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Raleigh, North Carolina
Sororities raise money for developmental center through week-long competition
Nick Tran News Editor
The money raised by sororities par-ticipating in Derby Days is slated to be awarded to the Raleigh-based Frankie Lemmon School and Developmental Center in the coming month.
The check will be presented to the school in April at Pullen Park and will be written out for the $23,835 raised by the event, which beat the previous 2008 record of $20,000.
According to Jason McCaslin, Derby Days chair, the tra-dition began in 1936 at the University of Tennessee and has spread through na-tional Greek societ-ies since. It is hosted on campus by Sigma Chi fraternity, Delta Epsilon chapter.
“[Derby Days] is our annual philan-thropy event and is a week-long compe-tition between our eight pan-Hellenic sororities. This is the 35th year we’ve done this on campus,” McCaslin said. “The events include dance and karaoke competitions, a scavenger hunt, and field events.”
McCaslin said money was raised through $5 admission fees for people to view the competitions and private sponsors.
“The names of the sponsors were put on the back of the [Derby Days] T-shirts with a donation of $300. All monies went to the Frankie Lemmon School,” he said. “We also donated
the money from T-shirt sales and collected box tops to get money for the school.”
This year, there was an added focus on getting more donations from spon-sors, McCaslin said.
“This year, our goal was to increase donations and we planned thoroughly to achieve this. We had a couple big donors like Nypro Incorporated, who donated $500, the ‘John Boy and Billy [radio] Show,’ who donated $2,500, and Financial Marketplace, who do-nated $600,” McCaslin said. “We also made sure sororities were more knowl-edgeable about everything involved with Derby Days.”
Samantha Dowless, the director of activities of Delta Gamma sorority, said sororities com-peted in events, so-licited for sponsors, and volunteered at the Frankie Lemmon School.
“Members had to go and interact with the students, help them learn, and played with them during the school day,” she said. “It’s a really great expe-rience. It lets them see what the philan-thropy is actually for, since most of the week is just social
and competitive events. Volunteering really lets them see where the time and effort is going.”
Dowless said because Derby Days is a philanthropic event, as well as a competition, there is some potential for participants to be unhappy about the outcome.
“In any competition, no one wants to lose, but people would probably not be as motivated to participate if
it wasn’t a competition,” she said. “It’s a good time people look for-ward to. I could see how people could be unhappy with the results, but that’s how it is with any com-petition.”
According to Dowless, the spirit of competition does not take away from the idea Derby Days is still a positive philanthropic event.
Mia Ahmad, the chair of Zeta Tau Alpha, the winning sorority of Derby Days, said the competi-tive nature of the event often draws unwarranted criticism.
“Some people think negatively of Derby Days because of all the competition,” she said. “The com-petition was intense, but not so in-tense that people were poor sports. Organized well and set up in a way as to be very fair.”
According to Ahmad, the win-ners were decided based on a point system, as opposed to purely funds raised. Sororities were awarded points based on their performance in events as well as the number of sponsors they acquired.
Ahmad said volunteering at the school was also a very beneficial experience.
“Part of the competition was vol-unteering at the school and it was the most positive part because it let you see what you were work-ing for,” Ahmad said. “Every hour throughout the day, a pair of girls would go to help the teachers and play with the kids.”
According to Ahmad the money raised by the event went to fund programs and toys for the school and essentially anything else the kids needed.
“We got everyone really involved and it really unites the chapter,” Ahmad said.
Candidates answered questions about their platforms and what they hope to accomplish in Student Government next school year
Rachel PortStaff Writer
WKNC sponsored a debate for can-didates running in the 2010 general Student Government elections which took place in the Talley Student Center ballroom on Thursday evening.
Each candidate had 60 seconds to answer questions posed by hosts WKNC Genera l M a n a ge r M i ke Alston and Public Af fairs Director Saja Hindi. After all, the candidates had a chance to answer, they were allowed 30 to 60 seconds for volun-tary rebuttal.
Ac c ord i ng to Hindi, debates like these are really im-portant during campaign time.
“This is a good time for students to find out what the candidates are all about and about their campaign promises and their goals,” Hindi said.
The first question Hindi and Alston posed to the student body president (SBP) candidates was “define the responsibilities of the student body president.”
Kelly Hook, SBP candidate and chief of staff, had a unique answer. She said the main job of the student body president is to “manage the team of 12 people who really do all the work.”
Hindi and Alston asked the SBP can-
didates at one point, “It seems there is a rebranding campaign almost every year. Does Student Government need rebranding with the new administra-tion this year?”
Scott Goldsmith, a SBP candidate, said “I don’t think we need a rebrand-ing campaign. If Student Government is functioning the way it should, our rebranding will be that we are doing our job.”
Other interesting questions the SBP candidates were asked included which they thought was more impor-tant, their assessment of an issue or
the student as-sessment; detail-ing their fore-most platform plank; what sets them apart from their opponents and what they thought Student Government’s relationship with Technician should be in the future.
Answering, Charles “Ches”
McDowell, an SBP candidate, said he has worked to pay his way through school and he can identify with stu-dents who have participated in frater-nities and organizations.
Matt Woodward also said he has broad experience participating in student organizations.
Goldsmith said his platform is the most detailed and specific while Hook said she has experience and under-stands the way the SBP position works.
The Student Senate president can-didates Michael Robinson, Stephen Kouba and Sarah Center were asked questions including what they would
do differently than the current stu-dent Senate president and what stu-dents would lose, “if anything,” if the Student Senate disappeared next year.
Answering the latter, Robinson said students would lose representation on University committees and that “the voices of the students would be se-verely diminished.”
Center said that it’s easier for stu-dents to approach a student senator with their input than to approach a University administrator.
The student body treasurer candi-dates Eagean “Buddy” Bryson and Kyle O’Donnell were asked how they were going to keep the budget process transparent and what their proudest accomplishments in Student Govern-ment have been.
Answering the former, O’Donnell said he wants to use a page on the Student Government Web site to up-date the budget in real time, whereas Bryson said he wants to use Facebook to stay in touch with the students and
use Google Docs to make budget in-formation accessible.
Allison Hofmann, freshman in nu-trition science who attended the de-bates, said she was glad she attended.
“I think you’re doing a disservice to the future of the University if you’re not an informed voter. Public forums like this allow you to see candidates out of their comfort zones and have their platforms challenged,” Hofmann said.
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Holly Lewis, Wife of U.S. Senate Candidate Ken Lewis, spoke to the College Democrats Club
Stephen BehanCorrespondent
The College Democrats club hosted Holly Lewis Wednesday evening. She is the wife of Kenneth Lewis, a Dur-ham lawyer who is running for U.S. Senate this November.
“The progress we’re bringing and differences we’re ma k ing are working,” she claims. “We’re living in an ex-citing, dynamic time.”
She said we’re in an “incred-ibly meaningful time” with major health care legis-lation recently being passed, and the first African-American president being elected.
Holly Lewis said she has been in-volved in politics since she was a teen-ager.
“I started working in campaigns when I was 16,” she said.
Her husband, Ken, is running for
U.S. Senate under a campaign of hope and innovation.
“Don’t ever be discouraged,” Lewis said.
According to Lewis’ Web site, he plans on reforming “No child left be-hind,” expand access to student loans, and push for higher quality teachers in our schools. Health care reform is also a big part of his campaign.
The strong Re-publican oppo-sition to passing health care legis-lation is a sign of success, accord-ing to Lewis.
He worked as a fundraiser for Obama’s 2004 senate race and his 2008 presi-dent i a l c a m-paign, and was behind the scenes in the senate ca mpa ig ns of Erskine Bowles a n d H a r v e y
Gantt. Lewis said her husbands’ on the ground experience and entrepre-neurial background would make him a good candidate.
Ken Lewis announced his intentions to run for U.S. senate in early 2009.
Candidate’s wife speaks to
College Democrats
SG candidates debate campus issues
david mabe/TechnicianStudent Body President candidate Kelly Hook, currently chief of staff, speaks during the student body elections debate hosted by Student Media in the Talley Student Center Ballroom Thursday night.
“The progress
we’re bringing and
differences we’re
making are working.
We’re living in
an exciting,
dynamic time.”Holly Lewis, wife fo U.S. Senate
Candidate Ken Lewis
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“This is a good
time for students to
find out what the
candidates are all
about and about
their campaign.”Saja Hindi,
WKNC public affairs director
“It lets them
see what the
philanthropy
is actually for,
since most of the
week is just social
and competitive
events.”Sam Dowless, director of
activities for Delta Gamma sorority
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‘I believe I can fly’photo By Tim o’brien
Bert Selby, sophomore in parks, recreation and tourism management, collides with Devin Brady, senior in business administration, while playing a two-on-two basketball game atop the Red Hat parking deck on Centennial Campus
Thursday. With a high of 76 degrees, it was a good weekday afternoon for a spring pickup game on the four-story parking garage. “Some days we go without loosing the ball over the side, but usually people are nice about throwing it back up here,” Selby said. “It’s a lot less crowded up here then at Carmichael.”
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April 10, at 4 p.m. the Uni-versity will host a lecture, titled “America’s Science Challenges
and Opportunities : Past, Present and Future,” by Dr. Neal Lane, professor at Rice University and senior fellow of the James A. Baker III In-stitute for Public Policy. Lane previously served as director of the National Science Founda-tion and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lane’s talk will review a bit of the his-tory of science in America, describe some current chal-lenges and opportunities, and offer speculation on possible futures for American science and implications for the nation. Hosted by N.C. State’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences as part of its annual Scope Academy, a weekend featuring public mini-lectures from distinguished University faculty and alumni on the ways that math and science impact the world around us. The lec-ture will take place in SAS Hall and is free and open to the pub-lic but registration by March 26 is required. For more informa-tion call 919-515-3462.
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the pentagon issued new rules thursday making it harder to expel gays from the military, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. this is a result of a 45-day review into what the pentagon can do to allow military personnel to coexist. this is the first crack in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t tell” since 1993 and is a result of a protest by gay activists in 2008.
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Matt Robbins, a 26-year-old alumnus from the College of Design, completed his mas-ter’s thesis on the built history of the campus and has con-ducted impressively thorough research that has led to a cus-tom made tour of the campus, which he has been offering free of charge to interested students.
During his tour he ex-pla ins why UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State are ri-vals, which he said, has nothing to do with sports. Also included on the tour are the background stories behind the University’s Old Well, the Masonic symbols that are scattered around cam-pus, and the fact that every en-trance to the buildings on old campus face east.
The success of the Finish the [Bell] Tower project, which he founded, Robbins said, began his exploration of other aspects of campus history.
Robbins said he became interested in researching the historical significance of the
buildings on campus as a hob-by at first. However, his passion for architectural history and his close attention to detail, he said, led him to pursue his graduate research in architec-ture more seriously, which un-earthed a myriad of interesting facts surrounding the campus and its founding.
“It [the project] was some-t h i ng t h at was here and now, some-t h i ng t h at I could get my hands on immediately, immerse my-self in and a n a l y z e i t from a f irst person point of view,” Rob-bins said. “In-
stead of reading about it in a book, I could just walk outside and start digging.”
Initially, Robbins said, he only gave tours to his friends, but due to positive response he later publicized his tours through the campus social fo-rum, The Wolf Web.
Promising to shed light on several forgotten, or at least rarely known bits of campus history, Robbins said he at-tracted what were initially small groups of students. He said it was not very long before
word spread that his tour really was something to write home about, attracting upwards of a hundred students.
Robbins said he worked for a tour group, Triangle Segway, which caught on to the earn-ing potential and overwhelm-ing interest in his tour and allowed him to custom design a 90-minute version offered through the business. Rob-bins also said he hosts histori-cal tours of downtown Raleigh.
For Robbins’ next project, he said he will be working with another alumnus, Mike Thompson, to examine the 34 students who died in World War I — the same students that the Memorial Bell Tower stands to honor.
“We decided that we were going to start digging to find out who these people were be-cause we talk about them with regard to the Tower but no one has ever put a face with a name — what’s their story?” Robbins said.
If students are interested they can sign up for a tour with Tri-angle Segway, Robbins said. Likewise, he said students ex-press support on The Wolf Web or through his Facebook page.
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“Instead of
reading about it
in a book, I could
just walk outside
and start digging.”Matt Robbins,
College of Design alumnus
Republican Richard Burr cur-rently holds the seat.
Lewis said her husbands’ biggest issues are with educa-tion reform, job creation, and healthcare reform.
“We’re not really making sig-nificant moves,” H. Lewis said.
According to his Web site, Ken has been involved in nu-merous public service posi-tions. He was a member of the Board of Directors of The Cen-ter for Community Self Help, a non-profit organization that helps guide small businesses. He was also on the Board of Directors for Action for Chil-
dren, and Planned Parenthood. His wife described him as “the kind of guy who likes to help people.”
She said the public educa-tion system has steadily been declining. “The education my children are getting is not as good as the education I got when I was in school.”
Clay Pittman, a sophomore in political science, attended the meeting, and introduced H. Lewis.
“I thought that Mrs. Lewis did a good job of explaining why Ken is running, and why he is a good candidate,” Pitt-man said.
When talking about the fu-ture of the College Democrats, Pittman said the main issue is gathering new members.
“I think we need to focus more on growth in the future,” Pittman said. “The College Republicans are a huge orga-nization, and that’s what our competition is.”
Pittman said the College Democrats Club meets every two weeks in room G111 in Caldwell. There is also a Face-book page under College Dem-ocrats of N.C. State University.
“We are open to anyone who shares the ideals of the Demo-cratic Party,” Pittman said.
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My how those trees have grown.
Mark McLawhorn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
{ }OUR VIEW
The candidates for several elected campus offices took part in a debate
Thursday night in Talley Stu-dent Center. It was broadcast live around the Triangle on WKNC and Wolf TV. Despite a relatively quiet start, the room on the second floor slowly be-gan to fill during the evening in the lead up to the night’s fea-ture event, the debate between the student body president candidates.
The six candidates put on a good show and provided live-ly insight, which often led to some cordial quarreling along the candidate’s table. They ad-dressed Student Government’s response to the Talley Student Center renovation and even pointed a few fingers at some
of the year’s mishaps.Last night, the candidates got
to make their case; now, the morning after, students have the opportunity to evaluate the merits of each candidate and determine who will best advo-cate for students.
One of the sentiments ex-pressed by several of the poten-tial student leaders is that the student body president’s pri-mary role is to be an advocate for students.
While this is absolutely true, there is a long list of items that make a great leader — a great student body president.
Reflecting on the successes —
and failures — of the several previous student body presi-dents, there are definitely some identifiable traits which lead to success for the position and students.
It all begins with openness. Giving students access to all Student Government’s endeav-ors will help fertilize a trust and understanding the orga-nization hasn’t been able to foster despite two rebranding campaigns in the last two years.
Be a hard worker, not a big talker. Student Government’s influence on campus is its role in advocacy and student rep-resentation. The next student
body president must prove that he or she will work hard for students while keeping the realistic goals of an advo-cate; campaign promises don’t mean too much to the Univer-sity’s administrative leaders.
Use your resources; do it wisely. The student body presi-dent has the incredible op-portunity to use the campus media outlets, Student Senate and other student leaders as advocates and allies. He or she must not take these people for granted and retain the humil-ity of someone elected for the students, by the students.
The student body president plays a large role on this cam-pus and students must evalu-ate the candidates for who will best serve THEIR interests.
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of the Executive Editors.
The SBP checklistTHE FACTS:A student body president debate was held in Talley Student Center Thursday night. Six candidates were at the event to make their case for becoming the next student body president.
OUR OPINION:There are many attributes a successful student body president could possess, but putting students is definitely first and foremost.
I am very sorry for your loss. I can understand how shocking your situa-
tion is, and I sympathize with your circumstances. Firstly,
no one can tell you whether or not you can forgive your girlfriend for what she has done; that is a personal deci-sion that you have to make on your own. I strongly be-
lieve, though, that forgiveness is a powerful thing, and it takes a lot of courage and even more personal strength to forgive someone. Forgiveness does not by any means mean that you accept what the other per-son has done as correct, or that you support the decision they choose to make. In a way, for-giveness is less for the person who is receiving it, and more for the person giving it. It’s the only way you will be able to move on from the situation. As unfortunate a situation that it is, it is irrevocable and you must overcome it. You won’t be able to go without forgiving her for what she has done.
I can’t promise you that things between you and your girlfriend will be happy-go-lucky; that baby was just as much yours as it was hers, and it was unfair that she made the decision of an abortion against your prior discussion with her against it. However, she was in a very compro-mising situa-tion and may have acted in fear or shock. That is, of course , by no means a justification of what she did. Under-stand though that she is in far more of a compromising place than you are when it comes to preg-nancy. The fact that she went against your will and did what she felt right for herself was not the right thing maybe for your relationship, but to her it was the right thing to do for her. As you two graduate, you are about to begin your lives in the real world. Maybe it wasn’t the right time for her to take that responsibility or she was just scared of the consequences a
baby will have on her life or your relationship.
As a responsible boy-friend, you did your part of being there and taking responsibility for the baby and her. Maybe she was just not responsible enough to take that commitment yet.
Whatever the case, she made a decision t hat ha s affected b o t h o f you. And a s t w o units of a relation-ship, the two of you h a v e t o
mutually come to a deci-sion for the future. If she is your soul mate and you feel that the abortion won’t change that, move forward, putting what has happened in the past, but taking from it the important lesson of complete and total honesty in a relationship.
Avani PatelStaff Columnist
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Dear Avani,My girlfriend of two years recently got pregnant. It was unplanned;
so naturally, it was quite a shock for both of us. I told her that I would be more than willing to raise our child together. It wouldn’t affect our schoolwork as we are both graduating in May. She brought up the idea of getting an abortion, but I told her that I didn’t morally agree with the practice. However, over spring break, she had an abortion anyway, and didn’t tell me about it. I am reeling right now; I thought she was my soul mate and that we would eventually have kids down the line anyway. Now, I don’t know what do. Can I forgive her?
- Former future father
“Forgiveness does not by any means
mean that you accept what the
other person has done as correct.”
The lessons of two bad professors
In his book “Twilight of the Idols,” Friedrich Nietzsche identifies two types of psy-
chologists. I could not help but think of some of the professors
I have had. He writes,
“This man is a human psy-chologist: what does he really study men for? He wants to gain little ad-vantages over them, or big ones too — he is a politician!”
This type of professor is dif-ficult to deal with because there is no joy in teaching for them. There is some sort of higher goal he or she wants students to attain and teaching is an act of manipulation of the stu-dents — small advantages. A lot of times professors seem to be teaching only because it is custom, and insofar as they are only waiting to take leave in order to write their articles and books; teaching is the act of manipulation toward big ad-vantages. These professors are quick to hide behind their au-thority instead of really dealing with students. They can meet during office hours only — and only by appointment during those hours. Beware of power plays during class, such as when a basic quest ion is f lipped back reflexively. “Hey pro -fessor why does?” is thus f lipped into, “How much work have you done about this problem outside of class?” No help is offered. No lines of help are offered, either.
Nietzsche thinks there is an-other, more sinister psycholo-gist. “This other man is also a human psychologist: and you say he wants nothing for him-self, that he is ‘impersonal.’ Take a closer look! Perhaps he wants an even worse advan-tage: to feel himself superior to men, to have the right to look down on them, no longer con-fuse himself with them. This ‘impersonal’ man is a despiser of men: and the former a more humane species, which may even be clear from appear-ance.”
These second strings of psychologists are professors who are impersonal. Perhaps this is best seen in the voice of reason. If the professor poses
some voice of cool logic, then they are probably ig-noring your question for the sake of convenience. These are the types to stay close to their scripts, read-ing their power points as if power points were the last say on knowledge. Gener-ally speaking, the bigger the class size, the more imper-sonal it gets. What a rush of joy it is for these people not to have to answer real problems, real questions, real intelligence. All the while, their colleagues pat them on the backs, “Gee, how do you get the cour-age to teach so well!” The teaching has not progressed in about one hundred years. Perhaps this professor is from a prestigious graduate school, and his or her thesis was on something different from what he or she teaches, which is something lower, too general, too watered down.
Real relationships, real exchange of teaching and learning are hard to come by. The problem is facilitat-ed by the sleeping student, the texting student and the student on Facebook during class. No one can know the authority is corrupt when they know nothing about the
authority. Students need to be respon-sible be-fore their classes by research-ing what they are getting into. This
means checking course grades from previous se-mesters on Wolfware, ask-ing advisers, other profes-sors, friends and campus professionals about classes.
Before classes students need to know they have a real interest in the subject. Students need to be respon-sible during classes, as in working as hard as possible in every course, getting help in the tutoring labs, forming study groups and starting work as soon as possible. Finally, students need to be responsible after class-es, being honest in course evaluations about how good professors really are.
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The cylindrical building sinks, builders call it “according to plan”
Kimi H. PepleuWolfpack Lampoon
While walking to class on Monday, students found an empty Brickyard just before early classes. Where Harrelson Hall once loomed in its cylin-drical enormity was a gaping, mile-deep hole.
Students experienced a range of emotions. Will Tousar, a freshman in mathematics, for example, said he immediately became giddy with excitement.
“We were really excited at first,” Tousar said.“Our whole class thought a meteor had hit it or they’d finally gotten rid of it.”
However, more seasoned stu-dents, such as Leah Jartson, a senior in civil engineering, re-alized University action against Harrelson was even less prob-
able than some divine, mete-oric judgment on the building’s winding, windowless involu-tion.
“Any kind of campus con-struction drags on forever,” Jartson said. “The same crew working on Hil lsborough Street couldn’t take down Har-relson in a couple of hours.”
The hysterical conviviality prompted by the demise of the much-despised edifice was, at best, momentary. Class was still held as professors chalked mathematical formulae and scientific concepts across the Brickyard.
“Kids kept standing on what I was trying to copy down,” Tousar said. “When I got back to do my homework, all I found was an advertisement for the Pre-Health Club and a ‘Danc-ing With Wolves’ lesson.”
By mid-afternoon, the con-struction of a mine-shaft ele-vator interrupted physics stu-dents performing a lab calcu-
lating the depth of the hole by measuring the time to hear the sound of a textbook dropping to the bottom of the chasm.
Margaret Pauls, a sophomore in religious studies, said she finds the dark descent of the depths fitting.
“Calculus is basically like de-scending into the Underworld,” she said. “Now, class is a little closer to where it belongs.”
Appropriate authorities were quickly contacted, with the University issuing an e-mail several hours later that “the recently noted sinking of Har-relson Hall appears to have been mysteriously expedited.” University officials continued by warning students to be on the lookout for a large, mile-deep hole. Associated archi-tects, however, expressed a lack of concern for the recent development.
“The entire design of that building was intentional,” an anonymous source revealed,
“from the curved whiteboards, its delicate organization, and this love affair with gravity.”
Though most students view Harrelson as the physical man-ifestation of non sequitur, he
disagrees.“Most people overlook the
innovation and creative cel-ebration which embodies that building,” he said. “It’s an em-blem of pride. Duke may have
nerds, and Chapel Hill might be good at basketball, but we are one of the few campuses progressive enough to have a circular and underground building.”
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Students may have to work a little harder to get the Student Senate seats left open after a recent round of resignations
Drake DrawsunWolfpack Lampoon
Due to the lack of an estab-lished process for filling the seats of senators who resigned during their terms, Student Body President Jon Nutsak has announced that students who want to apply for the positions will engage in an all-out brawl with their peers. “This gives us a chance to see who really wants to be a part of Student Government,” said Nutsak. “I fully expect this year’s applica-tion process to be balls-to-the-
wall awesome.”Applicants will be allowed to
choose from a variety of weap-ons before their duels. “I pre-fer the Aklys javelin because its sling allows me to impale competitors from a great-er distance,” sa id Tonya H a rd i n , a sophomore i n nuc lea r engineering. Student Gov-ernment has announced a new program, Rally4Battle, that will fund the construc-tion of a large metal cage in Witherspoon Student Center for applicants to battle in.
The new application system also has benefits for students who aren’t interested in the open seats. Student Wolfpack Club members will receive loy-
alty points for attending the jousts, and the matches w i l l b e a s o u r c e o f quality, low-cost enter-tainment for everyone.
If the pro-gram is suc-cessful, the Atrium plans to institute a
similar duel method to reduce the line for fries at Chick-fil-A.
Candidates joust for open Student Senate seats
Wolfpack lampoonA new mine shaft has been added to ease students’ access to Harrelson Hall. Students have commented that the new entrance is still more inviting than the original Harrelson Hall.
Students no longer afflicted by March Madness as a result of lack-luster performance
By Gobin MeatzWolfpack Lampoon
While universities and colleges across the nation are reporting record num-bers of students aff licted with March Madness, N.C. State seems to be largely
unaffected. “March Madness is not a
problem here at N.C. State” said Laura McGraw, director of mental health services for the University’s counseling center.
As it turns out, according to McGraw, N.C. State students have learned to invest little emotion in the success of their men’s basketball team, thereby avoiding psychological disor-ders such as March Madness.
However, the Wolfpack’s elimination from the NIT
Tournament may have corre-lated with a slight spike in cases of March Sadness.
But the Counseling Center remains optimistic, and Mc-Graw said that the early round elimination may have helped speed the grieving process for students mourning the losing season.
While students all across the country are forced to take mental health leaves in order
Student Health Services reports drop in cases of March Madness
“I fully expect this
year’s application
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awesome.”Jon Nutsak, student body
president
Harrelson sinks into ground, classes continue
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Alumna closes doors, opens windowsHousing slump finds refreshment in door-less house chain
Anuja AcharyaWolfpack Lampoon
Faye Bondag, a real estate agent in Jacksonville, NC, is paving the way out of the depressing housing slump. She’s not doing this by lowering mortgage rates or anything like that. In fact, she’s doing something a little out of the norm. She’s investing in a new market: door-less houses.
“Most people are under the im-pression that doors are some sort of necessity when it comes to houses,” Bondag said.
“But now, it seems that door-less houses have a huge market.”
Bondag is one of the few real estate agents that have tapped into a pre-viously under-represented market within real estate.
“When you think about all the peo-ple that live in houses but that don’t get out much —couch potatoes, old people, house wives, Lynyrd Skynyrd fans, stoners, solitaire enthusiasts, high school students taking any num-ber of AP classes —lots of homeown-ers don’t require houses with doors.”
Bondag references the Hostage Poll, a nationwide poll conducted by the Real Estate Group of America, which released results last week. In the study, it appeared that a solid 19.3 percent of homeowners rarely leave their houses.
With statistics like these, it seems that this small but growing market could end up producing substantial power in the real estate arena.
“The homeowners whose houses are outfitted with doors find themselves unnecessarily bothered,” Bondag said. “They are forced to shell out hun-dreds of dollars a year on welcome mats, wreaths, holiday decorations, potted plants, doorbells, fancy door-knockers and those cheap, tacky gar-den gnomes. A door-less house could save the average homeowner bundles of cash.”
Bondag makes a point. It is always in a real estate agent’s best interest to do as his or her customers prefer. The fact that the real estate agent also benefits with wads and wads of cash is totally beside the point.
“The upkeep of a door is great, but so is the cost of putting a door in the house in the first place,” Bondag said. “The wood for the door, the door knocker, the bell system, plus the in-
stallation, the hinges and the labor to make all this magic happen —multi-ply that by the number of doors in the house, both internal and external, and the cost of the whole house is through the roof.”
Bondag said while there are financial advantages to door-less houses, there are also an abundance of practical ele-ments that must not be overlooked.
“Now, energy use will go down, sav-ing homeowners hundreds on heating and cooling,” Bondag said. “Gone are the days of holding open doors and letting air-conditioned air out. Inju-ries, or door related injuries, will end! Gone are the days of slamming one’s fingers in door hinges, or of stubbing toes in door frames.”
Homeowners agree. According to Norma Bludgons, a self-acclaimed soap opera addict, her investment in her door-less house is one of the best investments she’s made.
“I am so lucky to have had the sense to buy a door-less house. It’s been use-ful and it’s saved me money.”
Before returning to her afternoon soaps and discussing why Cosette couldn’t marry Blake, as he’s her sec-ond cousin’s half sister’s stepbrother —or something like that —Bludgons
also said her door-less house is also helping avoid those pesky visitors that enjoy stopping by randomly.
“I’m not much of a people person, so this house is just right for me,” she said.
Like Bludgons, Mildred Luxman, the proud owner of 34 cats, is also glad that she chose go with her less-traditional house. In fact, she said she
only has positive things to say about her home.
“I love my door-less house. This way, neither I nor my cats can escape,” Lux-man said.
All that remains to be seen is what effect this new fad will have on the housing market as a whole.
wolfpack lampoon Door-less houses are already springing up in the Raleigh area.
University limiting expression in Free Expression Tunnel
Chris T. GeatzWolfpack Lampoon
A new University policy will limit all messages in the Free Expression Tunnel to 140 characters of 14-point plain black text, according to a campus-wide e-mail from University officials.
According to the release, students will have free ac-
cess to the requisite Lucida Grande characters and nearly 2 square inches of tunnel space after they agree to N.C. State’s Terms of Service. When ques-tioned about the content of the agreement, one user scoffed, “Does anyone actually read those things?”
Student opinion on the tun-nel is mixed.
“It feels pretty good to have my own space to work with. Now I don’t have to worry if my tweet, I mean, expression about last night’s episode of Dexter
will be replaced with some art or something. It really gives me a voice,” said one student who wished to remain anonymous.
Sophomore Jeff Leeting was decidedly more apathetic, how-ever.
“I don’t really care about that kind of stuff,” he said. “I’ve got much better things to think about.”
So does this mean that Leet-ing will continue using the tunnel?
According to him, the answer to that question is “probably.”
With this decision, the University has already gen-erated an enormous amount of buzz for itself within the campus-landmark-based-social-networking industry.
According to Steph Em-erald, doctorate student in underwater basket weaving, “Paring down the commu-nication process shows that N.C. State is attuned to the needs of the modern stu-dent.”
to deal with the psychologi-cal effects of March Madness, most students on campus have avoided the disorder and have turned their attention to far less maddening endeavors such as demanding term papers and endless lectures.
“I could be losing my mind over some game right now, but our basketball team really makes it easy to stay sane in March, plus I’ve got this mid-term due,” said Jeff Smintosky, a junior in psychology.
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a marathon because of the large amount of events that are set to take place.
“Normally there is only the 4x100m relay and the 4x400m relay,” Geiger said. “This event has the 4x100m, 4x200m, 4x400m, 4x800m, and the 4x1500m, so there are a lot of different events, plus the nor-mal events. It is a huge meet.”
Not only will there be a lot of events, there will also be a lot of participants in each event. Each event is broken down into heats, and each heat must run separately.
“In the 100m dash, for ex-ample, I think there are 125 entries,” Geiger said. “ You only have 8 lanes and everybody gets a lane, so that is a lot of heats. That’s why it takes so long, somewhere near 25 minutes of 100m dashes, and there are four sections of 5,000, so that is an hour plus.”
The past couple years it has rained during the event, mak-ing running conditions un-pleasant.
“Every year it always rains,” said Lawson. “I don’t like run-ning or jumping or anything in the rain.”
In keeping with tradition, there is a chance of show-ers late Friday afternoon, but sunny skies are in the forecast for Saturday.
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right up to them and give it to them and tell them, ‘it’s yours.’”
Although Stevenson credits his athletes for his success, his athletes recognize him for their progress as a gymnast, accord-ing to sophomore Jess Panza.
“He’s an amazing coach, honestly,” Panza said. “He’s so patient with all of us girls. Whenever anything‘s wrong or we’re having a bad day, he pays attention, and it really is so motivating. He helps us through any problem we’re having, whether it’s in or out of the gym.“
Senior Taylor Seaman said Stevenson’s style of coaching makes him very productive.
“Mark has a very warm de-meanor, that’s the best way I can describe it,” Seaman said. “He doesn’t raise his voice — he has a very calm persona about it, which is very respect-able and you want to respect him because he is so down to earth. Anyone would be lucky to have him as a coach.”
Being a calm, collected coach is a quality Stevenson has had to learn over the years.
“I learned that the meaner you are, it doesn’t necessarily mean the better your kids will do,” Stevenson said. “There’s a balance between being ag-gressive to be successful and being mean to be successful and you’ll find that most ath-
letes respect you more if you’re stern and not out of control. The way I look at it is if I’m ever out of control then I have lost the battle because I’ve lost the respect. That’s something I don’t think I could have done when I was 24.”
With Stevenson’s last two seasons being two of his best, finishing 2009 with his fifth conference championship and fourth EAGL title, he said he doesn’t see himself leaving the Wolfpack anytime soon.
“I’m going to continue coaching until I don’t feel like what I’m doing is benefitting my team, and for as long as N.C. State wants me,” Steven-son said. “I really like it here. My heart is with N.C. State and it’s always been.”
StevenSon’S achievementS• 26 postseason births • Back-to-back eAgL
conference titles in 1999 and 2000, and two of the last three years, 2007 and 2009
• Top-three finishes at 11 of the 14 eAgL meets, a new league standard
• Four-time eAgL coach of the year
• Four-time NcAA regional coach of the year
• Five conference championships
Source: N.c. State athleticS
luiS zapata/techNiciaN file photoSophomore Jess Panza washes her hands in preparation for her bars routine Jan. 15. Panza scored a 9.725 for bars and an overall score of 38.225. N.C. State beat Rutgers 193.826- 188.100 during their first meet of the season.
championship-winning team currently on the roster will be called upon to con-tribute just as much, if not more, than their freshmen teammates. Upperclassmen who have shown consistent-ly high performance totals all season include Seaman and sophomores Brooke Barr and Panza. Seaman has always been a top per-former for the Pack, and she didn’t disappoint last week, when she set a school record by compiling an all around score over 39 for the 16th time in her career. Panza and Barr have contributed in all events for most of the season and consistently scored high marks on all of them. These upperclassmen will look to utilize previous EAGL experience and per-form at the level at which they have all season long, according to Panza.
“Last year I didn’t know what to expect,” Panza said. “It is louder, more intense, and there are more people there. Knowing that from last year, I now know what to expect.”
The EAGL champion-ships, formed in 1996, were created because N.C. State and other schools from oth-er conferences didn’t have a gymnastics-specific confer-ence in which to compete.
Stevenson and West Virginia coach Linda Burdette spear-headed the development of the EAGL conference in hopes of creating a championship that would allow teams one final shot at competing against each other in one meet.
“We didn’t have a season end-ing meet that would challenge our teams and make them work harder for the bigger score at
the end,” Stevenson said. Top teams from the EAGL
conference include West Virginia, who has won the tournament six times since its inception, UNC-Chapel Hill, who has taken home three titles, and New Hampshire, who has won the event once.
COUNTDOWN• 23 days until the football team’s spring game
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gymnastics and trackSportsTechnicianPage 8 • friday, march 26, 2010
Wolfpack women climbing national pollThe latest ITA rankings pegged the women’s tennis team at No. 26 in the nation, 14 spots better than the Pack was ranked in the previous poll. The team improved its record to 9-4 with a 7-0 romp over Richmond Wednesday afternoon. The victory over the Spiders was the team’s fifth in a row. Of the Pack’s nine wins this season, three have come against ranked teams, including Princeton, FIU and Wake Forest. State will look to take down another nationally ranked opponent when it travels to Clemson for Saturday’s showdown with the No. 9 Tigers.
Source: N.c. State athleticS
Softball takes one of two from UNC-GreensboroThe softball team opened its doubleheader against UNC-G in dominant fashion, winning 10-0 in five innings behind a one-hit effort from pitcher Lindsay Campana and 11 base hits. In the second match of the evening, State pitcher Cory Mattson was pulled after one inning in a 5-1 loss. After Thursday’s split with the Spartans, the Pack’s record is 18-14.
Source: N.c. State athleticS
athletic schedule
FridayWomen’s Track and Field in adidas raleigh relays Derr Track, All day
Women’s Track and Field in sTanFord inviTePalo Alto, Calif., All day
men’s Track in adidas raleigh relays Derr Track, All day
men’s Track in sTanFord inviTePalo Alto, Calif., All day
men’s Tennis vs. clemsonIsenhour Tennis Complex, 2:30 p.m.
BaseBall vs. miamiDoak Field at Dail Park, 6:30 p.m.
SaturdayWomen’s Track and Field in adidas raleigh relays Derr Track, All day
Women’s Track and Field in sTanFord inviTePalo Alto, Calif., All day
men’s Track in adidas raleigh relays Derr Track, All day
men’s Track in sTanFord inviTePalo Alto, Calif., All day
BaseBall vs. miamiDoak Field at Dail Park, 6:30 p.m.
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Track and field ready to host RelaysN.C. State will host the annual Raleigh Relays this weekend
Samantha Collier Staff Writer
The Raleigh Relays is an annual event held at N.C. State that brings together thousands of athletes f r o m a l l around. The event will be held Friday and Saturday at the Paul Derr Track.
Over the course of the season, t he t rack a nd f ie ld teams will travel to compete in com-petitions across the nation, including meets in other
parts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, California Georgia, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Oregon. The Raleigh Re-lays is the only home meet for the team and will be the only chance it has to showcase it’s talent for local fans.
For senior Kayla Lawson, this will be the third year she
participates in the Ra-leigh Relays. She said that ever y yea r there are a lot of people and she looks forward to it because it is a chance for the entire student body to come w a t c h t h e t e a m p e r-form.
Not only is the event an ad-vantage for fans, but for ath-letes as well. Senior Reggie
Reese said having home meets takes some of the stress off the athletes because they do not have to miss class.
“Normally we miss class or a local event that will take place while we are gone,” Re-ese said. “[With a home meet] you can go to the meet and then go back to class, so you really won’t miss anything like notes or quizzes. Most of the time we have to miss those types of things and have to make it up.”
Raleigh Relays is a two-day event that runs Friday from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. and from 10 a.m. Saturday until about 6 p.m.
“This is a large meet and it is deep in talent,” coach Rollie Geiger said. “To win is a diffi-cult task. It is all in preparation for the conference champion-ships, so it is a building block for later on in the season.”
Geiger referred to the meet as
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tiM o’BrieN/techNiciaN archive photolaWanda Henry, a sophomore in management, throws shot put at the raleigh relays track meet march 27, 2009 at the Paul derr Track. Henry, a redshirt freshman, threw 15.80 meters, earning her second place overall.Relay continued page 7
luiS zapata/techNiciaN File photoHead coach mark stevenson talks to his team before the bar exercises during its first meet of the season against rutgers. This is stevenson’s 30th year coaching the gymnastics team.
Gymnastics looks for another EAGL Championship
Coach still going strong after 30 years
Wolfpack looks to defend 2009 EAGL championship title in New Hampshire this weekend
Chadwick O’ConnellStaff Writer
The gymnastics team will travel to Durham, N.H. on Saturday to compete in the 2010 EAGL championships in hopes of defending the title it won at Reynolds Coliseum in 2009. This year’s team has compiled a successful regular season thus far by having both the highest average team score in the EAGL confer-ence and the highest NCAA regional qualifying score. The Pack will look to duplicate it s reg u-lar season totals as it attempts to win the champion-ship for the third time in the last four years.
“I con-sider our-selves favorites because we are on the upswing after the meet last week,” fresh-man Rachel Fincham said. “It will be business as usual for our team going into this weekend.”
The Pack comes into EAGL weekend having blown by the Tribe of Wil-liam and Mary, notching an overall score of 196.150 on senior night in Raleigh. This meet showed off the depth of the Wolfpack squad, as multiple mem-bers of the team scored
above 9.7 for each event with-out having to count any falls. The only weak event for the Pack up until that meet had been the balance beam, but it seemed to get back on target versus William and Mary, as it had a higher score on beam than it did on vault. Two big pieces to the puzzle when it comes to beam are the con-sistent performances shown by sophomore Jess Panza and senior Taylor Seaman, who tied for first in winning the event last weekend.
“Last week gave us so much confidence and showed that we are capable of anything,” Panza said.
This year’s team is definitive-ly different from last season’s squad that won the champion-ship here in Raleigh, but there
has been lit-tle drop off. Fincham and fellow freshman Morgan Johnson have come i n a n d stepped up to be regu-la r s t a r t-ers for the Pack. As a true fresh-
man, Fincham ranks number one amongst all EAGL gym-nasts for her performance on the uneven bars throughout the season. The Pack will rely heavily on these freshmen in order to achieve scores similar to ones recently posted against William and Mary.
“This is a different team and a different group of kids,” coach Mark Stevenson said. “Rachel and Morgan have come in and done a great job for us.”
Some members of last year’s
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Head coach Mark Stevenson has built the gymnastics program from the ground up
Jen HankinDeputy Sports Editor
Since the beginning of women’s gymnastics at N.C. State, the team has gone through some great seasons and some poor seasons, times with sup-port and times without. Through these changing years the one thing that has remained consistent is coach Mark Stevenson.
Stevenson, who is now finishing up his 30th year
with the Wolfpack, was hired as the head gymnastics coach after being an assistant for two years.
“It was actually pretty excit-ing,” Steven-son said. “I was 24 years o l d w h e n t h e y g a v e me the head coaching job here. My hir-ing party was with Jim Val-vano, so that is a neat thing to look back on at this point.”
Over the course of Steven-son’s time at State, he has earned four EAGL coach of
the year awards, four NCAA Regional coach of the year awards and coached his team to five conference titles.
“When I win an award like coach of the year it’s not really about me,” Steven-son said. “It’s because of the players. It’s about the job they do. Their attitude and t hei r work
ethic are what make me look like a good coach. So when I win an award like that I walk
Standings Overall Record
“It’s because of
the players. It’s
about the job
they do”Coach Mark Stevenson
“Normally we
miss class while
we are gone, but
with a home meet
you really won’t
miss anything”Senior Reggie Reese
“Last week gave
us so much
confidence and
showed that we
are capable of
anything”Sophomore Jess Panza