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Third annual event gives students opportunity to learn about photography and compete for prizes.

Joshua Chappell Senior Staff Writer

This weekend, students across campus will have the opportu-nity to express their creativity through the lens of a pinhole cam-era at the challenge event co-spon-sored by the Crafts Center and the Photography Club.

According to Jo Westmoreland, assistant director of the Crafts Center, the event not only gives students the opportunity to learn about pinhole photography, but also the chance to win prizes.

“We provide pinhole lens, and all the support necessary to build the camera is at the Crafts Center,” Westmoreland said.

Before actually taking pictures, participants can come into the Crafts Center to learn how to use pinhole cameras, according to Westmoreland. After the event,

participants also have the opportunity to learn how to develop the photos.

Patrick Carroll, a senior in electrical engineering, competed in the event last year.

“Pinhole cameras use a convenient property of optics where light passing through a small hole or barrier dif-fracts past the barrier,” Carroll said. “This inverts the image on a light sen-sitive photo paper in the back of the camera. This gives you an image that is in focus, given a sufficiently small hole, for objects both near and far.”

This being the third year of the event, Westmoreland said they expect more students to participate.

“We’re expecting a bigger crowd this year,” Westmoreland said. Westmore-land also said that more prizes would be available to participants this year.

According to the Crafts Center web-site, a prize of $100 and free crafts classes will be awarded to the judges and people’s choice winners.

George Thomas, director of the Crafts Center, said this year’s event has a new prize that is meant to di-rect students’ attention to the Talley Student Center renovations.

“Knowing this is a wonderfully ex-citing time for Talley Student Center, the Crafts Center is adding a prize of $100 to be awarded to the best photo that captures the renovation project,”

Thomas said.As frequenters of Centennial Cam-

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Arts NOW! promotes alternative artArt series in Talley Student Center gives students the opportunity to experience new forms of art.

Anna RileyCorrespondent

To kick off the 2011-2012 season the Arts NOW! series, along with the N.C. State Music Department and Arts Studies Program, pre-sented an Electronic and Vocal Works production Tuesday eve-ning in Talley.

Performer and series director, Rodney Waschka II, delivered

five separate pieces that included au-dio and visual effects from a variety of sources. Waschka’s show manifested a collection of sounds and sights that were woven together to play upon the audience’s sensory capacities.

Students came out for an array of reasons and filled the Talley ballroom to not only hear, but also to watch the show. Anderson Burrus, a freshman in First Year College, attended to fulfill a requirement for one of his classes.

Professors encourage and some-times require students to go to arts events to get exposed to different av-enues of expression.

“[They] want us to explore different

opportunities on campus and pursue what interests us,” said Burrus.

Unlike traditional musical perfor-mances, the Electronic and Vocal Works program contained interest-ing yet unusual couplings of technical sounds and soft rhythms. Because the Arts NOW! series features contempo-rary art works, the events cater to new works, techniques, interpretations, and contexts.

The Arts NOW! series director and Tuesday night’s performer, Waschka, is a composer and professor of arts studies at N.C. State. His primary fo-cus is performance and lecture-based aspects of arts studies.

Waschka said that his goal is to ex-pose people to current art events and topics in arts studies. The Arts NOW! series was created to bring in perform-ers, composers, dancers, and artists who offer their own takes on art works and contemporary style.

“I’m interested in [seeing] students and members of the community come into contact with new work,” Waschka said.

To meld various art types, perfor-mance styles and new technology, the series has always included a wide range of artists, composers, and performers.

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CALS senators bring constituents togetherIce cream social near Bostian Hall a long time in the making.

John WallNews Editor

College of Agricultural and Life Sci-ences students will have the chance to voice their concerns to the college’s nine-member student senate delega-tion Thursday.

Freshmen transitioning into col-lege life and upperclassmen alike are invited to an ice cream social in the brickyard from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Student senators have been working since before summer began to create an event that brings together students, faculty, staff and alumni.

The purpose of inviting all present and former members to a localized area at once is to create dialogue, ac-cording to senior in human biology and CALS senator Harrison Do.

Budget cuts are the main topic the senators expect to hear about, accord-ing to Do.

“Along with starting dialogue among CALS faculty, staff, students and alumni, we want to create unity and allow student senators to meet their constituents,” Do said.

One particular topic of concern sen-ators expect to hear from students is budget cuts, according to Do.

“The one thing that’s on everyone’s mind is budget cuts. I know students are very concerned about the increas-ing number of students in each sec-tion. They are concerned about not being able to keep their classes, which will delay their graduation timeline,” Do said.

He said he was excited to talk to freshmen with his delegation about how cuts will affect them.

Attendees will be provided with 1,000 cups of ice cream provided at a cost of $500 from the food science de-partment, according to Brad Poston, a junior in human biology and CALS senator.

Funding came from the CALS Alumni and Friends Society and the dean’s office. None of the money comes from student fees, either di-rectly or indirectly, Do said.

Although the event is aimed most prominently toward members of CALS, on-campus organizations that assist the college are also invited. They are not all directly involved with the college, but they help students and fac-ulty in some way, according to Poston.

Representatives from Study Abroad were also invited.

“The organizations may not be specifically for CALS,” Poston said. “They do, however, provide resources for CALS students.” Poston said.

Do, who organized the event along with Poston, said he hoped it would be more than just a one-time thing.

“We are hoping it will be an event that will occur every year from here on out. This really is something that people are really looking forward to. If everything goes well, hopefully this will become a yearly tradition,” Do said.

Coordinator of CALS Recruiting and First Year Experiences Tricia Bud-din has added an assignment in her Introductory Topics in Agriculture and Life Sciences class that coincides with the event.

Before going to the event, senators will sit down in groups while in the class and discuss with students what they hope to get from the event, ac-cording to Do. When the event is over, students will “write something” about what they learned, Do said.

The final part of the assignment will be a survey asking freshmen how they are handling the transition from high school. Do said senators will use the data to determine how they are doing in their first few weeks at NCSU.

Kristen Gentry, a 2011 alumnus of the chemistry department, said she would have found the chance to meet

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