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Multicultural Student Affairs sponsors academic boot camp that trains students to achieve a 4.0 GPA.

Kali MalloryStaff Writer

One hundred students have the opportunity to participate in an aca-demic boot camp over fall break and will then be guaranteed a 4.0 GPA.

The Guaranteed 4.0 Boot Camp will take place Thurs., Oct. 7 and Fri., Oct. 8, where students are to attend a two day session and learn ways to improve their academic strategies and GPA. The program is also invented to reduce study time.

According to Tracy Ray, director of multicultural student affairs, the Multicultural Student Affairs staff will supply students with hands on exercises, motivational tools, and en-hanced examples, as students interact with the workshop’s speaker, Donna O. Johnson, through a DVD system.

Ray found out about the Guaranteed 4.0 workshop through Robert Page, from the University of Kansas.

“Robert is highly credible and co-coordinated an annual Symposium on the Recruitment, Retention and Graduation of Students of Color with Noel-Levitz. I worked for a couple of years to track down Donna O. to come to NC State to present, but had a hard time reaching her. Later, she came out with a book and workbook called the Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System,” Ray said.

Coordinator Donna O. Johnson guarantees a 4.0 GPA, not Multicul-tural Student Affairs. Also, Johnson offers to pay students $100 if the pro-gram doesn’t work, according to Ray.

“The key however is that you must use all of the strategies that she gives you. In over 10 years of hosting the program she has never paid out $100,” Ray said. “As she states, even if you just use a few of the strategies you are guaranteed to raise your GPA, but if you use them all you are destined to achieve a 4.0.”

Keisha Okafor, a sophomore in arts and design, said she thinks the boot camp is a good idea.

“I think it’s a good idea. It’s some-thing all students would want. I just hope the program falls through,” Okafor said.

It was complicated finding a time suitable for students to attend the pro-gram, according to Ray.

“It is very challenging to find a time that students can fully commit to without class or work conflicts which is why it is being offered over fall break. The program will be offered at the beginning of the spring semes-ter, just prior to the start of classes,” Ray said.

Ryan Burnett, a junior in biologi-cal sciences, said the boot camp is a good idea, but he thinks the dates are unfortunate.

“I think it’s a good idea, but I don’t know what they’re going to be doing. I wanted to go, but it’s during fall break and I don’t want to do work during the break,” Burnett said.

Ray said the idea of the Boot Camp at the University stemmed from her past work with what is now the Aca-demic Success Assistance Program, and the need for an effective academ-ic-success program.

“I wanted to find a way to drill in the skills and strategies to more stu-dents and in a timely fashion. The Boot Camp also serves as a follow-up or next step to our students that participate in the A.S.A.P. program,” Ray said.

The Guaranteed 4.0 Boot Camp em-braces diversity. According to Ray, the program is geared toward all students seeking to achieve a 4.0 or raise their GPA, regardless of major or academic standing.

“We launched the program for the

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The Office of the University Fire Marshal is changing their methods for approaching public education opportunities.

Sagar SaneCorrespondent

The Office of the University Fire Marshal is working on developing and implementing a new initiative towards public education regarding fire safety and hazards.

William Stevenson, University fire marshal, said although public educa-tion system is present since the incep-

tion of the University, it has not gained much importance as it should have.

“The public education program has been around since the inception of the university. However, it has not gained much importance. We now wish to re-group the infrastructure and start it afresh,” Stevenson said.

Robyn Dawson, deputy fire marshal and a certified fire and life safety edu-cator, has been appointed the program manager for this initiative. Dawson said it is difficult to encourage stu-dents to take the fire safety initiative and explain its importance.

Campus Fire Department has

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Through Andy’s lens

Andy MusselMAn/TechniciAnSanding the ends of his split mold, Brett Boger, a senior in TDE education, works on a mold at the Craft Center in Thompson Hall Tuesday. A clay class instructor had asked Boger to make the mold for students to use in class. Boger said he enjoys using the Craft Center because it “provides a great opportunity to express my artistic abilities, while working with really nice woodworking equipment.”gPA continuedpage3

Telling the real story behind FacebookThe cast of The Social Network answers questions about the controversy surrounding the film at a local screening

Rich LeporeArts & Entertainment Editor

This Friday, Columbia Pictures will release The Social Network, a film that is already being heralded as the film of the year by many major news outlets. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, and chronicles his meteoric rise from Harvard student geek, to founder of a 27 billion-dollar company.

Eisenberg, along with co-star Armie Hammer and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, took part in a na-tionwide press tour earlier this month, and answered questions about everything from the film’s authenticity, to the difficult pro-cess of bringing the story to the screen. The tour’s second stop was here in the Triangle, where the cast visited local universities to screen the film.

The Social Network, which was directed by David Fincher, has been the subject of controversy recently due to claims that the filmmakers took extreme creative liberties with Zuckerberg’s story. During a visit to Oprah this past week to announce a 100-million dollar donation to a school in New-ark, Zuckerberg made his first pub-lic statement about the film.

“This is my life,” Zuckerberg said, “I know it isn’t that dramatic,”

The film’s creators, however, have never stated that the film was 100-percent factual.

“I’m not a journalist or docu-mentarian,” Sorkin said, “But I’m very aware that more people will get their opinion on this subject from the film than from anywhere else.”

Sorkin compared the task of writing this film to the work of Truman Capote in writing In True Blood, or Tom Wolfe in writing The Right Stuff.

“I like to think of this [film] as a painting, not a photograph,” Sorkin said.

On the issue of Zuckerberg’s choice to not be involved with the making of the film, Sorkin says that he doesn’t fault him for his decision. But Sor-kin does take issue with Facebook’s official statement that the film is “fiction.”

“We disagree that it is fiction,” Sorkin said. “I think that Face-book’s PR team is just as good as our PR team, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect. First they were ignoring this movie, hoping that it’d be bad.”

If early reviews are any indication, Facebook PR did not get their wish. But turning the Facebook story into a film that is enjoyable to watch, as well as fair and balanced, posed quite a challenge for its filmmakers.

In court during the various lawsuits

brought against Facebook, each per-son involved swore an oath to tell the truth, and proceeded to tell a com-pletely different story. Therefore, Sor-kin decided to tell the story from each different perspective, framing the film with courtroom scenes.

“There are disputed facts,” Sorkin said. “What I do is connect those dots in the char-acters.”

Helping him connect those dots in the film is Jesse Eisenberg, a young actor who had pr imari ly appeared in in-

dependent films before Network. To create the character viewers see on screen, Eisenberg studied every clip of footage of Zuckerberg that he could find. He also found a unique way of carrying Zuckerberg with him.

“I’d carry an iPod around with me with Mark’s voice on it,” Eisenberg said. “It helped me stay connected with the character.”

Eisenberg said that this obsessive attention to detail was mirrored on every level of production as well.

“The costume designer found the exact pair of shoes Mark wore in this one picture,” Eisenberg said. “There was one pair available online of these really rare shoes and [the costume designer] found them. And they were in my size! I only wore them for one scene and you couldn’t even see them in the shot.”

Another technique Eisenberg em-ployed in creating his authentic ver-sion of Mark was method acting.

“I tried in preparation to equate success I’ve had [in Hollywood] with Mark’s success,” Eisenberg said.

But although Zuckerberg has been successful beyond most people’s wild-est dreams, the film doesn’t depict him as a particularly happy person.

“I can only speak for the charac-ter in the film,” Sorkin said, “’Cause I don’t know Mark personally. But [Zuckerberg] was a guy with his nose up against the glass of social life, and

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“Students normally see us at work when it is an emer-gency or for some legal con-frontations,” Dawson said.

According to Dawson, everybody in the off ice participates in the public education programs.

“Each individual of the Fire Safety Department will participate in the program in some way or the other. It is important to share the in-formation about fire safety with the students as they are the most important assets to any university,” Steven-son said.

The Office of the Univer-sity Fire Marshal is working to inform students about the programs, according to Steven-son.

“We compile some programs ourselves and put it out to stu-dents to share or we some-times buy it from outsiders. As far as possible, we try to put the program informa-tion on all types mass me-dia. We have also recently started online training and online courses on public ed-ucation for fire safety. On-line is the best way to reach students these days. We are working closely with the WolfBytes and other elec-tronic media also,” Steven-son said.

Stevenson believes that his staff has a lot of experi-ence and that the program is shaping out well.

“On October 20 this year,

we are planning to put up a kitchen fire alarm simulation with the help of Raleigh Fire Department and the Univer-sity Housing Staff. We will model two kitchens similar in structure, except that one will have a sprinkler system in case of fire and one will not. These simulations will help educate the public about the hazards of not having fire safety equip-ments like sprinklers or fire ex-tinguishers. The implications of such a simulation will lead to further simulations in future for living rooms, dorm rooms, etc.”, Stevenson said.

Stevenson said that this event is open to public. It will also be recorded and provided elec-tronically also.

“We expect to have some lo-cal news coverage too,” Steven-

son said.Dawson

explained some of the programs t h a t a r e carried out by the fire and safety depart-ment.

Gaurav Tungatkar, a graduate

student in computer network-ing, said fire public education will be useful.

“I do not have much knowl-edge about the activities of fire and safety department. Thus, fire public education initiative will be definitely fruitful,” Tun-gatkar said.

Rohan Bhutkar, a graduate student in computer engineer-ing, said the online classes will help spread the awareness.

“Once the online Fire and Safety class is offered to the public, it will help spread the awareness even further,” Bhut-kar said.

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North Carolina has recently created a honey standards board to prevent honey from being improperly labeled for sale.

Sagar SaneCorrespondent

Consumers unknowingly purchase honey which is has been altered in some way, and is no longer considered to be pure honey.

The honey standards board has set up new measures to curb unscru-pulous sellers from selling adulter-ated honey. Honey is considered to be adulterated, or fake, if any product has been added to it prior to the sale of the honey. Adulterated honey bottles

are mislabeled in such a way that it looks like a pure honey bottle which easily deceives the consumer who

unknowingly buys that adulterated honey.

The honey industry is looking to be proactive and take whatever steps are necessary to keep it from becom-

ing a widespread problem, according to John Ambrose, interim dean of undergraduate academic programs and an entomologist and bee expert, who sits on the newly created honey standards board for the State of North Carolina. Adulterated honey is cheap and easy to make.

“People use corn syrup as a honey substitute. It costs one-fifth of the pure honey. We are trying to regulate new ways to help the honey industry, already facing problems due to the collapse of honey colonies in past two decades, to stop adulteration of honey,” Ambrose said.

Last year, the honey board was set up in Florida. Since then, California and Wisconsin have followed. North Carolina is the most recent state to cre-ate a honey standards board.

“Each state has decided to make the standards similar to each other so that when the federal government decides to put a standard, these individual states’ standards can be easily rolled in,” Ambrose said.

According to Ambrose, the honey standards board relies partially on bee keepers to keep watch for adulterated honey.

“We wrote the standards for it and in July last year, at the summer meeting, we took it to the N.C. Department of Agriculture for approval,” Ambrose said. “The Agriculture Department does not want to act as honey police and investigate the problems on their own because it may not be always feasi-ble. The way we work across the state is that, the bee keepers themselves are on a lookout for chances of adulteration.”

Labs in Texas are certified to deter-mine if honey is pure or if it has been altered, according to Ambrose.

“The Honey Board takes samples of honey that is thought to be adulter-ated and sends it to certified labs in Texas and other states for analysis. If adulteration is proved, the Agriculture Department is informed about that,” Ambrose said.

If a seller is found guilty of selling adulterated honey, the seller is warned against selling fake honey or the mis-labeling of honey.

“If the seller doesn’t refrain from selling bad honey bottles in spite of warnings, taking legal action is our last step,” Ambrose said.

In North Carolina there are about 10,000 bee keepers who breed 100,000 to 200,000 colonies of honey bees and most of the bee keepers are willing to participate for this cause, according to Ambrose.

“In past two decades, there has been a severe loss of bees throughout the country,” Ambrose said. “California farmers, who produce the highest percentage of almonds, have to pay to

migrate the bees from other states in order to keep the business going.”

According to Ambrose, altered hon-ey is generally sold as sourwood honey

“Anything added to honey makes it adulterated. It can be water or corn syrup or anything else. It is important that honey remains in pure state until it reached the consumer,” Ambrose said. “Many times, adulterated honey is sold as sourwood honey, one of the finest forms of honey which costs two or three times the regular honey.”

In the early 1980’s, at the Farmers Market in Raleigh, a family from Mis-sissippi went to the dealers with truck load of adulterated honey saying that it was sourwood honey, which is normal-ly found in mountainous regions. The family from Mississippi convinced the dealers to sell their honey and made profit out of that.

“At that time, the government was slow to respond and act against them. But, later they were arrested and charged when they tried to do the same thing in Tennessee,” Ambrose said.

Honey has lot of medicinal benefits and there are experiments which prove that it is useful against ailments such as allergies and hay fever, according to Ambrose. Pure honey has a sweeter f lavor than honey which has corn syrup in it.

“Pure honey has a distinctive flavor which is not found in the honey mixed with corn syrup. One teaspoon of corn syrup honey is equivalent to two-thirds of pure honey,” Ambrose said.

Amey Deshpande, a graduate stu-dent in electrical engineering, said having standards and rules against adulterated honey will create aware-ness amongst the customers too.

“The mislabeling especially makes it difficult to distinguish between pure and impure honey,” Deshpande said. “With these standards put in place, I think I will be more alert while buying honey bottles.”

Board preventing ‘fake’ honey salesREal HonEy

FakE HonEy

Honey that is considered to be

in its purest form. Pure honey is also considered

raw honey, meaning it has not been altered in any way. Pure

honey tends to be darker in color.

Honey has been altered in any way. The alterations can include anything from heating the honey to adding corn syrup or any other substance. Fake honey tends to be lighter in color.

Source: John AmbroSe, photoS by luiS zApAtA

first time this past summer with the start of first sum-mer session I classes. We had 47 students that participated,” Ray said. “There was diver-sity by major, college, age and class. Many non-degree seek-ing students are working to get accepted into an undergradu-ate or graduate program so we found that the program appeals to all students.”

Okafor is a design student and said she doesn’t think the program would help her.

“I don’t think it would help me because grading is differ-ent for design students,” Oka-for said.

To determine whether the boot camp was a success, per-formance will be assessed, and there will be a survey adminis-tered at the end.

“We have already begun re-ceiving success stories from this summer. We are still in touch with the summer boot camp cohort and will follow the group through the fall se-mester. The same will be true for the fall break cohort to measure their individual and overall success as a group,” Ray said. “The group of students from this summer was fantastic so I am really looking forward to meeting our second set of boot camp cadets.”

Burnett said she would ex-pect the program to be suc-cessful if the students were accompanied throughout the academic year.

“If it was something helping you to do the work, I could see it being very successful because half of the battle is doing the work. The program could help, but I don’t think it could guar-antee a 4.0,” Burnett said.

Currently, only Multicultural

Student Affairs is administer-ing this program, but Ray said there has been support from departments like University Housing and her colleagues in the Division of Student Affairs.

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see us at work when

it is an emergency

or for some legal

confrontations.”RobynDawson,deputyfiremarshal

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FIRE saFTEy ClassEs:Firesafetyclasses-Fireextinguisherclasses,firstaidclasses,etc.areheldwhichprovidebasicsafetyguidelinestostudents.ThedepartmentisintheprocessofcreatinganonlineFireSafetyClasstobeputonthewebsite.Thedetailannouncementswillbedoneaswefinalize

Firedrills-Thedrillsarecarriedouttosimulatereallifeemergencysituationslikeevacuationdrillsforkitchen,dormrooms,etc

Respondtoemergencycalls,publishandgiveawaybrochures,pamphlets,etc.

Thereismonthlyinspectionofallthecampusbuildingsandthefireextinguishersatalllocations

Atconstructionsitesacrossthecampus,likeattheHunt’sLibraryconstructionsiteincentennialcampus,thefiresafetypersonnelworkalongwiththecontractors,checkforthefirealarmsatthesite.Thisisdonetopreventfromfirerelatedmishaps.

Theprojectcontractorssendbuildingplanstothefiresafetydepartments.Permitsaregrantediftheplansaresufficientlyequippedagainstfirehazards.JonBrann,chiefdeputyfiremarshalandDavidMichniuk,deputyfiremarshallookafterthis.

Source: robyn DAwSon, Deputy Fire mArShAl

You may have heard the United Nations Mil-lennium Development

Goals, or the UN MDGs, be-ing frequently discussed in the media last week. A three day

summit on t he M DGs just conclud-ed in New York, w it h “the adoption of a global ac-tion plan to achieve the eight ant i-poverty goals

by their 2015 target date,” ac-cording to the UN website.

Stories on the event carried discussions on funding for the development programs, how many of the so called devel-oped nations have or have not met their goals in providing funds, and how these funds are being used. Not surprisingly, good intentions from the do-nor countries have not always brought about the intended transformation in the recipi-ent nations. The reasons could be anything from corruption and mismanagement of funds, to cultural differences and the donors not realizing the reality of the recipients.

Any development scheme needs to start out with a clear vision regarding the end goal,

and should chart out the steps to achieve the goal, to be suc-cessful. The timelines for the steps should be outlined, and the parameters to measure their success should be defined. Of course, a well-defined goal would not automatically trans-form itself to palpable results -- the reality on the ground could be very different from what the organizers have perceived it to be. Participation from the local community is hence unavoidable in such schemes, but a system of transparency and accountability should be put in place to make sure that the money reaches the intended recipients.

The development goals them-selves ought to be designed to be sustainable. Simply throw-ing money at the poorer com-munities may bring about changes that look good on paper, but hardly lead to any real progress. In a column pub-lished in the New York Times about 2 weeks ago, Nicholas Kristof spoke of the World Bicycle Relief Program, which distributes bicycles in the belief that bicycles are a more effec-tive means of transportation in poorer communities. In the specific example cited in the column, they redesigned the bicycles to suit the local terrain and trained a mechanic for ev-

ery 50 bicycles distributed. The program organizers even recruited village elders to oversee the program and to ensure that male mem-bers of their families do not confiscate bicycles from girls. Though still too early to be called a success, this plan struck me as having a good probability of bring-ing about effective changes in the lives of the people involved.

A few of us, like members of the Model United Na-tions club at CHASS, might be in positions to oversee development schemes in various locations around the globe in the future. Ma-jority of us will not go on to be UN committee members or to manage multimillion-dollar foundations, but we all will, at some point in our lives, play the role of a community organizer or something similar. Keeping our end goals in sight and taking steps to ensure that those goals are met should be our priority.

Send Theju Jacob your thoughts on developing ef-fective development plans to letters@technicianon-line.com.

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Many students could not imagine a day without checking

their Facebook or googling a question, however few think about the humble beginnings of these giants in our society. Both of these corporations, along with Fedex and Napster, to name a few, were the fruits of college ideas. Developing in-novative ways to think about the way people interact with their surroundings is one of the ways these companies came to exist, but it is also how students approach projects. By applying these simple ways of thinking to doing projects in and out of class, students can get the most out of their college experience.

When professors assign proj-ects, students usually cringe as they anticipate the work load.

However, students should not discount class projects while in college. The projects are meant to help students gain a better understanding of the subject matter and delve deeper into a specific area. Students should use the opportunity to make discoveries and gain a better understanding of the subject, and seek to adapt it to their own interests.

Projects do not have to be confined to class. Passion and interest are the best stimulants, so students should seek out something to get involved in so they can exercise their skills. Hobbies can develop skills and interests, which can generate

questions that students can test and research in their spare time. This doesn’t have to be done alone. Friends can play off of friends, just like Mark Zuckerberg did as he devel-oped Facebook.

N.C. State is said to be “the autobahn of innovation” and students are encouraged to use their intellect and imagina-tion to develop and implement their ideas. The University is the perfect place to cultivate ideas because there are experts in all fields accessible to stu-dents. Much like how Sergey Brin and Larry Page worked with faculty at Stanford to de-velop the idea that a “googol”

could be applied to searching on a network, students can talk to these professors or re-searchers. Getting involved in research and projects, despite what major they are in, stu-dents can increase their expe-rience and work no new ideas.

College does not have to be a time of parties and homework. There will be life beyond col-lege and students shouldn’t wait until afterwards to start using what they are learning. Finding an interest and a pas-sion while in college will allow time to develop ideas while still having access to an extensive support system. Some of the greatest ideas do not come with age, they come with knowledge and thought.

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the

responsibility of the editor-in-chief.

Driving on the autobahn of innovationThe FacTs:Facebook, the social networking site launched in 2004 by a group of students from Yale, has become an Internet phenomenon with 500 million active users from across the world. The Social Network, a movie directed by David Fletcher, based on a novel about the site opens Friday.Our OpiniOn:Some of the largest companies that affect us socially every day were developed while the founders were in college. Students should take advantage of opportunities and resources while they are in college to develop and expand their own ideas.

Christian O’Neal, sophomore in mechanical engineering

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“Applying your education to personal discovery of the information to gain greater knowledge.”Raechyl Frenchsophomore, English

“It gives you a greater sense of independent thinking and gives you a chance to be creative and make it your own.”Emily Kirbyfreshman, math education

Theju JacobStaff Columnist

Road to Development

Offering a helping

hand

One of my fraternity’s founders once pro-claimed the philoso-

phy, “To do what ought to be done, but would not have been done unless I did it, I thought

to be my duty.” T h i s s t a te -ment, which he originally envisioned in the 1800’s con-tains a power-f u l message and holds true today. A spirit of charity is a

basic principle grounded in the human element and is some-thing we should all embrace.

On the path toward getting my Eagle scout award, I was of-ten annoyed by the age-old ste-reotype of Boy Scouts helping the old lady across the street. Despite that irritation, I’ve fig-ured out the imagery evokes a powerful message. I’ve learned that sometimes the smallest of deeds can make the biggest dif-ference in someone else’s day. Even though holding the door or picking up a dropped pencil for someone requires very little effort, it could possibly be the best thing you could do.

My fraternity requires us to turn out to complete a number of service hours each semester. While doing something bigger than ourselves, we reaffirm ou r c om-mitment to t h e c om -munity and our desire to help others. According to the Greek Life off ice, members volunteered an average of 33 hours totaling to more than 64,000 hours being do-nated by fraternity and sorority members toward the causes of service and philanthropy last year. Sometimes giving back can be a little more formal and can add up quickly.

But service isn’t just for Greeks. One of the most sub-stantial acts of humanity that takes place on campus took place last week in the form of Habitat for Humanity’s “Shack-a-thon”. Attended by

33 student groups, Shack-a-thon comprised 17 shacks which participants populat-ed throughout the week as they raised money for this important cause. Habitat for Humanity seeks to help others by building simple, decent housing that is af-fordable. It is a very humble effort helping those without

homes or i n sub-standard living condi-tions and NC State’s chapter is doing a good job of carry-i ng out that mis-sion.

No matter where

your day may take you, re-member to always be open to helping others. There are many ways to go about this, whether you join a dedicat-ed campus organization or you simply lend a helping hand to a person in distress. Either way, your efforts will not go unnoticed because even small things can add up to make a big impact.

Send Alex Lewis your thoughts on helping to let-ters@technicianonline.com.

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sometimes the

smallest of deeds

can make the

biggest difference

in someone

else’s day. ”

“They’re helpful because you gain experience and more knowledge about the topic.”Mit Patelfreshman, engineering

“They give you a strong sense of accomplishment.”Kendall Cawleyfreshman, First year College

“Experience with teamwork. They also help prepare you for jobs.”Dip Patelfreshman, management

Alex LewisStaff Columnist

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All nighters for Magic, not school

Affleck swings and hits with ‘The Town’

Zakk WhiteStaff Writer

The Town — directed by and starring Ben ‘Chasing Amy’ Affleck—is the latest action/crime/gangster film set in Bos-ton, Massachusetts. The Town focuses on a tight-knit gang of bank-robbers in Charlestown, a suburb of Boston who are trying to avoid the cops while planning—you guessed it—one last big score. The Town is highly unoriginal—it is Good Will Hunting w ith guns—and slick, but it does have enough talent and sk i l l in front of and be-hind the cam-era that is used wisely—most of the time—to make it easy to recommend.

Affleck plays Doug MacRay, a Boston bank robber who lives a tough life of crime but—wait for it—has a heart of gold. He and his fly crew of crooks rob a local Cambridge bank in the first scene and they take a Claire—played by Rebecca

‘Vicky Christina Barcelona’ Hall—hostage and then let her go after the coast is clear.

On the robber’s trail is FBI agent Frawley played by John ‘Don Draper’ Hamm who is a little too obsessed with catch-ing MacRay and his crew. Since Claire may be able to identify the robbers to the FBI, MacRay begins to follow her around and they eventually meet and strike up a relationship. Will MacRay and his crew make the last big score? Will Claire find out that her boyfriend was the one who terrorized her and scarred her for life? Will agent Frawley ever catch up to the ap-parently genius bank robbers?

Affleck returns to the screen as an above average lead—he m ig ht be lucky that he is playing the strong, quiet type. It is refresh-ing to see him in a role that lives up

to the promise he showed early in his career in Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting and even as O’Bannon in Dazed and Confused. Hamm is fine as the overly determined FBI agent. While his role is underdevel-oped, his acting ability is more CSI than Scorsese.

Jeremy ‘Hurt Locker’ Renner is intense and believable as Doug’s sociopathic best friend Jem Coughlin who provides the unpredictable and surprising moments. Rebecca Hall and Blake Lively —the two lead-ing ladies—are good but they aren’t given much to do since the story is ultimately driven

by the choices made by the three male leads. I wish that Hall had served more of a pur-pose throughout the latter part of the film, because the early scenes with her are fantastic.

Affleck excels as a filmmaker. He knows how to choreograph a simple, tense action sequence like the opening bank robbery.

Affleck is assisted by cinema-tographer Robert Elswit and editor Dylan Tichenor, both whom worked recently on There Will Be Blood and there are definite echoes in terms of visual style. Like Blood, the fac-es take up most of the screen, you are looking the characters squarely in the face most of

the time, which adds to the drama. The action sequences here are superb—especially a robbery towards the middle of the movie.

The Town finds a good bal-ance of action and quieter

Aaron AndersenCorrespondent

At midnight Saturday, gamers gathered for a tourna-ment at a local table-top-gaming store called Game Theory to celebrate the upcoming release of the newest set of Magic: The Gathering cards. The new set, “Scars of Mirrodin,” dubbed “Scars” by the players, is scheduled to be released October 1.

The tournament officially started at 12:47 a.m. and ended at about 8 a.m. Out of a total of 62 seats available, 58 people were playing. Store manager Abraham Wesley said that he and the owners, Rob Newhart, Bo King, and Ethan and Nichole Nicholas have been planning this event for about a month and a half.

Game Theory is a home away from home for many table-top and card gamers in the Triangle. The store opened this year in the first week of March. It hosts many games, including Magic, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, and even poker. In order for a store to hold an official Magic tournament, the store must become an official premiere store through Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns Magic: The Gathering, as well as some other games that Game Theory hosts.

“We are pretty much the only store that has ever got-ten premiere status through Dungeons and Dragons League play,” Wesley said.

Several N.C. State students and alumni attended this event, including the official judge Jason McFarland, who graduated in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in sci-ence education. An article about the Collegiate Associa-tion of Table Top Gamers (CATTG) in the Technician got him back into playing Magic while he was a student. He became a judge in May 2009.

“It’s not easy,” McFarland said about be-ing a judge. “You have to work long hours

and travel a lot.” McFarland was responsible for

overseeing the tournament Saturday which had a total

of six rounds. Players competed with decks

they made that n ig ht u s i ng

six booster packs,

which are packs of 15 random cards. Each round con-sisted of at least two games, where one player had to win two games in order to win the round. Whoever had the best scores at the end of the competition got prizes, consisting of mainly more booster packs.

Adam Stegall, senior in polymer and color chemis-try said his favorite part about Magic is opening those booster packs.

“There’s nothing quite like that feeling,” Stegall said. “I guess it’s sort of like drugs for other people, but I wouldn’t know about that.”

Stegall has been playing Magic for about eight years. He said it was his first time at Game Theory and that he likes it. He is a member of the NCSU Table-top Gam-ers club, which is a chapter of CATTG. The club plays various games, including casual Magic in Talley Student Center on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

Loomis Cochrane, an employee at Game Theory and a junior in electrical engineering at N.C. State also took part in the tournament. He is part of an unof-ficial Magic club in the Quad residence halls. The hall councils for the Quad and Watauga hall are

planning on having a meeting to teach people how to play Magic sometime in November. The club meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the

Honors Village Commons building.

Cochrane is also a “Rules Advisor.” According to the Wizards of the Coast website, this is similar to a judge. “Rules Advisors,” however, are not tournament officials. The only official judge at the tournament was McFarland.

If any players had questions during the tournament, they called for McFarland. He is one of about 1300 “Level 1” Magic judges in the world. This means that he is of the lowest level of the judges, but he still has the responsibility of knowing all of the rules. McFar-land said he likes judging in Raleigh the best because Raleigh is his home.

“I love seeing people grow in skill,” McFarland said. “It’s just that teacher thing in me.”

As this was a late event, several of the players looked very tired near the end of the tournament. Several mis-takes were made, and some people lost due to those mistakes. A few took naps between rounds to try and avoid this. Almost all of them had drinks with some amount of caffeine in them. One of the more popular drinks was “5-hour Energy”, which is a staple at many midnight events at Game Theory.

“Thank you all for coming today,” Wesley said dur-ing the final round. “But if you are going to be here all weekend, please, go home and take a bath!”

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Gamers resisted the urGe to sleep at midniGht saturday to celebrate the pre-release of “scars of mirrodin,” the

newest card set for Magic: The gaThering.

aaron andersen/teChniCiana group of Magic: The Gathering players compete in a tournament held at Game theory, a local table-top and board game store. the event was held at midnight on saturday to celebrate the upcoming release of “scars of mirrodin,” the newest expansion in the Magic series.

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Teen drama, on and off the screen

‘Future’ series returns from the pastThe fan-favorite Back to the Future series spawns several new projects in celebration of its 25th anniversary.

Jordan AlsaqaSenior Staff Writer

First released on July 3 in 1985, Universal Studios’ Back to the Future went on to become the highest-grossing film of the year, as well as the first film in a successful trilogy. Since its release, Back to the Future has seen two sequels, a ride at Universal Parks and Resorts, and tie-in material including video games, comic books, and an animated series.

The films follow the story of Marty McFly, played by Mi-chael J. Fox in one of his defin-ing roles, as he travels through time in a DeLorean built by his friend Doctor Emmett Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd. Over the course of the trilogy, Marty must ensure his parents stay together, save the Doc from death in the Old West, and ensure the protection of his own future bloodline.

Matthew Lanouette, a se-nior in parks, recreations and tourism management, shared his opinion on why the movies have gained such popularity.

“Back to the Future is a clas-sic,” Lanouette said. “It has just about everything anyone would want in a movie, and Marty McFly is a loveable char-acter. I liked how the movie showed the consequences of changing the past.”

Now celebrating its twenty-

fifth anniversary, the Back to the Future franchise is seeing a renewed level of interest. For long-time fans of the series as well as people discovering the films for the first time, it is a busy year for the Back to the Future universe.

The biggest release to come for most fans this year is the new anniversary edition box set, which collects the en-tire trilogy with new special features not included on the previous set released in 2005. The new features will include a six-part retrospective look at the series, with new interviews with both the cast and crew. Also included are music vid-eos, commen-taries, and all the extras in-cluded on the previous DVD releases.

T h e n e w box-set w i l l also come in a Blu-ray format, allowing view-ers to experi-ence the series all over again in re-mastered high definition. The new an-niversary edition will be avail-able near the end of October.

Another new release comes from Looney Labs, makers of the popular card game Fluxx. Earlier this month, they re-leased Back to the Future: The Card Game, in which players take on the roles of descen-dants of characters from the films. The goal for each player is to use the various time travel

cards to go back in time and change key events in the film to ensure that they are born.

The game’s selling point is the “Time Line,” a series of cards that span the key moments of the franchise in chronologi-cal order. By changing these events, characters can both save themselves and doom the other players. Once the time-line is set up in a player’s favor, they must stop Doc Brown from ever inventing time travel before another player can make a change.

Video game fans also have a new release to look forward to,

as Tel lta le Games an-nounced a new game at last month’s Penny Ar-cade Expo. Set for re-lease later this fall, the new Back to the Fu-ture video game wi l l be released in episodes, and will be

an adventure game featur-ing the further adventures of Marty and Doc Brown.

Telltale has made a name for itself in recent years by reviv-ing classic franchises with new releases. Tales of Monkey Island, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Ad-ventures, and the Sam & Max games have all been similar episodic adventure games, all of which have received high praise from gaming critics.

For Back to the Future: The

Adventure Series, the devel-oper has gone the extra mile to guarantee the games have an authentic feel. Christopher Lloyd has been brought on to voice his character, and Bob Gale, screenwriter for all three films, has worked closely with Telltale to make sure the story of the games rings true.

“I’ve been having story meet-ings and exchanging emails and phone calls with the folks at Telltale to make sure that what they develop feels like Back To The Future,” Gale said in a recent interview.

Another plus is the art style, which strikes a balance be-tween realism and cartoon, giving an air of familiarity to the characters and the world. Christopher Lloyd and Mi-chael J. Fox are both allowing for their likenesses to be used in the game.

Melissa Dalena, a sophomore in animal science, has always been a fan of Christopher Lloyd’s character.

“I’ve a lways l iked Doc Brown,” Dalena said. “His crazy white hair makes him seem like a hilarious version of Einstein.”

Even N.C. State is getting in on the celebration. This Fri-day night, the Witherspoon student cinema will be airing the first Back to the Future for free at midnight. Students are welcome to come and enjoy the first film in the franchise, one that has managed to remain popular over the past twenty-five years, as it was originally intended.

Shows like Teen Mom are under fire for their potential glamorization of teen pregnancy.

Brooke ShafranekStaff Writer

It’s no wonder why televi-sion programs about teen-age pregnancy are so popu-lar: the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world, and The Center for Disease control found that one-third of girls get pregnant before they turn twenty. Despite the success of these new shows, they have re-cently come under fire for glamorizing teenage preg-nancy.

The Secret Life of the American Teenager, 16 and Pregnant, and Teen Mom are examples of current trendy television shows that do not show a realistic view of what it is like to have a child.

Melissa Reed, the Vice President of Public Policy at Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc., said that “teen pregnancy is portrayed in the media as something that is easy and that can be dealt with in an easy fashion, when that’s not the reality.”

Reed is constantly sur-rounded by the true stories of teenage pregnancy, and the statistics behind these stories are astounding.

“About 30% of girls who drop out & don’t get diplo-mas is because of parenting & pregnancy issues,” Reed said. “Most end up in pov-erty with the child. The re-ality is different than what

the media makes it out to be.”The television shows aren’t

helping the struggles of teenage mothers. “Those shows don’t show the negative situations that can happen,” says fresh-man Iryna Feshchak, a Political Science major. “It makes the whole ‘having a baby’ thing not as difficult as it really is in real life.”

Jennifer McGuire, a fresh-man in management, said that her sister got married when she turned eighteen, got pregnant in May of last year, and gave birth on her twentieth birth-day.

“They live paycheck to pay-check,” Maguire said, ”so it’s constantly doing things like trying to buy baby formula. Sometimes I feel like the peo-ple on the television shows are unrealistic—my sister is more realistic because a lot of the girls haven’t grown up yet, and once you have a kid you have to grow fast.”

The issue of teen pregnancy has become so rampant that some schools are aiding young mothers through high school. Michelle Halpern, a sophomore in social work, has personal ex-perience with these programs.

“At my daughter’s high school in L.A.,” Halpern said, “there was a nursery for the girls who stayed in school. The other girls ‘ooh’and ‘aah’ over the cute lit-tle babies.” Halpern said that it is similar to the television shows in that it manifests an unrealistic lifestyle of being a mother.

The television programs will not be likely to disappear given their high number of viewers, and later years will tell if the shows’ glamoriza-tion of teen pregnancy has an impact on their watchers.

“Back to the Future

is a classic. It

has just about

everything anyone

would want in a

movie...”Matthew Lanouette, senior in parks, recreations and tourism

management

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moments between Doug and Claire. The script is decent and is based on a novel by Chuck Hogan. The handling of the romance—which is usually tangential to a crime movie—is placed towards the center and is quite effective. It is refreshing when a love story-line in a crime film is as tense and interesting as the robberies themselves.

The Town does have its prob-lems. While there is a lot of good tension and suspense, especially during the bank robbery scenes, the way the film plays out is rather predict-

able. The final shootout was ill conceived and a letdown after the excellence of the earlier scenes. I was also hoping for a messier ending, which I felt a movie about criminals and murderers deserved. Instead, we get a final shot straight out of a Nicholas Sparks movie ad-aptation.

One cannot help but think of Martin Scorsese’s The Depart-ed as a recent Boston gangster film. While that film was far from perfect, it at least pro-vided surprises and some un-conventional plot points. The Town is unfortunately rather trite and clichéd with its final act where the tension should be exploited. Instead, I could have told you from about the one-

hour point exactly where this movie was headed. Once the main questions about Doug’s character were answered, there isn’t much drama left to exploit.

While The Town is farm from a masterpiece, it offers more then enough thrills and good performances that it is definite-ly worth checking out. I would recommend seeing this in the theatre since the filmmakers know how to fill a screen and use sound effectively. At home, it would probably seem even more typical.

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social life reflects back on you—tells you who you are. The world told him he was a loser.”

Zuckerberg’s social alien-ation is clear in every frame of the film, but so is his fer-vent dedication to his craft.

“Mark is part of this small subset of angry tech-genius-es,” Sorkin said, “who don’t understand cheerleaders, and wonder why [cheer-leaders] don’t like them, even though they’re run-ning the world.”

Eisenberg’s view of Mark’s character is a bit different, however.

“[Mark] is so singularly focused on the creation of Facebook that the other aspects of his life become meaningless or irrelevant,” Eisenberg said.

Eisenberg’s ability to empathize with Zucker-berg is understandable due to the amount of time he spent with the character. But surprisingly, Hammer, who plays the twin brothers who sued the real-life Mark, doesn’t see him as a bad guy either.

“It’s easy to see a villain in Mark,” said Hammer. “But it’s more fair to characterize him as an anti-hero.”

Hammer faced a chal-

lenge of his own in portraying two twin brothers in the film, a feat that was achieved through the magic of special effects. Throughout the process, he gained a great deal of respect for the pair.

“These twins are really in-teresting characters,” Hammer said. “I mean, they’ve been to the Olympics for rowing, and started all of these other start-up companies. They have these whole lives outside of Face-book.”

Network’s cast also includes Rooney Mara as Zuckerberg’s short-lived love interest Erica, Justin Timberlake as Napster inventor Sean Parker, and An-drew Garfield as Zuckerberg’s ex-best friend and Facebook’s original CFO Eduardo Saverin.

These young actors are all are at the top of their game in Hollywood at the present mo-ment. Mara was recently cho-sen to play Lisbeth Salander in the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels which are shooting now in Sweden, Justin Timberlake is a pop music star who needs no introduction, and Garfield was recently cho-sen to play Spiderman in the forthcoming series reboot.

The Social Network, believe it or not, represents the calm before the storm of success that is waiting just ahead for these actors. On Friday, moviegoers will be able to decide if all their hard work on this film has paid off.

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the game, only about 7,000 se-cured that opportunity after the first lottery.

“Obviously everyone is upset about ticketing,” Andy Walsh, a sophomore in political science, said during Student Govern-ment’s Campus Community Committee meeting Tuesday. “It’s a very weird system.”

But guest tickets are not a new feature for Parents and Families Weekend.

“We always give out guest tickets for [the Parents and Families Weekend] games,” Walsh said. “[Johnson] told me they had 4,000 guest ticket re-quests. 20,000 ticket requests. So that’s a whole lot of people that are going to get left out.”

However, athletics is aware of the high demand and will be giving out extra tickets tomor-row at 4:30 p.m. according to Walsh.

“Athletics understood be-cause this game is very big, that they were going to help us all out and close down selling tick-ets that got returned and there’s 1,500 tickets that will be given out to students [Wednesday],” Walsh said. “Guest tickets can be purchased from those, too. Every student that goes up can get two guest tickets.”

But beyond this weekend’s game thoughts of how to change the student ticket-ing system are being thrown around, but because of the risk of the system crashing, chances for a change seem slim.

“We need to find a way, if this happens in the future, to bet-ter the system for students to

be able to get tickets,” Walsh said. “There are things that need to be switched with the system. The problem is with the student ticketing automa-tion system that we use, if we make any changes… if we try to change the coding, it could crash the system.”

The earliest the ticketing sys-tem could be changed would be next year, according to ju-nior in economics Chandler Thompson.

“There’s not much we can do for this year except limit guest tickets,” Thompson said. “My suggestion would be to look into ticketing options, know-ing that you’re looking forward to next year.”

Senior in biological sciences Sam Dennis expressed his concern that another problem with the current system is that students don’t understand the

ticketing system.“What I as a student am

most frustrated with is I feel there is no transparency be-tween athletics and what’s going on,” Dennis said. “A lot of the student body is very upset and it comes from them not being edu-cated on the process and not being consulted.”

The current online ticket-ing system was implement-ed in 2004, and has not dealt with N.C. State receiving national recognition and the subsequent rise in tick-eting demand. But for any change to occur, Thompson said students need to be in-volved in the process.

“Students are passionate about their tickets here,” Walsh said. “Football games and basketball games are some of the events that re-ally bring the campus to-gether. This is something students should have a complete say in. In a way they pay for these football tickets. They give a lot of money to athletics to every single year.”

But the unrest caused by students not getting tick-ets does serve to increase awareness of student ticket-ing and gives Student Gov-ernment something to work with according to Walsh.

“This isn’t something that shouldn’t be taken lightly especially because you can see how emotional people get when they don’t get a football ticket,” Walsh said. “If people are complaining, we have something to work with.”

Appalachian State evened the score at the 49:21 mark.

Less than a minute later, Las-siter stepped up and scored his second goal of the game and fifth of the season, drilling a penalty kick into the back of the net. But this time when Lassiter scored to give his team the lead, it would be for good.

“My two goals were good,” Lassiter said after the game. “But without Zane and Smit-ty drawing the fouls on the blocks I would have never had

a chance so it’s all on them.” Men’s soccer will next face

No. 12 ranked Boston College on Saturday in their first away game after a three game home stretch.

“This game will probably be completely different than the Boston College game,” Tha-rakan said. “This game was more of a hardnosed effort, a blue collar effort to say the least. We’ll probably have to keep the ball a bit longer and be a bit smarter with our deci-sions. But every time we step on the field we expect to win and nothing will change when we go to Boston College.”

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named the top two backs, he found himself in a competition to earn more snaps and prove he could be productive.

“We both work hard out there,” Greene said. “We both just keep pushing each other. We say, ‘Who’s going to get the touchdown first?’ We both try to make the right reads and find our blocks. It’s all a com-petition out there for us.”

Greene will look to continue his crowd-pleasing touchdown streak and help the Pack take down the Virginia Tech Hokies Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

“They have a very fast team,” Greene said. “But I’m really ready to be able get back and be able to listen to the crowd this week. I’m going to be throw-ing my hands up and trying to get everyone else pumped up.”

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tion sheet to reading the wind accurately,” Marsh said. “Just helping with ev-erything and getting them in the groove of the game. But what is fun is that they have fun doing it. They are laughing saying they have never ironed anything in their life.”

Rounding out the Pack scores was a 13-over posted by sophomore Haley Ham-mond and a 14-over by se-nior Brooke Baker.

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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOIn the student section, Kim Schreiber, a freshman in animal science, is lifted 30 times after N.C. State scores its third touchdown during the Cincinnati game Thursday, Sept. 16.

Freshman running back making impact for the Pack early in the season.

Cory SmithStaff Writer

After losing two running backs in the offseason, Toney Baker to the draft and Jamelle Eugene to graduation, coach Tom O’Brien was left with the tough task of finding a compliment to red-shirt junior quarterback Russell Wil-son. In freshman running back Mus-tafa Greene, O’Brien has found a young back capable of stabilizing the running game and giving Wilson a target out of the backfield.

And his coach hasn’t been the only one pleased with Greene’s early start. While at Irmo High School in Colum-bia, SC, Greene was named a four-star recruit during his senior year. He also earned the nickname ‘Moose,’ which has carried over to his young college career.

“It feels great to hear people call-ing me Moose,” Greene said. “[Fans] have been calling me ‘Moose’ since high school, but to hear that from col-lege fans is a great feeling. The fans are a great energizer. I feed off of them,

and so does the line. That’s what gets us pumped up.”

To fans familiar with the “U” chants used in years past to celebrate big plays by Eugene, Carter-Finley sounds famil-iar after Greene’s big plays. But now, the usual chant of “U” has been changed to “Moose.” Through four games, Greene is leading State in rushing, with 242 yards and an average of 4.6 yards per attempt, with four touchdowns.

“He is certainly the right type of kid and he’s very humble,” O’Brien said following the Georgia Tech game. “We know he’s going to work hard and study what he is doing. Hopefully he can’t do anything but get better.”

Though he may not be one of the big-gest players on the football team, at 6’0” and 190 pounds, Greene has showed his toughness. Against Georgia Tech, Greene burst through the line untouched on sev-eral occasions, running free for substan-tial gains before meeting Yellow Jacket linebackers, who he drug forward for extra yards.

“To have the other players there with me during big plays like that is a huge motiva-tor,” Greene said. “They motivate me to just keep on moving and fight for more yards.”

Fans may be getting their first taste of what type of talent Greene can bring to the Pack, but O’Brien said he learned quickly of Greene’s star potential back in August.

“[Mustafa] was a guy who stood out in preseason, which is why he got the opportunity to play,” O’Brien said. “He made a habit of making runs like the fans have seen against our defense be-fore t he season started. We’re

happy for him and we’re happy for our offense to have a back that is capable of making those plays.”

Another valuable aspect of Greene’s game is his competitive nature. This year, he has competed with several players to earn his carries. During preseason workouts, the coaching staff was looking at several different running backs, including redshirt ju-nior Curtis Underwood, sophomore James Washington and fellow freshmen Tony Creecy and eventual starter Dean Haynes. After Haynes and Greene were

COUNTDOWN• 3 days until the football team takes on Virginia Tech

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Mustafa Greene and the student tickets SportsTechnicianPage 8 • wednesday, sePtember 29, 2010

Women’s tennis hires new assistant coachThe women’s tennis team named Susanne Depka as its new assistant coach Tuesday. Depka, who used to be an assistant coach at Northwestern, had been co-directing a high performance junior tennis program in North Carolina. During her seven years with the junior tennis team, she helped 15 players gain Division I scholarships. Depka is a graduate of the University of Illinois and was named the MVP of the tennis team in her senior year. After college, she managed to play professionally achieving a top-500 ranking in both singles and doubles tennis.

Source: N.c. State athleticS

Cross country runners named Performers of the Week Junior runner Ryan Hill and freshman Laura Hoer earned ACC Performers of the Week honors after Hill helped lead the men’s team to a second-place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational, while Hoer won the event in the women’s race. For Hoer, it was her second victory of the season. She also ran the third fastest time in the history of the race, posting a time of 20:38:4 in the 6k race.

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The ‘Moose’ is on the looseConcerns over current ticketing system prompts Campus Community Committee to discuss revamping.

Brent KitchenAgromeck Sports Editor

The football team will play Virginia Tech this Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and many students are not happy about it for one simple reason—they won’t be there.

The team is in a position to gain even more national atten-tion as N.C. State is in the AP top-25 for the first time since 2003. But that fact along with the coincidence of Parents and Families Weekend has surged requests for student tickets to well more than the number of tickets available.

According to chair of Student Government’s Commission on Athletics Jeffery Johnson, a senior in business admin-istration, more than 16,000 students requested tickets for 8,000 seats.

But in addition to the volume of requests, students were al-lowed to request for up to two guests tickets and according to Johnson, approximately 1,000 were awarded. This means that although 16,000 students want to sit in the student section at

SG talks ticketing changes

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Men’s Soccer holds off App. State, 2-1

Football

Women’s GolFmen’s soccer

Marchand wins first collegiate tournamentWolfpack men win

at home against an aggressive Appalachian State team.

Christina Owens Staff Writer

Senior defender Tyler Lassiter helped to lead the North Carolina State men’s soccer team to victory Tues-day night against the Appa-lachian State Mountaineers as Lassiter scored both goals in the 2-1 match.

Being primarily a defend-er, Lassiter does not often score, much less twice in one game, but coach George Tarantini knows how multi-talented his senior defender is.

“I just told Tyler that he’s doing a fantastic job,” Tar-antini said. “I think he’s so good on defense and such an important player for us. I’m very proud because of all the things he does in a game for us, just like he did tonight. It was a game we need to win and we did and we played with inten-sity and played very tough. I thought we played with a lot of emotions and we did what we needed to win”

After losing 2-1 to their previous opponent Virginia Tech, the men’s soccer team knew it had to shake off the hard loss and hit the field knowing that it had to go out and get win.

“We were all very de-pressed about that loss,” Lassiter said. “It was a tough one to take but we knew we

had more games to play and we had to forget about those and come out strong for the rest.”

Lassiter came out strong and scored the first goal of the night for either team, at the 5:31 mark. Lassiter scored a header off a throw in from ju-nior defender Zane Tharkan, who made many big plays in his first career start.

“It felt great,” Tharkan said. “I couldn’t ask for better team-mates to surround me when I was getting on the field. The coaches had a lot of trust in me so it didn’t make the start that much harder than any

other game, it was just one big progression and a part of the flow of things.

“I just kind of played within myself, I didn’t re-ally do anything extraor-dinary, just tried my best and played my hardest and the goal wouldn’t have hap-pened if Tyler wasn’t there.”

Lassiter’s goal was the only one of the first half with State and Appalachian State attempting only two shots combined. It was not until the second half that

Freshmen helps lead Pack to second place finish at Starmount Classic.

Taylor BarbourDeputy Sports Editor

In just her second college golf event, freshman golfer Brittany Marchand earned her first col-legiate victory in a college tour-nament Tuesday.

Her 3-under (141) was enough for her to tie for first place with Alex Buelow from Stetson University, while help-ing the Pack to finish in a tie for first place in the two-day tournament at the UNCG Star-mount Classic.

Although the Wolfpack tied with East Carolina at 19-over par, State ended up settling for a second-place finish because of the tiebreaker rule, which awards the win to the team with the lowest scoring fifth golfer. Coach Page Marsh ad-mits she was disappointed but hopes the lost opportunity of the finish will inspire the team down the road.

“A win is a win is a win, but I feel that disappointment is a huge motivator,” Marsh said. “I know while they were el-evated at the finish, but were still not happy that they didn’t outright win. But it was a really good trip on a couple different levels.”

The event was originally scheduled to be a three-day tournament, but the rain cut the tournament short by one round. And heading into that

final round, Marchand was in second place, one stroke be-hind the leader, and a 2-under round enabled her to finish in a tie and capture her first victory.

“It was exciting for the team to play well together and to see Brittany win her first col-legiate event,” Marsh said. “It was one of her goals and she accomplished it in her second tournament.”

But Marchand’s finish did not come as a surprise to Marsh, who believes the golfer’s commitment to the sport and the energy she brings to the game not only helps her on the course, but helps the team.

“Her impact first started with her energy and dedication to academics and to golf,” Marsh said. “She is a very conscien-tious young woman and has a passion about doing things well and goes about it very good. Her spirit is very con-tagious, which is fantastic for the group.”

Not to be outdone , two other freshmen golfers, Ana Menen-dez and Maureen Dunnagan, finished in the top-20, posting scores of 5-over and 6-over re-spectively. Meneddez finished 11th and Dunnagan finished 14th. And with the freshmen playing so early in their careers, Marsh and the coaches had to teach them few things outside of just the golfing basics.

“It is fun. You are doing ev-erything from teaching them how to iron clothes to teaching them how to read a hole loca-

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DaNielle Neujahr/techNiciaNFrom a corner kick, tyler lassiter, a senior defender on the state soccer team, heads the ball towards the goal sept. 28. With a total of seven yellow cards and one red card issued throughout the game, the Wolfpack pulled away with the win against appalachian state, 2-1.

footbAll stAndinGs:AtlAntic diVision

SCHOOL CONF OVERALL

NC State 1-0 4-0

Florida State 1-0 3-1

Wake Forest 1-1 2-2

Maryland 0-0 3-1

Clemson 0-0 2-1

Boston College

0-1 2-1

coAstAl diVision SCHOOL CONF OVERALL

Virginia Tech 1-0 2-2

Georgia Tech 1-1 2-2

Miami 0-0 2-1

Virginia 0-0 2-1

North Carolina

0-1 1-2

Duke 0-1 1-3

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by the nuMbersVirginia Tech’s Ryan Williams stats through first four games of 2009 vs. Mustafa Greene’s stats through the first four games of 2010

STaTS WilliaMS GreeNe

ATT 84 53

YDS 495 251

AVG 5.89 4.6

TD 8 4

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