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Laura WilkinsonDeputy News Editor

This October and November, N.C. State students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to vote early on campus.

The Board of Elections has chosen the University as one of 15 Wake County early vot-ing sites, and the fourth floor of Talley will likely be the campus location.

According to Caitlin Cauley, alumna and Board of Elections employee, student voter turn-out for the May primaries was huge, but most people had to go to their home district to vote.

The closest early voting site to campus was in downtown Ra-leigh, and many students and faculty advocated for a site closer to campus.

To help promote voting on campus, Student Government will have representatives in the Brickyard every Wednesday dur-ing the Campus Farmers Mar-ket passing out information and forms the Board of Elections has provided.

Voting absentee by mail is al-ways an option, Cauley said. She also advised students registering at N.C. State to use valid mailing addresses, not just room num-bers and residence hall names.

The deadline to register for voting is Oct. 12 and early vot-ing begins at the NCSU site Oct. 20. Early voting ends Nov. 3 and Election Day is Nov. 6.

University to be early voter site

John WallSenior Staff Writer

When his landlord doubled his rent, Melvin’s and Five O’Clock Sports Bar co-owner Alan Lovette moved the bar and restaurant opera-tion into The Alley on Hillsborough Street.

The Alley previously had a bar, but Lovette is now leasing the deck and bar area behind the bowling lanes. He renovated the deck area and added open-air balconies that offer a view of Hillsborough Street and campus.

The Melvin’s name wil l be dropped, Lovette said, in favor of a new name: The Balcony.

Lovette started the move July 5 and worked day and night before completing it Aug. 14. He said he rarely left The Al-ley during the move and renovation, and most nights he slept on a couch in the deck area.

In addition to the new space, The Balcony offers an expanded menu including wraps, burgers and a host of appetizers.

“We are selling more than just your basic bar food,” Lovette said.

Lovette had a tent and grill set up on Hillsborough Street during Packapalooza on Saturday where he was hoping to spread the word about Melvin’s move into The Alley.

“I don’t care much about selling food today — I just want to get

our name out there,” Lovette said. “With Hillsborough Street on the way back, after years of ups and downs, I think there is a lot of po-tential at The Alley.”

Many people had no idea there was a bowling alley on Hillsborough Street, according to Lovette.

“In June, we went over to campus and asked 88 people ‘What is in that building?’ Every single person said there were offices in this building when there is actually a bowling al-ley. We realized that people did not realize there was a bowling alley on Hillsborough Street,” Lovette said.

The purpose of building the bal-conies was to create exposure for the bowling alley and The Balcony, according to Lovette.

The Balcony will feature a reg-gae band and poker on Wednesday

nights and an ‘80s cover band and Top 40 band Thursday nights.

Lovette declined to quote the exact amount of money he spent on the renovation, but said the 110-ft wrap-

around bar, balcony installation and other miscellaneous construc-tion cost him twice as much as he initially thought it would.

Kevin Maine, a junior in textiles management and marketing, was at The Balcony on Saturday with three of his friends.

“My friend Tanner told me the food was really good, so this is my second time coming here this

month,” Maine said.Tanner Smith, a senior in agricul-

tural business management, said he planned on frequenting the The Alley and The Balcony more often because of the upgrades.

“I came here a lot last year, too. It’s definitely a lot better than last year. It’s a lot nicer,” Smith said. “There is a better atmosphere and higher morale.”

The bar was “much less sketchy,” according to Smith.

Chase Allen, a senior in business

finance, said he bowled a 300 on lane eight a couple of days prior.

“I am enjoying The Balcony so far. I want everyone to come see my 300 plaque that should be here in a few days,” Allen said.

Owners of The Alley are also planning to remodel, according to Lovette.

Chris Coffey, a senior in computer science, was bowling at The Alley Saturday for his friend’s birthday party. Bowlers must score their games by hand, unlike most bowl-

ing alleys where scores are displayed automatically.

“This is the only bowling alley I have been to where you keep your own score. There is nothing elec-tronic besides the automatic pin setup, but I kind of like that. It’s interesting,” Coffey said. “There is a certain aesthetic value to having to do it old school.”

Sam DegraveDeputy News Editor

Work on the Hunt Library is on schedule for its Jan. 2, 2013 opening.

Once open, the Hunt Library, which is located on Centennial Campus, will offer students a glimpse into the future of libraries. This summer, however, a few stu-dents got an early preview.

On July 18, more than 100 stu-dents working with N.C. State’s li-brary system began moving nearly 1.5 million books into the new fa-cility from D.H. Hill Library, the College of Veterinary Medicine and several off-site storage locations, ac-cording to David Hiscoe, director of communication strategies for N.C. State’s libraries.

Hiscoe said the students have moved approximately 14,000 books into the library each day, adding that the project is going better than anyone could have imagined.

T he s t udent s moving books are getting a firsthand look at some of the new technolog y housed in Hunt Library — tech-nology that will surpass that of any other university in the world, accord-ing to Hiscoe.

The bookBot, a fully-automated book delivery system which the students moving books quickly be-came acquainted with, is one of the most talked-about features of the library. The bookBot will retrieve a student’s selection from the book vault using a robotic crane.

Susan Nutter, vice provost and

director of libraries at N.C. State, said she is particularly excited to see the bookBot come to life in the Hunt Library. Nutter said Hunt will be one of only 12 libraries in North America equipped with this tech-nology.

“[Hunt] is the talk of the library world, all over the world,” Nutter said.

According to Nutter, the technol-ogy and resources that will be avail-able at Hunt Library should give stu-dents at the University a competitive edge in their respective fields.

Though the Hunt Library will primarily house the engineering and textiles collections, students and faculty from all departments of N.C. State are eager to see what the new library has to offer.

“The faculty is salivating to get their hands on the technology of Hunt,” Nutter said.

Other high-tech resources avail-able to students in the Hunt Library will include digi-tal media rooms, video-projecting walls and technol-ogy-enabled furni-ture, among other things, according to the l ibrary’s website.

In addition to its high-tech features,

the Hunt Library will also provide students with something in short supply on campus: space.

One of the main advantages of the bookBot is that it only takes up about one-ninth of the space the book stacks in D.H. Hill occupy, Hiscoe said. This will allow for much more study space for students and help alleviate the congestion at

D.H. Hill during exam time.“During exams, I would have stu-

dents laying on the floor outside of the door to my office in D.H. Hill trying to study,” Hiscoe said.

The Hunt Library will have nearly 100 group study rooms, doubling the current seating capacity of N.C.

State’s libraries.“There won’t be a building like

this anywhere else in North Caro-lina,” Nutter said. “People every-where are going to be talking about this University, and that’s some-thing to be excited about.”

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Melvin’s rebrands, moves to venue inside bowling alley

CHARLIE HARLESS/TECHNICIANConstruction workers begin tearing down the old panels that front the bowling alley on Hillsborough Street. Allen Lovette is the owner of Melvin's and Five O'clock Sports Bar and is heading up the construction efforts. The plan is to aesthetically update the front of the building and move both restaurants into the space on the second floor. Lovette said he is hoping to get students excited about Hillsborough Street again as the fall semester begins.

Thousands of books moved to Hunt Library

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“...I just want to

get our name

out there.”Alan Lovette, co-owner of Melvin’s and Five O’Clock

Sports Bar

“There won’t be

a building like

this anywhere

else in North

Carolina.”Susan Nutter, vice provost and

director of libraries

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Every Wednesday, Stu-dent Government repre-sentatives will be on the Brickyard with voter reg-istration forms and an-swers to your questions.

Will filling this out change my current registration?

Yes, if you fill our a registration form with your Wake County resi-dence address, then you are registered to vote in Wake County.

But I’m not from Wake County.

If you’ve lived in the county for 30 days or more before the election, then for voting purposes

you are a Wake County resident and eligible to vote here. If you would prefer to maintain your current voter regis-tration in your home county or state, you can vote absentee by mail. What’s the deadline to register?

October 12. Forms must be physica l ly handed in at the Board of Elections office by 5 p.m. or postmarked by 5 p.m. on that day.

What if I miss the deadline?

If you are an eligible Wake County voter, you can vote at an early

voting site. Early voting offers in-person registra-tion for eligible voters to register and vote on the same day.

Do I need an ID?If you do not provide

a valid North Carolina driver’s license number or the last four digits of your Social Security number on your registra-tion form, you may need to present a form of ID on Election Day.

At early voting, if you are registering, you will need an acceptable form of current ID, such as: North Carolina driver’s license with current ad-dress.

A document with name and current address from a local, state or U.S. government agency.

A student photo ID along with a document from the school showing the student’s name and current address.

A paycheck or paycheck stub from an employer or a W-2 statement .

A bank statement or bank-issued credit card statement.

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Lindsey RosenbaumDeputy News Editor

Incoming freshmen at N.C. State didn’t get the same Wolfpack ID cards that most students have. Instead, they received the new Wolfpack One card with all of the features of the old ID card system, as well as a new debit account feature.

At a glance, the new Wolfpack One cards look similar to the old identi-fication cards, except for the addition of the 125th Anniversary Bell Tower symbol and the student’s debit card number.

As with the old ID cards, they work as the official identification cards for the campus, and are thus required for all students, faculty and staff. They give cardholders access to their meal plans and All-Campus accounts, as well as residence hall laundry machines and Wolf Copy machines. Unlike the old cards, however, Wolfpack One cards are now linked to a U.S. Bank MasterCard debit account.

“Most universities make their campus ID cards as robust as possible for stu-dents, so that they only have to carry one card that does a lot of things,” said Jennifer Gilmore, market-ing and communications manager for Campus En-terprises.

Over the past year, Campus Enterprises had the opportunity to reex-amine the University’s banking relat ionship,

and ultimately solicited bids for the new program last fall. Gilmore said U.S. Bank submitted the best proposal, and the University decided to switch from Wells Fargo to U.S. Bank. The partnership was finalized in February.

“Imagine heading out with just one card to eat on cam-pus, do your laundry, use WolfPrint, get into the gym, see a movie, [and] access the vending machines through dining and AllCampus ac-counts,” Gilmore said. “Now, with the added debit Master-Card program, you can go be-yond the campus and pay for gas, grab a meal on Hillsbor-ough Street and that sort of thing if you’ve activated and funded the debit MasterCard account.”

While students must carry around a Wolfpack One ID card, they are not required to link their existing debit accounts to their card.

Chelsea Hunt, a freshman in First Year College, chose to link her debit account to her Wolfpack One card.

“During orientation, I took

my picture, signed a sheet of paper and picked up my ID card before lunch,” Hunt said. “It’s so much easier car-rying around one card as op-posed to two or three.”

Hunt said she hasn’t had any problem using her card off campus.

Kayla Christianson, a fresh-man in chemistry, opted out of adding her debit account to her Wolfpack One Card.

“My family uses a different bank [than the Wolpack One Card], and I didn’t think it was worth the hassle,” Chris-tianson said.

She added, however, that she might eventually join the program if it catches on.

“If in the future, most stu-dents on campus have their debit accounts linked to their Wolfpack One card, then I’ll definitely reconsider linking up mine,” Christianson said.

Students currently carrying around the old Wolfpack ID card will be given the option to replace it in October with the new Wolfpack One Card for $10.

Freshmen break in new ID cards

CHARLIE HARLESS/TECHNICIANIncoming freshmen students wait in line to recieve their first Wolfpack One cards. The new card office is located on first floor of Talley Student Center. Returning students can have their old cards updated for $10.

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Tricked out Brickyard tricksPHOTO BY NATALIE CLAUNCH

Terry Adams performs Flatland BMX stunts on the Brickyard Tuesday after-noon. The 2005 X-games gold medalist visited campus to speak with a sports marketing class and promote himself and his sponsor, Red Bull. Adams has

been riding Flatland BMX for 19 years. "It's like breakdancing on a bike," Adams said, "It's very artistic and I can be original with it. The fact that I make a living off of it is a huge bonus, but I would probably still be riding anyway."

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I hate that awkward feeling of having a cold. My head gets all

stuffy, my ears won’t pop, my nose turns into a con-tinuous faucet of ickyness and my voice drops a few octaves.

Unfor-tunately, I’ve found myself

to be a victim of this for nearly two whole months, and even if this octave drop adds a certain je ne sais quoi to my daily flir-tations, the whole affair is just unpleasant, and I wish it would stop.

And yet, I can’t figure out why this cold won’t go away. I’ve tried pill after non-prescription pill. I’ve slept with socks on and piled on the blan-kets, and still, no sign of improvement.

I was just about to re-sign myself to a life of sniffling-sneezing when, late Monday night, I was fortunate enough to hear Todd Akin’s words of wis-dom.

Akin, a House represen-tative for Missouri who is currently running for Sen-ate and is notoriously pro-life, was asked in an inter-

view Sunday as to whether he would support abortion if the mother’s life was in danger or in cases of rape.

While Akin’s value of life at any costs had him agree-ing the mother’s life is more important than the fetus, his comments on rape cases had the Internet in an uproar.

“It seems to be, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin said. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.”

So what Akin is saying is a rape victim’s pregnancy re-sults from her wanting to be pregnant. If she didn’t want to be pregnant, she would only need to wish with all her heart, and poof, it would be gone.

So now it becomes evident to me why my cold of nearly two months has persisted. Of course I hate the stuffi-ness, and the coughing and dripping, but my lovely new alto timbre makes up for it all. What is hacking through class, and piles upon piles of discarded tissues compared to sounding like a Victoria’s Secret model?

I, for one, am very inter-ested to hear from these

so-called doctors Akin con-sulted. They seem to be very sure of their facts, or else why would this perspective Sena-tor site them in an argument?

But fear not, reasonably attractive females. You need not start worrying that with pregnancy out of the ques-tion, rapes will pop up willy-nilly.

“I think there should be some punishment [for rape], but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not at-tacking the child,” Akin said.

Well thank you, Akin. Here I was about to blame the fetus for its unfortunate conception, not the abuser who didn’t stop to realize no actually means no. But you’ve enlightened me to a whole new way of thinking.

And while the GOP ar-gues amongst themselves as to whether Akin should be allowed to continue in his race, I’ll be waiting to hear from Akin’s council of doc-tors about this cold. Maybe if I just really, really wish it goes away, I won’t have it anymore.

Send your thoughts on the Todd Akin to letters@techni-cianonline.com.

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N.C. State will be one of 15 Wake Count y early

voting sites for the upcom-ing presidential election. In the peak of campaign season, candidates are vying for the youth vote to offset electoral victory in North Carolina, which will be a coveted swing state this fall.

The University is re-sponding with the due atten-tiveness this news deserves, with Student Govern-ment promot-ing vot-i n g o n campus with representatives in the Brickyard every Wednes-day.

With the luxury of hav-ing early voting on cam-pus starting Oct. 20, there is no excuse for students to not participate in the elections, ranging from the presidency to the gov-ernor’s office.

In many re-election runof fs, voter fervor brims with apathy and tepidness, but this elec-tion will not just affect us for the next four years, but for the rest of our lives. Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare are all up in the air, and the results of Nov. 6th’s election will determine the future of these institutions. Gas prices, job creation strat-egy and foreign policy post-Iraq are up for grabs too. There is nothing to be apathetic about. Politics is

the air we breathe—but it’s also the coal we burn and the taxes we pay.

President Barack Obama visited N.C. State last Sep-tember and UNC-Chapel Hill in April. Vice President Joe Biden visited Durham last week. Mitt Romney visited Mooresville last week, before choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, and Ryan will be in Raleigh this evening to collect campaign funds. The

Democratic National Convention will come to Charlotte in September. North Caro-lina is in the campaign crosshairs, so there is no longer an

excuse not to vote. If there were an election in which a North Carolinian’s vote would count more than ever, it’s this one.

We are here at N.C. State to prepare ourselves for our future, so it’s vital we take part in the political process that will inevitably shape that future. Our education is only one piece of the puzzle of what we will be able to make of the world post-college. Politicians will influence the job market and economy we will soon enter—it’s up to us to choose those leaders.

Everyone called 2008 the election of the youth. Let’s repeat that in 2012. If any-one has the most at stake this time around, it’s us.

Send your thoughts on the campaign crunch to letters@technicianonline.com.

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Class doesn’t always start on time. But when it does, you’re late.Matt Clark, senior in arts application

Social design perspectives: India and the U.S.

Being the first leaf in your family tree to fly across the Atlantic

has its disadvantages. The person who invented

“drafts” deserves as much praise for subtle design as Steve Jobs. I had draft-ed a template on all my commu-

nication devices: “It’s beau-tiful out here. The weather is pretty much same. But I do miss home.” Most pro-ductive 80 characters I ever wrote. Believe me, you need it when a thousand anxious Indians ask you, “Are you fine? How’s it there?”

Life in India is a beautiful projection of life here in the United States of America. Chaos and Discipline make a good pair of axes. Their edge now gives my life the kind of tinge that salsa gives to a tortilla.

Randomness is rarely truly random. There is al-

most always a method to the madness. Ants seem to move in random terror, but they have been found to seek the shortest path to food from their ant hill. Artificial Intelligence found a whole new field based on ants called Swarm Intel-ligence. The Indian markets are a similar scene.

The kind of orderliness that oozes out of normalcy here is a rarity in India. Consider roads in the U.S. Traffic navigation is well-facilitated, and more im-portantly, it is respectfully followed by everyone. The amount of respect that a pe-destrian gets from the mo-torists is tremendous. In In-dia, you walk and make your own path. Motorists feel the pedestrians are too rash and

vice versa. Traffickers disre-gard rules so blatantly that accidents happen often.

I really love the way peo-ple take so much effort in designing in the States. The chairs have enough ful-crums to keep your body’s

pressure points relaxed. Sym-bols comple-ment the text nicely. Switches turn on up-wards. There is more space be-tween buildings than the width

of the buildings themselves. You see, designing and planning in India has an ad-ditional factor that doesn’t really bother people here: population.

Population changes more dynamics than I would ever be able to list. Space opti-mization becomes a biasing agenda. In most public plac-es, the ratio of free walking

space to occupied walking space is smaller than one-to-one. The number of seats crammed in a bus makes the average area occupied by your butt so small that being obese has lifestyle hazards in India.

Yet, having a billion fel-low countrymen has its plus sides too. SIM cards sell for free. Data connections cost less than $2 a month. Jugaad (Hindi for “quick innovations”) solves more problems than customer care. The invention of auto-rickshaws (scrawny, green-colored, three-wheeled vehicles) gives more loco-motive freedom than any amount of bus routes here.

If you want to sell lem-onade and iced tea on the street, you really only have two options. Either you have both of them selling on one table with one queue, or you could have lemon-ade and iced tea on separate

tables with separate queues. Diversity and demand calls for division in the market. Here, Walmart sells every-thing from drills to clothes. In India, there are separate stores for hardware, elec-tronics and clothes. Big goals can be achieved by breaking them down into smaller targets. You see, it makes perfect sense to split your queue when it gets too large.

It is not only geographi-cally that India and America are diametrically opposite. The design calls for it.

Yes, I love it here in Amer-ica. Life is streamlined and paced out. But you see, I’m like a bee. Whatever I do, wherever I go, I will always miss the chaos in my swarm.

Send Naman your thoughts to let-ters@technicianonline.com.

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NCSU students benefit during

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Todd Akin’s cure for the common cold

Lindsey RosenbaumGuest Columnist

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Letter to the Editor

To Whom It May Concern,

I was invited to write an editorial defending my position on the Chik-Fil-A issue. I was told editing would take place to correct spelling and grammar but my opinion would not be changed. However, my opinion was changed. In the article, I stated: "By providing a space for Chik-Fil-A to do business, the university, indirectly, provides a means for the campus community to donate to anti-gay equality groups." You published : "By providing a space for Chik-Fil-A to do business, the university indirectly provides a means for the campus community to purchase products from a corporation that donates to groups against same-sex marriage." I did not write this. My statement implies the issue is equality. What you published implies the issue is gay marriage. They are not the same. Furthermore, I wrote: "Making a purchase is a political act.." You published "Making a purchase becomes a political act..." This is also not what I wrote and is clearly a manipulation of my opinion and words. I implied that making a purchase is always a political act... You changed it so it seems I meant making a purchase can become a political act. I do not appreciate these changes. This is a misrepresentation of what I wrote and the statements I attempted to make. I do not know if these edits were made based on stylistic differences but changing the semantics of my statement changed the intention behind the statements themselves. I've had people ask me why I made the claim that this issue is about "gay marriage" and I've had professors (as well as others within my field) ask me why I made the claim that purchasing power can become a political act because they know that I do not believe either of those statements. I hope these changes will be corrected and public notice will be made to make readers aware of this mistake and what my true intentions were with these statements.-Jose Chavira

EDITOR’S NOTELetters to the editor are the individual opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Technician staff or N.C. State University. All writers must include their full names and, if applicable, their affiliations, including years and majors for students and professional titles for University employees. For verification purposes, the writers must also include their phone numbers, which will not be published.

“Politics is the air

we breathe—but

it’s also the coal

we burn and the

taxes we pay.”

“The kind of

orderliness that

oozes out of

normalcy here is

a rarity in India.”

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The explosion of so-cial media websites over the past decade

has facilitated the decay of face-to-face interactions be-tween many young people. Most prefer to stay in touch over sites such as Facebook and Twitter as opposed to getting out and meeting new people, even if a new friend is right around the corner.

At the Pool, a college-fo-cused social media site, aims to combine the Internet and personal interaction by help-ing people get to know one another in their communi-ties. Now, after several suc-cessful launches at colleges around the country, a website dedicated to N.C. State is be-ing developed, with a release aimed for Sept. 23.

At the Pool was founded on a simple idea. Many students are faced with the challenge of getting out and meeting new people. At the Pool’s goal is to help students meet peo-ple with similar interests on campus by allowing them to create unique online profiles.

“The biggest thing is we match where you are and what school you’re in,” Alex Capecelatro, the CEO and founder of At the Pool, said. “We start by showing people that are close to you, then

look for people in the interest pool you join. The goal is to show you people who are like people you already know.”

The site works similarly to dating sites, but with the goal of helping students make new friends. Upon signing up, students can join different “pools” that represent their interests, whether they be gaming, sports or movies. Then, the site works to find the best matches for students.

“Think of [At the Pool] like the host of a party, someone who knows both of you, what you’re into, where you’re from, and more,” Capece-latro said. “Like any good host, we make an introduc-tion because we know you’ll get along.”

Whereas most dating sites will match you to several people at a time, At the Pool works to add a bit more ex-citement to the process. By focusing on fostering one-on-one interactions, the site works to develop a sense of anticipation by only sending one match at a time. Taking it one step further, the main website features a countdown to when the next match-up will be sent. Capecelatro hopes that members see the arrival of a new match as a gift of sorts.

As the site continues to ex-pand its areas of operations, it will continue to work on making the program work as well as possible. The current goal is to make sure the site doesn’t match members with someone they already know.

“There are cases where we match you with people you already know, so we’re working to cut that down,” Capecelatro said. “Of course, the people you already hang out with are the ones you usually have the most in com-mon with, so it’s funny how that works out.”

Though there are still a few kinks to work out, At the Pool has managed to find a great deal of success so far. After being featured on a few tech-nology blogs, the site has ex-ploded. It now has members in 90 different countries. The site has also attracted the interest of non-profit organizations.

Still, Capecelatro empha-sizes that the main focus of At the Pool remains helping students get out of their dorms and in-teracting.

“It’s been al-most entirely c o l l e ge s t u-dents,” Capecelatro said. “Most of the people involved

have been under 25.”This intense college focus

is now being turned to N.C. State, with students being encouraged to sign up and prepare for the launch of the full site. Student workers are also welcome to apply to help spread word about the site around campus leading up to the launch.

Anyone interested can request an invite to the site on at athe-pool.com, with the invite code “NCSU” to identify students.

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starting quarterback Mike Glennon.

“The situation is that Manny Stocker came in mid-year, which was good for us,” O’Brien said. “He’s been through spring practice, he’s been through a semester and been through a summer. It’s no different than many times there are redshirts or young freshmen who have to step up into the backup role, so it is no different than anybody else or any other team.”

Barring injuries or other setbacks, Stocker could be battling Colorado State trans-fer Pete Thomas next fall to see who will replace Glennon once the tall, Virginia native moves on. The freshman is a pro-style quarterback lauded for his pocket presence and ability to scramble, which helped him reach 20 passing touchdowns and 10 rush-ing touchdowns during his senior season with the Red Raiders.

“He’s very talented, and

he’s very poised,” O’Brien said. “He has a real grasp of the offense. He’s ahead of where he should be because of that spring semester. He’s not intimidated by the task ahead at all. We feel com-fortable with him right now. He’s performed well in his two scrimmages, and he got better in the second than he was in the first.”

Despite the excite-ment about Stocker’s long-term potential, the team is cur-rently focused on preparing to face a Tennessee team in just nine days. Before the team began planning spe-cifically for the Volunteers, O’Brien said Stocker and Glennon split snaps in prac-tice and will shift to a “2-to-1” formula in the days lead-ing up to the season opener on Aug. 31. Having a history of being a head coach with a freshman quarterback back-ing up a bona fide starter, O’Brien said he is confident

that Glennon’s focus will not change, no matter who is behind him.

“I don’t think it is any different from the situ-ation it was last year,” O’Brien said. “[Glennon] can’t go out there and be extra careful and be afraid to get hurt. It’s not any

differ-ent than the three or four times I’ve been i n t h i s situation i n m y

career. You just play the game the way it is.”

State begins the season against its SEC counter-part next Friday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Geor-gia Dome. It will be the Pack’s first trip to the sta-dium since a 1994 game versus Mississippi State, and NCSU will attempt to hand Tennessee its seventh consecutive loss inside the confines of the Atlanta Falcons’ home.

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his success, but also his team-mates for quick recoveries and added strength during the off-season. Edmond is an N.C. State alum and played linebacker for the Pack from 1987-90.

A man of faith, Lucas said he believes everything happens for a reason, and through his trust in his re-ligion, he’s able to overcome any obstacle.

“There’s nothing that’s impossible, and I felt like the Lord helped me through it,” Lucas said. “It was kind of new, it was my first injury like that but I have a lot of faith so I don’t let many things shake me like that. I just took it all in stride and I knew that God allowed it to happen for a reason.”

Winning an ACC cham-pionship, a goal going into every season, is a repeated theme heard from any player on the football team this year, especially Lucas.

“As a team, we want to win the ACC Championship, first and foremost,” Lucas said. “We want to take care of August 31, and come out every game, fly around and have fun.”

Aug. 31, a date the team and f a n s h ave marked on their calen-da r, k ick s off the first game of the 2 012 s e a-son versus Southeast-ern Confer-ence oppo-nent Ten-nessee.

“You a l-ways hear that the SEC is the dominant conference, so as an ACC team, we want to come out and represent, not only for our school, but for our conference,” Lucas said. “It would be big for the ACC.”

Along with the team goal to win the ACC championship, Lucas has set high goals for himself, striving to be the best linebacker in the coun-try.

Consistency, Lucas said, is something the team has set out to improve on after an up-and-down season last year.

“We just have to come out and practice and prepare in a way to be an ACC cham-

pion,” Lucas sa id . “We just have to stay consis-tent and as a defense, just don’t give up big plays.”

Along with committing to being a l e ade r on and off the field and en-

couraging the team to reach its goals, Lucas has set the bar high for his performance on the field. Although Lucas is a humble individual, he is de-termined to be the best line-backer in the country.

“I want all the accolades—you never want to sell your-self short,” Lucas said.

LUCAS continued from page 8

“He’s very

talented, and he’s

very poised.”Football head coach

Tom O’Brien

“We want to take

care of August

31, and come out

every game, fly

around and

have fun.”Sterling Lucas

INSIDE• Page 7: More on Sterling Lucas’

return to the field.

Friday

MEN’S SOCCER V. LIBERTYLynchburg, Va., 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER V. TEXASAustin, Texas, 9 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL V. JACKSONVILLE AT COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON TOURNAMENT Charleston, S.C., 4:30 p.m.

Saturday

VOLLEYBALL V. SACRAMENTO STATE AT COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON TOURNAMENTCharleston, S.C., 10 a.m.

VOLLEYBALL V. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON AT COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON TOURNAMENTCharleston, S.C., 7 p.m.

Sunday

WOMEN’S SOCCER V. LSUBaton Rouge, La., 2 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER V. MERCER,Dail Soccer Field, 4 p.m.

COUNTDOWN• 10 of days until the opening game against the Vols.Sports

TECHNICIANPAGE 8 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012

Sean FairholmDeputy Sports Editor

Coatesville, Pa., is a town of about 13,000 people, located 40 miles outside of Philadelphia. Its roots are deeply intertwined with the region’s steel-working industry. Its modest size and blue-collar history, however, hasn’t stopped Coatesville from producing a Super Bowl Cham-pion (Walt Downing of the San Francisco 49ers) and an NBA Champion (Richard Hamilton of the Detroit Pistons).

It might be a little early to pre-dict that Coatesville native and N.C. State true freshman quar-terback Manny Stocker will reach the same heights as his fellow Pennsylvanians, but Stocker is off to a fast start in his collegiate career. Months before incumbent backup Tyler Brosius decided to pursue baseball by transferring to Walters State in T.N., the 6’3” 200-pound former Coatesville Red Raider had already gradu-ated high school and enrolled at NCSU for the spring semester.

Fortunately for NCSU and sixth-year head coach Tom O’Brien, the experience Stocker gained from spring ball made him a perfect fit to come in and learn behind graduate student

Jonathan StoutDeputy Sports Editor

After watching from the side-lines last season due to a knee in-jury, graduate student linebacker Sterling Lucas is back with high expectations and to ready to lead the Pack to an ACC Champion-ship.

Lucas suffered the injury last August in training camp, which forced him to sit out his senior season. As with many athletes, Lucas admits his return to the field may have been premature. But, he continued to progress in rehab through the off-sea-son, allowing him to return at full speed for off-season drills,

priming him for the start the season opener. Lucas has recorded 86 tack-les during his three seasons with the team, playing in 36 games between 2008 and 2010.

“It was basically just strengthen-ing stuff, getting my knee stronger,” Lucas said. “I feel like when I came back I kind of tried to rush it too fast. I didn’t have the strength I needed.”

Though there is a lack of experi-ence, only having started two games as linebacker, Lucas is convinced this year’s team can be something special.

“We have a lot of guys, who don’t necessarily have a lot of experience, but have a lot of talent,” Lucas said. “We have a great coach, in coach

Don, and I feel very confident.”Sitting on the sidelines last year

wasn’t pleasant or what Lucas en-visioned for the season. He said he learned leadership skills that ulti-mately led to him being named de-fensive captain for the upcoming season.

“It’s a blessing,” Lucas said. “Any time you’re elected captain by your teammates it’s an honor, and I’ll do anything I can to help this team any way possible.”

Lucas said he feels 100 percent healthy and credits newly hired head strength and conditioning coach Corey Edmond for not only

Pulse of the Pack returns to WKNCPulse of the Pack, your N.C. State student-run sports radio show, will start airing tonight and every Wednesday night from 7-8 p.m. on 88.1 WKNC and wknc.org/listen. Pulse of the Pack is dedicated to covering all things Wolfpack Athletics. Alex Makel, Justin Leitch and others will bring you hot topics and intriguing interviews throughout the school year. Check out pulseofthepack.com, @pulseofthepack on Twitter and pulseofthepack on Facebook for more.

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Purvis cleared to attend classMen’s basketball freshman forward Rodney Purvis was ruled as eligible to attend class by the NCAA on Tuesday. Purvis has yet to be cleared to play basketball for the Pack. On Tuesday, Purvis tweeted this statement from his Twitter account, @purvis_0: “Starting classes today is most important to me the basketball will work itself out.” The NCAA is investigating if his high school, Upper Room Christian Academy, provided NCAA required courses to deem him eligible to play.

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TORRY HOLT

Holt owns the majority of the school’s receiving records, set the ACC benchmark for career reception yards with 3,379 and was named to the All-ACC team twice. He was an ACC Player of the Year and a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, which recog-nizes the most outstanding wide receiver in the country.

NORMAN SLOAN

An N.C. State alumnus, Sloan brought three tournament and two regular-season ACC Tournament titles to Raleigh. He also won the school’s first National Champion-ship in 1974, the same season he captured the ACC regular season and tournament titles and was named the ACC’s Coach of the Year.

TRUDI LACEY

Lacey still holds the record for being named to the ACC All-Tour-nament team four consecutive seasons. She finished her 1977-80 career holding a top-5 position in three different statistical categories for the Pack: points, rebounds and steals. Lacey was a member of the team that brought State its first ACC Tournament title in 1980.

PHILIP RIVERS

Rivers owns nearly every passing record in N.C. State history. He has only fallen short of nine out of 32 possible categories. Rivers also led the Pack to a bowl game each of his four years at State, winning three out of four.

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N.C. State Athletics unveiled its inaugural Hall of Fame class on June 26. The inductees for the hall’s first class include women’s basketball’s

Genia Beasley, running back Tim Brown, former men’s basketball coach and founding father of the ACC Everett Case, former quarterback Roman Gabriel, men’s soccer’s Tab Ramos, lineman Jim Ritcher, cross country runner Julie Shea, men’s basketball forward David Thompson,

and two more legendary basketball coaches that suc-cumbed to cancer, Kay Yow and Jim Valvano.From this class the Technician sports staff decided to ask: Who should be the next inductees into the NCSU Hall of Fame? Many candidates came to mind, but we’ve decided to bring these faces forward for consideration in joining the Pack’s elite.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Any time you’re elected captain by your teammates it’s an honor and I’ll do anything

I can to help this team any

way possible.”Sterling Lucas

graduate student linebacker