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Alum’s database utilizes technology, offers hope to Haitians

SG considers reviving living mascot tradition

University alum provides form of relief and means of finding information surrounding the status of those affected by the recent earthquake in Haiti

Ann PolkStaff Writer

Haitian-born University Alum Dr. Eugene Michael Maximilien has made a profound impact on Haitian disaster relief by providing a way to find the status and whereabouts of people in Haiti.

By creating an application on Facebook called Haiti Quake People Finder, Dr. Eugene Michael Maxim-ilien has enabled thousands of people to find, locate, and even save their own and others’ loved ones.

Haitian native and recipient of both an master’s in 2002 and doctorate in 2005 in computer science from N.C. State, Maxim-ilien provides a paradigm of how to go about using achieved degrees for greater good.

With an es-t imated death toll at 200,000 to 250,000 and still rising, the 7.0 magnitude ear thquake in Haiti has been called “the most de-structive natural disaster in modern times” in a recent article published by the NY Times.

In the chaos following initial news reports on the disaster, the response on Facebook was almost immedi-ate, especially in regard to statuses. “Moments after the earthquake hit, we started seeing a response on Facebook,” Andrew Noyes, manager

of public policy communications at Facebook, said.

“It was very organic. People were posting status messages about Haiti at about 1,500 per minute. That pace continued through yesterday [the day after the earthquake].”

Emphasizing the word “survivor” throughout, Maximilien’s applica-tion and its accompanying twitter and Google map sites allows users to keep track of the statuses of family and friends, as well as update and share information with their other friends on Facebook.

Sticking to the term “survivor” is part of the larger goal of keeping things hopeful, and the application intends to keep the database as ac-curate as possible. It also encourages suggestions from users on how it could be more useful.

Cited from the applications “about” section, “The main goal is to create a

socially updated database of these ‘survivors’ that is as accurate as possible, consid-ering the current limited means of communications with Haiti.” Ac-curacy in reports and findings is vital to the suc-cess of the appli-cation since us-ers must be able

to trust that the information posted for the application to continue its grave, yet effectual, functions.

Going back to the site’s insistence upon calling “survivors” all but those unmistakably confirmed as dead, the application’s adjoining page has re-quested that updates and responses maintain an optimistic tone. “When updating survivors and victims, if a death is not confirmed by either find-

ing the body or identified by a fam-ily member, please list as missing in respect to their grieving family and friends,” a status update from the page said.

Maximilien has maintained con-tact with his friends and family still living in Haiti. It was through his friends on Facebook that the idea occurred to Maximilien for the database/application.

With such a strong background in computer science and engineer-ing, Maximilien believed that the best thing he could do to help the relief effort would be assisting oth-ers to communicate and collect information, according to an ar-ticle published on the University’s computer science website.

“That night, I realized most of the information I had was from Facebook friends explaining, ‘This person is fine,’ or ‘This person is trapped.’ By the next day, I had a simple application ready for re-lease,” Maximilien said.

With various successes number-ing near 900 according to the ap-plication’s posted results, the exact future impact of provided support may never be definitive. Not only does the database provide a com-munity of support for survivors, victims and status-unknown’s family and friends, it also offers hope. One recent status update on the application’s page voices the relief efforts and recovery’s over-all theme of optimism and tenac-ity: “Our strength as Haitians lies in our willingness to conquer the impossible whatever the calamity, earthquake, or disaster that may strike us. We will rise again. Be-lieve it!”

Filmakers take shot at Campus MovieFest contestSee page 5.

Student Senate bill proposes wolf-like dog to represent University alongside current mascots

Nick Tran News Editor

Student Senate will be meeting tonight to discuss a number of new legislations, one of which will pro-pose a live mascot be purchased to represent the University beside Mr. and Ms. Wuf.

According to the bill to be presented at the Senate meeting, under consider-ation is reviving the Lobo wolf mascot tradition with a Tamaskan Dog which is very similar in appearance to a wolf and will be the fourth live mascot in the Lobo line.

The leg islat ion said this is not an at-tempt to replace Mr. and Ms. Wuf, who will still be active mascots, but a desire to restore historic traditions of NCSU for the student body.

Sen. Andy Walsh, the senator who wrote the bill, said the Senate is mak-ing an effort to push tradit ions at the University and he thought of idea after finding Facebook group petitioning for a real wolf.

“We had one before and we wanted to bring it back,” he said. “We want to do something cool for the students and hopefully it’ll pass without prob-lems.”

The decision to get a wolf-like dog instead of the traditional wolf came from maintaining the animal, Walsh said.

“N.C. laws are strict on vaccinating a wild wolf so it was better to find a wolf-like substitute.”

According to Walsh, the a full-bred Tamaskan will cost about $2,000 which, depending on student approval via a campus survey, will be taken from Student Government funds.

Walsh said he was hoping to find an alumnus to keep and train the dog as well as adopt the food and mainte-nance costs. The Veterinary School is expected to help with the medical responsibilities of keeping the mascot.

“We talked to the people at the Vet School to find housing for the mas-cot,” he said. “We will make sure it’ll be a visual mascot but also that it’s treated properly.”

Kevin Norris, a freshman in busi-ness administration, said he liked the idea and supported the attempt to increase school spirit.

“It’s pretty cool and would make a great addition, but we should still keep the old mascots, Norris said. “It may not really be neces-sary, but since I’ve been a State fan since I was five, I’m

pro anything to promote N.C. State.” Nikhil Singh, a senior in industrial

engineering, however, said a number of arguments could be made for and against the bill.

“As far as a live mascot, it can go both ways,” he said. “I think it would be cool to see how the students re-act. People will support the idea, but I don’t see it improving anything in particular.”

Singh said, however, logistical issues would raise questions about how prac-tical having a live mascot would be.

“I feel the cost will be divided among a large student body so I’m not wor-ried about that, but an issue will arise on how the dog will be taken care of,” he said. “If the past animals expressed discontent, getting another one prob-ably isn’t a good idea.”

Sen. Kyle O’Donnell said he would oppose the legislation because of the logistical issues and the lack of speci-ficity of the bill.

“Will the maintenance costs come from fees or appropriations? There are

a lot of specifics missing from the bill,” he said. “I don’t think an individual alumnus should have to bear the cost of the animal and the Vet School hasn’t even endorsed the mascot.”

O’Donnell said it was impractical to think the University can maintain a live animal as a mascot.

“Mr. and Ms. Wuf are already prop-erly embodying the University’s sprit,” O’Donnell said. “That spirit never dies, unlike a Tamaskan.”

Katina Mitchell, a freshman in envi-ronmental engineering, said the intent of the legislation is good, but the bill itself shows how impossible the idea is.

“I like the idea and how it would help school spirit, but $2,000 upfront for a dog is ridiculous,” she said. “It wouldn’t be worth it, unless maybe it was a real wolf.”

Mitchell echoed O’Donnell’s senti-ment a single alumnus should not be made responsible for the animal.

“It should be left at the Vet School, if we do get it. I don’t think it should be given to an alumnus,” Mitchell said. “Obviously they didn’t think it out very well. They should plan out the logistics a little better at least before voting on it.”

matt moore/technician file photoMr. and Ms. Wuf show off the volume meter from Reynolds Collesium prior to the start of the game against the Tar Heels.

DaviD mabe/technicianSparring with a staff, Tim Nguyen, a junior in computer science, participates in the Wushu club with Ben Webster, a junior in paper science engineering, on the second floor of Talley Student Center Tuesday. Nguyen said he began participating because he liked watching martial arts movies, and he said that it was good exercise that promoted coordination and flexibility.

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“Moments after

the earthquake hit,

we started seeing

a response on

Facebook.”Andrew Noyes, manager of public

policy communications for Facebook

“I’ve been a

State fan since

I was five. I’m

pro anything to

promote N.C.

State.”Kevin Norris, freshman in business administration

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Through Jordan’s lens

‘Hey, batter batter!’

Grad students Phillip Burrell and Chris Hathcock cheer on the Wolfpack baseball team Tuesday afternoon. Burrell, who is studying for his masters in economics, said he would be out chearing on his team, rain or shine. “We pretty much live here,” said Burrell, “even if it floods.” The friends came out to Doak field bearing a giant N.C.

State flag and loudly cheered on the Pack.

photo By jordan moore

Campus Calendar

todayHold on to Your Hats!D.h. hill Library East WingAll day

excel 2007 level 2McKimmon Center9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

cHinese new Year scavenger Hunttalley Student Center11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Faces and mazesGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon to 8 p.m.

witH latH and cHisel: nortH carolina wood turners and carversGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon to 8 p.m.

diversitY, discrimination & aFFirmative actiontalley Student Center, Brown Room1 to 4 p.m.

smart – sHop series worksHop: eFFective communicationtalley Student Center1 to 2 p.m.

soil science seminarwilliams Hall3:40 to 4:40 p.m.

CorreCTions & ClarifiCaTions

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41/30Chance of precipitation is 90 percent. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

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Scattered snow showers after 11 a.m. Mostly cloudy NW wind between 11 and 18 mph with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.

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Sunny, with a high near 48.

poliCe BloTTerFeb. 20 10:51 pm | concerned BeHaviorOff Campus Student was arrested by RpD for Assault on a police officer, Resist Delay or obstruct, and Intoxicated & Disruptive. Student will be referred to the university. 9:16 pm | suspicious personFraternity Ct. Bus Stop Report of suspicious person. officers spoke with non-student. All files checked negative. Subject was given escort to hillsborough Street.

Feb. 2110:17 am | damage to propertYES King Village Student reported window to vehicle had been broken by unknown means. 2:41 am | damage to propertY Pi Kappa Alpha Lot Student vehicle was damaged. 3:14 am | damage to propertY Pi Kappa Alpha Lot Student report unknown subject had thrown several bricks and damaged windows of vehicle. 8:26 am | B&e - veHicle Central Campus Lot Student reported vehicle had been broken into. No items were taken. 8:59 am | B&e - veHicle Centennial Campus Lot officers located vehicle with window broken out and electronic items had been taken. 3:13 pm | larcenY D.H. Hill Library Student reported theft of textbook.

in The knoW Henry M. Shaw Lecture: Dr. Mary Ellen Hynes

Dr. Mary Ellen Hynes, director of research for the Infrastructure Geophysi-cal Division in the Science and Technology Director-ate at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will deliver the 39th Annual Henry M. Shaw Lecture

presented by the Department of Civil, Construction, and En-vironmental Engineering. The lecture will take place on Feb. 25 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

In her lecture, “Extreme Loading of Critical Infra-structure,” Hynes will present a summary of ongoing research and progress on blast loading several types of infrastructure and design of mitigation mea-sures to prevent catastrophic failures. The speech will take place in Mann Hall room 216. Contact information is Nate

DeGraff at 919 515-3848. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Contact the Department of Civil, Construction, and En-vironmental Engineering at 515-2331 if you would like to attend.

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Campus Rec CPR and First Aid Classes

Campus recreat ion has monthly CPR and First Aid

Classes. These classes are designed to give students and faculty the confidence to respond in an emergency situation with skills that can save a life. The cost is $40 for students and $45 for members. Classes will be offered on Feb. 25, March 25 and April 15, all from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Registration can be done online on the campus recreation web page or by visiting room 1000 in Carmichael Gym.

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World & naTionFacebook games catch onthe maker of popular titles like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, San Francisco-based Zynga has ridden the games’ popularity to the top of the emerging market.

Zynga founder Mark pincus thought putting the games on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace would create simple games that people like but can easily leave and come back to.

on Facebook the games have prompted “fan” pages devoted to complaining about having to watch friends play them.

Facebook, with 400 million users, is the main venue for games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, the more popular games leading other games like FishVille, Vampires, Café World, yoVille and Zynga poker.

In total, more than 65 million people play Zynga games per day, according to media tracking company Developer Analytics. More than 75 million people a month play FarmVille, Zynga’s most popular title.

FarmVille is played by 75 million people each month, on par with the number who have played tetris during its existence.

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U.S. Medal Count

the United States is leading the medal count with 26 medals. Seven are gold, nine silver and 10 bronze medals. the U.S. team is three medals ahead of Germany, with Norway in third place with 17 medals. there are four nations at the bottom of the medal count, each with 1 medal. Great Britain has one gold medal in skeleton, Estonia with one silver, Finland with a silver and Kazakhstan with a silver.

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Toyota hasn’t ruled out electronics problem

WAShINGtoN - Under withering questioning from a congressional committee tuesday, a top toyota executive said the automaker still hasn’t ruled out electronics as a potential cause of sudden acceleration, acknowledging that fixing floor mats and sticking pedals would “not totally” solve the problem. James E. Lentz spoke before the house Commerce and Energy Committee for more than two hours discussing the problem.

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SOUL garden to take rootStudents lay the ground work for organic community garden on Central Campus

Rachel PortStaff Writer

A business plan that would strive to unite the campus and reduce NCSU’s ecological foot print was presented to a receptive Board of Trustees on Thursday. 

Lauren Morris, a junior in bio-chemistry, and Katie McKnight, a sophomore in environmental technology, are working to launch a com-munity gardening project on campus. They will call it the Students for Organic United Living Garden, or SOUL Gar-den for short.  

“We really want this gar-den to bring all different as-pects of campus together,” said McKnight. “That’s one of our main goals.” 

Morris, McKnight and the Wolfpack Environmental Student Association (WESA) developed their community garden proposal for the Think Outside the Brick competition last fall. 

McKnight said Jim Ceresnak, study body president, asked them to present their idea to the Board of Trustees. 

“They [the trustees] were very supportive,” she said. 

McKnight also said a WESA committee has been formed to work on the SOUL Garden project. 

According to Morris, food from the SOUL Garden could be sold at the Campus Farmers Market to help keep the garden

financially sustainable. McK-night and Morris said they hope to donate surplus food to the local food bank. 

“Real food is a right for ev-erybody,” said Morris. 

Morris said they wanted to start gardening on Central Campus in front of the David Clark and Fox Labs or between Tucker and Owen dorms in the First Year College village. Later, they would expand to Centennial Campus in front of Hunt Library and the Chancel-lor’s house. 

Bobby Brigman a civil en-gineering sophomore said he thought it would be a nice way to use the space in front of Fox labs. 

They said they are in the pro-cess of securing funds from the Inter-residence Council, student government, local businesses and the University Sustainability office. Material donations from the facilities and operations department, the crop science department, and the Permaculture class will also aid in starting the SOUL Garden.

Morris and McKnight made it clear that the produce from the garden wouldn’t be certi-fied organic right away. 

“Going organic entails not having any chemicals in the ground for three years,” said McKnight. 

They also said Dr. Bob Pat-terson, a professor of crop sci-ence, encouraged them to plant corn, beans, squash and pep-pers together as their garden staples.  

According to Patterson, corn, beans and squash together are colloquially called the three sisters. 

Patterson also said the three sisters and peppers are already well adapted to climates like NCSU’s and they provide all the nutri-ents needed for a very well-balanced diet. 

“Native Americans relied just about exclusively on these three sisters for their growth, development and well-being,” Patterson said. 

In addition, the three sis-ters are a sustainable form of gardening because ni-trogen fixated by the beans acts as a natural, organic fertilizer, he said. 

According to Patterson the project is a commend-able one. 

“What [McKight and Morris] want to do is raise our level of consciousness for sustainability and all the wonderful ways that we as a campus community can be part of that process,” Pat-terson said. 

“It’s a fantastic idea,” Weston Straka, a sopho-more studying material science and engineering, said. “[Gardening would be] a good way to get outdoors.” 

I don’t have any sort of a green thumb, but I’d garden, Ashley Myers a freshman in business administration said. 

“I’m interested in people having access to a better variety of things to eat,” Sydney Riggsbee, a sopho-more in nutrition said. “Bet-ter than a couple pieces of fruit from the dining hall.” 

According to McKnight and Morris, “The positive possibilities are endless.”

After month of applications, interviews and discussion Student Senate will hear second reading of bill tonight

Ty JohnsonSenior Staff Writer

The appropriations process annually causes headaches for student organization leaders and the senators who spon-sor their groups as they file to receive Student Government funds, but this year was differ-ent, according to Student Sen-ate Pro Tempore and Appro-priations Chair Jackie Smith. This year there was snow.

And while appropriations in-terviews had to be rescheduled because of the winter dusting earlier this month, Smith said things went smoothly this spring, though her commit-tee reviewed more appli-cat ions for funds than last spring.

“We h ad the same old problems with people having diffi-culties doing t he budget correctly,” Smith said. “ T h at w a s solved by a lot of senators stepping in. We had appropriations certification classes and every sponsor was supposed to be certified on the budget. Several sponsors put in leadership time and effort, and they were definitely very sup-portive.”

Organizations are assigned to senators who act as sponsors, assisting group leaders to navi-gate the appropriations process and ensure each organization receives as much money as it needs. Though senators are assigned multiple organiza-tions, Smith said sponsors this semester were more than happy to help the student leaders.

“They were very enthusias-tic,” she said. “I had e-mails from people asking for more organizations.”

Smith said all of the money available was appropriated among 152 organizations, and that participation in the appli-cation process was about the same as last fall when Student Government received 156 to-tal requests for group funding, distributing $68,670 among the organizations.

Still Smith had to deal with the typical problems that be-

fa l l col lege students, like meeting the deadline.

“We had a problem with people not understand-ing was that there was a deadline,” she said, as no late appli-cations can be accepted.

Smith said another problem that arose was one she didn’t anticipate as she couldn’t communicate with student leaders directly when the deadline approached.

“I’m not able to send out an e-mail directly,” she said. “They have to go through SORC.”

But snow and e-mail issues aside, Smith said the appro-priations process, which may conclude tonight following the Student Senate’s second read-ing of the bill, was successful.

“It was a success, but it was a success because the organi-zations cooperated well and worked with Student Govern-ment,” she said. “Everyone communicated very well and was very patient.”

Appropriations process continues tonight

At A glAnce: AppropriAtions Bill 61152 organizations requested funding this spring and the bill grants a combined $75,207 to the groups.The Art to Wear Fashion show stands to receive the most funding at $1,868.40, with 19 organizations receiving no money.Perhaps the most interesting group not to receive money is the Hookah Club, which was requesting start-up costs.

Source: Student Senate appropriationS Bill 61

Who got WhAt?

To view Appropriations Bill 61 as it will be read at tonight’s Student Senate meeting and see if your group was approved for funding, visit students.ncsu.edu/senate and click Legislation.

Source: StudentS.ncSu.edu/Senate

“It was a success,

but it was a

success because

the organizations

cooperated.”Jackie Smith, Appropriations

Chair

courteSy of lauren norriSA student walks through one of the possible locations for the SOUL garden on North Campus.

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{ }OUR VIEW

The weekly Campus Farmers Market in the Brickyard provides stu-

dents, faculty and staff with an opportunity to purchase fresh, local produce and other prod-ucts. The program has been a great success on campus and has increased its number of vendors for the spring semester in an effort to provide students with even more options while enhancing its educational mes-sage.

Now, what if the same ele-ments of edification and sus-tainable produce could be brought even closer to home?

That is one of the goals of a proposal approved by the Board of Trustees at its last meeting. The bid, presented by students from the Wolfpack Environmental Student Asso-

ciation, was a part of the fall semester’s Think Outside the Brick competition and envi-sioned a plan to launch a com-munity garden at N.C. State.

Community gardening is an idea that has gained significant momentum across the U.S. as a part of the local food move-ment and has commonly been associated with sustainability and “green living.”

As a land-grant institution with one of the best agricul-ture schools in the nation, the University should wholeheart-edly support the concept and see it through to fruition. One community garden is not go-ing to solve world hunger or

revolutionize the way students on campus eat, but it is part of the educational process.

Community gardens are an opportunity for students to learn about the foods they eat and they can serve as a catalyst to connect students with the realities of the land. Certain foods grow well in the Raleigh — and N.C. — environment, others do not. The latter ne-cessitate shipping and import, practices which have a quanti-fiable effect on produce quality and the environment.

Turning toward a locavore, and completely organic, life-style is not a realistic expec-tation for most students, but

the Students for Organic Liv-ing Garden can help students identify with the efforts many people are making to change that notion.

The proposed garden loca-tions — in between Tucker and Owen Residence Halls or near the Marye Anne Fox Labs — would make for an excel-lent campus addition and aid students in better understand-ing the work that goes into the foods they eat.

The campus community should stand behind the proj-ect with its support — finan-cial and otherwise. It would be a valuable educational oppor-tunity for students and, on a very practical level, would add even more local produce to the budding Campus Farmers Market.

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility

of the Executive Editors.

How does your garden grow?THE FACTS:A proposal presented by the Wolfpack Environmental Student Association to the Board of Trustees last week seeks to establish a community garden on campus.

OUR OPINION:A community garden would yield many benefits to the campus community, including a unique educational experience.

Dyslexia doesn’t mean dumb

No one wants to be labeled as dumb. Whether they ad-

mit it or not, it does hurt to be told that you are not nor will ever be as good as other

people. It may seem like people take pride in their fail-ure by pick-ing on those who stand out, but in reality they a r e o n l y looking for a way to be

seen. It is my personal view that no one is dumb, they just learn differently.

Dyslexia is a learning disability that has recently been gaining attention. It affects reading, spelling and sometimes mathematics, and is estimated to affects 5 to 17 percent of people who live in the United States. Dyslexia can be diagnosed in people at all intelligence levels, meaning you can have an IQ rivaling Albert Einstein and still have trou-ble reading the back of the cereal box. The disability can occur despite a good education and a relatively low-stress life. In this fast paced, dog-eat-dog world, dyslexia can be a speed bump in the road to success.

However, there are those who are able to overcome the difficulties of the dis-ability. If you are fan of

Grey’s Anatomy, you may be surprised to know that Patrick Dempsey, an actor who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd (more commonly known as “Mc-Dreamy”), has dyslexia. He was diagnosed when he was 12 years old and now he has to memorize all of his lines before shooting for the show or when he auditions for movie roles. Other celebrities with dyslexia include Or-lando Bloom, Keira Knight-ley and Keanu Reeves.

Symptoms of dyslex ia can be spot-t e d f r o m early child-hood through adulthood. People with dyslexia typi-c a l l y re a d s lowly a nd with little ac-curacy. This is not to say that they cannot read at all, but not as easily as someone who do not have dyslexia. A person with dyslexia may also have trouble spelling, or will confuse a word with another similar word. Dyslexia can also affect an person’s organizational skills, as well as their concept of time. Pronunciation of new words as well as following multiple in-structions simultaneously can be tiresome tasks.

Sadly, there is no cure for dyslexia. This does not mean that those who suffer from it are at a loss. Dyslexia differs

between people. There are many treatments and in-terventions available, but since everyone learns dif-ferently it may take time to find one that works. Those who specialize in learning disabilities such as neurolo-gists, school psychologists and special education in-structors are working hard to find better treatments

for people with dys-lexia.

College students may feel more inse-cure about having dyslexia because it can ac-centuate an already stressful environ-ment. I f

you have or think you may have dyslexia, go to the Dis-abilities Services Office to learn more information about what can be done to help you reach your full po-tential as a college student.

Send Marlena your thoughts on learning dis-abilities to letters@techni-cianonline.com.

“If you are fan of

Grey’s Anatomy,

you may be

surprised to

know that Patrick

Dempsey ... has

dyslexia.”

Marlena WilsonStaff Columnist

BY DAVID MABE

Would you support community gardening at

the University? Why or why not?

{ }IN YOUR WORDS

“Yes, [but] only if there’s a regulation monitoring who’s planting and who’s contributing.”

Carlos Hoppersenior, art and design

“Yes, I would. I’m taking a home horticulture class now, so I’m learning about gardening.”

Matt Mitchellsophomore, plant biology

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Athletics should consider a business model

With the recent grumblings about how some University sports teams are not living up to their potential, I propose the following: If you are a scholarship athlete, and you or your team has a win-loss record less than .500 for ACC play at the end of the season, you must pay back 50 percent of your subsidized education. This should also apply to the coaching staff for their salaries.

Let’s be honest, athletes receive this free money based on their athletic skills. If you do not give 100 percent on offense and defense, why do you think you should keep 100 percent of your “free money.” For a non-athlete student receiving an academic scholarship, if he or she fails to maintain a high GPA, the student’s scholarship will be retracted. Why should an athlete be different just because he or she is a member of a sports team? Many athletes receive a free education, which includes tuition, room, food, etc. I don’t wish, want or hope they perform at their highest ability some of the time, I expect them to do it every time, without exception. After watching some of the recent games — and the lackluster effort put forth as a team — it is apparent this is not the case. Todd Jeffreys sophomore, middle grades education

The shoes of a non-varsity athlete

Bona Jones makes several very good points about the need for the Wolfpack nation to support its athletes in her Monday column. I would, however, like to comment on several of the points she made about the club track team’s use of Paul Derr Track. I believe Russell Witham was justified when he asked “what are the odds that a group of students can align their schedules…between those hours?” The track is open to non-varsity students 8a.m. to 2 p.m. This is when the vast majority of classes are being held. While it is possible for individual students to find time during the middle of the day to work out, you have to admit that it is much harder for a group of students who do not have preferential class scheduling to find an agreeable time.

Bona, you need to remember that as a varsity athlete you get to pick your classes first, and therefore have a distinct advantage over the average student in scheduling classes around workouts. I can appreciate that you are making a substantial

time commitment to team workouts as a varsity athlete, but at the same time you need to remember that there are many other (non-varsity) athletes here at N.C. State that are equally deserving of recognition. This recognition could come in the form of extended hours at the track, or perhaps a separate practice time for the club track team so that they aren’t forced to dodge physical education fitness walkers and joggers during practice. Russell’s column may have inappropriately expressed the frustration that a lot of Wolfpack fans have been feeling, but he was right to stick up for the average student and the lack of University support for the club track team. Bona, go to Carmichael gym anytime mid-day and just try to run a 6-minute mile around that track. Now, triple the number of PE classes, and you’ll get a picture of the difficulty the club team faces during the hours Paul Derr Track is “available.”

I realize that the varsity athletes’ grass may not be as green as Russell makes it out to be, but until you run a mile in the shoes of a non-varsity athlete at the University you have no idea the barriers we face. John Zack Capetsjunior, aerospace engineering

Adrian proposed a straw man argument

Apparently, the terms reductio ad absurdum and straw man argument mean nothing to you Mr. Adrian. Let me explain.

A reductio ad absurdum is the argument that if you take a given idea to mean what it says and follow logical conclusions you come to something so absurd that the original argument should be considered invalid. Your reduction of thirdhand smoke to a suicide bomber is an outstanding example. Unfortunately, you concluded the science was undisputed and thought your reduction remained valid, instead of looking into how much TSNA is considered dangerous and how much smoking deposits.

Moving on, we come to your straw man arguments, which happened to be mined with falsities as well — LSD, murder and rape are not physically addictive. A straw man argument is when you attribute an idea to the opposition that is not claimed by them and then attack that argument. You provided stunning examples of straw man arguments in your article. Who claimed that addictiveness is a good reason to keep smoking legal? Perhaps there have been a few people to claim this, but most people against smoking bans focus on individual liberties and make no such claim. Further, the argument, “tobacco has traditionally been an important economic factor in N.C., so smoking should be kept legal,” does not logically lead to the conclusion that slavery should be reinstated. What an abuse of reason! And you attacked it as if those opposed to the ban supported it!

Jacob Burgdorfsenior, economics

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This year there was 109 sub-missions. The Best Picture went to “Wishphone,” Best Comedy went to “When Ants Strike Back,” Best Drama went to “Bones of Iraq,” and the Golden Mobile award went to “A Step Back.”

Josh Fairhurst and Robert Prince, seniors in computer science, are two of the produc-ers of the Best Picture winner “Wishphone,” the tale of two men who discover a phone that grants wishes.

“We didn’t think we had a chance to win in any of the other categories except for the ATT Golden Mobile category. We were ridiculously flabber-gasted when we won Best Pic-ture because we didn’t think we had a chance,” Fairhurst said. “We just ran with the phone thing because we wanted to win the phone category. We’ve got enough opportunity to win this category and only this cat-egory.”

Prince said he experienced a similar reaction when the two were called up to the stage after the announcement.

“I sat around stumbling for words for the longest time,” Prince said. “I remember going up on stage but I don’t remem-ber what I said.”

Prince and Fairhurst have worked together before on

their WolfTV show Doom-stink. According to Prince, after Fairhurst was convinced to enter the competition by his friends at the television station, he approached Prince about helping out.

“He calls me up and tells me we’re doing Campus MovieF-est and I’m like, ‘super,’” Prince said.

To c r e -ate the five-minute films in one week, participants were armed with a video camera, an ATT mobile phone a nd a Macbook laptop. Corey Howa rd, a sophomore in aerospace engineering, submit-ted a comedic film about col-lege life.

“I just used the computer for editing only, and I tried to implement the phone but it didn’t have anything to do with the plot, so I used it in small parts, nothing too significant. The camera, I just filmed with it,” Howard said.

Sagar Patel, a freshman in First Year College, said he went to the event because he heard he was in one of the videos.

“It was well put together,” Patel said of the event overall. “The prizes, free popcorn and especially the lights outside Witherspoon attracted a lot of people. The videos were really nice, and some of them had the potential to be full story lines.”

Before the viewing started and in between films, the event organizers gave out door priz-es, including five iPod shuffles, an Elgado TV tuner, T-shirts, an iPod nano and Apple’s Final Cut Studio. Candace Knotts, a junior in plant biology and horticulture, won an iPod shuffle and caught a T-shirt.

“I didn’t plan on [attending] but I was walking back from the gym and I saw the search-

l ig ht s a nd dec ided to see it,” Knotts said. “It was awesome to see the cre-ativity. It was a chance to see what ev-er yone has been doing. This is just something people do for themselves.

You don’t usually see a lot of visual film things creativity-wise.”

Lee Xiong, a freshman in bio-medical engineering, attended the event even after missing the deadline to submit a video of his own.

“There were some videos in there that didn’t make sense to me and some of them I thought were predictable. Others, you just don’t know what will hap-pen. The Wishphone one, ev-erything was a surprise,” Xiong

said. He said Wishphone was his favorite of the 16 shown. “My favorite video was the one that actually won Best Picture. The funny one is always the one that wins, but the one that looked the most realistic was the CSI one. The acting wasn’t the greatest, but the recording of it was really good.”

Knotts said her favorite film was the winner of Best Drama, “Bones of Iraq.” The movie highlighted the filmmaker’s Iraqi heritage and how she was treated differently because out of all her family she was the only one with Middle Eastern features.

“It reminded me of my little sister. She’s half-black but she’s got Latino features,” Knotts said. “People sometimes au-tomatically assume she speaks

Spanish.”Patel said that as a part of the

student body, students should support events like College MovieFest.

“It’s just a good outlook on our college. I take a lot of pride in what our school does. I like

to see what other students are involved in,” Patel said. “I plan on coming to future Campus MovieFest events because this one had a good impression on what our students can do in the film industry. I want to see the results of that next year.”

Filmmakers take shot at Campus MovieFest contestStudentS were given one computer, A cAmerA, A phone And A week to creAte Short filmS

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Josh fairhurst and robert prince, both seniors in computer science, accept their award for Best picture onstage at the campus moviefest 2010. “it’s just incredible man, i can’t believe it,” prince said after the show.

the crowd applauds as wishphone is announced Best picture of the 2010 campus moviefest. 16 films were selected for display at the campus moviefest, and wishphone continues on to the regionals in Atlanta, ga.

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Searchlights outside the Campus Cinema Sunday at 7:30 p.m. drew a crowd of movie-goers to the Campus MovieFest film competition. The

world’s largest campus film festival was back for the second year in a row to present the top 16 student films from N.C. State. The winners in each category will move on to the Southern Regional Grand Finale in Atlanta.

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outlook on our

college. I like to

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Times are tough. Go-ing out to the movies can be an expensive venture, especially at cinemas that charge $10 a ticket! Luck-ily, home DVD rentals have become cheaper and easier to use.

Besides, first few months of the year never really offer many good movies. Most studios use the post-awards winter months as a dump-ing ground for less note-worthy movies. So instead of trudging out to see a sub-par and expensive recent release, I implore you to rent one or both of the fol-lowing films that you may have missed in the theaters.

When I f irst saw the trailer for “Inglourious Basterds,” I was not look-ing forward to seeing it. After the over-the-top fun of “Grindhouse,” I was hoping for a more serious project from Tarantino. A film that featured Brad Pitt scalping Nazis didn’t really interest me that much.

Luckily, I was wrong. While the movie does have some fun scalping scenes, the plotline of the actual Basterds is only of

minor importance and doesn’t carry the story. Film Director Howard Hawks famously said that a great film consisted of “three great scenes” and “no bad ones.” Put to this test, “Basterds” is truly a great mov-ie and Tarantino’s masterpiece.

The first of the three great scenes is the opening scene, with Hans Landa –‘the Jew Hunter’—in a farmhouse in France. No spoilers here. The other two great scenes are the bar scene towards the middle of the movie and the finale in the theater.

It has been a few months since I first viewed “Basterds” and I am still in awe. It is amazing how Tarantino is able to do so much in a small film. There is not much action and most of the film is dialogue heavy. This has understand-ably turned some people off because of its slow pacing, yet that is what I love about it.

Tarantino is able to create rich storylines and characters, something that is rarely seen in his previous films. Let’s face it, he is best at crafting hip, styl-ish dialogue, and is a master of cool detachment and violence. He finally reaches a level of sophistication and depth with “Basterds” that he has never quite achieved before. That depth, combined with his trademark wit and excitement, makes “Inglorious Basterds” my favorite film of the year.

In Basterds, Tarantino and actor Christoph Waltz do the impossible. They make the main villain—Nazi Hans Lan-da—the most interesting and, dare I say, likeable character in the movie. Waltz’s perfor-

mance as Landa is a master-work in itself. I would also like to single out Mélanie Laurent playing Shosanna as the other great performance. Her char-acter is the heart of the film and is the true hero of the story.

Tarantino also uses strong irony in the film that is aimed squarely at the audience as well as himself. Throughout the movie he uses violence to make the audience enjoy in the treatment of the Nazis.

During a scene late in the film, the Nazis are watching a German propaganda picture of a German soldier gunning down American soldiers. The Nazis are laughing and revel-ing in the senseless violence of the film. As an American audi-ence we feel disgust and horror when the Nazis bask in the film violence, but when the Nazis get what they deserve, my au-dience and I were behaving in the same way. Here Tarantino is making an interesting com-ment on perspective in his-tory and violence that is quite frightening and powerful.

While not a great as “In-glourious Basterds,” Ricky Gervais’ “The Invention of Lying” is a funny, biting social and religious satire disguised as a romantic comedy. In the world of “Lying,” hu-mans never evolved the ability to tell a lie, but in-stead always tell the blunt, harsh truth. Pepsi adver-tisements r e a d : “ For when they are out of Coke.” Movies are nothing but filmed lectures of stories from history.

One day, after losing his job as a lecture film screenwriter, Mark Bellison (played by the

perennially hilarious Ricky Gervais) evolves the ability to lie. This gives Mark the abil-ity to do anything he wants. He discovers he can manipulate people for money, sex, power and respect. But what Mark really wants is the affection of Anna (Jennifer Garner) whose immaculate genetics are not a good match for Mark’s poor looks.

About halfway through, the film takes a more serious and somewhat dark turn. Mark faces a personal tragedy, and

afterwards he invents his own religion. Remem-ber, this is a world where no one can lie, and there-fore there is no such thing as religion.

After this tragedy, ev-eryone turns t o M a r k because he claims that

he has knowledge of what happens after death. There is a scene where Gervais reads the tenants of his religion to an overly attentive crowd out-

side his apartment. This scene reaches a level to that of Monty Python hilarity and is an in-stant comedy classic.

“Lying” does lose its momen-tum during the last 20 minutes, which focuses on the budding relationship between Gervais and Garner – an odd pairing if there ever was one, but I guess that is the point.

“Lying” doesn’t quite meet the “three great scene” criteria, but it does have more laughs than most comedies as well as a certain depth to it that is sorely lacking in PG-13 comedies. I wish that Gervais had been able to make a darker version of the film incorporating more satire. The movie is loaded with so many celebrity cameos that it almost becomes distracting, although my favorite was Ed-ward Norton as a power-hungry traffic cop.

Despite its shortcomings, you should definitely check out “The Invention of Lying” if you want to see a vision of the world turned upside down with all of the BS stripped away, or if you are just in the mood for a good laugh.

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couver, I will be keeping you updated about everything I attend and experience and give students perspective of the Olym-pics. It may seem like the Olympics have been going on for-ever (some of you are prob-ably irked by the fact that it ’s receiv-ing billing over The Office on Thursday nights) but there is still plenty to take in.

I have never been to the Winter Olympics before and have no idea what to expect. Knowing my home country, I assume it will be an extremely

friendly and festive atmosphere catering to people from all over the world. I do know one thing for sure, and that is that if Canada can overcome its heartbreaking loss this Sunday at the hands of the U.S. and win gold in men’s ice hockey, there will be a celebration all across

Canada that will be as big, i f not big-ger than the festivities in New Orleans a f t e r t h e Saints’ Super Bowl win.

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my journey and experience with you. The hardest part was waiting. But tomorrow, I’ll finally be a part of the action.

with each other,” Ganoe said. “ We throw some incentive in so if one side can not meet our goal, then they are usually re-quired to do running or push-ups or crunches, something along those lines. We are con-stantly challenging each other to play better, to play harder.”

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roll out there. I was proud of the way he battled. We lost the lead but you would have never known it if you looked at Russell.”

The biggest advantage Wilson brings to pitching is that he understands the mental side of the game. The junior realizes that he is not going to have his best

stuff everyday and at times is going to get hit. But he knows how to move past it and under-stands that to be effective as a closer he cannot dwell on the past.

“You have good days and bad days personally, and you just have to move on to the next one, and that is the great thing about baseball. You just have to move on from it and forget about it,” Wilson said. “Going your way or not going your way, you have to stay focused

on one thing at a time and focus on what you can control and just try to do your best and get it done.”

It may seem odd that after two seasons at State Wilson and the coaches are choosing now to utilize him as a pitcher, but Wilson says that it has just been a matter of timing. Wil-son’s health has prohibited him from taking the mound before now.

“I am finally 100 percent healthy,” Wilson said. “My

freshman year we had a really good staff and I was just trying to get a feel for things. Then my sophomore year I hurt my knee so I couldn’t get on the mound that much, but this year I want to get up there and get the ball in my hands and get people out.”

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how to win and Andrew cer-tainly has it.”

State had an offensive explo-sion this past weekend against La Salle, scoring a Wolfpack re-cord 65 runs in a three-game span, eclipsing the previous record of 61 runs set in 2002. That did not intimidate the Camels however, as they have played the Pack well recently, winning both match-ups last season.

“Campbell is well-coached, scrappy, and simply a good baseball team,” coach Avent said. “They don’t quit, they fight, and they all the things a good baseball team should do.”

Along with the game-win-ning hit, Ciencin finished the contest with five hits in seven at-bats including three RBI.

Senior centerfielder Kyle Wil-son had an equally impressive

game, finishing 5-for-6 with two RBI and four runs scored. Like many players on the Wolf-pack team, Wilson has seemed to find his groove at the plate early on this season, collecting ten hits in his last fourteen at-bats.

“It feels good,” said Kyle Wil-son regarding his early success this season. “I’m seeing the ball well and I’ve worked hard with my hitting coaches to smooth out my swing.”

Junior pitcher Jake Buchanan also turned in a strong perfor-mance, limiting the Camels to only one hit in five and two-thirds innings while striking out three batters. Buchanan helped the Pack build a 5-0 lead through the first six innings of play.

“Everything Jake Buchanan did was phenomenal,” coach Avent said, “but that’s just the way he’s been for us ever since he came here to State.”

After assembling a 5-0 Wolf-

pack lead, Campbell responded in the seventh inning as senior Kevin Nelson doubled down the leftfield line, scoring senior Bryan Braswell and freshman Bryce Grady to push the score to 5-2.

State answered right back scoring three runs of their own. Freshman shortstop Matt Bergquist had an RBI single which scored Dallas Poulk and was followed by a single from Senior Kyle Wilson which scored Bergquist. Ciencin brought Wilson across home plate with a double to leftfield, pushing the Wolfpack lead to 8-2.

The Camels’ bats started to come alive in the later innings however as they posted 3 runs in the eighth inning making the score 8-5.

After a solid pitching debut over the weekend, Russell Wil-son was called upon to close out the game for the Pack. Wilson struggled in the ninth inning

allowing three earned runs as Campbell evened the score at 8-8.

Thanks to the clutch hit-ting of Ciencin, the Wolf-pack prevailed in a hard-fought game to improve their record to 4-0 while Campbell drops to 2-2.

“Right now we’re still just working on the little things, trying to get the funda-mentals in place especially defensively, said Poulk. “We’re trying to take just one game at a time. We’re happy where we are right now but all of us know we have to keep working hard.”

The Wolfpack will travel to Myrtle Beach, S.C. this weekend to participate in Baseball at the Beach, a com-petitive baseball showcase hosting No. 6 UC-Irvine, No. 14 Coastal Carolina, and James Madison.

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“I have never been

to the Winter

Olympics before

and have no idea

what to expect.”

COUNTDOWN• 53 days until the football team’s spring game

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Outside hitter named to ACC All-Academic team

Senior outside hitter Keri DeMar was named to the 2009 ACC All-Academic Volleyball team Tuesday. DeMar was second on the team with 225 kills, third in sets played with 117 and fourth in digs with 165 this past season. DeMar has been named to the Dean’s List seven times. Student-athletes named to the squad must have a 3.0 GPA during the fall semester and have maintained a 3.0 GPA throughout their careers.

Source: N.c. State athleticS

Men’s swimming to compete at ACCs

The Men’s swimming team will travel to UNC for the ACC Championships today. The event runs through Saturday at Koury Natatorium. Six swimmers head to the Championships with times in the top-10 in Wolfpack history. The Pack went 5-2 (3-2 ACC) in the season. A complete schedule and list of events is available through ACC Swimming & Diving Championships Central.

Source: N.c. State athleticS

Golf takes second in Mardi Gras Invitational

N.C. State finished three strokes off the lead at the Mardi Gras Invitational in Avondal, La. this weekend. Senior Brad Revell remained in second place through the last two days of the tournament while junior Matt Hill finished 13th and freshman Mitchell Sutton took sole possession of eighth. The Pack will return to action Feb. 8 in the John Hayt Intercollegiate at the Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra, Fla.

Source: N.c. State athleticS

Team is able to fight off late inning surge by Camels

Tucker FrazierStaff Writer

Coming off of their re-cord-breaking weekend, the N.C. State baseball team needed extra innings to beat in-state rival Campbell by the score of 9-8 Tuesday at Doak Field. Sophomore Andrew Ciencin supplied the heroics for the Pack, driving in Senior Dallas Polk in the eleventh inning for the game-winning run.

“Andrew’s a tough, hard-nosed player,” coach Elliott Avent said. “He provides great leadership for our team and is just a flat-out winner. Some guys just have a knack for knowing

Two-sport star tries his luck at pitching out of the bullpen this season for Pack

Taylor BarbourDeputy Sports Editor

Just when people thought Russell Wilson could not do more, he goes and proves them wrong again. In his three years at N.C. State, the junior has accom-plished many feats such as winning ACC quarterback of the year, throwing for 48 touchdowns including 31 this past season, setting the NCAA record for most completions without an in-terception, and hitting .267 in 59 games for the baseball team.

But Wilson continues to take on new challenges this baseball season as the quarterback/infielder now adds pitching to his already packed athletic resume.

“Russell closed it for us Sunday and he came out and pitched today. He is going to get better,” coach Elliott Avent said. “This is the first time he has pitched

since high school.” Even though it has been

over two years since Wilson has pitched in a game, Wilson is confident in himself and his ability to be effective on the mound this season

“I am just trying to get people out,” Wilson said. “I am very confident out there, that is my personality and is just who I am, and I like to have the ball in my hand.”

However, the transition back to pitching has not goes as smoothly as Wilson and the Pack wanted as Wilson blew the save Tuesday night against Campbell. He gave up three runs in the bottom of the ninth, allowing Campbell to tie the game at 8-8. But no matter the early struggles, coach Avent and the team have confidence in Wilson when he is on the mound and realize he is only going to get better as the season goes on.

“Nothing bothers Russell, the only thing that bothers him is that he hasn’t been out there enough,” coach Avent said. “He is going to get better and better as he continues to

Wilson tests his luck on the mound

Clutch hitting helps Pack prevail

JordaN Moore/techNiciaN Sophomre Andrew Ciencin slides back to first place in the 5th inning of NC State’s game against Cambell, Tuesday, Feb. 23. Campbell’s pitcher had attempted to throw Ciencin out multiple times throughout the game.

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Club volleyball provides best of both worlds for athletesMembers can play at high level of competition and still have time enough time to balance everything else

Samantha CollierStaff Writer

From September until early April, State’s club vol-leyball team practices and competes against top teams in both the area and the na-tion. The team may not be Division I, but that does not mean it is lacking in talent.

“A lot of our girls could go play varsity at other schools, maybe not Division I na-tional championship level, but at the varsity level. But we just decided we didn’t want to have a varsity time commitment and this is the next best thing,” junior and co-president Dana Senko said. “You are still competi-tive, you still travel, you still have a team but it is less of a

time commitment.”Tryouts are held each year in

September. A spot on the team the previous year is not guar-anteed the following year. At tryouts there can be anywhere from 40 to 55 girls all compet-ing for twelve spots. Most of the girls that vie for a spot have a good a mou nt of experience under their belts and ac-cord i ng to Senko, each freshman class brings in more tal-ent than the previous year, making tryouts more competitive.

“We are very competitive and the other teams are exactly the same way,” senior and co-president Kim Ganoe said. “I feels like we are playing a var-sity sport. We are just as com-petitive as the varsity girls. We

take it seriously. We are looking for a group of girls where our skill levels match and are able to challenge each other in that aspect.”

The leaders of the team are not only looking for players who are competitive and have

skill but also have a good attitude.

“Girls need to come to tryouts with a n o p e n head,” vol-unteer coach Chas Bridwell said. “If you think you are going to make

it because you played in high school, you have another thing coming. I don’t care if you played nationals or were in the USA Olympic team. If your at-titude doesn’t allow you to help other people, and you are not open to other people and open to criticism, you might as well

not even come to tryouts.”Each year the team com-

petes in at least two league tournaments in the area and then travel to a tournament at Virginia Tech. There, the Pack plays northern teams before moving on to Nationals the first week in April.

In previous years, State has

finished in top-25 and hope to do the same this year as well.

To prepare for this high in-tense competition, at practice team members run drills and scrimmage each other.

“We scrimmage to try to get more of a competitive edge in

courteSy of NcSu club volleyballThe pack club volleyball team huddles together between points during a recent game.

Headed north of the boarder

Hey, guys. I’m Ben and I’m a sophomore in nutr it ion sc ience

and I am going to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I was born in Ontario, so naturally when I heard a couple years ago that Vancouver won the bid for

the 2010 Win-ter Olympics, I was ecstatic! Howe ver, I never thought I would get the opportunity to attend the games.

A f e w months ago, my pa rent s

started talking about trying to get some tickets for them-selves. They told me that if I could work it out with the Uni-versity, I may be able to go with them as a birthday present. I contacted all my teachers at the very beginning of the semester and all my teachers agreed to let me go. Still not 100 percent convinced that I would be able to go, I called my parents and told them the news. To my dis-belief, they booked me a plane ticket to Vancouver before we got off the phone. Just to make sure they weren’t playing some cruel joke one me, I made my Dad send me then confirma-tion e-mail. He wasn’t kidding!

I will be in Canada near the end of the Olympics, from to-morrow, Feb. 25 to March 4. During this time I will be in Vancouver for a day or two exploring the city and then will drive two hours into the mountains to Whistler where most of the alpine skinning, bobsled, and luge events are being held. The only tick-ets we have right now are for the medal round of the men’s bobsled but we are going to try and get last minute tickets to as many events as possible. This bobsled track, one of the fastest ever created, is the same track where Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili tragically died during a training run the day the games began. Since then, a fog of controversy has sur-rounded the course. The track creators moved the starting spot for luge lower down to decrease speed as well as and

Ben RiedlingerCorrespondent

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luiS zapata/techNiciaN archive photoJunior russell Wilson prepares to make a throw against the Clemson Tigers last May.

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athletic schedule

WednesdayMen’s swiMMing and diving aCC ChaMpionshipsChapel Hill, N.C., All Day

ThursdayMen’s and woMen’s TraCk and Field aCC indoor ChaMpionshipsBlacksburg, Va., All Day

woMen’s Tennis v. dukeDurham, N.C., 4 p.m.

woMen’s BaskeTBall v. wake ForesTWinston-Salem, N.C., 7 p.m.

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Quote of the day

“You have good days and bad days per-sonally, and

you just have to move on to the

next one.”Junior pitcher Russell

Wilson

“We are very

competitive and

the other teams

are exactly the

same way.”Co-president Kim Ganoe