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Students take arms in Syria
Campus Crossings accused of billing fraud Arjun Puri Staff Writer
STUDENT CONNECTIONS Editors note: This is a new section connecting N.C. State students to students outside North Carolina and the struggles they face. Noah Rouse Correspondent
The Syrian civil war has forced many university students there to desert their studies as political stability crumbles, and some students have taken up arms, according to reports by The Guardian.
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Bashar Al-Assad, president of Syria, has �undertaken a year-long campaign to contain an uprising against the Assad regime, pitting Syrian government forces against the Free Syrian Army, a ragtag group of rebels who are determined to oust the regime by any means necessary. It is, essentially, a civil war. Gover n ment ta n k s lu mber through the streets, clumsily aiming their guns at the remains of shelledout apartment complexes while shell-shocked conscripts watch. Rebel forces scurry among the ruins
of the city, popping out only to take a shot at the passing patrols. To the people of Aleppo, the skirmishes mark the beginning of a new period in an already chaotic conflict, but outside the noise and chatter of the street fighting in the village of Derat Azza, five men watch the battle as distant smoke plumes on the horizon. War passed through the tiny village weeks ago, ending in a rebel victory. It’s quiet now, with the exception of the occasional artillery shell and the patrols of a small rebel garrison.
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Today’s crisis f inds these young men just short of frontline combat, but they are anything but soldiers. It was only a few months ago that they were students at the nearby University of Aleppo, one of Syria’s most prestigious schools and a hotbed of anti-regime activism during the early days of the uprising. Like many young people who rose up during the Arab Spring, they had become fed up
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Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi appointed Hesham Kandil, an N.C. State alum, as prime minister Tuesday. Hesham, a graduate from the doctoral program in biological and agricultural engineering in 1993, will lead Egypt’s foreign affairs as Morsi focuses on domestic policy and internal development. The Prime Minister historically represented the largest party in the Egyptian parliament, but Kandil is not a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, according to al-Jazeera, Kandil’s large beard and strong religion makes him a suitable diplomat within Egypt’s factions.
Workers will begin construction to reduce the number of lanes in the roundabout by the N.C. State Belltower from two lanes to one 8:30 p.m. Friday. Since the roundabout opened in 2010, police have recorded more than 100 traffic accidents. Transportation engineers said that by reducing the roundabout to one ring, traffic will should be more simple and more safe. Workers plan to finish the adjustments by 6 a.m. Saturday.
With the economy as a prominent theme for the upcoming presidential election, lowwage workers have taken the streets to advocate to raise the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25. Eighteen states and Washington, D.C. have higher minimum wages compared to the federal rate, but the trend to raise the minimum wage may not catch momentum to sway the federal government. President Barack Obama said he would raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by the end of 2011, but the federal-mandated minimum hasn’t changed.
Campus Crossings, a Tryon Road apartment complex that many N.C. State students call home, was recently cited for illegally charging tenants for services and electricity that were not being used. Elizabeth Long, a recent graduate in criminal law and justice, helped bring Campus Crossing’s billing practices to light. Long’s mother, Judy, initially found it odd the apartment charged each roommate $30 per month for utilities with an additional charge if the apartment unit went over a designated quota, according to a News & Observer article. Long’s suspicions escalated when Campus Crossings billed her daughter extra for utilities when no one was even living in the apartment during winter break in 2011. When Long went to the Utilities Commission, she was redirected to North Carolina’s Consumer Protection Agency. The agency investigated the housing company and confirmed Long’s doubts, saying that the complex’s billing practices made the complex itself a public utility.”Long said what angered her most was the company was taking unfair and illegal advantage of college students. While Judy paid for her daughter’s housing, some students do not have financial support from their parents. “These kids are [already] struggling to stay at school,” Long said in the News & Observer report. Students rarely file such complaints, according to the Utilities Commission. Sunaina Tailor, a junior in nutrition science, lived at Campus Crossings and said she was not happy with the management. “My roommates and I found out just before the spring semester ended that Campus Crossings hired another company to handle our util-
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Volunteers gear up for record-setting blood drive Deputy News Editor
With the beginning of the fall semester less than a month away, Service N.C. State volunteers are finalizing plans for the third annual– and hopefully record-setting–blood drive. Donors exceeded last year’s goal of 1,000 pints, with students, faculty and staff donating 1,032 pints. CSLEPS, the organization in charge of Service N.C. State, has set this year’s goal to coincide with the University’s birthday: 1,250 pints. If the goal is met Friday, Aug. 17 during the drive, it will be one of the 10 largest drives in the nation and the largest one-day drive in North Carolina. Melissa Green, the chair of the Service N.C. State blood drive com-
mittee, said planning for an event this size is a year-long process. “We work throughout the year to continue to inform people of the blood drive and educate them about the importance of blood donation as well as overall being engaged within our communities,” Green said. Shannon Gillespie, the blood drive coordinator for the event and a senior in biological sciences, said summer is an interesting time to plan because people scatter for the summer. “Student groups have enormous power to effect change through service work,” Gillespie said. “One challenge has been that student groups usually transition their leadership during the summer. Through email, we are doing our best to reach out to new officers and encourage new partnerships. Historically, the
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Stop Hunger Now campaign has been wildly successful in the first week of school, and we are hoping to capitalize on all the buzzing energy on campus mid-August.” Green said it can be tough to recruit for an event that happens so quickly at the beginning of the academic year, but it’s a cause she deeply believes in. Green said serving others is at the very core of who she is as a person. “Particularly with being motivated to serving others through donating blood, I believe that we all deserve to have access to a safe and plentiful blood supply. When I think of those I know who have been impacted by illness, accidents, etc., and have needed access to blood products, I believe that is part of my
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Junior in psychology Miranda Conway talks to a volunteer for Red Cross after giving blood Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Conway was one of many students who gave blood during the annual blood drive held in Carmichael Gymnasium. “This is my third time giving blood,” said Conway. “It’s going pretty good so far.”
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“These kids are [already] struggling to stay at school.”
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onday morning during New Student Orientation a male pidgeon found its way into the second level of the Talley Student Center. After orientees and their parents filed into Stewart Theatre; N.C. State Pest Control attempted to capture the frantic bird. After 20 minutes, David Senter, a pest control worker, successfully cornered the bird in a skylight and captured it. The bird was not harmed and was promptly released outside. Senter has worked at NCSU for 27 years. He said on average the Pest Control gets a bird call about once a month, and the captures can take any where from mintues to hours.
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State’s campus,” he said. “I am also excited to be teaching Introduction to Financial Accounting at N.C. State for the first time this year.” The AICPA is a national organization that works to help CPAs better serve their employers and the public by offering its members various knowledge and skills. CPAs who applied were chosen based on their personal statements, resumes, awards and honors, professional involvement, and community service. CPA firms and or-
ganizations often refer candidates to the academy. Plummer was recommended by the North Carolina Association of CPAs. After much hard work and determination, Plummer recalled how his acceptance into the academy brought him a great sense of accomplishment and relief. “I also learned a huge lesson in perseverance in this process,” Plummer said. “I applied last year, but got denied. I could have stopped there and accepted it, but I continued to be involved in the community, engage in other leadership roles and help whenever possible.”
Although a couple of days dedicated to accounting may sound dull to some, Plummer said the academy is a dynamic program that focuses on individual leadership styles and provides specific skills to positively impact respective CPA programs and organizations. “I believe this experience will allow me to have leadership insights for my own personal application, but give me a perspective that I can share with the students I work with in the MAC program and in my classroom,” Plummer said.
with the tyranny, corruption and poverty that pervades modern Syria, and blamed the Assad regime for their plight. Unlike many other street protests that have broken out in the past year, however, the students were spared the full brunt of the Syrian army’s wrath, unlike their comrades in Homs and Damascus, and were instead met with riot police and careful observation by the regime’s secret militia, the Shabiha–that is until this past May, when government forces, paranoid about the rise in rebel activity in the area, stormed the dormitories during a peaceful protest, killing four students and leading to the closure of the university. Since then, student activism in the city has ceased, but the students’ desire for change is unwavering–and to a dedicated few, that even means picking up a gun and joining the fight. “The revolution means more than the university,” Ahmed, a chemical engineering student, said. “I didn’t go to my exams and nor did most people. This is a price that I’m more than willing to pay for now.” Another student, Haithem, had a small pistol with him. “The head of the faculty carried one of these
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Kappa Delta house construction delayed Graduate selected to attend leadership academy
Arjun Puri �Staff Writer
About 40 Kappa Delta sorority sisters will be in temporary housing the first five weeks of the school year while construction workers complete their new house in Greek Court. Complications in both the planning and building phases have pushed back the grand opening of the house from July 15 to the first week of October. Despite the delay, the women, including Kappa Delta president Kris Gower, aren’t complaining. “We understood that there will be problems when we started this project. Mainly all of us are extremely excited about the new house and the people at Greek Life,” said Gower, a senior in international studies. N.C. State is providing these students with accommodations at their old duplex, where many lived last year. Former Student Body President Chandler Thompson, a recent graduate, said she thinks the wait will be worth the benefits of a new house. “If I hadn’t just graduated, I definitely would have waited out those five weeks to move into the new home. It’s just incredible,” Thompson, a KD alumna, said. The new house features 12 bedrooms with up to four girls sharing a bathroom. It is the first privately-fund-
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Delays in construction at the Kappa Delta house in Greek Court have pushed back the move in date to the first week of October. Soroity sisters will have to live in temporary university housing until they are able to move into the finished house.
ed chapter house in the Greek Village Project at the University, according to Gower. In addition to an upgraded heating and cooling system, the house will get some significant security updates, including a master panel to display open doors or windows and help warn of potential threats. The security system is comparable to the one at N.C. State’s Carmichael Gymnasium. The temporary house is across the street from the one under construction, and the sisters will still be able to use the sorority meal plan or their personal dining services. One of the main innovations incorporated into the new KD house will be the ad-
dition of a full-service kitchen, something not common among Greek houses. Gower said this will provide sisters with more dining options, which they are excited about. “I really can’t say enough how phenomenal the support system has been. People on the outside may think that someone really messed up or something went drastically wrong, but that really is not the case here,” Gower said. Thompson said Kappa Delta’s national organization has been outstanding throughout the N.C. State chapters dilemma, and its reaction reflects the support it provided her throughout her tenure at NCSU. “The only thing that is kind
of a bummer is that KD’s new girls won’t get the full experience of move-in week since it will be a little inconvenient having to move twice, but I know that [Gower] will take care of them,” Thompson said. The complaints from the sisters’ parents have been minimal. “We have a really close-knit community here, and I know that parents understand the difficulty of the situation,” Gower said. The past few years have been devoted to transitioning Greek Court to Greek Village, and according to Gower the new Kappa Delta house is the first of many more to come.
Jared Plummer, a 2007 graduate of N.C. State’s Jenkins Master of Accounting program, has been selected to attend to the American Institute of CPAs Leadership Academy. In 2011, Plummer became assistant director of admissions for N.C. State’s MAC program after four years of professional experience with Ernst & Young’s Raleigh office. He earned his bachelor’s degree from N.C. State in accounting and business in 2005. The American Institute of CPAs chose 36 attendees from a pool of more than 90 candidates, all of them under the age of 36. This year, the fourth Annual Leadership Academy will be in Durham, and Plummer said he is excited to expand his leadership skills to assist future CPAs in North Carolina, as well as students in the Poole College of Management. “With the help of the Academy I hope to become a vital member of the core leadership within the Poole College of Management, the North Carolina Associations of
CPAs and the various organizations I continue to be a part of,” Plummer said in a news release from the College of Management. The academy brings together a number of major figures in the accounting industry, including Barry Melancon, the institute’s president and CEO, and Greg Anton, chairman of AICPA. Top CPAs from across the United States attend the academy to study leadership and management practices. They also explore the diverse challenges faced by current CPAs and the accounting business as a whole, according to the release. “The motto at the NCAICPA is to connect, impact and grow, and I believe that I will do that very thing at the Academy. I look forward to connecting with other emerging leaders from around the country, impacting the next generation of CPAs and growing in my knowledge and application of leadership principles,” Plummer said in the release. As current assistant director of admissions for the MAC program, Plummer said he enjoys working with students. “I get to work with some of the most talented and most involved students on N.C.
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nherent in our economy is the very real concept of inf lation. Inflation isn’t necessarily a bad thing—it can be a sign of growth–but whether the effects of inflation are good or bad remains contingent upon economic policy. One heavily discussed piece of economic policy is the minimum wage. Our fearless leaders in Washington have been debating tirelessly over whether the minimum wage should go up or stay stagnant. Okay, that was a lie—they haven’t–but they certainly should be, especially with 5.2 percent of
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all hourly-paid workers earning the prevailing minimum wage. Restaurant servers— who make up 22 percent of hourly-paid workers—are not included in the prevailing minimum wage figure; neither are workers who live in states where the minimum wage is higher or lower than the federal minimum wage. It’s a surprise that Americans haven’t heard much from their leaders about increasing the minimum wage. The last real push to increase the prevailing minimum wage was during President Obama’s campaign
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“Yes. With economy its hard to function. After taxes there isn’t much left to live on.” Miguel Sanchez sophomore, paper science engineering
“No. Small businesses are struggling already and wouldn’t be able to handle any increase.” Steve Warush freshman, engineering
“No, because they are so often occupied by people with minimal credentials or working illegally in our country.” Daniel Tito junior, political science
“Yes. I think a lot of people working minumum wage jobs, such as college kids, are in transition to getting better jobs and they need to be able to pay for them.” Kylyn Mondor freshman, biological sciences
to meeting our ever-rising costs of living–and more college students would be able to graduate with fewer loans.
Finding enlightenment on the
Oriental Pearl Mark Herring Editor-in-Chief
Sitting on a hot tour bus in Baltimore traffic at 4 a.m. Monday morning, my weekend getaway to New York City felt more like hangover’s nightmare than a commute back home. But after getting off the crowded bus back home in Raleigh, I never thought I’d appreciate the lesson I learned from commiserating with the animated passengers of the Oriental Pearl Express. Traveling to New York City is not an expense I usually budget into my college-student finances, so taking the cheap way out, I decided to catch local shuttle to Chinatown—the Oriental Pearl. After paying for $120 for a round trip, I wasn’t expecting luxury, but when I got to the bus stop I knew I was in for an adventure. Well, it wasn’t quite a bus stop. Right across Buck Jones Road from Grand Asia Market in Car y stands a lonely Texaco station with a few broken folding chairs—my launch pad to NYC. I took the Oriental Pearl Express redeye at 1 a.m. to get to the city by noon for a tour of New York University’s graduate programs, but in the end, I think I learned more from the multilingual, multicultural bus ride than the fluffy orientation to graduate studies I couldn’t afford without loans. At the makeshift bus stop, I met two Latina exchange students from N.C. State, who were having difficulty communicating w it h t he Chinese bus driver. After filtering through broken English for both parties, I was able to practice some good Spanish, my second major, and brush up on
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it did, the minimum wage would be $10.55 an hour, so President Obama’s $2.25 increase would still leave people struggling to claw their way out of poverty. If the minimum wage went up, more Americans would be closer
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in 2008, when the then-senator promised to increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour. It’s four years later, wage earners are still making $7.25, and there seems to be no real talk of the issue in Congress. In the immortal words of Notorious B.I.G.: “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.” Those opposed to the minimum wage cite purely capitalist reasons for their ideology, arguing that having a minimum wage leads to increased unemployment since employers are forced to pay above-market-price wages for labor and are thus able to hire
fewer people. Paul Krugman, a Princeton economist who earned a Nobel Prize in Economics, disagrees with those who say wage cuts would raise employment by increasing liquidity, lowering interest rates and lowering price, thus increasing demand. “A falling price level raises the real value of debt,” Krugman wrote in a recent New York Times column. “To the extent that debtors are more likely to cut spending in such a case than creditors are to increase it–which seems likely– the effect of the wage cuts will actually be a fall in demand.” So why is all of this important to college students? As tuition costs increase with rising inf lation, more and more students are taking on at least part of the cost of college, many of us working 20 to 30 hour weeks to help foot the bill for our education. Many of these parttime jobs are menial and do nothing to make students more competitive in the job market. It doesn’t help that the minimum wage hasn’t kept up with inf lation. If
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clear verbal communication in English. The hectic interpretation jolted my adrenaline, so at about 3 a.m. when the couple behind me started fighting about each other’s love affairs, I was awake to experience it all. As a student journalist, I made sure to take note the most colorful of verbal exchanges, including my favorite, “If we were in an actual serious relationship, I would stab you.” The bickering lasted until we got to the Lincoln Tunnel. The trip back to North Carolina wasn’t a calmer experience. As I arrived 30 minutes early at the bus station in Chinatown, a coned off section of an undrained Manhattan street, I was at the end of the line for the bus to Raleigh. The bus stop, full of working class families, Latino laborers and stingy backpackers, seemed like the historic New York I learned about in elementary school—full of poor laborers and those hoping to achieve the dreams of riches and happiness. A New York in sepia tone, built on the broken backs of the workers of industrialization. The bus ride back was not comfortable by any means—it was hot, smelly and stuffy—but I it was also enriching. More eye-opening than the tours of the stuffy halls of one of the best schools in the nation, I’d argue. I was able to interact with people I would have never met before—people of different ethnicities, backgrounds and folkways—and that perhaps was the most enlightening experience I encountered. Nevertheless, I’m flying next time. Send Mark your thoughts on the Oriental Pearl to letters@technicianonline.com.
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Ramadan reflections We should be more like cats
Ahmed Amer Viewpoint Editor
Readers, many of you have heard of Ramadan, it’s the month when your Muslim friends are the most irritable and lazy. Ramadan is kind of like Christmas, but instead of having a giant feast with a holiday ham, we celebrate by starving ourselves— that is to say abstaining from any food or drink— while the sun is up. And whereas married couples may carry out some sort of Mr. and Mrs. Claus fantasy after the kids are put to bed, Muslims do not have a holiday mascot that adds spark their sex lives— conversely, abstaining from sex is also part of Ramadan. The Muslim holy month is time meant to be spent reflecting on blessings and helping others. With that said, we can’t eat or drink, and it’s almost 100 degrees outside. Logic tells us to stay inside and be inactive. That’s what a strategic faster would do. I had that same idea on the first day of fasting, which is arguably the hardest day. Luckily, it was a Saturday, so I woke up at 11
a.m., and after realizing it wasn’t 8:33 p.m. yet, I went back to sleep, I was determined to nap away my hunger pains. Unable to force myself into unconsciousness until iftar, I woke up an hour later. In further attempt to have my day defined by inactivity, I reached for my laptop with the intent of Netflix-ing and stumbling to my heart’s content. I’d like to go on record as saying Stumble Upon is a fasting Muslim’s worst enemy. I found myself looking at page after page of delicious Nutella-based recipes. My stomach grew louder, as if to say, “you masochistic bastard!” At that moment, I had a change of heart. My stomach was right, I needed to stop looking at what I didn’t have and do something meaningful with my life. So I immediately pulled up Imgur on my browser to look at cat pictures—it’s what any self-respecting college male would do on a Saturday. Nearly 50 cats and countless minutes later, I made a truly profound discovery. I found myself staring at picture of an orange and dark striped cat named Libby walking in front of a much larger yellow Labrador, Cashew. You see, Ca-
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shew is blind, so Libby functions as her “seeing eye cat.” Libby leads Cashew through obstacles and to her food bowl every day. Beyond that, they are each other’s best friends—they even sleep next to each other at night—it’s a very meaningful and pure relationship. Despite their clear differences, they still provide each other with help and companionship. Can we say the same for ourselves? So what “profound discovery” did Libby and Cashew reveal to me? You could say the lesson learned is that I should not shy away from helping someone who is different from me. Rather, I should seek out the disadvantaged to help them, but also embrace their companionship. But that sounds like the ramblings of a food-deprived pseudo-zombie. Granted, those are all valuable lessons. Lessons that seem fitting of the holy month of Ramadan. But what I discovered is a far more profound answer to a longstanding question: Cats are indeed better than dogs. “Click.” Send Ahmed your thoughts on fasting to letters@technicianonline.com.
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Nolan’s darkest Knight yet Young Lee
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Diving 110 feet underwater to find hidden treasure may seem more like the plot of an action adventure movie than a recreational activity, but for Michael and Jane Smith, a retired couple who live in Raleigh, it’s all part of their daily fun: geocaching. Through the use of global positioning system devices, geocaching players compete in this outdoor treasure hunting game while avoiding the detection of “muggles”, a word borrowed from the “Harry Potter” franchise that refers to humans without magical powers who are oblivious to the world of wizards and witches. In geocaching, however, “muggles” refer to humans who are not aware of the geocaching activity. “The reason behind keeping our activities discreet is to avoid the curiosity of others who don’t geocache, which could lead to vandalism,” Mr. Smith said. “Many people would discover these objects and not know what they really were for, but mess with them anyway.” The objects, or “caches,” that geocaching players search for can be containers ranging from the size of an eraser on the tip of a pencil to the size of a large barrel. The caches usually include a a sheet of paper for the geocachers to “sign in.” Larger containers may include random treasures that may be swapped out by each new discovery of the cache’s location. These treasures can be
anything, including money, McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys and trackers, which are movable geocaches. Afterwards, geocachers can log on to www.geocaching.com to record their finds and share their experiences with the community. The Smiths have found several geocaches around N.C. State campus - an area particularly familiar to Mrs. Smith, an NCSU alumna. According to the couple, the history of geocaching began when the U.S. government opened military-developed global positioning satellites to civilians in the early ‘90s. In May of 2000, the government stopped degrading global positioning system accuracy, which allowed for much greater precision for civilians on the ground. At that time Dave Ulmer, a computer consultant, decided to test GPS’s accuracy by hiding a navigational target in the woods near Beaver Creek, Ore. He called this test “the Great American Stash Hunt” and posted it on the Internet. Since then, the stash hunt expanded to become a worldwide phenomenon now called geocaching. Geocaching has since spread throughout the world, where avid players who enjoy travelling for fun can use geocaching as a free and easy way to tour new places and make new discoveries as they search for their geocache’s destination. “In Italy, there was a lady from Austria at the Coliseum who was a fellow geocacher,” Mr. Smith said. “She beat us
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Jane Smith displays a logbook from a geocache found on campus near Witherspoon Cinema.
to the cache. We saw her trying to reach under her seat discreetly while watching out for muggles.” Geocaches are not only all over the world, but can also be anything in the world as well. A type of geocache that is not in a container is called a virtual cache, where the actual location is the discovery. “While we were in Hawaii we found this cache described online, which was a rock formation where water shoots up to make a shape,” Mrs. Smith said. “People who create these caches just find interesting things like these they want to show others.” To make this treasure hunting game more challenging, some geocachers who hide the geocaches offer hints in the form of puzzles that may take more than just looking around an area to find the geocache. For instance, at the N.C. State College of Natural Resources building, the red wolf statue gives a hint to where a geocache is located. In the “hints” section online that describes this hunt, the geocacher much count the
number of R’s located on a sign in front of the wolf, then multiply that by a certain number before coming up with the latitude for the location. Those interested in the activity should be aware of the “terrain” evaluation of the activity, which marks the level of danger for any specific hunt, Mr. Smith said. “The higher the level of terrain, the more likely you are to slip or fall,” Mr. Smith said. “This usually goes for areas like up in the mountains.” For new students who are unfamiliar with the campus who would like to get to know it better, geocaching is a way to discover various buildings and sites that N.C. State has to offer. There are more than 20 different geocaches currently hidden in various parts of main campus, and more to be discovered if one plans to search Centennial Campus as well.
The heated rivalry between DC and Marvel comics reignited with the release of Marvel’s Avengers and DC’s The Dark Knight Rises, and it has rarely been more fierce. Many fans are as interested in seeing which movie will ultimately perform better in the box office as they are in the movies themselves. However, The Dark Knight Rises is fundamentally different from Avengers. For better or worse, Dark Knight is much less fun and much more serious. In the Batman comics canon, Bane is known as the villain who “broke the Bat.” During the first few minutes of Christopher Nolan’s twohour-and-45-minute saga, the movie introduces the audience to a Batman, played by Christian Bale, who’s already broken. In Batman Begins, a young Bruce Wayne is a witness to his parents’ murder at the hands of a robber. In Dark Knight, Wayne loses his childhood friend–and his hope for a normal life. In The Dark Knight Rises, Wayne struggles with the responsibility of managing a limping Wayne Enterprises while physically worn after countless battles with Gotham’s criminal underworld. Wayne has never looked weaker. Joining the troubled Bat is a collection of other char-
acters highlighting just how far Wayne has fallen. Nolan rounds up many of his old many of his old Inception cast members for this task. However, with Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt joining Anne Hathaway and other returning actors, The Dark Knight Rises just barely holds it all together. All of the actors give amazing performances, even if we don’t see much of some characters such as Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) and Alfred. Hardy manages to evoke terror in spite of his face mask, both through his eyes and his unrelenting attacks on a broken Bat. Nolan also gives Gordon-Levitt and Hathaway an ample amount of time to shine. Many fans were apprehensive about Gordon-Levitt’s role as John Blake, as well as Hathaway’s role as Catwoman. However, Blake fits well in Nolan’s Batman universe, and Hathaway’s performance brings just a bit of light to a very dark film. In fact, a few audience members may wish The Dark Knight Rises had a little more of her. There is no doubt that Nolan and all of the cast and crew told this story about the depths of despair with a sense of refinement and sophistication many have come to expect. However, with little humor and fun, it is unclear whether The Dark Knight Rises will see the same success as The Avengers, a much happier film.
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Meeting people halfway through Esperanto STORY BY YOUNG LEE | GRAPHIC BY EMMA PTAK One hundred and twentyfive years ago, L.L. Zaminhof created the world’s most successful invented language— Esperanto. According to Bruce Sherwood, a professor in physics and an Esperanto speaker, Zaminhof created the language in an attempt to solve problems that many students face in an increasingly globalized world. Born 1859, Zaminhof grew up in Białystok in the Russian empire, which is now part of Poland, and met people from many different ethnic groups and speakers of many different languages. Zaminhof also came into contact with different religions including Christianity, Roman Catholicism and Judaism. According to Sherwood, because of all the the linguistic and ethnic differences, Białystok was not always a very happy place. “There was a lot of strife,” Sherwood said. “Although he understood very well that having a common lan-
guage doesn’t prevent strife, because civil wars between people who speak the same language can be incredibly bloody and awful and terrible. But, he reasoned, that if you had an easily learned common language, within which people could be fully expressive, that would at least make it easier to address the larger problems.” During the late ‘70s, Sherwood experienced struggled to communicate with other researchers and wrote about it for Physics Today. “Even people who have studied English for many years can be very hard to understand,” Sherwood said. “The sounds of English are actually quite difficult. English has a large number of vowels. These small distinctions are the reason why so many foreigners, when they speak English, speak it with quite a strong accent.” In contrast, Esperanto has only five vowels and a few
consonants, and most words end in vowels, which helps to distinguish one word from another in a spoken sentence, so accents are not as much of a hurdle to communication. According to Sherwood, while an accent is not fatal to casual communication, it can get in the way of understanding. During the ‘70s, Sherwood said he spoke with a Russian astrophysicist who said that at many conferences, Americans won scientific debates not because of their arguments, but because the conferences were in English, and thus they were able to convey their ideas with more force, power and eloquence. “There’s an inequality, and it’s very bad for the person whose native language is not English, but it’s not good for English speakers, either, because we’re not getting a full story from the other person,” Sherwood said. “English speakers are getting a story
that’s filtered through an imperfect brand of English.” Many Esperanto speakers found that speaking the invented language breaks down barriers. Although Sherwood was a linguistics professor and gave several scientific lectures in Spanish and Italian, he said he is much more expressive in Esperanto than either of those languages. Gary Grady, an Esperanto speaker and consultant at FTSE, said that this feeling isn’t uncommon. Grady said, however, that Esperanto’s expressiveness is not the only reason the language is useful. “It is politically neutral,” Grady said. “You are not learning the American language, the British language or the French language in the sense of ‘being from France.’ You are learning a language that belongs to anyone who wants to learn it. Everyone is equal on that level.” Sherwood said that in addition to its multicultural na-
ture, this desire for equality has influenced what he refers to as the “culture” of Esperanto. It is, he said, a perspective that many Americans could benefit from sharing. “More and more the expectation is that everyone will learn English, giving enormous privileges to the native speakers while putting enormous burdens on the non-native speakers,” Sherwood said. “Everyone loses from that, not only because non-native English speakers are getting their ideas filtered through an inadequate medium of English, but also because we have not gone through the important process of meeting people halfway–and heaven knows that Americans are arrogant enough as it is.” According to Chuck Mays, an N.C. State alum and organizer of the Esperanto Research Triangle Yahoo group, although there are many different reasons why Esperan-
tists first come to learn the language, they all stick with it because they find it fun and the community rewarding. “If you ask 100 people why they’re Esperantist, you’d get 100 different answers,” Mays said. “Everyone enjoys it for different reasons. Maybe it’s travel, or they just got into it and now they met friends, or maybe they’re just interested in languages. One thing special about Esperanto is, because the community is very small, a couple million people, if you do anything you’re a big fish in a little pond.” “It’s a community of people who have gone through the effort to say ‘I want to meet other people halfway,’” Sherwood said. “’I don’t want to be a beggar with my poor French, and I don’t want to go overboard with my excellent English. I want to meet people halfway.’”
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civic responsibility not only to donate but to encourage others to do so as well,” Green said. Gillespie said when she took a couple of years off from school, she was shocked at how the community-oriented service and leadership focus does not exist in “the real world” the same way it exists here. “When I came back to school, I decided that I wanted to dive back into the service community here at N.C. State. One of the biggest things I love about being on a college campus is the huge amount of energy and human potential converged in one place,” Gillespie said. Gillespie said the marketing plan for the drive is fairly elaborate, and the coordinators are reaching out to bot h Universit y departments and campus g roups, a nd ma rket i ng “guerrilla-style” through street teams. “Primarily, we are working to reach out through existing networks on campus, such as
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too,” Haithem said. “Can you imagine that, a lecturer with a gun? He loves Bashar [al-Assad] from the bottom of his heart, and he will fail all of us in the revolution [in our exams] or tell the Shabiha where to find us.” They made a point, however, that situation was not
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University Housing, Greek Life and student groups. We’re advertising though loca l news out lets a nd radio stations, including WKNC. We are active on Facebook and Twitter, and we hope to create a Foursquare swarm on Aug. 17,” Gillespie said. Christian Tilley, a senior in biological sciences, said this will be his third year participating in Ser vice N.C. State since he got “hooked with the mission” his freshman year. “I’ve been involved with ser vice work outside of the state and country, and Service N.C. State allows me that opportunity to give back to the local community which I am a part of every single day,” Tilley said. Jordan Barkes, a junior in animal science, said this will be her first year participating in Service N.C. State. “I think it’s very important to do events that help others, and this is a simple one to do. I strongly believe everyone should take a short hour out of their day to go and give a pint of blood and save lives,” Barkes said.
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State Superior Judge Howard Manning issued no ruling last week in a public records case between various media outlets and UNC-Chapel Hill related to an NCAA investigation into the u n iversit y ’s footba l l program. Manning listened to more than two hours of legal arguments from law yers represent i ng UNC-Chapel Hill, former football coach Butch Davis and media organizations which included Raleigh’s News & Observer and the North Carolina Press Association. The lawyers representing the media outlets tried to convince M a n n i ng to re le a s t release of additiona l records regarding the NCAA investigation the university is still holding, as well as Davis’ personal phone records. Davis said he of ten
typical of other students. “Most are staying quiet for now. If I went back to Aleppo I would be caught and put in prison, or killed.” That may change in the coming months, as the stability of the northern provinces continues to erode and more of Syria is drawn into a growing civil war that could eventually pit classmate against classmate.
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“I think this is the most experienced and deepest team since I’ve been here,” O’Brien said.
used his personal phone for It took 622 days, but UNCuniversity business. Chapel Hill eventually turned Jon Sasser, the attorney over more than 200 pages of representing Davis, filed a heavily-redacted documents motion to block the subpoena to local news organizations. of the cell phone records, Some documents were so arguing that Davis wasn’t a heavily edited that entire public official under North pa rag raphs or more of Carolina’s open records laws. information were missing Sasser said the release of from the copies given to the Davis’ phone media. records would Media open him attorneys up to public argued that ridicule from t he records N.C. State and provided fell Duke fans. “woefully Manning short” of Howard Manning, north said he would what the carolina superior judge issue a ruling state’s public on the case records laws soon. He said he expects his require of public entities like decision to be appealed to the university. the N.C. Court of Appeals UNC-Chapel Hill said it regardless of which way he has a duty to protect students’ eventually rules. private records under the “This is not going to be Family Educational Rights decided today by any means,” and Privacy Act. Manning said. Since the 2010 suit, the Several North Carolina scandal has evolved from media outlets joined together football players receiving in a public records lawsuit improper benefits to a major against UNC-Chapel Hill in case of academic fraud. In 2010 seeking all documents the latter case, UNC-Chapel related to the investigation. Hill officials are holding back
information related to the academic fraud case involving the former chairman of the African and Afro-American studies department, Julius Nyang’oro. An internal investigation of the department’s courses found unauthorized grades, for ge d sig n at u re s a nd courses in which no work was assigned between the summer 2007 and fall 2011 terms. That investigation found that many classes, some of which were heavily populated w it h at h letes, i nvolved little to no contact between professors and students. A five-member panel from the UNC Board of Governors met last Friday to launch an investigation into the academic fraud case and to determine if the university’s investigation was thorough enough.
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Head basketball coach Mark Gottfried met with the media Tuesday to address the team’s upcoming trip to Spain next month. During the press conference, Gottfried discussed a range of topics, including the availability of junior point guard Lorenzo Brown, expectations for the upcoming season, the impact of new additions to the team and moving forward after the departure of key depth players. “Our team has an opportunity to go to Spain, which is something we’re very excited about,” Gottfriedsaid. “I think it’s something we hope helps our team throughout the year. And it gives us a head start, gives us an opportunity to put some things in this summer. I think this group will benefit from the practices and the games as much as anything.” Gottfried said Brown has been taking part in practice on a limited basis. Yesterday he took part in jogging drills as well as a shoot-around with the rest of the team. There has been much speculation as to whether or not Brown will participate in the games during the trip to Spain, but Gottfriend said he’s not sure if Brown will play yet. “My initial thought is to be really conservative with him, take our time,” Gottfried said. “And if that means he doesn’t play in Spain, that’s fine with me. With Lorenzo, I want to just make sure that we do everything we can to make sure we don’t do anything to jeopardize his progress.” Without Brown, the team has been experimenting with other options at the point guard position. One potential silver lining: Freshman point guard Tyler Lewis will be able to gain valuable playing time to develop his game. Otherwise, Gottfriend senior forward Scott Wood has been one of the other experiments at the point guard position. With the team now in the national media spotlight after their memorable run to the sweet sixteen, the second-year Wolfpack head coach has been quick to keep his team level headed, with their minds on
the game and not on the media. “There’s a slippery slope there,” Gottfried said. Gottfried said is more focused on the chemistry of the team, evaluating leadership and finding ways to find success. “This might be the beauty of us going to Spain,” he said. “I always say that each year your team has to learn how it needs to play and who needs to do what. We’d all like to know that on Oct. 15, but the reality is that sometimes you play games, and as you go through those first games in November and December, you begin to really learn your team.” Highly recruited freshmen forwards Rodney Purvisand Lewis could see immediate playing time– especially Lewis, due to Brown’s injury. Gottfried praised the athletic ability of both players, saying Purvis’ style of play reminds him of watching Herschel Walker and Bo Jackson in how he can quickly transition the ball down the court with speed and power. “If I was guarding him myself, I’m worried he’s going to run me right over and dunk it right on my head, because he’s coming 100 miles an hour,”Gottfried said. Lewis drew comparisons to NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana and NBA veteran Mo Williams, who played for Gottfried at Alabama. “I had Mo Williams, who’s done a nice job in the NBA, and Tyler’s ability to pass the ball is as good as anybody I’ve ever had,” Gottfried said. “He played with Jordan one day when we were scrimmaging and Jordan ran the f loor, and he gave him three or four layups just like Joe Montana. It was amazing.” The players themselves are more than excited at the chance to play overseas and grow together as a team. Following the press conference, team practice was available to media, where players were able to talk about the upcoming trip. “I just want to see Spain,” junior forward Richard Howell said. “I’ve never been out of the country, so I kind of want to go over there, see what it’s like. More chemistry, bonding ... we definitely want to go over there and win as many ball
Pack projected third in division MEN’S FOOTBALL Jonathan Stout Staff Writer
The annual ACC Football Kickoff event took place July 22-23 at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, N.C. N.C. State was well represented during the event, as head coach Tom O’Brien, senior quarterback Mike Glennon and senior safety Earl Wolff were in attendance. Predictions for the upcoming season included ACC champion, ACC Player of the Year and championship game predictions. Florida State received 72 of 95 first-place votes and was picked
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games as we can, but I feel like the main thing is going over there and really getting the feel of how we play with each other.” Brown said he’s never been overseas and looks forward to encouraging the team from the bench if he’s unable to play during the trip. Wood, the team’s three-point specialist, admitted his Spanish is not very sharp, but he said he knows a few phrases. “I know ‘hola,’ ‘adios’ and ‘Hasta la vista, baby,” Wood said. Junior forward C.J. Leslie, who is expected to take more of a leadership role this season, said he wants to lead by example. “I’m an upperclassman now, and I have to be a leader on the court and off the court,” Leslie said. Purvis and Lewis were both quick
to acknowledge the upperclassmen in helping them get acclimated to college life on and off the court. Leslie has taken Purvis in particular under his wing, explaining the ins and outs of decisions he make. “If you do it this way, then this is your output; if you do it that way, this is going to be your outcome,” Leslie said. “He’s a lot like me. He’s a good kid.” The team’s 10-day trip to Spain will begin Aug. 5. “It will be a good bonding experience for us,” Wood said. “You’re going over to a place where you’ve never been, and you kind of don’t know what to expect, and it’s just you and your teammates to figure out what to do.”
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to beat Virginia Tech in the championship game at Bank of America stadium in Charlotte. Clemson’s Sammy Watkins was selected to win Player of the Year after a stellar freshman year that helped put Clemson back in the national spotlight. State is predicted to finish third in the Atlantic Division, fifth in the overall ACC rankings, and standouts Glennon and David Amerson finished fifth and sixth in pre-season Player of the Year voting. O’Brien said he’s still optimistic about his annual goal-–reaching the conference championship– contrary to the voters’ beliefs.
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Glennon ready for exciting season MEN’S FOOTBALL Jonathan Stout Staff Writer
Starting quarterback named to three watch lists, ready for season to begin Quarterback Mike Glennon expects big things this year. The senior was named to the Allstate Sugar Bowl’s Manning award watch list released July 20. He has also been named to the watch lists of the Davey O’Brien and Maxwell Award watch lists, which are presented each year to the best quarterback and the best players in the country, respectively. After throwing for more than 3,000 yards and 31 touchdowns, and after completing over 60 percent of his passes and leading the team to a bowl with after a nine-win season during his junior campaign, Glennon looks ready to take his game to the next level. “It’s pretty exciting to be on a
watch list, but in reality it doesn’t mean a whole lot,” Glennon said. “I hope I put myself in position and play well enough to be a finalist.” Wide receiver T.J. Graham, who was drafted in the third round by the Buffalo Bills after he graduated in May, was a key target for Glennon last season, recording 30 catches for 757 yards and seven touchdowns. Glennon said that with the Wolfpack’s offensive scheme, spreading the ball around won’t be a problem, as five receivers had more than 30 catches last season. “I think we have four guys that are going to be real important for us, and we have two young guys who are going to be contributors as well,” Glennonsaid. Focusing on team goals and the success of the teammates and coaches, rather than himself, is the mindset of the senior quarterback and a true leader–and that leadership will be essential if theWolfpack hopes to make run for the confer-
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ence championship crown. “As a team, I expect that we can win any game on our schedule,” Glennon said. “I don’t think there is a team that we can not beat, and our mindset is to win the ACC championship.” According to Glennon, consistency from start to finish will be a focal point this year. It’s something that the Pack struggled with last year. “I think based on last year, just be more consistent form the first quarter to the fourth quarter,” Glennonsaid. “I think we’re a real veteran group; we have a lot of seniors coming back, which I think will be very important for us this year.” The first chance to show their improvement from quarter to quarter will come against the Tennessee Volunteers, whom they will play in the Chick-Fil-AKickoff game, Aug. 31 in Atlanta. Glennon said taking the season one game at a time and worrying about them individually rather than
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Redshirt junior quarterback Mike Glennon barks out orders in the huddle during the first half of the team’s game against Liberty Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. N.C. State won 43-21.
looking ahead to specific games is how he plans to approach his opponents going into this season. He is aware of the implications the opening game has, being on national television and playing against arguably the best conference in the country. “I think it’s really big, first for our program and, second, for the conference” Glennon said. “For the program to beat an SEC opponent,
I feel like it would be a great start to our season. It could really get us headed in the right direction. And from the conference standpoint, obviously right now the powerhouse conference is the SEC, and we’re sure we can compete with them.” “Right now I’m pretty excited to go out and play Tennessee,” Glennon said.
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