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Film sparks discussion on how to best educate public school students.

Justin RoseStaff Writer

Experts representing different sides of the edu-cation community discussed the current state of education in an open forum that took place in With-erspoon Campus Cinema Wednesday.

The panel, led by College of Education Dean Jayne Fleener, examined a multitude of problems facing education in North Carolina, including fund-ing, teacher salaries and the state of charter schools.

The discussion was in context of the recently re-leased Waiting for Superman, a documentary that follows the stories of five young students in an at-tempt to dissect the public education system and its problems.

While the film provided a foundation for the dis-cussion, a couple of the panelists said viewers should be aware of its agenda.

The panel included Michael Maher, director of Professional Education, who described the film as “slick and emotional.” Maher also said it is very important for students to be critical consumers.

“Believe in innovation and believe in creativity, because those are important,” said Maher. “Don’t form an opinion after hearing one side of the story.”

Tony Habit, president of the New Schools Project in NC, said the film, while having good messages and challenging ideas, contained symbols that are disconnected from reality.

“The reality of working on the ground with teach-ers and principals is dissimilar from some of what is portrayed in the movie,” said Habit.

Jo Ann Morris, Presi-dent and Executive Di-rector of the N.C. Pub-lic School Forum, said schools need to have competent teachers, a competent principal and the resources to provide learning opportunities for the 21st century, where technology and interaction are more prevalent.

Maher also commented on the apparent segrega-tion and lack of funding for North Carolina schools.

“In many cases, we’re creating two sets of schools: schools for white students, and schools for students of color,” Maher said. “I find the differences in de-

mographics between charter schools and public schools disconcerting. They don’t look or perform the same.”

According to Maher, the two biggest problems are underfunding and the current testing philosophy - but he said that the ulti-mate root of the problem lies in poverty.

“We’re asking teach-ers to do more with less money, and tests currently

lead kids to underperformance,” said Maher. “Until we address the economic and educational disparity, we won’t get the outcomes we hope for.”

Fleener said it is important to hear what’s not working from the multiple perspectives provided by the panel when facing such systemic problems as lack of funding.

“People are exploring alternatives to traditional education, but the system as a whole is potentially taking a step backwards if education is not pri-oritized,” Fleener said.

Ebonee Taylor, a sophomore majoring in math-ematics education, said she was eager to be part of the solution.

“I want to teach in North Carolina, and I think it’s so important for education majors to be in-formed if they want to be able to change what’s going on,” Taylor said.

Maher said despite the complex problems fac-ing education, the best thing college students can to is be engaged in any way, such as volunteering as a tutor or at a soup kitchen.

“Students need to open their eyes to the dis-parity. In many cases it’s important to realize your privilege and ask, ‘What can I do with my advantage?’”

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CUTTING FUNDINGproposed budget provides Less money for unC system sChooLs

The House Republicans released their pro-posed budget, which included a proposed 15.5 percent budget cut to the UNC system, a cut that could result in the loss of 10,000 class sections across the system, according to legislators.

Though realignment cuts have already knocked out several University services and administrative positions, more cuts are im-minent. The proposed budget reduction is equivalent to cutting five campuses entirely from the 17-campus UNC system, according to Rep. Rick Glazier (D).

The proposed budget has been approved by the North Carolina House of Represen-tatives, but must now go through the state Senate. The proposal must go back through the House before being presented to Gov. Bev Perdue for final approval.

“This is going to dramatically affect every student’s educational opportunity,” Glazier said.

Chandler Thompson, who was sworn in as Student Body President this week, said she will do her best to make sure class sections and the academic integrity of the University will be protected.

“We have the proposed budget, and we want to create an opportunity to get as many stu-dents involved as possible,” Thompson said.

Thompson outlined her priorities when considering impending budget cuts. She said shielding the University’s capability to provide financial aid, because 60 percent of N.C. State students receive some form of fi-nancial aid.

“Protecting financial aid is the biggest thing we need to communicate to legislators,”

Thompson said.Thompson is currently working on a letter

to all students that will explain the budget situation. The letter will be delivered via email, but the delivery date is unknown, ac-cording to Thompson.

Dean Jayne Fleener of the College of Educa-tion the possible cuts would affect all colleges and graduation.

“All these changes may delay some students’ graduation,” Fleener said.

Glazier agreed the cuts could prevent many students from graduating on time or also tak-ing desired electives. There would also be ma-jors eliminated within colleges, a decrease in academic quality and decreased student-professor interaction.

The cuts would also diminish the Univer-sity’s ability to conduct research, Glazier said.

Rep. Jennifer Weiss (D) said the cuts would present a loss of 240,000 class seats to the UNC system. When asked about how the cut would impact N.C. State in particular, she said she was “very concerned,” and legislators should take a “more balanced approach” to the state budget. Weiss represents District 35, N.C. State’s geographic jurisdiction.

The proposed 15.5 percent cut would re-move $1.25 billion from K-12 public schools, community colleges and higher education, according to Weiss.

Weiss said the state government is making a mistake by considering such deep education cuts. Weiss agreed with Thompson’s assertion that students should be informed about the state legislature’s actions and decisions.

“Students need to get in touch with legisla-tors throughout the state,” Weiss said.

State Sen. Josh Stein (D) said Chancellor Randy Woodson has been in communica-tion with the legislature. In fact, Stein had the opportunity to meet with Woodson two weeks ago.

During the meeting, Woodson argued that cuts as deep as 15.5 percent would harm the University’s ability to protect academic in-tegrity. Woodson has preached his goal of protecting academic integrity since he first introduced the University realignment plan.

Woodson said the cut would have a “dra-matic effect on the delivery of education,” according to Stein.

Stein agreed with Woodson and Weiss, say-ing he was “extremely concerned” about the quality of education in the UNC system.

The proposed budget will hurt undergradu-ate and graduate students alike, Fleener said.

“There may be less support for graduate stu-dents, we may need larger classes, and courses offered to non-education majors might be affected,” Fleener said.

Staff writer Justin Rose contributed to this article.

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Expert: Science must connect to public policy

Ex-NSF head speaks on science’s importance to global issues.

Shivalik DagaStaff Writer

During an appearance on campus Wednesday, a former director of the National Science Foundation spoke on the interconnection between science and policy—and how each could help in shaping and improving the other.

“In light of the growing global inter-connectivity, it is no longer the case that one institution or one nation can solve the challenges that we currently face,” Arden Bement, the director of the Global Policy Research Institute at Purdue University, said.

In a speech during the second an-nual Robert F. Davis Distinguished Lecture, Bement spoke on the impor-tance of scientific policy research in a shrinking world.

“In today’s connected environment, it is increasingly necessary to have a wider perspective,” Bement said. He also emphasized the significance of social networking, citing recent events in the Middle East where Facebook and Twitter have helped play a role in social uprisings.

With such increased interdepen-dence comes an increasingly difficult set of challenges, often involving a range of issues and requiring a multi-faceted approach to solve.

Bement called these issues “global-challenge theme areas” and divided them into seven broad categories of environment, economy, energy sys-tems, agriculture, security, health and society, and leadership.

“All of these have interdisciplinary interconnections that involve techni-cal, economical and human factors. Those connections are sadly often not found in current interdisciplinary re-search,” Bement said.

It is here, Bement said, universities can play a crucial role.

Bement focused on the barriers to interdisciplinary work and identified three major issues that required an in-terdisciplinary approach: rising con-cerns about food shortages for both human and animal consumption; fuel production, urbanization and natural disruptive events; and issues of data growth and security.

Regarding issues of food and fuel, Bement said with the current rate of growth in world population, food

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production would have to be doubled by 2070.

“There will be increased use of crops for biofuel produc-tion as well as rising competi-tion between feed for livestock and food for humans,” Bement said.

Peter Krommenhoek, a doc-toral student in material sci-ence, said he appreciated Be-ment’s point of view on food production.

“It was nice to get this d i f ferent perspect ive on things,” Krommenhoek said. “I have heard similar discus-sions regarding global issues like agriculture, so this was

really interesting.”Bement also said the issue of

rapid urbanization and natural disasters required attention be-cause of the scale of the issues.

“By 2025, 5.5 billion people will be living in cities, result-ing in a huge demand for commodities, infrastructure and services,” Bement said. “Also, most of these cities are in seismic regions and lie near a coastline, which makes them vulnerable to tsunamis.”

Bement also spoke on the growing threat of cyber crime and espionage.

“We are seeing an exponen-tial growth in data, to such an extent that we are unable to store, archive and secure the data,” Bement said.

“Scientists, engineers and

technologists could be the change masters of the 21st cen-tury,” Bement said.

Christian Roach, a junior in materials science and engineer-ing, said Bement did a good job of describing the issues.

“I liked his talk, as he was fairly charismatic and it related to real-life issues,” Roach said.

Anthony Jain, also a junior in materials science and engineer-ing, had a similar opinion.

“He spoke about real-world issues which were of practical importance,” Jain said. “These are things that we need to think about. The food and fuel prob-lem he talked about was inter-esting to hear about. ”

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By EMily WhitE

How can N.C. State improve parking for commuter students?

{ }in your words

“I just got a ticket today so I’m biased. If they could build another deck or staff had their own deck and we parked in the campus streets [it would be improved]. We also shoudn’t have to pay for it.”

Juwareyah Abdus-Saboorjunior, social work

“I don’t have many complaints about Varsity. They should fix problems with people destroying bikes.”

Will Georgefreshman, management undeclared

“Definitely more parking spaces. Two-hour parking is completely packed. I park at Reynolds and $6.00 a day is expensive. It’s hard to find a spot.”

lisa Mercadofreshman, management undeclared

“Pretty good so far, actually. I like the street parking okay too. I don’t like dan allen parking lot, it’s kind of weird.”

Zhe Shigraduate student, economics

n.C. state’s revised hall pass: Checking to make sure your car’s still there.

Rachel Jordan, freshman in architecture

{ }our view

There are three large parking decks on cam-pus; however they are

insufficient considering the number of students on cam-pus. Most students prefer to park near their classes. A sur-prisingly high number of stu-dents are receiving parking tickets when they park in un-authorized places. Transporta-tion needs to realize there are parking problems on campus and they need to understand students’ parking needs before assigning passes. To resolve this issue, they should focus less on giving tickets and more on solving the lack of parking spaces.

The students living off-campus face the most parking problems. These students are not able to find parking when

they need it and end up violat-ing parking rules. Transporta-tion needs to consider these factors when issuing parking permits and tickets to students, so they may meet the needs of all N.C. State students, not merely the ones using the bus-ses on weekdays. Students liv-ing on campus should be is-sued fewer parking permits; the rest should be reserved ex-clusively for students living off campus to reduce their worries of parking on campus.

When students living off-campus arrive on campus, most of the spots are occu-pied. Although they have paid for their permits, these are

the students who end up los-ing the most. The only choice they have is to park on campus, violating traffic rules. In the future, Transportation should consider waving off parking tickets fines for limited num-ber of offenses for all students who have valid parking per-mits. because campus parking is limited.

Transportation needs to real-ize issuing tickets to defaulters is not going to help the situa-tion. It will only make life dif-ficult for students. If Transpor-tation doesn’t manage parking on campus, students will end up getting more tickets, result-ing into an unsatisfied student

community. On campus, managing park-

ing is a difficult task. When drafting laws for parking of-fenses, Transportation should consider the shortage of park-ing spaces on campus.

Transportation should not be very strict when issuing park-ing tickets; instead, they should work on efficient ways to man-age the campus parking. This will result in more parking spaces on campus and a more satisfied student community.

Transportation exists on campus to improve the safety and ease of moving around campus and they should con-centrate on that rather than charging students for parking offenses.

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.

Parking should be made easier for studentsThe FaCTs:There are three parking decks on campus, Coliseum Deck, Dan Allen Deck and Centennial Campus Deck. Parking decks are areas where the most parking violations occur. Parking permits are required to park on campus between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.

our opinion:Parking spaces on campus are insufficient. Students living off campus should be given more priority when it comes to parking on campus. Transportation needs to make more parking spaces to ensure students don’t have to worry about getting tickets or car boots while they go to classes.

Senate leadership fails to meet call of duty

In response to Technician article “Professionalism needed in the Senate,” con-

cerning last Wednesday’s final senate meeting, I want to thank

you for hitting the nail right on the head. This year, I served as a

student senator and because of this, I received a front row seat to view what happened over and over again. The faults of the Senate last Wednesday were not the first occurrences of such behavior.

I admit I was one of the many students excited to see what Stephen Kouba would do fol-lowing his election as Student Senate president last year. Little did I know what I experienced throughout the following aca-demic year would develop an inward disgust for the Student Senate I had once loved.

My anger reached its maxi-mum during Wednesday’s meeting when I saw the way some of my fellow senators were acting. I stood up at the end of the meeting to help them realize their lack of profession-alism and was told to sit down, because President Kouba didn’t want to hear it.

I was also angered by the final adjournment bill, which originally listed only about 20 sentences of projects the Sen-ate had accomplished this past year. The accomplishments listed were legitimate but paled in comparison to the achieve-ments won by former sessions of the Student Senate. Except for a few notes regarding a successful Campout, advising recommendations and spon-sorships, the bill was worthless.

No great strides for student

advocacy were accomplished. Student tuition and fees will increase next year for all stu-dents and no referendum was launched to find out what our peers were thinking of the in-creases. The few responses the Senate received were minimal and thrown out on grounds of being insignificant. All stu-dent opinions should be sig-nificant. This bill showed the failure of the Senate this year. I believe it is due to a lack of good leadership—N.C. State deserves better.

If we want to become a better institution, we need a strong Student Senate advo-cating for students. In order to develop a stronger Senate, our leaders must not forget this year and they must take it as an example of what not to become in the future.

I encourage my friend, Student Senate President-elect Ethan Harrelson, to go above and beyond the call of duty next year to strengthen this influential student lead-ership body. As John Maxwell explained in one of his books, the ability level of a group is governed by the ability level demonstrated by the leader. I know Ethan has the ability to lead us out of our cloudy past and into a much brighter fu-ture. This coming year, I will sit back as a former senator and hope to watch it happen.

Jonathon Smith is a sopho-more in agricultural aducation and is a former member of the Student Senate. He is currently the University Student Centers Board of Directors President-elect.

Jonathon SmithGuest Columnist

Dear Dazed and Confused,

This is definitely a tricky situat ion and one where I like to use the

phrase “people are crazy” and also fickle. One minute they

like you, but the next min-ute they ’re focused on someone else.

They could have also en-joyed the at-tention and only backed off once they realized you l iked them more t ha n

they liked you, which is ac-tually the admirable thing to do in that situation.

No matter what the reasons are for their hot and cold ac-tions toward you, the easiest and fastest way to get over these people is to stop hang-ing out with them. You don’t have to make a big deal about it, just start saying “no” every

once in a while when they want to hang out. Sooner or later, they will stop asking.

When you feel you are finally ready to be friends and you don’t want to pursue a relation-ship anymore, you could try to reach out to them. But you really need to take a step back and realize, unfortunately, they do not want to be with you.

How do I know they don’t want to be with you? People are very good at knowing when a friend likes them. This is prob-ably why they are talking to you about the other people they like, so you get the idea that they are not into you.

Also, since they know you like them, they should back off and give you the space you need to get over them. They should know why you need time and give it to you without much of a fight.

I, too, was in this similar situ-ation. I went on a limb and told a good guy friend of mine that I was into him; he did not re-ciprocate. After I told him, we sort of awkwardly said goodbye

and didn’t see each other for about six months. This was actually a big change since we hung out pretty much every weekend the previ-ous year.

At first I was kind of up-set he stopped calling or texting me, but then I real-ized he was giving me the time I needed. About six months later, he called me up and asked me to dinner. It was like old times, except I was over him. Now we don’t hang out as much as we used to, but we are still good friends.

If you are interested in keeping this person as a friend, I really think you need to take some time off from them. Good luck, as this is definitely one of the harder things to experience. Get yourself together first, be strong and don’t worry about your friendship. The best thing you can do for this friendship is to take a break from it.

Staci ThorntonAdvice Columnist

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Dear Staci,

I like someone who I used to have something with. This was all around November/December of 2010 and then during Christmas break, the flirty texts from this person stopped and the vibe that this person liked me wasn’t really there anymore. Now it is April and for some reason, I still can’t get over this person. I’ve gotten a lot better about thinking about them all the time but it still hurts a little when they talk about someone they like who isn’t me. We still have a great friendship and I think that if I talked to this person about it, it would just make things awkward. Do you think the feelings will eventually just go away or do I need to put in extra effort to make them go away? I feel like if they approached me first back then, it’s not impossible for them to like me again, but at the same time I don’t want to harp on something that has met its ends. What do you think, Staci?

Sincerely,Dazed and Confused

Misinterpretation of the Constitution

i have read the comments of other students in recent issues of the technician regarding spending and the federal government. As an older, nontraditional student, i have a significantly different viewpoint on many different areas. the tenth amendment to the United States Constitution is as follows: “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

it is not the responsibility of the federal government to fund education at any level whether it is K-12 or at the University-

level. likewise, it is not the role or responsibility of the federal government to provide services such as NPR, PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts, Planned Parenthood and a lengthy list of other agencies and services.

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FeaturesTravel to the future possible, going to the past not impossible.

Selma AbdulhaiStaff Writer

We’ve all thought about it.Whether to undo a mistake or

change an answer on a test, time travel is a topic that remains nothing but a fantasy for most people.

But to J. Richard Gott, it’s a serious possibility.

Gott, a writer and professor of as-trophysical sciences at Princeton, believes time travel, specifically to the future, is possible and proven by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. In a lecture at the University last Friday, Gott expla ined how time travel is possible if one were to travel as close as possible to the speed of light in space and then return back to Earth. The traveler will have aged very slowly, while the Earth wil l have aged at a normal rate.

Although we do not have the tech-nology to travel like this, humans have traveled forward in time. Sergei Kri-kalev, a Russian cosmonaut, traveled 1/48 of a second into the future while in space by traveling at a high velocity relative to Earth. This was measured using an atomic clock—one with Kri-kalev and another on Earth.

Gott said he is confident scientists will develop the technology to make

time travel to the future possible, and he also explained his theories of time traveling to the past.

One would have to beat a beam of light from point A to point B by trav-eling faster than the speed of light,

which is impos-sible with today’s technology. The only way to beat that beam of light is to take a short-cut through a wormhole, a warp drive, or, as Gott believes, a cosmic str ing. Cosmic strings are seg-

ments of space that are twisted in such a way that it is possible to use as a “shortcut” to travel faster than light. Gott says Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity seems to theoretically allow time travel to the past through worm-holes and the cosmic string solutions he found.

Although we have not been able to travel to the past, we have been able to ‘see’ into the past. By looking through a large telescope and reflecting a radio

wave off Saturn’s ring, scientists were able to view an image of the planet form 2.4 hours ago.

Travel to the past also has limits, according to Gott. A person would be unable to travel farther back into the past than when they made the time machine. Gott also presented an explanation to the grandfather paradox—what happens if a time traveler goes back in time and shoots

his own grandfather. According to Gott, the action of traveling back in time spawns a parallel universe. In this universe, the time traveler began existing after the time travel, and his existence is no longer dependent on his grandfather. Therefore, in the alternate universe, there is the time traveler and a dead grandfather.

Gott’s lecture was the opening pre-sentation for a two-day time travel

conference, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and organized by John Carroll, a pro-fessor of philosophy. The University, the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, and the University Hon-ors Program funded the event.

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Spring pollen and allergens continue to be a source of discomfort for students and staff on campus.

Joanne WuStaff Writer

April showers and May flow-ers are not so charming when they are a cue for spring aller-gies. While spring is a relief from months of winter, oth-ers fall victim to the pollen that is ushered in along with the changing season. N.C. State’s campus and a few of its disgruntled inhabitants are a testament to the discomforts of allergies and seasonal pollen.

“It is often referred to as ‘sea-sonal allergies’ because plant species that most commonly cause allergic reactions shed pollen at certain times of year,” Joseph Neal, a professor of hor-ticultural science, said.

As the last few days of winter come to a close and the weather

grows milder, students’ im-mune systems kick in and those prone to these seasonal allergens suffer the hypersen-sitivities.

Students, such as Cara Si-lardi, a junior in psychology, find their routines and daily

Natalie ClauNCh/teChNiCiaNShowing a glass model of the theoritical self-creating universe, J. Richard Gott explains its implications on the plausibility of time travel. Gott’s model proposes that a time loop branching out into multiple universes could allow the universe to “create itself.” Gott’s lecture kicked off last weekend’s Time Travel Conference, which featured a variety of discussions on time travel.

Time travel expert gives presentationSpace-time:Space-time is considered to be 4-dimentional — length, width, depth and time. According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the speed of light is constant. In the presence of an extreme distortion, such as a wormhole, it is possible to travel through space faster than light and move through the time dimension.

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University hosts time travel conferencePhysicists, philosophers, others from across the country attend.

Zachary DiezelScience & Tech Editor

The Department of Philoso-phy and Religious Studies host-ed a conference on time travel last weekend. The event started last Friday with the speech by J. Richard Gott of Princeton, and another five lectures were given over Friday and Saturday by guest speakers from across the country.

The lectures included “Time Travel and Determinism in General Relativity,” “What time travelers might want and how to give it to them (most-ly,)” and “Truth in (Time Travel) Fiction,” given by Chris Smeenk, University of West-ern Ontario; Geoff Goddu, University of Richmond; and Richand Hanley, University of

Delaware, respectively.Topics addressed varied from

the physical aspect of time trav-el to the philosophical aspect. With respect to the former, one theory was that there are several metaphysical layers that make up the universe – parallel universes. If time travel alters the past, is was proposed that travels to a parallel world in which the new, altered time-line occurs.

Goddu’s lecture addressed the philosophical aspect of time travel, analyzing in cer-tain levels of activity in the past were logically possible. Basie n the nature of photons, one sees things in the past every day - something a few feet away is only a few nanoseconds in the past, but the sun we see as it was eight seconds agobecause it is so far away. Alpha Centari, the second nearest star to Earth, we see as it was four years ago. Based on this and given the proper device, Goddu con-

cluded that observing the past is possible. Changing, fixing, and undoing the past are different entirely.

Also in attendance were students and members of the public. Ada Milenkovic Brown, a published science fiction writer, attended the event to get story ideas, and to keep up with the latest thoughts on the topic.

“A good bit of it has been out of my understanding range, although I will go back and read up on these things to try and under-stand them a bit better,” Brown said. “I have found a few things about time that I didn’t know people understood. I didn’t know that philosophers actually thought about time travel as being something that was possible. Thinking about the lecture, what you can

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activities impeded by severe allergy symptoms. Silardi said she is compelled to take extra precautions, such as keeping up with daily pollen counts and staying indoors for the forepart of spring.

“Pretty much every year dur-ing the spring, I get sick due to allergies,” Silardi said. “[The symptoms are] annoying and frustrating because they make it hard to do average daily ac-tivities.”

Symptoms of reactions are typically characterized by a runny nose, nasal congestion, red, itchy eyes and an itchy or sore throat. Nasal inflamma-tion may also occur, which can lead to sinus infections.

“I’ve had allergies my whole life, mostly to tree pollen,” Ken Farnaso, a junior in hu-man biology, said. “My allergy symptoms are pretty typical—the whole red eyes, occasional tears, stuffy nose, scratchy

throat and itchy eyes.”The pollination of trees and

plants on campus lead to the accumulation of bioaerosols, or airborne particles, that provoke vulnerable individuals to react. In those with allergies, the par-ticles become antigens—enti-ties that the immune system treats as a threat.

“The outdoor offenders can be present at different weeks of the year in different parts of the country,” Dr. Mary Bengtson, medical director of the Stu-dent Health Services, said. “In general, tree pollen is a com-mon offender currently. This is typically followed by grasses, and later by weeds. There can be an overlap of timing of the offenders.”

The allergy dilemma on campus seems to agree with Bengtson’s statement. Tree pollen is undoubtedly the most common and prevalent source of irritation. Students even claim their allergy symptoms have worsened due to the types of plants the University hosts.

“It doesn’t help that the cam-

pus is full of trees. I remember last year during the spring se-mester when it hadn’t rained, the whole Brickyard was liter-ally green from pollen and you couldn’t even see the bricks. The landscapers had to use leaf blowers and water hoses to get rid of all that pollen,” Farnaso said.

Silardi and Farnaso are not the only students affected by the unyielding pollen. Accord-ing to Student Health Services, around 550 students have vis-ited a Student Health medical provider this spring semester with allergy symptoms. How-ever, Bengtson predicts even more students are affected but treat their symptoms with over-the-counter medicines instead of visiting Student Health.

Allergic reactions are ex-pected to continue until early autumn, when other plant species, such as ragweed, will flower. Meanwhile, susceptible individuals are advised to stay indoors when possible, close windows and doors and use air conditioners to filter the

air. Pollen also tends to linger on skin, so showering before going to bed is also encouraged.

Also, antihistamine, an over-the-counter allergy medicine, is taken to reduce hay fever and other allergies. In some cases, antihistamine is combined with decongestants. For nasal symptoms, prescription intra-nasal steroids may be useful. Prescription medication and allergy shots are all available to be utilized at the University’s Student Health Center.

With tree pollen as the pre-dominant cause of allergy symptoms and ragweed growth just around the corner, vulner-able individuals inflicted with pollen-induced misery may find medication to be their best source of alleviation.

“I happen to be allergic to oak and grass pollen, so at this time of year I must not forget to take my allergy medicine in the morning or I will be miserable all day,” Neal said. “After all, we do live in the ‘City of Oaks.’”

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change and what you can’t change, that will be useful.”

Ada heard about the event via Facebook.

The event was organized b y J o h n Carrol l, a professor of philosophy.

“There was an op-portunity to apply for some fund-ing,” Car-rol l sa id . “There has been a growing interest in the field with teaching in philosophy classes.” Carroll teaches PHL 330, Metaphys-ics, and HON 341, Time Travel.

According to Ann Rives, an executive assistant in the department of philosophy and religious studies, the

event was publicized through the University calendar of events, and Carroll personally contacted many of the speakers and attendees.

The conference cost $10 for University students and $25 for members of the public. At-tendees were given a packet that included a tablet of paper, pen

and name t a g . T h e nametags each fea-tures a time travel refer-ence from popular cul-ture, some featured a DeLorian (Back to the

Future,) a TARDIS (police call box from Doctor Who,) the Guardian of Forever (Star Trek, the original series,) and the cardboard box time machine from “Calvin and Hobbes.”

“I hope another [event] like this happens in the future,” Carroll said. “I think it’s been successful.”

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“Playing time will be earned regardless of who has done what in the past,” Gottfried said.

Gottfried hasn’t just focused on the players who are already enrolled at State; he has also turned much of his attention to recruiting, as he hopes to secure the commitments from the players Lowe originally re-cruited to play at State. How-ever, the new coach notes not every recruit that had origi-nally committed to State may end up in Raleigh.

“One thing you want to un-derstand is that you didn’t re-

cruit those guys, so it is natural for some of those guys to look elsewhere, too,” Gottfried said. “That is not always a bad thing; I think we will just take each person separately and kind of work through it.”

Since most recruits in the 2011 class have already signed letters of intent to schools, Gottfried says he and his staff have shifted more of there fo-cus to the 2012 class, where there are a lot more players who remain undecided.

“What you don’t want to do is go and sign players that are potentially not good enough at this point in time,” Gottfried said. “I would rather coach this group and then put all of our attention on trying to secure a

great class for the following year.

“I think that is more of our mentality. There are a couple kids that we are in-volved with now, but our focus for the most part is for next year’s class.”

So far, the new coach seems to be doing every-thing right. He already has hired two-thirds of his staff and has done well to man-age expectations for the team next season.

“I’ve got to get into prac-tice a little bit more and watch and study our players to kind of start to have an opinion on how competitive we can be in this league,” Gottfried said.

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team had to step it up to fill the shoes of Smith and Byrd. State’s freshman-dominated second-ary in 2009 allowed 222.2 pass-ing yards per game. The sopho-mores, minus Smith and Byrd, have shown improvement this season.

“The freshmen that came in for secondary, young guys like [D.J.] Green and [David] Am-erson, did well for what they were asked,” Byrd said. “They played well and were able to fit the position well on the physi-cal aspect. We got a lot of im-provement in experience even though we had some changes.”

Despite the difficult time O’Brien had looking for players to temporarily fill the DB spots, today the two top recruits are back and hoping to help out thge team during the fall.

O’Brien knows his players are ready and acknowledges that they are needed for the season.

“I think Byrd and Smith have to help us,” O’Brien said. “They give us depth and provide op-portunities for us that are not seen otherwise.”

This weekend, the team will be having it’s annual spring game where everyone will have the opportunity to see what the team has worked on over the past four months and what lies ahead in the upcoming season.

“I feel like this upcoming year is going to be better than previous,” Byrd said. “We have more secondary experience; a

young group with potential that we haven’t seen in the last two years.”

with what tournaments are like and some of the courses; she has great advice on how to play.”

When it comes to everyday life, age discrepancies are just the start of unique circum-stances on the team. March-and’s native Canada and Menendez’s native Mexico are a far cry from the southern American culture that Baker and most of team are accus-tomed to.

“It’s pretty funny at times,” Baker said. “There’ve been a lot of jokes with them making fun of American fast food and different things like that. They

like to say that we have a lot of school spirit and it’s funny for me to think that while it’s normal here, wearing a college t-shirt in their own hometowns is just so uncommon.”

With several players hailing from different states and coun-tries, coach Page Marsh repre-sents the North Carolinian leadership on this year’s team. Marsh has watched Baker grow into a role that may pay major dividends when younger play-ers eventually take over as the leaders.

“Our players have looked to her to be a senior and a leader,” Marsh said. “[Baker] brings a lot of strong qualities to our team. She’s a good student, a very good athlete, and has high goals for herself. I’m al-

ways amazed at how she has been able to manage a lot of things that life has brought her. She’s managed them with grace and I hope ev-eryone can learn from that.”

When Baker departs State, she will leave a legacy of numerous positive effects for the Wolfpack program. For Marsh, Baker’s deci-sion to transfer in 2009 was a matter of someone who wanted to make an impact by confronting the chal-lenge of participating in the ACC.

“She has always had the skill set,” Marsh said. “She was open to a change and you can just tell when a person wants something more.”

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Peggy Boone/Technician archive PhoToFreshman cornerback Rashard Smith walks off of the field after a loss to Boston College Oct. 17, 2009. Smith tallied four tackles in 64 snaps. The Pack lost 52-20. Since the Boston College game, where he suffered a season ending injury, Smith has missed 18 games due to injury.

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COUNTDOWN• 2 days until the 3rd Annual Kay Yow Spring Football

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Pack takes two in Pirate doubleheaderThe softball team beat East Carolina, 2-1 and 5-4, in a doubleheader hosted in Greenville, N.C. Junior outfielder Bethaney Wells drilled a two-run homerun, her seventh of the season, to seal the victory in the first game. Freshman pitcher Kayla Cox picked up the win allowing one run on three hits and struck out six. The team will next be seen in action on Saturday in Maryland for a doubleheader against the Terps.

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Seahawks soar over baseball teamThe men’s baseball team was defeated 9-1 at Doak Field on Wednesday. This first midweek loss of the 2011 season brings the overall series against UNCW to 58-19 and lowers the team’s season record to 18-16. The Seahawk pitchers held State to only three hits the entire game. State’s Danny Healey allowed six runs on eight hits. Matt Bergquist scored the Pack’s only run of the game after John Gianis forced an error off of a grounder. The Wolfpack takes on UNC at home on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

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Gottfried looking to gain players’ trustNew coach attempting to catch up with coaching duties after being hired last Tuesday.

Taylor BarbourSports Editor

It has been a whirlwind of a week and a half for new men’s basketball coach Mark Gott-fried. He was helping ESPN in its NCAA Championship Game coverage April 4 and the next day he was being introduced as the successor to Sidney Lowe.

“I feel like I have been drink-ing out of a fire hose,” Gottfried said. “But it has been great and exciting. This is a great place. I have enjoyed getting to know the players and some people around campus but I have not come up for air yet.”

The coach seems to be enjoy-ing himself even though he is living in a hotel and hasn’t been able to search for a new house.

“I haven’t had time to think about it,” Gottfried said. “Our priorities have been to get the staff hired and spend as much time as we can with the players and those two things have been the highest priority.”

Because Gottfried was hired so quickly, the coach hadn’t yet had the opportunity to sit down and talk to his new play-ers. Eight days later, the coach seems happy with the relation-

ship he has already struck up with his new team.

“I think we have a long ways to go,” Gottfried said. “But I like their attitude as far as they want to win, want to learn how to win and I think they are hunting for some direction. I like where they are mentally.”

That new relationship has Gottfried convinced every one of his players will return next season, electing not to transfer or declare for the NBA draft.

“I think the response has been very good by these guys,” Gottfried said. “I expect every one of them to be here.”

Even though a few players didn’t exude the type of opti-mism you would hope for fol-lowing the hiring announce-ment, the 47-year-old coach doesn’t hold it against any of his players, understanding the position they were in during the almost month-long coach-ing search.

“Anytime there is a coach-ing change, especially when it went four weeks here without a coach, there is a lot of un-certainty if you are a player,” Gottfried said. “You are not sure who the coach is going to be, how do I fit in, what the plan is for the future? During that period where there is no head coach, it is natural for everybody to kind of wonder mentally.”

Even though Gottfried has

met with his players and be-gun to watch a lot of tape from last year on his new team, he is waiting until he is able to actually get on the court with his players to start to develop opinions of their abilities.

“I am not going to build a lot of opinions based on what they have done in the past,” Gottfried said. “I think what is important for us to do is to form our opinions from here forward as we work out with these players and get on the floor with the players.

“That way we keep an open mind as to who can do what.”

Because Gottfried will only base opinions on what he sees from his players now, he noted that no starting job is safe, no matter what you have done over the last few seasons.

Baker providing guidance to young women’s golf teamTulsa transfer comfortable in her leadership role.

Sean FairholmStaff Writer

If glancing over the Wolf-pack women’s golf roster doesn’t prove Brooke Bak-er’s leadership capabilities, her poise and confidence certainly do.

As the only upperclass-man on the team, the Ed-mond, Okla. native has flourished in a unique situ-ation. Last year’s squad fea-tured four seniors, a stark contrast to the six freshmen that make up the majority of the group this season.

“This year it is kind of the opposite,” Baker said. “Last year was a lot more experi-enced group and I think I learned things from that last group. Now I’m teaching the freshmen about some different things, whether it has to do with helping them with their games or how to travel with a team and how to influence your teammates in a positive way.

“It’s been a lot of fun to have the new, youthful per-spective on things.”

Although the makeup of the roster has drasti-cally changed in the past year, Baker has learned to roll with the changes in her collegiate career. After spending freshman and sophomore campaigns as a member of the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, she made the decision to compete in the ACC and traveled 1,054 miles east of her hometown.

“The chance to come out here and play for this pro-gram and for the Wolfpack has been a blessing in it-self,” Baker said. “The ACC is definitely stronger than

Conference-USA and it was just a great opportunity for me to transfer out here to the East Coast. I t ’ s r e -ally helped me to try and push myself to compete better and to represent the Wolfpack at a higher level.”

While Baker acknowledges she has developed greatly since arriving in Raleigh, she said the younger players have made a large maturity jump in their own rights.

“I’ve seen their games ma-ture in terms of their strategy, but how they carry themselves

off the golf course has also changed,” Baker said. “We’ve had a lot of laughs and it’s been

a really fun year.”

One o f t h e premier freshmen Baker has

been able to help is Brittany Marchand. Along with fellow teammate Ana Menendez, Marchand closely follows Bak-er as one of the scoring average leaders for the Pack.

“She’s been a great leader and she has welcomed us,” March-and said. “She has experience

Corners rounding back into shapeJarvis Byrd and Rashard Smith are back to practice.

Sean Ege Staff Writer

After missing 31 com-bined games over the course of two seasons, redshirt sophomore conerbacks Jar-vis Bryd and Rashard Smith are finally healthy.

Byrd said he is ready to take on the new season that lies ahead of him and his fel-low teammates.

“Starting on my knee, I feel like it’s not exactly where I want it to be, 100 percent, but it’s at where it can be stable,” Byrd said. “The strengthening is good; I am still working on flexi-bility. For the spring game, I think I can hold up for a w hole game. This upcoming season I feel l i ke I can last a w hole season because I h a v e t he of f-season to work and strengthen it.”

Both Byrd and Smith were recruited for the secondary, where they began to play cornerback. They were re-cruited on the criteria of unique skills in the posi-tions they played.

Byrd, a native of Pahokee, Fla., played varsity all four years of high school where he was named All-American and All-State in 2008. Byrd also went on to play in the Treasure Coast All-Star

Game in 2008 and was named a Prep Star All-American as a senior.

Smith, a native of Dublin, Ga., played primarily as corner-back for his high school team, along with some appearances as quarterback. The media voted him Georgia Class AA Defensive Player of the Year in 2007 and 2008, and he re-corded 10 interceptions his ju-nior and senior years at Dublin High School. He finished high school with a career best 30 in-terceptions.

Not too far into their college careers, both players began to experience problems deal-ing with their legs and knees. Smith began to feel problems in his knee early into the season. He had moved back into the starting lineup for the Boston College game in 2009; however, during the second quarter of

the contest, he endured a season-end-ing injury to his knee.

Byrd was a top recruit for the Pack, con-sidered to be the best play-er in State’s 2009 recruit-ing class ac-cord i ng to Rivals.com. Bryd started of the season

as a redshirt, but the coach-ing staff was forced to remove that shirt after injuries in the secondary forced the coaching staff ’s hands. After removing Byrd’s redshirt, the team was faced with another problem as Byrd had also received a season-ending knee injury, in which he tore his ACL.

During both players’ offsea-sons, a few young guys on the

alex Nitt/techNiciaN file photo Brooke Baker, a senior, drives a shot on the 10th fairway at UNC’s Finley Golf Course during the Tar Heel Invitational on Oct. 8, 2010. Baker closed with 4-over 76 for the day and 11-over 227 for the tournament.men’s tennis

acc standings TEAM CONF. OVERALL

UVA 9-0 24-0

MIAMI 8-1 14-5

DUKE 7-1 16-7

GT 7-2 16-3

UNC 6-2 11-6

VT 4-5 12-9

FSU 4-5 9-11

WF 3-6 10-10

CU 2-7 15-9

MD 2-7 10-10

NCSU 1-8 9-12

BC 0-9 6-15

Source: N.c. State athleticS

alex SaNchez/techNiciaN file photoMark Gottfried addresses the media, team and N.C. State administration after being named the new men’s basketball head coach April 5. Gottfried coached Alabama to five NCAA tournament appearances from 1998 to 2009. gottfried continued page 7

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“We have more

secondary

experience; a

young group with

potential that we

haven’t seen in the

last two years.”cornerback Rashard Smith

getting to know gottfried:Favorite Food: SteakFavorite Movie: The American PresidentChildhood Idol: Pete MaravichFavorite Sport Outside of Basketball: GolfFavorite Sports Team: Los Angeles LakersMajor in College: Communications

compiled by taylor barbour

athletic schedule

FridayWOMEN’S GOLF AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSCleveland, Ohio, all day

MEN’S TENNIS AT MARYLANDCollege Park, Md., 2:30 p.m.

BASEBALL VS. NORTH CAROLINADoak Field at Dail Park, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday3RD ANNUAL KAY YOW SPRING FOOTBALL GAMECarter-Finley Stadium, 1 p.m.

MEN’S GOLF AT WOLFPACK SPRING OPENLonnie Poole Golf Course, all day

TRACK AT UNC INVIATIONALChapel Hill, N.C., all day

BASEBALL VS. NORTH CAROLINADoak Field at Dail Park, 6:30 p.m.

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