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Rob McLambStaff Writer
Before the Pack could look to the future, there was one more glimpse at the inconsistency of this past season.
With its first bowl loss since 2008, N.C. State gave a perfor-mance against Vanderbilt in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn. that encapsulates every-thing that led to former head coach Tom O’Brien’s dismissal the day after the regular season finale. The Wolfpack, despite out-gaining the Commodores offensively by almost 200 yards, was comfortably defeated by its opponents from the SEC due to the inordinate amount of penal-ties, nine for 90 yards, and turn-overs committed, three intercep-tions and two fumbles lost.
As N.C. State interim head coach Dana Bible was ending his press conference after the Wolf-pack loss, the long-time assistant and subordinate to O’Brien was willing to take accountabil-ity while he was still “head coach here for another minute or two” for the slew of mistakes made in Nashville.
The players, however, were just as quick to heap praise on the interim coach for holding the team together during a period of both bowl game preparation and program transition.
“Coach Bible, from him bat-tling leukemia, he is a great guy,”
said redshirt senior wide receiver Tobi-as Palmer.
“He is a strong man,” Palmer said. “He has nothing but love for the game. [The bowl loss and coaching change] is hard. He broke down in the locker room be-
cause he loves us. It was just really emotional after the game.”
“[Bible] has done a great job with me,” graduate student quarterback Mike Glennon said, “Setting me up
for my future.”“Coach Bible did a great job taking
over for coach O’Brien,” sophomore running back Tony Creecy added, “coming in [after the coaching change] and being a great coach.”
With the inconsistent 2012 cam-paign behind them, the Wolfpack players – both those graduating and returning next season – are eagerly looking forward to the future of the N.C. State football program under new head coach Dave Doeren.
“I am sure the new coach will do a good job,” Glennon said. “I think we have a lot of talent coming back.”
“From what I hear, coach Doeren is a good coach,” junior cornerback David Amerson said. “I am sure he
will steer the program in the right direction.”
Doeren led Northern Illinois to the Discover Orange Bowl this season, the first one-loss non-BCS school to earn a bid into a Bowl Championship Series post-season game. The Huskies won back-to-back Mid-American Conference championships in Doeren’s two seasons in charge.
This past season Northern Illinois was No. 9 in the NCAA in team rushing, with the Huskies averag-ing 250.2 yards on the ground per game. Doeren’s quarterback Jordan
Mark HerringEditor-in-Chief
Recently inaugurated Republican Gov. Pat McCrory towered over the petite outgoing governor, Bev Per-due, as she transferred the Seal of the State of North Carolina during McCrory’s swearing-in ceremony on Saturday. After Perdue exchanged the seal with trembling hands, she exited the stage after briefly accept-ing a hug from McCrory.
As Perdue leaves the office with a 52 percent disapproval rating, ac-cording to Public Policy Polling, her successor not only enters with soar-ing support from the general public, but also with Republican control of both chambers of the General As-sembly and the high courts.
Though the Republican Party has been experiencing an identity crisis since the defeat of presidential can-didate Mitt Romney, there has been an unprecedented resurgence of the party in North Carolina, which has had Democrat governors since 1993. When McCrory became the 74th governor of North Carolina on Saturday, he also became the third Republican to govern the state in the past 100 years.
McCrory won the statewide elec-tion with a 9 percent lead over the Democratic candidate, Walter Dalton. Republican Dan Forest will serve as McCrory’s Lieutenant Governor.
McCrory, 56, draws the bulk of his political experience from his tenure as the mayor of Charlotte between 1995 and 2009. The Queen City, which hosted the Democratic National Convention in Septem-ber, served as McCrory’s campaign headquarters and contributed great-ly to his victory.
McCrory’s platform, which emu-lated presidential candidate Mitt
Romney’s business-centric cam-paign, gained popular support from the swing state, which suffers a current 9.6 percent unemployment rate. McCrory focused his campaign efforts on empowering local busi-nesses.
Although McCrory enters office with favorable polls, a 53 percent approval rating, many Democrats and moderates in the state worry about conservative control of the governor’s office, the state Senate and House or Representatives and the high courts.
The GOP’s reclamation of guber-natorial power isn’t a trend unique to North Carolina. Mike Beebe, of Arkansas, is the only Democratic governor left in the South.
Public Policy Polling reported a majority of North Carolinians has expressed concerns about McCro-ry’s plan to stay employed at the law
firm Moore & Van Allen, an organi-zation that lobbies the state.
“Pat McCrory was elected be-cause he promised to do things differently in Raleigh,” said Dean
Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “Our poll makes it clear he risks eroding the good will he’s go-
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Students assist in simulated shooting safety drill
Wolfpack ends season with a loss
JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANRedshirt senior wide reciever Tobias Palmer and redshirt senior tight end Mario Carter reflect on the Wolfpack’s 38-24 loss to the Vanderbilt Commodores in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl against Vanderbilt in LP Field, Nashville, Tenn. Monday, Dec. 31, 2012.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNORPat McCrory celebrates after winning the gubernatorial election with a 7 percent lead on Nov. 6.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNORChief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Sarah Parker, swears in Gov. Pat McCrory on Saturday, to be the third Republican to serve in the office within the past 100 years.
Sam DeGraveNews Editor
N.C. State Campus Police col-laborated with University Hous-ing to conduct a drill simulating what would happen in the event that a shooter opened fire on students living in on-campus housing.
The drill took an hour and a half to complete and featured about 200 human actors, ac-cording to Katina Blue, Direc-tor of Disaster Recovery for the Division of Environmental Health and Public Safety. This drill was the first in University history that used students as ac-tors, Blue said.
Several student housing em-ployees including resident advi-sors and resident directors from Central Campus volunteered to participate in the drill, which took place in and around Bowen and Tucker halls. Students chose how involved they wanted to be in the drill by selecting one of three levels of participation, Blue said.
Students acted as shooters, vic-tims or bystanders depending on which level they chose. Blue said that about 70 students partici-pated in the drill.
“The more students get in-volved, the more they will see what N.C. State is doing to keep them safe in dangerous situa-
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“I am sure he
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program in the
right direction.”David Amerson,
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Capt. Ian Kendrick of Campus Police helped plan the drill and said there is no substitute for a live train-ing scenario to help prepare police officers for such a di-saster.
“It gets the adrenaline pumping and really shows how people work under pres-sure and developing situa-tions,” Kendrick said.
According to Kendrick, this was the first time an ac-tive shooter drill has been conducted in dorms at N.C. State.
Although the drill took place less than one month after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., University officials had been planning the training event since early last semester.
“We are doing this not to be insensitive, but to prepare to handle an event like the shooting in Connecticut as best we can,” Kendrick said.
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ing into office with by the way he’s handling parts of his transition.”
The 15-minute inaugu-ration ceremony ended with remarks from Mc-Crory, and he vaguely spoke of the challenges the state is facing and the need for cooperation.
“Our goal was not to get a title. Our goal was to lead and to govern and to serve with a purpose, and that’s what we’re going to begin doing today,” Mc-Crory said. “We’re going to have some tough work ahead of us, but we all love our state and we care about the next generation
of leaders for our state so they have the same quality of life we’ve enjoyed for so many years. Let us all work togeth-er, and let us never forget our purpose.”
But cooperation won’t be a major concern for McCrory: The GOP has super-major-ities in the General As-sembly, giv-ing it veto-proof power.
In an arti-cle in Char-lotte Business Journal, An-drew Taylor, a professor of political science at N.C. State, said that the GOP-controlled General Assembly won’t have a Demo-cratic governor to impede on its power.
“The rules are such that the majority party does as it wishes and controls all of the important procedures,” Taylor said.
The Republican sweep of North Carolina softened Romney’s national loss for the state GOP, but for the state’s
Democrats, the loss of power in all branches of the state gov-ernment left some people blaming re-districting.
Dan Blue-D, a state senator of
Wake County, called the 2011 redistricting “resegregation” in Charlotte Business Journal.
Though the GOP has gained unmatched power,
Taylor said he still considers North Carolina a “purple” state.
Despite statewide losses, Democrats are hoping for bipartisanship. After McCro-ry’s election, Perdue called for cooperation from all sides to “put the acrimony behind us and work with Gov.-elect Mc-Crory to move North Caro-lina forward.”
Much to the relief of Demo-crats, McCrory demonstrated bipartisanship during his time as mayor, and many are expecting a moderate gover-norship.
“As a lifelong Democrat, I proudly support Pat McCro-ry for governor,” said Dewey Hill, a retiring state represen-tative, according to a report from the Wilmington Star News. “I applaud Pat McCro-ry for the positive campaign
he is running, and I believe that speaks volumes about his integrity … Democrats, Re-publicans and Independents can be confident that Pat Mc-Crory will put aside politics and focus on what really mat-ters: results for the people of North Carolina.”
After Perdue’s term as governor, McCrory inherits a tense political climate in North Carolina. To recon-cile that tension, he will have to demonstrate his willing-ness to cooperate with both Democrats and Indepen-dents, which will be put to the test as the General Assembly reconvenes on Wednesday.
“As a lifelong
Democrat, I
proudly support
Pat McCrory for
governor.”Rep. Dewey Hill
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Lindsey SchaeferStaff Writer
One of the biggest topics of the holiday season is food. Whether it’s what you’re cooking, who you’re eating with or what you’re eating, food plays a big role in how students spend their holiday break.
Students, in particular, are finally given the opportunity to go home, indulge in deli-cious treats and lie around the house and abandon the normal routine of grabbing food in between classes.
Sarah Ash, head of N.C. State’s Nutrition department, said getting leftover foods out of the house decreases the risk of overeating.
“My philosophy is that you can’t eat it if it’s not there,” Ash said. “I like to distribute my leftovers with friends and family.”
Ash discussed the impor-tance of not indulging on a daily basis. She stated that what’s great about Thanks-
giving and Christmas is that we’re able to enjoy cer-tain foods often saved for those specific days. Students should not be concerned with indulging on those days but instead should have an aware-ness of how they eat on ordi-nary days.
“I think it’s better for peo-ple to pay attention to what they eat every other day,” Ash said. “Those other 364 days. Thanksgiving should be the day when you can indulge a little. My goodness, you can very easily go to a restau-rant at the mall and shovel in 3,000 calories per meal and not think anything of it. Nobody seems to talk about that.”
While the food is an im-portant part of celebrating the holidays, there are ways students can keep from con-stantly munching on leftovers and remain healthy and ac-tive while at home on break.
“The reality is that when you overeat, it isn’t enjoy-able anymore,” Ash said.
“Thanksgiving is just like any other day.”
Lisa Eberhart, the Universi-ty’s dietician, and Claye Paca, a dietetic intern, said that gaining a little extra weigh after the holidays is nothing to worry about. According to them, getting back on track is as easy as drinking an extra glass of water a day.
“Take an extra lap around the campus, volunteer to watch little kids and go out-side and play, anything that will make you more active during the day,” Eberhart said.
O n e o f the ways in which Eb-erhart and Paca believe students will be able to balance their calo-r i e s a n d remain hea lthy is through MyFitnessPal. Medi-cal studies have proven that
keeping a food journal dou-bles weight loss goals and can help students keep track of the nutrients in the food they consume. MyFitnessPal has almost all the NCSU dining options included and can be accessed from smart-phones or the computer. It tracks how many calories you burn while exercising and com-pares them with how many calories you consume and also tells you how your prog-ress will affect your weight. You can pair it with the Fit Bit, which tracks the calories that you burn while walking
around on campus and a lso tracks your s leep patterns.
“It is like a c h e c k -book,” Eb-erhart said. “You on ly have a cer-tain amount
of calories that you have. If you overdraw that check-
book every day, you’re going to gain some weight. If you balance that and remember that you went on a spending spree on a cer-tain day and that you need to be a little more frugal the next day, that is prob-ably a better way to handle the holidays.”
On Jan. 21, Eberhart and Paca are starting a six-week program on campus called One Change. It will challenge students to make one lifelong change by increasing physical activities, decreasing sugars, sweets and beverages, drink-ing more water, eating more fruits and veggies, making time for relaxation or trying a new class at the gym.
“When you come back from the holiday break, people al-ways set a New Year’s Resolu-tion,” Paca said. “You usually
get overwhelmed and only do it for a month. By March or April, people have usually
given up. We wa nt t hem to make one change that they can in-corporate into their lifestyle for the rest of their life.”
There will b e p r i z e s given out as students and s t a f f com-
plete the program’s weekly challenges. One Change is another way that Eberhart and Paca hope to spread the word about healthy choices before and after the holidays.
“We want to get people to think about the one change that they can stick with,” Eb-erhart said. We want to give people a feeling of success and to make people have a lifelong change towards health.”
“ ... when you
overeat, it
isn’t enjoyable
anymore.”Sarah Ash, Nutrition
Department head
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Technician’s year in review
JULY 1 — STAFFORD RETRIESFourty-one years after Tom Stafford started working
for the University he retired from his position of vice chancellor for Student Affairs on July 1.
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SEPT. 10 —SHOOTING IN CAMERON VILLAGE Police investigate a shooting in Cameron Village on Sept.
10. A gunman shot a woman down in the shopping center parking lot four hours before shooting himself. The names of the victim and the shooter were not released.
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OCT. 12 — FORMER UNC PRESIDENT BILL FRIDAY DIESWilliam “Bill” Clyde Friday died Oct. 12. He was 92. He
was the first president of the University of North Carolina System, from 1956 to 1986.
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SEPT. 12 — CAIN VISITS CAMPUSHerman Cain’s Truth Tour swung through Raleigh
as part of a 30 day, 30 city and 3-events-a-day tour. Cain met with religious and community leaders every morning, lunch with business leaders in the afternoon and groups of college students at night.
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NOV. 4 — CLINTON VISITS CAMPUSFormer President Bill Clinton campaigns for President
Obama, continuing to argue that Obama understood the American people better than his opponent, Gov. Mitt Romney-R. Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention earlier that summer, as well as his contin-ued stumping and support for the President was widely credited with giving the re-election campaign a much needed boost. Clinton famously argued for “Arithmetic.”
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NOV. 20 —DEATH ON CENTENNIAL CAMPUSConstruction worker Luis Javier Martinez, 39, died while
working on Centennial Campus when the trench he was caved in on him.
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NOV. 25 — O’BRIEN FIREDAfter six years serving as N.C. State’s head football
coach, Tom O’Brien was fired on Nov. 25 following a lack-luster regular season.
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ONGOING— TALLEY UNDER CONSTRUCTIONConstruction workers prepare the foundation for the up-
coming Talley Student Center add-on. The renovation will include several new dining facilities.
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From a reinvigorated men’s basketball season to various political candidates campaigning on campus, N.C. State
has had a busy year. Follow our photo year in review timeline to look back on some key events of 2012.
APRIL — MCCREERY JOINS PACKScotty McCreery, county music star
and winner of the 10th season of Ameri-can Idol, enrolled at N.C. State for the 2012 Fall semester. McCreery is from Garner, NC, and performed at the state fair this year.
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NOV. 6 — OBAMA WINS RE-ELECTIONPresident Barack Obama won a second term as president
of the United States. President Obama won with 332 elec-toral votes.
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SEPT. 4-6 — DNC COMES TO QUEEN CITYTechnician had extensive coverage of the events that un-
folded in Charlotte as President Obama accepted the nom-ination of the Democratic Party. Other notable speakers included Former President Bill Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama, as well as Vice President Joe Biden.
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OCT. 27 — PACK STOMPED BY TAR HEELSN.C. State lost its five game winning streak against UNC-
Chapel Hill, 43-35, in Chapel Hill. UNC-CH won the game on a go-ahead punt return by North Carolina running back Giovani Bernard with 13 seconds left.
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MARCH 23 — PACK ADVANCES TO SWEET SIXTEENCoach Mark Gottfried led the Wolfpack to the Sweet 16 in
his first season as head basketball coach. N.C. State finished the season with a 24-13 record, and defeated Georgetown to reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament. The Pack lost to Kansas the following game, 60-57.
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The book that helped end a conflictAndrew BranchStaff Writer
“From the mounting gloom, crippled, emaciated patients oozing disease began plodding toward us like the undead.”
No, this isn’t a sci-fi book. These are the words of Greg Campbell’s 2001 novel from a burnt-out hut of a “field hospital” for starving, dying child soldiers in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, a village with more than 30,000 starving refugees.
The scene was not an iso-lated one after more than a decade of death in the coun-try — a war not for hate, but for control over the nation’s rich diamond mines.
Yet the world’s diamond industry willingly supported the conflict, as told in Camp-bell’s Blood Diamonds: Trac-ing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones.
Greg Campbell is an award-winning author and freelance journalist. He has authored four books including his lat-est, Pot, Inc., a first-hand look into the expanding medical marijuana industry that is now in 16 states.
His life-long love for writ-ing became a published real-ity through Chris Hondros, a former Technician and Agro-meck photographer. Hondros talked his editor into sending him to the 1993 inauguration
of President Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. — but he needed a reporter.
“Chris and I were close friends, and I was studying journalism at UNC-Greens-boro,” Campbell said. “He just called me up and said, ‘Hey let’s go. We’ve got an assignment to go cover the inauguration for the Techni-cian.’”
And so began his journal-ism career.
Just three years later, he was traveling to Bosnia to cover the reunification of Sarajevo for his first book, The Road to Kosovo. Immersing him-self in the reeling, hate-filled region, he became what he is today: a conflict reporter.
“That was my first experi-ence, and I was interested in going back — especially look-ing at conflicts that were not well publicized, that people were just unaware of,” Camp-bell said.
Enter Sierra Leone, a small West-African country drip-ping with diamonds and the blood from a genocide unique to the region — for economic reasons, not racial.
In the early 1990s, rampant poverty and government cor-ruption helped the rebel Rev-olutionary United Front gain public support, but the RUF took over the mines, slaugh-tering civilians and enslaving the rest.
The world ’s d iamond t rade w i l l ing ly bought cheap diamonds from the RUF, knowing it used the money for weapons. In 2001, rebel groups from around the world were responsible for as much as five percent of the diamond market — 80 percent of which was sold in the United States.
But until Campbell and Hondros went to Sierra Leone in 2001, the world was either oblivious or compliant.
Campbell quickly became an expert on conf lict dia-monds. He was only in Sierra Leone for five weeks, but he might have been there five years. His narrative, literary approach seamlessly switches between his own experiences and those of others, telling the life story of a broken na-tion and industry in striking detail.
“That’s just always been a characteristic of my writing, I think,” Campbell said. “I write really natural like that, and since I enjoy reading that kind of writing style, it’s very enjoyable to actually write that way.”
By the time Campbell ar-rived in West Africa, the United Nation’s weak peace efforts had made much of the country passable for the first time in years. He met proud RUF killers, hardened diamond “businessmen” and
colonies of limbless people who were walking remind-ers of the RUF’s response to a president’s plea to “join hands” for peace.
With the Sept. 11 attacks occurring during his re-search, Campbell discov-ered just how important the seemingly isolated conf lict had been.
“[Al-Qaida’s] bank ac-counts were immediately fro-zen all across Europe and the Middle East,” he said. “And yet they had [diamonds] from Sierra Leone that they could spend on future train-ing, future attacks and so forth.”
When Blood Diamonds was published, detailing the compliance of dozens of countries and companies and the lackluster efforts by the UN at peace and reform, it changed the way the world bought diamonds.
“I’m not certainly credit-ing myself with changing the world, but I definitely contributed to it,” Campbell said. “I brought informa-tion out into the public view where this very, very vibrant debate went on after the book was published.
“You can’t underestimate the power that you have as a journalist to be able to per-haps make a bad situation better just by reporting about the bad situation,” he said.
“You’re there as a witness.”Since Blood Diamonds ,
Campbell has continued con-flict reporting. He and Hon-dros went to Libya in 2011 to cover the rebellion against Moammar Ghadaffi.
“That’s one of the most fundamental stories we have as a race of people — people overcoming oppression, throwing off their bonds and rising up to embrace self-governance,” Campbell said. “And to be there, as one of the people who were chronicling it for all of history — that’s an amazing responsibility.”
The dangerous nature of conf lict reporting finally caught up to the two friends. Not long after Campbell left Libya to return to the United States, Hondros was killed in a mortar blast, a loss that deeply affected Campbell and many at N.C. State.
“That’s a risk that has al-ways been there, and unfor-tunately, people have to take those risks in order to have this information to provide to the rest of the world,” Camp-bell said. “Somebody’s gotta do it.”
Campbell returned to Sier-ra Leone later in 2011 for the 10th anniversary of the book, adding 50 pages to its latest edition on the progress of the country and the worldwide push to end diamond smug-gling. Both are off to rough
starts. The fighting is over, but plaguing the country is all-too-familiar corruption and poverty.
While international min-ing companies had modern health facilities inside their razor-w ire compounds, Campbell watched a local doctor perform a hysterec-tomy with little more than sunlight and local anesthet-ics.
“The conditions that led to the war in the first place are still really prevalent,” Camp-bell said. “It was kind of dis-heartening to see that the country hadn’t really taken advantage of the opportunity for peace like it could have.”
As he looks forward in his career — hoping to expand his storytelling skills through filmmaking — he will always carry a piece of Africa with him.
Unconventional classes beef up semesterKaitlin MontgomeryStaff Writer
When looking for classes, students often make deci-sions based on three points: Do I need it? How hard is it? And of course, is it fun? Some classes can be dry and leave students snoring in their seats while in others the time seems to fly by. With the number of classes offered at N.C. State, students have deemed a few hidden trea-sures as “brilliantly unique.”
ENT 201Insects and PeopleProfessor Clyde SorensonTaught by Clyde Sorenson,
Insects and People is an in-troduction to the world of insects and how they interact with people. The class was de-signed for non-science majors as a means to introduce them to the many ways insects af-fect our lives.
“The point of this class is to teach folks about the biology of insects … about their ecological significance and most importantly teach them about the different ways insects impacts our lives for the good and for the bad,” Sorenson said.
Students cover a number of different insect-related topics
with units on disease trans-mission, tick diseases and insect influence in culture.
“We have a whole unit on movies,” Sorenson said. “We basically just watch different bug movies like A Bug’s Life, Aliens and Men in Black.”
Sorenson said he wants students to walk away with a better understanding and appreciation for insects. He also hopes students who start the class afraid of or dislik-ing insects will no longer fear insects or will at least under-stand their necessity.
HON 341Time TravelProfessor John W. CarrollTime Travel, a three-credit
honors class taught by John Carroll, is a study of con-temporary metaphysics sur-rounding the eponymous idea.
“In some ways the course is very traditional in meta-physics, which is an area in philosophy,” Carroll said. “It deals with a lot of basic issues: whether or not we have free will and what is causation? What are we and how do we survive the lapse of time?”
The course is focused on whether or not time travel is actually possible. Students will learn to recognize the questions asked in metaphys-
ics while considering this.“It gives me a fun way of
introducing very traditional philosophical topics,” Carroll said, “a way in which I have more fun and I think the students connect better and have a more enjoyable time doing it.”
Carroll structures his class to allow himself and his stu-dents to raise these questions through science fiction plots and movies.
“We have two nights where, outside of class, we meet to watch movies,” Carroll said. “The class is really just a lot of fun.”
ANS 402 (Lecture) & ANS 462 (Lab)
Beef Cattle ManagementProfessor Gerald Hun-
tingtonBeef Cattle Management
is a two-credit course taught by Gerald Huntington; the course has a required single-credit lab. The two integrate technical information re-garding animal nutrition, breeding, genetics and re-productive physiology with information on management skills, business practices and decision-making processes.
“We tell the students that it’s our purpose when you come to that lab that when you get done you are capa-ble,” Huntington said. “You can run a squeeze shoot, you know how to handle an ani-mal, you know how to give an injection. You’re not an expert because we didn’t have enough time to do that but you know the process.”
Students enrolled in the lab learn about the process it takes to properly manage cattle, everything from how to correctly and humanely tag a cow’s ear to knowing how to castrate animals.
“We want you to be good at it for the simple reason that if someone finds out that you took our class and that you don’t know what you’re do-ing that makes us look bad,” Huntington said. “We tell them, ‘Go out there and make me look good.’ We don’t want students leaving here and not being competent.”
Huntington stressed that most of the students in the class have never had any farm experience before. He ex-plained that’s what the course is there for – to educate and prepare students in the pro-cess of managing cattle.
“We tell the students you don’t have to be a lot smarter than the cow, just a little smarter,” Huntington said.
PE 239Self DefenseProfessor Christopher
Ousley Self Defense is a single-
credit physical education course taught by Christopher Ousley. The class serves as a basic introduction into self-defense and its techniques. Students learn skills such as how to strike, block and escape on top of gaining a better understanding of the psychological aspects of gen-eral and sexual assault.
“We practice a lot of ground defense as well as knife and gun defense, which is inter-esting,” Catherine Crofton, a freshmen in Zoology, said. “We practice with plastic guns and knives; we even have a giant dummy that we practice on.”
Students in the class gain a basic understanding of how to defend themselves and take down their attacker if they ever happen to be in such a situation.
ENT 203An Introduction to the
Honey Bee and BeekeepingProfessor David Tarpy An Introduction to the
Honey Bee and Beekeep-
ing, taught by David Tarpy, is a three-credit class usu-ally offered in the fall. ENT 203 covers the biology of the honey bee and encourages a fundamental understanding of beekeeping management.
“The class is lecture-based but surprisingly interesting,” Michael Pollock, a freshmen in First Year College, said. “The first half of the semes-ter is the science behind bees: their behavior, their biology, different things like that. The second half of the semester is about bees in culture and how they’re represented.”
During the course students are also given the opportu-nity to work hands-on with bees.
“We got to see a hive dem-onstration where [the bees] were traveling from their hive to a new location,” Pollock said. “People were walking in between the bees; they’re dormant during this transi-tion so you can touch them and have them in your hand, it’s really cool.”
Another advanced bee-
keeping course is available to students, ENT 401 Honey Bee Biology and Manage-ment, if they wish to further their knowledge of bees and even learn to keep a hive of their own.
“The class has definitely got me interested in having a hive when I’m older,” Pollock said. “But now it has kind of turned me into a nerd about bees.”
Wi ld ly unique, these are just a few of the many amazing classes available to students. Operating in the same manner as other popu-lar classes do, these types of courses fill up quickly. Re-gardless of how quickly the waitlist may grow, classes like Time Travel and Beekeeping help make N.C. State unique.
As Sorenson said, “My at-titude is if I’m not having fun then you’re probably not hav-ing fun and I make sure that I have fun every time I go to class.”
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MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013 • PAGE 5TECHNICIAN
Eve r y on e k n ow s good friendships are based on sex, except
for a mere 50 percent of us. As a gentle-man and a schola r, I was flabber-gasted when I heard the news: I am not entitled to sex from my female f r iends . I
always assumed the term “friend zone” was to be used ironically, but apparently, a state of platonic mutuality between most heterosexual men and women really does exist. Who would’ve thunk it?
A recent study in the Jour-nal of Social and Personal Relationships on attraction in cross-sex friendship claims emerg-ing adult males (ages 18-29) are more likely to be sexually attracted to their female friends. In addition, a majority of men believe their female friends are also attracted to them. However, a majority of women who took part in the study did not re-turn those feelings.
So, whi le men def ine friendship (or the “friend zone”) as an eternal sex-pur-gatory, women have a much more horrifying definition: “just friends.”
Though “friend zone” sounds nice — as if it’s a magical place where friends laugh and enjoy one another’s company — it’s more com-mon connotation implies that men are entitled to sex from their female friends. As one Chicago Tribune writer put it, “[The male] does every-
thing a boyfriend would do — without the benefits.”
Exactly. You see, readers, time is
money, and I don’t spend time with someone with-out expecting payment. Es-sentially, I see myself not as Ahmed Amer, but as Amer-Co. — a firm that bills its cli-ents for time spent with them. And I don’t just apply that business model to my cross-sex friendships. Considering how much time I’ve been put-ting in at Technician, I think it’s safe to say I am entitled to one kind of raise or another.
Who would want to spend time having dinner and a conversation with “just a friend?” If anything, the friend zone is a gap between
me and the title of “lady killer.”
For those of you not famil-iar with the term, a lady killer is a man who is excep-tionally attrac-tive to women,
even though, to a five-year-old or someone who does not speak English as a first lan-guage, the term might sound a bit aggressive — and one of a hunter’s mentality.
Perhaps aggression is the name of the game. After all, we do “hit and quit,” “bang,” “slay,” “beat,” “drill,” “pound,” “smash,” “bag,” and “tag” – common terms to de-scribe the everyday life of a true lady killer.
But what happens when a lady killer is banished to the friend zone? You have some-one who is aggressive about sex and feels entitled to it.
Last August, two high-school athletes — Trent Mays, 16, and Ma’lik Rich-mond, 16 — in Steubenville, Ohio, were arrested and
charged with allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl, who was unconscious while being as-saulted by the two footballers and several others at a party.
Hacktivist group Anony-mous leaked a video recorded by one of the students at the party, showing a former base-ball player, who Anonymous and many media outlets iden-tified as Michael Nodianos, laughing and making jokes about what had happened to the girl.
In the video, the male identified as Nodianos says, “She’s dead … they peed on her, that’s how you know she’s dead, because someone pissed on her … They raped her more than the Duke lacrosse team … She’s deader than Trayvon Martin.” The night-marish smile on his face only grows as his friends laugh and encourage him.
When asked by another student, “What if it was your daughter?” the boy offhand-edly replies, “But it isn’t … If that was my daughter, I wouldn’t care, I’d just let her be dead.”
But the fact remains that she is someone’s daughter.
When we mix superficially simple but inherently insolent and aggressive language with interpersonal interactions, the result is the tolerated rape culture that too often results in harmful actions, even death. The all-too-common attitude is literally killing our daughters, sisters and moth-ers. So before you “hit it and quit it,” “bag it and tag it,” or “hump it and dump it,” think before you say it, Lady Killer.
Send your thoughts to [email protected].
Chancellor Randy Woodson and the student body look forward to another fun, exciting year. Run, Randy, run!
Derrick Freeland, junior in biological engineering
The war on women?
Wit h e ver y New Year c o m e s a
flood of new top ten lists of the previous year. From the White House’s top ten
photos to College Maga-zine’s top ten sexiest scandals, these lists are every-where.
Typically I glance through these lists and take what they say with a grain of salt, until yesterday when I stumbled upon Spicie.com’s top ten “Women That Made Us Cringe In 2012.”
The guest contributor, Grace Alexander, rattles off ten women who she believes are anti-feminist and therefore must have stunted the great strides the female sex took in 2012.
Among these women are several political lead-ers, political analysts Ann Coulter and Liz Trotta, Ann Romney, music performer Rihanna and novelists Stephanie Meyer and E.L. James. Instead of highlighting these wom-en’s accomplishments, Alexander takes the pes-simistic route of bashing these women for “con-tributing to the war on women.” I’m sorry Ms. Alexander, I wasn’t aware we were fighting. I would
have brought flowers.Alexander claims politi-
cians like Ariz. Governor Jan Brewer, Miss. Tea Party leader Janis Lane, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and Minn. Rep. Michelle Bachman are setting women back by voicing their opinions and making deci-sions that she classifies as be-ing “anti-woman.” Shouldn’t we (both sexes) applaud these women for being elected into a position of authority and making decisions based on what they and their constitu-ents believe in?
If they fuss at these conser-vative women, shouldn’t the fight be bipartisan? By Alex-ander’s standards, feminists should be criticizing Hillary Clinton’s track record of us-ing the generational gender roles of the system to benefit her political career. Using the conventional role of the first lady, Clinton propelled her-self into the political realm. Still today, she uses her gen-der to distinguish herself in politics and making her be-liefs and opinions known. By Alexander’s standards doesn’t this set women back, because it’s promoting the idea of us-ing one’s sex to further their careers?
Alexander then harps on Rihanna for “[going] back to the man who repeatedly tuned her up,” claiming she is sending the message “that domestic abuse is accept-able.” Is this not the epitome of blaming the victim? Blam-ing Rihanna for her choice to return to Chris Brown rather than acknowledging her as a victim of domestic violence
insults other victims. To go further in waging war
on the “anti-woman women,” Alexander ropes Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey authors Stephanie Meyer and E.L. James into the fight. Her reasoning is because these works of fiction perpetuate the idea that it is all right to have “boyfriends who stalk, control and hurt.”
All of these women would be within their right to feel offended and betrayed by this member of their own gender. If there is a “war on women,” Alexander has def initely alienated some members of her army with this list.
To be brutally honest, mak-ing this list actually sets back the perception of women and fuels gender stereotypes. Nothing is pettier than mak-ing a list of the girls that piss you off. You might as well slap a pink cover on this blog and call it a burn book.
Feminist-extremists use phrases like “the war on women” and “anti-woman women” to rally women be-hind their cause, when in re-ality it only strengthens the gender divide. This opinion piece does nothing except to give feminists something to chuckle about and feel supe-rior toward women who are actually making strides in the fight for equality by reaching these positions of influence and standing up for their beliefs.
Send your thoughts to [email protected].
“... I am
entitled to one
kind of raise
or another. ”
Ahmed AmerViewpoint Editor
Trey FergusonManaging Editor
Lady killer
To Chancellor Randy WoodsonN.C. State’s bold motto “red means
go” commands an equally bold administration. 2012 was fraught
with economic uncertainty, political strife and compromise — we can expect to see more of the same in 2013. However, precarious times are when our policy makers and University administration can make the biggest impact. The following are Technician’s expectations of and suggestions to Chancellor Randy Wood-son and University leaders for 2013.
TAKE A PAY CUTUniversity of California Berkley’s The
Daily Californian columnist Jason Willick addressed the then new chancellor, Nicholas Dirks in “A memo to the next chancellor.” Willick proposed that Chancellor Dirks take a voluntary 10 percent pay cut of his $495,000 annual salary and direct it to students in need of financial assistance. Technician urges Chancellor Woodson to do the same. Though Woodson only (and we use that word lightly) earns $420,000, chances are that foregoing $42,000 will not leave him strapped for cash
— not to mention, it could pay tuition for 14 in-state students or four out-of-state students. The suggestion seems even more manageable when one considers the chancellor’s free-of-charge housing in The Point — the newly built, swanky 8,500-square-foot mansion (to be fair, he does host several fundraising events there). And much like Willick’s sugges-tion, the finncial impact appears paltry — one drop to fix a drought — but the gesture and message are more important. This deed would signal to students that even the highest rung of the N.C. State’s immediate administration is fighting alongside the students.
Also, any economics major would argue that the marginal utility of those dollars would be higher for students struggling to pay tuition than in Chancellor Woodson’s pocket.
CONTINUE SEEKING STUDENT INPUTAdministrators have been doing a good job
of this already. Keeping students in policy-making discussions is crucial. In 2012 Wood-son often sought input from students via his Chats with the Chancellor — students also played an essential role in deciding the fate of the proposed sustainability fee and other cost increases. Unfortunately, the fault here is with the student body. Attendance was pitiful, which means students missed out on chances to voice their opinions. Additionally, Vice Chancellor for the Division of Academic and Student Affair Mike Mullen did a commend-able job incorporating student feedback into the student fee increase process. In nearly ev-ery step of the process of fee increases, he had students weigh in on critical decisions, getting off on the right foot with his new career.
Though the events aren’t as exciting as First Friday or last Monday night, they are infinitely more important.
Despite the student body’s proclivity for
playing hard to get with administration in this case, we urge Woodson and company to keep trying. As Jimmy Valvano would say, “Don’t give up … don’t ever give up.”
BE BOLDLY TRANSPARENTOur final suggestion is that NCSU’s ad-
ministration should be upfront about its weaknesses. Perhaps students would be more inclined to attend roundtable discussions or chats if we were told where the University is bleeding money. The letters from Woodson’s office often explain what the University is do-ing right in these economically rough times — that’s all well and good — but knowing where the University is lacking will better serve students. Being open about administra-tive struggles will not only perk up students’ ears, but will also undoubtedly give rise to more productive discussions.
BEAT UNC-CHAPEL HILL IN BASKETBALLDo what you have to do, but only as long
as it’s clean.
BY CHRIS RUPERT
What are your expectations
for University administration?
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Erin Schnuitjunior, English education
“I expect them to keep me safe, not spend frivolously and do more ecologically friendly things. “
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Seahawks rookie starting quarterback Russell Wilson went 15-for-26 for 187 yards and a touchdown. Despite taking a beating in the back-field, getting sacked five times for a loss of 31 yards, Wilson also had eight rushes for 67 yards, including a season-long 28-yard rush, bringing his total to 254 all-purpose yards on the day.
Wilson’s teammate, kicker Steven Hauschka, was also a major contributor for the Seahawks. He was perfect on the day, nailing all three of his field goal attempts and his lone extra point, despite injuring his ankle in the sec-ond quarter.
Rookie guard J.R. Sweezy saw no action during the game.
The Seahawks trailed en-tering the fourth quarter and took the lead with more than seven minutes remaining. They would hold on to win, 24-14. Seattle is now on a six-game winning streak and will take on the top-seeded Atlan-ta Falcons Sunday at 1 p.m.
guards being unselfish.”In its league opener,
N.C. State had what head coach Kel l ie Harper deemed an effort that “lacked focus” in Coral Gables, Fl., against Miami. The Pack were throttled, 79-53, as the Hurricanes held Kastanek scoreless for the first time in her career.
“This was tough, we couldn’t get any-thing going on the offen-sive end,” Harper said. “We weren’t taking good shots, but also we were taking rushed shots.
“I thought we were too soft on defense at the start of the game, and Miami
played with so much confi-dence and was able to dictate the pace of the game,” Harper said. “I thought in the first half our offense dictated how
we played on defense.”
“The big-gest t h ing i s : W here is our focus a t ? ” K a s -tanek said. “Is it at just beating one tea m, a nd then we are satisfied, or is it at being a great team
in general?”“A great basketball team
gets motivated and excited for every opponent they play,” Kastanek said.
The Pack now enters a pivotal moment of its sea-son over the next few weeks, starting with a home match-up with its other rival from the Triangle, UNC-Chapel Hill. With tough road games against Maryland and Vir-ginia looming afterwards, the margin for error has grown significantly smaller.
“I still have a lot of con-fidence in this basketball team,” Harper said. “I like this team. If we continue to work hard and continue to improve, we can make a strong run.”
Staff Report
N.C. State came away with a close win against the Boston College Eagles, 78-73, in Chestnut Hill, Mass. It is the Pack’s first road ACC opener since 1997. The two teams tied 11 times and exchanged leads nine times.
All five of State’s starters posted double-figure scor-ing totals in the contest. Freshman guard Rodney Purvis led the Pack with a career-high 19 points in the contest. Senior forward Richard How-ell scored 12 points and pulled down 11 rebounds in the game for his 11th double-double of the sea-son and 21st of his career.
Senior guard Lorenzo Brown added 14 points and eight assists.
The game remained tight throughout the first half. After playing from behind for the majority of
the half, the Wolfpack took its first lead of the game on a layup from freshman for-ward T.J. Warren with more than three minutes left.
State finished the half on a 14-2 run and went into the locker room with a 29-28 lead.
The game remained tight throughout the second half and senior forward Scott Wood stepped up. After be-ing plagued by foul trouble throughout the contest, Wood came off the bench to score 12 points in the game’s final minutes.
Boston College forward Ryan Anderson had a stand-out game for the Eagles, scor-ing 22 points and pulling down 13 rebounds.
State pulled out the win despite being outworked on the boards. The Eagles out-rebounded State, 32-31. The Pack outscored BC in the paint, 34-28, and off turn-overs, 11-6.
NFLcontinued from page 8
WOMEN’Scontinued from page 8Pack wins ACC opener
“A great
basketball team
gets motivated
and excited for
every opponent
they play.”Marissa Kastanek
senior guard
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. WAKE FOREST BY THE NUMBERS• 35.5percentshootingfromthefield• 20turnoversincomparisonto11byWake• OutreboundedWake,46-33 • WakeoutscoredStateinthepaint36-32.• Wakescored18pointsoffturnovers.Statescored10.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
MEN’S BASKETBALL
INSIDE• Page 7: A recap of men’s basketball’s
victory against Boston College.
COUNTDOWN• 2 days until men’s basketball takes on Georgia Tech
at PNC Arena.SportsTECHNICIANPAGE 8 • MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013
Nolan EvansDeputy Sports Editor
N.C. State football ended its season last Saturday with a loss to Vanderbilt in the Music City Bowl, but former Wolfpack play-ers continued action on the grid-iron this past weekend.
The National Football League playoffs began Saturday with a faceoff between the Houston Texans and the Cincinnati Ben-gals.
Former Pack linebacker Man-ny Lawson saw action for the Bengals, recording two tackles during the contest. Unfortunate-ly for Lawson, his efforts were not enough to help lead Cincin-nati to the next round, falling to the Texans, 19-13.
The Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers played in Saturday’s second game.
A pair of ex-Wolfpack rookies was on the sidelines during the game. Packers’ linebacker Ter-rell Manning saw playing time and recorded a pair of tackles. Vikings linebacker Audie Cole did not see the playing field. The Packers rolled to a 24-10 victory at Lambeau Field and will play the San Francisco 49ers Saturday at 8 p.m.
Action resumed Sunday after-noon with a matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and the Indianapolis Colts. Following a 24-9 Ravens victory over the Colts, the Washington Redskins squared off against the Wolf-pack-fueled Seattle Seahawks in the nation’s capital.
Rob McLambStaff Writer
It was a tough stretch for the women’s basketball team during the winter break.
Over the holidays, the Pack fell in three of its four games — with all of the losses coming within league play. The lone victory came in Rochester, N.Y., when N.C. State won a squeaker vs. St. Bonaven-t u re , 70 - 66 , after the Bon-nies trimmed a 17-point Wolf-pack lead with less than seven minutes remain-ing to only two points with 20 seconds left. A put-back from junior forward Kody Burke with 13 seconds to go sealed the vic-tory.
Sunday afternoon, the Wolfpack fell to 8-7 overall and 0-3 in the ACC with a dispiriting 69-56 loss to Wake Forest (8-6, 1-1) at Lawrence Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem. With the loss to the Demon Deacons, it marks the second year in a row N.C. State has opened the conference sea-son with three straight losses.
The Pack com-mitted 20 turn-overs against the Demon Deacons and it was made to pay, as Wake Forest tallied 29 fast-break points in the game. Burke was the one of the few bright spot s for N.C . State, as the junior
forward from Northridge, Ca., had her fourth double-double on the season, 11th in her career, with 12 points and 11 rebounds.
It seemed N.C. State was poised to turn the corner after its first two
league games. The Wolfpack was handed a tough opening conference slate, with match-ups against the top two teams in last season’s confer-ence standings, Duke and Miami, to begin ACC play.
The ACC home opener in Reyn-olds Coliseum featured the Wolf-pack hosting the third-ranked Duke Blue Devils. The last time N.C. State had played its Triangle neighbors from Durham, the Pack secured a major upset by beating the Devils, 75-73, in the quarterfinals of the 2012 ACC tournament.
Burke, with 15 points and six re-bounds, and senior guard Marissa Kastanek, with 12 points, three as-sists and two steals, led the way for the Pack in the 67-57 loss to its rivals from the Bull City.
“I feel like our guards really just look for me,” Burke said. “I feel like a lot of my points come from our
Amerson declares to enter draftJunior defensive back David Amerson will enter the 2013 NFL Draft. Amerson finished the season with 61 tackles and five interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown. The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the draft is Jan. 15.
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Swimming and Diving split dual meetThe Pack opened the second half of its season by splitting its dual meet with SCAD and Georgia Saturday. State defeated SCAD while falling to UGA. The men’s team defeated SCAD, 212-43, and the women took it down, 190-62. The men’s team fell to the Bulldogs, 144-112, and the women dropped its contest, 151-99.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Choi and James compete for Team CanadaWolfpack golfers Augusta James and Albin Choi helped extend Canada’s lead at the 2013 Copa de las Americas on the TPC Blue Monster Course at Doral Golf Resort and Spa lead to five shots. Team Canada combined to shoot five-over 293 in the third round and holds the lead at 19-over 883 in the tournament. Choi shot two-under 70 Saturday. James shot 4-over 76.
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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
WednesdayMEN’S BASKETBALL V. GEORGIA TECHPNC Center, 8 p.m.
WRESTLING V. CAMPBELLBuies Creek, N.C., TBA
WRESTLING V. VMIBuies Creek, N.C., TBA
ThursdayWOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. NORTH CAROLINAReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
FridayGYMNASTICS V. MARYLANDReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
MEN’S TENNIS AT ILLINI INVITATIONALNaples, Fla., All Day
MEN’S BASKETBALL V. DUKEPNC Center, 12 p.m.
WRESTLING V. GARDNER-WEBBBoiling Springs, N.C., 6:30 p.m.
RIFLE V. ARMYCharleston, S.C., All Day
MEN’S TENNIS AT ILLINI INVITATIONALNaples, Fla., All Day
SundayWOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. VIRGINIACharlottesville, Va., 2 p.m.
MEN’S TENNIS AT ILLINI INVITATIONALNaples, Fla., All Day
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Lynch ranked third in the NCAA in total offense with 364.1 total yards per contest. Lynch finished seventh in this past season’s Heisman Award voting.
“We are really encouraged,” Creecy said. “With [Doeren] here, we are going to change it around.”
“We’ve got to move on and start playing football for coach Doeren,” Creecy said.
With the coaching change and the inconsistent season behind them, the Pack seems intent that the only direction the program will move is forward.
“This is a program that can com-
pete to win the ACC every year.” senior guard Cam Wentz said. “It’s a very attractive place to go to school, great facilities, in a great area. I think the program is [in] a good state and it is going to prog-ress. They have a high ceiling for their future.”
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JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANRedshirt senior wide receiver Tobias Palmer has a pass knocked out of his hands during the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl in LP Field, Nashville, Tenn., Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Palmer led the Pack in receiving with 111 yards on eight catches. He also had 173 return yards on six kickoffs.
JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANSenior guard Marissa Kastanek drives around Duke junior guard Chelsea Gray during the basketball game in Reynolds Coliseum Thursday, Jan. 3. Kastanek was the team’s second-leading scorer with 11 in the loss.
“I still have a lot
of confidence in
this basketball
team.”Kellie Harper
women’s basketball head coach
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If we continue
to work hard and
continue to im-
prove, we can
make a strong
run.”Kellie Harper,
women’s basketball head coach
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
MUSIC CITY BOWL OFFENSIVE LEADERS:Passing Mike Glennon - 383 yards, 1 touchdown, 3 interceptions
ReceivingTobias Palmer - 284 all-purpose yards, 8 catches, 0 touchdowns
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Wolfpack ends season with a loss