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Students prepare to demonstrate school spirit, defend Free Expression Tunnel
Nick TranDeputy News Editor
Monday, students will gather on the south end of the Free Expression Tunnel for the fifth annual Ram Roast to show their school spirit on the eve of N.C. State’s basketball game against its long-time rival, UNC Chapel Hill.
The predeces-sor to the Ram Roast event be-gan years ago as an effort to stop Carolina students from painting the Free Expression Tunnel Carolina-blue the night be-fore game-day. The effort evolved into an annual tradition, and every year students painted the Tunnel red and stood guard at the entrances overnight to ensure it remained that way.
Five years ago, the Alumni Associa-tion turned it into a full-fledged event with entertainment and activities. Since then it has been maintained by the Traditions Committee.
Alan Foushee, a sophomore in com-munication and a member of the Tra-ditions Committee of the Alumni Association Student Ambassadors Program, said the committee wanted to make it more of an event students could enjoy leading up to the game.
“It started out as students camp-ing out in front of the Tunnel but the Alumni Association made it more of
a pep rally instead of having people just standing there,” he said. “The in-timidation factor of all the students there should keep the Carolina stu-dents away.”
Foushee said there would be many activities for students to participate in throughout the evening on to the next day, including contests and giveaways. The money to fund the events and prizes was provided by the Alumni Association and donations.
The Ram Roast begins at 6 p.m. with free pizza, dr inks and a “Beat the Heels” Rollabannas giveaway. Fol-lowing the wom-en’s basketball game at 7 p.m., also against Car-olina, the Ram Roast will begin in full force with the first shift of
Tunnel guards and the first of a series of events and contests.
Chandler Thompson, a junior in applied mathematics and a member of the Traditions Committee of the Alumni Association Student Ambas-sadors Program, said another purpose of the Ram Roast was to draw atten-tion to the women’s basketball game.
“We really want to encourage people to go to the women’s game at 7 p.m.,” she said.
As for the rest of the Ram Roast, Thompson said it was to prepare the campus and students for tomorrow’s game.
“We want to make sure the Tunnel is red during the day of the game,” she said. “We have 35 people set to guard the tunnel from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in
shifts. We’ll set up chairs and look out for UNC students, but we want it to be a fun event because if no one’s there it will be easy to paint the Tunnel.”
According to the Ram Roast Face-book event page, a number of contests will be held throughout the night: three wing eating contests, a four-square tournament, an Amazing Race-esque competition and a bas-ketball contest. There will also be ka-raoke, video games and a pig pickin’.
As far as guarding the Tunnel goes, Thomson said shifts of six to eight stu-dents will alternate every two hours to heckle potential threats to the Tunnel, equipped with red paint to cover any blue that may appear throughout the night.
The first 35 people who signed up to guard the tunnel received tickets to the Carolina game, and 15 more tickets will be awarded to the win-ners of the contests held during the Ram Roast. Participating students will also receive athletic loyalty points throughout the night.
Ram Roast rallies for Carolina game
Tim o’brien/Technician archiVe phoToKristina Argiroff and Sara Bernardini, freshmen in First Year College, help each other paint over a picture of Ramsey, UNC’s mascot, as part of the Ram Roast at the Free Expression Tunnel Nov. 20, 2008. The event was planned to last all night as a fun way to guard the tunnel from UNC students and their blue paint. “We just got here,” Argiroff said. “But we’re going to stay for a long time,” Bernardini said.
Digital piracy on the riseRecord number of student copyright-infringement violations reported
Arth PandyaStaff Writer
A record number of Digital Millen-nium Copyright Act notifications have been received by the University due to illegal file-sharing activities using the Nomad Wireless network, according to the Office of Information Technol-ogy Security and Compliance report from Jan. 13.
The DMCA, a digital copyright act enacted in 1998, creates a safe harbor for Internet service providers, includ-ing University networks, against copy-right liability by its users.
In order to qualify for DMCA safe harbor protection, ISP’s and Uni-versities are required to respond to DMCA notifications from the copy-right holder.
The University receives DMCA noti-fications every day informing it that a particular file is being shared illegally, along with the IP address, time and name of the infringed copyright work,
John Baines, the assistant director of Security Standards and Compliance at OIT, said.
“Our response is to try to identify the individual and then pass the mat-ter over to Student Conduct for stu-dents and to Em-ployee Relations for faculty and staff for follow-up,” he said.
Accord ing to Paul Cousins, di-rector of the Office of Student Con-duct, students are being caught not for downloading content, but up-loading the con-tent unknowingly.
“Students don’t realize that when you load up Limewire, it sets up your machine as a server. It gives other people access to your machine when they are looking for copyrighted mate-rial,” Cousins said. “People are getting caught for distributing music.”
Cousins said the first step in the process is to verify that the student
removed the illegal content. “The first time we get a notifica-
tion that a student might have vio-lated copyright laws, we will send them a notice via e-mail. If it’s a repeated problem, they must meet
with us,” he said.
Students who receive multiple violations risk losing ac c e s s to the network, resulting in possible aca-demic con-sequences.
“If a stu-dent doesn’t
get the message and act more ma-turely with their account, we’re go-ing to shut down their account,” Cousins said.
The University, however, does not release the identity of the stu-
Wolfpack Speaks challenges communications students Annual public speaking tournament to be held in library
Alanna Howard Deputy News Editor
The annual finals for the Wolfpack Speaks competition will be held Feb. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. It is held by the Department of Communications and organized by Christina Moss, the di-rector of the class Communica-tions 110.
Shari Oliver, the public rela-tions coordinator for the event, said the event is open to a l l current public speaking students in the spring semester.
“The depart-ment of com-munications encourages people who are currently enrolled in public speaking to apply,” she said.
There are monetary advantages to participating in the tournament; a one time scholarship will be awarded to the top three winners, according to Oliver.
“Scholarships and prizes will be awarded to the top three finalists,” she said.
According to a CHASS news release, last year’s winner, Cameron Hen-dricks, spoke on not talking while
driving and won a $150 scholarship.Students organize a “call-to-action”
speech and communications profes-sors choose finalists. From these final-ists, six will be chosen to move on to the last round of judging.
According to Oliver, the finalists are selected by communications profes-sors according to the students’ knowl-edge of the subject matter.
“Based on their aptitude and perfor-mance in class, students will be narrowed into finalists by the professors,” she said.
The finals will be held in the Er-dahl-Cloyd The-ater in the West Wing of D.H. Hill Library.
T h i s y e a r ’s competition is sponsored by
David Young, of Edward Jones. Oliver said last year’s competition
was a success and the Department of Communications is looking forward to what this year has to offer.
“We look forward to a riveting com-petition as the finalists will represent the best of the best,” she said.
Oliver said Moss can be contacted for more information at clmoss.ncsu.edu.
RAM ROAST EVENTS• 7 p.m.: Women’s basketball game
versus UNC• 9 p.m.: “Ram” roast pig pickin’• 9, 10 and 11 p.m.: Wing eating
contests• 11 p.m.: Four square tournament• 1 a.m.: “Amazing Race” N.C. State• Basketball contest
15ticketstothemen’sbasketballgameagainstCarolinawillbeawardedtowinnersofthecontestsheldattheRamRoast.
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“Students don’t realize
that when you load up
Limewire, it sets up
your machine
as a server.”PaulCousins,directoroftheOfficeof
StudentConduct
“We look forward to a
riveting competition
as the finalist will
represent the
best of the best.”ShariOliver,publicrelations
coordinator
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Page 2 TECHNICIANPAGE 2 • MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2010
this week
for all ARTS NC STATEperformances
Exhibitions are free.
Thursday, Jan 28 at 8pm • Stewart TheatreComplexions Contemporary Ballet
Under the direction of former Alvin Ailey principal dancers Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Complexions is one of the hottest dance companies to be found. Contemporary ballet, classical
and modern dance converge in high-energy, impassioned choreography. They have awakened audiences to a new, exciting, compelling genre that combines the best of athleticism, lyricism and technical training.
Monday & Tuesday, Jan 25 & 26 at 7pm • Thompson HallUniversity Theatre Auditions for Macbeth
All NCSU students are invited to audition for roles in the University Theatre
production of Macbeth; you do not have to take a theatre class to audition! Perusal scripts are available in the University Theatre offices (in Talley Student Center and in Thompson Hall). For more information, including audition tips, visit ncsu.edu/theatre.
ncsu.edu/artsTicket Central: 515.11002nd Floor, Talley Student Center
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TodayUNIVERSITY COPYRIGHT COMMITTEE MEETINGD.H. Hill Library,9 to 10:30 a.m.
FIRST YEAR COLLEGE CONVOCATIONSteward Theater,6:30 to 9 p.m.
AUDITION ORIENTATION AND AUDITIONS FOR MACBETHThompson Hall,7 p.m.
TuesdayFACES AND MAZESTalley Student Center,12 to 8 p.m.
HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH INTRODUCTIONTalley Student Center,12 to 1:30 p.m.
WITH LATHE AND CHISEL: N.C. WOOD TURNERS AND CARVERSTalley Student Center,12 to 8 p.m.
AUDITION ORIENTATION AND AUDITIONS FOR MACBETHThompson Hall,7 p.m.
Wednesday FROM THE LANDFILL TO THE LANDSCAPEFountain Dining Hall dumpsters,10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
UNIVERSITY BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETINGChancellor’s Conference Room,10 11:30 a.m.
FACES AND MAZESTalley Student Center,12 to 8 p.m.
WITH LATHE AND CHISEL: N.C. WOOD TURNERS AND CARVERSTalley Student Center,12 to 8 p.m.
BUILDING BRIDGES: LEADING DIVERSE GROUPS THROUGH CONFLICTTalley Student Center,1 to 4 p.m.
ZOMBIELANDWitherspoon Cinema,7 to 8:30 p.m.
STUDENT SENATE MEETINGWitherspoon Senate Chamber,7:30 p.m. to 12 a.m.
ZOMBIELANDWitherspoon Cinema,9 to 10:30 p.m.
Thursday FACES AND MAZESTalley Student Center,12 to 8 p.m.
WITH LATHE AND CHISEL: N.C. WOOD TURNERS AND CARVERSTalley Student Center,12 to 8 p.m.
TAI CHI COURSECourt of North Carolina,5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
KEITH COLLINS: RESPONDING TO A DATA TSUNAMIEngineering Building II,6 to 7 p.m.
ZOMBIELANDWitherspoon Cinema,7 to 8:30 p.m.
COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLETSteward Theater8 p.m.
ZOMBIELANDWitherspoon Cinema,9 to 10:30 p.m.
FridayFACES AND MAZESTalley Student Center,12 to 8 p.m.
PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE: THE INTERVIEW AND BEYONDTalley Student Center,12 to 1:30 p.m.
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSSend all clarifications and corrections to Viewpoint Editor Russell Witham at [email protected].
THROUGH JORDAN’S LENS
Cuddling with catsPHOTO BY JORDAN MOORE
Katie Mills, a junior in zoology, plays with “Mylee Cyrus” at the SPCA of Wake County Saturday afternoon. The SPCA does not euthanize any of the pets that come through its doors and lets visitors play with the animals
whenever it is open. Mills, who was at the center with some of her friends, became attatched to the friendly cat. “We actually came for a dog,” laughed Mills, “but we might just end up with a cat.”
Today:
Wednesday:
SOURCE: NOAA
65/36Heavy rain throughout the morning with moderate winds out of the south between 17 and 20 mph.
WEATHER WISE
Tomorrow:
5126
Mostly sunny with westerly winds between 7 and 14 mph.
5028
Partly cloudy with light winds.
QUOTE OF THE DAY“We want to
make sure the Tunnel is red
during the day of the game.”
said by Chandler Thompson,
junior in applied mathematics
POLICE BLOTTERJan. 2011:02 PMASSIST ANOTHER AGENCYOff Campus RPD called to have officers be on the look out for possible domestic in vehicle.
11:13 PMNOISE DISTURBANCELee Hall Report of noise disturbance after NCSU/Duke game. Subjects complied to keep the noise down.
11:22 PMASSIST ANOTHER AGENCY Hillsborough Street Officers assisted RPD with monitoring crowd after NCSU/Duke game. No problems noted.
3:26 PMLARCENY Riddick Labs Staff member reported theft of computer equipment.
6:05 PMCHECK PERSONFree Expression Tunnel Report of suspicious subject in the area. Officers checked but did not locate anyone matching description.
6:13 PMSPECIAL EVENT Talley Student Center Officers assisted with Blues and Cues event.
GET INVOLVED IN TECHNICIANTechnician is always looking for people to write, design, copy edit and take photos. If you’re interested, come to our office on the third floor of Witherspoon (across from the elevators) Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. to midnight and Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., or e-mail Viewpoint Editor Russell Witham at [email protected].
IN THE KNOW From the Landfill to the Landscape
University Dining will begin efforts towards a greener university with an audit of the campus’ waste production. It will hold an event outside of Fountain Dining Hall to evaluate the amount of compostable waste deposited in one of the dumpsters Wednesday. Volunteers will be able to help sort through the gar-bage at the event. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
SOURCE: NCSU CAMPUS CALENDAR
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Stewart Theatre will host Dwight Rhoden and Des-mond Richardson, consid-ered by “New York Maga-zine” as “two of the most gorgeous virtuosos ever to emerge from Ailey Land,” Thursday. The performance is a mix of contemporary ballet, classic and modern dance, forming a genre of dance that combines the best of athleticism, lyri-cism and technical train-ing. A pre-show discussion
will be held by Pamela M. Green at 6:45 p.m. at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design.
SOURCE: NCSU CAMPUS CALENDAR
Keith Collins: Responding to a Data Tsunami
Keith Collins, senior vice president and chief technol-ogy officer of SAS Institute, will deliver a talk entitled “How do you Respond to a Data Tsunami?” Thursday. This talk is part of a series created to help students in-crease their exposure to the leadership world in technol-ogy. It features highly ac-complished entrepreneurs, leaders and executives who speak on a variety of tech-nology-focused leadership topics as part of the Fidel-ity Investments “Leadership in Technology” Executive Speaker Series. Collins, as well as others in the se-ries, hold their talks at 6 p.m. in room 1231 of EBII.
SOURCE: NCSU CAMPUS CALENDAR
WORLD & NATIONTroops hand out food, water in Haiti
CITE SOLEIL, Haiti — Trucks packed with North Carolina-based paratroopers and United Nations soldiers from Brazil rumbled into this Port-Au-Prince suburb Sunday to unleash the most potent weapons in their arsenal: food and water.
The three-and-a-half hour mix of hopeful and heart-wrenching scenes that followed crystallized the very purpose of the 82nd Airborne Division’s deployment, but also the enormous barriers in their path.
An interpreter for the troops told a tent city of homeless earthquake victims to begin lining up for the supplies – and cheers erupted. So did chaotic pushing and shoving to be first.
SOURCE: MCT CAMPUS
Ethiopian airliner suspected to have crashed after takeoff
An Ethiopian airliner scheduled for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia disappeared from radar 30 minutes after takeoff from Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon early Monday morning. The plane, which is suspected to have crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, was carrying 92 people.
SOURCE: CNN
Haiti’s art community scrambles to salvage part of nation’s heritage
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At Port-au-Prince’s main art museum, it looked as if a cruel giant had taken bites out of the walls and ceiling of the cavernous exhibition hall.
Large wooden panels where paintings once hung had toppled. A bronze bust of DeWitt Peters, a California water colorist widely credited with bringing international attention to Haitian art in the 1940s, lay hurled to the ground.
Joseph Gaspard, a member of the board of directors of the College Saint Pierre museum, was inspecting the site Saturday for the first time since the Jan. 12 earthquake, crunching broken glass as he trod through the damage.
SOURCE: MCT CAMPUS
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dent to the copyright holder, unless the copyright owner files a court order or subpoena for the information, according to Baines.
“We do not respond to the copyright owner other than to tell them that we are handling the case according to Univer-sity policy. If the copyright owner wishes to sue an alleged infringer the University is
obliged to tell them the name of the individual potential in-fringer,” Baines said. “We have to obey that by law.”
During the 2007 to 2008 academic year, there were 114 pre-litigation notices seeking information on people associ-ated with alleged infringement activities on campus, along with 143 federal lawsuits filed against students by the Record-ing Industry Association of America, according to the fall 2008 PACKParents Newsletter.
Illegal file-sharing is not only an academic risk to students, but also a financial one. Be-
tween spring 2007 and spring 2008, the cost to settle these violations approached $1 mil-lion.
However, the RIAA has stopped filing lawsuits against individuals, “in light of new opportunities to deter copy-right infringement.”
“It appears that part of their [RIAA] new strategy is in pre-vention and education with universities,” Cousins said.
According to the OIT Secu-rity Standards and Compliance report, automation of the han-dling of Nomad notifications is planned for February 2010 as
a priority in order to improve student awareness, decrease the effort needed to manually identify the student from an IP address using log data and to better correct student behavior.
In addition, he said the Uni-versity was going to continue efforts to prevent students from committing copyright infringement violations.
“The University is not going to tolerate a situation where we risk getting sued. We are absolutely going to protect the integrity of our system,” Cous-ins said.
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Marisa akers/TechnicianLatika Williams, a sophomore in accounting, and Salena Wright, a senior in nutritional sciences, march across campus with CSLEPS Saturday to raise awareness about worldwide food insecurities and, specifically, the recent problems in Haiti. Chants and signs among the group demanded an end to hunger in the name of Martin Luther King Jr. “MLK was down for equality for all,” said Wright. “He was a voice for people who couldn’t speak for themselves.”
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What is softWare piracy?• Purchasing software entitles you to a license which specifies how
many times the software may be used. exceeding the license is considered software piracy.
• making copies of copyrighted software.
• downloading or distributing unlicensed software from the Internet.
• Buying a single software program and installing it on multiple computers.
• Sharing copyrighted software with others.
• using the Internet to transmit codes or technologies to circumvent anti-copying security features protecting copyrighted software.
source: business sofTware alliance
What is Wilson’s pen made of?
Is it true that Marlena Wilson writes with a pen made of estrogen?
Bryan Maxwelljunior, civil engineering
What about the bailout?
Thursday, Paul McCauley said that when President Barack Obama got to office, “the economy was ignored.” What about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the $787 billion bailout that Obama triumphantly signed in to law?
Benjamin Berryjunior, computer science
Editor’s Note: The word limit on the following letter has been waived.
Frugality and maturity go hand-in-hand
This is written in response to a recent Associated Press article entitled “Frugal Duke grad student living in a van on campus.” To reduce the national debt, politicians and bureaucrats need to follow his example and drastically cut spending on new projects and programs, and closely monitor costs and expenses
of the existing government bureaucracies. Based on results in recent statewide elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, most voters would agree that government spending and regulation should be drastically reduced, immediately.
It was a smart decision by Mr. [Ken] Ilgunas to eliminate his $32,000 debt as quickly as possible. However, it would have been a better decision if he had delayed his college education until he could afford it with a minimum amount of debt. Most people who still have education debt would agree. Obviously he felt the heaviness of his debt and wisely took steps to eliminate it. When you are in the negative like Mr. Ilgunas was, you have to closely track your expenses, eat rice, beans and powdered milk. He probably does not have cable or satellite TV. He used the resources he had paid for: his van and the facilities at the campus gym. Apparently he’s healthy, so I bet he decided he could save money and not purchase health insurance while it’s still not a federal mandate. He is wise to avoid new expenses assuming he lives a celibate life during his times of limited means. All people who are financially challenged would be wise to become virgins and not allow themselves to become burdens on society.
Locally, statewide and nationally, politicians and government bureaucrats must eliminate, reduce or delay spending of money confiscated from taxpayers on new projects and programs to avoid taking on new debt. One project that comes to mind is the $8.3 million in federal funds to extend Daniel Street in Tarboro to US 258 north. The “Race to the Top” initiative promoted by the governor is taking $470 million from federal taxpayers. Your taxpayer dollars are being spent to force tobacco companies to provide the FDA with information to study cigarette ingredients, even
though we’ve known for many years that smoking is bad for you. The Town of Wilson plans to spend millions of dollars taken from taxpayers to renovate its downtown. Edgecombe County plans to take federal taxpayer money to renovate the six-story “Ivory Tower” it recently purchased from Embarq. Taxpayers are footing the bill for scientists and engineers to discuss sea level rise along the N.C. coast, even though we know now that the political left manipulated climate data and computer models to promote their global warming agenda. The Democrats want to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to continuously create massive bureaucracies that they call health care reform. The spending list never ends.
It’s time for the people of this country demand that the elected politicians spend money more wisely on projects and programs that we really need, not just on things that might be nice to have or to buy votes. You do this by voting for the opponents of big spending politicians who spend taxpayer money so liberally.
It’s also time for Mr. Ilgunas at 26 to grow up and use his resourcefulness to enter the business world instead of being a professional student. He seems to be a survivor and would probably do well. He has the intelligence to be successful or he would not be at Duke. Then his mama can stop worrying about him living in his van.
Leon Wilsonalumnus, class of 1977
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{ }Our view
With the economy still recovering and the job market look-
ing grim with unemployment hovering at about 10 percent, graduate school looks like an appealing choice for students. And with state-mandated bud-get cuts, the University sees graduate students as a poten-tially cost-effective method of educating students while avoiding the expense of paying for full-time lecturers and pro-fessors.
Yet even the graduate pro-grams are not immune to budget pressures, and now the University is trying to trim more fat by cutting back some graduate budgets.
This hurts the University in two ways: it detracts from the
short-term goals of provid-ing education by putting more pressure on graduate students, who have a good amount of work due to their own studies, and it hurts the long-term goal of maintaining a solid gradu-ate program, which enhances the University’s academic and public standing.
The immediate impact on education is obvious: with class sizes increasing, graduate students may be given more of a burden than they originally expected. While some students can adapt, not everyone can maintain an effective learn-ing environment under the
adverse conditions the budget cuts force on every person at the University.
And such unfriendly work-place environments are not conducive to building strong graduate programs — after all, who would desire to go to graduate school if they were re-quired to balance the pressures of graduate-level academics with the difficulties in man-aging an introductory course, possibly having to deal with freshmen that are still adapting to the college environment?
Failing to maintain a strong graduate program would then be detrimental to the Univer-
sity’s image. Academic institu-tions do not build reputations on the strength of undergradu-ate programs — they have solid graduate programs that attract creative, intelligent minds and garner the support of business-es looking to benefit from the ideas born from colleges and universities.
Obviously, the budget cuts do not allow for ideal solutions in which all graduate depart-ments remain unchanged or gain the funding to expand. But to cut graduate budgets indiscriminately is a mistake, hurting the education of cur-rent students and the next gen-eration of minds at N.C. State.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility
of the Executive Editors.
Avoid excessive cuts to graduate budgetsThe FacTs:In light of the state-mandated budget cuts, the University has been forced to give graduate students more responsibility in teaching introductory-level courses, in addition to their own studies.
Our OpiniOn:Cutting graduate budgets may hurt the quality of education students receive today and hinder efforts to build upon the University’s academic prestige.
Changing the little things
The pop psychologist Ma lcolm Gladwel l , famous for his New
York Times bestselling books and writ ing for the “New Yorker,” has made a career out of look-ing through life’s static and finding some semblance of causation in his writings.
In his fa-mous 2000 epic, “The Tipping Point,” Gladwell examines the relationship small changes can have on larger societal struc-tures — tipping them one way or another.
One of the examples he pres-ents is New York City crime in the 1980s. In that period, the city was ravaged by all man-ner of social ills. Rape, mur-der, domestic abuse and petty theft ran rampant. The head of the New York City Tran-sit Police, William Bratton, theorized that there was little chance he could stop the big problems occurring within subway stations. He knew for a fact, however, that by stepping up enforcement in stations he could halt fare-dodgers (at the time a multi-million dollar per year issue in NYC). Likewise, Bratton knew he could elimi-nate graffiti by meticulously cleaning the subway cars every evening.
The changes were small; what would cleaner trains and a little additional revenue change for the transit system and, perhaps, the city in general?
It wouldn’t change anything on a macro level, but it dramat-ically altered the atmosphere of the underground. The culture changed.
When Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor of New York in 1993, he expanded the gen-eral arch of the program to street urinators and “squeegee men” — glorified street ped-dlers who attempt to demand payment for cleaning drivers’ windshields, particularly at stop lights.
The results were stunning — crime fell dramatically. The human experience in New York changed and something more complex changed with it.
With those thoughts in mind, I began to think about my be-loved N.C. State. She doesn’t have a dramatic problem with crime — the Police Blotter on
page 2 doesn’t look menacing to me. Instead, the University suffers from an atmosphere of moving dirt and construction equipment.
Most of us accept that con-struction is part of population expansion and as a result Uni-versity extension. But it does something, maybe not even consciously, to the experience of students.
We’ve all seen the surveys that rank NCSU as one of the 10 least attractive campuses in America. Perhaps those percep-tions say more than we would typically attribute to them.
I would argue that those cos-metic issues are important. Not only are students’ shoes cov-ered in mud on rainy days, they begin to feel like the University is somehow lacking.
The overflowing classrooms, overworked professors and teaching assistants and the endless stream of construction equipment drag the entire in-stitution down.
The physical atmosphere of a university and students’ per-ceptions of it play a more criti-cal role than any of us would probably imagine.
Close your eyes for just a sec-ond and envision a grassy lawn in the place of Harrelson, func-tional sidewalks on Hillsbor-ough, enough class sections so as to avoid overcrowding and a permanent cessation on spring mulching.
The University didn’t funda-mentally change, but the way it feels certainly did.
It can attempt to foster a more positive atmosphere, one that’s more conducive to aca-demic achievement and peace of mind. The changes could be as simple as planning out the grassy areas and trees in the long-term University plan.
The University needs to change, but so do its students. The feel of the University fun-damentally begins and ends with students. Perhaps we could try and take to heart a few of the beautiful words of Mahatma Gandhi and attempt to be the change we wish to see in the world.
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College announces competition winner, preps for switcheroo
Justin CarringtonCampus & Capital Editor
Hectic. Challenging. Re-warding. These are all words that CHASS Dean Jeff Braden uses to describe his typical day as dean of the second largest college on N.C. State’s campus.
According to Braden, there never seems to be a spare mo-ment during his days. Whether he’s meeting with department chairs or other college deans, hiring new faculty members or simply brown-bagging it with the students that make up CHASS, it’s safe to say that Braden is a fairly busy man.
On Thursday, however, all this will change – at least some-what, as Braden and Margaux Novak, a junior in English, will switch places as a part of CHASS’ first “Dean for a Day.”
The idea for the event came from an unlikely source.
“The idea for dean for a day was mine,” Braden said. “My expectation for the event is that I will get to have a window into the student experience at N.C. State.”
Braden said part of the moti-vation behind the event is the fact that he’s never been a stu-dent at the University.
“I’ve never been a student on this campus, and I really want to see what it’s like ...particu-larly from one of my own ma-jors,” Braden said. “At the same time, I want to give students a window into what it’s like being a dean.”
Ironically, the idea for the new event was the result of a joke made while conversing with colleagues and reminisc-ing about an old show called “Queen for a Day.” Braden joked about the idea of doing a collegiate twist on the Uni-versity’s campus. “[I thought], ‘Queen for a Day?’ Why not ‘Dean for a Day?’”
In November, Braden’s seem-ingly innocent joke became the bud of a full-blown campaign to get one student in the Col-lege of Humanities and Social Sciences to switch places with Braden.
According to Lauren Kirk-patrick, the director of com-munications with CHASS and organizer of the day’s fes-tivities, the requirements for student applicants were quite simple.
“The only stipulations were that you be a CHASS major and that you have classes on that day,” Kirkpatrick said.
Furthermore, Braden said part of the purpose of this experience is to learn about varied student experiences on this campus. For that reason, Braden and CHASS decided that the previously mentioned stipulations were the only ones to be considered in finding his replacement for a day.
“We weren’t trying to bias it in favor of any kind of student either. We left it wide open,” he said.
In order to apply for the chance to be dean, students simply had to submit a brief sample of writing, consisting of no more than 100 words, explaining why they would be good candidates to be dean and why their daily experiences might be interesting to Braden.
“We did a lot of publicity, we put flyers up and we put it out there,” Kirkpatrick said. However, in the end only 15 students actually applied for the chance to fill the dean’s shoes.
O n e o f t hos e s t u-dents, how-e v e r , w a s Novak, who recently re-turned from a three-month study abroad in Romania.
While No-vak said she does not con-sider herself any different from her peers, she said she is incredibly honored to have the chance to partake in the first installation of “Dean for a Day” mainly because she’s just like everyone else.
“I sit in the Caldwell lounge and look at the weird branch from that tree that everyone sits there and climbs on,” No-vak said.
This is what she attempted to articulate in her essay to be-come dean.
“What I really tried to get across in my [essay] was that I’m a student just like every-body else,” Novak said. “So by choosing me as the dean [for a day], they’ll be able to vicari-ously experience a lot of other people’s day.”
In the end, a group of CHASS student ambassadors did choose Novak, possibly because of her depiction of herself as a universal student. Or maybe it had to do with one special class on her schedule: water aerobics, which Novak said she believes was a factor.
“Students want to see their dean in water aerobics, right,” Novak said.
All in all, Novak said she’s pretty excited about the expe-rience. Despite what some may say and think, however, Braden contends that Novak’s day will be no walk in the park.
Currently on the schedule for Novak are meetings with campus leaders such as Interim Provost Warwick Arden, other college deans and even a brown bag luncheon with CHASS stu-dents themselves.
Knowing what awaits her, Novak said she is convinced that she is up to the task. She also said that Braden will find his time just as occupied.
In addition, Novak said she hopes to get a lot out of this experience, mostly knowledge of what exactly a college dean does.
“I don’t really know what a dean does. I don’t think any student knows,” Novak said. “So, I’m curious to know what deans do and what they talk
about.”Regarding
how involved he plans to get in No-va k ’s reg i-men, Braden said that he intends to go all out for this endeavor.
“It’s basi-cally for the ent i re day. I’m planning on start ing Wednesday evening and
going through Thursday at 5 p.m.,” Braden said. “Of course it will depend on what she’s got going on Wednesday evening. I know she’s got a couple of class-es, and I’m looking forward to taking those classes.”
Regarding what he antici-pates will be the most difficult part of Novak’s day, Braden said, “There will be so many people she’s never met before and such a variety of activities that she’ll have to move from one point to the next. It can be kind of overwhelming. I’m sure she’ll manage it, but it’ll be challenging.”
As for her hopes for Braden, Novak said she ultimately wants this experience to pro-vide the dean with valuable insight into what the life of a typical college student is like.
“So many people have this idea of classes and all this free time, but it’s so much more than that. They do have class-es, but they juggle so much like real adults,” Novak said.
CHASS Dean, student to trade places for a day
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8a - 8:30aE-mail — 160 to180 per day
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that class you’ve tried so hard to avoid. Braving
the elements of nature, you make that hike across
campus, be it five or 15 minutes of walking.
Finally, you arrive to your class, drenched in rain or the sweat from your long walk. After about an hour of lectures and discussions, it’s all over. Right? Not quite. Take this all and multiply it by two or three – or even four.
Add the small, spontaneous occurrences that seem to just pop up from nowhere, and it’s a different story, completely. This, however, is the life that many students are confronted with every day. In addition, they must find ways to manage working, relationships, family and other extra-curricular ac-tivities.
This is the typical life of a college student. On Thurs-day, CHASS Dean Jef f Braden will get a glimpse of this, as he will be switching places with junior Margaux Novak. In discussing her upcoming day as dean, No-vak — like many students — questioned the duties of a college dean.
For this reason, Techni-cian is taking a closer look at Braden’s typical sched-ule as well as the day he has planned for his student re-placement.
Walking in the CHASS Dean’s shoesSTORY BY JUSTIN CARRINGTON | GRAPHIC BY NETTIE FISHER
COMPARING BRADEN’S TYPICAL DAY TO NOVAK’S SCHEDULE AS DEAN FOR A DAY
12p - 1pBrown Bag – Jessica Jameson
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QUICK FACTS:• Dean Braden receives approximately 150 e-mails each day.
During the first part of his day, he commits at least an hour to responding to these e-mails himself.
• Braden is chairing the search committee for the College of Education’s new dean.
• CHASS, the college of which Braden is dean of had a total budget of $45,660,304 for the 2008-09 school year.
• Before becoming dean, Braden was a professor of psychology at N.C. State. He also headed the University’s School Psychology Program from 2004 to 2007.
• Braden’s college awards more undergraduate degrees than any other college.
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Pack can’t duplicate performance in College Park Energy from Duke came doesn’t carry over, team falls, 88-64
Staff report
The Wolfpack (13-7, 2-4) fell f lat after a dominating performance at home against Duke and lost its sixth straight match-up with the Maryland Terrapins.
“This is out of the blue. And I think that’s why it was so dis-appointing because I didn’t ex-pect it,” coach Sidney Lowe said in his postgame press confer-ence. “It was widespread. It was perimeter, it was inside. We just didn’t get there. They beat us to every loose ball. They were diving and we were reaching for balls, and that just shows you the difference in aggression.”
Maryland coach Gary Wil-liams celebrated his 1000th game with a convincing win. After Virginia lost to Wake For-est Saturday earlier, his Terra-pins team moved into a tie for first in the ACC standings.
Maryland managed to jump out to a sizeable early lead with-out standout senior Greivis Vasquez, who waited until the second half to score 17 of his 19 points. Fellow senior Landon Milbourne finished with 18 points.
Tracy Smith continued his scoring spree for the Pack, finishing with a team-high 18 points.
Maryland led 41-33 at the half. Milbourne opened the second stanza with a layup
to put Maryland up by 10. Vasquez and Milbourne both sank threes to make the score 59-41 with 13:54 remaining.
State surrendered a brief lead 3:49 in and never regained it. The Pack closed the gap to four points with a 10-4 run toward the end of the first half, but Eric Hayes closed the half with four straight free throws.
“We played terrible defense,” junior Javier Gonzales told
the media after the game. “We weren’t working hard enough. We weren’t re-bounding. They just played harder than us. They out-hustled us and got a lot of offensive rebounds. They got to every loose ball.”
The Terrapins finished 24 for 33 at the line while the Wolfpack went 10 for 16.
Pack falls flat in College Park
three-pointer to tie the game – a play originally drawn up for freshman guard Marissa Kastanek.
“‘Kita is a very determined young lady, she has a sense of urgency about her,” Harper
said. “A kid like that, you want to just put the ball in her hands and let her make the play.”
State will take on the Tarheels tonight at 7 p.m, but Harper and company are approaching the game like any other.
“I think there’s so many fac-tors that will make this next game a little bit different,” Harper said. “The rivalry be-tween State and North Caro-
lina, it makes everything a frenzy.”
That frenzy is not distracting Harper, who gets her first shot at North Carolina tonight.
“We have to make sure as a team, as a program, our focus remains the same,” Harper said. “It’s another opponent and we have to figure out what we have to do to beat them.”
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difference. “The intensity that everyone
was bringing, it was awesome,” Seiferth said. “There was no way I couldn’t go fast.It was the easiest race I have ever done.”
Saturday’s meet was the teams’ third meet in eight days, and though head coach Brooks Teal said the back-to-back meets made them weary, they were still able to push through.
“Their will, determination, their conditioning, but more importantly their spirit really showed through here,” Teal said. “It was a total team effort
all across the board, men and women.”
The final meet of the regu-lar season will be held Feb. 5 at UNC-Chapel Hill.
swim continued from page 8
Drier carr/TechnicianSenior forward Dennis Horner meets a wall of Maryland defense on his way to the basket at the Comcast Center Saturday, January 23 in College Park, MD. The Wolfpack fell to the University of Maryland 64-88 and fell to 13-7 on the season, 2-4 in the ACC.
amanDa wilkins/TechnicianWomen’s basketball coach Kellie Harper charges up the crowd during the Wolfpack’s last-second win over Wake Forest Friday, Jan. 22 at Reynolds Coliseum.
Pack struggles offensively, but shines in final minutes of 51-49 victory
Lindsey HallSenior Staff Writer
With 15 seconds to go in a scrappy, defensive game, se-nior guard Nikitta Gartrell brought the crowd to its feet as she evened the score with Wake Forest, 49-49. Junior guard Amber White gave it more reasons to cheer. After Wake missed its final shot of the game, White took the ball down court with the game on the line.
“My adrenaline was rac-ing,” White said. “I felt like if I passed it, you’d never know what would happen, I thought the best thing to just get the shot off.”
Not only did White get the shot she wanted, but she found the net as time ex-pired with a classic buzzer-beater, sending Wake pack-ing, 51-49.
“Before I shot, I saw the basket, but once I jumped, once it was up, I didn’t know,” White said. “The last time I made that kind of shot was in high school.
The Wolfpack took a hard lesson and turned it into a win after falling in the final minute to Florida State, 74-71, on Jan. 17.
“My heart goes out to Wake Forest, their players, coaches and staff – I know what they feel like,” Harper said. “But, as we learned at
Florida State, it is a 40 min-ute game, we can’t cut it short and every basket, every play, counts.”
But the dramatic ending was hardly a reflection of the rest of the 39 minutes of play. Both teams struggled offensively and
ran into foul trouble. Starters Marissa Kastanek and Gartrell both took a seat during the game, which forced Harper to
change her offense. Sophomore standout Bonae Holston com-mitted three fouls within three minutes in the second half.
“It was very frustrating at one point, nothing was falling our way,” Gartrell said. “So we had to rely on defense and I felt like we played good enough defense for them to miss some shots.”
Gartrell said while her team was not satisfied with the de-fensive effort on the court, she was thankful for the outcome.
“That wasn’t the best defense that N.C. State has ever played,” Gartrell said. “I think we get after people and are always in their face, but I don’t think we did that tonight as much as we should, but in the end, it came down to a win.”
Holston led the team with fif-teen point. Gartrell put up ten points and a team-high nine re-bounds. The charity stripe was beyond beneficial for the Pack tonight, as the team combined for 63 percent of attempted free throws, while the Deacons knocked down only 44 percent of their shots from the line.
After falling to Wake Forest in the ACC Tournament last March, the Demon Deacons left a bitter taste in the mouths of the Pack players. Friday’s game provided an opportunity for revenge.
“I felt like that all day. It was my motivation as far as going into this game,” Gartrell said.
Gartrell’s motivation was on display all night, according to coach Kellie Harper, which is why she was able to take the
COUNTDOWN• 1 day until the men’s basketball team hosts UNC-
Chapel Hill
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Andy musselmAn/TechniciAnFocusing on her shot, junior forward Tia Bell pumps her arms over a Wake Forest defender during the Pack’s game Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, in Reynolds Coliseum. State shot 37.5 percent from the field in their 51-49 win over the Demon Deacons.
Buzzer-beater denies Demon DeaconsWomen’S BaSkeTBall
Wrestling struggles in losses to UM, NavyThe wrestling team traveled to Maryland this weekend and lost 38-3 to Navy before losing seven of 10 matches in a 30-10 loss to the Terrapins. Sophomore 149-pounder Bobby Ward won both of his matches and was the only wrestler to win both of his bouts. Ward is currently the No. 22 wrestler in the nation at his weight class with a record of16-3. After the two losses this weekend, the Pack is now 5-9.
source: n.c. sTATe AThleTics Tennis upsets No. 33 Michigan, 4-3State’s men’s tennis team pulled out a narrow victory over theMichigan Wolverines thanks to sophomore Akash Gujarati, who won 7-5, 6-2 in the decisive final match. The doubles duo of Rob Lowe and Frideric Prandecki gave the Pack its first point of the day with a 9-8 decision. Jaime Pulgar won his match in singles before a loss by Lowe set the stage for Gujarati to give his team the win. State will host East Carolina and UNC-Charlotte Jan. 31.
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TodayWomen’s BasketBall vs. north CarolinaReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m. Tuesdaymen’s BasketBall vs. north CarolinaRBC Center, 9 p.m. WednesdayWomen’s BasketBall at virginiaCharlottesville, Va., 7 p.m. Fridaymen’s and Women’s traCk and Field at north Carolina meetChapel Hill, all day Women’s tennis vs. east CarolinaJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4 p.m.
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Both men and women’s swimming and diving team improved their record with a win over Clemson
Samantha CollierStaff Writer
Fans packed the stands at Casey Natatorium this past Saturday to watch State’s swimming and diving team bring in a victory over the Clemson Tigers. The wom-en’s team conquered the Ti-gers with a 176-124 victory, leaving the Pack with a 7-1 record (3-1 ACC), while the men prevailed with a score of 176.5 to Clemson’s 121.5, increasing its record to 5-1 (3-1 ACC).
Prior to the meet, the se-niors were recognized for their participation over the past four years, and as the meet progressed they were rewarded with what senior Chelsa Messinger consid-ered the team’s strongest
performance in recent mem-ory.
“It’s my last meet here at the pool and this is the most excit-ing meet in four years,” Mess-inger said. “Our senior meet my freshman year was nothing like this. We have never had as much spirit.”
Senior Anna Linkenauger and freshman Marifrances Henley each had four wins for the women, including a first place grab in the 1000 freestyle (10:15.53) by Linke-nauger and a first place win in the 200 freestyle (1:51.42) by Henley. Freshman Bran-don Kingston and Sophomore Conor Brennan raked in the wins as well, each taking three for the men, including a win in the 1000 freestyle on a 9:29.35 by Kingston. The wins contin-ued as freshman Tracey Rorer (1:05.47) and junior Jessica Ward (1:06.39) took first and second place in the 100 breast-stroke.
The fans and athletes contin-ued to cheer even louder as the wins stacked up.
“It goes to show that we are building,” junior Mike Seir-ferth said. “This is probably the best team we have ever had and we are not going down from here, only up.”
Freshman Hannah Hop-kins had a season-best 275.55 in the one-meter dive and later won the three-meter dive with a 298.20. Sophomore Gaites Brown, junior Dan Forsythe, freshman Matt Voell and Bren-nan also hit a season-best, taking first in the 400-medley relay, with a 3:23.06. Senior Pa-trice Dason (55.18) grabbed the top 100 butterfly of the season while senior Kevin Woodhull-Smith (1:52.17) and junior Greg Baskwell (1:52.92) recorded the two best swims for the Pack on the season in the 200 IM with first and second place victories.
Seiferth, whose personal best topped the team’s time this sea-son in the 200 butterfly, said in-tensity and passion from both the team and its fans made the
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AmAndA kArsT/TechniciAn File phoToFreshman diver Chris arcara dives during his team’s meet against east Carolina. Jan. 20, 2010. after losing to georgia Tech last weekend, the men’s swimming and diving team beat east Carolina and Clemson over a four-day span.
4 Duke vs. 16 Clemson
25 Ohio State vs. 12 West Virginia
Michigan vs. 15 Purdue
Boston College vs. Virginia Tech
1 Texas vs. 21 UConn
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Georgia Tech vs. FSU
South Carolina vs. Florida
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N.C. State vs. Maryland
StandingsOverall Record
T-5th6-4
T-5th6-4
T-8th5-5
T-1st7-3
10th4-6
T-5th6-4
T-1st7-3
T-8th5-5
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