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Chancellors lobby, educate legislatorsMark HerringEditor-in-Chief

Chancellors representing cam-puses of the UNC System — from Elizabeth City State University to Western Carolina University — met with state lawmakers Wednesday to contest proposed budget cuts of $139 to the university system.

Chancellor Randy Woodson said the opportunity to appeal to the General Assembly during “Educa-tion Day” is a duty for all who value education.

“The whole goal of today is to

bring leaders from all campuses to-gether, and we have to walk around the legislature and remind everyone of the importance of higher educa-tion and how funding from the state is critical,” Woodson said.

UNC System President Tom Ross has swiftly responded to the pro-posed budget cuts that Gov. Pat McCrory announced two weeks ago, and visited N.C. State Tuesday dur-ing a Faculty Senate meeting to talk about changes in the UNC System, from the new, five-year Strategic Slan to the perceived-threat of cuts in education.

During the first session of “Educa-tion Day,” Ross instructed attending chancellors to be polite to the 170 lawmakers who will decide the fate of public funding for higher educa-tion.

“We want to be treated fairly. We want to prove that the university is important to the future of this state, and we believe that invest-ments in this university will pay real dividends for the people of North Carolina,” Ross said. “A piece of our message is to remind legislators of what all we have done to become more efficient.”

After a 15 percent decrease to the UNC System budget — $400 mil-lion — in 2011, Ross said the sys-tem trimmed its fat and surpassed expectations. In the past five years, UNC schools have produced 17 percent more degrees while cut-ting costs by 12 percent per degree, which comes out to be 17 percent in-cluding inflation, according to UNC System COO Charlie Perusse. That equates to a reduction of $10,000 per degree, while boosting degrees con-ferred system-wide by 8,000.

“It’s important to remind people that you meet with today that we not

only have taken significant cuts al-ready — $400 million two years ago, over $1.2 billion in cuts and rever-sions in the last five years — we’ve taken those and absorbed them, without compromising the quality of education,” Ross said.

Further cuts, however, would un-dermine the system, said Peaches Gunter Blank, a member of the Board of Governors and former chair of the NCSU Board of Trust-ees. With the BOG’s Strategic Plan and flexibility vis-à-vis the strug-

Hunt Library honors namesake at dedication

Republican bill could limit student votingJake MoserDeputy News Editor

State Senate Republicans filed a bill Tuesday that could have drastic consequences for young voters and their parents.

The bill requires dependents to register for voting at their par-ents’ home address, otherwise they will forgo their tax exemp-tions.

Specifically the bill says, “If the voter is a de-pendent of the voter’s parent or legal guardian, is 18 years of age or older and the voter has regis-tered at an address other than that of the parent or legal guard-ian, the parent or legal guard-ian will not be allowed to claim the voter as a de-pendent for state income tax pur-poses.”

This is mainly a problem for college students, who either have to go home to vote, or force their parents to give up part of their tax return.

The legislation only applies to state taxes, therefore out-of-state students won’t be affected.

However, the bill could hurt state Democrats, causing them to miss out on a key demographic.

In Watauga and Orange coun-ties, where college voters play a big role, entire election results could be altered.

Bill Cook (R-Beaufort) is spon-soring the bill, along with Budget Chairman Neal Hunt and three other Republican state senators.

House Minority Leader Larry Hall is strongly opposed to the bill, claiming it will raise taxes on middle class families with college-age students.

“I refuse to believe the Re-publican leadership has become so desperate to limit voting for partisan gain that they would be willing to support tax increases to achieve that goal,” Hall said, “It is the definition of arrogance to penalize parents with new taxes just because their chil-dren want to exercise their right to vote in the community they live in.”

Representatives from the N.C. Board of Elections declined com-ment.

Liz MoomeyStaff Writer

Various members of the N.C. State community celebrated the formal opening of Hunt Library Wednesday, April 3.

Speakers including Marvin Malecha, dean of the College of Design, Chancellor Randy Woodson, Student Body Presi-dent Andy Walsh and Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, spoke about the library and its name-sake, former Gov. James B. Hunt.

After the dedication, attend-ees were able to take tours of the library, which Malecha called the “new heart of Centennial Campus.”

Gregorian, former president of the New York Public Library, talked about the importance of libraries, even though they have some competition with new technology, like iPads.

“One still has to read, ladies and gentlemen,” Gregorian said. “One still has to listen and one still has to see with one’s own eyes. One still has to ponder ideas and discuss them with oth-er people. One still has to think.”

Woodson also spoke about the

importance. “For many of us, the first experi-

ence at a library showed us the world was at our fingertips,” Woodson said. “We could learn just about anything on any topic by picking up a book from the stacks.”

Walsh focused on the library’s cutting edge technology.

“The library is very much about the future,” Walsh said. “Visualiza-tion labs immerse students in real-life situations, so whether you are reconstructing a crime scene or you are reliving a moment in history, you are using the latest and greatest technology.”

Woodson said Hunt is breaking the stereotype that libraries are just a place to be quiet and check a book out.

“This isn’t the library you grew up with,” Woodson said. “There are no ‘quiet please’ signs. This library beckons for innovation and collabo-ration.”

Walsh agrees that this library is something special with the addition of the game room and MicroTiles walls that displayed the ACC bas-ketball games.

“How many libraries are actually fun?” Walsh asked the audience.

Woodson spoke about Hunt be-ing a suitable person to dedicate the library to.

“Few have done for education in our state than Governor Hunt,” Woodson said. “I cannot think of a more fitting match than having

his name on this remarkable educa-tional resource for our state.”

Gregorian dis-cussed the impor-tance Hunt had on North Carol ina education.

“Governor Hunt continued to do great things for North Carolinians, because he recognized that knowl-edge is the one source to progress, enlightenment and public power,” Gregorian said. “Education is the root to success, the only root.”

Malecha added that Hunt Library is the future of libraries.

“You will see for yourself the transformative model for the next generation of scholarship,” Malecha said.

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ALEX CAO/TECHNICIANChancellor Randy Woodson speaks at the formal opening of Hunt Library at Centennial Campus. Joining him on stage are former Gov. James B. Hunt and Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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Sara AwadStaff Writer

Students love the technology at D.H. Hill Library, but maybe they love it a little too much.

High demand for electronics, like iPads, frustrates students because they cannot always check out the devices at the circulation desk when they need them.

“As soon as one is checked in, someone is there to check it out,” said circulation desk employee and freshman in agricultural education Katie Teator.

Colin Reed, a senior in history, tried to borrow a Google Nexus 7 tablet multiple times before spring break, but was unsuccessful because they were all checked out.

“It’s nothing serious,” Reed said. “I just wish they’d have more availability for minor productivity things.”

Reed said he wanted the tablet so he could use it in the car to read during a long road trip instead of

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Jessica HatcherStaff Writer

A Raleigh-based company has recently created an in-novative way to protect kids from everyday messes and germs — antibacterial chil-dren’s clothes.

Founded in 2012 by N.C. State alumni Angela Hollen and Zach Schabot, Spitter Spatter is a company whose products are stain, odor and germ resistant.

Spitter Spatter products have “been proven effective for a broad range of bacte-ria, fungi, algae and yeasts including, but not limited to, Strep, Staph, swine f lu, bird flu, MRSA, SARS, HIV, E. coli, Salmonella and Lis-

teria,” according to Hollen, who is also the CEO of Spit-ter Spatter.

The company employs a process which uses a water-based hyper-green polymer to “transform ordinary fi-bers into enhanced perfor-mance fabrics with built-in capabilities providing stain resistance, antibacterial and odor control that lasts the life of the product – wash af-ter wash,” Hollen said in an email interview.

The bond forms between the fabric, whether it is natu-ral or synthetic, and the ac-tive ingredient is permanent and therefore cannot wash or wear off, Hollen said.

The active ingredient is EPA-certified, OEKO-TEX-

approved and “sustainable, biodegradable and kind to the skin,” according to Hollen.

Spitter Spatter’s current “classic collection” features a wide variety of infant and toddler clothing items, such as T-shirts, dresses, body suits and jackets.

The products are available in a range of colors, includ-ing yellow, pink, blue, purple and gray. The clothes are cur-rently available for purchase online at www.spitterspatter.com.

Spitter Spatter is develop-ing expansion plans which involve selling their products in retailers, like children’s boutiques, and adding new collections to the line.

Hollen revealed that pos-sible new products include accessories like blankets as well as pieces with designs on them.

“We’re looking to work with local artists to design

fun graphics to put on our pieces,” Hollen said.

Schabot is also excited about expansion possibilities.

“I think it’s nice because at this point we’re not design-ing things that are trendy,” Schabot said. “Our classic products have longevity. The expansion plans are endless and we have a lot of ideas.”

The inspiration behind the company began with Schabot’s experiences as a father.

Schabot said when his chil-dren were infants, they went through two to four outfits a day from drooling or spit-ting up. His kids would come home from daycare with skin rashes from the irritation.

“I would make jokes about wishing for kids clothes that wouldn’t get wet and dirty,” Schabot said.

After changing countless outfits and bibs, Schabot said he thought to himself, “there

has got to be a better way to do this.”

“The whole thing start-ed off as a joke, but it was a serious inconvenience for us as parents and also for our children.”

Schabot searched for a company that could pro-duce a product that could stand up to everyday wear and tear of kids clothes to no avail, until he met Hollen at a textile compe-tition, explained Hollen.

Using Schabot’s busi-ness idea and experience in marketing and Hollen’s textile expertise, the two worked together to create Spitter Spatter.

“I think for me coming up with a solution that any parent could use is re-ally a neat thing. I love the idea of being able to come up with an idea and see-ing an idea come to life,” Schabot said.

In regards to the name, Hollen said, “we wanted a name that conveyed the problem and summarized everything we were trying to create. Kids are messy and they spatter things everywhere. Spitter Spat-ter just seemed to fit per-fectly.”

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gling economy, Blanks the UNC System is ahead of the curve, but not by much.

“We have to put forth the value of education,” Blank said. “When you look at the 220,000 students in our sys-tem, it’s very important. You have to have money to run the system. Let’s just take [the example of] research. Money drives, and you can’t educate without dollars.”

Mixed support in the General Assembly

Three Republican lawmak-ers addressed the chancellors about the gravity of the bud-get cuts, which ranged from “extreme” to “not severe.”

State Sen. Jeff Tarte (R-41) said he wanted to be the champion of higher educa-tion in North Carolina after winning elections in Meck-lenburg County last year. As he described it, the uni-versity system is “bar-none, unequivocally our greatest asset we have in the state. We have to embrace it, own it and fund it.”

Tarte, who grew up poor and received a Pell Grant to fund his college education, said the UNC System is “un-der a little bit of an attack, politely described.” During his talk with the chancellors, Tarte recounted the story of his oldest son who started college at the University of Florida and had to drop out due to poor grades but got a second chance in the N.C.

Community Colleges and UNC systems, ultimately graduating with honors from Appalachian State and going on to earn his master’s degree at UNC-Chapel Hill.

“The university system didn’t give up on him. We didn’t throw him to the curb. And look how he’s do-ing now,” Tarte said.

Tarte, who said he was tre-mendously grateful for the opportunities he received from the government to re-ceive a higher education, said he does not support the idea of impeding students from getting a degree at a four-year institution.

“Every kid who wants the opportunity to go to a four-year university in the state of North Carolina absolutely, unequivocally should never be denied that opportunity,” Tarte said. “That’s our re-sponsibility to preserve that.”

Tarte voted to approve Sen-ate Bill 14 in February, which approved endorsing high-school diplomas as college-bound or vocational-bound.

Tarte said he would never consider closing a campus in the system, which Rep. Tom Apodaca (R-48) echoed later in the day.

“We won’t close any cam-puses,” Apodaca said. “We are not merging Western and UNC-Asheville. Let’s put that to rest. We have no intent to close campuses at this point.”

Apodaca, co-chairman of the Appropriations on Educa-tion/Higher Education sub-committee, said the General Assembly may make minor changes to the governor’s

proposed budget, but didn’t say if cuts in the final bud-get, which may be finalized in June, would increase or decrease.

“You are going to see some areas go up, you’re going to see some areas come down, and you’ll see the out-of-state tuition rates go down. But I will go on record to say that the budget that the governor released is excessive in out-of-state tuition hikes. I think that is something we need to take a hard look at.”

The proposed out-of-state tuition hikes of 12.3 percent for graduate students did not receive any support from the speakers of the day. The eco-nomic impacts of such cuts would cost more to the uni-versities than the revenue they bring in, Ross said.

Speaker of the House Thom Tillis (R-49) said the proposed cuts are not major compared to previous cuts. Though he said the UNC System is not overfunded, chancellors should do their best to become less depen-dent on the state.

“If I were a Chancellor, if I could limit what the gov-ernment does to control the schools to the extent that I can be independent finan-cially, I’ll find a way to get there,” Tillis said. “It’s like ev-erything else — when you get funding from a government agency, there are going to be strings attached regardless. The more independent you are, the more control you’re going to have.”

Taylor O’QuinnStaff Writer

The recent issues with the FollowMe Printing system, which was implemented over spring break, have been ad-dressed and fixed for the time being.

Jim Hansen, assistant di-rector of materials, said the problem was resolved by changing the print driver for the Lexmark printers that

service the FollowMe Print-ers.

According to David Lad-rie, assistant director of the learning space support, stu-dents having issues with the FollowMe printing system can submit a refund request via their WolfPrint account. Click on recent print jobs and then select “request refund” in the right-hand column.

“WolfCopy will also offer refunds to affected students if they call our office,” Han-sen said.

Hansen said all they need is the student’s Unity ID, approximate date(s) of the failed print job, the name of the file printed and the loca-tion of the printer used.

WolfCopy is able to run a detailed report on each com-plaint to identify the specific problem.

“One of our testers had a problem with the same type of PDF,” Ladrie said. “We should have caught the issue.”

Ladrie and Hansen both said they’ve made changes to the testing process to ensure that this situation does not repeat itself.

Since classes resumed af-ter spring break, FollowMe

printing was made available for student printing on our newly installed Lexmark printers.

From March 11 to April 1, Ladrie and Hansen said they’ve seen 8,046 active us-ers executing 44,732 print jobs for a total of 175,033 pages of impressions.

The total pages printed were accomplished on both the existing Hewlett-Packard and the new FollowMe Lex-mark printers.

“Based on the amount of refund requests our office has received, the impact to the University is minimal,” Ladrie said. “However, to the students affected, that is not the case and we regret any in-convenience we have caused.”

Overall, for the majority unaffected, FollowMe print-ing has been well-received, Ladrie said, the new printing program has been a success.

“Having the ability to walk up to a Lexmark printer, swipe your student ID card and print what you have sub-mitted to the virtual print queue,” Hansen said.

something that Hunt has shown us, according to Gre-gorian.

“You have to decide what you want to become, how you are going to preserve your ancestors, so you are training a nation in order to be good ancestors, and Gov-ernor Hunt has done that,” Gregorian said.

having to lug around his heavy laptop.

The renting system at D.H. Hill is troubled for another reason too.

A glitch in the Tablet Lend-ing website caused it to incor-rectly state there were always three first-generation iPads available, which confused many of the programs pa-trons, Teator said.

After talking with Techni-cian, Director of Learning Commons Services, David Woodbury corrected the problem.

The library allows students to check out Google Nexus 7s and first-generation iPads for up to one week with no renewals. Students can only keep iPad 2s for four hours at a time, but the library does allow one renewal.

The policy is fine, accord-ing to Reed, but he said he wishes the library had a greater supply and selection of electronic devices.

To help with demand, the library got new iPads, iPad Minis and cameras last week and recently received new iPhone 5 chargers, as well, Teator said.

According to Woodbury, other new items include iPod Touches, Microsoft Surfaces, Kindles and Nexus tablets.

A lot of the new electronics came from Hunt Library in order to “evenly spread” the technology available at the two libraries, Woodbury said.

All five libraries have a total of 125 iPads to lend to stu-dents, according to Wood-

bury. Forty-one are available at D.H. Hill Library for sev-en-day checkout, and Hunt will soon receive a total of 19 iPads for seven-day checkout, as well.

To help meet demand, D.H. Hill plans to make more of the four-hour iPads avail-able for seven-day checkout, Woodbury said.

When no iPads are avail-able, patrons must wait 24 hours before checking out another one, Woodbury said.

“People want to keep it, but the renewal system is in place so other people can have it,” Teator said.

D.H. Hill purchases more equipment every year, but the University must now support a new library as well, Wood-bury said.

With the creation of Hunt Library, lending will increase by approximately 30-40 per-cent, according to Woodbury.

“It’s hard to have the latest, greatest thing all the time for everyone,” Woodbury said.

However, the University’s lending program surpasses that of other universities, Woodbury said.

“We, without question, have the most robust tech lending system than any other campus I have ever interacted with,” Woodbury said. “It really is an amazing program that I hope students are proud of.”

UNC-Chapel Hill only re-ceived a few iPads recently, whereas N.C. State had stu-dents standing in line to buy the devices, allowing them to arrive at the University in approximately two days, Woodbury said.

Some students, like junior

in psychology Jude Jack-son, never experienced problems with the pro-gram.

Jackson said he used the service frequently dur-ing his freshman year to check out iPods and listen to music.

“It was very useful for my freshman year when I didn’t have quite the money to get an iPod,” Jackson said.

Overall, the program gives priority to students who need electronics for academic or professional purposes, Woodbury said. However, students should request items ahead of time to ensure availability, Woodbury said.

According to Libraries Director of Communica-tion Strategies David His-coe, the program lends ap-proximately 200,000 items annually to students.

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‘BioShock’ sequel reaches for the skyJordan AlsaqaAssociate Features Editor

Making a successful fol-low-up to the 2007 smash hit BioShock would be a daunt-ing task for any development team. The unique setting of the underwater city of Rap-ture, the cast of memorable villains and the atmospheric horror all made for one of the most memorable games of this console generation.

In fact, the first sequel, Bio-Shock 2 suffered from unkind comparisons to the original when it was released in 2010.

Now, almost six years after the first BioShock, series cre-ator Ken Levine and the team at Irrational Games have re-turned to the franchise with BioShock Infinite. However, while Infinite is a stellar game on its own merits, several is-sues keep it from reaching the same heights as the first game.

BioShock Infinite is set in 1912 and follows the tale of Booker DeWitt, a former Pinkerton agent who owes a great deal to a shady group of criminals. In order to wipe away the debt, DeWitt agrees to find a young woman named Elizabeth and bring her to New York.

Before he knows it, DeWitt finds himself in Columbia, a flying city held in the fanati-cal grip of a religious mad-man. As DeWitt tries to get Elizabeth out of Columbia, the city descends into civil war, with everyone seeking

his head.While the game shares nu-

merous elements with the original, BioShock Infinite feels more like a spiritual successor than an actual sequel. Of course, the com-plete change in location is welcome, as BioShock 2 made it clear there wasn’t a whole lot left to see in the depths of the sea.

Unfortunately, Columbia never manages to build the same sense of atmosphere and presence that Rapture did. One of the benefits of BioShock taking place after the city’s fall was that Rap-ture felt haunted. If anything, Columbia is too lively, with citizens doing little else than standing around chatting about the threat of the Vox Populi.

Still, Columbia has more than a few great areas to ex-plore. The Hall of Heroes is filled with religious propa-ganda, while the frighten-ing Comstock House is full of terrifying creatures and great scares. The art design in general is a success, mean-ing that even when the areas are bereft of creative aspects, they’re still good to look at.

The narrative is also strong, providing numerous myster-ies throughout the course of the campaign, as well a string of big twists at the game’s

conclusion. The game’s pac-ing does fair better than the original, with Infinite never suffering a post-twist lull the way BioShock did.

The problem is that much of the game’s plot depends on rifts in reality — portals into parallel dimensions that Elizabeth is able to open. The whole game is built around Elizabeth’s abilit ies and where they come from, but the full scope of what she is able to do and how is left un-explained until the very end.

As a result, it’s hard to get completely invested in De-

Witt and Elizabeth’s story as questions about how exactly their dimension-hopping works cause distractions. It works out in the end, but it makes it difficult to enjoy the ride when you’re wondering if the whole thing’s going to fall apart along the way.

The combat system keeps things from getting too bogged down in narrative, though, as players are given a wide variety of guns and spe-cial powers to play with. The firearms never really evolve beyond the usual first-person shooter weapons, though the skyhook melee weapon offers a great combat option.

The real stars of the combat system are the various Vig-ors DeWitt can find. Acting

as Columbia’s version of the first game’s Plasmids, Vigors allow DeWitt the ability to shoot lightning, throw fiery explosives and summon a murder of crows to assault his enemies. Though there’s not a lot of variety among the eight different powers, they still of-fer a fun system for taking on the game’s enemies.

Sadly, though Infinite fea-tures several “Heavy Hitter” class enemies, none of them live up to the terror of a fight with one of BioShock ’s Big Daddies, or even the sequel’s Big Sisters. The closest Infi-nite comes is with the undead Siren, but she qualifies more as a boss than a regular en-counter.

It may seem that I’m point-

ing out a lot of flaws in Infi-nite, but that’s only because of the pedigree from which is comes. BioShock remains one of the best games ever made, and Infinite just doesn’t offer enough new ideas to feel as groundbreaking or impor-tant as the first game was.

That doesn’t change the fact that this is easily one of the best games of 2013 so far. If you can go in without expecting the same level of innovation that came with the original, then BioShock Infinite is an experience that will stick with you for a long time to come.

PHOTO COURTESY OF IRRATIONAL GAMESBioShock Infinite features numerous “Heavy Hitters,” enemy units that take over for the original’s Big Daddies as a major threat.

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Minor mixes art and business savvy

Will E. BrooksDeputy News Editor

Art and business may be two unlikely companions on first thought, but students studying arts entrepreneur-ship at N.C. State would ar-gue the opposite.

Arts entrepreneurship be-gan as a minor-only program in August 2011. Students and professors involved in the program are eager to sell their aesthetics, whatever they may be.

“It’s about making a liv-ing with your art, but more importantly in the N.C. State space, there are a lot of stu-dents who are interested in supporting the production of art,” Gary Beckman, director of entrepreneurial studies in the arts, said.

Beckman, who managed to organize the program within two weeks of his arrival, said it has grown to be the larg-est of its kind in the country, with 150 students currently enrolled in arts entrepreneur-ship courses and 35 currently pursuing the minor.

Beckman designed the pro-gram, which came to frui-tion about two months after his arrival. Currently, only two other universities in the country — Ohio State Uni-versity and Southern Meth-odist University — have a comparable program.

The program currently comprises students engaged

in music, visual arts, fashion design and film, all inter-ested in marketing their art. Among them is Jason Sharp, a junior in history.

Sharp said he always had an interest in music, but didn’t know how to apply his skills to a job until he met with Beckman. After speaking with Beckman about the pro-gram, Sharp began pursuing the minor and said the expe-rience has been enlightening.

“You figure out why arts aren’t just another thing you can sell, you have to sell it correctly,” Sharp said.

Beckman said the program goes beyond basic arts-ven-ture management, tying mar-keting, geography, economics and art together.

Sharp is currently work-ing on a project to condense local concerts into a simple, accessible calendar format for computers and mobile de-vices with skills from the arts entrepreneurship program.

“I wanted to create a single online concert calendar,” Sharp said. “Everything right now is not efficient.”

The program is complet-ed following a “capstone” course, where students get hands-on experience being around and working with entrepreneurs.

Anna Wolfe is currently finishing her capstone course for the program and said she has “turned her minor into a major” in a way.

“[The minor] basically blends everything together that I like,” Wolfe said. “I definitely want to be entre-preneurial in business and the minor has helped me identify how to do that with being an artist as well.”

Wolfe currently runs JANT, a music marketing company based in Raleigh and gave a talk on the business of art at N.C. State’s edition of TEDx at the end of last month.

“Artists are already out there selling their stuff,” Wolfe said. “Even if you don’t want to be the artist selling the painting, you can be an entrepreneur on the art side of things.”

Beckman said that an im-portant aspect of the arts entrepreneurship program involves incorporating the skills from students’ majors into their entrepreneurial ventures.

Currently, the program has graduated three students who Beckman said are using their main course of study along with their entrepreneurial minor.

“They are leveraging things they have done outside the minor for internships,” Beck-man said.

Sharp said he hopes to do the same.

“This minor is a way that I can do something I love and make it profitable,” Sharp said.

‘The Host’ has nothing new to offerLauren VanderveenStaff Writer

Disorienting, frequently annoying and home to only a few redeeming qualities, The Host obliviously commits to its walk of shame.

The Host, adapted to the big screen from Stephenie Mey-er’s sci-fi romance novel, tells the story of a world where the earth has been overrun by jellyfish-like aliens that take human bodies as their hosts. The invaders crawl through the back of the neck and steal your subconscious for their own, with only the eerie light in their eyes as evidence of the ordeal.

Saoirse Ronan duels with herself as two characters, Melanie Stryder and Wan-derer, the alien that has in-habited her body.

These abductors, called Souls, consider themselves peaceful and claim that hu-mans need them to fix their unruly, dangerous ways. You can’t be a human and not get ruffled by that.

Still, it poses the interesting question – one I believe the book handled better – what does it really means to be hu-man? Is it simply our physi-cality – skin, bones, heart, et cetera – or are our warring emotions part of the equa-tion?

Unfortunately, those ques-

tions are more like thoughts in the wind. Not only does the film never bother to put forth an answer, it never gives these philosophical ideas any importance.

It can’t even be left as merely style without sub-stance, as there are only a few points of reference that let The Host stand out visu-ally. The sprawling desert exterior shots and the wheat fields grown from an intri-cate set-up of mirrors that slant sunlight into the fugi-tive humans’ hideout are the most noteworthy examples.

This desolate setting is cer-tainly appropriate. The film is about humans reverting back to primitive ways and loca-tions as a means of survival. Too bad these stakes are reg-ularly halted by Wanderer’s maddening and nauseating inner dialogue with Melanie.

Melanie’s arbitrary one-liners should be enough to make anyone with sense just get up and leave the theater.

Do we merely chalk this lacking narrative up to Stephenie Meyers’ crappy writing once more? I’m not convinced we should. The film was put into the capable hands of Andrew Niccol, the

screenwriter and director known for his work on Gat-taca and The Truman Show. However, none of his usual skill seems to be on display in The Host.

Or maybe we should pass the buck on to Ronan, who gives exaggerated deliveries as both characters. I had high hopes for her after her per-formance in Atonement, but roles such as this squander that potential.

The crux of the film’s con-flict is that Wanderer simply

can’t suppress the mind of Melanie. As a result, Wan-derer gets emotionally mixed up in Melanie’s relation-ships with her brother Jamie (Chandler Canterbury) and boyfriend Jared (Max Irons). But it wouldn’t be Stephenie Meyers without a love trian-gle – and so enters Ian (Jake Abel), who is about as irrele-vant a character as the major-ity of the other by-standing humans are.

Ironically, the best scene in the entire movie is of two

of the miscellaneous hu-mans. After making a much needed run for supplies, the two humans – who will not be named, in case you actu-ally want to spend money on this kind of mediocrity – get caught by the alien enemy on the highway. A high-speed chase with swelling music spirals down into kamikaze “I’d-rather-die-than-be-one-of-you” heroics. More of this human psyche at the fore-front would have made the film bearable.

Diane Kruger fares decently as the almost, but not quite villainess, Seeker, and when you put William Hurt’s voice in a western setting, you al-ready know who is going to steal the show.

Still, it’s nowhere near enough to save this sorry excuse for a movie. The Host moves beyond a pathetic at-tempt at filmmaking into the realm of an outright disgrace.

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In 2007, Barack Obama said that as president, he would strive to “let

folks know when their food is genetically modified, be-

cause Amer-icans have a r ight to know what they’re buy-ing.” Vow-ing to “im-mediately” label geneti-cally modi-

fied organisms after elec-tion, this was a part of his Change™ thing. Obama’s been all about change, both before and after becoming president. Except that after it, he’s just been changing his promises.

Last Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed H.R. 933, including its Section 735, named the Monsanto Protection Act. This law re-quires the United States De-partment of Agriculture to approve the harvest and sale of crops from GM seeds, even if a federal court has ruled the crop as having health or environmental hazards. This provision was written by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) in col-laboration with Monsanto, which obviously would want measures to guarantee that it can keep on selling GMOs regardless of the costs.

Consumer safety advo-cates, food activists and organic farmers are up in arms about the decision. Indeed, Monsanto’s GMOs are known to cause health problems in humans and animals, including but not restricted to liver, heart and kidney damage. In any case, it cannot be smart to hand over control of our food sup-

ply to one entity — which is fast becoming reality with Monsanto’s monopoly — and definitely not one that exists for the sake of profit. At a time when other countries are kicking Monsanto out, we don’t even label GMOs from Monsanto … which is the same corporation that manufactured and lied to us about DDT, Agent Orange and other dangerous chemi-cals.

It isn’t hard to realize that if Monsanto wants to make sure that legal action can’t be taken against it, it must be doing something illegal. The challenge, though, lies in taking off our blindfolds and realizing that the seemingly more conscientious Demo-cratic Party and the “pro-gressive” candidate aren’t going to come to our rescue. It’s harder to look through the pretense of Obama’s Change™ that gets liberals and progressives behind him en masse than to see what’s wrong with Monsanto.

But the truth is that Obama is like Bush on steroids when it comes to the slaughter of civil liberties and civil-ians in Asia and Africa. He hasn’t shut down Guanta-namo (where, incidentally, a media-blackout is keeping us unaware of 130 illegally de-tained prisoners protesting their confinement through a hunger strike). He claims to stand for the working classes while blurring the boundary between his administration and Wall Street — in fact, this January, he appointed the former vice president of Monsanto as the Deputy Commissioner for Foods of the Food and Drug Admin-istration.

People who really want change should realize that Obama is more of a scoun-drel than a saint. They should realize that the government is bought and sold by those rich enough to buy it, or at least that it’s not the best at doing good. (An example from recent events — many congresspersons were appar-ently unaware that the Mon-santo Protection Act was even a part of H.R. 933.) Though horrible, the Monsanto Pro-tection Act is not surprising — and it’s about time we fully come to terms with the way power works in the world and empower ourselves to take responsibility for our world.

That our food supply will be hurt by this law is undeni-able. Essentially, Obama has given Monsanto free reign in infiltrating our food supply. Also, as International Busi-ness Times reports, a prece-dent has been set that corpo-rations can evade consumer safety protections if they get politicians on their side, and that court challenges are a privilege, rather than a right.

However, the world has not been lost … if can we move beyond relying on Obama to do good and take control of our own collective destinies. We can still organize, boycott corporations that oppose GMO labeling and protest. We can promote and buy non-GMO (and local, fresh and organic) food. We can grow gardens and food, and perhaps most threateningly for the monoculture-monop-olies like Monsanto and cor-porate capitalism in general, come together to collectively grow our own food. Resis-tance is, as they say, fertile.

Hallelujah, readers. I love the United States of America.

I mean, if Uncle Sam were real, well … it would change absolutely nothing because

being with another man is unconsti-tutional, no matter how patriotic he is. But it’s be-cause I love this country

so much that it pains me to tell you it’s all going to hell. And by “all” I mean “all 49 states except North Caro-lina,” whose legislature is fighting to keep the satans at bay (where the sea level is definitely not rising, so screw you, Science!). The Defense of Religion Act, sponsored by Republican N.C. House rep-resentatives, Harry Warren and Carl Ford, aims to pro-tect North Carolina’s right to establish an official state religion.

Naming it the Defense of Religion Act is great because it really conveys a sense of urgency, as if religion is be-ing attacked by someone or something from which we need to defend it. And it’s not like anyone has ever raised an army in the name of religion — it’s totally helpless and un-der attack, people.

The bill states that the Es-tablishment Clause in the First Amendment of the

Constitution — the one that prohibits Congress from making a law respecting an establishment of religion — ought not to apply to states, municipalities and schools. The bill goes on to justify not adhering to the Supreme Law of the Land using the Tenth Amendment — essentially expressing these unenumer-ated rights should be decided by the state.

It’s a brilliant tactic I would never have thought of: using the Constitution against itself. For North Carolina Republicans, reading the Constitution is like reading the Bible — you just pick out the parts you like. Ignoring the Supremacy Clause is like ignoring the part in Mat-thew where Jesus says “Love thy neighbor.” Though, to be fair, perhaps they’re not to-tally ignoring Jesus’ word — they probably interpreted his teaching with a list of unenumerated exceptions at the end to make it read, “un-less they’re gay …” (hence Amendment One).

The thing I like the most about this bill is that it’s gutsy. Harry Warren and Carl Ford are looking the federal government right in the eyes and saying, “We don’t have to follow your manmade rules anymore.” Which is exactly why opening up North Caro-lina to an official state reli-gion makes so much sense.

Additionally, I know for

a fact that this bill isn’t unconstitutional. Before any elected or appointed official begins his or her duties, they must take an Oath of Office, which be-gins, “I will support and maintain the Constitution … of the United States.”

You see, folks, Warren and Ford love the Consti-tution so much that they are willing to smother it — or take it out behind an abandoned shed and shoot it in its face (by the way, the Constitution to-tally protects their right to shoot it in the face with any gun they want).

You know, it’s like when a psychotic ex-husband in a movie puts a pillow over his sleeping wife’s face and says, “I’m only doing this because I love you.”

Many disagree with this bill, calling it “down-right unconstitutional.” And several more feel the N.C. GOP does not hold its constituents’ best in-terests at heart, especially when you consider last year’s Amendment One, and Gov. Pat McCrory’s budget that would cut $139 million from the UNC System. But if that’s the case, then we should all hope for an official state religion to pass, be-cause the N.C. GOP could certainly use our prayers.

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Praise the Ford, Warren Act

BY KARIN ERIKSSON

Should North Carolina declare an official state

religion?

IN YOUR WORDS

“No, because the first amendment prohibits states from making a law to establish a religion.”

Robert Shullsophomore, electrical engineering

“No, to declare one specific religion would be denying other ones, which goes against people’s rights.”

Tori Jeffersonsophomore, environmental sciences

Tony Hankerson Jr., senior in arts applications

For the legislature so hated universities

Technician, as a group of college students, feels undervalued by the North Carolina government. Be-

tween Gov. Pat McCrory’s proposed $139 million budget cut to UNC System schools and Senate Bill 667, which would lessen the voice of college students in their respective college counties, it is easy to understand our discontent. At least, we think it’s easy.

On Wednesday, chancellors from several of the UNC System’s 17 schools met in the North Carolina Museum of History for “University Day” to explain our frustrations.

The chancellors, among others, voiced their concerns to legislators and the Speaker of the House, Thom Tillis, regarding McCrory’s proposed budget cut. McCrory suggested that some universities, including N.C. State, increase out-of-state tuition by 12.3 percent to compensate for the massive budget cut. UNC System President Tom Ross explained, “My concern is we won’t recognize all those tuition revenues. We will lose a lot of students and we won’t get that money. It’s going to be a problem for us, but the talent that we will lose for North Carolina is a problem for North Carolina.”

Chancellor Randy Woodson clarified the purpose of University Day, saying, “We’re here to encourage [the legislature] to sus-

tain [our budget] and give us the flexibility to manage our own affairs.”

Of the legislators in attendance, Sen. Jeff Tarte (R – 41) seemed to be the one of the few people championing universities as a healthy investment. “The university system is bar-none, unequivocally our greatest asset we have in the state,” he advocated.

Ross added, “We want to be treated fairly. We want to prove that the university is im-portant to the future of this state, and we be-lieve that investments in this university will pay real dividends for the people of North Carolina.”

We applaud Ross, Tarte, Chancellor Randy Woodson and the other chancellors in atten-dance for their attempts to educate the stub-born legislators.

However, despite the support we have from the education community, we still can’t help but feel that the North Carolina government has something against us college students. First, they want to take funds away from our university system – a system that has proven to be efficient. Second, they want to take away our electoral voice, as to muffle any outcry.

Sen. Tom Apodaca (R – 48) tried to argue

that “We’re not looking at severe cuts. I don’t know if we have any bad news … they’re go-ing to be minor compared to what they were in the past.”

But as Tom Ross argued, we have already trimmed the fat of the UNC System to make it more efficient and at this point, any more trimming would force us to compromise our education.

So, to add to the flippancy toward college students conveyed by Apodaca’s halfhearted remarks, the Senate filed a bill Tuesday that will carry a tax penalty for college students who vote in a county in which their parents do not reside.

Senate Bill 667 is known as “Equalize Voter Rights.” If there’s any time to rally against equality, the time is now. The bill, filed in the State Senate Tuesday, explains, “If the voter is a dependent of the voter’s parent or legal guardian, is 18 years of age or older and the voter has registered at an address other than that of the parent or legal guardian, the parent or legal guardian will not be allowed to claim the voter as a dependent for state income tax purposes.”

So unless your parents also live in Wake

County, you cannot cast your vote in Talley and still be considered a dependent of your parents without a tax penalty. If passed, this bill, effective Jan. 1, 2014, could have a sig-nificant effect in counties like Watauga and Orange where, according to WRAL, “college voters have been a key part of the Democratic Party’s dominance.”

Furthermore, Republican lawmakers filed a bill that would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion. This came only weeks after Technician Viewpoint hosted a week celebrating religious diversity. This only strengthens our argument that recently, the North Carolina legislature has been rebelling against universities.

The Technician editorial board hasn’t al-ways been the nicest to Gov. Pat McCrory & Co., but if they are going to propose that we make Christianity the state religion, they should uphold Christian values and “love [their] enemies.” Maybe “love” is a strong request, but we’d appreciate it if they would slow down on the anti-university decisions. Until then, we will continue to voice our dis-content via the Viewpoint page. However, North Carolina lawmakers might suggest we pray instead.

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The end of our spring semester is almost here. Most of us are excited; we long for lazy summer days spent by the pool and

empty hours filled with liquid pleasures. The idea of being done with school is unbelievably appealing and some of us may be contemplat-ing never returning to academia. Of course, for graduating seniors, not returning is becoming a harsh reality.

It’s not as though we don’t expect graduation to arrive someday. It is, after all, part of the reason

we came to college in the first place. We want that glorified sheet of paper framed and mounted so we can reminisce about our youth in old age. While earning our degree is certainly something we expect, it can be difficult when the time to leave N.C. State’s hallowed halls finally arrives. The art of achieving an A seems simple when we are faced with the painful truth that finding a job is anything but an easy task most of the time.

Often, our job search is permeated with despair after just a few weeks of looking. With 37 days

left until we march to the impending death of our academic life, some are starting to panic. Paying the rent suddenly seems much more difficult without student loan assistance and the idea of returning to the homes of our parents saturates our nightmares. While long term careers may be elusive at the moment, we have brought you some select job options to consider as backup. Because let’s face it; it’s going to be pretty damn hard to score in a twin bed covered in Lion King sheets from your youth.

ACROBATIC ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTOR:If you’re the type of person who can’t

manage to sit still for more than about 20 seconds, the idea of sitting down for an

entire workday likely kills your soul. Luckily for you, there is a job that seriously frowns

upon anyone who doesn’t have ADHD tendencies. Sign twirling is considered an art by many; how many people do you know who can casually toss around a

piece of cardboard for hours on end while looking excruciatingly ecstatic? Not too

many, we would bet.Tossing around a sign has its benefits.

It’s a potentially social career choice, as you can easily make conversation with all

members of the opposite sex who walk in your line of vision. Assuming they deign to speak to you in your absurd sign twirling attire, that is. If you’re into role playing, try angling for a job

that requires an interesting costume. In the height of tax season, we particularly

enjoy hunting down those donning Statue of Liberty attire, so that we may serenade them with the national anthem.

This is a role one must have extreme confidence to perform.

Balancing large sheets of cardboard on your thumb doesn’t count for much if you can’t make yourself look good doing it. Style and pizzazz are essential components of a great sign twirler. And let’s face it; if you can manage to look cool while tossing around a neon encrusted advertisement, chances are you can look cool doing just about anything. While you’re smiling and doing mad 360’s with your signs, just remember, a good sign dance is forever.

PROFESSIONAL CRITICISM DEFLECTOR:Most people have at least a little experience

in the food service industry. Some of us spent summers scooping ice cream or donning flair pieces at chain restaurants to pimp low quality food with hopes of high quality tips. While waiting tables undoubtedly has pros and cons, it can also be a great financial decision. With the right people skills at a swanky enough place, serving those who are too lazy to cook can pay for life. At least, as long as you can tolerate being hated on by miscellaneous customers all day.

Having thick skin is an essential component of working in the food service industry. Even the nicest customer enjoys bitching about the quality of their meal once in awhile. Never mind that you have never made a dish from the house menu in your life; they said no onions, damn it, and by God someone is going to pay for the presence of an onion on their plate.

Prepare to be yelled at for things completely outside of your control. No free refills? Obviously the wait-staff decided on that bizarre pricing choice. Out of the daily special? You must have conspired just to ruin their meal. Screaming children in the next booth? Jesus, don’t you know how to parent other people’s children by now?!

The art of being a server comes not from your diplomatic deflection of customer’s negative tendencies, but your ability to foresee the issue before it actually happens. Keep old people away from the youth, circle diet restrictions in bright red on your ordering ticket and carry extra silverware for the ridiculous man who demands a clean spoon despite eating a bagel. If all else fails, remember; they can’t see you or their plate in the kitchen.

LIFESTYLE SALES ASSOCIATE:Selling people shirts, pants and miscellaneous items can hardly be classified as rocket science.

America loves consumption, so most things on the shelves likely sell themselves. People flock to international chains, searching for everything from Winnie the Pooh sweatpants in size XXL to

books on fly fishing. As a general retail employee, you’re likely to be subjected to a barrage of bizarre questions. Try to keep your complete apathy to a bare minimum when dealing with

customers and you’ll go far as a retail associate.There is a lot of potential for fun in a retail position, but many lose sight of this as they sink deeper into an indifferent disposition while at work. What began as a chance to

build pillow forts in aisle five and attempt shopping cart racing through the front of the store can become tedious and repetitive. Stores can feel like adult

playgrounds until you are confined to them for roughly eight hours a day. When other’s shopping habits pay your bills, it can make you lose sight of the fun aspects and lean into intense hatred for all those who possess the finances to spend.

Try not to lose the magic of retail immediately after you start your job or things could suddenly

become exhausting. You might suddenly find yourself checking people out in a haze, scanning and snoozing

simultaneously. When you try to price check an infant, remember to breathe deeply, retain your sanity and pass off your shift to the nearest co-worker as quickly as possible.

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entered the game in the top of the seventh with State hold-ing a 6-2 lead, but soon found the lead gone as the Brier, Wash. native gave up three runs, on two hits in 0.1 in-nings on the mound.

“Woeck, who has probably been our most consistent arm all year out of the bullpen, could not find the zone for the first time all year,” Avent said.

Redshirt senior pitcher Grant Sasser (3-0, 0.41 ERA) relieved Woeck and, despite giving up an unearned run and a walk, struck out six of the last seven batters he faced.

“I was excited to get out there” Sasser said. “This is my first year back after sur-gery, so at any opportunity, I am just looking forward to throwing. The team has helped pick me up in these situations.”

After falling behind 2-0 due to Keglovits’ lackluster pitch-ing, the Pack responded with a run in the bottom half of the first inning. Sophomore center fielder Jake Fincher and sophomore shortstop Trea Turner started singling to put runners on first and third. Turner stole his 10th base of the season to put both runners in scoring po-sition for senior first baseman Tarran Senay who grounded

out to first base as Fincher crossed the plate to put State on the scoreboard.

State ga ined it s largest lead of the eve-ning at the bot tom of t he s i x t h . Sophomore catcher Brett Aus-tin reached on an error by Phoenix sophomore second base-man Wil Leathers. Senay sin-gled to put runners on first and second. After a wild pitch that moved Senay and Austin to second and third base re-

spectively, Armstrong lined a single into right-center field that scored both run-

ners. Arm-strong stole second base for his sixth steal of the season and advanced to third base on a double by Adametz. Clyde plated both Arm-strong and Adametz on a single

into left field, but the inning would end on a double play by senior second baseman Matt Bergquist.

State will return to action

Friday at 6 p.m. as it be-gins its three-game series against Virginia Tech.

the first game.“I said after the game, you

guys would’ve felt sick if you would’ve dropped that sec-ond game the way we came out in the second game and jumped on them,” Rychick said.

“I was glad to keep that going and see us keep that momentum and put 10 on the board. It’s a pretty good day,” Rychick said.

State shot out to a 5-0 lead in the second contest and

never looked back. It failed to produce a run only in the bottom of the second inning . Freshman f irst baseman Hanna Sommer paced the Pack by scoring three runs on three hits. She also drove in three RBI’s for the Wolfpack. Tate scored three runs in the game as well.

“We got just enough run support and they threw their top kid. We got just enough for her,” Rychick said.

The Wolfpack will return to action with a three-game series against Maryland, be-ginning Saturday.

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RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANSenior first baseman Tarran Senay prepares to catch a checked pitch against Elon Wednesday, April 3. The Wolfpack led the Phoenixes 8-6 at the end of the seventh inning at Doak Field at Dail Park.

“Every year, it has a little more to it,” Myers said. “Coach V always told us this thing is going to be more, even 20 years later. But we were younger then, so it keeps coming.”

“When I walk into the school and I see our banner, it reminds me all the time,” Myers said. “When I see these guys coming out of the tunnel at a State game I remember when I used to do that. It’s all a memory. And it’s all good.”

As much as the Wolfpack community celebrates this team, the men’s basket-ball program is faced with

the challenge of living up to the expectations of the past. Those expectations rose with the arrival of head coach Mark Gottfried and the Pack’s Sweet Sixteen run last season. But the 2013 team failed to live up to its preseason hype, bowing out of the NCAA tournament in the first round.

Whittenburg spoke of liv-ing up to the expectations of the past before the 2013 team embarked on its postseason run.

“Embrace the history,” Whittenburg said. “If you embrace it, try to be a part of your own history today.”

CARDIACcontinued from page 10

SOFTBALLcontinued from page 10

BASEBALLcontinued from page 10

“Woeck ...

has probably

been our most

consistent arm

all year out of

the bullpen.”Elliot Avent

baseball head coach

BY THE NUMBERS2 Brett Austin

scored two runs on two hits.

2 Grant Clyde scored two RBIs.

3 D.J. Thomas had three strikeouts.

6 Grant Sasser had three strikeouts.

7 The Wolfpack allowed seven hits.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

INSIDE• Page 7: Non-careers for the career

oriented.

COUNTDOWN• 16 days until the football team plays its anual Kay

Yow Spring Game. SportsTECHNICIANPAGE 10 • THURSDAY, APRIL4, 2013

Choi named golfer of the monthMen’s junior golfer Albin Choi was named the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Men’s Golfer of the Month for March. Choi finished first, tied for third and tied for sixth in three events during the month of March. He won his fourth event of the season at the USF Invitational. He finished with a score of eight-under 208.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Warren to return for sophomore seasonMen’s basketball freshman guard T.J. Warren has decided to return for his sophomore season. Warren 12.1 points per game in his debut season with the Pack. He scored at least 20 points in five appearances in the season. DraftExpress.com rated Warren as the No. 31 prospect.

SOURCE: THE NEWS AND OBSERVER

MEN’S BASKETBALL

SOFTBALL BASEBALL

Jeniece JamisonSports Editor

Almost every c ollege bas-ketball fan can recall the most defining moment in N.C. State men’s basketball history. It was a moment that spanned genera-tions of the college basketball landscape. Thirty years ago to this day, the Wolfpack pulled off one of the most improbable up-sets in college basketball history.

With four seconds left in the game Dereck Whittenburg hoist-ed up a shot from almost half court. His attempt fell short, but Lorenzo Charles was in the right place at the right time. He tipped in the game-winning bucket to give the Wolfpack its second men’s basketball national title against the University of Hous-ton’s “Phi Slama Jama.”

The iconic images of head coach Jim Valvano finding some-one to hug after the final buzzer and Cozell McQueen holding up a “Pack Power” sign over the backboard still resonate in the consciousness of Wolfpack fans through the past three decades.

“Why I did that, that particu-lar era I was playing against who I considered some of the best centers that have ever played the game,” McQueen said. “When we won the whole thing I was like, ‘You know what, let me pull myself on top of that goal.’ And so I just grabbed the rim, grabbed the side posts and

pulled myself up.”“I felt for the first time I had a view

as though I was fan … It was amaz-ing to me,” McQueen said.

The second title was, in fact, sweeter than the first. Unlike the 1974 championship team, N.C. State’s season was considered a dud by its halfway point. Many thought Whittenburg’s season would be over after he was sidelined with a foot injury. But, he and team rallied

through the ACC tournament to earn a bid to the NCAA tournament, and the rest is history.

“V just out-coached the guys they had,” McQueen said.

Throughout the anniversary year, the team has been celebrated with appearances, memorabilia and even a 30-for-30 documentary by ESPN. The film has been mentioned by various coaches throughout this year’s NCAA tournament. Head

coaches have had their teams watch the film in an effort to inspire the players – most notably by Jeff Walz, head coach of the Louisville wom-en’s basketball team that defeated No. 1 Baylor en route to the Final Four.

Ernie Myers, who was a freshman on the team, said the title becomes more significant as the years go by.

30 years later, Cardiac Pack recalls title team

Daniel WilsonStaff Writer

The N.C. State baseball team (21-10, 5-7 ACC) found strength in its bullpen as the Wolfpack defeated the Elon Phoenix at Doak Field, 8-6. State totaled nine hits and capitalized off three Elon errors en route to victory.

“We had some opportunities early that we did not take ad-vantage of,” head coach Elliott Avent said.

Freshman pitcher Karl Keg-lovits struggled early, giving up two runs on three hits and one walk while only recording two outs.

“He had a lot of tough luck,” Avent said. “I felt bad for having to go out and get him because he had not done anything wrong.”

Junior pitcher D.J. Thomas picked up where Keglovits left off and held the Phoenix to only two hits and one walk as he struck out three in 5.1 innings of work.

“D.J. really turned the ball game around,” Avent said. “It is tough that D.J. did not get the win, because that was D.J.’s game.”

Junior pitcher Andrew Woeck

Jeniece Jamison & Nolan EvansSports Editor & Deputy Sports Editor

Led by a no-hitter in the first game and a win in the second contest from sophomore right-handed pitcher Emily Weiman, the Wolfpack swept the UNC-Charlotte 49ers in the double header, 2-0 and 10-3, respec-tively.

“It feels really good, my first career no-hitter,” Weiman said. “But you know, I’m coming out here to help my team win, so it’s not something I’m trying to work for, but it is something nice to have in my career. But it felt good.”

“It’s hard to sweep teams and it’s good for us,” head coach Shawn Rychick said. “We’re back over .500 now.”

Weiman threw the first no-hitter for State since 2009. She also retired 12-straight batters to end the game and allowed only one runner on base with a walk in the fourth inning.

“It’s awful nice to get a no-hit-ter,” Rychick said. “I don’t care who it’s against, if it’s the best team in the league or the worst team in the league. It’s hard to throw a no-hitter, so I thought that was an outstanding effort from Emily.”

Junior third baseman Chel-sea Tate also extended her hit-ting streak to nine games in the double-header. She hit a single

to right field in the first game and smacked a home run over the right field wall.

“It gives me confidence,” Weiman said. “I think it really comes down to everyone in the field, too. My catcher, my coaches, my offense. It gives me confidence, but my team helps me out a lot too.”

Junior infielder Scout Albertson notched in an RBI to drive in the run from infielder Renada Davis to give State the lead in the third inning. Senior outfielder Bethany Wells smacked a home run to center field to get the Pack’s second run of

AGROMECKFormer Wolfpack guard Sidney Lowe dribbles through two Houston defenders in the the NCAA men’s basketball national championship game on April 4, 1983. State won the game, 54-52.

CAIDE WOOTEN/TECHNICIANSophomore pitcher Emily Weiman rockets a pitch towards the plate during second game of a double-header against UNC Charlotte April 3. The Wolfpack defeated the 49’s 2-0 in game one and 10-3 in game two taking them to 17-16-1 on the season.

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Weiman leads Pack to DH win

SOFTBALL STANDINGS

SCHOOL CONF RECORD OVERALL

Florida State

7-2 28-13

Maryland 4-2 19-18

Georgia Tech

4-2 17-19

North Carolina

6-3 28-13

N.C. State 3-5 17-16

Virginia 3-6 16-16

Virginia Tech

1-4 21-8

Boston College

1-5 9-17

SOURCE: THEACC.COM

TodayTRACK AT DUKE INVITATIONAL Durham, N.C., All Day

TRACK AT FLORIDA RELAYSGainsville, Fla., All Day

SaturdayVOLLEYBALL VS. CAMPBELL @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENTDurham, 9 a.m.

VOLLEYBALL VS. LOYOLA @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENT Durham, 1 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER VS. UCLA, 4 p.m. (exhibition)

VOLLEYBALL VS. N.C. CENTRAL @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENT Durham, 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL VS. LOYOLA @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENT Durham, 1 p.m.

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