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Raleigh, North Carolina
‘Budget reduction narrative’ lays out 6-point plan to save cash.
Shivalik DagaStaff Writer
In order to satisfy a 15 percent budget cut, the College of Design has de-cided to reduce section sizes and classes, and to use the existing resources more effectively.
The college will not, however, cut any faculty positions, its dean said at a Wednesday meeting in Kamphoefner Hall’s Burns Auditorium.
During his speech to a group of design students, College of Design Dean Marvin Malecha talked about the University’s budget reduction process and the proposed out-comes.
“Of the University’s pro-posed 15 percent budget
cuts, 6 percent will be through reductions in facilities and other physical resources across the University, and the remaining 9 percent through academic reductions,” Male-cha said
To meet the 9 percent re-duction target, the college will have to cut $668,000 from its current budget. To that end, the college formulated a “budget reduction narrative” and submitted it to the Col-lege Administrative Council.
“We decided that we were not going to send in just recommendations for cut-ting, but also talk about the philosophy of the College of Design. This was a part of the narrative we sent to the ad-ministration,” Malecha said.
Malecha said the College Administrative Council has decided to protect all staff positions in order to assure proper support for students and academic services. There-fore, this budget proposal did not include any reductions for staff and faculty positions.
“Yes there will be fewer sections, fewer classes, fewer electives and visiting faculty. But this will also encourage us to make better use of our full-
time faculty,” Malecha said. “For achieving this, we have outlined six general operating principles that will guide us towards the budget reduction
process.” “The first operating prin-
ciple will be to establish an
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Finance committee wants to spread wealth among student groups.
Shivalik DagaStaff Writer
It is still possible for some Univer-sity organizations to discuss budgets without breaking into a sweat, even in these tough economic times.
The Student Government Finance Committee is under budget by $6,300, according to Buddy Bryson, student body treasurer and a junior in sociol-ogy. This means that almost 40 per-cent of its initial budget of $16,500 remains unspent.
The Student Government Finance Committee is responsible for fund-ing student groups, but the Appro-priations Committee is not allowed to help all student groups.
“The Finance Committee is respon-sible for funding groups that can’t go to appropriations. For example, Ser-vice Raleigh, Homecoming, Leader of the Pack and similar events,” Bryson said.
For student organizations to be eli-gible for appropriations, they must fulfill certain requirements, Bryson said. The group must be registered online through Student Organization Resource Center, it must be 50 percent self-sufficient and have a budget plan.
Organizations that fulfill these re-quirements can then approach the Appropriations Committee.
Those groups ineligible for appro-priations can approach the Student Government Finance Committee for funding.
According to Ethan Harrel-son, CALS senator and chair of the Appropriations Committee, funding for student organizations on campus is going smoothly.
“The appropriations budget for the year is around $160,000. We appro-priate $85,000 in the fall and we are appropriating around $75,000 this spring,” Harrelson, a senior in biol-ogy, said. “Currently, we have around $16,000 saved for appeals and over 40 groups are appealing so far. It could be more than that, as they have until next Sunday to let me know.”
Last semester, 170 groups asked for $149,879 in appropriations, Harrel-son said. This semester, 156 groups are asking for $170,634.
“This is a general trend we have been seeing,” Harrelson said. “During tight budgetary moments like we are in now, we see spikes in the amounts that people ask from us. And we do everything we can to make sure that each group gets as much funding as we can offer them,” Harrelson said.
The most any group can request from the Appropriations Committee is $2,000. For groups that need to ap-proach the Finance Committee, the
ThE APProPriATE PATh To APProPriATions:The Student Government Finance Committee is under budget by $6,300 this semester, meaning it has some extra money for student groups that cannot get money from appropriations.
There are several guidelines for student groups to wishing to qualify for appropriations. But first, a group must be registered online through Student Organization Resource Center.
• The SORC has hundreds of student groups in its registry, including;
• 49 groups from club sports• 47 religious/spiritual groups• 34 groups from Greek life• 29 service/philanthropy groups• 17 groups from CALS• 15 groups from College of
Management
source: sorc website
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Annual Polar Plunge draws group from plant pathology.
Joshua ChappellSenior Staff Writer
Team Naked Asci is ready to run a 5K race and take on the icy tem-peratures of Lake Raleigh in sup-port of the Special Olympics.
The annual Torch Run 5K and Polar Plunge, sponsored by Cam-pus Police, will take place Saturday on Centennial Campus. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Spe-cial Olympics of North Carolina,
which has a stated mission to “provide sports training and athletic competi-tion for children and adults with intel-lectual disabilities,” according to the program website.
For Kathleen Burchardt, a doctoral student in plant pathology and found-er of Team Naked Asci, this event is a great opportunity for her and her teammates to have fun while giving back to a community she said lies close to her heart.
“I thought [the event] would be a lot of fun and it is for a really good cause,” Burchardt said. “I am interested in raising money for SONC because my
younger brother is autistic and I know the organization does a lot for families with special needs in-dividuals.”
Burchardt recruited 10 other members for Team Naked Asci, including graduate students from the plant pathology department and their significant others. So far, the group has raised over $1,600 to contribute to the fundraiser.
According to Kestrel Lannon, a graduate student in plant pathol-ogy and member of Team Naked
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Design school to cut nearly $700,000
Maria white/technicianDean of the College of Design Marvin Malecha gave a presentation concerning budgets cuts that will take place in the college in Burns auditorium on Wednesday night.
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Rollin’ with the timesphoto By Maria White
Grace Wilberding, a sophomore in spanish language and literature, put together an event titled “Everybody Poops” in the basement of Turlington Tuesday evening. Food was made for the event, such as brownies with candy corn, to put a humorous twist on a private matter.
Wilberding prepared topics and wrote them on a toilet paper roll to keep the theme going. Some of the topics included things such as wadding vs. folding toilet paper, sitting vs. squating, and foods to avoid. Not only was this event informative, but it allowed people to open up to their fellow residents.
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todaythe Pull of the Moon: recent Work of BarBara lee SMithGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon to 8 p.m.
lecture: caSh caB Writer talkS aBout hiS tradeWithers hall, Room 1311:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
lecture: JaMeS dreier on ethical theoryWithers hall, Room 3314:30 p.m.
concert: n.c. State Jazz enSeMBleStewart theater7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
lecture: the Price of education in little rock: a hiStory leSSon in ingtegrationSecond Floor of D.h. hill Library, West Wing7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Movie: Harry Potter and tHe deatHly Hallows – Part iWitherspoon Cinema7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Movie: Harry Potter and tHe deatHly Hallows – Part iWitherspoon Cinema10 p.m. to midnight
FridayWoMen’S tenniS verSuS old doMinion J.W. Isenhour tennis Facility4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
the Pull of the Moon: recent Work of BarBara lee SMithGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon to 8 p.m.
orcheStra ShoWcaSe: coPland and rachManinoffMeymandi Concert hall8 p.m. to midnightStudent tickets: $10Regular tickets: $30-$45
Movie: Harry Potter and tHe deatHly Hallows – Part iWitherspoon Cinema6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Movie: Harry Potter and tHe deatHly Hallows – Part iWitherspoon Cinema9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Movie: Harry Potter and tHe deatHly Hallows – Part iWitherspoon Cinema11:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.
SaturdayPolar Plunge and torch run 5kCentennial Campus7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
orcheStra ShoWcaSe: coPland and rachManinoffMeymandi Concert hall8 p.m. to midnightStudent tickets: $10Regular tickets: $30-$45
Stanley clarke and hiroMiStewart theatre8 p.m.
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11:09 a.M. | concerned BehaviorPublic Safety Center Detectives met with student who reported threatening comments on-line from another student.
11:48 a.M. | Medical aSSiStPatterson Hall Units responded and transported staff member in need of medical assistance.
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“Yes there will be fewer
sections, fewer classes, fewer electives and
visiting faculty. But this will also encourage us to make better use of our full-time
faculty.”Marvin Malecha, dean of
the Colleg of Design
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committee itself approves any amount below $500, while any larger amount requires Student Senate approval.
“As far as a bill goes, if it is $500 or less, Finance com-mittee can directly fund that project or group without a formal bill. If it is more than $500 it needs the consensus of the Student Senate,” Bryson said. “Appropriations does a bill each semester that clearly allocates out which groups will receive funding.”
The surplus money remain-
ing from this year’s total bud-get, including that from the Finance committee, is then reallocated to the next budget, giving at least 60 percent of the money to appropriations.
“The Appropriations Com-mittee does not get to use the unused money, with one ex-ception,” Harrelson said. “All money that does not get spent by Student Government this year rolls over into surplus. This surplus is then divided by the next year’s appropriations budget so we can give it right back out to students.”
According to Harrelson, this was the case with Student Gov-ernment’s 2010 surplus.
“Some surplus rolled over from last year that will be given out to groups this year,” Harrelson said.
The 2011 surplus amount will be determined after spring semester, Bryson said.
“Over the summer the surplus amount will be de-termined by the Business Office and Student Gov-ernment. This happens be-cause the University ends its fiscal year on June 30,” Bryson said. “Then the cur-rent student body treasurer is required to give at least 60 percent of the surplus to ap-propriations.”
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Asci, the name of the team re-lates to a botanical joke.
“Asci are structures that act as sacks to hold fungal sexual spores,” Lannon said. “We wanted to have a little fun with our name.”
Lannon also said the name has been used by the depart-ment to represent various in-tramural teams.
According to Burchardt, the entire team of 11 will partici-pate in the 5K run, but only Lannon and Katie Neufeld will be participating in the plunge.
For Neufeld, a graduate stu-dent in plant biology, this is her first time participating in either the 5K or the plunge.
“I saw a polar plunge when I
was younger and thought the people were crazy,” Neufeld said. “However, I saw an ad-vertisement for the plunge and thought it would be fun.”
Neufeld also said the real sat-isfaction from the race comes from giving back to the com-munity.
“It is very rewarding to k now how much your fundraising e f for t s a re appreciated by [the Spe-cial Olympics athletes] and their fami-lies,” Neufeld sa id. “[The Special Olympics] provides a place for young children to feel accepted and gives them op-portunities they may not have had otherwise.”
To prepare for the race, Team Naked Asci has been training by running and mentally pre-paring for the icy dip.
“I’ve continued with my regular running to prep for the race,” Neufeld said. “As for the plunge, I’ve just thought about how cold it will be - and the tactic of jumping in, running out and getting someone to hold a change of clothes and a blanket for me.”
The concept of a polar plunge is unappealing to some —but not David Setser, a facil-ity construction engineer who has been participating in the event since it began in 2006.
“The first year, me and a couple of other guys did it for
the fun of it,” Setser said.Setser is known at the event
for painting his back with cre-ative designs. In the past, he has painted a thermometer, devil and a tuxedo on his back; how-ever, he said that he does not know what he will paint this year.
“It makes the event fun for spectators,” Setser said.
Unlike other partic-ipants, Setser said he does not believe there is really any way to prepare for the event.
“I don’t think there is any-thing you could do to train,” Setser said. “I try to acclimate myself to the cooler tempera-tures by walking around in a pair of shorts and no shirt - not that it really helps.”
Increasing student involve-ment is key to the success of the race, Setser said.
“I mean come on, I’m 50 years old. If I can step out of my comfort zone for a few min-utes and make such an impact for Special Olympics, surely we could get more of the students to participate,” Setser said.
Jumping into the water is always the most dramatic part of the day, according to Setser.
“[The coldness] will defi-nitely take your breath away as you go under,” Setser said. “I always tell people ‘Your head has to go under the water to make it count.’”
“I’ve continued
with my regular
running to prep
for the race.”Katie Neufeld, graduate student
Plungecontinued from page 1
interdisciplinary studies core, which involves reinforcing the first-year experience. This will facilitate cross-college faculty appointments and as-signments, as well as promote greater efficiency in assigning teaching resources,” Male-cha said.
This essentially means that first-year students in different design disciplines will be shar-ing a lot of common courses.
Another major change is establishing a full summer semester for the college. Ev-ery student will be required to take at least one summer semester of coursework for graduation.
“It will help you to get through college faster, sav-ing one or even two semes-ters if you’re fast-paced, and it also helps the college relieve pressure on facilities,” Male-cha said.
The third change involves
making international study a graduation requirement for all undergraduate design students. This will require students to complete a minimum of nine credit hours abroad, and can be met either through the Prague In-stitute or the Ghana Sum-mer St udy Abroad Pro-gram. This will help save the col lege money, as study abroad pro-grams are self-funded, and also help relieve pressure on a reduced faculty body and lim-ited facilities.
Malecha said studying abroad isn’t as bad as it sounds—out-of-state students would pay less while studying in Prague than they would at the University.
“Also, I don’t see any reason why anyone wouldn’t want to go to Prague,” Malecha said.
The fourth operating princi-ple is to introduce compulsory distance education require-
ments, with each program re-quiring two distance education courses for graduation.
The only operating principle that requires cutting down on academic opportunities will
be a reduc-tion in low-enrollment courses and course dupli-cation. This will include integrating different me-dia labs and
interdisciplinary studies and designating an IT lab that fo-cuses on integrated instruc-tion.
The final operating principle will see the faculty involved in greater shared responsibility and mobility.
“We will be initiating hir-ing practices that encourage broadened teaching practices. This will mean greater mobility and interdisciplinary utiliza-tion of faculty, which has been made necessary by the budget cuts,” Malecha said.
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a Park scholars student awards Ms. Ping Fu, president of Geomagic inc., the william C. Friday award in the talley student Center ballroom wednesday. Ping Fu told her story to many Park scholars students and the room was full of tears and laughter as she described her journey. she got to the United states by a strangers generosity of $5 to buy a ticket and escape her imprisonment from China. her corporation is a leading providor of 3d software for developing digital models of physical objects and includes clients such as nasa, Ford and invisalign.
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“It will help you
to get through
college faster.”Marvin Malecha, dean of the
College of Desgin
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Ben Kraudel, junior in psychology
By BREtt MoRRiS
Would you rather talk with a graduate student before an advisor about
academic progress?
{ }in your words
“Yes, because the grad student probably knows more than an advisor about how difficult some classes are.”
Andy Allensenior, biological sciences
“Yeah, a grad student’s closer to knowing where I’ve been because they’ve graduated more recently than most advisors.”
Vincent Lewisfreshman, engineering
“I’d rather talk to my advisor. He teaches a lot of classes in my major and knows a lot about the field I’m going into.”
Malarie Suggsjunior, natural resources
{ }our view
The ever-present battle in the University is the attempts at improving the advising process. This fight is not only to inform and aid students in their paths towards gradua-tion, but also to maximize the efficiency of reaching out to them. CHASS is using a pi-lot program aimed at prepar-ing students for their advisor meetings. Students are able to speak with someone who has walked the path and knows the obstacles that might stand in their way, and are able to offer insight into planning courses. Such a program would benefit students and advisors in other colleges.
The current advising system has been torn apart by con-stant bad attitudes and even
worse experiences. The reason for this flawed system of advis-ing stems from a lack of quality time with an advisor and lack of useful information clearly defined for students. Extend-ing this program would fix this and keep students informed while giving them the extra time to ask pertinent ques-tions.
According to the Undergrad-uate Student Success forum, this program was offered to all colleges across N.C. State, but CHASS was the only one to jump on the opportunity. Students who have participat-ed have spoken in favor of the program, claiming it saves time
for the advisors and provides valuable, applicable advice on planning courses. The high accolades of this program ob-viously support a motion for colleges across the University to follow CHASS’s leadership.
The colleges need to real-ize the importance of having a chance to improve student knowledge of their degree progress. The responsibility of managing multiple students’ degree requirements cannot fall solely on the shoulders of the few advisors. The use of graduate students to create a formalized system could prove to be an overall improvement within the advising system,
only if they were given the right tools for the job.
Colleges should look to their graduate students as another resource to help undergradu-ate students. Graduate stu-dents will benefit by getting a stipend and learning interper-sonal skills and undergradu-ate students get a one-on-one meeting on their own time and their own terms. It is a win-win situation and utilizes resources that are already present within each college. You can never have enough resources to help a student’s academic success, and at this point those are the only resources not costing stu-dents an arm and a leg.
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.
CHASS has found the cure for the advising systemThe FacTs:CHASS has implemented a program where a panel of graduate students helps students with academic advising. Students can discuss topics such as intra-campus transfer, registration procedures, the GEP requirements and strategies to battle academic difficulty.
our opinion:The individual colleges should follow CHASS’s initiative and provide this resource to its students. Such a system could be the solution the University has been looking for to solve the problem of a flawed advising system.
Textbooks should be cheaper and electronic
Many news articles suggest the prob-lems Borders has
faced are directly related to t hei r not embracing electronic books quickly enough. Companies that refuse to incorpo-
rate new technologies often find themselves unable to compete, as the new tech-nologies come to dominate their industry. Electronic books are becoming in-creasingly popular and the hard copy book industry will need to continue find-ing ways to move forward, or we will see more bank-ruptcy and store closings for book purveyors.
One of the best applica-tions for electronic books is their incorporation into the textbook market. When textbook publishers begin to make electronic versions of their products, they will be furthering their mar-ket, despite any initial re-sistance.
As it stands now, the people who make the most money off college text-books are bookstores. This is almost entirely due to the used textbook mar-ket. When you buy a used textbook, the money from that sale is split between the
bookstore and their source of used books. None of that mon-ey goes to the publisher or the authors. The used textbook practices are the reason why textbooks are so expensive in the first place. Electronic book sales are a way to reduce the cost of textbooks and make sure that the publishing houses and authors are the people who get paid.
There are n o p r i n t-ing costs for electronic textbooks. They are just plain cheaper to make and easier to man-age. They can be updated from edition to edition without having to reprint another book. Publish-ers also will not feel it necessary to print new editions without new information, because they will see a proper portion of the profits from the books sales.
The real issue with creating an electronic textbook market is the number of people who do not have the devices to read them on. The solution to this problem is in the creation of a new electronic market. Much of the savings from creating a better textbook selling system gets passed on to the consumer. If textbooks were less expensive electronically, students could take the savings and buy the de-vices needed to read their new electronic textbooks.
The real losers in this proposal are the used book-stores. These bookstores would have an issue keep-ing their doors open. While their misfortune is tragic, it would not justify keeping them around if they refuse to integrate technology into their business, an idea that
would ul-timately save stu-dents money.
The practices of t hese book-stores are to blame f o r t h e r i s e i n textbook prices that
has gone far past keeping up with general inflation. Very soon, alternatives will be made available, and these stores will do better if they have a plan to be a part of the solution and no longer a part of the problem. Oth-erwise many of them are going to find themselves joining the staff of Borders in the unemployment line.
Send Benjamin your thoughts on electronic text-books to [email protected].
“As it stands now,
the people who
make the most
money off college
textbooks are
bookstores.”
Benjamin KraudelStaff Columnist
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Proposed NWS Funding Cuts Potentially Dangerous
Editor’s note: the word limit for this letter has been waived for clarity and integrity of the letter.
A budget resolution recently approved by the House and now moving to the Senate proposes to cut funding of the National Weather Service by almost 30 percent. that’s $126 million. Now let me be clear, our country is in the middle of a very serious debt crisis, and every person, organization and program must cut back in order to resolve this, including the NWS. However, a cut of this magnitude is far too extreme and may have very serious consequences that that will affect all of our daily lives.
Dealing with these massive cuts could take on several forms. Rolling closures of NWS Forecast offices have been proposed, which would force nearby offices to cover much larger areas with reduced staff on top of an already massive number of responsibilities. if an on-site radar at a closed office goes down during a severe weather outbreak, it may take hours for technicians to reach the site. thousands of lives could be put at risk as forecasters may not be able to see a developing tornado and issue a warning.
According to the NWS Employees organization, weather balloon launches that collect information about the upper atmosphere may be cut in half or more, and maintenance for surface observation stations and buoys could be suspended. this would likely result in a significant
decrease in the accuracy of the computer models that are essential for forecasting, as these models rely heavily on observational data.
the National Hurricane Center could also be affected. While not all of these cuts are likely to be made, any combination of them could set the entire field of meteorology back by years, even a decade or more.
think you’ll avoid this mess by turning to television meteorologists and private meteorology companies for your weather information? Wrong. these groups use the same computer models as the NWS does to create their forecasts. the bottom line: the accuracy of forecasts across the country will likely decrease, and it will be harder for the NWS to issue warnings with enough lead-time to fulfill their mission of protecting life and property.
North Carolina ranks first in the nation for the greatest percentage of tornado deaths occurring at night. our state faces threats from hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and ice storms. We cannot risk compromising the accuracy of our forecasts or the lead-time of warnings that could save lives. NWS funding cuts of this magnitude must not be allowed to pass. i would strongly encourage everyone to contact your senators and oppose this proposition. to our elected officials: redistribute some of these cuts to other organizations, foreign aid or new spending projects. Do not cripple the agency charged with protecting both you and me from the dangers of Mother Nature.
Kevin Smithsenior, meteorology
“Yeah. They’d probably have a better understanding about applying to grad school and what classes to take to do so.”
Roxy treweeksophomore, civil engineering
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Recent discoveries in the field of computer engineering have made waves in the technologi-cal community. According to Paul Franzon, a professor of computer and electrical engi-neering and senior researcher on the Double Floating-Gate Field Effect Transistor (DFG FET) project, two of the main applications of this technology can directly impact both envi-ronmentally conscious data servers and anyone who uses a laptop.
According to Neil Di Spigna, an assistant research professor who worked on the project, the integration of volatile and non-volatile memory eliminates communication lag.
“When I use my laptop, if I step away from it for a second, I could’ve hibernated the com-puter. I think it could extend laptop life and power savings tremendously,” Di Spigna said.
The DFG FET is a new type of computer memory. It is de-signed to utilize both the speed of volatile memory and the storage ability of non-volatile memory, while avoiding the pitfalls of both. While most current volatile memory uses a single floating gate, the DFG FET uses two floating gates to enable both modes of operation simultaneously.
Current DRAM memory is
volatile: it requires a constant flow of electricity to keep its data. When a user wants to save their session, they have two op-tions; standby, or hibernatie
“[The DFG FET] gets rid of the bottleneck,” Franzon said. “It’s all internal.”
According to Franzon, DFG FET differs from current RAM by holding data without power by copying it from the volatile memory into the nonvolatile component--a near instant process.
“We just do a read/write cycle row by row inside the memory and in a matter if milliseconds we’ve written all the bits to the non-volatile state,” Franzon said. “When you turn it back on, you can just start using it. You don’t have to write it back to the volatile state. So it’s quick to go into hibernate and it comes out of it instantly.”
According to Franzon, an-other major role for the DFG FET is in server farms. In a pa-per by Google on server farm efficiency, researchers found that servers use electricity dis-proportionately to the amount of network traffic. For example, a server doing nothing still consumes around 50 percent of peak power and, according to Franzon, one reason is the in-ability to turn the memory off.
“You have to keep refreshing
[memory] or it loses its state,” Franzon said. “It needs charge and has to be refreshed every 64 milliseconds. The idea [with the DFG FET] is instead of sit-ting there forever refreshing your memory, when parts of it are in a mode where they’re not changing, you write it to the non-volatile state. Once it’s in the non-volatile state you can actually turn it off.”
According to Franzon, data servers alone consume 1.2 percent of all electrical power produced in the U.S., and one third of that is attributed to memory and its overhead.
“We’re addressing that third,” Franzon said. “This sort of thing has real potential to reduce electricity--decrease the carbon footprint of com-puting.”
The DFG FET is the result
of a curiosity-driven research project between Franzon, Di Spigna, and Daniel Schinke. Schinke, a post-graduate stu-dent from Germany at the project’s inception, is now a University graduate with a PhD in electrical engineering. Ac-cording to Franzon, the project evolved over time and was the result of the three bouncing ideas off each other.
“This is actually curiosity-driven research as opposed to goal-driven,” Franzon said. “In Neal [Di Spigna]’s PhD, he looked at different ways of making floating gates. Three years ago I wrote a proposal to the National Science Foun-dation to explore that and the applications. Daniel [Schinke] started working on that effort for his PhD… Neil pointed out, ‘Hey, you could have two float-
ing gates here and there might be additional things we can do with that.’ Then Daniel [Schin-ke] started looking at the idea of a unified memory we iterated on that as a group many times to get to what you see in that [IEEE] paper.”
“This was an invited paper to the magazine; it’s gotten a lot of good feedback,” Di Spigna said.
“There has been an article out, even EE Times and BBC News Technology caught on to this article,” Schinke said. “When I was in Germany, I even read an article about this new technology in Germany in my German newspaper. It was very cool.”
According to Di Spigna, a grant from the NSF and an award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation funded the project. The NSF grant was
initiated in 2008, worth a total of $406,250.
Chips have been fabricated in the University’s Nanofabri-cation Facility in Centennial’s Monteith Research Center, ac-cording to Di Spigna. The next priority is to test the device’s lifespan and to work toward fabricating the exact chip de-scribed in the paper.
“Daniel [Schinke] spent a lot of time engineering these de-vices,” Di Spigna said. “Actu-ally fabricating what he has en-gineered, there is a little bit of a process that that goes through. As we continue to have good re-sults, we will continue to move toward this target device.”
According to Franzon the group is in slow discussion with some companies in marketing the FTP.
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has made a significant impact on North Carolina’s economy with becoming one of North Carolina’s leading exports. Ac-cording to the N.C. Department of Agriculture, last year alone North Carolina produced 39.1 million pounds of blueberries and ranks 6 in the nation for blueberry production.
The luxury of having this plant available regardless of
the season enables growers to increase prices, creating more profit. According to the De-partment of Plant Pathology, prices have also increased be-cause of the popularity blue-berries have received from their
health benefits.The U.S. Highbush Blueberry
Council shows blueberries are full of Vitamin C, amino acids and antioxidants.
“Antioxidants are wonder-ful,” Suzie Goodwell, assistant professor and nutrition NUTS program director said. “[They] help reduce or prevent cell damage that can lead to heart disease, cancer, and other age-related diseases.”
Cline, Ballington and other researchers have spent innu-merable hours on blueberry research. Because it takes 15 to 16 years for a single bush to bloom, researchers may not see any results for the first half of their research. “It’s a very long process,” Cline said. “It takes a dedicated person to come up with this.”
Berriescontinued from page 6
“[Berries] help reduce or prevent cell
damage that can lead to heart disease,
cancer and other age-related diseases.”Suzie Goodwell, assistant professor and nutrition
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terminology:
Volatile: loses content when the power is turned offnon-volatile: maintains data without electricityDraM: Dynamic random access memory (rAM); fast, volatilehDD: hard Disk Drive; large volume, non-volatile storage, slower than DrAM
standby: A low power state, saves data into DrAM; uses less power than a functioning systemhibernate: A lower power state; copies data from DrAM to hDD. takes more time than standby, but uses nearly zero power.Floating Point Gate: A device capable of storing electrical charge and one bit of data.
Source: pcmag.com/encyclopedia
New device has poteNtial to iNcrease efficieNcy, performaNce.
Source: neil di Spigna
FeaturesHorticulture researchers create blueberries resistant to frost, disease.
Katie HanderhanStaff Writer
The College of Agricul-ture and Life Sciences’ de-partment of plant pathol-ogy has done extraordinary things with blueberries from making them resistant to disease and frost to devel-oping 27 different varieties that make it possible to har-vest the crop by machine.
Bill Cline, a research ex-tension specialist and pa-thologist from the Univer-sity’s horticulture depart-ment has been meddling with blueberries since 1987. He has discovered ways to create disease resistance and certain physical prop-erties for the berries at re-search farms in the coastal town of Castle Hayne.
Cline grew up in western North Carolina surrounded by bushes of blueberries. He developed an inter-est in them and how they were grown. When given the oppor-t u n i t y to participate in this re-search, he wa s more than happy to oblige.
“It’s a great opportunity that I had to do pathol-og y work to deal with disease problems,” Cline said.
Cline and other research-ers like Jim Ballington, a horticulturist and plant breeder from the Universi-
ty’s research team, have found ways to combat N.C.’s climate and make life for the blueberry a possibility. By cross-pollinat-ing different species of blue-berries, a new variety can be developed that resists certain climates.
For example, by taking a strain of blueberries native to Canada and a strain from a Flo-ridian berry and cultivating the two together using vegetative propagation, you will have a strain of blueberry resistant to extreme cold and heat and tastes like either a Florida or Canada berry.
The 27 different types of blueberries developed by Ball-ington and Cline contain varia-tions unique to every berry. These extraordinary varieties of blueberries are a stepping-stone to one of the main goals of blueberry breeding.
“We want to get away from hand harvesting,” Cline said. “We want to move more to-wards machine harvesting and be able to knock the blueberries off [their bush] without crush-ing them.”
In order to achieve this, the blueberries must have a
crunchy and boun-c y s k i n , similar to a grape, in order to be packaged successful-ly without damage.
These mechani-cally culti-vated blue-berries are already on
the market and can be pur-chased at any local grocery store. The strains that are most likely to end up in the store are named Reveille and Bladen.
As a pathologist, Cline has
also dedicated his time discov-ering ways to make blueberries resistant to certain diseases that have plagued blueberry crops in the past. The blueberry stem canker, a disease that at-tacks the plant’s stem, is one of the many diseases breeders and growers have to cope with.
To develop these disease re-sistant variations, Cline took plants grown from breeders and tried to infect and kill them. If one of the samples proved to be resistant to the fungal invasion, its seedlings from inside the berry were taken and cultivated, creating more of the disease-resistant strain. This allows the grower’s crops to flourish without worry of disease.
This study, along with others,
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With fast Internet comes great responsibility. Many stu-dents have taken advantage of the network’s speedy Internet service since arriving on cam-pus. Since all students have received warnings about peer-to-peer sharing and breaking copyright laws, uncertainty about how the University mon-itors network traffic is a cause for keeping a wary eye on the lookout for potential privacy invasions.
But that’s just not the case, according to Mark Hoit the vice chancellor for information technology and chief informa-tion officer for the Office of In-formation and Technology at N.C. State, who points out his employee are far from spooks.
“We do not monitor [stu-dents’ Internet] for anything,” Hoit said. “Unless there is a re-quest or a police investigation, nothing is monitored. We are not the FBI.”
The OIT is responsible for en-forcing University rules as well as assisting copyright holders to catch students who break the laws. If a student down-loads copyrighted materials illegally and the copyright holders see this activity, the copyright holders will contact the OIT with the IP add ress t he i l lega l activity was seen on. The OIT then forwards that email to the student assigned to that IP address.
If a student receives that no-tification, he or she must follow the instructions in the email to confirm the email was received and that the proper steps have been taken to ensure that the violation does not happen again. The email does not mean that the University is taking any actions against the student.
“We receive about 300 no-tif ications a month from copyright holders,” Hoit said. “When we get that notice, we send it to [the student]. We are just watching out.”
Another rumor about the OIT is that they would pros-ecute students who watch por-nography, legal or not. This is entirely false — students are safe to watch whatever they
want, as long as it is legal and no one is being disturbed.
“If they are following the computer use policy and what they are doing is legal, then they are allowed to do it,” Hoit said.
Hoit emphasized that the OIT does not monitor any-thing. However, Connor Nor-dstrom, a freshman in political science, said he assumed they
did monitor the Internet on campus to some de-gree.
“I thought there was some level of [moni-toring],” Nordstrom
said. “But I didn’t think they watched everybody’s comput-ers at all times.”
Dustin Briggs, a senior in paper sciences and engineer-ing, said he doesn’t trust the OIT because he doesn’t know enough about them.
“I heard they can monitor any email sent or received from the campus email,” Briggs said.
This is another false rumor. The OIT has the ability to mon-itor the Internet on campus, but only if absolutely necessary.
“Students’ email is private unless they violate the com-puter use policy,” Hoit said. “If we get a subpoena from the po-lice, we can look at their email. OIT does not access [anything] without a violation and per-mission to collect.”
Bradley Yelverton, a sopho-more in environmental tech-
nology, knows the OIT doesn’t monitor campus Internet — not because they can’t, but be-cause there are just too many students.
“A lot of students go here and there is a lot of information on the students,” Yelverton said. “So I do trust them to keep in-formation safe.”
Hoit advises students to ad-here to copyright laws at all times.
“Peer-to-peer sharing is for the most part illegal,” Hoit said. “A fairly large amount of the time, the [people sharing files] are unaware that what they are doing is illegal.”
Downloading music is a sure way to get into trouble with copyright holders. Hoit said copyright holders will put baited songs, honey pots, on the music download websites that have a tracking program built into them. This way, the copyright holders will be able to catch more people. Another common way to get caught is by uploading your music to illegal websites.
“Most often, it’s when your songs get shared that you get caught,” Hoit said.
Currently, students in dor-mitories are on a 300-megabit per second Internet connec-tion. This means when a stu-dent downloads something in the dorm, it is downloading at a rate of about 300 million bits per second. That is a fast connection, but Hoit said the OIT has plans to increase the capacity even more.
However, with even faster Internet comes even greater responsibility.
Dedication and determination lead to super blueberries
VegetatiVe propagation:The process of making duplicates of another plant without using seeds or pollination. This process essentially makes an “identical twin” of the plant it came off of.A piece of the plant, called a cutting, containing at least one stem cell is placed in soil, can be leaves, roots or stems.This cutting develops roots and stems that eventually develop into a new, identical plant.
Source: Bill cline and urBanext.illinoiS.edu/
houSeplantS/propagation.cfm
History of tHe nC BlueBerry:The first blueberry planted in North Carolina was in 1936 by a berry planter from New Jersey. Blueberries are native to North America, but they thrive in highly organic soil near the coastline where no other crop would grow as abundantly.Blueberries thrive in acidic soil (a pH of 4.5 or lower) and they need certain amounts of cold weather in order for them to grow properly.It takes 15-16 years for one blueberry bush to grow to its full potential.In 2010, North Carolina produced 39.1 million pounds of blueberries.North Carolina ranks 6th in the nation for blueberry production.
Source: nc department of agriculture and Bill cline
“It’s a great
opportunity
that I had to do
pathology work to
deal with disease
problems.”Bill Cline, a research extension
specialist and pathologist
oit FBInotDespite recent rumors, the oit
Does not monitor the internet on campus unless authorizeD to Do so
poliCy numBers:N.C. State computer use regulation regarding monitoring:
• 2.4. the university may examine the content of personal electronic information stored on or passing over university It resources, including resources of an external provider, for any of the following purposes:
• 2.4.1. to ensure the security and operating performance of its It resources.
• 2.4.2. to enforce university policies or compliance with state or federal law where examination is approved in advance by a dean, Vice Chancellor or Vice provost,
and either• 2.4.2a. there is a reasonable
suspicion that a law or university policy has been violated, and examination is appropriate to investigate the apparent violation, or
• 2.4.2b. examination is necessary to comply with a state or federal law.
• 2.4.3 to investigate particular issues before bringing them to the university Institutional review board (Irb).
• 2.4.4 to conduct an audit.• 2.4.5 to comply with
e-discovery rules relating to an actual, threatened or potential lawsuit, with a subpoena, or with other court orders.
Source: oit weBSite: oit.ncSu.edu
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STory By AAroN ANderSeN | GrApHIC By TAylor CAShdAN
types of nC BlueBerries:The 27 strains of blueberry are unique in their own ways (taste and texture)
• they are resistant to some common blueberry diseases and fungi.
• two of the 27 named reveille and bladen have been engineered to withstand mechanical harvesting and have the physical properties similar
to a grape.• Other names of the
variations are: Craven, pender, pamlico and Lenoir.
• Most of the blueberries produced in NC are grown on the coast and are one of the 27 strains produced by NC state’s researchers.
• some of the varieties are available for purchase at your local grocery store.
Source: Bill cline and perSpectiveS online
Berries continued page 5
Sportsoutdoor season last year when he ran the 1,500-meter in 3:40 and some change. What did surprise me, however, was how much he beat the old re-cord by.”
Although he already holds two school records in track and field, there is still one thing Hill would like to achieve—run-ning a sub-four-minute mile. The indoor season’s 1,500m run is virtually the equivalent of the outdoor season’s mile run, only 100 meters longer.
Based on his previous fin-ishes in the 1,500m race, Hill believes he has the ability to do it, but will have to wait until next indoor season because he will not compete in the event at the conference championships.
“If you look at my other times, I think I’m definitely able to run under four [min-utes] if I get into the right race,” Hill said. “If I get the chance to do it next year, I think I’ll have to capitalize on it and re-ally try to break four minutes. It’s tough to run the mile dur-ing the indoor season because the races are so limited but I definitely think it’s attainable.”
Instead of running the mile, Geiger will use Hill in the 1,500m and distance medley relay events at ACC’s. Hill will be looking to build off last year’s fifth-place finish at the championships.
“I was coming off the flu last year so I thought I could’ve done better,” Hill said. “This year, I want to anchor the dis-
tance medley relay team to a win and also win the 3K as well. Anything but winning would be d isap-pointing.”
The Wolf-pack’s relay team w i l l begin with Adam Hen-ken r u n-n i n g t h e 1,200m por-tion, followed by an undecided sprinter running the 400m, Greg Dame running the 800m and then handing off to Hill who will run the mile as the
team’s anchor.Hill said he expects the dis-
tance medley relay team to be very compet-itive at the ACC Cham-pionships.
“We defi-nitely have a great squad and a squad t h a t c a n w in,” Hi l l
said. “Virginia Tech and Vir-ginia are very good as well so it’s going to be a tight race.”
Unlike many other sports where athletes squeeze in extra
last-minute practices, there is not much runners can improve on in the week leading up to a major race, according to Hill.
“In the week leading up to a major event, the hay is already in the barn,” Hill said. “We’ve already done all the hard work in January and early February. We’ve really just been tuning up this week and making sure we’re prepared.”
Hill and the rest of the Wolf-pack travel to Blacksburg, Va., today to kick off the ACC Championships at Virginia Tech’s Rector Field House.
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MARA KURTZ/TechniciAn ARchiVe PhOTOSophomore runner Ryan Hill (right) earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Championships after shattering the school record in the 3,000-meter run on Feb. 12. Hill broke the old record, which stood for 20 years, by more than 5 seconds.
guys…I am honored to be able to wear that “C” on my jersey,” Sasser said. “We are labeled as captains, but we have a lot of guys on this team that can lead.”
The two welcomed the role and willingly accepted the honor. They empha-sized the importance of being able to look up t o o l d e r players and learn from t hem, a s both had the chance to do so when they f i r s t a r-rived.
“It start-e d m y freshman year, learn-ing from the older guys,” Ciencin said. “They taught me everything about how to keep a team together and how to play the right way.”
In order for the Pack to experience success on the field, it will have to buy into a team concept. The team realizes it is a long season and there are a lot of games to be played. Baseball is a game where anything can happen on any given day. Making sure that the team has a short memory and maintains a positive men-tal approach day in and
day out will be one of the most important jobs for Sasser and Ciencin.
“You might lose four or five games in a row but it’s how we bounce back from that,” Ciencin said. “[Avent] looks to us to keep the spirits high in the locker room and keeping up the team chemistry. That will take you further than tal-ent.”
Both players have been able to demonstrate to their team-mates that they can rely on
t h e m re -gardless the situation. Having guys w it h t h i s kind of pos-itive spirit creates an atmosphere encouraging to everyone, especially those who are new to t h e p r o -gram.
“They come out here every day with the right attitude. They are so close with every-body,” Brett Williams, a junior outfielder and Pitt Community College transfer, said. “They are great guys who make you feel comfortable.”
“They come out
here every day
with the right
attitude. They
are so close
with everybody.”junior centerfielder
Brett Williams
“It’s tough to run
the mile during the
indoor season.”sophomore Ryan Hill
COUNTDOWN• 15 days until the men’s ACC Basketball Tournament
in Greensboro.
INSIDE• Page 7: A continuation of the stories on
Ryan Hill and the new baseball captains.SportsTechnicianPage 8 • thursday, february 24, 2011
Hoer named to All-ACC Academic Team
Freshman standout Laura Hoer was named to the All-ACC Academic team for women’s cross county. In just her first year in Raleigh, Hoer was named an All-American after finishing 21st in the NCAA Championships during the fall season. She also won four races during the season, including the ACC Championships. To qualify for the Academic Team, an athlete must have had at least a 3.0 GPA for the last semester and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Source: N.c.. State athleticS
Uplifting Athletes Club competing in annual video game challengeAs a part of Global Rare Disease Day, the N.C. State chapter of Uplifting Athletes is hosting a video game challenge on Sunday, Feb. 27 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Backyard Bistro on Trinity Road. State is one of three school participating in the event, along with Colgate and Penn State. The video game competition will be between football players from all three schools and the game that will be played is NCAA College Football 2011 on the XBOX 360. The money raised will go towards finding a cure for Leukemia.
Source: upliftiNgathleteS.org
athletic scheduleFebruary 2011
Su M t W th f Sa
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28
ThursdaySwimming & Diving @ men’S ACC ChAmpionShipSAtlanta, Ga., all day
TrACk ACC ChAmpionShipSBlacksburg, Va., all day
women’S bASkeTbAll vS. boSTon CollegeReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
FridaybASebAll vS. pACifiCMyrtle Beach, 12:00 p.m.
SaturdaybASebAll vS. CAliforniAMyrtle Beach, 11:30 a.m.
Women’s BaketBall standings
SCHOOL CONF. OVERALL
DUke 10-2 24-3
miAmi 10-2 24-3
fSU 10-2 22-5
UnC 8-4 22-5
gTeCh 8-4 20-8
mD 7-5 21-6
bC 5-7 18-9
UvA 4-8 15-13
nCSU 3-9 12-15
wAke 3-9 12-16
CU 3-9 10-17
vTeCh 1-11 11-16
Source: theacc.coM
Heels make it 10 straight against PackTeam falls to the Tar Heels 75-63 in front of sellout crowd at RBC Center.
Jon GoodmanSenior Staff Writer
The men’s basketbal l team lost once again to the North Carolina Tar Heels 75-63 in the 219th meeting between two teams. State has now lost 10 straight games against the Heels and 16 of the last 17 meet-ings between the two teams. In a hard fought game, the Wolfpack fell behind late and did not catch up.
“It’s obviously a tough los s for us, “Lowe said. “I thought our k ids gave great effort.”
Caroli-na got on the board f irst be-fore the Wolfpack took the lead going on a 9-0 run. The Pack’s aggressive play led to leading in the game by as much as 10 in the first half. State’s frustrating de-fense and penetration on the offensive end kept the game close.
“Guys were ready to play,” Lowe said. “They knew it was a big game, and they were ready. We showed that the way we came out with the great energy. They knew it was going to be a challenge, but it was a great opportunity for us. They were fired up.
“Again, I’m proud of the effort. I am proud of the way our guys battled.”
The Wolfpack attacked the rim against the lengthy North Carolina frontcourt. Freshman point guard Ryan Harrow led the penetration
of the Wolfpack after not play-ing the first meeting, which the Tar Heels won 84-64.
“I was just trying to get into the gaps and make the pass or make the shot myself because that was definitely what we needed to do with this team and them putting so much emphasis on Tracy [Smith] and C.J. [Leslie],” Harrow said.
The Tar Heels regained the lead with 1:41 left in the first half, ending the half 31-29.
The Tar Heels maintained the lead in the beginning of the second half until the Wolfpack tied the game at 50 with 10:40 left to go in the game. State did not gain a lead again in the sec-ond half of the game.
With sophomore forward Richard Howell out of the
ga me w it h a n i nju r y ; the Wolfpack got a heavy contribution from sopho-more center Jordan Van-denburg.
“I wasn’t aware that I
would get so much time but coach emphasized being ag-gressive, coming out and play-ing hard,” Vandenburg said.
An impassioned crowd in the RBC Center multiplied the en-ergy the Wolfpack had on the court throughout the game.
Freshman C.J. Leslie led the way for the Wolfpack, with 13 points and eight rebounds in his first experience in this rival-ry at home in the RBC Center and said he felt the energy from the sellout crowd.
“We had high energy fans and we had a packed house,” Leslie said. “We just didn’t pull it out.”
Both teams finished the game shooting under 45 percent and as in the first match up, rebounding proved to be the difference as the Tar heels out rebounded the Wolfpack by 14.
North Carolina freshman Harrison Barnes led the Tar
Heels finishing with 16 points after a 0-6 first half. Barnes had a coming out party in the first matchup when he put up 25.
The series dates back to the 1912-1913 season with the Tar Heels now leading the series 144-75, including winning the last ten matchups between the
two teams. The Wolfpack has three more
games before the start of the ACC Tournament, two of the three games will be in the RBC Center starting with Georgia Tech Feb. 26.
“I’m not worried about this group at all in terms of coming back ready to play,” Lowe said.
“I know this was a big game and it’s going to take a little more out of them. They know that there’s still great things that can happen with the rest of the season going into the ACC Tournament, so they will be ready to go.”
After breaking a 20-year-old school record, sophomore turns his sights towards ACC Championships.
Tucker FrazierSenior Staff Writer
What more can a three-time All-American achieve after rewriting N.C. State’s track and field record books in his sophomore season? For Ryan Hill, there is still plenty left to accomplish.
The native of Hickory, N.C., has had an immediate impact since stepping foot on campus over two years ago. In his first cross coun-try season with the Wolfpack, Hil l gar-nered ACC Rookie of the Year honors on h i s w a y to a 13th-place fin-ish in the conference champi-onships.
After redshirting both the indoor and outdoor track and field seasons, Hill improved on his freshman cross country campaign by earning All-American rec-ognition for his 23rd-place finish at the NCAA Cham-pionships in 2009.
“When you start with the talent level and take the
level of commitment he has to the sport, you’re going to be successful,” coach Rollie Geiger said. “He has a real innate abil-ity for racing. He just has a feel for it. All you have to do is put him on the track and point him in the right direction.”
In his first full indoor sea-son with the Pack, Hill fin-ished fifth in the 3,000m and eighth in the 5,000m at the ACC Championships before breaking the school record in the 1,500m and 5,000m dur-ing the outdoor season with times of 3:40.22 and 13:44.36, respectively.
But Hill’s most recent ap-pearance in the Wolfpack re-cord books occurred Feb. 12 at the Husky Invitational in Se-
attle, Wash. Hill broke a 20-year-old program re-cord in the 3,000m with a t i me of 7:50.78, best-ing the pre-vious record by more than five seconds. He also met the automatic
qualifying mark for the NCAA Championships with the per-formance.
For Geiger, Hill’s record-setting performance in the 3,000m was not unexpected.
“I wasn’t surprised at all,” Geiger said. “He made some huge breakthroughs in the
For the first time in roughly a decade, baseball team names two captains.
Jeff Gonza Correspondent
For the f irst time in roughly a decade, the N.C. State baseball team has de-cided to bring back the tra-dition of selecting captains. Head coach Elliott Avent asked the team to select two individuals, and red-shirt junior pitcher Grant Sasser and junior infielder Andrew Ciencin emerged as
the overwhelming favorites to receive the honor.
Sasser was the Pack’s most ef-fective reliever last year, as the southpaw appeared in team high 26 games, five of which he earned the save. Ciencin on the other hand, was a run-pro-ducing machine last year as he drove in a team high 77 runs, fifth most all-time in school history.
However, being successful on the field does not necessarily mean someone will be a strong team leader.
Some people shy away from the challenge, fearful that more pressure and higher expecta-tions come along with being a
captain. But Avent reassured them they had nothing to worry about.
“I told them to ‘just keep do-ing what you’re doing’” Avent said. “There were no expecta-tions. It’s what their team-mates thought of them because of what they [do] every day.”
Being named a captain is a tremendous honor that both players take pride in. While they both realize this honor says something about them as individuals, they aren’t soaking up the spotlight and want to re-main loyal to the team concept.
“I am honored to lead these
BreNt KitcheN /techNiciaN file photoRedshirt junior pitcher Grant Sasser delivers a pitch during the Wolfpack’s game against Elon, Feb. 20 at Doak Field. Sasser and junior third basemen Andrew Ciencin were both named captains for the baseball team this season.
Hill rewriting N.C. State record books
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luiS Zapata /techNiciaNSenior guard Javier Gonzalez and freshman guard Ryan Harrow walk off the court with their heads low after losing a second time to UNC. N.C. State lost to UNC, 75 - 63. N.C. State hasn’t beat UNC in basketball since 2007.
“In the week
leading up to a
major event, the
hay is already
in the barn.”sophomore runner
Ryan Hill
BASEBAll TRACk & FiElD
“Again, I’m proud
of the effort. I am
proud of the way
our guys battled.”coach Sidney Lowe
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