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This year’s BugFest theme is aquatic bugs and will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Museum of Natural Science.
Janell MillerStaff Writer
The Museum of Natural Sciences will be holding its 14th annual Bug-Fest Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Jones Street, The Plaza and Edenton Street. All four floors of the museum will be utilized for the event.
Kauri Wouk, senior manager of pre-sentations and partnerships, said it is one of Raleigh’s largest events.
“It’s the largest one day bug event in the country. It’s the museums largest event, and downtown Raleigh’s second largest event,” Wouk said.
The event is second only to down-town Raleigh’s New Years Eve event.
According to Wouk, there will be more than 80 exhibits featured at the museum including games, crafts and entomologists. Admission to the museum is free and donations are welcomed.
“The goal of the BugFest is to edu-cate people about arthropods, we call them bugs,” Wouk said. “Arthropods are the largest animal group in the world, they make up three quarters of the world’s animals.”
According to Wouk, six local restau-rants are preparing bug dishes. Some of these restaurants include: Acro Café, Locopops, Market restaurant and Spize café.
According to Wouk, it is an oppor-tunity to educate and have fun. The event is open to all age groups.
“There is something for everybody,” Wouk said, “It’s kid friendly, they can roll around in balls of dung and pre-tend to be bugs, but there will also be scientists there to elaborate.”
According to Wouk, there will be representatives from the department of natural resources and they are ex-pecting a large turnout from local universities.
Several members of the University’s faculty will be leading presentations at the event.
Wouk said Daniel Johnson, depart-ment of clinical sciences, will be hold-ing a presentation titled “What Makes Bugs Tick.”
“It’s not to be missed,” Wouk said. “It’s a great mixture of education and fun. You get to eat bugs, and you can’t beat that.”
Elizabeth Wait, a junior in agri-cultural education, said she’s excited about the event and plans to hold a few insects.
“I heard about it last year on the museum’s website. I don’t really know what to expect but I know that it’s go-ing to be a lot of fun and I hope there are a lot of bugs you can hold.”
Allison Lee, a sophomore in political science, said she heard about the event from the University’s faculty.
“I heard about it from my Insects and People professor. I am really ex-cited about it. I heard there are going to be a lot of people there.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION:You can find more information on the BugFest and other events hosted by the Museum of Natural Sciences at www.BugFest.org or www.naturalsciences.org.
Each restaurant will have a featured dish. A few dishes will be: Berry Buggy Bready Pudding, Frozen Chocolate Cricket Cubes, and Critter Fritter served with Toasted Cricket and Chili Mole Sauce.
SOURCE: BUGFEST.ORG
University to participate in local BugFest
MARA KURTZ/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOFaye Moussa, a senior in business administration, volunteers at BugFest on Saturday to help educate the public about bees and beekeeping. “The bees are too young to have stingers. They have about 24 more hours until they are developed. They are harmless right now,” Moussa said. Moussa is currently enrolled in the Bees and Beekeeping course on campus. BugFest 2009, an annual tradition, took place at the Museum on Natural Sciences.
Perdue drives the initiative to help the state’s hungry while encouraging support for local food banks.
Pranay DeshpandeStaff Writer
Gov. Perdue will initiate a state-wide initiative to end hunger in the state tomorrow as part of the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance.
Local food banks involved in-clude Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and Food Bank of Central & Eastern N.C.
The University is also involved in the National Day of Service and Remembrance, according to Tierza Watts, associate director for the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service.
Watts said CSLEPS is planning several projects for the infamous anniversary of the collapse of the World Trade Towers.
“9/11 has been declared a Na-tional Day of Service, so CSLEPS and the Service–Leadership team is concentrating on that,” Watts said.
Service Leadership Team (SLT) will be participating in many ini-tiatives over the weekend of service and remembrance, Watts said.
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KEVIN COOK/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOThis year’s Shack-a-Thon event will have student-built shacks dispersed in small groups around the Bubble. The event will run from Sept. 19 to Sept. 25.
Shack-a-Thon will disperse student-built shacks around the bubble.
Shivalik DagaStaff Writer
Shack-a-Thon, the University’s an-nual fundraiser event is planning to go ahead with its larger goal this year, while also dealing with the Brickyard Bubble.
Event organizers and participants are expecting as much as a $6,000 increase, regardless of the traditional location’s obstacle.
The event raised nearly $19,000 last year, but expects to achieve $25,000 this year, according to Amber John-son, the publicity chair of the Univer-sity’s Habitat for Humanity Interna-tional chapter and a junior in medical textiles.
“It has impacted us,” Johnson said.
“But we’re not letting it stop us.”Johnson said the economy affected
last year’s outcome, but she maintains the event should continue to grow.
“We went down a little bit last year,” Johnson said. “Economy-wise we think we did really well.”
“If not $25,000, then we can defi-nitely go beyond what we did in the previous year,” Johnson said.
According to Johnson, the shacks will be in groups of three or four around the bubble.
“The Brickyard Bubble was defi-nitely a surprise, but we were well prepared,” Johnson said.
“The only major altercation with having the bubble there would be the positioning of the shacks,” Johnson said. “This year the shacks will be dispersed around the bubble and still very visible and convenient for the students.”
The week-long event will start Sept. 19 and culminate with Whack-a-
Shack, an event dedicated to disman-tling the shacks, Sept. 25.
“I don’t think it’s going to decrease the involvement student-body-wise,” Johnson said.
Lydia Joslin, junior in psychology, has participated in Shack-a-Thon for the last two years, and says it’s a nice way to bring people together.
“Shack-a-Thon is the only time when I see everyone at N.C. State come together. It’s great,” Joslin said.
Shack-a-Thon began with a single shack in 1991 and has continued every year since.
During Shack-a-Thon, Habitat for Humanity and other student orga-nizations take over the Brickyard by building shacks that students live, sleep and study in for an entire week. Each group raises money by collect-ing from people walking through the Brickyard.
According to HHI’s website, the or-ganization’s initial goal is to eliminate
poverty. The organization is also in-volved in other initiatives on campus including tutoring every Tuesday and Thursday at the Boys and Girls Club, building homes at a worksite on Satur-days, and participating on alternative fall and spring service break trips.
Shack-a-Thon to remain on Brickyard
The University will hold North Carolina’s first Terry Fox Run Sunday on Centennial Campus.
Chelsey FrancisDeputy News Editor
Campus Recreation is sponsoring the first ever Terry Fox Run in North Carolina on Centennial Campus Sun-day.
According to Peter Koutroumpis, the assistant direc-tor for Campus Rec-reation, the event is non-competitive.
“This event isn’t compet it ive , we want to remember why Fox started this 30 years ago,” Kou-troumpis said. “The whole idea behind this run is to fund-raise. It’s meant for people to come out for various reasons.”
The event is being held just days after the Centennial Campus Welcome, and Campus Recreation is continuing to strive for more future Centennial Campus events.
“We wanted to have a more active event on Centennial Campus after the Centennial Campus Welcome,” Kou-troumpis said. “We’re trying to plan more campus recreations activities on Centennial Campus.”
Koutroumpis said another benefit of the race is that no training has to be
done for the event, which allows more people to compete.
“Another purpose for the run is to provide an opportunity for the physi-cally challenged as well as for anyone else. People don’t have to train for this, so to speak.” Koutroumpis said.
Terry Fox lost his right leg at the age of 18, due to bone cancer. Fox decided to run from coast to coast to raise money for cancer research. He referred to this journey as the Mara-thon of Hope, according to terryfox.
org.Fox began h is
journey April 12, 1980 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Averaging 26 miles a day, Fox was able to run 3,339 miles in 143 days before he was forced to stop because the cancer had spread to his lungs.
Terry Fox passed away June 28, 1981 at the age of 22. Af-ter Fox’s passing, the
annual Terry Fox Run began and has raised nearly $500 million for cancer research.
Koutroumpis said he wants to en-courage people to come out and show their support.
“This is our first time holding the Terry Fox Run in North Carolina,” Koutroumpis said. “We want this to be a regular tradition here.”
“We’re trying
to plan more
campus recreation
activities on
Centennial
Campus...”Peter Koutroumpis, assistant
director of Campus Recreation
University holds first Terry Fox Run
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Anberlin sings a ‘Paperthin Hymn’ for SchoolkidsFree concert pack Schoolkids Records for release of new albumSee page 6.
Governor initiates state-wide 9/11 food drive
BY THE NUMBERS1991 The year Shack-a-
Thon began
19,000 Dollars raised last year
25,000 Dollars expected to be raised
168 Hours spent in the shacks
SOURCE: AMBER JOHNSON, PUBLICITY CHAIR OF THE NCSU HABITAT FOR
HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER
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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSIn Thursday’s “Senate votes to help UAB via ‘Luda Bill,’” the vote count for Resolution 23 was 15 yes, 12 no. Senate President Stephen Kouba referred the resolution to the Committee on Government Oversight, but the Senate Body resolved to move the resolution to the Tuition and Fees Committee. Matt Barnwell did not comment on the UAB’s reasoning in the article.
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CAMPUS CALENDAR
Friday, September 10 SOUTHERN ROOTS OF MID-CENTURY MODERNNoon to 8 p.m. Gregg Museum of Art and Design
MOVIE: OCEANS7 to 8:30 p.m.
MOVIE: A-TEAM9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
INGLORIOUS BASTERDSStart Time 11:59 p.m.
Saturday, September 11TRISHNA 20105:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.Stewart Theater
BUGFEST9 a.m. to 7 p.m.N.C. Natural History Museum
19TH ANNUAL DOG OLYMPICS10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Moore Square, downtown Raleigh
POLICE BLOTTERSeptember 52:07 A.M. | ASSIST ANOTHER AGENCYChamberlain Street Raleigh Police Department requested assistance in reference to filing criminal charges on student. Student was referred for Alcohol Underage, Drunk and Disruptive, and Damage to
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2:09 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS PERSONGreek Court Report of subjects looking in windows. Officers searched area but did not locate anyone suspicious.
2:56 A.M. | ASSIST ANOTHER AGENCYDan Allen Drive/Cates AvenueRaleigh Police Dept. located subject in reference to earlier event. Student was criminally
charged by Raleigh Police Department and referred by NCSU Police Department for Alcohol Underage, Drunk and Disruptive, and Damage to Property.3:26 A.M. | PARKING VIOLATIONHillsborough Building Lot Due to complaints from residents in area, officer issued parking ticket to unauthorized vehicle in lot.10:35 P.M. | TRAFFIC STOPMorrill Drive/Warren Carroll Drive
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11:02 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOROff Campus Staff member report being assaulted off campus by non-student. Appropriate personnel notified and investigation ongoing.
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in need of medical assistance. Transport was refused.11:57 P.M. | TRAFFIC STOP Morrill Drive/Warren Carroll DriveStudent was issued citation and referred to the University for possession of marijuana.
6:35 P.M. | ASSAULTCarter-Finley Stadium Student reported being assaulted by non-student at football game. Non-student was trespassed for actions.
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“SLT is having retreat this weekend, and the SLT is partic-ipating in five different projects while on retreat,” Watts said.
Jason Boone, director of communications at the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, is closely involved with the initiative and was a part of the team that vis-ited the governor’s mansion to plan for the series of activities for the 9/11 weekend.
“There is no better way to re-member 9/11 than by turning it into a day of service for feeding the hungry in the state,” Boone said.
According to Boone, people will come forward in huge numbers and a lot of food will be donated o v e r t h e weekend.
“We don’t have any goal or target to raise a certain number of pounds over the weekend. All kinds of donations, including f o o d a n d monetary do-nations, will be accepted to help people in need,” Boone said.
This is the initiative’s first year and Boone said donors are encouraged to give non-perishable canned food. The initiative will run through the weekend until Monday at noon.
“We encourage everyone to donate. Many state government run agencies and state govern-ment employees will be do-nating and offering voluntary services,” Boone said.
Food donated over the week-end will then go into the dis-tribution system, and Boone said one of the points of dis-
tribution is near the farmer’s market.
“Once food goes into the dis-tribution system, it will be dis-tributed across seven counties in the Triangle,” Boone said.
Many agencies, large and small, will be involved with the distribution process, Boone said, and will start Monday af-ter the amount of accumulated food is calculated.
“[More than] 200 big distri-bution agencies, including the Salvation Army and number of small agencies that include local churches, schools and communication centers hav-ing pantries, will be involved in the process of distribution,” Boone said.
Boone also said Perdue was the initiator of the project and has been leading the effort.
According to Boone, Per-due signed a proclamation for in it iat-ing the food drive, got the involvement of seven food banks across the state along with Feedin-gAmerica.org and got a l l the necessary publicity for the event.
“The gov-ernor wants the state to be
unified and wants to see some tangible benefits in these bad economic times,” Boone said.
Several students said they were unaware of the food drive.
“I am not aware of any food donation drives,” said Jacob Kerley, a freshman in civil en-gineering, said.
“Hunger is everyone’s prob-lem and the only way to solve it is by working together. Help your hungry neighbors with some food today,” Boone said.
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“Hunger is
everyone’s
problem and the
only way to solve
it is by working
together.”Jason Boone, director of
communications at the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Two University departments are collaborating to keep 65 percent of campus waste from reaching landfills.
Joanna E. BanegasSenior Staff Writer
University Dining and Waste Reduction and Recycling part-nered to implement a compost-ing initiative in campus dining hall facilities.
The University’s goal to di-vert 65 percent of campus waste from the landfill by 2015, ac-cording to Kevin Smith, direc-tor of dining hall operations.
Smith said although the com-posting campaign just started in August, the project has thus far proved a success.
“It’s been doing really well,” Smith said. “We actually just took off 4.19 tons of the first load off this past Monday.”
University Dining began composting in Fountain and Clark Dining Halls, Smith said, and will begin composting in Case Dining Hall this month.
The compost process will also reduce the possibility of contaminating the most mate-rial University Dining removed or is in the process or remov-ing all plastic utensils and trash cans in the serving and seating areas, Smith said.
According to Smith, Dining had to make some changes in the dining halls such as replac-ing the ice cream cups with bowls.
“We removed the trash can from the window so the people who are in the dish room are controlling where the trash goes but in case someone does put a bottle or something on the plate, they’ll catch it,” Smith said.
In January, a Waste Reduc-tion and Recycling audit found a large amount of waste gener-ated at Fountain Dining Hall was compostable, Smith said.
“When we did the audit we found out that 70 percent of the trash that were in the dumpsters in the dining hall was trash that could be composted,” Smith said.
Rebecca Roddenberry, dining and ca-tering operations graphic de-signer and a senior in art and design said the University as a whole, seems to be moving towards sustainability.
“That could make a really big difference,” Roddenberry said.
Roddenberry said the Uni-versity wanted to help students understand what was going on
and why changes were being made in dining halls.
“The signage in the dining hall helped explained what to do with your plate when you’re done, being conscious about
how much food you are putt ing on your plate, a n d h o w much food you are wast-ing and how t o r e du c e your portion sizes,” Rod-
denberry said.Miranda Beshears, a fresh-
man in environmental engi-neering, said students probably don’t do as much composting as they would like.
“Stepping in by composting really gets it going and also teaching people what they need to do to help and how we can actually make a difference is
really exciting,” Beshears said.
Beshears said it’s great to make a big impact such as students putting trash that would normally put in the trash can in a compost bin.
“Composting puts a lot of nutrients in the soil so if all of that is going to the landfill it could be going in the soil so putting more nu-trients in it,” Beshears said.
Roddenberry said un-derstanding University Dining’s program and by getting the word out will help raise awareness.
“If students jump on board and help out and make a conscious effort to reduce waste, I think we will be able to hit that mark,” Roddenberry said.
University begins compost campaign
LEE DANIELLO/TECHNICIANSean Maroni, a freshman in engineering, helps the campus-wide Go Green movement by composting his food and paper waste at Fountain Dining Hall on Thursday, Sept. 9.
“Composting puts
a lot of nutrients
in the soil...”Miranda Beshears, freshman in
environmental engineering
Coverage of the Greek Community and Campus Police
The recent coverage of the Greek community and Campus Police outlined in the front-page news story, as well as an editorial, in the Sept. 7 edition of the Technician prompted me to write this letter. For years, the Greek community has only received coverage when it is convenient for the newspaper or when there is a major controversy involving fraternities and sororities. In the time since I began attending N.C. State, countless opportunities to highlight the projects, initiatives and community service achievements of our collective Greek community have been noticeably absent from the pages of the newspaper. The most important aspect that the recent coverage of the Greek community lacked was outlining the great working relationship that Campus Police and fraternities/sororities have developed over the last several years. This working relationship has allowed us to open a discussion in order
to find better ways to report incidents occurring in Greek Village, especially when not related to organizations residing on fraternity court. With one conversation, Campus Police said they would amend their policy regarding the issue. We all agreed “Fraternity Court” would be ideal for unrelated incidents, but if an incident is directly related it would be reported in the original format citing the chapter name. This year we furthered our efforts with our partnership with Campus Police. We started getting our members, along with the campus community, to sign Responsible Behavior Initiative pledges. With these pledges, students agreed to continually to strive to be responsible to themselves and others and to the core values of North Carolina State University. The University and Student Media continue to overlook these positive efforts. The fraternities that we all see in mainstream media are only a small percentage of our organizations and do not represent our membership as a whole. The discontent with the Technician does not stem from those minority members; it comes from the broader efforts of our community that are continually over looked. As fraternities and sororities continue working to hold their members to higher standards in academics, behavior, community/campus involvement and leadership, we know that we are under scrutiny from every perspective that judge the entire community from the actions of one person. Our current discussions are meant to curb these stereotypes. We are not challenging the merits of the article printed on Monday, but rather would like to highlight the positive conversation that IFC and Campus Police are having
and the benefits that it has provided to the University as a whole.
Peter Barnessenior, political sciencePresident, Interfraternity Council at North Carolina State University
This letter has been edited for length. To read the entire letter, please check out www.technicianonline.com.
The Shame of an EngineeringSchool
With five more women’s soccer games scheduled this season for Sunday at 1 p.m., fans can only wonder how many games will be played on blistering days of sun. On the giant concrete slab carved out as “seats,” with nowhere to go for shade and a resulting mini-inferno, would-be fans stay away in droves. At the soccer field and adjoining baseball field, season after season, one of the south’s top engineering schools can’t figure how out to erect some simple shade pavilions? For shame.
Jef DavidsonRaleigh
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{ }OUR VIEW
This weekend will mark the ninth anniversary of the most recent domes-
tic tragedy in national history. Sept. 11, 2001 will forever be ingrained in everyone’s memo-ry. Our country has never been the same since the World Trade Towers fell.
In honor and remembrance of the event, Gov. Bev Perdue has identified an issue that, despite 9/11, has not changed. Hunger still exists in our coun-try, even though we are one of the wealthiest in the world. Ac-cording to the USDA, in 2008, 49.1 million people in the U.S. were living in food insecure households, and this was up from 36.2 million in 2007.
This weekend, the gover-nor has urged state residents to engage in a statewide food drive as part of National Day
of Service and Remembrance. As students at N.C. State, we go to a school that is a leader in community service and this is an important moment for us donate or volunteer to show how much we care and the dif-ference we can make if we all work together.
Education is key. Even if we are not natives of the area, we are a part of the Raleigh com-munity. Not everyone can walk down the street and go to a dining hall to eat. Students don’t realize we live near the most food insecure residents in the county. According to Feed America’s “Hunger in America 2010 Local Report Prepared for FB of Central &
Eastern NC and Inter-Faith Food Shuttle,” these agencies, which are food bank leaders in our area, provide emergency food for an estimated 664,700 different people annually. That is the equivalent of 74 percent of Wake County.
Donating to food drives is a simple way to give back. A can of green beans can be the dif-ference between someone go-ing hungry and having food for a couple of days. It would not be difficult for everyone on campus to give one can. The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is lo-cated next to the N.C. State Farmer’s Market near Centen-nial Campus and they are ac-cepting donations. Take a bus
or a friend’s car, just go.The Salvation Army is al-
ways looking for people to help serve food to the Raleigh area and the IFFS has community gardens and a farm students are welcome to work at. There are already student groups and classes that help at both of these organizations and many professors have already recog-nized the importance of being involved in service learning.
This weekend is a time where the nation should be unified. One of the most basic human needs is food and we are all unified in this need. Help oth-ers this weekend who many not be as fortunate as us to have ac-cess to food. If we all work to-gether to raise awareness and help the community, we will be able to see how we can truly be united.
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.
We will not forgetTHE FACTS:Sept. 11 is National Day of Service and Remembrance and Gov. Bev Perdue has urged state residents to end hunger. Food security is defined as a persons ability to gain access to and ability to afford food that is nutritional and beneficial and in 2008, the USDA said 49.1 million people in the U.S. were living in food insecure households.
OUR OPINION:Students need to be aware of the community they are in and their ability to affect its welfare. Students should volunteer or donate food this weekend and be a part of the movement to unify the state on this critical day in American history.
Separate facts from opinion
Glenn Beck’s rally and the subsequent furor did not catch much of
my attention.But what did catch my at-
tention was a discussion on the estimates of the num-ber of people who attended
the rally. CBS News commis-sioned two independent agents to estimate the number using aerial photographs and crowd density calculations reaching a number in the range of 80,000. The numbers touted by other media orga-nizations and Glenn Beck himself were in the range of a few hun-dred t hou-sa nd. Sup-porters of the rally refused to go w ith t he 80,0 0 0 number and claimed the number was biased.
We routine-ly come across cases where people choose to go with opin-ions as opposed to numbers or facts estimated using known scientific methods. This is just one example. If someone wants to dispute estimated facts, they should study the method used for estimation and point out the error in the method or, bet-ter yet, come up with a superior method. Simply claiming the person who did the estimation is biased and hence his or her results are incorrect is not the correct approach.
As members of a university community who are learning skills and values to last a life time and engaging in activi-ties that push the boundaries of the existing body of knowl-edge, it is especially important for us to be able to distinguish facts from opinions. Given the facts, the opinions should make sense. Not the other way around.
Yes, a given “fact” can later be proved false. We know today the Earth is not flat and the rest of extraterrestrial bodies do not revolve around us. This re-
writing usually happens when a new technological develop-ment makes it possible for us make new deductions, or when something brings previously obscure data to light. Until then, our body of knowledge, amassed through empirical ob-servations and rigorous logic, is the best we have.
As my high school teacher would say, statements we come across on a regular basis can be classified into four categories: rumor, hearsay, opinion, and fact. Rumors are those state-ments with sources no one is
able to pin-poi nt , ye t a lmost ev-eryone, takes for granted. Hearsay i s w h e n y ou hea r f rom someone who heard someone else make a statement. You k now an opinion w h e n y ou hear it. And of cou rse , facts are sim-
ply facts.A good part of the material
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“I don’t see anything wrong with it. I mean, it’s their right to express themselves.”
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“I think that might start more trouble. It doesn’t show that we beat them in the war. I personally think it might start another dilemma in the Middle East.”
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“I don’t really think it’s their place to do that, and disrespect that religion.”
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As I opened Citizen of the Empire’s self-titled and self-released debut, the CD insert caught my attention. Where the copyright information should be, I read, “No Rights Reserved.”
“We prefer to make our lives a work of art as opposed to ‘making a living’ from our art. Reproduce and distribute in any form by any means. Share with your friends and enemies alike.”
I will say, after listening, I’ll be sure to do just that.
The seven-track album starts off with a slow, ethereal guitar riff with subtle crash symbols. This track, entitled “Insur-rection is Our Only Weapon Against the Machine of Alien-ation,” is a perfect way to get
the listener ready for the re-mainder of the album.
Citizens of the Empire seems to be a very politically-oriented band, giving links to Zeitgeist among other online movies, as well as titling the tracks ac-cording to their views.
I immediately realized I would get a fuller experience if I turned the music up and let it replace all other things I was thinking of. Closing my eyes, it was easy to lose myself in the music.
The fourth track, “Power is Not to Be Conquered, It is to Be Destroyed” is by far the stron-gest. It’s immediately up-tempo and forceful. Continuous riffs throughout it make it fun and interesting for the duration of it’s six-minute length.
“Everything We Possess Will in Turn Possess Us” is another example of exciting riffs, but this time sprinkled over the 7-minute track contributes to such a full-sounding post-rock song.
The ending song, “We Pay for Our Lives With Our Deaths,” is a strong finish to the album. Its intricate guitar is weaved into enough vice that when the song
finishes all you want is more. I was surprised to learn
Citizens only consists of three members—Andrew Carson playing drums, Patrick Sea-well on bass, and Jacob West shredding guitar. This three-piece is from Minneapolis, MN. Citizens fits in perfectly with bands such as Mogwai, God is an Astronaut and Ex-plosions in the Sky. While your mind won’t be blown to pieces, it will be fully satisfied by the instrumental rock laid out for listening pleasure.
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College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences celebrates 50th anniversary with exhibits featuring rare artifacts in the D.H. Hill Library.
Jordan Alsaqa Senior Staff Writer
First established in 1960, the College of Physical and Math-ematical Sciences celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with an exhibit featuring a T. Rex fe-mur bone and what is believed to be the world’s first electric guitar.
Throughout this semester, D.H. Hill Library is home to an exhibit dedicated to the sci-entific breakthroughs made by the college since its founding, as well as discoveries made at N.C. State before PAMS was established.
The exhibit, entit led “A Legacy of Discovery: 50 Years of PAMS,” opened just before classes started this semester and is the result of two years of collaboration between the college and the library’s Spe-cial Collections Research Cen-ter. Steven Townsend, director of communication for PAMS, explained the work that went into setting up the exhibit.
“It was a process of close col-laboration,” Townsend said. “My department worked to organize the story and high-light what we wanted to show off, while Special Collections
worked to make sure we had the physical objects and most of the photos to bring that story to life.”
One part of the exhibit is a display containing the world’s first true electric guitars, de-signed at NCSU by physics pro-fessor William Sidney Wilson. Though predated by several electric string instruments, Wilson’s was the f irst to provide indi-vidual pick-up for each string. His in-vention went on to win the University’s Engineering Fair in 1940.
Unfortu-nately, Wil-s o n n e v e r bothered to patent his invention, and the two models were forgotten about until they were returned to the University sometime be-tween 1965 and 1975. By this point, Gibson and Fender had both adopted the individual string pickup design, obscur-ing Wilson’s innovation in the field.
The guitars remained in storage in the Department of Physics until the mid-1990s, at which point they were re-discovered in storage by staff. Now, 15 years later, they are on display for the first time.
The items on display show not only the advancements
made here at NCSU, but also a picture of how far technol-ogy has come over the past decades. One exhibit shows a photograph of one of the University’s f irst and most primitive computers, bought for $200,000. Photos compare computer labs from the 1980s to those of today.
Also on display are a series of photos of the college life as-pect of PAMS students throughout t he ye a r s , showing the importance of the student experience. Photos of the o ld PA M S softball team and of stu-dents simply
relaxing in their room show that the experience of college is as important as the research being done in PAMS.
One of the displays is a large cast of a T. Rex femur bone and was discovered by a team led by one of NCSU’s two paleon-tologists, Mary Schweitzer. The femur contained preserved soft tissue, bringing a new wealth of information to our under-standing of how fossilization works.
Elizabeth Hyde, a sophomore in animal science, said the fe-mur along with other parts of the exhibit impressed her.
“As a science major, it was
interesting to see such an im-portant fossil on display here,” Hyde said. “It was amazing to see how many discoveries came out of NCSU.”
The exhibit, which will run throughout the semester until after finals, works with the col-leges to display areas of excel-lence around the University. Lisa Carter, head of the Special Collections Research Center, explained the theme of the ex-hibit as one of progress.
“The message we wanted to convey with the exhibit was that all innovation is based on the fundamentals, the kind that PAMS works to instill in all of its students. When you start with the fundamentals of scientific research, you can build it into the practical solu-tions that so many NCSU stu-dents have provided,” Carter said.
After 50 years, PAMS contin-ues to be a national leader in innovation and discovery and in 2006 was ranked seventh na-tionally in total PhD produc-tion in mathematical sciences. The exhibit shows off the con-stant series of breakthroughs made over the course of five decades.
“One of the biggest goals of PAMS is solving the world’s biggest challenges,” Townsend said. “Be it issues of food, water or fuel, the college is working constantly to make long-lasting changes for the planet.”
Exhibit showcases worlds first electric guitar, T. Rex femur
lee daniello/Technicianthe two string instruments shown are two of the world’s first electric guitars. Located in an exhibit on the east wing of the second floor of D.H. Hill Library. these two models were a product of two years of collaboration between PamS and the Special Collections research Center. the exhibit is titled, “the Legacy of Discovery: 50 years of PamS.”
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biggest goals of
PAMS is solving
the world’s biggest
challenges.”Steven Townsend, director of
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Anberlin sings a ‘Paperthin Hymn’ for SchoolkidsFree concert packs Schoolkids Records for release of new album.
Phillip LinStaff Writer
In recent years, there have been many well-known and talented bands visiting the Ra-leigh area. Some have found it fitting to play in smaller ven-ues, perhaps for a more per-sonal approach towards their fans. How-ever, none have come as close as An-berlin did this past Tuesday, reach i ng a whole new level of in-timacy with their support-ers.
Students packed into the l imited space provid-ed by Schoolkids Records, and still others piled out through the door towards Hillsborough Street. Unperturbed by the stuffy in-store quarters, stu-dents and local residents came to see Anberlin perform and promote their newest album, Dark Is The Way, Light Is The Place, before getting the oppor-tunity to meet and speak with the band members.
Lead singer Stephen Chris-tian’s resonating voice carried over the soft brush of acous-tics playing the unmistak-able sound of Anberlin songs. Warming up to the crowd with old favorites such as “The Un-winding Cable Car” before moving on to a more upbeat “Feel Good Drag,” attendees were introduced to its hit new single titled “Impossible.”
Scott Warren, a sophomore in paper science engineering, said he enjoyed hearing the
band in per-son.
“It’s my first time hearing t hem l ive , and I think they sound really good,” Warren said. “It ’s a dif-ferent sound on acoustic, but it’s still on par with their studio recordings.”
Anberlin finished their set list all too soon, but at the re-quest of the crowd, played a titular song from one of their older albums titled “Never Take Friendship Personal.” Afterwards, fans and attend-ees were able to get signatures, speak with the band members and have their pictures taken with the band.
Marcia Frisbie, a junior in
biological sciences, said she was impressed by the band’s testimony and attitude.
“Christian has a really nice voice,” Frisbie said. “Their mu-sic isn’t always different from
other rock bands, but I like how even though his faith and be-liefs definitely impact his life, they don’t label themselves as a ‘Christian band’ because their music is meant for everyone.”
Anberlin has consistently had more to their songs than just the most basic layers of their music. Christian’s voice is both light and strong, and in-vokes powerful feelings from the listener.
Meaningful lyrics are a staple of the band’s songs, each track reverberating with a message or a tale of its own. Whether it is a tale of a lost love or a call to let go to carry on with one’s life, it is quite amazing for such a seemingly light-hearted band to be playing songs with such deep tones.
Anberlin’s music is the type that will likely grow on those who listen over time, experi-ence more of life and face new trials every day while matur-ing.
This is a ref lection of the themes Christian has described in some of his interviews and DVD commentaries for a previ-ous album. He explained that their first few albums followed similar themes of maturation from Man versus World, Man versus Man and ultimately to Man versus Self.
As the lyricist and vocalist of
Anberlin, Christian gives their songs and albums a personal touch.
“I feel like the first three al-bums were a trilogy [in their themes],” Christian said. “And this new album is the first com-ing-of-age album, much like novels such as The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye. In a way, this new album is a reflection of my high school years.”
Dark Is The Way, Light Is The Place marks the milestone
of the band’s transition into adulthood. Having faced the adversities afforded by life from outside and within, the new al-bum reflects upon their years of growth. Having matured and become wiser with age, Anber-lin encourage their fans to do the same.
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marisa akers/TechnicianJoseph milligan, Stephen Christian and Christian mcalhaney, three of the five members of alternative rock band anberlin, perform a free acoustic show for fans in Schoolkids records tuesday, Sept. 7. their new album, Dark is the Way, Light is a Place, was released the same day.
marisa akers/Techniciant.J. Louie, a junior in industrial engineering, reaches for his signed copy of anberlin’s new record, Dark is the Way, Light is a Place. Louie had been a fan of the band for four years, but had never seen them perform live until their free show at Schoolkids records. “It was th e most amazing event around campus this year,” Louie said. “It was cool to meet them. they’re down to earth.”
“It’s a different
sound on
acoustic, but
it’s still on par
with their studio
recordings.”Scott Warren, sophomore in paper science engineering
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settling down and playing the game. I don’t think one person - myself or anybody else - is go-ing to change the outcome of the game. As a defense, we all just have to hone in. We have to be more disciplined in what we do and we have to execute our assignments the way we’re supposed to.
Its hard taking on 300 pound-ers every single snap. They are going to be physical, so I have to be physical too.
You always deal with cramps and dehydration this time of year. But yesterday’s practice and today’s practice, more-so yesterday’s, was hot. We get a few practice days in the heat and since we went through camp in 100-degree weather, it shouldn’t really be a prob-lem for us. It will be the same for me. Before every game, I drink at least 15-20 orange juice bottles, so I’m always pretty hydrated before games.
I really can’t say if I’ll play better than I did against West-ern. I feel like I’m going to do good, but that’s to be deter-mined after we play our game.
We’re not overlooking these guys. They were picked to win their conference and they’re the preseason number one team in their conference. We’re prepar-ing hard each and every day. Every day, we’re trying to get better and prepare for them. I know, and our defense knows, that they are going to give us their best shot.
Tough competition helps out a whole lot because you want to build up your level of difficulty each week, if you can. With one win, and the more wins we get under our belt, the more confident we will be as we are exposed to more good teams.
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VOLLEYBALL
State expecting success in first home tournamentThe women’s volleyball team will take on Georgia Southern, Mercer and Morehead State in its weekend tourney.
Brent KitchenAgromeck Sports Editor
Wolfpack volleyball had little success the past four seasons, leading to the de-parture of coach Charita Stubbs. But new coach Bryan Bunn leads the team back to Raleigh this weekend with a chance to show fans its early success in 2010 is no fluke.
“These are all three winnable matches for us,” coach Bryan Bunn said. “Our goal is to out-hustle everybody and out-work everybody. The wins will take care of themselves.”
The team will play at home for the first time this season with a 5-1 record, but must bounce back from a 3-0 loss to In-diana in its last outing.
“It’s early,” Bunn said. “5-1 is nice, but it’s nothing to get excited about. We’ve played six matches, and we still have 25 to go.”
Fans will have plenty of new faces to get to know, with 10 of the players on the 15-player roster new to the Pack this season.
“Bringing in a lot of new people makes it easier to change the culture,” Bunn said. “Because it hasn’t been successful for a while. So we made some changes with per-sonnel so we have a different personality on the court.”
In State’s two tournaments this year, two transfers have found themselves in the spotlight, putting up big numbers to lead the team.
Junior outside hitter Becah Fogle and redshirt sophomore setter Megan Cyr transferred from the University of Colo-rado after the hiring of Bunn, and are looking forward to becoming household names in Wolfpack country.
“It’s great having transfers,” Bunn said.
“To start off, they have experience. It’s just a matter of gelling the personalities on the court, and to build the kind of culture we want here. But it’s great to have those people that have experience competing and playing. It’s easier to mold that sometimes than it is a lot of freshmen.”
Cyr, who leads the team in assists with 232 in six games this season, said the early results are encouraging, but that the hardest part of the season is still to come.
“I think [starting well] is really ex-citing and something we can pat our-selves on the back for,” Cyr said. “But the real test will come once conference starts.”
Fogle led the team in kills in the Indiana tournament with 45, and she said she and the team still need to work hard to be successful.
“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” Fogle said.
Fans will also notice some familiar faces in new roles. Senior setter Alex Smith has moved to right-side hitter, notching 30 kills in the team’s first tournament to earn ACC Co-Player of the Week honors, the first time a Pack player has gotten the honor since September 2008.
“We found out that Alex [Smith] is a very good right side hitter,” Bunn said. “She’s very court-savvy, she knows the game and she sees things happening. So we figured that’s the best way to utilize her this year.”
The N.C. State Tournament starts Friday at 7 p.m. against Georgia South-ern and continues Saturday with games against Mercer and Morehead State at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively.
“I know a lot of people have come and watched our past games and they say its just torturous because we’ll be in it and then we’ll lose point after point after point,” Smith said. “This year, I think they’re going to see a much more entertaining game.”
ANDY MUSSELMAN/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOJunior setter Alex Smith sets the ball to a teammate during a game against Maryland Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 in Reynolds Coliseum. Smith recorded 26 assists in the Pack’s 3-2 loss to the Terrapins.
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What happened the last time state played
Coach Tom O’Brien made his Wolfpack debut in a narrow 25-23 loss. State trailed 25-3 going into halftime of the 2007 season opener
after surrendering 177 yards rushing to UCF’s Kevin Smith, who finished the evening with 217 yards on the ground. But the Pack fought back to make things interesting in the fourth quarter. On O’Brien’s first night on the Wolfpack sideline, down two, his team drove to the UCF 41 with less than a minute to play, but the Knights picked off Harrison Beck on a desperation heave as time expired to seal the deal. Central Florida leads the all-time series, 1-0.
Players to watch for:N.C. State
Junior wide receiver T.J. Graham: The local speedster out of Wakefield High School was electrifying as a return man in his first two seasons with the Pack, but relatively quiet as a wideout. But the opener against Western was a different story, as Graham found the end zone twice in the first quarter en route to a career receiving night that saw him finish with 96 yards on six catches. Should Graham continue to produce at even half that rate, Russell Wilson’s toughest decision might involve picking the right open receiver, a problem Pack fans would not mind watching Wilson struggle with.
Senior linebacker Nate Irving: Few players were the focus of more attention against Western than Irving, who sat out 2009 due to injury after a stellar 2008 campaign. The most surprising stat from Saturday night’s season-opening romp might very well have been 0 - the number of tackles No. 56 notched in his first game back. The most established star of the defense will be relied upon to help lead the counterpunch against a Central Florida team known for its running game and physical offensive line.
CeNtral floridaJunior wide receiver A.J. Guyton: Guyton was by far the most reliable target for his quarterback tandem of Rob Calabrese and Jeffrey Godgrey in the Knights’ week one win over South Dakota. The junior from Homestead, Fla. pulled down eight catches for 127 yards and a touchdown in his team’s season opener. Through his first two seasons with UCF, Guyton has 845 career receiving yards.
Senior defensive end Bruce Miller: The reigning defensive player of the year in CUSA and the FBS leader among active players with 27 sacks and 44 career tackles for loss, Miller leads the UCF defense. He recorded 14 sacks in 2009 to finish fifth in the nation in that category, and his pass rush has helped UCF finish the past two seasons as the conference’s top ranked defense. Look for the showdown between Miller and whichever Pack lineman draws the assignment of blocking him to have a substantial impact on whether or not Russell Wilson has a chance for another big night.
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Football looking to pick up second consecutive win on trip to Orlando for showdown with UCF
Cory SmithStaff Writer
The Pack will look to reproduce its 48-point of-fensive outburst in week one when it travels to Or-lando, Fla. to take on Cen-tral Florida Saturday night. Such fireworks promise to be harder to come by against a UCF team that led Confer-ence USA in total defense a year ago.
The Wolfpack scored 48 points on Saturday night behind the offensive fire-works of redshirt junior Russell Wilson and a wide receiving corps with plenty of options. But on Saturday night it will take on the Uni-versity of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., at 7:30 p.m., a school with a defense much more powerful than West-ern’s.
UCF senior defensive end Bruce Miller was named the Conference USA preseason defensive player of the year and was one of four Knights named to the preseason All-Conference USA team. Miller is just one of the key defensive players for UCF, as the Knights also have an-other preseason All-CUSA selection in sophomore de-fensive back Josh Robinson.
“They have a lot of experi-ence more than anything,” Wilson said. “They have
played a lot of games, and we have too as an offense. They are a great defense, they have a lot of speed and they are physical. T he y have great players on the defensive line, linebackers and second-ary. It’s going to be a good game.”
Though Wilson threw for four touchdowns in the first game of the year, it was junior wide receiver T.J. Graham who stole the show. Graham is com-monly known primarily as a kick returner, but worked in the off-season to improve his abil-ity to contribute to the offense.
“I want to be stronger as a wide receiver,” Graham said. “Being a receiver is more of a key position. As a returner, teams can take you out of the game easily by not kicking the ball to you. [On Saturday] I felt I played better as a wide receiver, which is what I want.”
Graham caught two touch-down passes from Wilson of more than 25 yards and led State with 96 yards receiving. He will look to continue his im-provement as a wideout against UCF.
“I’ve seen that play out of T.J. ever since the beginning,” Wil-son said. “He’s a great player and he’s working hard and getting better. Everybody else is trying to get better as well.”
UCF boasts an experienced defense that has played at a high level over the past few years, but the Knights will not be the only team confident in its ability to make stops and get off the field Saturday night. Redshirt senior linebacker Nate Irving returned to State’s de-fense last weekend and helped
the Pack settle in and stifle the Catamounts after sur-rendering an opening-drive touchdown. But he said he knows the challenge this weekend will be much tougher.
“They have a big, massive offensive line that’s very physical opening up run-ning lanes for the running backs,” Irving said. “And they have two good quar-terbacks that can run and throw the ball. They have a lot of experience because they have a lot of guys now that were on that team in 2007, so there will be a lot of experience on that team.”
In 2007, the last meeting between the two schools, UCF upset State, 25-23, in a win that helped catapult the Knights into a bowl game that year. But Wilson said he is not worried about go-ing on the road into a hos-tile environment.
“I’ve been on the road to big-time games before,” Wilson said. “It’s 100 yards whether it’s home or away. They wil l be cheering against us instead of for us but that doesn’t really mat-ter.”
Irving said he’s not look-ing to be the star of the weekend. Instead, he said he’s just hoping to leave Or-lando with a win and keep the Pack undefeated at 2-0.
“I hope I’m on the stat sheet this week,” Irving said. “But as long as we win, that’s all I care about.”
Pack ready to take on Central Florida in first road test of 2010
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Like I was expecting, I was a little bit antsy, be-ing away since 2008. And
my motor was running a little bit too high. But everything
was OK since we came away with the win.
It s pre t t y much what I thought it was going to be as far as prepara-tion and actu-a l ly get t ing back out there. I just have get
used to the speed of the game and actual game-speed. Just getting back out there, the more games I play, the better off I will be.
I don’t care about personal stats. Like I told the coaches and my teammates at the be-ginning of the year, I can have one tackle or a thousand tack-les, as long as we win, I’m OK. Winning makes everything better.
T.J. Graham’s performance really didn’t surprise me. Go-ing against him and the of-fense in the spring and in fall camp, they were able to get him the ball and he has been able to be successful after the catch. I think it makes it that much more difficult for other defenses to scheme against us. To have that many weapons on offense, there’s no one guy that you can key in on and make a game plan around.
Winning consecutive games would be big, because a win in the previous week helps with confidence going into the next week. It gives our guys that much more confidence going against our next opponent.
There’s nothing in particular I feel like I have to do for us to win, besides just slowing down,
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Kevin cooK/technician File photoredshirt freshman halfback dean haynes tries to make it past the Western Carolina defense during the season opener against Western Carolina on Sept. 4 at Carter-finley Stadium. haynes led the Wolfpack with a total of 69 rushing yards. in addition, he scored a touchdown to help the Wolfpack beat the Catamounts 48-7.
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