrad Dudziak, the No. 5 heavyweight in the nation.
“We were extremely pleased with the effort that we gave. It was a terrific effort by our guys,” Jordan said. “Everybody wrestled real well, even the guys who lost.”
Despite the disappointment of the loss, coach Jordan and his team left Reynolds Coliseum proud of how hard they fought.
“We were extremely pleased with the effort that we gave. It was a terrific effort by our guys,” Jordan said. “Unfortunately Dar-rius Little did not make weight and that was the match, that was a 12-point swing.”
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DAVID MABE/TECHNICIANChristian Welte prepares to return the ball in a singles match at the UNC Wilmington game Wednesday. Welte is No. 125 in the ITA preseason national rankings. The Wolfpack toppled Wilmington 7-0.
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Women’s tennis opens its season at home Friday night
Jen HankinStaff Writer
The women’s tennis team begins its sea-son at home Friday against Elon at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Complex at 5 p.m. The Wolfpack is ranked No. 36 nation-ally as of Jan. 6, and according to sopho-more Lenka Hojckova, the nation’s No. 87 singles player, the team looks forward to improving this ranking.
“I want to improve our ranking,” Ho-jckova said of the team and personally. “We will do our best to be the best this season.”
Coach Hans Olsen said he’s really im-pressed with every-one’s improvement this fall and how it will carry over into the spring season.
“Ever yone has improved at least one or two levels, and that is really a highlight for me,” Olsen said. “The girls continue to improve and learn from every match they play.”
Having the sea-son opener at home helps the Wolfpack get excited and prepare for Elon, accord-ing to Hojckova.
“We have worked hard for the past two weeks,” Hojckova said. “It’s always really good to be at home, the more fans the better.”
According to junior Berkeley Brock, ranked No. 27 in the southeast region, the team has high expectations for this season.
“Our goal is to make the NCAA tour-nament this year,” Brock said. “The ACC is the most competitive conference for women’s tennis, so it’s important to keep our mental status in line.”
Looking back on the fall season, Olsen
said he feels like the preparation will pay off on Friday night.
“Elon will challenge us,” Olsen said. “But the girls are very well prepared, very fit and mentally strong. I think that’s go-ing to add some really great things in the next month or so.”
In October the team traveled to Win-ston-Salem to compete in the ITA Re-gional Indoor Tournament. Brock and Hojckova competed as a doubles team and made it to the final round, a first for Wolf-pack women’s tennis. Brock and Hojckova are ranked No. 2 in the region as a duo.
“It was an accomplishment for us,” Brock said. “We just started playing to-gether this fall, and we’re still getting in the groove of things—that’s a pretty good start.”
T h e t e a m i s welcoming three freshmen and one sophomore for the 2009 season. As a whole, everyone is very competit ive according to Brock, especially the newer members.
“All the freshman are really competi-tive and going to make a difference on the team,” Brock said.
J u n i o r D a r i a Petrovic said she
feels that with the additions to the team, and several coming back from injuries, the Pack needs to work on coming to-gether as a team.
“We need to work on teamwork and get-ting back together,” Petrovic said. “With the new players and a few of us returning from injuries, we need to focus on getting everyone together again.”
One of these new members is freshman Diana Mortlock from Dordrecht, South Africa. Olsen said she is one to watch this season.
“She has a lot of talent,” Olsen said. “I think she will surprise some people.”
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JOSH LAWSON/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOSophomore Berkeley Brock returns a volley during the Davidson match at J.W. Isenhour Ten-nis Complex Jan. 27, 2008. Brock won her doubles match with partner Daria Petrovic and the clinching point for the Wolfpack victory in straight sets.
He compiled a 52-40-12 record with the Bulldogs, leading his team to four straight conference championship games and win-ning two Western Athletic Con-ference championships. He also led the Bulldogs to two NCAA tournament appearances in 2005 and 2008. Staff Writer Sean Kl-emm spoke with Springthorpe on his decision to come to N.C. State and his plans for the Pack. After five successful seasons with the Fresno State women’s soccer team, Steve Springthorpe is mov-ing across the country to take over the Wolfpack’s program. He compiled a 52-40-12 record with the Bulldogs, leading his team to four straight conference champi-onship games and winning two Western Athletic Conference championships. He also led the Bulldogs to two NCAA tourna-ment appearances in 2005 and 2008. Staff Writer Sean Klemm spoke with Springthorpe on his decision to come to N.C. State and his plans for the Pack.
Technician: What brought you all the way across the country
from California to North Caro-lina to coach for N.C. State?Springthorpe: I lived in the Carolinas for 13 or 14 years, and it’s a great area. N.C. State soc-cer has always had a great reputa-tion, certainly in the ACC. When I was in college, both the men and women had been doing great things, being in the final four on the women’s side and winning an ACC championship. I remember going to many games and watch-ing some of those matches. It was an opportunity for me to get back to the area where my whole coaching career started. My entire family is from the east coast, and I’ve got ties in North Carolina. From a soccer point of view, coaching, there is not a better conference to be in, on the men’s or women’s side, than the ACC. So it was an opportu-nity that I am happy to be able to accept and come start working with the N.C. State team.
Technician: What are your ex-pectations for next fall?
Pack comes up seconds away from victory in heartbreaking loss
Tyler EverettStaff Writer
The Wolfpack wrestling team entered Wednesday night’s ACC conference open-er against Duke well aware of the type of performance that it would need in order to come away with a victory in a match where they were forfeiting at the 197-pound weight class and using a backup from a lighter weight class to fill in for the usually reliable Darrius Little. Little, a sophomore 133 pounder, failed to make weight and forced State to insert reserve junior 125-pounder Dan Brumfield into his spot.
“We knew what we had to do individually, [but] it’s hard on the team, hard on ev-erybody, when one person’s missing weight, especially when it’s a key guy like Dar-rius,” senior 141-pounder Joe Caramanica said.
Despite the loss of little, the Wolfpack came seconds away from victory in a pain-fully close 26-22 loss. The
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. FLORIDA STATEReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. ELONIsenhour Tennis Complex, 5 p.m.
GYMNASTICS @ MICHIGANAnn Arbor, Mich., 7:30 p.m.
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD @ VT HOKIE INVITATIONALBlacksburg, Va., all day
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Duke 2-0 14-1
Boston College 2-0 13-3
Florida State 2-0 14-4
Virginia 1-0 14-2
Georgia Tech 1-1 13-3
Maryland 1-1 13-3
Clemson 1-2 10-6
N.C. State 0-1 8-8
Wake Forest 0-2 12-3
Virginia Tech 0-2 8-7
Miami 0-3 10-7
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COMING SOONFriday:
Q&A with new women’s soccer coach Steve Springthorpe
Little fails to make weight as State falls to Duke 26-22
After five successful seasons with the Fresno State women’s soccer team, Steve Spring-thorpe is moving across the country to
take over the Wolfpack’s program.
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“With the new players and a few of us returning
from injuries, we need to focus on getting everyone together again.”
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANJack Anderson, a freshman at Duke, pins Dan Brum!eld, a junior, in the second match of the night at Reynolds Coliseum Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2008. Brum!eld was moved from his 125 pound weight class to the 133 pound class when Darrius Little did not make weight. Duke beat N.C. State 26 to 22.