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For the first time since April 2007, classes were held on the anniversary of the tragic shooting.

Elise HeglarNews Editor

Yesterday marked the five-year anniversary of the horrific Vir-ginia Tech shooting incident, an event that resulted in 33 deaths on campus. Seung Hui Cho, a student with a history of men-tal illness, opened fire in Norris Hall on Tech’s campus. Cho fired more than 170 shots in about 10 minutes before eventually turn-ing the gun on himself and end-ing his own life.

For the first time since the in-cident, Virginia Tech held classes April 16 in an effort to establish a normal routine for students. The University’s Provost, Mark G. McNamee, said in a Washing-ton Post article that the normal schedule was a tribute to the students and faculty who were killed.

While the class schedule re-mained normal, students still found ways to remember their fallen friends. Students held candle light vigils, and free pizza was given to students in the quad located in the heart of Virginia Tech’s campus. There was also a 3.2 mile run April 14 to honor those who died in the attack.

Learning about this incident, for most N.C. State students, was something experienced in high school. Sarah Berger, junior in business administra-tion, remembers hearing about the event when she was in high school and said she did not feel

very worried when she first heard the news. “It was definitely scary, but I think at the time, most people were so ready to leave high school and go to college that we didn’t really worry about it. I thought it couldn’t hap-pen to me,” Berger said.

While Berger was not initially concerned about the news, she said it became more concerning as she got closer to leaving for college. “I’ve never really felt concerned about my safety on campus, but since this was done by a student, you just never re-ally know what to expect,” Berger said. Aaron Sahm, sophomore in economics, is originally from Vir-ginia. His hometown is about four hours away from Virginia Tech, and he knew a lot of people attending the school when the shooting happened. “It was very nerve-wracking, those first couple of hours. We just didn’t know anything,” Sahm said.

All of Sahm’s friends at the school ended up being safe, but Sahm has not forgotten how stressful the events were. “I was more cautious after [the shooting] happened, and I have definitely thought about what I would do if it ever happened here,” Sahm said. According to Sahm, the most important thing to take from the shooting is that firearms do not belong in a college environment. “Guns never had any place on a college campus, but this really reaf-firmed my position on that,” Sahm said.

Sahm has faith in Campus Police’s abilities to protect students on cam-pus, but said it is only realistic to consider that some things may be out of their area of expertise.

“I feel we have a very confident se-curity team, but there are just some things you can’t control,” Sahm said.

Windhover unveils new edition2012 edition of the University literary magazine was released Monday at the Crafts Center.

Shawn ThompsonStaff Writer

The 2012 edition of Windhover was released during a reception held Monday evening, April 16, at the Crafts Center. Students and faculty members were all present to receive a copy of the new Windhover, which was accompanied with an audio cd.

The Windhover staff began ac-cepting submissions the day after the previous book was published to get a head start on the design pro-cess. Submissions were accepted throughout the summer and early fall until the final deadline. “Dur-ing those deadlines, we also start to make decisions about some parts about the different visuals, like the font, colors and the size of the book. This year’s book is the 6 by 9, close to the normal size of a textbook,” Alanna Howard, editor in chief of Windhover.

The design team starts planning the general format of the book during the fall semester as well. They look at different op-tions for visual characteristics of Windhover, such as paper color and other design aspects. “We also communicate to our printer, the same printer com-pany we have been collaborating with for the last 20 years,” Howard said.

Howard said they communicate with their printers to receive quotes about how much the books will cost to keep up with the expenses, but if the samples of Windhover go over budget they reevaluate design choic-es to meet their allotted budget. “This year we were actually under budget, so we were able to introduce more color into this year’s issue, something the design team was very excited about,” Howard said.

This year’s edition of Windhover

has a global trend due to the diverse backgrounds many students experi-enced while creating their submis-sions or from their personal back-grounds. “I really wanted to feature work from N.C. State students who were from different places on cam-pus and around the world,” Howard said.

Howard did not require the sub-mitted pieces follow a particular

theme, but the global similarity is prevalent through-out the issue.

Several students submit ted pic-tures from their trips while they were s t udy i ng abroad, other stu-dents shared their global perspective

from being international students on campus. “There is a diverse se-lection of students who were chosen to be a part of this year’s issue,” said Howard. The design of this year’s book is can be described as refined and eloquent, letting the featured pieces of art and literatures speak for themselves. “The content genres are the same general categories as past issues, but the design is differ-ent. This year’s book does a great job of highlighting the impressive works of NC State students that were fea-tured, without overpowering them. The content is able to speak through the refined design,” Howard said.

There is an audio CD that comes along with the issues like past years, but in the future Windhover plans to eliminate it because of the ad-vances in technology. Windhover plans to release an app during this summer, created by its current editor. “I heard about Windhover through my friend who submit-ted to this year’s issue. I really like the new issue, and would probably submit some photographs for the next issue now that I’m aware of it,” Nicholas Szerszen, junior in busi-ness administration, said.

As new editor of Windhover start-ing in May, Lisa Dickinson hopes to increase the awareness of Wind-hover throughout campus. “As the new editor, I want to increase aware-ness and get more people involved from other majors across campus. CHASS students contribute the most, but I would like to see other parts of campus take part in Wind-hover as well,” Lisa Dickinson, ju-nior in arts applications, said.

Windhover’s 2012 edition received raved reviews from the release party. Those who were unable to attend the release debut can view the online is-sue at issuu.com.

“I really love so many things about the new issue. I’ve read a couple of the poems, and they were awesome. I love that every issue is always dif-ferent from previous years, it’s al-ways something new and interesting to look forward to,” Dickinson said.

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alex sanchez/TechnicianGraphic design senior Saul Flores and communication junior Sean Rivera look at the 2012 Windhover during the reception party in the Crafts Center Monday.

alex sanchez/TechnicianMichael Valeri, a sophomore in chemical engineering, Allison Dunbar, a freshman in social work, and Eric Wiese, a sophomore in chemical engineering, look at the 2012 Windhover during the reception party in the Crafts Center Monday..

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cleaning of her house on Clark Avenue, Monday. Eberhart’s house is located extremely close to campus, which can be stress-ful for some. “[My husband and I] love it here, the students are energizing and interesting,” she said. Eberhart noted that her neighbors, who attend N.C. State, agree with her political agenda as well. “They put up ‘Vote Against’ signs. I had a few up myself, but they disappeared a while ago.” Eberhart said she enjoys living near campus, but doesn’t know where her future will take her.

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Campus Calendar

tuesdaySTewardS of The fuTure: reSearch for human healTh and global SuSTainabiliTyAll DayMcKimmon CenterJoin internationally recognized scientists and policy makers to discuss the imperative of leveraging research partnerships in the agricultural and life sciences to meet urgent challenges to human health, the environment, social well-being and the global economy.

red, whiTe & black walking Tour3-4:30 p.m.Holladay HallJoin us to learn about the spaces and places on N.C. State’s campus that have had significant impact on the lives and experiences of African American students and the larger community. Walter Jackson, associate professor of history, and toni thorpe, program coordinator at the African American Cultural Center, will lead the tour. the walking tour will conclude with refreshments and reflection at the Witherspoon Student

Center. please wear comfortable walking shoes.

engliSh converSaTion club3:30-4:30 p.m.Port City Java - Centennial Campusthis is a great way to meet people from around the world and help others with the English language. there is no registration required for this program, just show up!

maThemaTicS deparTmenT colloquium4-5 p.m.SAS HallDonald Saari, distinguished professor of mathematics and economics at the University of California, Irvine. “Using symmetry groups to understand puzzles from the social sciences.”

free documenTary: milking The rhino7-9 p.m.Witherspoon Campus CinemaRoots and Shoots at NCSU is a student organization dedicated to global animal conservation issues. Each meeting features a guest speaker who is an expert in their field. these meetings are open to every student in all majors, faculty members, staff and anyone interested.

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sCheduleUnderworld: Awakening — When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. the vampire warrioress Selene leads the battle against humankind.

thursday, April 19 — 9:30 p.m.Friday, April 20 — 7 p.m.Saturday, April 21 — 11:59 p.m.Sunday, April 22 — 7 p.m.

Man on a Ledge — As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.

thursday, April 19 — 7 p.m.Friday, April 20 — 9 p.m.Saturday, April 21 — 9 p.m.Sunday, April 22 — 9 p.m.

Up — By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredrickson sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn’t alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.

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Entrepreneurs interested in innovation within the health industry to make a difference.

Frances EllisStaff Writer

There is a new opportunity for North Carolina entre-preneurs and it comes in the form of a challenge. Bull City Forward, a support organiza-tion for social ventures, and Blue Cross Blue Shield have teamed up to create the Blue Cross Blue Shield Health In-novation Challenge—a com-petition for North Carolina entrepreneurs who have an idea for an obesity-fighting product or service.

“We wanted to identify a special cluster of entrepre-

neurs within health care and help their growth specifical-ly,” Roshen Sethna, the divi-sion resource manager at Bull City Forward, said. “Blue Cross Blue Shield was interested because they have a big interest in hea lt h c a re a nd North Car-olina. They wanted to h e l p n o t only iden-tify upcom-ing heath care innovations, but also focus on improving the health of North Carolin-ians, specifically issues sur-rounding obesity.”

The competition will fea-ture three rounds of judging. The first round is a series of questions the entrepreneurs will have to answer online.

The second and third rounds are public pitch competi-t ion s . I n the second round, the top 30 en-trepreneurs selected f rom t he online sub-missions

will pitch to a diverse panel of judges consisting of both health care experts and ven-ture capitalists. They will all get feedback, but only ten will

enter the accelerator portion of the challenge.

This final phase of the chal-lenge will last a couple of months, and contestants will receive support and resources while growing their ventures. This gives them time to hone and improve their business model. The final pitch hap-pens in September and will be in front of a celebrity judge panel.

“The top winners are eligi-ble for up to 20 thousand dol-lars private, but Blue Cross Blue Shield has the right to determine how much to give, so it’s still up in the air de-pending on how it goes and the entrepreneurs needs,” Sethna said.

Regardless of cash prizes, the publicity, exposure and

network the budding com-panies will receive is tre-mendous. “A lot of people are working independently in isolation,” Sethna said. “They’re not collaborating with other organizations or universities or the cities. This challenge opens the op-portunity for entrepreneurs to come out and step onto a larger stage. They’re able to access larger donors in the nation and collaborate with other people and really get connected and gather a lot more momentum and be with a network of people who are working on similar things.” Ryan Clodfelter, a senior in agricultural business man-agement and an ambassador for N.C. State’s Entrepreneur-ship Initiative, sees the BCBS

Health Innovation Challenge as a good indication of inno-vation inspiration.

“Seeing more challenges like this emerge means an increasing number of people are encouraging innovation, which is very exciting,” Clod-felter said. “This is a great op-portunity for entrepreneurs interested in the health field. The networks that open, ex-perience gained, and the no-tability will advance a start-up idea or company quicker than they could have done on their own.”

What emerges from the BCBS Health Innovation Challenge is still uncertain, but hopes are high.

“We’re really looking to grow and create an impact across the state,” Sethna said.

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Three research labs seek votes through crowdsourcing competition to fund their projects.

Jatin BhatiaStaff Writer

Writing grant proposals is a common practice for scien-tist to finance their labs, but some researchers are looking elsewhere for funding. One of those places is social media. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is hosting a competition to help top re-searchers publicize their work and award the most popular project deemed by voters. Six finalists were picked to compete in the competition based on merit of their re-

search. One of the finalists, biochemistry professor Clay Clark and his post-doctoral researcher Sarah Mackenzie are trying to find an afford-able way to test alternative drugs to chemotherapy to treat cancer using zebra fish. “We are using zebra fish to screen the drugs preliminar-ily, and then we are injecting cancer cells in the zebra fish embryos, growing tumors in those fish and then adminis-tering our drugs to see if [the cancerous tumors] shrink,” Mackenzie said.

Clark said his lab started competing in the sympo-sium after initially submit-ting a page-and-a-half long description of their research proposal. “The judging com-mittee selected the finalists,

and then the finalists made a YouTube video of about two minutes describing what the research is all about,” Clark said. “Those videos have been online for a couple of weeks now. Anyone can access those videos from the competition website and vote for whom they think should win.”

The research areas are di-verse and spread out in differ-ent areas in life sciences like toxicology, fungi and cancer research. The lab that wins the competition gets $5,000 to help fund the research and becomes Stewards of the Fu-ture. Clark’s motivation in re-searching a cancer cure came from his years of experience in biochemistry and expertise

tyler andrews/technicianTwo petri dishes grow cultures of Aspergillus flavus, a fungus. The right culture contains aflatoxin and is toxic, while the left culture is sectored and is non-toxigenic in the center. Graduate in plant pathology Rodrigo Olarte plans to identify and isolate the natural compound that causes the strand to be non-toxigenic and use it to control aflatoxin.

CALS researchers compete to become ‘Stewards of the Future’

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opportunity for

entrepreneurs

interested in the

health field .”Ryan Clodfelter, senior in agricultural business

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proteins—enzymes that trigger cell death. “We have published papers that show that if we activate the proteins in the cancer cells then it kills the cell very efficiently,” Clark said. “Now we are looking for smaller drug compounds that we can use on tumors which will activate the proteins and kill the cells.”

His research involves find-ing a drug that is less toxic than the current treatments of cancer.

“There is a fine line be-tween killing a cancer cell and killing a human, so we are looking for compounds which are more specific in the terms of what proteins they activate and have lesser toxicity than those drugs,” Clark said.

Ignazio Carbone, associate professor of plant pathology, and graduate student Ro-drigo Olarte investigate an-other facet of cancer research. Their goal is to reduce a fun-gal toxin, aflatoxin, which is one of the strongest carcino-gens and is responsible for hundred of deaths annually.

The aspergillus fungus is a mold that can grown on grain crops, contaminating food and producing alfatoxin, which can cause severe liver failure of liver cancer.

“One of our methods is to apply high density of these sterile fungi females and this should drive down the toxin production,” Carbone said.

By flooding a population with sterile females, new generations cannot proceed to infect crops. Carbone said current methods are not very effective and target only one strain of the problematic

mold.“We are trying to give a

new approach to the prob-lem,” Carbone said. “Up until now researchers have worked on targeting one strain—one magic bullet strain which of-ten does not really work.”

Rodrigo Olarte sees the research as a fun project and said the money would help them prove their hypothesis.

“I thought this would be something fun to do,” Orlate said. “It is also about getting our work out as we will be in scientific journals but general audience wouldn’t be there … This money will help us get solid data to push forward for bigger grants.”

In addition to fighting the factors that cause cancer, CALS researchers are look-ing at neurodegenerative dis-eases. Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji of the Department of Environ-mental and Molecular Toxi-cology is looking at oxidative stress and genes responsible in making sure free radicals from our metabolism and

cellular functions can’t dam-age our cells.

Many epithelial cells, like the cells found in the skin or in the lining of the stomach, will die if exposed to high lev-els of oxidative stress, which is a good thing when healthy cells will replace them. How-ever, neurons, the cells of our brain and nervous system, will resist cell death, and consequently lose function, bringing rise to diseases like Lou Gehrig’s disease, Parkin-son’s and Alzheimer’s. The

Ninomiya-Tsuji lab hopes to further study the effects of oxidative stress on nerve cells and how to stimulate neuron genesis.

This opportunity for the finalists has allowed scien-tists to break out of the lab, engage the public, and use social media to connect sci-ence with the people funding it through their tax dollars. In addition to these research labs, independent undergrad-uate initiatives are also in the mix as another top prize.

ducing, reusing and re-cycling.

“We try to have a global connection for the kids … Originally my thought was to get the kids con-nected—get them looking outside the school to con-nect to the city,” Sue Baird, a second grade teacher at Hunter GT Magnet El-ementary School said.

This led to birdhouses created out of bott le caps, pipes, paper-mache and milk cartons, al l held together with lots of paste and paint . One second grader even made theirs out of saved bread bag ties. They wrote on their “about” page that their mother a lways saved them so that they wouldn’t choke the birds at the landfill. Now they were able to do something

with the dangerous garbage that would help the wildlife instead.

The Wake Audubon Soci-ety, the North Carolina Mu-seum of Natural Sciences, and the Blue Bird Society sponsored the event, and representatives of the orga-nizations attended the event to discuss how to attract blue-birds, their nesting require-ments, and where to place birdhouses.

However, the arboretum doesn’t just work with the bluebird society for the birdhouse competition—it’s part of the bluebird trail, and there are always somewhere between five and 10 bluebird houses around the arbore-tum. Besides bluebirds, doves and hawks are also common in the arboretum.

“The arboretum is a very popular birding destination … We were actually voted the number one site to bird in Raleigh,” Glenn said.

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tyler andrews/technicianGraduate student in plant pathology Rodrigo Olarte poses with a petri dish containing fungus Aspergillus flavus. A finalist in the Stewards of the Future Research Awards competition, Olarte hopes to gain money to further his research in isolating the natural compound that causes a strand to be non-toxigenic and use it to control aflatoxin in food crops.

tyler andrews/technicianIgnazio Carbone displays a test tube of sclerotia of Aspergillus flavus. A faculty finalist in the Stewards of the Future Research Awards competition, Carbone hopes to raise money to help his research in reducing aflatoxin, toxic and carcinogenic substances, from crops.

the bite of an infected deer tick. Typical symptoms include fever, headache, exhaustion and a “bull’s eye” shaped skin rash. Untreated, infection can spread to joints, heart and the nervous system, but most cases of Lyme dis-ease can be treated suc-cessfully with a few weeks of antibiotics.

Using insect repellent, removing ticks immedi-ately from the skin, and eliminating tick habitats around homes can pre-vent Lyme disease and

other tick-borne illnesses. “The transmission cycle of viruses, such as Lyme dis-ease and West Nile virus, are dependent on many factors,” Apperson said. “In addition to tick and mosquito popu-lations, the virus has to be introduced into an area by birds.”

Very few cases of West Nile virus and Lyme disease have been reported in North Caro-lina in the last few years, and neither biologists nor ento-mologists expect much of a significant increase. This summer be sure to cover up, use bug repellent and make your home pest habitat-free. “Just take the preventative measures and everything will be fine,” Apperson said.

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FeaturesMosquito and tick populations benefit from the warm winter.

Nikki StoudtStaff Writer

This summer, camping trips will be canceled, cook-outs squashed and sport-ing events sabotaged. Why? Thanks to the higher temper-atures experienced this win-ter, the South will see higher numbers of ticks, mosquitos and other blood-sucking in-sects earlier in the year and for a longer period of time than normal.

“Because of the mild win-ter, insects and ticks will likely be active earlier than they have been in the past,” Charles Apperson, professor of entomology, said.

This does not mean we can expect a larger popula-tion of insects in the spring, but rather a more diverse one. As for what is causing the in-flux, Apperson gives most of the credit to the warm winter weather.

“When the winter is mild, mosquito and tick popula-tions initiate activity earlier t h a n u n -der normal winter con-ditions,” Apperson said. “Win-ter tempera-tures would have to be extremely below nor-mal for over wintering insect pop-ulations to be adversely af-fected.”

The earlier activity of mos-

quitoes and ticks will result in more time for mating thus causing larger populations of pests in the summer. Along with the impending attack of blood-sucking bugs comes a

threat of a d i f fer-ent k ind. Blood-sucking bugs a re known for carrying West Nile virus and Lyme dis-ease, both of which can cause

severe symptoms and, in ex-treme cases, death. West Nile virus, carried by mosquitoes,

is a serious, life-altering dis-ease that is potentially fatal. People are infected with WNV through the bite of an infested mosquito. In very rare cases, WNV has been spread via blood transfu-sions, organ transplants, breastfeeding and from mother to baby during preg-nancy. However, it can’t be spread from person-to-per-son by casual contact.

The majority of infected individuals will never show signs of WNV. Some people infected with WNV will have mild symptoms such as fever, nausea and rash; some will develop high fevers, convul-sions, paralysis and, in some cases, permanent neurologi-cal effects. People who de-

velop symptoms of severe WNV, such as unusual headaches or confusion, should seek medical at-tention immediately. Se-vere WNV illness usually requires hospitalization.

According to Apperson, the best protection against WNV is to avoid mosqui-to bites by using insect repellent, wearing long sleeves and long pants, keeping window and door screens in good shape and dumping out settled water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs. Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans by

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Mild winter brings early bugs

Photo courtesy of the usdaThe warm winter may make for a spring and summer full of pests, like ticks and mosquitoes.

Arboretum celebrates

“our feathered friends”Community birdhouse building competition raises awareness for wildlife.

Katie SandersSenior Staff Writer

It’s difficult to slow down and connect with nature when you’re living in a city, especially one as big as Ra-leigh. But the J.C. Raulston Arboretum is a small sanc-tua r y for wildlife lov-ers across our com-munity, a n d t h i s weekend it went to the birds. The arboretum hosted its twelfth an-nual birdhouse competition, filling up a display room with a mini bird city created by artists, bird-watchers and amateurs alike.

The competitors were judged on craftsmanship and imagination—some entries included a birdhouse made from a ukulele, a delicately constructed lighthouse and a birdhouse made of stained glass. Whimsicality also seemed a common theme for birdhouse enthusiasts—one birdhouse was made to look like a cell and was titled “For Jailbirds,” while another titled “Songbird” was made out of records.

“First and foremost it should be a true, function-ing birdhouse,” Chris Glenn, organizer of the event, said. “It should look good, and

sometimes the serious ones are very artistic in nature.”

The competition included sections for both adults and children, and the children’s category has been adapted into the school system. It has been a class project for local second graders since its first year and they use it to study life cycles.

Examples of the second graders work were diverse and colorful—the array of

birdhouses included a castle, a basketball and a few made out of bottles.

“They love doing this project, because it’s something

hands-on where they get to express their creativity and have a bonding experience at home with their parents,” Tymkin said.

For example, one child cre-ated a massive bird-mansion humorously titled “Hum-mingbird lane” after the world’s tiniest bird. On her “about” page, she wrote that she was very proud of it, as it was the first project she had done with her dad.

“The parameters were whatever they could find at home—however they want-ed to construct it was up to them,” Tymkin said.

However, the children were encouraged to build their birdhouses without buying anything to learn about re-

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“We were actually

voted the number

one site to bird in

Raleigh,”Chris Glenn, arboretum education coordinator

“In addition to

tick and mosquito

populations, the

virus has to be

introduced into

an area by birds.”Charles Apperson, entomologist

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We’ve all read books or watched movies that have captivat-

ed our imaginations, drawn us into the lives of the char-acters, made us feel part of something special, and yet, in the end, failed to wrap every-thing together in a way that seemed fitting. It’s not a trag-edy if something great lacks a great ending, but it does make question what could’ve been. Thankfully, Student Govern-ment left generated a perfect ending as Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Staf-ford’s tenure comes to an end at N.C. State.

Student Government offi-cials surprised Stafford at a Memorial Bell Tower tour, a

tour conducted on a regular basis by Stafford.

Student Government re-named the Wolfpack Student Initiative scholarship in Staf-ford’s honor. The WSI origi-nated in 2001 as a financial scholarship for a select few students in need. The Staf-ford Student Leadership Scholarship will not only take financial considerations into account but will also take commitment to student organizations into account when being given.

It’s fitting that a scholar-ship with Stafford’s name

attached would have an em-phasis on commitment and students, as one would be hard-pressed to find anyone more commitment to stu-dents than Stafford himself.

In his 41 years here, Staf-ford made his presence felt. Student Government saw his committed over the past three years at their meetings. At every meeting he would stay until the end—which, if you’ve ever been to one, can be quite late.

Many times we here at Technician have gotten visits by Stafford so late at night we

begin to question if he lives here. He is a man with an in-nate ability to be as interested in what you’re doing as you are; it’s incredible and invigo-rating.

When we think of N.C. State, we think of Stafford. It’s only appropriate that his tenure end with a scholarship in his name. While Stafford may be leaving, the scholar-ship guarantees his presence will be felt long after he is gone.

If you would like to cel-ebrate the work of Stafford, everyone is invited to his re-tirement reception Monday, the 23rd from 3-5 p.m. at the McKimmon Center.

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.

A fitting endThe FacTs:Student government renamed and reoriented the Wolfpack Student Initiative around the work of Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford. Stafford will be retiring at the end of the semester.

Our OpiniOn:Student Government hit the nail on the head here. There is nobody on campus more deserving of this honor than Stafford. We hope the award will be seen as a recognition of his tireless dedication towards students at N.C. State.

Halal and haramI want to begin by address-

ing yesterday’s editorial, which read, “… This is

not to say the columnists are poster children for a group of

people with the same be-liefs.” I resent any statement implying my knowledge on any given s u b j e c t i s limited. Part of being a columnist is

being 100 percent correct 100 percent of the time. I may not be a poster child, but I am a poster man.

This week’s topic that I know everything about is Is-lam. Sure, you already know about Islam through media, but as usual, I’m here to talk about what’s really impor-tant—me.

Being a Muslim child in America was never any dif-ferent from being any other child, with the exception of haram things; things that are haram are not halal. To give you an idea of what these words mean, a Muslim can look at something halal and say “hey, I can do and or eat that.” A Muslim would look at something haram and say, “I should not do or eat that.”

Being a Muslim in America means retaining your religion with the occasional and ac-cidental haram things—, they’re unavoidable. One of my earliest experiences with something haram in America was in the cafeteria of Trin-ity Elementary School. It was pizza day, and I mistook the little red chunks of pep-peroni for tomato, and that’s the story of why I don’t trust rectangular foods. As many of you know, Muslims spon-taneously combust when they eat pork. Some call me The Boy Who Lived.

I survived only to live through another emotion-ally devastating moment : the day I found out Skittles, marshmallows and gummy worms were haram, because they’re made from pork gela-tin. I could no longer enjoy a fundamental portion of any child’s food pyramid. If you’ve ever wondered how you could pick on the Mus-lim kid in your class, don’t

haze them, buy them gummy worms instead; that’s much more tormenting than any sort of name-calling.

As I grew, haram things gradually became a bit more serious than pork chunks. In college, the bacon turned into alcohol. I was older and a bit more of a genius, so I found halal substitutes, without compromising an enriching social life.

Contrary to popular belief, Islam is not club for angry bearded men who promote the oppression of women. Unfortunately, I can’t even grow a full beard. If beards were a requirement, my par-ents would have disowned me long ago. I pray five times every day in hopes that, one day, Allah will bless me with a face full of hair. Then again, my lack of facial hair may be negatively impacting my ability to oppress women. I often find myself saying off-the-wall things like “men and women are equal.”

When people find out I’m Muslim, the topic of 9/11 al-ways eventually comes up in conversation. Over and over I say, “Those people weren’t Muslims.” I know this to be a fact, because when Mus-lims are mad, they throw shoes, not crash planes. For evidence you can look back to the Youtube of the Iraqi Muslim throwing his shoe at George Bush. I can also confirm from my childhood as somewhat of a trouble-maker that my mother has the accuracy of a sniper with her sandals, or shib-shib. If a Muslim could use one word to describe the 9/11 attacks, it would be “haram.”

All in all, being Muslim has a lot of similarities with being a human being, in that we’re human beings, only some of us are hairier than most. And just like in any other religion, there are fundamentalists who skew popular percep-tion.

And in case you were wondering, there’s a reason why my column didn’t run yesterday with Taylor Cash-dan’s column on Judaism: We couldn’t come to terms on the allotment of page space. Updates on the conflict will be available soon.

Trey Ferguson Viewpoint Editor

Earning RESPECT for education

Last week I prefaced my adventure to Washington, D.C.,

by discussing the impor-tance of education and

explain-i ng t h at t he mis-sion of this trip was to ta lk with members of the De-partment of Educa-tion on the prospective RESPECT

program. At the end of our discussion, we were asked to describe the experience in one word, ref lecting back on the discussion and my first exploration of our nation’s capital. I could only think of one word to capture my emo-tions: empowered.

The RESPECT program is an initiative crafted by the U.S. Department of Education. It outlines the challenges our edu-cational system and the federal government’s vi-sion for how to radically transform it.

When I introduce my-self as a proud education major, people’s instant reactions are either a roll of the eyes or “Bless your heart,” which every South-erner knows translates to “y\You’re an idiot.” From these encounters with ignorance and countless conversations with cur-

rent and retired educators, it’s not hard to see teaching is barely seen as the distin-guished profession it truly is. The driving goal of the RE-SPECT program is to alter this kind of thinking toward the teaching profession.

RESPECT provides states with block grants to improve education. Our discussion’s goal was to dissect this doc-ument and explain how we would change it. The beauty of this was the representatives from the RESPECT team were more than willing to accept our suggestions and take note of them for further improvements to the docu-ment.

While the program itself is an ideal that will only come to fruition if the cur-rent administration remains through this election year, its intentions are good. The real issue for us is how our state government will choose to enforce these ideals. The style of the meeting was the true accomplishment.

A federal department is actually reaching out to the people their programs are going to affect—what a novel idea. By doing this, the De-partment of Education is get-ting invaluable feedback from those involved in the future implementation of the plan.

However, this is only the education side of the issue. Those who aren’t educators must realize the demands of the average teacher and how it feels to be viewed so nega-tively. I am not going to go

into the typical argument about the extra hours of grading and preparing lesson plans, which is only met with “give fewer as-signments.”

Imagine now you’re at your job in 10 years. You’re no longer an un-paid intern, but a team leader of a major project for one of your company’s largest clients. But when you’re trying to tell others about this project you’ve worked so hard on, they shrug it off as if they could have done it in half a day’s work. How does this make you feel?

Now, put yourself in my future shoes. At the rate we’re going I will go through the same scenar-ios with your future chil-dren only to be viewed by society as a glorified baby-sitter. I will respect your position, if you respect mine; respect is one of the most valuable lessons your kindergarten teacher should’ve taught you.

I encourage all of you to think twice before you judge a teacher, or anyone else for that matter, solely based on their pay grade. By respecting one another in our professions, we may all experience what it is like to feel empowered.

Send Trey your thoughts

on RESPECT to letters@technicianonline.com.

Ahmed AmerDeputy Viewpoint Editor

wishing everyone the best on their exams!

Tony Hankerson, junior in arts applicaitons

By AlEx SANChEz

If you could introduce a sport into the Olympics what would it be? Why?

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“Cheerleading. Let’s be real; it is a sport and there’s a lot of physical activity and training that goes into it.”

Josh Moorefreshman, undeclared

“Competitive eating. A lot of training is involved and everybody likes to watch it.”

Scharmia Robersonsophomore, architecture

“Underwater martial arts because we have too many above water sports.”

Jan Duchansophomore, chemical engineering

“Ostrich riding, because it’s a fast and furious race on a two-legged animal.”

Kevin Cattsfreshman, undeclared

a week OF spiriTual expressiOns: This is the second in a series of columns on various belief systems for the week.

page 8 • tuesday, april 17, 2012 Sports Technician

5. Ca lv in Lesl ie (Men’s Basket-ball) – Leslie led

State in scoring on 15 occa-sions this season, including when it mattered in eight of the final 12 games of the season. At his best, the Holly Springs native has the

ability to single-handedly take over a game with his long reach and deceptive athleticism. Unlike most student-athletes on this list, Leslie may have already played his last collegiate game.

8. A l b i n C h o i (Men’s Golf) – The Canadian

sophomore has taken three individual titles in his first two seasons and was unanimously tabbed ACC Freshman of the Year. The All-American

is currently No. 9 in scoring average for the highly-competitive conference, and no other Pack golfer is in the top 30.

6. David Amerson (Football) – How important is Am-

erson to State football? In 2011, the Pack went 7-2 in games where the sopho-more had an interception. In the Pack’s eight wins this season, opponents only av-eraged 219 passing yards. Now heading into his junior year, the nation’s interception leader is a crucial piece to NCSU’s success in 2012, consid-ering the pass defense has been an Achilles heel for State in the past four seasons (average of 74th best in the country).

9. Jonathan Bof-fa (Swimming and Diving) –

His is not a household name in the State ath-letic community, but the Italian was sen-sational in his sopho-more season. Boffa reached the NCAA Championships, and also set the school record for the 100 freestyle. Al-though he certainly doesn’t represent all the team has to offer, Boffa does represent a very bright future for head coach Braden Holloway’s program.

7. Marissa Kastanek (Women’s Basket-ball) – While the

program has struggled in recent years, Kastanek has been getting it done on the court (more than 1,000 points for career) and off the court (ACC Academic

Honor Roll member.) The junior also participated in the 2011 Pan American Games for Team USA, adding to her resume as a leader.

10. Brittany March-and

(Women’s Golf) – A part of the best season in program history, Marchand became the first female golfer at State to pick up

multiple individual wins in the same season. Although fellow Canadian Augusta James has a better scoring average, Marchand is one of the most winning golfers in the program’s his-tory and has led the resurgence of Page Marsh’s team.

ten their foot in the door in television at Football Friday, from photographers to re-porters, and I feel good about that,” Suiter said. “I enjoy let-ting people have a chance to see what goes into the show.”

Also in 1981, Suiter started the “Extra Effort Award.” Suiter presents the award on a weekly basis to a deserving high school student-athlete in the viewing area that has shown stellar performance in the field, as well as the class-room.

“We started the “Extra Effort Award” as a way to highlight [and] spotlight out-standing high school athletes simply because it was a good thing,” Suiter said.

Suiter has put forth sweat, blood and energy towards his career and has worked tirelessly to be placed in the position he is now in — a NCHSAA Hall of Fame in-ductee. However, he remains extremely humble through-out all of his experience.

“I’m very honored by this, and I’m really somewhat embarrassed by this,” Suiter said. “I’m really not sure I be-long in there. It’s the coaches, the administrators, the ath-letic directors — those are the men and women [who deserve this honor], who are around the kids every day.

“I don’t think I deserve it, because I’m not a teacher [and] I’m not a coach. I don’t have a direct inf luence on these kids. I just did my job and thought covering high school sports was really im-portant.”

Although he doesn’t feel de-serving of the honor, he does recognize his significance of what he has done for high school athletics.

“I think the reason I got in was because I was sort of pio-neer for local television cov-erage of high school sports,” Suiter said. “We were kind of like the trend setters. Every-body has their own version of Football Friday now, but we were the first.”

came as no surprise to her.“I feel really good about it,”

Davis said. “It didn’t surprise me, but I came in kind of ner-vous and it finally clicked.”

She also credits her success at the college level to constant practicing and feedback from the coaching staff.

“Practicing non-stop, hit-ting off the tee, working with coaches to see what I’m doing wrong, and making adjust-ments continuously until I get there,” Davis said.

With all of this success early in her collegiate career, Davis is still assigned the task of carrying the team’s ball bucket. She is still a fresh-man, after all.

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Brandli Crump, a freshman in nuclear engineering, attempts to get her kite flying Monday, April 16, 2012. Crump was taking advantage of the windy day, but was having difficulty keeping the kite aloft. “[The kite] works really well

at the beach, where the wind is constant,” she said. “The wind keeps changing here though.” Although Crump had little success with her kite, she did get it to fly for a few fleeting moments. “Maybe if I just run with it,” she said.

University Recreations employee Wesley Howell flips a large log over on the intramural fields Monday, April 16, 2012. Howell was doing a crossfit workout, which is a type of fast-paced, low-weight interval workout. “You basically use

what you have [to work out ],” he said. Howell’s motivations weren’t entirely physical, though. “I’m getting some sun while I’m working out too,” he said.

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INSIDE• Page 8: The rest of the top-10 most

valuable varsity athletes

COUNTDOWN• 4 days until football’s Kay Yow Spring Game at

Carter-Finley Stadium.SportsPage 10 • tuesday, aPril 17, 2012

Holding a hot bat

Local legendary sports anchor earns Hall of Fame induction

Top 10

They come in the form of vocal leaders, standouts with decorated resumes, and those with the intangibles that are vir-

tually invisible to the casual observer. To be valuable is to be utterly irreplaceable, even if an individual must step into your shoes and attempt to replace you. Every organization has members nobody wants to see depart, and each program at State has several student-athletes who can be described as invaluable assets.

Sean Fairholm Deputy Sports Editor

1. Ryan Hill (Cross Country/Track and Field) – NC-

SU’s Track and Field pro-gram has almost always been prolific in Rollie Geiger’s 33-year tenure as head coach, as the Pack has produced seven

individual NCAA Champions and has been victorious in seven ACC Championships. But, program success aside, does any athlete at State have a resume as intimidating as redshirt junior Ryan Hill’s? He has the school record for the 1,500 meter, 3,000 meter and 5,000 meter runs, in addition to being the first Wolfpack runner to break a four-minute mile. In his first sea-son of competition he almost instantaneously earned first team All-ACC and All-America honors, not to mention that no American col-legiate runner in history has a faster time in the 3,000 meter run.

2. Stephanie Ouel-lette (Gymnas-tics) – Out of 14

meets, Ouellette partici-pated in 55 of a possible 56 events and never had an all-around score of less than 38.500. Only finishing up her sopho-more year just now, the Maryland native was also the first freshman since 1993 to qualify for the NCAA Championships as an individual. With group leaders Jess Panza and Brooke Barr set to graduate, Ouellette is in excellent position to be a cornerstone leader for the final half of her collegiate career.

3. Carlos Rodon (Baseball) – As a n a b s o l u t e

workhorse on the mound (65.1 innings pitched), it’s difficult to imagine State baseball without its ace. Rodon is 6-0 with a 1.38 ERA and an opposing

batting average of 1.91. The Pack is 22-5 when opponents fail to reach six runs, and Rodon is the straw that stirs the drink for that to happen. And what is the most impressive stat on Rodon? He is only a freshman.

4. Nazmi Albadawi (Men’s Soccer) – Both soccer pro-

grams at State have been through tough times recently, and Albadawi was essentially the only member of the men’s team who demonstrated offensive flair. The junior and Raleigh native had nine goals, 33 shots on goal, 70 shot at-tempts, three-game winning goals, and 21 points overall for the 2011 season. Each of those stats is well over double the next closest number State player had this past season.

ryan parry/TechnicianThrowing the ball to first, freshman Renada Davis tries to get a runner out at first. The Wolfpack fell to the Virginia Tech Hokies 10-2 on March 25.

Davis finds success early in her career at State.

Jeniece JamisonDeputy Sports Editor

It isn’t uncommon to see a batter hit a hot streak during his or her season in baseball or softball. But to do it during your fresh-man year, now that’s a feat.

Fresh-man shortstop Renada Davis found the sweet spot on the bat and went on a tear in the lat-ter part of her debut season.

Davis and the rest of the Wolfpack pulled out a four game winning streak, de-feating East Carolina, Bos-ton College and Campbell

from April 4 to April 11. During the first four games of this period, Davis was batting at .700 to lead the Pack.

During this run, after the Pack was struggling for much of the season, Davis decided to let the game come to her and let her instincts take over.

“I just quit thinking so much w h e n I went up to bat and decided to go out there swinging, a n d i t worked,” Davis said.

For the season,

she is also holding the number one spot on the team in batting average at .355, which is also third in the conference. She is also

the team leader in hits and runs scored. Her .453 slug-ging percentage also holds a place in the top-10 of the ACC. Davis has also blown four home runs out of Dail Softball Stadium on the year, which is tied for sec-ond on the team.

In the Pack’s last series against Tobacco Road ri-val Carolina, she went 3-8 from the plate.

When the time came to transition her game from high school to the colle-giate level, according to Davis, she slowed down the fast-paced game men-tally to focus on the game at the plate.

“It’s just a lot quicker,” Davis said. “Everything’s a lot quicker. The pitching’s a lot faster so you have to learn how to slow the game down.”

Overall, Davis is satis-fied with her performance during her freshman year, and posting these numbers

High school sports coverage earns WRAL anchor Hall of Fame honor.

Nolan EvansSenior Staff Writer

Long time WRAL-TV sports anchor Tom Suiter was inducted into the North Carolina High School Athletic Associa-tion Hall of Fame this Saturday.

In a career that cov-ered sports from the high school level to the pros, from the 1983 N.C. State National Championship in basketball to the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes Stanley Cup, Suiter has finally solidified his place in sports history.

From a very young age, he had a passion and de-sire for sports. He always knew that he wanted to do something in sports, possibly in the field of journalism.

In high school, Suiter began writing for his school newspaper. That

transitioned into college where he eventually became the sports editor of The Mir-ror, the student newspaper of Erskine College in Due West, S.C.

Fresh out of college with a Bachelor of Arts in History, he wa s deter-mined to make an immedi-ate im-pact in the world of broad-casting.

“Coming out of Erskine College, I applied to every TV station in North and South Carolina, and the only station that didn’t send me a form letter was WRAL,” Suiter said.

Former senator Jesse Helms was, at this point in time, running the station and invited Suiter in for an interview. Following the interview, he was hired as a sports reporter and began work on June 2, 1971, earn-ing $90 a week.

In 1981, Suiter received a

promotion to become the lead anchor at WRAL. That same year, he began a revo-lutionary program called Football Friday. The show features high school football highlights across the view-ing area and still airs to this

day during the season with Suiter stil l at the helm.

“I always thought t here wa s a place for high school

sports,” Suiter said. “I had a good experience playing high school athletics. I just felt like, Friday nights dur-ing football season, hey! What else do you have to do Friday nights, except cover high school football?”

Not only has the show helped showcase high school football, it has also helped jumpstart countless careers in broadcasting.

“A lot of people have got-

tennis continued page 8

Baseball’s Turner named player of the week

Freshman third baseman Trea Turner earned the ACC’s Player of the Week honor. Turner tied the ACC single-game record for stolen bases with five on Friday against Clemson. Turner has nine steals in four games, which matched Brett Williams’ team-leading season total mark from last season. Turner also set the N.C. State single-season stolen base record on Wednesday against Elon with 31.

Source: n.c. STaTe aThleTicS

Foster finishes sixth at Shooting ChampionshipsRifle freshman Dani Foster placed sixth in the women’s air rifle event at the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships at the Olympic Training Center on Saturday. Foster posted scores of 389 and 388 in the preliminary rounds and tied for six place in the finals with an 879.4 score. Her score in the final round, 102.4, in the final round was the highest in the round.

Source: n.c. STaTe aThleTicS

davis continued page 8

“I just quit

thinking so much

when I went up to

bat and decided

to go out there

swinging, and

it worked.”Renada Davis, freshman

shortstop

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TuesdayBaseBall at CampBellBuies Creek, 6 p.m.

WednesdaysoftBall vs. elonRaleigh, 6 p.m.

Thursday-Sundaymen’s tennis aCC ChampionshipsCary, All Day

Women’s tennis aCC tournamentCary, TBA

Thursday-SaturdaytraCk aCC ChampionshipsCharlottesville, Va., All Day

Friday-Sundaymen’s Golf aCC ChampionshipsLondon, N.C., All Day

BaseBall vs. Boston ColleGeRaleigh; Fri. & Sat. 6:30 p.m., Sun. 1 p.m.

Saturday-SundaysoftBall vs. marylandRaleigh, 1 p.m.; Sat. 1 p.m. & 3 p.m., Sun. 12 p.m.

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CoMMenTaRy

Quote of the day

“We were kind

of like the trend

setters. Every-

body has their

own version of

Football Friday

now, but we

were the first.”Tom Suiter, WRAL anchor

“...the only station

that didn’t send

me a form letter

was WRAL.”Tom Suiter, WRAL anchor

Technician

MosT Valuable VaRsiTy aTHleTes.