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Raleigh, North Carolina
Executive and researcher explain Watson’s power and IBM’s relationship with University.
John WallNews Editor
IBM executives and local busi-ness leaders took the opportunity to meet with the chancellor before and after a presentation explaining IBM’s Watson computer Wednes-day.
Jim De Piante, an IBM research-er who helped build Watson, ex-plained the benefits of the com-puter that deciphers human speech and correctly answers questions posed. In addition, IBM sent one of its top brass, Senior Vice Presi-dent and Group Executive of Sales, Marketing and Strategy Ginni Rometty, to campus to have lunch with Chancellor Randy Woodson.
IBM recruits from N.C. State more than any other school in the country, Rometty said in a speech before De Piante demonstrated Watson. When Rometty asked the audience in Nelson Hall who had parents or family that work at IBM, more than half of the students in attendance raised their hands.
“Watson is the greatest way to demonstrate data analytics and how it can be used in a business and University setting. Everyone can understand this presentation because Watson was featured on Jeopardy,” Tina Wilson, IBM pro-gram manager for corporate citi-zenship and corporate affairs, said.
Watson weighs in at 18,000 pounds, and therefore IBM opted to not bring it to campus. In fact, it never travels. It sits in a research center in Yorktown Heights, New York, De Piante said.
As with any other technological advance, the goal is to make the computer smaller. The comput-ers that sent man to the moon had as much memory as a handheld calculator, and cell phones hit the market in the shape of cinder-blocks.
De Piante said that with all the power Watson has, it is no match for the human brain, which weighs three pounds and fits in a shoebox.
IBM recruits from NCSU more
than any other school in the world, Rometty said in a speech before De Piante demonstrated Watson. When Rometty asked the audience in Nelson Hall who had parents or family that work at IBM, more than half of the
students in attendance raised their hands.
“The IBM-N.C. State relationship
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Thomas obarowski/TechnicianExecutive project manager at IBM, Jim de Piante, spoke in the Nelson Auditorium Wednesday about the history and development of IBM’s Watson super computer as part of IBM’s 100th anniversary celebration.
IBM touts latest creation
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Tin cans made wearableLocal craftswoman to host metal-working workshop.
Jessie HalpernStaff Writer
In the spirit of Parents’ Week-end, the Craft Center is hosting a unique presentation sure to attract visiting families.
Marlene True, metal-worker and designer, will demonstrate how to turn old, painted tin cans into unique jewelry. The event will be held in the Crafts Center commons area at 7 p.m. Friday, and is to be in conjunction with True’s work-shop called “Ordinary Materials- Extraordinary Jewelry.”
The workshop will be held twice over the weekend from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
True’s jewelry is made from materials that would usually be thrown away and wasted, like vin-tage tin cans,.
“I really like to use the ones with the labels printed right on the can, and they’re getting harder and harder to find,” True said.
Using these unique cans, True makes neck laces, bracelets , brooches and rings, and suggests that people view her website to get
an idea of the kind of treasures she creates.
“What I’m going to be doing is showing the students in the workshop how to use tin cans, how to take them apart. It’s really different than using regular materials. I’ll also be talking about how I started working with tin cans, how I discovered that and the evolution of my work with this mate-rial over the past eight or ten years,” True said.
This weekend will be True’s first time presenting on campus, but she has displayed her work at other venues throughout her career.
Crafts Center staff and faculty heard about True’s work last year, when, at another crafting event, a designer spoke highly of her work.
“We’re expecting about 50 people,” George Thomas, director of the Crafts Center, said. “It’s a great event because it can gather a much larger crowd than our usual eight or ten people. We’re also trying to make this more available to the general public -- there are a lot of jewelry crafters in the Raleigh area.”
Among those local crafters is Ka-tie Sarber Kinnane, a Raleigh citizen whose current project is working with duct tape. Using her unique materials, she crafts wallets, flowers, headbands, and other wearable items. In addition,
Kinanne also collects bottle tops and other recyclables for her crafts.
“I’m so excited that a fellow crafter is going to show off her work at State. I can’t wait to learn about how she uses her materials and maybe get a few ideas for my own projects,” Kin-nane said.
Her crafts are available for sale at etsy.com, under CSarber.
Attracting students, families and lo-cal crafters, the Crafts Center is sure to be a busy place this weekend. The event, according to Thomas, is also geared toward students in the Arts Village and the School of Design.
“We don’t normally have the ca-pacity to fill a whole lot of seats, but this weekends’ event will be able to accommodate a lot more people,” Thomas said. “We’re doing the semi-nar Friday as a way to let others see what the workshop will be about and also for people who couldn’t get into the workshop to be able to still get the experience.”
For those interested in attending, True promised an interesting learn-ing experience. Those who are unable to make any of this weekend’s crafting events can find her work on her web-site at www.marlenetrue.com.
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Bus commuters residing near Centennial unhappyEngineering students living in apartments around Centennial have limited transportation options.
Jatin BhatiaStaff Writer
Graduate students who reside in apartment complexes around Cen-tennial Campus have said they have no bus transportation to Centennial.
A majority of the graduate students in the area study engineering, and almost all of the engineering depart-ments are in the Centennial Campus engineering buildings. Those who live in Champions Court, Avery Close, Ivy Commons, Parkwood, Colonial Arms, or Gorman crossings must walk to get to their classes.
Students usually take Wolfline No.1 or Wolfline No. 9 to get off at Varsity drive stop, wait for the connecting buses like Wolfline Number 8, 3 or 3A, and walk to Centennial. The av-erage travel time is about 25 minutes by foot, and more often than not, the wait-time for connecting buses makes the travel time increase.
Graduate Student Senator Nithyan-anthan Poosamani, also a committee member of student government’s Transportation and Safety Commis-sion, has been working toward getting Wolfline to make stops in the af-fected areas and ta ke students to engineering buildings.
He said he suc-ceeded in get-ting a trial basis service — route No. 10 — that makes stops at the apartment complexes and Centennial.
“As informed by the NCSU Department of Transportation, Southside Circulator [10] is currently run on a research phase to find the fea-sibility of running a permanent route. It is a part of improving the Transpor-tation on Centennial Campus Master Plan” Poosamani said.
He said it’s not the shortage of funds, but the contract with First Transit that is the hurdle in starting new services. First Transit is an international bus-
ing company that has contracts in the Raleigh area.
Current services can be adjusted to meet students’ needs, though, Poo-samani said.
“The Department of Transporta-tion is not short on funds, but the contract they maintain with First Transit does not allow additional buses. Hence, this limits our ability to request for new routes. If we can change or modify existing routes to provide maximum benefit to students, that would be great,” Poosamani said.
He said that although students have embraced the temporary route, fur-ther changes should be made.
“We have recommended a few changes to number 10. Make it take this loop: College of Textiles, EB-2 Partners Way, Avent Ferry, Gorman, Varsity Drive, College of Textiles and then continue. This would help reduce students catching the number 8 Southeast Loop, getting down at Burger King and then catching Avent Ferry. Also the student traffic can be more regularized if we get this new connectivity. The proposed package has all of these advantages,” Poosa-mani said.
But there was confusion between students’ perceptions and authorities with regard to the ridership of No. 10, Poosamani said.
“The authorities have notified the [Transporta-tion] Commis-sion Chair that they are on a research phase and are satisfied with the number of people riding number 10 and that they are not wiling to change the route. What I really feel is that those numbers currently include only people using No. 10 to get to College of Tex-ti les and then
walk to Centennial and not used by people to get back to their homes from the College. If the authorities can make possible changes as suggested above, there could be better utiliza-tion of number 10 and the ridership will increase tremendously,” Poosa-
“The Department
of Transportation is
not short on funds,
but the contract they
maintain with First
Transit does not allow
additional buses.”Nithyananthan Poosamani, graduate
student in computer engineering
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“I believe a job at IBM would be a rewarding
experience – especially if I decide to study
computer engineering.”Nathan Fox, freshman in environmental engineering
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CorreCtions & ClarifiCationsIn Thursday’s Viewpoint cartoon, the caption should have read “Your fee dollars at work.”
In Thursday’s “Tuition increase proposal submitted to chancellor,” the proposed out-of-state tuition increase is $660, not $600.
In Thursday’s “Performances highlight banned books,” Leanna Hall said “To me as an actress, I am thankful for the literature I have been exposed to, because it helps to broaden the imagination and expand one’s knowledge of the physical and fictional worlds surrounding them.”
In Wednesday’s editorial, “Let us get better,” the flu clinics are not administered by the Student Health Center. They are a host for an outside vendor, Maxim, who determines which insurance plans will be accepted.
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transportation updateswolfline deToursThere will be no service at the following locations from 6:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. until further notice this week:
Dunn Avenue/Jeter DriveCarmichael Gymnasium
Faucette Drive stops between Morrill Drive and Varsity Drive
Routes normally offering extended service after 6 p.m. will detour via Pullen Road and travel southbound Pullen Road to Western Boulevard and then resume their normal routes. Rt. 7 Wolflink Shuttle and Rt. 3 Engineering will serve the campus interior as usual, but will travel Pullen Road to Western Boulevard.
Rt. 7 Wolflink Shuttle and Rt. 5 Varsity will not serve Faucette Drive, but will resume their regular routes at Varsity Drive.
Rt. 2 Hillsborough Street Shuttle, Rt. 4 Westgrove and Rt. 6 Carter-Finley are not affected.
Wolfprowl and Werewolf (late-night service) will detour via Pullen Road.
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consTrucTion updATeThe Talley Construction team plans to place backfill along Cates Avenue between Alexander and Turlington Halls on the following days and times. During these times, elevated vibration levels may be experienced.
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weekend!or six” projects, Wilson said. As the largest commercial research firm, employing more than 3,000 people in the research department alone, capi-talizing on synergies between IBM and universities continue to prove profitable for the company.
Watson has begun to prove itself useful in business. Wilson said IBM is in a partnership with a healthcare company. Watson will help doctors diagnose lung, breast and colon can-cer. It will not give doctors directions on how to treat the diseases, but in-stead will give them pertinent infor-mation.
Wilson did not say which health-care company IBM is working with. De Piante said he was not at liberty to discuss the partnership.
At the end of the presentation, students got the opportunity to ask questions of a Watson analog. De Pi-anta projected Jeopardy questions, and students competed with answers Watson had given prior.
Nathan Fox, a freshman planning to study environmental engineering,
was in Nelson to see Watson. His class was cancelled to accommodate the presentation, but he decided to come anyway.
Upon hearing the news that IBM hires NCSU students so frequently, Fox said he was excited for the pos-sible employment opportunities that could be available to him.
“Although my major is not quite set, I believe a job at IBM would be a rewarding experience – especially if I decide to study computer engi-neering,” Fox said.
Fox welcomed the break from his usual lecture.
“It’s better than class,” Fox said.
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mani said.Students in the area said it’s incon-
venient to walk to classes each day es-pecially since some stops are not even serviced by Wolfline.
“W h i le goi ng towards Burger K i ng on Avent Ferry, opposite KP [Brigadoon Drive], there is a bus stop where only CAT buses stop. Trans-loc shows it as a stop for Wolf line, but no Wolf line stops there. If made to stop, it would be of great help to people in KP,” Abhishek Svami, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, said.
People still expressed doubts regarding the number 10 services as it doesn’t run when most graduate students schedule their classes.
“As of now, number 10 doesn’t func-tion from 11 to 3, so you can’t really count on it,” Anand Bhatia, a student
in electrical engineering, said.Students also suggested a few extra
stops on Avent Ferry Road.“Number 3 and number 3A can be
made to have a stop at CC, which would ease the burden on 8. Also, 10 should be modified to cover the engineering build-ing, which would help everyone on Avent Ferry Road,” Svami said.
Balaji Soundararajan, a graduate stu-dent in business administration, said
he wants to see more sup-port from the chancellor and Department of Transporta-tion.
“This is a nagging issue and we are work i ng to
push a new Wolfline route via Centen-nial, Avent Ferry, Gorman, Crest Road, Champion, and Centennial. Due to clauses in [busing] contracts, this was not possible for the last 2 years. But this year we are having a new Wolfline route 10 which runs periodically, so we are preparing to push this agenda further to gather more support from the Chancel-lor and the Transportation department,” Soundararajan said.
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“[Route 10 modification]
would help everyone on
Avent Ferry Road.” Abhishek Svami, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering
watson hardware specs• 90 IBM Power 750 servers• 16 terabytes of memory• 4 terabytes of clustered
storage• 2,880 IBM POWER7 cores• total on-chip bandwidth:
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The proposed tuition and fee increases have been handed to the Chancel-
lor for further evaluation. Cur-rently, the proposed tuition in-crease is at $330, but is far from being finalized.
This number could be raised even more, and for some, these increases are the difference be-tween graduating from N.C. State and becoming a college drop-out.
Since the General Assembly is the last say in this process, they should understand we can’t afford these hikes and should take the Tuition Review Advi-sory Committee’s recommen-dation as the final increase.
After TRAC passes their rec-ommendation on to the chan-cellor, he has the power to decide whether the recommen-dation is appropriate, which entails any changes he sees nec-essary. Then he will hand it off to the Board of Trustees, who
will push it onto the Board of Governors, who leaves it up the General Assembly to make the final changes and approve it.
This circuitous process gives each of these hands the ability to increase the proposed raise in tuition.
Since TRAC and the chancel-lor are most connected to the University and its students, they are able to lessen the blow of a tuition increase on stu-dents. Whereas the Board of Trustees, Board of Governors and General Assembly do not fully understand the impact additions to the increase will have on the student body.
While this $330 increase will affect students’ and their families’ pockets, the areas the money is allocated for is meant to help the students of
N.C. State. The 35 percent of the proposed tuition increase would go to financial aid—this number was at 25 percent last year. This means more people may be able to receive financial aid, and those who have it may receive more.
However, even more of a tu-ition increase may break the bank for many students.
N.C. State was built on the foundation to be an institu-tion of higher education at an affordable cost. With the con-stant tuition increases each year, that foundation is being threatened.
For many students and their families, tuition is already a cumbersome burden; and with these increases the burden seems impossible to bear.
Two years ago the General
Assembly mandated an across-the-board increase of $750, and what is to say they will not do the same this year? Nothing.
The state is in such a devas-tating financial situation, they must find ways to balance the budget, and unfortunately for us, that includes cutting from education while raising the cost of getting it.
Students, let the General As-sembly know how a large tu-ition increase will impact your educational experience. They cannot understand the person-al impact unless you tell them.
Find out who your represen-tative is and email them, call them or write a letter. Talk to the chancellor via email or in person. Speak out about these increases. Take the time to save on your tuition—don’t allow them to take advantage of you and your family’s pockets.
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.
Keep our education affordableThe FacTs: TRAC has passed along their recommendation for next year’s tuition to the Chancellor, who will be able to review it and then pass it through its various phases before reaching the final judgment by the General Assembly.
Our OpiniOn:The General Assembly does not understand how much students are affected by tuition increases, so students should tell them to go with the TRAC recommendation and not add anymore to the proposed amount.
Diversity is good, right?
By invitat ion, I g ive talks to student groups around campus. A cou-
ple weeks ago, I gave a presen-tation to students in our Uni-
versity’s Honors Village. It was one of those laid back, get-
to-know-the-professor kind of gatherings.
My job was to share my his-tory as a research scientist with the students. To do that, I had to walk them through my life, starting from my Navy expe-rience; it was in the Navy my personal and scholarly interest in race relations and diversity really came to life.
In my lecture, I talked to the students about creating and teaching my Interper-sonal Relationships and Race course. We have eliminated the immoral laws of racial segrega-tion.
What’s lef t now, our great-est cha l-lenge , i s learning to interact with each ot her a s equals.
You see, we live in a time when contact with peo-ple w ho do not look like or even sound like us is unavoidable. So we struggle with the neo-diversity question, who are the “we” and who are among the “they.”
But as I tell my students, everybody on our campus is a “we,” and everyone in your classes is a part of the Wolf-pack. Our challenge today is to accept and live in that reality.
That evening, I got an email from one of the students who attended. She wrote:
“I just wanted to thank you for sharing your experience and perspective on diversity with us at the Honors Collo-quium. I attended a large public high school, where the bottom line was ‘diversity is good.’
However, I’ve often asked myself: What is diversity, ex-actly? Why is it such a big issue?
Your perspective and the whole idea of a “we” has given me a much deeper understanding of diversity and why it’s so diffi-cult, especially for Americans, to find peace with it.”
It’s not necessarily about putting the Chinese, African Americans, Caucasians, etc. into a room together—it’s about developing understand-ing and acceptance. I think this interpersonal connection is a societal necessity that a lot of people do not understand and therefore do not strive for.
Turns out, we continue to do a lousy job of teaching young people about diversity and why it is important in America. We continue to offer only sound-bites like “diversity is good.”
Having been given no sub-stance, young people leave high school confused about diversity. And too often, young
people end up at col-leges a nd universities where that confusion continues because t here too y o u g e t nothing but “diversity i s g o o d ” sound-bites.
But what the emai l f rom that
young woman tells me is that students at N.C. State want substance; you are looking for a real understanding.
That email and what I see happen to students in my class tells me once students come to understand that the real chal-lenge today is interpersonal, they feel better, calmer, and more prepared to live, go to class, and eventually work within a diverse community.
Dr. Nacoste is Professor of Psychology faculty advisor to “Wake Up! It’s Serious: A Campaign for Change.”
Send Dr. Nacoste your thoughts on diversity to [email protected].
“Turns out, we
continue to do a
lousy job of teaching
young people about
diversity and why it
is important
in America.”
Rupert NacosteGuest Columnist
A well-balanced scheduleMost college stu-
dents are experts at cramming in
work at the last possible minute before a deadline. We know which energy
drinks have t he most caf-feine, which spots are the quiet-est in the library and which restaurants
deliver at 3 a.m.The problem with this
strategy is it adds to our stress, making us tired and irritable, and it doesn’t leave a buffer in case something goes wrong.
Think of time manage-ment like a diet. Your tests and major assignments are like the meats in your diet, your smaller or easier assignments are your veg-etables and your fun things are your desserts. The trick to managing your time and stress in college is a bal-anced diet of these tasks each day.
For example, after your morning classes, you could write a few pages of your term paper, a meat, com-plete a chapter of reading, a vegetable, and hang out with your friends at the Atrium, a dessert.
We don’t naturally work like this. If we have a big test on Monday, our natural inclina-tion is to not worry about it until we absolutely have to, and then try to study for 48 hours straight.
However, if studying is a meaty task, it’s like trying to eat nothing but steak for two days.
You need to break up your meat and vegetables tasks into smaller chunks and spread them out over a longer peri-od of time so you retain the most infor-mation and don’t become overwhelmed and frustrat-ed.
If you have a 15-page pa-per to write, don’t assign yourself one day to write all 15 pages. Instead, set aside five days to write three pages each.
Studying needs to be broken up into manageable portions too.
If you have a test over five chapters, start studying six days before. Review one chap-ter each day and reserve the last day to review all the concepts. Repetition leads to retention. Rather than struggling with an assignment the night before it’s due, allow enough time to visit your professor’s office hours, drop by the tutoring center,
or talk with a classmate to work through your road-blocks.
After you’ve finished a portion of your meats or vegetables for the day, don’t forget to reward yourself with a dessert, even if it’s something simple like re-laxing in the dorm with your favorite book.
If you try to do too much work for an extended period
of t ime, your brain goes into cognitive overload. You need to give it a rest. Mak-ing t ime for some-thing en-joyable each day is essen-
tial to keeping your stress level in check. Maintaining a balanced time manage-ment diet will be more dif-ficult at certain points in the semester than others. Study health and balance your time to help your academic diet.
Send Dileep your thoughts on time-managment to [email protected].
“However, if
studying is a
meaty task, it’s
like trying to eat
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The Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School is incorporating Obama’s STEM goals into their curriculum.
Sarah GuizardStaff Writer
Looking to expand the tech-nical work force, President Barack Obama has focused his goals for primary educa-tion on enriching science and math curricula, which the ad-ministration is referring to as STEM—science, technology, engineering and math.
Although N.C. State may benefit from more science savvy students in the future, Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School has been imple-menting this science-fortified curriculum since 2000.
With the University con-nections of being located right on Centennial Campus and the community support, the Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School has been able to partake in a multitude of pro-grams that are able to engage and educate their students in the sciences.
The goal is to integrate the STEM objective into the cur-riculum in a way to have the students “learn the way they live,” according to school out-reach coordinator Peter El-wood.
The students so often use technology in recreation that by bringing it into a learning environment it makes the cur-
riculum more engaging, ac-cording to Elwood.
One of the school’s recent programs called Crystal Is-land: Outbreak demonstrates this approach to education. This program is a narrative-centered virtual learning envi-ronment, which features a sci-ence mystery of an unidentified disease that the students play a role in uncovering. Through-out the game, students are ex-posed to microbiology content and scenarios that match up to their science curriculum. Ac-cording to Elwood, this and similar pro-g ra ms en-a ble s s t u-dents to take part in 21st century tech-nology that is key to the progress of learning.
The Friday Institute is a large con-tr ibutor to incorporat-ing the STEM program into the curriculum at the middle school level. Hiller Spires, a se-nior research fellow and pro-fessor at the Friday Institute, discussed a new project that engages students in a research inquiry process.
The program expects stu-dents to create and research a compelling question and re-quires them to redesign their observations into a multimedia presentation.
“[It] helps the content be more engaging and enables the
students to think differ-ently,” Spires said.
According to E lwood, STEM edu-cat ion cen-ters on the benef its for the student. Elwood said this approach to learning doesn’t just focus on a “particular
type of student” but is able to reach a diverse population.
According to Elwood, the ex-pectations of a STEM curricu-lum require that teachers and administrators try to create an environment where every type of student is able to succeed.
Ada Lopez, a seventh grade science teacher, stressed the importance of her students working on projects as research teams.
“[The goal is to] have the kids work in meaningful groups,” Lopez said.
When dividing the students, Lopez compared data achieve-ment scores in order to group students together so that they could feed off each other’s strengths and weaknesses. By using this method of group work, Lopez said it “maxi-mized each child’s strength and helped them to grow.”
The STEM integrat ion throughout the Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School curriculum is beneficial to all
students with different talents, according to Elwood.
“[The curriculum is] relevant and rigorous and at this age both of these are crucial.”
With as many as thirty col-laborations with different community resources the staff is able to provide many oppor-tunities for students and create as Elwood said, “STEM expe-riences that are effective and scalable.”
The importance of math, sci-ence, engineering and technol-ogy are crucial for further suc-cess in global society, according
to Elwood. The Obama admin-istration is trying to promote STEM jobs over non-STEM fields. With STEM occupa-tions are expected to grow by 17 percent over the next decade, it seems apparent why these subjects are stressed in today’s education.
Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School is only one out of many institutions that have integrated these elements into their curriculum. STEM has become a critical part of edu-cation and continues to make an impact in schools.
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Water barrels to benefit local ecologyThe Soil and Water Conservation Society work to limit runoff pollution.
Ankita SaxenaStaff Writer
A group of students hope to allevi-ate the pollution of lakes, rivers and oceans through a small innovation.
One of the latest activities of the N.C. State student chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society is making rain barrels from disposed materials and selling it as a fundraiser. The main idea behind these barrels is to allow them to collect storm drain water.
Water pollution is a growing prob-lem in Raleigh, with one of the larger contributors being pollutants from the storm water drainage system that feeds creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes. There is a common misconception that water flowing into storm drains
goes to a treatment plant to get cleaned before flowing into the streams, but that isn’t the case, according to Frank Davis, graduate student in natural re-sources.
Storm water runoff picks up pollut-ants like dirt, oil, fertilizer, and ciga-rette butts and carries them directly to the nearest stream, lake, or river without any treatment whatsoever.
“Collecting run-off storm water by intercepting it when it falls down drains also saves the energy that would otherwise be required to pump up the water from other sources” Davis, member of the SWCS chapter, said. “Also, this prevents the soil erosion which storm water would otherwise cause by running off on the surface of land.”
People can use these barrels for collecting rainwater to water their gardens, which would also save clean drinking water that is otherwise used for this purpose.
“The barrels we get are mostly
bought off places such as Craigslist or used pickle storing barrels from whole sale food vendors,” Nicholas Tyler Lannon, sophomore in agricultural and environmen-tal technology, and member of the chapter, said. “We fix them up, attach nets, mod-ify them and sell them according to customer or-ders. Orders can be placed for cus-tomized barrels.”
They also pro-vide barrels with the NCSU logo on it. Options are unpainted, painted or primed barrels, with the price varying from 80 to 100 dollars per barrel. They have a variety of color options for painted barrels. The size also varies between 50 to 60 gallons
per barrel.The SWCS is a professional society
of conservation-minded profession-als from around the world. There are
approximately 5,000 members worldwide with hundreds of stu-dent members. T h e s t u d e n t chapter at the University is rel-atively new, hav-ing been formed just last semester. They have just made a start into this activity with their first eight barrels sold so far, but hope to
grow gradually.“We operate mostly by word of
mouth and hope that as more people become aware of this activity we will increase our sales,” Davis said.
According to Shawn Springer, Graduate in Biological and Agricul-tural Engineering, the organization doesn’t just do it for the money.
“Even more than making sales, we hope that at least we get the message out about our concern for this issue,” Springer said. “Pollution of lakes and rivers by storm water is a big issue, and one purpose of this activity is to get people thinking about it, and maybe somewhere in the future influencing politics so that more and more such activities are conceived which would help find solutions for this.”
The mission of the group is to find solutions for soil and water conserva-tion, and anybody who is interested in the cause is welcome to join.
“All of us are already from pretty diverse backgrounds, and we would be glad to see this diversity grow,” Springer said.
“Also, this prevents
the soil erosion which
storm water would
otherwise cause by
running off on the
surface of land.”Frank Davis, graduate student
in natural resouces
tim o’brien/technicianCentennial Campus Magnet Middle School seventh graders Marsya Mohdzanuar, Dyani Debnam and Ayana Jones take notes about the effects of ozone on crops at the University Air Quality Resources Laboratory off Lake Wheeler Road Tuesday. The students went with their science class to learn about agriculture and environmental issues and talked with USDA Professor Kent Burkey, whose research focused on the ozone’s effects. The curriculum at the Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School focuses on STEM education.
Centennial magnet school making scientists for the future
photos contributed by soil and watever conservation societyMembers of the Soil and Water Conservation Society work on container barrels for runoff water, which they use to collect storm water to prevent it from going into the sewer system. This water can be used to irrigate lawns and saves tap water use, making it a more environmentally friendly option. These barrels go through a process to make water collection easier and to make them user friendly.
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content be more
engaging and
enables the
students to think
differently.”Hiller Spires, senior research and professor at the Friday Institute
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Student health ranked No. 11 in nationPrinceton Review ranks Student Health Center in the top of the nation, beating out peer institutions.
Eric RizzoStaff Writer
As most students know, N.C. State University is a top ranked institu-tion academically; however, we are also 11th in terms of student health in the nation, according to Princeton Review. No other North Carolina schools, public or private, made this top 20 list.
In their most recent edit ion of their annual book, The Best 376 C o l l e ge s , Princeton Re-view ranks N.C. State No. 11 in student health, and according to David Soto, di-rector of college ranking for the Princeton Review, the rankings are based on student input.
“All of the rankings are based ex-clusively on student surveys that we conduct,” Soto said.
These surveys, according to Soto, are essentially five-point scales, where students are asked to rate various as-pects of their schools from one to five.
“I think we would be hard-pressed to find a way to find out what campus life was like besides asking currently enrolled college students,” Soto said.
This ranking may be due to efforts of our student health center. Accord-ing to Robert Hayford, interim direc-tor of Student Health Services, the ef-fectiveness of a Student Health Center is directly related to the size, location, number of providers offered, number of services offered and the quality of those services.
NCSU’s health fee is $258 com-pared to UNC’s $421 or Duke’s $580. Accord-ing to Hayford, NCSU Student Health Center optimizes pro-vider efficiency, lowering the cost to students.
“The vendors we negotiate with have the lowest costs in the area,” Hayford said. By doing this, according to Hayford, NCSU Student Health Center can provide quality health services at a low rate
to students.According to Dr. Beth Neel, the
Medical Director of the Student Health Center, the team at the Health Center, including six full-time physi-cians, can do anything from sutures to short-term IV fluids.
“What makes us special is the amount of services we can provide,” Dr. Neel said.
According to Dr. Neel, these services make it possible for students to avoid paying the high prices charged by the
emergency room or urgent care.These services, according to Dr.
Neel, have been fairly consistent in terms of quality and quantity over the nine years she has worked with NCSU’s Student Health Center. The only change she mentioned was that the health center grew with the Uni-versity.
The health center also has grown with technology, according to Dr. Neel, offering online appointment reservations through HealthWeb. The Student Health Center’s doctors, ac-
cording to Dr. Neel, also have the abil-ity to send secure emails to patients, which are used to relay sensitive in-formation like test results to patients.
There is one expansion happening in the very near future. According to Hayford, the Student Health Center will be opening an orthopedic clinic in October for one day during each week.
“What makes us
special is the amount
of services we
can provide.”Dr. Beth Neel, medical director of the Student Health Center
Student HealtH FeeS in nortH Carolina:N.C. State: $258UNC-Chapel Hill: $421Duke: $580
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quite make clear the sad state of the ACC, Maryland went out and made Temple look like a national title con-tender in a 38-7 loss. Grant-ed, Temple nearly knocked off Penn State in week three and is probably a lot better than most people think.
However, what happened in College Park was beyond embarrassing. The Terps were blown off their home field by a team that before Saturday was 0-12 all-time against the ACC, with each of the last seven of those losses since 2004 coming by at least three touchdowns, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
Making matters worse, The Terrapins were prob-ably dom i nated even more thoroughly than the 31-point margin of victory would indicate. Temple out-gained Maryland 425-240, led by 28 at halftime and did not allow a score until less than five minutes remained.
Normally, such woes by the ACC aren’t remotely newsworthy. Bad weekends are nothing new in this league, but this past week-end was notable because it erased what hadn’t been associated with the con-ference in a long time – a short-lived sense of pride. Unfortunately, based on the years leading up to it and the week that followed it, the league’s national suc-cess in week three now looks a lot more like an aberration than a turning of the corner.
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jects in college football this year.“The thing [Georgia Tech] is
doing so much better right now is they are throwing the ball. It’s 230 some yards a game; they are rushing for 400 a game. That’s mind-boggling right now,” O’Brien said. “The wide receiv-er is averaging 40 yards a catch, that’s pretty big numbers. At the end of the year last they decided they were going to get into the passing game and it certainly helps because it takes a lot of your support and it puts pres-sure on the perimeter.”
On being quizzed on why things have gone so wrong for the Wolfpack, after so much was expected of it, O’Brien admitted that injuries have taken a huge toll on his team’s hopes for the season.
“We’re down four defensive tackles now, we only have two defensive tackles left to play this game. You look at five games now, there is a different group-ing in that front seven than we’ve had so it’s hard to be consistent,” O’Brien said. “Every time we take a step forward we take two steps backwards.”
Senior linebacker Audie Cole, one of the leaders on the field for the Wolfpack, expressed his enthusiasm in playing Georgia Tech and claimed it was a much different team this year in com-parison to last year.
“I have a good time playing Georgia Tech. You know they are going to run the ball. They have been throwing the ball a little bit more this year, they are a running team and that’s we have go to stop,” Cole said. ”Georgia Tech is so much different from every other team, the only thing
is that they never used to pass the ball this much, this year they have been passing the ball much more. We have got a lot of turnovers, a lot of interceptions so hopefully we can get that going this week.”
Cole, part of the defense that is ranked No. 81 in the country for number of points allowed per game, also admitted that the key was for everyone to stick to their roles or pay the price.
“All we have been doing is work-ing on stopping the option, to make sure we keep our assign-ments,” Cole said. “Someone’s got the quarterback, everybody has got someone, if you don’t stick to your roles, you’ll get into trouble during the game.”
Defensive coordinator Mike Ar-cher, who had also overseen the stellar performance by the defense last season, felt the numerous de-fensive changes, including the deci-sion to switch sophomore defensive end Darryl Cato-Bishop to tackle, was the smartest thing to do.
“He played that position last year against them and because of what happened [injuries], we have no choice,” Archer said. “He was the one big body we could put down, who has played there and knows the call so that was a no-brainer.”
Archer also claimed the team would take the positives from last year’s victory over Tech and would try to replicate them again on Sat-urday.
“We have looked at the tape [of last year’s game versus Georgia Tech] and they see some of the same guys playing,” Archer said. “Their scheme has changed a little bit and we’ll do things differently as well but it’s basically the same thing.
“It comes down to fundamentals of getting off the blocks, tackling and we did that really well last year with the exception of 4-5 plays.”
N.C. State takes on Georgia Tech Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Carter-Fin-ley Stadium.
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ACC Championship Game may go
northward following new expansionA look at new possible sites for the ACC Championship Game.
Brian AndersonStaff Writer
With ACC expanding to the north, could the ACC football championship game follow its direction? The ACC first tried the Cham-pionship game at Jacksonville, Fla. in 2005 for three years and after initial success, attendance dwindled each year.
Next, it moved to Tampa for two years, where attendance, to put it mildly, was a train wreck. The 2008 ACC Championship game be-tween Virginia Tech and Boston College only had 27,360 people in attendance, according to Tampa Sports Authority, less than half of Raymond James Stadium’s capacity.
So far, having the game in Charlotte has been successful and it should remain the main host of the ACC championship game, as it is in the heart of ACC territory. However, the ACC will likely want to play the game above the Mason-Dixon Line every few years to ap-peal to its new fan bases and for exposure in large, Northeastern media markets. The Big 12 Conference was successful in rotating its football conference championship in numer-ous cities such as Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio. Here are four northeastern cities the ACC should consider for its football championship game.
1. Washington, D.C. - D.C. makes the top of the list due to its proximity to many ACC schools. Maryland and Virginia are located in the D.C. metro area and Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and the Triangle-area colleges are within five hours driving distance. The city also has two stadiums, FedEx Field and RFK Stadium, that host college football games, but FedEx Field, in the Landover suburb, is the better of the two. FedEx Field, home of the Washington Redskins since 1997, has suc-cessfully hosted major neutral-site college football games the past several years, such as the Virginia Tech-Boise State game last year. This year it will host the Army-Navy Game.
However, it may be a challenge for the ACC to fill its 82,000 seats if a small school such as Wake Forest or Boston College plays in the championship game.
2. New York City (East Rutherford, N.J.) - C’mon, it’s New York—enough said. Why wouldn’t the ACC want to play in NYC, the largest media market in the country? New York offers the state of the art MetLife Sta-dium. An 82,000-seat facility, is host of two NFL teams, the New York Giants and New York Jets, and will be the site of Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. Many ACC schools have sizable fan bases in the NYC area. The site would be even more attractive if Connecti-cut and/or Rutgers join the ACC. The only downside is it can get frigid in December.
3. Baltimore, Md. - Similar to Washing-ton D.C., it is a central location between the Northern and Southern colleges in the ACC. Nine of the fourteen ACC schools are within a six-to-seven hour drive. While Baltimore is a smaller market than Wash-ington, it has a better-sized stadium for the ACC Championship game. M&T Bank Sta-dium holds 71,008 people and its turf field provides ideal playing conditions. It is no stranger to big events, either; it held the Army-Navy Game in 2007 and is scheduled to again in 2014 and 2016. In 2009, it also hosted a Chelsea-A.C. Milan soccer game and the city shows great fan support for the Baltimore Ravens.
4. Philadelphia, Pa.-The least likely of the four cities to host the ACC championship game. Philadelphia commonly holds col-lege sporting events at Lincoln Financial Field (69,000 seats). Temple University plays its home football games there. It is the main site for the Army-Navy Game, and it hosted the college lacrosse champi-onship in 2005, 2006 and will do so again in 2013. Philadelphia loves football as much as its cheesesteaks and is one of the nation’s largest cities. Philadelphia would be a long-shot unless the ACC adds more teams in the northeast. And, like New York, it is cold in December.
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N.C. State football prepares for its first ACC home-opener against Georgia Tech.
Rishav DeyStaff Writer
Four games into a season that had promised much, N.C. State (2-2, 0-1 ACC) faces its first ACC opponent at home in the form of the undefeated, No. 21-ranked Georgia Tech (4-0, 1-0 ACC).
With State struggling to find its feet against FBS opponents
and both their wins coming against FCS opponents, the Wolfpack has found the going difficult on more than one oc-casion.
A new quarterback, numer-ous injuries and a depleted defensive line have all con-tributed in ensuring that the Pack has had a start it least expected after a stellar season under coach Tom O’Brien last year and despite a 45-28 win at Bobby Dodd Stadium last season.
Georgia Tech, who leads the nation in points per game (53.3) and is second in the na-
tion is rushing yards per game (398.8) is no doubt posing questions to every State fan as to whether or not their team can hold its own against the Yellow Jacket offense that has torn every defense into shreds this season.
O’Brien, who led his team to a 9-4 record last season, was quick to lavish praise on the Yellow Jacket offense, which has become one of the most talked about sub-
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brent kitchen/technician file photoRedshirt junior quarterback Mike Glennon barks out orders in the huddle during the first half of the team’s game against liberty saturday, sept. 3. n.c. state won 43-21.
Wolfpack seeks to exterminate Yellow Jackets
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ACC teams specialize in different types of offenseFrom Pro Style to I-Form, each offensive style brings different action to the game.
Jeniece JamisonSenior Staff Writer
Pro Style:Teams that run this style:
N.C. State (364), Miami (380.3), Florida State (407.5), Duke (415.8).
The Pro Style offense, which is the most common in the ACC, is intended to resemble the schemes seen in the NFL. Its formations typically include formations of two receivers, a tight end, and two backs.
The distribution between passing and running plays is
usually balanced, requiring the offensive linemen to be both skilled in run and pass blocking.
The West Coast offense, which is ran by Duke, is con-sidered a subset of the Pro Style offense and focuses on short passing routes, such as slants and screen passes, go move the ball down the field.
Triple OptionTeams that run this style:
Georgia Tech (630.5).The triple option is ran ex-
clusively by the Yellow Jackets in the ACC and has garnered them the most potent offense this season.
The formation is based on the success of the option run,
where the quarterback has the choice of handing it off to ei-ther back or pitching it to the running back after the snap.
All three of the triple option formations, the wishbone, the veer, and the flex, each include two running backs and two re-ceivers. The tight end appears in the veer and flex formations.
SpreadTeams that run this style:
Clemson (502.8), Virginia Tech (430.2).
The spread offense has pro-duced the second and fourth best offenses in the ACC this year. The spread includes shot-gun formation, which includes one back and two to four re-ceivers, and the pistol package,
which brings the back closer to the shotgun position quarter-back.
Most view the spread as a pass heavy offense, but Vir-ginia Tech has the second best running offense in the confer-ence at 211.8 yards per game.
Even though many experts thought it would only turn out to be a passing trend, it is cer-tainly proving that it’s here to stay. Seven of the teams in the AP Top 25 poll have all adopted this offensive set.
I-FormTeams that run this style:
Wake Forest (432.7), Vir-ginia (424.5), Boston College (328.2).
The I-Formation is an of-
fense that places emphasis on establishing a presence running the ball early in the game plan. The players line up the “T” formation, which include the quar-terback under center, two backs, and two, sometimes three, receivers, and a tight end. The full back and tight end are usually employed in the run-blocking scheme.
Play action is utilized to open up opportunities in the passing game after the rushing attack has been es-tablished.
The goal line formation, which is ran by almost every team in football, is a varia-tion of the I with two tight ends and one receiver. acc continued page 7
Football FridaycoMMentaRy
Don’t be
fooled, ACC
is as pitiful
as ever
It sure didn’t take long for ACC football to get back to what it does best — embar-
rassing itself.By the conference’s well-
noted low standards, Clemson beating de-fending na-tional cham-pion Auburn and Miami knocking off then - No. 17 Ohio State Sept. 17 con-s t i t ute d a banner day. Considering
recent history, the fact that ACC teams accounted for two wins over top-25 opponents in the same weekend was nothing short of miraculous. Throw in Florida State and Maryland nearly taking down top-ranked Oklahoma and No. 18 West Virginia, and for at least a day, the ACC looked deserving of its automatic BCS bid.
That illusion lasted less than a week. The Wolfpack’s disas-ter Thursday night on ESPN against Cincinnati, a 2010 Big East bottom feeder in the only BCS conference worse than the Pack’s own, embarrassed fans of not only State but of the ACC as a whole. One season re-moved from division title con-tention, State was outclassed in every sense of the word by the Bearcats. That should have stood out as the confer-ence’s low point of the season. Instead, it was only the second-worst ACC performance of the weekend.
In hindsight, State’s melt-down was a fitting start to the week for miseries for the ACC.
The Hurricanes followed up the big win over the Buckeyes by falling to Kansas State. The Wildcats are 3-0 and take on No. 15 Baylor Saturday, so there very well may be no shame in Miami’s narrow loss. That doesn’t completely remove the disappointment for a team that had just routed a perennially formidable program like Ohio State just one week earlier.
An ACC team losing to a Big East or Big 12 foe is bad enough, but squads from BCS conferences shouldn’t lose to anyone from Conference USA, which is exactly what Virginia did in a 30-24 loss to Southern Miss.
In case the performances of State, UVA and Miami didn’t
Tyler EverettSenior Staff Columnist
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OUT FOR GAMEJ. Ferguson, DT - kneeMustafa Greene, HB - footTerrell Manning, LB - kneeQuintin Payton, WR - ankleJeff Rieskamp, DE - shoulderBrian Slay, DT - ankleThomas Teal, DT - footCurtis Underwood, HB - kneeAndrew Wallace, OG - knee
OUT FOR SEASON: Jarvis Byrd, CB - kneeSterling Lucas, LB - knee
QUESTIONABLEJ.R. Sweezy, DT - foot
Source: n.c. State athleticS
GeorGia Tech?what happened the last time
state played
The Wolfpack defeated the Yellow Jackets 45-28 when they last met in 2010. Quarterback Russell Wilson passed for a career-high 368 yards and threw three touchdowns, bringing the Pack’s season to an undefeated 4-0. N.C. State had also played Cincinnati at a Thursday game the week before, where State won 30-19. N.C. State gained 527 yards during the game which was the highest number of points they had ever scored against the Yellow Jackets in the series between the two. Wilson threw his first interception on his 136th pass of the season; Wilson had set a NCAA record that season with 379 attempts without an interception, a record which had ended the week before against the Bearcats.
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