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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina
Wi t h t h e three-year academic
calendar for the 2009 to 2012 years updated to ref lect the newly implemented reading days, a wide array of opinions has been expressed over whether the planned schedule is beneficial for students.
As it stands, reading days will take place during the Monday and Tuesday after classes end, thus pushing the last day of fi-nal exams back to Thursday. This year, all final examinations end within the week and a half span that begins on Monday and ends on Tuesday of the following week.
“That wasn’t exactly what we proposed initially,” former Stu-dent Body President Bobby Mills said. “What we proposed initially was just to have them on Thurs-day and Friday. We were going to make up the days by having school start earlier rather than end later.”
Regardless, this will effectively increase the time students spend at State by two days.
“I’m not really in favor of this,” David Drosback, a senior in mechanical engineering, said. “I really just wanted the reading days to be during the end of dead week.”
Reading days were approved by a unanimous vote by the Uni-versity’s Registration, Records, & Calendar Committee Feb. 5 and eventually approved by the provost.
Zach Hester, a junior in aero-space engineering, believes that the committee made a poor choice when deciding to add on to the end of the academic year to substitute for the class time lost due to reading days.
“They really should take some off of dead week rather than add-ing on to the end of the year,” Hester said. “That would mean I would have more time to study without having exams pushing even further into my Christmas break.”
Even though Hester wants part of dead week to be replaced by reading days, he believes that as a whole the entire concept of dead week is flawed.
“We don’t really need to have projects and stuff due during dead week,” Hester said. “If we had reading days at the end of dead week, we could still easily turn projects in online or on days before if we had to.”
The proposal for reading days that would take place during dead week initially came out of a strong initiative from student government official and Aca-demics Committee Chair Am-
ber Joyner.“I was a proponent when it was
passed in the committee, and even how it is now I think stu-dents will benefit from it,” Mills said. “For this to be coming to fruition is great.”
Student Government was in support of ending class on Wednesday, rather than Friday of dead week, which would’ve given students a Thursday to Sunday break from classes and assign-ments before their final exams.
Student senator Morgan Don-nelly said labs were a reason why the calendar does not split dead week with three dead days and
two reading days is because there needs to be a certain number of days for each lab, and splitting dead week would have violated that.
“There are pros and cons, but in the long run it will be benefi-cial academically for students, which is after all the reason why
we’re here,” Mills said. “It’s going to help as far as prepa-ration goes.”
During the campaign for reading days, Joyner and others collected more than 1,700 signatures on a petition
Reading Days set for fall 2009
Holiday season sees spike in crime
Daniel EllisDeputy News Editor
During the holiday season, many students are excited about spending time with fam-ily, friends and shopping. While the economy may receive a boost from the increased spending during Black Friday and the sub-sequent holiday shopping period, students victimized by theft face a much harsher reality.
“It makes me a little uneasy, but I don’t really leave stuff in my car because I know it’s a pos-sibility that it will get stolen,” Kalie Porterfield, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, said. “I don’t really get nervous about it though”
Campus Police Chief Tom Younce notes the holiday period provides prime opportunities for those eager to take advantage of unaware students.
“Most of the crime that occurs around this time is opportun-ist,” Younce said. “Packages that are visible in cars after people go shopping are easy targets for theft.”
Younce notes that students must be observant of their sur-roundings and be smart when carrying valuables.
“We notice a lot more theft with people leaving things around,” he said. “Students just need to be more aware.”
The winter wonderland isn’t just jovial for those wishing to drink eggnog and celebrate the festivities, but also for those with sticky hands. Younce states the thick clothing worn by individu-als allows for even easier storage of stolen goods.
“When people are wearing such heavy clothing it gives them an easy opportunity for them to commit robberies,” he said.
Aside from theft, Younce also notes that trespassing has seen an increase during the last few weeks.
“This is the time of the year when homeless folks are looking for a place to sleep in the build-ings,” he said. “People that we’ve previously trespassed come in out of the cold and get arrested for second degree trespassing.”
Chris Mills, a sophomore in environmental technology, re-calls a recent incident when a suspicious individual from off-campus approached him.
“When I was near Nelson Hall, I met a man who was obviously lying saying that his carburetor
Theft, trespassing increasing on campus
Stores hope spending won’t impact post-Black Friday spending
Alison HarmanFeatures Editor
This year’s economy has seen unemployment rates higher than they have been in 10 years.This was the first blow to a weakened economy.
It’s seen mortgage lenders hand out subprime, or 100 percent, mortgages to people who couldn’t pay them off. This was the sec-ond, and it brought on the swift downfall of investment banking giants like Wachovia and Merrill Lynch.
After suffering multiple series of 1-2 punches that turned stock market indexes on high volatility mode, the National Bureau of Economic Research delivered the final blow when it officially announced the economy has been in a recession since December 2007.
The Dow fell back 680 points. Although revenue from Black Friday — and news of whether
it was successful — will not be announced until Dec. 4, store employees like Ed Canipe of Wal-Mart are hoping consumers’ holiday spending lasts through the month.
Economy falters after suffering multiple blows
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Dewey Corn closes in on 400 consecutive games See page 8.
DANIEL TANAKA/TECHNICIANOmar Hassan, a junior in psychology, and Sonya Zaghloul, a sophomore in biological sciences, laugh while waiting in line outside Best Buy at Crossroads Plaza Nov. 27 before Black Friday. “I’m waiting in line to buy some laptops,” Hassan said.
This recommended calendar has now been reviewed and adjusted based on committee, faculty, faculty senate, associate dean, and student feed back, and, if approved, includes:
• Reading Days which will occur on the Monday and Tuesday of our current exam week. • Finals that will now run through Thursday instead of Tuesday. • The fall semester will start on a Wednesday, which facilitates move-in, administrative issues, and Wolfpack Welcome Week.
• Fall graduation will now move to Saturday, instead of Wednesday, which should help families. • Spring semester will start on a Monday, instead of Wednesday, which will help with lab courses and courses that only meet on Mondays. • Spring break will not occur on Founder’s Day, which will allow more campus activities.
SOURCE: REGISTRATION, RECORDS & CALENDAR 2007!2008 ANNUAL REPORT
REGISTRATION, RECORDS & CALENDAR COMMITTEE DECISION:
“They really should take some off of dead week rather than adding on to
the end of the year”Zach Hester, junior in aerospace engineering
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THROUGH CHRISTIN’S LENS
Designing landscapes for the real world
Brock Holtzclaw, a sophomore in landscape design, works on a project in which he gets to design a resident’s yard. Holtzclaw and his classmates were able to simulate a client-designer interaction by visiting the sites, surveying them and then draw-ing out their designs for critique. The homeowner will evaluate Holtzclaw’s designs and perhaps implement them in her
yard. “[This project] was so cool because we got to actually go to a real site, and measure things out. We were able to apply our class learned knowledge by dealing with real life problems such as draining, but mainly the best part was having the client interaction,” Holtzclaw said.
PHOTO BY CHRISTIN HARDY
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TodayEXPLORING OPPRESSIONTalley Student Center, Brown Room, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
SOIL SCIENCE SEMINARWilliams Hall, Room 2215, 3:40 to 4:40 p.m.
THE GUN, THE FLAG, AND THE NOOSE: A TEACH-IN ON THE FREE EXPRESSION TUNNEL INCIDENTWithers 232, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WIND ENSEMBLE/JAZZ ENSEMBLE HOLIDAY CONCERTStewart Theatre, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
ThursdayELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SENIOR DESIGN DAYMcKimmon Center, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING3214 Jordan Hall, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
TROPIC THUNDERWitherspoon Cinema, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
LADIES IN REDStewart Theatre, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
HAMLET 2Witherspoon Cinema, 9:30 p.m. to 11:05 p.m.
FridayFINALS MADNESS SALEN.C. State Bookstores, noon to 8 p.m.
HAMLET 2Witherspoon Cinema, 7 p.m. to 8:35 p.m.
GRAINS OF TIMEStewart Theatre, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
TROPIC THUNDERWitherspoon Cinema, 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
TROPIC THUNDERWitherspoon Cinema, 11:55 p.m.
December 2008
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56/36Warmer weather with sunny skies
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Cloudy skies with the temperature cooling throughout the night IN THE KNOW
Honors Village to hold Halo 3 tournaments
The Honors Village will be hosting two Halo 3 tourna-ments upstairs in the Honors Village Commons building multipurpose room Thurs-day at 8 p.m. One tournament will be a solo tournament fol-lowed by a team tournament pitting teams of four against one another.
Sign-up is on site and there is no entry fee. Snacks and drinks will be provided at the event.SOURCE: UNIVERSITY HONORS VILLAGE
EVENT CALENDAR
Oblinger announces open house
Chancellor James Oblinger and Diana G. Oblinger will host the annual Holiday Open House at the Chancellor’s Residence Dec. 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Chancellor’s Residence is located at 1903 Hillsborough St.
The festivities are open to all university faculty and staff.
SOURCE: NCSU BULLETIN BOARD
STAT o!ering free massages
STAT will be offering free massages as part of their annual Lighten Your Load Exam Study Break. The event will take place on Dec. 3rd from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Talley Ballroom.
Aside from massages, activities will include stress relief puppies, stress ball making and the op-portunity to play the video game Rock Band. Participants will also create Christmas cards to send to the Children’s Hospital.
Free pizza, Chick-fil-A and ice cream will be provided at the event. STAT members can also enter raffles to win a variety of prizes.
SOURCE: WWW.ALUMNI.NCSU.EDU/
Exam Jam to give students a break
Campus Recreation will be holding their annual Exam Jam Tuesday Dec. 9 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The event will let students take a break from exams by par-ticipating in games, Wii, Dance Dance Revolution, obstacle courses, cornhole and more.
The event, which will have free food and prizes for students, will offer free chair massages and rock wall time. All of the activi-ties will take place in Carmichael Gym on courts 9 to 11.
SOURCE: NCSU.EDU/CAMPUS_REC
Bookstores o!ering 40 percent o!
The N.C. State Bookstores will be offering 40 percent off of all regular merchandise as part of their Finals Madness Sale. From noon to 8 p.m. on Friday students can receive the discount at any one of the four bookstore locations.
The discount ex ludes textbooks, magazines, year-books, computers/computer products, stamps, gift cards, special orders, class rings, di-ploma frames and graduation apparel.
SOURCE: NCSU BOOKSTORES
Ladies in Red perform "ursday
The Ladies in Red will be presenting their fall 2008 performance Thursday night from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Stewart Theatre.
The female a cappella en-semble will be performing songs by Sara Bareilles, Lau-ryn Hill, the Doobie Brothers, Ingrid Michaelson and more. Tickets to the event are $10 for the general public, $8 for senior citizens and NCSU fac-ulty and $5 for students.
SOURCE: NCSU PUBLIC EVENTS
CALENDAR.
POLICE BLOTTERNov. 261:46 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS VEHICLEDH Hill LibraryOfficers responded to report of sus-picious vehicle at the loading dock. Everything OK.
11:17 A.M. | LARCENYEngineering Bldg. IIIReport of copper pipe stolen from construction area.Pending
3:34 A.M. | CHECK PERSONHarris Hall LotReport of suspicious subject in the area. Officers spoke with subject. Ev-erything OK.
8:44 A.M. | LARCENYES King VillageStaff member reported gasoline sto-len from university vehicle.Pending
2:19 P.M. | DAMAGE TO PROPERTYAlexander HallStaff member reported subject climb-ing in first floor window. Officers lo-cated student and two non-students in the building. Student was cited and referred to university. Non-students were trespassed from NCSU property.Judicial Referral/Citation/Trespass
3:06 P.M. | CHECK PERSONWest Chiller PlantReport of suspicious subject in the area. Officers located non-student who had been previously trespassed from campus. Subject was arrested for Trespass.Arrest
3:15 P.M. | WEAPONS VIOLATIONWolf VillageStaff located air pistol in apartment. Owner will be referred to the uni-versity.Judicial Referral
QUOTE OF THE DAY“I really just wanted the
reading days to be during the end of
dead week.”David Drosback, senior in mechanical engineering
News
of support.“Being in favor of what the pe-
tition stood for to start with it I signed it,” Drosback said. “But looking back, if I had known what would’ve come out of that, I wouldn’t have signed it.”
Drosback also worries that being at State for an extra two days is a waste of energy and money for the University.
“It’s bad because we have to leave the dorms and cafete-rias open for two extra days,” he said. “With this being the year of energy and all, we re-ally should make the schedule in favor of energy conserva-tion.”
TECHNICIAN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008 • PAGE 3
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MATT MOORE/TECHNICIANIn the basement of Turlington Hall, Melissa Gannon, a freshman in aerospace engineering, tunes her gui-tar while with friends. Gannon has been playing guitar for seven years and said the guitar is “a great thing to connect with people.”
TUNING IT UP
broke and needed $22 to fix it,” Mills said.
“I didn’t even see any car near him and just told him I was sor-ry, but didn’t have any money on me.”
Mills decided to walk away when the shady character asked him to go to the ATM to retrieve some money.
“A couple of days later my friend saw the exact same man asking the exact same thing,” Mills said.
Mills believes that Campus Police are still doing a fine job, even if he did have this lone en-counter.
“It’s more of a nuisance than a threat when people ask me to
give them money,” he said.Although Mills was specifi-
cally asked to withdraw funds from his ATM for an individual, the Raleigh Police Department have been noticing a growing scam involving the automated machines.
“Where you put your card in scammers have devices that will read the info on your card and also have a camera set up out of the way where they can see peo-
ple punch in their PIN number,” Younce said. “That’s been really prevalent in Raleigh in the last couple of weeks.”
Although this problem hasn’t spread to campus ATMs, it still warrants concern for students.
“That’s kind of scary because sometimes you aren’t really pay-ing attention,” Mills said. “You just go up and get some money out without thinking about it.”
CRIMEcontinued from page 1
STUDENT GOVERNMENT ACADEMICS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION: For years, the University has implemented a “dead week” policy that is vague and ineffective in allotting students ample time to prepare well for final examinations. As a result, the Student Senate has decided to push for the implementation of reading days on campus. This will be a policy of ending class on Wednesday, rather than Friday, and giving students a Thursday thru Sunday break from all formal classes and as-signments before final examinations.
SOURCE: ACADEMICS COMMISSION PETITION FOR READING DAYS
READINGcontinued from page 1
10:01 A.M. | BREAKING/ENTERING VEHICLELee Lot Student reported vehicle broken into and stereo stolen.
11:06 P.M. | CHECK PERSONDH Hill Library Report of trespassed subject in
the area. Subject was arrested for second degree trespass.
12:08 P.M. | LARCENYBecton Hall Student reported bicycle stolen.
SOURCE: NCSU CAMPUS POLICE LOG
THEFT/TRESPASSING INCIDENTS OCCURRING ON TUESDAY NOV. 25
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Student Government voted to have reading days put into the fall 2009 schedule
last year. The original intention for having reading days was to take the place of dead week or have three “dead” days and two reading days. But, according to Registration and Records, two reading days will be added in between dead week and ex-ams, and the last day of exams will be Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. This means there will be almost three full weeks of school after Thanksgiving break.
If this is how the schedule is go-ing to be set up, there is no point to having reading days. Though the Calendar Committee only added an additional two days to
our schedule, students, and the Technician, supported the idea of having reading days taking over some or all of dead week, not adding to it.
The addition of reading days to dead week just prolongs the misery and anticipation of ex-ams and shortens winter break. This is not what students wanted during the creation of the Dead Week Policy Revision Act, the resolution that called for the adoption of two reading day to the school calendar.
Now, many professors and in-structors see dead week as a time to turn in papers and projects,
even though it is supposed to be a time for review of class mate-rial. The idea of reading days was to give students a couple days to have optional reviews and spend two days preparing for exams without the pressure of turn-ing in class work. The calendar would be better off with having just a dead week and no reading days.
The bill was created because students were unsatisfied with the way professors and instruc-tors were treating dead week. One way that students can be satisfied with dead week is to enforce the dead week policy. Also, if profes-
sors and instructors are violating dead week policies, report them to department heads. In addition to this, professors and instruc-tors need to have some sort of punishment if they violate dead week policy instead of a slap on the wrist that won’t change their habits.
The ideal schedule before ex-ams would be to have three days of dead week and two reading days. Fortunately, reading days doesn’t have to be permanent.
Students unsatisfied with fall 2009’s schedule can voice their concerns best by talking to sena-tors, according to student senator Morgan Donnelly. With enough people, we can a calendar that we originally advocated for.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the
editor-in-chief. THE ISSUE:The Calendar Committee added two reading days in addition to dead week.
OUR OPINION:The addition of reading days is not what the student body wanted and makes fall 2009’s schedule more difficult and wearisome.
THE SOLUTION:Get rid of reading days or shorten dead week to three days and add two reading days.
Fall 2009’s reading days disappoint{OUR VIEW}
With tuition increases and sta# wage cuts, we’re all feeling the pinch of the economy.
Conrad Plyler, freshman in political science
“I’d [rather] just have our semester end earlier in December than add on the reading days.”
Anup Engineersenior, business administration
“I’m for reading days during the time before exams.”
Todd Ferebeejunior, meteorology
BY MEREDITH FAGGART
What do you think of the addition of reading days to
dead week?
IN YOUR WORDS{ }
“Not really... I like it exactly how it is. Dead week is basically a review for exams and it’s too much [to add reading days].”
Keyuntae Wardsophomore, communication
“Right now I’m kind of against it. If you’re in school and you just want to get out early, then you can study during Thanksgiving break or in between exams.”
Wendy Yipjunior, fashion and textile management
If you grew up a Reagan-lov-ing conservative like I did, odds are you have at least
heard the name George Will. Will, an Oxford and Princeton
educated goliath in American Conserva-
tive commentary, grew to promi-nence in the 1970s as an editor of the National Review.
He carries on today as a highly syndicated biweekly columnist.
Did I mention he also has a Pu-litzer Prize for commentary?
In other words, I and many of my fiscally conservative contem-poraries have significant man love for George Will.
In his column early this week, “Just say no to a New Deal,” Will delivered a good ol’ fash-ioned conservative bashing of the New Deal and called for the new administration to reject an FDR solution.
Mr. Will and I share a mutual distaste of the New Deal poli-cies which among other things, created deficit spending and the welfare state.
Where we differ, my conserva-tive grandmother is rolling in the grave as I say this, is in the notion that we do not need to “spend our way out of this recession.”
This goes against every fis-cally conservative bone in my body, but I simply cannot help saying that this time the game has changed.
Outrageous levels of govern-ment spending failed at the start of the Great Depression because FDR’s hyperkinetic policies para-lyzed the private sector.
As a result, the Depression did not improve and actually wors-ened into the industry collapse of 1937, a full eight years after the markets crashed.
1930s America and twenty-first century America are two entirely different beasts.
In the 30s, we were the indus-trial and economic jewel of the
world. When industry failed, capital-
ism fueled new American busi-nesses to fill the void. Today, those businesses are starting up in the Far East.
No longer, can America claim to be the economic powerhouse of the world.
We are reliant on the Middle East for almost all of our oil and continue to increase an already massive trade deficit.
Simply standing back as the Detroit automakers and Wall Street fail will not spring forth more efficient and better run American businesses.
It will only serve to further accelerate our own economic demise.
Somehow, I do not see a way in which millions of unem-ployed Americans will find jobs in an ever shrinking job pool. Main Street and Wall Street are doomed to failure if Congress continues to mindlessly debate.
The recent lame-duck session should be evidence enough of that.
I am certainly not calling for blanket Socialism, a disaster in the making. But laze faire gov-ernment is not going to cut it right now. Bold action is nec-essary to make our businesses competitive again and to place America back in the driver’s seat.
I may not have voted for him. But with everything I hold dear in the balance, I hope Mr. Obama can lead us out of this economic downturn.
For a few months, let’s not divide into Keynesians or fiscal conservatives, but instead, work together to develop a sustainable solution. Otherwise, our econo-my as we remember it may never reappear.
Let Russell know your thoughts at [email protected].
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Hunters are responsible for dogsThe dispute over hunting deer with
dogs seems to be an ethical dispute. It is my opinion, that if the hunting laws allow it (e.g., dog hunting, using bait) then it is ethical. For example, while I would not hunt on Sunday in North Carolina, I would have no qualms about hunting on Sunday in a state that allows it.
This being said, I think that two important issues not addressed were safety and responsibility. When hunting from a tree stand a hunter has the opportunity to observe the
deer and know what is behind it before they take a shot. Christopher Lawrence stated that it “requires a skilled marksman to kill moving deer through the woods or a crossing path.” When shooting at a moving target from the ground it is quite dif-ficult to be aware of what is behind it, especially in the “thick and dense cover” in which deer inhabit. Basic hunter safety is to know what is be-hind your target.
Just as important as safety is taking responsibility for your actions during a hunt. Jason Livingston states that
“dog hunters understand people may get frustrated when their dogs run away from them, but they do not believe they should be punished for this.” Lance Thomas responds “A dog can’t help where it is going to run. A dog just does what he is trained to do.”
While it is nearly impossible to predict where a dog is going to run, the owner is still responsible for it. If a dog leaves the property in which the hunter has permission to hunt, and enters another property, it is the same as trespassing. The fact that a
dog owner says that they are not re-sponsible for where their dogs travel is the same as a hunter saying that they are not responsible for where their bullet travels after they fire a gun. To dismiss the fact that dogs are beyond a hunters control is irrespon-sible and gives hunters and the sport a bad name. Furthermore, if you can-not control your dogs, then you have no business hunting with them.
Ben Wallacegraduate student, fisheries and wildlife
Let me officially welcome you to dead week, fair readers. We are three
days in, and it is time to get serious. If your life these days
is anything like mine, you prob-ably barely had time to pick up this paper to-day. That’s O.K., be-cause now
that you’re taking a few sec-onds away from sucking down coffee and zealously studying, let me offer you some advice: At the end of this week, take some time for yourself to re-lax.
For those of us who are 21 and over, there is, of course, the Hillsborough Hike. Cel-ebrated on the last Friday of regular classes, the Hike is pretty straight forward. Like its newer counterpart, the Haunted Hillsborough Hike, the goal of the regular hike is to have a drink at every bar
from East Village to Player’s Re-treat sans costume.
Not only is the Hike a fun way to chill after a chaotic week and before the frantic race to the end of fall semester, it is also a great way to commiserate with your fellow students about said misery.
Don’t worry if you aren’t 21 yet or if you would rather choose a healthier way to de-stress. There are plenty of other, even cheaper ways to have fun.
If you have already seen both of the movies playing at Witherspoon this weekend, catch the Wolfline out to Blue Ridge Road and the other $1.50 theater in the area. They have a good se-lection, but be warned that the popcorn is rather pricey.
If you want some thing a little more ridiculous, the Rialto on Glenwood Avenue plays The Rocky Horror Picture Show starting at midnight. You are welcome to join in the show, though it’s probably a little chilly to wear lingerie this late in the year. And if you happen to be a Rocky virgin, be prepared for
some personal space viola-tions.
Good clean fun can be found in the area via laser tag, miniature golf, go-carts and pay-to-play video games. You can also return to your pre-exam, childhood days by taking a study break in Pullen Park. The swings are always lots of fun.
I know that it’s a little early to plan for relaxation, but in between all-nighters at D.H. Hill, please plan for some down time. Your brain will thank you for the break, and your friends will enjoy the excuse to step away from a lit screen just as much as you will. One warning for the hours you’ll be removed from a four-pack of Red Bull, how-ever. Just be wary of caffeine withdrawal, because head-aches and compulsive yawn-ing are no good for anyone.
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Despite the struggling economy, many shoppers still filled the stores for Black Friday 2008
Laney TiptonSenior Staff Writer
Black Friday is a well-known and celebrated day in American commercial life, but are Ameri-cans embracing Black Friday like in years past? Experts say mostly no, thanks to the economy. But Black Friday did bring some re-lief to most retailers.
The Friday after Thanksgiv-ing, known as Black Friday, is the kickoff day for Christmas shop-ping. Stores have been taking advantage of this opportunity to make big bucks for years, open-ing their doors early and selling hot items at reduced prices.
This year, some retailers wor-ried that, with the slumping economy, sales would not be nearly as high as they have been in the past. The concerns proved mostly unfounded for employ-ees like Ed Canipe, because Black Friday did give stores the spike in sales they had needed after suf-fering for months.
“Friday was good for us,” Ed Canipe, technology manager for Wal-Mart, said. “Overall, sales for the company went up four percent, which was not what we were expecting.”
It had been projected for weeks
that Black Friday—named for the day retailers became profitable or moved into the black—was going to leave most retailers in the red. In preparation for poor sales, some stores lowered their prices even more than past years, in hopes for a higher turnout.
Shoppers answered the call, waking up in the wee hours of
the morning and heading to the stores for the best deals they could get.
It will be clearer exactly how stores did this weekend on Thursday, when they report their November sales.
“It was pretty crazy Friday morning. Christmas is still Christmas, no matter how the
economy is doing, and people are going to buy presents for their loved ones,” Andrea Stocks, a freshman in chemistry who was up at 5:30 a.m. waiting for Crabtree Mall to open its doors, said.
Some stores reported they were busiest in the morning on both Friday and Saturday, and foot
traffic trailed off in mid-after-noon, according to the New York Times.
People still shopped, but they did so a little differently this year. Industry professionals said con-sumers who did shop were espe-cially deliberate, going into only a few stores and heading directly for the things on their list.
Stocks said shoppers “seemed particularly organized” as they pulled folded shopping lists out of their pockets before hitting the aisles.
The shoppers weren’t the only ones changing their Black Friday ways.
“After the death and many in-juries sustained by workers this year, we’ll be doing things dif-ferently on Black Friday from now on,” Canipe said. “No deal is worth personal safety or a hu-man life.”
After a worker was trampled to death in New York, many stores will be taking a new approach.
“They should,” Stocks said. “I’ve seen two women fight over a Barbie. I mean come on, it’s a doll.”
Even though they had a jump in sales, Canipe is still concerned. It is unclear whether people have just started their Christmas list this past weekend, he said, or if they are finished.
“Hopefully, sales will stay up,” Canipe said.
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DANIEL TANAKA/TECHNICIANCustomers wait in line at Best Buy at Crossroads Plaza on Black Friday. Long lines and crowds were a com-mon sight at most large retail stores, which were o!ering signi"cant price cuts and sales in attempts to bring in more customers to prop up failing sales due to a weakened economy.
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TWO CENTSRaleigh construction company !les for bankruptcy
Benjamin Construction filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week. The Raleigh based company lists $4.86 million in liabilities and $2.35 million in assets. A number of subcontractors in Wake, Durham and Forsyth counties have filed suit against the company, claiming they owe hundreds of thousands of dol-lars. Benjamin Construction hopes to reorganize its company while under the protection of the Chapter 11 fil-ing from its creditors. The company’s unexpected overruns in costs on the Bethany Village shopping center in Morrisville caused it to fall behind with its creditors. The company is, however, still conducting business as usual. Benjamin Construction was founded in 1996 by Raleigh native John Gist and earned its reputation through its work on the North Hills development.
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Delta Air Lines cuts back
Delta Air Lines Inc. has announced that it expects to cut capacity by as much as 8 percent or more in 2009. The memo was released to the company’s 75,000 employees from CEO Richard Anderson and President Edward Bastian. The airline plans to analyze the economic situation and determine whether more cuts are needed to facilitate the slowdown and softening traffic. The system-wide 2009 capacity will be down 6-8 percent, domestic capacity will drop 8-10 percent and international capac-ity will slide 3-5 percent. The 2008 capacity reductions are included in these figures. The airline does plan to offer voluntary programs to adjust staffing needs as it has in the past.
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WEEKLY ROUNDUP
Bargain hunters found deals as the markets jumped to a higher close today. The Dow leapt 270 points to close at 8419 and Nas-daq jumped 52 points to close at 1450.
AMR Corporation close: 8.45 change: +0.42 (+5.23%) volume: 9,349,943 market cap: 2.4B
Bank of America Corp. close: 14.37change: +1.52 (+11.83%) volume: 136,088,684 market cap: 72.1B
BB&T Corporation close: 27.18 change: +2.15 (+8.59%) volume: 6,993,974 market cap: 15.0B
Capital Bank Corp close: 7.81 change: -0.34 (-4.17%) volume: 4,500 market cap: 87.7M
Coca-Cola Bottling Co Con-solid
close: 41.14change: -0.16 (-0.39%) volume: 12,030 market cap: 273.3M
Duke Energy Corporation close: 14.50 change: -0.24 (-1.63%) volume: 15,226,365 18.3B
First Citizens BancShares, Inc. close: 127.50 change: +1.24 (+0.98%) volume: 41,778 market cap: 1.1B
Bank of Granite Corp close: 3.10 change: -0.40 (-11.32%) volume: 20,790 market cap: 47.8M
Ingles Markets, Inc. close: 14.49 change: +1.41 (+10.78%) volume: 76,709 market cap: 181.2M
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Economy plunges into recession
As of Monday, recession is not just a rumor whispered among pessimistic stock
market investors and economists. It’s here, according to a report from
the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private organization that studies the country’s economy. And its clouds have been lingering over much of the country — espe-cially dark over its housing and job markets, financial institutions and American industries — since De-cember 2007.
Since there is no single factor that triggered a recession, here’s a break-down of contributing elements and what determines a recession.
re·ces·sion [ri-sesh-uhn], noun — a period of economic contraction that lasts for more than a few months and severely impacts production, employment and income. Recession starts when the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends when it reaches a trough, or the lowest point in an economic cycle. Economic expansion occurs between trough and peak.
TIMELINE OF THE ECONOMIC DOWNFALL
l December 2007 — Unemployment, which had hovered in the mid-four percent range since January 2006, hit 5 percent. Although unemployment rates dipped below 5 percent in January and February 2008, economists say December is the month during which employment peaked. “The committee views the payroll employment measure, which is based on a large survey of employers, as the most reliable comprehensive estimate of employment,” the report stated. “This series reached a peak in December 2007 and has declined every month since then.” Economists like Michael Walden, professor of agriculture and extension economics, termed the stage that followed a downturn.
l July 2008 — At 5.7 percent, unemployment rates reached their highest level in more than four years.
l Sept. 7— In a fall that had been building up as mortgage lenders gave out 100 percent mortgages to people who could not pay them back, investment monoliths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed, followed by institutions like AIG, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. The Department of the Treasury immediately pledged to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
l Sept. 14 — Lehman Brothers goes bankrupt; Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch for $50 billion to bypass a worse crisis.
l Sept. 15 — Wall Street enters a period of extreme volatility. It becomes commonplace for the Dow Jones industrial average to fall hundreds of points some days, only to slowly regain it back on others.
l Sept. 16 — The Federal Reserve pledges $85 billion to save AIG.
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l Sept. 18 — Treasury and Federal Reserve begin to discuss an economic bailout.
l Sept. 20 — President George W. Bush asks Congress to pass a $700 billion bailout.
l Sept. 29 — The House rejects the bailout plan in a 228-205 vote.
l Oct. 1 — Senate passes a revised bailout plan.
l Oct. 3 — House passes the $700 billion bailout plan, followed by the Senate’s approval.
SOURCE: RECESSION.ORG, NYTIMES.COM, BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
l Nov. 18 — U.S. auto industries plead for a bailout-like package at a hearing of the Senate banking committee, but get denied.
l Dec. 1 — Recession is declared.
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Point, N.C. area for roughly 51 years, where he’s known for his pitching prowess.
“At one time, I know he was a he was a pretty mean softball pitcher,” Bost said. “He played for his church team for many years. I’ve heard a lot of com-ments from people that played softball with him that he was a pretty wily pitcher back in the day.”
Corn has been a Wolfpack baseball fan for many years, attending several games and NCAA tournaments. He used to own State season basketball tickets, but decided to give them up because of the nature of the basketball schedule.
He is also loyal to several or-ganizations, including the Wolf-pack Club and the Alumni Asso-ciation, in addition to maintain-ing 46 years of perfect attendance at the High Point Civitan Club.
The Streak During his 33-year run, Corn
estimates he has traveled roughly 30,000 miles. He’s traveled as far as Tucson, Ariz. to Boston, Mass., and many places in between.
Every home game, he makes the 95-mile trip from High Point to Carter-Finley, arrives early and sits in his seat in section 27.
He doesn’t tailgate, so he stops on the way home to get a bite to eat and saves his ticket stub — a tradition he started more than a few years ago.
And when he joins his friends on ACC road trips, there’s no need to look up directions.
“He knows exactly where to stay, exactly where to park and exactly how to get there,” Bost said. “He’s like a human GPS sys-tem.”
All the travel cost has probably added up over the years, though Corn said he can’t estimate the total cost. His daugh-ter used to work for United Airlines and that al-lowed Corn to get discounts on some travel. He estimated that he doesn’t spend more than $100 on any particular away game.
“Often times, if we double up with other fans, we split the cost,” Corn said. “I don’t want to get the figure too high because my wife is listening. And if it gets too high, she may cut my allowance or she may bill me an amount that she could spend on clothing or something of that sort.”
The momentsCorn has witnessed thou-
sands of Pack players and seen hundreds of games during his 33 years of perfect attendance. But there are just a few select ones
that stand out in his mind.
The games include a few that went down to the wire.
“I remember 20 years ago we were playing South Caro-lina in Cart-
er-Finley and the game ended — except South Carolina drew a penalty,” Corn said. “We fired the ball into the end zone and our player caught it. We caught the ball after time had actually expired.”
A similar phenomenon hap-pened in a game against Penn State.
“We were playing the Nittany Lions at home once and we had about a one or two point lead,” Corn said. “There was about three seconds to go and they kicked a fifty some yard field
goal and won the game. That knocked us out of the Gator Bowl that year.”
Over the years, some of Corn’s favorite players have included Roman Gabriel and Philip Riv-ers.
But he also thinks highly of Russell Wilson.
“I’ve been very impressed with Wilson at quarterback,” Corn said. “He’s played like a veteran even though this is only his first year.”
The future A possible bowl game this year
will mark Corn’s 390th win. Corn credits his good health and good luck for his ability to maintain his record.
So what does the future hold for Corn?
He and Bost both indicate that his goal is to reach number 400 and gradually back off from there.
“I’ve never really had a goal until now,” Corn said. “But I’d surely like to get there. If all goes well I should meet that goal sometime next year.”
But Christine Corn knows how dedicated her husband is, and she’s not so convinced.
“He won’t stop going unless he’s disabled,” she said.
And after a while, Dewey Corn conceded that his wife might have a point.
“It’s hard to give up something like this if you enjoy doing it. And usually, whatever it is you enjoy doing, you stop only when you are physically or mentally forced to.”
DEWEYcontinued from page 8
hunter. If I sneak onto some-one else’s property and kill a deer out of one of their deer stands, I can be legally tick-eted, fined, have my hunting license suspended and even jailed.
However, several packs of hunting dogs can run all over our property, ruin mine and my friends’ time in the woods, and our only solace
is, “Maybe it won’t happen next time.”
I don’t ask for much, just a peaceful afternoon in the woods that I have looked forward to all week. To be deprived of such should be viewed for what it is: a violation of my rights to hunt game in a legal manner of tak-ing.
by volleyball teams to switch out hitters with players who specialize in defense and passing.
“[The team] depends on me to get them a ball they can hit,” Wood said. “It doesn’t matter what kind of ball it is -- I’ve got to get it.”
Digs show up on the stat sheet, but seldom do fans get excited about spectacular passes, though Wood said she gets to share in the excitement when one of her teammates gets a big-time kill.
“We don’t get the glory but we all share it as a team,” Wood said. “I have satisfac-tion in what I do.”
Wood said the fans’ excite-ment has a huge influence on the team’s play, especially in
close matches like the Boston College match earlier this year in Reynolds Coliseum.
“They were so loud, just clap-ping and yelling,” Wood said, referring to a time late in the match just before a BC player had a service error. “That was pretty much the reason she missed her serve. It made us that much more pumped.”
They were so pumped that the team defeated the Eagles that night in the team’s first win over an ACC opponent in 56 tries. The team followed up the ACC win with a victory over Maryland the next day for the program’s first 2-0 conference start since 1988. The team’s nine wins this season are the most since 2004, and Wood is looking toward next season already.
“I knew it was a building pro-gram,” she said. “I’m glad that I can help build it.”
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“He probably should have been in the hospital.”
Family friend Mark Bost on Corn coming down with pneumonia during the fall
DEWEY CORN’S STREAK OF CONSECUTIVE GAMES BEGAN IN 1975. WHAT ELSE HAPPENED THAT YEAR?
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The 85-year-old High Point native has attended every football game, home and away, since November of 1975
Emily SeckSenior Staff Writer
Dewey Corn, an alumnus, never set off to accumulate a streak of this magni-tude. But good health, good fortune and unwavering loyalty kept the 85-year-old High Point resident on track.
In November of 1975, he went to an N.C. State football contest and just hap-pened to attend the next 60 consecutive games. He then decided to see how long he could keep it up.
Thirty-three years later, Corn has at-tended 389 consecutive games of his alma mater — a statistic that includes away contests and bowls.
“It just worked out that I was able to attend the games,” Corn said.
Even family tragedies have conspired to allow Corn to prolong his streak. Corn’s brother died one year in October, but it just so happened that the funeral fell on an open date.
Coincidentally, the same thing hap-pened when his mother-in-law passed away during another season.
And in 2003, Corn refused to let his health deter his attendance. According to family friend Mark Bost, Corn didn’t even let a pneumonia scare slow him down.
“I know for a fact that he came down with pneumonia right at the start of the season,” Bost said. “He probably should have been in the hospital. But he didn’t go to the hospital. He went to Raleigh two weekends in a row.”
Corn downplayed the incident and said his doctor would have classified it as a ‘mild case.’
“It didn’t influence my activities all that much,” Corn said. “I usually try to stay in top physical condition anyways. He told me not to exert, but to just con-tinue my normal lifestyle.”
The lifestyle1946 was a big year for Corn. He en-
rolled at N.C. State on the G.I. Bill after spending three years in the Navy. He married Christine, his wife of more
than 62 years, with whom he has two daughters.
He witnessed his first Wolfpack foot-ball game — a 13-6 win over Duke — in Riddick Stadium. State, coached by Beattie Feathers, went on to an 8-3 season, earning a trip to the second an-nual Gator Bowl.
Corn graduated in 1949 and took a teaching job before returning to State in 1952 to complete his M.S. degree in agricultural education.
Before 1975, Corn rarely attended
more than two Pack football games a year.
“My children were young at the time and I had less time to spend on athletics and the need for more money to raise the family,” he said.
Though Corn is a fervent football sup-porter, he never played the game him-self. Instead, he invested his talents into baseball and softball.
Corn has been a resident of the High
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Wilson named ACC’s top rookie
Just one day after being named first team All-ACC at quarterback, redshirt freshman Russell Wilson added to his awards by being picked as both the league’s offensive rookie of the year and overall rookie of the year. Wilson is only the sixth quarter-back to win the award in conference history. He is the fourth N.C. State player to win the award in the last 10 years, and the first since T.A. McLen-don in 2002.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Gymnastics inks recruits for 2009-10
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SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Baseball signs 13 in early signing period
Coach Elliott Avent announced on Tuesday the baseball program had signed 13 student-athletes to nation-al letters-of-intent during the early signing period in November. Among the signees, Daniel Tuttle of Randle-men, N.C., Terran Senay of South Park, Pa. and righthander Felix Roque of Miami Christian High School all ranked among Baseball America’s top 100 high school seniors.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIAN85-year-old Dewey Corn holds his ticket stub outside Carter-Finley Stadium before the Wake Forest game Nov. 15. It was Corn’s 387th consecutive Wolfpack game.
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Editor’s note: Kyle Hodgin’s commentary in Tuesday’s issue was printed incorrectly. Hodgin’s column was unintentionally re-placed with Jason Livingston’s story on deer hunting. Below is the correct version, as it was intended to run Dec. 2.
It is one of those rare after-noons when the combination of the golden sunlight re-
flecting off the colorful autumn treetops and that quick, crisp
chill in the air produce what is truly a p e r f e c t time to hunt in the deer woods. If of-fers a most welcome re-spite to the brutally hot days of sum-
mer that we endured through August. As I breathe in the still-ness, I am deeply appreciative for the opportunity to experi-ence this.
And then it begins, almost subconsciously. A rising clamor in the distance replaces my har-monious sentiments with the deepest sense of dread.
What was once a peaceful scene of serene stillness has been utterly shattered by the loud, tu-multuous din of a pack of deer hunting dogs. As they get closer, I can hear another sound slightly ahead of them.
It is the sound of a bounding deer. Just then, a small doe, may-be a year old, bounds out of the brush across my shooting lanes and into the thicket on the other side.
Seconds later, the dogs burst into the opening howling at the top of their lungs. They are thin, many of them with ribs showing, wearing bright orange plastic collars.
Some have radio collars that transmit their location back to their owner.
The dogs are not supposed to be here, although they were put out on the properties adja-cent to ours, they are not aware of boundaries, only the smell of the deer running ahead of them guides their way. This scene, if you can imagine it, occurred no less than four consecutive Satur-days one year. As unfortunate as it is, there is absolutely nothing I or my hunting partners can do about it.
Time and again, we have been forced to live out this scenario and ride home with nothing but another broken, hopeless after-noon.
Our efforts of spending count-less hours throughout the spring and summer building deer stands, tilling, fertilizing and fencing in food plots have been rendered completely useless in only five short minutes by a pack of long-legged walker hounds bearing bright orange collars that were simply dumped out of a dog box on the side of a state road.
My hunt is already over. Theirs will end when the tired little doe with tongue dangling out of her mouth makes the fatal mistake of crossing the road in front of the dog hunters who will pro-ceed to blast several rounds of buckshot her way.
No one appreciates hunters’ rights more than I. I am a still-
Use of dogs doesn’t belong in deer hunting
COMMENTARY
Kyle HodginGuest Columnist
Freshman libero Kelly Wood digs deepSmall school star turned libero led Pack to best record in four years
Ty JohnsonDeputy Sports Editor
Growing up in Yadkin County, fresh-man Kelly Wood was a star athlete at 2A Forbush High. She scored a goal in the Fal-cons’ tilt for the state soccer championship her senior year and averaged 14 kills per match as a middle blocker/outside hitter on the volleyball team in her final year, but Wood’s days of smashing balls into the hardwood are over now that she is a libero for the N.C. State volleyball team.
“I knew what I was getting into [coming to State,]” Wood said. “I did everything in high school, but that’s high school vol-leyball, it’s different.”
Wood was recruited all over the South-east as both a defensive specialist and an outside hitter, but ultimately chose to join the Wolfpack because of its proximity to home and the competition she would face.
“I was excited about it because of the level of play,” Wood said.
Still, the 5-foot-8 freshman became the third shortest player on the team in a sport where height kills, meaning the former
outside hitter would have to be digging balls instead of hitting them - a change that wasn’t difficult physically, but still required a men-
tal reassessment of the game. “It wasn’t a hard transition,” Wood said.
“I could play libero, [my problem] was [with] not hitting anymore - I liked hit-ting.”
Now, after a season of collegiate vol-leyball under her belt, Wood said the motto she developed to put her position into perspective was much like one used in football: offense wins points, defense wins games.
Still, Wood said the transition from her small-school roots to bigtime college life has been a struggle.
“Schoolwork isn’t hard, and volleyball is what I’m here for,” Wood said. “But focusing on being the best you can be in volleyball and doing the best you can in academics. It’s a strain. You have to know your stuff, study in advance and then go out there and bust your butt off in vol-leyball. You’re expected 110 percent in both areas.”
Wood said fans are still unsure of her position and all it entails, adding that she often gets approached around campus and asked if she is the team captain because of the alternate jersey she wears in games.
Wood’s position as a libero is utilized
ANDY MUSSELMAN/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOFreshman Kelly Wood jumps up for a dig dur-ing a match against Maryland Sept. 28.
COMMENTARY
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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
ThursdayMEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVINGHusky Invitational Day 1, Federal Way, Wa.
FridayMEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVINGHusky Invitational Day 2, Federal Way, Wa.WOMEN’S BASKETBALL @ MICHIGANAnn Arbor, MI., 6:30 p.m.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY“He knows
exactly where to stay, exactly where to park
and exactly how to get there.”
Family Friend Mark Bost on Dewey Corn’s familiarity of
ACC schools
DID YOU KNOW?The football team leads the ACC
in all-time rookie of the year selec-tions with nine. No other team has had players more than six players awarded.
COMING SOONThursday: Deputy Sports Editor
Josh Harrell ranks the mascots of the ACC
• 19 days until the men’s basketball team’s game against Marquette
• Page 7: Continuation of the story on Dewey Corn, Kelly Wood and Kyle Hodgin’s commentary
