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Shaw president resigns as former interim president returns.

John WallNews Editor

With pressure coming from around campus, Irma McClaurin resigned her position as president of Shaw Univer-sity Aug. 9.

Chairman of Shaw’s Board of Trust-ees Willie Gary made the announce-ment, and named Dorothy Yancy as interim president. It is her second time serving in the position.

Ryan Girlie, a student at Shaw, said McClaurin’s per-sonality clashed with those on the Board. She described her-self as a “student leader,” and had k nowledge of administrative goings-on.

“It was a per-sonality as far as the board was concerned. It was her first time be-ing president,” Girlie said.

The former president had heat com-ing all sides. Current students as well as graduates were not happy with the way she went about leading the his-torically black University.

“Some faculty was upset with some things. Local alumni had some com-plaints that they never saw her and she never went to meetings. Some faculty that were fired – obviously had some grievances,” Girlie said.

Yancy was the 14-year president of Johnson C. Smith University of

Charlotte, N.C. before her first run as Shaw’s interim president, also ac-cording to the Shaw website.

While under her watch, the school raised $145 million, and increased its endowment from $14 million to $53 million – something that Shaw needs as damaged buildings still require repair.

McClaurin was in charge when a tornado rocked campus. Due to her efforts, classes began on time, stu-dents had residence halls to sleep in and a temporary cafeteria to eat in – their only on-campus place to eat was totally destroyed.

“One thing I think [McClau-rin] and her ad-ministration did well was manage the aftermath of the tornado in a very safe fash-ion. We had a lot of students on campus that had to be evacuated, and I do think that was handled well,” Girlie said.

No official comment was made. The University’s website made brief men-tion of McClaurin, simply saying she had resigned.

Faculty and staff at Shaw are not allowed to speak with reporters un-less the communications department clears them. Sherri Fillingham of pub-lic relations declined comment, and Chairman Gary could not be reached for comment.

Shaw is up for accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools next year. Although Girlie

said she thought the school would retain its accreditation, she had some misgivings.

“There are some people that have said we might not have accredita-tion,” Girlie said. “I think Shaw needs to get its house in order.”

The Board of Trustees needs to be held accountable for actions of University leaders, and the school needs accountability “across the board,” according to Girlie.

In her first term as interim presi-dent, Yancy employed a hands-on approach to University manage-ment. She could be seen around campus daily, and would take the time to sit in on classes. Students living on campus would see her walking around dorms and attend-ing church in the chapel.

According to the Shaw website, Yancy was welcomed back with open arms.

“The Shaw family is excited about the prospect of having Dr. Yancy come back to lead us through the SACS (Southern As-sociation of Colleges and Schools) re-accreditation and beyond.

“There is jubilation in the air and excitement all over campus. We’ve had a great faculty and staff meeting and we all look forward to an outstanding 2011-2012 aca-demic year,” Gary said at a press conference.

Although she left under scru-tiny, Girlie said McClaurin was a good leader, just not the one Shaw needed.

“McClaurin is still a leader; I just don’t necessarily know if her leadership qualities were the right fit for Shaw,”Girle said.

“McClaurin is still

a leader; I just don’t

necessarily know

if her leadership

qualities were the

right fit for Shaw.”Ryan Girlie, student at Shaw University

Justin Rose and Elise HeglarDeputy News Editors

Earthquake tremors were felt through-out North Carolina Tuesday afternoon due to an earthquake that hit Virginia about 38 miles outside of Richmond.

The earthquake, which the United States Geological Survey reported having preliminary magnitude of 6.7, is poten-tially the second largest East Coast earth-quake in recorded history. The largest earthquake recorded happened in 1886 in Charleston, S.C. and killed 60 people, according to the USGS.

The last time an earthquake of compa-rable magnitude occurred in N.C. was al-most a century ago in Waynesville, N.C., at a magnitude of 5.2.

Ji-young Shin, a freshman in chem-istry, described the experience as somewhat surreal. Shin was on the first floor of D.H. Hill Library.

“I felt like every-thing was moving but everyone was so calm. I thought I was the crazy one,” Shin said.

Graduate student in food bioprocessing and nutrition sciences Johari Jordan was in the food science-building lab and saw more dramatic effects.

“We all kind of felt it and braced our-selves. When we looked at each other we realized it was an earthquake so we were trying to get everything together and get out...it really got your adrenaline pump-ing,” Jordan said.

Some students, like Stephanie Phillips, a junior in middle school science educa-tion, were higher up in buildings and felt the effects more easily.

“I was in my classroom on the third floor of Poe and I started feeling a shak-ing almost like a train was going by,”

Phillips said.Some students, like freshman in First

Year College Kathleen Caldwell, did not feel any of the tremors but found out about the earthquake secondhand.

“I was in psychology in Dabney and I didn’t know anything happened. I was a bit disappointed. I wanted to feel it,” Caldwell said.

Shortly after the University realized the tremors were from the earthquake, a Wolf Alert was issued.

“At 1:50, an earthquake occurred 150 miles NE of Raleigh. Minor tremors are possible for the next six hours. No re-ported damage to NCSU facilities,” the message said.

Governor Bev Perdue, who was in Greensboro, said she was equally sur-

prised and confused until she, like many others, turned to her cell phone for infor-mation.

“I had no idea what was going on until I looked at a Black-berry and saw it,” Perdue said. “Who would have thought we would be talking about an earthquake and a hurricane in the

same press briefing?”Perdue went on to say that as of Tuesday

afternoon there were no reported dam-ages or injuries.

“There have been no requests for any kind of assistance anywhere in the state,” Perdue said. “It is something really un-usual, but it does not seem to have dam-aged anything significant.”

Del Bohnenstiehl, an assistant profes-sor of geophysics, was in the middle of a lecture when the quake hit Raleigh. The graduate level geology class was actually discussing earthquakes when the projec-tor screen started to shake.

“My first reaction was that it was con-struction since earthquakes are so rare

The Pack not shaken by earthquakeEarthquakE trEmors throughout North

CaroliNa did Not CausE major damagE.

“I felt like everything

was moving but

everyone was so calm.

I thought I was the

crazy one.”Ji-young Shin, freshman in chemistry

St. Augustine, 1879Minor Damage

Morgan County, 1914Magnitude: 4.5

Charleston, 1886Magnitude: 7.3

Raleigh:Intensity: LightDamage: None

Richmond:Intensity: StrongDamage: Moderate

Washington D.C.:Intensity: ModerateDamage: None

Philadelphia:Intensity: LightDamage: None

New York:Intensity: LightDamage: None

Charleston, 1886Magnitude: 7.3

the time line of earthquakes in the past 150 years. the left side presents the magnitude of the principle earthquakes on the east coast. the right side represents the major cities affected.

Giles County, 1897Magnitude: 5.9

Hurricane stays the course, in-tensity uncertainSee page 3.

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Four State graduates form ‘R&R Podcast’See page 8.

Designing fabrics that don’t fade out of styleSee page 5.

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Campus CalendaR

TodayHumans Vs. Zombies: infectionAll DayN.C. State Campus

Prague institute information session12:30-1:30 p.m.Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner HallStudent abroad opportunities in the Czech Republic.

Jay LeVine 4:30-5:30 p.m.Department of EntomologyColony collapse disorder and honey bee health.

Women’s center and Wgs oPen House6:00-8:00 p.m.Talley Student Center, Room 3118Join the Women’s Center and the Women and Gender Studies Program this Wednesday for an Open House. This will be an opportunity to meet Deborah Hooker, the new director for Women and Gender Studies and Ashley Simons-Rudolph, the new director of the Women’s Center.

nasHa tryouts7:00-10:00 p.m.Carmichael Recreation CenterN.C. State Nasha is N.C. State’s only Bollywood dance team, and we have a place for every kind of dancer. Whether you’re a boy, a girl, a classical dancer, a hip-hopper, or just love to dance, come out for tryouts and see what we’re all about.

student senate meeting7:30-10:30 p.m.314 Harrelson HallAll students are welcome to attend meetings. Please come and be informed.

HaroLd and Kumar go to WHite castLe10:00-11:30 p.m.Witherspoon CinemaAn Asian-American office worker and his Indian-American stoner friend embark on a quest to satisfy their desire for White Castle burgers. Admission is free.

Thursdaybanana sPLit day10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.Clark and Fountain Dining HallsBeat the heat with a banana split at Clark and Fountain Dining Halls during lunch.

soiL science sPeciaL seminar1:00-2:00 p.m.Williams HallDr. Jesse E. Bell, a drought and soil climate specialist, will present “U.S. Climate Reference Network Overview and Soil Moisture and Temperature Monitoring.”

msa fast-a-tHon6:30-9:30 p.m.Talley BallroomThe Muslim Student Association is holding a day-long fast for non-Muslims. Everyone participating is invited to the Talley Ballroom to break the fast that night.

read smart booK discussion: bLood, bones & butter7:00-8:00 p.m.Cameron Village Public LibraryDr. Sarah Ash, professor of nutrition and undergraduate coordinator for nutrition science at N.C. State, will moderate a book discussion of Gabrielle Hamilton’s bestselling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter. Join us for a fascinating conversation about a book Anthony Bourdain called, “Magnificent. Simply the best memoir by a chef ever. Ever.”

Kung fu Panda 27:00-9:00 p.m.Witherspoon CinemaPo joins forces with a group of new kung-fu masters to take on an old enemy with a deadly new weapon.

X-men: first cLass9:00-11:30 p.m.Witherspoon CinemaIn 1962, Charles Xavier starts up a school and later a team, for humans with superhuman abilities. Among them is Erik Lensherr, his best friend... and future archenemy.

eKtaa, dsi and ind bacK to scHooL miXer9:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m.The Union Raleigh

LocaL beer, LocaL band9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.Tir Na Nog Irish PubOne of WKNC’s favorite bands, Lonnie Walker, is headlining Local Band this Thursday and Wylie Hunter & The Cazadores are joining them. Lonnie Walker plays music influenced by the likes of The Talking Heads and Bob Dylan. Wylie Hunter draws from the more straight ahead influences of people like The Stones but still have their own original sound that is very tight.

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Cool gun, broPHOTO By tim o’brien

Heath Robinson, junior in biomedical engineering, readies his Nerf gun as he cautiously makes his way to Wolf Village Tuesday. The game of Zombies vs. Humans started at 11 p.m. Monday night with about 500 humans and one

zombie. “If anything, this game is making me want to stay inside and do work so I can avoid Zombies,” Robinson said.

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poliCe BloTTeRAugust 228:26 a.m. | traffic accidentVarsity Drive/Sullivan DriveStudent was issued citation after making an illegal turn and striking a stop sign.

10:00 a.m. | LarcenyTalley Student CenterStaff member reported theft of three metal garbage receptacles.

3:21 P.m. | susPicious Person D.H. Hill LibraryReport of subject attempting to break bicycle lock. Officers made contact with student attempting to remove lock from his bicycle.

4:47 P.m. | susPicious PersonCarter Finley StadiumStudent reported suspicious subject soliciting ride. Investigation was opened.

7:02 P.m. | LarcenyD.H. Hill LibraryReport of stolen laptop. Investigation revealed laptop was not stolen but moved to another location.

7:09 P.m. | damage to ProPertyFree Expression TunnelReport of subject spray painting stairs, brick wall and wolf statues. Area was checked but suspect was not located. Facilities was notified.

11:37 P.m. | assauLtBrickyardStudent was referred for assault after striking another student during a game. Victim declined to press criminal charges. Appropriate personnel were notified.

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around here,” Boh-nenstiehl said.

Bohnenstiehl added that while N.C. does get a magnitude four or five earthquake every few decades, to have a 5.9-magnitude quake occur so close is not something one sees ev-ery day. This is because the fault lines around N.C. are fairly stable, though Bohnenstiehl pointed out that Tues-day’s earthquake was a reminder they aren’t completely inactive.

“We’re a lower hazard here, and as a result we don’t have much moni-toring equipment,” he said.

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quoTe of The day

“There is jubila-tion in the air

and excitement all over cam-

pus. We’ve had a great faculty

and staff meet-ing and we all

look forward to an outstanding 2011-2012 aca-

demic year.”Willie Gary, chairman of

Shaw’s Board of Trustees

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as the wind speed picks up, the storm takes mist off the ocean surface and picks up a lot of moisture.

as storm winds intensify, the hurricane picks up more moisture.

Heat in the atmosphere lowers pressure, creating stronger and faster winds. the lower the pressure, the more intense the storm.

this release of energy translates to increase in heat. Hot water turns to hot air.

this moisture, water vapor technically, comes from hot surface water above 79 degrees Fahrenheit, and releases energy into the atmosphere.

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73/74 mph38/39 mph 210 mphHurricanetropical

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Hurricane stays the course, intensity uncertainHurricane Irene is set to hit the N.C. coast Saturday but meteorologists can’t predict its strength.

Mark HerringFeatures Editor

Category 1 Hurricane Irene weak-ened from a category 2 Tuesday af-ternoon, but according to meteo-rology Assistant Professor Anantha Aiyyer, the storm is likely to regain strength.

“Hurricane Irene is entering into an environment that is very favor-able for development, but it’s not too intense now,” Aiyyer said.

Irene became a hurricane Mon-day after exceeding 74 miles-per-hour.

According to David Church, grad-uate student in marine, earth and

atmospheric sciences and member of the tropical meteorology group, Hurricane Irene is a typical storm of this hurricane season.

“The sea surface temperatures are high, between 28 and 29 de-grees Celsius [82-84 degrees Fahr-enheit],” Church said. “Anything above 26 degrees is warm and favor-able for a storm like this.”

Storms need energy, and hurri-canes rely on warm water. This fuel, according to Church, drives the cycle of the winds and the greater the temperature of the water, the more fuel available to the storm. High water temperatures corre-spond directly with the progression of hurricane season.

“End of August, early September we get into the peak of hurricane season,” Church said.

Although Irene, which progressed from a tropical storm, to a category

2 and currently down to a category 1 is projected to intensify the closer it gets to the N.C. coast.

“When you have a storm like this, which is forecasted to be a larger than average, you have to pay close atten-tion to the various factors the drive it,” Church said. “It can very well pick up en-ergy and increase.”

G ove r nor B e v Perdue urged N.C. residents Tuesday afternoon to prepare for the storm and to stock up at least three days of food and water.

“Our state’s veteran emergency management team is ready for Irene, but our fellow North Caro-

linians need to be just as prepared,” Purdue said. “If you need tips or information on any of your prepa-rations, please go towww.readync.

org.”Students from the

coast may expect family to come to Raleigh and the Piedmont to avoid the high winds, bu-tAiyyer warned or inland flooding.

“Make sure to avoid low lying ar-eas of topography and a lso creeks and streams,” Ai-yyer said. “We may not experience the same winds of the

storm, but it is expected to see a lot of rainfall.”

Alton Russell, a sophomore in

biomedical engineering, is from Wilmington, N.C. and has expe-rienced hurricanes Fran, Bertha and Floyd.

“I remember boarding up win-dows, filling up our bathtub with water and loading up on batteries and f lashlights,” Russell said. “I honestly don’t know what my fam-ily is preparing to do for Irene, but I’m sure we have plenty of practice.”

The trajectory of the hurricane is not expected to veer off course, according to Aiyyer, but weather is a fickle thing.

“All I can recommend is to stay posted to local news and keep fol-lowing the storm,” Aiyyer said. “There are many factors that con-tribute to the storm, but nothing beats updated and new information to base one’sdecisions.”

The cycle of a hurricaneBefore a storm, three things are requires: heat, water and low pressure.

Source: DaviD church

“All I can

recommend is

to stay posted to

local news and

keep following

the storm.”Anantha Aiyyer, assitant

professor in marine, earth and atmospheric sciences

The bike lane on Hillsborough Street is an acci-

dent waiting to happen. It encourages cyclists to ride in an area where trans-

portation planners, league certified

instructors, and transpor-tation experts know to be unsafe. This area is known as the door zone. The door zone is the four feet to the left of a parked car. Drivers in the U.S. are not trained to look over their shoulder for cyclists before opening their car door. As a result, many cyclists have been killed from drivers opening their doors into the path of cyclists. The fundamental design and placement of the bike lane is flawed. It is like putting railroad tracks across a road without any sort of gates, markings or flashing lights.

Myself and other cycling advocates refuse to ride in the bike lane because of its unsafe location inside the door zone. Instead, I pur-sue the safer alternative; I claim my legal right to the street and ride in the middle of the lane. One problem that has been created with this new bike lane installed is that cars honk at me more frequently because they as-sume that I must ride in the bike lane. Before the bike lane was installed, I claimed my legal right to the street

and very few, if any, motorists honked.

This bike lane is a baited trap. It is only a matter of time until a new, inexperienced cy-clist is hit by an opening door and is seriously injured or killed. Cyclists can be injured not only from the door opening in front of them, but also from swerving left and hitting a car or bus to avoid a door.

I would rather have no bike lane than a poorly placed bike lane that invites inexperienced cyclists to ride in an area that we know to be unsafe.

Many cyclists have suggested a better alternative: sharrows. Sharrows are bicycles w i t h t wo chev-rons paint-ed on the roadway to remind mo-torists that bicycles are likely to be on the roadway. The two chevrons serve the purpose of telling the cyclist where and which direction on the roadway to ride. Sharrows are great for cyclists because they remind motorists that bicycles are en-titled to the roadway. Examples of sharrows can be seen on Dan Allen Drive.

Placing sharrows in the mid-dle of the lane will decrease the honking and harassment faced by cyclists on Hillsborough Street. They also tell inexperi-enced cyclists where it is safest to ride. There are no negative effects from the placement

of sharrows since traffic on Hillsborough Street is so slow anyway.

However, sharrows, like bike lanes, can be implemented wrongly. Examples of this can be seen in Jefferson City, Mo. and Seattle, Wash. Placing sharrows where the bike lane is currently located would be a mistake since it would encour-age cars to pass in an area where it is unsafe. Instead, sharrows should be placed in the middle of the lane. This would have the effect of letting motorists know that it is safe and legal for cy-clists to ride in the middle of the lane. This would also great-

ly discourage unsafe pass-ing and ha-rassment of cyclists.

In the fu-ture the city can ensure bicycle fa-cilities (shar-

rows, bike lanes, wide outside lanes) are placed in the correct location by having two or three League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructors (LCIs) involved in the process of implementation of bicycle fa-cilities. Had LCIs been involved in the planning process of this bike lane, it would have been very unlikely that this design would have had their blessing.

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A researcher for N.C. State recently failed to protect sensitive information

pertaining to 1,800 elementary school students from the pub-lic. This is not the first breach in information security this year. In the past year, Sony, the FBI and FOX have all had lapses in their security and information was released pertaining to their customers and employees.

As scary as it is, there’s noth-ing you can do about these security lapses. These lapses are out of your control; how-ever, there are security vulner-abilities students subject them-selves to on a daily basis that are within their control.

In the pursuit of wireless In-ternet access, many of us link our Internet connections to a wireless router. Routers can be beneficial, as they allow the transmission of data through-

out its range. However, if left unsecured, they can prove damaging.

A router that offers access without password protection allows anyone within the sig-nal’s range to access not only the router’s Internet connec-tion, but also the computers linked to the router, enabling access to files on those linked.

Not securing your router is almost as bad as not securing your computer at all.

Our computers house our lives.

They contain our schedules, thoughts, memories and hold the passwords that grant access to the rest of the world.

It is quite surprising, then, to find people who still do not re-

quire a password for access to their computer.

The threat of this lapse in judgment is not confined sim-ply to your roommate chang-ing your Facebook status to something profane—it’s a real threat to your security, both in-tellectual and personal.

It only takes one person with the fortitude to steal your com-puter for you to lose every-thing, and if you have ever had a bike on campus, then you are aware this character trait is abundant.

Unprotected cell phones present a similar threat to un-protected computers. As the capabilities of cell phones in-crease, so does the amount of personal information put on

them. Smart phone users can link their emails, Facebook and bank accounts to their phones. Even the most basic phones hold personal details conveyed through text messages, call logs and voicemails.

Protecting a cell phone is as easy as programming in a four-digit password. It may seem inconvenient, entering a pass-word every time phone access is desired; however, it is worth the piece of mind it provides if the phone is lost.

There is a simple rule of thumb for information secu-rity in this digital age: any de-vice that allows for password protection should be password protected. Make the extra ef-fort and protect your informa-tion whenever possible, it is a simple act that offers piece of mind.

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.

Password protect everythingThe FacTs:Personal, financial and intellectual information have increasingly been digitized and stored on our electronic devices. This digitization of this information provides easy access for its owner and, in some cases, those who do not own it.

Our OpiniOn:Deep into the digital age, students still leave their information unsecured. Students should make every effort to password protect any information they deem important.

New ticketing system rewards loyalty

This year, N.C. State has a new ticketing system for football and basket-

ball games. Student Govern-ment sings its praises, touting it as the “most comprehensive

and student friendly” ticket system out of any of the oth-ers they have encountered. Personally, I completely a g r e e w i t h the choice to s w i t c h ou r ticketing sys-

tem, for it has some great new features the previous ticketing system did not include.

One of the changes that will benefit everyone is an increase in the number of student tickets available for events at Carter-Finley Stadium and the RBC Center. According to the Student Government announcement, students now hold 10,000 of the available 57,583 seats at Carter-Finley and 4,500 of t he 19,70 0 seats at the RBC Center.

The benefit to students is easy to see : an increase i n s t udent seating means an increase in the amount of students that can attend each game.

My favorite change in the ticketing system is the RBC Center’s adoption of general admission for the student seat-ing.

When you receive a ticket to a basketball game, you will no longer be assigned a seat. Instead, like football games, the seats will be first-come-first-serve. To me, this is fairer than assigned seating. Being rewarded for showing up early makes more sense, especially with the new reward system.

With the new reward system each student begins the season with a set point total based on class: seniors have nine, juniors seven, sophomores five, fresh-man three. The new reward system then allots bonus points for attending events and arriv-ing early. The more points you earn, the higher loyalty level you can achieve.

The best thing about this is that loyalty points associated with each level (Level 1=1, Level 2=2, etc.) carry over to that sport next season.

Student Government gives the example: “So a rising se-nior who achieved the third level in football would start his/her senior football season with 12 points.” This is because the senior starts out with nine points and has gained an ad-ditional three through reach-ing the third loyalty level in the previous season.

As a huge N.C. State sports fan, this system is perfect for people like me. We get re-warded for loving the Wolfpack and that’s the way it should be. The first 25 percent of tickets are awarded solely on loyalty, so all those die-hard fans will still get to go to the games. The remaining 75 percent of tickets are based on a weighted lottery.

Another great facet of the new ticketing system is the no-show

policy. If you get a ticket to the game and don’t go, you get punished. Depending on how many no-shows you accumulate, t he pol ic y could cause you to lose all student tick-

eting privileges. This may seem a bit harsh,

but it makes sense. If you can’t show up, then you don’t de-serve to get a ticket because you could be taking it away from someone who can show up.

The last part of the new poli-cy—no more group system— is causing the most outrage but is a welcomed change.

With the group system, sometimes freshmen got tick-ets to highprofile games when seniors did not.

Seniors have been at school the longest, put in the most work, and been fans the lon-gest. They have earned their high loyalty points and a right to seats.

Each change in the new tick-eting system will be highly ben-eficial to N.C. State and hope-fully will stay for years to come.

Send Madison your thoughts on the ticketing policy to let-ters@technicianonline.com.

MadisonMurphyStaff Columnist

Make n.c. state safe for cyclists.

Rachel Jordan, sophomore in architecture

“The more points

you earn the

higher loyalty

level you can

achieve.”

Bike lanes are not safe

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Faded clothing and upholstery have become facts of life, but researchers are working to change that.

Aamir OgnawalaCorrespondent

Fabric and text i les are great—until they fade. Greg Parsons and Chris Oldham from the biomolecular engi-neering department are try-ing to change that with the help of Jesse Jur of the College of Textiles.

These recipients of the Chan-cellor’s Innovation Fund have identified UV resistant fabrics as fundamen-tal changes to be applied to modern tex-tile manufac-turing. These technical fabrics don’t r u n che ap though, ac-cord i ng to Ju r. T he se materials use nano-coating of semi-con-ductor fibers.

“Atomic layer deposi-tion is more common in the semiconductor industry,” Jur said. “Dr. Par-sons, Dr. Oldham and myself have worked to develop those principles on fibers to create nano-coatings that add new function to textiles.”

Jur himself has a background in semiconductors.

Atomic layer deposition is a technique by which vapors react to grow nano-scale ma-terials on a surface, in this case

the fabric, Parsons said. This technique results in uniform coating around each individual fiber in the fabric.

“We will be testing fabrics such as Nylon, Polyester and cotton,” Oldham said.

According to Jur, this will be a cheaper and greener alterna-tive to fabrics that are UV re-sistant.

“This project basically in-volves nano coating on textiles that is up to 100 nanometers thick using gas phase process,” Jur said. “This adds new sur-face properties to the textile and makes them resistant to UV rays.

This Chancellor’s Innova-tion project will further develop what w e k n o w about pro-ducing these functional coatings on tex t i le s to make them resistant to U V r ad i a-tion. We will get valuable information that can ad-va nce t h i s technology closer to mar-

ket.”The possible use of such

fabrics goes beyond every day wear. According to Oldham, one problem with existing methods for applying UV pro-tection is the breathability of a fabric can be lost.

“The coatings that we are de-veloping will provide breath-ability,” Oldham said. “This could help our military where you need to set up tents in

hot places like Iraq. These tents need UV protection and breathability as well which can be provided by the coatings we are developing.”

The fabrics currently in the market that can provide long term (5 years) UV protec-tion can cost as much as $150 per yard. Fabrics with short term UV protection (< 500 hours) cost between $5 to 15 per yard.

“Our coatings should pro-vide consumers the option of buying UV resistant fabrics at a

reasonable cost,” Oldham said.The project that started in

July this year is being funded by the Chancellors Innova-tion Fund among others and has been granted $75,000. The first phase is expected to be complete within a year from now.

One of the problems at this point of time is that the process that is being used to coat the fabrics requires a highly con-trolled environment.

Making ALD adaptable to a continuous process, similar to

roll-to-roll production of tex-tiles, represents a major chal-lenge.

“In the next phase, we are aiming at developing these fab-rics by using more traditional methods that are used in the industry. This will allow pro-duction of these fabrics on a large scale,” Oldham said.

Many have experienced the color of clothes fading away when exposed to sunlight for a long time. An added advantage of the coating is that the feel and texture of the fabric will

not be lost. So when buying a UV pro-

tected cotton product, there will be the same feel and com-fort that cotton provides and it won’t be possible to detect the presence of coating unless chemically tested.

“There are a lot of challenges for taking a technology out of the lab and into market. These funds will allow our team to make that advancement must faster,” Jur said. “We expect this project to shorten the time to market.”

outdated requirements:

In the past, NASA selected for characteristics like height and weight, but today the requirements have relaxed, Brown said.“In the old days, all the test pilots were short.” Brown said.They were all under 5 feet 11 inches, which NASA required. Very few of them were scientists. According to Brown, the guys with the right stuff would be the odd ones out of the pool of candidates today.

3. stable mental healthThe stress of handling a piece of equipment like a space shuttle is nerve wrecking—Endeavour cost more than $1.7 billion according to NASA.According to Brown, mental health is a large factor in recruitment.“The mental and psychological aspect is important in the case that people spend long, stressful periods of time together and need to cooperate,” Brown said.

4. be a team player

Claustrophobia and anxiety are prevailing factors, but under stress astronauts need to work as a cohesive group to get up to space and back to earth safely.“In the past, NASA did something called ‘select out,’” Brown said. “They would have a whole bunch of people that are suitable and then they would kick people out of their pool because they were a little deficient here or there. Whereas the Russians would ‘select in’ and look at the characteristics of a whole crew and see how complimentary they were to each other. The crew was seen as a team.”

1. stay in school

“Astronauts are expected to have very high levels of education, so stay in school and get an advanced degree,” Brown said. “Engineering is very big and medicine is important too. Computer science, astrophysics, anything…but as long as it’s an advanced degree is key.”According to Brown, NASA doesn’t expect everyone to be a test or fighter pilot. Astronauts don’t watch movies at the International Space Station but rather carry out rigorous research.“You have to have the mindset of a scientist,” Brown said.

2. stand out

A masters degree, doctorate or ability to fly will not make an application stick out. Nor will being a pilot or military commander provide an edge. Of the current 95 American astronauts, 62 have experience as pilots and high ranking officers in the military.“If you are going to be competing with all the other thousands of people that want to be astronauts, you have to have done something that makes you stand out,” Brown said. “You climbed Everest. You proved that you can withstand hardships.”

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Designing fabrics that do not fade out of style

“We are aiming at

developing these

fabrics by using

more traditional

methods that

are used in

the industry.”Chris Oldham, biomolecular

engineering department

matt nudi/technicianChris Oldham, a postdoctoral research scholar working in the Chemical and Biomolecular Lab in EB1, describes the process of how to make fibers UV resistant on Aug. 16. “The nano-coatings are created by forming a chemical reaction between the fibers and the gases that make up the coating. Not only can the technology be used to treat fibers, they can be used to protect historical documents from UV damage,” Oldham said.

Being an astronaut requires more than ‘the right stuff’

July 21, the last flight of shuttle Atlantis, marked the end of the space program—but that doesn’t mean the ambitions of aspiring astronauts should fall out of style like the shuttle, according to N.C. Space Grant Director and associate vice chancellor

for research development, Chris Brown.

When NASA began in 1959 they first selected as-tronauts from the military, accepting 7 men with jet aircraft experience. Over the years the requirements shifted from just being able to fly spacecraft to astro-nauts conducting experiments and research in space. Six years after selecting the first pilots with “the right stuff,” NASA appointed six scientist astronauts with

doctorate degrees.According to Brown aspiring astronauts no lon-

ger need to worry about being “superhuman,” as Hollywood portrayed the first space explorers, but rather scholarly and motivated.

The following are Brown’s tips for achieving the competitive edge.

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Zombie-themed movies, TV shows and now competi-tions between students have launched the undead into mainstream popularity—but some political scientists and policy makers have looked into the pop-culture epidemic with

intrigue.Daniel Drezner, political

science professor from the University of Chicago and col-umnist of Foreign Policy, pub-lished Theories of International Politics and Zombies in light of the craze, which is not just a

contemporary popular trend, but one that dates back to bibli-cal times.

“There are many natural sources of fear in world poli-tics,” Drezner wrote. “Ter-rorist attacks, lethal pandem-ics, natural disasters, climate

change…[but] it is striking how an unnatural problem has become one of the fastest grow-ing concerns in international relations. I speak, of course, of zombies.”

Drezner is not alone in the conspiracy of zombie affairs. Mark Keen, assistant profes-sor of microbiology, compared human fears of zombies to dis-eases like kuru and mad cow disease.

According to Keen, the off-shoots of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, caused by an animal eating the flesh of its own species, may be natural inspiration to our fascination with zombies. He also com-pared unfortunate vampire love affairs to sexually trans-mitted infections.

The infection of zombies on campus has brought the issue to attention. Currently, there is no public health recourse in the case of an undead epidemic.

According to Debora h Threadgill, assistant professor in microbiology and instructor of global public health courses, epidemics are managed from a local scale.

“The CDC, Center for Dis-ease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta was tracking back dur-ing the H1N1 craze,”Threadgill said. “They were getting up-dates from locals. Each state was getting updates from state healthlabs.”

In the case of a zombie epi-

demic, public health lab and hospitals would update state centers on the outbreak, which would then forward the infor-mation to the CDC, according to Threadgill.

Once an infection, outbreak or pathogen on the loose is identified, the government and private sector then collaborate to create a vaccine.

“Usually, vaccines will go to the private sector,” Threadgill said. “Novartis is always in-volved with flu vaccines and jumped on the swine f lu re-search quickly. CDC will see if a certain vaccine will work, but there are some companies that specialize in vaccine pro-duction. “

According to Threadgill, drug companies developed the H1N1 vaccine quickly, despite lab difficulties in culturing the virus. But vaccine production is not just about making money for Big Pharma, but is of tre-mendous public health con-sequence too, Threadgill said.

Threadgill said Dr. Robert Neville, the character of Will Smith in I am Legend, was a good example of an optimistic approach to curing a zombie attack.

Other popular movies tend to take violent approaches to the zombie solution, but in accor-dance to the Hippocratic Oath, doctors and public health of-ficials must do no harm.

Quarantine is the next best

option.“Hospitals have a triage

system in which people who need the most care get it first,” Threadgill said. “In the case of epidemics and hospitals are overwhelmed, there is home quarantine when there is no room in thehospital.”

But public health officials like to stop diseases before they spread, according to Thread-gill. In the age of high-speed transportation, an illness like SARS or avian flu can spread across borders quickly.

“Global health focuses not on just studying epidemics but also halting the spread of them,” Threadgill said. “Policy can then work with medicine to isolate a disease to a contained space so others don’t get in-fected.”

When vaccines, antibiotics and quarantine don’t work, sometimes infected communi-ties have to wait it out. It seems like N.C. State will have to wait it out until the end of this week.

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SportsPublic address announcer Dr. Edward Funkhouser faces challenges that are outside the box.

Jeniece JamisonSenior Staff Writer

Dr. Edward Funkhouser, a professor in the Communi-cation Department, has been the man behind the voice of the N.C. State football and women’s basketball programs for 12 years, and will continue to do so in the aftermath of one of the most difficult times of his life.

Dr. Funkhouser has been battling cancer since May o f t h i s year, but this is not t he f i r s t time in his l i fe t hat he has ex-perienced hardships w it h h i s health or any of his loved ones. He lost his wife in 2010 from lung cancer after a two-year battle with the disease.

“I’ve had some health issues in 2006 when I had open-heart surgery,” Dr. Funkhouser said. “I had five heart bypasses. I’ve never had a heart attack, ever, so I was fortunate in that sense but I had heart disease. Earlier this year I wasn’t feeling well

and it was determined that I had a cancer called non Hodg-kins’ lymphoma of a subcatego-ry called a B cell. I’ve been tak-ing chemotherapy since May.

“It’s gone very well, the un-derstanding is that this par-ticular cancer has gone away. I don’t have any hair but it will start coming back the first of October. “

Dr. Funkhouser displayed an immense amount of strength during his ordeal by finishing the semester when he was diag-nosed and continuing to teach during the summer months without missing a class.

Justin Wilson, a senior in communication-media could

tell that he was getting sick when he was i n h i s class dur-ing the spring 2011 se-mester.

“I was i n h i s class-room,”

Wilson said. “He said that he was sick but he never actually told us. We cancelled class a couple of times towards the end of the semester, then when it came time for the final exam he told us that someone would be here but he wasn’t sure that it would be him. He ended up being there for the final exam so I was really glad to see him.”

Through this difficult time, Dr. Funkhouser says that he finds his comfort zone away from the intense treatments in both the classroom and the press box.

“It does take my mind off of it and I’ve had a really good time the past couple of months of my life,” Dr.Funkhouser said. “I haven’t had a problem. I truly cannot say that the chemo-therapy has made me horribly sick. I’m looking forward to the semester, looking forward to football this fall.

“I’m looking forward to do-ing the home football games and women’s basketball this fall and winter. I often do other things that come along, such baseball every now and then.”

He has also been noted as an innovator in the public address field, as he coined the famous “first down” chant that is now used by other schools and many professional football teams. He first introduced the chant during his first game as the Pack’s announcer against the Clemson Tigers in 1999.

“I would do the emphasis of ‘That’s another Wolfpack’ and then I would say, ‘first down’, deliberately, giving the idea that people would join in,” Dr. Funkhouser said. “Eventually, in that game on that night the fans all cheered in and shouted, ‘first down’, during the game. It was very quick and then here-after we’ve been doing it and now football teams all across the country are doing exactly what we do. For example, the Miami Dolphins say, “It’s an-other Dolphins first down.”

But, the true measure of any educator or individual is their willingness to extend their hand out to help others. And in Dr. Funkhouser’s case he’s had a huge impact on both Pack football fans as well as his stu-dents.

“Dr. Funkhouser is a great guy, he actually wrote a rec-ommendation for an intern-ship that I applied for,” Wilson said. “He’s always been willing to do whatever he can to help out a student.”

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luis zapata/agromeck file photoEd Funkhouser announces the football game against North Carolina on Nov. 28, 2009. The team defeated UNC 28-27.

Funkhouser: The voice of the Pack

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actually wrote a

recommendation for

an internship that I

applied for.”Justin Wilson,

senior in communication-media

Since that episode, Amato has participated in each of the podcasts as a call-in guest.

While the presence of Amato on the show adds an-other element that the four hosts did not previously have,Curle said the addi-tion would not be possible without moving the show to Amedeo’s and meeting Dave Parker, a minority share-holder of the restaurant.

“He’s been a big ad-dition to the program,” Curle said. “And having him on the show wouldn’t have been possible without Dave [Parker]. Dave knows Chuck very well and said he could probably get him on the podcast, so of course I said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it!’

For the last three weeks, the show has had a major overhaul with the move and addition of Amato, but Curle said the relationship with Parker is what has brought the show to new places.

“Dave’s connections have allowed us to have access to some other folks that nor-mally we wouldn’t have ac-cess to,” Curle said. “We’ve talked about getting Ernie Myers, Dereck Whittenburg and Chris Corchiani on the show during basketball sea-son.

“Dave has really been the one who has dreamed big for us. That’s something back in May, when we start-ed the podcast, that I would have never imagined would be possible.”

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After five years with the Wolfpack, captain scores game-winning goal.

Phillip MisklowCorrespondent

The sound of a referee’s whistle could barely be heard over the screams of the crazed fans during Sunday’s women’s soccer game. Alex Berger, a senior defenseman, was the reason why.

Tanya Cain had the best scoring opportunity of the day when she beat the Midshipmen’s lone de-fender in the box and then looked to beat the goalkeeper. In a des-perate attempt to preserve a tie, the Navy defenseman tackled Cain from behind, leading to a penalty kick in the 88th minute.

Lining up in the box to take the penalty kick was Berger, the captain of the team. To add more drama to the situation, Berger had yet to score a collegiate goal in her career at N.C. State. Now the only person stopping her from destiny was the Navy goalkeeper.

As the time to kick drew closer, Berger stood confident in her ability and said she wanted nothing more than to end the game in regulation – not just for the team, but for herself as well.

“I couldn’t believe we were going to get a penalty kick with two min-utes left to go in the game,” Berger said. “The thing that had been go-ing through my mind the last ten minutes was, ‘I don’t think I could

play overtime.’”As soon as the referee called for

the penalty kick, Berger jumped on the opportunity to help the Pack get a win late in the game.

“I just knew I wanted it,” Berger said. “Because I had always taken penalty kicks throughout my club and high school career.”

When most people would have been nervous, Berger, a Cary native, seized the opportunity. She put the ball just past the diving Navy goal-keeper, scoring her first collegiate goal and what also proved to be the game winner.

While the fans went wild with “Wolf! Pack!” chants, no one was more excited than Berger herself. The excitement on her face was

still obvious after the game during the team stretches. As excited as she was about scor-ing her first goal, she demonstrated great poise show-ing why she is one of the senior lead-ers on this team.

While she was clearly excited about her own in-dividual achieve-ment, Berger was

exuberant about getting the team off to a 2-0 start on the season.

“I’m more excited that the team got the win,” Berger said.

The Pack has high expecta-tions this year aiming to make both the ACC and NCAA tournament. If the team can continue to play solid defense as the season pro-gress- es,

these goals will be well within reach. Though the Pack won both games

this past weekend, scoring posed to be a challenge. The team had sev-eral scoring opportunities in the Navy game but could not capitalize.

“We’ve done a really good job cre-ating corner kicks and goal scoring opportunities, we just need to focus on the final bit, putting the ball in the back of the net,” Berger said.

Ac c ord i ng to Berger, one game to pay close at-tent ion to is the showdown with Miami on Sept. 29 in Coral Gables, Fla.

“That game last year left a sour note in a l l of our stomachs,” B erger s a id . “After the game, they did a little celebrating on our f ield. So we plan to get a little revenge this year.”

Former Technician editors amongst staff for new Wolfpack podcast.

R. Cory SmithDeputy Sports Editor

Media outlets in the Ra-leigh area have a so to speak lockdown on Wolfpack sports. But one component that no one else offers is a podcast specifically target-ed towards the University’s athletics programs.

Thanks to James Curle, now there is.

Curle, a former Techni-cian Photo Editor and grad-uate of N.C. State, started a blog website,www.Rid-dickandReynolds.com, four years ago and recently began a podcast that runs weekly call the “R&RPodcast.”

Each night, Curle, along with former sports editors Austin Johnson and Derek Medlin and Steven Muma, started the show back in May and have already re-corded 15 episodes talking about topics that occurred over the summer in men’s basketball and football.

Curle said the idea was more based on noticing a lack of podcasts in the local market talking about State athletics.

“I’ve been doing a blog for about four years now, and I knew that I wanted to do something a little different,”Curle said. “I’ve started listening to pod-casts not too long ago and thought this would be a way to corner the N.C. State market in a way that it hasn’t been cornered yet.”

While Curle has been blogging about the Pack for the past four years, he said that he wanted to add the other three co-hosts to add

even more knowledge that they may bring to the table.

“The guys that work with me on the show do such a great job of keeping up w it h t he i r blogs that I don’t have the time or the resources to keep up,” Curle sa id. “ S o t h i s seemed like a great way to get everyone together and do something a little different that no one else is doing for the Wolfpack.”

Medlin, who has worked for

Pack Pride and WRAL, said he joined the podcast for the same reason that Curle created it –

no one else on the market has one.

“This is re-ally a chance to get to be a part of some-t h i ng t hat nobody else i s d o i ng ,” Medlin said. “We try to do as good of a job as we can. This is James’ baby, so we want

to as good of a job as we can not only for ourselves, but for James as well.”

The four men who partici-pate in the show are all gradu-ates of State, but Muma was not a member of Technician dur-ing his tenure at the University. Johnson said the opportunities he was offered after leaving the University, which eventually led to being a co-host on the podcast.

“I would never be here, do-ing what I’m doing with this, without Technician,” Johnson said. “Being a part of the stu-dent newspaper opened a ton of doors for me. It’s basically provided me front row seats for basketball games over the past few years, which some might view as a perk.”

Curle said writing for the school newspaper prepared him for interviewing athletes

that the normal sports reporter might be nervous about when first starting out.

“Being a sports writer can be an intimidating thing,” Curle said. “But having the background that we have with Technician has demystified a lot of those things for us.

“We’re not afraid to call up someone like [former football coach] Chuck Amato and get him on our show, whereas a civilian might be more intimi-dated by that concept.”

During the 12th podcast, Curle introduced Amato as a guest on the show, which sur-prised several of his listeners.

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“Pulse of the Pack” kicks off tonight on WKNC

WKNC will premiere its new sports show, “The Pulse of the Pack,” tonight at 7 p.m. The show will feature two former Technician sports editors, Cory Smith and Tyler Everett, along with other special guests. Tonight’s episode will also feature players and coaches from Wolfpack athletics. The show will air weekly on 88.1 every Wednesday night from 7 to 8 p.m.

SOURCE: WKNC RALEIGH

Former Wolfpack golfer ties for fourth at Wyndham

Carl Pettersson, a former all-american golfer for N.C. State, participated in the 2011 Wyndham Championship this past weekend and finished tied for fourth. The event, held at the Sedgefield Country Club, hosted several other Raleigh natives, including the winner, Webb Simpson. Peterrson finished with a 13-under for the tournament and moved himself into No. 55 in the FedEx Cup standings.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Berger hits the spot

athletic scheduleAugust 2011

Su M T W Th F Sa

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31

FridayMen’s soccer vs. st. francis Raleigh, 5:30 p.m.

volleyball vs. app. stateBoone, 7 p.m.

WoMen’s soccer vs. old doMinionRaleigh, 8 p.m.

Saturday volleyball vs. charlotteBoone, 10 a.m.

volleyball vs. KennesaW stateBoone, 4:30 p.m.

MondayWoMen’s soccer vs. lsURaleigh, 5:30 p.m.Men’s soccer vs. vMiRaleigh, 8 p.m.

TyLER ANdREWS/TECHNICIANFormer Technician Photo editor James Curle, and former Technician sports editors Austin Johnson and Derek Medlin sound check before the RnR Podcast at Amedeo’s Restaraunt Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. During the podcast, which has been running for over three months, Curle, Johnson and Medlin interviewed former head football coach Chuck Amato.

pHOTO by MATT NUdI

“I couldn’t believe

we were going to

get a penalty kick

with two minutes

left to go in

the game.”Alex Berger, senior defenseman

Four State graduates form ‘R&R Podcast’

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“This is really

a chance to get

to be a part of

something that

nobody else

is doing.”Derek Medlin,

former sports editor

ACC Women’s Soccer Standings

school conference overall

  W L T W L TncsU 0 0 0 2 0 0dU 0 0 0 2 0 0MU 0 0 0 2 0 0cU 0 0 0 2 0 0Unc 0 0 0 1 0 0vU 0 0 0 2 0 0vt 0 0 0 2 0 0Wf 0 0 0 2 0 0bc 0 0 0 1 0 1fsU 0 0 0 1 1 0UM 0 0 0 1 1 0

SOURCE: THEACC.COM

By the NumBers2 Berger’s number

throughout her collegiate career.

4 Number of points scored for the Wolfpack.

9 Number of shots from 2007 to 2009.

57 Number of games started on defense in college.

2010 Year that her picture was plastered onto a Wolfline bus.

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