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Campus Dining to change policies Various changes will be happening this fall with Dining, including new benefits to I.D. cards. TeShima Brennen Correspondent
This fall, students will find the meal equivalencies, mean plans, Board Bucks and the way they use
their I.D. card have all changed. Jennifer Gilmore is the marketing and communications manager for Campus Enterprises, a retail division that encompasses University Dining and other N.C. State Facilities, and said the changes were necessary. “Students wanted later eating hours,” Gilmore said. “They weren’t using their meal plans or Board
Bucks as intended. …University Dining had to come up with a solution to the problem or raise prices.” Due to the student demand for later evening hours, University Dining added another meal period, Late Night, to its schedule. Late Night will start after 9 p.m. and will run until closing. To allow students options to eat their late night snacks, the Atrium will stay open until 10
p.m. and Talley, the first addition opening fall 2013, will be open until 11 p.m. “I think it’s a great idea and would provide more convenience for students,” Melanie Baker, senior in communications, said. With the completion of Talley in fall 2014, there will be a significant increase in the number of places students can eat, according to Gilmore.
Students will have a new variety of places to pick for their meals such as the World Market, which will feature different cuisines from around the world in Talley. Meal equivalencies are expected to increase from $4.75 to $5.00 for breakfast and from $5.85 to $6.25 for all other meal periods. Jennifer
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Student starts company to bring hope to children Student starts a new organization designing headbands for children with cancer.
“to fund research for childhood cancer and spread hope in all girls, one headband at a time,” according to the website. “Many girls fighting childhood cancer lose their hair during their Shawn Thompson rigorous chemotherapy treatments. Staff Writer Headbands are the perfect way for Headbands of Hope, an organiza- these girls to keep their feminine tion started by University student identity and have a constant reJessica Ekstrom, is giving children minder that they’re not alone,” who are fighting cancer a new sense Ekstrom said. Ekstrom, founder and president of of confidence through fashionable Headbands of Hope, found her moheadbands. tivation to start the For every headbusiness during an band purchased on internship. In 2011, headbandsofhope. her summer inorg, one headband ternship at Makeis given to a girl a-Wish Foundawith cancer. A portion of Centra l tion of profits are and Western North also donated to the Carolina inspired St. Baldrick’s founHeadba nds of dation, a volunteerJessica Ekstrom, founder and Hope, through her driven charity compresident of Headbands interaction with mitted to funding for Hope children who were research to f ind experiencing hair cures for childhood cancers and gives continuous sup- loss from cancer treatments. “One day, I was pulling my hair port to survivors. Headbands of Hope’s mission is back in a ponytail and thought
“I saw how much impact losing their hair can have on their self esteem...”
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Jessica Ekstrom, founder and president of Headbands for Hope, spends time with one of the girls from the Maka-Wish Foundation she was able to provide with a headband. Headbands for Hope helps young girls with cancer.
about the hundreds of girls I encountered that lose their hair to cancer. I saw how much losing their hair had an impact on their self-esteem and confidence level,” Ekstrom said. Ekstrom said she wanted to give
the girls something to boost their spirits and make them smile when they looked in the mirror. “Being a young girl presents many struggles with self-esteem already and losing their hair as a result of a
life-threatening illness is traumatic. Not only do they have to face the risk of losing their lives, they feel that they lose a part of their femi-
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Campus Craft Center is offering a course even the busiest summer students can fit in.
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Diana Quietti, sophomore in communication media, sings as the character Perfect Love in the University Theatre’s rendition of the drama The Arabian Night.
insidetechnician Singer-songwriter works to balance career and activism Musician Kina Grannis spends her time both perforimng and taking part in activism. See page 9.
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len Westmoreland, assistant director of the Crafts Center, said. Once the day is complete, students will automatically receive a studio pass, allowing them free access to a studio and all its tools for both sumJessie Halpern mer sessions. Not to mention, the Deputy News Editor Craft Center is providing a cookout With students filling up their lunch in the middle of the day. The summer plans, the Craft Center price for the retreat totals to only has made it convenient to keep $25, almost half of the usual studio enjoying their services, with pass rate. “Passes usually range from $45 to their second bi-annual day-long the $60 range because you’re paying “retreat.” The retreat began last year, in for a full class. This is a really good deal and can fit into an effort to proanyone’s schedule,“ v ide summer Westmoreland said. students with While every stuan opportunity dent may not be into participate terested in the four in a relaxing, classes offered, the creative activCraft Center paid ity. Rather than careful attention having to sign to the options they up for a regular Jo Ellen Westmoreland, planned for retreat. six-week long assistant director for “We picked the class, students Crafts Center most popu lar w it h a f u l l classes, and took schedule are encouraged to attend a retreat from into account that some of them, like 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. On this crafting fibers, are too intensive to instruct adventure, beginning students in just one day,” Westmoreland said. Once a student receives a studio can learn an art of their choice from the ground up, complete pass, all they’ll need to buy are mawith learning to use advanced terials for their craft, and the rest is free as long as the Craft Center tools. “Students can choose from is open. Passes can also be renewed attending an intensive course on pottery, stained glass, woodcraft continued page 2 turning or metal jewelry,” Jo El-
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the end of the summer for a fee. The professors for these courses were chosen based mainly on experience. Rachel Allen will be teaching the woodturning studio. Though she is not a regular professor at the Craft Center, she was a former student and showed extreme skill in the craft. Other professors, like Gaines Bailey, clay studio manager, work in the Craft Center already and are coming for the retreat to share their experience with others. For Bailey, one of the
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more interesting parts of the experience is trying to fit a lot of material into a small amount of time for students. “It’s a really fun experience. It presents a bit of a challenge to a teacher to try and fit everything in one day,” Bailey said. Whether you’re a lover of the Craft Center already, or you’re looking for the opportunity to blow off some steam during a busy summer, you are encouraged to register for the retreat. Students can find registration information at www. ncsu.edu /craf ts. Anyone can register until the class becomes full, or until the day of the retreat, whichever comes first.
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“Since starting Headbands of Hope, the response has been tremendous. Almost continued from page 1 everyone knows someone nine identity. Wigs can be who has been touched by canuncomfortable and unap- cer, so Headbands of Hope h it s home pealing, for a lot of especially people, men to youngand women, er girls. children So headand adults,” bands Ekstrom a re t he said. great way Headto spread bands of hope in Jessice Ekstrom, founder of Hope proall girls Headbands for Hope vides a and fight movement in the battle against childhood to spread hope in all girls and fight in the battle against cancer,” Ekstrom said. As part of Headbands childhood cancer, one headof Hope, The Hope Club band at a time. “I wish Headbands of Hope was created for girls who receive the headbands that had existed when I was going through my treatments, are purchased.
“Wigs can be uncomfortable and unappealing, especially to younger girls.”
because it was hard to get through school without hair. To be a part of this cause is an indescribable feeling. It hits home and it is so good to give back any way I can. The amount of empathy I feel toward these children who are receiving the headbands is more than I can put into words,” Allison Moore, freshman in elementary education, said. Visit headbandsof hope. org for more information about contributing to fighting childhood cancer or to purchase a headband. “This is an amazing way to help little girls during a time that’s really difficult for them,” Maddy Anderson, sophomore in business management, said.
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sion among students when it came to Board Bucks,” Gilmcontinued from page 1 ore said. University Dining origiWhite, senior in biochem- nally chose the name Board istry and English literature, Bucks because of the exsaid she thinks this is a great pression “room and board,” idea. board meaning food. “It seems like Univer“Dining Dollars would sity Dining keeps making it help students understand the harder and harder to keep to use of this component better a meal plan and enjoy what since students didn’t seem to you’re eating, specifically in associate the old name with the Atrium,” White said. the term room and board,” University Dining will be Gilmore said. removing the 14 meals-perDining Dollars are supweek pla n posed to be and replacused to buy ing it with snacks from a 130 meals t he ve ndper semester ing mablock plan. chines and “The 130 C-Stores; me a l s p e r however, semester students Jennifer Gilmore, marketing me a l pla n and communications director aren’t using will provide Dining Dolfor Campus Enterprises a happy lars for this medium to the 100 and 160 purpose, according to Gilmmeals per semester plans,” ore. Instead, if they want to Gilmore said. buy snacks they will use their Campus Enterprises will meal equivalencies to do so. be introducing a new I.D. This is causing a problem for card called the Wolf Pack dining. One Card. This card will not “University Dining charges only act as a student I.D. but a cost of 30 percent the cost as a prepaid MasterCard as of goods, when students well. This will allow students use their meal plans to buy to use their card on and off snacks, they are taking the campus. $5 equivalency and using it New students who enter the University this fall will get the card for free, while current students can obtain the card for $10. “I know that happens a NCSU Choirs Concert Thursday, April 26 at 7pm lot on other campuses, and Stewart Theatre I think it would be good for Vox Accalia, the Singing Statesus to join in on that,” Austin men, and the State Chorale all perform in this concert of Hampton, graduate in bioglorious choral music. Selections mechanics, said. range from classical works by Schubert and Bach, to spirituals, Another change taking folk songs, and a sampling of place concerns the current Parker-Shaw arrangements. Board Bucks system. The $5 NCSU students name Board Bucks will be changed to Dining Dollars. 919-515-1100 “There seemed to be confuncsu.edu/arts
“Students have nothing to lose by purchasing Dining Dollars.”
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to buy food of a lesser cost,” Gilmore said. In other words, the dining facilities aren’t getting the money back for what they put out. Since University Dining is a revenue-generating business that is not financed by N.C. State, they have to find a way to make enough money to stay in business, the easy solution to this problem would be to increase the prices of their goods. As a result of this problem, all meal plans except for the Athletic and Commuter Plans, will be required to purchase Dinning Dollars as a part of their meal plan. University Dining will allow Dining Dollars to roll over from year to year. At the end of a student’s educational career, whether that is through graduation or withdrawal, a student can request to have the remainder of their Dining Dollars transferred back to them. “Students have nothing to lose by purchasing Dining Dollars,” Gilmore said. There will also be changes made to the Freedom Pass, the University’s most popular meal plan. The amount of meal equivalencies a student can use per week will drop from 25 down to 10. 2012-2013 NCSU DANCE TEAM SPRING TRYOUTS Dates: April 27-29, 2012
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“Freedom Pass holders use about an average of 6.6 meal equivalencies per week, with the most being 16 per week and the least being none,” Gilmore said. This loss of money prevents University Dining from giving back to the N.C. State, as well as adding new additions and upgrades to N.C. State’s dining facilities. “University Dining strives to provide meal plans that works for a majority of students at state a reasonable price by adding controls to keep prices down for students who use the meal plans as intended,” Gilmore said.
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here are various stages of desperation we all face with our finals looming and today, we illustrate your levels of terror. It begins with a lull of comfort on the first floor of the library, when relaxation
is not yet foreign. The next two floors are comfortable, but begin to involve some mild work. As you reach the stacks, you accept the inevitability of actual work. By the time the real stress has set in, you’re seven cups of cof-
fee deep and wishing you’d followed you sister’s footsteps and enrolled in a community college. No matter, pass or fail, soon the threat will be be over. So keep trucking as you pass though the states of emergency.
Naps are essential; anything can become a sufficient bed While chaining yourself to a library chair a week prior to your exam may sound like the ideal, we all know procrastination to be a good and loyal friend. Nobody in their right mind goes to the library on a low threat level day with the intention of actually getting work done; don’t people know that’s what the night before is for? People in this zone will use absolutely any excuse possible to avoid work. Hear of an old acquaintance’s birthday, a mere chance for free food on campus or a kegger on Brooks Avenue? Guaranteed, you’re running directly to whichever event appeals to you the most. Why bother pretending to use your reading days for useful pastimes when you could be furthering your drunken memories, or complete lack thereof? Chairs in the coffee shop become casual footrests and anyone who looks slightly productive
is shunned. Doodling, sleeping and attempting casual converation with the Hill of Beans employees are all favored defenses. Go the extra mile: find Lil’ Wayne while he’s paying his dues at the coffee shop and tip him. If you’re lucky, maybe he’ll serenade you with one of his classier hits.
Sometimes there just isn’t enough caffeine in the world i laugh at attendance policies
Huh, they have books here?
climbing these stairs counts as my workout for the day
At some point, we are bound to realize the ageold fact that keeping up appearances matters. It’s nice to see at least a few words on the pages in front of you, even if they mean absolutely nothing. Nobody wants to be the one in their group of friends to be spotted getting nowhere during their five hours in D.H. Hill. We sigh and spread out an array of highlighters and notebooks, giving a nice image to passerby of extreme focus. In some cases, this focus is legitimate, but for those truly committed to
procrastination, it is anything but. The boy sitting in the back row of the learning commons is actually watching illicit activities involving several female minorities on his laptop and the girl sitting in front of you is plotting how to acquire free alcohol as quickly as possible when night falls. This stage is for reflection; do we choose to embrace the life of the studious and climb the stairs further to hell, or will we follow in the no doubt degenerate footsteps of our fellow students?
How many people actually study down here?
There comes a point where you just can’t take anymore When we actually become productive, everything just seems to hit the fan. We all have our own ways of coping with the stress, whether it be through therapy, Pinterest, City Limits Teen Night or just general complaining to someone who couldn’t care less. Complaints reach an all time high; every person you speak to will swear up and
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down they have more work than anyone in the free world, even if they’ve already graduated. Some of us shed tears, some groan in frustration and the truly committed do something inherently drastic, occasionally involving the removal of several hundred books from library shelves on an acid trip (seriously, look it up on YouTube).
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Recharge your batteries with reading days The Facts:
This academic year is wrapping up and exams begin next Wednesday. Prior to exams, Monday and Tuesday are reading days for students.
Our Opinion:
These reading days have drifted away from their original purpose, and now act as free days for students to take a break before exams.
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s the last week of the semester draws to a close, students welcome the four-day weekend before final exams. Typically we argue against bunching reading days back-to-back with the weekend, because of the limits it poses for students’ study habits. However, this semester we feel the better approach to the issue of reading days is not to condemn them, but praise them for the much needed break they provide in lieu of the week formally known as dead
break and relaxing, to others it is banging away in the library studying for copious exams. Whichever the case completely disregarding the may be, students will treat dead week policy. these the way they want— Because of the constant and they should. stress of this week, students Students need to utilize this have strayed away from the nice break before the stress of original intent of reading finals. Since the University is days and used them as men- not planning on changing the tal health days—whatever reading days, students should that may mean. take advantage of them. Take The way students deal with the time to recharge your these four days of freedom is batteries and prepare yourcompletely up to them. For self mentally for your tests. some students it’s taking a
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week. Originally, dead week was meant to be five days of classes without anything due: no tests, no projects, no assignments, etc. However, the policy has been adapted so professors may assign due dates and tests on this sacred week if they state it in the syllabus. The evolution of this week has led to professors merely assigning work a week before,
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Barack Obama ain’t no progressive
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y goal as an opinion columnist is to make you feel as uncomfortable as I possibly can about your own beliefs, specifically about your political beliefs, which— unlike religion and culture—have a direct effect on my life. A nd , f rom intellectual Brian property to Anderson Israel, I hope Staff columnist I’ve done that for you this semester. I hope each of you has read one of my columns and then began to question the toughness of your ideals, at least for one second. If that rings true, I’ve done my job. I explained in this newspaper the disturbing lack of information behind the minds propelling the Kony 2012 campaign. Among other things, I mention how Joseph Kony hasn’t been in Uganda since 2006 and how the Ugandan military—the organization to which Invisible Children suggests we provide weapons and money—grew its power through the use of child slavery and continues to this day to torture and maim its own citizens for play. I woke up to an unfortunate sight this weekend: hanging from various light poles around my neighborhood were little posters in support of Kony 2012. Despite the internet’s grid being full of information about the organization’s illegitimacy, a few idiotic souls still insist upon following the now-infamous public masturbation expert named Jason Russell. Likewise, it is similarly disturbing to hear my peers drone on and on (pun clearly intended) about the virtue of voting for the Obama administration’s continued attacks—foreign and domestic—on our Constitution and lives under the guise of civility and peace. The reason I’d prefer to hang out with Republicans rather than Democrats is not that I extol their ideals as being worthy of the White House but merely that they have to openly admit their corruption. George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich and Mitt
Romney—they’re all quite openly corrupt, yet Barack Obama does the same things and the population bows to him. It’s a lmost humorous Obama’s campaign trail began with massive donations from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup—$2.9 million, to be exact. But I suppose that’s not too much money to donate when your candidate votes to bail you out with billions of dollars in taxpayer money. A few years ago, Obama explained to Joe the Plumber how “when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” People were scared he’d steal money from the rich and give it to the poor, but he ended up just stealing money from the middle class and then giving it the rich. Corporatism, not socialism, has been Obama’s glowing economic plan. Both ideologies are antithetical to the free market. And tell me again how Obama has been any different than George W. Bush in the foreign policy arena. The current president tried to extend U.S. presence in Iraq, but failed after insisting American soldiers receive immunity from prosecution. Then he got mad and vastly increased the number of drone strikes in Pakistan, making sure to assassinate an American citizen (and his 16-year old son) in Yemen on the way there. In all sincerity, I hope you younger progressives will give Ron Paul a chance. Obama tends to do the Progressive-talk, but he does the Republican-walk better. You may currently believe Obama had no choice in these matters, but it’s clearly evident he’s had the option to change things all along. “The Republicans won’t let him,” is a ridiculous excuse for a man in complete control of the military for three years straight. As for me, it’s Ron Paul or bust. At least I’ll be able to sleep at night. Send Brian your thoughts on politics to letters@technicianonline.com.
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What do you do during your reading days? by Oliver Sholder
“I try to wake up early. I do schoolwork, workout, and after that I relax. I try to keep my days more structured during reading days as opposed to normal days.”
Plug it in anywhere.
Elizabeth Tate, senior in fashion and textile management
Jordan Hjelmquist sophomore, biomedical engineering
Forget cough syrup, I have hand sanitizer
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his just in: teenagers no longer need to find a cool 21-year-old to buy them alcohol. The era of sneaking beer a nd liquor out of your parent’s liquor cabiJon net and Lewis Staff columnist blaming it on your sibling is over. The days of ignorant teenagers paying the outrageously inflated prices to 21-year-olds are over. All of these things are done for because teenagers have started getting drunk on something so available and so cheap per unit alcohol they would be foolish not to buy it. What is this miraculously cheap alcohol and why haven’t you known about it until now? Right now I bet you could ask your neighbor for some, and without a question they would share it with you. You may be pleasantly surprised to find out it is plain and simple hand sanitizer. That’s right Purell, GermX, Lysol and a handful of other popular hand sanitizers all utilize ethanol as their active ingredients. Hav i ng ta ken hig h school chemistry, I was aware alcohol was used
as the primary substance in things like hand sanitizers and disinfectants. I had been led to believe not only was the alcohol used either isopropanol or n-propanol (not ethanol which causes inebriation) but if you did try to drink it, there were vomit-inducing inactive ingredients. That’s why I was surprised to learn last night teenagers have started chugging 62 percent ethanol hand sanit i z ers to get drunk and have been havi ng numerous c a s e s of alcohol poisoning. At first I didn’t believe it, so I went to my trusty research source— Wikipedia, where I learned, in fact, ethanol, isopropanol and n-propanol are all possibilities as active ingredients. Not convinced I was wrong, I went and checked the Material Safety Data Sheets of the popular hand sanitizers and was shocked to see nearly every brand had ethanol as the only active ingredient, and the only health hazard listed was “may cause inebriation.” And while it did call for induced vomiting if ingested, there was nothing in the product itself to prevent
people from drinking it and getting drunk. So my question is why is alcohol, a product so strictly controlled in the U.S., so easily attained by everyone the law is supposed to keep it from? Why has the FDA allowed companies to keep producing it this way even though there are safer, identical alternatives? Robitussin and Sudafed, along with their generics, are already strictly controlled, and turning them into hard drugs is not as easy as just chugging hand sanitizer. The best answer I could find is the producers don’t want to use other alcohols because, if swallowed, they have worse health problems. Well, FDA, think about it. Isopropanol can’t get you drunk, but ethanol can. Why would anyone ever bother drinking the product if they only got sick instead of drunk?
“All of these things are done for because teenagers have started getting drunk on something so available...”
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New comedy series continues HBO’s success The new HBO series ‘Girls’ brings a heartfelt mix of drama and comedy.
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Over the past decade, HBO has built a reputation for having some of the most critically and commercially acclaimed dramas. However, one of its earliest and longest-running successes was the half-hour comedy Sex and the City, which followed four women living in New York City. With Girls, HBO’s latest original series, the premium cable network has returned to its roots, though it is now
seeking a much wider audience than before. Yes, Girls is a half-hour comedy that follows the lives of four women living in New York City, but that’s where similarities to Sex and the City pretty much end. By featuring humor and conflicted characters aimed at a wider audience, Girls succeeds in creating its own identity as a female ensemble geared at dealing with serious issues among all the comedy. In Girls, Lena Dunham,
the show’s creator and writer, also stars as Hannah Horvath, a woman two years out of college trying to make it in New York City. The first episode opens with Hannah learning her parents are no longer willing to support her, and she’s finally got to make good on her efforts to become a writer. The series also follows her friends Marnie (Allison Williams), who feels trapped in her relationship and Jessa (Jemima Kirke), a Bohemian world-traveler unsure of her place in the world. Rounding out the cast is Jessa’s cousin and roommate, Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet). Right away it becomes clear Girls is going to be a show about struggles. In the pilot, Hannah loses her internship and is seen dating a self-centered carpenter named Adam (Adam Driver). Relationships are strained as the different women all struggle to figure out what they’re doing with their lives. Girls works well in making each of the females likeable in their own way. Shoshanna comes across as the most ditzy member of the group, and she’s never portrayed in a mean-spirited way. On a similar note, though Jessa is shown as aloof and cold, her love for her friends is still prevalent. Fortunately, for all of the serious moments, there’s still plenty of humor to be found. While there aren’t a lot of laugh out loud jokes in Girls, fans of The Office will be right at home watching the characters, particularly Han-
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Lena Dunham stars as Hannah Horvath in the HBO series Girls. Dunham also created the show, along with writing every episode and directing the first three.
nah, put themselves in increasingly awkward, cringeworthy situations. A lot of those situations are also highly sexual in nature. Girls is an HBO show, which means t here’s a great deal of nudity a nd s e x . While these situations are always in service to the plot, let this serve as fair warning to those who are uncomfortable with such material. Girls also succeeds in avoiding the stereotypical elements often seen in shows starring women. Girls isn’t a story about Hannah’s search for true love. It’s simply a story about struggle and survival in
the big city with the trials and tribulations of being fresh out of college, unemployed and unsure of what to do with your life. Dunham has said in interviews her goal is not to speak against shows like Sex and the City, but to portray the lives of different types of women. That said, there are still plenty of nods to what has come before, particularly Sex and the City, which Shoshanna is a huge fan of. Again, these references are never done in a mean-spirited way, but simply as a means of developing the different characters. A discussion over a women’s self-help book is
“Girls works well in making each of the females likeable in their own way.”
concerned more with showcasing the Girls’ individual feelings about the material than the book itself. Overall, Girls is quick to set up a cast of characters who play well off each other and endear themselves to the audience. The way those characters react in both serious and comedic situations is what really brings them to life, and it’s impressive a new show is able to do that so well in its first episode. Girls is unlike a lot of female comedies that have come before it, and that’s a good thing. For anyone looking for a new quirky show to watch, Girls may be just he thing. Girls airs Sundays at 10:30 p.m. on HBO.
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world,” Grannis said. Grannis continues to raise awareness for the cause and even gives her fans an opportunity to register as bone marrow donors at concerts. This past year, Grannis launched her Run Team Kina campaign to encourage healthy living and raise awareness for blood cancer. “Of course this is something that is really important
to me and my family,” Grannis said. “It has been really awesome in doing Run Team Kina to see how many people have jumped on board, and just hearing from so many different people about their stories and whatnot. I think it just makes everyone stronger.” Her campaign has caught the attention of people all over the world. More than 1,700 people are following the campaign on Facebook. Many of these followers have their own personal stories of
how Grannis’ music has impacted their lives. Quenten Stewart, an alumnus who graduated in 2010 in arts application, was in the audience at the April 18 performance. Stewart has followed Grannis ever since a former roommate suggested that he check her out on Myspace. He did not know at the time how deeply Grannis’ music would affect his life. “Run Team Kina really struck a personal chord with me,” Stewart said. “It just so happened that right around
the time that she announced her song ‘Make it Go’ and told the story behind the song, right that week, I learned that my mother was going to have open heart surgery.” A stoic person by nature, Stewart was concerned but unable to express his feelings. “… I didn’t really show any worry or stress. That actually stressed my mother because my sister and father had expressed concern, and I seemed unfazed,” Stewart said. “Then Kina’s song came out and I could identify with
Technician struggling with emotionally dealing with [such an traumatic situation] … It brought to my attention the need to have that emotional output and connection to people.” Stewart and others look to Grannis’ example of harnessing their passions to make a change in the community. Stewart said he wants touch others the same way that Grannis’s music has touched him. “I’m pretty fortunate to have an incredible group of friends, some of whom
have created the internationally recognized nonprofit R.E.A.C.H. because they wanted to give children everywhere the same opportunities to better themselves and their communities,” Stewart said. “Seeing my friends give so much of themselves on a regular basis is a great reminder that I and everyone like me can make an impact.”
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Singer-songwriter works to balance career and activism Musician Kina Grannis spends her time both perforimng and taking part in activism. Young Lee Deputy Features Editor
Some students may wonder if they can ever pursue their passions, have stable careers and still have a positive impact on the world around them. These pathways don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Gu ita r ist a nd si ngersongwriter Kina Grannis is a great case in point. Grannis, who played Carrboro’s Cat’s photo courtesy of one haven music Cradle last week, continues to show how one can balance a what she wanted to do, and her personal struggles and career and passion while cre- she worked at it, whether it passions as well. Grannis uploaded another was practicing music on ating positive change. Breanna Leesch, a second- stairwells at the University of music video on YouTube year graduate student at the Southern California or per- titled “Make It Go – Kina University of North Carolina, forming at open-mic nights Grannis & p.s. I hate cancer” was one attendee who contin- and coffee shops. But it was on April 1. The video features ues to be inspired by Gran- not until she joined YouTube a song Grannis dedicated to and won an opportunity to her mother, who was diagnis’s music. “Her songs are really in- share a music video during nosed with blood cancer 11 t h e 2 0 0 7 years ago. All proceeds from spiring,” Super Bowl the song are going directly Leesch said. that she be- to the Leukemia and Lym“They’re gan earning phoma Society to help blood wor t h l i scancer research. worldwide tening to Grannis said she found reacclaim as a because she touring mu- leasing such a personal song put a l ot to the web difficult at first. sician. of thought “I had hid it away and preThrough it into it, and Quenten Stewart, N.C. tended it didn’t exist … But all, Grannis she obv iState alumnus managed to lately with Run Team Kina ously knows stay true to and seeing all the strength her music. When you put feelings and herself, even when it meant that people have demonstratthoughts together, you make forfeiting an opportunity ed in going through similar great music, and it reaches a sign with a major label. While situations, it seemed like the many other artists might have appropriate time to bring the lot of people.” Finding that balance is sel- given up at that point, Gran- song out and share it with the dom easy, and Grannis is no nis used her independence to exception. For years she knew share not only her music, but music continued page 8
“Run Team Kina really struck a personal chord with me.”
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game,” Lester said. “The stage didn’t bother him as much as it did in the McDonald’s game. He got comfortable very early on in the game and played very well.” All-Star showcases are meant to entertain and reward the players for their outstanding seasons rather than inducing a competitive edge. Lester understands that and has prepared Purvis for the next step by simulating college-level coaching methods. “It’s a great showcase of talent, but it’s not anything realistic as far as playing at the college level toward next year,” Lester said. “I’ve tried to simulate things they’re doing in college for Rodney to learn. We do film sessions and use scouting reports to prepare for the next game, so we have prepared him for the
next level on that end.” Lester also believed playing alongside Warren and Lewis in the McDonald’s All-American game—both of whom played with and against Purvis in high school and on Amateur Athletic Union teams—would be beneficial for the Pack next season. Purvis played for the CP3 AllStars AAU team based out of Greensboro and is very familiar with his fellow North Carolinian teammates. “All three of them are from North Carolina,” Lester said. “They’ve played each other in AAU so they’re all familiar with each other. In that age group in North Carolina you’re going to play with or against the same people since they’re about 10 years old. They’re all familiar with each other, and I think that will help them next year.”
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Even though this year has been a great success in Kissell’s mind, she believes there is always room for improvement. “I’m just keep going with what I’ve been working on through this whole year,” Kissell said. “I’m really trying to work on being more aggressive. In doubles I want to poach more, serveand-volley better and just really work on being the one who’s attacking and being in control of the point.” Kissell is hopeful she will be playing in the upcoming NCAA Individual Tournament in Athens, Ga. starting May 23.
State held a comfortable 6-1 lead headed into the headed into the eighth, but Charlotte wouldn’t go out quietly. Four consecutive singles and a Wolfpack error helped the ‘Niners put up another run and load the bases with only one away. However, a double play prevented any further damage as the Pack escaped allowing only one run. Junior pitcher Chris Overman came in to close things down in the ninth for the Pack. After a fly ball for out number one, UNC-C centerfielder Leland Clemmons hit a bomb well over the left field wall to cut the lead to 6-3. Dia z t hen bobbled a grounder, allowing the runner to reach first on the error. In turn, Ratledge took in a liner to second base and tagged the runner for the un-
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Baseball fights past 49ers
N.C. State Athletics Enters Exclusive All-Sport Apparel Deal Sponsorship with adidas N.C. State University Director of Athletics Deborah Yow announced Wednesday that State and adidas have agreed to a four-year sponsorship and product-allowance agreement. The Wolfpack joins an elite group of institutions including Notre Dame, Tennessee, Kansas, Wisconsin, Louisville, Michigan, Indiana, Cincinnati, Texas A&M, UCLA, Mississippi State and Nebraska who have such agreements with adidas. The Pack is now one of just 13 BCS schools to partner with one of the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel companies for an All-Sport sponsorship. Source: N.C. State Athletics
Official Pairings Announced for Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge The Chick-fil-A Bowl has announced the official pairings for the sixth annual Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament. A 16-team field of NCAA head coaches and celebrity alumni will compete in a two-man scramble format over 18 holes, vying for a firstplace prize of $125,000 in scholarship funds. All participating teams will receive a portion of the $520,000 total scholarship purse. In the event’s largest field to date, featured groups include conference and state rivalry pairings, as well as teams that have competed or are set to compete in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game (Alabama vs. Virginia Tech – 2009 and 2013, N.C. State vs. Tennessee – 2012). State’s football coach Tom O’Brien and past basketball great Tom Gugliotta will tee off with Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley and past Volunteer football great Stanley Morgan. Source: N.C. State Athletics
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Did You know? State baseball has over 100 doubles on the season, which is good for third in the entire country. The Pack averages over 2.6 two-baggers per game.
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No. 19 N.C. State took down the 49ers of UNC-Charlotte Wednesday evening, 6-3, despite a shaky defensive performance and a slow start at the plate. The first four and a half innings was a pitcher’s duel for both teams, with State’s lone run coming from freshman third baseman Trea Turner. Turner sent a leadoff solo shot over the wall in left field in the first inning to put the Pack up 1-0, his second home run of the season. Charlotte fought back in the top of the third, however, as right fielder Brad Elwood was brought home following his leadoff double to tie things up at one apiece. State opened things up a bit in the bottom of the fifth. Second baseman Logan Ratledge led off with a hit-by-pitch and was able to advance to third base on a sacrifice bunt and a passed ball.
Turner came through with an RBI single to put the Pack up 2-1, his second RBI of the game. Following a wild pitch, Turner advanced to second base. Shortstop Chris Diaz then singled up the middle to score Turner from second, giving State a 3-1 lead. Diaz advanced to second on yet another wild pitch and scored on a single from designated hitter Ryan Mathews, building the lead to 4-1. Senior first baseman Andrew Ciencin t hen g rounded out. Mathews made an attempt to go all the way to third base from first and ended up scoring on the throwing error from pitcher Wes Hatley, capping off a four-run inning and giving State a 5-1 lead. The Pack struck again in the seventh; Turner tacked on his third hit of the game to start off the inning, a bunt single to the pitcher. He advanced to second base on the throwing error by pitcher John Hamilton. For the second time of the game, Diaz drove Turner home, this time hitting a ground-rule double down the right field line.
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Slidding into second base, freshman catcher Brett Austin is called out in the second inning against UNC-Charlotte Wednesday, April 25.
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Kissell earns All-ACC selection Sophomore tennis player relies on work ethic en route to receiving honor.
Purvis earns AllAmerican ride Rodney Purvis plays his final games as a high school athlete in national showcases.
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Jeniece Jamison For the third straight year, a player from N.C. State has been named to the All-ACC women’s tennis team. The newest member of this exclusive group is sophomore Joelle Kissell. Kissell, who had a 15-8 singles record throughout the year, finished the regular season ranked No. 31 in the nation. She has taken down seven nationally ranked players this year, including both the No. 16 and No. 20 players in the nation. She also finished the season as a nationally ranked doubles player, coming in at No. 76 with her doubles partner, senior Ashley Miller. “[Kissell] had a really, really solid freshman year, but as soon as that year ended she just went to work on her game last summer and all through the fall,” Head Coach Hans Olsen said. “She made technical improvements, tactical improvements by playing more aggressively, mental improvements by keeping the big picture in mind of where she wants to go with her game and had that as her focus rather than just winning with a scrappy style any way you can.” Although she is seen as a talented player—Kissell was a fivestar recruit coming out of high school—what sets her apart from the competition is immediately obvious to those who see her on the practice court. “Above all her talents—and she has many of them—is her work ethic,” Olsen said. “Her second talent is her competitive intensity. When she gets out on the court, there’s just an energy on that court that is determination, focus and just ‘I’m gonna get out here and do whatever it takes.’ That stuff you try to teach
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them, but my old second serve where I was just putting it in nice and easy still worked. So it would be frustrating because I’m like, ‘I know I can make the second serve but now that I’m going for a more aggressive one, I’m missing them,’ so I had to work through that.” The selections for the team were announced April 19, right in the middle of the ACC Tournament. Kissell received news she had been selected for the All-ACC team from an untraditional source of information. Her coach thought he was going to be the first to tell her she had been given this honor. “I was standing next to her and I said ‘I just heard that you’ve been selected to be All-ACC’ and I thought that I was getting the news fresh, but she said she already knew about it,” Olsen said of the moment. “One of my teammates had showed me the Twitter message that tweeted that I had been All-ACC,” Kissell said. “I was like ‘Oh! Well that’s cool,’ and then coach was like, ‘Joelle, I have some good news for you,’ and I already knew so I was just smiling. “I don’t even have a Twitter and I found out through it,” Kissell said.
Incoming freshman guard Rodney Purvis has made his rounds through the All-American showcase games, which conclude the high school careers of many standout recruits. His circuit included the McDonald’s All-American game in Chicago and the Jordan Brand All-American showcase in Charlotte. In the McDonald’s All-American game March 28, Purvis’ East squad, which included future N.C. State players T.J. Warren and Tyler Lewis, fell to the West by four points. Purvis was second on the team in scoring with 15 points and shot 50 percent from the field. Purvis also pulled down four rebounds and swiped away two steals. According to Avie Lester, Purvis’ high school’s head coach at the Upper Room Christian Academy in Raleigh, Purvis seemed nervous at the tip-off of the McDonald’s All-American game, but regained his confidence by the second half. “At the All-American game he might have started out nervous,” Lester said. “I could tell he was more confident in the second half.” The April 14 Jordan Brand game proved to be a complete 180 from Purvis’ performance in the All-American game. Purvis captured the co-Most Valuable Player honor along with future UCLA Bruin Shabazz Muhammad. He scored 22 points and had three steals in the game, but his East team fell 99-95 to the West squad. “He did very well in the Jordan
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Sophomore Joelle Kissell returns a volley during her singles match against Virginia Tech at the Curtis and Jacqueline Dail Outdoor Tennis Stadium, April 1.
to your athletes every day, but for Joelle, just never going away from a situation comes naturally for her.” During her freshman year Kissell used her primary weapon, penetrating groundstrokes from the baseline, for an extremely impressive 20-5 singles record. During the offseason between her freshman and sophomore years, Kissell put in countless hours on the practice court to add a new dimension to her game—the ability to get to the net and put away volleys. “That was a big adjustment because I was used to playing a few feet behind the baseline just running down balls,” Kissell said. “Pushing myself to the net was kind of uncomfortable for me, but we worked through that and it’s paid off in a lot of my matches. Had I not done that, I would’ve lost a lot more.” Although such a change requires a tremendous amount of time to grow comfortable with, volleying more wasn’t the only major change Kissell made to her game during the offseason; she also developed her second serve from a liability into a weapon. “That was also very tough for me because we were trying to get a lot more aggressive second serve that wasn’t so dinky,” Kissell said. “But it was hard because I would miss
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