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Raleigh, North Carolina Bob Geolas, ’87 graduate, returns to North Carolina as CEO of Research Triangle Park. Mark Herring Features Editor Bob Geolas did not know ex- actly what he wanted to do when he entered N.C. State in the 1980s. Like many undecided students, he changed his major and graduated with a political science degree. He is now the CEO of Research Tri- angle Park. Geolas started a new chapter of his career in research parks when he started at RTP in Nov. 28. After graduating in 1987, Geolas worked in politics and was the youngest chief of staff of the speaker of house of North Carolina. He spearheaded the Clinton campaign in the state, but after getting married, he left politics to return to the University. Centennial Campus was the first project outside traditional politics that Geolas helped spearhead. Be- fore changing his degree to political science, Geolas was a design student and became friends with the col- lege’s then-dean, Claude McKinney, the mastermind of the research-park campus. “Claude was a very open dean, and I would stop by his office and talk with him a lot, and he would talk about this place he imaged called Centen- nial Campus,” Geolas said. “He would show me sketches of what he thought, but no one else really got it. But Claude made sure to get this campus built.” With the political support of Gov. Jim Hunt, Chancellor Bruce Poulton launched Centennial Campus, and in 1989 the first building on the campus was occupied. “Claude and Governor Hunt really coalesced at a perfect time,” Geolas said. “Claude was a great visionary, but he was enormously patient … I learned a lot from him.” Geolas worked on Centennial Cam- pus in 1995 and worked as the coor- dinator of partnership development. Michael Harwood, associate vice chancellor of Centennial Campus Development, worked with Geolas on expanding the campus. “I was a project manager for many of the early projects on campus,” Har- wood said. “Bob was working with the TECHNICIAN b technicianonline.com NEW MENU - REGISTER FOR PRIZES i n n o v a t i o n cafe Innovation Cafe • 860 Partners way • Directly across from the parking deck. Visit our website for more info go.ncsu.edu/icafe Students and faculty break a sweat for cancer As the second annual Miles 4 Kay fundraiser commences, University Rec wants students to rack up miles for cancer research. Jessie Halpern Deputy News Editor While Carmichael is home to many who are interested in main- taining their own health, this year will mark the second time students and faculty are invited to work out to keep others healthy. University Recreation’s second annual Miles 4 Kay fundraiser will begin today at 11:30 a.m., when Thomas Stafford and Lisa Zapata of the office of student conduct join Carmichael Gym’s director, Eric Hawkes, to log the first miles on the pink treadmills set aside for the fund- raiser. The Miles 4 Kay fundraiser began last year, when University Recreation decided to commemorate N.C. State’s for- mer Women’s Basketball coach, Kay Yow, by raising money for breast cancer research. Cybex, an international workout equip- ment company, donated three pink treadmills to the Carmichael Gym, which are set aside specifically for this fundraiser. For every mile logged onto the pink treadmills over the next month, Cybex will donate 10 cents to the Yow Fund. While Kay Yow was a well-loved coach, her commitment to University athletics is not just her legacy, but one continued by her sister, Debbie Yow, our current athletic director. “Any initiative that generates aware- ness or funds for cancer research is an important one,” Yow said. Fitness director at the Carmichael Gym, Alex Stubbs, is excited to be a part of the event for the first time. “This year, we’re hoping to log 3,000 miles and beat last year’s 2,300,” Stubbs said. While the main goal of the fund- raiser is to log as many miles as possible, the event also seeks to shed light on breast cancer awareness and prevention, according to Stubbs. “There will be a mo- bile mammography bus parked outside the gym Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for women who meet the require- ments,” Stubbs said. In addition to events that will help in breast cancer educa- tion, the fundraiser is paired with some fun-spirited special events in honor of Yow throughout the month. There will be a “Hoops for Hope” women’s basketball game in her honor Feb. 12 where everything will be pink for breast cancer awareness. TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIAN Kristen Parrott, senior in nutrition science, goes for a run on the Miles 4 Kay treadmill at Carmichael Gymnasium Tuesday. Rocketry team heads to NASA competition The NCSU Rocketry team will be going to Alabama to debut their original rocket design. Zach Green & Shawn Thompson Staff Writers N.C. State’s own Rocketry Team, the Tacho Lycos, has been invited to par- ticipate in NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative this April. Tacho Lycos, which means “speedy wolf” in Greek, is a student-run or- ganization that started in 2009. They have competed in NASA’s USLI pro- gram for three years. All but a few members this year are new to the team and many of them are freshmen and sophomores. “This team has transformed into a hard competitive group of moti- vated engineering students,” Garrett Abbott-Frey, senior in mechanical en- gineering and the team’s design lead, said. “If we keep this momentum go- ing we will be unstoppable.” The project gives university-level students the chance to design, create and launch a reusable rocket one mile above ground level. The rocket must also include a scientific or engineer- ing-oriented payload designed by the team. The program gives students the op- portunity to work through real-world engineering processes and scientific research. The annual launch event is held at Bragg Farms in Toney, Ala., and is sponsored by ATK Aerospace Systems. Tacho Lycos began working on their design in August and submitted their proposal to NASA. They were notified of their acceptance and immediately began working on a sub-scale model of their rocket. Some of the other uni- versities accepted are MIT, Florida State, Penn State and Virginia Tech. The design team is composed of 10 members, who also make up the com- petition team that will be traveling to Alabama this spring. After drawing up and revising several designs, the team built a sub-scale rocket over winter break that was 50 percent of the size of the competition rocket. “We recently launched our sub-scale rocket in Orangeburg, S.C. It was very successful--we reached an altitude of 5,900 feet,” Abbott-Frey said. The competition rocket itself will be 110 inches long and 5.5 inches in diameter. It is hand made by the team out of carbon fiber and weighs 47.4 lbs including the motors and payloads. insidetechnician viewpoint 4 features 5 classifieds 7 sports 8 Turtle Island follows jazz inspi- ration Turtle Island Quartet’s performance cele- brates Coltrane and the meaning of music. See page 5. Crew dances Just Cuz it can Despite being less than a year old, Just Cuz Crew is quickly establishing a reputation. See page 5. Performance gives perspective on revolution Poetic Portraits of a Revolution spoke about their inspiration and findings at Stewart Theater last night. Emily Collis Staff Writer While most students have heard about the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia through various media outlets, four students went straight to the source to gain perspective on the events. Last night in Stewart Theater, the group Poetic Portraits of a Revolu- tion presented its first public per- formance of their discoveries while in Egypt and Tunisia. The group includes four young men with a strong purpose to display through art. They spent last summer travel- ing through Egypt and Tunisia to observe the revolutions and created art based off the experience. Among those who took the journey were University students Mohammad Moussa, who served as translator, and Sameer Abdel- khalek, who served as photog- rapher. Will McInerney and Kane Smego are part of the group as well. The group compiled many forms of media during their trip in hopes of sharing what they saw and felt while in a country experiencing a lot of change. The goal of the project was simple: inform the world about the events and revolutions occurring in Egypt and Tunisia in a way that would truly capture what the citizens of the coun- tries were experiencing. Unlike the average early morning news reports, Poetic Portraits of a Revolution spoke to average people and presented their findings in a way that is not sensation- alized. “On one hand you want to make sure that you captured the stories in the right way and on the other hand you want to give the stories justice and portray them in a light that the people who were telling these stories would appreciate and approve of,” Moussa said. Sharing and teaching the audience about their experiences is one of the main goals of the group. They aim to encourage others to change as well, according to Moussa. “The performance is a challenge to the audience, to continue this work. It’s an idea that stories are powerful and human stories can rely under- standing and we can use art to help us creatively express that, but at the end of the day it all boils down to hu- man stories,” McInerney said. Josie Miller, freshman in interna- tional studies, came to the perfor- mance after hearing about its strong message. “I think it’s good to make college kids aware of the outside world be- cause we don’t really travel outside of NASA continued page 3 CANCER continued page 3 “This year, we’re hoping to log 3,000 miles and beat last year’s 2,300.” Alex Stubbs, Carmichael fitness director POETIC continued page 3 ALUM continued page 6 Alum takes reigns of Research Triangle Park TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIAN Mohammed Moussa, senior in electrical and computer engineering, performs spoken word poetry about his experience in Egypt and Tunisia for Poetic Portraits of a Revolution in Stewart Theatre, Tuesday. JORDAN MOORE/TECHNICIAN Bob Geolas, an N.C. State alum and a man of humble origins, was recently elected CEO of Research Triangle Park.
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Bob Geolas, ’87 graduate, returns to North Carolina as CEO of Research Triangle Park.
Mark HerringFeatures Editor
Bob Geolas did not know ex-actly what he wanted to do when he entered N.C. State in the 1980s. Like many undecided students, he changed his major and graduated with a political science degree. He is now the CEO of Research Tri-angle Park.
Geolas started a new chapter of his career in research parks when he started at RTP in Nov. 28. After graduating in 1987, Geolas worked in politics and was the youngest
chief of staff of the speaker of house of North Carolina. He spearheaded the Clinton campaign in the state, but after getting married, he left politics to return to the University.
Centennial Campus was the first project outside traditional politics that Geolas helped spearhead. Be-fore changing his degree to political science, Geolas was a design student and became friends with the col-lege’s then-dean, Claude McKinney, the mastermind of the research-park campus.
“Claude was a very open dean, and I would stop by his office and talk with him a lot, and he would talk about this place he imaged called Centen-nial Campus,” Geolas said. “He would show me sketches of what he thought, but no one else really got it. But Claude made sure to get this campus built.”
With the political support of Gov. Jim Hunt, Chancellor Bruce Poulton launched Centennial Campus, and in 1989 the first building on the campus was occupied.
“Claude and Governor Hunt really coalesced at a perfect time,” Geolas said. “Claude was a great visionary, but he was enormously patient … I learned a lot from him.”
Geolas worked on Centennial Cam-pus in 1995 and worked as the coor-dinator of partnership development. Michael Harwood, associate vice chancellor of Centennial Campus Development, worked with Geolas on expanding the campus.
“I was a project manager for many of the early projects on campus,” Har-wood said. “Bob was working with the
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Students and faculty break a sweat for cancerAs the second annual Miles 4 Kay fundraiser commences, University Rec wants students to rack up miles for cancer research.
Jessie HalpernDeputy News Editor
While Carmichael is home to many who are interested in main-taining their own health, this year will mark the second time students and faculty are invited to work out to keep others healthy.
University Recreation’s second annual Miles 4 Kay fundraiser will begin today at 11:30 a.m., when Thomas Stafford and Lisa Zapata of the office of student conduct join Carmichael Gy m’s d i rec tor, Eric Hawkes, to log the first miles on the pink treadmills set aside for the fund-raiser.
The Miles 4 Kay fundraiser began last year, when University Recreation decided to commemorate N.C. State’s for-mer Women’s Basketball coach, Kay Yow, by raising money for breast cancer research. Cybex, an international workout equip-ment company, donated three pink treadmills to the Carmichael Gym, which are set aside specifically for this fundraiser. For every mile
logged onto the pink treadmills over the next month, Cybex will donate 10 cents to the Yow Fund.
While Kay Yow was a well-loved coach, her commitment to University athletics is not just her legacy, but one continued by her sister, Debbie Yow, our current athletic director.
“Any initiative that generates aware-ness or funds for cancer research is an important one,” Yow said.
Fitness director at the Carmichael Gym, Alex Stubbs, is excited to be a part of the event for the first time.
“This year, we’re hoping to log 3,000 miles and beat last year’s 2,300,” Stubbs said.
While the main goal of the fund-raiser is to log as many miles as possible, the event also seeks to shed light on breast cancer awareness and prevention, according to Stubbs.
“There will be a mo-bile mammography bus parked outside the gym Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for women who meet the require-ments,” Stubbs said.
In addition to events that will help in breast cancer educa-tion, the fundraiser is paired with some fun-spirited special events in honor of Yow throughout the month. There will be a “Hoops for Hope” women’s basketball game in her honor Feb. 12 where everything will be pink for breast cancer awareness.
Tim O’Brien/TechnicianKristen Parrott, senior in nutrition science, goes for a run on the Miles 4 Kay treadmill at Carmichael Gymnasium Tuesday.
Rocketry team heads to NASA competitionThe NCSU Rocketry team will be going to Alabama to debut their original rocket design.
Zach Green & Shawn ThompsonStaff Writers
N.C. State’s own Rocketry Team, the Tacho Lycos, has been invited to par-ticipate in NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative this April.
Tacho Lycos, which means “speedy wolf” in Greek, is a student-run or-ganization that started in 2009. They have competed in NASA’s USLI pro-gram for three years. All but a few members this year are new to the team and many of them are freshmen and sophomores.
“This team has transformed into a hard competitive group of moti-vated engineering students,” Garrett Abbott-Frey, senior in mechanical en-gineering and the team’s design lead, said. “If we keep this momentum go-ing we will be unstoppable.”
The project gives university-level students the chance to design, create and launch a reusable rocket one mile above ground level. The rocket must also include a scientific or engineer-ing-oriented payload designed by the team.
The program gives students the op-portunity to work through real-world engineering processes and scientific research. The annual launch event is held at Bragg Farms in Toney, Ala., and is sponsored by ATK Aerospace Systems.
Tacho Lycos began working on their design in August and submitted their proposal to NASA. They were notified of their acceptance and immediately began working on a sub-scale model of their rocket. Some of the other uni-versities accepted are MIT, Florida State, Penn State and Virginia Tech.
The design team is composed of 10 members, who also make up the com-petition team that will be traveling to Alabama this spring. After drawing up and revising several designs, the team built a sub-scale rocket over winter break that was 50 percent of the size of the competition rocket.
“We recently launched our sub-scale rocket in Orangeburg, S.C. It was very successful--we reached an altitude of 5,900 feet,” Abbott-Frey said.
The competition rocket itself will be 110 inches long and 5.5 inches in diameter. It is hand made by the team out of carbon fiber and weighs 47.4 lbs including the motors and payloads.
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Performance gives perspective on revolutionPoetic Portraits of a Revolution spoke about their inspiration and findings at Stewart Theater last night.
Emily CollisStaff Writer
While most students have heard about the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia through various media outlets, four students went straight to the source to gain perspective on the events.
Last night in Stewart Theater, the group Poetic Portraits of a Revolu-tion presented its first public per-formance of their discoveries while in Egypt and Tunisia. The group includes four young men with a strong purpose to display through art. They spent last summer travel-ing through Egypt and Tunisia to observe the revolutions and created art based off the experience.
Among those who took the journey were University students Mohammad Moussa, who served as translator, and Sameer Abdel-khalek, who served as photog-
rapher. Will McInerney and Kane Smego are part of the group as well.
The group compiled many forms of media during their trip in hopes of sharing what they saw and felt while in a country experiencing a lot of change.
The goal of the project was simple: inform the world about the events
and revolutions occurring in Egypt and Tunisia in a way that would truly capture what the citizens of the coun-tries were experiencing. Unlike the average early morning news reports, Poetic Portraits of a Revolution spoke to average people and presented their findings in a way that is not sensation-
alized.“On one hand you want to make
sure that you captured the stories in the right way and on the other hand you want to give the stories justice and portray them in a light that the people who were telling these stories would appreciate and approve of,” Moussa said.
Sharing and teaching the audience about their experiences is one of the main goals of the group. They aim to encourage others to change as well, according to Moussa.
“The performance is a challenge to the audience, to continue this work. It’s an idea that stories are powerful and human stories can rely under-standing and we can use art to help us creatively express that, but at the end of the day it all boils down to hu-man stories,” McInerney said.
Josie Miller, freshman in interna-tional studies, came to the perfor-mance after hearing about its strong message.
“I think it’s good to make college kids aware of the outside world be-cause we don’t really travel outside of
NASA continuedpage3
CANCER continuedpage3
“This year,
we’re hoping to
log 3,000 miles
and beat last
year’s 2,300.”Alex Stubbs, Carmichael
fitness director
PoEtiC continuedpage3
Alum continuedpage6
Alum takes reigns of Research Triangle Park
Tim O’Brien/TechnicianMohammed Moussa, senior in electrical and computer engineering, performs spoken word poetry about his experience in Egypt and Tunisia for Poetic Portraits of a Revolution in Stewart Theatre, Tuesday.
JOrdan mOOre/TechnicianBob Geolas, an N.C. State alum and a man of humble origins, was recently elected CEO of Research Triangle Park.
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Grant Robaczewski studies for an emergency medical technician test Tuesday in the west wing of D.H. Hill Library while his girlfriend tutors his younger brother in the quiet area. Robaczewski, who is not an N.C. State student, hopes to enroll and said he enjoys studying in the library. “I like [the egg chair], but it makes my neck hurt a little
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A new Chinese business course gives students the tools to compete in an international market.
Will Brooks Deputy News Editor
International business people have been adapting themselves to American culture for thou-sands of years, but recently there have been other cultures to accommodate.
The Confucius Institute of N.C. State, which aims to spread Chinese culture around campus, is currently offering Chinese business classes to some students.
Anna Lamm of the Confu-cius Institute, and the Chi-na program director, said she is antici-pat i ng t he course to be a success.
“We have a big group for the course. It is an elec-t ive course but next se-me s ter we hope to offer it for credit,” Lamm said.
Lamm said members of SKE-MA Business School, a French exchange program, would mainly inhabit the current course. She hopes to see the course expand next semester.
The Chinese business course will aim at several aspects of business, including Chinese business etiquette and tech-niques, vocabulary, politics and economics of the country.
The course, taught primarily by Chen Xiaoke, will also of-
fer several guest lecturers who have experience in Chinese business practices.
Students who take the course will learn about Chinese cul-ture and how to handle busi-ness situations with the Chi-nese, goals Lamm says intersect directly with that of the Con-fucius Institute.
“Our mission here at Confu-cius Institute is to teach Chi-nese business and culture,” Lamm said.
Marie Claire Ribeill, lan-guage coordinator for the University, has also taken part in constructing the Chinese business course. According to Ribeill, the course will espe-cially help students of SKEMA.
“For t he moment [the course is] just for the SKEMA students,” Ribeill said, “O u r s t u-d e n t s a r e business stu-dents, so they will definitely be dea l ing with Chinese business peo-ple.”
Ribeill said one of the main reasons the course is especially beneficial to SKEMA students is because the business school has a cam-pus in China. She also said the course’s conception is largely due to the recent rise in China’s economy.
“There are more and more business transactions with China,” Ribeill said.
In the course, students will learn how to speak with Chi-nese people in English, as well as how develop relationships
with Chinese people and speak very basic Chinese.
“We teach how to act dur-ing a banquet, how to give your business card, how to say hello, how to say goodbye,” Ri-beill said.
Although the course does not teach conversational Chinese, Ribeill said the course will train students to treat Chinese business people the way they are accustomed to.
Marshall Crawley, sopho-more in English, saw the bene-fit in a Chinese business course, but didn’t see it as particularly beneficial to himself.
“It isn’t a course I would take,” Crawley said.
Crawley said the course does seem appropriate, given Chi-na’s increasingly relevant role in international business.
Arthur Freeman, sophomore in sport management, said the course could be good for some students.
“I could see it being benefi-cial,” Freeman said.
Both Freeman and Crawley expressed the course seems very relevant to business ma-jors, such as SKEMA students.
“If you are in a business field I can see why someone would want to take that course,” Free-man said.
The course, though basic, seeks to provide business peo-ple with the tools necessary to conduct business positively.
“There are a lot of things that you should do, or not do, that you may not know about,” Ri-beill said.
Chinese business course gives students international perspective
The motor is the L1420R-P high performance aerospace motor. They are projecting the rocket will fly as high as 5,225 feet at a maximum velocity of 615 feet per second, roughly 0.55 mach.
“We have not only accepted the challenge but we are add-ing to it. We are doing two ex-periments where we are only required to do one,” Abbott-
Frey said.The competition requires
each team to include one pay-load in their rocket, but Tacho Lycos is taking on two.
The first payload is a CO2 scrubber, the design of which is based around a soda lime mate-rial used in re-breathers. The team has managed to absorb and scrub the same amount of CO2 that the rocket motor pro-duces. This has created a CO2 emission neutral rocket.
The second payload is testing the ability of a meteorological fluid, called Magnito Rheologi-cal Fluid, to dampen the dam-age done by high acceleration forces to sensitive equipment found on rockets. The team de-signed the circuitry used to test this and the LORD Company donated the fluid.
Sean Maroni, a junior in me-chanical engineering, will be taking part in the second pay-load. Maroni’s environment-
friendly design of a rocket will incorporate the same technolo-gy used by U.S. Navy Seals, the first of its kind. This particu-lar rocket will help with CO2 emissions in the atmosphere by converting the emissions into other non-threatening resources that could be used in the environment.
“I personally think experi-ments like this are really im-portant to help tackle that is-sue, which is one of the great-est issues of our time. Global warming is a very low funded area of research. Every experi-ment will help with that issue. It’s a good place to start”, Ma-roni said.
“I believe that our experi-
ment will open the door for more intensive research in using MR f luid as a damper in rocket application,” Josef Khalil, senior in mechanical engineering and team presi-dent, said.
This year, the team looked to incoming freshmen and sopho-mores for recruitment to give younger engineers a chance to get real-world experience out-side the classroom. The team made presentations to many of the E101 classes and were able to recruit members, many of whom are on the design team.
“I’m honestly proud by how dedicated those freshmen members are and how much they contribute to the design
and construction of the proj-ect,” Khalil said.
The team also does outreach work traveling out to elemen-tary, middle and high schools giving presentations and dem-onstrations to educate and encourage potential aerospace engineers.
“Normally, everything we do is for the kids,” Taylor Garri-son, former outreach coordina-tor, said. “Kids always love the presentations and watching the rocket demonstrations.”
Though all the current mem-bers of the team are engineer-ing majors, anyone with an interest in rocketry is encour-aged to come to their weekly meetings.
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Though Hawkes has only been the director at Carmi-chael for three months, he said he is excited to take part in the fundraiser and hopes it will be a success. As di-rector, he will be one of the three University employees to track the first miles of the
month.“I’m going to try and go three
miles on Wednesday, just as long as the line isn’t too long,” Hawkes said.
While three miles is his goal for Wednesday, he plans to “go hard” and log up to six per week.
Hoping to get students in a competitive spirit, Stubbs said prizes will be offered for those who log the most miles during
the month.“Hopefully that will encour-
age students to compete with each other and add more mile-age to our total,” Stubbs said. “It would be cool to even form teams and make it a real com-petition.”
The treadmills will be open for use beginning at 11:30 a.m. this morning. Personal mileage progress can be charted using a form provided at the gym.
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our campus,” Miller said.The theater performance
complied their findings into a moving masterpiece, filled with poetry, interviews, photographs and video footage.
The performance began with a story to introduce the American stereotype of Egypt and Tunisia and then followed a script that included interviews of Egyptians and Tunisians,
spoken prose and personal testimonies.
Miller said she was especially interested in the project be-cause people who are in college or recently graduated created it.
“When people are that pas-sionate about something, it’s hard not to be affected by it. It’s so powerful especially when you see some people my age do-ing that,” Miller said.
The performance concluded with a question and answer ses-sion that allowed students and others in attendance to learn even more about the project. The speakers carefully ad-dressed all questions to give
everyone a full understanding and presented a charge to the audience.
“Don’t let the inspiration stop after the show ends; take it and make it your own,” Moussa said.
The photographs of their journey are still on display in the Craft Center until March 2. If you missed the event and would like to see it, the group will present it again at N.C. State for University Scholars in late February. This will be followed by a more theatrical performance at The Arts Cen-ter in Carrboro.
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Tim O’Brien/TechnicianWill McInerny, a spoken word and youth educator, tells about his travels to Egypt and Tunisia during the Arab Spring revolutions. In the background are photos taken during the events of the revolutions.
“Our mission
here at Confucius
Institute is to
teach Chinese
business and
culture.”Anna Lamm, China program director
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{ }Our view
The future envisioned by Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, is here. While we may not yet be traveling to distant galaxies, we are widely adopting some of the technologies he envisioned in the 1960s. We have cell phones, are harnessing solar power on a large scale, are con-nected through a global information network and now we have elec-tric cars.
There was a great buzz four to five years ago about the electric car. The common consensus was hybrids were going to be a stopgap measure until we started mass-producing electric cars; however, this was not the case.
Like every emerging technology, the promise is always given long be-fore it can be flawlessly delivered. Dan Neil, Pu-litzer prize winning au-tomotive critic for The Wall Street Journal, in his talk Monday under-scored that electric cars, to be adopted, had to overcome two hurdles: technology and public consciousness. Slowly but steadily electric cars are beginning to over-come both obstacles.
There are currently seven full-sized mod-els of electric cars be-ing produced around the world. The most
notable in the U.S. are perhaps Nissan’s Leaf and the Chevy Volt. The Leaf and Volt are the first large scale at-tempts from major auto companies into electric cars. Combined, there have been more than 30,000 sold worldwide. And while the sales fig-ures just barely fall short of sales targets, they do show there is a growing consumer base for elec-tric cars.
We’re also beginning to see that electric and speed are not mutu-ally exclusive terms. Until Tesla developed the concept of an elec-
tric car, it was implied to be underpowered. The stereotype was of-ten cited as a reason for not adopting the new technology. However, with a 0-60 mph time of 3.7 seconds, as fast as a Porsche 911, there is no doubt an electric car can hold its own against its gas counterpart.
At the University, we are preparing for the growing use of electric cars. There is currently an electric car power station at our visitor center. It is open to any-one who wishes to use it. More importantly, it is symbolic of our Uni-
versity getting on the electric car bandwagon.
Electric cars and all similar “renewable” technologies have had their benefits regur-gitated so often and for so long they’ve be-come trite; however, the benefits are quite real. Decreased emissions, decreased fuel con-sumption and increased fuel economy are all great needs in the cur-rent auto market. While the electric car may not abolish all the problems with the auto industry, it is a good start. But, in the end, it is just that: a start. So, let’s treat it as such, embrace it as it comes and don’t expect instant gratification be-cause of the hype.
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.
Adopting electricThe FacTs:Electric cars, while not a new concept, are being produced on a large scale for the first time in recent memory. Currently, there are seven full-sized models of electric cars in production and many more in development.
Our OpiniOn:Electric cars promise to fill a need in the auto industry few other technologies can. The electric car may not be ready to dominate the auto market tomorrow, but it is a future we can all look toward.
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Would you ever buy an electric car?
Why or why not?
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“Honestly I’m not sure because I haven’t heard much information on it and I would want to see its environmental impact first.”
kelly Cravenerfreshman, business administration
“I wouldn’t because I’d imagine it would be more dangerous if you got in an accident. I don’t know if the technology and the air bags in the car would be enough against a deadly impact.”
kenny Maloneyfreshman, accounting
“I would consider it if I did some research and if they made them more efficient.”
Andrew Goodenfreshman, First year College
“I would because I would use less gas and help the environment.”
lorrie Marcialfreshman, business administration
The MRS degree
For those of you who don’t know, the MRS degree is a euphemism for a wom-
an attending college for the sole purpose of obtaining a hus-band. They want one who will
fully provide for her and al-low her to be a stay-at-home wife/mother. Up north, this type of woman is synonymous with the term “gold-digger.” I understand the traditional Southern way
is for men to tend to be the breadwinners and women to tend to be the homemakers. But, ladies and gentlemen, the women going for the MRS de-gree are far different.
The MRS degree women are a different breed. They want to drive a brand new Mercedes-B en z , l i ve in a lav ish house in the richest part of town and to be show-e r e d w i t h g i f t s f rom Tiffany’s. They certainly don’t leave their rooms until they have a full face of makeup and their hair done. Their walk to Tompkins is less of a walk and more of a sashay down the runway. They never leave the house with just jeans and a T-shirt — unless of course, they are Lucky Brand jeans and the T-shirt from their latest social event.
Too many times I’ve been forced to listen to their de-ranged conversations about life and marriage. There was one instance when I had heard quite enough about their fai-rytale dreams. I decided to ask them what would happen if they fell in love with a guy who was poor. The leader in the trust fund search smiled as if my question had brought her some type of amusement and said in her most proper, future-politician’s-wife voice, “I would never date a poor man, so there is absolutely no way I would fall in love with one.” Her igno-rance angered me to the point where I wanted to enlighten her with some colorful words, but self-control prevailed and I walked away.
Women like this are the peo-ple who indebt themselves with the college loans that eventu-ally lead to the increase in tu-ition for us all. If they’re not
going to take their college education se-riously, then they ought to leave the opportunity to someone else. Better
yet, skip the middle-man, sign up to be on some Millionaire Matchmaker show. Everyone is at least honest about what they want here. Each person involved benefits — It’s called mutualism. On the contrary, when one person in a relation-ship uses another in order to obtain their needs in life — it’s called parasitism. Think about
it.My mother, who is also a
product of the North, raised two daughters while main-taining a career. She and my father have always taught my sister and I to be com-pletely independent. They reinforced the idea that we don’t need a man to make us happy or to fully provide for us. Their guidance is the reason I chose to major in engineering. I want to get a little something for myself in life. And I never want to have to feel like I owe some-body something.
Women have worked for decades to get equal rights. We are lucky enough to live in a time when women not only have the opportunity to get a college degree but they can also be equal to men in the workforce. I un-derstand there are Southern ideals, but how can some-one ever know who they are as a person if they go right from their parent’s house to their husband’s house. It’s an odd progression of events.
If you or someone you know is currently pursuing an MRS degree, please en-lighten them. Tell them the error of their ways and en-courage them to do some-thing with their lives. They might actually be surprised at how rewarding it is.
Send Kate Leonik your thoughts on MRS degrees to [email protected].
Kate LeonikStaff columnist
Style, grammar, and the oxford comma
W hen it comes to grammar, I am by no means an expert
and I am an even further cry from a so-called “Grammar Nazi.” If you want to end your sentence with a preposition, I won’t care when I’m down be-low. If you join two indepen-dent clauses together with a comma, no skin off my back. If you choose to not use a semi-colon appropriately because ei-ther you don’t know how to use
it or you realize it’s a rather silly punctuation mark surpassed only in formal uselessness as its half brother the colon ; I won’t hunt you down or cringe when I read your writing. If
you, the reader, don’t under-stand the difference between a subordinate and major clause, I won’t be the one to call you an imbecile.
You see, all those problems and a myriad of other rules do little more than allow English majors to be pejorative when you write a paper and mess something up. None of them actually interfere with the clarity or understanding of your message. Following the ridiculous number of rules that E.B. White and William Strunk Jr. propose in their Elements of Style will let read-ers of your work know you are “well read” and can adhere to a mostly arbitrary set of rules, which could be a good thing depending on the situation. But when you get right down to it, who actually cares if you ask someone, “What did you step on?” instead of the correct (and incredibly prudish) “On what did you step?” It doesn’t make a lick of difference.
However, not all elements of grammar are as supercilious as the aforementioned elements of what I have a hard time call-ing “style.” Other points are actually critical in clearly com-municating your point. These important grammar rules in-clude things like spelling, un-derstanding parts of speech, how to properly use suffixes to change the part of speech of a word and things like the Ox-ford comma.
The Oxford comma lords over all other clarifying gram-mar rules that actually matter. Usually if someone misspells something or makes up a word, a reader with more than a non-
existent brain capacity can use context clues and their knowledge of colloquial speech to figure out what the intended message is. However, if the Oxford comma is omitted from a list of any sort there is no way for you to tell if the last two objects in the list are re-lated or not.
Lynne Truss wrote a book called Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Toler-ance Approach to Punctua-tion. The title of this book is really its only redeeming quality. It comes from a joke in which a panda enters a restaurant, eats a sand-wich, then pulls out a gun and murders everyone in the restaurant. Before the panda leaves, a surviving patron asks why the panda did it. The panda throws a field guide to pandas at the man and tells him to look it up. The man turns to the entry for pandas and reads: “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mam-mal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.” You’re not laughing? I’ll explain. Without the omnipotent Oxford comma, “shoots and leaves” are connected as part of one thing and the only way they can be tied together is if you read “shoots” as a verb instead of as a noun meaning stalks of bamboo.
So why did I bother writ-ing this entire column about using correct grammar? As it turns out, the prescribed style when writing for the paper does not allow for the use of Oxford commas. This means if I ever want to make a list, I won’t be able to because I never know how someone is going to interpret the end! If I ever want to make a point with various pieces of support, I won’t be able to list them without massive confusion. My entire way of writing is going to burn away in a gi-ant ball of fire! So tell me, does the panda shoot after he eats? Did I dip my toast in orange juice when I had cereal, toast and orange juice? I just don’t know and I guess I never will.
Send Jon Lewis your thoughts on the oxford comma to [email protected].
Jon LewisStaff columnist
“The MRS degree
women are a
different breed.”
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Despite being less than a year old, Just Cuz Crew is quickly establishing a reputation.
Young LeeDeputy Features Editor
What began less than a year ago as a small group of students with a simple desire to express themselves is now a 14-mem-ber dance crew whose name is mentioned among the best uni-versity dance crews in the area.
Just Cuz Crew has quickly de-veloped name recognition and a reputation for being strong and passionate about what they do.
“Everyone thought we were a joke at first, but look where we’re at now,” Cairyl Alcazar, a junior in nutrition science and a founding member of Just Cuz Crew, said.
Whether in their workshops or at their recent performance at the Asian Student Associa-tion’s Asia Nite, those who have witnessed Just Cuz Crew in action have seen a new dance crew exhibit a unique energy and quality.
Jeff Shu, a senior in textiles, was one such student.
“I had never seen them dance
at all before Asia Nite but I was really impressed” Shu said. “I don’t really know how to de-scribe it, but their flow seems entirely different from what I’ve seen every year which is Fusion [dance crew] and Ka-mikaze [dance crew] … so even though we have a lot of crews, the addition of Just Cuz Crew adds to the diversity of the dance crew scene .”
Perhaps this difference in flow can be attributed to the philosophy that spurred the Just Cuz Crew’s formation.
“After not being able to ex-press our talents … we were just like ‘You know what? We just want to dance, and no one can hold us back from what we want to do,’” Alcazar said.
This emphasis on the free-dom of expression carries on in every Just Cuz Crew practice.
“[Our practices are] less stressful. It’s not like, ‘You got to do this. You got to do that.’ It’s a more relaxed at-mosphere, like friends getting together,” Phang Cha, a fresh-man in computer science and member of Just Cuz Crew, said.
However, this philosophy has led the crew to break away from the traditional organized struc-ture of a dance crew.
“We have a lot of talent in our
crew. We have backgrounds in modern dance and ballet dance, and of course we have really great breakdancers so we highlight people a lot,” Corinne Canavarro, a freshman in first year college and member of Just Cuz Crew, said. “We’re like a family and not a hierarchy. We don’t have a captain and a co-captain. We don’t have set choreographers.”
However many crew mem-bers like Brittny Sanders, a sophomore in international studies and member of Just Cuz Crew, see this aspect as an advantage.
“We all have different talents, and we like to highlight those talents,” Sanders said. “The fact that we take the talents that we each have and we incorporate them into the various choreog-raphies sets us apart for other crews.”
Regardless of whether this is an advantage, Just Cuz Crew’s diversity was visible for audi-ence members to see at their Asia Nite performance where they allowed each individual member to express his or her individual styles of dance to a music selection that ranged from Lil Wayne to Korean Pop.
However, this focus on the individual led Just Cuz Crew
to face some unique situations such trying to limit the growth of the crew.
“We don’t want to be too big of a crew. Working with a big crew limits us to what we can do on stage,” Alcazar said.
Shawn Murray, a sophomore in English and another founder of the crew, said she agreed.
“With a bigger crew you wouldn’t have the ample amount of spotlight time,” Murray said. “We’re trying to get everyone to be the center of attention and not just one person.”
Still, Just Cuz Crew won over many new fans over the past month and many like Alex Clark, a Sophomore in micro-biology, are excited to see what Just Cuz Crew has planned for the future and how things may change.
“I’ll still be [in school] for a while, so I look forward to seeing them grow and evolve,” Clark said.
According to Murray, the thing that unifies them will always stay constant.
“We’re all striving for the same thing. We’re all doing
it for the love. We all love to dance. We all love to express ourselves,” Murray said.
Perhaps it is for this passion and love that fans of Just Cuz Crew cheer and not “just be-cause.”
JCC will be holding auditions Saturday 1-4 p.m in the Carmi-chael Rec Center on the /second floor, Room A & B.
Turtle Island Quartet’s performance celebrates Coltrane and the meaning of music.
Jordan BakerStaff Writer
David Balakrishnan, the founding member of the Grammy Award winning group
Turtle Island Quartet, sat be-fore a crowd in the Walnut Room.
“You don’t inflict your vision on the others,” Balakrishnan said on composing. “You give them something they can find themselves in and then take credit for it.”
The crowd laughed, but Bal-akrishnan was hinting at what Turtle Island is all about.
Beside Balakrishnan sat the cellist Mark Summer, who has been described as a cellist, bass-ist and drummer all rolled into one style.
Both men hail from Los An-geles, and “both did the clas-sical training,” Summer said. “…I’m still recovering from it … I hated being in orchestra.”
Summer, however, found his musical calling when he
teamed up with Balakrishnan some 25 years ago to create something that wasn’t quite classical, wasn’t quite jazz or rock, but somewhere in the middle.
Turtle Island’s performance was an ode to John Coltrane, featuring music com-posed by and inspired by him, with the second half of the perfor-mance dedi-cated to the jazz legend’s magnum opus, “A Love Supreme”.
Coltrane drew a lot of in-fluence from fellow jazz icon Miles Davis, as well as Sitar legend Ravi Shankar. In “Love Supreme”, Coltrane drew from the eastern musical practice of one simple bass line running below the higher melodies, like a chant. This facet of the piece, which repeats the words “a love supreme” like a mantra, “was a prayer to God,” Balakrishnan said.
Throughout the perfor-mance, Summer utilized his instrument to the maximum. With his cello hooked up to an amp and a microphone, Summer used a foot pedal to switch back and forth between the two forms of amplification.
Throughout the perfor-ma nce t he virtuosic cel-list not only masterfully strummed the st r ings of his instru-me nt , but also plucked them in or-
der to mimic the sound of an upright bass (a standard among jazz groups), and would gracefully slap the front of his instrument to produce the sounds of a drum kit. From beginning to end, Summer’s hands never stopped moving.
Along with Summer and Balakrishnan, Turtle Island Quartet features two other well-known musicians in their own right. The second violin-ist, Mads Tolling, hails from
Coppenhagen, Denmark, and is well adept at the jazz-style music the group performed Saturday evening.
Tolling has won multiple ac-colades for his musicianship and regularly tours with jazz star Stanley Clark. The other member of the group is Jeremy Kittel on viola. Kittel has won national recognition for his Celtic music stylings, as well as his jazz and improvisational talents.
Together, these four men per-formed one of the most power-ful pieces in the corpus of jazz. And as they left stage after the conclusion of their encore, the crowd erupted into applause, giving the group a standing ovation.
“The quartet is a symbol of the genius of that era,” said Bal-akrishnan on the 19th century origins of the quartet.
With this genius form, the members of Turtle Island at-tempted to best express the vision of Coltrane, a man they compare with the great minds of European composition.
Crew dances Just Cuz it can
photo contributed by just cuz dance crew
Turtle Island follows jazz inspiration
“You give
them something
they can find
themselves in...”Balakrishnan
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University’s departments and companies coming into the buildings I was developing. Bob handled the partnership side. When Dean McKinney retired and Bob took over, we continued to work together to plot the future of the campus.”
Leah Burton, Centennial Campus director of partner-ship development, worked with Geolas before he left in 2004 and said he left a culture of collaboration.
“When Bob left Centennial Campus, he left in place a net-work of strong relations be-tween the various people who comprise the campus,” Burton said. “It was easy for us to carry on with the trail he had paved.”
Geolas left Centennial Cam-pus to direct the Clemson Uni-versity International Center for Automotive Research and served as Clemson’s associate vice president for economic development.
After the RTP’s former CEO Rick Weddle left North Caro-lina, Geolas’ application rose to the top of the global search. Geolas said he couldn’t wait to return home.
“I am excited to run Research Triangle Park and be involved in this place I’ve admired for so long.”
Overseeing the development of the park, Geolas said his main goal is to maintain the reputation of RTP and con-tinue its growth.
“We have to market the park, position its brand, and we have to make sure all the businesses have the resources to continue to grow,” Geolas said. “We help locate companies in the park. We’re constantly held up as one of the top three innova-tion spots in the nation. We’re constantly looking at ways to leverage this park to make this state and country a better place. I want to keep that going and
make it even better.”Geolas said the park trans-
formed the local economy from an agrarian one into a secure, modern, innovation-based system. He joked that the Southern adage, “Thank God for Mississippi,” no lon-ger applied to North Carolina once Gov. Luther Hodges and university leaders created the park to modernize the state’s economy in 1959.
The park has remained fi-nancially healthy, and during the height of the recession Site Selection magazine named RTP the top business climate in the country. Business devel-opers have called the park the
“Silicon Valley of the East,” and President Obama has refer-enced RTP as a model to follow.
The park wasn’t immune to the effects of the down econo-my, with an 18.39 percent of-fice vacancy rate in 2009, the worst in 20 years, according to the Triangle Business Journal. However, Geolas said he’s initi-ating policies for a more robust business environment to fortify current companies and to at-tract new ones.
“This year, we’re looking to launch a new master plan that’s going to change how RTP looks and feels,” Geolas said. “It’s going to be much more collab-orative; it’s going to be a place
that brings people together. It will be authentic in that it represents the best for North Carolina. We’re not trying to be Abu Dhabi or Beijing. We’re going to be who we are.”
For Harwood, this plan isn’t anything new.
“While developing Centen-nial Campus, we made sure to emphasize collaboration,” Harwood said. “The campus is predicated on proximity, which McKinney envisioned.”
Knowledge transfer is a con-tact sport. Taking ideas from the lab to the business to con-sumers. I hope Bob can achieve something like this at RTP, which has some companies
isolated from others.”Calling himself the cham-
pion of North Carolina, Geo-las said besides partnership, inspiring industry and com-munity growth will be his top concerns.
“This park has to keep being inspirational,” Geolas said. “It’s what inspired us with Centen-nial Campus. We need facilities and spaces that inspire people. But it needs to be accessible, so we need to keep it open so people who want to create and grow can flourish here. I want RTP to be the most innovative research park in the world. Bar none.”
With those words, Geolas
may be envisioning his RTP just as his inspiration, Dean McKinney, envisioned Centen-nial Campus. In several ways, things have come full circle for Geolas. In the beginning for RTP, even the New York Times seemed incredulous that the nation’s largest research park at the time would open in North Carolina. As McKinney designed Centennial Campus, the local News and Observer was skeptical. That was then. This is now.
“We’re only going to keep building,” Geolas said.
Jordan Moore/TechnicianBob Geolas is an alum of N.C. State and recently assumed the position of CEO at Research Triangle Park. “My goal is to maintain the reputation of RTP.”
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SportsCoaches around country wear sneakers with suits during games to show support.
Brian AndersonStaff Writer
If you were watching the N.C. State-Virginia bas-ketball game Saturday and you thought coach Mark Gottfried and his staff were wearing tennis shoes, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. They were.
Gottfried and his staff wore Ad ida s Ga zel le sneakers with their suits and slacks for Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers awareness weekend along with thousands of coaches across the country. Virgin-ia, a team endorsed by Nike, came out wearing white Nike Air Jordans. Coaches vs. Cancer weekend ran from Jan. 27-29 this year. The weekend is decided be-fore the start of each college basketball season.
In June, an American Cancer Society press release stated Gottfried and about a dozen other basketball coaches participated in the Coaches vs. Cancer Golf Invitational to support the American Cancer Society’s
mission.According to the ACS, the
idea behind Coaches vs. Cancer came from Norm Stewart, for-mer Missouri head coach from 1967-1999 and National Asso-ciation of Basketball Coaches member. Stewart, a cancer sur-vivor, started a program where, for every three points the team scored, fans were encouraged to give a dollar.
In 1993, t he AC S and NABC got behind Stewart’s idea and promoted it nation-a l ly. The NABC re-ported $70 million has been raised since the program’s beginning and more than 2,000 NABC coaches are involved in the pro-gram. The money benefits various causes, such as cancer research, supporting cancer patients and cancer education.
In another press release from the American Cancer Society, Coaches vs. Cancer Director
Jim Satalin commented on the benefits and awareness the weekend brings to the fight against cancer.
“The Coaches vs. Cancer program is a vital, year-round link between the Society and the NABC that empowers bas-ketball coaches, their teams and communities to join the fight against cancer,” Satalin said. “The program draws from
the personal experiences, community leadership and the pro-fessional ex-cel lence of coaches na-tionwide to increase pub-lic awareness of the Soci-ety’s mission to save lives and prevent cancer, and to raise funds to f ight the d i sea se on a variety of fronts.”
In the same press release, former Maryland head coach Gary Williams cel-ebrated the weekend saying, “Suits and Sneakers awareness weekend’ provides a tremen-dous opportunity for college basketball coaches nationwide
to demonstrate their support for the American Cancer So-ciety’s work to fight the disease and save lives.”
A new addition to the pro-gram was started this year. Friday, Jan. 27 was declared “National Sneakers Day.” The new promotion encourages
people to wear their sneakers to work to support Suits and Sneakers awareness weekend. Wearing sneakers shows people can exercise to reduce their risk of cancer and prevent obesity. Being obese increases the risk of cancer in the breast, colon and prostate.
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Lee’s second College Night experience, some State stu-dents were ready for their first go around. Ryan Whittling, a freshman in political science, came with eight friends to take advantage of the $30 lower bowl seats.
“I worked with them at a summer camp and we all decid-ed to get together and come to a Canes game,” Whittling said.
Arriving to watch hockey in the same venue her beloved Wolfpack play basketball, Whittling said being able to arrive right at game time is a nice perk to coming to ‘Canes games.
“I go to all the home basket-ball games, but this atmosphere is different because I’m used to getting here early and rushing to find good sideline seats,” Whittling said. “This is much more relaxed because I know where I am going to sit already, so it’s very different from going two hours early for basketball. We just get here right on time.”
The next College Night game is Feb. 20 against Alexander Ovechkin and the division rival Washington Capitals. Tickets will be available for sale online Feb. 1.
ryan parry/TechnicianStanding on the sidelines during the Virginia game Saturday, Jan. 28, N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried and his coaching staff wear Adidas sneakers to participate in Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers awareness weekend.
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COUNTDOWN• 20 days until N.C. State plays UNC at the RBC Center.
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DiD You know?Today is the 13th time N.C. State men’s basketball has played against Boston College. State has a 1-3 record against the Eagles while away at Conte Forum. One more ACC win would tie the Wolfpack’s total conference wins from last season.
Carolina loses 5-2 at College Night against New York.
Sean Fairholm & Rebecca Fiorentino
Deputy Sports Editor & Senior Staff Writer
It hasn’t been a good week for hometown teams to see rallies fall short at the RBC Center.
Three days after State dropped a 61-60 heart breaker to Virginia on the hard court, the ‘Canes dropped the first game back from the All-Star weekend to the New York Islanders. The Islanders beat Caroli-na 5-2 on the strength of a game-winning third period marker from young star John Tavares and added a pair of empty-net goals to salt the victory away in the final seconds.
Brandon Sutter (11) and Tim Brent (7) both scored for the Hurricanes.
“That was an intense game,” Sutter said. “Two teams on the standings at the bottom and in any given night you want to win. We played all right and we need to build on it.”
The ‘Canes, currently dead last in the eastern con-ference, are 11 points out of a playoff spot with 30 games remaining in the year.
“We’re finding ways to win and battle,” head coach Kirk Muller said. “Tonight was a good indicator that if we don’t play 60 [min-utes] and we don’t win our
battles, we’re no different from any other team - we’re not go-ing to win.”
Despite a loss on the ice, Hur-ricanes’ marketing coordina-tor Coop Elias said he was very glad with the progress of col-lege night, especially the grow-ing social media aspect.
“We’re having people just post a status on Facebook that they’re at Canes College Night,” Elias said. “They can post to our page, tag their friends and just by doing that they get a free T-shirt.”
Elias also said to expect more ‘Canes-related activities
and prizes around campus as the weather continues to get warmer.
“For next College Night we plan to be out in the brickyard as weat her ge t s n i c e r and we’ll do a couple of event s out in the brick-yard again,” E l ia s sa id . “We talked about maybe do-ing a spotter program where if people are seen wearing their Canes College Night T-shirts by one of our ambassadors on
campus, they could get picked out to get tickets or a signed ‘Canes item.”
State students using the Col-lege Night offer got to witness
an excit ing third period i n w h i c h Carolina stormed back with 2 goals in the first 7 minutes of
the frame. One of those stu-dents was avid fan Jordan Lee, a freshman in accounting.
“My favorite part about coming to Canes games is the
environment and people get-ting into it,” Lee said. “It’s nice to just kind of socialize with friends, family or whoever is coming with you.”
A Hurricanes fan since el-ementary school, Lee said he hopes to convert several friends into ‘Canes fans who can use the College Night special.
“I’ve gotten my roommate to become a ‘Canes fan and it would be nice to see more of my friends and N.C. State stu-dents come out to the College
Emili Tassler keeps fighting back to get on the court for the Pack.
Jeniece JamisonDeputy Sports Editor
Persistence, or a lack of it, can either make or break any career. More often than not, the latter occurs.
But redshirt senior Emili Tassler has embraced the adversities she’s encoun-tered and made persistence her signature attribute in the Wolfpack program.
Tassler has endured five surgeries on her left leg, three involving her knee and two for her calf, since her first injury in 2007.
“My senior year of high school I tore my ACL,” Tassler said. “Then, my first year at N.C. State, I had a meniscus repair. They stitched up my meniscus, so I was out for that whole sea-son. Then, my sophomore year, I had ACL reconstruc-tion again and they did a meniscus repair there too.
“So then my real junior year I played the whole sea-son,” Tassler said. “Then, over the summer I was having issues with my calf and we couldn’t figure out what was wrong. We figured out I had compartment syndrome. So then I had a compartment release in the summer and that helped for a bit.”
According to Tassler, compartment syndrome consists of having a tight-ened fascia around the calf.
“Basically, you have a fas-cia, which is the band that covers your muscle,” Tassler said. “Apparently, he said that mine was really tight on my muscle and it was causing my calf to cramp and not feel good, so they went in and released it.”
Despite these setbacks, which forced her to sit out her first two years at State and only play 13 games during her redshirt junior year, she has fought back to become a regular starter for the Wolfpack this season, ranking second for the Pack in assists and fourth in steals.
Stephanie Aronson, assistant athletic trainer for the women’s basketball program, has been working with Tassler since her arrival on campus on condi-tioning and strength during her recovery periods.
“We’ve done everything,” Ar-onson said. “When she came to N.C. State, she had torn her ACL in high school so one of the biggest things was taking her through jump training pro-grams and just a lot of lower body strengthening, agility type of stuff that we’ve done with her just to maintain great strength so that we can protect the knee.”
According to Aronson,
Tassler has maintained a positive attitude throughout years of injury and rehabilita-tion, and it’s manifested itself through her play in games.
“I think that you can tell by the way Emili plays that she has the same attitude toward her rehab the past several years,” Aronson said. “It’s hard for anybody who’s gone through that much injury, that many surgeries, to continue to keep a good attitude, and that’s what she’s done for her career here.”
After going through so many setbacks during her career at State, according to Tassler, her love for the game and the team is what keeps her motivated to keep moving forward.
“Just being able to play at all is exciting, so starting is awe-some,” Tassler said. “Just being something to help the team is great. I love basketball. I love my teammates. It’s fun to be in practice every day; I love all of the coaches. It’s awesome.”
Ryan PaRRy/TechnicianLosing the puck, Hurricanes forward Riley Nash checks a New York Islanders defenseman against the glass. The Hurricanes fell to the Islanders 2-5 Tuesday, Jan. 31, during a Hurricanes College Night.
Islanders leave ‘Canes strandedCaRoLINa HuRRICaNes
Player shows dedication through five surgeries
womeN’s baskeTbaLL aTHLeTICs
Down in the paint with DeShawn Painter
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athletic scheDule
TodayMen’s BasketBall at Boston CollegeBoston, Mass., 8 p.m.
ThursdayWoMen’s BasketBall at georgia teChDuluth, Ga., 7 p.m.
FridaytraCk at arMory Collegiate invitationalNew York, N.Y., All Day
traCk at virginia teCh eliteBlacksburg, Va., All Day
WoMen’s gyMnastiCs at MissouriColumbia, Mo., 6:30 p.m.
Wrestling vs. north CarolinaRaleigh, 7 p.m.
Saturdayrifle vs. kentuCkyMorgantown, W.V., All Day
traCk at virginia teCh eliteBlacksburg, Va., All Day
traCk at arMory Collegiate invitationalNew York, N.Y., All Day
traCk at kent taylorChapel Hill, All Day
WoMen’s tennis at vCuRichmond, Va., 11 a.m.
sWiMMing & Diving at virginiaCharlottesville, Va., 11 a.m.
Men’s BasketBall vs. Wake forestRBC Center, 1 p.m.
Sundayrifle at West virginiaMorgantown, W.V., All Day
Men’s tennis vs. CornellRaleigh, 10 a.m.
WoMen’s BasketBall vs. virginiaReynolds Coliseum, 2 p.m.
Men’s tennis vs. CharlotteRaleigh, 4 p.m.
John JoyneR/TechnicianRedshirt senior guard emili Tasler passes to a teammate during the game against North Greenville in Reynolds Nov. 6, 2011.
State soccer gets new practice facilityThe N.C. State soccer program is in the process of constructing a new practice facility in the location of the former upper intramural field at Miller Fields. The facility for both the men’s and women’s soccer teams will feature a grass field, a turf field, lights, 50-foot netting behind each goal and a sound system. The natural grass field will be a replica of the Pack’s gameday field at Dail Soccer Field. The project is part of $2.2 million investment into the stadium and practice facility.
SouRce: n.c. STaTe aThleTicS
Baseball player on NCBWA watch listJunior pitcher Chris Overman was one of the 45 relief pitchers named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award watch list last Wednesday. The award is presented to the top relief pitcher in NCAA Division I baseball annually.
SouRce: n.c. STaTe aThleTicS
Wolfpack junior center plays a key role coming off the bench.
Cory SmithStaff Writer
Coming off the bench may be disappointing for some, but junior center De-Shawn Painter, is just happy having the opportunity to play.
This season, Painter has definitely taken advantage of his opportunities by providing energy off the bench. This energy can be attributed to the hard work Painter has put in dur-ing the off season. In the offseason, Painter has had former professional players help him out on his game. One of these pros – a for-mer Wolfpack star – is none other than Julius Hodge.
“Julius and I are like brothers,” Painter said. “I even talk to him now while he’s overseas.”
Painter said working with Hodge has elevated his game to new, higher levels.
“Julius has really chal-lenged me to be a top com-petitor,” Painter said. “I’ve always had the ability to shoot the ball pretty well and he’s inspired me to keep doing that and to have con-fidence.”
Like any other athlete at N.C. State, Painter takes pride in the sport that he loves.
“I always try and work re-ally hard and try to be the best,” Painter said. “I want to play basketball in the fu-ture, so I just go as hard as I can. I am really passionate about this game. It’s some-thing that changed my life, so I take pride in it.”
Even though Painter does not play the same number of minutes as the starters on his team, Painter has been
more than capable of coming off the bench, scoring and giv-ing quality minutes. According to Painter, head coach Mark Gottfried wants Painter to do the things he knows he can do, like knock down open shots and be an excellent defender.
“[Gottfried] wants me to be a great rebounder, a tenacious defender and to hit the open shots,” Painter said. “Within a team, everybody can be great, but he wants me really to de-fend well and knock down my shots.”
This year Painter has proven he can score just as much as a starter can. Painter has come up as a key player when the Wolfpack needed him. When other players were in foul trou-ble, Painter would step in and prove not only to be a capable scorer but a great rebounder as well.
“I started off in the begin-ning of the season playing really well,” Painter said. “I have been in the right place at the right time and was able to knock down shots.”
Painter’s great play off the bench came full circle when the Wolfpack played Miami on the road. During that par-ticular contest, Painter finished the game with 18 points.
Another shining moment for Painter this year was when he knocked down the game-winning shot against a tough Princeton team. Painter de-scribes how that shot is some-thing that everybody dreams of when they play basketball.
“That is a shot that everybody dreams about; it was a great ex-perience,” Painter said. “Most people don’t get the opportu-nity to do that. I knew that I was going to make that shot.”
With Painter showing he has the ability to score and make rebounds, the Wolfpack has an excellent opportunity to compete with the top teams in the ACC.
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