North Carolina turns blue, Four admit to Tunnel threats; Rallies raise discussion of race issues, University’s response; Class sizes, technology to suffer in College of Design budget cuts; Alum to serve in White House; Stop delaying discussion on hate speech; Celebrating 40 years of Pipes and Drums; Pack takes down Fort Valley State in exhibition opener; Wolfpack faces Blue Devils for !rst time since 2003
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technicianonline.com TECHNICIAN Raleigh, North Carolina NC State Bookstores O n li n e T e x tbook O rderin g for S p rin g 2 0 0 9 i s O P E N ! www.ncsu.edu/bookstore Alum to serve in White House Robert Gibbs has worked as Obama’s communication direc- tor, now press secretary Robert Gibbs, a University alumnus who worked as com- munication director in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, will serve as Obama’s White House Press Secretary, accord- ing to a Politico report. Gibbs has been one of Obama’s top strategists in his quest for the presidency, as well as in his Sen- ate office. He was born and raised in Ala- bama, and played on N.C. State’s soccer team. Gibbs’ parents live in Apex, N.C. In another local connection, Gibbs previously worked for Democratic U.S. Congressmen Bob Etheridge. Gibbs also worked in John Kerry’s presidential campaign as the press secretary. SOURCES: POLITICO.COM, NEWS AND OB SERVER STORY, “HE GETS OBAMA’S VOICE TO VOTERS” North Carolina turns blue Tar Heel state votes Democrat in presidential race for first time since 1976 Staff Report It took some time for North Carolina votes for president to be tallied and a final winner to be decided, but as of Thursday af- ternoon, president-elect Barack Obama has presumably secured North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes. The North Carolina State Board of Elections Web site still listed results as unofficial Thurs- day night although Obama’s vote lead had remained the same for nearly 24 hours. As of Thursday, the N.C. BOE’s vote counts put Barack Obama at 2,123,390 votes, or 49.7 per- cent. His opponent, Sen. John McCain, remained more than 10,000 votes behind with a total of 2,109,698, or 49.38 percent. Several major news networks, including NBC, called North Carolina for Obama Thursday morning. While the official election results may not be available until later in November after provisional ballots are tallied and formalized by state Board of Elections officials, networks may have felt Obama’s lead se- cure enough to declare him the victor. The Associated Press also de- clared North Carolina for Obama Thursday, stating there were not enough outstanding provisional ballots for Sen. McCain to make up the difference in votes. With his victory in North Car- olina, Obama brought the num- ber of states he turned from red to blue to nine. Obama captured victories in Virginia, Florida, North Caro- lina, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colo- rado, Nevada and New Mexico — states that voted for President Bush in 2004. With North Carolina includ- ed in the electoral count total, Obama now leads 364 to 162. The only state left uncalled as of Thursday was Missouri. Class sizes, technology to suffer in College of Design budget cuts College of Design to deal with $140,000 budget cut James Cox Staff Writer In a line of budget reduc- tions across the University, the College of Design is facing a $140,000 cut, according to Dean Marvin Malecha. “That is a very fair number,” Malecha said. “Look at the economy. Everyone is going to have to sacrifice.” Cuts will affect faculty and students, he said. “Some staff services are go- ing to be reduced,” he said. There is going to be a reduc- tion in the number of sections available for students to enroll in, Malecha said. That means that the same number of students will have MATT MOORE/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTO Kameron Elliott, a freshman in architecture, listens as TA Precious Lovell gives him advice about his project to create a mask in the studio in Leazar Hall. Lovell said she had over 20 years experience in design working in New York. “I live, breathe, exist as a designer,” she said. For Elliott, the design school has been enjoyable. “It’s very helpful and very open,” he said. DESIGN continued page 3 viewpoint 4 arts & entertainment 5 classieds 7 sports 8 Pack takes down Fort Valley State in exhibition opener Men’s basketball shot 52 percent from the eld in a 94-65 win. See page 7. inside technician Celebrating 40 years of Pipes and Drums The N.C. State Bagpipe band to host celebratory concert with its alumni on Saturday. See page 6. TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIAN Glenna Wink, a senior in biochemistry, and Jennifer Chou, a senior in biochemistry, write on links for a paper chain symbolizing unity and acceptance at the “uni- ty rally” in the Brickyard Thursday. The rally was a reaction to racist messages targeting President-elect Barack Obama in the Free Expression Tunnel Wednesday. ‘Enough is enough’ Rallies raise discussion of race issues, University’s response Chris Allred News Editor After Student Government hosted a “unity rally” in the Brickyard Thurs- day, students and faculty held strong feelings on the racist spray-painted messages targeting President-elect Barack Obama in the Free Expression Tunnel the day before. About 300 people attended the rally, during which Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford said the University would not tolerate racism, saying “enough is enough.” Four admit to Tunnel threats Saja Hindi Editor-in-Chief Four students admitted responsibility for writing the racist statements in the Free Expression Tunnel against President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday -- an incident that incurred an investigation from Campus Police and the Secret Service. “When we investigated it from a validation of the threat, the individu- RESPONSE continued page 3 THREATS continued page 3
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Robert Gibbs has worked as Obama’s communication direc-tor, now press secretary
Robert Gibbs, a University alumnus who worked as com-munication director in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, will serve as Obama’s White House Press Secretary, accord-ing to a Politico report.
Gibbs has been one of Obama’s top strategists in his quest for the presidency, as well as in his Sen-ate office.
He was born and raised in Ala-bama, and played on N.C. State’s soccer team. Gibbs’ parents live in Apex, N.C.
In another local connection, Gibbs previously worked for Democratic U.S. Congressmen Bob Etheridge.
Gibbs also worked in John Kerry’s presidential campaign as the press secretary.
SOURCES: POLITICO.COM, NEWS AND OB-SERVER STORY, “HE GETS OBAMA’S VOICE
TO VOTERS”
North Carolina turns blueTar Heel state votes Democrat in presidential race for first time since 1976
Staff Report
It took some time for North Carolina votes for president to be tallied and a final winner to be decided, but as of Thursday af-ternoon, president-elect Barack Obama has presumably secured North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections Web site still listed results as unofficial Thurs-day night although Obama’s vote lead had remained the same for nearly 24 hours.
As of Thursday, the N.C. BOE’s vote counts put Barack Obama at 2,123,390 votes, or 49.7 per-cent. His opponent, Sen. John McCain, remained more than 10,000 votes behind with a total of 2,109,698, or 49.38 percent.
Several major news networks, including NBC, called North Carolina for Obama Thursday morning.
While the official election results may not be available until later in November after provisional ballots are tallied and formalized by state Board of Elections officials, networks may have felt Obama’s lead se-cure enough to declare him the victor.
The Associated Press also de-clared North Carolina for Obama Thursday, stating there were not enough outstanding provisional ballots for Sen. McCain to make up the difference in votes.
With his victory in North Car-olina, Obama brought the num-ber of states he turned from red to blue to nine.
Obama captured victories in Virginia, Florida, North Caro-lina, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colo-rado, Nevada and New Mexico — states that voted for President Bush in 2004.
With North Carolina includ-ed in the electoral count total, Obama now leads 364 to 162. The only state left uncalled as of Thursday was Missouri.
Class sizes, technology to suffer in College of Design budget cutsCollege of Design to deal with $140,000 budget cut
James CoxStaff Writer
In a line of budget reduc-tions across the University, the College of Design is facing a $140,000 cut, according to Dean Marvin Malecha.
“That is a very fair number,” Malecha said. “Look at the economy. Everyone is going to have to sacrifice.”
Cuts will affect faculty and students, he said.
“Some staff services are go-ing to be reduced,” he said.
There is going to be a reduc-tion in the number of sections available for students to enroll in, Malecha said.
That means that the same number of students will have
MATT MOORE/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOKameron Elliott, a freshman in architecture, listens as TA Precious Lovell gives him advice about his project to create a mask in the studio in Leazar Hall. Lovell said she had over 20 years experience in design working in New York. “I live, breathe, exist as a designer,” she said. For Elliott, the design school has been enjoyable. “It’s very helpful and very open,” he said. DESIGN continued page 3
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Pack takes down Fort Valley State in exhibition openerMen’s basketball shot 52 percent from the !eld in a 94-65 win. See page 7.
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Celebrating 40 years of Pipes and DrumsThe N.C. State Bagpipe band to host celebratory concert with its alumni on Saturday. See page 6.
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANGlenna Wink, a senior in biochemistry, and Jennifer Chou, a senior in biochemistry, write on links for a paper chain symbolizing unity and acceptance at the “uni-ty rally” in the Brickyard Thursday. The rally was a reaction to racist messages targeting President-elect Barack Obama in the Free Expression Tunnel Wednesday.
‘Enough is enough’Rallies raise discussion of race issues, University’s responseChris AllredNews Editor
After Student Government hosted a “unity rally” in the Brickyard Thurs-day, students and faculty held strong feelings on the racist spray-painted messages targeting President-elect Barack Obama in the Free Expression Tunnel the day before.
About 300 people attended the rally, during which Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford said the University would not tolerate racism, saying “enough is enough.”
Four admit to Tunnel threatsSaja HindiEditor-in-Chief
Four students admitted responsibility for writing the racist statements in the Free Expression Tunnel against President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday -- an incident that incurred an investigation from Campus Police and the Secret Service.
“When we investigated it from a validation of the threat, the individu-
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In Thursday’s page-one story “University reacts to anti-Obama slurs,” News Editor Chris Allred incorrectly reported who painted the free expression tunnel. Facilities, not Campus Police, painted the tunnel white.
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POLICE BLOTTERNovember 52:12 A.M. | DRUG VIOLATIONOwen Hall Officers responded to complaint of odor of marijuana. Student was re-ferred to the University for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
8:33 A.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST Williams Hall Units responded to student in need of medical assistance.
9:19 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTFree Expression Tunnel Report of offensive writing in tunnel. Students were identified and appro-priate action was taken.
10:54 A.M. | CHECK PERSONBrickyard Officers located nonstudent soliciting students for money. Subject was tres-passed from NCSU property.
11:50 A.M. | FIRE ALARM Materials Mgmt Warehouse Units responded to alarm. Cause un-known. System reset.
1:40 P.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST Caldwell Hall Units responded to subject in need of medical assistance. 12:24 P.M. | INFORMATION POLICEWinston Hall Student reported incident that oc-curred the previous day.
12:30 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOR REPORT Bragaw Hall Student reported seeing text mes-sages on another students phone using derogatory statements. All ap-propriate personnel notified.
2:53 P.M. | SAFETY PROGRAMStudent Health Center Officers conducted RAD Self Defense program. 3:10 P.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST D.H. Hill Library Units responded to nonstudent in need of medical assistance.
5:22 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOR REPORTVet School Student reported being followed to residence off campus. All appropriate personnel notified.
5:48 P.M. | SPECIAL EVENTReynolds Coliseum Officers monitored Women’s Basket-ball game. No problems reported.
5:51 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOR ASSISTANCEWolf Village Student reported receiving concern-ing e-mail from another student. Of-ficer spoke with subject. All appropri-ate personnel notified. 7:30 P.M. | MEDICAL ASSISTCarmichael Gym Units responded to student in need of medical assistance.
10:58 P.M. | WELFARE CHECKGardner Hall Officers checked on the welfare of student. Everything OK.
TodayHANCOCKCampus Cinema, 7 to 8:40 p.m.
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADENCampus Cinema, 9 to 11 p.m.
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NCSU PIPES AND DRUMS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERTStewart Theatre, 8 to 9:30 p.m.
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WORLD & NATIONDow tumbles following election
The Down Jones Industrial aver-age fell for the second straight day following the election of Barack Obama, bringing the two day losses to 929 points.
On Wednesday, stocks fell around 443 points, or almost 5 percent.
The drop is blamed on continu-ing fears of economic recession.
Investors are wary President-elect Barack Obama will inherit an economy that may be in terrible shape.
The two-day downturn totaled nearly 10 percent and was the big-gest two-session point loss ever.
The drop in stocks in the last two days came after several positive sessions leading up to the election.
SOURCE: CNN
McCain camp criticizes Palin
Days after the election of President-elect Barack Obama, insiders from the John McCain campaign are releasing harsh comments on the Republican’s vice presidential pick Sarah Palin.
Palin did not understand protocol for a concession speech, an advisor said, and prepared a statement to de-liver to supporters, but adviser Steve Schmidt told her she could not do it.
Sources also said Palin did not know Africa was a continent, and could not identify it on a map, though a Palin ally denied that claim.
A Canadian comedy troupe prank called Palin posing as the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Palin fell for it.
The call was not cleared by the Mc-Cain campaign and some believe that it was meant as a way to boost her political career past the campaign.
SOURCE: CNN
Emanuel will be Obama’s chief of sta!
Democratic Rep. Rahm Emanuel accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to be his chief of staff.
Emanuel was a top aide to Presi-dent Bill Clinton, and choked up when speaking on his happiness that his parents could see him serve as the chief of staff for America’s first black president.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, will go to the White House Monday to meet with the Bush family.
Barack will meet with President George Bush in the Oval Office while Michelle tours the private residence with First Lady Laura Bush.
Obama is filling out his cabinet, and Bush emphasized that they are shar-ing information to make for a smooth transition when Obama becomes president.
SOURCE: CNN.
Wartime transition "rst since Vietnam
Following the election of Barack Obama Tuesday, Pentagon offi-cials are preparing for the transfer of power from the Bush adminis-tration to Obama administration.
Pentagon officials feel confi-dent the first transfer of power during war since Vietnam will go smoothly.
President Bush said Thursday he would ensure that President-elect Obama will be able to “hit the ground running” in January.
The last time a new president took office during a war was 1968, when Lyndon Johnson handed the office to Richard Nixon.
President-elect Obama’s transi-tion teams will show up to the Pentagon within weeks, when the real work of the transfer will begin.
Bush said a smooth transfer is a priority for the rest of his term.
SOURCE: CNN
IN THE KNOW Cal Ripken, Jr. to speak at Shelton Forum
Cal Ripken, Jr., a baseball Hall of Famer, will headline the General Henry Hugh Shelton Leadership Forum.
The seventh-annual event will be today from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center.
Retired Army Gen. Hugh Shelton will host the forum, which is called “Leadership without Borders: Visionary Leaders for the State, Nation and World.”
Ripken will give the key-note address at 1:45 p.m. The
forum costs $179 to attend, and preregistration is encouraged.
The General H. Hugh Shelton Leadersrhip Center is adminis-tered by the Office of Extension, Engagement and Economic De-velopment.
SOURCE: NCSU NEWS SERVICES
Dwell Magazine designer to speak
Kyle Blue, the design director of Dwell Magazine since 2007, will speak at the 60th Anniver-sary Lecture Series in Burns Au-ditorium on Monday.
Blue is scheduled to speak at 5 p.m.
Blue graduated from N.C. State’s Grahpic Design program
before moving on to work for Apple, Dwell, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Tena-zas Design.
Blue, a North Carolina native, is currently a resident of San Francisco.
SOURCE: COLLEGE OF DESIGN
Pipes and Drums host 40th anniversary concert
The N.C. State Pipes and Drums will host its 40th An-niversary Concert Saturday in Stewart Theatre.
The concert will last from 8 to 9:30 p.m.
Two graduate students started the band in 1968, and initially included only students who
played in the spring and fall semesters.
As the years went on, alum-ni and members of the Uni-versity community joined.
The NCSU Pipes and Drums and the City of Oaks Pipe Band merged in 2005, forming one, stronger pipe band.
The band now has about 50 members, and tickets for Saturday’s concert are avail-able at Ticket Central.
Tickets are $5 for students, $8 for senior citizens, faculty and staff, and $10 for the gen-eral public.
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Brittany Harris, a freshman in First Year College, performs with the dance team during the exhibition game in Reynolds Coliseum Thursday night. “I love the dance team,” Harris said. “State has a great dance program and I came to college wanting to continue dance. My favorite parts about the team are the games and the charity events.” The Wolfpack beat
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QUOTE OF THE DAY“Knowledge is power. By
knowing what happened, I think people can move
forward.”
Laci Weeden, assistant director of the Women’s
Center on informing people of the racist statements left
in the Free Expression Tunnel Wednesday
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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANMatt Woodward, freshman in microbiology, talks to a group of students during a Speak Out session outside the Free Expression Tunnel Thursday night. The speech was intended as a way for people to talk about their feelings following Wednesday’s gra!ti incident in the Free Expression Tunnel.
After all the scheduled speakers had spoken, Tracey Ray, director of multicultural student affairs, gave an impromptu emotional speech, in which she said the University should have informed the public of what was written in the tunnel, and she wanted the students involved treated as criminals.
“I want the names. I want them prosecuted,” she said.
Donnie Brown, a first-year stu-dent in turfgrass management, said in a school of over 30,000 students, the University should hold a larger event with more publicity.
Chancellor James Oblinger said he had a prior commitment,
in taping a commercial for the Jimmy V. Cancer Therapeutics Center, and he could not attend the rally, but Stafford and the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion Joe Picart spoke at the event.
“We will not let the acts of a few define the many,” Picart said.
Picart said the nation’s elec-tion of Obama was a “giant and historical step,” but there is work
left in confronting racial divi-sions.
“From this rich diversity of people and ideas, we grow through our interactions,” he said.
Student Body President Jay Dawkins said it was important to begin mending political di-visions on campus, that after “campaigning like hell” against each other before Tuesday’s elec-
tion, students can forget that their opposition was also their friends.
About 20 students joined outside the Free Expression Tunnel Thursday around 9 p.m. to participate in another event, which Matt Woodward said would allow students a chance to speak on the mes-sages more freely.
Laci Weeden, the assistant director of the Women’s Cen-ter, walked around the crowd as it grew to show attendees a photo displaying a por-tion of the graffiti that said “Let’s shoot that n——- in the head.”
By building awareness and openness, Weeden said people can better address issues like this.
“Knowledge is power,” she said. “By knowing what hap-pened, I think people can move forward.”
Since he didn’t see the tun-nel the morning the racist paintings were left, Peter Drankarov, a senior in com-puter science, said the mes-sages show ignorance in ac-tion.
“It’s impossible to prevent something like that,” he said. “Hopefully those peo-ple are going to realize that they’re the ones screwing up things.”
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to fit into a smaller number of sections, he continued.
“That affects our ability to offer classes to non-design stu-dents,” he said.
Amber Majors, a junior in de-sign, said that there wasn’t a lot of availability for non-design stu-dents in classes as there is now.
The college will not be able to afford as much technological equipment either, according to Malecha.
“We’re not going to be able to improve technology in the class-room,” he said.
These setbacks are designed to keep the college on it’s edu-cational path.
“Our goal is to preserve the instructional nature of the col-lege,” Malecha said.
Dottie Haynes, the assistant dean for budget and adminis-tration, said the current budget is seven million dollars, making the reduction a 2 percent de-crease.
Gene Bressler, professor and head of the Landscape Archi-
tecture department, said the di-rect cut to his department isn’t refined yet.
He said the cut will probably be around 1.5 percent.
While Bressler said he isn’t concerned about the cuts, he is uncomfortable with the state of the economy.
“I’m not feeling good about the economy, but we’re able to make strate-gic adjustments to schedules to minimize the ef fect on the delivery of pro-grams,” Bressler said.
Chandra Cox, chair of the Art and Design de-partment, said she would try to keep classes small.
“We’re doing all we can to pre-serve the classes,” she said
In her department, she will di-vert resources away from other areas to keep the small class sizes.
“[The budget cuts] is going to affect the number of speakers we
can bring in,” Cox said.She also said that she won’t
be able to purchase some of the equipment she usually does to supplement her classes.
“Classes are going to increases only as a last resort,” she said.
According to Majors, class size is important.
“I really like the College of Design’s class sizes,” Majors said.
Christopher Chapin, a ju-nior in design, said he is con-cerned for the budget cut s because some money will be taken out of their pockets.
“We pay a lot more for print quot a t h a n other colleges,”
he said.If print prices go up, he said,
it will affect design students most.
“We’re already a small college, so it will be interesting to see how the budget cuts affect us,” Majors said.
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“We’re already a small college,
so it will be interesting to see how the budget cuts affect us.”Marvin Malecha,
dean of the College of Design
als were expressing their per-sonal opinions and biases with no intention of a threat ... With the Secret Service, it was deter-mined that no criminal act had taken place,” Capt. Jon Barnwell of Campus Police said.
Secret Service Resident Agent in charge of the Raleigh Office Robert Trumbo said he couldn’t comment on what the means or methods are of validating threats.
“Our job is to look into those that could be perceived [as threats], some of them may not rise to a criminal nature,” he said. “By the same token, our job is to address those that could be on the cusp as well as on the line ... There’s a lot more that goes into it than what’s on the surface.”
All University officials were referring questions to News Services Wednesday for any in-formation on the incident.
But on Thursday, Vice Chan-cellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford said he found out about the incident when Associate Vice Chancellor for Environmental Health and Public Safety David Rainer alerted him of the inci-dent early Wednesday.
“The official response [of ask-ing Facilities to paint over the statements in the tunnel] was made by Charlie and myself,” Stafford said.
Jack Colby, assistant vice chan-cellor for Facilities Operations, said painting over the tunnel is not a general practice for Facili-ties.
“In general, we do not make the ultimate decision on that,” Colby said. “Folks allow Student Affairs and campus security to make the call. We respond to that and take care of covering up the sensitive material.”
Stafford said some concern has been expressed that the Univer-sity needs to make clear exactly what the students wrote on the tunnel before it was painted over.
“People’s response to this would be quite different if they knew what was done and what was said,” Stafford said.
A nd Cha ncel lor Ja mes Oblinger said when he found out, he knew that Facilities need-ed to paint the tunnel and that the University needed to release a statement, which News Servic-es posted on the University Web site and sent out to list-servs, in-cluding parent list-servs.
“There was no question in my mind as chancellor of the Uni-versity or as an individual that what was written there was well beyond what is free speech,” Oblinger said.
And Stafford said the Univer-sity will continue to promote dialogue.
“It’s my understanding that [Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion] Jose [Picart] said
something to the audience about having dialogue in the next cou-ple of weeks,” Stafford said.
Adam Compton, senior class president, said he was disap-pointed in the incident.
“Part of me wants to say yes [I was surprised], but another part of me says it’s really not a surprise,” he said. “There were a lot of people that were very emotionally involved in this campaign and there seems to be a growing trend of these kind of actions on our campus.”
However, for Compton, a rally is not the perfect solution to the problem.
“I feel like this campus needs something more than just a ral-ly,” he said. “It needs some forum or some way for students to come together and discuss this. Being a facility based around education, that should be the first and fore-most mission of the University to go out and work on ways to break these stereotypes.”
Compton said after the noose incident last year, the University said it would work with student leaders to develop a hate crime or hate speech policy but has not done so as of yet.
“Too oftentimes, it seems like the University takes a reactive approach,” Compton said. “I believe the University needs to set up a proactive approach.”
News Editor Chris Allred contributed to this story.
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GRAFFITI TIMELINETuesday | 11 p.m.
Barack Obama clinches enough electoral votes to become Ameri-ca’s first black president.
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possi-ble, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” he said in a speech later that night.
Wednesday morningCampus Police received notice
of racist, anti-Obama messages spray-painted across the Free Ex-pression Tunnel around 8 a.m.
Administrators order Facilities crews to paint the tunnel white.
MiddayChancellor James Oblinger’s
response is posted, claiming that “when we lower ourselves to en-gaging in racist characterizations and inappropriate statements of anger and hate, we make a mock-ery of our right to free speech.”
Wednesday nightStudent Government officials
plan “unity rally” for Thursday to confront the issues of the day.
Thursday | 12:15 p.m.“Unity rally” begins, with
students signing an agreement against hate speech.
Tracey Ray, director of multi-cultural student affairs, broke the agenda and called out the Univer-sity for not displaying the truth. She said those who painted the messages should be prosecuted as criminals.
Thursday | 9 p.m.Smaller group of students hold
rally outside the Free Expression Tunnel’s entrance, with a free-form student speaker format.
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Don’t let extremes represent majority“I am ashamed to be white” -- this
phrase was scrawled in the Free Expression Tunnel Wednesday morning.This is an absolute tragedy. White
people should be proud of their race, their heritage, and the contri-butions that their ancestors have made to this great nation, likewise for ALL races. I fully support the removal of hate speech by the KKK from the Free Expression Tunnel -- however, for a white person to be ashamed of these expressions is foolish. The KKK is a radical minority who
in no way expresses the views of white people in general. The only reason to be ashamed would be if they actually represented the views of the majority, and in that way were somehow linked to the population as a whole. I would never expect a Muslim to be “ashamed” because of al Qaeda, or a Black person to be “ashamed” because of the Black Panthers. They have no association with ei-
ther organization, and should not be tied to their actions or viewpoints. As this historic election ends, I hope that from now on people from every race can stop characterizing each other by their color and the past ac-tions of a few people who happen to share that color.
Ian Averajunior, mechanical engineering
Continue to push back against hatredWednesday’s controversy at the
Free Expression Tunnel was an ex-ample of the miniscule segment of the population’s desires to impede progress. The most outrageous as-pect of this situation is that, had Sen. McCain been elected on Tuesday, in-stead of Mr. Obama, most Americans would not have taken to the streets with hatred in their hearts.Instead, most would do what is
expected of dignified and moral Americans; we would have hoped for the absolute best from a McCain presidency. We would have wished to see even a Republican succeed, if it meant solving some of this country’s overwhelming problems. That should be the sentiment of all Americans. It must be said that if someone
holds vile, outdated and ignorant feelings toward minorities in our community, they are allowed to voice their opinions. However, it must also be duly noted that the voices of unity, compassion and understanding must drown out the voices of hate. The response from the overwhelming majority of N.C. State students and faculty has been appropriate indeed.There is something else to be
marked in this whole mess. Notice that the perpetrators of the hate speech painted their filth in cover of darkness, so not to be seen by the eyes of their fellow students and passersby. These misguided individ-uals were forced scurry in the night like rats, whose sound of clattering claws was replaced by the shaking of spray cans.In that fact, the proponents of
progress may take solace. We have come a long way from the era of rac-ism and bigotry and acts of violence being inflicted in the glaring light of day, and our only hope is that some-day even the night will be an unwel-come place for this form of hate. The clear and ultimate message I
have for the individual or individuals who wrote the message of intoler-ance on the wall goes as follows: “You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge
of the highest matters.” --Plato.Mitch Bakersophomore, political science
Work to end culture of gendered violenceI appreciate Jane Moon and
the Technician bringing aware-ness about sexual assault to our campus, but I wanted to correct a statement she made, which speaks to a major concern with her entire column. The Women’s Center made
the decision to no longer of-fer self-defense workshops as part of our regular, on-going programming. This decision was not made lightly or easily. Our office’s intensified focus on edu-cation, prevention and advocacy services this past year around interpersonal violence -- sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking -- has brought about a philosophical shift in our IPV work. Acknowledging that approxi-
mately 90 percent of sexual as-saults on college campuses are perpetrated by known ac-quaintances, we now take an approach to educate students that focuses on bystander inter-vention and culture change for sexual violence prevention. Rather than placing the respon-
sibility on potential victims of sexual assault and recognizing that self defense techniques are not as effective with non-strang-er (versus stranger) assaults, we want to change the culture to one that no longer condones or supports a climate of gendered violence. Our focus has turned to being
proactive to stop sexual assaults before anyone is ever attacked and give attention to the respon-sibility that men and women have to actively and consistently engage in ending this violence so that we’re involving the entire community.
Students and faculty gathered at the Unity rally Thursday afternoon in response to
the threat written on the Free Expression Tunnel early Wednes-day morning about shooting the president-elect, which was next to a KKK symbol.
Several student leaders and ad-ministrators spoke at the event, denouncing the language as harmful and outside of the intent of freedom of speech.
Yet only after an impromptu speech from Tracey Ray, director of Multicultural Student Affairs, were students able to appreciate the fact that what was written on the Free Expression Tunnel was a threat, not free speech.
The University’s highest official, Chancellor James Oblinger, was not even present at the rally.
Administrators cannot say events like the incident at the Free Expression Tunnel are learning opportunities for the University when they release limited information and do not attempt to engage students in continuous dialogue throughout the year, not just after incidents like Wednesday’s.
Students who were not satisfied with the afternoon rally could have attended a second gathering by the Free Expression Tunnel.
Hate speech has and continues to be a problem at the Univer-sity — the noose in the Sullivan Shops in Nov. 2007, the alleged KKK meeting in September, neg-ative Facebook statuses and anti-
Obama fliers in Caldwell Hall are all reminders of the prejudice that still exists on campus.
If the University wants to ad-dress these problems and mobi-lize students to push back against hateful, intimidating speech, it needs to be more proactive and forthcoming with information surrounding the events.
Administrators had facilities come out Wednesday morning and paint over the slurs in the Free Expression Tunnel without releasing specifics on what was said. Without explaining the threatening, intimidating na-ture of the messages on the tun-nel walls, the University’s actions may seem like an infringement
on free speech.The University cannot expect to
establish an informed, balanced dialogue on hate speech and free speech if students do not know what the difference between the two is. Having two rallies also defeats the purpose of unity —students need to collaborate and include as many components as possible in the rally.
It’s time for students and ad-ministrators to do more than rally and speak about fighting to keep our campus free of hateful, intimidating language.
Senior administrators need to give students a straightforward description of what type of hate speech the University will not tolerate and stop controlling the information surrounding such incidents.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the
editor-in-chief. THE ISSUE:Students and administrators sought to present a unified response at the Unity rally, denouncing the hate speech in the Free Expression Tunnel as unacceptable.
OUR OPINION:The chancellor’s absence and the lack of information about the incident prior to the rally hurt the rally’s message of unity.
THE SOLUTION:Senior administrators should stop trying to cover up any incident of hate speech and tell students exactly what type of language the University considers intolerable.
Stop delaying discussion on hate speech{OUR VIEW}
CAMPUSFORUM{ }
The passionate tears and jubilant cries shared by many across Raleigh late
Tuesday night were silenced by ignorance and prejudice Wednes-day on our campus. While our state teetered between red and blue, students walked through and scrolled words upon words of hate-speech in the Free Ex-pression Tunnel.These words not only take root in people’s perception of N.C. State,
but are also part of the larger nation-a l d ia logue
about what this new president means for our nation.The story about our Free Expres-
sion Tunnel is not exclusive to the Technician, but is published on the Associated Press news-wire. It was picked up by FARK.com, a popular social media net-work. The News and Observer has run multiple articles, so has WRAL. The implications of this act are much larger than NCSU, and through this act our campus has inherited a very long legacy of hate speech and crimes.And yet our re-
action is one of apathy and de-nial. In a cam-pus of 31,000 students and 8,000 staff only 500 showed up for the Unity R a l l y h e l d around noon yesterday, ac-cording to the News and Ob-server.Many, including the Student
Body President, Jay Dawkins, who also organized the Unity Rally, believe the actions of the four students who admitted to the crimes are just a small group who do not represent the Uni-versity. But in reality, these four students are simply a sample who were brave enough, or dumb enough, or irrational enough, to publicly acclaim what they believe.Once these students admitted
their participation their homes were searched by the Secret Ser-vice to determine there was no threat, and yet, no hate-related charges were filed by officers. The only punishment these stu-dents will face is what our Uni-versity decides.The failure for us to act against
the public acknowledgment of a group’s intention demon-strates our willingness to pacify a contingent that would attempt
to steal away the will of an en-tire nation. And the fact these threats are also blatantly racially charged should only enrage us more as the argument is only one of skin color.As a student population, you
must ask yourselves if you truly understand the uphill battle our nation faces over the next four years and the very real role preju-dice will play in it. For those of us who have grown up white and privileged, it can be difficult to see prejudice and empathize with those who suffer from it.On the Facebook Unity Rally
event wall, a student wrote that he would not attend the rally because, “...racism is still very prevalent in our society on all sides and the only way to truly break it down is to laugh at these idiots as opposed to making a big issue out of it.”Too many people lessen the
seriousness of prejudice in our society. Life is hard for every-one, but attempting to compare the plights of the privileged and minorities is futile. Laughing at these real problems and ignor-
ing them does nothing to ex-tinguish hate.Race is only a
small part of the prejudices fac-ing our country. We did elect a black president, but now is not the time to be congratulating ourselves on the achievement when there is
hate speech being written on the walls of the free expression tunnel, gay marriage has been denied and overturned in three states and the Lily Ledbetter Act was defeated only months ago in the Senate.It is time to face reality and in-
stigate the social rights our con-stitution promises all Americans, and we cannot do that if we fail to recognize the negative im-pact of hate-speech and punish it accordingly. N.C. State did not ask to be thrust into the political spotlight, but it has found itself there and should be a leader to the inevitable others who will find themselves in similar hate-charged situations.
E-mail your thoughts on free speech, hate speech and the Free Expression Tunnel to [email protected].
Kelly Helder2007 NCSU Alumna
A prejudice-inspired call to action
{ONLINE POLL} This week’s poll results:
Given the University’s restrictions, did you enjoy the Haunted Hillsborough Hike?
Next week’s poll question:
Are you happy with the results of the election?
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Visit www.technicianonline.com to cast your vote.
“Yes, because we are a community as a University. We should accept the diversity among the University. Part of being a community is uplifting each other.”
Ebony Harrisjunior, poultry science
“I completely support and agree with the University’s decision of clearing the comments in the Free Expression Tunnel because racist comments are completely unacceptable.”
Given the threatening nature of what was written on the Free Expression Tunnel,
do you agree with the University’s actions?
Why or why not?
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“It is time to face reality and
instigate the social rights our
constitution promises all Americans.”
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EDITOR’S NOTELetters to the editor are the indi-vidual opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opin-ions of the Technician staff or N.C. State University. All writers must include their full names and, if ap-plicable, their affiliations, including years and majors for students and professional titles for University em-ployees. For verification purposes, the writers must also include their phone numbers, which will not be published.
Laura FauschStaff Writer
Laura Reed & Deep Pocket, a local band that combines mo-town, funk, soul and reggae, is the type of band that would find eager listeners on college cam-puses worldwide.
The band is lead by Laura Reed, whose soulful voice is reminis-cent of Amy Winehouse and Erikah Badu and is backed by a very diverse group of musicians and singers. The band includes trumpets, drums, guitars, sax and even harmonica.
The band’s music is energetic and lends itself to the jam band scene. The band is strong enough to attract followers who love funk, soul and reggae. But, Laura Reed’s singing voice is often out-shined by her backing band.
Laura Reed has talent, but some of her vocals and lyrics seem a little immature and un-derdeveloped. She is obviously influenced by the great soul and R&B singers and groups and tries to bring that energy and enthusi-asm to her performance.
In “Don’t Go,” the kind of song you’d expect to hear in a smokey, dimly lit jazz bar, she hits the high notes within her register, but often her voice can be a tad nasally and falls short of what she’s trying to achieve.
The best song on the album is the Bob Marley-inspired “One World.” The other songs on the album, particularly “Well,” are jazzy and funky and combine el-ements of many different genres, including scratching, electronica and threads of reggae.
This band is a strange hybrid of many different genres, and that’s exactly what they’re go-ing for. The band definitely has potential, and Laura Reed is the star. However, the star doesn’t necessarily shine in this release.
Kyle RobbGeneral Manager, WKNC 88.1 FM
Deerhunter poised to take the indie world by storm with their latest release.
“Microcastle,” the third album from Atlanta-based Deerhunter, has drawn some hefty comparisons. The ob-vious talking points among these references are My Bloody Valentine, Grizzly Bear and Radiohead. While they may not directly sound all that much like Radiohead, Deerhunter has much in com-mon with Thom Yorke’s crew — the music of both bands can be regarded as experi-mental and dynamic, and both have a front man who looks perpetually emaci-ated.
Deerhunter is not, how-ever, like any other act we’ve seen emerge from the Atlanta music scene in recent history. Labeled by many as ‘ambi-ent punk,’ they incorporate a wide range of genres from noise-rock to post-punk, creating a unique sound that even the nearby music Mecca of Athens, Georgia (R.E.M., Of Montreal) has never before witnessed. Their live perfor-mances have been referred to by Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs as bordering on “a re-ligious experience.”
Deerhunter’s debut album
mostly consisted of songs which melted into drawn-out ambi-ent noise; their second release seemed to be at its best when it flirted with structure. With “Microcastle”, the band has harnessed the raw instrumen-tation of their previous efforts to craft beau-t i f u l ly da m-aged pop songs such as “Never Stops,” an up-beat track that mixes fuzzy ga-rage rock with the spacey na-ture of ambient rock. At a slim three minutes, it is the highlight of the album.
“Agoraphobia” serves as a tes-tament to Deerhunter’s develop-ment from drawn out ambient music into a band capable of
writing songs that fit into heavy rotation at college radio stations around the country. “Noth-ing Ever Happens,” “Saved By Old Times” and “Agoraphobia”
are all catchy standout tracks, but the album is solid from top to bottom; to only highlight certain tracks is a disservice to the remainder of the album.
“Microcastle” trims away the long winded f lu f f w h ic h plagued Deer-hunter’s f irst
two records, leaving an album that is intricate and subtle with-out inducing boredom from the listener. It’s clearly their best ef-fort yet as a band, and one of the best albums of the year.
TECHNICIAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008 • PAGE 5Features& ENTERTAINMENTARTS
JAZZING IT UP
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANJames Trew, a senior in engineering, warms up on his soprano saxophone before the Jazz Ensemble concert in the Tally Ballroom Thursday. Trew also plays the alto saxophone and is the lead player in the ensemble.
Deerhunter’s new album ‘one of the best of the year’
Often times, a musician’s first album can come off as immature or underdeveloped. It may seem that the artist just hasn’t had enough play-ing and writing experience to fully define their sound. Ken Mickey, however, began playing guitar with other bands and finally began actu-ally writing his own music 5 years ago. As a result, his new album Stand does not suffer from this learning curve.
Stand, which is now avail-able on iTunes, is a compila-tion of some of his first songs. Mickey spoke about how he came to compile the songs in “Stand”.
“It’s almost like I’m start-ing doing things backwards. I should have really put out my best, current stuff to call it a CD. But I decided to go back and sort of clean the closet. [I wanted] to get some of the better stuff that I’d done in the past to kick it off,” Mickey said.
And Mickey’s closet seems to be devoid of any skeletons. The resulting product flows nicely from song to song, be-ginning and ending on very nice f lourishes (especially with the fantastic beginning of “Stand”, the song which shares its name with the CD).
The opening song on Stand, entitled “Funny Feeling”, sets the theme of the CD very well. The guitar licks mixed in with a very Bob Dylan har-monica make up a smooth, twangy introduction to the CD. The guitar instrumental on the song mixes a style that is borderline country/blues and a splash of mid 90s al-
ternative.Mickey spoke about his previ-
ous endeavors and why he had decided to finally go solo with “Stand”.
“[It] seems like a lot of times that there’s always some kind of friction in the band that breaks things up,” Mickey said. “I’ve lived through a lot of that, so that’s why I’ve decided to do this thing on my own. I don’t have to make a committee decision.”
Mickey’s song selections for the CD seem to carry across the difficulty of life on the road. According to Mickey, the songs were written when he was mov-ing around a lot. He decided that he was going to group together his songs about longing and is hoping to put out “a more up-beat, positive CD to follow this one.”
Songs like “Road to Ruin” and “Reply to Tak-ing” have a lot of this long-ing tied up in them. “Road to Ruin” is easily the lowpoint of the mood for the album. Mickey mixes a melancholy g u it a r w it h slowly deliv-ered, a lmost apathetic lyrics to give the feel-ing of tedium. You can really feel that he is on an unavoidable path to self-de-struction. Still, something in Mickey’s voice implies that there is just enough hope to keep going for tomorrow.
At times, Mickey’s lyrics can get in the way of the wonderful instrumentals. Don’t confuse this with thinking that he can’t sing however. Rather, Mickey modifies his singing style on the CD, specifically in “Sickening,” and comes off a little overdone. The song still works well and this small flaw won’t ruin the CD by any means.
“Circle of Friends” also has a
bit of the same problem, but the lyrics fit in well in conjunction with the music. This combina-tion more than makes up for what the delivery lacks. The song focuses on a girl with whom the singer is obsessed. The singer is not simply obsessed, but it seems that he can think of nothing but this person, his “circle.” The lead into the chorus is broken up into pieces, followed by the flowing line “There she goes again...” This style, paired with the lyrics and music gives a cyclic sort of feel which symbolizes his “Circle of Friends” very well. Though the lyric delivery isn’t my favorite on this song, Mickey’s song-writ-ing skills are clearly on display here.
While the f inal song does not deviate from the sadness portrayed through the rest of the album, the beginning of “Stand”
is a stark and wonderful bit of respite from the pain in the lyrics. In fact, throughout the album, the instrumentals ser ve a l most to rev ive the listener. While the lyrics seem t o c a r r y a prescience of certain failure a b o u t t h e m — a l m o s t
predestination — Mickey’s compositions really give the listener hope that the “set” course will not come to fruition.
Mickey, who currently resides in High Point, is looking to start playing in and around Raleigh soon, so fans won’t have long to wait for more exposure. For those who haven’t heard his music yet, previews are available both on Itunes and his MySpace page. His brand of Folk/Americana has a style that will certainly find many willing ears in North Carolina.
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StandKEN MICKEYLABEL: KRANKYRELEASED: OCT. 28
His brand of Folk/Americana has a style that
will certainly find many willing ears in North
Carolina.
COURTESY KEN MICKEYAfter working with multiple bands and playing co!ee shops, Ken Mickey has produced his "rst album, “Stand”, which released April 1, 2008.
TECHNICIANPAGE 6 • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008 Features& ENTERTAINMENTARTS
PHOTO BY PATRICIA PICEThe Pipe and Drums Band will celebrate their 40th anniversary Nov. 8 at 8:00 p.m. at Stewart Theatre
Celebrating 40 years of Pipes and DrumsMorgan McCormick Senior Staff Writer
Beyond any other musical in-strument, the bagpipes have a feel the most like that of North Carolina. A Scottish and Irish heritage lies deep in our soil, one that’s felt every time you see the fog as it rolls down Grandfather Mountain or hear the quiet, thoughtful wail-ing of the piper in the morn-ing pall. You can’t seem to live in our state without being taken back to a mysterious time where families were div ided as clans, men wore kilts and music was not an industry but an art of touch-ing souls.
It is in this spirit that, in 1968, a multi-award winning Pipe and Drums band was formed on campus. In the past 40 years the group has won the Flora Macdonald Highland games 11 times and the Charleston Scot-tish Games, the Savannah High-land Games, the Loch Norman
Highland Games and the Gatlin-burg Highland Games, in vari-ous grades, eight times a piece. On Saturday, November 8th, the band celebrates their 40th anni-versary at a concert in Stewart Theatre at 8pm.
“We do concerts every year as part of being in the music department. This particular one is unique because we are
inviting all the almuni of the band back for a reunion,” said Emily Sprague, a Jane of a l l trades in the group. Wife of John Sprague, the current head of the program, she does ev-erything from teach to order kilts.
“You could say I’m the chair and only mem-ber of every committee we have, but really I’m just a piper in the band and a good band support-er,” Sprague said.
The reunion she speaks of is in two parts, one being a private luncheon for members of the group new and old, including its co-founder, Ten Tonkinson.
“It started as student orga-
nization with 12 students on the roll for that first year. Real quickly they worked with the head of the music department, which was Perry Watson, and by Spring semester they were part of the music department,” said Sprague.
The luncheon will feature the announcement of a scholarship endowment from piper Nixon Alexander which will go to a fel-low piper in the program each year. Music Department head J. Mark Scearce will also talk about the transition of the music de-partment into the future, a topic much upon the campus’ mind in the past year.
Regardless of campus politics, the Pipes and Drums group lives on, and this is why there is a second part to the reunion: the show itself. The current Pipes and Drums group will perform, first with students in the grade four category and then with higher level players, including students and other musicians, in the grade three category. Af-ter which “the regular band will be joined by the alumni, includ-ing people that played 40 years ago, and all 65 of us will perform Amazing Grace and Scotland the Beautiful,” Sprague said. “We’ll all get together and we’ll be one big band.”
RECENT BAND AWARDS
Year Awards Competition
2001 4 Loch Norman Highland Games
2001 4 Virginia Scottish Games
2001 4 Charleston Scottish Games
2002 4 Loch Norman Highland Games
2003 3 Virginia Scottish Games
2003 Open Gatlinburg Highland Games
2004 3 Gatlinburg Highland Games
2004 Open Gatlinburg Highland Games
2005 4 Triad Highland Games
2006 3 Triad Highland Games
SOURCE: NCSU PIPES AND DRUMS
O Period combines soul and rage on E.P.Yamil CamachoStaff Writer
Somewhere between Out-kast’s soul and Rage Against The Machine’s aggressiveness, you can find O Period.
He is an MC/Producer that incorporates live instruments in his music.
O Period is currently a member of the Greensboro-based Lower 3rds and was a member of the now-defunct band, Squeezetoy.
He has toured around the nation and internationally
and he even participated in the Middle East USO tour through Africa, Kuwait, and Iraq.
On his “The Primary EP”, he
shows versatility, creativity and potential to be a big name in the music industry.
“The Prima-ry EP” is eight Hip Hop tracks injected with funk, rock and soul.
O Per iod ’s beats are genre-bending and very accessible. T he s ou nd s sampled by O Period and other producers were played by live instruments.
It almost sounds like a funk
band from the 1970s replaced their front man with a rapper from Hip Hop’s Golden Age.
O Period’s lyr-icism should not be overlooked.
The delivery on the album is direct and focused, t he wordplay and witticisms are above average, as shown on
“Organized (outro).” Purple St. James, who is fea-
tured on two tracks (“Never Know (Who to Trust)” and
“Soundbad”), compliments O Period’s rhymes nicely.
“Long Road” and “Beatdrop” are the up-tempo tracks that show O Period’s ability to appeal to Rock crowds while “Greet-ings” is more in the purist Hip Hop vein.
O Period’s “The Primary EP” serves as the appetizer to the album, “Evacuation Route” which is scheduled to be in stores soon.
“The Primary EP” is available on iTunes.
“The Primary EP” is eight Hip Hop tracks injected with funk, rock
and soul.”COURTESY O PERIOD
“This particular [concert] is
unique because we are inviting all the alumni ... for
a reunion.”Emily Sprague, piper and
wife of the Pipe and Drums band director
UPANDCOMINGMusic (Release Nov. 11)Artist: T PainAlbum: Thr33 RingzLabel: Jive
Artist: Taylor SwiftAlbum: FearlessLabel: Big Machine
Artist: David ArchuletaAlbum: David ArchuletaLabel: Jive
Artist: SealAlbum: SoulLabel: Warner Bros.
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Video GamesNov. 7Gears of War 2 (Regular and Special Edition)XBOX 360
Nov. 13World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich KingPC
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Movies (Opening Nov. 7)Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Studio: Dreamworks SKG
Synopsis: With the voice cast of the original Madagascar returning, the film follows the gang on more hilari-ous adventures.
Role Models
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis: Two poorly behaved men get into trouble with the law and are punished by mentoring children for their community service.
Soul Men
Studio: Warner Bros.
Synopsis: Backup soul singers travel to perform a tribute concert in honor of their former band leader. The two haven’t spoken in years, but agree to travel together to the performance.
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At !e Pour HouseNov. 7A Rooster for the Masses CD Release Partydoors: 8:00 p.m.show: 10:00 p.m.
Nov. 8TR3 feat. Tim Reynoldsdoors: 8:00 p.m.show: 10:00 p.m.
Nov. 9Raleigh Rocks!! Benefit for Autism Society of N.C.doors: 5:00 p.m.show: 6:00 p.m.source: the-pour-house.com
At !e BreweryNov 7Belson CD Release
Nov 8Pelican, Kayodot, Steven Bordsky and moredoors: 7:00 p.m.
Nov 9There Will Be Blood, Sky May Fall, Joe Grizzley, This Runs Deepdoors: 6:00 p.m.
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SportsIn its first exhibition game of the season, the men’s basketball team shot 52 percent from the field to win 94-65
Taylor AutenSports Editor
Fifteen players saw the court and ten players received at least ten minutes of playing-time as the Wolfpack defeated Fort Valley State 94-65 in its first exhibi-tion game of the season. The Pack shot 52 percent from the field and 75 percent from the line. Senior Courtney Fells said the team played well, but it needs to improve on defensive rebounds after allowing the Wildcats 14 offensive boards.
“I would give us a B-plus, because we didn’t do a great job on the defensive glass,” Fells said.
Fells, who was moved from shooting guard to small forward this season, led the Pack with 21 points, going 7-for-10 in just 21 minutes on the court. Lowe said Fells is going to thrive in his new position.
“He’s allowing the game to come with him. He’s not forcing anything. He’s tak-ing the shots when its there. I think play-ing him at [small forward] gives him a certain advantage sometimes.”
In addition to Fells, Javi Gonzalez, C.J. Williams, Brandon Costner and Ben McCauley were given the starting nod by Lowe. The surprise was Williams, who is a true freshman, and was started at shooting guard in favor of redshirt ju-nior Trevor Ferguson. Williams scored eight points and hauled in four rebounds in 21 minutes of play. Williams said he knew he was in position for a starting spot when Lowe placed him on the first-team in scrimmages.
“When he put me on the team with the starters, I kind of realized it then. But I never became complacent. It wasn’t like ‘now I’m in the starting lineup, so I can
just relax now,’” Williams said. “No, I kept working hard because that’s what I want to do.”
Lowe said Williams has earned his role in the starting lineup.
“He’s worked extremely hard. In the preseason, during the summer time, he’s worked hard,” Lowe said. “He’s just a solid basketball player. [He] doesn’t make a lot of mistakes. He’s very poised as a fresh-man.”
State jumped to an early lead on the Wildcats with a three-pointer from Fells just 28 seconds into the game. A Tracy Smith layup at the 12:53 mark in the first half put the Pack up by double digits, and State never looked back. Smith said State played well in its first outing of the year.
“I thought everybody came out and played well,” Smith said. Energy was at 100 percent. [We] boxed out, rebounded. Did everything we needed to do to get the win.”
State will face Catawba in another ex-hibition game on Nov. 11 in Reynolds Coliseum. Then, it will begin the regu-lar season by traveling to New Orleans, a team that handed State a loss last year, on Nov. 15.
“From the game we lost against Miami last year in the ACC [Tournament], we’ve been waiting for this day,” small forward Simon Harris said. “It’s just a great op-portunity to not have to play your team-mates. Everyone is excited about it and we’re looking forward to Tuesday.
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nior linebacker Ray Michel said Duke’s offensive line is a big rea-son for the Blue Devils’ offensive success this season.
“I would say they are very ag-gressive as a unit,” Michel said. “The offensive linemen get into the next level pretty good. They’re a pretty good football team all-around right now.”
Following State’s fourth con-secutive loss — a 27-24 defeat against Maryland on Oct. 25 — coach Tom O’Brien said the staff will examine differ-ent player combinations on the defensive side of the ball for the Duke game. The Pack will start redshirt freshman Audie Cole over freshman Dwayne Maddox at weakside linebacker against Duke. It will also give the nod to junior Clem Johnson over redshirt freshman Justin Byers at safety.
“We’re limited to the number of changes we can make. We did shuffle the deck a little bit and we’ll see how it works on Sat-urday,” O’Brien said. “I think Dwayne [Maddox] is just a little bit overwhelmed right now — We’re looking for much more productivity out of the [weakside linebacker] spot that we haven’t been getting since Nate [Irving] went down.”
With six wins required to reach bowl eligibility, State must finish the season with four wins against its last four opponents to have a chance at a bowl game. O’Brien said it was crucial to have a bye week after the Maryland loss.
“Because we had come so close at Maryland, that would have been a tough one to turn around and play,” O’Brien said. “I think the team has responded well.”
MEN”S BASKETBALL
DREIER CARR/TECHNICIANFarnold Degand, a redshirt junior guard, comes over the top of Fort Valley State’s Martrez Scott during an exhibition game in Reynolds Coliseum Thursday night, Nov. 6. Degand had !ve points in the Wolfpack’s 94-65 victory over the Wildcats.
DUKEcontinued from page 8Pack takes down Fort Valley State in exhibition opener
STATE’S LINEUP AGAINST FORT VALLEY STATEPos. Starter Top ReservePG Javi Gonzalez Farnold DegandSG C.J. Williams Trevor FergusonSF Courtney Fells Johnny Thomas*PF Brandon Costner Dennis HornerC Ben McCauley Tracy Smith
*Left game with a sprained ankle
TECHNICIANPAGE 8 • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
James OblingerChancellor
Lee FowlerAthletics Director
Debra MorganWRAL Anchor
Joseph DavenportWestern Boulevard
Jay DawkinsStudent Body President
Kishea PhillipsNubian Message Editor
Saja HindiTechnician Editor
Taylor AutenSports Editor
Josh HarrellDeputy Sports Editor
Langdon MorrisDeputy Sports Editor
Overall Standings T-9th2-8
53-47
5th4-6
60-40
6th7-3
55-45
T-9th4-6
53-47
T-7th6-4
54-46
T-7th6-4
54-46
T-3rd6-4
61-39
1st6-4
63-37
2nd6-4
62-38
T-3rd6-4
61-39
N.C. State @ Duke N.C State N.C. State Duke Duke N.C. State Duke N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State
No. 11 Ohio State @ No. 24 North-western
Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Northwestern Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State
No. 20 Georgia Tech @ No. 19 North Carolina
Georgia Tech Georgia Tech North Carolina North Carolina Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech North Carolina Georgia Tech Georgia Tech
Clemson @ No. 22 Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Clemson Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State
Virginia @ Wake Forest Wake Forest Virginia Virginia Wake Forest Wake Forest Wake Forest Wake Forest Wake Forest Virginia Wake Forest
Notre Dame @ Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Notre Dame Boston College Boston College Notre Dame Boston College Notre Dame Notre Dame
Saturday:Georgia Tech @ North Carolina, noonVirginia @ Wake Forest, 3:30 p.m.N.C. State @ Duke, 3:30 p.m.
As the only team without an ACC win, State’s hopes at reaching the conference title are long gone. But the Pack has not yet been eliminated from post-season play. State could still become bowl-eligible with wins over its last four opponents--Duke, Wake Forest, North Carolina and Miami. Also, with a win over East Carolina already under its belt, the Wolfpack can still go undefeated against in-state oppo-nents as three out of its next four opponents hail from the Old North State.
The ACC race is still wide open in both the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions. Maryland is the only team with only one conference loss, but it’s remaining four games -- at Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Florida State and at Boston College--are brutal. In the coastal division, it is literally a five-team race between Georgia Tech, Miami, Virginia, North Carolina and Virginia Tech for the right to play for the ACC Champi-onship. But if Georgia Tech can survive a tough road test at North Carolina this weekend, the Yellow-Jackets will have the inside track to Tampa.
FOLLOWINGTHE 2008ACC RACE N.C. State has produced 15
first round selections in the NFL draft.KNOW?DID YOU
TEAM ACC OVERALL
Maryland 3-1 6-2
Florida State 3-2 6-2
Wake Forest 3-2 5-3
Boston College 2-3 5-3
Clemson 2-3 4-4
N.C. State 0-4 2-6
SOURCE: ACC
TEAM ACC OVERALL
Georgia Tech 4-2 7-2
Miami 3-2 6-3
Virginia 3-2 5-4
North Carolina 2-2 6-2
Virginia Tech 2-2 5-3
Duke 1-3 4-4
SOURCE: ACC
DUKE
DUKE?What happened the last time State played
On Oct. 25, 2003, senior quarterback Philip Rivers and the Wolfpack travelled to Wallace Wade Stadium riding a two-game win streak and sitting at 5-3
overall. The Wolfpack entered the game as heavy favorites, but the Blue Devils kept the game close in a 28-21 N.C. State victory. Rivers connected with wide receiver Tremain Hall three times for touchdowns as he finished the day 23-of-31 for 369 yards, one interception and three touchdowns. Hall finished with eight catches for 142 yards.
Players to watch for:N.C. STATE
Audie Cole, linebacker - After the loss against Maryland, coach Tom O’Brien said the coaching staff would look at different combinations of players on the defensive side of the Ball. Cole, a redshirt freshman, will replace true freshman Dwayne Maddox at weakside linebacker on Saturday. Though he has seen action in all eight games this season, it will be the first start of his career. He has five tackles on the year.
Owen Spencer, wide receiver - Spencer, a 6-foot, 3-inch sophomore, is the Pack’s leading receiver having hauled in 405 yards and two touchdowns this season. But Spencer and the rest of the receiving corps was invisible against the Terrapins last week, accounting for only three receptions of quarterback Russell Wilson’s 18 complete passes. Look for Wilson to focus on getting the ball to Spencer downfield against the Blue Devils.
DUKEMichael Tauiliili, linebacker - The senior from Houston, Texas leads the ACC in tackles (81) and forced fumbles (3). Tauiliili has started all eight games for the Blue Devils, and is the centerpiece of a much improved Duke defense. Among active players, Tauiliili ranks No. 1 in the ACC and No. 3 nationally in career tackles with 375.
Thaddeus Lewis, quarterback - Lewis has emerged as one of the conference’s best quarterbacks this season, as he has thrown for 1552 yards and 12 touchdowns with a completion percentage of 58.8. The junior from Opa-Locka, Fla. is second to only Riley Skinner of Wake Forest in passing average and total offense.
FOCUS ON...
OUT FOR THE SEASON: Toney Baker, HB - Knee surgery; Donald Bowens, WR -Lower back stress fractures; Matt Kushner, TE - Knee injury; Javon Walker, S - Knee surgery
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Wolfpack INJURY REPORT
Football FridaySPORTS
The Wolfpack and Blue Devils will meet for the 80th time on Saturday
Taylor AutenSports Editor
Separated by just 20 miles, Duke and N.C. State are natu-ral rivals. In 1924, State played its first game against Trinity College, as Duke was formerly known, winning 14-0. Follow-ing the first meeting, the two schools played annually for the
next 80 years with the exception of the 1944.
But ACC expansion forced the conference to create two divi-sions. When the Wolfpack was placed in the Atlantic division and the Blue Devils were placed in the Coastal division and the annual rivalry ended. Duke coach David Cutcliffe said the fact that the two teams have not played since 2003 is an unfortu-nate side effect of the conference expanding.
“Obviously the conference
had to make some tough deci-sions on the split,” Cutcliffe said. “It’s great fun to live in this re-gion. You always feel like you’re behind enemy lines. I see N.C. State stickers and flags and I see North Carolina stickers and flags everywhere I go. It’s a very com-petitive situation. I think we get a sense of it over here. There is a lot of pride each school has in their programs.”
The Wolfpack enters the game against Duke as the only team in the ACC without a conference
victory. Duke, on the other hand, is 4-4 overall and 1-3 in the ACC with a chance to become bowl eligible after go-ing 1-11 and winless in con-ference last season.
Duke quarterback Thad-deus Lewis has emerged as one of the ACC’s top signal callers. He is second in the conference in passing with 1552 yards on the season and 12 touchdowns. Redshirt ju-
Wolfpack faces Blue Devils for !rst time since 2003
DAVID MABE/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOHalfback Jamelle Eugene runs through the ECU defense during the game Sept. 20. State faces Duke at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.
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Game InfoGametime: 3:30 p.m.Television: ESPN360.com/ESPNURadio: Wolfpack Capitol Sports NetworkWeather: Forecast calls for a high of 68 and a low of 41 with morning showers that should end by midday.
