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technicianonline.com TECHNICIAN Raleigh, North Carolina Enthusiasm high at Palin rally ELECTION POLL QUESTION: From now until the election on Nov. 4, Technician will post different election-related poll questions online. Cast your vote to have your voice heard. We’ll run the results on election day. Which candidate’s class would you rather take? • John McCain’s history of military science • Barack Obama’s crash course on political readiness • Sarah Palin’s shotgun safety 101 • Joe Biden’s Culture of Scranton, Pennsylvania Visit www.technicianonline.com to cast your vote. ELECTION COUNTDOWN: 1 Days until the election. Find national and local election coverage online at technicianonline.com. The Technician Voter’s Guide, which outlines each national, state and Raleigh candidate, is still available to view online at technicianonline.com. inside technician viewpoint 7 life & style 5 classieds 9 sports 10 Governors’ exhibit brings awareness of predecessors Gubernatorial candidates, running a close race, bring main points to plat- forms. See page 6. ‘VICTORY’ Palin’s son Track is stationed in Iraq with the U.S. Army, and Palin said she would be more confident having John McCain as a commander in chief. “We need someone who talks about the wars America’s fighting and isn’t afraid to use the word ‘victory,’” she said. Obama’s policies can “fill a stadium but they cannot keep our country safe,” Palin said. “John McCain has always put his country first.” She accused the Democrats of wanting to “wave the white flag of defeat” to terrorists. FOCUS ON FAMILY Saturday’s crowd may have been older than those at Obama rallies, but it was also more family-focused. Palin has five children, from her 18-year-old son Track to her newborn Trig, and a quick scan of the Exhibition Center showed a lot of families with young children. Some parents propped their kids on their shoulders during her speech, while others let their young ones sit on the floor with coloring books, with the youngest in strollers. Robert Worthington, a Raleigh resident and campaign volunteer, said the Palin family’s visibility is a big draw for families who come to events. Diane Predatte, a woman who came with her family from Benson, said she was more moved by McCain af- ter he added a “conservative woman” to the ticket. “She believes in everything we believe in,” Predatte said. After speaking on the economy and energy policy, Palin moved to the topic of special-needs children. “These children are not a problem, they are a priority,” she said. Palin did not mention her own Trig, who was born with Down syndrome this year, but she transitioned into her stance on abortion. Americans need a government in which “every inno- cent life counts,” she said. Worthington said her staunch position against abor- tion was why she was voting for the Republicans this year. “I’ve been a Christian for 50-some years and cannot stand to vote for someone who is pro-choice,” he said. ‘DRILL, BABY, DRILL!’ Energy independence would be key in a McCain administration, according to Palin, and it would emphasize clean coal technology. Campaign volunteers distributed hats with ‘Clean Coal’ emblems to members of the audience, and many sported them during the speech. “There is more coal in this free country than there is oil in Saudi Arabia,” Palin said. American should use the safest meth- ods to “drill here and drill now,” using more American-drilled oil, she said. The crowd erupted in a ‘drill, baby, drill’ chant during her speech. OBAMA’S TAX PLAN WOULD ‘DECIMATE’ After quickly introducing her husband Todd, Palin began speaking on tax poli- cy and the harm Obama’s would cause. “Only John McCain has the wisdom and experience to get our economy on the right track,” she said. A McCain administration would “clean up the corruption on Wall Street,” “shake things up in Washington” and help make college more affordable, Palin said. She promised a balanced budget by the end of McCain’s first term, and proposed a spending freeze to help stabilize the economy. Referencing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s tax plans, she accused him of wanting to spread citizens’ wealth. “Sen. Obama has an ideological commit- ment to higher taxes,” she said. McCain would cut taxes for all, she said, and intensely cut government spend- ing. “Barack Obama is for bigger govern- ment,” she said. The Obama tax plan promises tax cuts for all who make less than $250,000 a year, but Palin said the Obama cam- paign’s definition of middle class contin- ues to decrease. Representatives have referenced a cut- off of $200,000, then $150,000 instead of the original $250,000, she said. Obama’s tax plans, Palin said, would “decimate many small businesses.” “Now is not the time to experiment with socialism,” she said. Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to voters and supporters Saturday at the N.C. State Fair grounds Exposition Center. A major topic during her speech was how Sen. McCain and her wanted to help Joe, the plumber. A bout 5,000 Republican ticket supporters gathered at the State Fairgrounds Saturday to cheer on vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during her first Raleigh visit. Several speakers preceded Palin, including former Sen. Bob Dole, Sen. Richard Burr and Mike, the plumber, from Cary. After Palin came on, she discussed issues ranging from the economy, to taxes, to the two wars “we are winning,” in addi- tion to criticizing Sen. Barack Obama’s plans. The crowd was ecstatic over Palin, cheering or booing after almost every sentence she spoke and often drowning her out. This excitement came event after a long wait. Most of the attendees arrived around 4 p.m. and crowded into the Exhibition Centers’ floor, where they would stand until after 8 p.m. when the event closed. An EMS crew moved at least two of the older members of the crowd outside after they became exhausted in the hot room. But still, the pom-poms and American flags campaign volun- teers distributed were put to good use, waving frequently and forcefully as the crowd celebrated its star. STORIES BY CHRIS ALLRED, TY JOHNSON AND SAJA HINDI | PHOTOS BY LUIS ZAPATA SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: AT THE RALLY Pink and Navy T-shirts Attendees of the rally clamored for T-shirts thrown from the stage. Supporters loudly called for shirts but were disappointed when they realized the shirts were blank. Clean Coal Several McCain supporters were seen wearing white baseball caps with the words “Clean Coal” printed on them. The hat-wearers said the caps were free give- aways from the GOP but did not know what “Clean Coal” actually meant. The “Clean Coal” initiative is a plan to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign energy by increasing the use of American-mined coal. Plumber’s Back? When Cary-area plumber “Mike” made his appearance at the rally to show his support for John McCain, some voices in the crowd called for him to “take his shirt off.” Mike refrained from stripping, but did rally the crowd to a frenzy just before Bob Dole took the stage. Average Joes for McCain Many supporters wore bumper stickers and held signs which paid homage to Joe the Plumber. Among them were signs saying that Obama would take Joe’s plunger away as well as a bumper sticker that said “I’m voting for Joe the Plumber.” TUNING IN TO PALIN The music at Saturday’s rally set a tone for the event, with live bluegrass bands providing a background for hours before Palin arrived. The song, Gretchen Wilson’s “Redneck Woman,” got some response from the crowd, with women chanting along at times and waving their pom-poms. Some lines from the song: “I ain’t no high class broad, I’m just a product of my raising and I say ‘hey y’all’ and ‘yeehaw’ I keep my Christmas lights on my front porch all year long” “No I don’t need no designer tag to make my man want me” As her entrance drew nearer, there were some crowd sing-a-longs, including “God Bless America,” and “I’m Proud to be an American.” The underdog Rocky theme “Gonna Fly Now” played as well, and when the lights went out before Palin got on stage, Brooks and Dunn’s “Only in America” blared. Palin’s choice for entrance and exit music seemed to accentuate her folksiness, and may have been a play to the audience. As far as gaining votes, I don’t think rallies do that. It helped get people pepped up, ready to make phone calls, knock on doors for McCain. STUDENTS REACT TO SARAH PALIN VISIT “ ” “ ” Aaron Dancy, freshman in mechanical engineering Having a presence in the state does help... trying to keep the volunteers like myself motivated [and know] we still have a chance. Mike, the plumber, did a great job really pushing what the McCain-Palin campaign has been trying to push the last couple of week. One of the themes that came out of it was hard work versus a welfare handout mentality, which Mike, the plumber, re-inforced. “ ” Ches McDowell, sophomore in political science It was a lot of fun, a lot of enthusiasm, very energetic. All of the people opening up for her were really good. ” “ ” “ FROM THE PRESS TABLE The crowd covered the majority of the available floor space, in a doughnut shape around the podium, leav- ing an outer area open for the press. There was a lot of added hostility to members of the press during the rally, with some before any speakers arrived. A man in the crowd berated a local 20-something NBC reporter for his affiliations to “in-the-bag NBC.” “[Obama] couldn’t even pass a background check,” he said. “If it wasn’t up to these jack*****, it wouldn’t even be a close race.” He then turned to the entire section and referred to it as the “Communist News Network.” Bob Dole had more, if less dramatic, criticism of the press. He said the major networks hadn’t done a fair job in critiquing Obama’s record.

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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina

Enthusiasm high at Palin rally

ELECTION POLL QUESTION: From now until the election on Nov. 4, Technician will post different election-related poll questions online. Cast your vote to have your voice heard. We’ll run the results on election day.

Which candidate’s class would you rather take?• John McCain’s history of military science • Barack Obama’s crash course on political readiness• Sarah Palin’s shotgun safety 101 • Joe Biden’s Culture of Scranton, Pennsylvania

Visit www.technicianonline.com to cast your vote.

ELECTION COUNTDOWN:

1Days until the election.

Find national and local election coverage online at technicianonline.com.The Technician Voter’s Guide, which outlines each national, state and Raleigh candidate, is still available to view online at technicianonline.com.

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viewpoint 7life & style 5classi!eds 9sports 10

Governors’ exhibit brings awareness of predecessorsGubernatorial candidates, running a close race, bring main points to plat-forms. See page 6.

‘VICTORY’Palin’s son Track is stationed in Iraq with the U.S. Army, and Palin said she would be more confident having John McCain as a commander in chief. “We need someone who talks about the wars America’s fighting and isn’t afraid to use the word ‘victory,’” she said. Obama’s policies can “fill a stadium but they cannot keep our country safe,” Palin said. “John McCain has always put his country first.”She accused the Democrats of wanting to “wave the white flag of defeat” to terrorists.

FOCUS ON FAMILYSaturday’s crowd may have been older than those at Obama rallies, but it was also more family-focused. Palin has five children, from her 18-year-old son Track to her newborn Trig, and a quick scan of the Exhibition Center showed a lot of families with young children. Some parents propped their kids on their shoulders during her speech, while others let their young ones sit on the floor with coloring books, with the youngest in strollers.Robert Worthington, a Raleigh resident and campaign volunteer, said the Palin family’s visibility is a big draw for families who come to events. Diane Predatte, a woman who came with her family from Benson, said she was more moved by McCain af-ter he added a “conservative woman” to the ticket.

“She believes in everything we believe in,” Predatte said. After speaking on the economy and energy policy, Palin moved to the topic of special-needs children. “These children are not a problem, they are a priority,” she said. Palin did not mention her own Trig, who was born with Down syndrome this year, but she transitioned into her stance on abortion. Americans need a government in which “every inno-cent life counts,” she said. Worthington said her staunch position against abor-tion was why she was voting for the Republicans this year. “I’ve been a Christian for 50-some years and cannot stand to vote for someone who is pro-choice,” he said.

‘DRILL, BABY, DRILL!’Energy independence would be key in a McCain administration, according to Palin, and it would emphasize clean coal technology. Campaign volunteers distributed hats with ‘Clean Coal’ emblems to members of the audience, and many sported them during the speech. “There is more coal in this free country than there is oil in Saudi Arabia,” Palin said.American should use the safest meth-ods to “drill here and drill now,” using more American-drilled oil, she said.The crowd erupted in a ‘drill, baby, drill’ chant during her speech.

OBAMA’S TAX PLAN WOULD ‘DECIMATE’After quickly introducing her husband Todd, Palin began speaking on tax poli-cy and the harm Obama’s would cause. “Only John McCain has the wisdom and experience to get our economy on the right track,” she said. A McCain administration would “clean up the corruption on Wall Street,” “shake things up in Washington” and help make college more affordable, Palin said. She promised a balanced budget by the end of McCain’s first term, and proposed a spending freeze to help stabilize the economy. Referencing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s tax plans, she accused him of wanting to spread

citizens’ wealth. “Sen. Obama has an ideological commit-ment to higher taxes,” she said. McCain would cut taxes for all, she said, and intensely cut government spend-ing. “Barack Obama is for bigger govern-ment,” she said. The Obama tax plan promises tax cuts for all who make less than $250,000 a year, but Palin said the Obama cam-paign’s definition of middle class contin-ues to decrease. Representatives have referenced a cut-off of $200,000, then $150,000 instead of the original $250,000, she said. Obama’s tax plans, Palin said, would “decimate many small businesses.” “Now is not the time to experiment with socialism,” she said.

Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to voters and supporters Saturday at the N.C. State Fair grounds Exposition Center. A major topic during her speech was how Sen. McCain and her wanted to help Joe, the plumber.

About 5,000 Republican ticket supporters gathered at the State Fairgrounds Saturday to cheer on vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during her first Raleigh visit.

Several speakers preceded Palin, including former Sen. Bob Dole, Sen. Richard Burr and Mike, the plumber, from Cary.

After Palin came on, she discussed issues ranging from the economy, to taxes, to the two wars “we are winning,” in addi-

tion to criticizing Sen. Barack Obama’s plans.The crowd was ecstatic over Palin, cheering or booing after

almost every sentence she spoke and often drowning her out. This excitement came event after a long wait.Most of the attendees arrived around 4 p.m. and crowded into

the Exhibition Centers’ floor, where they would stand until after 8 p.m. when the event closed.

An EMS crew moved at least two of the older members of the crowd outside after they became exhausted in the hot room.

But still, the pom-poms and American flags campaign volun-teers distributed were put to good use, waving frequently and forcefully as the crowd celebrated its star.

STORIES BY CHRIS ALLRED, TY JOHNSON AND SAJA HINDI | PHOTOS BY LUIS ZAPATA

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS:AT THE RALLY

Pink and Navy T-shirtsAttendees of the rally clamored for T-shirts thrown from the stage. Supporters loudly called for shirts but were disappointed when they realized the shirts were blank.

Clean CoalSeveral McCain supporters were seen wearing white baseball caps with the words “Clean Coal” printed on them. The hat-wearers said the caps were free give-aways from the GOP but did not know what “Clean Coal” actually meant. The “Clean Coal” initiative is a

plan to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign energy by increasing the use of American-mined coal.

Plumber’s Back?When Cary-area plumber “Mike” made his appearance at the rally to show his support for John McCain, some voices in the crowd called for him to “take his shirt off.” Mike refrained from stripping, but did rally the crowd to a frenzy just before Bob Dole took the stage.

Average Joes for McCainMany supporters wore bumper stickers and held signs which paid homage to Joe the Plumber. Among them were signs saying that Obama would take Joe’s plunger away as well as a bumper sticker that said “I’m voting for Joe the Plumber.”

TUNING IN TO PALIN The music at Saturday’s rally set a tone for the event, with live bluegrass

bands providing a background for hours before Palin arrived.

The song, Gretchen Wilson’s “Redneck Woman,” got some response from the crowd, with women chanting along at times and waving their pom-poms.

Some lines from the song: “I ain’t no high class broad, I’m just a product of my

raisingand I say ‘hey y’all’ and

‘yeehaw’I keep my Christmas lights

on my front porch all year long”

“No I don’t need no designer tag to make my man want me”

As her entrance drew nearer, there were some crowd sing-a-longs, including “God Bless America,” and “I’m Proud to be an American.”

The underdog Rocky theme “Gonna Fly Now” played as well, and when the lights went out before Palin got on stage, Brooks and Dunn’s “Only in America” blared.

Palin’s choice for entrance and exit music seemed to accentuate her folksiness, and may have been a play to the audience.

As far as gaining votes, I don’t think rallies do that.

It helped get people pepped up, ready to make phone

calls, knock on doors for McCain.

STUDENTS REACT TO SARAH PALIN VISIT

“”“”

Aaron Dancy, freshman in mechanical engineering

Having a presence in the state does

help... trying to keep the volunteers like myself motivated

[and know] we still have a chance.Mike, the plumber, did a great

job really pushing what the McCain-Palin campaign has been trying to push the last

couple of week.

One of the themes that came out of it was hard work versus a welfare

handout mentality, which Mike, the plumber,

re-inforced.

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Ches McDowell, sophomore in political science

It was a lot of fun, a lot of enthusiasm, very energetic.

All of the people opening up for her were really good.

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FROM THE PRESS TABLEThe crowd covered the majority of the available floor

space, in a doughnut shape around the podium, leav-ing an outer area open for the press.

There was a lot of added hostility to members of the press during the rally, with some before any speakers arrived.

A man in the crowd berated a local 20-something NBC reporter for his affiliations to “in-the-bag NBC.”

“[Obama] couldn’t even pass a background check,” he said. “If it wasn’t up to these jack*****, it wouldn’t even be a close race.”

He then turned to the entire section and referred to it as the “Communist News Network.”

Bob Dole had more, if less dramatic, criticism of the press.

He said the major networks hadn’t done a fair job in critiquing Obama’s record.

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Ticket Central: 515.1100 www.ncsu.edu/arts2nd Floor, Talley Student Center

Tuesday, Nov 4 at 7pm • Stewart TheatreWind EnsembleThe NCSU Wind Ensemble, back from their international trip to theSydney Opera House, presents their fall 2008 performance with pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, David Holsinger, and Gioacchino Rossini. The concert also features guest pianist Dr. Glenn S. Harman.

Thursday, Nov 6 at 7pm • Talley BallroomJazz Ensemble IUsing smooth melodies, toe-tapping jams, and funky rhythms, this ensemble guarantees you will have an awesome jazz experience!

Thursday, Nov 6 at 7pm • Gregg Museum of Art & DesignArtists & Objects Lecture Series:Gil Garcetti FREE!Garcetti will discuss the importance of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and what this architectural icon means to Los Angeles.

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Saturday, Nov 8 at 8pm • Stewart TheatreNCSU Pipes and Drums 40th Anniversary ConcertThe highlight of this anniversary concert will be the “massed pipes and drums” finale where alumni and current band members will play some of the band standards through the years, including Scotland the Brave and Amazing Grace.

THROUGH LUIS’ LENS

What the deuce?

Raleigh police officers watch Family Guy in Winston Hall during the Haunted Hillsborough Hike Friday night. The Raleigh Police Department officers, in collaboration with Campus Police, were implementing the University’s zero tolerance policy, which meant any citations officers gave or any arrests they made would also go through the Office of Student Conduct.

PHOTO BY LUIS ZAPATA

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

In Friday’s page-three photo accompanying the story, “Early voting hours may be extended Saturday,” the photo was missing a photo credit. The photo was taken by Becky Brulet.

Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Saja Hindi at [email protected].

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ROLE MODELSCampus Cinema, 10 to 11:45 p.m.

TuesdayELECTION DAY: VOTE!LEO W. PARKS DISTINGUISHED LECTUREJ.C. Raulston Amphitheater, 1 to 3:30 p.m.

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Student robbed on Dunn Avenue

Campus Police are investi-gating a robbery that occurred shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday.

Two suspects robbed a stu-dent of some money near the bookstore on Dunn Avenue, and the victim said one sus-pect had what seemed like a stun gun.

An e-mail alert from Campus Police described the suspects as the following: one suspect is a dark-skinned male, who was wearing a black toboggan, black T-shirt, black jacket and a silver chain.

The other suspect is a believed to be a dark-skinned male who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants.

The suspects departed in a light-colored vehicle.

Anyone with information on

the incident can call Campus Police 24 hours a day at 919-515-3000.

SOURCE: CAMPUS POLICE CRIME ALERT

Campus Cinema hosts laser tag

To promote the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, there will be a “Bond-style” La-ser Tag event on Harris Field Wednesday.

From 6 to 10 p.m., students can play Laser Tag for a chance to win prizes, includ-ing special advance screening passes to the film.

That night at 10 p.m., Cam-pus Cinema will also play Ca-sino Royale, the first film in the revamped Bond series.

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POLICE BLOTTEROct. 301:37 A.M. | TRAFFIC STOPCates AvenueOfficer stopped vehicle for inves-tigation on conduct of passenger. Nonstudent was found to be in pos-session of open container of alcohol and was issued citation. 10:01 A.M. | HARASSING PHONE CALLSTalley Student Center Staff member reported receiving harassing phone calls. Investigation ongoing. 11:45 P.M. | COMMUNICATING THREATSPublic Safety Center Report of problem between employ-ees involving threats. Investigation ongoing.

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News

Event goes off without major problems, some citations

Chris AllredNews Editor

A crowd of about 6,500, up from 3,000 last year, participat-ed in the Haunted Hillsborough Hike Oct. 31 with little problem, according to Campus Police Lt. Larry Ellis said.

There were 20 alcohol viola-tions, two arrests and three ci-tations, he said.

Campus and Raleigh police worked together to stabilize Hillsborough Street, and Student Body President Jay Dawkins said the event worked well.

“The nightmare that many authorities expected to happen didn’t happen,” Dawkins, a ju-nior in civil engineering, said.

The no-tolerance policy from police meant some violations on Hillsborough Street would follow students back to campus through the Office of Student Conduct, but Ellis said it would be depen-dent on the type of violation.

While there were no major problems, Dawkins said the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service is plan-ning a neighborhood cleanup to collect trash from areas around Hillsborough Street Nov. 7.

“If it’s not an immediate help, it will certainly be a positive thing for the neighborhoods,” he said.

For future hikes, Dawkins said CSLEPS would plan to clean up

more immediately after the event.University Officials had added regulations on campus Friday to keep people not affiliated with N.C. State off campus.

The town of Chapel Hill made similar efforts, as the town tried to downgrade Halloween events on Franklin Street that had be-come unmanageable.

Seven parking lots on campus were accessible only to those with valid University IDs, and Dawkins said there did not ap-pear to be many non-students on

Hillsborough Street. The street was kept open to

keep students out of the road and the event more contained within establishments, but Brandon Vick, a senior in communication, said it should be more open.

“They need to close down the street to make it a bigger event,” he said. “Everybody was well be-haved for the amount of people out there.”

An event that encouraged students from other schools to participate would make it more

enjoyable for NCSU students, Vick said.

“They should be more le-nient,” he said. “It would be a lot more fun for the students, be like N.C. State’s version of Franklin Street.”

One addition to this year’s event was Spook Hunger, a Student Government-created Halloween food drive.

Spook Hunger collected about $400 and 2,000 pounds of food, Dawkins said.

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Leslie Merritt releases report on state First Lady’s trips abroad

Staff ReportA report by the State Audi-

tor Thursday cited executive in residence in the provost’s office Mary Easley for excessive spend-ing of State funds during trips to Europe with the Department of Cultural Resources.

Easley was serving as the state’s First Lady in her role as “am-bassador of the arts” during the trips.

Auditor Leslie Merritt inves-tigated trips that Easley made to France, Estonia and St. Pe-tersburg in May 2007 and May 2008 after receiving tips regard-ing improper spending. The State spent over $110,000 on the trips, of which Merritt reported $45,887.25 as “unreasonable and unallowable costs.”

Among expenses deemed unreasonable was the 24-hour availability of a Mercedes SUV as personal transportation for Easley at a cost of $27,012.61, ac-cording to the auditor’s report.

Other expense charges in-cluded a caviar cocktail costing $332.12, lodging expenses aver-aging nearly $1000 per room a night in St. Petersburg, and bal-

let tickets at a cost of $1,169.56, the report stated. Additionally, hundreds of dollars in alcohol expenses were charged in viola-tion of state policy.

“It’s clear that meals and lodg-ing were chosen because they met the highest quality and not because they met the standard of a ‘prudent’ public servant trav-eling on the taxpayers’ dollar,” Merritt stated in the report.

While the state does not have specific limits on travel spending outside of the country, guidelines dictate that officials should “ex-ercise the same care in incurring expenses that a prudent person would exercise if traveling on personal business and expend-ing personal funds.”

The report also stated that Easley’s former executive assis-tant was reimbursed for both a $227.50 linen jacket purchased at a boutique in France and a hotel bar tab exceeding $100 by claim-ing them as meals.

Merritt’s report also questioned whether Easley’s attendance on the trips was needed.

“Any direct benefit to the state related to the First lady’s pres-ence on the trips to France and Russia is difficult to identify,” the report stated.

SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR

Cuts could lead to larger class sizes, reduced faculty

Daniel EllisDeputy News Editor

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is planning budget cuts in the areas of academics, research and extension in re-sponse to the state’s struggling economic situation.

“There will be a four percent one-time cut on the research and extension programs,” Johnny Wynne, dean & executive direc-tor for agricul-tural programs, said.

“On the aca-demic side, we will have budget cuts of about 3 percent.”

Wynne noted that the academ-ic cuts would be sl ight ly lower due to assistance coming in from the of f ice of Provost Larry Nielsen.

“The provost will be cover-ing the first 1 percent out of the reserves that he has available,” Wynne said.

Wynne said the budget cuts for research and extension would to-tal $2,085,000 and $1,685,000. Meanwhile, the academic cuts would only total $394,500, due to Nielson’s help, he said. The academic cuts will likely increase class sizes for students, which Natasha Vos, a sophomore in animal science, said is accept-able.

“This is a big university, so we kind of expect class sizes to be big when taking introductory level courses,” Vos said.

The CALS budget modifica-tions are part of a $9 million overall cut following the state budget office’s orders for a min-imum 2 percent reduction in planned spending.

“I understand with the state of the economy it might be neces-

sary,” Vos said. “But, academics should be the last thing we’re cutting, after extracurriculars and everything else.”

Wynne said the college plans to meet Tuesday to respond to these budget cuts following a series of proposed reports.

“We’ve asked each of the de-partment heads to make a plan for these type of cuts,” he said. “We are planning on meeting to review these plans to determine what kind of impacts they will have.”

The dean also indicated that the cuts will be far-reach-ing, affecting both faculty, students and researchers. “It will be more than just re-ducing opera-tions,” Wynne said.

“We’re go-ing to have to reduce some personnel and we may end up having to re-

duce the number of courses we teach.”

Logan Corley, a sophomore in biological sciences, said he real-izes the budget cuts could poten-tially restrict the convenience of a wide array of class times and the amount of assistance avail-able for students.

“It just means its going to turn the focus back on the students rather than having it handed to them,” she said. “It’ll also make it harder to get your classes fin-ished in four years.”

Although Wynne said he would like to keep the negative effects to a minimal, he realizes that stu-dents will inevitably experience the aftermath of the cuts.

“If we have less courses, it’s obviously going to impact stu-dents,” Wynne said. “Having less teaching assistants and paid graduate students will also have an impact.”

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DANIEL TANAKA/TECHNICIANJack Grady, a senior in political science, smokes a cigarette while waiting in line with Rumseys Esco-vedo outside Amante’s Pizza and Lounge during the Hillsborough Haunted Hike on Friday.

Hike attracts more than 6,000 students to Hillsborough

One-stopAbsentee

Democrats outweigh Republican early voters by about 20 percent

Staff ReportEarly voting concluded Saturday, and the

voter numbers have shattered those from past years.

More than 2.5 million people voted early in North Carolina, about 72.5 percent of total votes cast in the 2004 election.

Democratic vice presidential candidate

Barack Obama has campaigned heavily in North Carolina in hopes of winning Nov. 4. It would be the first time a Democrat has won North Carolina’s electoral votes since 1976.

While the voting results are not made pub-lic before polls close, voter demographics are available.

Michael McDonald, an associate professor at George Mason University, has compiled early voting information from around the country.

Fifty-one percent of those who early voted

in North Carolina were Democrats, while 30.1 percent were Republicans.

The gap between Republican and Dem-ocrat early voters is almost double what it was in 2004, when President George Bush won the state by 12.5 percent.

Democrats have also registered many new voters in the state this year, and ac-count for 2.8 million North Carolina vot-ers to the Republicans’ 2 million voters.

SOURCE: UNITED STATES ELECTION PROJECT

Early voting numbers up from ‘04

“It just means its going to turn the focus back on the

students rather than having it

handed to them.”Logan Corley, a sophomore

in biological sciences

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Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a series about how the University budget cuts will affect each college.

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bridgeto human medical centers

Researchers look for treatments, causes of cancer

Sindhu Chandramouleeswaran

Correspondent

The American Cancer Research Society predicts that 1,437,180 individuals will learn that they have cancer this year. To the di-agnosed 10.8 million Americans, the disease is a reality they battle on a daily basis.

A single word, cancer — a group of “diseases caused by the uncontrolled growth and uncontrollable spread of ab-normal cells,” according to the ACRS Web site — connotes this life-changing and life-threaten-ing disease.

Although the 5-year survival rate for patients was 50 percent in the mid-1970s, the chance for survival has increased to 66 per-cent, as measured by a 2003 cen-sus. Survival statistics correlate with factors such as the cancer type and stage at the time of de-tection. The steadily increasing survival statistics result from earlier detection and the devel-opment of new anti-cancer treat-ments, some of which are being developed close to home.

“There are a lot of laboratories at NCSU that are interested in cancer research, either on the basic side or the clinical side,” said Jonathan Horowitz, associ-ate professor of oncology in the Department of Molecular Bio-medical Sciences.

“If you’re in the Triangle ... and somebody says ‘Who’s doing can-cer research?’, probably the first thing that comes to your mind is Duke or UNC-Chapel Hill because they’re human medical centers and they are treating pa-tients all the time,” he said.

Although he said the two schools have some of the best cancer treatment centers in the country, the College of Veteri-nary Medicine and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are working on another aspect of cancer research.

“At the same time, NCSU has its own medical center, except we call it a veterinary medical center, and we see hundreds of patients every year. We have probably the best staff in the nation for veteri-nary oncology,” Horowitz said. “Clinically speaking, there’s a lot of expertise on this campus.”

The veterinary school, he said, is a bridge to human medical centers.

“We provide novel animal models, as well as expertise and discoveries that are best tested here before moving these discov-eries to a human medical cen-ter,” Horowitz said, adding that NCSU received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to “do just that.” The same grant

was awarded to UNC-Chapel Hill.

“We think there are a lot more similarities between our clinics and human clinics than dissimi-larities,” he said. “We are trying to take advantage of the expertise that we have in veterinary medi-cine and basic research to help push new cancer discoveries to the human bedside.”

In addition to laboratories within the College of Veterinary Medicine, a host of other scien-tists engage in research that is related to cancer therapeutics.

Andrew Wallace, assistant professor of environmental and molecular toxicology, is investi-gating two classes of drugs that are involved i n c he mo -therapy.

One of those classes is glu-cocorticoids, a type of hor-mone that is included in most cancer therapies, he said. The oth-er is Taxanes, a class of che-motherapeu-tic drugs. He said both are widely used in treating breast cancer, ovar-ian cancer and some small cell lung cancers.

“We’re interested in how these drugs are metabolized and how the drugs themselves modulate metabolism systems which lead to their own metabolism,” Wal-lace said. “We are trying to un-derstand the mechanisms behind this autoregulation.”

Wallace’s research also sheds light on the mechanisms of treat-ment-related side effects.

“Some people have severe toxic side effects to the drugs, while some people have no side ef-fects,” Wallace said. “We want to find out why this is. We are in-vestigating the molecular mecha-nisms behind these [trends].”

Christian Melander’s labora-tory is also involved in probing prospective cancer therapeutics at the molecular level. Melander, an assistant professor of chem-istry whose core research is in organic chemistry, said he and his team apply “organic chem-istry to problems we think have insufficient answers in the bio-medical field.”

“We research novel cancer chemotherapeutics. A lot of

treatments have to be stopped be-cause the person who’s sick con-tracts second-ary infections,” Melander said. “Typically, they contract these when they’re in the hospital. So we work on bet-ter ways for con-trolling bacterial infections, allow-ing the patient to go uninterrupted through a whole

regimen of therapy — to increase their odds of survival.”

Sarah Amend, a senior in bio-logical sciences, has pursued cancer research since the sum-mer after her freshman year.

“I like the idea of finding an-swers to questions that will help human health. It’s very reward-ing,” she said.

But cancer is a disease “that’s going to have many, many causes,” Horowitz said.

“There’s not going to be a single

magic bullet. There will not be one drug that cures all cancers,” he said. “There are going to be a bunch of drugs, a handful of magic bullets that are adminis-tered together.”

It is precisely this combination of and interaction between drugs that is of interest to Wallace’s toxicology lab.

“In most of the chemothera-peutic regimes, it’s not just one drug that’s administered,” Wal-lace said. “It’s a cocktail of drugs. And how that cocktail not only kills cancer cells but how it af-fects the human metabolism pathways is of interest to my laboratory.”

He is working to find the an-swers to questions like “how can one drug interact and cause the metabolism of another drug — and how does that affect the therapeutic level of that drug in the bloodstream?”

“So those are the two things, the yin and yang,” he said. “The one side is getting enough drug to be effective and not too much drug to have severe toxicity to the patient.”

Horowitz interprets the process of discovering key information about cancer cell biology with an analogy.

“It’s a very difficult problem,” he said. “Imagine working on a jigsaw puzzle that someone pres-ents to you but they don’t give you the box. You have the pieces, but you don’t know what the pic-ture is on the box. That’s what we do for a living. We put the pieces together without knowing what the overall picture looks like.”

Because they don’t fully know how cells operate, Horowitz said those in his laboratory “don’t know a lot of the basic details of what the wiring diagram of a cell is.”

“As a consequence, if there’s a problem in the cell, often we don’t know precisely why,” he said. “Oftentimes, we may know who the culprit is, but we don’t know exactly why it’s causing trouble. Why is it that when the culprit is over-expressed or underexpressed, do cells turn into tumor cells? So, it’s a very difficult prob-lem. The wiring diagram is complex and still a bit of mystery. And that’s why it has taken us so long to make progress in this field.”

While the secrets of cancer cell biology are yet to be fully uncovered, many common-alities have been discovered between various types of cancers.

“Lessons learned in one scenario often pay dividends in another,” Horowitz said. A laboratory focusing on one type of cancer may make re-search findings that are appli-cable to the research and/or treatment of other tumor cell types. “It’s important for people to realize that there are commonalities between tumor types as well as dif-ferences, like an overlapping Venn diagram ... where some causes and therapeutic strate-gies will be specific for a given tumor type and other causes and therapeutics will be more general.”

Horowitz also acknowledg-es the challenges of applying scientific discoveries to clini-cal medicine.

“One of the real deficits that we have at the moment is the lack of large animal models for human cancers,” he said. “There have been numerous instances where a lot of no-toriety accompanied a given discovery because it worked great in mice or rats — and then it failed abysmally in humans. Why? We don’t re-ally know. But those are the facts. These situations point out that we need new animal models beyond rodents.”

In hopes of investigating and alleviating this issue, the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research was formed to find better approaches for the comparative study of vari-ous diseases of biomedical research interest.

“One of the main purposes of this center is to develop new large animal models for various human problems, including cancer,” Horowitz said. “Institutions like ours are doing something to fill-in some of the gaps in the assembly line that brings a discovery from the bench to the bedside.”

FeaturesLIFE & STYLE

LIFESTYLESHot !ashes su"erers might #nd relief in hypnosis

Though to many hypnosis is nothing more than an act used for entertainment, researchers a finding a more practical use for hypnosis.

Hypnosis is used to alter one’s experiences and bring emotional changes through inviting a person to relax with the use of drugs.

Hypnosis has been used to treat irritable bowel syndrome and in place of traditional anesthesia.

Researchers have now focused the use of hypnosis on cancerpatients, hoping to ease the pain following chemotherapy in breast cancer survivors.

Hot flashes are a major side effect during and after various cancer treatments which afflict almost three-fourths of breast cancer survivors.

A study conducted by Baylor University gave 26 survivors hypnotic relaxation over five weeks and 25 survivors were not.

All of the volunteers reported having up to 14 hot flashes a day in the course of month. The study is funded by the National Cancer Institute and the

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The results showed that of those who received the hypnosis, 68 percent had a decrease in hot flashes.

SOURCE: WWW.HEALTHNEWS.COM

November is American Diabetes Month

Though heart disease, hypertension and cancer are the most prevalent “silent killers,” diabetes continues to strike the population.

An estimated 7.8 percent of the population is afflicted with the disease while 5.7 million still do not know that they have the disease. Diabetes is the lack on production or improper use of insulin in the body which is the body’s natural food converter. Insulin breaks down the food into energy.

Diabetes can be controlled through diet and exercise changes or insulin injections.

Though many factors such as obesity, low thyroid levels and inactivity can contribute to diabetes, doctors have yet to discover an actual cause.

SOURCE: WWW.HEALTHNEWS.COM

Grapes, good for the heart

New research shows that grapes could help fight high blood pressure and reduce other cardiovascular risks. Flavonoids are credited for the effect.

The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center. Researchers investigated the effect of dried grape powder mixed with a salty diet bred to develop high blood pressure in laboratory rats.

The rats, 60 total, were divided into five groups based upon their salt levels, the use of grape powder and if they were given a mild dose of a common blood pressure drug.

The study lasted 18 weeks and showed that the rats given the grape powder had lower blood pressure, better heart function, reduced inflammation and less heart muscle damage than their counterparts. Though the rats given the blood pressure medication did show reduced blood pressure, their heart damage was still greater.

SOURCE: WWW.MEDICALNEWSTODAY.COM

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“I like the idea of finding answers to questions that will help human health. It’s very

rewarding.”Sarah Amend,

senior in biological sciences

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Statisticians warn of difference in election results from polls

Alison HarmanFeatures Editor

One day before the general election, Democratic presiden-tial nominee Barack Obama is sitting on a 6-plus percent lead, up at 50.6 percent to the 44.3 percent hold from his opponent, Sen. John McCain, according to Pollster.com’s average of repu-table polling agencies.

But these numbers, taken from randomized polls, could have a higher margin of error than pollsters calculate — polls with a sample size of 1,100, have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent — due in part to the Bradley effect, Kenneth Pollock, a professor of statistics said.

The term originates from Los Angeles, Calif.’s 1982 may-oral election, in which exit polls showed Tom Bradley, black Democratic candidate, leading the race by a wide margin.

Final results show Bradley had actually lost the close election to George Deukmejian, white Re-publican candidate.

Although the numbers were taken from exit polls — Poll-ster.com’s results come primar-ily from randomized telephone surveys — Pollock said the phe-nomenon is something he and other statisticians will be look-ing for in this election.

“There is the potential for people to lie to pollsters. For this election, that could occur in the form of the Bradley effect,” Pol-lock said. “There is a real con-cern in this election is whether there will be more people lying to the pollsters because of their hidden racism. There could be some people that wouldn’t admit to a pollster that they wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black.”

But to some, the Bradley effect

is only theoretical and will not be a factor in the election.

One of those is Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic presidential candidate.

On Larry King Live in early Oc-tober, King prompted Michelle to talk about whether she believed the Bradley effect was a factor in preventing her husband’s elec-tion to the White House.

“Look where we are, Larry. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee. If there was going to be a Bradley effect, or it was going to be in play, Barack wouldn’t be the nominee,” she said. “We have to focus on the country as it is. That was several decades ago. And I think that there’s been growth and movement.”

She said although there will be people who will never vote for Obama, there will also be people who will never vote for McCain.

“Right now, people are so fo-cused on what is the fate of our country, not just here domesti-cally, but internationally,” she said. “And I just believe that the issues are going to weigh in people’s hearts more so as they go into the voting booths this time around, than anything else.”

Sarah Kessinger, a freshman in First Year College, said she thinks the effect has actually reversed itself, and “hidden racism” won’t play a part in this Tuesday’s elec-tion results.

“It seems like now, people are the reverse,” she said. “They want to vote for [Obama] because they feel like they’re doing the right thing.”

Kessinger was part of a survey earlier in the year that asked how respondents felt about certain aspects of McCain, Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton.

“They asked if I would have a problem with a black president or an older president,” she said. “I said no to both. I don’t care as long as they stand firm on what they say and act on it.”

Bradley effect could arise in election

LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANThe N.C. Museum of History puts on a exhibit with a brief history of the past North Carolina governors. In the exhibit, the governers’ and wives’ apparel and campaign items from di!erent time periods were shown. The ex-hibit will last until Sept. 2009.

LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANThe Elected to Serve exhibit at the N.C. Mu-seum of History has items owned by di!erent gov-ernors like Robert Glenn who helped increase cot-ton, furniture, pulp and tobacco manufacturing due to his study of water resources. There is an oil painting of him in the exhibit. The dress worn by First Lady Patricia Hol-shouser was on display along with the oil paint-ing.

LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANThe N.C. Museum of History displays dresses from the di!erent gov-ernors’ wives through-out history, including the gold satin dress that Margaret Elizabeth Gardner Hoey, gov. Clyde R. Hoey’s wife, wore. Hoey was also known as “Miss Bess” and wore the dress to her husband’s inaugu-ral ball.

As Election Day looms closer, governors’ exhibit brings awareness of predecessorsGubernatorial candidates, running a close race, bring main points to their platforms

Alison HarmanFeatures Editor

North Carolina will choose its new governor Tuesday, bringing an end to an election in which neither Republican can-didate Pat McCrory nor Democratic candidate

Bev Perdue has ever been more than 5 percentage points above the other, according to Pollster.com.

Indiv idua l pol l ing agencies have reported wide margins of approv-al for Perdue — one PPP survey showed Perdue at 45 percent approval while McCrory was at 35 percent — and others for McCrory — SurveyUSA reported McCrory up 49 percent to Perdue’s 41 percent in early Septem-

ber. But when averaged over

time, the two have nearly parallel approval ratings about 3 percentage points apart.

This is the first year since the state could have a Republican governor since 1985, when North Carolinians elected Jim Martin.

Eight years before he was elected, James Hol-shouser, Jr. broke a 72-year-long Democratic gubernatorial streak.

Each of these governors played a part in changing the way North Carolina did politics, and an ex-hibit at the North Caro-lina Museum of History is highlighting their work with the state.

According to the Web site, the exhibit shows how governors have “helped shape North Carolina through contri-butions to areas such as agriculture, industry, and education, while defining their roles as leaders.”

Here’s a look at some of North Carolina’s previous governors — their focus while in office, what they’re re-membered for — and what McCrory, Perdue and Libertarian candi-date Michael Munger plan to accomplish if elected to office.

All have focused some of their main points on the econo-my.

FeaturesLIFE & STYLE

James Holshouser, RepublicanJames Holshouser was elected in

1973 and served until 1977. He served as an attorney and, on some occa-sions, represented Watauga County in the North Carolina General Assembly. He was the state’s youngest governor in the 20th century, and while Repub-lican U.S. Senator supported Ronald Reagan for president in 1976, Hols-houser supported Gerald Ford.Holshouser consolidated the UNC school system under a central Board of Governors, created statewide enrollment for children entering kin-dergarten and built health clinics in rural areas.

He now serves as a member emeritus of the Board of Governors.

SOURCE: UNCTV.ORG

Mike Easley, DemocratMike Easley, who has been in office since

2001, is the state’s second Catholic governor. He attended UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University School of Law. He was elected District Attorney in 1982.

Some believe Easley’s election was largely in part to an endorsement from Andy Griffith in a television advertisement.

Easley has focused on education reform.He was the first governor to use the

power of the veto — over the course of his seven years, he used the power nine times.

His wife, Mary, is an executive in resi-dence at the Provost’s Office. An audit of her trip to France and Russia accuses her of improperly handling state funds.

SOURCE: NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NEWSOBSERVER.COM

W. Kerr Scott, DemocratWilliam Kerr Scott, for whom a

building on the State Fairgrounds and a dam in Wilkes County are named, served as governor from 1949 until 1952. As a farmer, Scott was an advo-cate for other state farmers and the agricultural issues that supported them. Scott was first elected as Commissioner of Agriculture earlier, but resigned from the job to run for governor.

He had a group of followers called the “Branchhead Boys,” who supported him in all campaigns.

He served as a U.S. Senator from 1954 until 1958.

SOURCE: FINDAGRAVE.ORG

Bev Perdue, Democratic candidateBev Perdue, a former public school

teacher and hospital administrator, served as the Lieutenant Governor under Gov. Mike Easley. If elected, she will be North Carolina’s first female governor. She served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1986 to 1990, and in the state Senate from 1990 to 2000.

One of her main points as a guber-natorial candidate is the economy. “I’ve laid out extensive policies that out-line pathways to economic growth, infra-structure development and job training” for North Carolina, she said in an e-mail. She said that, as a legislator, she “fought to get North Carolina to make critical early investments in biotechnology.”She said she will continue to make in-vestments in sectors like the military, homeland security, aerospace engineer-ing and green technology, which create new jobs. She said she led the creation of the North Carolina Military Foundation and Green Business Fund.

SOURCE: BEV PERDUE; BEVPERDUE.COM

Pat McCrory, Republican candidatePat McCrory, who has served as

mayor of Charlotte for 11 terms, is the longest-serving mayor the city has had. He served as student body president of his high school, graduated from Catawba College and worked with Duke Energy Corporation.

He was elected at-large city coun-cilman in 1989.

One of his platform points is tech-nical education, which he said will ful-fill the “labor needs of North Carolina. My number one goal is to create jobs.” He said he is trying to build up the economy so students can get jobs af-ter they graduate from college.

He also said he is planning to “re-introduce North Carolina to the energy business: nuclear energy, clean fossil fuels, wind, solar and also off-short drilling for both natural gas and oil.” He said the state will have to reduce North Carolina’s income tax to keep jobs in the state.

News Editor Chris Allred contributed to this report.

SOURCE: PAT MCCRORY; PATMCCRORY.COM

Michael Munger, Libertarian candidateMichael Munger, an economist and

chair of the political science department at Duke University, graduated from David-son College and Washington University in St. Louis. He worked as a staff economist for the Federal Trade Commission under the Reagan Administration. He has also taught at Dartmouth, University of Texas at Austin and UNC-Chapel Hill.He said students and their families have been squeezed economically, and his eco-nomic development plan would rebuild the state’s small businesses. He advocates an education system that “focuses on the 21st-century workplace.”

He said he wants to reduce taxes and regulatory burdens.

SOURCE: MICHAEL MUNGER; MUNGER4NCGOV.COM

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Thousands of students turned out for the second Haunted Hillsborough

Hike, bringing in lots of custom-ers for local businesses.

For the most part, the Hike was a success — safety was not a huge problem, students had a local place to celebrate Hallow-een and businesses had plenty of customers.

The University should not take any excessive preventative mea-sures for next year’s Haunted Hike.

At most, University officials should work to bring in enter-tainment for underage students at the Hike.

Jay Dawkins, student body president, said the Haunted Hike was bigger, more spread out and well-controlled.

From initial accounts, safety was not a huge issue. Campus Police said there were only 20 alcohol violations, two arrests and three citations.

The Haunted Hike was a suc-cess, even with the last-minute parking restrictions the Univer-sity implemented for on-campus lots Thursday — Dawkins said he did not notice any effect on turnout.

If the Haunted Hike isn’t bro-ken, the University does not need to fix it.

Students had a reasonable, convenient alternative to the Halloween festivities on Frank-lin Street and brought plenty of business to local establishments

on Hillsborough Street.What the University needs to

do is bring in entertainment and activities, like live entertainment or specials at establishments that do not serve alcohol for students who are under the legal drink-ing age.

Underage students are limited in their options for the Haunted Hike, particularly if bars and res-taurants are only admitting legal drinkers during the event.

Local businesses were the driv-ing force behind the Haunted Hike, but there is only so much they can do to provide enter-tainment for underage students if they limit admission for safety reasons.

The University is ideally posed to handle this problem.

Restaurants and bars are lim-ited by the amount of space avail-able in the business, liability con-cerns and agreements with local police.

The University can bring in other entertainment for only students in a separate event or work with other establishments to give underage students a place to enjoy the evening.

Hillsborough Street businesses have done their part to draw stu-dents in for Halloween.

Now the University needs to make sure everyone can have a safe, enjoyable time on Halloween.

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:Despite the University’s parking restrictions, the Haunted Hillsborough Hike took place with few problems.

OUR OPINION:The Haunted Hike was a success with students and businesses alike.

THE SOLUTION:The University should work to ensure the Haunted Hike continues to be a safe, growing tradition and needs to find entertainment for underage students at future Hikes.

Haunted Hike a success — don’t ruin it{OUR VIEW}

The Haunted Hike may bring Hillsborough Street back to life.

Mansoor Omar, junior in communication

CAMPUSFORUM{ }

Campus does not need farmers’ market

Really, a farmers’ market?Sometimes, when I’m reading Tech-

nician, I come across certain issues discussed that make me say, “really... is this serious?” I came across just such an issue on Thursday.

A farmers’ market in the Brickyard is nothing short of ridiculous. Don’t believe me? All right, I’ll prove it.

Well, students, ask yourselves these three questions: When was the last time I wanted fresh produce? Where would I cook said produce? And, if I was a farmer, would I give up a day at the state farmers’ market to work at the N.C. State farmers’ market?

The answer to these questions is most likely: don’t know, don’t know and no way. Campus is not a large enough, or reliable enough market to set up such a...market. Technician said it best when they said, “the farmers’ market is not a financial money pit.”

What person would spend a whole day selling produce in this environ-ment, just to make life better for some college kids. NO ONE! Students like this idea because it’s “conve-nient.” However, we have a real farm-ers’ market within three miles. It takes five minutes to get there.

You could walk it in under 40 min-utes. Citizens in the area would kill for that kind of convenience. So students, take off the pajamas, put on some real clothes and venture outside of the campus bubble for a day... there’s some good stuff out there.

Peter M. Heiman IIIsenior, political science

Friday forum presents ignorant views

I was appalled by the ignorant rants posted by Mr. Bunting, Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Shepherd in the Campus Forum Oct. 31 — I don’t even know where to begin. I could write three individual letters to respond to their forum postings.

Responding to Bunting: sir, the Technician is about the farthest thing from a conservatively-biased news-paper. Seriously — you are talking about the same issue with a full page Barack Obama advertisement. I wish the University knew all the College Republicans do on campus, but they don’t because this paper will not cover them. For example, at the Mike Huckabee event about 30 N.C State students were present, however; the picture in the 10/30 Technician was of a UNC-CH student —The Daily Tarheel was present, but our own Techni-cian could not go five blocks down Hillsborough Street for the event. Likewise, any G-List actor that comes to NCSU draws out the entire force of the Technician staff.

Mr. Hewitt is also grossly confused with the basics of American govern-ment. He brings up the Republican Congress with President Bush. Well, George Bush has been in office for 7.5 years — the first six the economy was fine — two years ago consumer con-

fidence stood at a 2.5 year high, gaso-line sold for $2.19 a gallon, the unem-ployment was at 4.5 percent, and the DOW hit a record high. But in 2004 we elected “change” and now with our Democratic Congress and we all know where the economy stands.

Mr. Hewitt also does not under-stand fourth grade civics. The “Re-publican Congress,” means nothing: for one political party to be in com-plete control, they must have a 60-40 majority in the U.S. Senate — the 55-44 distribution of 2004 is not enough. In case you didn’t see School House Rock, it takes both the Senate and the House of Representatives to pass a bill.

Mr. Shepherd is also completely misinformed. As Governor of Alaska, Palin has higher security clearance than Obama, McCain and Biden. She knows world affairs and, sir, you don’t want to play the experience game. Obama has been in the Senate for less than four years but McCain has been in the Congress for 26 years — he was in a POW camp longer than Obama has been in national politics!

Ches McDowellChairman-NCSU College RepublicansSophomore Political Science

Boycott an unnecessary overreaction

OK, we get it. The cartoon posted in the Technician was done in poor taste and just short of funny, but racist? Not in the slightest. Boycotting the stu-dent newspaper over hurt feelings is one thing, but suggesting that these dedicated individuals, whom I am sure come from all walks of life, are prejudice is just stupid. Why does it feel like everyone has to walk on egg shells when discussing, portraying and/or talking about race?

It’s the 21st century — hell, there is even an African American running for president, and yet we still have some-one pulling the “racist card.” What exactly is so racist about the cartoon? The lips, the nose... the skin?! Did you ever stop to think that the ‘artist’ just did a poor job before jumping to the conclusion of being racist?

Don’t get me wrong, racism is ter-rible and it isn’t to be taken lightly, but come on — you have to laugh. There have been plenty of cartoons that I could have written the editor and argued to be racist on my race’s behalf, but I’d like to think I am a grown individual and mature enough to handle a petty caricature.

Overreaction best describes the situation at hand, if not immature. My advice to Charita Stubbs and the vol-leyball team: look up the definition of racist. The Technician is a student run, student-based school newspaper — don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

Lindsey Harrisonfreshman, business administration

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As you shovel strips of bacon into your mouth at breakfast, do you

ever stop to wonder where the pig came from? As residents

of North Carolina, t he s e c-ond largest pork pro-ducer i n the coun-try, there is a good chance it came from

just down the highway. But shouldn’t we be asking

more about our daily bread than that? Most people I know don’t care much about the source of food, as long as they have some and it’s as in-expensive as possible. College students, myself included, are especially coupon savvy.

A time lapse look inside my roommates and my refrig-erator would reveal an ever changing assortment of deli meat and yogurt brands. It’s not about the food itself, it’s about the price, duh.

This way of thinking seems good, thrifty even, on the surface. But wasn’t the mad-dening search for cheap and cheaper houses and loans what got the economy to its present state? There were too many huge companies making too many promises and taking on too much risk, all in the name of cheaper products.

Most of the food produced in our state comes from giant fac-tory plants owned by giant cor-porations, which, at their core, aren’t all that different than banks and mortgage lenders. I’ll use Smithfield Foods Inc. as an example here, although it’s by no means the only one.

Smithfield Foods, which has a large presence in the state, is not only responsible for the food at the store branded under that name, but also Gwaltney, Butterball, Armour, John Mor-rell, Cumberland Gap, Cook’s, Weight Watchers and Farmland. And don’t forget the other 200 or so meat and “gourmet foods” brands.

Smithfield Foods employs 57,000 people. It’s huge. And it has problems, just like the huge mortgage lending companies and banks. The company has been chastised in the state for polluting groundwater with hog waste and are in the middle of a struggle over low wages and dangerous conditions at a plant in Tar Heel, N.C. The company’s stock value has fallen from more than $30 per share to about $9 in one year.

On top of economic and legal trouble, mega corporations do not have the time to worry about the small things important to customers, like switching to organic pest control, stopping the use of chemical additives or giving livestock more natural environments in which to live. Health, basically.

And just like the housing industry, for years and years, neither economic, legal, nor health issues have impacted the consumer’s view of large food processing plants.

But with the rise of organic, unprocessed foods, the eco-nomic hardship big business is experiencing and the rise in environmental protection laws, these food giants may begin to experience some problems.

Maybe they’ll have to scale back, re-evaluate farming hab-its, change the things they do to our food. Maybe some will close. At the very least, some of those CEO types will be hurting for extra cash because their summer houses were foreclosed upon and they lost half of their 401ks.

And that all means costs will rise for consumers. Does this sound familiar at all?

Hard economic times call for a re-evaluation of our life-styles. If consumers had been spending just a little more buy-ing quality products (not sub-prime mortgages) from small-scale producers, I’m willing to bet our nation wouldn’t be in this mess.

It’s not too late to change our habits. I’m going to make an effort. I think you should too.

Send Taylor your thoughts on bacon to [email protected].

Taylor McCuneSenior Sta! Writer

Know your bacon — it’s more important than you think

“What were they?”

Weston Poullossenior, business administration

“I think a lot of students got in trouble.”

Heidi Andringasophomore, fashion textile management

BY DANIEL TANAKA

What effect did the University’s restrictions have on the Haunted

Hillsborough Hike?

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Chris Bishopsenior, economics

“I didn’t participate last year, so I really don’t know how it compared.”

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Sportsever, as State players received five yellow cards, including one on Kerrigan for arguing with a referee’s calls.

“It should tell you something that we’ve never gotten that many yellow cards.” Kerrigan said. “And for that many yellow cards to be issued for dissent, for arguing with the referee about calls, that should tell you some-thing. Almost every single [yel-low card] was for a referee’s call that we questioned.”

“It’s just such a shame that this victory was taken away from us, because we deserved it. We played very, very well.”

Though the controversial

calls were clearly on the players’ minds, afterwards State knew the team had left it all on the field.

“Nobody gave up until the fi-nal whist le.” Vera said. “And w he t he r we won or we lost, we played great. I don’t care if it says it was a losing score. We won in our minds.”

Vera and Krz-eszweski leave behind a program they have changed dramatically, including leading the team to a 7-0 start before multiple injuries occurred.

“We had a changing of the cul-

ture. Over the spring we trans-formed into a team that holds each other accountable and is

wil ling to put that extra effort out,” Krzeszwes-ki said.

Kerrigan said she is proud of how the seniors impacted this team.

“I can’t say enough about the leadership we had this year and how this team turned

around,” she said. “I could not be more proud of the way this team played, and I think the leader-ship of Tami Krzeszweski and Lindsay Vera had so much to do with that.”

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CHRIS SANCHEZ/TECHNICIANFreshman forward Amanda Carr maneuvers the ball away from FSU junior defender Becky Edwards at N.C. State Soccer Stadium Sunday . The Pack led early in the game but lost to the Seminoles 5-2.

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WOLFFACTS

Volleyball drops two on road trip

The volleyball team lost twice over the weekend as State extended its losing streak to seven with losses to ACC foes Boston College and Maryland. The Pack had beaten both teams in its first meeting of the sea-son in Reynolds Coliseum, but were swept in both matches 3-0. State’s Arlee Tamietti had 20 kills during the two matches as she led the team in kills in each contest.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

State competes in dual meet

The men’s swimming and diving team collected wins against Duke and Maryland in Durham Saturday, improving to 4-1 overall and 2-1 in the ACC. The women’s team dropped both meets. The teams will meet the Terrapins again when State travels to the Maryland Invitational in College Park, Md. on Nov. 20.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Intramural volleyball playo! brackets posted

Brackets for intramural volleyball have been posted on the Campus Rec intramural sports website. Play be-gins tonight for some co-rec teams, with other divisions beginning later this week and next. The champion-ships are set to be played Nov. 17th, but times and schedules are subject to change.

SOURCE: CAMPUS RECREATION

Wi"eball registration ends today

Registration for wiffleball will end today. The captains meeting will take place this Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Carmichael Complex Playzone. A representative from each team must attend the meeting in order to participate in the tournament. Play begins Nov. 10th.

SOURCE: CAMPUS RECREATION

ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

WednesdayWOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. PREMIER PLAYERSReynolds Coliseum, 7:00 PM

WIFFLEBALL CAPTAINS MEETINGPlayzone, 6 p.m.

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Wolfpack shuts out Virginia Tech on senior night

MEN’S SOCCER

ANDY MUSSELMAN/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOSophomore mid!elder Chris Zuerner slides in to take the ball away from a Longwood player during the game October 29. The Pack beat Virginia Tech Saturday night 2 to 0.

SCORES BY SANCHEZ, ZUERNER LIFT PACK TO WIN

Will VasalyStaff Writer

The men’s soccer team played un-der the lights at the N.C. State Soccer Stadium for the first time Saturday night and earned a 2-0 shutout vic-tory over Virginia Tech.

It was the final home game for se-niors Stanley Mathurin, Clint Pires and Daniel Shields.

The win lifted State’s record to 6-8-1 overall and 2-5 in conference play, but Coach George Tarantini said the victory meant much more than an-other notch in the win column.

“This is the first time in 25 years that we could play under the lights,” Coach Tarantini said. “[It was spe-cial] for the seniors, for the program, for the fans. It’s a good feeling.”

Few fouls were called during Sat-urday’s match and aggressive plays were largely unchecked, sophomore Chris Zuerner said.

“The referee let us play,” Zuerner said, “He had the mentality that these are college athletes...they’re going to be physical, so let them play.”

The aggressive style of play even-tually led to State’s first goal, when ju-nior Alan Sanchez collided in midair with a Hokie de-fender, brought down the ball and then curled a shot around the keeper from the top of the box.

Sanchez said af-ter the collision he pushed thoughts about a possible foul from his mind - all that mattered was putting the ball in the net.

“I feel it’s out of your hands, [the

officiating] was the last thing on my mind” Sanchez said. “I had to fin-ish the play. I’m really trying to get

[a better seeding] for the ACC tour-nament.”

State’s one goal lead was in se-rious jeopardy, however, when the Hokies surged into the Wolfpack box and put up five shots on goal with under four minutes remain-ing in the match.

Junior goa l-keeper Christo-pher Widma n stopped only one of the shots, as the Pack defend-ers slid and dove

across the pitch to keep the ball out of the goal.

After the Virginia Tech barrage, Zuerner collected the ball at midfield and drove to the top of the box for a strike that iced the match for State.

The Pack will look to improve its ACC tournament seeding Friday when it travels to Duke for the final game of the regular season.

CROSS COUNTRY

Men’s cross country exceeds expectations in deja vu finishFreshmen women place 10th at ACC Championships, men claim 2nd

Daniel Ellis Deputy News Editor

In the past, N.C. State cross country has been able to ac-complish a feat on an annual basis that separates them from other teams - winning ACC Championships. This year, however, the men’s cross country team failed to cap-ture the school’s first title of the 2008-2009 year, claiming runner-up honors behind the University of Virginia.

“We were predicted to fin-ish fourth, so we did better than expected, but it was disappointing that we didn’t win,” redshirt junior John Martinez, who finished 5th with a time of 24:33.8, said. “Winning is always the goal no matter what the situation is or who we have lining up.”

Deja vu overcame the Wolf-pack men as they finished be-hind Virginia for the second

consecutive year. “I take my hat off to the Uni-

versity of Virginia,” coach Rollie Geiger said. “We werenít that far behind them, but our goal is not to finish second in this race.”

Although the team didn’t ac-complish its traditional goal of winning the ACC Champion-ships, the team had four runners earn All-ACC honors, including ACC Freshman of the Year Ryan Hill (24:47.2).

“Ryan’s race was amazing,” Martinez said. “Every time he goes out there he tends to impress me and everyone on the team a little bit more. We couldn’t have asked for anything more from him.”

State was aided by the return of redshirt senior Gavin Coombs (12th, 24:47.0) from injury along with redshirt graduate student Bobby Mack, who was only re-cently granted another year of eligibility by the NCAA.

Mack led all Pack runners with a time of 24:30.9.

“With about half of a mile to go, Bobby and I both were one-two, but we were still in a group of about five or six other people,” Martinez said. “When it came down to it, we just couldn’t hold

off the kick of Ryan Foster.”The women’s team finished

10th overall. Many of State’s returners are either redshirting this season or were sidelined for the race due to injury.

“We have two weeks until re-gionals, so we’re just going to use this as a building block to improve,” freshman Emily Pritt said. “It wasn’t our best finish, but it was a learning lesson for us.”

Prior to Saturday’s meet, the lowest ACC championship finish was in 1982. That year, former State runner Connie Jo Robin-son paced the team to a 3rd place finish.

“We aren’t trying to compare ourselves to other teams,” Pritt said. “The teams before us have just been incredible, and at the same time none of them have ever had a group of six inexpe-rienced freshmen.”

Pritt finished the 6K race in a time of 21:31.4, good for 24th place. Caroline Kirby (52nd, 22:17.1), Andie Cozzarelli (61st, 22:41.2), Lauren Bishop (75th, 23:03.6) and Amanda Burger (80th, 23:14.5) rounded out the scoring for the Pack.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Wolfpack drops heartbreakerControversial calls lead to loss on Senior Day

Samuel T.O. BranchSenior Staff Writer

The women’s soccer team was unable to hold onto a two-goal lead on senior day Sunday afternoon as No. 6 Florida State scored five sec-ond half goals to take down N.C. State in the team’s final match of the season.

The match was the last in the collegiate careers of se-niors Lindsay Vera and Tami Krzeszweski. The two were honored before the game, which meant nothing to State’s postseason, though Vera said the team came out fighting.

“Since today was Senior Day, everybody was pretty pumped,” Vera said. “And knowing we had no pressure going into this game, every-one was up and ready to play. It was our last game and we were willing to leave it all on the field.”

State used that energy to take an early lead when a cor-ner kick came right to Vera in the box. Vera then showed the skill that has made her the Pack’s leading scorer for the past two seasons, rifling

a turn-around shot into the cor-ner.

Early in the second half, State tallied another marker when freshman forward Paige Dugal stole the ball in the box for an easy tap in goal.

But right after that score, Florida State’s Katrin Schmidt received a great lead ball and beat freshman goalkeeper Kim Kern on a one-on-one to cut the Pack’s lead to one goal.

Then, with 29:18 to play, head referee Alex Sorondo called a questionable foul in the box which led to a Sarah Wagenfuhr penalty kick goal.

The Pack never recovered from the letdown of that goal, and lat-er the same referee called a foul right outside the box which led to score off of a free kick.

“It’s just a tragedy that the ref-eree’s penalty kick call decided this game, and then another call at the top of the box,” coach Lau-ra Kerrigan said. “It’s a tragedy that a game like this we fought so hard on comes down to two calls by the referee.”

After the game, Krzeszweski referred to the penalty kick call as ‘shocking.’”

Calls against the Pack were not limited to just those two, how-

SOCCER continued page 9

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“This is the first time in 25 years

that we could play under the lights. [It was special] for the seniors, for the pro-gram, for the fans.

It’s a good feeling. ”George Tarantini on

Senior Night

MATCH STATISTICS:Scoring: NCSU-Sanchez unassisted at 23:18NCSU-Zuerner unassisted at 87:46

Shots: NCSU 14, VT 11Saves: NCSU 2 (Widman 1),VT 4 (St. Germain 4)Corner Kicks: NCSU 2, VT 5Fouls: NCSU 7, VT 5

Records: NCSU 6-8-1, 2-5 ACCVT 5-11-1, 0-7 ACC

SOURCE: NCSU ATHLETICS

DID YOU KNOW?The women’s cross country team’s

10th place finish in Saturday’s ACC Championship was the worst in the program’s history.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Every time he goes out there, he tends to impress me and everyone

on the team a little bit more. We couldn’t

have asked for anything more

from him.”John Martinez on ACC

Freshman of the Year Ryan Hill

• 20 days until the football game at UNC-Chapel Hill. • Page 9: Continuation of women’s soccer and Pigskin Picks.


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