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Dawkins says ‘we can do better’ and shouldn’t raise candidate spending limits in elections
Ty JohnsonNews Editor
Student Body President Jay Dawkins has vetoed Govern-ment Bill 37, the 2009 Elections Reform Act, a proposal in re-sponse to spending limits placed on candidates running for Stu-dent Government positions.
The bill allowed for campaign spending limits for Student Government candidates to be increased, raising the possible expenses for a student body president candidate from $450 to $750.
Candidates can agree to de-crease or increase the limits with a unanimous decision from all those running, but the $300 in-crease is too much, according to Dawkins.
“It was more based on the few wants of the people who have run
for office than what students can afford,” Dawkins said. “I want to
keep average students’ financial situations in mind.”
Dawkins forwarded his veto memorandum along with a pro-
posed alternative to the $300 increase to senators, as the student body president advo-cated for an increase derived from combining enrollment growth statistics and infla-tion.
“In the case of GB37, great strides have been made to increase campaign expense accountability and transpar-ency,” Dawkins said in his memo. “But I know we can do better and therefore I owe it to you and to our constitu-ents to veto this bill. “
Senate President Greg Dou-cette lamented that he under-stands Dawkins’ concern over the bill, but felt differently about the proposed legisla-tion.
“If his issue was predomi-nately with spending lim-its those could have been changed instead of vetoing the bill,” Doucette said. “But he knows [the legislative pro-cess] as well as I do and the
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Student Life Master Plan still in planning stages
Banner stolen from softball complexProgram suffers second instance of larceny in last year
Derek MedlinManaging Editor
A banner placed in the out-field of the softball field at the Curtis and Jacqueline Dail Softball Complex was stolen last week, according to soft-ball coach Lisa Navas.
The sign, which read “NCSU Wolfpack Softball,” was ripped off the fence be-tween Thursday evening and Friday morning, Navas said.
“It was there Thursday night and then Friday morn-ing it was gone,” Navas said. “Somebody jumped the fence, got into our facility, ripped the sign off and took it.”
Navas said whoever stole the sign made a “conscious effort to jump over the fence” be-hind the sta-dium, leaving footprints.
Capt. Jon Barnwell said Campus Po-lice officials investigated the incident after it was reported by Facilities staff from the softball complex.
Barnwell said the investiga-tion of the theft is ongoing de-spite the chances for finding the banner being small.
“Once the scene is inves-tigated and there is nothing there it’s tough,” Barnwell said. “Unless it turns up in somebody’s apartment or someone reports seeing it, it will be tough to find. It’s not an unsolvable case.”
Navas said she and her coaching staff have told the team to look out for the ban-ner.
“We’ve talked with the team to keep a look out for it,” she said. “You can’t even put it up in a house. It’s too big to go anywhere unless they cut it up.”
Navas also said the most
recent theft is the second time a larceny has been committed in the softball complex.
Last season, a wolf in the cor-ner of the stadium was stolen.
“We tried to do some things to spruce the stadium up,” Navas said. “We purchased two wolves to go in the corner and the sign for the outfield. When one of the wolves was stolen last year, we took the other one down. The sign made it through the season.”
Navas said the theft of the sign this season is unfortunate.
“It’s disheartening when you’re trying to do some things to keep up appearances,” she said. “When something like this theft happens it makes you not want to do those types of things.”
Barnwell said the two inci-dents do not appear to represent a trend.
“It’s coincidental,” he said. “There are issues all over with things disappearing. I don’t
think it’s indica-tive of the envi-ronment around the complex.”
Barnwell also sa id Fr iday ’s theft is not part of a collection of crimes.
“It’s happened a few times be-fore but it’s not
like this is indicative of a rash of crimes.”
According to the police report filed Friday morning, the banner was worth $700.
Navas said the theft of the banner makes it tough to justify decorating the complex in the future.
“It’s just difficult in the hard times we’re going through,” she said. “We spend money to spruce up the facility and then this happens. Now, it changes our thought process. It’s unfortunate to have that negative thought but that’s how it is.”
Navas also questioned whether or not the banner, or other dec-orations around the complex, would be replaced.
“If we put up other signs or banners, how long are they go-ing to stay up?” she said.
Zakk WhiteCorrespondent
The University is still in the planning phase of making major changes to many of the buildings on campus to improve overall student life. The main focus of the renovations is Talley Student Center.
The umbrella for these projects is called the Student Life Mas-ter Plan (SLMP). According to Peter Barnes, the student centers
president, the SLMP will revital-ize student facilities at the Uni-versity during the next 15 years.
The plan includes renovat-ing Talley Student Center, the Atrium, D.H. Hill Library, Witherspoon Student Center, Harris Field and will improve parking on campus.
Currently, the University is making a big push to build a new student center.
“The Chancellor said as long as students are on board he will fight to build the new center,”
Barnes said. According to the planning
committee, the project is in the conceptualizing phase of the op-eration at this point.
“The current idea is to tear down the bookstore and to make major additions and changes to the current building,” Barnes said.
The tentative plan also includes a pedestrian bridge from the new student center over the train tracks that will end between Broughton Hall and Mann hall.
Barnes also said that “another one of the main goals of the new student center is to make student organizations and offices more prominent and accessible in the building.”
University Architect Tom Skol-nicki said that the committee has been testing ideas about the space and exploring all of their options.
“Nothing is set in stone yet,” Skolnicki said. “But we have re-
Wolfpack looks to fend o! Deamon DeaconsSee page 8.
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FOCUS OF UNIVERSITY UPDATES CENTERS ON TALLEY STUDENT CENTER
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DRIER CARR/TECHNICIANBill Price, a graduate student in biological and agricultural engineering, and Craig Hymel, a senior in electrical engineering, discuss their strat-egy for decriminalizing carrying handguns on college campuses Tuesday at I !NY Pizza on Hillsborough Street. “You’re allowed to carry them in public, what makes college campuses so special?” Hymel said.
“It’s unfortunate to have that
negative thought but that’s how it
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DAVID MABE/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOTravis Varner, a senior in extension education, participates in a debate about campaign spending limits for Student Government Jan. 28. Varner opposed a proposed bill that would remove the limits, but others want them removed because they believe they are unenforced.
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Panel to discuss Lincoln
A panel style discussion in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday will be held Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. in Caldwell Lounge.
The interdisciplinary panel will include professors from the political science, history and English departments.
The panel will also include refreshments and a birthday cake in honor of Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.
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Dan Ariely, author of “Pre-dictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Deci-sions,” will speak this Thursday in Poe Hall from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
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February is one of the virus’ most active months
Jessica HallCorrespondent
The annual three month pe-riod where more people seem to be sick, known by most as “flu season,” is now in full swing, according to staff from Student Health Services.
This year’s season officially began on Dec. 3 last year, when the first confirmed case was re-ported, according to Dr. Mary Bengston, medical director of Student Health Services.
“[We] have had a number of confirmed cases in January and February 2009,” Bengston said. “Cases [have increased] the last couple of weeks in January and continuing now into February.”
The flu virus, or influenza as it is technically named, is a re-spiratory illness with three main subgroups or-ganized in de-scending order of virulence.
“Student Health has seen influenza B and both strains of influenza A this flu season,” she said. “Influenza A and B strains are included in each year’s flu vaccine.”
Despite the fact that about 3,000 students were inoculated with the vaccine by Student Health Services in both fall 2007 and 2008, Bengston said there have been far fewer f lu cases this year.
“Comparison of January 2008 and January 2009 shows that there were more than three times the number of cases in 2008 than in 2009,” she said. “The 2007-2008 vaccine was a poor match
for the strains of flu that actu-ally circulated. The vaccine was reformulated for 2008-2009 and is thought to be a better match for the strains of flu circulating this season.”
Although numbers are mild in comparison to last year, that does not necessarily indicate that this year’s flu is any less potent.
“Just because there appears to be a less active flu season this year than last year, it does not mean that students should let down their guard,” Bengston said. “Students who are getting the flu average about a week of feeling too ill to study, complete assignments, or be as productive as usual academically. In addi-tion, cough and fatigue some-times continue on a couple ad-ditional weeks.”
Daniel Farrell, a sophomore in biomedical engineering and
one of this year’s f lu vic-tims, said she agrees.
“I s ta r ted fee l i ng bad Saturday, then the next night - Super Bowl Sunday - I had a fever of 103,” Farrell said. “I was just com-
pletely out of it for the next week practically and I am still not back to normal.”
Flu season typically peaks in February, according to Bengs-ton, thus it is important to re-main diligent in prevention and to go to the doctor as soon as the symptoms set in.
“I tried to avoid going to the doctor. I thought I could tough it out, but when I woke up Tues-day pouring sweat and unable to stand, I had no choice,” Farrell said. “Had I gone to the doc-tor sooner, I would have gotten
treatment sooner.” Bengston said symptoms of
the flu include fevers of more than 100 degrees, headaches, fatigue, sore throat, cough, body aches, nasal congestion and drainage, adding that the symptoms can come on very quickly.
Bengston cautioned that indirect contact can be just as infectious.
“[The] flu virus can live up to 48 hours on surfaces and tends to survive better on non-porous surfaces, such as wood, plastic, or metal.” Bengston said.
As with any illness, gen-eral preventions still apply. Wash your hands frequently, especially before and after touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. However, the best method of prevention is to take advantage of the f lu vaccine clinic Student Health Services runs every fall, Bengston said.
“Most of the students who have been diagnosed with f lu at Student Health this season admit that they did not receive the flu vaccine,” Bengston said.
Farrell will definitely follow through with Bengston’s rec-ommendation.
“I am definitely getting a flu shot next year,” Farrell said.
Flu season in full swing
ceived overwhelming positive feedback from students regard-ing the possibility of a pedestri-an bridge from Talley to North Campus. We will do all we can to make it possible.”
Skolnicki also said that the University is searching for a de-signer for the project. “Once we find a designer, we will probably start designing the building in-depth this summer,” he said.
Skolnicki also said the student center will be built in phases.
“The first thing students will see is the construction of a front addition to Talley,” he said.
During the construction of the addition, the current building will remain open to accommo-date student needs.
“When the addition is finished, we will then extensively renovate the current building,” Skolnicki said.
Art White, associate vice chancellor of student affairs from University Dining, said the group has been researching many options for Talley.
“We have looked at many other student centers from nearby uni-versities to get an idea of what would fit our campus,” White said.
Concerning dining in the new student center, White said students will see one or two up-
scale dining operations and that “there is a possibility of organic options, depending on the space and money.”
White also said that the task force will spend the next few months “letting students know what could be possible in terms of a new student center.”
Many students have expressed dissatisfaction with the current student center.
“It is too crowded. It is really hard to get a seat during lunch time. The whole building des-perately needs to be updated,” David Stewart, a sophomore in engineering, said. “Just throw-ing a couple of flat screen TVs in there is not going to fix the problem.”
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odds of being able to change just that one piece would be slim.”
Dawkins’ main issues with the bill weren’t originally part of the legislation when it was first pro-posed but were added while it was being discussed in the Stu-dent Senate.
“On the f loor of the Senate, they added [some pieces I didn’t approve of,” Dawkins said. “Rather than going on hard facts, they just threw it together.”
Doucette agreed that the Sen-ate’s amendments could have been hasty but identified it as a problem that has plagued the Senate for quite some time.
“The bigger issue is a long standing problem the Senate has when people don’t go to commit-tee meetings on legislations that they have a strong opinion about and everyone wants to offer their
own amendments [during senate sessions,]” Doucette said. “There are folks that feel like if you’re a senator you should have the right to amend something on the floor.”
Doucette said the amending of bills on the floor is a messy process.
“[When amendments are added during meetings], you [end up with] legislation that looks like a piece of sausage,” Doucette said. “You take all the bits of meat that no one eats and throw it into a grinder and you end up with sausage.”
Dawkins proposed a bill be written to be fast-tracked at the Senate’s next meeting Feb. 25, so it can be passed before this year’s elections, and while Doucette admitted it was feasible, he also felt that there were better ways to go about changing the legis-lation.
“It’s certainly doable,” Dou-cette said of getting the bill ap-proved in time for this year’s
elections. “It’s just a less than ideal way of handling it.”
As far as tonight’s Senate meeting is concerned, however, the bill’s supporters will still be looking to override Dawkins’ veto, according to Sen. Kenneth Webb, one of the bill’s sponsors.
“I’m going to propose to over-ride the veto,” Webb said. “I’m confident in the bill.”
But Doucette said the final ver-sion of the bill is no longer the same legislation that Webb first proposed.
“We were there for hours amending bits and pieces of it and what we ended up with is what we ended up with,” Dou-cette said.
Dawkins agreed.“It just boils down to the fact
that the bill that passed was sig-nificantly different from what the committee was recommend-ing,” Dawkins said. “The details weren’t hashed out in the com-mittee, [they] were hastily put out on the floor of the Senate.”
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COURTESY J. DAVIS ARCHITECTS A rendering of a proposed walkway branching from Talley Student Center for the Student Life Master Plan.
“Had I gone to the doctor sooner,
I would have gotten treatment
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Area retailers still struggle with sluggish sales despite Valentine’s Day consumerism
Sarah EwaldStaff Writer
“Quantity, not quality.”How many times has that phrase been ut-
tered? In the current recession, shoppers seem to have adopted the phrase as a mantra. Con-sumers are sticking more to what they know and love rather than taking a risk on some-thing with which they are not familiar.
This extends to consumers’ Valentine’s Day shopping. There is a return to familiarity and comfort in this time of economic strife.
And what better than the classic comfort food, chocolate?
“I see chocolate as an attainable luxury, unlike a house or car,” said Neisha Gourley, associate manager of Godiva Chocolatier on Glenwood Avenue. Gourley also said that all of the sales for Valentine’s Day have gone up, although there are not as many pre-sales this year.
Gourley said that overall sales have been up just a little, and the store is mostly maintain-ing its sales.
“There’s not a massive increase, but there is an increase upward,” Gourley said.
According to Gourley, items that were popu-lar last year are selling at around the same rate this year.
“People want what they know they’ll like,” Gourley said. “They’re going more for the clas-sic collections and one new truffle collection
is still selling well from being introduced last year.”
Gourley also said that Godiva brought back its Valentine’s Day collection from last year, since there had been demand for it, and that it has been selling well.
The more aff luent customers, as well as those who like to splurge, were the ones who tended to purchase more expensive goods such as the G Collection. The G Collection features assorted chocolates with exotic fillings, like Bananas Foster and Caramel Macchiato. The G Collection is more of a novelty item than a classic, and appeals to more adventurous consumers who have the money to spend on it, Gourley said.
The Godiva Web site is also catering to the customer on a budget, prominently advertis-ing gifts less than $30 as well as its Valentine’s Day collection of sweets. Many of the items in this section come in a bright pink, heart-shaped box.
Not all chocolate stores are fairing the same, however.
“The recession has definitely hurt busi-ness,” said Laura Antonelli, owner of Peche de Chocolat on South Blount Street. “Customers are making smaller purchases, buying a half pound of chocolate instead of one pound.”
Antonelli said customers are viewing choco-late as a treat for special occasions, instead of something special for themselves on which to splurge.
“I have a dedicated clientele, and most of them will cut back on spending,” Antonelli said. “Sixty percent of my revenue is from Val-entine’s Day, so it definitely helps out the first quarter of the year.”
Antonelli predicts that she will get just thirty percent of her revenue from Valentine’s Day this year, but the exact amount is yet to be known, since most of her customers purchase chocolate on the last day before the holiday.
Antonelli said that she is selling more dark chocolate than usual. The store carries more high-quality dark chocolate because of cus-tomer demand. “People’s perception of choco-late has changed. It’s not just a candy, it has health benefits,” Antonelli said.
Florists in the area have also experienced ef-fects from the recession.
“We have definitely seen a decline over the last year, and we are doing everything we can to accommodate it,” Frank Campisi, manager of Fallon’s Creative Flowers on St. Mary’s Street, said.
This has included offering specials and cre-ating incentives, such as offering free delivery to customers who order online, in an attempt to stimulate sales. Campisi said that he has planned for the holiday to have lower sales, since it is bookended by Friday the thirteenth and President’s Day.
Consumers also seem to be sticking with the preferred flower for the holiday.
Campisi said that since Valentine’s Day is a rose holiday, they are pushing roses at dif-ferent price points. These range f rom a
dozen wrapped roses for $30 to 100 roses for $400.
Fallon’s Web site advertises that custom orders start at $100. Most arrangements are red or pink roses, but some arrangements in-corporate carnations, chrysanthemums and gerbera daisies.
The recession has even extended to the Val-entine’s Day staple of sexy underthings.
“There’s definitely been a decline,” Jessica Cobb, co-manager of Victoria’s Secret on Glen-wood Avenue, said. “Regular customers have decreased in number, and everyone has been using coupons. If the customers don’t have a coupon, they don’t buy anything.”
Cobb said her store has been doing well, and that Valentine’s Day apparently trumps the recession.
Customers are buying the same items, but in less quantity, according to Cobb. “If a customer would once buy a bra in every color, now they only buy one or two. If a regular customer used to spend $150 at one time to purchase five bras, they’re now buying only one bra,” Cobb said.
Even in the midst of an economic recession, consumers will con-
tinue to spend for their loved ones
on special oc-casions, albeit a bit more con-servatively.
Love in the time of recession
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VALENTINE’S DAYfor every budget
DINNERS, DRINKS AND DESSERTS FROM $2 TO $200 THEMED FOR CUPID’S DAY
Did he call Talk Sex with Sue Jo-hanson for love advice and summon Cupid to get the attention of his one and only? Probably not, especially
since history is unclear about exactly who he is.
But despite history and Mr. Valen-tine’s wishes, material symbolism is
the main point of the holiday. The girlfriend who doesn’t get a box of chocolates is sure to feel slighted. Even the boyfriend who “doesn’t care” may have his feelings hurt with-out a Valentine’s gift. And even then, a box of candy hearts sometimes isn’t enough -- you have to take him or her out to eat to really prove the two of you are in love.
No it’s not all about money, it’s about time too. And that’s why spending time together, flirting over
dinner or walking down to the ice cream shop, is one of the best ways to show your love.
The good thing is, there is a spe-cial Valentines Day dinner, drink or dessert at every price point. From popsicles you could pay for with coins from the crack of your couch to “What recession?” prix fixe menus at $200 a couple, each of these eateries has something to put a smile on your sweetheart’s face.
STORY BY SONYA DEULINA AND TAYLOR MCCUNE | PHOTOS BY TIM O’BRIEN
Geithner scares Wall Street
Stocks fell sharply Tuesday after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced some details of the new bank bailout plan. The Dow fell 200 points, settling below 8000 points at noon. The trouble on Wall Street is blamed on Geithner’s approach to the news. Instead of talking to investors, he talked to regular Joes. Skepticism about the plan is widespread. The Dow finished Tuesday down 381.99 points or 4.62 percent.
SOURCE: CNBC.COM
Here come the furloughs
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has sued California’s Democratic controller to force furloughs on another 15,000 government workers. The furloughs -- mandatory unpaid days off of work -- are intended to help recover part of the state’s $42 billion deficit. The University of North Carolina system is also considering furloughs for some faculty and staff in order to preserve more jobs.
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, THE NEWS AND OBSERVER
Supersize my salesMcDonald’s sales in January were
up 7.1 percent worldwide. It seems that the restaurant’s cheap prices have been an oasis of sorts for people in need of an inexpensive meal. This year’s rise follows a 5.7 percent rise last year. In January alone, sales rose 2.6 percent.
SOURCE: FINANCE.YAHOO.COM
Job cuts since Feb. 4Corning: 3,500 worldwideWal-Mart Stores: 700-800General Motors: 10,000Allergen: 460Bloomberg: 100Panasonic: 15,000Time Warner Cable: 1,250Talbots: 370Elizabeth Arden: unknownEstee Lauder: 2,000Wall Street Journal: 25FedEx: 900Nissan: 20,000 worldwide
National...Job openings fell 35 percent since
mid-2007Layoffs are up 58 percentUnemployment rate is 7.6 percent,
or 11.6 million peopleJanuary jobs lost totaled 598,0002008 job loss totaled 2.8 million
SOURCES: CNNMONEY.COM, U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, WSJ.COM
O!cials worry about next year’s budget
Figures released on Tuesday show that the recession will leave the city of Raleigh with $5.1 million less in revenue for the 08-09 year than budgeted. Sharp declines in sales tax revenue and inspection fees offset the small gains from property tax and license fees. City officials still hope to end the fiscal year in June with a $6.9 million surplus after cutting $34 million in expenses. Though a hir-ing freeze and cuts in spending will help the city balance out this year’s budget, city officials are already wor-rying about what next year will bring. Officials said revenues will likely be off for the next year as the economy continues to slide. The City Council will begin discussions on the budget next month.
SOURCE: WRAL
Ticketmaster, Live Nation talk of merger
Ticketing organization Ticketmas-ter Entertainment Inc. and concert promoter Live Nation Inc. announced their plans to merge on Tuesday. The new company, which will be chairmanned by Ticketmaster Chair-man Barry Diller, will be called Live Nation Entertainment. Under the deal, each Ticketmaster share would be replaced by 1.384 Live Nation shares. Live Nation shareholders would amount to 49.99 percent while Ticketmaster shareholders would own 50.01 percent. The companies said the deal would help them save about $40 million annually. The estimated combined business value reaches $2.5 billion. Some, however, fear that the merger would lead to a near-monopoly situation in concert ticketing, giving the new company “unrivaled power over concertgoers and the prices they pay to see their fa-vorite artists and bands,” Sen. Charles Schumer said. More than 80 percent of the major arenas and stadiums in the U.S. sell tickets through Ticket-master. Live Nation is the world’s No. 1 concert promoter and owns more than 140 venues.
SOURCE: WWW.NEWSOBSERVER.COM
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Valentine’s Day is one of those “holidays” that is shrouded in commercial suspicion. Did Saint Val-entine really want Americans to run around shop-
ping for chocolate and flowers and spending hundreds of dollars on steak and champagne?
1908 Hillsborough Streetilovelocopops.com919-286-3500
Valentine’s Day hours: noon - 6 p.m.
Locopops always has something sweet for your sweetie, like plum, black currant or Mexican chocolate popsicles, but Valentine’s day, this popsicle shop is serving up something extra special and affordable. Just for Cupid’s day, Locopops is serving a special malted milk ball Valentine’s day locopop for $2.25.
LOCOPOPS549 N. Person Streetkrispykreme.com919-833-3682
Valentine’s Day hours: 6 a.m. - midnight
Krispy Kreme has already started their special Valentine doughnut pre orders. Order a dozen heart shaped, chocolate- and sprinkle-covered doughnuts for $6.99 or stop in for just a couple at 99 cents each. Those who purchase a dozen will get a coupon for a free donut for any extra Valentines you might have — like your mom.
KRISPY KREME2116 Hillsborough Streetmyspace.com/sadlacksheroes919-828-9190
Valentines Day hours: 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Sadlack’s isn’t doing any specials on food, but that’s not why you’ll take your girlfriend there anyway. Couples wanting to get a little sloppy while listening to some great music can get Busch Light for $1.50 all night. The European beer-snob can opt for Stella Artois — it’s not on special, but the first purchase comes with a free glass. Music Valentine’s night comes two ways. Brent Wilson and Rosa Martin will be playing, but it’s also an open mike night for aspiring singers, songwriters and cover band wannabes.
SADLACK’S HEROES
1900 Hillsborough Streetredhotandblue.com919-755-9699
Valentine’s Day hours: 11 a.m. - midnight
If Valentine’s Day red means barbecue sauce, Red, Hot & Blue’s couple’s special may be just what the doctor ordered. The special includes an onion loaf, two salads, two baked potatoes and a full
rack of ribs served sweet, wet or with a dry rub and finished with a fruit cobbler of your choice. The special costs $29.99 per couple or $39.99 to add a bottle of the restaurant’s house merlot or chardonnay.
RED HOT & BLUE
521 Daniels Streetfostersamericangrille.com919-821-5969
Valentine’s Day hours: 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
It’s at the top part of the mid-range section, but Foster’s Valentine’s
day menu is a good deal. For $35 per person, you and your significant other can choose a three course meal from a menu of three salads, six entrées and three desserts. If an iceberg wedge salad, black angus prime rib entree and dueling chocolate bombs are sure to make him or her smile, make reservations now.
414 Glenwood Ave #103sullivanssteakhouse.com919-833-2888
Valentine’s Day hours: 4 p.m. - 11 p.m.
For the big spender, there is Sullivan’s Steakhouse, where it isn’t hard to run up a $500 tab.
Luckily, the Valentine’s Day menu is priced a little lower. For $80, each couple can choose two salads, two entrees and two desserts. If you or your lover want to spice things up a bit, add-ons like whole lobster and crab legs are also available for a bit extra. Martinis and cigars are not included though, so make sure to calculate those steakhouse necessities in. Sullivan’s is another one where reservations are running out quickly, so act fast.
3100 Wake Forest Roadmeltingpot.com919-878-0477
Valentine’s Day hours: noon - 11 p.m.
The Melting Pot has a reputation for being a date spot, but the restaurant’s Valentine’s specials seal the deal. The
Melting Pot is offering two special packages Saturday. Both include a cheese fondue, salad, entree fondue and chocolate fondue. The Sweetheart package costs $75.00 per person and includes a sparkling wine toast, a souvenir photo, gift bags and a rose. For $99.00 per person, you and your date can get the VIP Romance package with comes with a half bottle of champagne, gift bags, a souvenir photo, and a dozen roses. The Melting Pot is already full for Saturday, but the same great specials are available Friday and Sunday as well. So if you’re working the late shift on Valentine’s Day, you can still celebrate with a Sweetheart package for the discounted price of $60.
FOSTER’S SULLIVAN’S THE MELTING POT
2412 Hillsborough Streetporterstavern.com919-821-2133
Valentine’s Day hours: 5 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Along with their regular menu, the folks at Porter’s will be serving up a few specials including a $9 oyster appetizer, a $21 fresh catch halibut dish and a pan roasted filet mignon with crab meat for $28. In honor of the day, Porter’s bar will be serving up a house-made raspberry flirtini for $8.00. If a flirtini doesn’t work, what will?
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TECHNICIAN
The Campus Culture Task Force, a committee in charge of determining
how to improve campus cli-mate, examines student conduct practices and improves Free Ex-pression Tunnel and Brickyard practices and is seeking opinions about the aforementioned issues via online submission forms, but it has an underwhelming number of recommendations on its Web site, only about 50 so far.
One of the most prominent is-sues the task force will discuss is the University’s new policies concerning the tunnel, and it will “examine and articulate what boundaries, if any, should be imposed on the Free Expres-sion Tunnel,” Chancellor James Oblinger stated in a letter to the
task force Nov. 18. Some of the most hotly debat-
ed issues on campus have been about the Brickyard or the Free Expression Tunnel, especially with this year’s events.
When the N.C. State Chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hosted a discussion about the threatening and racist com-ments four students wrote in the Free Expression Tunnel Nov. 5 about President Barack Obama in Witherspoon Student Center, the room was packed.
But why aren’t nearly as many students giving recommenda-
tions to the task force? Why isn’t there the same enthu-
siasm and passion on campus as there was four months ago when the incident occurred?
Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion Jose Picart said the committee will take these stu-dent suggestions into consider-ation before making final recom-mendations.
Town hall forums are also a good opportunity to speak out about prominent issues, and Stu-dent Government is holding one in the Senate Chambers Thurs-day.
If you care about these issues
and want to create change, en-courage other students to voice opinions. You can’t complain if you didn’t try to do anything about it.
The only way to impact what decisions the University will make is to use these resources.
Feb. 16 is the deadline to give feedback, and the only way the task force can come up with a so-lution that fits the University is to know the opinions of students.
Please visit www.ncsu.edu/student_affairs/cctf/form.html and let the task force know where you stand about the committee’s preliminary suggestions from its Jan. 16 meeting.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the
editor-in-chief. THE ISSUE: Students are not taking advantage of opportunities to give their recommendations to the Campus Culture Task Force.
OUR OPINION:Students must be proactive and use resources of communication to reach our leaders.
THE SOLUTION:Students should post recommendations on the task force’s Web site and attend Student Government’s town hall forum to let the University’s leaders know where they stand.
Take advantage of communication with leaders!OUR VIEW"
So we’re in a recession. I know last semester I was in denial but that was my
optimism (or ignorance) kick-ing in and hoping that the slow
down would be conf ined to f inancia l markets, but unfortunately the contrac-tion has trick-led through the rest of the economy
from banks to retailers to build-ers and to manufacturers. What to do now? Do we let the economy be and hope that the recession goes away on its own or does govern-ment take a stand in the matter? Free market purists claim in theory that reces-sions will correct themselves in due time with no government intervention, but the unknown el-ement is how painfully long will it take for the economy to natu-rally bottom out before it goes on the upswing again. Realistically, the government isn’t going to sit back and let eco-nomic events take their course considering economic prosperity is related to political mandates and I doubt Obama’s ready to give his up quite yet. That leaves two camps on how government can realistically in-tervene and prevent this from spiraling out of control. “Keynes-ians” believe government should be a counter-cyclical force to bal-ance out the economy during the good times and the bad. Unfor-tunately, most times Keynes-ian economics is used to justify indebted spending regardless of economic prosperity. Supply-side economists believe tax cuts to the wealthiest brack-ets will lead to more private in-vestment in business thus creat-
ing more jobs. Obama’s plan, while noble, misses out on some big oppor-tunities and seems to do nothing more than serve his presidential agenda. Too many of the provi-sions are long term investments that don’t have the immediate impact needed. Investment in research and development is fine but how much bang for the buck is that going to get when we’re looking for maximum impact in terms of jobs? Obama missed a golden oppor-tunity to repair failing American infrastructure that, according to American Society for Civil En-gineers, could use a $2.2 trillion
facelift. Some of our roads are the same ones that were created by Eisenhower in the 1950’s and I think the conditions of our levees dur-ing Hurricane Katr ina and the collapse of the bridge in
Minnesota nearly two years ago highlight the urgency for infra-structure repair. Call me a “supply-side Keynes-ian.” There needs to be a proper non-partisan stimulus plan to get us out of this mess that bal-ances tax credits to business, creating jobs and government spending that targets shovel ready projects like schools, buildings, universities and roads. Excess environmental expendi-tures and reforms to the medical system are all extremely impor-tant objectives but those items on Obama’s agenda need to take a backseat until our economy is stable again. We need stimulus, not spending, if the taxpayers are going to commit to spend-ing another $812 billion to correct a financial crisis that’s already seen $8.7 trillion in aid or pledged help from the federal government.
According to U.S. News‚ “the nation’s most prominent col-lege ranking agency‚“ NCSU has the 30th best graduate engineering department in the country.
Along with a n o u t -standing engineer-ing depart-ment, our university excel s in veterinary medicine, architec-
ture, agriculture and a whole host of physical and math-ematical sciences. I don’t mean to downplay the humanities or any of the other spectacular colleges here, but based on rank-ings alone, the University’s strengths lie in fields of ac-curacy. In designing a bridge, one percent error could mean the difference between safety and the Tacoma Narrows. In We-bassign, one decimal place off can be the difference between right and wrong. For technically inclined stu-dents at the University, preci-sion is a reality. UNC-Chapel Hill, on the other hand, is famous for its
liberal arts. While UNC’s intel-lectuals sit and meditate about Proust, Hemingway, Van Gogh and Liberace, State’s scientists solve the world’s problems. Have you ever wondered why this paradox exists, N.C. State, accurate and scientific, UNC, creative and lacking in purpose? A recent survey conducted by the University of British Columbia has found a surprisingly strong correlation between color and cognitive performance. In the study of 600 people, par-ticipants were given tests in blue or red lettering. The participants who took red tests scored much better in recall and attention to detail. The other, participants who took blue tests, did better on sections involving imagination. Perhaps this color rationale ap-plies to UNC and N.C. State. Carolina blue causes UNC’s students to respond to creativ-ity and imagination, while N.C. State students are more accurate and precise. Still, it is difficult to definitively say than one color is superior to another. Creativity and imagi-nation are not completely use-less. Philosophy, for example, is doubtlessly a fundamental part of the future. In 20 years, Amer-ica will need philosophy teachers to teach philosophy to the next philosophy teachers.
The war of the colors carries onto the sports pitch as well. In another study at Durham University in northeast Eng-land, researchers found that in competitions between evenly matched opponents at the 2004 Olympic Games, athletes wearing red defeated those wearing blue 60 percent of the time. Before I get stoned as a hypocrite, I do realize that the University’s all-time records in men’s basketball and foot-ball do not support a 60 per-cent spread. Think of it this way: the statistics should give our sports some hope for the future. Maybe, just maybe, the Wolfpack will win the next 40 or so against UNC and bring that number into fruition. At least an optimist can hope. One final study, led by the University of Rochester, pub-lished a result that most State men already are fully aware of. Men shown photographs of women wearing red consis-tently find those women more attractive than those wearing other colors. We already knew that NCSU ladies are the best in the world. Now we know the color doesn’t hurt either.
Benton SawreySenior Sta! Columnist
Russell WithamSenior Sta! Columnist
Obama needs to invest wisely
Red versus Blue “There needs to be a proper non-partisan
stimulus plan to get us out of this
mess.”
Women rack up on presents on Valentine’s Day while men feel left out.
Mack Garrison, junior in art and design
“They should just get rid of the Free Expression Tunnel altogether because it causes so many problems. Unfortunately, people take it for granted and some people just shouldn’t have the right to free speech.”
Elizabeth Fryersophomore, textiles
“It’s the Free Expression Tunnel, so I don’t think it should be regulated. People should have a sense of respect and not go overboard and o#end anyone, but the school shouldn’t regulate the tunnel.”
Stephanie Gri!n junior, biochemistry and microbiology
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but when it a#ects someone’s life that we care about it’s not right. Authorities should have the right to moderate the tunnel if curse words are used. When it o#ends someone we all care about, that’s crossing the line.”
Maria Menjivarsophomore, industrial engineering
“It should be regulated. This is a school and with freshman and sophomores just starting to come here, they could get the wrong impression. Especially with drug and alcohol themes, some students aren’t mature enough to handle that. Also, I don’t like the smell of the paint because it stays in there for so long. “
Sungmin Baik junior, biomedical engineering
BY PEGGY BOONE
What kind of policy changes, if any, would
you like to see in the Free Expression
Tunnel?
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Print answers to crossword puzzles
I enjoy attempting the crossword in your daily publication. It certainly helps break up the monotony of class. When I turned to the crossword in the Friday, Jan. 30 paper I was extremely pleased to see that a solution was provided to the previous day’s crossword.
This seemed to be a nice improve-ment over the current system of listing the solution online for one day. How-ever, this must have been a one time typo, as a printed solution has not ap-peared since.
To worsen the situation, the current solution is listed as “Saturday’s Puzzle Solved,” and has not been updated all week.
I must have missed the Saturday edi-tion of the paper; however the solution corresponds with Monday’s puzzle.
Come on Technician, as hard as it must be to publish a daily paper, you could at least keep the crossword on point.
Tyler Pendrysenior, civil engineering
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The East Atlantic Gymnastic League gives Pack a conference, home
Jonathan B. LaughrunDeputy Sports Editor
In 1984, the first and only ACC championships were held for gymnastics. The Wolfpack scored a 175.250 beating out Carolina, Maryland, and Duke for the crown. After that season Duke dropped their gymnastics program which left the confer-ence with only three schools that supported the sport. With only three teams in the conference, the ACC did not recognize a conference championship.
“We didn’t have enough teams in the ACC,” coach Mark Ste-venson said. “In ‘83-’84 we beat Duke for the one and only ACC championship and two weeks or three weeks after we beat them, they dropped the pro-gram, which is pretty pathetic on Duke’s part.”
The Wolfpack and the rest of the ACC schools that sponsored a gymnastics team were left without a conference that would recognize them. Similar things happened in the Big East which had only three schools that spon-sored programs as well as in the American East which was left with two schools.
According to Stevenson, West Virginia gymnastics coach Linda Burdette and himself first came up with the idea of combining the conferences into a league that could have a championship.
“From ‘85 un-til we formed EAGL in ‘96 we had no confer-ence affiliation as far as a cham-pionship goes,” Stevenson said. “Linda Burdette and I sort of got it all started. Ev-erybody [came] in [a nd] we hammered out, in two days, all of the articles for the league, came back to our athletic directors, got confirma-tion they would recognize us as a league so we could have a cham-
pionship.” After the local planning was
complete, the coaches pleaded their case to a higher authority.
“We then sent all that into the NCA A so we could be listed as a competitive league by NCAA [standards],” Stevenson said. “That all went t h r o u g h , s o we formed the EAGL champi-onship.”
According to UNC-CH gymnastics coach Derek Galvin, the teams from the ACC would rather have an ACC championship, but are will-ing to work with what they have.
“We would love to have an ACC championship, and I know Mark feels the same way and I know Bob Nelligan of Maryland feels the same way,” Galvin said. “We would all love to have an ACC championship, but there aren’t enough teams in the ACC that sponsor gymnastics, so this is the next best thing for us.”
Galvin also noted that the EAGL championship sets the programs up for success in the postseason.
“It gives us an opportunity to get hot at the end of the season, to have a completion similar to NCAA format,” Galvin said. “It is another way to prepare our teams for the postseason tour-nament, and it is good for brag-ging rights.”
EAGL helps the teams that are members compete with the teams of other major conferences in terms of recruits as well. Ac-cording to Maryland coach Bob
Nelligan, the major gymnastics conferences are easily accessible to the public, and in order to compete you have to offer the student athletes what they want in a program.
“It definitely helps you with recruiting because if you look at the big conferences around the country - the SEC, PAC 10, Big 10 - Big 10 has a great TV show, you can watch them every night, SEC has their own TV network, so what we needed to do was to find a unique way of staying in that game,” Nelligan said.
Nelligan also noted that the level of competition and oppor-tunities for improvement play a major role in an athlete’s college decision.
“Athletes are going to come to schools where they think they are going to get big scores,” Nel-ligan said. “They know they are going to travel, they know there is going to be good competition, and they know they have a con-ference championship.”
League offers teams chance at spotlight
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DREIER CARR/TECHNICIANFreshman Jess Panza performs a routine on the balance beam in his-toric Reynolds Coliseum earlier this season. Panza won EAGL Rookie of the Week in the !rst week of the season before injuring her ankle warming up for the second meet at Michigan.
“...after we beat them, they
dropped the program, which is pretty pathetic on Duke’s part.”
said by gymnastics coach Mark Stevenson
Senate changes bill Senate votes on changes for House’s stimulus package
Taylor MccuneFeatures Editor
The Senate passed the stimulus bill Monday, but not without bil-lions of dollars worth of changes. Here’s the breakdown of how the Senate’s version differs from the House’s version, and what would change if the House accepts it.
New Health Rules “Every individual in the
United States” will have his or her health tracked electronically, so that errors are made less of-ten. However, doctors will be monitored by the government to ensure that they are only giv-ing the care that is needed. This could be a problem for atypical cases and patients who need experimental treatment. Sen. Tom Daschle said he would like to see the U.S. more willing to give “hopeless diagnoses” and to “forgo experimental treat-ments.” Elderly patients, Daschle said, will have to get used to the medial conditions that come along with getting older instead of treating them.
Taxes The alternative minimum tax
break, a $70 billion cost, will keep middle-class Americans from paying the alternative minimum tax. Purchasers of new homes will be eligible for a credit of up to $15,000 or 10 per-cent of the purchase price. New car buyers could claim the state excise tax on their purchase off their taxes. The bill also includes a 10 percent tax credit for electric motor scooters. The Senate ad-justed the worker tax relief credit to save $2 billion. Now, individu-als earning more than $70,000 and couples earning more than $140,000 a year will not be able to claim the credit. Also, the Senate bill would make the first $2,400 of unemployment benefits tax-free.
InfrastructureThe two versions propose
about the same amount of mon-ey to address transportation con-cerns — $46 billion by the Senate and $47 by the House.
Direct Cash
One-time payments of $300 to Social Security recipients, veterens on disability and those
on Supplemental Security In-come was written in the the bill by the Senate. The amend-ment totals $17 billion, $9 bil-lion more than the House’s plan to give $450 to elderly and disabled people in Sup-plemental Security Income.
EnergyThe Senate plan includes
$8.5 billion to subsidized loans for renewable energy projets, $6.4 billion for clean-ing up former nuclear weap-ons production facilities and $11 billion to create a “smart electricity grid.” The Senate’s total energy spending comes in at $10.2 billion more than the House’s provisions.
Other SpendingThe House’s $13.7 billion for
tax credits for college expens-es has been reduced to $13 billion by the Senate, which cut the amount that can be refunded to low-income families. The Senate has also scrapped the $14 billion set aside by the House for school construction and repair.
SOURCE: CNBC.COM, NYTIMES.COM
SOURCE: EAGL
By the numbers: N.C. STATE AND EAGL3 EAGL Championships
(2007, 00, 1999)
4 Coach of the Year Honors for (2008,07,06, 1998)
1 Gymnast of the Year Honors (1996)
2 Outstanding Senior Gymnast Honors (2008, 1996)
3 Rookie of the Year Honors (2008, 2005, 1998)
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really looking to be in the news-paper,” Caldwell said. “He likes to do everything quietly. He is productive, but quiet.”
Indeed, Hamrah quickly and emphatically said the lack of publicity has never once both-ered him, and that he, in fact, enjoys watching his teammates wrestle.
“There is no envy or anything like that, those guys are great and they deserve everything,” Ham-rah said. “They work hard for it, and we’re all just happy for each other for any success we have.”
Hamrah’s 26-7 record this sea-son is nothing new for the vet-eran wrestler. In 2006, Hamrah won the ACC championship and won 14 of his last 16 matches as a junior. In addition, he has been able to thrive in good health after ailing through an ankle sprain, knee injuries, and a broken hand during his sophomore and junior campaigns.
Hamrah said he decided before this season that he was not going to let any injury, regardless of the pain it would cause him, limit him in his fifth and final season with the team.
“I kind of figured I am going to be wrestling this year, and that it really does not matter if I get in-jured here or get injured there,” Hamrah said. “It is my last year, and I am not going to sit out.”
According to Caldwell, Ham-rah has been much more than a talented wrestler this season, as the effort he has provided as the team’s only fifth-year senior has made him a role model for his teammates.
“A lot of guys look up to him, because he never stops working hard, and no matter how tired he is, Kody’s always giving 100 percent,” Caldwell said. “Being a fifth-year senior and perform-ing the way he is really gives the younger guys that extra boost.”
For Hamrah, the upcom-ing ACC tournament will be a culmination of all of his past victories in conference matches throughout his career.
Hamrah holds a 28-3 career re-cord in conference matches, and says that he is determined to win his second ACC championship after multiple disappointing fin-ishes in the finals in past years.
“I have been in the finals ev-ery year and two years I’ve lost to kids I’ve previously beaten, so I have got to go all the way. I’ve got to win the thing,” Hamrah said.
According to Jordan, Ham-
rah has a good chance to win the ACC Championships, which will be held March 7 in Blacksburg, Va., and expe-rience success in the March 19 NCAA Tournament.
“Obviously he would be the favorite to win it [the ACC Championship],” Jordan said. “He is capable of winning the whole thing [the NCAA tour-nament], because you only have to beat five guys, and he is a streaky wrestler. When he gets on a roll he is very dif-ficult to beat.”
HAMRAHcontinued from page 10
At the college level, an offen-sive set can only do so much. A team must have playmakers that can create shots in order to compete at an elite level. But most of State’s biggest playmak-ers have only a handful of games left in their college careers.
Redshirt junior Brandon Costner and senior Ben Mc-Cauley, the leading scorers and rebounders on this year’s team, will not return for the 2009-10 season. Though Costner has a year of eligibility left, he will be graduating this spring and has indicated he is not interested in sticking around.
Senior Courtney Fells, the team’s third-leading scorer and its best shooter, will run out of eligibility and should test his talents at the professional levels.
But the most ominous sign for Lowe is the growing discontent among the fanbase. At the time of publication, the Sidney Lowe credibility watch on thewolf-web.com had reached 89 pages, 4,447 replies and 102,976 views. There is not yet a consensus on Lowe, but in forums like this one, the big question is being debated.
The signs are not all bad though. Lowe has proved him-
self to be a capable recruiter. His 2009 class is already good and has the potential to be great. Sophomore Tracy Smith, one of the highlights of Lowe’s first true recruiting effort, has proven he has the potential to become one of the conference’s best inside scorers. Maybe, just maybe, all Lowe needs is time. After all, a coach can only do so much. Perhaps we should keep our faith and give this man the time he needs to bring in top talent.
And to be fair, Lowe is in just his third season working the nation’s toughest coaching as-signment. He knows the expec-tations and embraces them. At a press conference two days be-fore the Jan. 31 matchup against UNC-CH, Lowe acknowledged the pressures of being the men’s basketball coach at State.
“That’s this job. [The fans] love N.C. State. They want N.C. State to do well,” Lowe said. “You can’t blame the players, so you got to blame the coach. That’s the job, that’s the life I chose, and I deal with it.”
But as we watch the Pack play Wake Forest tonight, even if we score a stunning upset of a top-10 team, the big question will lurk in the back of our minds; is Lowe the man to restore N.C. State to the top of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball?
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[against Virginia Tech], play-ing well and pushing the ball down the court,” Lowe said.
However, Lowe indicated the need for consistency as State closes out down the stretch.
“The game really comes down to that last five min-utes of the ball game,” he said. “You have to have a guy that’s going to be able to take control out there and make a play. You can’t afford to make mistakes.”
Although Lowe admits that his lineup may not con-tain any pure athletes such as UNC-Chapel Hill ’s Ty Lawson or Boston College’s Tyrese Rice, the guards he has all have the potential to effectively run the offense.
“If you go to the NBA and talk about Larry Bird, he wasn’t a great athlete - wasn’t quick, wasn’t fast, but he just knew how to play the game,” Lowe said. “Obviously he was talented because he could shoot the ball and pass, but because he was so smart - that’s what made him such a great player.”
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By the numbers: KODY HAMRAH74 Career wins
26 Wins this season
7 Losses this season
28 Conference wins
1 ACC championship
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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Here we go again. To-night, the men’s bas-ketball team will face
another highly ranked big four opponent. Another in-state
matchup that should be a publicized contest for the top of the AC C . But , once again, we find ourselves in a position
of irrelevance, absent f rom
any NCAA bracket predictions and just hoping we can avoid a losing record in order to make some kind of post-season play.
Tonight will be a night of soul-searching for the Wolfpack na-tion. For in addition to playing the No. 7 Demon Deacons’ pro-gram that has seemingly passed us by in recent years, UNC-Cha-pel Hill will travel to Cameron Indoor Stadium to face Duke in a nationally televised game at 9 p.m.
That rivalry, the Tar Heels ver-sus the Blue Devils, is perhaps the most painful symbol of the decline of N.C. State basketball in the past two decades. There is no denying that it is a game of national importance, but it is also a reminder of how State seems to have been left behind.
When the Wolfpack won its last ACC Championship in 1987, State’s basketball tradition was on par with Carolina and light-years ahead of Duke and Wake Forest. Since that year, the Tar Heels have won seven ACC championships and two national titles. Almost more frustrating is that we have watched Duke basketball become a national brand name, winning nine ACC championships and all three of its NCAA titles in that span.
At 2-6 in the conference and 12-9 overall, we must ask our-selves two things: “What is wrong and how do we fix it?” It is this thought process that leads us to the big question. The one that many State fans are reluctant to say aloud quite yet, but many others are already screaming at the top of their lungs. It is the question of coach Sidney Lowe.
Have our failures in the Lowe era been the inevitable result of some flaw in Lowe’s system or approach, or is it simply a lack of the correct personnel, and Lowe will be vindicated if he is just given more time?
Most State fans at least want to believe the latter. We want to experience the same euphoria of that victory against Carolina Feb. 3, 2007, or the deep run into the ACC tournament. Lowe reminds us of the glories of N.C. State’s basketball past. He is one of us. He knows where N.C. State has been and believes we can return.
But all the nostalgic appeal of Lowe fades before the devas-tating mediocrity of where the program currently is. There are some indicators that suggest State basketball is headed for a resurrection, but many that sug-gest we are not.
Last weekend’s epic meltdown against Virginia Tech seems to be a microcosm of Lowe’s career up to this point. It reminds me of the fractal theory in Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park in which every component of a geometric shape resembles the whole at any level of magnification.
The missed free throws at the end of Sunday’s game resemble the evaporation of a double-digit lead. And the overtime loss as a whole resembles the roller coaster ride of the Lowe era up to this point; high expectations and early results leading into disap-pointment and pessimism.
WOLFFACTS
Weekly EAGL Honors awarded to Barr, Seaman again
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Pack !nish 3rd at Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Street, Doughtie !nish in Top 10
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. WAKE FORESTReynolds Coliseum, 7p.m.
GYMNASTICS VS. UNC, GEORGE WASHINGTON, WILLIAM & MARYReynolds Coliseum, 7p.m.
MEN’S TENNIS @ ITA TEAM INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPTBA, All Day
SOFTBALL @ MARRIOTT HOUSTON CLASSICHouston, Texas, 12p.m.
TRACK AND FIELD @ TYSON INVITATIONAL Fayetteville, Ark., All Day
TRACK AND FIELD @ CAROLINA INVITATIONALChapel Hill, All Day
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The big question
Lowe brings 3-1 record against Big Four rival
Daniel EllisDeputy Sports Editor
After suffering an overtime loss to Virginia Tech last Sat-urday, the men’s basketball team will be looking for their third ACC victory in one of the oldest matchups in college basketball history. N.C. State (12-9, 2-6 ACC) holds the all-time series against the Demon Deacons (18-3, 5-3 ACC) in the rivalry 130-97 dating back to the 1910-11 season.
“It’s definitely a rivalry, and a big game against a very good ball club,” coach Sidney Lowe said in his weekly press conference. “We go back to the times when we used to play in the Big Four Tour-nament. Those were always great games and nothing has changed.”
Last weekend, the Wolfpack blew an 18-point lead and ultimately lost 91-87 as they committed 12 turnovers in the final 13 minutes against the Hokies.
“I thought we played well for most of the ball game, but we just didn’t make the plays down the stretch and lost a tough one,” Lowe said.
Meanwhile, No. 7 Wake Forest is coming off of a 93-76 win against Boston College after suffering back-to-back
losses on the road against Geor-gia Tech and Miami.
“Our kids played a very spir-ited, high-energy game,” Wake Forest coach Dino Gaudio said. “Our defense was the difference in the game, holding them to zero 3-point field goals in the second half.”
Last year in the RBC Center, senior Ben McCauley dunked in a missed Gavin Grant 3-pointer as time expired to give the Pack a 67-65 win.
“Ben McCauley made a great
effort play when he tipped in the winning shot,” Gaudio said. “We have great respect for them in this very heated rivalry.”
Demon Deacons guard Jeff Teague, who ranks second in the ACC in scoring (20.9 ppg) and steals (2.1), may be the big-gest concern for the Pack, who are averaging 67.6 points allowed per game.
“He’s very explosive,” Lowe said. “He’s quick, he can come down and pull up with a shot, he can get to the basket, he’s a
good ball-handler and he just plays hard.”
While the Demon Deacons boast one of the league’s stel-lar guards, Lowe indicated that State’s point guard situ-ation still remains up in the air for tonight’s game. Lowe did, however, praise Javier Gonzalez’s performance in the team’s last outing.
“Javi did a great job for us
Wrestler Kody Hamrah has continued to post victories during the last season of his quietly dominant career
Tyler EverettStaff Writer
Though “The Duo” of senior 141-pounder Joe Caramanica and No. 3 Dar-rion Caldwell comes to mind when thinking of the stars of the wrestling team, redshirt senior 157-pounder Kody Hamrah is quietly enjoying
a finish to a career that will leave his name in the wrestling record books.
Hamrah, with his 74 career wins, ranks 16th in the school record books for career wins. Having already won 26 bouts this year Hamrah has an oppor-tunity to surpass several wres-tlers before this season is over.
“He will wrestle at least eight more matches,” coach Carter Jordan said. “And I think it is safe to say, worst-case scenario, he’s going to win six.”
Should he f inish with the “worst-case scenario” predicted by Jordan, Hamrah will rank
12th all time in career victories, and this season will go down in the records with 32 wins, and a 12th place tie for season wins. The last wrestler to accomplish this feat was heavy-weight Sylves-ter Terkay, who ended his 1991 season with a third place na-tional finish.
Hamrah has achieved all these accomplishments in relative ob-scurity due to star teammates
Caramanica and Caldwell. According to Caldwell, the
lack of atten-tion Hamrah receives i s as much be-cause of his unassuming personal-ity as it is be-cause of the attention his teammates attract.
“He is not the type of guy
Wolfpack looks to fend o! Demon Deacons tonight
Despite lack of spotlight, Hamrah continues to excel
DREIER CARR/TECHNICIANBrandon Costner, a redshirt junior forward, works around Georgia Tech’s Zachery Peacock during the game Saturday in the RBC Center. Costner had 22 points and 7 rebounds in the Wolfpack’s !rst ACC win of the season. The Wolfpack beat the Yellow Jackets 76-71 and are now 10-5 on the season.
COMMENTARY
DREIER CARR/TECHNICIANKody Hamrah, a redshirt senior at 157 pounds., is an All-American candidate, a former ACC champion and conference rookie of the year. A three-year starter at 157 pounds, Hamrah has a career record of 48-21 with nine pins.
“...no matter how tired he is, Kody’s always giving 100
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