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Students could soon see increased awareness of the project around campus and community
Amber KenneySenior Staff Writer
For five years, Matt Robbins, a graduate student in architecture, has been researching campus history. Throughout his explo-ration, Robbins has taken it upon himself to lead N.C. State in an effort to complete its Memorial Bell Tower.
Robbins is working alongside others to put a 54 bell carillon in-side the tower, as was originally intended.
D.J. Grant, a freshman in elec-trical engineering who just heard about the Bell Tower project, said he is seeking an answer.
“What’s a bell tower without a bell?” he asked.
Robbins has found a way to answer the question that others, like Grant, have asked.
“There is no better place to start than where it all started in the beginning,” he said.
The beginning of the Bell Tower starts with the Freemason Fraternity.
Robbins said the Freemason organization is the cornerstone of the Memorial Bell Tower.
“The original proposal, plan, and fundraising for the Bell Tower started with the Masons,” Robbins said.
With the relationship between the Bell Tower and the Masons as support, Robbins said he has taken the necessary steps to in-troduce the project to the local Freemason members. At a meet-ing April 1, Robbins will propose the general idea of the topic to the Grand Lodge of Masons.
“I will provide them with the information that the Bell Tower was initiated, implemented, de-signed and constructed by Free-masons,” Robbins said.
According to Robbins, the pur-pose of the meeting is to search for a T-shirt sponsor.
“If we have a sponsor, we can
put 100 percent of the profit from the shirts in the bank for the [Bell] Tower fund,” Robbins said.
The shirts will be the first step taken to increase awareness and begin gaining funds to complete the project.
“This is an awesome cause, so I can’t wait to buy a shirt,” Grant said.
Robbins said he hopes the shirts will not only serve as a way to collect funds, but as a conversation starter to help in-crease awareness of the project.
“Everyone wearing a shirt is a billboard, and because they had to interact with a member of the commission to get one,
they know enough information to become a point of initiation for people who don’t know about the project,” Robbins said.
According to Robbins, stu-dents should look for shirts to go on sale about April 8.
After the Wednesday meeting with the Grand Lodge of Ma-sons, Robbins said he will travel around the area to individual subordinate Mason groups to elaborate on specifics about the Bell Tower project.
“It’s our wishes, and hopes, that they respond favorably because once we get [the project] off the ground, we can keep it going,” Robbins said.
To keep the proj-ect alive, Robbins said he is counting on the sup-port and assistance of students.
“We will rely on the students’ abilities to make themselves active participants in this, and make a change and make some-thing happen.” Robbins said. “It is the essence of N.C. State to get
up and do something.”Robbins said the project is
important because it will help get the community ball rolling again.
Taylor Ashby, a senior in eco-nomics and a member of Rob-bins’ team, said his love for the school is what drives him to help.
“This is a great opportunity to improve my University; the history and importance of the Bell Tower should be preserved,” Ashby said.
Robbins said the Bell Tower serves as a me-
morial — a place for congregation and celebration — and it’s a sym-bol of identity.
“It’s on our seal; it’s on our rings;
it’s on the front page of the Technician, it’s
everywhere — it’s who we are,” he said. “This whole project is about getting people to speak together with one voice, pulling the students, original Freema-sons, and the community into it.”
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Reinvestment act could create financial problems
Dorm cleanup leads to more damages
Lack of knowledge may cause problems for students
Sonya DeulinaSenior Staff Writer
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which Presi-dent Barack Obama signed in February, included a Making Work Pay Credit (MWPC), which led to revisions in the federal income tax withholding tables.
As cited by the IRS, new rates will begin for bi-weekly payroll April 3 and monthly payroll April 30.
While the new rates are in-tended to provide tax credits of $400 and $800 for single tax-payers and married couples, re-spectively, the plan could create potential problems, according to Franki Senter, payroll direc-tor for the University.
She said students and people holding multiple jobs are liable to be under-withheld at the end of the year.
Senter said she is worried many
students have a lack of knowl-edge on the newly passed plan that can be potentially harmful to them. She said students need to be informed so they can access their own financial situation and not be shorthanded.
“We want to inform people that these new tax tables could cause problems for some people,” Senter said. “We’ve asked our payroll coordinators and person-nel representatives to spread the word for us.”
Paul Florence, a junior in po-litical science and employee of the School of Public and Inter-national Affairs Office, said he thinks the new plan is unfair.
“The fact that they’re lowering taxes is a good idea, but the fact that singles get less money back than married couples doesn’t
seem fair,” Florence said. According to the new tables,
if both spouses earn wages and both file as “married” on their tax withholding, each will re-ceive an additional $600 by the end of the year.
However, for students who have more than one job, they could see tax withholding re-ductions of up to $400, at each job. In addition, they will only be entitled to a credit, if single, of $400 or less.
Florence said the stimulus plan is going to be shorting Ameri-cans in the long-run.
“It seems that this stimu-lus plan is going to make the American people happy in the short run, but how much good is another extra $800 going to do you and what is it actually going
to fix in our wrecked economy?” Paul asked.
Chelsea Schwabe, a freshman in communication, shared Flor-ence’s concerns.
“Because I’m considered a de-pendent, I guess not receiving as much as everyone else is irritat-ing,” she said. “In the long run I don’t think it’s really going to help.”
Schwabe’s biggest concern, however, is students lack of knowledge on the newly passed plan.
However, Brad Lacroix, a se-nior in history who works at a convenience store on campus said the new withholding tables are necessary.
“They [ government ] need to get the economy going and the economy mainly relies on fami-lies,” Lacroix said.
Senter said regardless, stu-dents need to start researching this new plan and applying it to their own financial situations.
“Take a look at your own situ-ation and be informed,” Senter said.
Suitemate says wet things were piled on top of dry in aftermath of flooding
Ty JohnsonNews Editor
A busted sprinkler in Billy Kronenwetter’s tenth f loor suite in Sullivan Residence Hall caused f looding and damaged the personal be-longings of his suitemates, but Kronenwetter’s co-resi-dents aren’t convinced it was all caused by the water.
Tanner Williams, a sopho-more in mechanical engi-neering and Billy Kronenwet-ter’s suitemate directly across the hall, arrived in his suite Sunday to find not only his room flooded, but also soggy belongings thrown on top of things that should have been unaffected by the water.
“The [Housing staff] said go up there, we have a list of things that were damaged,” Larissa Baransky, a junior in fashion and textile man-agement and Williams’ girl-friend, said. “But, the people who were up there messing with the rooms wouldn’t let him check the damages.”
When Wil-liams and Ba-ransky were a l lowed in, they found things were damaged that couldn’t have been affected solely by ris-ing water.
“They le t us go in the room and it wasnt as f looded [as Kro-nenwetter’s],” Baransky said. “They [had] piled wet stuff on dry stuff and ruined more things than [the sprin-kler could have alone].”
Specifically, Baransky said some of Williams’ belongings were “stuffed in the closet” with wet books on top of them. Williams said the text-books, which were largely on the ground, were the most ex-pensive thing damaged, but his printer was damaged as well.
“Everything was piled in the closet with wet stuff on top of dry,” Williams said.
Beyond the frustration of having his room damaged, Baransky said Williams was also frustrated about not be-ing informed what was going on by Housing.
“We had just come back from a trip to Williamsburg,” she said. “We found out last that his room was flooded.”
Baransky said only one of
the suitemates was notified about the incident, while the others found out by word of mouth.
“It was really unorganized with how they handled everything,” Baransky said. “We had to go chase everyone to get people to tell us [anything]. It was pretty exhausting”
Baransky said much of the water damage was caused by the moving of Williams’ belongings, especially the placement of wet things that were on the floor on top of dry things, including his futon and bed. Baransky cited a dry erase board that was on the ground as evidence of the flood’s watermark, proving much of the damage occurred after the waters subsided.
“There was stuff written on it before and there was a clear line where it was erased,” Baransky
said. “There was about a two-inch water line.”
Kronenwetter, a sophomore in mechanical en-gineering whose room was com-pletely filled with water, sa id he still didn’t have a ny i n for ma-tion about being reimbursed for damages.
“We haven’t heard anything about compen-sation,” he said. “I’m still waiting for the fire marshal’s report.”
Kronenwetter said he and his roommate are now living else-where in Sullivan, but some of his suitemates were able to stay in their rooms.
“Me and my roommate [are] still together, but we were moved to a different suite,” he said. “Three of them are still in their suites [because] their [rooms weren’t] damaged enough for them to leave.”
While the investigation is on-going, Baransky was convinced that Kronenwetter didn’t tamper with the sprinkler.
“The people who were cleaning were saying he must have done something,” Baransky said. “Ob-viously Billy feels bad about the whole thing, but we all know him pretty well. I don’t think he’d be up at 8:30 in the morning trying to whack a sprinkler.”
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After injury, Baker is ready to contribute.Following a knee injury that sidelined him for nearly two years, Toney Baker is ready to go. See page 8.
Cutting the circuit to technological growthSee page 3.
“Everything was piled in the
closet with wet stuff
on top of dry.”Tanner Williams,
sophomore in mechanical engineering
“We want to inform people that these new tax tables could cause problems
for some people.”Franki Senter, director of University payroll
SULLIVAN SPRINKLER BREAKDOWNWhat: Sprinkler busted leading to damaged belongings and forced evacuationWhen: Sunday at approximately 8:44 a.m.Where: Sullivan Residence Hall
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FINISH THE TOWER: THE NEXT STEPS April 1 - Robbins plans to meet with Grand Lodge of Masons to gain support, possibly a sponsor
April 8 - T-shirts to go on sale
Future success of the project will be based on the active participation of students.
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DAVID MABE/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOThe original design of the Memorial Bell Tower included a 54 bell carillon inside.
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Hula hoop toss kicks o! Pan-Afrikan Pride Day
Lauren Pierce, a junior in biological sciences, aims a hula hoop for a pylon in the Brickyard during some downtime while volunteering for the Pan-Afrikan Pride Day Monday. There were free pizza and prizes for ringing the cones. The Pan-Afrikan Festival continues all
week and features a step show on Friday.
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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
In Friday’s page-four editorial, the name of the senator who introduced a bill opposing mandatory health insurance was incorrectly identified. The senator should have been Kenneth Webb.
Technician regrets the error.
Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Saja Hindi at [email protected].
CAMPUS CALENDARMarch 2009
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Today: PAN AFRIKAN FESTIVALAll day
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: A DIFFERENT TYPE OF INTELLECTNoon to 2 p.m. Talley Student Center, Room 3118
TOXICOLOGY SEMINAR4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Toxicology Building, Room 2104
GETTING CARRIED AWAY: TRAVEL AND ALTERITY IN IBN BATTUTA’S INDIA6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Caldwell Hall, Room M8
Wednesday: PAN AFRIKAN FESTIVALAll day
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN ACTION1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
SOIL SCIENCE SEMINAR3:40 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. Williams Hall
REFLECTIONS OF A TRIP TO TURKEY5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Riddick Hall
ALMOST GOLF SKILLS CHALLENGE6:45 p.m. Lower Miller Fields
VISITING FULL FRAME FILMMAKER JEREMIAH ZAGAR7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Witherspoon Student Center
DANCEVISIONS SPRING CONCERT8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Stewart Theater
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POLICE BLOTTERMarch 274:41 P.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYRPD District #26 Two students were arrested for nar-cotics violations. NCSU officer issued Judicial Referrals. 8:11 P.M. | CHECK PERSONWest Lot Officer observed non student yelling at students passing through. Subject was trespassed from NCSU property. 8:49 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIORStudent Health Center Officer assisted staff member with voluntary commitment for student. Student was issued conditional tres-pass and referral.
March 281:27 A.M. | TRAFFIC STOPMorrill Drive and Warren Carroll DriveStudent was issued a citation for speeding.
12:02 A.M. | CHECK PERSONDan Allen DriveOfficer observed a suspicious subject. The subject fled the area before of-ficers could make contact. Identity is unknown at this time.
9:43 A.M. | FIRE ALARMFlex LabsUnits responded to alarm. Cause of activation unknown.
3:42 P.M. | FIRE ALARMD.H. Hill LibraryUnits responded to alarm caused by dust from contactors working.
7:01 | WELFARE CHECKOwen HallPolice checked on the welfare of a student. The student was located.
7:24 P.M. | UTILITY PROBLEMEngineering Building IIReport of water leak, facilities noti-fied.
7:29 P.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYMethod Road at Jackson StreetNCSU officer observed a fight be-tween non students. Raleigh Police was contacted to respond and handle the criminal investigation.
8:01 P.M. | MEDICAL ASSISTEngineering Building IIUnits responded to student in need of medical assistance.
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IN THE KNOW Filmmaker to visit campus
Jeremiah Zagar, a renowned filmmaker, will screen his film “In a Dream” and also talk to students Wednesday. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in Witherspoon Cinema.
Zagar won the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Art-ist Award at the 2008 Full Frame Film Festival. He will also serve on the jury of this award at the Full Frame Fes-tival in Durham.
His visit is sponsored by the Department of Film Studies.
SOURCE: NCSU.EDU
Tickets on sale for dance event!
A group of guest artists and students will be perform-ing in a spring dance event Wednesday.
The group, called DanceVi-sions will use a mix of mod-ern dance, jazz, hip-hop, and African dance.
Tickets are $5 for N.C. State students, $7 for faculty/staff, senior citizens and non State students and general admis-sion is $8. For tickets, call (919) 515-1100 or visit www.ncsu.edu/arts.
SOURCE: NCSU.EDU
Fundraiser to raise awareness
April 3 will kick off the Re-lay for Life event on campus.
For one day and one night, students, faculty, and com-munity members will gather to honor, and pay tribute to the people whose lives have been affected by cancer
Proceeds of the fundraiser will benefit the American Cancer Society.
To get involved, or for fur-ther information, contact Kelly Andrews at [email protected].
SOURCE:NCSU.EDU
Project BackPACK helps alumni
National Residence Hall Honorary is sponsoring Proj-ect BackPACK, an opportu-nity for current students to support alumni now working with Teach For America.
Beginning at 1 p.m. April 5, students can pack backpacks for Triangle-area students in Teach For America schools and also sign up for one-on-one tutoring slots in local schools. It will take place in First Year College Commons, room 104.
For further information, contact National Residence Hall Honorary at [email protected].
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WORLD & NATIONMeningitis kills 200 in outbreak
In the past two weeks, meningitis has claimed the lives of an estimat-ed 200 people throughout Nigeria and Niger.
The outbreak, which began at the start of the year, usually peaks dur-ing the dry season because of dust, winds and cold nights, according to a spokesman in Nigeria.
According to the World Health Or-ganization, this outbreak is bigger then the past meningitis outbreaks.
Because there is a shortage of vaccines, officials throughout Africa are vaccinating people within sur-rounding areas of a large number of cases.
As the number of sick people is grow-ing, the World Health Organization is working on improving resources and medical treatment.
There have been 25,000 suspected cases and more than 1,500 deaths in the meningitis belt in the first 11 weeks of the year, authorities said. An estimated 85 percent of those cases happened in Nigeria and Niger.
SOURCE: CNN.COM
Biden discusses United States aid
Vice President Joseph Biden met with the Costa Rican president and other South American leaders on Monday to discuss United States aid to the area.
Currently Costa Rica is suffering with the global economic struggle as well as fighting a never-ending drug war.
According to Biden, the meeting was an opportunity to meet leaders from the area and strengthen existing ties
between the United Stated and Central America.
“This administration is looking for a productive and respectful relationship...and that initiates lis-tening to each other.” Biden said.
SOURCE: CNN.COM
25-year-old rows 3,000 miles across Atlantic Ocean
Paul Ridley became the young-est American to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip, which was 3,000 miles, took Ridley 88 days to complete.
For almost three months, Ridley rowed approximately 12 hours a day to raise cancer awareness and money for research.
Ridley’s inspiration for his historic trip came from his mother, who in 2001, lost a fight with skin cancer. Because of her experience, Ridley and his sister have established the Row for Hope organization to raise money and awareness for cancer.
Ridley worked with a rowing coach and nutritionist for two years and then began training for 10 hours a day, every day to prepare him for the trip.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY“The current
[e-mail] system is ineffective and
outdated.”Chelsey Core, a junior
in fashion and textile management
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Discontinuing the use of half of the computer labs on campus is not going to be as beneficial as first thought by the Office of Information Technology.
All other options need to be explored before making a decision this drastic. I’m sure there are other ways to save on energy, because it is just a matter of someone taking the time to actually discover new intuitive ideas. Students all over campus depend heavily on the computer labs.
It’s not just for the convenience so that the students are able to check their e-mail or get on Facebook, as many may believe. There are a lot of students who do in fact have a real need for labs. I find myself using the labs more now than I did my freshman year. My main reason is because my printer broke last year. Since
University needs more computers
Ashley Millsjunior, communication
MILLS continued page 4
The Office of Information Technology is looking into the option of reducing com-puter labs by at least 50 percent and will
strongly encourage students to have laptops to cut energy costs, according to OIT Director of Outreach Communications and Consulting Stan North Martin.
The goal of reducing energy consumption is good and necessary for cutting costs, especially when the University is facing a $36 million bud-get deficit in 2009-10, but the option of having an across-the-board cut in computers in computer labs is inadequate and insufficient.
The University expects to continue enrollment growth, and it will not be possible to maintain the quality of education while cutting the amount of computers on campus.
Because the University does not require stu-dents to have laptop computers, financial aid does not cover the cost of them. And because the Uni-versity does not require each to student to have a personal computer, computer programs are also not covered by financial aid, which may end up costing more than the price of a laptop.
Though it is too late to require students to have laptops for the 2009-10 school year, the Universi-ty should look into the option of requiring fresh-men to have them for 2010-11.
UNC-Chapel Hill began requiring its freshman to have laptops in 2000 and years following, ac-cording to The Daily Tar Heel. Though Carolina does not have as much of a focus on technology as NCSU, it has ranked consistently in the top schools in the nation by the Princeton Review.
With the current economic crisis that we are fac-ing, every business and institution is forced to make budget cuts and, understandably, the Uni-
versity is no different. But I do have a few problems with the proposed solutions, namely reduc-ing the amount of computer lab space on campus.
First off, simply requiring students to have laptop computers is not going to significantly reduce the need for the computer labs (especially not by 50 per-cent). With courses requiring students to use large computer programs, such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Maple, Matlab, etc., thousands of students need to access this software.
Sure, you could get the University to install these programs onto your per-
Laptops cannot handle programs
Gregory Dickinsonsenior, mechanical engineering
DICKINSON continued page 4
Recently, a number of methods to reduce the budget of NCSU’s Office of Information Technology were put forward by its members. These include modi-
fications to faculty, staff, and student e-mail, computer lab modification, homogenizing web hosting, and changing staff computing environments.
While all of these ideas are good in theory, whether they should be put into place at NCSU is debatable. Most of them have been touched on before, in one form or another, but I’d really like to talk about the one concerning computer usage on campus.
One of OIT’s ideas is to either require or expect that students will have laptops, then slashing half of the computer lab
Virtual computer labs hold the key
TEAL continued page 4
As a relative newcomer, I am very aware — and proud — of the University’s reputation for its creative problem solving, innovation
and robust “can do” spirit in the face of adversity. Chancellor Oblinger and the whole Uni-versity’s leadership team are calling on all these strengths to deal with North Carolina’s current budget crisis. Cuts have already been made in University al-locations, and while next year’s amount is uncertain, we know that more budget cuts are coming.
Information Technology services cam-pus-wide will need to continue to take their fair share of these cuts. However, IT can also play an important role in the University’s efforts to be smart and stra-
From adversity springs innovation
HOIT continued page 4 EDITORIAL continued page 4
University should require laptops
!OUR VIEW"
Departments at the University are looking for ways to reduce budget expenses and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) is no exception. Headed by Marc Hoit, Vice Chancellor at OIT,
the department has been reviewing several methods to reduce the budget from technology perspective in the coming years.
“We have been brainstorming ideas and performing calculations to decide the best possible investments,” Hoit said.
Four components make up the base of the current recommendations, including outsourcing campus e-mail, requiring students to provide their own
computer, unifying Web hosting and implementing a virtual desktop environment.
The first method to reduce the budget would be to discontinue the use of Cyrus, the University’s current e-mail system.
Students on campus already feel the current system is not up to par with the current demands of e-mail, lacking sufficient storage or the ability to display im-ages, according to Chelsey Core, a junior in fashion and textile management, who has her campus-based e-mails forwarded to her Google account.
“The current [e-mail] system is ineffective and outdated,” Core said.
Hoit put an e-mail task force into place last fall and the group recently released its report recommend-ing outsourcing the University’s e-mail system to Google’s Gmail. The task force detailed how at least $60,800 could be saved per academic year and how students could benefit from additional tools provided by Google accounts.
Requiring each to student to provide his or her own computer coincides with the University’s strategy to reduce the amount of general-use computer labs on campus.
OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SEARCHES FOR WAYS TO CUT EXPENDITURES AND SAVE MONEY, INCLUDING CHANGING
E#MAIL SERVICE AND REQUIRING STUDENTS TO HAVE LAPTOPSSTORY BY JAY ROSS | ILLUSTRATION BY SUSANNAH BRINKLEY
Marc HoitVice Chancellor for Information Technology and CIO
Michael Tealsenior, computer science
spark!
OIT continued page 4
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then, I honestly haven’t had the time or money to invest in buying a new one. I figured since I’m paying to attend this institution, I might as well get my money’s worth.
Some suggest students need to have laptops as a backup, w h i c h I don’t really agree with. It has even b e e n r u -mored that laptops may become a require-ment for all students to have in or-der to attend t h e Un i -versity. But then who is going to pay for those lap-tops? OIT said adjustments can be made in the financial aid process so that laptops can be paid for. Well, where does that leave all students who don’t qualify for finan-cial aid? I am included in that group. I have been denied fi-nancial aid for the last two years because my parents sup-
posedly make too much money, but I haven’t seen the fruits of that labor. It’s bad enough that tuition has slowly gone up. The University is constantly charg-ing students for new fees, most of which are considered miscel-laneous.
How can students be assured that their money is being spent wisely? Just within the last year, new computers were bought and distributed throughout campus
labs and now they might be t a ken aw ay. Those comput-ers obviously weren’t f ree. Our fees have been pay i ng for them, and I f ind it very unsettling that the money may have been wast-ed when it could have been used toward energy
conservation. It’s even more disturbing that
every time I need to use a com-puter, I have to wait. The labs on main campus are always full so what makes you think that things will get better if they are reduced by half? Yes, the economy is not in the best condition right now, but we have to make do with what we have.
I know that there were several new routes added to the Wolfline at the start of the fall semester. Were those extra routes really needed? One of those includes the reverse shuttle. I’m almost positive that students found ways to get around campus before this route was created.
If adjustments are made in fi-nancial aid, who will benefit? As I said before, only certain people will qualify. Even if any student could receive aid or grants, there wouldn’t be enough money to go around considering there are more than 30,000 students at-tending the University.
There are some students who will not have a 3.5 GPA. Is that fair to those who don’t? I do agree that students who do ex-cel in the classroom should be rewarded for their success, but then what about everyone else? A high GPA doesn’t mean they are high in character. The Uni-versity has been taking away a lot of different things from students, but did they ever consider taking away from the staff?
We, as students, are bringing in all the revenue, no matter how you look at it; athletics, organi-zations, etc. Without students there would be no NCSU. That’s something that needs to be con-sidered.
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By reducing the general-use labs, the campus benefits by not investing in new equipment and maintenance fees for the hard-ware.
While a large portion of the s tudents en-rolled already prefer having a computer before their first day, some students feel reducing computer labs is detrimental to the educa-tional environ-ment, like Julian Mack, a sopho-more in English.
“Computer labs are convenient and develop an environment for
work,” Mack said. Some departments on campus
require both complex equipment and expensive software that the University would not expect the students to provide on their own.
The College of Engineering is one example that uses equipment not easily attainable by students.
T h e t h i rd strategy is to u n i f y We b host i ng a nd related services and migrate the applications to content man-aged systems.
There is al-ready a pilot in place to test this money-saving strategy.
If successful, the University
could decide to invest in its own servers and software to keep the
services in house. The other op-tion is to again outsource the service to a third-party firm.
“This would be an option if we could still provide services simi-lar to the current system,” Hoit said. “If we could keep the costs
competitive with commercial services.”
Besides the potential to reduce the budget, students said a uni-fied system can increase produc-tivity on campus.
“Unifying Web hosting is
a good way to advance how employees and students con-nect, communicate and col-laborate across the University,” Joseph Randolph, a junior in computer engineering, said.
The final strategy proposed by OIT includes moving current computer systems to a virtual desktop.
By not having a specific hard-ware device, users would be able to access their data and applica-
tions from anywhere. “It allows [information tech-
nology] departments to reduce management and also reduce costs for support and desktop hardware,” Randolph said.
Some colleges at the University already use a virtual desktop and have seen reduced support calls by 80 percent, according to the OIT.
The strategies are still in the planning phase and would re-quire more input from admin-istration, the OIT and students, Hoit said.
According to Hoit, the strate-gies are planned to be put into place by the beginning of the next academic year but are more likely to be implemented over a period of time.
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tegic in response to these man-dated reductions.
The core mission and values of the University — education, research, extension and service - must not only be protected but we must also be prepared for the future.
The goal is to make decisions that enable the University to emerge from this crisis stronger, more innovative and responsive to opportunities.
As the Vice Chancellor for IT and CIO, I was asked by Provost Larry Nielsen and Chief Fi-nancial Officer Charlie Leff ler to develop some innovative ideas that could pro-duce $1 mil-lion in recur-ring savings for the University. A f ter bra in-storming with staff and oth-ers, four pre-liminary ideas emerged as most promising.
These preliminary ideas and “back of the envelope” cost-sav-ings projections have been cir-culated, are being discussed on campus and further researched. None have reached any sort of formal proposal stage or selec-tion to move forward, which is critical to the process.
Below are four ideas I believe are worth further investigation:
1) Move all faculty and staff
e-mail to a single centralized system, discontinuing other e-mail systems on campus. This assumes that the Cyrus/Web-mail service will be discontinued and student e-mail moved to an outsourced platform. (For more about this proposal, visit the Student E-mail Initiative Web site.) The final step would be to determine the best platform for faculty and staff e-mail including possible outsourcing.
2) Expect students to have laptop computers and then de-commission at least 50 percent of the computer lab seats campus wide. This change assumes that many services now provided in the labs can be provided through
application de-livery tools, stu-dent-installed sof tware, the Virtual Com-p u t i n g L a b and other op-tions. Special-ized computer labs that are still required for software, teach-ing, research or other activities that cannot be
delivered through other mecha-nisms would still remain.
3) Unify University Web hosting and move many of the University Web sites to a content managed environment. Special Web sites that cannot be moved could be exempted. Web host-ing for these environments at competitive pricing would be used. There is already a pilot un-der way to look at solutions that might allow this type of service. This suggested service would not
have a direct impact on services to students.
4) Move all staff and lab computer systems to a managed desktop environment and move appropriate staff systems to a vir-tual desktop environment. Some colleges have already implement-ed a managed desktop for most of their computers and realized significant reductions in support calls. Many current desktops do not need the computational pow-er of a stand alone machine, and desktop virtualization may save even more than fully-managed desktops. If implemented, this idea would have no impact on student-owned computers.
None of these ideas are final. Task forces are being created to dig deeper into each idea and de-velop a more complete proposal of implementation requirements, costs and potential savings. Stu-dents, staff and faculty will be involved in the process. From these more refined plans, we’ll make decisions on which to pur-sue.
It is through collaboration, in-novation and creativity that we can cooperatively develop solu-tions that improve our future while meeting the demands of the current environment.
If you have ideas you believe can save significant IT resourc-es, please send them to me so we can consider them. Visit oit.ncsu.edu/forum/budget-reduction-strategies to submit your com-ments and ideas.
Please help by working togeth-er to try new ideas and challenge old paradigms to create success and leadership at the University.
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“The goal is to make decisions tha tenable the University to
emerge from this crisis stronger.”
Reducing the amount of computers on campus while not requiring students to have laptops would reduce the quality of education at
the University.Another obstacle the OIT fac-
es is the people who depend on computer labs to print.
If the University decides to decommission computers in labs, then the OIT must be able to sync laptops with printers to meet demand.
The idea of cutting some com-puter labs to cut energy costs is good, but the methods OIT is considering are deficient. This problem cannot be solved in a couple of months. Any reason-able solution to this problem takes time, compromise and in-put from every part of campus.
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sonal computer and be able to use them whenever and wherever you want, but have you ever tried this before?
I have and it slowed my com-puter down so much that I couldn’t operate these programs without my system temporarily freezing and/or crashing. I got so frustrated that I had no choice but to uninstall these programs and complete my projects in a computer lab on campus.
The fact of the matter is the majority of students’ personal computers don’t have the ca-pacity to effectively utilize these programs to complete simple homework assignments, let alone semester long projects.
And what about those students who own Apple computers? Many of these computer pro-grams aren’t compatible with
Macintosh systems. Are these students expected to purchase brand new computers just to be able to complete homework as-signments? It just doesn’t seem fair to the majority of the student population.
Second, most people already k n o w h o w much of a has-sle it is now to try and find an open computer on c a mpu s , dur ing pea k hours. Now imagine what it will be like if they decom-mission 50 per-cent (or more) of these computers… complete mayhem! Maybe instead of tak-ing away computers that stu-dents actually use, why doesn’t the University decommission the 40” HDTV’s that seem to only
be there to inform you of what building you’re in? Couldn’t a simple bulletin board serve the same purpose? Or what about taking away the video game systems in the library that only serve as a distraction to those
who are actu-ally trying to do school work?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought students used the library for studying, not butchering Sweet Child of Mine on Guitar Hero.
I understand the University
needs to make budget cuts, but I feel that there are more com-mon sense solutions that can be explored, which don’t inconve-nience tens of thousands of col-lege students.
seats campus-wide. There are two sides to this story. Dur-ing certain hours, computer labs are extremely underused. However, during peak hours, they’re almost always packed to the gills. Unfortunately, a lot of students either can’t afford, don’t want to own, or don’t want to carry a laptop with them. Furthermore, in-creasing the economic burden of education on students, by expecting laptop ownership, is contrary to the stated goal of NCSU — providing the best possible education for the lowest possible cost. On the other hand, reducing lab seats, software licenses, and energy used by computers is a very, very good cost saving point. If OIT could some-how strike a happy medium
by cutting the least-used seats, or even the least-used labs, this could generate serious savings in the long run.
One other resource available to students is the innovative Virtual Computing Lab. The VCL allows you to request use of a remote computer that has various spe-cialized software installed on it for up to four hours. Images you can request from the VCL include various subsets of Office, Visual Studio, Maple, Matlab, Solidworks, Dreamweaver, Pho-toshop, SAP, SAS, Autocad, Red Hat Linux, ArcGIS and many others.
Also, getting a VCL reservation is simple. The VCL e-mails you a remote desktop file, which you can open on almost any version of Windows (XP or Vista) or Linux. Ta-da! The software you would otherwise have to visit a lab for is at your fingertips. Do what you need to do with the software, save your results, and close the connection. It’s that
easy. Furthermore, you can use VCL from anywhere, not just on campus. While using it on a di-alup connection might be a little testy, any DSL or cable connec-tion is more than enough to use the VCL service.
The VCL lives up to the mis-sion on its Web site, which is “providing dedicated remote access to a range of computing environments for students and researchers to access from any networked location either on or off campus.” Promotion of this no-lab computing center con-cept holds a lot of promise for saving money while still provid-ing students with the resources they need.
Since we are able to provide students with a large array of programs and data from any computer they have access to, reducing the number of lab seats is a viable strategy for OIT to re-duce their energy consumption and operating costs. However, expecting students to own and
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“New computers were bought
and distributed throughout
campus labs and now they might be taken away.”
“... I had no choice but to
uninstall these programs and complete my projects in a
computer lab.”
“Computer labs are convenient and develop an
environment for work”
said by Julian Mack, a sophomore in English
OIT SPRING 2008 SURVEY“Do you have access to a laptop to bring to your class session?”
74% Yes/Owned
11% Yes/Shared
15% No
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Agriculture & Life Sciences 22 405
Design 9 103
Education 6 139
Engineering 19 639
Natural Resources 2 59
Humanities & Social Sciences 6 220
Management 5 161
Physical & Mathematical Sciences 18 524
Textiles 8 181
Veterinary Medicine 3 43
D.H. Hill Library 2 165
Office of Information Technology 9 280
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When I originally saw the album artwork for Neko Case’s newest album Middle Cyclone, I smiled in spite of myself. The album cover fea-tures the artist, blazing red hair and all, perched on the top of a vintage car, barefoot and wielding a sword. Having been unfamiliar with her music, I was immediately drawn to the whimsy and spontaneity that her album artwork promises and undeniably delivers.
The best thing about Neko Case’s music is the carefree and whimsical element of it. Yet behind the quirky metaphors, finger-picked guitar and simple yet well-executed harmonies, lies an element of darkness and mys-tery. This is a girl who’s had some experiences, and her poetic song-writing capabilities showcase her talent.
While many of the songs have a quirky, alternative country feel complete with a twang and a banjo, a vast majority of the songs on this album tap into that darkness and have an eerie sense of mystery. The song “Polar Nettles” makes use of minor chords and deterministic drums that are reminiscent of a funeral procession. The eerie yet beautiful song haunts the air for moments after the song ends.
Neko Case’s voice on the whole is clear, powerful and moving.
Her surprisingly powerful voice doesn’t fail to delight, surprise and sooth. Her voice fluctuates between lullaby-sweet in songs like the title track “Middle Cyclone‚“ and un-orthodox, powerful love songs like “This Tornado Loves You‚“ in which she compares herself to a destruc-tive tornado. Her voice really stands out as something special against the accompanying background music and harmonies.
Considering many of the songs on this album were recorded in an old barn, complete with a makeshift “piano orchestra” and “found in-struments,” this album is rich with nature imagery. “Middle Cyclone” makes you want to go running through a field of sunflowers and go dancing in the rain. She covers Sparks’ “Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth” and muses about im-ages in nature and animals in many
of her songs. It’s obvious that this album was
recorded with a sense of humor, as well. Many of the songs contain a quirky childlike quality that is both refreshing and genuine. Her unde-niable talent as a lyricist and song-writer is evident on the album, and many of the songs read like poetry. Piano features prominently on this album, and oftentimes it serves as an echo to Neko Case’s voice itself.
On the whole, this album is re-ally good and worth checking out. My only problem with the album is the last track, “Marais La Nuit,” a 30-minute recording of crickets chirping. The natural qualities of this album stand out on its own — this last track just seems a little pre-tentious and unnecessary.
Regardless, Neko Case is the kind of artist that the pop music scene needs. She is confident in her mu-sic, and doesn’t make apologies for being a little bit different. There’s a feminine yet independent woman aspect to her songs, as well. In the song “The Next Time You Say For-ever‚“ she writes, “The next time you say forever, I’ll punch you in the face.” And in the pop radio friend-ly “People Got a Lotta Nerve,” she muses, “I’m a man eater, but you’re still surprised when I eat ya.”
There’s always something to be discovered in her music. After each listen, I always find something new buried in her songs.
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Seth WhiteWKNC DJ
The Decemberists have giv-en me hope that the concept of an album is still alive. On their latest, The Hazards of Love, Colin Meloy and crew tell the dark story of two lov-ers, William and Marga-ret, and the two antago-nists that at-tempt to foil their plans, the Queen a n d t h e Rake. The album’s sev-enteen songs are perfectly crafted and woven to-gether with common themes and solid transitions. In an in-terview with Paste Magazine, Meloy commented that Haz-ards was initially set to be a musical but then reinvented as a rock opera.
An instrumental prelude slowly starts off the album and blends into part one of the title track, there are four altogether. “The Hazards of Love 1” resembles their earlier works complete with acous-
tic picking, rich upright bass and well-read Meloy’s lyrics circling about “lithesome maidens.” This formula is immediately shed on the following song, “A Bower Scene.” Here, distorted electric guitars thump power chords reminiscent of “Ziggy Stardust”
or The Wall . What surprises me the most about this new sound is how well it actually works for the Decemberists, t he cha nge s f rom folk to rock are pulled off effortlessly here.
A f t e r a n instrumen-ta l interlude about halfway through the al-
bum, “The Rake’s Song” kicks in. An eerie song featuring thick drums about a widower murder-ing his children, he pays for that at the end of the album. Fol-lowing this is “The Abduction of Margaret” — here, the band revisits the sounds of “A Bower Scene” and pushes them to new boundaries.
Shara Morden of My Brightest Diamond is brought in to do the vocals of the Queen. Here, her
voice is emotionally empower-ing and downright evil espe-cially over prog-rock guitars on “The Queens Rebuke” and “The Wanting Comes in Waves.” Along with Morden, the Decem-berists brought in My Morning Jacket’s front man, Jim James, to help out with background vocals on various tracks.
The last track, “The Hazards of Love 4,” brings the album to its tragic close as William and Mar-garet are swept off and drowned by the river. The song is a gentle finale with a wonderful steel gui-tar solo sandwiched in between the last duet by the two lovers.
There are drawbacks some might see to this take-it-or-leave it concept album. Each song flows right into the next leaving no real breaks — great for an al-bum but causes it to lack the sin-gles of its predecessor, The Crane Wife. But for what it’s worth, they aren’t missed here. As a whole, The Hazards of Love is a con-ceptual masterpiece from start to finish that Decemberists fans will cherish on their first listen.
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Sarah EwaldStaff Writer
Remember the early years of high school? On the outside, it was all about challenging author-ity but was inwardly confusing since emotions often changed on a whim. French film The Class will make the viewer remember it all, and see themselves in the featured students.
The Class — or in its translated French title Between the walls — is based on a book that Francois Begaudeau wrote about his expe-riences as a teacher, published in 2006.
I n M a y 2008, the film won the pres-tigious Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film was also France’s entry in the Academy Awards cat-egory of Best Foreign Lan-guage Film.
It’s a new year at the College Fran-coise Dolto, where Francois Marin — played by Francois Begaudeau himself — has been teaching French for the past four years. The College Dolto is located in Paris’ 20th district, on the eastern outskirts of the city. What is notable about the 20th district is that it has a large immigrant population.
Marin teaches a junior-high level class comprised of students whose ages range from 13 to 15, with a range of personalities from docile to volatile. Some of the students he had taught in the previous year, and some are new to the level and to him.
Within the first few minutes of the movie, Marin goes through the usual routine of establishing order and introducing one an-other. In this vignette, it becomes evident of who among the class-mates will mark themselves out from the others.
Seatmates Khoumba and Es-meralda immediately distin-guish themselves when they be-gin arguing with Marin about what exactly constitutes an hour of classroom learning.
The school’s students come from a wide range of nation-alities, and this is ref lected in Marin’s class. Students and/or their families hail from such places as China, Africa and the Caribbean.
The conflict between the stu-dents’ ethnic backgrounds and traditional Franco- and Euro-centric viewpoints lead to some moments of disconnect.
Within the first ten minutes, Marin asks the class what words they do not understand and sets
out to remedy this problem by creating sentences to show the meanings through context clues. With one word, Marin decides to use the name “Bill‚“ as a subject, which Khoumba and Esmer-alda question and then protest outright. Marin allows them to choose a name to replace it, and after swift consultation, the two pick Aissata and Fatou and finally settle on Aissata.
This little scene illustrates the fact that the girls, as represent-ing the entire class, could not relate to this theoretical “Bill” character, and so had to change it to something more in line with their respective cultures as to ab-sorb the information better.
Hints of class warfare also burst to the surface, a f ter simmer-ing just below. This is nowhere more apparent than a staffroom scene, where a fellow instructor barges into the staffroom, pro-claiming that he cannot teach the students and that they can wallow in their own ex-crement for all he cares.
The other pro-fessors listen sympathetically, more than likely knowing ex-actly those thoughts. At another point, Khoumba protests a verb conjugation, claiming it to be bourgeois‚ making it clear that she does not align herself with such thinking.
A major subplot of the story concerns Souleymane, a troubled Mali student. Souleymane is in-subordinate and ill-prepared for class, and yet is viewed an irrev-erent hero among his classmates. He continues to coast on his in-difference until an ill-thought
term uttered by Marin provokes a reaction from Souleymane that has dire consequences.
Through it all, the viewer is always reminded that they are watching teenagers. For a class exercise, Marin instructs his students to write about them-selves, much like Anne Frank in her diary, and later asks them to discuss their ideas with the class.
Wei, the shy Chinese student, speaks about his view that mod-ern young people have no shame. When he finishes, attention is turned to Louise, who blushes while explaining that she be-lieves her ears to be too large. The veering from the articulate reasoning to the aesthetically superficial reminds the audience that while the students may have reasonable ideas, they are still very much teenagers.
The film stays true to its doc-umentary approach. Nearly all of the students use their real names, as does their teacher. The school itself actually exists, and the shaky, hand-held cam-era reinforces the fly-on-the-wall viewpoint.
Though a screenplay was scripted, it is difficult to tell since the all of interactions flow so naturally, especially the ones with overlapping chatter.
The Class is a poignant film about the interplay between teachers and adolescents. It shows the undercurrent of class and racism in modern-day Par-is. The film showcases the im-migrant side of Paris, one not often seen in films popular in the United States. It draws the viewer into its world completely, until releasing them at the end to reflect on their own adolescent experiences.
‘The Class’ aptly shows student - teacher conflict
“[The Class] draws the viewer
into its world completely, until releasing them at the end to
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TRACK LISTING1. Prelude2. The Hazards of Love 13. A Bower Scene4. Won’t Want for Love5. The Hazards of Love 26. The Queen’s Approach7. Isn’t It a Lovely Night?8. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid9. An Interlude10. The Rake’s Song11. The Abduction of Margaret12. The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing13. Annan Water14. Margaret in Captivity15. The Hazards of Love 316. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)17. The Hazards of Love 4
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Sportsknow the quality that can be expected.”
Watson also said that the permanent clubhouse is still primarily dependent on fundraising from alumni and other donors. Once the tar-get amount for fundraising is reached, construction on the clubhouse will begin. Once construction is underway, Watson expects the clubhouse to open eight to nine months later.
“We’re in tough economic times, but it will happen soon,” Watson said.
Pricing to play the course will be structured in four main categories, similar to other collegiate courses in the Triangle. There will be a standard general public walk-in rate, as well as one for “af-filiated entities,” such as the Wolfpack Club, the Alumni Association and other groups associated with the university. There will also be faculty rates and student rates. All of the rates will fall under certain stipulations, such as specific days of the week.
“We plan on announc-ing the prices in the next couple of weeks,” Watson said. “We’re getting together details on course rules, poli-cies and other administrative things. These will all be an-nounced as we continue to finalize.”
The men and women’s golf teams will have early access to the course. Watson also serves
as the assistant coach of the men’s golf team, which is cur-rently nation-ally ranked. He said all of the players are ex-cited about the fantastic year that the team is having and ev-eryone is look-ing forward to the convenience and pride in-volved in hav-i ng a home course. Watson is already see-ing benefits of having a new course.
“Nowadays, high school kids ask about where we’re playing, how many times we fly out, what our home facility is like and oth-er questions,” Watson said. “So
it’s nice to have something new and original to offer, and we’ve
been getting a lot more visits.”
Zac Kasak, a senior in busi-ness adminis-tration, is look-ing forward to the opening of the course. He plans on try-ing out the new course in the summer.
“Now I play when I go home, because I live on a golf course, as well as at Gar-ner Countr y
Club, because it’s cheap,” Kasak said. “It’s a really attractive thing to have in the area that’s new and catered to students, the golf teams and the alumni.”
to 6-0 this season. Weinacker, currently ranked No. 65, nation-ally notched a straight set victory over No. 12 Guillermo Gomez of Georgia Tech. Weinacker hopes to qualify for the NCAA tour-nament and win out in his five remaining ACC matches of his career, all while helping his team succeed.
“It’s important, every time I can go out and get a win it’s going to help the team. I have some individual goals as well,”
Weinacker said. “So each match I win is helping me get closer to accomplishing those and helping the team. I am trying to go out on a good note.”
Choboy hopes Weinacker’s success will rub off on the rest of the team and the other play-ers will follow the example of the senior leader.
“A bad apple can ruin a group and hopefully a good apple can help a group. And he’s a good one,” Choboy said. “He’s a good example for everyone to know what they have to do. If I was on his team, I’ll tell you this -- I wouldn’t want to let him down.”
Weinacker hopes the team will take the losses against Clemson and Georgia Tech as a challenge and respond accordingly.
“Obviously we had a tough weekend last weekend so ev-erybody was a little down but it seems like everybody kind of bounced back and looks like we are a little refocused,” Weinacker said. “Hopefully, we’ll come out hungry because usually we do after a couple of tough losses.”
It’s a tremendous credit to him and his commitment to this pro-gram to keep his mind fresh and his excitement level high for two years. For a young kid to do that, well hats off.”
Baker came to the Wolfpack as the gem of Chuck Amato’s 2005 recruiting class. Listed as a five-star by a number of recruiting Web sites, he finished his prep career as the leading rusher in the history of North Carolina high school football. Baker said the injury has not changed those things that made him great in high school, and as an under-classmen for the Pack.
“My running style hasn’t changed,” Baker said. “My cut-ting abilities, my speed, lowering my shoulder -- it’s just like it was before I left. So, I’m feeling pretty confident.”
Jamey Coll, former head ath-letic trainer for football, was with Baker throughout his recovery process. Baker said Coll was es-sential to his comeback from injury.
“He was there every step of the way for me. We were in it to-gether,” Baker said. “Of course this whole program had a lot to do with me coming back, but he was really the guy that, day in and day out, me and him stuck through it and grinded it out. And that’s why I’m here, where I am now. Practicing the way I’ve been these last couple days, I just wish he could be out there to see me. He’s not working with us anymore, but he would be proud. [He is] one of the hardest work-ing men I know.”
For the Wolfpack coaches, Baker is still somewhat of an X-factor as he has been injured for almost the entirety of coach Tom O’Brien’s time with the University.
“He’s proven in the past to be a good player,” Swepson said. “He’s only shown coach O’Brien and this staff the first half of the Central Florida game. Is he still an unknown? It’s a possibility. But with his work ethic, his at-titude and his commitment to the program, it’s going to help us tremendously.”
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Stadium NFLer9 Lawn game
using lobbedmissiles
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TONEY BAKER BY THE NUMBERS1234 Career rushing yards with
the Wolfpack
10231 Career rushing yards at
Ragsdale High School
12 Games in which Toney
Baker has been State’s
leading rusher
174 Yards rushing in the 2006
game at Clemson
100 Percent healthy,
according to Baker
!COMPILED BY TAYLOR AUTEN
BAKERcontinued from page 8
TENNIScontinued from page 8
COURSEcontinued from page 8
DREIER CARR/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOThe Lonnie Poole Golf Course is located on the southernmost portion of Centennial Campus. The course is projected to be completed by the end of the semester.
“It’s a really attractive thing to have in the
area that’s new and catered to
students, the golf teams and the
alumni.”Zac Kasak, a senior in
business administration
SportsTECHNICIAN
COUNTDOWN INSIDE
After losing two straight matches, men’s tennis hopes to get back on the winning track
Sean KlemmStaff Writer
The men’s tennis team started the season hot, win-ning three out of its first four ACC matches. However, last weekend, the Pack dropped two matches in a row to Clemson and Georgia Tech, respectively. No. 38 N.C .State will look to get back on the
winning track against No. 25 Wake Forest today in Raleigh.
‘It’s really important we get a win here,” senior Jay Weinacker said. “In the last two matches we were expecting to at least win one of them, if not both, because both of those teams were ranked behind us. We are going to drop a little bit in the rankings and Wake is ranked No. 25, so it’s going to be very important to beat them and get off this losing streak.”
Head coach Jon Choboy was not pleased with the team’s per-formance as of late and expects his team to respond to adversity
positively. “We’re going to have to see how
we respond because we didn’t re-ally play that well these last two matches, particularly against Georgia Tech,” Choboy said. “We’ll see if coming back home and playing at home will make any difference. Hopefully every-body’s looked at himself in the mirror and we’ll come out and do a better job.”
Despite the team’s two losses this weekend, senior Jay Wein-acker picked up two more singles wins, improving his ACC record
The Lonnie Poole Golf Course is in the final stages of completion and is set to open at the end of May
Lindsey HallSenior Staff Writer
The Lonnie Poole Golf Course, located on Centen-nial Campus, is nearly com-plete and ready to present a challenge to golfers. In ad-dition, it will finally provide a home course for the men’s and women’s golf teams.
Construction on the 6,915-yard, par-71 course began in the summer of 2007. It was originally slated to open this April, but with the combina-tion of extended periods of rain and unseasonably cool weather, golfers will have to wait another month to hit the fairways.
While there is no specific date set for the opening of the course, grand opening activi-ties are tentatively scheduled for the last weekend of May, around Memorial Day.
Chip Watson, general man-ager and golf director of the Lonnie Poole Golf Course, is expecting a tremendous turn-out for the opening weekend of the course, which will in-clude a special appearance by Arnold Palmer. Palmer and his team from Arnold Palmer Design Company created the signature course.
“It’s been great to see all of
this come together and I can’t wait for the opening,” Watson said. “For now, we’re just fine tuning [the course].”
All major construction on the course is now complete. Now, workers are devoting attention to detail by edging all bunkers and planting and grooming the last of the landscaping. Grass mowing patterns are also being finalized and cut.
The putting greens are finished and ready for play, and as Watson said, “You could go putt on them right now.”
The main hold-up for the opening of the course is the fair-ways. The course is dominated by Bermuda grass, a special type of fine grass featured on many top-notch golf courses. Bermu-da grass typically needs four to six weeks of moderately warm growing weather before being in prime condition.
The maintenance building is also ready to be moved in, which will take place over the next few weeks. The course superinten-dent’s office will be housed in the building. A temporary structure will be in place within the next 30 days, adjacent to a parking lot that is nearly complete. The building will serve as a tempo-rary clubhouse and will also house offices for course staff.
“The temporary club house is a very nice. It’s the same style that was at the Old Chatham Golf Club as well as the River Landing course,” Watson said. “So people that have played there in the past
S ociety
E nvironment
E conomyS.E.E. what is going on at www.ncsu.edu/seeSpr ng into Sustainability
Following a knee injury that sidelined him for nearly two years, Toney Baker is ready to go
Taylor AutenDeputy Sports Editor
Entering the 2007 season, the football program was in turbulent waters. After un-dergoing a coaching change following a disappointing 3-9 season, few expected the Wolfpack offense, which was plagued by inconsistency at the quarterback position, to light up the scoreboard.
But despite NCSU’s insta-bility, there was a consensus that the backfield, anchored by tailback Toney Baker, would be a strength for the team. Baker finished 2006, his sophomore season, as the team’s leading rusher with 688 yards.
Then, in the season opener against Central Florida, Baker sustained a knee injury that would derail a career seem-ingly on track. The initial surgery would keep him off the field for the remainder of the season.
“I love the game so much, and having that taken away from you for a little bit, it was very difficult,” Baker said. “There were times when I couldn’t even watch. I wouldn’t even want to watch football for the f irst few months. As I started meet-ing my smaller goals, I kind of got comfortable getting back, watching football, just really looking forward to it.”
As the 2008 season ap-proached, team doctors determined Baker’s knee
required another surgery, and another lost season of football. But as the spring practices for 2009 get underway, he is finally confident he will be ready to play for the Pack this fall.
“I am definitely 100 percent healthy,” Baker said. “I feel great. These past couple practices really just boosted my confidence even more. I have been pretty success-ful in the past few practices, and I
am looking at getting better each day.”
Although Baker has not been on the gridiron for more than two years, his injury has not kept him away from the Mur-phy Center, where he has been undergoing rehab as well as attending team meetings. Ac-cording to running backs coach Jason Swepson, Baker has very little catching up to do after even
after being sidelined for so long.“He’s really kept his mind
fresh,” Swepson said. “He’s come to every meeting for the last two
years, he’s watched a bunch of film and he knows the playbook.
FOOTBALL
After injury, Baker is ready to contribute
SPRING GAME SET FOR APRIL 18
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
RONALD NAUSE/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOJunior Toney Baker utilizes a bit of open !eld as he is pursued by the defense during the 2006 season. Baker led the team in rushes that season before injuring his knee and undergoing multiple surgeries.
WOLFFACTS
Men’s golf completes second day at Hootie Invitational
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
MEN’S TENNIS
BAKER continued page 7
Pack looks to bounce back in game against Wake
The grass is greener on Centennial Campus
ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
MEN’S GOLF @ HOOTIE AT BULLS BAY, FINAL ROUNDBulls Bay Golf Club, Awandaw, S.C., all day
SOFTBALL VS. ELONDail Stadium, 4 p.m.
BASEBALL VS. EAST CAROLINACurtis & Jacqueline Dail Stadium, 6:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL VS. RADFORDDail Stadium, 4 p.m.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY“A bad apple
can ruin a group, and hopefully a good apple can
help a group. And he’s a good one.”
DID YOU KNOW?
COMING SOONWednesday:
DAVID MABE/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOJay Weinacker returns the ball during his singles match against Aleksandr Seleznev of Old Dominion. Weinacker won his singles match as well as his doubles match with teammate Jaime Pulgar. The Wolf-pack won, 4-3.
TENNIS continued page 7 COURSE continued page 7
MEN’S TENNISRANKINGS
1 Virginia 85
2 Mississippi 77
3 Georgia 75
4 Stanford 73
5 Tennessee 72
6 Ohio St. 70
7 Florida 64
8 S. California 61
9 Illinois 58
10 Baylor 56
SOURCE: NCAA.COM