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FUNDING FOR RESEARCH GRANTS FROM THE TOP FIVE FEDERAL AGENCIES AT EACH SCHOOL

This graphic shows each UNC constituent institution’s funding from the top five federal agency contributors at each university in million of dollars (rounded down). This data represents funding during the 2011 fiscal year, the most recent year avaliable. The funding figures were published on the UNC system’s website. The North Carolina School of Science and Mathmatics and the UNC School of the Arts are not included. Total federal funding figures were not avaliable for each institution.

This figure represents the total amount of research funding that will be cut from the federal budget due to the sequestation.

Universities battle sequestration

$106,592,000The amount of federal funding the UNC system collectively will lose due to the squestration. This represents approximately 1/8th of the system’s total federal appropriations.

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STORY BY JOSUE MOLINA | GRAPHICS BY RUSS SMITH

N.C. State researchers and stu-dents may see less funds when ap-plying for federal grants or receiv-ing financial aid because of the au-tomatic federal budget cuts known as the sequestration.

According to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, sequestration will affect govern-ment spending and research fund-ing throughout the entire UNC sys-tem, which is expected to be at least $106 million this year. The APLU is an advocacy organization that represents the views of N.C. State and the other member institutions in Washington and is lobbying on behalf of the Universities’ interests.

The sequestration cuts were put into effect on March 1, when law-makers failed to come to a consen-sus on spending policy in Washing-ton. These hawkish cuts instituted by lawmakers’ policy may have the potential to harm students and re-searchers.

Terri Lomax, the vice chancellor for Research, Innovation and Eco-nomic Development, said the cuts are visible and have impacted areas like N.C. State’s Water Research In-stitute, which has only received 60 percent of its normal funding this year because of the sequester. Agen-cies such as the National Institutes of Health have notified the Univer-sity that there will be 1,000 fewer grants this year.

As a result, University officials are starting to search for other sources of funding.

“We have a lot of new industry friendly policies that will hopefully increase research funding for our faculty,” Lomax said.

The cuts will continue to take ef-fect over a decade if lawmakers in Washington cannot come up with a long-term deficit reduction plan that has bipartisan support.

Jeff Lieberson, APLU’s vice presi-dent of Public Affairs, said the U.S.

has been a global leader in innova-tion for decades, but other countries like China are increasing their in-vestments in research and education while U.S. is losing its competitive advantage, result-ing in a slowing engine of economic growth in the Unit-ed States.

The APLU has pa r t nered w it h other organizations such as the Asso-ciation of Ameri-can Universit ies and The Science Coalition to cre-ate a project called

ScienceWorksForU.S.ScienceWorksForU.S. is trying

to push a message to Washington lawmakers that federally funded university-based research has a tre-

mendous impact on the nation and helps sustain and grow its economy.

“The message that we are trying to get to Washington is that invest-ments in research and higher edu-

cation are critical to economic growth and investing in them will actually create jobs and help reduce the deficit, but cutting fund-ing will have the opposite impact,” Lieberson said. “By cutt ing funding you’re eliminating the creation of the next big thing and innovating proj-ects. You’re also de-

nying the ability for some students to attend school.”

The APLU has also collaborated with the Task Force on American Innovation by addressing a letter to

President Obama and other govern-ment officials that stresses the im-portance of federal research funds.

The letter calls for the Federal gov-ernment to cease the cuts claiming that the cuts would impede impor-tant programs the help economic growth and reminds the intended audience of successful government funded projects. The Task Force states in the letter “scientific re-search drives innovation, productiv-ity, job creation, and growth. Tech-nological advances such as the laser, the Internet and the Web, GPS, and the large-scale integrated circuit had their origins in long-term research.”

Sequestration was never intended to go into effect, but it has because of the lack of government compro-mise, and it is here to stay unless an alternate deficit reduction plan is made that receives the support of Washington officials.

“...investments

in research and

higher education

are critical

to economic

growth.”Jeff Liedberson

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Economics professor talks capitalism for the people

UAB to host 43rd Pan-Afrikan weekJessica Hatcher Staff Writer

The 43rd Pan-Afrikan week officially begins Saturday with the Pan-Afrikan Kick-Off event.

The week of events, organized by the Union Activities Board, is an annual celebration com-memorating African culture and heritage.

The idea of hosting Pan-Af-rikan pride events was inspired by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, who took initiatives to celebrate the legacy and culture of Africa and its de-scendants.

The celebration began at N.C. State as a “black homecoming for minority students” in 1970 to give “minority students a chance to express themselves through events, showcase their pride and celebrate their identity at a predominately white institu-tion,” according to Lauryn Col-lier, president of UAB and senior in animal science.

Zuqorah Williamson, senior in psychology and chair of UAB’s Black Student’s Board, described Pan-Afrikan Week as unique, saying, “I’ve been at State for four years and I haven’t seen anything quite like this.” Williamson said it was important for students to celebrate Pan African Week by going to the events because it is a “great way to learn about dif-ferent cultures that they may not

be aware of.”Collier said students should come

out if they want to have a good time and attending the events could give students a “different perspective that they may not have been exposed to before.”

The theme of this year’s festivi-ties is “The Essence of Our Meta-morphosis.” Several cultural and historical events will be held which resonate with this theme, like the African Student Union’s Africa Night and the Society of African American Culture Pan-Afrikan Event. In total, this year’s Pan-Af-rikan Week includes 15 sponsored events, most of which are free for students.

On Saturday, the Pan-Afrikan Kick-Off will be held on Harris Field at 4 p.m. Food, such as hot dogs and hamburgers, and t-shirts will be giv-en away to students, according to Williamson. Free soul food will be provided to students for Soul Food Sunday on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Witherspoon Student Center. The African American Textiles Society’s Annual Fashion Expose will be held in the College of Textiles Atrium at 7 p.m. on Monday.

On Friday, April 12, the Pan-Af-rikan Comedy Show will take place at the Dorton Arena at 7:30 p.m. The show will feature Cory Hol-comb, Rob Stapleton and Corwin “C Dawg” Oglesby, who will open the show. Another big event is the National Pan-Hellenic Council Step Show, which will also take place in

the Dorton Arena on Saturday, April 13, at 7 p.m. The week of events will end on an inspira-tional note with Gospel Explo-sion at Oberlin Baptist Church.

Collier said she was most ex-cited about the Pan-Afrikan Scholarship Pageant because it was an event she brought back last year when she was chair of the Black Students Board. “I’m excited that it’s continuing. I saw a preview of the pageant and it looked great. Everyone is very creative,” Collier said.

Williamson said planning ev-erything was exciting, but the event planners encountered a few extra roadblocks along the way. “It was a little bit harder to find venues for everything be-cause we normally have most of our events in Stewart Theater,” Williamson said.

“Zuqorah’s done a great job planning everything. It’s super-stressful, but she’s handled the stress very well. She also has a really great board of students behind her,” Collier said.

Williamson and Collier both encourage everyone to come to as many events as they can.

“We know that some of the things can be expensive, espe-cially on a college budget, but it will definitely be worth it,” Col-lier said.

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The Poole College of Management hosted Luigi Zingales, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Wednesday night. Zingales gave a lecture on how the innovations produced from the capitalist system benefit society and how perversions of that system led to widespread ramifications. The lecture was funded by the John W. Pope Foundation as part of the John W. Pope Lecture Series.

After receiving his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology, Zingales became a prolific author in the field of economics and finance, having recently written A Capitalism for the People: Recap-turing the Lost Genius of Ameri-can Prosperity. The subjects of his works range from the minute details of economics to the broad societal implications of government inter-vention in the free market.

In his lecture, Zingles praised American exceptionalism and in-dividual liberty as the driving forces behind raising the standard of liv-

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ing in the United States as what “made the American Dream a reality.” He de-scribed how the free mar-ket system in the United States led to success un-paralleled by the rest of the world following the second World War.

Given these achievements, Zingales was disconcerted by the economic system in the United States becoming more similar to that of his native Italy. According to Zingales, government subsidization and intervention in the pri-vate sector has amounted to crony capitalism. The Italian government’s involvement in business caused a fundamen-tal distrust of governmental authority, as well as economic

stagnation apart from areas where the government became directly involved.

The intermin-gling of govern-ment and busi-ness caused Italy to be uncompeti-tive in the global market, and ill-equipped to foster the entrepreneur-ship that benefits its citizens. Zingales said Americans in recent times have fostered a “dangerous intermingling between gov-ernment and business” in addressing the problem of economic inequality, akin to what he believes negatively affected economic prosper-ity in Italy. Zingales said he worries that this sort of inter-vention in the U.S. could be the “end of entrepreneurship as we know it.”

Zingales expressed that he is certainly not in favor of a market entirely lacking gov-ernment intervention and regulation. On this point he said, “Without rules, the free market system may become who can cheat the best,” as opposed to who can create the best products. Accord-ing to Zingales, the Tea Party right and progressive far left are attacking two aspects of the same problem.

What Zingales finds par-

ticularly conse-quential is the extent to which lobbying on the part of power-f u l businesses can become a more lucrative investment than spending money on improving its products. “It used to be business lobbying to get the government

off your back, now it’s lobbying to get the gov-ernment in your pocket,” Zingales said.

Zingales clarified the d i s t i nc t ion bet ween the pro-market agenda and the pro-businesses agenda, the first of which is in the best interest of the consumers. The pro-market agenda favors few barriers to entry and free markets as the breeding grounds for success and innovation. The pro-businesses agenda sup-ports these ideals when businesses are on the rise, but move on to suppress them once they become powerful.

The less competition a business has once it has es-tablished itself, the higher its profit margins become, as nobody can potentially step in and offer what they offer for a cheaper price. This difference, Zingales argues, is imperative to understand when analyz-ing government policies concerning lobbying and the economy.

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Students strike ‘Gold’water awardCody Melton, a junior in physics and applied mathematics

Eric Whitmire, a junior in biomedical engineering and computer science

Morgan Carter, a junior in biochemistry

Victoria Vesce Staff Writer

Three N.C State students have been awarded the pres-tigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

Recipients included Cody Melton, a junior in physics and applied mathematics; Morgan Carter, a junior in biochemistry; and Eric Whit-mire, a junior in biomedical engineering and computer science, all of whom are in the University Scholars Program.

The Goldwater Scholar-ship was established in 1986 by Congress to honor Senator Barry M. Goldwater for his 56 years of serving the country. The scholarship is awarded to students pursuing ca-reers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineer-ing fields. Each year, only 300 sophomores and juniors nationwide are named Gold-water scholars and receive an award of $7500 per year.

The process to become a Goldwater scholar is rigor-ous. Each university can nominate only four under-graduates who they deem to be a future asset to the sci-ence, mathematics and en-gineering realm. N.C. State had more Goldwater scholars than any other institution in the state this year.

“I don’t have words for what receiving the Goldwa-ter Scholarship means to me. I feel like I can do it,” Carter said. “That sounds silly, but academia is a competitive, tough world. I feel more confident about entering that world, knowing that other people have faith in me and think I’ve done well. I also feel like my hard work in college has paid off and been recognized.”

Melton, Carter and Whit-mire each have unique, ex-tensive research studies that set them apart from the rest as they set out to increase

knowledge in research and to help mankind.

Melton’s research consisted of “the production of heavy nuclei in core-collapse super-novae.”

“The research that I do helps mankind in that we begin to understand our origins,” Melton said. “All of the heavy elements that permeate our everyday lives were produced in the energet-ic explosions of dying stars. This research a ids in our understanding of this process, and the more we learn, the more we know about our history and where we came from.”

Carter worked on “silenc-ing experiments in the fun-gus Mycosphaerella fijiensis,

which infects bananas and plantains.”

“Bananas and plantains are the fourth most economically important food crop in the world and are a major food source for subsistence farm-ers,” Carter said. “If we can understand how the patho-gens work, we can develop

methods to keep them from kill-ing crops or to make more resis-tant crops. This would be benefi-cial for big companies, but also for subsistence farmers who need

bananas as a starch source in their diet.”

Whitmire worked on con-trolling the movements of live cockroaches. His re-

search is based on a small piece of circuitry called a “backpack,” which is placed on the cockroach and sends a small electrical pulse to its antenna. Whitmire has pro-gressed from simply making the cockroach move right and left from a remote con-trol, to automatically track-ing the insect and directing it towards a specific target.

“We hope to get to the point where these insects would be useful in a search-and-rescue situation,” Whitmire said. “In the event of a building col-lapse or some other hazard-ous situation, first responders could use a network of these insects to map out the disas-ter site and keep humans out of harm’s way.”

Melton, Carter and Whit-mire all plan to pursue fur-ther research in graduate school in their respective fields and are considering teaching at the college level.

“Ultimately, I hope that this

award will help me pursue my research interests in my graduate career and beyond,” Whitmire said. “Right now, it is an encouragement to con-tinue putting my best work into my research.”

“I don’t have

words for what

receiving the

Goldwater

Scholarship

means to me.”Morgan Carter,

junior in bichemsitry

THE BARRY M. GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP• 271 were chosen from

1,107 applicatants• $7500 per person per year• 43 NCSU students have

been awarded the scholarship

• Of the eight North Carolina winners, NCSU had the most of any school with 3

• Each school can nominate 4 students

• Since its first award in 1989 the foundation has awarded 6,550 scholarships worth $40 million.

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Davis Leonard, junior in science education

A legal battle for freedom of homeschooling

To most Ameri-c a n s h o m e -schooling seems

to be a granted right of parents who don’t want their kids to go to public/private school. But in Ger-many and many Europe-an countries, parents are not so fortunate, because governments out law homeschooling and force parents to send their chil-

dren to a public school at a certain age.

The Romeike family, a devout Chris-tian

family who f led to the United States from Ger-many in 2008, has sought asylum in an effort to freely homeschool their six children.

U.S. law states that in-dividuals can qualify for asylum if they can prove they are being persecuted because of their religious beliefs or because they are members of a particular social group. In 2010, the Romeike family was granted political asylum. Judge Lawrence Berman ruled that the family had a reasonable fear of perse-cution for what they be-lieves if sent back home. In a statement, he called it “utterly repellent.”

Sadly, the relief was short-lived. Now the Ro-meike family is facing another battle that will decide if it is able to stay in the U.S.

U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement challenged the decision that has granted the Ro-meikes asylum, claiming that homeschoolers are not a particular social group because they don’t meet certain legal stan-dards, and the home-schooled population is

too vague and amorphous to constitute a social group.

The Romeikes’ case boils down to whether or not par-ents have the fundamental right to homeschool their children. According to Eric Holder, Attorney General of the Obama administration, there was no violation of anyone’s protected rights in a law that entirely bans home-schooling. There would only be a problem if the German government banned home-schooling for some but per-mitted it for others.

In other words, the position of the U.S. government is that a nation vio-lates no one’s right if it bans homeschool-ing entirely. Two major port ions of constitutional rights are fun-damental lib-erty and equal protection.

What Mr. Holder said was there is no fundamental right to something as long as the government bans it broadly and equally. This is clearly a fallacy. Based on its logic, the government could cur-tail freedom of speech so broadly that no one dares to speak against it. Without the universal recognition of fundamental rights, govern-ment agents are more likely to trespass individual liberty when enforcing laws.

The attorney general also contended that the Romeikes’ case failed to show there was any religious discrimination because, among other rea-sons, the Romeikes didn’t prove that all homeschoolers are religious and that not all Christians believe they had to homeschool.

But Mr. Holder doesn’t seem to understand that religious freedom is an in-dividual right. Just because all believers of a particular religion do not abide by a

certain standard doesn’t mean individuals who feel compelled to follow this standard do not have the right to do so. Reli-gious decisions must be made by individuals, not by groups. One need not be affiliated to a church or a religious group to be able to make a religious free-dom claim. In particular, one does not have to fol-low the rules of a church to claim religious freedom — one should be able to follow the rules of God himself.

The U.S. Supreme Court has made i t v e r y clear in a number of cases that religious freedom is an in-dividual right. Yet our cur-rent gov-ernment seems to not u n-

derstand this. They only think of us as members of groups and factions. It’s an extreme form of iden-tity politics that under-mines individual liberty.

W h i le Rome ik e v. Holder is crucially and immediately important to one huddled family struggling for freedom, the implications of the arguments currently be-ing presented by the U.S. government against them are important to all Amer-ican people. Will our courts uphold the rights of parents to raise their children in the ways that seem best to them, or will a government standard be imposed on the 2 million homeschooling families in the U.S.?

The Romeike family will be defending that decision in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on April 23. Wish it the best of luck.

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Food insecurity does not discriminate. It affects all types of people: families, the elderly and even college students. Between the rising cost of tuition, working part-time jobs and having to pay several bills, some students carry the burden of worrying from where their next meal will come. The N.C. State community has come together to make sure that our students, our fellow Wolfpackers, don’t have to worry about that. Feed the Pack Food Pantry, located in Harrelson 379, is a community-based initiative to combat food insecurity experienced by students (and staff) at the University. The food pantry is set up like a miniature grocery store of sorts. Food is sorted by type: fruits, vegetables, drinks, dining ware, snacks, proteins and even personal hygiene items. Meat, vegetarian, gluten-free, snacks and condiments can all be found at the pantry. Those in need can go to the pantry during open hours, grab a bag and essentially grocery shop — for free. They can take what they need and come back every week. The problem is that some students are concerned with their image and are embarrassed at the thought of being seen at the pantry. I have been to the food pantry to receive food. I needed it. I was struggling. I used to be worried that someone would find out and maybe they would make fun of me. It got to a point where I realized that my need for food was bigger than my ego. If I didn’t go to the pantry, I wouldn’t have anything to eat. This source of food has allowed me to focus my energy on classes, finding a summer internship and the ability to help my family when in critical need. When I got there, the volunteers were so eager to help me. I got enough food to get me by and left. No one knew about it. The thing about food insecurity is that you can’t pick it out in a crowd. You can’t look at someone and know whether or not they’ll eat that day. I use the food pantry on campus and you don’t know it. My instructors, my family nor my friends know either. They will never know, nor will they ever need to know.Faculty, staff and students have literally donated tons of food to the food pantry because they know I am hungry, that others are hungry. The people donating are aware of all the sacrifices you and I make to succeed at NCSU and beyond. They want to support you and me as we work to make this a better world. An anonymous person once said: “Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.” If you or someone you know needs help with combating food insecurity, I strongly urge you to visit Feed the Pack.

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“Confess your most heart-felt, disgusting, hilarious, filthy, and embarrassing se-crets from NCSU on the link below! And it will be posted ANONYMOUSLY on our page!”

The above is the description of the “NCSU Confes-

sions” Facebook page, the N.C. State version of the recent rage of confessions pages.

Confessions pages have gone viral. They serve educa-

tional insti-tutions from high schools to universi-t i e s f r o m the United S t a t e s , t o Singapore, to India and everywhere

between. The confessions pages have

risen to resurrect gossip as a ritual.

The confessions are anon-ymous getaways for people with varying degrees of self-confidence levels.

One finds all kinds of con-fessions including jocular, crush confessions, mildly sexual to love advice. “I fart in elevators when no one is around…” Most are love advice and some are narra-tions of sexual encounters. “I recently met a guy who I’m really interested in and he is 28 and I’m 20.”

There is a link in the ‘about’ section of the about page. The user anonymously puts up the confessions on that shared document. The administrator of the page then updates the confessions, possibly filtering some, as the page’s statuses.

There is no uncontested theory as to where the trend first started. Arguably, it started with a popular blog titled “Confessions from Stanford” — a series of blog posts by freshmen at Stan-ford University, depicting their stories of transforming into freshmen at one of the

most prestigious schools in the world. These blog posts, rather than being narrations of encounters between op-posite sex, were inspirational stories of applications to the prestigious school and ex-periences of coping with the pressure of it all. Somewhere down the trail of imitations, the word “confessions” was reinterpreted.

It is strange how the viral nature of the confessions page is similar to what Har-vard University students ex-perienced when Mark Zuck-erberg first came out with the FaceMash website, a way for students to rate the most ap-pealing face. FaceMash cata-pulted quickly into Facebook, which is the parent platform for the confessions pages.

FaceMash was also limited to a campus or a university. Such a boundary of social interactions allows for gos-sip to spread its roots far and deep. It is small enough for people at all levels to be curi-ous about the gossip, yet big enough for anonymity to keep its veil.

“Anonymous” is an in-teresting form of identity. It contradicts the meaning of identity itself to generate newer forms of expression, expressions that find recur-rence in folklores like masked vigilantes and Santa Claus.

It is interesting to note the interactions of various com-ponents of the ecosystem of the confessions pages: the anonymous user, the ad-ministrator and the diffused audience may be viewed as the prime components of the ecosystem. The admin-istrator keeps his anonymity for several reasons, totally different from why the user holds his.

Administrative authorities of several institutions have expressed concern over the unethical content published on these pages. Yet, these are social crimes that are not held by the law as criminal offens-es. Does this expose a chink in the armor of our society?

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John Kessel, an English professor, has loved science fiction since he was 11 years old. Kessel subscribed to sci-ence fiction magazines and would read them cover-to-cover in a week. Now he’s an accomplished science fiction writer with three published novels.

“When I was young, science fiction was the province of geeks and weirdos, not the widely popular fiction it is now,” Kessel said. “Most people went through a sci-ence fiction phase and then got over it, like having the chicken pox when you are a kid. You read it when you are a teenager, and then grow out of it. I never did.”

Corrupting Dr. Nice is his third novel, published in 1997. It follows the story of a time-traveling paleontologist who goes back to the dino-saur age to do research, but ends up getting mixed up with temporal con-artists in ancient Jerusalem.

One of the most used time travel conventions in science fiction is that if you go back into the past you have to be careful not to alter events that will change the pres-ent. A classic term for this is the grandfather paradox – if you go back and shoot your grandfather before he meets

your grandmother in this convention, you will never be born. However, Kessel wanted to try something a little different with time travel in Corrupting Dr. Nice.

“I wanted to write a ver-sion of time travel where you could go back into the past and do whatever you wanted and alter whatever you want-ed and it would have no effect on the present. So I thought out this scheme of moment universes [that are like] par-allel branches on the tree of time where you could alter the past, but it ends up not affecting things.”

For the characters in Cor-rupting Dr. Nice, this means it’s possible to exploit the past. Consequently, there are tourist hotels that people from any century can visit throughout all of history. For example, the setting of the novel, Jerusalem in 40 C.E., is complete with a fancy ho-tel that hosts dozens of tour-ists from all different eras. Jerusalem now has modern medicine, cars and elevators. The city is even temporarily home to a dinosaur from the late-Cretaceous era.

However, Kessel didn’t just stick to science fiction in Cor-rupting Dr. Nice – he mixed in some comedy as well. “It’s a screwball comedy, which means there is a male hero who is clever, but socially maladroit. He meets this

stunningly beautiful woman whom he falls in love with, and she’s a lot smarter than he is in the ways of the world.”

The male hero Kessel is re-ferring to is the rich paleon-tologist, Dr. Owen Vannice, and the beautiful woman is Genevieve Faison, who works with her father, August, as an accomplished con artist. This complicates her relationship with Vannice, to say the least.

“The storyline of the book really borrows from a num-ber of classic Hollywood comedies from the 1930s and

40s,” Kessel said. “In the be-ginning, I dedicate the book to a bunch of different movie directors.”

One of the challenges Kes-sel faced while writing this novel was incorporating both genres of science fiction and comedy. He did this by adding humor and sarcasm, along with social satire. Ac-cording to Kessel, the novel also takes a satirical look at how people behave in the past and present.

“I would not say it was easy, but it was an interesting chal-

lenge to find ways to merge opposites or things that most people consider incompat-ible. That is one reason to write: to make something you have not seen before.”

Kessel also explained that projected himself into the mind and situation of each character while penning his novel.

“All of the characters have some element of me in them.” Kessel said. “When young, I was very much as awkward as Owen is. I have an admi-ration for the con artist and

am sarcastic like Genevieve. I am a father like August and protective of my daughter.”

Kessel is now working on his fourth novel, which he plans to finish writing by the fall and get published in over a year. It’s set in the year 2140, in a lunar colony.

“I’m excited and eager to finish,” Kessel said. “Also [I’m] a little nervous, but I’m intending to make it entertaining and thought-provoking.”

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JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANJohn Kessel, author of Dr. Nice, sits in his office in Tompkins Hall on Jan. 30 2013. The award-winning professor teaches science fiction and fantasy for the English department. “I have many books from students that have gone through my classes and have gone on to be published,” Kessel said.

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The African American Textile Society (AATS) will hold it’s 16th annual Fashion Exposé at 7 p.m. this Monday, April 8 in the Atrium at the College of Textiles on Cen-tennial Campus.

Part of Pan Afrikan Week, the Fashion Exposé is an an-nual fashion design compe-tition organized entirely by N.C. State students. Accord-ing to the fashion show’s web-site, Fashion Exposé was the first fashion show ever orga-nized on N.C. State’s campus.

Molly Renaud, a sopho-more in textile engineering and Fashion Exposé’s pub-lic relations coordinator, believes the event acts as a tool for success for textile students.

“The Fashion Exposé grants emerging student designers tons of opportunities,” Re-naud said. “They really get the chance to showcase their designs in a competitive and inspiring environment.”

According to Renaud, Fash-ion Exposé aims to invigorate student designers by hold-ing an event that highlights unique design styles of each designer.

“Aside from the obvious, the show gives students the chance to try their talents on the public,” Renaud said.

The show benefits more

than just the selected design-ers as the photographers, vid-eographers, models and pro-duction crew are made up of student volunteers as well.

Designers are selected based upon an application process in which the ap-plicants submit samples of work.

“We get applications from students all over the Univer-sity,” Renaud said. “Not all our designers are from the College of Textiles and some aren’t even from N.C. State. We’ve got a couple from out-side — from Meredith and North Carolina Central Uni-versity.”

The show culminates with a competition for money prizes. Different categories for entry allow for winners at each level. The first level is exhibit, which is aimed at designers who have the basic skills needed to construct a garment but not a full col-lection. First prize at this level is awarded $100. The second level is novice, which is aimed at designers seeking exposure in showcasing their work. The experience of the typical novice designer will be limited in garment design and creation. Most novice designers have around one to two years of experience. First prize for the novice level is $250.

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“We really try to pro-duce a show that brings aesthetic life to the col-lection of each designer,” Renaud said. “We believe that a designer’s work must be given experiences that allow it to be seen by others.”

According to Renaud, the student-run show not only showcases fash-ion, but also the talents of each student involved in the creative process.

“We really want to em-power student design-ers and producers and bring everyone into the forefront,” Renaud said. “Giving students these chances increases the frequency of success in their respective fields.”

Holden BroyhillStaff Writer

The cassava, a food staple for Tanzanians, has recently been struck by a class of vi-ruses called geminiviruses, causing famine across the country. However, N.C. State has been bringing aid to those suffering by aiding in the re-search effort.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored a grant to fund research. It awarded $9.4 million to the Mikocheni Agricultura l Research Institute, which is funding international teams of researchers, including a team at N.C. State.

Cassavas are ideal for the Tanzanian ecosystem as they require very little water and can be grown year-round.

It is the sole crop grown by the majority of Tanzanian farmers, who practice mono-culture. The people of Tanza-nia depend on it for survival and as a source of income.

There have been reports of problems with the cassava crops for at least the past ten years, but recently the threat became much more serious. There has been a recorded movement of the African cassava mosaic virus, one of

the geminiviruses, from East Africa westward.

“Geminiviruses are DNA viruses, which are rarer than their counterparts, RNA viruses,” Niki Robertson, a professor of plant biology in-volved in the research, said. “There are a multitude of new diseases appearing in plants due to geminiviruses.”

For several years it was thought there was a line of cassavas resistant to gemi-niviruses. However, recently that resistance has been broken, which has resulted in count less plants go-ing through root necrosis. The crops are rotting in the ground.

Therefore, researchers at N.C. State are looking into what makes certain cassava plants resistant and how the DNA viruses are breaking their resistance. To do this, the researchers are compar-ing certain genes in different lines of crops and identifying resistant breeding lines to pinpoint the allele respon-sible. Once researchers know where the crop’s resistance is breaking, they hope to be able to prevent it.

Robertson and her col-leagues want to have the resistance gene mapped out

within the next two years — there are people who are in desperate need of results. Once resistance can be un-derstood, the researchers hope to introduce it into cas-sava crops through breeding or genetic engineering.

Because of the fast pace of the research, researchers are in need of participation by N.C. State students, ac-cording to Trino Ascencio-Ibanez, an assistant professor in biochemistry who has been working with geminiviruses for many years.

“There are a lot of open-ings for undergrad students in this research. There is a lot of work to do,” Ascencio-Ibanez said.

Students can contribute to the effort in other ways as well — Ascencio-Ibanez said they are always prepared to hear ideas concerning other approaches to the famine that would help the people of Tanzania.

“This type of problem opens opportunities for ev-eryone. It is important for people to get engaged. If they have good ideas they need to share them, because we need all of the help we can get.”

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PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY THE NC STATE BIOCHEMISTRY BLOGA Tanzanian man shows researchers a cassava that has root necrosis. The cell degeneration is caused by geminiviruses, devastating cassava crops in Tanzania and causing famine.

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of the loudest moments in the PNC Arena all year. Another highlight play from Purvis was the monster he threw down versus Miami.

Purvis’ freshman accom-plishments go on, but the point is he does not owe N.C. State fans anything.

How many of us have felt

unsettled at a job or a school after one year and wanted to leave? How many of us thought we had fallen in love just to realize it was not going to work? We should not be the ex that hates to see their ex succeed. We should un-derstand things don’t always work out and wish Purvis good luck at his next location.

The right thing to do is let him go. An unhappy basket-ball player is a bad basketball player, and that is the last

thing N.C. State needs on its roster next year.

Besides, Purvis’ departure opens up a ton of potential playing time for a junior col-lege guard named Desmond Lee, who is considering N.C. State. Lee could provide the Pack with a scoring threat who also has lockdown pe-rimeter defense.

Keep it real, Wolfpack Na-tion.

right foot after scoring 27 first-half points, helping the Wolfpack jump out to a 16-point lead.

The Cavaliers stormed back and won the game. To make matters worse, it was announced that Whit-tenburg’s college playing career was over.

The Pack went on to lose four of its next six games and quickly dropped from the rankings. The team finished the regular season with an underwhelming 17-10 record, going just 8-6 in the ACC.

Luckily, Whittenburg defeated the odds against him and was able to return just in time for the team’s memorable championship run.

Jump back to 2013. The N.C. State baseball team is in a similar predicament.

Injuries have been a significant problem for the Pack. Sophomore All-American shortstop Trea Turner suffered a high ankle sprain in the con-ference opener against Clemson and has sat out 11

games this season as a result. This particular injury has had the most significant impact on the team.

Prior to his injury, the standout was batting a jaw-dropping .642. In the seven games he has participated in since the injury, his bat-ting average is just (and I use “just” lightly) .375.

His RBI count has also dropped during this time. Before the injury, he was bringing home 1.86 runs per contest. That number has fallen to 1.28. The number of times he crosses the plate himself has also plummeted by a full run per game, from 1.86 to .86. In his first 14 games, Turner had five home runs. In his seven games back, he is yet to hit one.

The most important num-ber of all: seven of the Pack’s 10 losses have occurred since the injury.

It’s difficult to say that the injury caused his numbers to fall so dramatically, but Turner was certainly in an untouchable rhythm prior to the injury that he has yet to return to. Although one player can only do so much to assist a team, I have little doubt that the ankle injury has hurt the Wolfpack as a

unit.Injuries happen. They’re a

part of sports that will never go away.

But the Cardiac Pack taught a lesson that N.C. State base-ball can learn from: you can always bounce back from injury.

It took little time for Whit-tenburg to get right back into the groove he was in to start the season and lead the team to a national title. Turner, although he is still posting stellar numbers, is taking a bit longer to readjust.

We all know he has the abil-ity to do it. We saw it last year and we saw it again at the be-ginning of this season. And when he gets back into the swing of things, you can bet the Wolfpack will be back to its winning ways.

Don’t count the Pack out just yet. There is a lot of base-ball to play. Only time will tell how the season will end for the team.

Keep the faith. Perhaps a match will strike under Turner and he will lead his team to glory, just as another Wolfpack great did three de-cades ago.

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Nolan EvansDeputy Sports Editor

Just six weeks ago, I sat down to watch the No. 9-ranked N.C. State baseball team start its sea-son against Appalachian State with high hopes for the season. The team had lofty preseason expectations and had its highest preseason ranking in program history and was picked to finish second in the ACC.

Today, I see an N.C. State team that has struggled at times with consistency at the plate and con-trol on the mound. Additionally, the team has had to deal with unfortunate injuries. The Wolf-pack currently sits on a 21-10 (5-7 ACC) record and is on the verge of dropping out of the rankings, sitting at No. 25 in the Baseball America poll.

Now go back 30 years and one day to April 4, 1983. It was on this fateful date in 1983 the N.C. State men’s basketball team took the Houston Cougars down to the wire to steal the national title from Phi Slamma Jama.

The 1982-83 Wolfpack started its season with its own high ex-pectations. State was ranked 16th in the AP preseason poll and was picked to finish third in the con-ference.

However, the season took a sour turn for the Pack just six weeks into its season. NCSU, ranked 19th at the time, faced No. 2 Virginia at home. During the second half, star senior guard Dereck Whittenburg broke his

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On April 2nd, it became clear that freshman Rodney Purvis’ decision to transfer was no April Fool’s joke. Many N.C. State fans had to face the harsh reality that the talented guard with the bright smile was breaking up with them.

Speculation had surrounded Purvis transferring for a week or so after the team’s season. While his decision to leave was not totally unforeseen, the reasons surround-ing his departure have been blurry to many Wolfpack fans.

With the departure of four start-ers, it seemed that Purvis would have his chance to shine next year. Many reports have speculated that Purvis wanted to play in the point

guard position. Others said he was not fitting into the system. People can talk all they want, but the only way we will know why Purvis want-ed to break the hearts of Wolfpack Nation is if Purvis comes out and says it.

According to N.C. State Athletics, Purvis cited he was ready to step out of his comfort zone and get a fresh start. While his explanation still leaves many unanswered questions, we shouldn’t attack Purvis.

After the news broke, many peo-ple took to twitter to announce their frustrations. One user tweeted: “I hope @rpurvis_0 gets a Kevin Ware injury.” Another salty fan made a Twitter account, @PurvisSucks, and tweeted “I hope @rpurvis_0 dies in a car wreck on his way to UCon.” He doesn’t deserve any of this. During

the year, Purvis gave Pack Basket-ball his all. He battled through his slumps to help the team succeed. Even when Purvis saw his minutes decline, he never quit.

We can’t forget the great memo-ries Purvis gave us throughout the season. In the Puerto Rico Tip Off final, on a night when most of the veterans went silent, Purvis stepped up and delivered a 16-point, 4-re-bound performance. While we lost the game, Purvis showed deter-mination and continued to play despite being down for most of the game. Also, who can forget Purvis’ breakaway one handed slam during the Duke game? The dunk sent the crowd into frenzy and provided one

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Junior Madeline Pike and the N.C. State Rifling team shot their way to a 38-7 overall record, going 24-0 in SEARC matches and 1-5 in GARC meets. The team finished up its season ranked 13th in the nation.

On March 2nd, Pike became the fourth-straight SEARC individual champion from N.C. State. She led the Wolfpack to back-to-back team titles at the SEARC Champi-onships. This is the Pack’s 7th con-ference title in program history.

“Overall the team is proud that we are able to consistently do well in SEARC,” Pike said. “We are reg-ularly able to place several team members in the finals at SEARC championships, and for the last five years, at least to my knowl-edge, we have been able claim in-dividual champion.”

The team has improved sig-nificantly since last year. This is the first year that the team has claimed a victory in the GARC conference and also the first time the team had shooters in the final at the championship.

“Although the team as a whole is very proud of how we did in SEARC, I think we are prouder of our improvement in our other conference, GARC,” Pike said.

Sophomore Dani Foster went into the GARC conference in 8th place and finished in 7th and Pike went into the GARC conference in 5th place and finished in 3rd.

Rifling is not just about shooting and hitting your target. There is a mental toughness to the sport that

many people do not realize.“Being good in rifle is not as easy

as it seems,” Pike said. “One of the big aspects that most people look over is the mental game required for this sport. Even for beginners, the mental game is also important because there are so many things to remember.”

During each and every shot, the shooter has to make sure that their position is set up the correct way. They have to focus on breathing properly, aiming, squeezing the trigger with just the right amount of pressure and following through after the shot.

That can really take a toll on an

athlete, especially when you have to repeat that process 60 times in one match.

Each team cannot shoot more than 60 shot totals or shoot another competitor’s target or the team gets a penalty. For each competition, the coaches pick the top 5 shooters and the top 4 scores for that event count towards the team total.

“Rifling is one of the few true coed sports, though women’s teams ex-ist, it is the only coed NCAA sport,” Pike said. “So women do indeed compete alongside men in the col-legiate arena.”

The team looks to keep its streak and national rank alive next season.

Even though the team did outstand-ing this year, they know they left some things back on the range.

“Next year, we are all hoping to continue this streak of totally awe-someness,” Pike said. “Personally, next year I want to continue to put forth consistent good performances and make sure my team gets there too. Even when we did well this year, we would still come off the line knowing we left a few points on the table. “

“I hope that next year we will all be able to come off the line and say that we did totally awesome and that there is nothing more I could have done.”

Madeline Pike: A straight shooterRIFLE

TYLER ANDREWS/TECHNICIANMadeline Pike, junior on the N.C. State rifle team. Pike competes in smallbore and air rifle, and became the fourth Woolfpack shooter to win the SEARC individual title in March, 2013.

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RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANFreshman guard Rodney Purvis holds his hands above his head after a foul is called against N.C. State Saturday, March 16, 2013. Purvis had 6 points in the Wolfpack’s 81-71 loss to the Miami Hurricanes at Greensboro Coliseum.

FridayWOMEN’S TENNIS VS. VIRGINIA TECH Blacksburg, VA, 2 p.m.

BASEBALL VS. VIRGINIA TECHRaleigh, 6:30 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS VS. VIRGINIA TECH Raleigh, 4 p.m.

TRACK @ DUKE INVITATIONAL Durham, All Day

TRACK @ FLORIDA RELAYSGainesville, Fla., All Day

SaturdaySOFTBALL VS. MARYLANDRaleigh, 1 p.m

BASEBALL VS. VIRGINIA TECHRaleigh, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS @ NCAA REGIONALS Columbus, OH., 6 p.m.

MEN’S GOLF @ IRISH CREEK COLLEGIATEKannapolis, All Day

TRACK @ DUKE INVITATIONAL Durham, All Day

TRACK @ FLORIDA RELAYSGainesville, Fla., All Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Rifling is one

of the few true

coed sports,

though women’s

teams exist, it

is the only coed

NCAA sport.”Madeline Pike

Holloway named ACC Coach of the YearN.C. State’s Braden Holloway has been named the ACC Men’s Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year, the conference announced Thursday. The first N.C. State coach to be named ACC Men’s Coach of the Year since 1992, Holloway oversaw a Wolfpack squad that placed fifth at the ACC Championship before finishing the season as the highest ACC team at the NCAA Championship. N.C. State had two individual swimmers and four relays earn All-America honors as the Wolfpack’s NCAA showing was its best since 1979.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS, ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE

Wolfpack seniors star in 3-point contestSenior guard Marissa Kastanek and senior forward Scott Wood participated in the College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships, each shooting in the 3-point competition. Wood had a stellar first round, earning 21 points to advance to the semifinals where he was eliminated. Kastanek posted 24 points in her first round matchup, the highest of the night. She advanced to the finals and finished in second place behind Indiana’s Aulani Sinclair.

SOURCE: ESPN

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