TECHNICIAN Raleigh, North Carolina technicianonline.com Jessie Halpern News Editor Wolf Ridge, the first student housing option to reach Cen- tennial Campus, will be ready for move-in next fall and is cur- rently under construction. Wolf Ridge at Centennial will feature one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units in one of six buildings, though only two buildings will be complete by fall 2013. The apartments are located on the Centennial Oval, walking distance from the campus’ new Hunt Library. Chester Burroughs, a sopho- more in chemical engineering and resident adviser, said the first two buildings will house 400-450 units. The Wolf Ridge project has been a collaboration of several different departments, but stu- dent input is playing one of the biggest roles, according to Bur- roughs. Burroughs said some of the buildings will include a loft model specifically for graduate students, based on their feed- back. “They appreciated having an area in the community of all stu- dents, but accessed by graduate students,” Burroughs said. Students have had a say in the design and con- struction of the project, as well as the furniture op- tions and sustain- ability of the build- ing. Wolf Ridge will be LEED Silver Certi- fied and feature a green rooftop, green spaces for community events, a 50,000 gallon cis- tern (which will use rain water and condensation from air-con- ditioning units to help address irrigation needs) and other ele- ments that make it a leader in sus- tainable development, according to the project’s website. The focus on green engineering for this project reflects a University- wide objective. “It’s not only about the materials we use, but also how we’re recycling those unused materials,” Burroughs said. These changes, ac- cording to University Housing Public Com- munication Special- ist Jennifer Kendall, require more money up-front in the hopes of big savings later on. “When you’re look- ing at a building that can potentially be here for 50, 60, 100 years, you’re looking for long- term benefits,” Kendall said. University Housing has set up a model of a four-bedroom unit on Centennial Campus. While the model is housed in a trailer, it has been remodeled to reflect the planned living space and floor plan of the apartment. Burroughs said the purpose of the model was to get student feedback on the overall look of the apartment. “We want to know if students, after looking at the apartment, would actually want to live there,” Burroughs said. Student focus groups were devel- oped prior to building the model so Housing could get a sense of what students wanted in terms of furnish- ings, Burroughs said. The model will be officially open for viewing Monday. Students can visit the Wolf Ridge website to make a reservation for a 30-minute tour. “This was a student-directed pro- cess, and the furniture reflects that,” Kendall said. Wolf Ridge is modeled after the idea of Wolf Village, but with up- grades Burroughs hopes students will appreciate. The apartments come with stain- Centennial housing project moves forward RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIAN Construction moves forward on the Wolf Ridge apartment complex on Centennial Campus. The project, which includes six residence buildings, a dining facility and a bookstore, is scheduled to be completed in fall 2013. RIDGE continued page 2 mb 6 insidetechnician viewpoint 4 features 5 classifieds 7 sports 8 Dustforce: the highlight of Humble Bundle See page 6. Higgs boson passes peer review See page 5. Pack ends three-game losing streak See page 8. Bishop returns home this sat- urday to face Miami See page 7. Megan Dunton Staff Writer This year, the University’s various concerts will be hosted under a sin- gle series — the Wolfstock Concert Series — in a collaboration between Student Government, the Union Activities Board, WKNC radio and Arts N.C. State. According to Andy Walsh, a senior in political science and student body president, the Wolfstock Concert Series was created to unify all of the concerts and musical happenings at N.C. State in one place. “We [Student Government] went to UAB, Arts N.C. State and WKNC and asked all the groups to allow us to advertise and consolidate their concerts under one central calendar to give students one re- source,” Walsh said. Students can expect three concert offerings in October including an Arts NOW event, a Raleigh Civic Cham- ber Orchestra concert and a Wind Ensemble concert. November will offer 12 scheduled concerts, including a Choral Collage, the homecoming concert, a Jazz En- semble Concert, a Pipes and Drums concert, a Kathy Mattea concert, a Jazz combos concert, a Raleigh Civic Symphony concert, a Ladies in Red concert, a Wind Ensemble concert and a Grains of Time concert. It also includes a Connecting Cross- roads in North Carolina concert with Daniel Bernard Roumain and Laurelyn Dossett and a 125th An- niversary special event known as a Quasquicentennial Celebration — 125 Years of Holidays at N.C. State. A State of Brass con- cert is being performed in December right be- fore exams. “When you put all the offerings on one calendar, it shows you that a lot of music is of- fered throughout this fall,” Walsh said. In fact, there were too many events. Walsh said the concert series had to be broken up into two halves: fall semester and spring semester. “Our major concerts every single year — the Pack Howl, the home- coming concert, the Welcome Week concert and the All Night Bash — are well-attended by students, but I think the Arts N.C. State and WKNC’s Fridays on the Lawn events will increase in attendance,” Walsh said. Rodney Washchka, director of the Arts NOW series and a profes- sor of art studies, said any calendar focused on arts events can help improve the audience numbers for those events. Arts NOW is a series that brings concerts, lectures and other performing arts to cam- pus. The series often focuses on bringing new works to campus and making them available to Wolfstock series consolidates concerts Staff Report University Theatre is gearing up for an exciting season, beginning with its musical production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which premieres tonight. The musical is about two men at- tempting to fleece rich ladies on the French Riviera out of their money, leading to a disastrous partnership and a fight to see which of them is the best con man in town. The musical will run Sept. 26-30 in Stewart Theatre, with $5 stu- dent tickets and $18 adult tickets. Evening performances Wednesday through Saturday begin at 7:30 p.m., and a Sunday matinee begins at 2 p.m. Caitlyn Duran, a senior in social work and member of the show’s ensemble, encourages students and faculty to come out and see it. “I’ve done the show before, and I’ve always heard the feedback that it’s really enjoyable for all crowds, whether you’re male or female,” Duran said. Duran said the humor is appeal- ing to both genders, and it won’t be a bore to sit through. While the experience of daily rehearsals has been tiring, Duran said working with University Theatre is some- thing she won’t regret. “It’s been really fun and worth it,” Duran said. “Everybody is great, friendly and welcoming. It’s a good community.” Nat Conti, a senior in biomedical engineering, and Andrew Enloe, a sophomore in communication me- dia, will portray the two crooks in ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ kicks off show season BRETT MORRIS/TECHNICIAN A.B. da Best and Rizio perform a hip-hop set on the Patterson Stage at Packapalooza. This year, all concert events on campus have been consolidated under a single series, Wolfstock. CONCERT continued page 2 THEATRE continued page 2 QUICK FACTS: WOLF RIDGE • The project is 550,446 square feet, which includes housing, dining and a bookstore. • The project features 1,195 beds. • One-, two-, three-, and four- bedroom apartments and graduate studio lofts are available. Accessible units are also available. • The property is on the Centennial Oval, across from the new Hunt Library. • Wolf Ridge will have six named buildings. • The property will be LEED Silver Certified. • One of the key focuses of Wolf Ridge is sustainability. Innovation Hall will eventually house the Entrepreneurs Village. SOURCE: UNIVERSITY HOUSING OCTOBER WOLFSTOCK EVENTS: Friday’s on the Lawn: Friday, Oct. 12 at 5:30 p.m. on Harris Field Arts NOW ($5): Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy-Mcllwee Studio Theatre Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra ($5): Sunday, Oct. 28 at 4 p.m. in Stewart Theatre Wind Ensemble ($5): Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in Stewart Theatre SOURCE: WOLFSTOCK “...it shows you that a lot of music is offered...” Andy Walsh, student body president “We want to know if students... actually want to live here.” Chester Burroughs, sophomore in chemical engineering
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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina
technicianonline.com
Jessie Halpern News Editor
Wolf Ridge, the first student housing option to reach Cen-tennial Campus, will be ready for move-in next fall and is cur-rently under construction.
Wolf Ridge at Centennial will feature one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units in one of six buildings, though only two buildings will be complete by fall 2013. The apartments are located on the Centennial Oval, walking distance from the campus’ new Hunt Library.
Chester Burroughs, a sopho-more in chemical engineering and resident adviser, said the first two buildings will house 400-450 units.
The Wolf Ridge project has been a collaboration of several different departments, but stu-dent input is playing one of the biggest roles, according to Bur-roughs.
Burroughs said some of the buildings will include a loft model specifically for graduate students, based on their feed-back.
“They appreciated having an area in the community of all stu-dents, but accessed by graduate students,” Burroughs said.
Students have had a say in the design and con-struction of the project, as well as the furniture op-tions and sustain-ability of the build-ing.
Wolf Ridge will be LEED Silver Certi-f ied and feature a green rooftop, green spaces for community events, a 50,000 gallon cis-tern (which will use rain water and condensation from air-con-ditioning units to help address irrigation needs) and other ele-
ments that make it a leader in sus-tainable development, according to the project’s website.
The focus on green engineering for this project reflects a University-wide objective.
“It’s not only about the materials we use, but also how we’re recycling those unused materials,” Burroughs said.
These changes, ac-cording to University Housing Public Com-munication Special-ist Jennifer Kendall, require more money up-front in the hopes of big savings later on.
“When you’re look-ing at a building that can potentially be here for 50, 60, 100 years, you’re looking for long-term benefits,” Kendall
said.University Housing has set up
a model of a four-bedroom unit on Centennial Campus. While
the model is housed in a trailer, it has been remodeled to reflect the planned living space and floor plan of the apartment.
Burroughs said the purpose of the model was to get student feedback on the overall look of the apartment.
“We want to know if students, after looking at the apartment, would actually want to live there,” Burroughs said.
Student focus groups were devel-oped prior to building the model so Housing could get a sense of what students wanted in terms of furnish-
ings, Burroughs said. The model will be officially open
for viewing Monday. Students can visit the Wolf Ridge website to make a reservation for a 30-minute tour.
“This was a student-directed pro-cess, and the furniture reflects that,” Kendall said.
Wolf Ridge is modeled after the idea of Wolf Village, but with up-grades Burroughs hopes students will appreciate.
The apartments come with stain-
Centennial housing project moves forward
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANConstruction moves forward on the Wolf Ridge apartment complex on Centennial Campus. The project, which includes six residence buildings, a dining facility and a bookstore, is scheduled to be completed in fall 2013.
Dustforce: the highlight of Humble BundleSee page 6.
Higgs boson passes peer reviewSee page 5.
Pa c k e n d s three -game losing streakSee page 8.
Bishop returns home this sat-urday to face MiamiSee page 7.
Megan DuntonStaff Writer
This year, the University’s various concerts will be hosted under a sin-gle series — the Wolfstock Concert Series — in a collaboration between Student Government, the Union Activities Board, WKNC radio and Arts N.C. State.
According to Andy Walsh, a senior in political science and student body president, the Wolfstock Concert Series was created to unify all of the concerts and musical happenings at N.C. State in one place.
“We [Student Government] went to UAB, Arts N.C. State and WKNC and asked all the groups to allow us to advertise and consolidate their concerts under one central calendar to give students one re-source,” Walsh said.
Students can expect three concert offerings in October including an Arts NOW event, a Raleigh Civic Cham-ber Orchestra concert and a Wind Ensemble concert.
November will offer 12 scheduled concerts, including a Choral Collage, the homecoming concert, a Jazz En-semble Concert, a Pipes and Drums concert, a Kathy Mattea concert, a Jazz combos concert, a Raleigh Civic Symphony concert, a Ladies in Red concert, a Wind Ensemble concert and a Grains of Time concert. It also includes a Connecting Cross-roads in North Carolina concert
with Daniel Bernard Roumain and Laurelyn Dossett and a 125th An-niversary special event known as a Quasquicentennial Celebration —
125 Years of Holidays at N.C. State.
A State of Brass con-cert is being performed in December right be-fore exams.
“When you put all the offerings on one calendar, it shows you that a lot of music is of-fered throughout this fall,” Walsh said.
In fact, there were too many events. Walsh said the concert series had to be broken up into two halves: fall semester and spring semester.
“Our major concerts every single year — the Pack Howl, the home-coming concert, the Welcome Week concert and the All Night Bash — are well-attended by students, but I think the Arts N.C. State and
WKNC’s Fridays on the Lawn events will increase in attendance,” Walsh said.
Rodney Washchka, director of the Arts NOW series and a profes-sor of art studies, said any calendar focused on arts events can help improve the audience numbers for those events.
Arts NOW is a series that brings concerts, lectures and other performing arts to cam-pus. The series often focuses on bringing new works to campus and making them available to
Wolfstock series consolidates concerts
Staff Report
University Theatre is gearing up for an exciting season, beginning with its musical production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which premieres tonight.
The musical is about two men at-tempting to fleece rich ladies on the French Riviera out of their money, leading to a disastrous partnership and a fight to see which of them is the best con man in town.
The musical will run Sept. 26-30 in Stewart Theatre, with $5 stu-dent tickets and $18 adult tickets. Evening performances Wednesday through Saturday begin at 7:30 p.m., and a Sunday matinee begins at 2 p.m.
Caitlyn Duran, a senior in social work and member of the show’s ensemble, encourages students and faculty to come out and see it.
“I’ve done the show before, and I’ve always heard the feedback that it’s really enjoyable for all crowds, whether you’re male or female,” Duran said.
Duran said the humor is appeal-ing to both genders, and it won’t be a bore to sit through. While the experience of daily rehearsals has been tiring, Duran said working with University Theatre is some-thing she won’t regret.
“It’s been really fun and worth it,” Duran said. “Everybody is great, friendly and welcoming. It’s a good community.”
Nat Conti, a senior in biomedical engineering, and Andrew Enloe, a sophomore in communication me-dia, will portray the two crooks in
‘Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels’
kicks off
show season
BRETT MORRIS/TECHNICIANA.B. da Best and Rizio perform a hip-hop set on the Patterson Stage at Packapalooza. This year, all concert events on campus have been consolidated under a single series, Wolfstock.
CONCERT continued page 2
THEATRE continued page 2
QUICK FACTS: WOLF RIDGE• The project is 550,446 square feet,
which includes housing, dining and a bookstore.
• The project features 1,195 beds.• One-, two-, three-, and four-
bedroom apartments and graduate studio lofts are available. Accessible units are also available.
• The property is on the Centennial Oval, across from the new Hunt Library.
• Wolf Ridge will have six named buildings.
• The property will be LEED Silver Certified.
• One of the key focuses of Wolf Ridge is sustainability. Innovation Hall will eventually house the Entrepreneurs Village.
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY HOUSING
OCTOBER WOLFSTOCK EVENTS:Friday’s on the Lawn: Friday,Oct.12at5:30p.m.onHarrisFieldArts NOW ($5):Tuesday,Oct.16at7p.m.intheKennedy-McllweeStudioTheatreRaleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra ($5): Sunday,Oct.28at4p.m.inStewartTheatreWind Ensemble ($5):Tuesday,Oct.30at7p.m.inStewartTheatre
SOURCE: WOLFSTOCK
“...it shows
you that a lot
of music is
offered...”AndyWalsh,
studentbodypresident
“We want
to know if
students...
actually want
to live here.”ChesterBurroughs,
sophomoreinchemicalengineering
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Dirty Rotten ScoundrelsWed-Sat, Sept 26-29 at 7:30pmSun, Sept 30 at 2pmStewart TheatreIs there room for two con men to fleece the French Riviera’s rich ladies out of their money? The new University Theatre season opens with a hilarious battle of cons that keeps audiences laugh-ing, humming and guessing to the end!
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TodayBUSINESS OPERATIONS CENTERS IMPLEMENTATION TEAM MEETING Avent Ferry Technology Center, All Day
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DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELSStewart Theater, 7:30 p.m. MOVIE: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MANCampus Cinema, 7 and 10 p.m.
SIGHTSEEING THE END OF THE WORLDPoe Hall, 7 p.m.
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“NC STATE: THEN & NOW” PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AND FREE CLASS Craft Center, All Day
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ART WITHOUT ARTISTSGregg Museum of Art & Design, Noon
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less steel appliances and a larger living area. The furniture is set to include a sectional, side tables, chairs, a dining set, an entertainment center and a floor lamp option.
While the individual bedrooms are about the same size as those in Wolf Village, Burroughs said he believes students will ap-preciate the efforts made toward increasing storage opportunities.
“We didn’t include built-in closets in these models, so students will be getting an armoire set,” Burroughs said.
Burroughs said one of his favorite features is a wall of shelves at the end of each hallway.
“Students in Wolf Vil-lage don’t have this op-tion,” Burroughs said. “I’d imagine students would like the ability to store some common items in the hall.”
The hallway shelves aren’t the only efforts made to giving students more storage. In fact, the whole kitchen was de-signed with that in mind.
“We made sure there
were plenty of cabinets and storage space in the units, because I know that’s been a complaint in Wolf Village,” Burroughs said.
The cabinetry will be lower on the wall to increase acces-sibility, but they will expand up to the ceiling, providing
several shelves each.Currently, the rates to live
in Wolf Ridge are estimated at more than $3,000 per se-mester. Students can look at floor plans, tour the site plan and learn more about Wolf Ridge on the apartment’s page on the Housing website.
students and the com-munity. The next event for Arts NOW is a concert by Low and Lower, a cellist and a bassist duo.
Most of the Wolfstock concert events are free, with the exception of some of the Arts N.C. State events. The charge for these events is $5 and is noted on the Wolfstock Concert Series flyer.
The Wolfstock Concert Series was one of Walsh’s
major platform points for running for student body president.
“It was one of my top plat-form items and we’ve already seen how ssmuch concerts mean to students on campus and having good concerts for students to get excited about,” Walsh said. “It’s essential for student life to have those types of things available for students.”
Walsh said he hopes Wolfs-tock will be around for years to come.
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competition for heiress Christina Colgate’s for-tune, with Colgate por-trayed by Brett Williams, a senior in zoology.
University Theatre’s
other productions this season include Alice in Wonderland, An Inspector Calls and The Heidi Chronicles.
For more information on performances or how to get involved with University Theatre, visit ncsu.edu/the-atre.
RIDGE continued from page 1
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANOne of the new Wolf Ridge apartment buildings takes shape alongside the Centennial Campus Oval. The property will be LEED Silver certified and one of the key focuses is sustainability.
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Students will be able to exchange their current cam-pus IDs for the Wolfpack One MasterCard starting Oct. 1.
With $10 and an old cam-pus ID, students who do not already have the Wolfpack One ID will be able to trade up to the new identification cards.
The University introduced the new ID this year, which also functions as a U.S. Bank Debit MasterCard, to offer students a more conve-nient and secure option than they’ve had in years past, ac-cording to Marketing and Communications Manager for Campus Enterprises Jen-nifer Gilmore.
“We wanted to give stu-dents something that
was more robust,”
Gilmore said. “What we gave them was one of the most robust campus cards in the country.”
The new campus card was issued to all freshmen and is a stepping stone between a traditional debit card and a credit card; a fact that Gilm-ore says will help students develop a sense of financial independence.
According to Gilmore, the new card protects students from many of the fees asso-ciated with debit cards pro-vided through oth- er financial institu-tions such as in-suffi-
cient funds fees; however, the card does not come entirely fee free.
Students using Wolfpack One IDs will be subject to some fees, including with-drawing money from non-U.S. Bank or MoneyPass ATMs. There are also fees associated with account ac-tivity and closure.
Though the Wolfpack One Card provides students with a safer alternative than tradi-tional credit card debt traps, Tim Swinson, vice president and city officer with the State Employees’ Credit Union,
warns students to think before they
spend.“Like
any piece of plastic, debit
cards
make it easier for people to spend money they might not have,” Swinson said.
The Wolfpack One Card is set up to prevent this problem by declining any transactions students try to make that require more money than they have in their accounts. However, Swinson says, stu-dents need t o t h i n k beyond the card when making f i-nancial de-cisions.
According to Swinson, t he Wol f-pac k O ne Card comes with many advantages for students. However, the card alone is not able to form good spending habits.
“Good spending habits need to develop at an early age,” Swinson said. “The time for students to develop these habits is now.”
Kelli Cheatham, member education specialist with the State Employees’ Credit Union, said many of the safeguards built into the new
campus card to help protect students from debt are very useful, but students should not take these safety mea-sures for granted.
“There is a fine line be-tween a safety net and a crutch,” Cheatham said.
According to Cheatham, the lack of insufficient funds
fees attached to the card provides stu-dents with good prac-t ice. Since students will not be able to over-draw their accounts, they will not
be reprimanded. Yet it is im-portant they remember these fees do exist in the real word, Cheatham said.
“It is important for students to remember that with every privilege comes responsibil-ity,” Cheatham said.
For a full list of fees and de-scriptions, refer to the Wolf-pack One Card’s information booklet, which can be found online at http://onecard.ncsu.edu.
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Co-sponsors The Zeta of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
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University Scholars Program students: This lecture has been designated as a Scholars Forum optional event.
Reception following in the Riddick Hearth(Sponsored by the Society of Physics Students)
Thursday, September 277:30 P.M.
Riddick 301
The Deaths of Massive Stars
Image courtesy of Dr. John Blondin, NC State
Lindsey Rosenbaum Staff Writer
At an upcoming Chick-fil-A forum, students who are worried about the presence of the fast-food chain on campus will have the chance to voice their concerns and listen to facts regarding the chain. The forum will be held Oct. 26 from 1-4 p.m. in 126 Witherspoon Student Center.
Chick-fil-A became the center of controversy over the summer when CEO Dan Cathy told a news source his company supported the “bib-lical definition of the family unit.”
“As it relates to society in general, I think we are in-viting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’” Cathy told a radio show on the subject.
Peter Wright, a freshman in computer science, said he was upset Chick-fil-A do-nated money via its non-profit arm to organizations unsupportive of GLBT citi-zens. Two of the organi-zat ions are registered as hate groups with the South-ern Poverty Law Center.
“I wasn’t surprised, because you know that [the company] is very Christian, and prob-ably anti-gay, but I was upset to learn they were funding anti-gay groups,” Wright said.
Many students returning for classes in August ex-pressed concerns over hav-ing Chick-fil-A remain on
campus.To address these concerns,
the Union Activities Board has set up a discussion fo-rum. Lauren Collier, a se-nior in animal science and president of UAB, hopes the forum will prove to be edu-cational.
“We want this to be an awareness event to learn about the controversy, and what the University can and cannot do [concerning Chick-fil-A],” Collier said.
On many social media sites, there have been petitions to remove the restaurant from campus.
“The University does have a contract with Chick-fil-A which they cannot break unless the company doesn’t hold up their end [of the con-tract],” Collier said. “How-ever, it will not be in the new Talley.”
The contract with Chick-fil-A stands for both the Atrium location and the Centennial Campus location. Centennial’s contract is set
to expire in a year, while the Atrium contract i s good unt i l 2017.
Some, like Wright, be-lieve that the remaining
time on the contract should be re-evaluated in light of this summer’s controversy.
The UAB has adopted a neutral stance regarding the subject.
“We don’t take sides or choose political standpoints,” Collier said. “We’ve invited the GLBT Center and other groups to make it equal.”
The other groups speaking during the forum include
upper-level administration, Campus Enterprises and Uni-versity Dining.
Individual students have had months to formulate their own opinions on the subject.
“In my personal opinion, I think there is something wrong about [Chick-fil-A on campus], but I think the campus overall has to make a decision,” Wright said. “People are still going to eat there anyway. They’re free to spend their money however they want, and I’m just not going to spend my money there.”
In the past few weeks, re-ports have surfaced that Chick-f i l-A would stop funding anti-gay organiza-tions. However, Cathy said the company’s core values remain the same through a statement posted on former Arkansas Gov. Mike Hucka-bee’s website.
“There continues to be erroneous implications in the media that Chick-fil-A changed our practices and priorities in order to obtain permission for a new restau-rant in Chicago,” Cathy said. “That is incorrect. Chick-fil-A made no such concessions, and we remain true to who we are and who we have been.”
UAB forum to discuss Chick-fil-A controversy
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ViewpointN.C. State students have seen re-
cord tuition increases, cuts to financial aid and the consolida-
tion of services. The cost of education contin-ues to skyrocket and student debt is exponentially increas-ing and is now over $1 billion. In-state tuition and fees have
more than doubled in the past 10 years from $3,827 in 2002-2003 to $7,787 in 2012-2013.
Can it get worse? The UNC Board of Gover-nors, the body that oversees North Carolina’s public university system, recently appointed the UNC Advisory Committee on Strategic Directions, an advisory committee that will decide the spending and academic priorities for the UNC system for the next five years. While this could be used as an opportunity to engage students, faculty and local communi-ties about the future of the university system, the opposite has taken place.
The Advisory Committee is filled with far right politicians and multimillionaires. It is also overwhelmingly full of wealthy white men who will be making recommendations to the Board of Governors in the coming months.
The most notorious member of this panel is
Art Pope, the multimillionaire CEO of Variety Wholesalers. Pope, who works with the Koch brothers, was instrumental in the 2010 right wing takeover of the N.C. General Assembly, helped fund the effort to pass Amendment One, and was called the “architect” of the attempts to re-segregate pub-lic schools in Wake County. He bankrolls and directs the operations of many different hard-line conservative orga-nizations in the state.
These groups advocate for big budget cuts for the UNC system, the privatization of education and other services, dramatic tuition increases, and regularly attack women’s studies and African American studies programs. Many of the others on this panel — including UNC Board of Governors members Fred Eshelman and N.C. House speaker Thom Tillis — have well-documented ties to Pope, his organizations and his backwards agenda for our state. The board has many members that have direct ties to ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council). ALEC has written and continues to
write model legislation for states across the country including voter ID laws, stand your ground laws, privatizing education and rolling back environmental regulation.
This board spells disaster for the univer-sity system. In addition to the politics of the
board there is currently no room for public comment or student input leaving the board members unaccount-able to the public.
Students at N.C. State rely on an affordable public educa-tion. Many of us take out stu-dent loans and rely on finan-cial aid to stay in school. We put at least four years of time, money and energy into this university. However, student’s voices are almost always left
out of the equation when making decisions. This seems counter-intuitive as students are
the ones who keep the university going and hold all the power. Most of the time decisions are handed up to privately educated admin-istrators and “experts,” disenfranchising stu-dents from getting involved. These decisions have become more centered on business and
profit rather than the education we are re-ceiving.
We are changing it: Recently students from all across N.C. have been hosting Student Power meetings on their campuses to advocate for issues affecting students and increasing student representation. The group has created a statewide network NCSPU (North Carolina Student Power Union). NCSPU has called for the removal of Art Pope from the Advisory Committee, a rotational public forum at every meeting with more student representation, and that the state of N.C. lives up to its con-stitutional promise to maintain education “as free as practicable.” The first student power meeting at N.C. State will be on Oct. 2 from 6:00-7:00pm in the 1911 building room 124. Students will talk about issues central to cam-pus as well as the new advisory board.
With an already inflated cost of education we cannot afford a greater financial burden. Students in N.C. have an obligation to public education and future students to change the composition and procedures of this board. The University system as we know it is at risk unless students come together to change the course of history.
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three groups of people to which he must appeal to win the upcoming
election. Without the f irm backing of Hispan-ics, people under 30 and the lower and middle
classes, Obama is likely to lose. What does each of these groups want? And what does that mean for Obama? I’ve got a lot to cover in this column and not much space in which to cover it, so I apologize for my brevity up front.
Jon Garrido, CEO and owner of The Jon Garrido Network which is respon-sible for a variety of His-panic news outlets, wrote in a blog post that Hispan-ics are less than impressed with what Obama has done for them in his first term.
They are frustrated with how little he committed to reforming immigra-tion laws during his first two years when he had a majority in the Senate and House of Represen-tatives. This is a little unfair, because though he had a Democratic ma-jority, Obama had to deal with the incredibly un-cooperative Republicans when trying to pass health care reform. What can he do now? Promise to fight for their rights and for immigration reform. He can promise to campaign for a bill similar to last year’s failed Dream Act. Hispanics feel ignored — they want Obama to nod their way and say, “Hey, I see you.”
Second, there are people under 30, a group which a New York Times article recently described as “a question mark for both campaigns,” mainly due to their apathy toward elections. According to a statement from the Fair Elections Legal Network, only 22.8 percent of peo-
ple under 30 that were eligible to vote actually voted in 2010.
The top three things this group is concerned with are affordable education, af-fordable health care and the ability to find a job in this struggling economy. Obama knows this, and his cam-paign has been reflecting his attempts to appeal to these issues with younger voters. This is why Michelle Obama has been visiting colleges (such as ECU and NCCU last week) and proclaiming that her husband is a champion for students.
However, even if Obama can resonate with this group, he still must overcome the challenge of getting them to actually vote.
Finally, there is the lower and middle-class segment of the population. Really, their primary concern is the economy. Mythili Sampath-kumar, a writer for the politi-cal blog Policymic, stated that Obama must convince these voters that “Professor Obama is better than CEO Romney.” 1940 marks the last time that a president won re-election when unemployment was above 7.2 percent. The U.S. Department of Labor re-ported unemployment at 8.1 percent at the end of August.
I frequently read articles and opinion posts that start out with some statement along the lines of “we are baff led that Obama is still even in the running, much less leading by a little.”
So what can Obama do, other than let Mitt Romney continually distance himself from voters through the com-ments he has been making? He must give a concrete plan. A vague “I will fight for your rights, and I will fight to fix the economy” will not suffice. Lots of jobs have been added to the economy, yes, but this statistic is less relevant than the high unemployment rate.
I will leave you with a plea to continue researching these topics for yourself, so that by the time November gets here you are well-informed and ready to vote.
I am writing this by means of a faint back-l it screen,
without any Wi-Fi con-nection, in a one-room school house at midnight, feeling a little cold. They
never tell you how many N.C. State tra-ditions require y ou t o sleep on brick.
N.C. State’s Habitat for Humanity student group is hosting its annual Shack-a-Thon this week to raise money to build houses for those in need.
The backstory behind the national Habitat or-ganization is quite inter-esting. Habitat for Hu-manity’s founder, Millard Fuller, was a well-known, well-off business man who discovered his life was not benefiting anyone other than him and his family, which would typically be enough for most people. As a result, he and his wife sold all their belong-ings and began traveling to build houses for those less fortunate. And thus, the non-profit was born.
While Habitat’s founder demonstrates the highest level of service leadership, this annual week we are able to make a difference on a less extreme, college-
leveled scale. The scat tered shacks
around the Brickyard have banned together to create a community all with one goal: to help fellow human beings in need. This is the epitome of community, organizations from all over the university occupying an area as a fund-raiser rather than a silly po-litical statement.
With this being an elec-tion year, our candidates for various positions have dis-cussed their views on how to help battle poverty within our country. And while we merely tune out their politi-cal babble, their emphasis on the problem speaks volumes. In a land that is based on the principle of freedom, so many people struggle for the basic means to stay alive.
I used to feel that people became homeless because they made bad decisions in their lives. However, after an ASB trip my freshman year, I felt otherwise. Many families suffering from living below the poverty line do so because of life’s circumstances.
The shack next to me in-formed passers-by with this “habifact”: “About 16 billion people live in substandard housing worldwide.” Then the shelter I was shacking up in responded with: “three standards to help eliminate poverty: simple, decent and affordable housing.”
What a novel idea, as a so-lution is not to throw money at various organizations to
attempt to generate change, but to raise awareness of the issue while attempting to gar-ner some financial support.
As I walked around our little shack compound I re-alized the diversity displayed in the number of organiza-tions represented. And I was proud. If you do nothing else this week to help your fellow man, walk around our mod-ern day Hooverville and spare a dollar or two, or even some change. It all adds up. Various shacks are trying to find unique ways to generate the money needed to meet their bid: a quarter to hold a puppy, a dollar for a dance or even $2 to smoke hookah ... yeah, there’s something for everyone willing to donate what they can.
Even if you don’t have the drive to strap on a tool belt, grab a hard hat and erect a house in a day, your small fi-nancial contribution can help those who are willing to go that extra mile. Poverty is a common theme throughout our society -- something anyone can see by the media conversations with our politi-cal officials. Don’t let it go ig-nored. Use your spare change to create change.
“Yes, State has a lot of majors that provide pathways for students in entrepreneurship.”
Madison Ottfreshman, First Year College
“Yes, they offer many majors and ways to work towards entrepreneurship.”
Carly Overbeyfreshman, First Year College
“No, I wasn’t aware that the Univeristy even offered such an opportunity to students. I think if they made more people aware to it, then students would be able to gain some experience and possibly jumpstart an early career.”
Blake Inmanjunior, parks, recreation and tourms management
“No, in fact I didn’t even know there were any programs that were available for students who were pursuing entrepreneurship.”
Andrew Wootenjunior, civil engineering
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Joseph CabanissCorrespondent
It’s an exciting time for physics. After almost 50 years of research, a new subatomic particle called the Higgs bo-son has been found. Earlier this month, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva announced that the Higgs boson experiment has passed the peer review process. In other words, the evidence gathered from the experiment has finally been validated.
The Higgs boson particle does indeed exist, and while the discovery may not have much effect on technology today, it marks a deeper and more influential understand-ing of the way the world works.
The Higgs particle is the fi-nal piece of a long-standing set of theoretical particles called the ‘Standard Model’ of particle physics. The stan-dard model is a theory of fun-damental particles and how they interact.
The investigation into the existence of the Higgs boson began when Peter Higgs — a British theoretical physicist — stated that a particle with certain properties needed to exist for the rest of the Stan-dard Model to be true.
The Higgs boson is a sub-particle of a sub-particle called the hadron. CERN scientists used a 17-mile-long particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Col-lider (LHC) to investigate the Higgs boson.
By smashing hadrons to-gether at high speeds, scien-tists had hoped to find the Higgs boson – but Stephen Cotanch, a physics profes-sor at NCSU, voiced other concerns: he had been hop-ing they would find particles
even smaller than the Higgs boson and create a whole new wave of exploration in particle physics.
“This measurement needs to be confirmed,” was his quick response to CERN’s report, though he also men-tioned “if I was betting, I’d think they’ve found what we believe is the Higgs boson, however they still need to verify [more evidence].”
David Aspnes, dist in-guished physics professor at the University, has had ex-perience with the practical uses of physics as well as the-oretical physics, and I hoped to gain some bearing about what the Higgs boson was doing to the field of physics.
“[Physics] is relatively un-changed thus far,” Aspnes said. “The world of physics has been operating on the assumption that the Higgs boson exists, so very little changes now, though it makes the discovery no less vital.”
Aspnes d id, however, emphasize that its proper-ties were very unique. The Higgs boson was measured to weigh about 130 times as much as the proton, making it the heaviest particle ever observed.
Aspnes explained that the Higgs boson explains where all matter gets its mass – with most of what we call matter being suspended in a “Higgs Field”.
Following the Higgs experi-ment, CERN is planning to close the LHC for upgrades so that it can perform ex-periments at much higher energies. “It’s the next logi-cal step,” Aspnes said.
So far, scientists and re-searchers only know a small facet of the Higgs boson’s properties. There is still more to find out, and with further testing, researchers will be able to discern whether or
not the other properties of the Higgs particle fit into the Standard Model.
The Higgs’ existence had not come to Aspnes as a sur-prise. According to the pro-fessor, if researchers hadn’t found the Higgs, it might have brought reason to question the entire Standard Model of physics and our un-derstanding of nuclear phys-ics altogether.
It cost $10 billion to fund the programs that were able to build particle accelerators capable of colliding particles with enough energy to break them into tiny pieces, and it took scientists 50 years of diligent work to bring these advances about.
Cotanch voiced concerns that there was a whole other level of particles underneath what we already know, which would require exponentially larger amounts of energy to crack apart.
If all the information re-searchers worked so hard to find leads to yet another mystery, it will be difficult to keep digging, but determi-nation and curiosity are what drive many people to science.
They investigate the smallest anomaly, because in doing so we might discover the key to understanding the secrets of the universe itself.
Cotanch said the discovery was so important that it may
For the average gamer col-lege student, it can be chal-lenging to keep up with all the latest hit games on a col-lege-sized budget. As much as many would like to, it’s not practical to buy a brand new console game every month when they can cost $60 per title.
But if you know where to look, there are lots of great deals on video games to be had, especially on the inter-
net. One notable deal that has been gaining visibility recent-ly is the Humble Indie Bundle – a package of award-winning indie computer games for the thrifty gamer. The bundles are usually only available for two weeks, and Humble Bundle Inc. – the distributors of the deal – often adds more titles and extra goodies to the package as the days go by.
The Humble Indie Bundle going on right now is the sixth time Humble Bundle Inc. has offered the deal – and each bundle has brought
a variety of different games to the table. Past titles have included the terrifying Am-nesia (Frictional Games), and the cult favorite, Psychonauts (Double-Fine Productions).
The games offered in this latest iteration of the Hum-ble Indie Bundle range from the intense top-down RPG Torchlight to the more casual music arcade game BIT.TRIP RUNNER, to the quirky jani-torial platformer, Dustforce.
You can pay whatever you want for most of the games in the bundle – even as low
as one cent. A few titles in the bundles, however, have only been available if the user is willing to pay more than the average of what everyone else has paid. The latest bundle began with only Dustforce requiring above-average pay-ment to unlock.
Though the current bundle started out with six games, on September 25, the Humble Bundle Inc. added 4 addition-al games that, like Dustforce, are only available upon pay-ing more than the average.
The games are available for all three of the major oper-ating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux), and are also free of digital copy-protection management, meaning that the games can be installed on all of your machines without hassle or fear of copyright infringe-ment.
What separates this partic-ular deal from others is that a part of the proceeds from the deal go to a charitable or-ganization and a non-profit organization – what’s more, a buyer can choose exactly how much of his purchase goes to the charity. In the
past, Humble Bundle Inc. has partnered with charity:water and the American Red Cross in their bundle events.
The charities included in this iteration of the Humble Indie Bundle are EFF – the Electronic Frontier Founda-tion – and a children’s charity called Child’s Play.
The EFF is a non-profit, do-nor-supported organization that defends peoples’ digital rights all across the world.
According to their website, Child’s Play works directly with hospitals to identify what kinds of games and sys-tems can be installed in hos-pital wards and distributed “for keeps” to child patients. Since 2003, Child’s Play has coordinated the donation of millions of dollars of games and game systems to hospi-tals around the world.
Users can also choose how to distribute their money between three sources: the charity/nonprofit, the game developers who worked on the games in the bundle and a tip for Humble Bundle, Inc.
In addition to the video games, gamers who purchase the Humble Indie Bundle will
receive the soundtracks for most of the games – a treat for anyone who enjoys video game music.
Though users are allowed to name their own price, many tend to pay above the average price, steadily driv-ing the price of the bundle up, while keeping it well under the actual combined prices of all of the game.
As of Tuesday evening, the Humble Indie Bundle 6 has raised over $1.3 million.
Humble Bundle brings indie video games to wider audience
GAMES INCLUDED IN THE BUNDLE:• Rochard • Shatter• S.P.A.Z• Torchlight• Vessel• Dustforce• BIT.TRIP RUNNER• Gratuitous Space Battles• Jamestown• Wizorb• Plus soundtracks
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PHOTO COURTESY OF CERN A worker surveys damage of the LHC magnets in sector 3-4 of the LHC, provoked by the helium leak incident which occurred on Sept. 19, 2008
PHOTO COURTESY OF CERNA CERN magnetic transport robot—nicknamed the “crab”—performing its initial tests.
Hassan DuRantScience and Tech Editor
Is it worth paying $6 to un-lock the extra games in the Humble Bundle? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes, and all because of one game in par-ticular: Dustforce.
I was a bit leery when I was getting ready to open up Dustforce. For some reason, an entire game based around cleaning didn’t appeal to me. Nevertheless, Dustforce was getting excellent ratings across the board on online re-views – so I took the plunge and spent six hard-earned dollars on one of the best platformer experiences I’ve ever had.
GAMEPLAYIn Dustforce, you take con-
trol of one of four janitors working to make the world a better, cleaner place. The game plays as a hybrid be-tween Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog. You navigate your janitor of choice through various levels, sweeping away dust, leaves and grime as you go along.
There are more than 50 levels in Dustforce, and they are split up into four main worlds. Most of these levels are locked by default. To un-lock the levels, you need keys, which are obtained by achiev-ing good marks in the game’s scoring feature.
The game records your time and scores you on your completion (how much dust
you clean up) and on your fi-nesse in handling your jani-tor. If you have a firm grasp on the controls, a perfect completion score isn’t hard to get. Finesse is another story entirely – it takes a lot of dexterity to chain your movements together without messing up. The game is also a harsh grader – all it takes is one mistake, and suddenly you’ve lost your score. It can get really frustrating trying to figure out how to achieve that perfect finesse score, but once you finally do the payoff is oh, so satisfying.
ART AND MUSICI was skeptical of Dust-
force before I even started the game, but all of my doubts vanished when the game opened up with its title se-quence. The title sequence features a stylish animation of the game’s four heroes performing gravity-defying acrobatics in the face of cer-tain dust. I let this animation play in its entirety every time I open the game. It’s that awe-some.
The in-game art is even more impressive than the title sequence. Dustforce’s environment is gorgeous. The graphics aren’t detailed, but they are highly stylized with bright colors and inventive architecture.
Dustforce’s music contrib-utes to the relaxed atmo-sphere the game’s aesthetics present. It’s been a few days, and I still can’t stop listening to the game’s soundtrack. I’m listening to it as I write this review – in fact, the soundtrack is now a proud part of my study music play-list.
The music is reminiscent of older 2-D games’ chiptune-style sounds, but with a mod-ern electronic twist. Even if you aren’t a video game music aficionado like me, the game’s soundtrack fits snugly with the game’s environment. At the very least, the music contributes to a pleasant en-vironment amidst a world of grime.
MULTIPLAYERDustforce offers local mul-
tiplayer support for up to 4 players. However, the game doesn’t support online play. That means you’d better have a few extra game controllers around so everyone can play. I didn’t have that luxury — my only experience with Dustforce’s multiplayer is being squashed together in a chair with a friend as we both tried to play the game with only one keyboard. After playing a bunch of the sin-gle-player levels, Dustforce’s multiplayer seemed like an afterthought.
Multiplayer in Dustforce is a lot like Super Smash Bros. — you and your opponents wage battle in a 2D arena and try to knock each other out
of the playing field. That’s the problem with the game — that’s pretty much all there is to do. Unlike Super Smash Bros., everyone has the same moves. There are no real special attacks, and there are no special items. It’s really a shame. The characters look so diverse that it only seems natural for everyone to have their own unique abilities in the multiplayer mode – sadly, that is not the case. Multiplayer was fun for a few minutes, but it lacked the depth necessary to make it a success. It’s basically a slap-fight, nothing more.
Even though the multiplay-er isn’t as great as it could be, keep in mind that the rest of the game is so fun and addict-ing that the average player
might not even care multi-player mode exists at all.
VERDICTAll in all, Dustforce is an
immensely entertaining, sometimes energizing and often satisfying gaming ex-perience. The atmosphere is a refreshing take on 2D plat-formers, and the music was an interesting take on the typical chiptune-era style. Multiplayer mode is one of the game’s only blemishes. Otherwise, Dustforce is as close to perfection as I could have ever expected out of a platformer game — a clean sweep.
DustforceHitbox TeamPlatforms: PC, Mac, Linux
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In the days before the student information system (SIS) updates on
October 1, 2012, there will be some downtime as we implement new
features and move from version 8.9 to version 9.0.
From 5pm on September 26th through September 30th, all SIS
updates including following processes will be unavailable:
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Wick Haxton, a renowned theoretical nuclear physicist and astrophysicist, will be holding a lecture Sept. 27 titled “The Deaths of Mas-sive Stars.”
According to Haxton, the lecture will describe what are perhaps the most prodigious events in nature: the deaths of massive stars by gravita-tional collapse and by ther-monuclear explosion. Such supernovae occur about once in a lifetime in our galaxy, producing spectacular vis-ible displays.
Haxton is especially in-volved in supernovae in the field of astrophysics, and also neutrino physics.
Haxton’s lecture was orga-nized by the Phi Beta Kappa society. According to its web-site, the Phi Beta Kappa Lec-ture Series was established by the national office of the society in order to provide
members with greater op-portunities for intellectual fellowship and to allow the society to participate in larg-er, national dialogues about important issues affecting the world as we know it.
Haxton was the founding director of the Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT), an in-stitute that was established by the University of Washington in Seattle to research many different fields of nuclear physics.
A c c o r d i n g t o G a i l McLaughlin, professor of physics, Haxton served as di-rector for 20 years. He is now an INT associate senior fel-low, a University of Washing-ton professor emeritus, and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Haxton boasts many ac-colades, including being an American Physics Society fel-low, a member of the Nation-al Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, and the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Haxton has also been in-volved in research concerning understanding the universe’s heaviest elements — accord-ing to McLaughlin, this is considered by many to be among the top questions in astrophysics today.
Haxton will deliver his free public lecture in 301 Rid-dick Hall, on Thursday at 7:30p.m.
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
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As a young boy, N.C. State senior saftey Brandan Bishop grew up as an avid supporter of the Miami Hurricanes. At noon Saturday at Sun Life Stadium, he will get his first opportunity to travel home and compete against the team he once adored.
Since migrating north to Raleigh, Bishop has become a pillar in the back of the Wolfpack secondary. The senior from Boca Raton, Fl . instantly m a d e a n impact in his first year at State. In 2009, Bishop started his collegiate career with-out being redshirted and earned im-mediate playing time in the defensive backfield, ultimate-ly being named to the Sport-ing News All-ACC Freshman Team at the end of the season.
Overall, Bishop has had nine interceptions in his ca-reer, and his next one will place the senior leader in a tie for sixth in school history with seven other players.
In previous trips to the state of Florida, Bishop has had an impact in key Wolf-pack victories. In the second
game of the 2010 season, the four-year starter jarred the ball loose late in the fourth quarter to preserve a win at Central Florida. When State returned to Orlando for post-season play later in the year at the Champs Sports Bowl against West Virginia, Bishop chipped in on a solid team defensive performance with an interception.
This weekend, however, marks the first time that Bishop will get to play against
Miami. The unbalanced schedule against schools from opposing divisions has kept the Hurricanes from playing N.C. State since 2008, a 38-28 vic-tory for the Wolfpack at
Carter-Finley Stadium. The senior safety is relish-
ing the trip south this coming weekend.
“[I] grew up a Miami fan,” Bishop said. “Went to quite a few games in the old Or-ange Bowl … I’m definitely excited to get down there and play them.”
While Bishop will be re-ceiving support from a large group of family and friends when he returns home, he is used to having unwaver-ing support during all State
games from his father, who travels weekly from his home in Boca Raton to watch his son play.
Speaking about his father, Bishop said, “It is hard to miss him, big guy a wear-ing red number 30 jersey … he doesn’t miss a game. He goes to Connecticut, Boston, wherever we play. He is there every week. It’s amazing. He supports me in everything I do and I could not ask for anything more from him.”
Miami has won five na-tional championships overall. The 2001 title-winning team,
coached by Larry Coker af-ter Butch Davis left for the Cleveland Browns, is re-membered fondly by Bishop. Quarterback Ken Dorsey led the Hurricanes that season, and the future Wolfpacker proudly wore his No. 11 jersey in honor of his favorite player.
Bishop is not too wistful for Canes teams of yester-year now and has genuine concerns for what he and his teammates will be facing Saturday.
“They have put up a lot of points,” Bishop said. “It’s go-ing to be a big challenge for
us. They’ve got speed and athleticism. They’ll throw it around.”
Watching the Canes com-pete for conference and national titles, Bishop now wants the Pack to enter the same stratosphere, starting with Saturday’s game against the team he fondly remem-bers from his youth.
“It’s a very big deal for us,” Bishop said. “As a program, they might not be where they used to be, but they’re still talented. We want to get the ball rolling as far as ACC play goes.”
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JOHN JOYNER/ARCHIVEJunior safety Brandan Bishop celebrates after intercepting for a touchback during the third quarter against Clemson in Carter-Finley stadium on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Bishop will make his return to the South Florida area when the Pack plays Miami on Saturday.
Bishop returns home this Saturday to face Miami
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The positive momen-tum of the first half car-ried over into the second. Findley and his assistant coaches substituted start-ers and the Pack main-tained its lead.
After the game, Find-ley praised some of these players.
“I was pleased for Joe Mills to get a start and get a shut-out tonight,” Findley said.
“I was pleased with the guys on the bench com-ing on the field and really giving us a lift and playing along.”
With four minutes re-maining, the student sec-tion stood up to cheer and chant for the team. It was a reminder that State came looking for a win, earned it early and held on to it.
The Pack faces Boston College Friday.
“I hope we keep win-ning,” Bokar said. “We just have to keep pushing and start strong just like we did at the beginning of the season.”
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INSIDE• Page 7: Brandan Bishop will make his first
trip to Miami to play the Hurricanes, the team he rooted for as a child.
Luke NadkarniStaff Writer
While the focus for many pro football fans this weekend was yet another series of controver-sial officiating decisions, a host of former N.C. State football stars continued their NFL cam-paigns from coast to coast.
It started on Thursday night in Charlotte when New York Giants running back Andre Brown had a huge night against the Carolina Panthers. Filling in for injured starter Ahmad Bradshaw, Brown didn’t look like a backup as he carried the ball 20 times for 113 yards and two touchdowns, lead-ing his team to a 36-7 victory.
It is too early to tell whether Bradshaw will be ready for the Giants’ next game, a primetime showdown with the division rival Philadelphia Eagles. But if he is, the Giants have already deter-mined that Bradshaw will start.
On Sunday, San Diego Char-gers quarterback Philip Rivers did not enjoy the type of suc-cess he had seen in the first two weeks of the season. Rivers was harassed all afternoon by an ag-gressive Atlanta Falcons defense, completing 21 out of 38 passes for just 173 yards in a 27-3 loss. Rivers also tossed a pair of inter-ceptions. He will look to bounce back when the Chargers visit AFC West foe Kansas City on Sunday.
A recent addition to the Wolf-pack’s NFL family came up with
a milestone, as Buffalo Bills rookie wide receiver T.J. Graham caught his first career touchdown pass in a 24-14 triumph over the Cleveland Browns. The game was less than six minutes old when Graham, a local product from Wakefield High School in Raleigh, N.C., hauled in a nine-yard pass from Ryan Fitzpat-rick in the end zone to give the Bills a 7-0 lead. Graham totaled three catches for 24 yards in the game.
Graham’s teammate, defensive end Mario Williams, came up with one-and-a-half sacks on Sunday. Williams was the top overall pick in 2006 by the Houston Texans be-fore signing a $100 million deal with Buffalo this past offseason.
Across the country in Seattle, another former Pack quarterback had perhaps the most talked-about game of the week. Russell Wilson’s Seattle Seahawks faced off against the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. In a defensive struggle, Wil-son threw the ball just 21 times, completing 10 passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns. Wilson also carried the ball three times for 18 yards.
With his team trailing 12-7 in the waning seconds, Wilson led the Se-ahawks to the Packers’ 24-yard line with time for one final play. Wilson was given plenty of time to throw and threw to the end zone where a crowd of players from both teams awaited. Hands went up, and the officials ruled that Seattle’s Golden Tate had caught the pass for a touch-down, giving Wilson his second ca-reer NFL victory.
Replay showed that Green Bay’s M.D. Jennings actually had posses-sion of the ball first, but the officials did not overturn the call. After a long delay, former Pack kicker Ste-ven Hauschka added the extra point, making the final score 14-12 in Se-attle’s favor.
Wilson was sacked just once on
the night thanks to an offensive line that includes yet another former State player, J.R. Sweezy. Sweezy, who saw action but did not start, played on the defensive line under Tom O’Brien but was moved to of-fensive guard when he signed with Seattle.
COUNTDOWN• 3 days until the Pack travels to Miami to play its first
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Sophomore forward Monbo Bokar put it best after the game when he said, “We knew we had to win, because losing three games was unacceptable.”
The three losses Bokar referred to were last week against No. 1 Maryland, Campbell and Clem-son, all adding up to an unde-niably tough stretch for State. Even Alex Martinez, the junior midfielder and two-time recipi-ent of a spot on the Soccer News Weekly’s National Team of the Week, could not put the pieces together for the Pack last week. Martinez did not score against either Campbell or Clemson.
All this taken into consider-ation, Tuesday night was not just another non-conference match-up for Martinez or for the rest of the team. It was an opportunity to pick up where the promising season left off just a couple of weeks ago. Gardner-Webb had to have expected the Wolfpack to be on the rebound.
Head Coach Kelly Findley con-firmed this.
“ T h e g u y s also knew that it was our re-sponsibility to rebound, and the season isn’t over,” Findley said. “We got off to a great start and had a little blip on our radar. The mentality was that we felt like we were going
to win this game. I told the guys, we’re going to win it. How we win it is important to us.”
N.C. State came to play with these high expectations and certainly did not d isappoint . Overall, State shot 18 times, while the Bulldogs shot only twice. This figure truly represented the Pack ’s ba l l
domination and defensive persis-
tence. Just under seven minutes into the
first half, Martinez gave up a short pass to Bokar, with which he quickly scored his fourth goal of the season, putting the Pack ahead early in the game.
It wasn’t until around the 30 min-ute mark of the game that Martinez truly reappeared, capturing atten-tion with several aggressive plays in the box. He achieved the second goal of the night, his first goal in three games, and his eighth goal of the season with a penalty kick from the top of the box in the thirty-second
minute. “It felt good to come back to scor-
ing,” Martinez said. “I was kind of in a drought, scoring-wise. I was just happy to get back to the winning ways.”
State entered the locker room at halftime, unworried after having outshot the opponents eleven to one.
“I thought we started off really, really well in the first half,” said Findley. “We got an early goal and dominated play.”
ESPNU to cover Primetime with the PackN.C. State men’s basketball’s “Primetime with the Pack” season tip-off event will be a part of ESPNU’s four hours of Midnight Madness coverage. The entire event will be one of seven to be broadcasted live in its entirety on ESPN3. Former Tennessee men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl and Sam Gore will provide on-site coverage of the event. “Primetime with the Pack” is free to the public. The doors of the PNC Arena will open at 6 p.m. The festivities will begin at 7 p.m.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Kessler dies at 82Marv Kessler, a former member of the N.C. State men’s basketball team, died on Monday at age 82. He graduated from State in 1958. He coached at the high school level before becoming the head coach at Adelphi University in 1972, compiling an 88-60 record in six seasons. Kessler was also an assistant coach at Davidson from 1979-81 and an advance scout for the NBA franchises in Detroit, Portland, Washington and Sacramento.
SOURCE: WRAL
Pack ends three-game losing streakMEN’S SOCCER
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RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANJunior midfielder Alex Martinez dribbles down the field against Gardner-Webb at Dail Soccer Stadium. Martinez had one goal in the Wolfpack’s 2-0 win Tuesday, Sept. 25.
NICOLE MOERING/ARCHIVEWide reciever, T.J. Graham, leaps to catch the ball during the Saturday, October 29 game against FSU. Leading the nation in all-purpose yards, Graham scored his first NFL touchdown on Saturday for the Buffalo Bills. Graham pulled in three catches for 24 yards in the game.
Halle Mangrum Staff Writer
NFL Roundup: week three, marked by controversy
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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
ThursdayWOMEN’S SOCCER V. MIAMIDail Soccer Stadium, 7 p.m.
FridayMEN’S SOCCER V. BOSTON COLLEGEChestnut Hill, Mass., 7 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL V. GEORGIA TECHReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
CROSS COUNTRY AT THE GREAT AMERICAN CROSS COUNTRY FESTIVALCary, N.C., TBA
CROSS COUNTRY V. NOTRE DAMESouth Bend, Ind., TBA
SaturdayFOOTBALL V. MIAMIMiami, Fla., 12 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL V. CLEMSONReynolds Coliseum, 5 p.m.
RIFLE AT SEARC 1Dahlonega, Ga., All Day
MEN’S TENNIS AT ITA ALL-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPSTulsa, Okla., All Day
SundayWOMEN’S SOCCER V. FLORIDA STATEDail Soccer Stadium, 1 p.m.
MEN’S TENNIS AT ITA ALL-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPSTulsa, Okla., All Day
