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Packapalooza invigorates 125th celebration Jessie Halpern News Editor
After eight months of planning and more than 1,000 personnel hours logged, Packapalooza revitalized Wolfpack Welcome Week, bringing an estimated 30,000 people to Hillsborough Street Saturday. Between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m., the festival engaged students, alumni and Raleigh residents in celebrating N.C. State’s 125th anniversary. The Raleigh Police Department closed Hillsborough Street for the event, keeping the area from Dan Allen Drive to the Pullen Circle free for the day’s festivities. With vendors to rival the State Fair, activities to keep everyone occupied and a headlining act straight off Kelley Clarkson’s tour, Packapalooza was sure to please, thanks to the hard work of several key people. Lauren Collier, a senior in animal science and Union Activities Board president, has been working on the event for eight months, along with many others. “We’ve been working on the planning committee to coordinate volunteers, organize campus sponsors and get all the entertainment since early April,” Collier said. UAB was Packapalooza’s largest financial sponsor. With an $85,000 contribution, it had the most on the line. “It was sometimes difficult getting everyone on board about where we were spending the money, especially picking the headlining act because this was replacing Friday Fest,” Collier said. UAB and the planning committee spent months deliberating the night’s headliner, and a roaring
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up and joined them, playing guitar for one of the band’s songs. “That was a surprising favorite of mine from the night,” said Justine Hollingshead, chair of the planning committee and director of the GLBT Center. Hollingshead was among the group who devoted months to planning the event that, she said, was an overwhelming success. “It was hard work and planning, with long nights, but it was beyond what we could have imagined,” Hollingshead said. In total, there were more than 175
Student missionaries from Charisma Church congregated Saturday afternoon outside Carroll Residence Hall to perform a Renaissance themed play, telling the story of Jesus Christ. Charisma Church is located off campus, but also holds Sunday services in Riddick Hall. Recently, a group of missionaries from the church went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, working with local churches and leading some of their services. Outreach programs allow the participating students and ministers to make connections and establish a broader worldview. Set up in a local square, some of the missionaries played music, and performed their play, “The Kingdom.” “The Kingdom” is a play written by the pastor, Sean Park. An allegory about the story of the life of Jesus Christ, it is put to music, composed by the pastor, and completely pantomimed.
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Students, alumni and fans alike filled Hillsborough Street from D.H. Hill library to the Bell Tower as they participated in Packapalooza, a street festival that lasted from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. and capped off Welcome Week.
crowd made it known Carolina Liar was the right choice. In the past, Friday Fest was a separate event exclusive to students, but this year’s Packapalooza was inclusive to a larger crowd. Chad Wolf, vocalist and guitarist for Carolina Liar, said the crowd’s reaction was unexpected, in a good way. “We were shocked, actually,” Wolf said. “When we found out we got this show and it was this kind of party, we thought it was a really nice thing to be brought out for something like this.” Wolf said the band was unsure whether they’d be able to fit Packapalooza in because they’re currently
on tour with Kelly Clarkson and The Fray. The night before the event they were in Pennsylvania, and thanks to strategic planning the band was able to make it to Raleigh on Saturday and get to New York for their show the following day. “This was our first time here, and it was like playing for family—it was cool,” Wolf said. “Everyone getting that involved in the show, that doesn’t happen everywhere so that was a really cool thing.” Wolf said Carolina Liar would love to revisit N.C. State and had a wonderful time playing for the students, but they weren’t the only ones who made it to the stage. Chancellor Randy Woodson unexpectedly got
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Golden Belt art studios in Durham provided space for Triangle artists to design and construct cows for Cow Parade. Each cow is sponsored by a local business. The painted cows are now scattered across the state, with 11 in downtown Raleigh. After the parade, the works of art will be auctioned and the funds donated the N.C. Childrens Hospital.
The “Cow-ntdown” is now over Katie Sanders Senior Staff Writer
Black and white is boring – people prefer color. So Cow Parade took the concept that brighter-is-better and took it to an udderly new level— they applied it to cows. “They really get your attention— you can’t not look at them,” Paula MacLeod, creator of a fiberglass bovine with a mosaic design called “Lady Carolina Bloo,” said. Local pro and amateur artists alike, in partnership with the company Cow Parade, painted a herd of cow statues that will take up residence grazing around the Triangle
Area in the coming days. “It’s a public art event—the main goal of each event we do is to put on a first class public art event that really spotlights a city’s local artists,” Ron Fox, vice president of Cow Parade, said. The 80-plus cows created will be placed around the Triangle area— here in Raleigh, Fayetteville Street will house a herd of 11 cows, while North Hills will be pasture to 11 more. The exhibit will continue until the beginning of December, and individual profiles and locations of specific cows should be up on the
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Packapalooza reveals changes to campout Jessie Halpern News Editor
Andy Walsh, student body president, announced Saturday that the University’s campout tradition is being overhauled due to the realignment of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Changes to the ACC mean N.C. State is no longer ensured a home
game against the UNC-Chapel Hill each year. Student Government is partnering with the University’s athletics department to coordinate a way to keep the tradition annual, according to Emerson Barker, senior in political science. This year’s campout will take place Oct. 12 at the PNC Arena, a venue with the capacity to host abound 4,500 students.
Here, the basketball team can be part of the tradition, and students won’t have to sleep outside, come sleet or snow. The biggest change, however, is in the loyalty points system. Instead of camping out for tickets to a single game, students who attend the new campout will be awarded six loy-
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hancellor Randy Woodson tells a joke while being prepared to donate at the Service NC State 1,250 Pint Blood Drive in Carmichael gymnasium on Friday Aug. 17. Woodson was not able to donate last year because of a conflict, but said he was happy to once again be a part of the record breaking event.
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academic departments, student organizations and local businesses present at Packapalooza. Jimmy John’s sub shop was one of them, and they were prepared. “We had extra people come in just to handle the inf lux of business we’ve had today, and I’m about ready to get out of here,” said Loretta Mann, a Jimmy John’s employee from the company’s Cary location. Almost all of the res-
taurants and shops on Hillsborough Street chose to stay open for the event, hoping the festival’s traffic would mean an increase in sales. An estimated 30,000 people visited Packapalooza throughout the day, 5,000 of whom lingered for the night’s closing concert and speech, delivered by Student Body President Andy Walsh. “Packapalooza was awesome, and now I get to go home and hibernate,” Walsh said. Jack Moorman, director of public safety at the University, was also ready to “hibernate” after the night’s festivities, though he said security went surprisingly well.
“We had quite a few officers next year it won’t be anything out here, and then there’s also like it was,” Collier said. the Raleigh Police Depart- “This was really a huge celment, but things went really ebration for the University’s well during the day,” Moor- anniversary.” man, chief of University PoThat “huge celebration” lice, said. would not have been posWhile this sible withyear’s Packaout Kel ly palooza was Harris, last held on a year’s UAB grand scale president for the 125th and the one Anniversary, responsible Collier said for bringing t h e e v e nt the celebraw i l l contion to the Chad Wolf, tinue to be a streets. Carolina Liar lead singer part of Wel“Last Febcome Weeks ruary I had to come. the idea to close down Hill“We’ll keep the name, but sborough Street and make
“This was our first time here, and it was like playing for family.”
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a Welcome Week event like never before,” Harris said. “With such a diverse student body, I wanted to make an event that had something for everyone. UAB has gone back and forth between festivals and concerts in past years, so I decided to combine the two.” A n event t hat f ina l ly brought lowerclassmen and upperclassmen toget her with the community, Hollingshead said Packapalooza is sure to remain a cherished N.C. State tradition. “It was a day to come together and celebrate and recognize 125 years at N.C. State, and it had a really wonderful impact,” Hollingshead said.
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The costumes are also designed in house, and sewn together by the pastor’s wife. Sean Park is alum of East Carolina University, graduating with a degree in music. Park wrote the play and composed the score in the span of one week. Performers have two days to learn the play, cues and choreography. Although they said they foundit fun, Erica Leek, Charisma Church missionary and wife of an N.C. State alum, said it’s not about the theatrics. “We’re really not all that interested in drama,” Leek said. “The message is what’s important. It’s just a neat way to get the story out there.” While there is no casting for roles in a theatrical sense, there is some “drama casting” during the training days leading up to the mission trip. “We take the people who
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alty points, evening the playing field for lower and upper classmen and increasing the odds in the ticket lottery system for the entire season. “We started to realize we’ve basically killed the tradition by making the changes we did last year,” Walsh said. “We wanted to give incentive for people to take part in the tradition and make it a change that would be more interactive and more fun. I’m excited, I think it’s a re-
want to go on the trip, and pretty much, there are different roles that have different levels of ability,” Park said. “Some roles are more dance heavy, some are more expression heavy.” Charisma Church also has a television show in which some of the performers participate. Park notes that this makes them used to doing a lot of drama together. The drama has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese and Cantonese. It has been performed in Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil and parts of Asia. Next year, Charisma Church plans on taking their show to the Dominican Republic. One of the missionaries, Kenny Howell, senior in communication, spent his training learning Portuguese. “I took a few semesters of Spanish, so I felt like I had a pretty good grasp of the language already,” Howell said. “At one point I had to translate a sermon we gave after a
performance. It was exciting to know that I was able to share our message with people of a different culture.” While all the performers are of college age, they have varying backgrounds. “We’re all so different,” Leek said. “We’ve been brought together in Christ and that creates a bond that defies everything else.” According to Vance Carrigan, senior in civil engineering, unity of different cultures is a big part of the missionary process. “It’s incredible to see what all we have in common with each other,” Carrigan said. “It doesn’t even matter where you come from or what you’ve done, there’s always something there that connects you.”
ally good change especially having planned campout my sophomore year.” Walsh said the new plan guarantees the basketball team will host the event in the future and be a part of it moving forward. “We’ll have live music. It’ll be an awesome event,” Walsh said. The target participation goal is over 4,000 students, but Walsh realizes some may be disappointed. “We’re looking at ways to improve what we do this year in January to make that week special since we will be
playing UNC at home this year,” Walsh said. “For me, the benefits far outweigh the negatives.” Walsh is excited for the new campout as it will be the next big student event. He said Student Government has been working tirelessley, and Barker agrees. “While we recognize that it is a shift, we hope the change will bring out more students than ever to enjoy a new form of the tradition we all love,” Barker said.
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Dining makes cups to save cups Laura Wilkinson
going to waste is an issue because of the fact that they all go to the dump when they are Thirsty students across done being used. campus can participate in a “When I lived on campus, campaign that will not only I would eat on campus all the be more sustainable, but time, and I usually used at reduce costs of purchasing least one cup every day. And drinks on campus. add that up over the course of The One Less Cup cam- the two years I’ve been here, paign allows multiply people to that by the use reusable hundreds of cups at dinthousands of ing facilities college stuacross camdents across pus and get the U.S. who 10 cents off do the same t hei r pu rthing every chase. day, and the Jennifer a mount of Jennifer Gilmore, marketing and communciations manager w a s t e b e Gilmore, for Campus Enterprises marketing comes astroa nd c om nomical. The munications manager for number of cups University Campus Enterprises, said Dining buys each semester is student Kaitlyn Casulli ap- shocking. We can’t just keep proached Dining looking for pretending they go away forfunding for a reusable cup ever when we throw them that could be distributed to away because they don’t,” students. At the same time, Casulli said. Analis Fulghum from Waste There is a no refill policy Reduction and Recycling also since Dining cannot tell expressed interest in partner- whether someone is purchasing on a cup. Collaboration ing their first cup or a refill. and pooling of funds resulted Gilmore said the campaign in the purchase of 2,250 cups. seems to be very successful so “Through the program, far. anyone can bring their own “Students, faculty and staff cup into our restaurants, seem to appreciate our comcafes and C-Stores -- din- mitment to reducing waste. ing halls excluded because We cannot eliminate paper we already use reusable cups cups, but we can encourage there -- and get 10 cents off people to bring their own their purchase. It doesn’t cup and help us reduce what seem like a lot, but when you goes into the landfill,” Gilmbuy drinks on campus daily, ore said. it can add up fast,” Gilmore Gilmore said Dining will said. be giving away the rest of the Casulli, a junior in food cups through Facebook proscience, said disposable cups motions this fall and other Deputy News Editor
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organizations will also be giving their allotment away in different ways. But if you don’t get a cup, don’t worry, according to Gilmore. “If you don’t get a cup, however, that doesn’t mean that you can’t bring your own. Clear is best, but we will let you use whatever you have. A 24-oz cup matches up to our medium drinks; a 32-oz cup matches up to our large drinks,” Gilmore said. Casulli said it’s been really cool to see everyone’s reaction to the cup. “I’m looking forward to seeing people use them on campus. None of this would have been possible without the other campus organizations that got on board with funding and promoting the cup,” Casulli said.
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Pussy Riot and Assange issues reveal U.S. hypocrisy
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n February, the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot performed an impromptu “punk-prayer” in Moscow’s hallowed Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in protest against President Putin’s controIshan Raval versial reelection and the Guest Columnist Russian Orthodox Church’s political sway. For more than six months, their case has become a global cause célèbre. This past Friday, three members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years imprisonment for “hooliganism” motivated by “religious hatred.” Both within and beyond Russia, their treatment has been regarded as oppressive, their trial frivolous, and the verdict a grossly unfair, politicallymotivated attack on free speech. Following worldwide shows of solidarity from human rights groups, artists and citizens, the U.S. Department of State has also voiced its support for Pussy Riot, saying that it is “concerned” by the “disproportionate” verdicts. Spokesperson Victoria Nuland has called for Russian authorities to “ensure that the right to freedom of expression is upheld.” Indeed, Russia should do that. However, we here should pay attention to the almost laughable contradiction of the U.S. government snatching for itself the moral high ground
of being the purveyors of democracy. Ironically, though perhaps unsurprisingly, the U.S. is making such statements when due to its own pressure exerted overseas, British police have surrounded the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and the U.K. has unethically threatened to remove both the diplomatic standing of the Embassy building and the news publisher who has been granted political asylum in it. Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has been legitimately granted asylum in Ecuador because the U.K. is having him extradited to Sweden, from where he validly fears extradition to the U.S. In Sweden, he is wanted for questioning over allegations of rape. He has not been formally charged, as there simply is not enough evidence for that, and the allegations are shrouded in controversy because of the credibility of the accusing parties and the extremely broad definition of rape in Sweden. He has offered Swedish authorities the chance to interrogate him in London, which is normal procedure in transnational legal proceedings, but they
have declined him. He has also offered to go to Sweden for questioning with the assurance that he would not be extradited to the US, which too has been declined. Because of his work with Wikileaks, a secret grand jury in the U.S. has already been reported to have issued a sealed indictment against Assange. Prominent U.S. politicians of both parties have called for his assassination or life imprisonment as a spy or a terrorist, which could happen if he is convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act (an adjudication which some commentators hold would violate the First and 14th Amendments). The same Victoria Nuland quoted previously has insinuated toward his probable prosecution in the U.S. However, any of this happening will too be an attack on free expression and democracy. Even if Wikileaks’ activities are judged illegal by American courts, their legitimitacy from a holistic democratic perspective is unambiguous. Wikileaks exposed misuses of power, by the U.S. government and others,
“The U.S. government has not prosecuted the publication of classified information in all instances.”
to an extent never before seen in history. The news media is called the Fourth Estate of democracy—its role is to report the misdeeds of and keep a check on the government, and that is what Wikileaks has been doing. The documents released by Wikileaks details offenses, including the mass-murder of civilians, and displays the cavalier attitude held by diplomats regarding the same. Such information should not be secret to begin with, and so, its dissemination is not just an exercise of free expression, but a service to democracy. The U.S. government has not prosecuted the publication of classified information in all instances. In fact, the government itself has leaked extremely sensitive material which showed potential as propaganda, such as the recent New York Times revelations about President Barack Obama’s kill-lists and cyberwarfare. Thus, the crusade against Wikileaks and Assange is not only an assault on press freedom, but viewed in conjunction with Washington’s own leaks and its statements regarding Pussy Riot, highlights an ugly fact about the U.S. government: It supports free expression and democracy when they are useful to its own image and power, but will do anything to restrict them when they are not.
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n i ve r s i t y s t u dents can’t count on mommy and daddy to make the world safe for them anymore, especially insituations dealing with the landlord-tenant relationship. Friday, Aug. 17, Technician reported stories about Wolf Creek residents who said they were unhappy with the condition of their apartments at the time they moved in. Just weeks before that story, it was reported in the News and Observer that Campus Crossings was overcharging students for their utilities. Upset tenants took to the Wolfpack Students Facebook group to voice their concerns and to see if any others were having similar experiences. The complaints from students living at Wolf Creek ranged from messy units with broken furniture to flea infestations. Students need to be proactive about getting issues like this resolved, especially since a substantial percentage of the student body lives off campus. Obviously, the first recommended course of action is to politely bring any problems or concerns to the attention of your landlord or property manager. However, we don’t live in a perfect world, and things don’t always go according to plan. For those times, it’s important that student tenants know their rights and the avenues they can take to exercise them.
The N.C. Attorney General’s website spells out landlord and tenant rights in an online handbook, which is available to anyone who visits their page (http://www. ncdoj.com/files/consumer/ landlord-tenant-booklet. aspx). Section 10 of the booklet states, “This part of the Residential Rental Agreements Act requires the landlord to have the premises in good and fit condition when the tenant first moves in, and it also requires the landlord to maintain the premises so that they stay that way.” Contrary to what some of your friends may have told you, it is not permissible for you to withhold rent if repairs are not made in a timely manner. Other states allow tenants to do this, but North Carolina does not, unless your landlord agrees to such terms in writing. If tenants have to pay for repairs out of their own pockets, then the landlord must reimburse them. The Attorney General’s website also lets consumers file complaints if tenants decide to take legal action. However, if the situation merits legal action, then students should be aware of the free legal service N.C. State provides to fee-paying students. Legitimate complaints or concerns should go beyond conversations with friends or posts on Facebook.
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t’s the start of the semester. Classes have resumed, meaning, yes, there will be writing. A lot of writing. In honor of you r Joseph future Harvey hand Guest cramps Columnist I wou ld like to tell you of my love affair with fragments (yes, you read that right). I adore fragments. No, not the fragments that look as if someone took a shotgun and sprayed periods over what should be a sentence. Those rapid fire strings of words are reserved for the hyperventilating—Oh. My. Gosh. I just. Wrecked. My car. The family of fragments that I have fallen for are the emphatic fragments— the fragments that can sum up a point so well, they don’t need a subject and verb. You’ll most often find these fragments answering a rhetorical question. How often will this take place? Quite often. There is a tremendous amount of swaying power in forcefully answering
your own question because it effectively shuts down all other responses—it’s so quick it’s as if you’re learning multiplication tables. Here’s the question. Then the answer. Patrick Henry’s highly effective “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech is wrought with rhetorical questions that are then answered immediately (seriously, go Google it right now). The other likely place you will find fragments is at the end of a long, complicated sentence filled with commas, semicolons, and perhaps colons—even a dash or parenthetical insert could be involved—because after all of this, putting a fragment to sum it up again emphasizes the point you were trying to make. Very effectively, too. The long sentence gives all the background information, the charts, graphs, statistical analyses; the fragment is the abstract. It’s that thing you read when you don’t really care to read the entire scholarly journal, because all you need is one quote. Why are these strings of words—I guess that’s what I’ll have to call them since
I can’t call them sentences — so ef fect ive ? Well, first, there’s the less is more deal. People get tired of long-windedness; a short, abrupt response is much more likely to earn their full attention. Secondly, since fragments break the rules (gasp!) then our subconscious is more likely to pay attention because they are out of the ordinary. For the most part, our grammar teachers were right in warning us from breaking the almighty rules of English (comma splices are never a good idea, and please, for goodness sake, don’t ever use the non-word “irregardless”), but every now and then a good rule breaking can leave us with a positive after-effect. Fragments. They are employed by good writers all the time. And can be used by you.
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Bovine.” Gordan’s cow was painted with black and white continued from page 1 stripes representing ones and zeros that, when put into a on the Cow Parade website computer, created an mp3 of soon. a cow’s moo. “There’s going to be a tre“I’m really interested in mendous amount of buzz questions of representation,” about it—there’s such a Gordan said. “How do our photogenic, good vibe,” said own perceptions change what Steven Ray Miller, a profes- the representation means?” sional artist of 38 years and She therefore created a mescreator of the heart-covered sage that was illegible – and cow named “Elsie.” yet, here in the Triangle, so While this event has hap- many people work in propened worldwide and is re- gramming that Gordan says nowned as one of the largest many people understand her public art events, this is the art and find it humorous. first time it will be placed in a “We are this technologiregion rather than a city. This cal triangle,” Gordan said. “I event encompasses not only found my niche here.” Raleigh, but Chapel Hill and Many attendees felt the Durham as well. The exhibit quirky enthusiasm with attempted to show the cul- which many artists attacked ture of the entire community the project. Many artists through the cow designs. milked the opportunity to “It ’s r e show of f ally the arttheir wordists and the play w it h community a stunning that define cow-lection t he f lavor of a-moofor what an si ng t it le s event in a such as the particular “Mootalic” c it y look s cow, “Moo l i ke,” sa id Devil,” and Heather Gordon, Durham artist Danielle the “CowoBates, comlina” cow. munications director of the All the artists have been recipient of the funds created working together in the same for Cow Parade, N.C. Chil- space and came to know each dren’s Hospital. other throughout the process. For example, the well- They applauded and mooed known North Carolinian as the event officially began. fashion designer Alexander “There is this sense of caJulian provided a cow (ap- maraderie and community propriately named “Alexan- developed among the artists, der Moo-lian”) in an argyle getting to know one other sweater-vest and bow-vine and appreciate each other’s bow-tie to show off North styles and techniques,” Bates Carolinian fashion design said. and textiles industries. The overall purpose of the Other shout-outs to the event, however, is to raise culture of the Triangle area money for the North Caroincluded N.C. State and lina Children’s hospital; at UNC cows, “Sprinkles”, a the end of the event the cows cow painted to look like a will be auctioned off. donut for the Krispy Creme The first cow to be created Challenge by Sadie Rapp, and for the event, dubbed “Handy Heather Gordan’s “Binary Heifer” was decorated by the
“How do our own perceptions change what the representation means?”
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Wrangler Dave Hughens stands by a cow on Fayetteville Street on the first day of the Cow Parade in North Carolina. The cow, titled “Mooving,” is sponsored by Railinc and is one of eleven cows that will be on display in downtown Raleigh.
hand- prints of patients from the hospital, and several other cows incorporated the altruistic theme of the event; “Owie Cowie”, for example, is held up by crutches. Rhea Ormond, creator of “Moo-hay”, was particularly touched by the exhibit’s cause. She has a friend whose young son had passed away, and had participated for that reason. “The whole time I painted I thought of her little boy,” Ormond said. “It’s so great that you can do art that’s helping people, especially children.”
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Sir Walter Cowleigh, stands on the corner of Fayetteville and Morgan street. Proceeds from the cow auction in January will benefit the N.C. Children’s hospital.
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According to Bunn, now in his third year with the continued from page 1 Wolfpack, the team still has a long way to go in with sophomore outside hit- its development before it ter Dariyan Hopper leading heads to Charleston, S.C. the way. She had five kills to open its season against in the set, leading the Red Jacksonville University at team to a dominating 25-7 the College of Charleston win and tying the game at Tournament. one set each. “We have to get betThe Red squad kept the ter,” Bunn said. “We had momentum to many moving forerrors, wa rd i nto too many t he t hird service and fourth errors sets, taking a nd too them 25-17 many hita d 2 6 -2 4 . t i ng erSophomore rors. [We outside hitwere] getBryan Bunn, ter Ni k k i ting aced. volleyball coach Glass led the We’ve got Pack with 13 to imkills for the match. Junior prove.” middle blocker Brie Mer“We still have some riweather also had a strong young people out there,” outing, posting 10 kills and Bunn said. “We still have three blocks between the Red some new people. We’re and White teams. nowhere near where we’re “I think we competed well going to be but we’ve got to with each other and there stay focused on what we’re were a lot of good plays but doing in practice. We’re there were a ton of unforced making too many errors errors on both sides,” Cyr and we’re doing too many said. “That’s something we things that can’t be done have to learn to do, to take in matches or we’ll lose.” care of the ball at all times.”
which means they scored five minutes after we scored. continued from page 8 Once that happened, everybody let down.” a 2-1 game with 20 minutes As the Pack head out on the remaining. road against major competi“It was probably the best tion next week, Proper infeeling ever,” Gentry said. sisted that State could come “I was just looking at Jen- out with a positive attitude nie dribbling down the side, and change the team’s enand we’ve really been work- ergy after a pair of deflating ing hard in defeats. State practice on batt les t he focusing in Longhorns and finishof Texas at 9 ing headp.m. on Friers. I just day night bethought fore heading Carolina Gentry, a b ou t i t , back east to freshman forward timed my Baton Rouge, run, found the ball in the air, LA for a 2 p.m. match against and I just knew it was going LSU. to go in because of the way “Losing two games backI hit it.” to-back to teams that aren’t The momentum shifted better than you... everybody’s back to the visitors for good head immediately goes when forward Laura Rose down,” Proper said. “The gobbled up a loose ball in biggest thing is just to take transition and chipped it tomorrow off and get ready over State goalkeeper Vic- for Texas and LSU, which will toria Hopkins for Rose’s be two big games. We just second goal of the match. have to get everybody back “We got that first goal and up and thinking positive. it went 2-1,” redshirt junior “Turning it around now is forward Meagan Proper said. our biggest thing, because we “We were all hyped up and can’t wait five games from then we had a big five goal, now to turn it around.”
“It was probably the best feeling ever...”
“We had to many errors, too many service errors and too many hitting errors.”
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MEN’S SOCCER
Men’s soccer takes down Wilmington in preseason State recieves votes in AP Poll
Andrew Schuett Staff Writer
With less than two weeks before N.C. State begins the 2012 college football season in Atlanta, the Pack received three votes in the initial AP Poll and will unofficially start the season at No. 39 in the country. NCSU has four opponents (No. 7 Florida State, No. 14 Clemson, North Carolina and Tennessee) who are either ranked or received more votes in the preseason poll. No. 16 Virginia Tech joins Florida State and Clemson as the only ranked teams in the ACC. SOURCE: ESPN
Track and Field staff adds new sprint and multi-event coach N.C. State track and field has hired Eric Broadbent as the new sprint and multi-event coach, as announced by head coach Rollie Geiger on Friday. Broadbent joined the Wolfpack staff after serving as a volunteer assistant coach last season. Prior to coming to the University, Broadbent was an athletic development coach at Athletic Lab, where he trained athletes of all levels, ranging from scholastic to professional. He implemented strength, conditioning and speed programs for many elite athletes, including members of the Carolina Railhawks soccer club. Broadbent attended West Chester University, where he was a three-time All-American in the long jump, triple jump and high jump. Broadbent qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, where he finished 14th. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Former Pack golf standouts shine in Greensboro Past N.C. State golfers Tim Clark and Carl Pettersson are in contention at the Wyndham Championship, a PGA Tour event at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro. Clark, in a tie for second before play was suspended on Sunday, was roommates with Pettersson some 16 years ago in Raleigh. Pettersson, who finished in a tie for third at the PGA Championship last week, will start play on Monday morning at 9 a.m. five shots behind leader Sergio Garcia.
The men’s soccer team beat UNC-Wilmington Saturday by the score of 3-1. Goals were scored for State by sophomore forward Monbo Bokar in the 26th minute, junior attacking midfielder Alex Martinez in the 38th minute and junior midfielder Robert Beatty in the 78th minute. Other stars of the match for the Wolfpack included junior forward Nazmi Albadawi, who dished out two assists, and junior goalkeeper Fabian Otte, who produced good saves and allowed no Seahawk goals. His first save happened early in the game keeping State from going down 0-1. After Bokar netted the first goal for State, assisted by Albadawi, the Seahawks threw more momentum into their attack trying to tie the game at 1-1. However, Otte came up big again for the Wolfpack by making another good save to deny the Seahawks its breakthrough goal. Soon after Otte’s second stop of the night, State doubled its lead through Martinez off of Albadawi’s second assist. With State leading 2-0 at halftime, Findley took the opportunity to give some of his other squad players a run-out. Starting goalkeeper Otte was replaced by freshman keeper Joe Mills. Mills
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Monbo Bokar, freshman foward, prepares to cross the ball over to a fellow teammate, during the mens soccer game Sept. 20, 2011 against Presbyterian Blue Hose.
and the State defense kept the Seahawk attack quiet for most of the second half while Beatty scored on the other end for the Pack to make the score 3-0. UNCW got on the score sheet in the 86th minute with a goal, but they could do no more as the game ended 3-1 in favor of the Wolfpack. The Pack opens its season on Friday at Liberty.
MEN’S SOCCER 2012 SEASON SCHEDULE: 08/24 - at Liberty 08/26 - vs. Mercer 08/31 - vs. Delaware* 09/02 - vs. Santa Clara* 09/07 - at UNC-Greensboro 09/09 - vs. Marist 09/14 - vs. Maryland 09/18 - vs. Campbell 09/21 - at Clemson
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Friday MEN’S SOCCER AT LIBERTY Lynchburg, Va., 7 p.m. WOMEN’S SOCCER AT TEXAS Austin, Texas, 9 p.m. JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIAN
Sunday MEN’S SOCCER VERSUS MERCER Raleigh, N.C., 4 p.m. WOMEN’S SOCCER AT LSU Baton Rouge, La., 2 p.m.
DID YOU KNOW? Despite being outscored 5-1, the women’s soccer team has two assists in it’s first two games, one more than it’s opponents.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Even taking more shots isn’t everything.” Women’s Head Soccer Coach
Scrimmage sets up volleyball season Sports Editor
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09/25 - vs. Gardner-Webb 09/28 - at Boston College 10/05 - vs. Duke 10/09 - vs. Belmont 10/12 - at Virginia Tech 10/19 - at Wake Forest 10/23 - vs. Adelphi 10/26 - vs. North Carolina 10/29 - vs. VMI 11/01 - vs. Virginia
Redshirt junior forward Meagan Proper moves to block a pass during the soccer game against Cincinnati at Dail Soccer Stadium Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. The Wolfpack fell to the Bearcats 3-1.
Sean Fairholm Deputy Sports Editor
In a game where the Pack threatened to score nearly every time a rain drop sprinkled down onto the turf at Dail Soccer Stadium, the scoreboard only had space for the result instead of how it ended up there. For the second time in as many games, N.C. State (0-2, 0-0 ACC) outshot its opponent and controlled the pace offensively only to give up multiple goals on defensive breakdowns. Sunday afternoon’s 3-1 loss in the home opener to Cincinnati (1-0-1, 0-0 Big East) followed a 2-0 defeat at Old Dominion to start the 2012 campaign, which is led by fourth year head coach Steve Springthorpe. “Possession isn’t always every-
thing, unfortunately,” Springthorpe said. “Even taking more shots isn’t everything. It’s about putting the ball in the back of the net. And that has not been something we have been able to do these first two games.” At halftime, NCSU led 11-3 in shots taken and had five more corners than the Bearcats. Despite the offensive pressure and control, the Wolfpack gave up a pair of unassisted blasts in transition from 30 yards out. “Ultimately, we have given up five goals in the two games, and that is very uncharacteristic of our team for the past couple of years,” Springthorpe said. “We’ve always done well defensively, and so we’ve got to make some adjustments and do some things differently.” Throughout the game, Cincinnati was able to counter and stretch the
field vertically while State’s defense and goalie scrambled to halt the breakout. The Bearcats, who began the season with a tie at Elon to start the season, took advantage of the several breakaway opportunities they had. “When you have possession of the ball in someone’s half of the field a lot, then ultimately it becomes a transition game,” Springthorpe said. “We would make a bad pass and then they would transition to a forward who’s trying to get in behind, and that is going to happen to you. We have to do a better job of limiting those things.” The high point of the afternoon came when forward freshman Caroline Gentry netted her first collegiate goal on a cross from redshirt sophomore Jennie Krauser. Gentry’s header sliced into the top left corner of the net and momentarily made it
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Volleyball gave the Wolfpack faithful its first look at the 2012 roster with the Wolfpack Challenge, an inter-squad scrimmage in Reynolds Coliseum where the team is split into two teams, Red and White. Players are also interchanged between the teams over the course of the game. Senior setter Megan Cyr was the only player that didn’t switch teams. The Red team came out on top of the White squad, 3-1. “We didn’t go with one starting lineup,” head coach Bryan Bunn said. “We put people out there in different spots to see how they would perform. We still have four more days we’ll have to practice to get ready for the College of Charleston but we still have to get into the gym and practice.” The team also introduced five new faces to the fans in this scrimmage but the Pack only has four upper classmen on its roster. “We’re young still, there’s only two seniors, and so we are inexperienced,” Cyr said. “But I think that’ll calm as the season goes on.” The first set of the match remained close throughout. After the White squad took a 14-11 lead Red went on a 4-1 run to tie the set at 15. Despite its run, the Red side wasn’t able to keep the momentum and the White team was able to pull away with the win, 25-19, to claim the first set. The Red team flipped the script for the second set of the match
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