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Early votes will be counted on Election DayProvisional ballots are the only votes withheld until Nov. 14

Alex VaughnStaff Writer

Unless they are provisional bal-lots, all absentee and early votes will be counted on Election Day, despite rumors to the contrary.

Cherie Poucher, director of Wake County’s Board of Elections, said she has re-ceived calls asking whether absentee votes are counted alongside those cast on Elec-tion Day.

It’s “one of those myths go-ing around,” she said.

State Board of Elections Deputy Director Johnnie McLean is also concerned with the apparent falsehood circulating among voters.

“It is indeed a rumor,” McLean said. “All non-pro-visional votes cast at an early voting site are recorded when they are cast, and mailed-in absentee votes are recorded when they are processed at the Board of Elections office.”

Ballot-scanning machines at the fifteen one-stop voting sites will be brought back to the Board of Elections office under police escort after early voting ends Saturday. The scanners will then remain sealed until Election Day at which point their counts will be tabulated.

The totals won’t be made public until the polls close.

“The confusion may stem from provisional ballots,” Mi-chael Cobb, associate profes-sor of political science, said. “If someone goes to vote and is told that there is something wrong with their registration or that there is some confusion about whether they’re properly regis-

Online rendition of Risk captivates ACC students

Daniel EllisDeputy News Editor

N.C. State students are mount-ing a comeback against UNC, Duke, and the nine other ACC schools in one of the fastest grow-ing online collegiate games.

Gocrosscampus.com currently hosts an online rendition of risk that pits students from NCAA schools against one another in an effort to prove which college is truly dominant. Through well-timed tactics, cunning leader-ship, and alliances with other universities, a college can hope to gain total supremacy as ruler of the world, or in this case, the ACC.

“It’s of the utmost importance that we defend our honor in the ACC Championships,” Thomas Mason, a 2007 graduate in engi-neering, said.

Mason is the commander of the N.C. State team.

The game, which was developed by four Yale University students and one Columbia University student, premiered in 2007 and has since grown to include more

than 100 universities. “It’s growing very rapidly

because it is such a fun game,”

Brian Parris, a freshman in paper science and engineering, said. “My roommate and I even spray

painted the free expression tunnel to get more people involved.”

After a very slow start, NCSU has mounted a surpris-ing comeback, being dubbed as “ridiculously impossible” by Parris. State players attri-bute the rapid growth of the team to strong recruitment efforts via f lyers, Facebook and The Wolf Web.

“Recruitment is huge. It was a really big deal early on, be-cause I’m an alumnus and it was hard to get the word out,” Mason said. “We barely sur-vived the first few turns, but since we had such large num-bers of recruits we’re doing much better as you can see by the map.”

As part of the team’s strat-egy, State is involved in alli-ances with geographically lo-cal teams - teams that would typically be deemed as rivals. The Wolfpack is in an alliance with Duke and are in non-ag-gression pacts with UNC and Virginia Tech.

“At the moment it contin-

Saja Hindi & Derek MedlinEditor-in-Chief & Managing Editor

P r e s i d e nt i a l c a n d i d a t e s all visit N.C.

Barack Obama, John McCain and Bob Barr are making their presence felt in North Carolina as all three have campaigned

across the state in recent days. Barr spoke at Duke Univer-

sity Tuesday afternoon and vis-ited UNC-Chapel Hill Tuesday night.

Sen. John McCain visited Fay-etteville Tuesday afternoon.

Sen. Barack Obama will hold a rally Wednesday outside the Leg-

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Purcell leads Wolfpack Club to fundraising forefrontSee page 12.

Pumps and politics: what to look forward toStudents gaining ground in game

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VOTES continued page 4

University to restrictparking access

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The University will limit access to the park-

ing lots and streets it owns on campus

Friday after 6 p.m., so that only students,

faculty and staff with valid University IDs

can enter. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford

had said this type of measure would deter out-of-

towners from coming to the Haunted Hillsborough

Hike, and prevent an out-of-control situation like

Chapel Hill has experienced on Halloween in re-

cent years. “If you are planning to drive in to this event,

it will be very difficult for you to find a place to

park,” Stafford said in an article in Tuesday’s Tech-

nician. Campus Police will be working with Raleigh’s

officers to man checkpoints across campus, check-

ing IDs to “dissuade non-affiliated people from

campus,” according to Capt. Jon Barnwell.

Raleigh Police will have a zero tolerance policy

toward any students committing violations, includ-

ing underage drinking or possession of alcohol, on

Hillsborough Street Friday. If a student receives

a citation, or is arrested, it will also bring action

from the Office of Student Conduct with a judicial

hearing.

1. Brooks lot2. Hillsborough Building lots3. North Hall lot4. Coliseum Deck5. Student Health lot6. Doak Field/Sullivan lot7. Dan Allen Deck8. entrances to campus from Hillsborough (except Dan Allen Drive)

The following areas will be subject to Student I.D. checks:

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Parking lots and entrances in green will not be subjected to Student I.D. checks. These include the West lot, the steam plant lot, Dan Allen Drive, Cates Avenue, and thePullen Road entrance via Western Boulevard.

ELECTION COUNTDOWN:

6Days until the election.

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The Technician Voter’s Guide, which outlines each national, state and Raleigh candidate, is still available to view online at technicianonline.com.

PHOTO COURTESY HTTP://GOCROSSCAMPUS.COM/GAME/ACCN.C. State (gray) gains new territory in Florida.

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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Saja Hindi at [email protected].

THROUGH TAN’S LENS

Painting for peace

A student paints a peace sign during Take Back The Night, an event held to create awareness about rape and violence against women. The event has been held at the University since 1987, and features speakers, performances and a candlelight vigil.

PHOTO BY TAN TRAN

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CAMPUS CALENDAR

WednesdayFALL FORUMVeterinary School, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

ThursdayORIENTATION COUNSELOR INFORMATION SESSION3118 Talley Student Center, 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

ALL CAROLINAS’ DINNERFountain and Clark dining halls, 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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IN THE KNOW Trojan to stop in Brickyard

Trojan Brand Condoms’ Evolve bus tour will make it’s last stop at N.C. State Thursday and Friday for their two-day grand finale.

The Trojan bus has traveled the nation, stopping at 60 colleges, universities and communities to educate people on safe sex.

They have also collected signa-tures from over 200,000 people pledging to use a condom every time.

Students can participate in a competition to see who can put a condom on a banana the fast-est. The Evolve campaign will be in the Brickyard from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

SOURCE: BJORN TROWERY, EVOLVE CAMPAIGN

CVM holds fall forum

The College of Veterinary Medicine is holding the annual Food Animal Scholars Fall Fo-rum in the South Theater of the main CVM building.

Dr. Rodney Baker, a former CVM faculty member, will dis-cuss the challenges facing the food supply veterinary medicine and other issues identified in

“Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Pro-duction in America,” a report by PEW.

Baker is currently a Senior Clinician in the Food Supply Veterinary Medicine: Swine Division at Iowa State Uni-versity.

SOURCE: CVM NEWS AND MEDIA

Huckabee coming today

Former Republican presi-dential candidate Mike Huck-abee will make an appearance at the GOP Headquarters Ra-leigh Victory Office today.

The visitation is designed to bolster the support for Re-publican presidential candi-date John McCain in what is shaping up to be one of North Carolina’s closest elections in recent history.

The event will take place from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 1506 Hillsborough Street.

SOURCE: MIKEHUCKABEE.COM

WORLD & NATIONChild prostitution rings shut down

Over 600 adults across 29 cities have been arrested in raids targeting people who force children into pros-titution. The FBI said Operation Cross Country II was a coordinated action involving federal, state and local law officers.

Officials also said 12 “large-scale” prostitution rings were shut down and 47 children were rescued. Most of these rings were operated through call centers, truck stops, casinos and Web sites.

FBI Deputy Director John Pistole said the arrests were made possible by intelligence gathered during simi-lar raids in June.

“Sex trafficking of children remains one of our most violent and uncon-scionable crimes in this country,” he said.

Of the 47 rescued children — rang-ing in age from 13 to 17 — all but one were female. Only 10 of these children had been reported to the National Center for Missing and Ex-ploited Children.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS

!ais block controversial Web sites

The Thai government is spending millions of dollars to build an internet firewall that will block Web sites that insult the Thai royal family. The Infor-mation Ministry said it has received several complaints about these sites, many of which are based abroad.

“Thailand’s royals are supposed to be above politics and are protected by strict laws which prohibit criti-cism,” a ministry official said.

The government has been accused of acting hostile to the monarchy, but they strongly deny any claims.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS

POLICE BLOTTEROct. 2612:18 A.M. | CHECK PERSONDelta Delta Delta Officers spoke with students and non-students carrying alcohol. No action was taken.

12:24 A.M. | MEDICAL ALCOHOLKamphoefner Hall Units responded to non-student in need of assistance.

12:34 A.M. | MEDICAL ALCOHOLKamphoefner Hall Student was transported to hospi-tal. Subject was underage and will be referred.

1:11 A.M. | ALCOHOL VIOLATIONKamphoefner Hall Student was referred to university for possessing alcohol at alcohol free event.

1:13 A.M. | TRAFFIC STOPGorman Street/Ligon Street Non-student was issued citation for stop light violation.

Today:

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It’s of the utmost importance that we defend our

honor in the ACC Championships.”

Thomas Mason, 2007 alumnus in engineering

News

tered, then they are allowed to cast a provisional ballot that will not get counted until later — if at all.”

Provisional ballots are held until after Election Day, and are not counted until they are certified as being legitimate.

“Provisional ballots ensure that every qualified eligible voter is able to vote, while at the same time preserving the integrity of the election,” McLean said.

Poucher stated that in the

ten days following the elec-tion all provisional ballots are researched and submitted to a three-member board that will determine the voter’s eligibil-ity. Eligible provisional votes are then combined with Elec-tion Day totals, and the Board will certify an official count on Nov. 14.

Early voters who cast a provi-sional ballot because they did not produce valid identification at the time have until 5 p.m. on Nov. 13 to provide their identi-fication at the Board of Elections office.

“Election night is unofficial be-cause what we have to do once we get everything back is to audit

everything, make sure every-thing adds up right, and then do the research,” Poucher said.

Voters who cast provisional ballots can check the State Board of Elections Web site to deter-mine whether their vote was counted after the certification date.

“Whatever is not counted is in-credibly minute in terms of the overall ballots that are counted,” Cobb said.

Becky Till, a senior in biologi-cal sciences who voted Monday, said she hasn’t heard any rumors regarding voting.

“I haven’t heard anything like that at all, but I’m glad it’s not true,” she said.

Saja HindiEditor-in-Chief

Volleybal l coach Charita Stubbs and her players are deny-ing interviews to the Technician because of a cartoon published Oct. 21, which Stubbs said por-trays racial stereotypes.

The cartoon is a caricature of the coach, holding up both her hands as one of her feet rests on a volleyball, and the caption reads, “Volleyball’s head coach Charita Stubbs looks forward to her first season counting her ACC wins on two hands.”

The volleyball team is 3-8 in conference and 9-17 overall this year compared to last year’s con-ference standing of 0-22 and 3-29 overall.

“All student-athletes on my team, regardless of their race, were offended by the drawing as well and I feel that it is my duty to speak out for them, as well as myself,” Stubbs said in a forum letter Oct. 24.

The letter continued to explain that the cartoon contained racial stereotypes of an African Ameri-can woman.

After Tuesday’s volleyball prac-tice, Technician volleyball beat writer and Deputy Sports Edi-

tor Ty Johnson tried to interview Stubbs and the players for a story about the differences between east and west coast volleyball.

Stubbs refused to comment, and volleyball player Arlee Tami-etti told Johnson players would not be granting him interviews.

Lindsay Benac, another player, created a Facebook group titled, “Boycott the Technician.” The group now has 21 members.

In the group’s description, the page reads, “Us volleyball play-ers have been given the choice of whether or not we wanted to

talk to Technician reporters when they ask for interviews. We have come together and decided that until they show us respect we will not talk. I hope that the rest of you as athletes can help us with our stand and also refuse to take interviews. We are tired of the rest of the student body talking bad about our sports and it’s time that changes.”

The volleyball team players and the coach could not be reached for comment Tuesday about the cartoon or their reactions to it.

islative Building on Halifax Mall. Gates open at 10 a.m. and the event is scheduled to begin at 11:15 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.

According to many polls, including usaelectionpolls.com, the race in the Tar Heel state is as close as ever. As of Tuesday, usaelectionpolls.com reported that John Mc-Cain holds a slim one-point margin over Barack Obama, 49 percent to 48 percent.

Gas prices fallingGas prices this week are

lower than they have been since last Halloween with oil prices falling to $63 a barrel Monday.

According to the Federal High-way Administration, Americans drove 15 billion miles less in Au-gust 2008 than they did in Au-gust 2007.

For some students like Cory Hefner, a sophomore in electri-cal engineering, the news is good but not good enough.

“I’m excited that the prices are going down,” he said. “I’m encouraged that they are lower-ing, but I want it to keep going down.”

The increased prices in the past year haven’t necessarily af-fected how much he goes places, Hefner said, but they did affect his method of getting to those places.

“[The high price] really hasn’t affected me that much in terms of driving,” Hefner said. “I try to get rides with other people whenever I can and cut down on driving.”

And as for the Hike, Hefner, again, said it doesn’t make much of a difference.

“I’m probably going to just be walking to the Haunted Hillsborough Hike, so it doesn’t really change my plans at all,” he said.

Deputy News Editor Daniel Ellis contributed to this report.

Continue to read Technician for more updates on these stories and others.

ues to be to our advantage to work with Duke as they expand more so that we can claim the south,” Mason said. “Being in such close proxim-ity to Duke and UNC, fight-ing at first would’ve ruined all of us early on.”

Initially, NCSU looked like it wasn’t going to be a major player in the game, control-ling only seven territories by the end of turn 11. The red and white (or gray in this situation), now have offensive campaigns stretching from Florida to Boston while con-trolling 16 territories.

“We’re doing pretty well right now,” Chris Mills, a sophomore in environmental technology, said. “Before, we

were on the ropes and we were about to get conquered, but be-cause of the recent surge in N.C. State participants, we’re now one of the major power players.”

NCSU has the greatest num-ber of participants of all ACC schools with 80 percent of the 319 State players participating on Monday.

“I like the idea that we have the most participants, but at the same time, the University of Maryland is catching up to us,” Mills said. “We still have the po-tential to get a lot more people and wipe out the competition.”

According to Mason, one of the integral parts of any successful team is effective leadership. By having a set list of orders for each day of action, students are able to act in unison - a necessity for a victorious team.

“The number one component of the game is activity and the

number two component is diplo-macy and strategy,” Mason said. “Obviously to help with diplo-macy you need leaders, but they also need to be able to help or-ganize, coordinate and mobilize the team.”

Through e-mail, Mason is able to keep State students well-in-formed of each day’s orders. Ma-son also encourages students that aren’t already involved to join in the ongoing conquest. The most updated orders don’t involve at-tacks on either of the remaining N.C. schools, but Mason admits that in the long run, State will confront its rivals.

“We’ll have to turn on Duke eventually,” he said. “You have to have allies that can help you hold fronts that you can’t hold fronts on your own.”

NCSU sits in third place, just behind Duke and the University of Miami.

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VISITScontinued from page 1

NSE gives students a chance to study across the U.S.Volleyball team

refuses interviews Info session to be held tonight at 7:30 p.m.

Daniel EllisDeputy News Editor

Students can explore op-tions to study at a partner institution of the student’s choice made possible through the National Student Ex-change Program, or NSE.

The university, along with almost 200 other institutions, take part in the NSE program that provides students with a chance to take classes at a partner university while maintaining enrollment as a full-time student at State. The second of the program’s information sessions will be held today from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Green Room of Talley Student Center,

“The purpose of the pro-gram is to provide students with the opportunity to study at a different university, ex-plore a different part of the country, and to maybe get access to courses that aren’t offered here,” Sean Cassidy, associate director of the Uni-versity Scholars Program and NSE coordinator, said.

The program is notable for helping students gain an enriching experience in a diverse environment that allows individuals to grow academically, culturally, and socially.

“Students are able to get out

of their comfort zone, challenge themselves and do something a little bit different,” Cassidy said.

While this program does ex-pand an individual’s knowledge and awareness of the world around them, that isn’t what sets it apart from traditional study abroad programs. The NSE pro-gram has boasting privileges of being one of the most affordable and streamlined ways to study at a different college.

“The key difference is that this really is a domestic program. Most of the university students participating would be either in the United States or in the Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico,” Cassidy said.

“What makes this program unique is how it is structured in terms of payment plans. This program provides students with an economical way to go to an-

other university in different parts of the country.”

In the program, students can enroll at colleges and universi-ties that offer two types of pay-ment. Payment plan A involves students paying tuition and fees to the host university, which are typically in the price range of N.C. State’s tuition and fees, while Payment plan B involves students continuing to pay di-rectly to N.C. State while taking classes at the host university.

Although the cost does play a factor, Cassidy believes that many NCSU students choose to participate for a different rea-son.

“Most N.C. State students choose to do this because they want to try something new in a part of the country they haven’t had any experience with before,” Cassidy said. “They also may want to investigate universities that they might be considering for graduate school.”

Colleges taking part in the program are scattered across the U.S. This semester, students are studying in Louisiana, Georgia, California, Washington, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands.

Students can opt to partici-pate in the program for either a semester or for a full year. The final deadline to apply for the 2009-2010 academic year is Feb. 1, 2009.

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CHRIS SANCHEZ/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOVolleyball coach Charita Stubbs talks to her team during a time out during the Oct. 25 game against Clemson in Reynolds Coliseum.

BY THE NUMBERS: NSE2.5 cumulative GPA

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97 percent of applicants are placed at one of the institutions of their choice

190 or more universities participating in the NSE program

90,000 students that have participated in NSE since its inception in 1968

SOURCE: NSE.ORG

COACH SAYS BOTH SHE AND HER PLAYERS ARE OFFENDED BY ‘TECHNICIAN’ CARTOON

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Viewpoint

Article neglects women’s struggle for rights

I commend James Layman for noting the number of women running for elected office in North Carolina in “NC women in office outnumber other states” from 10/27. However, I am disappointed his condescending discussion of the topic.

Layman attributes the increase of women seeking political office to women’s previous disinterest in politics and also that women are now more “aware of their abilities.”

One student stated, “I know it’s weird to be saying that women are more in control of their emo-tions in times of crisis, but that’s what the studies are saying.” This quotation and many of the others in the article point to the larger is-sue which Layman ignores.

Traditional gender roles are threatened by women in power. Messages about women’s over-emotionality and innate political weaknesses permeate in our culture, slowly corroding women’s progress forward.

Our nation and political climate do not readily support women in positions of political power, per-haps highlighting one reason why Sarah Palin projects herself as a cute hockey mom.

We cannot claim a recent surge in girl power as the reason why Hillary Clinton ran for the Demo-cratic nomination, or Bev Perdue is running for governor, or Sarah Palin is running for VP.

Women throughout our nation’s history have strived to carve out a public space for themselves. To

look just at current political actors as the forerunners in women’s struggle for opportunity neglects generations of women who fought for those equal rights, which Layman quotes one student saying — more women are starting to want these days.

Carrie McMillansenior, history

Remember the context of racismI would like to thank Mr. Frenier,

Owens and Nock for illustrating what ‘real’ racism looks like today. Yes, as a nation, we have moved beyond the overt bigotry of past decades — how-ever, that does not signify that race relations are inherently good.

Our nation is still plagued with a mental attitude of covert racism. The attitudes of the three writers above illustrate a complete lack of sensitivity and the real reason racism continues today — the ‘get over it’ mentality.

It is very easy to look from a white, majority point of view and say that someone is overreacting or being hyper-sensitive, but to do so denies the social and historical context of minorities in this country.

It is so easy to judge a minority from a white point of view, but have you put yourself in his or her shoes?

Do you know what it is like to live your life and only first be acknowl-edged by your race? Do you know what it is like to be asked to speak on behalf of your entire race in class? Do you know what it is like to have your attempt to protect your identity writ-ten off as an overreaction?

I dare to guess not.It is the ‘get over mentality’ that

allows a white person to look at an upset African-American peer amidst a discussion about the KKK chalking and say ‘I don’t know what you’re so upset — it was just a joke.’

Human identity is not a joke.

Anna Louise Pattonsenior, psychology

Caricature should have been more evident

Whoa, whoa — let’s not get too ahead of ourselves and accuse people of being racist for accusing others of being racist. Regardless of whether

the cartoon was racist or not, the fact remains that the cartoon or caricature or whatever was ter-ribly drawn, which naturally, led to ambiguity. If it was indeed a caricature, it should have been more evident.

For a university with an excel-lent design program, it puzzles me why something that looks like it was drawn like a five year old would be published in a college publication.

May F. Chungfreshman, English

Work with business to make Haunted Hike safe

The merchants and restaurant owners of Hillsborough Street en-courage the Wolfpack community to celebrate this Halloween in a safe and responsible manner.

There have been concerns raised by public safety officials that Hillsborough Street may become the focus of large crowds seeking a place, not to celebrate the community, but to party. This can lead to a dangerous combination of factors. Crowds, alcohol and traffic do not mix. In order to cooperate with public safety officials in heading off a situation that would put you in harm’s way, we have agreed that, if these officials conclude that the crowd has grown too large to be safely provided for, or that underage or public consumption of alcohol is creating a dangerous environment, we will stop the sail of alcohol in our businesses and encourage our customers to quietly and responsibly end their celebrations.

We want you to have a good time and share each other’s com-pany, but we care most about your safety. Please help us all make the Hillsborough Street community a place we can be proud of and enjoy together.

Alan LovetteHillsborough Street business district

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James Layman

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Viewpoint EditorPaul McCauley

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Students are often swamped with schoolwork, jobs and extra curricular activities

and may have been too busy to pay attention to the political hub-bub surrounding the election.

Fortunately, students can have the opportunity to learn about the issues if instructors and pro-fessors allow it by holding open forums about the candidates and their platforms in class.

Jessica Moore, an assistant professor in communication, is holding forums in her classes about the election and said even courses that are seemingly unre-lated to politics can be tied to the issues in this election.

Moore said there are always op-portunities to relate politics to the class and “regardless of the

subject matter, there’s always a way to make a connection with the subject matter.” For instance, biology classes can discuss stem cell research, accounting classes can discuss the cost of the War in Iraq and engineering classes can discuss alternative sources of energy.

If professors and instructors cannot spare the time to hold in-class forums, there are alternative ways to get students invovled. Al-ton Banks, a professor in chemis-try, in past years gave extra credit to students who voted.

While we applaud the efforts of the professors and instructors who encourage political involve-

ment, they must remember that they are extremely influential. They should refrain from ex-pressing their own opinions in the forums and not treat this as an opportunity to recruit votes for a certain candidate.

Also, professors and instruc-tors should not be the only ones responsible for starting these fo-rums. Students should take the initiative to suggest these in-class forums. They should also be prepared to ask questions in-stead of having a couple students monopolize the discussion. This would be a horrible opportunity to waste, considering this may be the most hotly debated election

of our time.No matter what the class is

about, there is always a way to connect the curriculum to poli-tics and the issues in this election. We understand that it may be too late to plan an entire class period for this, but even a 10 to 15 min-ute discussion period would be beneficial to students, according to Moore.

Forums can help participants decide who to vote for and may even sway those who are apathetic to let their voices be heard. With less than a week left before Elec-tion Day, it is important to clarify confusing policies and reinforce beliefs. The University has the obligation to teach its students, and this is an opportunity to let them teach each other.

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 given enough opportunities to discuss the election in most of their courses.

OUR OPINION:Students should have the opportunity to speak in class about political issues that are relevant to the course materials, and this would create informed voters.

THE SOLUTION:Professors and instructors should hold open forums during classes to discuss hot topics.

Encourage election discussion!OUR VIEW"

With the general elec-tion less than two days away we’re facing the

scary prospect that we could be putting a candidate in office with

just about as much experi-ence serving in the U.S. Senate as I do being a college student. Does that qualify me to take Chancellor

Oblinger’s position? If surrounding yourself with

advisors for a few years and coming up with nice sounding policies of “change” and then turning around and giving nice sounding speeches to large crowds of Europeans qualifies you to be president give me a few years and another trip to France and I’ll be sure to enter the presi-dential race with the assumption that I’m some-how qualif ied enough to lead the world’s larg-est economy and most dominant mil itary. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it aga in, Sara h Palin has more experience as an executive than Barack Obama.

Is America really ready for a president like Obama — one of the most liberal members of the United States Senate, who has openly called for the redistribu-tion of wealth, has associated with domestic terrorist William Ayers and has never run a small business much less a government (unless you count being a com-munity organizer)?

I would have hoped at the beginning of the campaign the answer would have been no, but the sad and scary reality of an Obama presidency is too close for comfort.

Obama’s tax plan will destroy the economy by taking money out of the system in a time when there needs to be more private investment and business expan-sion. Taxing people who make over $250,000 will do exactly the opposite and stymie private sector growth. No growth equals few new jobs. Few new jobs mean fewer opportunities for college students which is a foreboding thought for graduating seniors.

His economic plan will take the United States back to the 1900’s era of protectionism and be a detrimental attempt to resist the reality of economic globaliza-tion. On Iraq, Obama wanted to withdraw all troops within a cer-tain time period at a time when we’re finally winning the war. Is his cut and run policy good for the troops, Iraq, or the United States? An unfinished job or a “careful” withdrawal planned by

someone with no military ex-perience what-soever could lead to another lost countr y where terrorism will continue to breed.

Obama’s in-experience is concerning, and the possi-bility that he’ll have no check and ba lance

on his power if the Democrats reach the 60 seat majority nec-essary to block cloture is scary. Debate will be stifled and oppo-sition will be nonexistent. We’ll be giving a blank check and an unopposed ability to govern to a man with less than four years in the United States Senate and no administrative, foreign policy, or military experience.

E-mail Benton your thoughts on an Obama presidency to [email protected].

Benton SawreySenior Sta! Columnist

Is America really ready for Obama?

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say

it again, Sarah Palin has more

experience as an executive than

Barack Obama.”

With only a couple of years in the Senate, Obama may not be ready to dive into the international political arena.

Conrad Plyler, freshman in political science

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“As long as they’re impartial and the professors don’t put forth their opinion.”

Wendell Wilsonjunior, Computer Science

“Only if [the professors] were to present the platforms of each candidate, and not say who they are going to vote for.”

Carlos Demoriohopperjunior, Design

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“Politics are already a subject in schools. If you can be respectful about it, it would be OK.”

Anthony Davisfreshman, Economics

“It will help inform people about things they didn’t know about candidates.”

Holly McIverFreshman, First Year College

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Trouble ridingthe ‘stock market wave’THE ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF THE STOCK MARKET HAS MANY TORN

BETWEEN INVESTING AND PULLING OUT

WEEKLY ROUNDUPThe markets propelled skyward yesterday despite a record low in consumer confidence. The Dow shot up 889 points to close at 9065 while Nasdaq jumped 144 points to 1649.

AMR Corporation close: 9.09 change: +0.49 (+5.70%) volume: 14,902,081 market cap: 2.5B

Bank of America Corp. close:23.02 change: +2.49 (+12.13%) volume: 110,478,349 market cap: 105.0B

BB&T Corporation close:35.99 change: +3.79 (+11.77%) volume: 7,375,759 market cap: 19.8B

Capital Bank Corp close:8.50 change: +0.62 (+7.94%) volume: 1,744 market cap: 95.4M

Duke Energy Corporation close:16.68 change: +0.96 (+6.11%) volume: 16,454,352 market cap: 21.1B

First Citizens BancShares, Inc. close:150.51 change: +2.19 (+1.48%) volume: 16,050 market cap: 1.3B

Trimeris, Inc. close:3.16 change: -0.25 (-7.33%) volume: 140,581 market cap: 70.2M

UNIFI, Inc.close:4.77 change: -0.11 (-2.25%) volume: 705,734 market cap: 293.6M

V.F. Corporation close:52.54 change: +6.68 (+14.57%) volume: 2,036,340 market cap: 5.7B

Verizon Communications close:31.65 change: +4.04 (+14.63%) volume: 35,452,519 market cap: 90.1B

Wachovia Corp close:6.47 change: +0.73 (+12.72%) volume: 92,196,215 market cap: 14.0B

TWO CENTSRate of default climbs on bank cards

Unemployment and a struggling economy has been hurting mort-gages, home equity loans and com-mercial real estate, and is now hitting credit cards. More and more consum-ers are defaulting on their credit-card payments, causing more stress to the already hurting banks.

According to the Federal Reserve, U.S. banks charged off 5.47 percent of all credit card loans in the second quarter, adding up to around $50 bil-lion that will likely never be collected. That represents an 1.38 increase from last year’s 3.85 percent. Credit cards, however, don’t represent a huge portion of bank assets, comprising only about 14 percent of all consumer loans and leases at the country’s largest credit-card issuer Bank of America.

About 30 percent of Banks of Amer-ica’s credit card loans are to subprime borrowers, falling behind the failed Washington Mutual Inc. Also, more than half of Bank of America’s credit cards are high limit cards. Several consumer groups have argued that banks push cards onto people who can not afford such a burden and therefore believe the banks are at fault for rising defaults.

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Banks funds coming through this week

The U.S. government will distribute $125 billion this week to the country’s largest banks marking the beginning of the biggest government bailout in history. Nine major institutions, including Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase. Preliminary agreements have already be set between more than dozen major regional banks and the government who will be splitting the additional $125 billion. The end of the year will see $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout plan will have bought owner-ship stakes in U.S. banks. The bailout hopes to improve cash reserves and move banks back to normal lending practices.

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Bankrupt Linens-n-!ings hires DJM Realty

Liquidation specialist DJM Realty has joined the Linens-n-Things team in order to reassign its leases for 371 stores nationwide with 7 residing in the Triangle. DJM, which has worked with various retailers, specializes in dispositions, acquisitions and the re-negotiation of occupancy costs. Earlier this month, Linens-n-Things announced its plan to liquidate its holdings by the end of this year. The company had previously filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and closed down a third of its 589 stores.

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Triangle’s stocks surge along with the market

U.S. stocks surged on Tuesday in anticipation of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cuts. The biggest leap in the Triangle area came from High-woods Properties which rose 20.86 percent to $21.96. Raleigh’s Progress Energy also jumped 10.38 percent to close at $40.30. The jump brought their market capitalization to a stag-gering $10.56 billion, the highest of any Triangle-based company. Morrisville’s Harris Stratex climbed 11.42 percent along with Tekelec, up 10.11 percent. Durham’s Cree went up 9.83 percent and Raleigh’s Red Hat up 9.56 percent.

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Progress Energy announces solar plans

Progress Energy announced it’s third industrial-scale solar power plant yesterday. The plant is another addition to the company’s continu-ing effort to comply with a new state law on renewable energy. Progress Energy will purchase electricity from a 1-megawatt facility located in Hay-wood County. FLS Energy of Asheville will build the 7-acre solar facility and will start generating power in the spring. Progress signed contracts to buy electricity from a facility at the Cary location of SAS. Progress Energy will also buy power from a solar facil-ity being built by SunEdison, a Mary-land-based company, from the Sutton Steam Plant in Wilmington. These fa-cilities are projected to power up this year. The state’s utilities, power and electric companies are required to re-duce their reliance on fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions through the use of renewable resources such as solar power and animal waste.

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First Bancorp sees growth a"er acquisition

The April acquisition of South Caro-lina’s Great Pee Dee Bancorp by First Bancorp resulted in a net increase in the third quarter. The 7.9 percent rise translated into $6.2 million. First Ban-corp is the parent company of First Bank, which operates in two Triangle branches--Apex and Pittsboro. First Bank has 63 branches stretching from the coast to the Piedmont area. As of Sept. 30, First Bancorp had total assets of $2.7 billion, up 18.2 percent from last year. Loans were up 20.3 percent, totaling $2.2 billion, while deposits stood at $2 billion, a rise of 11.2 percent. The acquisition added $213 million in assets, $188 million in loans and $148 million in deposits. Nonperforming assets accounted for less than one percent of the total assets.

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Embarq bought by smaller company

One of North Carolina’s largest telephone companies was acquired by smaller peer CentryTel for $5.8 billion. The acquisition will bring another name change just three years after the company took on the name Embarq. Job cuts may be in the future for Embarq’s 2,800 employees, 1,000 of which reside in the Triangle, as executives look to cut expenses. The deal follows the trend of con-solidation for traditional local phone service. The combined company will span 33 states with 8 million lines. The company’s headquarters will reside CenturyTel’s home in Monroe, La. Embarq is North Carolina’s second largest phone company, falling be-hind AT&T. The company dates back more than a century, going through several name changes and corporate takeovers. Embarq shareholders will, however, be left with control of two-thirds of the combined company and CenturyTel will take on $5.8 billion of Embarq’s debt.

SOURCE: WWW.NEWSOBSERVER.COM

Cheyenne AutryDeputy Features Editor

It’s been up and it’s been down. The seem-ingly never ending waves of the stock market have caused a lot of distress and anguish. The biggest question lingering now is whether to put money into the market, leave the stocks alone, or pull money out.

The stock market is a representation of the value of stock in the market. The future profits a stock will be making is what drives the value of any given stock. When the stock isn’t worth as much, investors begin selling and this drives the price down, making the market cheaper.

This drop in value often scares investors because a drop in value means a drop in profit. “It’s trying to catch the wave,” said Richard Warr, associate professor of finance in the college of management. “You jump out of the wave when it’s not looking good and jump back in when it is.” The recently plummets of the market have many scared in addition to the looming recession.

“It’s pretty clear we’re going to be in a reces-sion,” said Warr. “The problem is investors are trying to figure out how deep the reces-sion is going to be.”

Warr said everyday new information comes out, sometimes it’s positive and sometimes it’s negative, and the market reacts dramati-cally to either piece of information.

Warr said another problem with the mar-ket is that there are certain investors who are forced to get out, such as hedge funds specialist investment groups.

“A lot of their investors are pulling money out,” Warr said.

Hedge funds were forced to sell stocks in order to give money back to their investors.

So, if you have money in the market, should you pull it out?

Warr says no. “The market is down so a

lot of people have lost money, so they pull out to protect their money.” However, Warr says that at some point the market is going to recover and rise again.

Pulling out your money would cause you to miss out on that gain. Warr actually suggests investing in the market now since stocks are quite cheap. “This is a time to continue to invest, continue to buy stock at really cheap prices.” It may take two, three, four, or even five years to see a return said Warr, but the money will come back eventually.

Michael Walden, William Neal Reyn-olds distinguished professor and extension economist, however, disagrees. “I would not recommend people to invest yet,” Walden said. “If you’ve already pulled out, keep it out. If you haven’t, keep it in.” “Companies are performing poorly,” Walden said. “Stocks tell us what companies are worth and when their profits are falling, their stocks are worth

less.” Walden said that agriculture and health

care are some of the sectors that are do-ing better off, but most areas of the coun-try are already experiencing a recession, meaning the economy is producing less. The rising unemployment rates, increases in food prices and faltering businesses are all traits of a recession.

Alexander Santago, senior in engineer-ing, believes like Warr that now is the time to invest. “Find a business with a strong business plan and financial record and invest in them,” Santago said.

Santago has investments in various mu-tual funds, foreign growth funds and in a 401K with the U.S. government. Santago also believes that leaving money in the market would be wiser than pulling out. “I’m leaving my money in and waiting for the market to rebound.”

TOP 5 WAYS TO PLAY THE STOCK MARKET

The many drops seen in the market in the last few months has many investors worried. In such a dip, it is important to keep a clear head when dealing with your money and the market. Listed below are five tips to help get you weather the plunge.

1. Keep Dollar-Cost AveragingMake regular investments over time. This

keeps you from buying at a peak and instead, you’ll buy fewer shares when stocks are high and more when prices are low.

2. Beef Up Your Cash CushionInvesting money you need in the short-term

solely in the stock market runs you the risk of having to sell when the market is down. Keep a generous cash cushion so that when the market drops, you still have some money in your wal-let. Experts suggest that you save three to six months’ worth of living expenses for emergen-cies.

3. Don’t Chase ReturnsOften, the highest stocks and sectors are the

ones hit the hardest when the market drops. Look into the markets fund group. In the past three years, the group has seen an average re-turn of 37.6%.

4. Find the Right BalanceInvest in a happy medium —not too aggres-

sive and not too conservative. Diversify your portfolio across market capitalizations, geo-graphic regions and sectors.

5. Convert Your IRA to a RothA dip in the market can be a great opportunity

to convert. The lower value of the investments mean less tax on the conversion. Income taxes can run as high as 35% which you must pay on any earnings and pretax contributions. Though the tax hit may not be pretty, but once the money is in a Roth, your tax-paying is finished. Roth IRAs grow tax free.

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That means those graduating in December or next May could have a harder time finding full-time jobs, Walden said.

“We’ll expect to see high unemployment rates for another year to a year and a half,” he said. “We’re in a recession. The economy is producing less and that causes more people to be out of work, which causes incomes to fall and profits to fall.”

But a recent report from the National Associa-tion of Colleges and Employers has a different outlook.

Although 52 percent of polled employers said they plan on hiring fewer college graduates from the class of 2009, the re-port states there will be “very little growth over the hiring levels for the class of 2008, but no ex-pected decline.”

In an August voluntary response survey, NACE used 146 employers. At the time, respondents reported plans to hire 6 percent more new college graduates from the class of 2009 than they had in 2008.

In the same poll, one-third of the respondents planned to hire fewer col-lege graduates than they had said in earlier polls.

The updated job outlook poll found that 52 per-cent of respondents said they planned to hire fewer college graduates in to 2009 recruiting season than from the class of 2008. 34 percent said they expect to hire more graduates, and 14 percent said they expect to hire the same amount of graduates as

from the class of 2008.Career counselor Leslie Rand-Pickett said the

study’s results are a “good indicator” of the pro-jected hiring environment. However, she said registration for career fairs has been strong this semester.

Walden attributed the economic recession to a the same crash in the housing and financial mar-kets that pushed the stock market into volatility.

“Stocks tell us what companies are worth, and when their profits are falling, stocks are worth less,” Walden said. “When companies are performing poorly, they reduce costs by cutting employees.”

So unemploy ment rates, he said, will con-tinue to rise for another year to a year and a half before they begin to fall due to a “natural cycle of the economy,” in which the recession “runs its course” and business conditions start to im-prove.

“At some point, in-vestors will decide that investments are at bar-gain level. This gives businesses more money

to produce more and hire more people,” he said. “There will have to be a change in attitude because the stock market will have fallen by so much that enough investors will feel like it’s a good buy.”

Until this change in attitude occurs, Walden said graduates will find that their employment pros-pects are not as good as they would have been a few years ago.

Unemployment rates will continue to rise for at least a year, economist projects

STUDY SHOWS THAT A MAJORITY OF EMPLOYERS EXPECT TO HIRE FEWER COLLEGE GRADUATES

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Although August’s unemployment rate held steady into September — both months showed a national unemployment rate of 6.1 per-cent, statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated

— economists like Michael Walden, a professor of agriculture and resource economics, don’t expect the rate to stay high for long.

“We’re in a recession. The economy is producing less

and that causes more people to be out of work, which

causes incomes to fall and profits to fall.”

Michael Walden, professor of agriculture and resource economics

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Cheyenne AutryDeputy Features Editor

The upcoming elections and the struggling economy have thrust economic issues and im-pacts to the forefront of conver-sation. Most of the discussion leans toward the falling stock market, unemployment rates and failing businesses. Immigration, however, has greatly affected the economy as well but seems to be lost in the crowd.

N.C. State hosted a seminar on immigration and its affects on the economy this week which featured Dr. James Johnson, Ke-nan distinguished professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at UNC-Chapel Hill. Johnson spoke in support of immigra-tion and said that a lot of people make exertions about immi-gration because hard data and evidence doesn’t exist. Johnson touched heavily on the impact of the Hispanic population to North Carolina’s economy.

“Hispanic immigrants in gen-eral cost the state $800 million in 2004, but they contributed $900 billion to the state economy in terms of spending,” Johnson said.

For ever dollar the state spent on Hispanics, they received $11 back in business revenue, which translates into major contribu-tions to the state economy. John-son said Hispanics pay taxes of $755 million and generate a net cost to the state of $102 per resi-dent. The lack of hard data and empirical evidence often causes various arguments about the topic of immigration.

“Most people fail to acknowl-edge that newly arrived im-migrants are entrepreneurial,” Johnson said. Johnson said there are not enough people to address labor needs in the future but few people wish to accept immigra-tion.

Through the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Cha-pel Hill, Johnson and fellow col-league John Kasarda produced a study discussing the impact of the Hispanic population on North Carolina’s economy in 2006.

“Our study was an effort to bring some hard empirical data to bear on,” Johnson said. The study revealed that the hispanic population in North Caro-lina jumped from 383,465 to 506,205 between 2000 and 2004,

and Wake County experienced a 49.6 percent growth in those same years.

“North Carolina had the most rapid increase of latino popu-lation of all the states between 1990 and 2000,” said Dr. Stephen Lilley, associate head and depart-ment extension leader of sociol-ogy and anthropology.

“It used to be that almost all immigrants came to one of six states: New York, New Jer-sey, Flor ida , Texas, Illinois, or California.”

However, ille-gal immigrants are taking part in services pro-vided to citizens such as educa-tion and medi-cal care. Though health insurance is not likely to be given to an ille-gal immigrant, they will go to the emergency room if assistance is needed be-cause care has to offered regard-less of insurance. School systems also have to provide education to children regardless of immigra-tion status. Some argue that this use of services hurt the economy and cost legal residents.

“Areas of high rates of immi-gration tend to be on the losing end of taxes received and what gets paid out,” Lilley said. “Stud-ies agree that local governments with high rates of immigration

are likely to lose money.”Eric Valentin, an N.C. State

alum and promoter of the im-migration seminar, believes that immigration deserves much more notice than it has been getting.

“The government needs to compensate for the new cul-ture,” Valentin said. “People need to realize that right

now what t he y c a l l the ‘typical American culture’ is changing.”

Valentin a l s o r e -marked on h o w i m -migrating hispanics t a ke jobs that most Americans just won’t consider. These jobs, referred

to as 3-d jobs meaning dif-ficult, dangerous and dirty, often include hard outdoor labor with longer hours and lower wages.

“A lot of people don’t un-derstand the immigration problem because it’s been put on the back burner,” Valen-tin said. Valentin represents a pro-immigration outlook and believes that immigrants deserve to be educated and as-sisted.

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SOME INSIST THAT IMMIGRATION ISSUES HAVE BEEN PUT ON THE “BACK BURNER” FOR TOO LONG

SYDNEY DOTTERER/TECHNICIANLauren Stubbs, a sophomore in nutrition; Sarah Wiggins, a sophomore in engineering and Ryan Nilsen, a senior in English; discus immigration at Tuesday’s University Scholar’s Forum. The three were part of a group that took a trip over the summer to the United States-Mexico border. Stubbs said that the trip made her “realize that we need to have action on changing our existing immigration laws.”

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rapid increase of latino population

of all the states between 1990 and

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Four teams capture titles in cold weather

Derek MedlinManaging Editor

The best intramural football teams in four different divisions took to a chilly Miller Field Tues-day night to find out just who would be crowned champions.

In the hotly contested and heavily attended men’s frater-

nity final, Gold, representing Pi Kappa Alpha, prevailed 20-0 over Pi Kappa Phi Gold.

Michael Remley, a sophomore in business and member of the winning squad said his team re-ally wanted to play well and win its game.

“We were focused and we just came out to play,” he said. “We wanted to win.”

Pi Kappa Alpha won its fourth Fraternity Division champion-

ship in a row, something Remley said was a goal of the team.

“Every year we’re coming out and playing well,” he said. “We get a lot of support from our fraternity. We all get real pumped.”

In the men’s residence division, Syme Time Ballers defeated Got Wood 9-0.

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ASH DIVECHA/TECHNICIANRivals Pi Kappa Alpha (right) and Pi Kappa Phi fraternities were locked in an intense battle for the frater-nity division championship. Despite a valiant e!ort from Pi Kappa Phi, four time defending champions Pi Kappa Alpha won the game.

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a main factor in athletes’ and coaches’ decision to redshirt. Many athletes, although they may have outstanding skills, are simply not ready mentally and physically to compete at a Divi-

sion I level as a true freshman. According to Geiger, sitting out a year is just as difficult, maybe even more difficult than trying to compete.

“What throws off athletes is that they came out of high school be-ing one of the best athletes in the country and now you are saying to them ‘you’re not good enough, you’ve got to sit down and wait a

year.’” Geiger said. “It’s hard for a high school athlete to be ‘the athlete’ and now they are sitting and watching. it’s a hard thing to do. It’s about development, maturity and if you’re not a top athlete and you won’t compete, then save [the eligibility].”

an encouraging sign going into the very busy spring season.

“Hopefully we’ll win on Friday and head to Duke on Saturday on top. I think with the new freshmen swimming well, we will come out of Friday’s meet with two wins,” senior captain Kathryn Pegg said.

After this weekend’s meets, State will compete in the Mary-land Invitational Nov. 20-22 to conclude the fall season. The spring season beings Jan. 9 with a home meet against Michigan State. From that weekend on, both teams have meets almost every weekend until the ACC Championships Feb. 18-21. Both teams and coaches are looking forward to the all the competi-tion next semester.

“We have a road trip in No-vember to the Maryland [Invi-tational] and that’s always a good meet for us,” McLaughlin said. “In December we go down to Florida to train for a week. With that training we should be ready to come back and be as competi-tive as possible in January.”

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CHRIS SANCHEZ/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOJunior swimmer Allison Hagan competes in the backstroke during the Red and White scrimmage on Oct. 3 in the Casey Natatorium.

ANDY MUSSELMAN/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTORedshirt junior forward Ronnie Bouemboue kicks the ball up during Wednesday night’s game against High Point. Bouemboue, who redshirted a year, is currently leading the Pack in points.

division also held its finals Tues-day. Football Knurds defeated Kutta Condition 34-12.

In the Men’s Open Divison, the final game of the evening, The Lawnmowers speedy quarter-back proved too much to handle for its opponent Torturefest. The Lawnmowers won 37-13.

Brian Whitley, a junior in en-

gineering and member of the Lawnmowers said winning the men’s open title was sweet for his team.

“Last year we made it to the championship game and we didn’t close the deal,” Whitley said. “It feels pretty good to fi-nally win it this year.”

The sorority division held its semifinals Tuesday, with Pi Phi defeating Tri Delta 19-0 and Sigma Kappa beating Delta Zeta 25-0.

Pi Phi captain Kelly Bumgar-ner said her team couldn’t wait to play in the finals.

“We worked really hard all year and we are really excited to rep-resent Pi Phi in the finals,” she said.

On Wednesday night, Syme Time Ballers will face off against Pi Kappa Alpha Gold. The win-ner in that contest will then play The Lawnmowers to determine the men’s all-campus champion-ship.

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and we have been fully funded for scholarships for a long time now,” Associate Athletic Director Dick Christy said. “Because they have excelled so much in that and our fan base has had more of a growth potential there, they have taken on the added responsibil-ity of helping us with our capital

projects. The student body here in recent years has really stepped up and taken on a huge chunk of that, but the Wolfpack Club was really the [organization that] spearheaded our capital projects — to get Carter-Finley going and to get the RBC center built.”

The success of the program has not gone unnoticed by other organizations. The heads of the fundraising programs at East Carolina, Arizona State,

Arkansas, West Virginia and South Carolina as well as the athletics director at the College of Charleston all started their ca-reers with the Wolfpack Club.

“It’s a tremendous network we have,” Purcell said. “It’s a great thing when you’ve got such high quality people that other schools want.”

Given the nature of the Wolf-pack Club, the rough economic times this country is facing is a big concern. The goal of the organization is to raise money to support the athletic depart-ment, and when money is tight throughout the country, it be-comes increasingly difficult to gain donations.

“The economy is a big concern for us. We’ve got to find ways to stay where we are despite a poor

economy. We are certainly very sympathetic and understanding of members’ personal situations as we all go through this tough economic time,” Purcell said.

“We’ve seen some effect. It hasn’t really hit us hard yet.” Purcell said. “We are going to try to maintain where we are and continue to try to grow, but there is a lot of uncertainty that concerns us.”

“It’s a great thing when you’ve got such high quality people that other

schools want”Bobby Purcell

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Players and coaches often wrestle with the decision to redshirt in order to preserve a year of eligibility

Sean KlemmStaff Writer

According to the NCAA, the term “redshirt” is used to describe a stu-dent athlete who doesn’t participate in competition in a sport for an entire academic year. In other words, it is sit-ting out for a year and saving that year of eligibility the future. Each athlete is allowed four years of varsity com-petition. Athletes that are redshirted still practice with the team, meet with the team, workout with the team and some even travel with the team, but they never play in games.

A student athlete may be redshirted for a number of reasons. Some play-ers redshirt for medical reasons, some redshirt to gain experience and knowl-edge of the program, others redshirt in order to maximize the number of years of competition in which they are the primary starter or for other playing time purposes.

Starting quarterback Russell Wilson noted that redshirting his freshman year helped him get ready for division I football as well as prepare to be a team leader.

“[Redshirting] definitely helped me,” Wilson said. “It helped me to get to know people first of all, getting to know my teammates, including guys who are playing now and guys who aren’t playing now.”

The decision for players to redshirt is not an easy one and is described as a gamble by cross country coach Rol-lie Geiger.

“If you redshirt, you are playing the injury card. If you redshirt someone that is healthy, then you take away that card that you can play later on if they do have a problem,” Geiger said. “So

it is a gamble to redshirt someone who’s healthy because if they get injured then you’ve lost a year of competition.”

It is common for players and coaches to

make the sometimes-difficult decision to redshirt. Forty-seven players on the foot-ball roster, not including those who are not competing this year, have redshirted

for a year. Another sport that utilizes the redshirt is men’s cross-country. Geiger redshirts nearly all of his athletes, attrib-uting it to the increased distance at which college runners compete.

“In the case of cross country, on the men’s side, a high school athlete com-petes at 5,000 meter distance, whereas in college we race at either 8,000 or 10,000,” Geiger said. “It’s a different set of rules, it’s a different game, so sometimes it takes an extra year to mature and be able to run that extra distance.”

Although not all sports have a different set of rules from the high school level, the games definitely change.

“It really helped me learn the speed of college football,” Wilson said of his year as a redshirt. “You have to learn how to take advantage of things that are there and also salvage things that aren’t there. That is what redshirting helped me with most, learning to make those decisions.”

Adjusting to college level athletics is

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Redshirt year prepare athletes for Division I competition, preserves NCAA eligibility

DAVID MABE/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOQuarterback Russell Wilson tries to break away from the ECU defense during the game Sept. 20. Wilson redshirted for his !rst year on the football team.

PLAYERS THAT ARE EXCELLING AFTER REDSHIRTING A YEAR

Forward Ronnie Bouemboue redshirt junior, soccer

• Leads the team with seven goals • 2nd on the team in points • Team captain • Played in all 14 games this season • 8th in the ACC in goals

Quarterback Russell Wilson redshirt freshman, football

• #1 in the ACC in passing efficiency • ACC Offensive back of the week

September 20, 2008 • 1049 total yards in 6 games

197 lb. Ryan Goodmanredshirt senior, wrestling

• Ranked No. 15 nationally at 197 lbs. • 2-time ACC champion • 3-time NCAA qualifier

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

• 25 days until the football game at UNC-Chapel Hill

State faces Duke and Maryland on Halloween at the Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center

Graham SigmonStaff Writer

The men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams are looking forward to their final home meet this Friday at 6 p.m. against Duke and Maryland. The meet, along with another stint of match-ups against the same teams Saturday in Durham mark the end of the regular fall season. Both teams have been successful in the fall season, with the men achieving two wins and one loss and the women having three wins and one loss. Both teams lost to Virginia Tech.

“This past weekend was an eye opener for a lot of people,” junior captain Mason McGee said. “We didn’t do as well as we feel we should have, and I think it will motivate us for this weekend.”

The swimming & diving teams are confident heading into the weekend’s matches as the men beat both Duke and Maryland last season and the women took down Maryland in January and narrowly lost to Duke in December.

“We swim really well in No-

vember and hopefully that will help us carry some momentum into training in December and regular season competition in January,” Associate Head Coach Jacqui McLaughlin said.

The women are seeing success with eight freshmen swimmers,

SWIMMING & DIVING

Pack heads into last home meet until January

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The Wolfpack Club is one of the largest and most successful athletic booster clubs in the nation

Jonathan B. LaughrunStaff Writer

Since 1997 the Wolfpack Club has raised over $200 million dollars in donations in support of N.C. State’s ath-letics and has expanded its membership to become one of the largest and most suc-cessful booster organizations nationally. Many attribute the Club’s success to its executive director Bobby Purcell.

The Wolfpack Club’s ori-gins lay deep in a grassroots program that is more like a family than a booster club. While other organizations focus on securing large do-nors, the Wolfpack Club is about building personal rela-tionships with all the donors big or small. It only takes $10 a month to be a full-fledged member of the Wolfpack Club.

“We have a very strong grassroots organization of volunteers called Wolfpack Club Representatives,” Pur-cell said. “We have over 400 Wolfpack Club Representa-tives that work on our behalf in their local communities

trying to sign new members and keep in touch with current members. Each Wolfpack Club Representative is assigned ap-proximately 25 current mem-bers to stay in touch on an an-nual basis.”

The grassroots nature of the organization keeps the tight knit group growing. As the Univer-sity grows the club has follow suit thanks to the family friendly theme that Purcell exudes.

“I think it is because of the way it was built. It was really a grass-roots program. It has been a very family oriented organization which has grown over the years as the university has grown over the years,” Athletics Director Lee Fowler said. “So I think the grassroots start of the Wolfpack Club is the reason it is where it is

now with Bobby promoting that as part of his theme of having the kids come to all of the events, let’s do the right things to have the kids grow up and want to be a part of the Wolfpack family.”

The primary function of the Wolfpack Club is to raise money for athletics scholarships. But the club’s success has allowed it to take the lead in funding facilities improvements as well.

“Their number one priority is to fundraise for scholarships,

WOLFPACK CLUB

Purcell leads club to fundraising forefront

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PHOTO COURTESY WOLFPACK CLUBBobby Purcell has been with the Wolfpack Club since 1987.

DID YOU KNOW?The Wolfpack Club owns The Col-lege Inn on Western Boulevard. Purcell said it is an example of the club thinking outside the box to raise revenue.

There are nine levels of donations which range from the Teammate Club at $120-$299 per year all the way to the Lone Wolf Level at $22,000 per year.

The club offers a Young Alumni Club which allows recent gradu-ates to become a member of the club at no charge for the first year, $30 for the second year, $60 for the third year, and $90 for the fourth year, while still earning pri-ority points.

About $8 million in scholarships are paid for by the fundraising of the Wolfpack Club.

SOURCE: WOLFPACK CLUB

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING FALL SCHEDULE

DATE OPPONENT RESULT

Oct. 11 Miami 144-99(W)

Oct. 11 UMBC 187-50(W)

Oct. 25 WestVirginia

187-118(W)

Oct. 25 Virginia Tech

107-202(L)

Oct. 31 Duke

Oct. 31 Maryland

Nov. 1 Duke

Nov. 1 Maryland

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING FALL SCHEDULEDATE OPPONENT RESULT

Oct. 11 UMBC 157-85(W)

Oct. 25 WestVirginia

188.5-123.5(W)

Oct. 25 Virginia Tech

126-183(L)

Oct. 31 Duke

Oct. 31 Maryland

Nov. 1 Duke

Nov. 1 Maryland


Mr. Wuf ranked 7th in competition

In the annual Capital One Bowl Mascot Challenge, Mr. Wuf is ranked 7th with a 3-4 record. Every week, the 12 mascots in competition go head to head against another mascot. Despite the losing record, Mr. Wuf has the most total votes of any mascot with 249,222.

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”Chow4Yow” unveiledThe ACC women’s basketball

coaches have come together with N.C. State’s coach Kay Yow to create the “Chow4Yow” program. Every school will have a contest to win a dinner with their respective coach, with all the proceeds going to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.


Women’s golfers place in Southern Pines

Juniors Kathleen Strandberg and Joanna Saleeby, members of the women’s golf team, finished in the top-20 individually at the Ross Resorts Invitational, which is took place at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, N.C. After three rounds of play, Strandberg finished tied for 17th while Saleeby finished tied for 19th after firing the best round of the day with a one-over 73 performance.


VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS

SCHOOL ACC OVERALL

Virginia Tech 8-3 17-5

Duke 8-3 17-6

Clemson 8-3 16-6

Miami 7-4 19-4

Georgia Tech 7-4 15-6

North Carolina 7-4 13-9

Florida State 6-5 14-7

Wake Forest 6-5 15-8

Virginia 5-6 13-10

N.C. State 3-8 9-17

Maryland 1-10 5-18

Boston College 0-11 6-17

SOURCE: ACC

ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

TodayMEN’S SOCCER VS. LONGWOODN.C. State Soccer Stadium, 7 p.m.

ThursdayWOMEN’S SOCCER VS. MIAMIN.C. State Soccer Stadium, 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL AT BOSTON COLLEGEChestnut Hill, MA., 8 p.m.

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lete to be ‘the athlete’ and now they are sitting and watching.”Cross country coach Rollie

Geiger on redshirting athletes

COMING SOONThursday: Coverage on the flag

football finals and the men’s soccer game vs. Longwood

• Page 11: Continuation of the story on Bobby Purcell and the Wolfpack Club

• Page 10: Continuation of the story on swimming & diving, redshirts and flag foot-ball

• Page 9: A story on the intramural flag foot-ball championships

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