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Vendors flock to Brickyard for Earth Day40th annual Earth Day Celebration had more than 80 booths

Chelsey FrancisStaff Writer

Earth Day, an annual celebration on April 22, was celebrated in the Brick-yard between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and included more than 80 vendors and displays. Some of the displays were from campus groups or organizations, groups in Wa ke Count y, as wel l as a few statewide groups.

University House-keeping had a dis-play that showed the ways they are “going green.” Kim Dunn-Danzy and Chris Leach, both building environmental tech-nicians with Univer-sity Housekeeping, and Randy Reed, a building environmental manager with University Housekeeping, were pres-ent to share the ways that Housekeep-ing has gone green and how they are working to improve the environment.

“We used to use 905 chemicals that were really harsh, but now everything we use in Housekeeping is green,” Dunn-Danzy said. “They all have the

green symbol on them. We’re trying to make everything better for us and for the students on campus.”

Housekeeping is using new ma-chines that are safer and better on the environment along with the green cleaning supplies. Even Pest Manage-ment on campus has gone green. As a method of pest management, House-keeping uses Rodent Traps, which are a green version of mouse traps.

“Instead of using harsh germ killing chemicals, we use the Ionator,” Leach said. “We put tap water into it and by using battery power, [it] heats the water so it is hot, which kills germs just as well as the harsh chemi-cals.”

Nessa Stone, op-erations manager for Waste Reduction and Recycling, said the Waste Reduc-tion and Recycling are doing all they can

to help reduce waste. Waste Reduction and Recycling sponsors the Pack-N-Go sale at the end of the spring semes-ter. They are also in charge of placing walkway recycling receptacles.

“Part of what we’re going out here is promoting [the] Pack-N-Go sale, which is a way that we prevent used items from college dorms, such as so-fas and bed sheets, from going to the

dump,” Stone said. “We sell the items back to people who need them.”

According to Stone, the response to Earth Day in the Brickyard was good.

“We’ve had great responses to our display, and it seems like other dis-

plays have had good responses as well,” Stone said. “It’s been pretty fun today being out here.”

Lee Xiong, a freshman in biomedi-cal engineering, said he attended the celebration. He said he found it to be

good. In high school, Xiong said he was the president of the Environmen-tal Club.

“I found the event to be a lot of fun,”

TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANLaura Carroll, freshman in First Year College, shops for dresses at the Sugar Magnolia booth on the Brickyard during Earth Day Thursday. The event featured shops, exhibits from University departments and advocacy organizations. “This is my new favorite store,” Carroll said. “Today I even dressed like a tree: green up top and brown pants.”

“In the short run,

I think this will

make some people

more aware of

environmental

issues.”Lee Ziong, freshman in

biomedical engineering

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MICHAEL SHRIVER/TECHNICIANNicholas Sailer, freshman in industrial design, demonstrates his product, Monster Deck, to a judge at eGames Thursday in E. Carroll Joyner Visitor Center. Sailer got involved in eGames through the College of Design, he said “Its a challenging event, but definitely a good opportunity.”

Fraternity to host second spring eventPi Kappa Phi completes two philanthropy events benefiting PUSH America this week

Annie AlbrightNews Editor

Pi Kappa Phi will host its second philanthropy event of the week, the Tournament of Roses, Saturday.

Ben Lingo, sophomore in civil engineering, said he organized both his fraternity’s spring philanthropy events as the PUSH chair for Pi Kappa Phi.

“We started with our philan-thropy last night at the Brick-house where we had Band of Oz, and all the money we raised is go-ing to PUSH America, which is a nonprofit organization that helps people with physical and mental disabilities,” Lingo said.

Pi Kappa Phi’s second spring phi-lanthropy event, Lingo said, will be this weekend.

“Tournament of Roses will be Saturday,” Lingo said. “There will be a sorority flag football tourna-ment starting at 1 [p.m.] and there

will also be a cookout and barbecue too.”

The fraternity donates a significant portion of the proceeds from both events to its national philanthropy.

“PUSH America is our national phi-lanthropy,” Lingo said. “It is great being involved with it.”

Stefan Kalc-zynski, junior in history and a brother of Pi Kappa Phi, said he is excited about events.

“I am quite ec-static. The pros-pect of helping out others but still having such a great time fundraising, it’s really a great experience,” Kalczynski said. “Along with raising money, PUSH Week is an opportunity for brothers to come together to support one for the more prominent philanthropies in Greek life.”

Pi Kappa Phi has created a tradition of hosting Band of Oz because one of

the brothers is a son of a band member, Lingo said.

“We have had Band of Oz the past couple years,” Lingo said. “We had ... Prefontaine open this year.”

Daniel Genung, sophomore in gen-eral engineering, said he is the lead singer for the band, Pre-fontaine, which opened for Band of Oz.

“There is a guy in a fraternity that we are pret-ty good friends with. We have known him since last year,” Ge-nung said. “We wrote a song last

year, kind of as a joke, and had him over, and he listened to it. Somehow we got more serious about the songs and so when he was planning the event for last night, he said we could play for it.”

Genung said the band really enjoyed

“The prospect of

helping out others

but still having

such a great time

fundraising, it’s really

a great experience.”Stefan Kalczynski, junior in history

Talley event offers students inside look at progress

Duda Paine design team to unveil new models, answer students’ questions regarding Talley renovation Friday at noon

Kate ShefteExecutive Editor

Representatives from Duda Paine, the lead design team for the Talley renovation project, will be on hand on the second floor of the Student Center Friday morn-ing from noon to 2 p.m. to explain their progress to the general pub-lic. While students enjoy refresh-ments, the minds behind Talley’s new makeover will describe the preliminary architectural design and be available to answer ques-tions.

Student Centers President Mary-

Cobb Randall, a junior in business administration, said the event was set up with the purpose of “bringing students up to speed over what’s been going on over the past year.”

“The first hour at least will be devot-ed to a presentation by Duda Paine,” Randall said. “It’s going to cover where they were when they were se-lected back in August up to where we are now. They’re going to show their thought processes, what kind of analy-sis has been done.”

According to Randall, the second hour will include a series of visuals. Models of potential designs will be on display, as well as exhibitions of past Duda Paine designs.

These models will map out the changes that have been made to proj-ect plans since they came into the pub-lic eye last fall, according to former student Senator Peter Barnes, a junior in political science

“In the fall, there wasn’t a lot of in-formation about everything,” Barnes said. “Now, they have a fair amount of certainty about where stuff is going to go and they can answer questions a little more concretely.”

At 8 a.m. Friday, board members for the Talley Committee will hold a meeting where they will vote on the building program. This includes how much space is allotted for each orga-nization.

“That will be voted on and approved so the designers can actually start de-signing the spaces,” Barnes said.

As of right now, the majority of funding for the project will come from student fees. According to Barnes, once plans are finalized, fundraising campaigns will begin to “reduce the burden on students.”

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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSIn the April 13 edition, Kelley Brackett, a senior in communication, should have also been identified as a member of the Student Media Board. She announced the recommendation of the Technician Advisory Board to the Student Media Board so it could vote on the selection for the 2010-2011 editor-in-chief.

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TodayDIVERSITY FILM SERIES - “LAST CHANCE FOR EDEN” PART IIMonteith Engineering Research Center (MRC), 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.

FIRST YEAR COLLEGE ACCEPTED STUDENT VISITATION PROGRAMFYC Commons 104, 106 1:30 - 3 p.m.

MOVIE: IT’S COMPLICATEDWitherspoon Cinema, 6 - 8 p.m.

NCSU DANCE COMPANY CONCERTStewart Theatre, 8 - 10 p.m.

UNIVERSITY THEATRE PRESENTS MACBETHThompson Theatre, 8 p.m.

MOVIE: RED CLIFF (PART ONE)Witherspoon Cinema, 9 - 11:30 p.m.

MOVIE: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (MULTI-DAY EVENT)Witherspoon Cinema11:59 p.m.

THROUGH MARISA’S LENS

Tie-dye for the Third WorldPHOTO BY MARISA AKERS

Lizzy Garnett, a junior in meteorology, and Hannah Simpson, a freshman in general engineering, tie-dye T-shirts during a fundraiser for Wine to Water, an organiza-tion that supplies clean drinking water to Third-World

countries. “I was attracted by the tie-dye, but it’s a really good cause,” Garnett said. “We take clean water for granted, but it’s not a luxury all people enjoy.”

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NCSU Dance Company Concert

National ly acclaimed by the American College Dance Festival Association, the NCSU Dance Company plan to perform a distin-guished collection of mod-ern dance for its spring con-cert Friday. The program will feature premiere and repertory work by dance program directors Robin Harris and Autumn Mist Belk, and a choreographic work by invited guest art-ist Claire Porter. Tickets are $5 for State students; $10 for children, other students, seniors and State staff; and $12 for the general public. The event will take place in Stewart Theatre Friday at 8 p.m. For more informa-tion, contact Robin Harris at 515-7034.

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Xiong said. “In the short run, I think this will make some people more aware of environmental issues. But in the long run, I don’t think anyone will really be affected by this. A few people might be changed by going to the booths and displays, but for the most part, I don’t think anyone will change.”

Some of the other displays included Wake County Solid Works Management Division, Engineers With-out Borders and The N.C. Green Party.

The N.C. Green Party is a political party that is trying to gain enough signatures on their petitions to be a le-gal party in North Carolina. They were collecting signa-tures at the event. In all, the organization said it needs about 85,000 signatures.

the atmosphere of performing at such an event.

“It was so much fun, we were sitting around talking about it,” Genung said. “I could not stop smiling, I was having such a good time.”

The band plans to continue playing and scheduling shows around the local area, Genung said.

“Well we have been talking to an apartment complex and we are trying to play a show at a pool during the day, “ Genung said. “We are playing at the Cave in Chapel Hill soon and we might be playing in Global Village coffee shop. I’m not sure how that is going to work since you expect a coffee shop to be quiet and calm. We were going to try and pack it and get everybody to jump around, which I think would be funny at a coffee shop.”

Wednesday’s event, Lingo said, was an overall success.

“I had a great time and I think everyone had a pretty good time,” Lingo said. “It was a great time hanging out with everybody and listening to good music.”

MARISA AKERS/TECHNICIANMeredith Caccamo and Shannon Strayhorn, both seniors in English, flip through their copies of the 2009-2010 Agromeck. Caccamo recieved a free copy of the yearbook after having her senior portrait taken. “It’s the first yearbook I’ve gotten” Caccamo said. “It’s pretty nice.” Up to 1,000 copies will be given away to eligible seniors.

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“It’s important for stu-dents to come out, not only can they have input on the project — to see what they’d like to see changed or em-phasized — but also to see what their investment is and where it’s going,” Barnes said.

Randall said the lead de-signer for the project is an N.C. State alumnus and en-joys talking to the student population.

“The designers are really receptive to what students have to say,” Randall said. “[The students’ sugges-tions] might pique their interest and influence the design one way or another. The plans are far from over, so there’s still room for stu-dent input.”

A student paper doesn’t have the right to mock

As a Christian, I found Paul McCauley’s Tuesday column, “A revelation: everyone is crazy,” offensive in the mocking way McCauley chose to portray my God in the first paragraph. Please don’t label me an irrational religious zealot, but my faith is important to me, and I humbly and sincerely try to follow the will of God in my daily life. There are many students and faculty on campus who do the same. Even though McCauley believes differently, he should have been more tolerant of these beliefs. I expect nothing less than tolerance from Technician, since it represents the values of this University to not only students and faculty, but also to visitors on campus. I also found McCauley’s comparison of the Tea Party activists to Timothy McVeigh very disturbing. The modern Tea Party protestors are a far cry from a terrorist extremist. The fact that McVeigh’s action failed to ignite the violent revolt he was trying to cause proves this point. In contrast to the way McCauley portrays them, members of the modern Tea Party movement support limited government and fiscal responsibility while opposing federal handouts and bailouts through legal

means. In fact, their actions are much less extreme than those of leaders during the civil rights movement — a movement I think we all see the merits of. Just because you write for the student paper, McCauley, you don’t have the right to mock people whose opinion differs from yours.

Thomas Raysophomore, mechanical engineering

Rhoades, a voice of reason

I would like to thank Chad Rhoades for being a voice of reason in Technician’s opinion section. His writing is always a breath of fresh air for myself and — I’m sure — other conservatives. The past few editions of Technician have housed article after article that insulted the Tea Party movement and conservatives in general. When I opened up my Technician and read Monday’s article, “One if by land, two if by tea,” I was completely astonished. The description of the Tea Party movement was offensive, to say the least. Does Dan Smith really think that he will change people’s opinions to align with his own by using sarcastic tones and over-the-top rhetoric?

However, that article was not nearly as distasteful as Paul McCauley’s opinion piece. Comparing the Tea Party movement to Timothy McVeigh was completely outlandish and uncalled for, yet typical of McCauley’s writing. Again, thank you Chad Rhoades, your articles always encourage me. Meredith Haddock sophomore, agricultural business management

Originality isn’t everything

Did Hitler write Thursday’s editorial, “It’s more like a Happy Meal?” The narrow-minded,

egotistical views make me wonder why I ever defend Technician as a good, credible newspaper to my friends who talk down about our acclaimed student publication. The editorial’s views on the Interfraternity Council’s Chick-fil-A Challenge accentuate exactly what is wrong with Technician. Instead of taking a positive approach and supporting UNC’s Chick-fil-A Challenge, it’s bashed over and over in a side-by-side comparison of the Krispy Kreme Challenge.

Why not give the Chick-fil-A Challenge some appreciation? Oh my bad, you did say, “philanthropy is great,” though the other part of that quote was, “be original.”

This is where I have the biggest qualm: while some value is placed on philanthropy, more value is obviously placed on originality, which sincerely pisses me off. Just because the KKC was first, and unique, means nothing — I am sure the creators of the KKC would be in full support of the Chick-fil-A Challenge.

I can’t honestly believe an editor read the article before it was published. Such arrogance and ignorance towards the subject really makes me ashamed to say I attend N.C. State. As a student publication, it is worth noting that you represent the University and its students, whether you like it or not.

Despite the fact that UNC-Chapel Hill is beginning a rather unoriginal tradition, the purpose behind the Chick-fil-A Challenge is more important than the challenge itself; the same is true for the KKC. Why don’t you ask the N.C. Children’s Hospital how they feel about your column?

Alan Kaidjunior, mechanical engineering

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{ }OUR VIEW

At its last meeting of the semester, Student Sen-ate modified a bill from

the 89th Senate session involv-ing the distribution of surplus funds. The bill is a great step in the right direction for Student Government accountability, but it doesn’t fully address the issue of surplus funds.

Student Senate’s appropria-tions are students’ money and should be returned to them, in full, every year — end of story.

The funds Student Govern-ment receives through the fee allocation process are intended for campus organizations and the finance of campus initia-tives. Hence, why SG officials and senators are elected cam-

pus leaders, tasked with the powerful role of representing students’ interests in the reallo-cation process — among other tasks. The money shouldn’t be spent on meeting snacks, office supplies or rebranding cam-paigns, it must be allocated to students.

While the bill certainly serves as a means to correct some of this, it still allows for the possi-bility of waste and what essen-tial amounts to fraud.

Not allocating all of students’ fee money back to them and their organizations is fraudu-

lent and robs campus groups of the funding they need and deserve.

If the Senate can’t allocate all of it, the deliberative body must take to the streets and beat down the doors of every student organization until the funding is completely gone. As student senate president, Ste-phen Kouba can play a role in this and fulfill one of his cam-paign promises.

Take Student Senate meetings out of the high tower in the Senate Chambers and go out into the Brickyard, the campus’

lounges or the library. Show students what Student Gov-ernment is, what it stands for and where they can find their student fee money.

Not allocating every penny — even if it’s not spent errone-ously, as on a rebranding cam-paign — provides an image of deception and politicking.

This isn’t the image the new Senate should want to send, and it should be the group’s goal to not have a single pen-ny left in its coffers at the end of next year; students would be getting their fair share and SG would fulfill its promise of “Students First.”

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility

of the Executive Editors.

Give it away — all of itTHE FACTS:At its last meeting, Student Senate modified a bill regulating the organization’s surplus funds policy.

OUR OPINION:The new policy from the 89th Senate session is a step in the right direction, but it must be more expansive. Senate should mandate that every single dollar goes toward student organizations.

BY MIKE SHRIVER

Do you think cannabis should be legalized?

Why or why not?

{ }IN YOUR WORDS

“Marijuana is less harmful than cigarettes, and it would eliminate a lot of illegal activity.”

Amanda Corderfreshman, chemistry

“Yes, I think its a personal choice, if you want to do it, do it.”

David Goldmansophomore, architecture

Looking for a sensible drug policy

Students for Sensible Drug Policy,” or SSDP for short, is an organization com-

prised of student-run chap-ters at more than 100 colleges

and universi-t ies a round the country. Its goal is to achieve “a just and compas-sionate society where d r ug abuse is treat-ed as a health issue instead of a criminal justice issue.”

They work towards this goal by encouraging “young people to participate in the political process, pushing for sensible policies . . . while fighting back against counterproductive drug war policies.” Recently, the outreach director of the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, Stacia Cosner, con-tacted me in regard to a col-umn I wrote a few weeks ago about medicinal marijuana. She wanted to know if anyone would be interested in start-ing an SSDP chapter at N.C. State. I told her that I’m sure there are students here who would be interested and that an SSDP chap-ter would be beneficial to students at State — I’m hopeful I’ l l be able to find enough students who agree with me.

There is an obvious need for massive reform of our nation’s drug policies. These policies, known as the “War on Drugs,” were intended to curtail drug use in America. However, since the “war” started, drug use has increased — along with our na-tion’s prison population. Cur-rently, almost 60 percent of all inmates held in federal peni-tentiaries are nonviolent drug offenders. This, coupled with the fact that drug use continues to increase, suggests that the “War on Drugs” is at best in-effective, and at worst has lead to the wrongful imprisonment of millions of Americans.

A common assumption about the “War on Drugs” is that it mainly targets black market smugglers and “drug lords.” However, according to Depart-ment of Justice statistics from

2008, 1,702,537 were people arrested for drugs — 847,863 were for marijuana — and out of that number 754,224 were arrested for simple possession alone. A majority of the people arrested for drugs other than marijuana were also arrested for simple possession.

Also, the complete prohibi-tion of drugs, especially mari-juana, has made black market smuggling incredibly profit-able. So, our current drug policies seem to inadvertently benefit the criminal elements that stand to make a serious profit from drug trafficking (even though they occasionally get busted), while also inadver-tently targeting drug consum-ers. The prohibition wastes valuable police resources on nonviolent drug users , instead of allocating them toward seri-ous criminals.

Opening an SSDP chapter at the University would give stu-dents who believe these poli-cies are unfair an opportunity to effectively voice their dis-satisfaction. It would provide them with an efficient vehicle for voicing their views and a

network of support that spans the na-t ion. Most importantly, it would give s t udent s a chance to in-f luence our nation’s poli-cies towards d r u g u s e . With enough

diligence and support from groups such as “Students for Sensible Drug Policy,” the citi-zens of this nation can reverse the course of the failed War on Drugs, and push for fairer leg-islation that doesn’t treat non-violent drug users as criminals.

Anyone who is interested in learning more about “Students for Sensible Drug Policy” can go to its Web site at http://ssdp.org/index.php. Also, anyone who is interested in working with me to start an SSDP chap-ter can reach me by e-mail at namiano@ncsu.edu. I believe this could be a great thing for our school, and I hope I can find some support from fellow students.

Send Nick your thoughts on “Students for Sensible Drug Policy” and the War on Drugs to letters@technicianonline.com.

“There is an

obvious need for

massive reform of

our nation’s drug

policies.”

Nicholas MianoStaff Columnist

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Jordan AlsaqaStaff Writer

A free advanced screening of “Get Him to the Greek,” the latest in the line of comedies from Apatow Productions was shown at Witherspoon Stu-dent Center Campus Cinema Wednesday.

Directed by Nicholas Stoller, “Get Him to the Greek” is a spin-off of 2008’s “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” that brings the secondary character Al-dous Snow (Russell Brand) to the forefront. Aldous, a famous rock star, has descended back into a life of drugs and deprav-ity following his break-up with fellow famous singer, Jackie Q (Rose Byrne). Joining Brand is Jonah Hill (“Funny People”), playing Aaron Green, a young music executive looking to help Aldous revitalize his ca-reer. Ironically, Hill was also in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” though he plays an entirely dif-ferent character here.

There are numerous other differences as well, the biggest being the entire tone of the film. While Stoller directed “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” Jason Segel took the reigns for “Get Him to the Greek,” except for the writing, which Stoller oversaw. As a spin-off, therefore, the film has very little to do with its prequel, as it chooses to focus on drug and sex jokes more than rela-tionship humor. Still, fans of the original will catch a great reference to the titular Sarah Marshall.

The plot is basic, acting sim-ply as a frame around which to structure the film’s jokes. Aaron has been given the task of going to London and bring-ing Aldous back to New York and then to the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, so that he can perform a tenth anniversary concert of his last performance there. Of course, with any road trip comedy, the plan is quickly thrown off-kilter. Aldous’ par-tying ways get the best of him time and again, leaving Aaron with the difficult task of keep-ing them on the move during the next 72 hours.

The problem with this prem-ise, though, is that a lot of the impediments that crop up for the duo along the way are far too similar. While still in London, Aldous ignores Aar-on’s pleas to catch their flight, choosing instead to party. Aaron finally submits, and the audience sees their wild esca-pades. This is a fair enough scene the first time through.

The problem, however, is that the same thing happens both of the following nights, with the only changes coming from how and where they party. The fact that it is Aldous’ own flippant attitude and Aaron’s failure to take charge keeping them be-hind schedule make it hard to feel any tension over whether or not they will make it to the show.

As an R-rated comedy, though, the expectation is not necessarily that the story is great, but that the individual scenes composing it are funny. In this regard, “Get Him to the Greek” is a hit-and-miss. Some scenes break entirely from logic simply for a joke, which takes the viewer out of the experi-ence. In particular, a scene with Aaron doing something illegal in the middle of an airport terminal is nonsensical, as he could do the exact same thing in the bathroom and be much better off.

I mentioned that the focus doesn’t rely on relationship humor very much, but when it does, the fun factor takes a nosedive. While both Aaron and Aldous have romantic interests, neither pairing feels as if they share legitimate chemistry, and it only adds awkward, clunky scenes to the film. In fact, the conclusion of Aaron’s relationship with his girlfriend Daphne, played by Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men”), is downright painful to watch, with Aldous’ involvement es-sentially emotionally scarring the young lovers.

The problems with relation-ships extend beyond the love interest, though. Aldous in-teracts with his mother, father and son throughout the film as well, and every scene of this na-ture only illustrates how little connection the actors seem to have with one another. Almost all of the family ties are based on hate, which makes the whole idea of even including Aldous’ family bizarre.

And at its core, the biggest problem “Get Him to the

Greek” has is that it puts so much emphasis on the charac-ter relationships without allow-ing them any time to develop. Even the lead characters never seem to connect. While Brand and Hill both perform bril-liantly in their respective roles, they spend a negligible amount of time interacting for the first hour of the film. As a result, when Aaron and Aldous have a heart-to-heart moment at the film’s climax, the viewer is left wondering why they should care.

For all the missteps, “Get Him to the Greek” actually has a lot of things going right for it, with individual aspects shin-ing through at various points. There are several songs from both Aldous and Jackie Q that parody the ludicrous messages of modern music quite well. For example, “African Child,” Aldous’ failed single highlight-ing genocide in areas such as Darfur, is wildly inappropriate, but pokes fun at songs written for humanitarian causes.

Also, while I criticized the repetition of drugs and party-ing, it is in these party scenes that the film manages its funni-est material. A fight scene in Las Vegas while the characters are all high kept the laughs coming fast for its entire duration.

Indeed, the paradox of “Get Him to the Greek” is that while it tries to use romantic sub-plots to give the movie heart and anchor its charac-ters, it so clearly wants noth-ing more than to focus on the over-the-top situations Aaron and Aldous find themselves in. If anything, ditching the rela-tionships and focusing on two guys getting into trouble would have given the film more room to expand upon its more excit-ing concepts.

Also, it would be a disservice to not mention that, surpris-ingly, the best performance of the movie is turned in by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs as record label manager Sergio, Aaron’s boss. Though not known for his acting talent, Combs plays the role with a manic glee, taking his character to an over-the-top level fitting of the movie’s best scenes. Every time Combs was on-screen, there was stel-lar delivery of genuinely funny lines, as well as hysterical facial expressions and gestures. If nothing else, “Get Him to the Greek” will hopefully lead to more comedy roles for Combs in the future.

Overall, “Get Him to the Greek” comes out as a middle-of-the-road affair. When the movie lets its stars loose to go crazy and have fun, the audi-ence does as well. However, encumbered as it is by poorly handled relationships, one wishes that the film had not tried to find its heart and just focused on the vulgar, inap-propriate college-age comedy it truly is.

“Get Him to the Greek” is scheduled for release June 4.

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Joseph Brookes Afterhours Music Director

Felix Cartal is one of the prominent rising stars in the world-class electronic music scene. To be quite honest, he’s one of the hottest things to come out of British Columbia since the gold rush. The Van-couver native has been pump-ing out smash remixes and touring with big acts since 2007. So in February, on Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak Records, he officially announced his com-plete disrespect for the speakers and headphones of the world by dropping his first full-length album, “Popular Music.” The album laces up its big, na s t y ba s s b o ot s a nd d a nc e s a l l over any out-put system attempting to play it . Perhaps the best example of this comes with “World Class Driver.”

“Popular Music” starts with nothing other than “Popular Music Intro.” Even though it is only the intro track, it is definitely worth listening to. The skilled mix of high-pitched crescendo and bass heavy breakdowns would be considered perfect by most,

but Cartal took it to the next level and incorporated female vocals over it all. This blatant flaunting of talent sets the bar high for the following tracks, and Cartal doesn’t disappoint.

“Volcano,” featuring Jordan Whitney, has a bass l ine that is some-how heav y enough and grungy enou g h to compliment Whitney’s distinct vocal and ly r ica l st y le whi le magically remaining

mega dancy. Considering that Whitney’s own project, “Jaguar Love,” seems to struggle with that, it’s quite the feat. How’s that for international collabo-ration?

Cartal has two other guests on the album: The Faint is featured in “Why Wait” and

Beta Bow in “I Believe In” — both are amazing. They are a little softer than the others, but the guest vocals make these tracks two of the best, as they really add a lot to the album’s diverse content.

That diversity is the stron-gest selling point for many. Electronic music has a repu-tation for being notoriously repetitive, but this album doesn’t fit that stereotype at all. Cartal switches be-tween beats, themes and sounds mid-song so effort-lessly that most artists can’t even compete with him. “Popular Music” contains so many examples of that rare skill that it solidifies Cartal’s position as a reign-ing power in the electronic music scene. His trademark distorted and overpowering dance sound has already made a lasting impact on many genres, and he’s just getting started.

On Cartal ’s MySpace page, he writes, “I never liked music until I heard my own.” Whether he ac-tually means that or not, he clearly doesn’t like current musical trends. The meta-phorical artwork on “Pop-ular Music” depicting the violent stomping of records shows his distaste of generic music and conveys his de-sire to produce something at a higher level of quality. By combining meaningful motivation with natural skill, Felix Cartal recorded what is undoubtedly one of the most solid releases of 2010.

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amanda karst/technician file photoFreshman Mitchell Sutton finishes his swing during the Wolfpack Intercollegiate Invitational at Lonnie Poole Golf Course April 10, 2010.

Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia and Clemson are all within the Top 20. In the face of tough competition, team members expect quality play from themselves and as a group.

“Hopefully I can play a bit better than I have been throughout this season,” Sutton said. “We all need to put it together over three days for the win.”

As one of the team’s newcomers, Sutton has never played the Old North State course. He will look to the vet-eran members for pointers while scop-ing the course out during his practice round.

“The leadership from the older guys has been great; they’ve given me a lot of help telling me where I’m at,” Sut-ton said. “I’ll have to keep an eye on what they do in the practice round.”

The teams have already locked up a regional bid. During regional com-petition, there are eighteen teams at each of four sites. The top five teams from each site advance to national competition. Additionally, the top two players from teams not advanc-ing to the NCAA finals from regionals qualify. Hill won the 2009 NCAA Na-tional Championship as an individual competitor last spring.

statements, saying the little things such as defense and base running can help a team win or lose a game, With a series as important as this one, the team will have to be play-ing at its highest level to take full control of the sixth spot in the conference.

“It is a big weekend. A bunch of teams are just scrunched in the middle of a tough league, so every win now is awfully important,” Avent said. “We just have to pick it up defensively and on the base-paths so we can take advantage of every opportunity we get and limit opportunities for the other team.”

was clinched.Illova and Petrovic quickly dis-

patched their opponents and were the first two Pack players to finish. Petrovic beat Katarina Reveche, 6-2, 6-2, in what could be her final match with the Pack.

Petrovic said while her team didn’t come out on top, a strong personal performance was a long time coming.

“I’ve worked hard on my serves and it finally paid off,” Petrovic said. “Personally, everything went my way today.”

But the Deacons came roaring back and won the next three con-secutive matches to clinch their advance.

“It was by far one of the best matches we’ve played,” Petrovic said. “The atmosphere was good, and everyone believed we could win. Even though we lost, we felt good about it.”

Both the men’s and women’s teams will hear later this month whether they were selected for the NCAA tournament or if individual players will enter the tournament.

“We’re going to have to wait and see. This was a must-win situa-tion,” Choboy said. “We needed it, but we’ll wait and see what hap-pens as far as selection.”

Remaining acc seRiesBoston CollegeHome, April 23-25

Georgia Tech Home, April 30-May 1

Florida StateAway, May-14-16

Duke Home, May 20-22

source: n.c. state athletics

COUNTDOWN• 33 days until the ACC baseball tournament begins in

Greensboro, N.C.

INSIDE• Page 7: A continuation of the preview of

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McCain finishes second in Penn RelaySophomore thrower Brittany McCain finished second Thursday at the 116th annual Penn Relay Carnival. McCain competed in the women’s college division for the discus and threw a distance of 47.58 meters.

Softball prepares to take on Maryland in weekend seriesThe Pack will look to improve on its ACC record this weekend as it takes on Maryland this weekend. State is currently 27-12 (8-7 in ACC), while Maryland sits at 27-19(5-9 in ACC). The series consists of three games and includes a double-header on Saturday and a final game Sunday. Maryland owns the all-time series, as it is 9-8 against the Wolfpack.

Source: N.c. State athleticS

athletic schedule

TodayFridayBaseBall vs. Boston College Doak Field at Dail Park, 6:30 p.m.

Men’s golf @ aCC ChaMpionshipOld North State Club-New London, N.C., All day

saturdayBaseBall vs. Boston College Doak Field at Dail Park, 6:30 p.m.

softBall vs. Maryland Raleigh, N.C., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

SaturdayMen’s golf at aCC ChaMpionshipNew London, N.C., all day

Men’s and WoMen’s traCk & field at the penn relaysPhiladelphia, Pa., all day

softBall vs. MarylandCurtis & JaCqueline dail Softball Stadium, 1 p.m.

BaseBall vs. Boston College Doak Field, 6:30 p.m.

SundayMen’s golf at aCC ChaMpionshipNew London, N.C., all day

Men’s and WoMen’s traCk & field at the penn relaysPhiladelphia, Pa., all day

softBall vs. MarylandCurtis & JaCqueline dail Softball Stadium, 1 p.m.

BaseBall vs. Boston College Doak Field, 1 p.m.

Pack battles Eagles for control of sixth placebaseball

Team heads into series with Boston College with playoff implications on the line

Taylor BarbourDeputy Sports Editor

Currently sitting in a three-way tie for sixth place in the ACC with a 9-9 record, the Wolfpack is preparing to play in one of the most crucial series of its season as it takes on the Boston College Eagles, one of the other two teams tied with State in the ACC. And after sweeping Maryland last weekend, which evened up the team’s conference record, players and coaches are focused on remaining over .500 for the rest of the season.

“This is one of those pivotal series of the year,” senior second baseman Dallas Poulk said. “You come out and get back at even, and this is a chance to take the next step in the winning category. They are 9-9 and we are 9-9. It’s a difference in a win-ning or losing record, a difference in going to a regional, not going to a regional.”

The Pack has dominated previous meetings with the Golden Eagles, winning 11 of the 13 games. This includes a perfect 6-0 record against Boston College in the friendly con-fines of Doak Stadium.

However, injuries have plagued the team recently as starting third baseman Andrew Ciencin has been hampered by a sore hamstring, while leading hitter and senior leader Kyle Wilson has been out of action the past few weeks with a sore groin. His participation in the weekend series is in question.

“With a hurt groin he just can’t play,” coach Elliott Avent said. “He played with it for three weeks and played tremendously. But he played as long as he could with it until the

doctor told us he had to sit out for a couple weeks if we wanted him at the end of the season.”

Regardless of injuries, Avent and com-pany are happy to be back at home play-ing in front of their own fans.

Avent said they hope to give the fans something to cheer about.

“We have had some injuries and some guys getting tired, and it has felt like we have been on the road a lot,” Avent said. “But now we are back at home and have our legs back underneath us, and hope-fully we can win the series.”

En route to its sweep of Maryland, the Pack received excellent pitching perfor-

mances out of its Friday and Saturday starters as both Jake Buchanan and Cory Mazzoni pitched complete games. And for Buchanan that pitching per-formance was a nice confidence builder as he and the team head into the final stretch of the season.

“It helped me a lot confidence-wise getting a good start under my belt, just getting back on the right track,” Bu-chanan said. “But I have to just build off of that and go in work with the same game-plan.”

After a rough defensive game Wednes-day night against East Carolina in which the team committed six errors, coaches

focused heavily on the defensive side of the in practice on Thursday.

Poulk believes the extra focus on de-fense will help the team take that next step into being a well rounded team as it knows that the hitting and pitching will already be there.

“We needed to focus on defense; we worked on that a lot at practice, and that is what is going to win and lose ball games,” Poulk said. “We know we will come out and hit, but defense will win or lose ball games.”

Avent echoed Poulk’s

aNdy MuSSelMaN/techNiciaN file photoReaching out to tag Miami’s Zeke Devoss, sophomore third baseman andrew Ciencin fails to catch Devoss stealing third base on a wild pitch March 28 at Doak Field. The Hurricanes went on to defeat the Pack 4-0.

In one fell swoop, Pack’s ACC hopes crushed

Tennis

Men’s, women’s tennis teams fall in first round of ACC Tournament Thursday morning in Cary

Kate ShefteSports Editor

Both State’s men’s and women’s tennis teams saw their dreams of deep ACC Tournament runs come to an early halt Wednesday morning in Cary. Neither team advanced past the first round as Miami took out the men’s team, 4-1, and Wake Forest beat the women’s team, 4-2.

Each team had its No. 1 singles player named to the All-Conference team after the first day concluded. Sophomore Jaime Pulgar, ranked No. 67, and Sand-hya Nagaraj, also a sopho-more and ranked No. 69 in the country, both received conference honors.

Pulgar, who went 14-9 and 6-5 in the ACC, ensured the men’s team landed a player on the All-ACC team for the fifth straight year. Nagaraj (19-9, 4-7 ACC) is the first women’s player to receive the honor since current Pack player Daria Petrovic did in 2007 as a freshman.

Miami took the first two doubles matches to clinch the point. Akash Gujarati and Rob Lowe fell to Carl Sundberg and Ignacio Taboada, 8-5, and Pulgar and Dave Thomson lost 8-6 to their respective op-ponents. Frideric Prandecki and Dominic Hodgson were tied 7-7 but didn’t finish.

“In doubles, we went be-hind a little bit,” head coach Jon Choboy said. “We fell behind at two, and two has been really steady for us all year. We started to get chances to get back, but it’s too much of a hole to dig

your way out of. That didn’t help us.”

Thomson beat the Hurri-canes’ David Simon, 6-2, 6-4, at No. 3. But Prandecki, who came back to beat his opponent on Senior Day after being rein-serted into the singles rotation, dropped his match 6-3, 6-4 to Taboada. Gujarati and Hodg-son both fell and secured the win for Miami, 4-1.

“[Miami] played pretty well in that situation,” Choboy said. “It wasn’t all my guys not playing well. We got our feet under us and started mount-ing a comeback, but it was too much.”

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Cary Tennis Center, the wom-en’s team was fighting a gruel-

ing four-hour battle against Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons were seeded just below the Wolfpack, but according to senior Petro-vic, the teams were evenly matched.

“At one point, there were four matches in the third set,” Petrovic said. “It was really close. It could have gone either way.”

The women’s team also dropped the doubles point after the pairs of Lenka Ho-jckova and Tana Illova and Berkeley Brock and Chloe Smith dropped 8-6 deci-sions. Nagaraj and Petrovic were tied when the point

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ACC championship

Men’s golF

After an inconsistent season, team aims to regroup and finish strong

Lindsey HallSenior Staff Writer

Beginning today, the men’s golf team will chase after its first ACC Championship since 1990. The championship is being held at the Old North State Club at Uwharrie Point in New London, N.C. The par 72 course rounds out at 7,100 yards and has become the an-nual site for the tournament.

In Friday’s opening round, State is grouped with Boston College and Virginia Tech. New groupings will be formed for Saturday and Sunday and play begins at 8:30 a.m. on e a c h d a y. Five student-athletes are representing the Pack – the same group that has been sent to the previous four tournaments. The weekend team includes seniors Adam Hogue and Brad Revell, junior Matt Hill, sopho-more Mark McMillen and freshman Mitchell Sutton.

Following the ACC Champi-onship, the team has one final weekend of official competi-tion prior to NCAA regionals. A strong showing this weekend is important, and they have one goal in mind: winning.

“Anytime we go to a tourna-ment, we want to win,” Mc-Millen said. “We have to play solid.”

Last year, the Wolfpack fin-ished tied for fourth with Wake Forest and Hill brought home honors after tying for the in-dividual title, finishing at ten under par.

Hill, who is making plans to enter professional competition and forgo his senior year, has high expectations placed upon him by his teammates.

“If Matt can play like he did last year, and we all put up a good performance, we have a good chance,” McMillen said. “I watched him last year when I didn’t play and got some good vibes about the course.”

As a team, the Pack has per-formed consistently in the championship over the years. In four of the last six years, the group has ended the weekend finishing fourth or better.

However, the spring season has featured varying results, ranging from second place finishes to finishing second to last in tournament fields. But the pinnacle of conference play

offers a clean slate to the Pack.

“We’ve had an up a nd dow n season,” Mc-Millen said. “I feel like if we play like we can and are supposed to, then we have a really good chance to compete for the cham-

pionship this weekend.”While several individuals on

the team have performed well, team members are striving to overcome a hurdle that has plagued the Pack.

“The coaches have been talk-ing about finishing,” McMil-len said. “We haven’t put three rounds together as a team.”

Three solid rounds is exactly what it will take to bring home new hardware on Sunday. Four ACC teams are currently ranked on the Golf World/Nike Division I Coaches Poll:

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did You know?Former N.C. State basketball players Vinny Del Negro and Nate McMillan are head coaches for two NBA playoff teams: the Chicago Bulls and Portland Trail Blazers, respectively.

Quote of the daY“But now we are back at

home and have our legs back

underneath us, and hopefully we can win the

series.”Baseball coach Elliott Avent

Michael Shriver/techNiciaN file photosandhya nagaraj, sophomore, returns the ball in doubles competition against the Richmond spiders at the J.W. isenhour Tennis Center March 24. nagaraj was named to the all-aCC team Thursday morning after being ranked in singles for most of the season. she is the first female Pack tennis player to earn an all-aCC nod in three years.

“If Matt can play

like he did last

year and we all

put up a good

performance,

we have a good

chance.”Sophomore Mark McMillen