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Moodle-based site’s goal is to give students a louder voice in Student Government.
Joshua ChappellSenior Staff Writer
With the launch of a new webpage designed to increase student involvement and awareness about campus and college events, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences senate delegation hopes to increase communication between the student body and stu-dent leaders.
T he s i t e , w h ic h launched Monday, is hosted on the com-monly used course website, Moodle. All students enrolled in a CALS major were added to the website, according to Ethan Harrelson, a senior in biological sci-ences.
Harrelson, Student Senate president pro tempore, said that he hopes the site will help increase the quality of student experience in the college by building a link between students and student leaders.
“Our whole goal was better communication with students,” Harrelson said. “It’s our job to ensure that students’ voices are heard.”
According to Jonathon Smith, a sophomore in agricultural education and CALS senator, the site is the result of a brainstorming session be-tween CALS senators and the Associate Dean of the college, Ken Esbenshade.
“The CALS senators decided that one main point of concern in our college is connecting with stu-dents and making students feel that their voice is heard,” Smith said. “We wanted a way to connect with students and make sure that we are really doing what students want and need.”
According to Smith, the idea first surfaced last October. There was a delay in trying to coordi-nate efforts between the Office of Information Technology and the CALS Academic and Admin-istrative Technology department, but Smith said
he was glad the site was ready for launch at the beginning of this semester.
The features of the site include forums, surveys, calendars, senators’ contact in-formation and gen-eral announcements regarding CALS and the University.
Harrelson sa id he hopes to use t he t e c h nolog y to gauge student interest in various
projects that the senate pursues.“[The senators] can send out notices to each stu-
dent about major events or to take surveys about what students think about the ideas we have,” Har-relson said.
The first survey that was posted to the website at its launch, a survey about general experiences in CALS, has already garnered a significant num-ber of responses, according to Smith.
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CALS site seeks to increase student involvement
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Professor: Forests produce ‘almost everything we eat.’
Brooke WalligDeputy News Editor
As part of the N.C. Museum of Nat-ural Sciences’ monthly “Science Cafe,” Meg Lowman discussed the hard facts of the state of the world’s rainforests Tuesday at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh.
Lowman, director of the museum’s Nature Research Center and research professor of natural sciences at N.C. State, said “the talk centered on ex-plaining the realities of the rainfor-ests, including their value and how to conserve them.” She also used the Cafe as an opportunity to clear up common misunderstandings about rainforests.
As one of the first researchers to discover the mass amounts of plant and animal species living among the forest canopies, Lowman certainly knows the topic.
According to Lowman, the world’s rainforests do not solely provide luxu-ries—they also provide some of the most basic things important to hu-man survival.
“Rainforests provide almost every-thing we eat—from coffee, to choco-late, to cinnamon,” Lowman said. “But the [rainforest] also provides oxygen, fresh water, medicines, foods, construction materials, homes to mil-lions of species and climate control.”
However, Lowman said most peo-ple aren’t helping to conserve these forests, but are instead letting their destruction go unchecked.
“We are losing rainforests and there is a tipping point at some level of frag-mentation — some people think that tipping point for the Amazon is 20 percent degradation, and it is estimat-ed that we have decimated 17 percent at this point in time,” Lowman said. “In other words, the world is destroy-ing these forests to a point where they may continue to degrade.”
This may be in part due to widely held and vastly incorrect illusions of
rainforests, according to Lowman.One of the most common fallacies
about the forests is that since the trees are lush, the soil is rich.
Actually, Lowman said, this is not the case. “Soils are very poor as all the
nutrients in rainforests are contained in the trees. Another [myth] is that rainforests must regenerate quickly since they live in warm, moist places.
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANMeg Lowman, Research Professor in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and director of the Nature Research Center at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, speaks during “Science Café” at Tir na nOg Irish pub Tuesday. Lowman spoke about the cause she has devoted her life to -- canopy ecology -- and the degradation of the world’s rainforests. “The problems are large-scale agriculture, road building and oil drilling,” Lowman said. “We don’t know how far we can go.”
‘Science Cafe’ serves up rainforest mythbusters
CSLEPS prepping for MLK service day Students help spread King’s message to middle schoolers.
Janell Miller Staff Writer
The Center for Student Lead-ership Ethics and Public Service will host its ninth annual Mar-tin Luther King service chal-lenge this weekend.
The event allows students to learn about Martin Luther King Jr.’s message on service and so-cial issues.
“We put on the event to honor Dr. King with a day of service learning,” Hillary Simp-son, a enior in biochemistry and CSLEPS director of youth pro-grams, said.
According to Simpson, the MLK service day’s purpose is to bring people together, honor King, provide an opportunity for N.C. State students to inter-act with the younger generation and get experience providing service.
Organizers anticipate 50 stu-dents from Ligon Middle School and 50 students from N.C. State will participate.
Students were glad to see the University has this service out-reach program.
“It’s a great idea, because it gives the younger generation a chance to learn why Martin Luther King Day is important and it will give them the chance to appreciate it,” Martha Kome, a sophomore in biological sci-ences, said.
The event also provides a venue for State students to re-member and reflect on King’s work.
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“The CALS senators decided
that one main point of
concern in our college is
connecting with students and
making students feel that
their voice is heard.”Jonathan Smith, sophomore
in agricultural education
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Student participation in the website is a factor the delega-tion considered in making the site, according to Smith.
“We are very optimistic [about students using the site],” Smith said. “We want our peers to use this site to inform us when they have an issue or concern.”
Ease of access was also a con-sideration when planning the project, according to Smith.
“We are trying to make this site user-friendly and we want students to find the site inter-esting and worthwhile,” Smith said.
If the site helps the Senate achieve the goals it has cre-ated, Smith said he believes it will greatly benefit University.
“We want to make CALS an even greater college and N.C.
State an even better univer-sity,” Smith said. “We believe that the only way to do that is to involve all students.”
For Kelly Cunningham, a sophomore in zoology, being involved in CALS has been a crucial part of her college ex-perience.
“Ev e r y on e a s s o c i a t e d with CALS has been extreme-ly helpful,” Cunningham said. “My experience with CALS has been wonderful.”
However, Cunningham said there is also room for improve-ment in the college in various areas. She said this new forum will provide a great medium through which students can express their concerns.
“This program will defi-nitely improve communi-cation because without it I would not have known where to start if I wanted to contact [the CALS senators],” Cun-ningham said.
Cunningham also said she is
optimistic that the site can be used to increase her involve-ment in the college.
“[The site] makes me feel more personally involved in the college,” Cunningham said.
According to Harrelson, the college is currently the only college on campus to use such a tool to connect with students. However, he said he is optimis-tic that other colleges will soon follow suit.
“[CALS] is the only college with something like this,” Har-relson said. “Who knows, maybe one day Student Gov-ernment will use this for all students.”
CALScontinued from page 1
And this, too, is incorrect. I was involved in a long-term forest regeneration monitoring proj-ect. We had seedlings 5 inches tall that were 50 years old. That is not rapid growth.”
Lowman said she believes another reason for the lack of public support for the conser-vation of these ecosystems is a result of their distance from the public eye.
“These forests are out of sight of Americans,” Lowman said. “But we are the main consum-ers of products that lead to the loss of forests.”
According to Lowman, the consequences of continuing destruction of the tropical for-ests would be devastating — and not just for the trees and monkeys.
“Continued degradation can cause extreme climate change,
including loss of seasonal rain-fall patterns as we know them now, significantly more carbon in the atmosphere and many trickle-down weather pat-terns including storms, winds and others,” Lowman said. “It would also mean the loss of many indigenous people who make their home, [and] loss of life for millions of species, many of which provide us with essential cures to disease or im-portant food products.”
But Lowman said this doesn’t have to happen, and there are several things students and fac-ulty can do to prevent it.
“If you want to help, read books, buy sustainably and ask questions about products before you buy,” Lowman said. “Even better, visit the rainforest to support ecotourism. This is a great way to pay the locals to save their forests—not to cut them down.”
For Low man, the Sci-ence Cafe discussion on tropi-cal forest degradation and con-
servation was a success, and she said she has plans to continue her work with these forests.
“There is a mystique and al-lure, as well as a sense that they are disappearing and we need to be educated. It really appeals to all ages, which showed since there were people in the audi-ence from age seven to 80,” Lowman said. “Science cafes are a great way to share knowl-edge with local scientists and citizens.”
CAFEcontinued from page 1
“It’s good to know that they are still educating kids about everything MLK did, especially so we won’t forget about his message and the importance of everything he did,” Al-lison Lee, a sophomore in political science, said.
The ser-v ic e cha l-lenge will be held in the Tal ley Stu-dent Center Ballroom and will kick off with a speech from Ebony Ebron, assistant director of University Housing-Central Campus.
According to Simpson, stu-dents will have the opportu-nity to make posters and raise
awareness. The students will learn about activism and, pos-sibly, march through campus.
The day will include two different service projects. Par-ticipants will make 400 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to donate to the Healing Place of Wake County and 50 f leece blankets to donate to InterAct.
InterAct is a private, non-profit, United Way agency t h a t p r o -vides safety, support and awareness to victims and survivors of domestic violence and rape or sexual assault.
According to Simpson, this is the second year the event has followed this format, but it al-ways involves a form of service.
CSLEPS is partnering with the Pre-Health Club Minority Interest Group to put on this
event. “It sounds like a really great
service opportunity and it’s for a good cause,” Casey Clayton, a senior in biological engineer-ing, said.
MLKcontinued from page 1
SERVICE KNOWS NO BOUNDS“Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
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AMANDA WILKINS/TECHNICIANHere is a look at the new Moodle webpage from the CALS senators, which premiered earlier this semester. The features of the site include forums, surveys, calendars, senators’ contact information and general announcements regarding CALS and the University.
“It sounds like a
really great service
opportunity and
it’s for a good
cause.”Casey Clayton, senior in biomedical engineering
DID YOU KNOW?• More than 50 percent of
Africa’s rainforests are gone; particularly affected is Madagascar, which has lost 95 percent of its rainforests.
• 40 percent of Asia’s and Latin America’s rainforests have been destroyed.
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{ }OUR VIEW
Yesterday local press splashed the news of that N.C. State was cut-
ting departments across their front pages. This certainly in-cited some panic as the news focused on cutting degrees and programs. According to Chan-cellor Woodson, we are look-ing at a budget cut of around 15 percent and there seems to be little chance of avoiding it.
Chancellor Woodson made it clear in the video that respon-sibility of dealing with budget cuts lies with Provost Warwick Arden and the Vice Chancellor Charlie Leffler and that puts them in a position of great ac-countability. Arden and Leffler need to undertake the restruc-turing of the University very seriously and need to put care-ful thought into how they bal-ance our and our future peers’
academic needs. Arden and Leffler need to
develop an intelligent strat-egy to redesign the smaller courses and degree programs at the University. This strat-egy should take the value and resources of each department or course into consideration before cutting or consolidat-ing them. They need to evalu-ate the merits and demerits of a department or course be-fore actually concluding how to deal with it, for the sake of students and faculty. Reducing these programs is going to be painful for both students, who may lose class options, and fac-ulty members, who may lose their jobs.
If Woodson’s goals are imple-mented, they will help N.C. State stay a viable, affordable University in the future. We expect that Arden and Lef-fler have the responsibility to uphold the academic strength and standards of N.C. State should not be compromised. Students need to be allowed to provide feedback and input into the process.
There are many talented fac-ulty members at the University with various areas of expertise. We need to capitalize on their expertise. Arden and Leffler should make sure professors teach revamped courses, de-signed in a way that students can get the most benefit from
these classes and their profes-sors. Arden and Leffler need to understand that losing faculty members will not work in our favor, and ensure that we retain as many of them as possible to benefit students.
The budget cuts do not need to be a bad thing for the Uni-versity. With right actions and proper planning, budget cuts can transform this Univer-sity into an efficient unit ben-efitting future students. Most positive changes happen in times of adversity and togeth-er we can go through this and emerge as a highly competitive institution, impacting the fu-ture of our state in a better way.
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Academics for students firstTHE FACTS:Chancellor Woodson addressed the University Tuesday about N.C. State possibly facing a steep budget cut of 15 percent. Last year universities in North Carolina were asked to plan a budget with a five, 10 and 15 percent cut to prepare for this year’s possible budget cuts.
OUR OPINION:There is nothing the University or administration can do about the state budget cuts but brace for the worst. Provost Warwick Arden and Vice Chancellor Charlie Leffler have been charged to plan how the relocation happens but they need to tread lightly around academics.
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BY ALEX CANOUTAS
How do you feel about the University cutting
and consolidating departments?
{ }IN YOUR WORDS
“I understand why they would do it, but it would take away opportunites for the students and it removes diversity.”
Cory Templesophomore , physics
“I’m not a fan of budget cuts, but I would rather afford being able to come to school than to be able to take 400 level classes.”
Aderinola Gbade-Alabiyearsenior, computer and electrical engineering
Moodle mayhem
I bet while you read this you will get three or more emails from
professors about changes to Moodle. You may be that very student that has to scroll down past two semesters of classes just to
f ind your current c la ss a s-signment. When you open your c l a s s i n Moodle you prob-ably a r-rive at a complex, overloaded
page with very little orga-nization at all, ironically designed by someone with a masters or PhD degree.
Moodle, while helpful, has become the student nightmare in lecture man-agement Long gone are the days of syllabus with a schedule of events. Instead, it’s Moodle that leads the painstaking way for stu-dents with hard to identify benchmarks for assign-ments or due dates. To make matters worse, those same professors that embrace all this new technology are the very ones that dislike lap-tops, cell phones, PDAs and iPads in the classroom, but usually will end a class by shouting, “don’t forget to check your Moodle!”
Professors must come to
the realization that all students learn differently. As an engi-neering university, we should be the leader in technology in the classroom. Instead, UNC and Duke are leading the way with mandated computer usage in most of its classrooms. If a student wishes to surf Facebook or something other than what’s covered in the classroom, then it will surely reflect on their in-dividual grade. Those that suc-cessfully use technology in the classroom should be allowed to continue to do so. Educators strive to reach diverse learning needs, but curtailing classroom technologies, such as laptops or other electronic means sends a mixed message. Some students use traditional books while some rely on e-books. Yet the standards are unfair for those that use e-books if professors won’t allow electronic means
Another problem is that in-stead of Moodle, some profes-sors use commercial web por-tals such as Pearson or other software brands. These licenses cost students an additional $40 or more per class. Perhaps pro-fessors should consider using that PhD they earned and cre-ate their own Moodle course and save students costly license fees.
Don’t get me wrong; Moodle isn’t a terrible learning tool. In time Moodle may become very successful. However, many pro-fessors failed to attend Moodle workshops that may have been beneficial in how curricula is distributed and managed. Col-
laboration tools, such as El-luminate, may be included in Moodle to reduce the number of emails in your inbox. Newer technologies are omitted or rarely con-sidered because professors are committed to antiquat-ed and inefficient means.
Technologies used by stu-dents in today’s classroom must increase ‚Äì but also must be planned and de-signed carefully to be ben-eficial in effective learning. Professors must integrate and adapt to varied tech-nologies and devices ‚Äì not just Moodle or other outsourced for profit soft-ware. As an engineering university we have great student talent right here on our campus ‚Äì but sadly that talent is overlooked.
Sure, there are challenges with technologies. Most students have learned to embrace it and professors have forcefully migrated with painful complaints as voiced by students early in this semester. Perhaps now is the time for professors to learn a bit from tech-savvy students so the classroom of the future is reflective of their ideas and feedback of today.
Send Sam your thoughts on Moodle to [email protected].
SamDaughtryStaff Columnist
Chancellor makes the...unbiased decision?
Christian O’Neal, sophomore in mechanical engineering
{ }CAMPUS FORUM
In your uninformed words?
Usually I don’t do this, mostly because I don’t have the time, but today I do. I read the “In Your Words” segment [yesterday and] I was a little disappointed. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I heard that Russell Wilson already had the credits necessary to graduate and that he did it in three years. If what I heard is in fact correct, why did you cite two people in this section that were unaware of Russell Wilson and most of his off-the-field achievements? I can understand showing one person that doesn’t know what’s going on, but to give two students the “spotlight” showing their lack of knowledge, it’s either mean or your selectors for the four top opinions were a little tired from late night homework. I’m grateful that at least your top person actually knew what he was talking about, but is this to show us as a school how unaware we are of our “famous” classmates?
Aaron Fergusonsophomore, nuclear engineering
Wilson, sit down and take your time
Rarely does an opinion piece get me heated, but none has yet to enrage me like in Wednesday’s edition, “Wilson, get off the bench and make a decision.” When I first read the title I was bewildered at the blatant disrespect shown to one of the most talented athletes on this campus. He is the only reason that we have had respectable seasons the past few years. If it weren’t for Russell Wilson there would be no winning seasons, no bowl game wins, no wins over Carolina and more importantly no recent fan support of the Wolfpack football team. In your article you admit that Wilson will go down as one of the greatest quarterbacks in N.C. State history. If this is the case, why not allow him the time and opportunity to make a wise decision for himself as a person? Don’t forget that there was a limbo period this time last year with his knee injury and the prospect of him going to play baseball. Not to mention the football season ended less than a month ago. The paper needs to get off their soapbox and give respect and appreciation to a real talent on and off the field. Let Wilson make his decision with the support of the Wolfpack community fully behind him, no matter how long it takes.
Christopher Limersenior, mathematics education
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“It would take away the opportunity to come to a great school for new students because it would generalize majors.”
Anthony Marshallfreshman, undecided
“I feel as if it will hurt us in the long run, for if you take away departments you take away diversity and opportunities.”
Elizabeth Kripnerjunior, marine biology
FeaturesWhere GPS and inertial measurement units fail, radar provides a solution to non-satallite-based location finding technology.
Amey DeshpandeCorrespondent
Tiny radar units embedded in shoes might soon be able to map students’ location with pinpoint accuracy, help-ing navigation in places GPS units cannot.
A research team from Carnegie Mel-lon University has come up with a low-power shoe-embedded radar system that will help pedestrian navigate in indoor and outdoor environments. Dan Stancil, head of the University’s Department of Electrical and Com-puter Engineering, is co-author of a paper describing the research during his time at Carnegie Mellon.
“The main motive is for pedes-trian navigation—to aid navigation in places where you don’t have access to GPS. For example, when you are inside a building, underground or in places where a satellite connection can be blocked by tall buildings or other objects,” Stancil said.
There are ways of location tracking without a GPS by using inertial guid-ance systems. Such systems have an inertial measurement unit, a compact, sophisticated version of the acceler-ometer technology
used in devices like the iPhone for motion-sensing. However, this tech-nique is prone to accumulating error over time to the extent that within a few minutes, accurate navigation would be impossible.
According to Stancil, the group explored ideas to minimize the error generated by the IMU. One concept created was the Zero Velocity Update. The ZUPT recognizes when the shoe is not moving and overrides the ac-celerometer error to set the velocity to zero. The ZUPT concept is where the radar comes in.
One of the greatest sources of error in the IMU comes the moment the heel leaves the ground. The shoe ra-dar nullifies the error in the IMU by detecting whether the shoe is on the ground or not, sending an appropriate ZUPT signal to the computer to cancel any movement data, if necessary.
The team fitted a small Doppler radar, measuring only two centime-ters by four centimeters, on a circuit board that fits in the heel of a boot. Facing downward, the unit precisely measures the speed of the heel relative to the ground.
The team brought it all together in a prototype that consists of a boot with
the IMU and the Doppler radar in the heel, wired to a laptop. The
laptop is fed the data and can display the calculations and
estimated location. “The way that we would like this to
be working is typically us-
ing a wire-
less link like Bluetooth, with which the radar unit in your shoe would be communicating with some sort of a hand-held unit that will display the data and the navigation interface,” Stancil said.
Even if the interface is developed, the device is not ready for action just yet.
“There is a problem that still re-mains to be solved, and that is bear-ing,” Stancil said. “When we use ZUPT we can do a better job estimating how far we have walked, but we would also need to know the direction that we are
going in order to precisely track the location.”
According to Stancil, until this problem is resolved, it
will keep the technology off of the market.
Researchers are
also trying to establish a link be-tween two separate units in a pair of shoes. By measuring and comparing the distance between the two feet, the device could also record the direction of motion.
The research on this project was funded by the Defense Advanced Re-search Projects Agency. DARPA has funded research projects since 1958, some of which have resulted in both innovations for the Department of Defence and the creation of the In-ternet.
Chenming Zhou, a project research specialist at Carnegie Mellon, gener-ated a lot of data and built the first working prototype of the device, ac-cording to Stancil. Tamal Mukher-jee, also from Carnegie Mellon, was another faculty member managing the project. Stancil said he believes
universities cooperating on projects improve the quality of research.
“There has been a strong trend towards multi-university research,” Stancil said. “All of the large research projects that are sponsored by Na-tional Science Foundation and defense research agencies involve multiple universities working together. We find different strengths from different places and we learn from each other. It’s a very effective way to work and will increasingly be the way that we employ.”
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Elizabeth AyscueStaff Writer
Deep in the bottom of a Carmichael Gymnasium pool, the only noise is the muffled rush of water and the whir of thrusters, maneuvering a high-tech piece of equipment through the dark. Above the surface are the minds behind this machine, a group of students getting a head start on a growing industry—build-ing robots.
This year the Underwater Robot-ics Club plans to make improvements to “Seawolf III,” which debuted at the 2009 As-sociation for Un-manned Vehicle Systems Interna-tional competi-tion.
“We wa nt to do a lot of small improvements,” Chris Thunes, a ju-nior in mathemat-ics and the club’s project manager, said.
These improvements include a “grab-ber,” a small hand to manipulate objects, and upgrades on software that make the robot run.
The Underwater Robotics Club was founded in 2004 by electrical and com-puter engineering students. The group worked with a local robotics company to build its first robot, “Seawolf I,” to de-but at the 2005 RoboSub Competition. “Seawolf II” debuted in 2006 the AUVSI Competition and ranked ninth in the
competition and third in craftsmanship.The competition consists of an ob-
stacle course through which the teams must maneuver their robots. The differ-ent obstacles test the features of the ro-bot including the acoustic system, vision software, depth sensor and orientation sensor.
Thunes explained that generally around 10 people from the club at-tend the competi-tion in San Diego every year. There are many differ-ent components to work on, and dif-ferent groups work on different parts. Then the team puts it all together for testing.
Members s ay joining the group
provides hands-on experience and has helped many members get internships and co-ops.
“It’s helped me get two different co-ops and I think it’s made me a better engi-neer,” David Hoffman, a senior in elec-trical and computer engineering, said.
Hoffman, president of the Underwater Robotics Club, also said he has gained a lot of different skills—not just engineer-ing-related ones—from the club.
“I’ve gotten accounting skills with the treasurer job, a few marketing skills and
leadership skills as the president,” Hoff-man said.
Several students attended the first meeting of the semester and had differ-ent reasons for joining the club.
“I want to utilize my knowledge and apply it to real-life situations,” Brendan Tierney, a junior in mechanical engineer-ing, said.
David Plonski, a sophomore in engi-neering, said he wants to go into robotics after graduation.
“I thought this would be a good place to gain some valuable information,” Plonski said.
With the help of Ray Zeisz, the indus-try adviser, the club functions to provide real world experience of working in ro-botics.
“I try to make the experience as much like a real world company as possible,” Zeisz said. “I want it to be fun but also a
learning experience.”Like a real world company, the Under-
water Robotics Club does not only involve engineers. The club requires the collabo-ration of students from many different majors including management, design and computer science.
“It’s a great way to mingle and see what people in other majors and schools do,” Zeisz said.
Hoffman added that he thinks work-ing with the club will make him and his teammates more marketable to future employers.
“It’s more beneficial to me to put hours into this club than trying to get a 4.0, and I’ve talked to employers and a lot of them say the same thing,” Hoffman said.
PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED BY UNDERWATER ROBOTICS CLUBMembers of the Underwater Robotics Club pose with their award-winning creation, “Seawolf III.”
Middle school minds plan the cities of tomorrowThe Future City Competition hosted by the College of Engineering allowed middle school students to design a city of the future integrating creativity with engineering.
Zachary DiezelScience & Tech Editor
Tesla coils. Mass transit. Moving sidewalks. Integrated smart medical systems tech-nology. These are terms you would expect to hear about at a research-oriented university like N.C. State. What is unusual is to hear them used by middle school students.
Last Saturday, the Univer-sity hosted the annual Future City Competition in Talley Student Center. Twenty teams of students in the sixth to eighth grades from across the state competed for a chance to move on to the national finals in Washington D.C.
“This is the first time I’ve actually been,” said Yachdiyel Webb, a seventh grader from Martin Middle School in Ra-leigh. “I’m pretty excited.”
Students designed a future city 150 years in the future.
They must use the computer SimCity 4 to test the viability of their city, and consult with engineers on relevant technolo-gies. For the completion, essays and a presentation are judged by professional engineers from
a number of fields.The winning group was the
eighth grade team from Da-vidson IB Middle School. Ac-cording to DavidsonNews.net, a website specializing in news on Davidson County, this is the
fourth consecutive year David-son IB has won the regional competition.
“It was really exciting,” Emma Boraks, a member of the winning team, said.
The whole Davidson IB teams
shares Boraks’ sentiment, and are looking forward to the chance at the national title.
“Students have been working on their projects the entire fall semester,” said Lindsey Genut, a K-12 Outreach Coordinator in the College of Engineering. According to Genut, the Future City Competition has been held at N.C. State for the past five years.
Many of the University’s engineering students were involved with putting on the event.
“In a couple weeks, we’ll start planning next year’s [competi-tion],” Breanne Long, a junior in biology, said. Long has been involved with Future City Competition for the past two years and is the secretary of the steering committee. “So many engineers from the community come [to be judges.] It takes a lot of logistical planning.”
Long said that local business-es are very helpful. AECOM, for example, allowed the com-mittee to meet in their confer-ence room.
The program is designed to allow middle school students to explore engineering. Charles Townsend, now a sophomore in mechanical engineering, participated in Future City
Competition when he was in middle school.
“I have been volunteering ever since my ninth grade year,” Townsend said. “It has been wonderful seeing how much the competition has grown and expanded. It is also great to see kids put so much of themselves into the projects, just as I did once before.”
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY FUTURE CITY COMPETITONWinning students (from left) Emma Boraks, Sharad Wertheimer and Nick Macri of Davidson IB Middle school pose with the model of their city, “Seiki.” The eighth grade team will go on to the national competiton in Washington D.C. next month.
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came out here lighting it up. I don’t know what it is, when-ever we play anybody they just shoot the ball ridiculously.”
Although head coach Sidney Lowe was far from happy with the loss, he admitted he was proud of the comeback, and was enthusiastic about the level of play in the second half.
“There is always something to take from a loss,” Lowe said. “You hate it but you have to take something from it. There are no moral victories at all, but when you are play-ing a team like that you have to look at the positives. You have to look at the fact you got back into the game and look if we could have gotten those two or three rebounds when they tipped it in after we stopped them.”
Harrow led the second half surge, scoring 13 of his 15 points in the second half after starting 0-5 from the field. The speedy freshman played all 20 minutes in the second half and led the Pack to its third 50 point half of the season.
“I just want to win,” Harrow said. “I’m a leader, but I’m not a vocal leader. I’m a little guy so they aren’t always going to pay attention to what I have to say, but a game like this, I’m really trying to win. So I am trying to get everybody focused, every-body playing hard no matter what else is going on. I want to be out there and help my team win as much as I can. If that’s me playing the whole game, then that’s what I’ll do.”
Along with increased min-utes for Harrow, Lowe shifted the second half lineup, giving
State a bigger, more physi-cal team with senior forward Tracy Smith, sophomore cen-ter Richard Howell, freshman forward C.J. Leslie and Scott Wood garnering the majority of the second half minutes.
“It gives us more ability to rebound the ball, and it even helps defensively,” Howell said of the lineup change. “C.J. [Leslie] is so long so he can guard the ball. The lineup re-ally helped.”
Wednesday’s loss marked the 233rd meeting between
State and Duke, with the Blue Devils holding a 136-97 lead in the series. More importantly, the Pack drops to 1-3 in confer-ence play. However, players are optimistic looking forward to conference play.
“That is the story of our sea-son getting over that hump,” Wood said. “Once we get over it we will be tremendous. We have meshed together as a team and we just need to get over that hump. Today showed we could play with some of the best teams in the ACC.”
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rims are made for that kind of thing, so we can have that now.”
With the NCAA basketball season coinciding with the in-tramural season, basketball IM will be continuing play all the way through March.
“We’ll play the regular sea-
son basically right up to spring break,” Seibring said. “Come playoff time we’ll be starting right after spring break, so it’ll be a pretty good length to the season.”
After captains meet in order to decide the teams, play will begin on January 30. Three months after play begins, the National Basketball IM tourna-ment will be hosted on campus. With no traveling necessary, Seibring said the Wolfpack
could be represented in multiple divisions.
“That’s a big tournament,” Seibring said. “We usually get a couple teams playing in that. Hopefully we will get multiple teams that want to play in our tournament, especially because we are hosting it and there is no traveling or housing cost. It’s a great opportunity.”
IMcontinued from page 8
conference.“The Clemson game kind
of opened some people’s eyes as to which the ACC truly is,” Kastanek said. “I think now nothing is going to come as a surprise as to how physical it is, how quick it is and how intense this part of the season is. It’s important to gain our con-fidence because without confi-dence a lot of things just don’t go well.”
With 14 wins by the Eagles, the ACC is no slouch of a conference. Five teams in the conference a re current ly ranked in the top-25 polls.
Senior guard Amber White cites the com-petitive nature of the confer-ence as a primary reason she came to the University.
“This is one of the reasons
why I came to the ACC and why I came to State, to be a part of this,” White said. “It’s very exciting knowing that you’re facing ranked opponents and you have an opportunity to be on that stage”
White also understands the importance of coming together early in the conference sched-ule and not falling behind in the conference standings, like previous teams have done.
“Talk-ing about our teams in the past years and even other teams, we like to m a k e i t ha rd on ourselves and play catch-up,” White s a i d . “ I think hav-ing a great
start will carry us over and con-tinue to get better rather than going back and forth. I think the most important thing is to get where you’re comfortable
rather than fighting to get back to the top.”
Despite the slow start, se-nior forward Brittany Stra-chan believes the Pack will be able to replicate its suc-cess from last year, starting with this game.
“We never lower our ex-pectations, so we expect to do better,” Strachan said. “It’s definitely criti-cal. Conference play is the pivotal point of the season. It defines what you’re going to do after. To reach those postseason goals you defi-nitely have to do well in the conference. So it’s definitely important to get a good start confidence wise and build-ing that momentum.”
For the Pack, this game will be critical to building momentum going into the bulk of their conference schedule and playing tough opponents such as Duke, Miami and Florida State over their next three games, so a win against Boston Col-lege is critical.
WBALLcontinued from page 8
“The Clemson
game kind of
opened some
people’s eyes as to
which the
ACC truly is.” Sophomore guard Marissa Kastanek
DREIEF CARR/TECHNICIANDuke’s Kyle Singler gets a shot off over senior forward Tracy Smith Wednesday night at the RBC Center. The Pack fell 78-92.
COUNTDOWN• 10 days until men’s basketball team takes on UNC at
Chapel Hill
SCORES 81 Texas 60 Texas A&M 70 Ohio State 48 Iowa 63 Purdue 62 Penn State 74 Georgia Tech 39 Wake Forest 55 Florida State 53 Miami Sports
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Softball plans for Alumni WeekendThe softball team has invited back all its alumni to participate in its first ever Alumni Weekend this upcoming weekend. The weekend was planned to honor the five year anniversary of the team’s ACC Championship in 2006. Events for this weekend include an alumni vs. current players softball game on Saturday. On Sunday, the players, coaches and alumni have been invited to watch the men’s basketball team take on Miami.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
TodayWOMEN’S BASKETBAL AT BOSTON COLLEGEChestnut Hill, Mass., 7 p.m.
FridayTRACK AT THE VIRGINIA TECH-HOKIE INVITATIONAL. Blacksburg, Va., all day.
MEN’S TENNIS AT LOUISVILLELouisville, Ky., 4 p.m.
GYMNASTICS VS. WEST VIRGINIAReynolds Coliseum, 7p.m.
SaturdayTRACK AT THE VIRGINIA TECH-HOKIE INVITATIONAL. Blacksburg, Va., all day.
WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. CHARLESTON SOUTHERNJ.W. Isenhour Facility, 12 p.m.
MEN’S TENNIS AT INDIANABloomington, Ind., 2 p.m.
WRESTLING VS. CAMPBELL Reynolds Coliseum, 4 p.m.
WRESTLING VS. OHIO Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
First half woes plague Pack50 point second half effort not enough to upset No. 5 Blue Devils.
Sean KlemmDeputy Sports Editor
Despite stretches of brilliance, thunderous dunks and head coach Sidney Lowe’s famous red blazer, N.C. State was unable to pick up its second conference win and replicate last years upset victory over No. 5 Duke. The Pack, 11-7(1-3 in ACC), pulled within five points midway through the second half, but Nolan Smith, Kyle Singler and company seemed to silence the rowdy RBC Center crowd time and time again.
“I feel like we always made the run but we always let them fight it off,” sophomore forward Scott Wood said. “Coach has been telling us all the time ‘we have to get that stop, get that stop.’ It’s a war out there and you have to win those battles.”
The Pack’s third straight ACC loss was certainly a tale of two halves. In the first half, State shot a season low 21.6 percent from the field. The Wolfpack managed to score just 28 first half points.
However, the second half was a completely different story. State shot a much-improved 54.8 percent in the second 20 minutes. Senior forward Tracy Smith and freshman guard Ryan Harrow led the way with 19 points and nine rebounds, and 15 points and five assists, respectively. But the Blue Devils proved why they
are a top-five team and a favorite to win the ACC.
“They can shoot,” Harrow said of the Blue Devils. “They really can shoot. They hadn’t been shooting the ball well the last two games before ours, but then they
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DREIER CARR/TECHNICIANFreshman guard Ryan Harrow drives around Duke’s Seth Curry Wednesday night at the RBC Center. The Wolfpack fell to the Blue Devils 92-78.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDSMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. DUKETraffic problemsThe RBC Center was not even close to being full at tip-off and a lot of that had to do with the large amounts of traffic around the RBC Center. Hillsborough Street, Blue Ridge and Trinity were slammed with cars well into the start of the game. Eventually fans filled up the stadium, but not after missing most of the first half of the game.
Boo birds flew in for the winterThroughout the entire game, students, alumni and fans rained down boos towards the referees, Duke players and coaches and even at one point, injured Duke players. It was a hostile environment and the team thrived off of the energy from the crowd, which played its part.
Fear the Blazer no moreSidney Lowe once again dawned his brash red blazer for the big game against the Devils, but once again the Pack failed to walk away with the victory. The blazer is nice to see, but at this point, it can’t be feared by many coaches or players anymore.
— TAYLOR BARBOUR
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL INTRAMURAL SPORTS
Intramural basketball gets ready to tip-offMassive turnout sets stage for exciting season.
Sean FairholmStaff Writer
With the men’s basketball team getting into the bulk of its conference play, the intramural basketball sea-son is about to commence with similar hype and ex-citement. After registration began last Wednesday, 300 teams signed up in attempt to join one of the most pop-ular intramural groups on campus.
Matt Seibring, assistant director of intramu-ral sports, will be a main co-ordina-tor in the annual second semester tradition. Although obvi-ous restrictions limit the amount of teams the league can manage, Seibring said the interest to participate comes as no surprise.
“For basketba l l, just like all of our other major sports, we have a lot of par-ticipation,” Seibring said. “Our team numbers are al-ready at its max. Within the first day or two, we get our 200 plus teams registered. We had around 300 teams register this year, but unfor-tunately we just can’t take that many.”
As with most intramural sports at State, there is an opportunity for everyone
to play within their desired division. Regardless of which grouping the players have de-cided to play in, nights at Car-michael promise to be bustling with activity on the hard court.
“We’re going to be playing five hours a night on six courts to get people in,” Seibring said. “We have different divi-sions people can play, so that includes the women, co-rec, sororities, fraternities.”
While the formatting for basketball IM will not change a considerable amount, there will be several rule changes for 2011, with time-keeping be-
ing the most prominent.
“We’ve changed up t he t iming a l it t le bit t h i s yea r,” Seibring said. “Instead of stopping the
clock during free throws and things like that, we’re just going to have a running clock with extended time. Game play will be the same amount of time, but will be a little easier for people to understand when it’s going to start and stop.”
Another change that some players will certainly enjoy is the ability to dunk. While hanging on the rim will not be allowed, the new equipment has enabled the league to make dunking a possibility.
“Players will be allowed to dunk this year,” Seibring said. “Now that the gym has new facilities, we have the new bas-ketball hoops. The retractable
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State hopes to refocus against Boston CollegeComing off a tough loss at Carolina, the Pack is looking to pick up a win against Boston College.
Jeniece Jamison Senior Staff Writer
The women’s basket-ball team is heading up to Chestnut Hill Thursday, hoping to bounce back from last Friday’s 83-76 loss in Chapel Hill and pick to up it’s first ACC road win against the Boston College Eagles.
Sitting at 9-8 (1-2 in the ACC), State needs to turn up the tempo and win some basketball games if it has NCAA aspirations.
The Eagles, 14-4 (1-2 in ACC), are also looking to redeem themselves after suffering a tough loss to the Miami Hurricanes in a 65-53 contest. State’s last meeting with the Eagles came during the 2010 ACC Tournament, where the Pack defeated Boston Col-lege in a 73-62 contest.
The Pack’s defense will need to step up during this contest. State’s scoring de-fense is ranked eleventh in the conference, giving up 66.6 points pert game and is going up against the Eagles’ offense, which is averaging 83.1 points per game, sec-ond best in the conference.
Boston College also has four players on their roster who are averaging in double figures in scoring, but the team is lead by senior Caro-
lyn Swords, who is averaging over 17 points per game this season, third best in the ACC.
Sophomore guard Marissa Kastanek could potentially put a dent in these figures fol-lowing tonight. Against UNC, Kastanek scored a career
high 30 points and made six 3-pointers in the game. With the Pack sporting a 1-2 ACC re-cord early into conference play, she knows the importance of bouncing back in such a tough
“...the interest to
participate comes
as no surprise.”Matt Seibring
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KEVIN COOK/TECHNICIANRedshirt senior guard Amber White shoots past an Old Dominion defender during the first half of the Womenís Basketball game versus Old Dominion in Reynolds Coliseum on Tuesday, 23 Nov., 2010. White scored four points for the Wolfpack, helping drive them to a 62-60 victory.
QUOTE OF THE DAY“I feel like we always made
the run but we always let them
fight it off .”Sophomore forward
Scott Wood