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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina
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Ravi ChittillaDeputy News Editor
The Harvard Business Review last October named data scientists as having “the sexiest job of the 21st century.”
Michael Rappa, founder and ex-ecutive director of N.C. State’s In-stitute of Advanced Analytics, is not quite sure how sexy data is, but can attest to the fact that training in the field can bring about a rewarding and lucrative career.
The Institute of Advanced Ana-lytics, founded in 2007, is prepar-ing a new generation of data savvy professionals for leadership in a digital world. In 2012, graduates of the Institute had a job placement of more than 90 percent by graduation for a fifth year, giving the program an esteemed reputation across the country.
The degree, a masters of science in analytics, is a 10-month program designed to teach students how to master extrapolating large amounts of data and make relevant, insight-ful conclusions from vast amounts of information. While originally enrolling 40 students in its first year, it now hosts 80 students, and applications for the program con-tinue to rise.
“What we wanted to produce when founding the institute was a graduate who was really, by design, ready to go out into industry and start doing analytics,” Rappa said,
“as opposed to a master’s degree, which are often a prelude to a Ph.D.”
Instead, when founding the In-stitute, Rappa partnered with SAS Institute CEO and co-founder Jim Goodnight, who has propelled SASto the apex of business intel-ligence software. For the purpose of the program, SAS was an ideal partner, Rappa said.
“Dr. Goodnight was supportive right from the start, and SAS al-
lowed us to interact directly with them and understand the needs of industry,” Rappa said. “We inter-act with many companies, but SAS has helped us understand a rapidly evolving environment — the ana-lytics field.”
A critical component of the pro-gram is the practicum, which is analogous to a capstone project in other degree programs. The practi-cum is a team-based learning expe-
rience giving students the opportu-nity to conduct real-world analytics projects using data from sponsoring organizations.
Students work in teams of four-to-five members to understand some type of business problem and then work to clean and analyze the data.
The practicum spans a length of
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A UNC-Chapel Hill student who claims she is a victim of rape last spring faces the possi-bility of expulsion for speaking out against her attacker.
Landen Gambill, a UNC-CH student, alleged victim of rape, never publically identified her attacker, but administrators charged her Friday with a vio-lation in the University Honor Court on the grounds that her speaking out creates an “intimi-dating environment” for her alleged attacker, according to a post she made on Facebook. Last spring, the Honor Court dropped all charges of rape against the al-leged rapist, who Gambill identi-fied as an ex-boyfriend.
Gambill said the Honor Court used her history of clinical de-pression and attempted suicide as reason to dismiss her claims, although she said these were re-sults of an abusive relationship with her rapist, according to The Daily Tar Heel.
“They implied that I was emo-tionally unstable and couldn’t be telling the truth because I had at-tempted suicide,” Gambill said in The Daily Tar Heel.
Mary Koenig, a UNC-CH stu-
Sara AwadStaff Writer
At a Transforming Economies event hosted by Chancellor Randy Woodson, speakers demonstrated how universities provide society with more than just an education.
Thought leaders and university presidents gathered in James B. Hunt Jr. Library Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. to discuss how uni-versities like N.C. State provide in-novative solutions to the nation’s economic problems.
Many of the panelists empha-sized the leadership role that the University has toward economic development due to its programs and partnerships with other com-panies.
“There needs to be trust between universities and businesses so that there are not just inventions, but real solutions,” Director of In-novation and Technology Policy for the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Jim Woodell said.
According to Woodell, this “so-cial capital” is key to economic development.Vice Chancellor for
Research, Innovation and Economic Development Terri Lomax said this was the first event of its kind as far as she is aware of and said the im-pact of universities on the economy does not get talked about enough.
According to Woodell, ever since Justin Morrill established the Uni-versity as a land-grant institution, N.C. State put its focus on economic development, though Woodell said the event was a way of looking for-ward instead of back through stim-ulating conversations.
“I think it’s great that this is how Chancellor Woodson and Dr. Lo-max chose to celebrate 125 years,” Woodell said.
Vice President of Manufacturing and General Manager for Biogen Idec Machelle Sanders said the bio-technology company “continues to connect with N.C. State” through programs such as the Biomanu-facturing Training and Education Center on Centennial Campus, which Sanders said gives students hands-on experiences.
“Those are the types of collabora-
Oberlin Cemetery makes ‘the list’
CAIDE WOOTEN/TECHNICIANA weatherd headstone stands solemnly in the Oberlin Village Cemetery just north of Cameron Village behind the InterAct building Feb. 25. The 140-year-old burial ground was recently approved by the Raleigh City Council to be added to the list of Raleigh Historic Landmarks because of its significance to black history in Wake County.
Sean Langston Jr.Staff Writer
The City of Raleigh added Ober-lin Cemetery, 1014 Oberlin Rd., just north of Cameron Village, to its of-
ficial list of historic landmarks.The initial application to add
Oberlin Cemetery to the list of Ra-leigh Historic Landmarks was revis-ited by the Raleigh City Council Jan. 15. The Raleigh Historic Develop-
ment Commission approved the application’s request and on Tues-day, Feb. 19 added the cemetery to the list of historic landmarks
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Page 2seven months, culminat-ing in a report and pre-sentation to their respec-tive sponsors.
The teams perform their work under a confi-dentiality agreement, and the results remain the sole property of the sponsor. Current sponsors include a wide variety of sources including private compa-nies GlaxoSmithKline, Proctor & Gamble, GE Energy, as well as govern-mental agencies including the Federal Communi-cations Commission, the United States Postal Service, along with the Central Intelligence En-ergy. Even The Houston Astros, a Major League baseball team, is a spon-sor.
Dhrumil Patel is a stu-dent enrolled at the Insti-tute. After receiving his
undergraduate degree here at the University and a law degree from the UNC School of Law, Patel returned to N.C. State to develop his skills in data analytics.
For Patel, the academic opportunities offered by the program were too great not to seek out, and he sees the pro-gram as a means for many to get involved in various fields.
According to Patel, data scientists are being sought af-ter, “not only in business and software, but in non-profit and even in areas like epide-miology and public health.”
Rappa believes the demand for data scientists will only increase, and programs like this will continue to grow around the nation, with even more complex data problems to deal with.
“There was a cer ta in amount of data yesterday,” Rappa said. “There is even more today, and there will be even more tomorrow.”
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Students are complaining about feeling unsafe during the nighttime bus routes, re-porting that they have been dropped off at off-campus stops.
The Wolfline Campus Bus Service at N.C. State ranks safety as their number one priority, according to Kim Paylor, transit manager. Pay-lor receives and responds to each and every complaint and compliment for the Wolfline.
“We want to make the neg-atives as small as possible,” Paylor said.
However, some bus driv-ers who end their routes off-campus have not been in-forming students when and where the bus will go out of service despite being required
to do so, according to Paylor.The Southeast Loop, also
known as the 8, has a block that ends at Burger King on Avent Ferry Road around 6:30 p.m. Paylor said a par-ticular block of this route has been ending there for years.
“Had the driver made an announcement, students would not be left stranded,” Paylor said.
The Avent Ferry, or 1, bus has a similar dilemma when a particular block ends at the Food Lion on Western Bou-levard.
Lorraine Torres, senior in sociology, said she’s had a few terrifying experiences using the Wolfline.
“The Avent Ferry bus left my friend and I stranded at the Food Lion,” Torres said. “I was a freshman at the time, and I had no idea where I was.”
Transportation planner Michael Ousdahl said the transportation office recently finished their 2012 Campus Mobility Plan, which includes provisions for the Wolfline over the next 10 years.
“We want to make the Wolfline as convenient, ac-cessible and as safe to passen-gers as we can,” Ousdahl said.
This plan includes im-proved destinations and route frequencies as well as increased coverage between the “triangle” of Hunt Li-brary, D.H. Hill Library, and a connection to Wolf Village, according to Ousdahl.
Jenna Hunter, a junior in microbiology, said she wishes this improvement would hap-pen as soon as possible.
“It’s a super-sketchy walk from North Campus to Wolf Village in the dark by your-self,” Hunter said. “Waiting
around 30 minutes for a bus , alone in the dark, is not a great alternative.”
Paylor said she attended a driver’s meeting Monday evening and stressed the im-portance of communication to all of the Wolfline drivers. Communication is needed in order to make the passengers feel safe, according to Paylor.
The feedback form on the NCSU Transportation web-site is emailed directly to Pay-lor. She said she wanted stu-dents to know that the issues brought up in complaints do not “fall on deaf ears.”
Changes to the Wolf line were implemented in the Fall of 2012 including additions to the nighttime bus schedule, according to Ousdahl.
“Being one of the best uni-versities in North Carolina, we need to do our best to run a successful transit system,”
Ousdahl said.Paylor and Ousdahl both
said that passenger feedback is important to know to im-prove the Wolfline Campus Bus Service. Ousdahl also said data from bus routes helps him to figure out if routes need to be changed.
“Taking the data and com-bining it with feedback helps us run a successful system,” Ousdahl said.
Paylor said cameras were recently installed on the bus-es so that if there’s ever an ac-cident or a dispute between a driver and a passenger, there’s video evidence on record.
Paylor said she encourages passengers to report any problems they have while riding the Wolfline. This in-cludes, but is not limited to: drivers talking on the phone while driving, foul language used by the driver and mis-
communication from the driver to the passengers.
“We request 150 percent customer service from our employees,” Paylor said.
N.C. State Transportation’s main concern: safetyMOST POPULAR ROUTES:• Avent Ferry: 3,339
average passengers per day
• Engineering: 2,419 average passengers per day
• Gorman Street Local: 2,411 average passengers per day
• Total of about 17,000 passengers per day
• There are 11 daytime routes and 4 regular nighttime routes with the Wolfprowl being a specialty route on the weekends.
ONLINE POLL RESULTSWhat would you like to see the
next SBP focus on?
Lower tuition and fees: 35%
Use more student feedback in admin-
istrative decisions: 27%
Rush the basketball court more: 15%
Greater representation &
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Lead more philanthropic ventures: 8%
Total Votes: 29
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dent in psychology and sexuality studies, and a friend of Gambill, said solving abusive relation-ships is more complex than simply breaking up with the abuser.
“It seems like [the Uni-versity is] trying so hard to silence her,” Koenig said.
In January, Gambill represented herself as well as more than 60 other sexual-assault survivors, but administrators and the Honor Court charged her with a violation of the university’s honor code — displaying disruptive and intimidating behavior — and the court threatened Gambill with a penalty of possible expulsion.
“I think the situation around [the charges against her] is really tell-
ing of cultural silence,” Koe-nig said.
Some students have called attention to the fact that one woman on the Honor Court tried to explain that, “as a woman,” she would have just broken off her abusive relationship, so why didn’t Gambill, according to The Daily Tar Heel.
Koenig said the fact that a woman “oppressing” Gam-bill is irrelevant.
“Everybody’s part of the culture,” Koenig said.
Students across North Carolina have taken action and are spreading support for Gambill’s side, even tag-ging tweets with the hashtag #StandWithLanden.
“It’s important to me that we continue to advocate for the rights of survivors,” Gambill said in a Facebook post, “not just because it af-fects me personally, but be-cause I desperately hope no one has to go through any-thing like this again.”
in Raleigh.Cheryl Crooms, represen-
tative of an organization called Friends of Oberlin Cemetery, an organiza-tion united specifically to preserve and maintain the cemetery, said she has a deep connection to the landmark.
“My family is there,” Crooms said. “My great-grandfather is buried there and my great-grandmother … the descendants of a lot of people that live in this area are buried there.”
Going on its 140th year, the cemetery has served as the city’s oldest black cemetery. In its earliest years, the cem-etery was a small piece of a small town, Oberlin Village. Oberlin Cemetery was where early black residents, most of whom were slaves of the town, were buried under un-
marked graves because it was their only permitted location.
Ben Jamison, Raleigh local, said he sees the landmark as a piece of his very own history.
“I grew up around this area, and I was always told there was a chance some of my oldest ancestors were bur-ied there,” Jamison said. “It means a lot to me that it’s get-ting some notable recognition and that the city can have as much respect for it as I do.”
Friends of Oberlin Cem-etery, a group dedicated to maintaining the cemetery, has embarked on numer-ous fundraising expeditions to raise money to buy the marker to identify the loca-tion as an official landmark. The marker costs $2000.
Crooms said there are many projects the group strives to complete for the cemetery, but many are costly and will require financial assistance from the people of Raleigh.
tions and relationships that we not only need, but that we must have to remain compet-itive, to grow our economy here in North Carolina, to grow our economy here in this region, and for that mat-ter, to grow our economy here in the United States,” Sanders said.
The University serves as the “qualified talent pool” for solving today’s challenges, Sanders said.
“When [students] leave N.C. State programs, they are able to run in the door and sprint,” Sanders said. “I pretty much know they’ve got it.”
Associate Director of Cor-porate R&D for Proctor & Gamble Thomas Daugherty saw innovation in the Uni-versity’s Nonwovens Institute because many of the compa-
ny’s products use nonwovens. “Innovation is the lifeblood
of growth,” Daugherty said. “Our strategy at PNG is to connect business needs with development opportunities inside or outside the com-pany through the innovation model. The keys are to net-work externally and recog-nize that the best ideas come from anywhere.”
According to Daugherty, the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center has the larg-est single industry support in North Carolina at 98 percent.
Senior Vice President for Business Development for ABB in North America Al-len Burchett said the global power automation company spent $1.5 billion on research and development, part of which took place on Centen-nial Campus.
In the future, Burchett said the company hopes to look at microgrid technology at Centennial Campus to pro-
vide energy solutions after natural disasters like the recent Superstorm Sandy.
Like Sanders, Burchett ad-vocated for education. ABB uses a pre-kindergarten to post-doctoral strategy that ranges from the creation of “kid grid” for children at Marbles Museum in 2014 to their partnership with Wake Technical Community Col-lege for faculty training and scholarships.
Speakers at the event in-cluded Chancellor Wood-son, as well as the Asso-ciation of Public and Land-grant Universities President, the president of California Poly technic University and the chancellor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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N.C. STATE FUN FACTS SOURCE: TRANSFORMING ECONOMIESN.C. State researchers have been issued 796 U.S. patents and more than 1,500 patents worldwide.
N.C. State startups have attracted more than $1.5 billion in investment capital.
N.C. State is the only university in the U.S. leading two active National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers.
According to the Wall Street Journal, N.C. State graduates among the top 20 university graduates most desired by recruiters.
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La cocina: El sabor Boricua
Se conoce Puerto Rico como un lugar hermo-so, el lugar ideal para
vacacionar. Sin embargo, hay más que las playas y el paísaje que atrae visitanas — hay algo más que carac-teriza a la isla del encanto: su comida. Hay una gran var-iedad de comidas criollas, y los Boricuas no se saltan de ningunos platos.
Para empezar a saborear las delicias culinarias boricuas, que mejor que unos sorullitos de maíz. Hechos con harina de maíz, entre otros ingre-dientes, los sorullitos son un clásico en Puerto Rico. Tienen un sabor dulce y una forma similar a los “hush puppies.”
Otro aperitivo o picadera, como se le dice comúnmente en Puerto Rico, son las al-capurrias. Esta fritura se hace con una masa de yuca, pláta-no y guineo verde, que luego envuelve una carne sazonada.
A la hora del plato princi-pal, no hay nada más típico que un mofongo. El mofongo consiste en freír pedazos de
plátano y luego machacarlos junto a pedacitos de chichar-rón de cerdo y un poco de ajo, dándole forma de una mon-taña. Luego se rellena con carne frita, pollo guisado o camarones. El mofongo es la máxima expresión del sabor puertorriqueño.
Es importante señalar que tanto ambos aperitivos como el mofongo usualmente se les añade una rica salsa llamada mayo kétchup. Justo como se puede inferir de su nom-bre, es una salsa preparada con mayonesa y kétchup, con un toque de ajo. El mayo kétchup hace que los alimen-tos antes mencionados sean doblemente sabrosos. Es tan común en Puerto Rico que se puede comprar una botella de Mayo kétchup en el supermercado de la misma forma que se compra una botella de kétchup.
Si se pregunta con que pu-ede digerir sus alimentos, hay una bebida muy reconocida que probablemente le sor-prenderá que fuera originada en Puerto Rico. Un hombre
que se llama Ramón Marrero creó la piña colada fue creada en la ciudad capital de Puerto Rico, San Juan, en el hotel Ca-ribe Hilton en 1954. Gracias a “Monchito,” como se le ap-oda, tenemos la oportunidad de disfrutar de esta bebida tan refrescante. Tomar una piña colada mientras comes un mofongo es una experi-encia armoniosa, donde uno complementa al otro.
Los puertoriqueños no se saltan de las postres tampoco. El tembleque y el arroz con dulce son dos de los postres nativos más deleitados por los puertorriqueños. Ambos son a base de coco, pero son completamente diferentes. El tembleque tiene una tex-tura como un pudín. Por otra parte, el arroz con dulce es lit-eralmente un arroz dulce; se prepara con arroz y una mez-cla dulce que al enfriarse se compacta y queda sólida. No hay nada mejor para terminar una comida boricua que uno de estos postres.
Puerto Rico is known as a beautiful place, the ideal destination for a
vacation. But it’s not only the beaches and the landscapes that attract visitors — there is something else that charac-terizes the Caribbean island: its food. There is a great vari-ety of authentic foods unique to Puerto Rico, and islanders don’t skip out on any courses.
Puerto Ricans take snacks seriously, and sorullitos de maíz, made with corn flour, are a classic staple. They have a sweet f lavor and a shape similar to that of hushpup-pies.
Another appetizer, or picadera, as is common to Puerto Rico is the alcapur-ria. This fried food is made from dough consisting of yucca, plantain and unripe banana. This dough is later filled with a seasoned type of ground beef.
When it comes time for the main entrée, there is nothing more typical than mofongo.
This dish, with African ori-gins, consists of frying piec-es of plantains, which are mashed together with bits of pork rind and garlic. In the middle of dish, the mass is shaped as a mountain. It is later filled with fried pork, a chicken stew and sometimes shrimp. Mofongo is the max-imum expression of Puerto Rican flavor.
A rich sauce accompanies sorullitos de maiz, alcapur-ria and mofongo, and Puerto Ricans call it “mayo ketchup.” As its name suggests, it is a sauce prepared with mayon-naise and ketchup, along with a pinch of garlic. The mayo ketchup, a humble condi-ment, makes these foods taste twice as delicious. It is so common in Puerto Rico that you can buy a bottle of it in the supermarket just as one would buy a bottle of ketchup.
Many Latinos agree that cocktails aid in the digestion of these rich foods, and in
Puerto Rico, there is noth-ing more typical than the piña colada. A man named Ramón Marrero created the drink the capital city of San Juan, in the Caribe Hilton in 1954. Thanks to “Monchito,” his nickname, we all have the opportunity to enjoy this re-freshing drink. Drinking a piña colada while eating a mofongo is a harmonious experience — one comple-ments the other.
Puerto Ricans don’t skimp out on dessert, either. The tembleque and the arroz con dulce are two of the native desserts unique to Puerto Rico. Both are based on co-conut, but are completely dif-ferent. The tembleque has a texture like pudding. On the other hand, the arroz con dulce literally means sweet rice — it’s a rice pudding that is served cold with a sprinkle of cinnamon. There is noth-ing better to end a Boricua dinner with than one of these desserts.
THE KITCHEN: PUERTO RICAN FLAVORSTORY BY GILBERTO ANTUNEZ
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Why does it seem like everybody wants to come to
America? Well, the reason, it turns out, is that we keep inviting peo-ple by telling everyone that in our country, you get to live the American dream. Read t he words
that appear on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”
Wow. Are there any more powerful words of invita-tion to America? Actu-ally yes, there are. The first words used to describe what it means to live the American dream are these:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
That they are endowed by their creator with certain in-alienable rights; among these are life, liberty and the pur-suit of happiness.”
Diversity, you see, is the first American promise. That makes diversity the American value. A place where all are created equal — that really is a place anyone and everyone would want to live. Just this semester, in a reaction paper for my interpersonal relation-ships and race course, one of my students wrote:
“There are many that think that Latinos/Hispanics come here just for the ‘free health care’ and to take advantage of the government such as ask-ing for food stamps or other benefits. They do not stop to think that people who come to the U.S. come in hopes to find a better opportunity for themselves and for their chil-dren as well. There are many who work extremely hard to get what they need and want.”
My last name, Nacoste, is pronounced by the “Who dat?” Louisiana bayou Cre-oles and Cajuns as “Nah-cosse.” I am a great grand-son of immigrants from the French-Caribbean. I am also a black man. And though America offers up an incred-
ible opportunity, an incred-ible dream, America has not always lived up to the dream we say it offers.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident …” You see, for a long time in America, the whole country said that those words did not apply to someone with my dark skin color. That racial seg-regation and oppression did something very important though. It made it clear who was “we” and who was a “they.”
With those immoral laws gone, we now live in a time when interacting with someone who does not look like or sound like us is unavoidable. Now we struggle with neo-diversity anxiety that is causing some of us to want to keep other people living in America in the category of “they” and “them.”
Right now, we are aiming our neo-diversity anxiety at immigrants. These days, Americans – including students on this campus – are aiming their anxiety and hostility at anyone who might be an immigrant, such as people who are Mexican, Muslim, Middle Eastern, Caribbean — any-body with an accent.
But the truth is this: An-other student’s documenta-tion is not an issue for you – the individual – to ad-dress in your interpersonal interactions with another person. Yes, there are prob-lems to be solved around the issue of immigration. But those are not problems that are solved by our feel-ing hostile to someone who might be a documented or undocumented immigrant.
The problems are policy problems that our law-makers and politicians are working to solve. Feeling and acting on unfounded hostility toward fel low students is beyond inap-propriate.
Everybody on our cam-pus is Wolf … Pack. Ev-erybody on our campus is doing the same thing. We are all working on creating our version, our family’s version, of the American dream. Let’s respect that — let’s respect all of the students on our campus.
The office of the Student Body President will soon be open. Prospective candidates have
filed their applications and await the results of their background checks. Shortly, students will be weaving in and out of campaign signs on their way to class and f launting shirts with catchy “vote for” slogans. But before that time, we’d like to of-fer some advice to the candidates. Incorporate these ideas into your platforms, and you’ll certainly be a memorable SBP (and you won’t even have to be party to a wheelchair ac-cident).
Be honest and transparentThis seems like a no-brainer, or so
we thought. In a Jan. 7 editorial ad-dressed to Chancellor Randy Wood-
son, Technician laid out expectations for University admin-istrators. We asked the administration to be “boldly transparent” about its weaknesses, to tell students, “Here are the areas where we’re lacking…”
Unfortunately, that message did not seem to resonate with the Chan-cellor or much of the administra-tion. As leaders, we must all take pride in our university, and some-times that means recognizing our shortcomings.
As a voice of the student body and a liaison between students and ad-ministrators, you’ll have the oppor-tunity to to explicate and vocalize the goings-on in the administration in a way that no one else can.
That kind of information will foster discussion between students and administration about ways we can improve the University. Be more than just a butt in a seat at meetings with administrators.
Quit playing footsie with ASGWe appreciate a good f lirt, but
our on-and-off involvement with the UNC Association of Student Governments is getting old. Cur-rently, students pay $1 per semester via student fee to keep ASG alive. The association’s website is down, and its Facebook is seldom updated. ASG had potential to be a powerful
student voice in the monthly Board of Governor’s meetings, but its organizing
body is … disorganized. An earlier news report titled “Student leaders’ opinions differ over the role of ASG” by Amanda Wilkins explains some of the organization’s inadequacies.
ASG is broken. It’s no longer the symbol of student solidarity and strength — if anything, it’s a rep-resentation of laziness and disor-der. Students are better off keeping the $1 instead of paying the ASG fee — buying a pack of gum would give them a better return on their investment.
Philanthropic effortsThere are many ways the head of
the student body can give back. Re-member that $1 ASG fee? Well, why not reallocate it to a more worthy fund. Student government could establish a number of small schol-arships — or even one or two larger awards.
Additionally, you’ll be in a unique position of authority as SBP. You’ll be someone who can lead students as well as connect with them on a level Chancellor Woodson can’t. If you make an effort to be a recogniz-able face on campus then students will pay attention to your efforts well after they cast their votes. Use your unique role to unify students and apply their talents in a way that benefits N.C. State and Raleigh.
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.
{ }IN YOUR WORDS
BY BRETT MORRIS
What kind of characterstics do you expect the next SBP
to have?
“Hard-working. You don’t want somebody that will just slack off when they’re student body president.”
Caleb Cushingfreshman, industrial engineering
“They have to be excited, passionate and informed about the school. And also want to get to know the student body, that way they know what’s right for everyone.”
Kelly Yaworskifreshman, FYC
“Relatable. I like to know that there’s someone looking out for my interests.”
Grant Martensenfreshman, business
“Innovative. They have to bring something new and affect students in a positive way.”
Skysja Adams, freshman, environmental technology
Exploring immigration
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Dream at N.C. State
Letter to the Editor on the future of energy
Right now, there is a plan under review by the North Carolina Utilities Commission. Most people might not be paying attention to it, but for anyone who has a smart phone, TV, laptop or uses any electricity at all, this plan could have terrible effects on your checkbook. Since the recent merger between Progress Energy and Duke Energy, Duke has become the largest utility in the nation. While that might seem great at first, it has put a terrible strain on North Carolinian students, elderly and ratepayers. Progress has an increasing reliance on natural gas-fired power plants which means more fracking in North Carolina and elsewhere. This fouls our water and causes large amounts of climate-changing methane to leak into the air.Progress Energy’s plan for serial rate hikes will further burden residential customers, small businesses and local governments, while killing the potential for thousands of clean energy and weatherization jobs. Speaking as a proud student in the UNC System, I recognize that we are Duke Energy’s largest customer, giving them around $200 million dollars every year, for which we have no say in what sources of energy we can choose from. I am not okay with that, and you shouldn’t be either. It’s 2013, and N.C. State is at the cutting edge of technology. We have professors deep in research on wind energy and bio-fuels. As students, we want this resource to be utilized. We have 40,000 students who want a great education
without breaking our bank, and we deserve it.That is why I am attending the public rate hike hearing in Raleigh Wednesday, March 13 at 7 p.m. It is in the Dobbs Building, Room 2115 on 430 N. Salisbury Street. Don’t worry about being alone, at the last meeting more than 200 citizens came out to voice their outrage, not one person okay with Duke’s plan to utility rate hikes over 10 percent – and I’m proud to say, 15 N.C. State students. Attendants included a former EPA employee, a local meteorologist and a representative for low income housing communities. These people mentioned different reasons why they were voicing their concerns, but one thing they all had in common was there urge for Duke to progress to renewable energies. 2012 was the hottest year ever recorded. The planet is warming, that’s a fact, and the answer is not to regress as a state, nation or globalized interconnected people. The solution is to collaborate on bringing about a clean, just, safe energy economy. North Carolina is currently the third largest electricity market on the East Coast, and with the fastest growing population, our electricity needs to come from clean, renewable sources, not dirty coal or dangerous nuclear energy. Come join me and the Fossil Free group at N.C. State March 13. We look forward to seeing you there.
Caroline Hansleyjunior, interdisciplinary studies
In response to Feb. 20 editorial about Riddick Field House
As a mouthpiece for our campus, perhaps the “editorial board” should pause to consider the impact of its opinions when making statements such as “...make this ugly campus even uglier.” Firstly I wasn’t under the impression that the Technician editorial board also were experts in aesthetic design (and judging from recent layouts of the Technician, I cannot begin to see where anyone would
confuse them for it). Secondly, it is a DISGRACE to both this university and it’s so-called “professional” newspaper for the editorial staff, some of the most influential individuals in the university community, to be calling our campus “ugly”. Admittedly, Technician’s editorial board does not purport to speak for the majority of N.C. State students. But it is important for that board to realize that their opinions DO in some way create a public perception of the student views at N.C. State, simply by way of their exposure. It is both irresponsible and disloyal for the leaders of our public media forum to express themselves in such a way that makes it appear as though they speak for the majority opinion at N.C. State. Indeed, the entire section “staff editorial” makes little sense - as the editors of a major news publication, are you not expected to maintain a sense of impartiality and objectivity? Does not the appearance of an editorial, which claims to speak for your entire staff and newspaper, destroy the very illusion of impartiality which is supposed to lend
Colin T. Reedsenior, history
The Hunt for foodMatthew Clark, senior in arts applications
Some friendly advice for SBP hopefuls
Rupert W. NacosteProfessor of psychology
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FeaturesCharles BroyhillCorrespondent
On Feb. 1, 2013 Carla Sav-age was selected to be the new Secretary of the American Mathematical Society, a posi-tion held only by nine others since the societies founding in 1888.
Savage, a professor in the department of computer sci-ence, received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Uni-versity of Illinois.
The American Mathemati-cal Society is one of several international mathematical societies devoted to the pro-motion of research and the exchange of ideas.
Professor Savage’s selec-tion as the new secretary of the AMS marks two special events: the selection of the 10th secretary and the selec-tion of the first female mem-ber of the AMS to hold the position of secretary.
Savage described the posi-tion as a supporting role that takes place mostly behind the scenes. One of the chief re-sponsibilities of the secretary is to preserve the historical integrity of the society. The AMS secretary is also re-sponsible for coordinating between committees, plan-
ning the annual elections for leadership roles and oversee-ing certain awards and prizes.
While many posit ions within the AMS serve two to three year terms, the Sec-retary of the AMS can serve multiple two year terms that can be renewed b y t h e AMS
Coun-cil. As secre-tary, Savage wants to help committees and other members be more effective and maintain the ideas of past presidents that she found commendable.
Savage has been a member of two other mathemati-cal societies throughout the
years. Before working with the governance of the AMS, Savage worked with a special activity group in discrete mathematics for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Before becoming Secretary, S av a ge w a s
asked to run
for elec-
t i o n t o s er ve on t he
nominating committee that served to find certain mem-bers to run for elected posi-tions within the AMS.
When Savage’s committee was stuck on an issue they would call upon then-secre-tary Daverman to guide them
to an agreeable solution. Sav-age described how impressed she was by how Daverman handled the responsibilities of being secretary and hopes to employ those same charac-teristics she found admirable.
Juggling the responsibili-ties of teaching, conducting research and being the Sec-retary of the AMS is no easy task. To help accommodate the new work load Jesse Ken-yon has taken the role of pro-gram manager of the AMS.
The AMSThe AMS operates a ser-
vice called Mathematical Reviews that provides the math community with information and reviews
dealing with journals, books and articles. Mathe-
matical Reviews was founded in 1940 and originally printed journal reviews in encyclope-dia-sized books which Math-ematicians would use these math reviews to check the results of other mathemati-cians’ research. Since then, the service has updated to reflect a digital age. The AMS now also operates MathSci-Net – and online database with all the resources found in Mathematical Reviews.
Savage described MathSci-
Net as an amazingly valuable resource. The services are expensive for the society to maintain, but Savage says it is worth the cost. The AMS has gone to great lengths to ensure their services are ef-ficient and user friendly.
The AMS hosts several con-ferences throughout the year. These conferences serve as a meeting place to exchange ideas, present research ideas and findings. Sectional con-ferences typically have 300 members, while the Joint Conference for the MAA and AMS can expect 6,500-7,000
members in attendance. These conferences have a
variety of clever games such as “who wants to be a math-ematician?” There are also art exhibits and lectures for members to enjoy during the conference. Members can at-tend regional meetings that take place over the weekend so as to not interfere with the scheduled researcher or lectures.
“I bet a lot of people prob-ably think math is boring, or hard, but we think it’s excit-ing!” Savage said.
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Math professor named new AMS secretary
COURTESY OF TAMMY COATES Carla Savage, the newly-appointed secretary for the American Mathematics Society.
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Katie SandersGeneral Features Editor
Sean Gallen visited the Ap-palachian mountains to study the effects of landslides on the region. Instead, he found thousands of waterfalls scat-tered throughout the Appa-lachians.
“It’s not well-understood why they’re there,” Gallen said. “I asked ‘Where are they coming from? How are they forming?’ and nobody could give me a straight answer that was satisfying.”
Gallen, a graduate student in marine, earth and atmo-spheric science, and Karl Wegmann, an assistant pro-fessor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences, began investigating how these wa-terfalls—called knickpoints by geologists—could have formed.
Waterfalls generally form
in one of two ways. First, the land under part of a river can shift upward through tec-tonic activity, creating a wa-terfall. But the Appalachian falls could not have formed this way: according to Gallen and Wegmann, there hasn’t been serious tectonic activity in the Appalachians for the last 200 million years.
Waterfalls can also form from the confluence of two rivers. If one of the rivers is much larger than the other, it will cause more erosion and that part of the landscape will lower, eventually creating a typical waterfall. Still, there are a lot of falls in the Appa-lachians, which is unusual.
Researchers hypothesized that perhaps a sudden climate change—such as the begin-ning of an ice age—could have caused an increase in precipitation, causing the rivers to swell and more wa-
terfalls to form at river junc-tions.
Gallen and Wegmann were able to estimate that the wa-terfalls are 4.6 to 17.6 mil-lion years old by studying how quickly the landscape is eroding in present day, and comparing how far the water-falls have moved. According to Gallen and Wegmann, the waterfalls are most likely 8.5 million years old—but if cli-mate change were the cause of these waterfalls, the oldest that these waterfalls could possibly be is 3 to 4 million years old.
In want of a better explana-tion, the researchers adopted a new hypothesis to explain the creation of the waterfalls called mantle forcing.
The mantle is the layer of rock that rests below the Earth’s crust. The mantle can be seen as a fluid mov-ing very slowly over millions
of years. Therefore the mantle has changes in density. If the mantle is warmer or cooler in one area, sections of the mantle can bubble up or buoy down, causing changes to the earth’s surface.
“These ideas with the mantle are really new in ge-ology—they have slowly been becoming accepted over the past decade,” Gallen said. “What’s exciting about it is that, in my mind, and other researchers may disagree with me, is that this is really compelling evidence to me that this type of process does occur and has occurred in the southeastern United States, and, geologically speaking, it’s happened recently.”
Researchers like Gallen will continue to test these ideas through computer modeling and looking at patterns that should appear in the earth’s crust.
“[Mantle forcing] happens very slowly and in domes when it occurs, so there are not a lot of the key indicators of uplift that most geologists would look for,” Gallen said. “It’s a little bit more subtle to detect.”
Gallen also found that the locations of the highest waterfalls in the Cullasaja River basin formed a border between a high altitude flat portion of the terrain and a low altitude rugged portion of the terrain.
“The landscape that’s up above the waterfall or knick-points hasn’t changed,” Gal-len said. “How I think of it is that is has a memory of what the landscape used to be like before this waterfall came into the system.”
This is because it takes the landscape above the water-fall tens of thousands to tens of millions of years to fully
adjust to the new conditions, called the response time, while the land below it adjusts much more quickly.
“We see this area that’s up high that isn’t steep and it looks very different from what’s below it. It’s not very rugged,” Gallen said. “It in-dicates that’s that preserved landscape that we’d call relic landscape or paleo-landscape.”
This difference in rugged-ness is due to erosion caused by the waterfalls as they move upstream – according to Gallen, the ruggedness of the landscape below the wa-terfalls has increased by 160 percent.
“What I find fascinating is trying to figure out how things work on these long time scales and big spatial scales—like looking at conti-nents and trying to figure out how they work,” Gallen said.
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Secrets of the Appalachian falls(Left) Cullasafa river basin courtesy of Sean Gallen. (Top Right) Mountain ridge in Ashe County, photo courtesy of Don Hart Jr. (Bottom Right) Ashe County mountains during the winter, courtesy of Don Hart Jr.
Nicky VaughtDeputy News Editor
Dolphins stake their claim as the humans of the sea in many ways. Not only do they travel in cliques and fornicate just for kicks—now on the list of similarities is the abil-ity to recognize oneself in a mirror.
Diana Reiss, part of the department of psychology at Hunter College and author of The Dolphin in the Mirror, led a seminar Thursday after-noon in David Clark Labs to discuss a few animals’ levels of self-recognition, focusing mainly on dolphins. Reiss also spoke Friday evening in the main auditorium of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science.
Reiss is the leading expert in dolphin communication, according to Robert Anholt, the host of the seminar.
After a series of multi-fac-eted tests, two bottle-nosed dolphins raised in captivity exhibited evidence they rec-ognize themselves in reflec-tive surfaces. Reiss refers to
this awareness as mirror self-recognition, MSR.
MSR is only one of many types of self-awareness, ac-cording to Reiss. Having MSR does not imply being fully self-aware.
This type of self-awareness requires that an animal pay selective attention to its re-f lection, interpret the mir-ror’s information—that the animal in the mirror is the same looking into it—and requires the animal use the mirror to view itself, accord-ing to Reiss.
Since babies develop MSR around the same time as they develop theory of mind – around 18 to 24 months – Reiss said it is possible the concepts are connected in some way, but it is difficult to determine.
“It’s frustrating that all we have is behavior,” Reiss said. “We don’t have any way to figure this out besides look-ing at behavior.”
The basic approach, ac-cording to Reiss, was first to expose an animal to a mir-ror. If the animal were “mir-ror naïve,” it would partake
in exploratory and social behaviors.
If the animal did not have a capacity for self-recognition it would only ever think its reflection was another of its species.
This did not happen for the two bottle-nosed dolphins.
“Neither dolphin s h ow e d a s i ng le i n-stance of a clear social response to a ref lective surface,” Re-iss said.
Instead, t h e t w o dolphins partook in contingency testing, in which they moved around and behaved in ways uncharacteristic of dolphins to test whether the reflections were their own.
Following the contingency was self-directed behavior, as the dolphins utilized the mirror to look at themselves.
To better analyze self-di-rected behaviors, Reiss had
the dolphins undergo a mark test.
The mark test involves marking the animal on an unseen body part. If the ani-mal touches or gives more attention to the mark af-ter seeing it in its reflection than before seeing it, then it is
further evi-dence of self-recognition.
Research-ers marked t h e d o l -phins with a non-toxic marker and waited to see whether or not the dol-phins would react.
As it turns out, the dolphins spent sig-nificantly more time looking in the mirror when they were marked than when they were unmarked, Reiss said.
The dolphins didn’t go to the mirror immediately, but once they saw it, they checked themselves where they were marked. Every mark thereaf-ter, they “raced,” according to
Reiss, to the mirror to see the mark.
Between each marking ses-sion, the dolphins showed shorter latencies between being marked and going to the mirror.
Just to be sure, the research-ers also gave the dolphins an occasional “sham mark,” which was only a water pen and did not show up.
At f irst, the dolphins searched extensively for the sham mark before realizing there was none.
From then on, the dolphins gave attention only to real marks. On two occasions, the dolphins rubbed the marks off themselves. On other oc-casions, the dolphins backed away from the mirror to see their entire bodies.
These behaviors, according to Reiss, are not trained but self-directed behaviors.
Reiss also conducted re-search to see how early MRS emerges in dolphins. She found dolphins as young as 14 to 16 months partaking in self-directed behaviors.
Though dolphins develop this self-recognition faster
than typical human off-spring, Reiss said this does not mean dolphins are smart-er than humans – so there’s no need to worry about a dol-phin uprising anytime soon.
Researchers replicated Reiss’ experiments with el-ephants; however, only one elephant exhibited self-di-rected behaviors.
Reiss emphasized that just because an animal doesn’t respond to a mirror doesn’t mean that animal lacks self-awareness.
“The mark doesn’t quite hit the mark,” Reiss said in ex-plaining there are more ways to understand self-awareness than the mark test.
Dolphins share many traits with humans and non-human apes, Reiss said, especially in their social be-haviors, but one main differ-ence is their larger brains and neurons.
“Dolphin brains work dif-ferently,” Reiss said. “There’s no area of their brain which we can say is analogous to the frontal lobe, so that’s a very interesting thing to study.”
Expert speaks on dolphin self-awareness
“Just because an
animal doesn’t
respond to a
mirror doesn’t
mean [it] lacks
self-awareness.”Diana Reiss, author of The
Dolphin in the mirror
SportsRob McLambStaff Writer
Spring break is fast ap-proaching and it time to step back and look at some of the teams of the N.C. State Ath-letic Department in its cur-rent state.
BaseballThe season opener Feb. 15
versus Appalachian State had an opening day-record 2,396 fans and an atmosphere that would make most minor league teams envious. Alas, the record was bittersweet as sophomore pitcher Carlos Rodon suffered his first col-legiate loss when the Pack fell 6-3. Rodon pitched six innings in his season debut and gave up five earned runs.
Rodon did redeem himself eight days later, when he com-bined with freshman hurler Karl Keglovits to no-hit the La Salle Explorers 5-0. It was the first no-hitter for State in almost eight years. The Wolf-pack are currently ranked No. 10 in the country.
The two contrasting per-formances from Rodon came after a myriad of delayed and cancelled games due to in-
clement weather. The snazzy 2013 team poster, complete with the team schedule on the bottom, has been rendered al-most obsolete because of the ever-changing fixtures.
SoftballUnlike baseball, the sched-
ule makers for the softball team may actually have Mother Nature figured out. T he Pa c k played it s f irst three tournaments of the season in Flor ida and Georgia.
N.C. State has started t h e c a m -paign 7-5-1, which is to be expected. The transition under first-year head coach Shawn Rychcik will have its ups and downs. The mea-sure of the program’s growth could come soon.
State plays its home opener on Friday versus Stony Brook in the N.C. State Wolfpack Challenge. The next nine games are in Raleigh, and it will be interesting to see where the Pack is standing
record-wise in the middle of March.
FootballThe spring game will be
here soon, and the 2013 schedule was released Mon-day. N.C. State plays eight home games and is in the state of North Carolina for all but two games next season under new head coach Dave
Doeren. T he t wo
games not in Car ter-Finley Sta-d iu m but still within t h e s t a t e are at Wake Forest and Duke. With manageable
driving distances from Ra-leigh, it is not unreasonable to expect there to be as many State fans in the stands as the home team when the Pack travels to Winston-Salem and Durham. The N.C. State football schedule appears very friendly on paper.
Men’s BasketballThe Pack is entering the fi-
nal stretch of regular season play. The loss in Chapel Hill
has taken away some con-trol N.C. State had in its own destiny with regards to finishing in the top-four of the ACC. Duke plays at UVa and hosts Miami this week, with a season finale loom-ing at North Carolina. The Blue Devils are one team who will help determine where State finishes in the standings.
If State can finish in at least fourth place, a tour-nament title is not out of the question. The Pack will certainly fancy its chances in a rematch against Miami or Virginia (with Lorenzo Brow n) and probably yearns for another chance to tangle with the Tar Heels. The tournament is in Greensboro, which is a benefit to State.
Women’s BasketballN.C. State has its Senior
Day game Thursday versus Virginia, and it is a chance for the Wolfpack faithful to pay their respects to Marissa Kastanek. There may be a metamorphosis occurring with the program, but un-fortunately its hardest worker will not quite get to reap all of
the rewards. Kastanek represents every-
thing N.C. State should be about. She honored her com-mitment to State through a coaching change and has con-sistently held up her end of the deal over her four seasons in Raleigh.
State should now hold up its end. The school should never let another women’s
basketball player wear the number 23 and give Kastanek her proper due by retiring it permanently.
Statistically speaking, there may be others with better numbers, but Kastanek’s per-fect 4.00 GPA trumps them all. She is one of the greatest Wolfpack student-athletes ever.
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inches. He is sought after for his height, arm strength and accuracy. Glennon has been compared to Balti-more Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, saying he has great placement in between defenders down the field.
His lack of foot quickness is a big weakness, especially in today’s fast-paced game. He also tends to shy away when defenders are attack-ing, instead of stepping up. He isn’t very agile and is brought down easily when outside of the pocket. Over-all, Scouts are projecting him as an eventual starter.
Zach AllenAllen has been injured
most of his college career, but he still contributed for the scout team. In 2009, Al-len saw playing time at both offensive guard and offensive tackle in 11 games. He played a season high of 35 snaps against Murray State.
In 2010, Allen played and started in all 13 games that season and he only allowed three sacks the entire season. In 2011, he improved his stats by only allowing two sacks.
In his senior season, Allen started the first five games, but missed the rest of the season due to a foot injury.
Scouts graded Allen at a 51.0, placing him on the lower end of the scores for offensive linemen. He was a “Combine Top Performer” on the 225-lb. bench press by performing 32 reps.
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The current State of the Pack
“Kastanek
represents
everything N.C.
State should
be about.”
INSIDE• Page 7: The current State of the Pack
COUNTDOWN• 1 day until women’s basketball hosts Virginia on
Senior Day in Reynolds Coliseum at 7 p.m.SportsTECHNICIANPAGE 8 • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013
TodayBASEBALL V. NEW MEXICO STATEDoak Field at Dail Park, 3 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL V. BOSTON COLLEGEPNC Arena, 8 p.m.
MEN’S SWIMMING AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSGreensboro, N.C., All Day
ThursdayWOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. VIRGINIAReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
MEN’S SWIMMING AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSGreensboro, N.C., All day
FridayBASEBALL V. UMBCMyrtle Beach, S.C., 1 p.m.
SOFTBALL V. STONY BROOKDail Softball Stadium, 7 p.m.
GYMNASTICS V. UTAHProvo, Utah, 9 p.m.
GYMNASTICS V. BYUProvo, Utah, 9 p.m.
MEN’S SWIMMING AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSGreensboro, N.C., All day
TRACK AT ALEX WILSON INVITATIONALSouth Bend, Ind., All day
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Illova expands world viewJeniece JamisonSports Editor
Studying abroad can have dif-ferent meanings and objectives for each individual. Many people take the plunge into another country because they want to view life from a new perspective. Others embark on the journey to escape from their lives at home.
One member of the N.C. State women’s tennis team was able to gain a new perspective on her life from her visit to West Africa.
Senior Tatiana Illova spent her Fall 2012 semester studying abroad in Ghana. She went under the ISEP program, a global student exchange consortium with 300 member schools in 50 countries. Illova was the only student from N.C. State in the program. She took political science classes dur-ing her time in Africa.
During the program, Illova was
able to tour the country from the beaches to the mountain areas. She also stayed in a dorm with other stu-dents from around the world, along with local students.
“I me t some amazing people. I made many friends from the U.S. We were really good group,” Illova said. “I met many people from Germany and Norway. It was hard to make friends with the Ghana-ians a little bit, but I made two really good friends from there.”
While she was on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Illova said it was an eye-opening experience – be-ing without many of the luxuries in the United States gave her a different point of view.
Illova is from Slovakia, which is
still considered a third-world coun-try.
“I learned how to be patient,” Illo-va said. “When I was going there, in 12 hours, my life changed so much,
because I came from a third-world country to [an-other] third-world c ou nt r y w here people have totally different values.”
“ T h e y d o n ’ t think like they’re definitely going to get to eat dinner,” Illova said. “It just showed me a differ-
ent type of life. How to just try to live from a little bit.”
Illova said she experienced a change in her personal values after studying in Ghana.
“I learned to value natural re-sources, such as water for example,” Illova said.
Illova said at times there was no electricity available in her dorm, and many of the locals didn’t have electricity at all. Through the expe-rience she said she has learned not to be wasteful not only with natu-ral resources, but other things many developed nations take for granted.
Now, Illova says she tries her best to not be wasteful with anything. She is no longer picky about food, nor does she waste electricity.
The experience has also seemed to spark a change in Illova’s play on the court. Last season she won sev-en dual matches and seven doubles wins. This season, Illova is one of the leaders on a Wolfpack squad that sports an unblemished record. She and doubles partner junior Joelle Kissell have already won five of their matches in the young season. Illova is also 5-1 on the season as the No. 2 singles netter for the Pack.
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANSenior Tatiana Illova celebrates a point during her doubles match with junior Joelle Kissell against East Carolina Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. Illova and Kissell lost their match 8-6 at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center.
Wolfpack shows promise at NFL CombineTy PrenticeStaff Writer
Four players from N.C. State re-ceived invitations to the NFL Com-bine this year: defensive back David Amerson, strong safety Earl Wolff, quarterback Mike Glennon and of-fensive guard Zach Allen.
David AmersonWe all remember Amerson for
his astounding sophomore sea-son, recording 13 interceptions – the second most interceptions in NCAA history. This statistic earned him first team All-ACC and Walter Camp All-American honors. He was also awarded with the coveted Jack Tatum award, which is given to the top defensive back in the nation.
Amerson recorded a 4.44 40-yard dash time, 35.5-inch vertical jump, 15 reps on the bench press (with weight of 225 lbs.) and a 127.0-inch broad jump. He earned an overall grade of 74.4 from scouts and is heavily looked at for his size, confi-dence and great hands.
Some scouts have their doubts, suggesting he would be much better off playing at the safety position due to his lack of hip flexibility, agility and speed. Scouts also say he can be deceived by double moves (wide receivers changing hip positions).
Overall, NFL scouts say that a team will take a chance on him as a cornerback if he can prove that his foot quickness and fluidity are up to par.
Earl WolffWolff ended his senior season
with 225 career tackles, seven forced fumbles and an All-ACC nomination. Wolff graduated this past December after only three and a half years with a degree in sport management.
Wolff earned an NFL Combine grade of 63.4 and was a “Combine Top Performer” in four different categories: running a 4.44 second 40-yard dash, recording a 39.0 inch vertical, dubbed a 134.0 inch broad jump and ran a 4.07 second 20-yard shuttle.
Scouts commented that Wolff is a “solidly built defender able to make plays against the run and pass, a physical tackler coming downhill to attack ball carriers and is not afraid to bring intensity to the stop.” Wolff is able to bring down ball carriers both quickly and efficiently and can bring them down hard.
In Wolff ’s case, doubters state he only has average height and that stronger backs can run through his tackles easier. He also has to prove that he can “get off the blocks” when
playing near the line of scrimmage.Overall, Wolff ’s intensity stood
out greatly amongst the NFL scouts. His willingness to attack ball car-riers out in the open or inside the backfield means that he has a great chance to start in the NFL as a mid-draft pick.
Mike GlennonAfter sitting behind Russell Wil-
son for three seasons, Glennon stepped up leading N.C. State to an 8-5 record and a bowl win during his first season as a starting quar-terback. Coming out of high school, he was regarded as being in the top
five for quarterbacks in the nation.He earned a grade of 79.4 from
NFL scouts, recording a slow 40-yard dash time of 4.94 seconds and an unsustained vertical of 26.5
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANJunior cornerback David Amerson runs back after making an interception against Boston College Saturday, November 24, 2012. Amerson returned the interception for a 55-yard touchdown in the Wolfpack’s 27-10 win over the Eagles at Carter-Finley Stadium.
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Women’s golf defends Sir Pizza Terrapin Challenge titleThe N.C. State women’s golf team successfully defended its title at the Sir Pizza Terrapin Challenge and sophomore Lindsay McGetrick, competing as an individual, captured medalist honors. The two-day, 54-hole event was held at the par-72, 6,278-yard Shula’s Golf Club. N.C. State fired a three-round total of 10-over 874, including 4-under 284 in Tuesday’s closing round. The Pack was 12-strokes better than second place Florida International. The team crown was N.C. State’s 11th in program history and its fourth since 2011. The Wolfpack swept the top three spots on the individual leader board.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
“It just showed
me a different
type of life. How
to just try to live
from a little bit.”Tatiana Illova, senior women’s
tennis player
