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Tom Stafford’s long University career was celebrated Monday afternoon.
Elise HeglarNews Editor
A retirement party was held Mon-day afternoon in honor of Thomas Stafford, vice chancellor for Stu-dent Affairs, who will officially step down from his position July 1.
Stafford has worked at the Univer-sity as the vice chancellor for stu-dent affairs since Oct. 1, 1983. He has served in administrative and research positions since 1971 and also received his master’s degree from N.C. State.
The celebration was an opportu-nity for various people to speak in honor of Stafford and the work he has done at the University. Chan-cellor Randy Woodson, Provost Warwick Arden, Alex Miller and Justine Hollingshead were a few of the many guest speakers to talk about Stafford and his work.
“This is a great turnout for this event. Honestly, it didn’t surprise me, because he’s done so much for so many people,” Arden said.
The University is honoring Staf-ford by naming the green space around the renovated Talley Student Center after him.
Some of the people at the event presented Stafford with gifts. Rep-resentatives from the University’s Reserve Officer Training Corps presented Stafford with military coins as a thank you for all of his work with the program. Stafford has worked very closely with ROTC; 12,000 officers have been commis-sioned through ROTC while Staf-ford was at the University.
“[Working with ROTC] has been a very special part of my job at N.C. State,” Stafford said.
Andy Walsh, student body presi-dent, attended the event to honor Stafford because of how student-centric Stafford’s agenda has always been.
“The amount he did for the stu-dent body is incredible. Forty-one years of service with a students first mentality is just incredible,” Walsh said.
Even the food at the event honored Stafford’s commit-ment to the Univer-sity; a cookie tower was constructed to look like the Bell Tower, and a water-melon was engraved with Mr. Wuf’s like-ness.
Photos of Stafford at various University events were places around the room at the McKimmon Center where the event was held. You could see him enjoying graduation, cheering at football games, and standing in front of the bell tower with students.
When Stafford rose to give his fi-nal speech, he glanced at the crowd with a smile on his face. During his speech, Stafford told stories of his time on campus and discussed what the University has meant to
him throughout the years.
“How do you re-f lect on 41 years in just a few minutes? [My wife] said, don’t tell the whole story; just say what it is all about. So that’s what I’ll be doing,” Staf-ford said.
Sta f ford spoke a b out s e e i ng a
streaker at graduation, watching Pullen Hall burn down, and par-ticipating in the Homecoming pa-rade. Before he left the stage, Staf-ford asked all of the students in the
crowd to stand and addressed them directly.
“This is why I have done this the last 41 years. [The students] are wonderful to work with and I have enjoyed that relationship so much,” Stafford said.
As he closed his speech, Staf-ford encouraged the audience to look forward with the University.
“As you move forward, em-brace change and use it to make N.C. State a better place. Con-tinue to put students first at N.C. State. Continue to make this a place that welcomes everyone who comes here,” Stafford said.
Right before he left the stage, Stafford addressed the students directly once again.
“N.C. State University is in great hands with Randy Wood-son and Provost Warwick Ar-den,” Stafford said.
Third annual Wolf Pack-N-Give donation drive held on campus until May 13.
Elise HeglarNews Editor
University Housing and N.C. State Waste Reduction and Recycling are collaborating to make use of items students discard while moving out and reduce waste.
Wolf Pack-N-Give is an event, originally called Wolf Pack-N-Go, created to collect unwanted items students are getting rid of during the move out. The name of the event was changed in an effort to make the purpose more ob-vious according to Analis Fulghum, educat ion a nd outreach coordi-nator for waste reduction and re-cycling.
There are vari-ous donation stations around cam-pus, called PackRat storage contain-ers, where students can drop off a variety of items. Furniture, elec-
tronics, small home goods, cloth-ing, shoes and non-perishable foods are all possible items for donation.
“Students have a lot that they can’t pack up in the car while they’re moving out, so we usually get a lot of stuff,” Fulghum said.
The event used to be a sale of the donated items, with proceeds ben-efiting a sustainable student group and the Howl for Haiti program. The donated materials are going directly to two nonprofits.
Dorcas Ministries and the Green Chair Project are the two organi-zations working with the program
this year. Dorcas will be collecting clothes and food from the donation stations, and the Green Chair Project is helping sort all of the do-nations once the stations are full, ac-cording to Fulghum.
“Going direct ly to the non-profits is saving us a lot of
staff and money this year,” Fulghum said.
The Green Chair Project gives people who are trying to restart
their lives access to basic necessi-ties like furniture and appliances. Jackie Craig, co-founder of the or-ganization, said it is very important for students to consider how their unused items could benefit someone in need.
“Everything [the Green Chair Project] has has been discarded at some point. Students have a lot of things that they may not need that can be very useful to others who are working on rebuilding their homes,” Craig said.
A wide variety of people come to the Green Chair Project for help rebuilding their homes, accord-ing to Craig. Women coming from
University says goodbye to Stafford
Student donations benefit non-profits
The Wildlife Club screened a documentary focusing on environmentalist Aldo Leopold.
Sarah DashowStaff Writer
For their last meeting of the semester, N.C. State’s Leopold Wildlife Club held a documentary screening and discussion of Green Fire, the biographical story of their namesake Aldo Leopold.
Leopold has strongly influenced the modern environmental move-ment. He developed the first com-prehensive management plan for the Grand Canyon and proposed the Gila Wilderness Area, the first national wilderness area in the For-est Service system. He also helped found the Wilderness Society. The film is named after a quote from Leopold’s book.
“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain,” Leopold said in A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949 after his death.
The film was made through a partnership between the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the Center for Humans and Nature and the U.S. Forest Service. It aims to highlight his idea of land ethic for the ecologi-cal challenges of today.
Leopold defines land ethic as the conservation of nature through the harmony of men and land.
The Wildlife Club hoped to fuel discussion on Leopold’s influence in the field and his ideas on con-servation.
“I had to read the Sand County Al-manac for two different classes, and it was, it would be too cliche to say it was life-changing, but it definitely
Club honors wildlife expert
jordan moore/TechnicianVice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Dr. Tom Stafford walks off stage after giving a final speech at his retirement banquet, held in McKimmon Center on Monday, April 23, 2012. Stafford has been a part of N.C. State for 40 years, and has spearheaded many student groups, activities, and meetings with his motto “Students First.” Stafford’s legacy was honored at his retirement banquet with speeches and awards given out by numerous groups, including the GLBT Center, Student Government and the NCSU Army ROTC.
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john joyner/TechnicianA Wolf Pack-N-Give container outside of the Honors Village Commons building on Dunn Avenue April 23. The containers are available for students to donate items they would otherwise throw out when moving out of their dorms.
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Chris Fundanish, a junior in environmental science, and Rochel Conley, a senior in fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology, shuffle through donated clothing in the field between the wolf ears. SustainU, an Ameri-
can recycled apparel company, hosted an intercampus clothing drive. Wolfpack Environmental Student Association (WESA) and Student Government helped organize a campus wide clothing swap for the competition. Clothing was donated for an entire week on the Brickyard, weighed and recorded for the competition, and then laid out Monday for students to exchange. All clothing not taken by students during the swap is being donated to Dorcas Ministries who is running Wolf Pack-N-Give on campus these last weeks of school. Conley said, “I love that we can donate to other students while still reaching out to the greater community.”
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affected my view on things. It got me thinking about a lot of the ideas of conserva-tion,” Charles Sanders, senior in fisheries and wildlife sci-ences and president elect of the Wildlife Club, said.
Sanders said he believes in the distinction between envi-ronmentalism and conserva-tion that he believes Leopold upholds in his writing.
“Environmentalism has become more of a political agenda than anything else, and conservation is not anti-use. You can use so much, but you can’t use it all, or you’ll end up with nothing,” Sand-ers said. “You have a differ-ence between the extreme, let’s go and protect every-thing, people be damned, and the recognition [that] we need wood, we need this, we need that, so let’s use it, but let’s use it sustainably, and I think that’s the key is that term.”
In the documentary, The-odore Roosevelt was men-tioned as being part of the beginning of this movement
towards sustainability.“Optimism is a good char-
acteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolish-ness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so,” Theodore Roosevelt said in his seventh annual mes-sage to congress in 1907.
Sanders believes that Leop-old played a key role in bring the ideas of Roosevelt and others together into some-
thing that can still be used to-day by those studying wildlife conversation.
“They kind of laid the foun-dations. I think Leopold took a lot of what they started. He took the pieces and put them together. He was a key component in getting the ethic going. He took [their ideas] one step further and really got us thinking about the community and not just pieces of it,” Sanders said.
The N.C. State Wildlife Club is open to anyone who wishes to join and will con-tinue to meet every month come fall semester this year. Students can expect to see guest speakers within the wildlife profession and are able to attend field days giv-ing wildlife students hands-on work experience.
battered women shelters, homeless people who are trying to earn a steady paycheck and im-prove their liv-ing situa-tion and victims of fire dam-age are all common-ly seen at the Green Chair Project.
The Green Chair Project is about two years old and has helped more than 200 families begin to rebuild their homes, according to Craig. Last year, when tornadoes struck Raleigh, Green Chair was able to step in and help families recreate a stable home en-vironment.
“They are rebuilding their lives; they have sta-ble employment and want to build a stable home,” Craig said.
Helping people by giv-ing them assistance rather
than an easy way out is im-portant, according to Craig.
“You’re helping your com-munity by giving them a helping hand, not a handout,” Craig said.
In addition to helping p e o p l e i n need, there is an environ-mental ele-ment to Wolf Pack N Give. According to Fulghum, one of the most impor-tant elements of the drive i s a v o i d -
ing products being added to landfills. Craig agreed, stating that students should consider the environmental element of donating.
“One of the great things about this is that it’s green. You’re reusing [the items] and avoiding adding to land-fills,” Craig said.
For more information about the program and dona-tion stations on campus, visit http://recycling.ncsu.edu/getinvolved/wolfpackngo.php. The event began yester-day and will continue until May 13.
tyler andrews/technicianEthan Greene, a junior in fisheries and wildlife science, watches the documentary Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time during a Leopold Wildlife Club meeting in Biltmore Hall on April 23. Green Fire is a documentary about the environmentalist Aldo Leopold and his influence in the environmental movement.
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Bob Grossfeld finishes his tenure as professor, researcher and mentor.
Eric RizzoSenior Staff Writer
Looking back at his career, Bob Grossfeld, professor of biology, never expected to find himself in North Caro-lina. But after no trivial stint of 33 years at N.C. State, Grossfeld will be leaving an impact that extends from re-search, generosity and inspir-ing students’ futures.
After giving up on his dreams of becoming a profes-sional baseball player, Gross-feld decided to pursue his ac-ademic interests at Stanford University. After graduating, he decided to take a position at a university instead of a research institution, which led to his successful teaching career.
Grossfeld never intended to come to N.C. State, let alone North Carolina. However, due to unforeseen circum-stances, he was not able to get a posi-tion at the University of Texas. While looking in the Journal of Science , Grossfeld came across a n adver-tisement for a position at N.C. State and decided to go for it. What really attracted him to the area was the Re-search Triangle Park.
Once Grossfeld started working for the University
as a biology professor, he only intended to stay for a few years.
Hamish Patel and Kareem Clark, two biochemistry alumni, had the pleasure of getting to know Grossfeld throughout their years at N.C. State. Patel began work-ing with Grossfeld through a summer program before his freshman year, and Clark began neuroscience research with Grossfeld during his sophomore year. However, Grossfeld gave them more than the opportunity to re-search.
“He always gave me good advice both in science and practical knowledge,” Patel said. “He was sort of like my mom and dad away from home.”
“He’s really a perfect re-search mentor,” Clark said. “He would let us have a lot of control over our own projects but was still there to guide us over the way.”
According to Patel, Gross-feld always kept him engaged in school. Patel said he would
always go to Grossfeld for course selec-tions, or any big decision.
“I a lways knew I didn’t want to up-set Grossfeld in research or in school,” Patel said.
However, according to Pa-tel, Grossfeld was also good to talk to if something went wrong, because he always highlighted the positives to any situation.
Another current student who has built a strong rela-tionship with Grossfeld is Hitesh Shivalingappa, a se-nior in biochemistry. Accord-ing to Shivalingappa, Gross-feld inspires his research stu-dents to be proactive.
“He can be very intimidat-ing, but he uses it to our bet-terment,” Shivalingappa said.
However, Grossfeld didn’t only push Shivalingappa to excel in the lab, but in every facet of life.
“Any big decision I make, I run by Dr. Grossfeld,” Shival-ingappa said.
Patel, Clark and Shivalin-gappa all continue to keep in touch with Grossfeld actively
and plan to do so in the fu-ture.
Aside from teaching and doing research, Grossfeld has also spent significant time with the Park Scholarship program. He began mentor-ing Park Scholars eight years ago and is currently a faculty scholar with the class of 2012, according to Grossfeld.
According to Eva Feucht, Director of the Park Scholar-ship, Grossfeld has mentored more than 20 Park Scholars who majored in the life sci-ences.
“Students really value their relationship with Dr. Gross-feld, because he takes the time to get to know them,”
Feucht said.The Park program initially
invited Grossfeld to become involved because he was well-respected in his field, but also because he involved in the progress of undergradu-ate students and believed in challenging them, according to Feucht.
One of Grossfeld’s most important contributions to the Park Scholars program, according to Feucht, is the time he’s committed.
“Whenever he’s asked to assist a student, he always says yes and takes the time to build a relationship with the student,” Feucht said.
This is Grossfeld’s last year
as a fulltime professor at the University. However, he in-tends to live his retirement with the phrase retired, not tired in mind.
After his wife inspired him, Grossfeld began to record all of his plans for retirement. He now has three pages worth of things to do, first of which is to clean and organize his home. Nevertheless, he does not intend to leave N.C. State completely. According to Grossfeld, he plans to keep working with Park Scholars and hopes to guide students in their careers and personal lives. He wants to help stu-dents learn about themselves, to optimize their potential.
Bob Grossfeld: ‘Retired, not tired’
charlie harless/TechnicianBob Grossfeld, researcher of advanced physiology and spinal cord injury and repair, holds a suction electrode which is used for recording nerve electrical potentials.
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FeaturesA natural deposit of uranium may push physicists to rethink the fundamentals of science.
Jordan BakerStaff Writer
It all started about two bil-lion years ago under the rock of what became Africa. The site is known as Oklo Natu-ral Nuclear Reactors, and it plays host to the only known naturally occurring-nuclear reactor.
Here, under the soils of Gabon, naturally occurring fission has left yellowcake uranium encrusted onto the walls of the caves. According to Chris Gould, associate dean of the College of Physi-cal and Mathematical Sci-ences and researcher in the Experimental Nuclear Phys-ics program, the Oklo reac-tor, which ran for more than a million years, possessed the capability of putting out around 15 kilowatts of power. Compared to the reactors at Shearon Harris in New Hill, North Carolina, this output is almost negligible. But the true worth of this place does not come from the power it produces.
What continues to draw physicists like Gould to the reactor at Oklo is the notion of variations of constants through time—a concept that turns an elementary definition of science upside-down.
“The Oklo natural reactors have proven to be one of the more sensitive terrestrial test-ing grounds for studying time variation of the fine structure constant,” Gould wrote in Physical Review.
With this research, Gould has been exploring the no-tion that physical constants are not actually constants at all, and that they have varied through time since the cre-ation of everything. Astro-physicists have conducted the majority of research on this topic through the study of quasars, energy-rich celes-tial bodies similar to stars. However, Gould believes the answer may also lie beneath the earth of Gabon at Oklo.
Gould’s most recent pa-per, published this year in Physical Review, focuses on the measurement of the temperatures at Oklo. This question has been debated among physicists recently, because it can “help get a bet-ter answer to the question of whether the Coulomb force has changed over the last two billion years,” Gould said in a press release earlier this year.
Though Gould’s work may well help to rewrite Physics 201 textbooks, there is also another interesting facet to the naturally occurring reactor at Oklo: what to do with atomic waste? Though the reactor was not strong compared to those manu-factured by present day en-gineers, it nonetheless keeps uranium deposits safe un-derground, where they have had no measurable affect on the populous living above. Physicists hope the study of the Oklo reactor may lead to a better understanding of how yellowcake uranium storage should work and how to improve human attempts at storing this toxic element.
Natural nuclear reactor unveils physical mysteries CentMesh network
assists students and faculty in research, education and security.
Ameya KulkarniStaff Writer
Centennia l Campus has been covered with a “mesh,” but this invisible one consists of an outdoor Wi-Fi network, accessible through untethered mo-bile devices. This project called CentMesh, short for Centennial Outdoor Wireless Mesh Network, is a test bed for research and education and one of the first Wi-Fi meshes in the country, allowing the researchers to modify or rewrite the codes to meet their requirements.
The project started with an initial award in July 2008, with sponsoring from the Army Research Office.
John Streck, the direc-tor of operations from the computer science and engineering department, is one of the core team members in the imple-mentation of the Cent-Mesh project.
“We followed a gradual development cycle, with three distinct phases. In the first phase, a labora-tory version was devel-oped. In the second phase, we developed a push-cart version and tested it out-doors. The third and final phase consists of the pole deployment,” Streck said.
CentMesh allows both students and faculty to use it as a Wi-Fi source. Additionally, network researchers use it in their investigation in improving
Wi-Fi coverage.According to Dennis Kekas,
associate vice chancellor of the College of Engineering, CentMesh is a perfect ex-ample of using the research park as a “living laboratory.”
“Centennial Campus is a mini-city of buildings, em-ployees, students and ame-nities, and an integrated net-work system is an excellent way of keeping such a com-munity closely connected,” Kekas said.
The CentMesh project dif-fers from the current Wi-Fi system available on the Cen-tennial Campus in many dif-ferent ways.
“From a user perspective, CentMesh is primarily de-signed to cover the outdoor areas, while the existing coverage on the Centenni-al Campus is focused on the indoor areas,” Streck said. “From an implementation
perspective, the production part of CentMesh is based on mesh technology, which is quite different from the ex-isting Wi-Fi infrastructure.”
Being an open source, re-searchers can modify and make instant changes to the network, modifying the codes of the Wi-Fi system.
This project underwent a thorough series of trials be-fore the finalized network was opened for public use. Rudra Dutta and Mihail Sichitiu, both of whom are associate professors in the computer engineering de-partment, played a lead role in implementing the finalized version of CentMesh after a rigorous series of trials.
“We spent a lot of time carefully planning and test-ing the software, and we only moved to this final phase once we were confident that all software and placement of
the nodes was correct,” Streck said.
According to the Cent-Mesh website, the vision for the Centennial Campus has been crafted by academics and researchers. The recog-nized aim of the campus is to be a “Living Laboratory,” pro-viding a mission and goal of the campus to actively aiding researchers and educators.
Further plans on expand-ing the area of CentMesh to main campus have been con-sidered.
“We believe that, in time, the CentMesh can be fur-ther extended in other loca-tions, and the main campus is one such possible location,” Streck said. “Different loca-tions offer different advan-tages and challenges, and the N.C. State main campus is only one such possible lo-cation.”
michael pratt/technicianThis CentMesh node is located atop the Centennial Parking Deck, across the road from the Hunt Library, where construction workers work on the roof. Each node consists of two parts. The top antenna array, connected to a computer on the ground, is part of the CentMesh network, transmitting and receiving signals.
Centennial Campus launches mesh Wi-Fi network
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{ }Our view
On Friday, the Chan-cellor announced part of his realign-
ment plan for the University: the combination of the Col-lege of Physical and Mathe-matical Sciences with the un-dergraduate biology program to form the College of Sci-ences. The realignment leaves us with more questions than answers, for instance: What does PAMS have to do with the biology department?
The realignment is the re-sult of a task force orches-trated in May 2011 to review the administrative structures of science programs. Accord-ing to the task force’s report they wanted to “enhance the
natural synergies between the science programs…while re-ducing administrative over-head.”
Cutting costs can be a noble effort depending on what the savings will go toward. If we are reducing overhead be-cause we’re bleeding money and need to consolidate our programs in the most effi-cient way possible, then it’s a necessary change. However, a change of this magnitude needs to be spelled out as such and not be hidden be-hind the guise of improved conditions for students.
By comparison, the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences is small. With only 843 students enrolled during the current semester, it pales in comparison to other col-leges such as CHASS, with 3,947 students, the College of Engineering, with 5,577, or the College of Management, with 2,364. With the addition of the biology department, we wonder if it is possible to meet all of the needs of the incoming students given the resources of the third small-est college at N.C. State.
In the end, we need more answers. We need more rea-sons to believe this should work. You can’t say, as the chancellor has, that “the col-lege will be positioned to provide much of the core of undergraduate instruction in these disciplines.” That should be the standard of ed-ucation here, not something to be aspired to. If this does more than stop our financial levees from bursting, we’re not seeing it and are open to a more detailed account of how the lives the students af-fected will be improved.
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Questions about the College of SciencesThe FacTs:The biology department will be leaving the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to merge with the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences to form the College of Sciences.
Our OpiniOn:On the surface, it appears this is another cost cutting measure presented as an improvement for students. It’s hard to believe a department as large as biology is going to successful integrated into the third smallest college on campus.
Rabbits and CharizardsStudents, if you’ve been
keeping up with my columns, then you’ll
know I’m not an open book. I don’t like to talk about my-self; it just seems redundant
when every-one else is talking about me for me. Maybe I ’m feeling a little emotional with this be-ing my last column of the semester, but I want you to
know something about me: I have trust issues. I’m going to tell you why in two heart-breaking stories. Ready your tissues.
I remember few things about my childhood in Egypt. I remember the principal at my elementary school wasn’t too fond of me, but I can’t re-call why that was. I remember living close to the Mediterra-nean Sea, but I can’t remem-ber the smell of ocean air or the sounds and architecture near the beach in Alexandria, Egypt. However, there is one memory I’ll never be able to let go—it begins with a white, fluffy rabbit.
On my way home from school, there was one thing I always looked forward to, and that was taking my adorable fur-ball of a pet out on the balcony to play. Our routine was consistent; every day for an hour we’d go there so he could run around while I watched and petted him. The little white rabbit and I had a much more meaning-ful friendship than I did with most people. We had no ex-pectations of one another, we were just glad the other was around. He was happy to have me there to feed him, and I was happy to have him as company. It was awesome.
A wise man once said, “all really awesome things be-tween two parties must come to a hot, fiery end for one of the parties involved in afore-mentioned awesome thing.” And he was right. Upon com-ing home from school one day, I went to my friend’s cage for our scheduled play-time; he wasn’t there. “Fen al arnaab?” I asked my mom. Without saying a word, she answered with a straightened arm and a pointed finger aimed at a giant pot on the stove; we would be eating my
best friend for dinner. The rest is gone from my memory.
I assume my tears were poured onto the rabbit to add a salty and savory flavor that only profound despair can achieve. That was the end of one childhood, and after two short plane rides interrupted by a layover in Spain, I would begin another.
I was lucky enough to be in America during the Poke-mon card craze. Schools had banned them, but kids still found ways to smuggle them onto playgrounds and within the walls of the hallways for battle and trade. The logistics were intricate; we made drug smugglers look like amateurs. My deck, like many others, was comprised of a lot of Bul-basaurs and energy cards; it was nothing too special, with the exception of one dark, ho-lographic Charizard. It was so much more than a card, it was a status symbol. Chariz-ard got girls to notice me and made bullies fear me; every-one knew I was packing heat.
Of course, you probably already know how this story ends: not well. I had just made a new friend, whose name I cannot remember. We were battling it out in my front yard. I won, of course. He congratulated me with wide eyes, still in awe of my Charizard. “Can I see your cards?” he asked. Feeling confident, I handed over the deck. I smugly watched while he shuffled through the deck, he clearly knew how cool I was.
And before I realized what had happened or could react, he hopped on his bike and sped off, looking back only to yell “sucker!” Once again, I found myself mourning what had been ripped away from me. This childhood was no less cruel than the last.
From these experiences, I’ve learned there are two types of people in the world: the kind that will hurt you, even if they love you and it’s unintentional, and those that hurt you and don’t care to look back. In case you’ve missed the moral of the sto-ry, it’s this: seek vengeance. Don’t stand idly by while your friends get eaten and your things get taken.
Let me close out my last column of the semester with something we Arabs say to parting friends: salams y’all.
Trey FergusonViewpoint Editor
Life, liberty and the pursuit of a degree
As another year comes to a close, we say goodbye to
one class and welcome in another. As we welcome a class of new students, I think back to my start-
ing ambi-tion; what motivated me to con-t inue my learning in the realm of higher education. For some it’s the few
years of freedom from our parents’ house. To others it’s the chance to start over and rebuild a new life. However, for many of us it is to earn the sacred col-lege degree.
Throughout middle and high school I can remem-ber the public service an-nouncements about what type of jobs I could get without a high school di-ploma. We were motivated by our families, schools and society to graduate high school. This type of thinking became so au-tomatic we merely took courses for credit, just to be rewarded with a glori-fied piece of paper.
Now s t udent s a re pushed—more so than before—to be prepared to go to college and earn a college degree. The cycle is happening all over again.
We are automatically taking class, not for the knowledge,
but for the credit to graduate.This is the exact opposite
of the goals for higher edu-cation.
Students should want to be here of their own free will. They should have the drive and motivation to demon-strate their mastery of a cer-tain content area and earn their degree. Universities should not make it so easy for stu-dents to es-sentially buy their degree.
T he i m-pact college experiences c a n h a v e on one in-dividual is literally life-altering, and the universi-ty system should respect that and give those opportunities to those willing to work for it.
While some question the foundations of the univer-sity system as being biased and elitist in deeming who is fit for a degree, the fact of the matter is some students don’t want or need to be in college. This goes for both those who use Mommy and Daddy’s money to skate through it and those who are being pushed into a four-year institution when they really only want to learn a certain trade.
For students who do not truly wish to be here and rather specialize in a trade, rather than struggling to break into the middle of the
pack, they’re being set up for failure in a university environment. Why push them further than they want (or need) to go, when they could excel in something they’re great at?
For students who en-ter higher education for academic achievement,
inflating the sys-tem with students who are merely sliding by with mini-mal class credit lessens the value of their degree.
If we truly wish to up-hold higher education as an opportunity for academic excellence, as a society we must allow stu-dents to make their own decisions and not push them in a direction they do not want to go.
If we do not change the system of filtering stu-dents from high school straight to college before it becomes permanent, the next phenomena will be every student should graduate with a masters degree and so on. Allow students to do as they please and let them pur-sue happiness, rather than a degree.
Ahmed Amer Deputy Viewpoint Editor
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as well in last year. I want to make [my weaknesses] my strengths and as for my strengths, I want to get bet-ter at those. There are a lot of things I want to do become a more productive player and the go-to guy come fall season.
Technician: Who do you think has shown the most promise amongst the other receivers?
Palmer: Right now it’s go-ing to be between Quinton Payton and Bryan Under-wood. Those are the other two guys who have game time experience, and right now I need them. I am the only receiver with the game time experience. We just need to pull together as one.
Bryan Underwood: redshirt sophomore wide receiver
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Technician: What are the challenges you are facing right now?
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avoid being forced to at-tend school for one-and-a-half semesters. Bran-don Jennings, a former standout guard at Oak Hill Academy in Vir-ginia and current start-ing point guard for the Milwaukee Bucks, chose to play professionally in Italy to prepare for the NBA. In his rookie sea-son, he scored 55 points in a game, the most by a rookie since Earl Monroe. Even though this is only
one case, there could be some evidence that this could also be a plausible solution for a player who would’ve poten-tially been a one-and-done if he is willing to travel inter-nationally. This move could also help a player support his family, which, for some, is a reason to leave school early.
College basketball should be respected. If a player knows from the outset that they have no desire to attend school or play college basket-ball, they should be allowed to enter the draft after high school.
ing to college. The John Wall dance, which hap-pened at Kentucky’s pre-season basketball hype-up event. John Calipari’s second first-ever final four with Memphis and Der-rick Rose after his Mas-sachusetts final four was vacated. John Calipari’s third first-ever final four last year with Brandon Knight after his f inal four with Memphis was vacated. John Calipari’s first national champion-ship also happened largely due to one-and-dones. I could go on forever about
it, but you get my point.To sum it all up for you,
one-and-dones are a great thing for college basketball as a whole. It gives the players exactly what they’re looking for, which is to develop their skills for a year, increase their draft stock, become a high draft pick in the NBA draft, and sign a hugely lucrative contract. The schools get all the excitement and fanfare that comes along with land-ing a star high-school recruit. Most importantly, fans are more interested in the game, because they get to see ex-tremely high-quality college basketball consistently.
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John Joyner/Technician archive phoToRedshirt freshman wide receiver Bryan Underwood runs the football during the Belk Bowl in Bank of America Stadium on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. The Wolfpack defeated the Cardinals 31-24.
“One-and-dones”
Technician sports staff has decided to debate both ends of an issue that has been widely discussed in college basketball since the early 2000s—one-and-dones. Should a player be allowed to forego their college career for potentially greener pastures in the NBA after
high school or spend some time on campus? If you have a response to this topic, email [email protected]. The best responses could be featured in the Technician.
COUNTDOWN• 30 days until baseball competes in the 2012 ACC
Tournament.
INSIDE• Page 7: The debate on one-and-done
players in college basketball continues. SportsTechnicianPage 10 • Tuesday, aPril 24, 2012
Tharakan named Ashe Jr. finalistMen’s soccer graduating senior Zane Tharakan was named one of the 10 finalists for the 2012 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education magazine. The award was established to honor undergraduate students of color who carry the merits of tennis legend Arthur Ashe. The finalists were chosen from the 600 minority student-athletes nominated by their institutions. The winners will be featured in the magazine’s May 24, 2012 issue.
Source: N.c. State athleticS
Rodon earns weekly honorBaseball’s freshman left-handed pitcher Carlos Rodon was named the ACC Pitcher of the Week. Rodon threw 10 strikeouts over eight shutout innings against Boston College on Saturday. He is the third member of the Pack to earn an ACC weekly award, following Trea Turner and Chris Diaz’s previous Player of the Week honors.
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Lutz receives promotionMen’s basketball head coach Mark Gottfried has promoted assistant coach Bobby Lutz to associate head coach. Lutz served as the head coach of the University of North Carolina Charlotte for 12 years. During his tenure, he guided UNCC to five 20-win seasons, a school record, and five appearances in the NCAA Tournament. Lutz was also an assistant at Iowa State.
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DiD You know?Hill’s five individual titles are the sixth most in school history, behind Danny Peebles (9), Bob Medlin and Mike Patton (7), Kevin Braunskill and Gus Young (6). Four others also have won five individual titles.
football
Q&A: wide receivers 101Tobias Palmer and Bryan Underwood talk about their experiences in spring practice.
Rishav DeyDeputy Sports Editor
Following the graduation of T.J. Graham and Jay Smith, N.C. State faces a new set of starting wide receivers. With quarter-back Mike Glennon, who threw for more than 3,000 yards last fall, in his senior year, it will be crucial for the Pack to ensure the Virginia native has the right sup-porting cast. Technician spoke to senior wide receiver Tobias Palmer and sophomore wide re-ceiver Bryan Underwood ahead of the Kay Yow Spring Football Game, with both poised to start for the Pack this year.
Tobias Palmer: reDshirT senior wiDe receiver
Technician : How would you describe spring practice for you this year?
Palmer: Going through spring and having to step up, as I am the only senior wide receiver and there’s only three of us with game time experience.
We are having to get ourselves back into shape and get us back into the rhythm, take the young-
er guys under our wing and guide them in the right direction to be able to be a more productive group than we were last year. There’s still more work in progress to be successful come this fall, but so far it’s look-ing good.
Technician: What is your biggest
challenge right now?Palmer: My biggest challenge is
having to step up and be a leader. I have the leadership role in me, but I have never actually had to actually be a leader on the team. I have to step up now, talk to the guys, keep them motivated and keep myself
motivated as well so to keep going on is kind of a challenge right now.
Technician: What targets are you setting for yourself?
Palmer: Right now I just want to get better at the things I wasn’t
JordaN Moore/techNiciaN archive photoRedshirt senior wide receiver tobais Palmer rushes for a few yards in the first quarter of the N.C. State, fSU game on, oct. 29, 2011. the Wolfpack struggled all day against the Seminoles, only putting up 166 yards and scoring no points.
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Great for college basketball Either stay or skip, choose
Kevin Durant. John Wall. Derrick Rose. Kevin Love. Three of
the five starters from the Ken-tucky national championship team from this year. These are all names that spring to mind when you think of famous one-and-
dones in college basketball.
The NBA has a rule in place that prevents players f rom m a k i n g t h e leap from high school straight to the NBA (a la
Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard and Lebron James, among many others before the rule was enact-ed.) The rule states you must be at least 19-years old and at least one year removed from your high school class graduating.
This rule has re-sulted in the vast majority of high-ly-talented high school basketball players choosing to play col lege basketbal l. The best of this group ( i . e . A nt hony Davis and Car-melo Anthony, to name a few) chose to enter the NBA Draft after their freshman year. Why wouldn’t they? There’s nothing holding them back from signing a multi-million dollar contract since they can legally declare for the Draft.
Coming to college for a year helps these star players de-velop into better players. This year gives the players a chance to grow into their bodies, get stronger through an extra year
of being in the weight room, and develop their skills. Although this year of extra practice helps, most of these star players are talented and strong enough to go into the NBA straight out of high school. The one-year college stint is more of a necessity these days, a necessary evil one must go through in order to reach the ultimate goal of playing in the NBA and getting all that comes with it (millions of dollars, global sports star status and a signature shoe deal.)
The prime example of a one-and-done is Raleigh’s own John Wall. Wall was heavily recruited out of high school and chose to play col-lege basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. Wall was there for a year and led Kentucky to an Elite Eight appearance. After the season ended, Wall entered the NBA draft and be-came the first overall selection in the draft by the Washington Wizards.
Another benef it of one-and-dones is that it creates excite-ment around your college basketball program. If you are a coach and you have a one-and-done on your roster, chances are this player is a star in the making.
Your fans will be ecstatic the pro-gram was able to land this player. They will more than likely buy tick-ets to come see this player on your team, which leads to increased ticket sales for the university. The fans will be so pleased, they might even buy a new sweatshirt from the school store to show their support, which leads to increased merchandise sales.
Let’s look at the other great things to come out of one-and-dones com-
University of Kentucky head basketball coach John Calipari has
given birth to a new philosophy on recruiting since the early 2000s—acquire the best players in the country.
The only caveat to his style is the majority of these players will leave after their first year of college bas-ketball to pur-sue their goal of playing in the NBA. Pundits either love or hate the “one-
and-done” rule the NBA Play-ers Association implemented in 2005, which states that a player must be at least 19 years old be-fore he is eligible for the NBA Draft.
The rule has helped players such as Derrick Rose and Kevin D u r a n t b e -come household names, maybe even more so than Kevin Gar-nett and Kobe Bryant were be-fore they went straight from high school to the pros. But what im-pact does the rule have on college basketball?
It has a negative impact on the institution of college basketball because it eliminates tradition and undermines the value a col-lege education could potentially have for a student-athlete.
Imagine you’re a student, fan or otherwise affiliated with the Kentucky Wildcats, learning the entire starting lineup has declared for the draft—three of
which are one-and-done players. After winning a national champi-onship and coming from a storied program that went through a 13-year title drought before winning in 2012, you couldn’t build off the championship and re-establish the bluegrass tradition. The program would essentially be starting from square one every year.
On the other hand, it is possible to win without one-and-done play-ers. Duke won the title in 2011. All five of the Blue Devils’ starters were upperclassmen.
If you have signed with an insti-tution to be a student-athlete, you must also honor the “student” end of it. The scholarship for a one-and-done could have been useful for an athlete who would’ve stayed in school for three or four years, enough time to utilize the educa-tional resources of an institution. Some players do stay for a second season if they find—or if an agent
or draft expert con-vinces them—that their game isn’t ready.
I understand one goal of every athletic program is to gener-ate revenue and it is very possible the re-
turn from ticket/merchandise sales could compensate for the scholar-ship dollars given to the athlete for one year, but not every revenue sys-tem is the same.
As for the rule itself, I believe a player should have the right to de-clare himself eligible for the draft after his senior year of high school. If a player has no desire to pursue higher education he should not be forced to do so.
Also, there are other solutions to
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QuoTe oF The DaY
“I have to step up
now, talk to the
guys, keep them
motivated, and
keep myself
motivated as well
so to keep going.”Tobias Palmer,
redshirt senior wide receiver
“All five of the
Blue Devils’
starters were
upperclassmen.”
“Another
benefit of
one-and-dones
is that it creates
excitement.”