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Student Body President Andy Walsh tweeted his support for student body president candidate Matt Williams Monday evening.
This is the first time a current student body president has pub-licly endorsed a candidate, accord-ing to Kristen Gower, a senior in international studies.
“I have had a working relation-ship with every student body presi-dent from Jay Dawkins to Chan-dler Thompson,” Gower, a former member of student government, said. “Up until now, the current SBP has always done their best to remain impartial during these elections.”
A conflict arises, according to Gower, in that if a candidate other than Williams, Lauren Collier or Dwayne O’Rear, wins the election, that person would have to turn to a former president who supported someone else for mentorship.
“If we elect a candidate who Andy didn’t endorse, then that electee is without a liferaft,” Gower
Andrea M. Danchi Staff Writer
Students aren’t imagining subtle changes to the taste and smells of tap water this month. The water in Raleigh actually does taste more like a swimming pool.
These aesthetic changes come from the city’s reverting to using chlorine-only treatment of its water, rather than chlorine and ammonia, from March 1st to April 12th, according to an article by Edward Buchan on raleighnc.gov.
Every March the city changes its water treatment plan to include a higher concentration of chlorine as well.
Because of this citizens may notice a stronger chlorine odor or taste dur-ing this time.
Raleigh’s water is usually treated through a process called chloramina-tion, which combines chlorine and ammonia to sanitize the city’s water.
In the past, Raleigh used a chlo-rine-only system for water treatment.
However, in 1981 the state began requiring the city to use ammonia in the treatment process to reduce the amount of trihalomethanes in the water system.
Trihalomethanes refers to a group of four chemicals that form as by-products of mixing drinking water disinfectants like chlorine with nat-
urally occurring organic and inor-ganic materials in water.
The four trihalomethanes are chlo-roform, bromodichloromethane, di-bromochloromethane and bromo-form. Certain studies have shown these chemicals to be carcinogenic byproducts linked also to possible damage of the kidneys, liver, heart, lung and central nervous system.
In December 2001 the EPA regu-lated that the 100 parts per billion maximum allowable annual average of trihalomethanes in large public water systems be reduced to 80 ppb, according to raleighnc.gov.
The same standard became effec-tive for small surface water and all groundwater systems in December 2003.
Using ammonia in the water treat-ment process and less chlorine also helps to reduce the concentration of trihalomethanes in the city’s water system.
However, for at least three weeks every year, state and federal regu-lations require that the Triangle’s public utilities revert back to the chlorine-only process to sanitize water. The reported reason for this is to cleanse the system of bacteria that grow immune to the ammonia.
The water is safe for all normal ac-tivities like drinking, cooking and bathing and the short term switch back to chlorine-only should not
cause any significant increase in tri-halomethane concentrations.
City officials do advise that any customers who use a kidney-dialysis machine or have any type of sensi-tivity to chlorine should be aware that Raleigh water will contain a higher chlorine content for at least five weeks.
During this same period, Raleigh’s Water and Sewer Maintenance Di-vision conduct a flush of the entire
system to quickly disperse the chlorine throughout the city and speed up the process. That flush may cause slight water discolor-ation for costumers however the water is still completely safe.
The entire process takes about three weeks to complete. The City of Raleigh will resume the normal chloramination ammonia-chlo-rine water treatment process on April 12 at 10 a.m.
Brittany Bynum & Liz MoomeyStaff Writers
James E. Coleman Jr., pulled back the curtain and displayed the hid-den issues of race and crime in the South with students and faculty of N.C. State on Tuesday evening.
The lecture was titled, “Juries, Race and Customs: All-White Juries and the Legacy of Slavery.” Cole-man, the associate dean of Duke University Law, discussed the issue of all-white juries and the legacy of
slavery.Micah Khater, sophomore major-
ing in history and French, opened up the event introducing Coleman. She organized the event out of the interest that she gained from taking a southern history class her fresh-man year.
“The public talk is a good way to communicate and simplify the com-plexity of law and race in the south,” Khater said.
Coleman is also the recipient of the NAACP Pro-Bono Award. He
was also involved with the As-sistant General Counsel and N.C. Commission of Innocence.
He spoke to the audience about the importance of knowing his-tory in law and criminal law. He said that it is hard for society to understand the issues of our world because of a lack of knowl-edge about U.S. history.
Coleman pointed out that some of the most admired
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GEORGIA HOBBS/TECHNICIANAssociate Professor Blair Kelley leads a discussion about the struggles of African-Americans Monday in Withers Hall. Kelley presented the little-known story of Corinne Sykes, a housemaid wrongfully accused of and executed for murder in the 1940s due to her race and social position. The talk was a part of the “When Innocence Constitutes the Crime” series, which will be running through Wednesday.
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Taylor O’QuinnStaff Writer
Students and faculty can feel more comfortable when confronted with the possibility of a threat, thanks to a threat assessment seminar held Tuesday evening.
“Terrorism is not one of the great-est threats facing the United States,” Joseph Caddell, a teaching assistant in history said at the seminar.
Caddell said he views threat as-sessment as looking at the obvious, the intentions and the capabilities. Information about intentions is hard to collect but a capability to harm the U.S. can be more obvious, Caddell said.
“We’ve only had two real threats in the history of the United States,” Caddell said. “The confederacy, and the space race with Russia.”
Sept. 11 is not considered to be a major threat to national security, ac-cording to Caddell. He thinks the U.S. government “may have over-reacted” to the terrorist attacks in 2001.
Prior to World War Two, the Unit-ed States government never really dealt with assessing threats, Caddell said, but then the attack on Pearl Harbor “changed the way Ameri-cans view the world.”
Multiple government organiza-tions, including the Central Intelli-gence Agency, were created to assess threats after Pearl Harbor, Caddell said. The U.S. government began fo-
cusing on which countries proposed a “worst case scenario” situation on our country, according to Caddell.
Currently, North Korea and China are threats against the U.S., according to the Director of the School of Public and International Affairs, Richard Mahoney. China owns eight percent of our nation’s national debt, Mahoney said.
“China has the world’s fastest growing economy,” Mahoney said. “They’ve become the dominant eco-nomic power in Asia.”
The word “pivot” recent ly emerged as a trending word in the Obama Administration in relation to China, Mahoney said. For the U.S. it means that we’re turning towards China in hopes to estab-lish better relations, according to Mahoney.
“China views the word ‘pivot’ more like ‘access,’” Mahoney said. “They’ve taken it as a word meaning we want to contain them, or defeat them.”
According to Mahoney, the U.S. needs to engage Chinese principles in multiple ways, especially in edu-cation. Mahoney said he believes that more Americans should study Mandarin and study abroad in China.
Mahoney also said he believes the U.S. national debt is a “serious threat on our security” especially since the republicans and the demo-
Terrorism not a threat to NCSU students
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leaders such as Thomas Jef-ferson and Abraham Lincoln were proven racists.
The governing party was seen to be in the hand of the white race. The governor was clear about what freedom did not mean by revoking privi-leges from freed slaves.
There was a pre-civil war requirement that only jury men can be householders which excluded most of the African-American men. Af-rican Americans were ex-cluded from juries up until the 1960s.
African Americans were not seen as socially or po-litically equal with the white race. Therefore, the universal exclusion of African Ameri-can jurors was accepted and endorsed.
African Americans being a part of the jury were consid-ered a violation of the 14th amendment. As time passed, two or more African-Ameri-cans may have been qualified to serve on juries.
Prosecutors in the south gained sight of African Americans making an en-trance into juries, and they often racially skewed the ju-ries by using the peremptory challenge.
The peremptory challenge was the right given to pros-ecutors to challenge jurors for any reason. This would often decrease the number of five eligible African-American jury members to one or two.
“Solutions to the problem of discrimination in law are to abolish the preemptory
challenge and bring diversity into the jury,” Coleman said.
Coleman shared that the Racial Justice Act is in the process of being repealed, and Pat McCrory has signed for it.
The North Carolina Racial Justice Act was introduced in 2009 to prevent the death penalty based on racial dis-crimination.
Winston-Salem has the largest number of people on death row. There also resides an African-American woman who excludes other African-Americans from jurors. Stu-dents and faculty groaned with surprise.
“I think it is important for college students to know about the issue of race and law because they need to be aware and appreciative of their history in order to gain a better understanding.” said Coleman.
The lecture was the second in a series, “When Innocence Constitutes the Crime: Race, Memory and Identity in the South,” hosted by the Uni-versity Honors Program and the NCSU Department of History.
The two programs also hosted a lecture, “The Shad-ow of Death: Race, Crime and the Execution of Corrine Sykes,” Monday evening.
Blair Kelley, associate histo-ry professor, lectured racism and crime and talked about her new project on the 1946 execution of Corrine Sykes, a black woman, in Withers Hall.
Corrine Sykes, the last woman executed in Penn-sylvania, robbed and killed Freda Wodlinger, Sykes’ white employer, while on
duty as her housemaid. Sykes had the mental capacity of an 8-year-old and was illiterate and worked for a bootlegger, who is said to be the one that told her to steal the jewelry.
Kelley looks into signifi-cance of race in the trial and the telling of Sykes’ life.
“If it was difficult for white Americans to have much sympathy for black victims of crime, it was reflectively easy for them to imagine the worse when African-American were accused perpetrators,” Kelley said. “The case of Corrine Sykes was no different.”
Black housemaids were often wrongfully accused of murder during this time. Men of the family were returning from war and sometimes had psychological issues that were not known of or addressed at the time. These men would kill their wives and get away with because the black do-mestic workers were blamed instead.
“Southern history was over-simplified and we were contradicted all of our lives,” Khater said.
Kelley also stressed this during the discussion.
“I am always arguing that there is no such thing as southern race relations and a southern way of under-standing race,” Kelley said. “I am arguing that there is an American way.”
Khater also wanted an un-derstanding that events that happened in the mid-20th century still affect now.
The discussion provided a stepping-stone for Kelley on the direction of her book project. At the end, she opened up to questions.
Alum Otis Robinson poses wth his cross during a “Crossewalk” on Wednesday March 13, 2013. Robinson, who gradauted with a degree in english last December, when asked why he and others do this, explained, “We do it because it serves as a great
opprotunitiy to share our faith with people around campus.” Robinson is a member of Charisma Church, an on-campus, non-denominational congregation that meets every Sunday morning at 11 a.m. in Riddick Hall. Charisma, which is led by Pastor Sean Park, also produces a television program. TVOL, or “TV One Life”, TVOL, now in its fourth season, is a made-for-students-by-students program that is broadcast on networks worldwide.
Alexandra KenneyStaff Writer
Manufacturing needs cre-ated more than 532,000 jobs in 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. If none of these manufactur-ing companies utilized green energy, our air would be as polluted as China’s.
To combat severe air pollu-tion while maintaining one of the largest sectors of the U.S. economy, many manu-facturers have moved to find-ing cleaner sources of energy.
Dr. Joseph Roise, profes-sor in forestry and environ-mental resources, says his department has been study-ing green manufacturing for years.
“Green manufacturing re-quires the company to keep in mind the sustainability of the product they are us-ing, and the resources they need to make it,” Roise said. “Companies must try to use sustainable energy without hampering their ability to produce their product.”
A completely green devel-opment is almost impossible today, according to Roise, but many companies have taken a step toward more environ-mentally friendly manufac-turing methods.
North Carolina’s envi-ronmental congresswoman, Pricey Harrison, says sus-tainable energy is a sector of the economy that is increas-ing.
“Green is an area of the
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said.While Gower says the presi-
dent’s public support for one candidate is unprecedented, Walsh said it happened many times before.
“It’s not something that’s unheard of,” Walsh said. “Last year, Chandler Thomp-son didn’t endorse anybody, but the year before that, Kelly Hook endorsed her.”
Walsh also said former president Jay Dawkins en-dorsed his roommate Jim Ceresnak, who succeeded him.
Gower said there may have been help passed on from each president before Walsh, it has never been public.
“I know Jay helped Jim with his campaign, but he never outright said it,” Gower said. “And Chandler Thompson was dating Andy Walsh, so how could she not want him to get elected?”
Though, in the past, candi-dates endorsed by their pre-decessors tend to win, Walsh
said he does not believe his endorsement will have a big impact on Williams’ chance of winning the election.
Gower said that while she thinks Williams is most qualified, it’s the job of the president to have students speak for themselves.
“[The election] is kind of unpredictable right now,” Gower said.
“Everyone has to run hard and prove to the student body that they’re the right candi-date,” Walsh said. “[The student body] shouldn’t just listen to me.”
Walsh said he considers each of the three candidates as friends, but felt as though the one he chose to support was the most qualified.
“All three students are great student leaders… they’re all really great candidates,” Walsh said. “I just think Matt, at this point in time, knows what’s achievable and what isn’t achievable.”
As far as other student gov-ernment positions, Walsh said he would not back any candidates for any position other than student body president.
crats can’t come to any agree-ments on how to handle debt situations efficiently.
North Korea is becoming a nuclear threat, according to John Mattingly, a teach-ing assistant in the history department. In hindsight, Mattingly said, it’s obvious what North Korea has been
up to with regard to gaining more nuclear power.
“When someone or some nation or what-have-you has both the intention and the capability to harm you, then they’re a threat,” Cad-dell said.
The Threat Assessment Seminar was the last of three in the Global Issues Seminar Series hosted by the School of Public and International Affairs.
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BienvenidosPAGE 3 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013TECHNICIAN
Miguel A. SánchezEditor de Bienvenidos
Era como una Nochebuena que llegó temprano o una reunión entre familiares para la comunidad latina en Peach Road Park en sábado.
Aproximadamente 600 personas de la comunidad latina en Raleigh asistieron al Quinto Festival del Ta-mal para disfrutarse de una delicia cultural que muchas casas latinas son acostumbradas a comer en grandes juntadas de la familia—es-pecialmente alrededor la Nochebue-na. Los asistentes también tenían la oportunidad de aprender sobre los varios recursos disponibles a la co-munidad latina en Raleigh.
Desde el 2009, el evento se ha ll-evado a cabo anualmente en el tercer sábado de marzo. El festival per-mite algunos concursantes entrar en una competencia del tamal, con la condición que traigan por lo me-nos 25 de sus tamales hechos a mano al evento y tengan un envase para mantener caliente la comida, entre otros requisitos.
Para el segundo año consecutivo, la compañía de masa Maseca—la cual fue el mayor patrocinador
para el Festival del Tamal—les ofre-ció premios en efectivo a los gana-dores. El primer lugar ganó $600, el segundo lugar ganó $300, el tercer lugar $200, y los lugares desde cu-arto a sexto ganó $100 cada uno. Un panel de 12 jueces que consistían en miembros del Consulado Mexicano, el Departamento de Bomberos en Raleigh, y el grupo español de ser-vicio NCSU VOLAR, evaluaron los tamales en base al sabor, textura, apariencia, y presentación.
Para algunos de los jueces, era una experiencia nueva.
“Había tenido unos tamales antes, pero generalmente del supermerca-do, de la tienda. Quería ver cómo se sabrían los verdaderos, unos auténticos,” dijo William Smith, un miembro del Departamento de Bomberos en Raleigh, que sirvió como juez.
“[Mi favorito] fue el tamal de pol-lo; no estoy seguro de todo lo que tenía adentro…un poquito de pollo y unos pimientos. Tenía un buen sa-bor. No era demasiado picante, pero tenía un poquito de pica, y no era tan insípido como algunos,” dijo Smith.
La ganadora de este año fue Rosal-
va Verdín, una mexicana que ganó por su tamal de piña, coco y pasa .
Este año, catorce personas se in-scribieron para el concurso. Los tamales oscilaban de los rellenos tradicionales de pollo, carne de res, y puerco, hasta rel-lenos más dulces como piña y pasa, y hasta rellenos más exóticos como ca-marón—un relleno típicamente usado en los tamales del estado de Sinaloa en México. Tamales de muchos países se presentaron, y algunas inscrip-ciones presentaron tamales envueltos en hojas de maíz mientras otras inscribieron tamales envueltos en hojas de plátano.
En total, acerca de 400 tamales, cada uno cortado en muchos ped-azos del tamaño de un bocado, fueron servidos en el evento. Cada asistente fue regalado un brasilete que le permitió probar los varios ta-males que los concursantes habían preparado.
Además de la competencia del tamal, el festival también presentó interpretaciones culturales de baile por un grupo de danza azteca e in-terpretaciones musicales por una bandita mariachi de niños que se
l lama Mariachi Nueva Esperanza. Muchos asistentes al evento particip-aron en un ejercicio de baile cuando un grupo de instructo-res de Zumba se lo dirigió a la muche-dumbre en una seria de rutinas de baila asociadas con canciones comunes a la comunidad hispanohablante,
incluyendo algunas de los artistas Lucenzo y Don Omar.
Sin embargo, no se enfocaba el evento solamente en la comida y el entretenimiento. Muchos program-as y negocios de la comunidad latina de Raleigh también proporcionaron información sobre los servicios e iniciativas que ofrecen no solo para los latinos, pero para la ciudad de Raleigh en general.
La Noticia, un periódico de espa-ñol en nuestro área, tuvo una rueda de ganancias en su puesto con un premio de dos billetes al ver el par-tido entre los Carolina Railhawks y Las Pumas de la UNAM de México en marzo 19.
Otros puestos incluyeron aparien-cias de 101.1 FM La Ley y El Pueblo, Inc., además de información sobre Triangle Transit y los programas de ESL ofrecidos por la Ciudad de Ra-leigh Parques y Recreación. Maseca también ofreció varias cosas gra-tuitas, incluyendo calendarios con recetas hispanas y frases que saben bien y libros de colorear sobre la in-dependencia de México.
“Oh, creo que son muy impor-tantes [eventos culturales como este]. Les dan [a los latinos] una oportunidad para juntarse y cel-ebrar de lo que están orgulloso, su herencia. Y también les da a los americanos como yo mismo una oportunidad de ver de dónde vi-enen. Junta la comunidad más,” dijo Smith.
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Puerto Rico, República Dominicana compitan para
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A falta de menos de un mes para la temporada de MLB, el Clásico Mundial de Béis-bol acaparó las miradas de los fanáticos quienes vieron competir a 16 países en el torneo más grande de este deporte.
Y como es costumbre, el mundo hispano tuvo la rep-resentación más grande del torneo. Equipos de Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Venezuela, Cuba, México y España pusieron el sabor del español.
México y Venezuela no es-tuvieron a las expectativas al ser eliminados en la prim-era ronda. México a manos de Estados Unidos e Italia y Venezuela a manos de Puerto
Rico y Dominicana.Cuba por su parte logró cla-
sificarse a la segunda ronda del torneo, siendo eliminada por Holanda quien ha sido la sorpresa del torneo. Aun así Holanda se conforma princi-palmente por jugadores de las Antillas del Caribe.
Por el otro lado República Dominicana y Puerto Rico siguen en pie y disputarán la final del torneo al deshacerse en segunda ronda de Estados Unidos, quien partía como uno de los favoritos y sede de las rondas finales del torneo.
Puerto Rico y Holanda protagonizaron las may-ores sorpresas del torneo y alcanzan por primera vez a las semifinales cuando nadie se lo esperaba, mientras que Dominicana fue eliminada por Cuba en las semifinales
de 2006 y no pasó de la fase inicial en 2009, por lo que en esta edición al fin pudieron concretar sus deseos de ir a la final.
Ambos finalistas cuentan en sus filas con jugadores de la talla mundial de Robinson Canó (Yankees), Carlos Bel-trán (St. Louis), y los herma-nos Molina, entre otros, por lo que no carecen de nom-bres grandes y experiencia.
El torneo sirve para llamar la atención de países de poca tradición de béisbol como Italia, Holanda, España y países asiáticos, por lo que ha sido considerado como un éxito por parte de los or-ganizadores del evento, lle-gando a ser transmitido en todos los continentes.
With MLB season about to start in one month, the World Baseball Classic has been catching the attention of many Americans. The event features 16 countries compete in the biggest tour-nament of this sport.
As usual, the Hispanic world had the biggest rep-resentation in the champi-onship. Teams from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico and Spain put the Spanish flavor.
United States and Italy eliminated Mexico and Puerto Rico and the Do-minican Republic ousted Venezuela in the first round.
Cuba, on other hand, ad-vanced to the second round, being eliminated later on by
Netherlands, which has been the biggest surprise in the tournament after the Euro-pean country made it to the semifinals. Many players of the Dutch team are from the Caribbean Antilles.
The final was disputed be-tween Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, two of the countries with the richest history in this sport. Both teams eliminated the United States, which was the favorite and also the host of the final rounds.
Puerto Rico and Nether-lands were big surprises since neither have big stars in their rosters like the U.S. The Do-minican Republic was able to take vengeance on Neth-erlands in the semifinals, af-ter the Dutch eliminated the
Dominicans in 2009. Both finalists have in their
teams all-star players like Robinson Cano (Yankees), Carlos Beltran and Yadier Molina (St. Louis), so the final didn’t lack known stars like in the last two editions when teams like Japan, Cuba and South Korea were final-ists with few MLB players.
This tournament is catch-ing the attention of non-traditional baseball-playing countries. Italy, Netherlands, Spain and East Asian na-tions have been developing leagues that are getting bet-ter, and from an international standpoint, this tournament is considered a success, being transmitted in all the conti-nents.
el Clásico Mundial de Beisbol ¡GANAN LOS DOMINICANOS - DOMINICANS WIN!
“Había tenido
unos tamales
antes, pero
generalmente del
supermercado,
de la tienda.”William Smith
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A U.S. marine pulls down a picture of Saddam Hussein at a school April 16, 2003, in Al-Kut, Iraq. A combination team of Marines, Army and Special Forces went to schools and other facilities in Al-Kut looking for weapons caches and unexploded bombs in preparation for removing and neutralizing them.
Schoolgirls reach out for presents in a girls school June 12, 2005 in Fallujah, Iraq. U.S. Marines mentoring Iraqi forces in Fallujah brought presents of balls and other toys to the school after they were donated by citizens in Boise, Idaho, where many of the Marine advisors in Fallujah are stationed.
Samar Hassan, 5, screams after her parents were killed by U.S. soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting Jan. 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town. Parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and a son Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Racan, paralyzed from the waist down, was treated later in the U.S.
Honoring our own
HONDROSSTORY BY MARK HERRING | PHOTOS BY CHRIS HONDROS
Detained men sit, bound and blindfolded, under the light of the moon after being detained by marines of the Third Battalion, Fourth Marines June 24, 2005 near Fallujah, Iraq. Marines in the 3/4 launched the midnight raid in the rural sububs of Fallujah and detained 19 men, the marines said.
Word s a re n’t e n o u g h t o stop a nation
from going to war — but a photograph can change the course of history.
From raising the flag on Iwo Jima, to the execution in Saigon, photographs have spoken volumes about human achievement and destruction and have worked as instruments of change.
After President George W. Bush deployed troops to topple Saddam Husse-in’s regime in Iraq, Chris Hondros, a Getty Images photographer, embedded himself with American troops, and traveled to the war-torn country 12 times. Ten years and one day ago, American troops invaded Iraq, and after a short conflict between the U.S. and Saddam’s Republican Guard troops, wave after wave of sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims emerged. In May of 2013, the war turned
into a counter-insurgency battle between occupying American forces and pow-er-hungry, nationalistic or Islamist militias. In total, 174,000 people have died.
The surrounding im-ages are some of Hondros’ most moving from his time in Iraq, and the image of the little girl earned him a prestigious World Press Photo award.
Hon-dros spent his career deter-mined to capture the most agonizing, thrilling and dis-turbing images of war to confront the bel-ligerent and to extinguish violent hatred. His col-leagues remember him as a man who could act calmly while caught in crossfire.
“I’ve made peace with the fact that people live
in divergent ways in the different parts of the world at any given time,” Hondros said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. “And many people have to deal with similar issues, like say social workers in our own country who often must experience the cruel realities of
in-ner-city life and then come home to their own relatively wealthy house-holds.”
Though he never found comfort with the idea of war, Hondros reported with confidence in many ot her combat zones : Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Le-one, Liberia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Kash-
mir and Libya — where he died covering the civil war that erupted after the Arab Spring on April 20, 2011.
Before returning to Iraq for another tour, Hondros said he believes he has a duty to report the events happening in Iraq and to hold the U.S. accountable for the war.
“I’ve been at this for a while,” Hondros said. “I believe in the work that I do in Iraq. I believe jour-
nalists have a basic func-tion to oversee the acts of government, and the Iraq invasion is the government to the nth degree.”
Hondros started work-ing in photography at N.C. State Student Media, where he shot for Technician and the Agromeck yearbook. He graduated with a degree in English in 1993.
Marines begin Operation Dagger on June 18, 2005 in the Anbar Province, Iraq. Chris Hondros (right) takes a photo of the marines beginning their mission.
“I believe
journalists have a
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of government.”Chris Hondros
Pft. Daniel Sims of Clemson, S.C. of the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army sits during watch duties in a partially destroyed building that’s being converted to an Army field post July 13, 2007, in the tense Amariyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Insurgents who were in control of Amariyah until recently attempted to destroy this building and an adjacent bunker with explosives and burning tires, but the Army was able to salvage the compound and is now occupying it.
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Here in the Bible Belt I came to realize religion
plays an important role, but it has had a very minor im-pact on my life.
I was raised Christian but I can’t state what kind of Ch r i s-
tian because I honestly don’t know. Before my parents divorced, they took me to church maybe once a month but never made it a huge obligation. And the church was more like a concert hall anyway, with other families in casual dress trying to look like they actually knew the words to the songs.
I went. I participated. But eventually it completely dis-sipated and church was dis-regarded.
Once it couldn’t be any less influential, religion started to build energy during high school after a poor decision under the influence of a girl who led me to a Young Life youth group. I started at-tending weekly meetings at first just to spend time with her, but eventually began getting dragged to indepen-dent Bible studies. Having no knowledge of the Bible and
no intention of putting forth the effort to read it, I contin-ued to attend the meetings for one reason – the girl. This was a terrible reason, but for-tunately I was able to knock my head loose and jump out while I still had my senior year ahead of me.
Though I may make it might sound like Young Life is a terrible organization it truly isn’t, and I want to make it clear that — it just wasn’t for me.
Able to look back now and obser ve how things trans-pi red, I a m happy with my experiences and how my parents raised me. Re-ligion was there but beyond being baptized, the Young Life ordeal and celebrating Christmas, it was quite ir-relevant growing up.
To this day I find nothing wrong with that. I guess you can say religion’s impact is its insignificance in my life.
It was never anything spe-cial and will never be any-thing special. Religion often
brings along rules and ways of life to follow and without these guidelines one can look at its absence in peoples’ lives two different ways. Some people will probably think that without religion an in-dividual will be lost and live a life of sex, drugs, crime and alcohol, but hopefully the majority believes that people can get along just fine with-
out religion. I view myself
as a life without religion success story thus far, and I don’t see it creeping back in anytime soon. Thinking back to the church services, there were highlight-ed individuals who were in
unfortunate circumstances and used Christ and the Bi-ble’s teachings as a guide for how to cope. There is nothing wrong with these people, but there is nothing wrong with coping without some reli-gious teachings either.
It seems our culture is uncomfortable when an in-dividual refuses to identify with a specific religion and
I realize I’m the minority when I say I don’t identify with any specific religion. To sum up my beliefs I will say this: there is a tremendous amount that had to go right for our presence on this plan-et to be possible, but there are too many higher powers to choose from.
That might be vague but it works for me.
Religion’s absence in my life has not inf luenced me in a negative way but in-stead left room for other things to influence me even more. I obtained my mor-als, values and other guides to impact my life from role models, parents, culture and personal experiences. If you enjoy identifying with a cer-tain religion, don’t stop if it makes you happy, but I am here to say that you should not feel obligated to pick one. I am certainly happy with my choice and proud of it.
Send your thoughts to [email protected]
Maintaining faith in the face of death
I never thought in a mil-lion years that at age 18 I would be wearing
my mother around my neck, her ashes residing in a tiny
case as a re-minder of what I used to have. It can be very hard to be-lieve in God. If he is real, he gave my mother can-
cer and let her die. He took her away from me — let her deteriorate right in front of my eyes because of that hor-rid disease. He left my fam-ily and me to stand without her, leaving our hearts feeling empty. So, why would a god who is so great use his power to hurt my family? I am an-gry beyond belief and I am confused to no end — but I still maintain my faith.
Faith is a tricky concept. It’s scary. Faith requires be-lieving in something that you have no proof is real — it’s gambling. Sometimes it drags you through the dirt and grime of life, but it also allows you to hold on until a brighter tomorrow.
If I had to label myself, I would say I am an ex-Catho-lic who dabbled in Christian-ity and took what she wanted from it to create a vision of the higher power she believes in — simple, right?
That’s the thing though, religion isn’t simple. It’s not black and white, there is more of a fluidity to it. I do believe in God, but I believe that the Bible is metaphorical and things were not meant to be taken literally. Personally, I believe if you do take them literally you would be prac-ticing hypocrisy instead of Christianity.
I wasn’t brought up in a re-ligious home, but we all had faith. We only went to church when we had to support a family member for their communion or confirmation. We never took it seriously though, giggling through it and poking fun at the “1984” vibes we would get from the repetition and the synchro-nized sitting and standing. The Catholic Church wasn’t for us, but our home was our church.
When my mom was diag-nosed with cancer I started going to a non-denomina-tional Christian church. I thought that maybe He would listen to me better if I worshiped in His home — but He didn’t intervene.
I begged on my knees and was willing to sacrifice any-thing to help her survive. I would read stories about people with stage four colon cancer who were miracu-lously healed and felt a sort of jealousy and betrayal. He gave them a miracle, why
not us? I had been trying to live by his ways, and made an effort to reevaluate my liberal views to fit the Bible, but I realized I was doing it all wrong.
I found God in my own way, and it ironically hap-pened when I stopped going to church. When I stopped al-lowing messages to be forced into my mind and took what I wanted from them I gained something I had not felt be-fore — trust that God knew what he was doing. Trust that the nightmare I was going through was happening for a reason.
I believe religion is sort of a coping mechanism — a way to deal with death — for me at least. A way to maintain hope that we will see our loved ones again after they die. It seems silly to me not to believe in something that makes the harsh realities of life easier to deal with. If I am wrong about God existing and an afterlife being real, I will never know. Nobody will be there to tell me I’m wrong if I am six feet under and my soul doesn’t travel up above. But if I am right, I will know, and be rewarded for my trust.
I always have my doubts, though. To be honest, I can name more reasons why God doesn’t exist than rea-sons why he does. Despite all of my doubts, the ending of my mother’s life helps me to
believe.We knew her death was
coming so we knew it was time to have a family talk. My brother, my dad, and I sat around her hospital bed in our living room and started talking to her like she could hear and comprehend every word. Though the morphine she was on made her tired, we were certain she could under-stand us. She could respond back to us in fragments with her eyes closed, but we were happy with that. Then, all of the sudden her eyes shot wide open and she looked at me and said “There is somebody behind you.” I looked back in astonishment to find that the space behind me was empty.
My dad asked her a list of yes or no questions to grasp what he looked like and con-cluded the ‘invisible per-son’ looked like her father, who had passed when she was eight. The next day the extended family came over to say their goodbyes. She passed the day after that. I be-lieve it was her father behind me that night, coming down from heaven to escort her back up but waited until his sons and widowed wife could say goodbye. So yes, I firmly believe in God, and I thank him every day for sending her father to bring her to her eternal home.
Taylor QuinnStaff Columnist
The significant insignificance of religion
The intersection of faith, guilt and marshmallows
Islam is the most im-portant thing in life. At least that’s what my
mom always told me. And when she did say that, it was usually after she had told me to pray – extra hard this
time – be-cause I had a midterm the next morn-i n g . S h e always got the same re-sponse from me: a pause, a nasal ex-
hale loud enough to hear over the phone, and a terse “okay.” It always bugged me that she’d attribute my success (or failure), even on something as secular as an international finance midterm, to whether or not I prayed enough. De-spite my vexation with my mom’s preaching, I’d always feel a healthy amount of guilt when we hung up the phone — and I wasn’t entirely sure why.
When I was 11, I was one of only two Muslim kids at my middle school. And because of this novelty, the other kids wanted to know what other brown kids like me believed. I was the unofficial Muslim ambassador to E. Lawson Brown Middle School.
“Do you really pray five times a day?” one kid named Jonathan asked.
I wanted to be able to say yes — partly because it was fun being different, but also because I hated the shame and guilt that came with saying no.
“Not all the time … but I am supposed to.” I’d follow up with an excuse about not being able to pray during class — which, at the time was a legitimate excuse, but I knew school wasn’t the only thing keeping me from pray-ing.
Jonathan had a deep voice (deeper than most boys’ voices in middle school) and pretty impressive facial hair. Jonathan was 14, almost 15 years old — he’d been held back a few times (I guess he didn’t pray before his tests). I remember looking at him and thinking, “So that’s what pu-berty looks like.”
I really wanted a beard — like Jonathan’s — and a low voice, too. So I prayed. Every time I prostrated and put my head to the ground, I’d ask God to let puberty be kind and generous to me. I figured it would help to look the part. Facial hair would not only cover up my face, but my shortcomings as Muslim ambassador.
The summer after sixth grade my parents enrolled me in Sunday Quran stud-ies at the mosque in Greens-boro. It was only one day out of the week, but the thought of memorizing Quran for two hours while other kids were playing bored me to tears.
I brought Skittles to the classes to lessen the misery — sneaking them one-by-one out of the bag in my hoodie pocket. One of the kids there, a chubby boy, must have seen me and was walking toward me.
“Oh, crap!” I thought, “He’s coming to ask for some Skit-tles.” I pushed the bag deeper in my pocket and quickly
swallowed the Skittle I was sucking on. I was ready to play dumb.
“You’re going to hell if you eat those,” he said.
My face didn’t hide my confusion.
“There’s pork gelatin in those,” he continued. “We’re not supposed to –“
“Yea. Okay,” I inter-rupted.
I felt like an idiot for not knowing Skittles were haraam. But Hell? Really? For eating a bag of Skittles? I could understand his point had I been eating a Christmas ham — but they were Skittles.
I threw the bag away and didn’t eat any more Skittles. Shortly after I started finding gelatin in everything: marshmal-lows, Rice Krispy Treats, gummy worms … every-thing that was good and sweet had gelatin in it. I caved. I ate them all in secret. The sugar highs were not subservient to the guilt. Though, it was still there.
I’m not a total heathen, though. Guilt implies faith. Why would I feel guilty if I didn’t believe there was something to feel guilty about?
Eleven years later – at 21 – I’m trying to figure out what my life will be after graduation. I never got the beard I prayed for, but Islam isn’t absent from my job search. In fact, it’s safe to say Islam turned me into the worst finance major ever.
What I learned about in-terest and inflation in col-lege did not change what I believed and learned from Islam — interest is haraam (I could write an entire column about my feelings about interest, inf lation and morality — but not today).
During winter break I was filling out applica-tions for financial analyst and loan consultant posi-tions at a few banks. And each time I hit the submit button, I felt an intense feeling of self-loathing and guilt. It finally became too much. I deleted whatever applications I hadn’t fin-ished, and turned down the interviews I had got-ten. Believe me, I’m in no position to confidently turn down interviews so close to graduation.
But something other than reason tells me I should use whatever knowledge and talents I have to help other people, not encourage them to take on debt. It sounds stu-pid and idealistic — and maybe it is.
I don’t always pray five times a day. And some-times I eat Lucky Charms with pork marshmallows. I can’t say that I’ll stop, but I can say I feel a slight tinge of guilt about it — so that must mean something. I’m not a perfect Muslim, but my soul will go to Hell for eating marshmallows be-fore it goes to Wall Street.
Ahmed AmerViewpoint Editor
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out to second base while Adametz crossed the plate to tie the game.
Austin walked with one out in the frame. Senior first baseman Tarran Senay hit a single to put runners on the corners as Austin advanced to third base. Fincher fol-lowed with an RBI bunt single that plated Austin. Following a wild pitch that moved Fincher and Senay to second and third respec-tively, sophomore pitcher Carlos Rodon grounded out to shortstop as Senay reached home plate.
UNCG responded in the fifth inning with a solo home run into left-center field by Spartan senior center fielder Zach Leach. The Pack re-turned to the scoreboard in the sixth inning when Finch-er scored Ratledge on a base hit to center field.
The Spartans turned their luck around in the eighth, scoring three runs off of Wilkins, capitalizing on a two-run home run by UNCG
senior shortstop T.J. Spina.State would not settle for
defeat easily. After a leadoff double by Ratledge, Senay walked to put runners on first and second with one away. A failed double play attempt by the Spartan defense tied the game as UNCG redshirt freshman second baseman Nin Marrero’s throw to first base was off target. Ratledge, who made it to third on the batted ball, took advantage of the error and scored.
The top of the 11th inning started off with two walks from Wilkins. After Orwig entered and struck out the next batter, Overman took over on the mound and walked the subsequent Spar-tan to load the bases. During the next at-bat, Overman’s pitch got by Austin and a run scored. On the next play, Morgan’s throw to first base was misaligned as UNCG scored two runners to seal the Pack’s fate.
State will travel to Char-lottesville, Va. to take on the Virginia Cavaliers for a three-game series.
FOOTBALLcontinued from page 8
“I think there’s been a lot of excitement,” Doeren said. “I’m proud of the players for their work ethic. They showed up today with great attitude.
They’re still learning what we want from them too, so that part of the growing process will be constant for three or four more practices and then
it’ll become more of a rou-tine for them.”
BASEBALLcontinued from page 8
economy that will continue to grow,” Harrison said. “We need a carbon-constrained future. Congress and authori-ties will understand we need energy that will not harm our environment and planet.”
North Carolina has become a leader of green energy in the southeast, according to Har-rison.
“We have pushed policies and laws that go for green energy,” said Harrison. “The green energy portfolio stan-dard requires a certain per-cent of our energy needed to be clean. This was adopted in 2007, and it was a big step, we are the only state in the southeast with that require-ment.”
Environmental Entrepre-neurs released an assessment on March 6 ranking North Carolina as second in the
nation for clean energy jobs.The organization also said
that North Carolina leads the southeast and is becom-ing a center for green energy manufacturing.
The report stated that the west coast still remains the best region in terms of clean energy, but North Carolina has entered the top-tier mix due to growth in electric vehicle manufacturing and light rail manufacturing.
ABB, a Swiss international corporation that focuses on technology, is headquar-tered in Cary. ABB strives to lower their environmen-tal impact, and cables used for wind energy are made in the manufacturing plant in Huntersville, according to the Environmental Entre-preneurs report.
A company located in Asheville called Biowheels RTS focuses on making so-lar-powered charging docks for electric vehicles and is ex-
pecting to create over 1,000 new jobs out of the company’s projects, according to WRAL Tech Wire.
Harrison said she is very proud of the steps our state is making towards clean sources of energy.
“We have made a deliber-ate effort to promote green energy in North Carolina,” Harrison said. “There are wind turbines and solar com-ponents in Charlotte. Greens-boro is looking at solar cell production. There is a lot of interest here.”
However, the state still has a lot of work to do, according to Roise.
“Our laws regarding clean energy are not as strong as other states, so some com-panies do not follow them,” Roise said. “But a lot of manufacturers are trying to do better, to pollute less and be more sustainable, and it is great that we are moving in that direction.”
Companies like Envi-ronmental Manufactur-ing Solutions try to make it easier for companies to go green by providing more environmentally friendly products to re-place cleaning products that do heavy damage to the ecosystem.
Honda has been named the most fuel-efficient auto company in the United States, according to CNN. The company focuses on two alternative fuel sources and strives to be the cleanest and most efficient manufacturer in the world.
“Green energy jobs are great in this economy,” said Harrison. “Many colleges in North Carolina focus on green energy and green manufacturing jobs, which will beef up the work force and help North Carolina continue to be a leader in green energy.”
WESTcontinued from page 2
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COUNTDOWN• 2 days until men’s basketball takes on Temple in the
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Wolfpack gymnastics takes weekly honorsN.C. State senior gymnast Rachel Fincham has been named the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Specialist of the Week, while freshman Brittni Watkins garnered EAGL Rookie of the Week honors, announced by the conference office Tuesday. The honor is the first of the season for Fincham and the second for Watkins, who was also named Rookie of the Week in January.
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ThursdayWOMEN’S TENNIS VS. UNCRaleigh, N.C., 4 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. RICHMOND, WNIT Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
SWIMMING AND DIVING, WOMEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Indianapolis, Ind., All day
WRESTLING, NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Des Moines, Iowa, All day
FridayMEN’S BASKETBALL, NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP SECOND ROUNDDayton, Ohio, 1:40 p.m.
MEN’S TENNIS VS. CLEMSON Clemson, S.C., 3 p.m.
Football holds spring practice
Staff Report
New N.C. State head coach Dave Doeren got his first look at his Wolfpack squad Tuesday morn-ing when the football team held its first spring practice, opening up the 2013 spring drills. The team will practice 15 times during the spring and will conclude workouts on April 20 at 1:30 p.m. with the Kay Yow Spring Football Game.
Doeren, who was named the Wolfpack’s head coach on Dec. 1, was excited to be on the field to see what he had to work with this upcoming season.
“It’s good to be back on the field,” Doeren said. “There’s a lot
of work to do and I kind of expected that, but there is definitely some high points.”
Doeren coached Northern Illinois to an Orange Bowl berth during the 2012 season. Doeren’s Huskies averaged 38.6 points per game and featured a fast, high-octane of-fense that was well-balanced on the ground and in the air. Sophomore quarterback Manny Stocker took notice to the change of pace from former head coach Tom O’Brien’s more conservative offense.
“The first practice is definitely a learning experience,” Stocker said. “It’s a lot different from last year. The pace is a lot faster and I think everybody is trying to run around
and figure things out. The first prac-tice is just so everybody can get a feel of how it’s going to be for the rest of the year and the rest of the season.”
Players have also taken notice to Doeren’s enthusiasm as a coach and have quickly taken to him.
“He’s a real young energetic coach,” redshirt junior quarter-back Pete Thomas said. “I think he relates to us real well. We all love him and we’re all real excited to play for him.”
The Wolfpack is returning just three seniors who were starters last season after losing 12 starters who graduated or left for the NFL Draft. One of the key points of emphasis for the spring practices will be de-
termining who the team’s leaders will be for the upcoming season.
“Three people are gone from the secondary from last year,” senior cornerback Dontae Johnson said. “I played all last year and everything so it’s going to be a challenge for me to step up this year and make sure these guys step up into the void and fill it with proper technique and en-ergy and passion to play in the sec-ondary in the ACC.”
Doeren is happy with what was shown to him on the field Tuesday and is looking forward to the team coming together in upcoming prac-tices.
Baseball falls to UNCG in extras
Daniel WilsonStaff Writer
N.C. State (16-6, 3-3 ACC) held a strong lead throughout its Tuesday night game against UNC-Greensboro (9-10, 0-3 SoCon), but the Spartans charged back to defeat the Wolfpack in 11 innings at Doak Field, 8-5.
“We did not play hard and we did not play well,” head coach Elliott Avent said. “We did not play like this game was important.”
Sophomore center fielder Jake Fincher was the silver lining in State’s dark cloud of defeat. The Charlotte na-tive had three hits in six at-bats and drove in two runs in Tuesday’s game.
“When you play hard and come up short, there is not much to say,” said.
Sophomore right fielder Brett Austin saw his 10-game hitting streak snap as he was hitless in four at-bats, but he managed to cross the plate after walking in the third inning.
Trouble started early for the Pack as sopho-more pitcher Logan Jernigan left the game after 0.2 innings. In that stretch, he allowed a run on one hit and four walks.
“He could not find the strike zone,” Avent said.
Junior pitcher Andrew Woeck followed Jernigan and threw for 3.1 shutout innings, striking out three and holding UNCG to two hits.
Senior pitcher Josh Easley came to the mound to pitch 1.2 innings and allowed a run on two hits. Redshirt senior southpaw Grant Sasser succeeded Easley and was on the hill for 1.1 frames, holding the Spartans to one run on one hit while striking out two batters.
Senior Ryan Wilkins (2-1, 1.56 ERA) earned the loss af-ter giving up four runs, three of them earned, on two hits and two walks while striking out four Spartans in three in-nings.
“I tried to go out there and battle, but I could not get it done,” Wilkins said.
Sophomore left-hander Travis Orwig earned a strikeout before giving way to se-nior right-hander Chris Overman who closed out UNCG’s offense by striking out two and walking one while giving up an unearned run in 0.2 innings.
After dropping behind by a run due to Jerni-gan’s four free passes, State jumped ahead in the third inning. Following a leadoff triple by senior left fielder Bryan Adametz, sophomore second baseman Logan Ratledge grounded
JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANThe offense warms up before spring practice at the Dail Football Practice Complex Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
Halle Mangrum CHASSMeredith Martin CEdRavyn Njagu CALSDan Oliver PAMSWill Pfitzner COEJulia Rao COEErin Roberts COTShrey Satpathy COE/PAMSRajan Singh FYC/PAMSTianna Soto CHASSBrooke Wilner COEAnnie Wilt COTShealynn Womble CEd
The Caldwell Fellows Welcome the Class of 2016
Matt Anderson COM Jocelyn Barahona CODMegan Broders COTMarc Celestini COEKevin Eguiluz COE/COMBethany Faulkner CODGraham Freels COEThomas Harris CNRMolly Hass CALSWill Holland COE/COMJosiah Keilson COMSean Kramer COE/CHASSSam Loomis PAMS
To learn more about the class of 2016 and the Caldwell Fellows program visit
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JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANSenior infielder Grant Clyde reacts after the N.C. State loss to UNC-Greensboro on Tuesday, March 19. The loss makes the Wolfpack’s overall record to 16-6. The Wolfpack’s next home appearance will occur on March 29 against Virginia.
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“We did not play
hard...play like
this game was
important.”head coach Elliott Avent