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Alexandra KenneyStaff Writer
Que lo Que, a student organiza-tion that strives to see the world from different prospectives, held its third public forum Thursday, Feb. 21. A handful of students gathered in the honors village library with open minds, not sure what to expect from the discussion.
Que lo Que is an organization that takes a new approach to internation-al service. It was founded by three wolfpackers: Hunter Isgrig, a senior in biological sciences, Brian Gaudio, a senior in environmental design in architecture, and Drew Brisley.
Members of the organization seek to help the community of Las Lajas in the Dominican Republic. They do so in three ways: the college im-mersion program, a skill inventory of Las Lajas, and advocating global citizenship in Raleigh.
The first forum talked about “Tom’s” shoes, and an anthropology professor talked about his experi-ence in Malawi in the second.
The service organization has also held public forums for N.C. State students. The purpose of the forums is to reveal different public services and spark open-discussion about relevant issues in service, public pol-icy and international aid, according to the Que lo Que Facebook page. “Our public forums hope to give students a chance to talk and learn something new about the world
around them,” Gaudio said. The topic changes for each fo-
rum. The most recent forum was about Chinese Education and how it differs from American Education. This forum allowed students to learn about a differ-ent culture, bounce questions off their peers and ask profes-sionals about their experience, but it differed from the usual. Forums generally focus on dif-ferent aspects of international service and aid, but still provide students with a chance to learn about foreign cultures.
Gaudio thinks there are not enough chances for students to sit down and talk about cultural issues at N.C. State. He said the group hopes to hold four more forums before the year is done. The group will hold a forum that will feature the Ghana Summer Study Abroad Program at N.C. State.
Que lo Que has implemented a college immersion program in the Dominican Republic that seeks to learn about the com-munity during the span of sev-eral years instead of executing a short-term project, finishing it and leaving the country. Mem-bers of the group have traveled to the Dominican Republic several times to learn about the commu-nity before trying to understand
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Pittsboro pays in PLENTYJosué MolinaStaff Writer
Some businesses in Pittsboro ac-cept two forms of currency, and there is PLENTY of it.
The PLENTY Currency Coopera-tive manages the PLENTY, an acro-nym that stands for the Piedmont Local EcoNomy Tender.
The currency’s intended purpose is to help promote local commerce within the community and make money more of a face-to-face inter-action, since the currency cannot be used with the direct deposit system.
The local currency’s circulation is an approach to the buy local move-
ment. The Currency Cooperative said the PLENTY is an attempt to promote recurrent local consump-tion by encouraging local businesses to buy the supplies they need to op-erate from Pittsboro.
PLENTYs, which are offered in 50, 20, 10, 5 and 1 denomination bills, have a unique appearance com-pared to the green Federal Reserve notes. PLENTYs are colorful notes that feature images of wildlife and landmarks distinctive to the region. Despite their colorful and foreign appearance, PLENTYs are a legal form of currency and are taxed the same as dollars.
The currency is only accepted at about 47 locations in the area, and
the businesses that take the curren-cy are able to decide whether they allow purchases to be made with only PLENTYS or a combination of local and federal currency.
Businesses become members of the project by paying a $50 annual membership fee and the businesses must reside in Chatham, Orange, Durham, Wake or Lee counties. Businesses that use PLENTYs are also required to promote the cur-rency and abide by other guidelines in order to continue their use of the currency.
Piedmont Biofuels, a fuel com-pany in Pittsboro, uses the PLEN-
Restaurant owner plants garden to go green and make green
Young LeeAssociate Features Editor
When Arthur Gordon, owner and chef of The Irregardless Cafe, first put his hands in the soil at a farm in Goldsboro three years ago, he said he felt God. By investing in a com-munity farm that will be partnered with his restaurant and bringing the farming experience to volunteers in the city, Gordon said he believes that he can benefit the whole downtown Raleigh community.
The project, called the Well Fed Community Garden, began about a year ago when Gordon said he first contacted his realtor with the
idea to create a community garden. Now, with a property purchased on Athens Drive, a newly renovated well drawing 11 gallons of water a minute and planted blueberries and blackberries, Gordon said he is hopeful for the future of the project. However, some neighbors remain doubtful of the garden’s benefit and Gordon is continuing to talk with city officials to get the green light for some of his plans.
“The idea of the project is that I own the restaurant and I own the [garden] property so there’s not actually going to be any commerce taking place on the land,” Gordon said. “We’ll be growing the vegeta-
bles on the land there and we intend to bring them here to the restaurant and we’ll serve them in the restau-rant. In return, the restaurant will provide some compost material and we’ll take it back to the property and we’ll compost. It’s a full circle.”
Gordon plans to use students and members of the community to help grow the produce on the farm. While the work on the farm will be on a strict volunteer-basis because the garden isn’t categorized as a business, volunteers would be able to take any produce from the
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bookstoreKevin SchaeferStaff Writer
People of all ages packed inside Quail Ridge Books and Music to meet one of their favorite au-thors Wednesday night. Critical-ly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy novelist Brandon Sand-erson greeted readers young and old with a wealth of enthusiasm.
Known for completing the late Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and having been se-lected to do so by Jordan’s widow and Editor Harriet McDougal, Sanderson’s fiction has captured the minds of imaginative youth and adults worldwide.
“It’s exciting putting a face to the author, especially after hav-ing spent so much time invested in this series,” said Joe Allen, a fan who was eager to get his books autographed. “I have an original signed copy of Robert Jordan’s work, so it’s cool to meet the guy who finished the series.”
By 7 p.m. the entire middle section of the bookstore was full, and fans were continually
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CAIDE WOOTEN/TECHNICIANGarden manager Jason Johnson waters plants in the greenhouse.
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Almost a month ago, Gordon and his wife host-ed an open house at the new garden-in-progress for neighbors. Not everyone who attended responded positively. Some attendees said they were concerned about how the farm could negatively affect the com-munity, The News and Ob-server reported.
Nevertheless, Gordon said that most neighbors are as excited about the project as he and he is confident the farm will only benefit the community.
“I’m not trying to create an adversarial relationship,” Gordon said. “I want every-one to be able to laugh at it. I want everyone to see how ludicrous it is to be ban-ning a garden. At the open house, there were more than one hundred people there and there were only two or three in the neighborhood opposed to it. We expect them to come to the board of adjustments.”
Gordon said that most
concerned community mem-bers were afraid that the farm would cause the neighbor-hood to become too commer-cialized. Others expressed concerns that a farming project would lower property values. However, Gordon said the project would only raise property value by removing a dilapidated property that was in disrepair and by of-fering a community-building activity.
“What we found from the open house is that there are a lot of people who want to help out,” Gordon said.
This excitement necessi-tated consideration to create an extended parking area. To discuss the plans for the parking lot and for the green-house on the property, Gor-don scheduled to meet with city officials on March 11.
“We’re going for a variance on a garden, which makes no sense to me at all personally but we’ll do it,” Gordon said. “My strategy has always been to just do it and then find out later about why I can’t do it. If I wait for permission, I’ll never get started. So I bust ahead and then I might use my celebrity with being a long-time businessman to
take the heat for doing this if necessary because again, I know it’s a righteous cause. I know God is on the side of this, he wants this to hap-pen.”
Gordon said he hopes that the Well Fed Community Garden can be an example of how community farms can operate in the city and to address the amount of foreclosed and weak proper-ties that “banks are just sit-ting on.
“If [the banks] unload it all at once, that’s really going to depress property prices,” Gordon said. “[With proj-ects such as Well Fed Com-munity Garden,] the banks get all of their money back so there’s no problem there, they get good PR and we’re eliminating deserts in the city. Kids are going to get to see produce growing and we’re introducing something else besides prostitution and drugs. It’s got a win-win-win chance to it. We’re trying to be the pioneers showing that this can work.”
4 The World wins N.C. Peace PrizeTyler Gobin Staff Writer
Local nonprofit organiza-tion wins 2013 North Caro-lina Peace Prize and strength-ens campus involvement.
The North Carolina Peace Corps Association awarded the 2013 North Carolina Peace Prize to 4 The World, a non-profit group based out of Garner, for its collaboration with different communities across the globe.
The nonprofit works with communities to help identify and solve problems, specifi-cally in healthcare and edu-cation. It provides support to ensure these communities are capable of continuing to grow, according to the orga-nization’s website.
“It’s about a relationship; were not just going in and dumping resources,” said Shea Kerkhoff Vessa, 4 The World Education Director.
Recently, 4 The World Founder, Robert Froom, not only refurbished a school in the poorest district of Belize, but he redesigned it, said Ves-sa. “Every time they would re-build it, the rains would just take it out again.”
Froom redesigned the school so it wouldn’t happen again, Vessa said. Froom es-sentially reinvented the struc-ture. Not only will the school benefit from Froom’s design but the rest of the commu-nity will adopt the structure as well.
Robert Froom, an entrepre-
neur and California native, founded 4 The World nine years ago in North Carolina. He recently worked with the intern who established the first college chapter at N.C. State, according to Me-gan Goodfellow, a senior in business administration and 4 The World executive board member. The N.C. State chap-ter of 4 The World is working to recruit new members and organize events. They aim to pull in interested students by handing out free ice cream at the group’s first formal event of the semester.
4 The World’s next event will be a mass advertising ser-vice project in order to raise money for its spring holiday Belize trip, said Goodfellow.
On March 16th, On the Border restaurant in Cary is donating 10 percent of every customer’s purchases who mentions 4 The World to the NC State chapter. The money raised will go directly toward school supplies for children in Belize. All students have to say is, “I support 4 The World,” Vessa said.
The Belize trip will not only benefit the schools, but also the economy as a whole. Along with the money being raised from On the Border giveback night, the Cary Rotary Club gave the 4 The World parent organization a grant for school supplies, said Vessa. But instead of gather-ing supplies in America and shipping them to Belize, 4 The World will take the
money down to Belize and purchase all the sup-plies at local businesses. “We can get more for our money, it’s more efficient, and we stimulate the local economy.” The N.C. State students on the trip will distribute the supplies to all the local schools.
Currently N.C. State is 4 The World’s only cam-pus chapter, but a UNC-Chapel Hill chapter is in the works and college students throughout the United States are assisting communities through the organization regardless of a formal chapter, Vessa said. The parent organization is currently working with stu-dents at UNC-Chapel Hill to establish four executive board members and with Oklahoma State University medical students to volun-
CAIDE WOOTEN/TECHNICIANIrregardless Cafe owner Arthur Gordon (right) and garden project partner Alan Hoffman stand in their greenhouse on the site of their new garden Feb. 18. The sustainable garden, located in a residential area of Raleigh, was designed to produce fresh vegetables to be used at the restaurant.
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TY and pays a portion of some employee paychecks in PLENTYs.
Douglas Pearce, a profes-sor of economics here at N.C. State, said that even though the notes have a 1-to-1 ratio, the currency is not as valu-able as a United States Dollar to holders.
“If you are actually getting paid in this stuff, you would have to get paid more, be-cause in effect it is not worth as much as a dollar,” Pearce said. “You can’t buy every-thing that a dollar can buy; a dollar can buy everything that a PLENTY can buy and other stuff.”
The currency can’t be used in any locations that are not members of the PLENTY Currency Cooperative.
PLENTYs have been in cir-culation in Pittsboro since 2002 and hold the value of one U.S. dollar. Consumers
or firms can acquire PLEN-TYs by exchanging Federal Reserve notes at the Capital Bank branch of Pittsboro.
Lyle Estill, president of the PLENTY Currency Coopera-tive Board of Trustees, said the view that PLENTYs are useless is understandable.
“If I did with my dollar the same thing I do with my PLENTYs the net effect of a local economy is going to be identical,” Estill said. “You can say there is no point in the PLENTY; that would be a perfectly legitimate state-ment.”
The currency may seem pointless, but the circulation of PLENTYs forces people into buying locally instead of thinking about it, accord-ing to Estill. “If you have a pocket full of PLENTYs, you are going to go the place that accepts them. You are kind of forced into participating in a local economy.”
Local currency is not a re-cent development, and there are other cities in North Car-olina like Asheville, Durham
and Mars Hill, that try to promote buying locally with similar systems.
University Dining also has a similar model with its Din-ning Dollars program. While Dinning Dollars are more re-strictive because they cannot be refunded until graduation or withdrawal from the Uni-versity, the system serves as an example of forcing inter-actions in a local economy. Dining Dollars promote market transactions within the N.C. State community by forcing students who partici-pate in the Dinning Dollars program to purchase from C-Stores and other campus locations.
PLENTYs could make their way to Raleigh if a business owner decided to support the project.
coming in to the point where it was difficult to find space to stand.
Nevertheless, those present had no problem standing in long lines on a weeknight, as this event was a rare oppor-tunity for most. Freshman in creative writing Adam Barn-hardt made the trip to see Sanderson out of admiration.
“As a creative writing ma-jor, he’s someone I aspire to. His prose is very well crafted, and I absolutely love his char-acters. Sanderson’s my liter-ary hero.”
As soon as things got started, Sanderson was intro-duced and a spirited applause followed. McDougal was also present with him.
After sharing a brief testi-mony of his writing career, Sanderson opened the next half hour for a question and answer session. Hands flew up in the air in rapid suc-cession, as devoted fans were
eager pick the brain of the well-liked author.
Ranging from subjects regarding characterization and plot to Sanderson’s rea-sons for becoming a writer, the topics of this discus-sion ref lected the creative atmosphere that resonated throughout the store.
Both Sanderson and fans looked as though they could continue conversing with one another for hours on end without getting bored. A mixture of laughter and inquisitiveness helped main-tain a steady flow of energy and excitement.
After the discussion con-cluded, fans lined up to get their copies of Sanderson works such as The Way of Kings and A Memory of Light signed by the man himself. In spite of the large crowd, Sanderson took time to speak with each reader as he or she approached him.
While only in his late thir-ties, Sanderson has proven himself to be a prominent author within the science fic-tion and fantasy genres.
“I’ve been reading The
Wheel of Time series for over 23 years, so it was really cool to have the op-portunity to finish Robert Jordan’s work,” Sanderson said in his opening remarks. While filling the shoes of a critically acclaimed author and personal role model was a daunting task for Sanderson at f irst, it was nonetheless a fundamental part of his career and allowed him to be where he is today, he said.
Six years later, Sanderson and McDougal continue to work together to produce an assortment of fictional works. Sanderson said that what he loves about the medium is that each and every reader brings something fresh to a story. Knowing that his work wouldn’t be possible without a group of dedicated fans, he made it clear that he was as excited as they were to spend the evening with them.
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it.The group did not arrive
with the intent of “fixing” something, rather they in-tended to help the communi-ty develop strengths that were already present. In order to do this, Que lo Que has cre-ated a skill inventory based on their research in Las Lajas.
Aside from helping those in the Dominican Republic
develop, Que lo Que seeks to bring the concepts of foreign cultures to students in Ra-leigh. The group does so in two ways, partnering up with the Centennial Campus Mag-net Middle School and hold-ing public forums for N.C. State students.
Que lo Que holds work-shops at the Centennial Campus Middle School to get youngsters thinking. “We think it is important to inspire at the middle school level,” said Gaudio. “Not only do we want to spark critical
thinking questions at the col-lege level, we want students at the middle school level to start to ask questions about the world they live in.”
Que lo Que will embark on another trip this summer to further their research for the skill inventory project. Stu-dents from any discipline can help. If you would like to go on a trip, donate or find out more about the organization, visit the group’s website at que-lo-que.com
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COURTESY OF KEVIN SCHAFFER Students meet science-fiction author.
ViewpointI am over the moon after
hearing that the new Ad-ventures of Superman
will be co-authored by Orson Scott Card — a true Ameri-c a n w i t h true Ameri-can idea ls. Card, who re s ide s i n Greensboro,
is a true patriot who, as he expressed in a 2008 editorial in Desert News, “Will act to destroy [a] government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and sup-port marriage.” And in his fight against gays, Card will be penning the story for gay-est superhero known to man.
C’mon, don’t act like you didn’t see it. The more I stared down at that perfectly drawn chin, bulging biceps,
powerful quads and daz-zling blue eyes … eherm … I started to realize something queer about the Man of Steel, by which I mean he’s gay.
Let’s start with the obvious: His outfit. No straight man would dare to go out in public wearing such a form-fitting uniform. I suggest Orson Scott Card revamp Super-man’s wardrobe. Let’s see fewer tights and codpieces, and more basketball shorts and ironic tees.
Like many gay teenagers, Superman struggles with his own identity. In public, Superman hides behinds the thick black frames of his publicly accepted iden-tity, Clark Kent. Superman refuses to come out of the closet — where he likely keeps extra codpieces and tights to sashay in. And no other character has a four-part storyline titled Identity Crisis. Superman can’t even
reveal his true identity to the woman whom he supposedly loves, Lois Lane.
Speaking of whom — why hasn’t he made an honest woman out of her and put a ring on her finger? The two have been “talking” since Action Comics #1, published in 1938. Sure, you cou ld argue it’s for Lois’ protec-tion, but if he truly respects the sanctity of marriage, he would either break it off with her, or let Doctor Fate preside over their marriage ceremony.
Before the super-fans at-tack me, I am of course talk-ing about the more popular storylines. I know the cou-ple gets married in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures
of Superman — but he keeps her waiting in the more pop-ular comics. So take a deep puff from your inhalers and put down your replica Star Trek phasers, I’m trying to make a point. Instead of set-
t ling down a nd s ta r t-ing a family, Superman elects to use Ms. Lane as a cover while he spends his days chasing around Lex Luthor. This behavior is
simply un-American.Oh, that’s right, Superman,
or should I say Kal-El, isn’t American — he’s an illegal immigrant from Krypton. Before his home planet was blown to smithereens, Jor-El and Lara (his parents) con-structed a spaceship to safely carry him to Earth. The only
redeeming gesture is that he works for cheap. I mean, who else will save the world 24/7 for free?
Card’s activist views in opposition of gay marriage won’t make their way into the comics, to which I ask, “Why not?” This country needs a hero that will stand up for traditional marriage in a time when American val-ues are going by the wayside. And what better tool is there to restore those values than America’s favorite superhero? (My apologies to Captain America)
Think about it. Superman could start using his pow-ers to do real good. Instead of protecting gay men, he could use his super breath to blow them up, up and away. He could even use his X-ray vision to see through walls to make sure that post-touchdown hug between two friends doesn’t last any longer
than two seconds.If for nothing else, my hat
goes off to DC Comics for staggering irony. A charac-ter with virtually limitless power, who devotes his be-ing to helping the oppressed will be commanded by a man who actively uses his fame and money to ensure some people stay oppressed. Bravo, Card and DC. My last sug-gestion for the new series is to change the iconic S shield on Superman’s costume — the crest of the House of El and the Kryptonian symbol for “hope” — to something with less meaning. Perhaps a random Wingdings font character will do.
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As this is my last se-mester as a college student, I have less
than three months before graduation and I am faced with the real world more
directly than ever before. The only goal I re-ally have left, other than f in-ishing up m y l a s t few class-
es, is to put myself out there and find some way of applying my degree in the workforce.
During the past couple of months, I’ve dealt with the stress of finding job openings I’m qualified f o r, t h e tedium of filling out applica-tions and a healthy amount of self-doubt. However, there’s one t h i n g I have taken away from this process that I feel is worth shar-ing: I should’ve started sooner.
It’s the obvious piece of advice to give, right? Even before freshmen start their first classes, they get emails about ca-reer center services, their college’s career fair and plenty of advice on how to prepare for what comes after graduation.
Obvious or not, there are still plenty of stu-dents that put things off for too long; I know there are aspects of the process I certainly did. I only ap-plied to take part in an internship this semester. Additionally, my résumé was pretty much non-ex-istent until a month ago.
This isn’t to say I did nothing to prepare for graduation, but the point
is I could’ve done more, could’ve gotten started ear-lier. There are students who know all that they could be doing to prepare and just don’t.
As an English major, I know a lot of people who want to go into the jour-nalism or editing field after they graduate. However, so many of these same people have never made an effort to get involved with campus groups such as Technician or Agromeck that would let them develop the necessary skills.
Applying what you learn in class to a real-world setting can let you know whether or not it’s actually what you want to do with your life. For engineering students, the ex-ternship program lets them get on-site experience with
local businesses and see what they will be do-ing on a day-to-day basis.
These experi-ences also serve as a way to build up your résumé a nd i nc re a se your own mar-ketability to po-
tential employers. Relevant coursework is nice, but hav-ing concrete, real-world ex-amples of your work, as well as legitimate references give you an extra bit of credibility.
These are just a few tips; some I’m benefitting from, others I wish I’d put more ef-fort into. The point is to make it clear that just going to class and hoping for the best aren’t enough to land a great job. If nothing else, go ahead and check out the services the University’s career center of-fers and start thinking about what you can do to make the transition from school to ca-reer as smooth as possible.
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Defending Arizona
Ar i z on a i s no stranger to dis-cussion-worthy
legislation over the past few years. Just this week Tom Horne, Arizona’s
attorney general, an-nounced his sup-port for a n e w law that would bring guns into
schools called “Defending Arizona.”
This bill was proposed in response to the New-town massacre that oc-curred in December. This potential law intends to allow a school district or charter school govern-ing board to designate one or more school staff members to carry a fire-arm on a school campus. These chosen individuals would be required to go through an annual three-day training program co-ordinated by the Attor-ney General’s Office and the Department of Pub-lic Safety. According to Horne’s office, the train-ing will not only contain a comprehensive review of firearms but also “use of force” laws, defensive tac-tics, simulations and how
to properly secure a firearm.Due to the controversial na-
ture of this bill, participation would be completely optional and the school would be re-quired to provide a secure firearm locker on campus for the weapons. Moreover, the elected official would also have adequate commu-nication to be alerted of any emergency in any part of the school. According to the at-torney general, the ideal solu-tion would be to have police officers in every school, but that would be far too expen-sive.
There are a few ques-t ions that c o m e t o mind about this bill, one being “who exactly wou ld be doing the alerting in the event of an emergency?” Most like-ly, I’d assume that the person calling for aid would be the person most wishing that they were standing next to the locked firearm with the key in hand. Additionally, it also raises the unsettling thought that schools would be locking up a weapon that could potentially get in the hands of the wrong person, or even worse – a child.
When I was a kid, and in Arizona I might add, I was never afraid of going to
school. I never once thought that my safety was going to be jeopardized by someone with sick and hateful intentions. I am not sure if society’s capac-ity for violence grew since I was a child, or if my older age increased my exposure to horrific stories like that of Sandy Hook Elementary. A parent should never have to worry about whether or not their child will make it through a day of school safely.
Times are different and schools are pressured to take action, which may be
why more and more schools are install-ing metal detectors. W h i l e I think that this is a good sug-
gestion to move in the right direction for increasing cam-pus security and keeping stu-dents and faculty from harm, I can’t help but think that there has to be a better solu-tion out there. There has to be a way that leads back to a world where children are safe at school.
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“Yes, if it has the means for it. Not everyone has the means to go to a university, whether they have the drive to or not. ” Briana Greenfreshman, engineering
“I think it should because I took a biomedical course through a technical college in high school. Taking that course helped me prepare for my freshman year.”
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“I really do. College isn’t for everyone. I think training like that would be really beneficial for students, especially those that can’t afford to go to college.”
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‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ betrays franchise and fans
Jordan AlsaqaAssociate Features Editor
Aliens: Colonial Marines had all the signs of a great game in the making. It was developed for the past six years by Gearbox Studios, the makers of Borderlands. Its world has been painstakingly crafted, with designers from James Cameron’s Aliens, the film it was inspired by, being brought in for its re-creation. Actors from the film and plenty of references were in-corporated to add an extra bit of authenticity. Somewhere along the way though, things fell apart.
The final product, credited to a total of four different de-velopment teams, time and time again serves as a slap in the face to the franchise it represents. The fact that it’s also one of the most me-diocre, visually unappealing shooters of this generation doesn’t help.
Aliens: Colonial Marines is set up as a narrative sequel to the second film in the Aliens series. Several months after the events of the film, the USS Sephora arrives in response to the distress signal of the space cruiser Sulaco.
Upon boarding, Cor-poral Christopher Winter and his fellow Marines find
themselves caught between an infestation of ravenous xenomorphs, the parasitic extraterrestrial antagonists of the films, and a squadron of Weyland-Yutani soldiers, a shady corporate military organization. With their escape route cut off, Winter must lead his troops through enemy territory in a desper-ate attempt to find a way off the Sulaco.
For its many problems – which I’ll be getting to, trust me – Colonial Marines’ big-gest failure is easily its story. Action aside, what made Aliens such a great film is the amount of personality and style it managed to give its Marines. They weren’t the deepest in cinematic history,
but characters like Hudson and Hicks were far more interesting than the average screen leatherneck.
In Colonial Marines, “av-erage leatherneck” describes a lmost ev-ery charac-ter. Winter, stuck in the role of play-er character, never really gets an iden-tity beyond w h at g u n he’s holding. Meanwhile, the rest of his squad fills in the standard roles, with a heavy arms spe-cialist, technology expert and gruff squad leader all making appearances.
It doesn’t help that the story never offers anything new or interesting to the mythol-ogy. At best, this could have just been an excuse to go on a bug hunt and kill xeno-
morphs. But the game’s narrative, considered an of f icia l part of the franchise by 20th Cen-t u r y Fox, frequently contradicts
or ignores the events of the previous films.
This would be a forgivable offense if the game wasn’t meant to be a love letter to Alien fans. However, every
level is packed with familiar elements, most of the achieve-ments are named after quotes from the franchise and a se-ries of Legendary Weapons from the series can be found throughout the campaign.
There’s an odd discon-nect between intent and ex-ecution. For every moment that’ll bring a smile to fans’ lips, there are a dozen that serve only to piss them off. There are just too many mo-ments that make it feel like Colonial Marines shouldn’t be an Aliens game.
Most of these moments come down to the titular creatures themselves. The smart, deadly hunters that stalked Ripley in the film are nowhere to be found in this
game. Instead, players come up against a group of AI op-ponents that would have been embarrassing in shooters from over a decade ago.
Every xenomorph has one mode of attack: run at the player in a straight line and attack with its claws. Save for the occasional acid-spitting variant, this is all that one of science fiction’s most iconic monsters is capable of. They aren’t a threat; they’re a joke who are all too happy to clus-ter together and be mowed down by pulse rifle fire.
The gunplay is decent, but it’s no fun fighting en-emies that barely fight back. There’s an upgrade system to explore, but nothing that offers any real change or im-pact on gameplay. And while the guns look quite good, the slowdown and texture pop-in makes the graphics look like a game from early in the Play-Station 2’s lifecycle.
There’s just nothing that works in Colonial Marines favor.
It all adds up to one of the biggest disappointments in gaming in a long while. Terrible gameplay, outdated graphics and a mishandling of one of cinema’s greatest monsters adds up to an insult to fans who have spent the better part of a decade wait-ing for this game. Instead of a fun ride at the helm of a pow-er loader, Colonial Marines is more like a facehugger trying to strangle the life out of the Aliens franchise.
Researchers battle Boxwood blight
Young Lee Associate Features Editor
Miranda Ganci, a graduate research assistant in plant pa-thology, doesn’t dare step foot in the JC Raulston Ar-boretum, N.C. State’s na-tionally acclaimed garden. If she does, there is a pos-sibility that within weeks, dark brown or black le-sions would start spreading across the leaves of all 156 boxwood plants growing there and dark streaking lesions would stretch along the stems, a sign of one of the most feared fungal pathogens in the boxwood world — the boxwood blight.
Ganci has been studying the fungus, called Cylindro-cladium buxicola, since May of last year, as she was part of the team at N.C. State that first discovered the boxwood blight’s presence in the Unit-
ed States in October of 2011. Easy to maintain and pret-
ty year-round, with tightly packed leaves, boxwoods have become one of the most
popular shrubs and trees in the world. With a boxwood-growing industry valued at more than $20 million in North Carolina, the plants have become one of the most profitable investments for the state.
“It hurts your heart when you know how quickly a nursery can go out of busi-ness from a pathogen like this,” Ganci said. “Some
fields are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; all that can get destroyed in a matter of weeks by box blight.”
Although many people in the boxwood industry had known that boxwood blight was common in Europe, New Zealand and other places before late in 2011, no one had thought that the disease had spread to the United States.
“It was first detected in a nursery in Western North Carolina, but when the nurserymen first discovered that there was a problem, they didn’t realize that it
Will E. Brooks Deputy News Editor
The stories that we hear and tell are often disregard-ed until we realize that they have consequences, some of which are very grave.
When a horror writer in an Orwellian future finds himself at the hands of corrupt police officers for a crime he didn’t commit, he is faced with a decision - let his stories be told and face the penalties, or live with an absent legacy.
Theatre in the Park’s ren-dition of The Pillowman follows Katurian, a story-teller played by David Ira Wood IV, who is accused of the gruesome murder of two children because the murders follow the lines of his stories. The perfor-mance was both dark and revealing, allowing ques-tions to fester about death and legacy, mental health, and the value of storytell-ing.
“It’s not about being or not being dead, it’s about
what you leave behind,” Ka-turian says to his mentally challenged brother, who is interrogated alongside him.
As he is on the brink of being killed during his en-tire time in captivity, Katu-rian comes to the conclusion that preserving his stories is more important than his life, and will do anything to save them. He addresses the fact that no one knows their pur-
pose on earth, and that a per-son’s legacy— for Katurian, his stories—are all anyone can assuredly leave behind.
The Pillowman goes out of its way to find an entrance into the mind of a serial kill-er, and making it relevant to
many of the questions regard-ing gun rights that appear in the news daily. It tacitly asks who should be scrutinized when the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred.
Tony Pender, who plays Tu-polski, a crooked cop with a soft side, delivered an out-standing performance with very real character develop-ment. After playing the “bad cop,” to a good cop named Ariel, played by Michael Brocki, he comes to realize that he and Katurian aren’t so different.
The set felt somewhat dull, with just a table and props implying police torture, and it didn’t change much. It felt as though the stage, being fairly large, was not put to its best use, and actors stayed fairly stationary.
However, what was great to watch was the theatre’s use of film as a precursor to each act. Although it wasn’t a re-placement to a more vibrant setting, Super 8-esque home videos were used tastefully,
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY THE OFFICIAL ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES WEBSITE A marine destroys a xenomorph with a power loader in a screen shot from Aliens: Colonial Marines, the videogame narrative sequel to the second film in the Aliens series by James Cameron.
GEORGIA HOBBS/TECHNICIANA clipping from an English Boxwood plant displaying atypical fungal infection, due to laboratory conditions. Usually the most visible symptom is black blotches on the plant’s leaves, rather than this fuzzy fungal mycelium on their undersides.
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“[Boxwood blight]
could wipe out
millions of dollars’
worth of plants
in a matter
of months.”Miranda Ganci, graduate research
assistant in plant pathology
‘The Pillowman’ succeeds in giving nightmares
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“In Colonial
Marines, ‘average
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mind of a
serial killer...”
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was boxwood blight,” Ganci said. “[They] reached out to N.C. State extension to help diagnose what was going on.”
The nurserymen reached out to Kelly Ivors, an associ-ate professor and extension specialist in plant pathology. As soon as Ivors’ research team identified the disease as boxwood blight, the industry and researchers went into a managed frenzy, according to Ganci. “Being extremely ag-gressive, [boxwood blight] could wipe out millions of dollars’ worth of plants in a matter of months.”
Since N.C. State researchers first broke the news about the presence of boxwood blight in the U.S., the University has continued to do research about the disease and what boxwood plant nurseries can do to protect their in-vestments.
Although al l boxwood plants may look the same to many students, the spe-cies Boxus sempervirens has a lot of diversity with more than 365 cultivars. People can think of different cultivars in the same way they think of different dog breeds, Ganci said.
“The most common box-wood [species] is Boxus sempervirens, and the most
popular cultivars are the American and the English boxwood. The majority of boxwoods grown in the box-wood industry are of those cultivars and, guess what? Boxwood blight is most ag-gressive on those.”
Ganci, along with Ivors and Michael Benson, a professor of plant pathology, started studying how susceptible to boxwood blight each culti-var is last summer. Cooper-ating with the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research in Belgium, Ganci and the team has exposed the boxwood blight pathogen to different boxwood cultivars and measured each cultivar’s response.
“We did find some varia-tion, which is good because now we have a tool that nurs-eries can use to help manage the pathogen,” Ganci said. “In order to manage the pathogen, you might say, ‘I’m going to start growing cultivars that are more resis-tant to these pathogens so if I am exposed to the pathogen in my particular nursery, all my plants won’t die.’”
Ganci and her fellow re-searchers rank the reactions of each boxwood cultivar us-ing a “leaf area disease rating” based on how much area on each leaf they see affected by lesions caused by the blight. Although the team is still working to publish a copy of
its findings, it has released some of the results online.
“I feel that hopefully we can find solutions that can be translated into a nursery area because a lot of people’s lives are affected, and the best thing that I can do is to help them so that they can keep doing what they love doing,” Ganci said. “If people want to grow healthy plants, I want to help make that possible.”
and told the story of Katuri-an’s life, which was as horrific as the world he lives in.
The second act was defi-nitely the most powerful, with just Katurian and his brother Michael, who was played by Samuel Whisnant. The two actors played well off of one another, and Whis-nant did an excellent job at the extremely tricky role of a mentally challenged adult. It seemed that Michael repre-sented the innocence of the world that existed, even dur-ing such a dystopian future.
The play did well at telling a story about telling stories, and managed to ask impor-tant questions, while leaving playgoers with their own.
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defeated Georgia Tech on the road by a score of 70-58 on Tuesday.
Winning at the Smith Cen-ter is no easy task. The Tar Heels have a record of 12-1 at home this season, the only blemish being a loss to No. 2 Miami, who coincidentally is the only team to win in Ra-leigh this season as well. If the Pack wants to come out with a win, it will need someone other than the usual suspects of Brown, Howell and Leslie to step up, much like Warren did against FSU.
“Whenever we have all our guys on the same page, we’re so much better,” Leslie said.
The Heels employ an up-tempo style of play that State is also comfortable with. The Pack ranks eighth in the na-tion in points per game, while Carolina is right behind them at 10th. Still, dictating the pace of the game will be an essential ingredient to vic-
tory.“We know how quick
they want to play,” How-ell said. “But we want to keep it at our tempo and not their tempo.”
State and Carolina are part of a three-way tie for third place in the ACC with Virginia, which hosts Georgia Tech on Sun-day. The Cavaliers, who defeated State 58-55 on Jan. 28th, currently hold the tiebreaker over both teams. Should the Pack win and secure a season sweep of the Heels, they would own any tiebreak-er with UNC down the road. That would add to the sweetness of sweeping their biggest rival for the first time in ten years.
“It would mean a lot,” Warren said. “It would be great for the program and great for the fans. We just want to go out there, play as hard as we can, and just try to come off the road with a win.”
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RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANSophomore forward Kiana Evans holds her hands to her face while sitting on the bench during the end of the second half of the Miami game Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. The Wolfpack fell to the Hurricanes 59-55 at Reynolds Coliseum.
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The first matchup of the season between the Jets and Hurricanes featured a new face for Carolina, defense-man Ryan Murphy, who was recalled from the Kitch-ener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) on an
emergency basis.Murphy was given his
first start of the season by head coach Kirk Muller and saw almost 24 min-utes of action in his NHL debut.
The Hurricanes will re-turn to the ice Saturday at 7 p.m. as they take on the division rivals Tampa Bay Lightning at PNC Arena.
CANEScontinued from page 8
Following a Gatling bas-ket, Miami surged with a 10-1 run. The Hurricanes were ahead 43-26 with 16 minutes remaining, but the tide changed with 14 minutes remaining.
With the score showing 45-30 in favor of the Hurricanes, the Pack held Miami to three points in seven minutes and charged to take a slim one-point advantage, 49-48.
“We got the ball inside and made more baskets,” Harper said. “We were definitely
more aggressive during that time. That is how you have to play against them.”
However, the Canes re-claimed the lead and never relinquished it despite the State defense holding the deficit to at most four points during the final stretch.
Miami senior guard Ste-fanie Yderstrom propelled the Hurricanes with 17 points, followed by senior center Shawnice Wilson who added 12 points and grabbed 10 re-bounds.
“Miami has utilized [Yder-strom] very well and very strategically,” Harper said. “She is very crafty. She will
take what you give her, and if you mess up she will make you pay.”
The Pack shot 28.2 percent on the floor and 26.7 percent beyond the arc on the eve-ning. Kastanek and junior guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman, the team’s leading three-point shooters, were both held without a three-point basket. This marks the only time this season to date they both failed to convert from three-point range in the same game.
“Myisha had a couple of good looks but just did not knock them down,” Harper said. “I thought Marissa was
just rushing hers because they made her work for ev-erything. They did not want to give her anything easy.”
N.C. State will return to action on Sunday when the team travels to Chapel Hill to take on rival UNC-Cha-pel Hill in Carmichael Au-ditorium. Game time is 1:30 pm and will be broadcast on ESPNU.
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N.C. State (13-14, 5-10 ACC) fell to the Miami Hurricanes (18-8, 9-6 ACC), 59-55 at Reynolds Coliseum Thursday night.
“Miami is very tough and very physical,” head coach Kel-lie Harper said. “They tried to disrupt the flow of our offense. Their biggest aspect is their toughness. They are gritty.”
Junior forward Kody Burke led the Wolfpack with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Senior guard Marissa Kastanek, however, was held to only four points and six rebounds. Both were honored before the game for earning Academic All-American status for the second consecutive year.
“It is an amazing accomplish-ment,” Harper said. “It speaks about what type of people they are: high achievers, period. If you have that characteristic about you, you want to be the best at everything you do. Those people are really special, and we are very blessed to have a couple of them.”
Kastanek’s career point total now stands at 1,573, placing her in sole possession of 10th place in school history. She tied Sharon Manning in last Sunday’s game against Georgia Tech.
Sophomore guard Krystal Bar-rett scored 12 points and grabbed eight boards for State. Redshirt sophomore guard Len’Nique Brown also scored nine points and recorded seven assists in her fifth straight start. Junior cen-
ter Markeisha Gatling added eight points and seven rebounds.
The Hurricanes jumped to a quick 7-0 lead to begin the game and led for the entirety of the first half. State shot 25 percent in the opening half, trailing at the break by a score of 33-23.
“I am very disappointed in our first half performance,” Harper said. “I do not think we were confident, and we played a little passive.”
COUNTDOWN• 1 day until the Wolfpack men’s basketball team takes
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Kastanek, Burke named Academic All-Americans… AgainSenior guard Marissa Kastanek and junior forward Kody Burke were named to the Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Women’s Basketball team on Thursday. Kastanek and Burke were named to the first team and third team, respectively. Both were named Academic All-Americans last year. For the second straight year, N.C. State is the only Division I program to have two student-athletes named Academic All-Americans.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Four former Wolfpack players going to NFL combineFormer quarterback Mike Glennon, offensive lineman Zach Allen, and defensive backs Earl Wolff and David Amerson will be in Indianapolis, Ind. this weekend for the NFL Combine. The Combine, which lasts from Feb. 23-26, gives invited prospects the opportunity to show off their skills in front of NFL executives and scouts in attendance. NFL teams will also get the opportunity to interview players for the first time. Last year, NFL teams drafted all six former Wolfpack players who attended the Combine.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Former NCSU Golfer beats world No. 7 in WGC Match Play ChampionshipsFormer Wolfpacker Tim Clark won his first round match on Thursday at the WGC Accenture Match Play Championships over world No. 7 Adam Scott by a score of 2 and 1. Clark, winner of the 2010 Players Championship, will move on to play Thorbjørn Olesen on Friday in the second round of the bracket style tournament. Clark, originally from South Africa, is in the Sam Snead division along with world No. 3 Luke Donald, No. 13 Ian Poulter and No. 16 Steve Stricker.
SOURCE: WRAL
FridaySOFTBALL AT KENNESAW STATE TOURNAMENTWoodstock, Ga., 10 a.m./3 p.m.
BASEBALL V. VILLANOVADoak Park, 3 p.m.
WOMEN’S TENNIS V. WINTHROPJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4 p.m.
WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS V. NORTH CAROLINAChapel Hill, N.C., 7 p.m.
RIFLE AT GREAT AMERICAN RIFLE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPSOxford, Miss., All Day
SWIMMING AND DIVING AT WOMEN’S ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS/MEN’S DIVINGGreensboro, N.C., All Day
TRACK AT ACC INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPSBlacksburg, Va., All Day
SaturdaySOFTBALL AT KENNESAW STATE TOURNAMENTWoodstock, Ga., 10 a.m./12:30 p.m.
MEN’S TENNIS V. UNC-WILMINGTONJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, noon
BASEBALL V. WAGNER COLLEGEDoak Field, noon
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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
Miami holds off Wolfpack
The baby blue battlefront
Jets smoke ‘Canes at College NightNolan Evans & Daniel NealDeputy Sports Editor and Staff Writer
The Carolina Hurricanes (8-6-1, 17 pts.) dropped a 4-3 decision to the Winnipeg Jets (7-8-1, 15 pts.) in their third “Canes College Night” of the season Thursday evening in a game that was decided by a scoring frenzy in the third period.
The Canes began the first pe-riod with three shots on target, but the Jets produced a quick counter attack, which led to an opening goal. The goal was scored by Blake Wheeler, who pushed his shot past goalkeeper Cam Ward.
In the following minutes, Win-nipeg was awarded a power play but the Canes effectively defended their goal and killed the power play.
After the Jets’ power play ended, Carolina went back on the attack and forced the Jets’ defense to come with several big saves.
The Hurricanes finally broke the Winnipeg defense with 1:21 remaining in the period. Eric Sta-al passed the puck to Alexander Semin who drew the defense and goalkeeper to his side before sling-ing the puck behind his back to an open Jiri Tlusty who finished the shot with ease. The goal was his sixth of the season.
The second period saw the Hur-ricanes outshot the Jets for the sec-ond straight period, this time by an 8-6 count. The period was littered with penalties on both sides as both teams went scoreless.
At the 16:17 mark in the second period, Winnipeg right-winger Blake Wheeler was sent to the pen-alty box for unsportsmanlike con-duct, a two-minute penalty.
Shortly thereafter, Jets defense-man Grant Clitsome was whistled for interference, another two-minute penalty, giving Carolina a two-man advantage for 55 seconds. Winnipeg managed to escape with the double penalty kill.
The Hurricanes had problems of their own later in the period. With 3:34 to play in the second, Carolina defenseman Jay Harrison was called for interference and sent to the pen-alty box for two minutes.
Just 49 seconds later, defenseman Joe Corvo joined his teammate in the box after being whistled for trip-ping, giving the Jets a two-man ad-vantage of their own for 1:11. The Canes stepped up in a tight spot to kill both penalties, leading into the second intermission still tied at one.
The Jets started off the scoring in the final period when Evander Kane was assisted by Nik Antropov for the quick goal. However the Canes responded quickly with a goal of their own. Jordan Staal scored his third goal of the season and Jay Har-rison and Patrick Dwyer recorded assists for the goal.
After two early goals, the action slowed until the final six minutes of the period. Winnipeg reopened the scoring after Ward mishandled a shot, which fell to Andrew Ladd. Ladd finished the shot with little trouble.
The Canes immediately answered. Tlusty was in the right place again as he finished an unassisted goal to draw level.
However, the Jets scored 16 sec-onds later after the Hurricanes’ de-fense failed to handle a long pass. Ladd’s pass fell directly to Wheeler who scored his second goal of the night in a one on one situation with Ward.
The remaining minutes resulted in no further goals as the Canes fell 4-3 to the Jets.
Nolan Evans & Luke NadkarniDeputy Sports Editor & Staff Writer
The N.C. State men’s basket-ball team will make the short trip to Chapel Hill on Saturday to take on in-state rival UNC-Chapel Hill in a very important game that will give the winner the inside track for a first-round bye in the ACC Tournament. Tip-off at the Dean E. Smith Center is at 4 p.m. and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN.
The Wolfpack (19-7, 8-5 ACC) will be looking for its first season sweep of North Carolina since the 2002-03 season. That same season was also the last time State won in the Smith Center. In their first meeting earlier this year, the Wolfpack dominated much of the game before a late Tar Heel run made the score re-
spectable in a 91-83 victory at PNC Arena.
The Pack is coming off of perhaps its most complete victory of confer-ence play, an 84-66 win over Florida State on Tuesday in Raleigh. Fresh-man forward T.J. Warren exploded for 31 points and 13 rebounds in the win, posting his first double-double as a member of the Wolfpack. Ju-nior forward Calvin Leslie added 19 points and 10 boards in the winning effort.
Leslie is State’s leading scorer at 15.7 points per game. Senior for-ward Richard Howell is just behind him at 13 points per game, followed closely by junior guard Lorenzo Brown, who averages 12.7 per con-test. Howell and Leslie are the team’s leading rebounders at 10.9 and 7.7 per game, respectively, and Brown leads the team in assists with 6.8 per game.
Brown sees Howell and Leslie as
keys to the game, particularly on the glass. In the first meeting, State out-rebounded Carolina 36-29.
“I think it’s an advantage on our side because we’re a lot big-ger than they are in the post.” Brown said.
The Tar Heels (18-8, 8-5) are paced by sophomore forward James Michael McAdoo, who averages 14.7 points and 8.3 re-bounds per game. Junior swing-man Reggie Bullock is second on the team in both scoring and rebounding at 13.8 points and 5.7 rebounds per contest. As a team, the Heels are fifth in the nation in assists per game, led by guards Marcus Paige and Dexter Strickland who average 4.3 and 4 assists, respectively. Carolina
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANFreshman forward T.J. Warren shoots a three pointer during the second half of the North Carolina game Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Warren had 19 points in the Wolfpack’s 91-83 win at the PNC Arena.
CHRIS RUPERT/TECHNICIANJunior guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman shoots the ball Feb. 21 at Reynolds Coliseum against Miami. After briefly leading in the second half, the Wolfpack fell to the Hurricanes 59-55.
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