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OIT sponsors student advisory groupOIT meeting aims to give students the ability to assist University technology officials.
Lee DanielloStaff Writer
Students looking to shape the fu-ture of technology on campus can give input at the IT Student Advisory Group meeting Wednesday.
The IT student advisory group al-lows students from all disciplines to express concerns, suggestions and ask questions to IT Technicians and University officials. The student group will be meeting 2 to 3 times this se-mester to discuss changes OIT could make.
The group was founded last year by Jennifer Riehle, technology outreach specialist with the Office of Informa-tion Technology, to give students the chance to express concerns about the University’s computing system. The group meets several times each semes-ter to stay updated.
“We meet 2 to 3 times [during] the semester to allow students time to
speak with the chief information officer about a number of technol-ogy issues on campus,” Riehle said.
Each meeting features specific topics of discussion based on what is going on around campus at the time.
The most recent meeting, held Oct. 26 in Witherspoon Hall, fea-tured discussions regarding My-Pack Portal updates and IT secu-rity issues.
“We generally have a few topics in mind based on what’s going on
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Donations/Campaign moneyFor more information about the IT student advisory group: visit http://oit.ncsu.edu/it-student-advisory
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Competition increases awarenessTechnician sat down with two of the four members of the group that won the Think Outside the Brick Competition sponsored by Student Government. Think Outside the Brick intends to promote awareness of the environment and incorporate students in the process.
Chelsey FrancisNews Editor
Technician: What is your plan that won the Think Outside the Brick com-petition?
Eliza Jones: “The idea of it is that we have a gazebo on campus which is outdoors and makes it a little bit more comfortable for people doing studying or meeting with groups to be outdoors instead of inside in the library. You get a little better feel out there. The solar panels will power a couple of plugs, sockets. So that stu-dents can sit in the gazebo and charge their laptops, their cell phones, any electronic device while in the comfort of the outdoors. It’s a nice alternative to being cooped up in the library.”
Technician: How did your group come up with this idea?
Sonum Nerurkar: “I don’t remem-ber [how we came up with the idea.] I know we were brainstorming at a WESA meeting and we were brainstorming ideas for Think Outside t he Brick that peo-
ple could take those ideas and run with it. I think it was a combination of everyone’s idea, Zack especially.”
Eliza: “We were going a different way with it, kind of looking at do-ing a solar greenhouse with it. Our friend Zack, who’s in the group with us, thought that it would be kind of a cool idea to maybe do something that the students would see more. And that the students could actually use more versus something like a greenhouse that wouldn’t really even be seen, because it would have been part of the WESA garden that won the Think Outside the Brick last year. We agreed with him. We thought it would be much more beneficial to the students because it would be something that they could use daily.”
Sonum: “A lot of the things that we emphasized, or at least when we were campaigning for this project, was that we really wanted for stu-dents to be able to see something that represented alternative energy, not just a little sign that says ‘this is run by solar power.’ You can actually see the solar panels. That was actually like the main idea, to be able to enjoy something with learning about alter-native energy, because I’m sure there are people that don’t know that much about it. It would be open to mainly N.C. State students, but even people
from other schools visiting could see it and be really impressed with
our innovations and also the public and the
local area and the community.”
Tech-ni-
cian: How is the planning for the gazebo going so far?
Sonum: “We’re really pushing for the gazebo, however, because of land-scape and the politics of everything, we might just be adding the solar pan-els to an existing structure. We’re still trying to work out the kinks with that, so we don’t know exactly where it will be, but we’re going to try to put the so-lar panels somewhere so that students can use it and hopefully have that in the next year, and maybe implement the gazebo and the solar panels, in the next few years, like in a longer plan, but we don’t have anything set for sure, we’re still trying to work with the administration and figure things out.”
Eliza: “We haven’t really gotten too deep into it. We’ve been meeting to with the Sustainability office. They’ve been really helpful to us in answering our questions.”
Technician: How hard is it to talk to the people you need to talk to about this?
Sonum: “Sometimes it’s hard to get in touch with people that are higher up, just because they’re so busy. It’s nice having a middleman, sort of like the Sustainability Commission and David Dean and stuff, just because they go to those meetings. They can go to those meetings and talk to them. Brian, a guy in our group, has talked to the landscape architect because he worked on the SOUL garden, and talked about that. I definitely think N.C. State is great about really incor-
Q&a withthe winners of Think Outside the Brick
Spring convocation held for First Year CollegeSince its inception in 1996, First Year College has held their own convocation.
Chelsey FrancisNews Editor
“You’ve got a unique opportunity to choose the life you want and not the life others think you should have.”
This was the main take-away mes-sage for the approximately 700 stu-dents in First Year College and Trans-fer Program who attended convo-cation Tuesday night in Stewart Theatre.
First Year Col-lege holds a small-er convocation at the beginning of the Spring semes-ter to help refocus the group and get everyone ready to be serious about the semester, accord-ing to Karen Hauschild, the associate director of First Year College.
“This is something we do every Spring semester for First Year College and the Transfer program. We rec-ognize the achievements of students, our resident mentors, student coun-cil, the scholarship winners, give our advocacy awards and have a keynote speaker,” Hauschild said. “The Ladies in Red will also be singing a couple selections.”
The keynote speaker at the event,
Scott Wittig, is the author of Holy It!: A guide to finding and doing your thing – Your ‘It’. Wittig was a banker who now resides in Apex, N.C.
Because of events Wittig spoke about at convocation, he found his passion. Wittig’s goal was to talk to students about their passion in life, as well as their purpose and their project for life.
“Passion will get you teary-eyed in front of 700 people you don’t know,” Wittig said, while he was
‘teary-eyed’ telling the story of his daugh-ter’s friend with an inoperable brain tumor on her brain stem.
“It just obvi-ously hit me be-tween the eyes,” Wittig said.
According to Wittig, passion can come from anywhere. His passion came from the situation with his daughter’s friend. He quit his job as a banker to help plan a birthday party for her, then found his pas-sion and purpose in life.
“I joined 10 women, planned the mackdaddy birthday party for her,” Wittig said. “We had this princess themed birthday party. She arrived in a horse drawn carriage. She was all dressed up, her parents were all
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Winners of the think outsiDe the BriCk Competition:
Grand Prize: ($1000) “Solar Gazebo”: Eliza Jones, Bryan Maxwell, Sonum Nerurkar, and Zac SchnellLocation: to be determined
Runner Ups ($500 each)
“Hall Light Timers”: Kyle BarthLocation: Quad
“Planter Boxes/Community Garden” Scott HefnerLocation: Quad
source: rachel conley, sTudenT GovernmenT susTainabiliTy direcTor
“Passion will get you
teary-eyed in front
of 700 people you
don’t know.”Scott Wittig, keynote speaker
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response 1: “Play UNC in Reynolds! Not sure if that’s the most important but it’s the first think I thought of lol” -1 person likes this.
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For science!
Various engineering departments come together for the annual “Taste of Engineering” event, which is sponsored by WISE. Each department creates their own unique flavor to bring to the table. This walk-in event, held in the Rid-dick Hall lobby, includes hands-on activities and science-filled food for students. “[Dr. Irving] was pouring liquid
nitrogen in and I was stirring. We put in half and half, vanilla extract and a whole lot of sugar and stirred for 10 minutes to make ice-cream, “ said Chris Lange, a junior in mechanical engineering, who helped make ice cream at the event.
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Police blotterJan. 222:24 a.m. - alcohol ViolationTucker Hall Three students and one non-student were in possession of alcohol. Two students were referred for Alcohol Underage. One student was issued citation and referred for Alcohol Underage. Non-student was trespassed from N.C. State property. 3:15 a.m. - Fire alarmWolf Village Officer responded to alarm caused by cooking. System reset.
3:23 a.m. - medical assistOff Campus Report of non-student in need of medical assistance near Bell Tower. Officers checked the area but did not locate anyone. 9:48 a.m. - concerned behaVior Public Safety Center Officers met with non-student regarding student’s recent
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had been ripped off vehicle. 1:33 p.m. - traFFic accidentCentennial Middle School Student involved in one vehicle traffic accident. Property damage only. 1:40 p.m. - Fire alarmTalley Student Center Units responded to alarm caused by accidental pull station activation. System reset. 2:35 p.m. - special eVentReynolds Coliseum Officers monitored women’s basketball game. 6:03 p.m. - damage to propertyCox Hall Report window to door had been kicked and broken. 6:34 p.m. - Fire alarmTalley Student Center Units responded to alarm caused by cooking. System reset. 7:26 p.m. - drug ViolationAvent Ferry Complex Report of possible drug violation. Student was referred for Drug Violation and non-student was trespassed from NCSU property.
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Todaychancellor’s liaison3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.3118 Talley Student Center
behind the scenes with uniVersity theatre4 p.m. – 5 p.m.D.H. Hill Library, East Wing
ncsu club – parkour and Freerunning meet-up6 p.m. – 8 p.m.Brickyard – At the bottom of the stairs to D.H. Hill Library
Thursdaychancellor’s Forum2 p.m. – 3 p.m.Talley Ballroom
ethical theory lecture: “two cheers For Virtue”4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.331 Withers Hall
moVie: red7 p.m. – 9 p.m.Witherspoon Cinema
moVie: it’s kind oF a Funny story9:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.Witherspoon Cinema
Fridayncsu club – parkour and Freerunning meet-up6 p.m. – 8 p.m.Brickyard – At the bottom of the stairs to D.H. Hill Library
moVie: it’s kind oF a Funny story7 p.m. – 9 p.m.Witherspoon Cinema
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with respect to information technology on campus,” said Riehle.
At the end of each meeting, students and attendees a re a s ke d to prov ide feedback and ideas about t h e a d v i -sory group. Suggestions a re t a ke n into consid-erat ion by IT off icials present at the meeting, accord-ing to Riehle.
“We always leave time at the end [of the meeting] for stu-dents to bring their own top-ics and concerns,” said Riehle, who says she encourages stu-
dents to come to the meeting with a topic they would like to discuss.
The next IT student advi-sory group meeting is set to be held on Wednesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. the Carmichael Recreation Center in room 1606. The featured topics to be
discussed at the upcom-ing meeting are peer-to-peer (P2P) f ile sharing on campus, and Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA).
Students are encour-
aged to attend and bring ideas and concerns with them for discussion at the meeting, ac-cording to Riehle.
There are two more meetings scheduled during this semester, set for Tuesday, Mar. 6, from
5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., featuring mobile computing, and again for Monday, Apr. 4, also from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The locations of these meet-ings have not yet been deter-mined, and the featured topic for the April meeting has not been decided upon.
“We generally
have a few topics
in mind based on
what’s going on.”Jennifer Riehle, technology
outreach specialist
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porating students’ ideas. It hasn’t been too difficult, but we’re still in the be-ginning stages.”
Technician: Do you have any ideas of where to put the gazebo?
Eliza: “We have some ideas [of where to put the gazebo.] Obviously, you’re going to need a spot that gets maximum amount of sunlight, be-cause if you don’t the panels aren’t going to properly run. So, our ini-tial thought was outside of D.H. Hill, where the WolfEars are. We like that spot.”
Sonum: “We also thought about the grassy spot by Fox Labs and Da-vid Clark. But there’s so many politics going along with it, because of who’s donated and like what the land has been set for, what they specifically want the land to be used for. So, it’s really hard because this is such a his-toric University.”
Eliza: “There’s been talk about put-ting it on Centennial Campus, which is a great spot for it. We wanted it to be on main campus, in a high traffic area so that people would see it and want to use it. And see solar panels on campus really would be pretty key in raising awareness in solar energy if it’s a spot where students are actually going to see it and use it. Versus Centennial which has a lot of people over there, but I guess most people don’t make it over that way, or most students.”
Technician: What are your thoughts of the Think Outside the Brick Com-petition?
Sonum: “We’re both in WESA, but it’s so rare sometimes to find the people that would really be motivated to make the changes on campus, and not even the people necessarily, but the means to do it. This competition was so great to be able to give money to students like us for just an idea and help us implement it. Last year’s idea, the SOUL garden, was also done by WESA members. I think that’s the reason I wanted to do it, because I saw how successful that was and that things can really get done and it’s such a positive example of how you can get things done on campus how you want, and it’s a great. I think it’s a really great competition.”
Eliza:“All these things [the com-petition is about] would make N.C. State’s campus more efficient, and greener and better for everyone, our-selves and the environment.”
Technician: Any other thoughts you’d like to share with students?
Eliza: “We hope this is going to open a whole new dimension of the potential of solar energy on campus, because there’s a lot of things we could change by using solar panels and the technology behind it.”
Sonum: “We want people to know this project involves everyone. We’re excited to have other people help us. If people are interested, they should definitely contact us.”
What is think outside the Brick?
Think Outside the Brick is a Univer-sity-wide sustainability competition sponsored by Student Government. The winners from the fall semester were participants in the second year of this competition.
The winners of the first competition submitted the proposal for the SOUL garden, which is located on Cen-tennial Campus, according to Ra-chel Conley, the Student Govern-ment Sustain-ability Director and a senior in fisheries and wildlife science.
“This year we were able to expand the competition to include three win-ners,” Conley said. “Last year we had one grand prize winner who received $1,000. This year we still have one grand prize winner receiving $1,000, and have added 2 runner-ups, who both receive $500.
The applications for Think Outside the Brick were due in mid-November.
“There were 30 proposals and 25 different applicants,” Conley said. “Some applicants submitted multiple proposals.”
According to Conley, Think Out-side the Brick began because student government wanted student ideas for different projects on campus.
“We decided making this a competi-tion would get more results,” Conley
said.The application is a one-page pro-
posal with details of the project, as well as an itemized budget.
“Student Government will always be there for the students that win the competition, though,” Conley said. “We hope to empower other students. We want everyone to see that students can make things happen on campus.”
According to Conley, the Student Government Sustainabil-ity committee hopes to expand the competition every year.
“We’re going to focus on more funding for the
winners,” Conley said. “I think hav-ing 3 winners is a manageable number, but we want to have more applicants.”
The idea for Think Outside the Brick is based off of Project Harvard, ac-cording to Conley. Project Harvard is a traditional competition at Harvard.
“We want students to come to N.C. State and know about Think Outside the Brick, just like they come knowing about the Krispy Kreme Challenge,” Conley said. “We’re hoping for a re-cord number of applicants every year, and for us to increase our available funding for the winners.”
the runner-upsKyle Barth, a sophomore in electri-
cal engineering, proposed the instal-lation of a hall light timer system in
the dorms in the Quad. According to Barth’s calculations,
installing the hall light timer system in Becton Residence Hall, Bagwell Residence Hall and Berry Residence Hall, the University would be able to offset the cost in 473 days, and then begin to save approximately $1.90 per day the timer system is used.
The hall light timer system Barth proposed would cut off the third row of lights between approximately mid-night and 7 a.m, according to Conley
“Basically, my inspiration for writing this proposal was my in-volvement in the Honors Quad Sustainability Committee. I saw that a timing system was installed on the hall of 3rd floor Becton Hall and thought, ‘Why isn’t this everywhere else?’ My reasoning is simple,” Barth said.
Scott Hefner, a junior in environ-mental design in architecture, came up with the other runner-up idea of window planters.
According to Conley, the idea of window planters might have to be changed to a garden area in the Quad, due to regulations of hanging planters on dorm room windows.
The idea of the window planters is to have students work together to plant either the planters or the garden and take care of the plants.
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dressed up. She was presented when she arrived.”
According to Wittig, the par-ty was everything his daugh-ter’s friend and her family could have hoped for.
“It was incredible. That day absolutely changed my life,” Wittig said. “I’m here because of her. Now my passion just came out that day.”
During his speech, Wittig said he wanted to emphasize one message. A sentence he
repeated three times during his speech.
“You got a unique opportu-nity to choose the life you want and not the life others think you should have,” Wittig said as his take-away message for students of First Year College and the Transfer program who were in attendance.
Also at the First Year College convocation, the winners of the college scholarship were recog-nized. Andes ‘Andy’ Chenlo, Jocelyn Naylor, and Simmons Haigh were the recipients of the scholarship.
According to Carrie McLean, the First Year College director,
38% of the students in First Year College made the Dean’s List for the Fall semester.
Tim Wallace, an associate professor in sociology and an-thropology, and Juliette Grim-met, with the Women’s Center, were winners of the individual advocacy awards. The Wom-en’s Center wa the recipient of the group advocacy awards.
According to Hauschild, the advocacy awards are given to groups that help first year stu-dents adjust to college life and work with the students.
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“There were 30
proposals and 25
different applicants.”Rachel Conley, SG Sustainability Director
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{ }Our view
In October, the Sustain-able Endowments Insti-tute released Green Report
Cards for universities across the country and exposed the truth about N.C. State’s “going green” initiatives. It revealed a disappointing B+, tying us with Duke University and put-ting us behind our A- Carolina blue rivals down the road. An obtrusive C stood out next to the Energy breakdown, signal-ing we, even as a strong engi-neering school, did not have a green energy infrastructure in place.
University officials must have been anticipating this letdown, because even in 2009, they were developing plans to improve the steam plants on campus to make them more energy effi-
cient. The buildings are set to be LEED Silver Certified. This will not only help us gain the lead in sustainability, but we will also offset some future cost of our energy. We thank Uni-versity officials for keeping our impact on the environment in mind, and thinking for the fu-ture in terms of sustainability.
The steam demand on cam-pus is currently 200,000 lbs/hr, and the plants’ collective ca-pacity is 300,000 lbs/hr, but by 2030 the demand is anticipated to be 320,000 lbs/hr. This isn’t even taking into account that two of the four boilers on cam-pus are in poor condition and
the average age of all of them is 45. By renovating the system, University officials are looking to increase the efficiency of the plants by 72.6 percent and re-duce our greenhouse gas emis-sions by at least 15 percent. We can look forward to a higher grade already.
Of course, we are looking closely at how academics will be affected by budget cuts, but University officials are looking to use this investment to give students an opportunity to get first-hand experience in deal-ing with energy and efficiency. The investment will also cre-ate student jobs. This is a great
example of how the University can use existing technology and resources to benefit stu-dents.
Although $61 million seems like a large amount of money in the midst of budget cuts, new state laws have allowed University officials to capitalize on the opportunity to change energy. It is an unconvention-al, yet convenient time to im-prove the reliability, efficiency and conservation of energy at N.C. State. Even though they have proven their ability to be forward-thinking, University officials still need to keep look-ing for ways to cut energy costs and increase N.C. State’s ability to be sustainable.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the
responsibility of the editor-in-chief.
Slowly changing our green energy cultureThe FacTs:The University began breaking ground on the new Cates Avenue steam plant Monday. Despite impending budget cuts, the University has averted the cost by utilizing an energy savings contract, which will put the money saved by increasing the efficiency of steam plants to paying for the loan to rebuild the plants.
Our OpiniOn:While budget cuts are on our minds, it is nice to hear the University administration’s forward thinking has resulted in a successful plan to reduce cost, increase our energy efficiency and decrease our carbon foot print.
showing smiling faces for the all-star game.
Christian O’Neal, sophomore in mechnical engineering
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What projects can the University undertake
to save energy?
{ }in yOur wOrds
“Like some dormatories, they should have motion sensitive lighting in buildings, like the top floor of the library, to conserve energy”
Dan Goslenjunior, computer science
“Work on turning off lights on top floors. They should start a system to automatically turn on lights on certain floors and turn off lights on unused floors”
Joby Jullsenior, creative writing
“They should start a project to inform people about the amount of energy and trash they’re actually using and how it can be reduced”
Natsumi Sanadasenior, sociology
“Since books are so expensive the University should provide e-books. The University should also get Wake County public schools involved with N.C. State to do the same.”
Sona Patelfreshmen, psychology
Take it like a man, or woman
We need to talk.” It’s the kiss of death for any relationship.
Does knowing it’s coming make being dumped any easi-
er? No, but you can prepare. Over the years, I’ve developed a how-not-to-act-when-be-ing-dumped guide.
Fi rs t , you shouldn’t get angry. It’s not going to help. Do you picture
yourself yelling and then them rethinking everything and say-ing, “you’re right, I do want to be with you. It just took some raised voices for me to under-stand”? If anything, it just reit-erates the fact that you are not the one for them.
Also, when you know it’s coming, don’t walk up looking like a sad puppy dog, it won’t help. It may make them feel bad for you, but they are still going to dump you.
Don’t try to break up with them first. They’ve already said those four little words. If you try and do it first, they will just know you are a petty per-son who just wants to be able to say “I broke it off.” Again, it’s reiterating the point on why the break up is a good idea.
Never tell them how many other girls or guys want you. If that’s the case, then you shouldn’t care that you are be-ing dumped; now you have the freedom to see whomever you want.
Along the same lines, a break-up is not the time to list all of their relationship faults. If all of these things were really bother-ing you, you should have told the other person about them
before they were dumping you.Don’t try to get the last word.
After a very tough break-up, I had a guy say to me, “if you change your mind, call me, but don’t wait too long.” I didn’t even know what to say to that, but I think you can determine if I called or not.
Don’t call them a month later just to chitchat and hap-pen to mention how you have a new girlfriend or boyfriend or how rich you suddenly got. It’s not going to help and they will know you are just trying to make them regret their deci-sion to dump you.
Social media has its uses, but not when it comes to a break-up. Don’t use Facebook to get back at them. It just looks sad and most likely they won’t even notice. Don’t immediately post pictures of you and another girl or guy to make them jealous. Again, they probably won’t no-tice and won’t care. Definitely don’t force them to block you because you won’t stop writing on their wall.
Lastly, please don’t cry. At least not in front of them. Hold it together for a few more min-utes, then they will leave and then you can cry your eyes out.
Don’t think I’m being in-sensitive or that I’ve never been dumped and have never cried over it, because believe me, I have. A break-up is hard on everyone, but I’m trying to make it a little bit easier for both people involved.
Staci ThortonAdvice Columnist
Breaking out of the “system”
When young people leave to attend col lege, their
parents are likely to become sentimental and begin rem-iniscing about the “good
ol ’ days”. Many par-ent s te l l their col-lege-bound
kids that they are about to embark on the journey of a lifetime filled with excite-ment, freedom and maybe even a little bit of learning. With stars in their eyes, many of these young peo-ple flee to the University to discover this new, wonder-ful world Mom and or Dad alluded to. Some, however, find themselves deeply en-trenched in another world; a world that, while enter-taining, can only be seen as detrimental to the college experience if it is too often the escape of choice -- the video game world.
Video games have become more than something you do in a living room, either alone or with a friend or two. These days, with a multitude of online, multi-player options, it is possible to connect with people all over the world and “game” with them. Some could per-ceive this as a social activity, but the fact of the matter re-mains that while someone is sucked into his or her Xbox, he or she is only aware of the
world within the game. This means that he or she is locked in the video game universe and distracted from the potential of any real human contact.
Not all video games are detri-mental escapes that turn their inhabitants into real-world hermits. It is possible to enjoy a good game for a few hours and move on to some-thing else. It ’s e ven possible to enjoy a good game for an entire day and wake up the next morning to rejoin the real world. When college stu-dents get into trouble is when the game world overtakes ev-erything else and before they know it, four years are over and real-life contacts and friends made throughout the Univer-sity experience have gone by the wayside.
The city of Raleigh has grown tremendously over the past few years, with its population surpassing that of Pittsburgh. There are more coffee shops, museums, movie theaters and night clubs here now than has ever existed before. If none of that happens to be your cup of tea, the University offers an endless stream of activities aimed towards all interests. If none of that is enough to get
your juices flowing, consid-er that most companies are looking to hire individu-als with good face-to-face people skills, and having a leg up on the competition in a cutthroat job market is an incredible asset.
So game on for now, but when the time comes, cut the connec-tion for a f e w hours
or days and rejoin the real world. The game will live on so long as there is inter-est and electricity, but your college years will end faster than you realize.
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The entryway to campus via Dan Allen Drive and Hillsborough Street will have a new look.
Phillip LinStaff Writer
The 2011 class gift is a contin-uation of a University tradition and source of class unity that began around 100 years ago.
Notable senior class gifts include the 2009 Kay Yow Me-morial in the Coaches Corner, the 1999 Pride Wolf statue in the Murphy Center and the 1987 outdoor classroom on the Court of North Carolina.
While many recent class gifts have been scholarship endow-ments, the senior classes of 2010 and 2011 have set their goals high with their gifts.
Kristy Craig, a senior in political science and the 2011 senior class president, says the 2011 class gift will be the
construction of a new cam-pus gateway at the Dan Allen Drive/Hillsborough Street entryway, similar to the one located at Pullen Road, and feature similar detailing found at the Watauga Walkway.
“This gift is our opportu-nity to leave our mark at the University in a way that will show future generations the importance of giving back in a constructive way,” Craig said.
“What makes the 2011 gift significant is the location and potential impact of the gift,” Craig said. “The Dan Allen [Drive]/Hillsborough Street gateway is often the primary entrance that students and par-ents use when they are visiting Main Campus for the first time. The current entryway does not display the quality of our cam-pus as a whole.”
The goal of the 2011 senior class gift is for the new entry-way to display the quality of the campus as a whole, and
to ensure that the University is providing the best possible first impression to students and visitors to campus.
Craig says that the 2011 gift is unique in that the 2011 senior class at-large selected it.
“The really great thing a b out ou r class gif t is that seniors are taking a part in the designing phase of the entryway,” Craig said.
“The Senior Class Coun-cil is actively searching for a senior from the College of Design to offer ideas and en-sure that creativity is not lost through the planning, and that this gift is reflective of our gen-eration,” Craig said.
The primary focus of the fundraising for the 2011 gift is through student donations. Students can donate between $20.11 and $200. The mini-mum donation will grant
students an invitation to at tend t he Senior Class Brunch with special guest Chancel-lor R a nd y Woodson, while donors at the $200 level will get their names inscribed on the new en-tryway.
This is sim-ilar to that of the 2010 class gift, which then gave student donors an opportunity to have their name inscribed in the Bell Tower bell.
The Office of Annual Giving
has been involved in raising funds for various senior class gifts through the Alumni Call Center with student callers.
“The N.C. State Call Center will be reaching out to seniors in late February to let them know more about our class gift, as well as provide with them an opportunity to donate,” Craig said, pointing students to se-niors.ncsu.edu for more infor-mation.
James Xu, a senior in ac-counting, worked as a student supervisor at the Call Center when they raised the funds for the 2010 senior class gift, the 2009 Kay Yow Memorial and the long-awaited 2002 outdoor classroom on Centennial Cam-pus near Engineering Building I.
“The 2010 Senior Class Gift was the adding an actual bell to the Bell Tower. I think it cost around $10,000 and we got way over that goal,” Xu said. “The extra donations will be in an
endowment fund, and they will probably use that money when maintenance is required for the bell.”
Celia Wang, an alumna who graduated spring 2010 in in-dustrial engineering, said the 2010 gift was one of the best class gifts.
“It’s a much bigger represen-tation than some other senior class gifts that have been given to the University in the past. It’s very meaningful since the Bell Tower is a very important landmark of the University,” Wang said.
“Some senior class gifts way back in 1999 were also very good, such as the Pride Wolf statue in Murphy Center and the renovation of the Student Health Center,” Wang said. “Those definitely also en-hanced the University, not only in the new facilities, but also makes the University nicer and more attractive.”
2011 senior class gift to be new campus entryway
“What makes
the 2011 gift
significant is
the location and
potential impact
of the gift.”Kristy Craig,
2011 senior class president
Sarah HagerWKNC DJ
The Decemberists cele-brated their decade of mak-ing music together with the Jan. 18 release of their sixth full-length album, The King is Dead.
The Portland, Ore. na-tives are known for their mix of indie, folk and rock music all packaged under the chilling yet soothing voice of Colin Meloy. The new album offers another genre blend that wasn’t prominent on former al-bums. The inf luences of Americana and blues are unmistakable during each new track.
The six-piece band plays an array of over 14 instru-ments, including Ham-mond organ, piano, violin and harmonica. In addi-tion to the band members, guests Peter Buck of R.E.M. and indie folk star Gillian Welch also appear on the new album. Despite the mass amount of instru-ments and bodies, each song has deep layers of music without any part of it sounding odd or random.
“Don’t Carry It All” starts off the album with a blast from Meloy’s harmonica to immediately set the mood of The King is Dead. All the instruments complement one another. Sara Watkins harmonizes with Meloy on the choruses, which
turn out to be a common tool throughout the album.
The second track picks up the tempo and adds interesting lyrics, which are an aspect of The Decemberists that any fan immediately recognizes. Their lyrics consist of clever rhymes and vocabulary-building words virtually every time.
“Down By The Water” and “Rox in Box” are truer to older Decemberists music. The first features harder cymbals, har-monies in all the right places and musical build-ups to en-gage the listener. This is the one you’ll sing along to first. The latter is also catchy, but has an older feel to it, laced with sharp guitar licks and accordion.
“January Hymn” reminds me of Dave Matthews Band. It’s slower with heavy reliance on acoustic guitar and voice. Lyrics like “April, all an ocean away, is this the better way to spend the day/Keeping the winter at bay” paint a scene of someone deep in thought, retracing their choices. With a shaker acting as the only per-
cussion, the listener focuses on the lyrics and gets lost in thought.
“This Is Why We Fight” is a track that has more rock than country. The lyrics are chop-pier and repetitive, making a point and getting straight to it. “Come the war/come hell” paired with a chorus contain-ing “and when we die/we will die/with our arms unbound” has a political air to it. The last 45 seconds of the song feel like listening to someone playing guitar from another room.
Overall, this album was not what I was expecting, but I en-joyed it. They embrace their Americana roots and run with it. This is right up the alley of fans of Bob Dylan and Neil Young. The vocals, wide range of instrumentation, lyrics and genre variation will reach a wide listener range. Although it strays from the rockier cen-ter of traditional Decemberists music, The King is Dead is defi-nitely worth a listen.
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Haiti: a year in retrospect
In the aftermath of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, the destruction caused by the disaster seemed un-imaginable. The country—which has endured the trials of slavery, dictatorships and now the earthquake—may suggest a story of suffering. But not all the news is bad. Soon after the earthquake, the NCSU com-munity mobilized to contrib-ute to the recovery efforts.
Soon after the earthquake, Student Government launched the Howl for Haiti project to raise money for assistance in the recovery. Under the guid-ance of Howl for Haiti, student organizations across campus raised money to contribute to the non-profit organization Stop Hunger Now.
“Stop Hunger Now contacted the University and put a call to action out to raise funds,” Student Body President Kelly Hook said. “We decided to put the project on a time frame and raise as much as possible for six months. Student Government’s role was one of a manager, but students collaborated across campus.”
Stop Hunger Now, a Raleigh based non-governmental or-ganization, has maintained a strong relationship with both N.C. State and Haiti. Before the earthquake, Stop Hunger Now worked in Haiti, mainly pro-viding food for school lunches. After the earthquake, the Uni-versity and Stop Hunger Now quickly partnered in the Howl for Haiti campaign and raised
over $85,000 for the Haitian cause.
“We’re really fortunate to have been partners with Stop Hunger Now,” Mike Giancola said. Giancola, the director of the Center of Student Leader-ship, Ethics and Public Service, explained that the University first became involved with Stop Hunger Now after the 2005 tsu-nami in South Asia.
“Since that time our partner-ship has grown,” Giancola said. “We envisioned the University Million Meal event to help to package upwards of one mil-lion meals.”
Days before the earthquake, Stop Hunger Now delivered packaged meals to Haiti. Once the infrastructure of the coun-try collapsed, the organization deployed the bagged meals in-stantly.
The meals, which are pack-aged during the Service N.C. State event, mix rice, soy-protein extract, dehydrated vegetables and vitamins in a
The damage of the 2010 earthquake persists as Haiti struggles to recover. Along with the international community, the University has
invested interest and resources in the rebuilding of Haiti. However, efforts have diminished while the Haitian cause remains desperate.
Students create HerCampus.com
The student-run website targets the University’s “collegiette” population.
Zachary DiezelScience & Tech Editor
Over 80 schools across t he cou nt r y have one . Even UNC has one. Now be-cause of the action of a hand-ful of students, N.C. State has one. Kristie Demers, a junior in English, spearheaded the creation of HerCampus.com/NCSU, a site run by — and for — University students.
“We try to make it some-thing that we would want to read,” De-mers said.
According to Demers, the site was founded Sept. 7 last year. S i nc e t h at time, a core staff of eight students has joined her in creating articles for the site.
“We just think of topics that are interesting to the women at State, and the guys, but we try to focus on the women more since it is HerCampus,” Demers said. “We just want to have witty, personalized in-formation whether it’s news, beauty, lifestyle or anything like that.”
“We do a lot of college top-ics,” Justine Blanc-Laine said. Blanc-Laine, a junior in busi-
ness administration, is the group’s primary photogra-pher. “[We’ve written about] party ing, studying, we’ve covered more serious topics like rape [and] how to handle situations with your friends. We have campus events on the site so you know about simple things like thank-a-teacher. We just want to make people aware and have a new perspective.”
Current topics on the site include New Year’s resolution recommendations, cover-age of the Mr. Engineer pag-eant, workout suggestions for
Carmichael Gymnasium a nd m a ny others.
I n a d d i-t ion, Her-Cam-pus serves as a way for the w r i t e r s to let their fel-low students know about smal l busi-nesses in the area.
“Just get-ting the word out about things that people don’t normally hear about,” Demers said. “It’s really rewarding.”
Kara Schmieg, a junior in communications, likes to ap-ply her creative writing skills at HerCampus’s blog called “HerVoice.”
“I’m a creat ive writer, not so much a journa l-ist,” Schmieg said. “I feel like that’s the best way to express myself.”
“I think we’re doing a great
job of getting our names out there, writing what we want to write, and saying what we want to say,” Anna Whaley, a sopho-more in public relations, said. “There are over 35,000 students here, and you don’t want to get lost in the shuffle all the time. I wanted to try and get involved and be a part of something that was going to get bigger.”
The group of writers is grow-ing. According to Demers, there are currently between 8 and 11 writers, and four more who want to help and are in the process of writing their first ar-ticles.
“We have been publishing seven or eight articles a week for the past four months,” De-mers said. “I tried printing them all so I’d have a hard copy of all of them, but I quit because I was using so much paper.”
While the site’s content is targeted toward the female population, men contribute to the site as well, according to Demers.
“HerCampus does have a real-live college guy blog writer who writes every single week,” Demers said. “He’s an adamant snowboarder, a manly-man guy and he loves to write about relationships and anything on campus, what he likes to do … I keep having guys coming out of the wood-work asking ‘do you need any contributing writers? Do you need anything?’ Girls like the guy perspective.”
According to Demers, she got the idea to create the site last
“ I wanted to try
and get involved
and be a part of
something that
was going to
get bigger.”Anna Whaley, sophomore in
public relations
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entifically deal with nutrition deficiencies that many young people around the world face,” Giancola said.
Howl for Haiti raised much of the money through a T-shirt drive and a benefit concert. Ac-cording to Hook, the student bookstore partnered with Howl for Haiti to sell the $10 T-shirts, which sent all proceeds to the charity.
“We sold out and ordered a second back and sold out again,” Hook said.
Despite the success of Howl for Haiti, the project has now been terminated. Student Gov-ernment has turned its service focus to more local and domes-tic causes. Howl for Haiti will remain defunct at the current moment, unless students want to revive the charity.
“Student Government ful-fills student demand,” Hook said. “If students overwhelm-ingly say that they would like to campaign and fundraise on behalf of Haiti, I am all about leading that effort.”
Within months of the earth-
quake, as the novelty and publicity of the rebuilding of Haiti diminished, and so did the funds. Much of the aid pledged has not and may never be realized. According to the Associated Press, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s promise of $1.15 billion for long-term development in Haiti has not yet been allocated.
“This is a trend that isn’t unique to N.C. State,” Chris Adkins, a junior in mechani-cal engineer-ing, said, “it’s a global trend.”
Adkins works as the CSLEPS Direct of Hunger and Homelessness Issues of the Service Lead-ership Team. His committee has worked to spread aware-ness of hunger issues, and since the earth-quake much of his attention has been focused on Haiti.
“Just a few months after [the earthquake], the donations just drop way off,” Adkins said. “It definitely teetered off some. Therefore, we started putting our resources into general awareness.”
The story of Haiti’s recovery will face immense scrutiny, but with the country’s track record, corruption may hin-der reconstruction. Last week, the country’s former dictator, Jean-Claude Duvailer, returned to Port au Prince from exile. His presence looks to influence upcoming elections. This po-litical instability also threatens foreign aid.
“Often times, the aid actually realized is not more than 10 or
15 percent,” Giancola said. “This happens for a whole variety of reasons, be i t p ol i t i -cal, due to corruption or certain bench-marks.”
Despite the uncer-
tainty, hope lingers. Currently, Giancola is in Haiti volunteer-ing with a local NGO called Together We Can.
“I will be part of a group of 23 folks,” Giancola said, “and the main premise is to con-nect individuals and needs. We don’t have any paid staff. We’re trying to connect and provide
synergy for things already go-ing on.”
The team of volunteers will participate in medical clinics and construction projects to “be helpful in some small way.”
Ultimately, the future of Haiti will not be decided by dollars pledged or withheld by donors, but rather by the ac-tions of individuals. The U.S. and Germany poured $10 bil-lion within decades of the Jan. 12 earthquake. Giancola said acknowledging the needs of people and then connecting them to a wider community is the cornerstone of lasting service.
“When we come together, there is nothing that we can’t accomplish,” Giancola said. “We are a community that can care and that can act compas-sionately. I want to applaud the student leadership and every-one else involved to stay active and engaged.”
Kimberly rochester/technician archive photoelvin James, a junior in first Year college, holds up a “help haiti” sign in front of the atrium tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. “We’re from the Xi zeta chapter of Phi Beta sigma,” James said. “We’re collecting money for the haiti relief; we’re accepting donations.” the fraternity was giving away pizza to anyone who gave a donation.
haiticontinued from page 5
summer. “I was browsing online this
summer and typed in some-thing about decorating college dorms and a HerCampus ar-ticle came up,” Demers said. “I was like, ‘Where’s the N.C. State branch?’ and I found out we didn’t have one yet. So I wanted to open one up and let girls here have the same idea … I just wanted to bring another form of media because I love writing and a lot of journal-ists here would be interested in that.”
According to Demers, none
of the writers or photographers are paid.
“We volunteer our time, effort and own money in order to promote HerCam-pus NCSU and bring it to life,” Demers said. De-mers plans to apply to make HerCampus a Universi-ty-recognized student organi-zation in the near future, and to apply for funding through the University’s appropriations process. As of last December, the site had received 10,000 page views, according to De-mers.
A r t i c l e s f r o m o t h e r schools’ HerCampus sites and the national site have been published in Seventeen and The Huffington Post, according
to Demers. “Uploading everything to the
website takes at least two hours if I have all the articles from ev-eryone,” Demers said. “Then you have to find pictures, make it the right format and get ev-erything situated. It takes a lot of time, but it’s really reward-ing. People come out saying ‘this looked awesome,’ or, ‘I’m proud of what you’re doing.’ I see people on campus who are like, ‘hey, you’re that girl who does the HerCampus articles, aren’t you?’”
hccontinued from page 5
“Often times,
the aid actually
realized is not
more than 10 or
15 percent.”Mike Giancola,
director of CSLEPS
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tional Spanish to help Mon-teiro translate phrases from Spanish to English. After a year, he has come a long way from not only speaking the language but swimming as well.
Coach Teal hopes Mon-teiro stays at the University through his tenure. He is fulfilling his dream by be-ing part of the Wolfpack swimming program. The sophomore hopes to start training for the Olym-pics 2012 this summer. He wants to represent his country in the backstroke.
Associate women’s head coach and assistant men’s coach Jacqui McLaughlin believes that Monteiro is a very coachable athlete as well as a good student. She says that Monteiro brings a lot of energy to the Pack.
“Facundo [Monteiro] is a great kid,” McLaughlin said. “He’s a really hard worker, very upbeat, and brings a lot of positive en-ergy to the group and the team.”
The swimming and div-ing team has an additional five international students competing for the Pack. Jonathon Boffa is from Sliemma, Malta. Brandon Kingston and Jessica Ward are both from Ontario, Canada. Ivan Kopas comes from Kikinda, Serbia. And Melody Sun is originally from Dailan, Liaoning, China.
Typically, the swimmers
contact N.C. State and coaches do a background check on the athlete, watch videos, and pos-sibly a coach might visit them in person. Almost all swim-ming and diving teams in the ACC have at least one interna-tional student competing.
State fans can come out and
support Monteiro and the rest of the team as they compete against UNC-Chapel Hill at the Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center on Thursday at 5 p.m.
the second half. But the Pack went cold offensively to end the game, just like it did to end the first half.
Clemson led for the first time with a little over five minutes
left to go in the game and never looked back. After leading the Tigers by five, State allowed 15 straight points and trailed 59-48 following an offensive onslaught from Clemson.
While he did not finish with any points in the game, sopho-more forward Richard Howell still made his presence felt on the boards. Howell led the team
with six rebounds in the game.With a third straight confer-
ence road loss, the Pack will need to find a way to win away from home as it travels to Cha-pel Hill on Saturday to take on their rival, the Tarheels (13-5, 3-1 ACC). The Heels are unde-feated with a nine-game win-ning streak in the Dean Smith Center this season.
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cused on providing their bod-ies with enough energy to make it through intense daily workouts. The give-and-take relationship between weight management and caloric in-take can put a lot of stress on collegiate wrestlers compared with athletes from other sports.
“The day-to-day is much more stressful because if you don’t have enough fluids and food in you and energy to work out, you’re going to have a bad day,” Palmer said. “You’ll get beat up and nobody will care. You have to constantly be aware of what you’re putting in your body. So it definitely adds a lot of stress to the sport.”
Wolfpack wrestlers are re-quired to stay within seven pounds of their weight class at all times to help make shed-ding weight before matches less agonizing.
However, back in coach Carter Jordan’s wrestling days, rubber suits were worn to sweat up to 15 extra pounds off. Al-though the use of rubber suits are now forbidden, wrestlers still have methods for cutting weight before weigh-ins.
“If I’m two pounds over, I’ll hop on the treadmill for about 20-25 minutes and I’ll lose the weight no problem,” redshirt junior Darrius Little said, who is 21-6 in the 141-lb. weight class. “Once you’ve been wrestling for a while, you un-derstand your body and how to lose the weight you need to lose.”
The issue of cutting weight has been so embedded into the sport that wrestlers will stop at nothing to try and gain a com-petitive advantage by main-taining a weight far below their normal weight. In 1997, three collegiate wrestlers died of malfunctions associated with weight loss, which sparked an NCAA investigation and even-tually led to new stricter rules governing the sport.
Jordan has first-hand expe-rience of the extent to which wrestlers will go to in order to make their weight. As a high school student, Jordan was hospitalized due to severe de-hydration in an effort to make his 133-lb. weight class.
“Some of the things we did to cut weight back in our day were just terrible,” Jordan said. “Wearing rubber suits, purg-ing after eating over and over again; it was very unhealthy.”
With a weight certification process put in place by the NCAA, the N.C. State training staff puts wrestlers through a variety of tests to determine if a wrestler is able to move down to a lower weight class in a healthy way.
Freshmen, in particular, have a hard time adapting to the lifestyle of collegiate wrestling because they do not take the advice of the coaches and nu-tritionist, according to Jordan.
“Every year, the freshmen come in and don’t listen to us,” Jordan said. “They don’t listen to the nutritionist, they don’t do what we tell them, they don’t eat six small meals a day, and they don’t cut out all the bad things in their diet. Next thing you know, they’re supposed to make their weight and don’t.”
For Little, who wrestled in the 133-lb. weight class his first two seasons for the Wolfpack, moving up to his current 141-lb. weight class has been far less stressful.
“It’s been a lot easier,” Little said. “I still have to watch my weight but for the most part, I eat whatever I want to. My en-ergy level is a lot higher than it was when I wrestled at 133 [pounds].”
Photo courtesy of brandon yoPPSophomore Facundo Monteiro swims backstroke for the Wolfpack. In 2008, Monteiro was swimmer of the year for Club Atletico Independiente.
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COUNTDOWN• 4 days until the men’s basketball team travels to
Chapel Hill to take on UNC.
INSIDE• Page 7: A continuation of the story on
men’s basketball.SportsTechnicianPage 8 • wednesday, january 26, 2011
Bailey announced as a member of ACC Tournament LegendsFormer Wolfpack standout Thurl Bailey was named a 2011 ACC Basketball Legend on Tuesday. Bailey will be one of 12 former ACC basketball players honored in Greensboro on March 10-13 at the ACC Legends Brunch during the ACC Tournament. Bailey played for N.C. State from 1980-83, leading the Pack in scoring three out of his four years and was part of the 1983 National Championship team led by coach Jim Valvano.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Browne verbally commits to 2011 football classTight end Benson Browne announced that he will sign with the Wolfpack as part of the 2011 football recruiting class. Browne is a six-foot-six-inch, 250 lb. tight end out of Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Browne is a three star recruit and is the No. 65 overall tight end, according to Scout.com. Browne turned down offers from West Virginia, Illinois and Louisville, amongst others.
SOURCE: PACKPRIDE.COM
Red and White Soccer Classic registration beginsRegistration for the Red and White Soccer Classic has begun. The tournament will be held on March 19, starting at 10 a.m. The registration fee is 10 dollars, and the proceeds will be donated to the Jimmy V Cancer Research Fund. The teams will consist of five to eight people, with the tournament being divided into men’s and women’s brackets.
SOURCE: JIMMYV.ORG
Sophomore has traveled a long way to swim with the Pack.
Rebecca FiorentinoStaff Writer
At the age of eight, soph-omore Facundo Monteiro dreamed of coming to the United States and swim-ming competitively. A cou-ple of phone calls and 1,000 e-mails later, Monteiro is living his dream.
While Monteiro had to fight to get to N.C. State, he said that he needed to learn about much more than swim-ming to compete o n t h e team.
“I didn’t speak much English at the time of coming to the United States,” Monteiro said. “But when Christo-pher “Woody” Woodard, the associate men’s head coach and women’s assis-tant coach, told me about the program, I was like yes, I want to go there.”
A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monteiro joined the team for the 2009-2010 season. He chose N.C. State over Texas Christian Uni-versity, University of New Orleans, and Brigham Young University. Mon-teiro is currently majoring in Marketing.
Head Coach Brooks Teal did some homework on Monteiro before adding
him to the team. Teal said that when he was looking at tape of Monteiro, he seemed to be a missing piece that the Wolfpack needed.
“His time showed he could be competitive,” Teal said. “Backstroke was one of our needs at that point, so he was worth giving the op-portunity.”
Before joining the Pack, Monteiro had some nation-al and international experi-ence. He was the National Champion in the 200-me-ter backstroke, as well as capturing a Buenos Aires
title in the 100-me-ter back-stroke. In 2008, Monteiro claimed swimmer of the year for Club Atletico Indepen-diente, a popular sports
club based in Avellaneda, Argentina.
The first thing Monteiro noticed was different in the United States was the amount of work put into the sport. Monteiro says that the focus he puts into swimming now is much dif-ferent from when he was in Argentina.
“Here, I am living for swimming,” Monteiro said. “I feel almost like a profes-sional swimmer.”
Even with these new chal-lenges, he enjoys being part of the team. His teammates learned to speak conversa-
Argentinian swimmer
making a name for himself
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The Wolfpack (12-8, 2-4 ACC) travelled to Clemson, South Carolina to take on the Tigers (14-6, 3-3 ACC) at Littlejohn Stadium looking to maintain the momentum from its win over Miami, but it came away with a 60-50 loss against Clemson Tuesday night.
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The Clemson Tigers were un-defeated at home in the ACC, and the Wolfpack had failed to win a conference contest on the road. Both teams were looking to move their conference re-cords to .500, but something had to give.
The Wolfpack (12-8, 2-4 ACC) traveled to Clemson, South Carolina to take on the Tigers (14-6, 3-3 ACC) at Littlejohn Stadium, looking to maintain the momentum from its win over Miami, but it came away with a 60-50 loss against Clemson Tuesday night.
Poor shooting at the begin-ning of the game by the Tigers helped N.C. State, as it pulled away to an 18-8 lead within the first ten minutes. Fresh-man guards Ryan Harrow and Lorenzo Brown also helped the Pack as each started with five points to that point.
One of the big stories at the opening of the game was junior guard C.J. Williams making his second start of the season for the Pack. And he did not disap-point in the first half, scoring six points through the midway point.
The largest lead for the Pack was by 19 points, but it allowed the Tigers back into the game at the end of the half. State started
off the game by going on a run of 31-12 through the first 14 minutes, but finished the half in a much different fashion. The Tigers went on a 17-3 run in the final six minutes of the half, and the Pack went into the locker room with a 34-29 lead.
The only player to score in the double-digits for the Pack was senior forward Tracy Smith, who finished the game with 13 points. Smith also concluded the game with five rebounds and two assists, but it was not
enough to defeat the Tigers.The leading players from the
Tigers were senior center Jerai Grant and senior guard De-montez Stitt, who both finished with double-digit points. Grant came off the bench for the Ti-gers and finished with a dou-ble-double, scoring 14 points and grabbing 11 rebounds.
Though State only scored 16 points, it led for much of
Men’s basketball loses third road ACC game against Clemson
W h i le m i l l ions of Americans made losing weight their New Year’s resolution, shedding pounds is more than a mere resolution for
wrestlers—it’s a lifestyle. In a sport where an individ-
ual’s success is largely dependent upon maintaining a low weight, wrestlers
are consumed by a never-ending cycle of dieting and exercising just to stay competitive.
With 10 different weight classes ranging from 125 pounds to heavyweight, dropping a few pounds could mean the difference
between a mediocre season and a championship caliber season. But redshirt junior Colton Palmer explains that cutting weight in a healthy manner and simply cutting weight by any means
necessary are two very different approaches.“If you can cut weight correctly, you can compete at a much higher level than if you just get dehydrated in
order to lose weight before a match,” Palmer said, who is 24-8 in the 157-lb. weight class. “If I’m
a pound over weight, I’ll either hit the treadmill and get a quick sweat in or do some wrestling drills to get [the weight] off.”
In order for wrestlers to compete at the highest level, they must not only be focused on managing their weight, but also fo-
Cutting weight: more than a resolution
Wrestlers cope with the day-to-day struggles of
maintaining their weight.
ALEx NITT/TECHNICIANSophomore Richard Howell, a forward for the Wolfpack, escapes three Miami defenders during the second half at the RBC Center on Sunday, Jan 23, 2011. Howell led the Pack with 17 total points for a 72-70 win against the Hurricanes.
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“Here, I am living
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swimmer.”Facundo Monteiro,
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aTHLETiC SCHEduLE
ThursdaySwimming and diving vS. UnCWillis R. Casey Aquatic Center, 5 p.m.
wreStling vS. dUkeReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
women’S baSketball at miamiCoral Gables, Fla., 7 p.m.
Fridaywomen’S tenniS @ ita kiCk-offGainesville, Fla., All day
gymnaStiCS at floridaGainesville, Fla., 7 p.m.
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