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BY THE NUMBERS57% of NCSU student oppose a

nationwide semi-automatic gun ban

29% of students strongly opposed the idea of having a concealed carry policy on campus

17% of students strongly support a concealed carry policy on campus

83% of Democrats oppose concealed carry

63& of Republicans oppose concealed carry

SOURCE: PACK POLL

No. 19 N.C. State outrebounded, outshot and was more efficient in every imaginable category than No. 14 Miami Saturday. The only statistic it was bested in happens to be the only one that matters — the final score.

State lost against Miami, 79-78, Saturday afternoon in PNC Arena. State played the game without ju-nior starting point guard Lorenzo Brown. Miami forward Reggie Johnson converted a last-second tip-in as the Hurricanes handed State its first home loss of the season.

With 47 seconds left and the score 78-77 in the Wolfpack’s favor, Mi-ami gained possession after fresh-man guard Tyler Lewis missed a jumper in the lane. After the Hur-ricanes got the rebound, they im-mediately called timeout with 10.9 seconds remaining.

Out of the timeout, Miami guard Shane Larkin pushed up a contested lay-up that hit rim and missed, but Johnson was there for the put-back with only .8 seconds left on the clock. Johnson’s basket put Miami up by one point.

Freshman guard Rodney Purvis’ three-quarter court desperation shot hit rim but bounced out as the buzzer sounded to end the game.

Head coach Mark Gottfried em-phasized how proud he was of his team’s resilience in a loss that’s hard to swallow.

“That’s a heartbreaker,” Gottfried said. “I thought we played extremely hard and never quit. I’m disappoint-ed, but at the same time, I’m proud of our effort. ”

With Brown sidelined by an ankle injury sustained in last Tuesday’s game against Virginia, Gottfried’s

job was sure to be a challenge. Op-erating a limited seven-man rota-tion, Gottfried elected to start ju-nior center Jordan Vandenberg in place of junior forward C.J. Leslie. The decision was likely made to rest Leslie for the end of the game. Van-denberg, who made his first career start as a member of the Wolfpack, played only seven total minutes and registered one block and a steal.

Purvis started the game at point guard, flanked by freshman for-ward T.J. Warren and senior guard Scott Wood. As the game played out, Purvis shifted to wing, and Lewis assumed point guard duties.

The game was defined by spurts by both teams. Coming out with te-nacious defense and physical front-court play, the Hurricanes found an early rhythm, jumping out to an 11-7 lead at the first media timeout.

A recently conducted poll shows students do not want to ban semi-automatic weapons nationwide.

According to the Pack Poll, a semi-annual representative survey of N.C. State undergraduates, 57 percent of N.C. State students oppose a na-tionwide semi-automatic gun ban.

This is rela-tively consis-tent with the data found by the Gallup Poll, which showed that 51 percent of Americans are not in favor of a semi-automatic gun ban. Sta-tistically, men are more likely to op-pose the ban while women are more likely to support it. Republicans oppose the ban more often than

Democrats, 73 percent of who support it.

Although most stu-dents oppose a nationwide gun ban, most were not in favor of having guns around

on campus. Twenty-nine percent of stu-dents strongly oppose the idea of having a con-c e a le d c a r r y policy on cam-pus while only 17 percent strongly support it.

Partisanship again had a sig-nificant impact on opinions in

this poll. Eighty-three percent of Democrats oppose concealed carry on campus, a greater percentage than the 63 percent of Republicans who oppose such a policy.

Politics were not the only factor that appeared to have an impact on students’ opinions. Other fac-tors that may have played a role in shaping opinions included students’ upbringing. Students whose parents own a gun are twice as likely to sup-port concealed carry on campus as students whose parents do not.

The Pack Poll gathered these sta-tistics from an online survey con-ducted Jan. 28-29, in which about 26,000 students were emailed questions about their opinions on

gun laws. Of the 26,000 who were contacted, 891, or 34 percent, re-sponded.

According to Jake LaRoe, a re-searcher at the Pack Poll, this is a high response rate compared to the 9 percent response rate normally seen in industry polls, which can likely be attributed to the brevity of the survey and the exclusiveness of the network of survey recipients.

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Jessica HatcherStaff Writer

More than 2,400 incoming freshmen received course credit from Advanced Placement class-es this fall, according to registra-tion and records. However, many institutions are modifying their policies considering AP classes.

Dartmouth College recently announced it will no longer ac-cept AP credits towards gradu-ation, effective 2018.

Hakan Tell is a classics pro-fessor and chairman of Darth-mouth College’s Committee on Instruction.

“The concern that we have is that increasingly, AP has been seen as equivalent to a college-level course, and it really isn’t, in our [the college’s] opinion,” Tell said in an interview with NPR.

Jim Martin, professor of chem-istry and a representative for the Wake County Board of Educa-tion, agrees.

Martin explained that colleges are straying away from provid-ing AP credit because AP courses are becoming centered around test preparation more than the actual learning process.

“I see that a significant amount of AP is teaching people to pass the AP test,” Martin said.

Kristin Stroud, a sophomore majoring in fashion and textile brand management, affirms this notion.

“I do not feel like I gained the same quality of education [in AP classes] because we simply aim towards passing a test rather than learning true fundamen-tals and material,” Stroud said.

Preparing for standardized exams encourages students to focus solely on recognition based learning, Martin said, adding that this is problematic because it is not practical in real-life situ-ations.

“The way I teach reflects the way my life is as a chemist. When I’m working, I don’t get answers

to choose between,” Martin said. Martin said he finds students in

his higher level chemistry courses who have received credit for a pre-requisite through AP credits per-form at a much lower rate compared to those who took the prerequisite courses at the University.

“People who have been trained with the standardized form of learning get a culture shock,” Mar-tin said.

Martin said high schools should require more intensive and chal-lenging classes that teach fun-damental skills such as critical thinking, independent learning and problem solving rather than merely passing a test.

Stroud said she feels like she gets more of an education from her courses now.

“I think AP classes had more ‘busy-work’ and were far more time-consuming than my classes now. I feel like my classes now pro-vide me an ample amount of time to study and actually learn the mate-rial rather than simply memorize it for a test,” Stroud said.

According to Martin, AP classes can be helpful for students.

“However, there’s a difference between a class being helpful and being substituted for college credit,” Martin said.

Another problem with AP class-es is that they discourage students from taking other enriching classes.

“I see this as a member of the Board of Education; there are a lot of students who take AP courses be-cause of the impact they have on a weighted GPA,” Martin said.

Martin asserts this discourages students from taking other courses that broaden their experience.

“I always encourage students to take as many drama classes as they can; you might not need to perform a drama in career, but you need the communication and presentation skills that a drama class might teach you,” Martin said.

Martin said he does not think

Sara AwadStaff Writer

Imagine going to work where you get to meet Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, man-agers value you and you feel like you are on a college campus.

For people working at SAS, a software company started in Cary by N.C. State faculty mem-ber Anthony James Barr and SAS CEO and N.C. State alum Jim Goodnight, this is reality.

Senior in business adminis-tration Virginia Webb said she chose to intern at SAS because she heard it was “the biggest in-formation technology company in the world.” Her statement comes as Fortune Magazine ranked SAS as the second best place to work in the U.S. for 2012. Google currently holds the top spot, but SAS held the number one spot in 2010 and 2011.

Employee satisfaction hailed from a number of factors that in-cluded the people, amenities and

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[when] the most

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MondayAUDITION ORIENTATION FOR THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, A PLAY WITH UNIVERSITY THEATREThompson Hall, 6 p.m.

TuesdayBEYOND THE CONCEPT: TECHNOLOGIES AND IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES FOR FLIPPING THE CLASSD.H. Hill East Wing, 12 to 1 p.m.

AUDITIONS FOR THE HEIDI CHRONICLESThompson Hall - Titmus Theatre, 7 p.m.

WednesdayENGINEERING CAREER FAIRMcKimmon Center, 9:30 a.m to 4 p.m.

AUDITIONS FOR THE HEIDI CHRONICLESThompson Hall - Titmus Theatre, 7 p.m.

ThursdayLEGAL ISSUES IMPACTING ONLINE INSTRUCTION PART 1: FERPA AND ACCESSIBILITYD.H. Hill Assembly Room, 12 to 1:30 p.m.

STUDENT SHORT FILM SHOWCASED.H. Hill Auditorium, 7 p.m. to 12 a.m.

WRECK IT RALPHWitherspoon Student Cinema, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

GAMEWATCH: NC STATE VS. DUKE - FREEWitherspoon Student Cinema, 8:45 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

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SaturdayVITA TAX INCOME TAX ASSISTANCENelson Hall labs - basement level, All Day

KRISPY KREME CHALLENGEBell Tower, 8:30 to 10:30a.m.

FOSS FAIR 2013EB II Rooms 2216, 3211, & 3300, 9 a.m.

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1:28 P.M. | HIT & RUNLee HallEmployee reported parked vehicle had been struck by unknown vehicle.

8:04 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTReynolds ColiseumEmployee reported suspicious subject in laundry facility.

2:44 P.M. | ASSAULT Carmichael GymStaff reported student had struck another student requiring medical attention. Subject was arrested and referred to the university.

3:16 P.M. | FIRE ALARM EB IIIFP reponded to alarm caused by error in sensor system.

4:38 P.M. | ASSIST PERSONUniversity PlazaOfficers attempted to conduct welfare check on student but were unable to locate. Counseling Center staff reported student had been located.

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the flexibility. According to SAS’s website, the core of these factors goes back to Goodnight’s philoso-phy, which refers to the company’s employees as “creative capital.”

“It’s my job to maintain a work environment that keeps those people com-ing back every morning,” Goodnight said in an ar-ticle on Harvard Business Review featured on SAS’s website. According to a WRAL Tech Wire article, Goodnight’s innovation resulted in a 3.3 percent employee turnover rate and record profits.

Webb said the best part of her internship was the people, who still visit her at the restaurant where she currently works.

Former N.C. State and UNC-Asheville student Jordan Dorsett, who grad-uated from Greensboro College in 2009, worked at SAS for two years, first as a summer camp coun-selor and then as a recre-ation and program coor-dinator. He said SAS is a “tight-knit community.”

“People hang out with each other in a laid-back atmosphere,” Dorsett

said.

Junior in statistics and computer science Bethany Vohlers has worked at the company for three years.

“My father and brother work there, so it feels like one big family,” Vohlers said. “I get my hair done out there, go to the gym and see people I’ve known since I was little.”

Even Student Body Presi-dent Andy Walsh works at SAS, following in the foot-steps of his mother and fa-ther who also work for the company.

“Getting to work in such a positive SAS environment – where one is given the tools to be intellectually challenged and stimulated – has had an impact on how I perform my duties at N.C. State,” Walsh said in a blog by SAS commu-nications specialist Shannon Heath.

SAS also offers many ame-nities to employees.

“It’s almost like a big col-lege campus,” Dorsett said. According to Dorsett, SAS employees have a card simi-lar to the Wolfpack One card, which they can swipe to de-duct the money they use on SAS’s services from their paychecks.

“Where I see SAS most emulating a college setting is through the technology found on both campuses,” Walsh said in Heath’s blog.

Webb said she also en-joyed seeing famous movie starts when Iron Man III filming took place in her building.

“I got to meet Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow,” Webb said.

According to Dorsett, SAS operates under flex-ible conditions as well; some employees come in early to go to the gym and then return to their office.

Dorsett said he only worked Tuesdays through Fridays, equating to a 35-hour workweek.

“You work 35 hours, but you get paid like you are working 40,” Dorsett said.

Dorsett said the only reason he left his job at SAS was be-cause he preferred collegiate athletics rather than recre-ation and fitness. Dorsett now works as a marketing assistant for the University’s athletic department.

“However, for analytics and computer science, SAS is the best place to be,” Dorsett said.

SAS was unable to give Technician statistics regard-ing the number of N.C. State students employed by the company in time for publi-cation. According to Webb, many N.C. State students working at SAS have family or friend connections.

Dorsett said SAS vice presi-dent of human resources Jenn Mann was a family friend.

According to Webb, managers also associate with a lot of the Univer-sity’s organizations, like Alpha Kappa Psi, with whom Webb is a member.

Webb and Vohlers said they would love to work at SAS as full-time em-ployees after graduation. According to Webb, 60 percent of SAS interns get rehired.

“I didn’t just do busy work during my intern-ship and they treated me like a real employee,” Vohlers said.

“I learned a lot of how software products get from point A to point B,” Webb said. “I actually got to be in the business world and see how it works.”

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The recent gun control policy debate prompted the questions on the Pack Poll and is the topic of legislation in the North Carolina Senate. Ac-cording to The News and Observer, a bill was intro-duced Thursday, Jan. 31, which will allow teachers to possess guns on cam-pus if passed.

Alex Dowcett, a junior in environmental engi-neering and Democrat who participated in the survey, said he does not want to see a concealed carry policy on campus.

“A large part of me says that there is no reason why a technologically advanced society should allow an object that has the one and only use of taking another person’s

life,” Dowcett said. “Having increased access to guns in a day and age where the most minor incidents can become volatile especially scares me. For example, a scuff le at a State tailgate in 2004 ended with two people dead and at least one State student going to jail for life. Everyone in-volved there lost some-thing dear bec au se a gun got in-volved.”

Some stu-dent leaders were not sur-prised about the results of the poll. Ross Pilotte, a junior in fisheries and wildlife sciences, opposed a nation-wide ban on semi-automatic weapons.

“We’re a huge agricultural school, a huge wildlife school. A lot of us are hunters,” Pi-

lotte said. “The students I have spoken to are not convinced that this gun ban won’t affect their abil-ity to hunt, and I believe we are a student body that remains educated with current events and from what I gathered, want our government to place more

time and money on mental health ed-ucation, diagno-ses a nd research, not gun control.”

Pilotte i s t h e president o f t h e Univer-

sity’s chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, an organiza-tion that advocates for a concealed carry policy on campus.

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SAS ON-SITE AMENTITIES• recreational areas• daycare• medical care• book exchange• hair salon• car detailing• dry cleaning• massage therapy• nail salon• racquet stringing• skin care services• UPS - personal shipping

SOURCE: SAS

BY KELSEY BEAL

Who do you want to speak at Commencement?

“Bo Burnham”

Megan Lomonacofreshman, nuclear engineering

“Paulina Yarborough”

Vijayalakshmu Kasijunior, accounting

“Zach Galifianakis”Alex Pomeroysophomore, chemical engineering

“Stephen Colbert”

Emma Thorpefreshman, mathematics

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agricultural

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wildlife school.

A lot of us are

hunters.”Ross Pilotte,

junior in fisheries and wildlife sciencesON THE WEB

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the University will stop tak-ing credit altogether, but he expects it will take more care as to whether or not the credit will stand in place of a pre-requisite.

“At this time, we have no plans to change our policies regarding thresholds for ex-

emption from English 101 or eligibility for portfolio sub-mission based on scores on the AP Language and Com-position test or our thresh-olds for other exams,” Bridget Kozlow, associate director of undergraduate student sup-port in the First-Year Writing Program, said.

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US History 3, 4 HI 252 3 hours

US History 5 HI 251 & HI 252 6 hours

Biology 4, 5 BIO 181/181L & BIO 183/183L

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Chemistry 3 CH 101/102 4 hours

Chemistry 4, 5 CH 101/102 & CH 201/202

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5 ENG 101 4 hours

Environmental Science 3 MEA 100 3 hours

Environmental Science 4, 5 ES 100 or MEA 100 3/4 hours

European History 3, 4 HI 205 3 hours

European History 5 HI 208 & HI 209 6 hours

US Government 3, 4, 5 PS 201 3 hours

Calculus AB 3 MA 141 upon passing MA 241

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Calculus AB* 4, 5 MA 141 or MA 131 4/3 hours

Calculus BC 2 MA 141 upon passing MA 241

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Calculus BC 3 MA 141, MA 241 up on passing MA 242

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Calculus BC 4, 5 MA 141/ 241 OR MA 131/231

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Physics B 3, 4, 5 PY 205 upon passing PY 208 OR PY 211/212

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Physics C: Mechanics 3, 4, 5 PY 205 4 hours

Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism

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Psychology 3, 4, 5 PSY 200 3 hours

Statistics 3, 4, 5 ST 301 upon passing ST 302, or ST 311 (non-statistics majors)

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Student run company empowers orphans Tim GorskiStaff writer

A small group of N.C State students has started a for-profit company that is empowering orphans every-where.

Founded by Owen Jordan, a junior majoring in environ-mental science, and Tasso von Windheim, a junior ma-joring in materials science and engineering, RESQD is a for-profit company that is using drawings from orphans as graphics on apparel which will help to help feed, edu-cate and care for the areas in which these tiny artists live.

For every item of clothing

sold by RESQD, 25 percent of the profits are sent to its executive partner Loving Orphans Global, an orga-nization which maintains orphanages in impoverished areas in Uganda, Indonesia, Haiti and Burma, among many others. The remain-ing 75 percent of the profit is reinvested in the company so it will be able to sustain operating and supply costs. The company is currently in its research and development phase and has just produced its first shirt, with help in part by a child named Jefry. Jefry lives in an orphanage in Bali, a province in the country of Indonesia. The shirt features

Jefry’s drawing of a house next to a mountain and a long windy road. RESQD is also in the process of unveiling it s second shirt, “prin-cess Kenti,” designed by another child named Kenti, an or-phan from t h e s a m e tribe as Jefry in Bali.

In order for RESQD to be able to produce the shirts at an adequate rate, the company needs to suc-cessfully complete its fund-

raising campaign.Jordan said RESQD has

a goal of $4,500, which it intends to meet by Tues-

day, March 5 . T h i s amount will be used to cover ship-pi ng sup -plies, licens-i ng cos t s , 90 “Jef r y” and “Kenti” shirts, web-site creation and main-

tenance fees, among others things.

Jordan said it took him five years to find a way he could

provide help to other people. One year ago he found his calling when he met two employees of Loving Or-phan Global while on a trip in California. The puzzle came together at a Student Network meeting for the N.C. State Entrepreneurship Initiative when he met Von Windheim, co-founder and president of operations, as well as Kristen Bloch, who now serves as their president of media. They were both sold by the idea and hit the ground running.

RESQD received its larg-est donation in December through a local micro-fund-ing initiative called ground-

workk. Founded by Matthew Konar, an alum of both the N.C. State Colleges of Engi-neering (1997) and Design (2001), groundworkk invites the community to provide its time and charity to new start-ups. Through groundworkk, RESQD was able to raise a grand total of $315.

“Owen and Tasso are such go getters, their business model is impressive, their commitment to giving 25 percent of their proceeds is incredible,” Konar said. “Ev-erything these guys are doing and the distance they’ve come in the short time they’ve been at it has been incredible.”

“Owen and

Tasso are such

go getters, their

business model is

impressive...”Matthew Konar,

founder of groundworkk

WKNC boosts budget with Double Barrel

KATHERINE HOKE/TECHNICIANKate VanVorst, a senior in parks, recreation and tourism management, raffles off a PBR hat at Double Barrel Benefit on Saturday Feb. 2 2013. The two night concert raised money for N.C. State’s radio station WKNC.

KATHERINE HOKE/TECHNICIANSpider Bags headline the second night of Double Barrel Benefit on Saturday Feb. 2. This was the tenth anniversary of the benefit concert which raises money for N.C. State’s radio station WKNC.

Will E. BrooksDeputy News Editor

Bands did not have to travel far to show off local talent at WKNC’s Double Barrel Ben-efit 10 at the Pour House Fri-day and Saturday nights.

The lineup highlighted by Spider Bags and Lilac Shad-ows of Carrboro, and Oulipo of Raleigh, meshed with folk and indie-rock outfits to pro-duce a homogenous festival.

Lilac Shadows’ perfor-mance Friday night energized the predominately student crowd, with an energetic presence despite a keyboard malfunction pre-perfor-mance.

Double Barrel marked Lilac Shadows’ first performance in nearly half a year, and band member Sam Logan said on stage, “It feels good.”

“[Double Barrel] was the most fun I’ve had in a long time,” Logan said.

Logan felt Lilac Shadows’ most recent EP was quick, if not rushed, and he wanted to take his time writing and recording for a new album that is slated for release near

Hopscotch 2013.“We recorded the EP really

fast, so we want to take our time on this,” Logan said.

Jenny Besetzt, a five-piece band from Greensboro, per-formed shoegaze-inspired rock defined by ambient gui-tar and synthesizer beneath guttural vocals Friday along with an indie-pop perfor-mance by aptly named Lol-lipops.

Members of WKNC gave praise to the bands for their performances, many of which gave thanks back. Ja-son Kutchma of JKutchma and the Five Fifths gave his account of what the station means to him.

Kutchma, who blended folk, rock and pop in his headlining performance Friday night, began with a speech. Kutchma said after agonizing attempts distrib-uting his music, he heard himself first on WKNC; it was a moment Kutchma said he wouldn’t forget.

“It was so nice that some-one out there cared about [my music],” Kutchma said. “I feel like it legitimized me.”

Kutchma, who sounded something of a southern Bruce Springsteen, said his influences have varied from John Lennon, early Bob Dylan and Springsteen, but that he attempts to keep to a style his own.

Against the indie-rock mantra of the weekend, Oulipo, composed partially of N.C. State students, per-formed eclectic music satu-rated with synthesizer, voice modulation and technical drumming.

Timmy Matthews, guitar-ist for Oulipo and junior in communications, said the performance may not have been the band’s largest in size, but may have been their most important performance to date.

Matthews said he thought the band’s first performance at the Pour House was suc-cessful and enjoyable.

“I was very impressed with it,” Matthews said. “I thought the crowd was very respon-sive.”

Matthews said the band plans to release a new track in two weeks and is currently

working on an album for summer release.

Headlining the night, Spider Bags, a three-piece group out of Carrboro, made noise with psych-style punk and alarming stage presence.

Nick Murphy, senior in chemical engineering, said he enjoyed the per-formance for its music and raucous attitude.

Murphy said he liked the exciting stage presence given by Spider Bags’ bass-ist and guitarist.

“The singer laid down and played a solo, I just thought that was really punk,” Murphy said. “I liked how the bassist got on the speakers, I thought that really amped people up.”

The tenth Double Bar-rel Benefit brought several flavors of local indie-rock together, proving the mu-sic surrounding the Tri-angle is still a force to be reckoned with.

FeaturesEmma CathellStaff Writer

While studying abroad, students get to travel some-where different, see other cul-tures and meet new people. Sometimes these trips even change their lives.

For Genelle Wilson, a se-nior in international studies with an African concentra-tion, a study abroad expe-rience in Africa did this two-fold — for her and the orphaned children she cared for during her time there.

Wilson had always been attracted to the often over-looked continent. Accord-ing to Wilson, the wildlife, animals and people made her decision easy when it came time to choose a study abroad location. The Ghana, Togo and Benin summer pro-gram seemed like the perfect fit for her. What she did not know, though, was what she was going to do after the pro-gram ended.

“My mom told me, ‘Well, it’s only for a month. Don’t go home. Stay in Africa for a second month because you can’t get a job for only half a summer anyways,’” Wilson said.

Summer 2010 was sound-ing better and better to Wil-son, especially after she fig-ured out what she was going to do after her trip.

“I looked on Goog le a nd found an organiza-t ion ca l led Vol t a A id that looked trustworthy,” Wilson said. “You could volunteer at a hospital if you had med-ical training, you cou ld volunteer at a school if you had teaching experience, or you could volunteer at an orphanage and live there

too.”The third option, Drifting

Angels Orphanage, is what caught her eye.

“I really wanted to live at the orphanage and play with the kids,” Wilson said. “I ended up doing a lot of Eng-lish and math teaching while I was there.”

The transition from an American to an African life-style was drastic.

“It was very difficult at first for me,” Wilson said. “I’d say the first week and a half were so hard because the condi-tions are very poor. The chil-dren sleep on concrete floors and they have very thin straw mats where they sleep.”

Besides the children’s sleep-ing arrangements, Wilson was also exposed to how the 35 children in the orphan-age lived. There are many instances where they only eat once a day. Furthermore, the living conditions are not very clean. Similar to other Africans, those who live at the orphanage shower with only a bucket. Whenever a child wets their mat or gets sick on their mat, the most the volunteers can do is hose it off.

“It was very overwhelming to accept the conditions they were living in and to not be constantly upset by it, but it was so easy to fall in love with them immediately,” Wilson

said. “That was the best part of it. I immedi-ately fell in love with 35 kids, and I am so grate-ful for that. They were t h e p a r t that made it all worth-while.”

Wilson also noted how differ-ent the chil-dren at the

orphanage were than how she expected them to be.

“These children in Ghana just gravitate toward you and immediately love you,” Wil-son said. “They’re so sweet and gentle and just want to get to know who you are.”

The number one cause of death in Ghana is malaria. In fact, children in Ghana get malaria like the common cold in America.

“Sometimes, it would be three of four days before the child would go to the hospital because the people who ran the orphanage didn’t have the money and wanted to wait some time to be sure,” Wilson said. “So a kid would

have a 103-degree fever for three days.”

It was hard for Wilson to see that happen to the chil-dren, and she ended up ad-vocating for a child who was sick to go to the doctor right away and paid for their visit.

“A week into my experi-ence, I felt like I wasn’t giv-ing the children enough in comparison to how much they were changing my life,” Wilson said.

That was the mindset that inspired Wilson to do some-thing for the children. She created a project called “A Bed For An Angel,” which

raises money to give all the children mosquito nets and bunk beds. She started the project the following Sep-tember, and by sending out emails to her family and friends, letters to churches and talking with people at N.C. State, she had raised enough money four months later. In January 2011, Wilson made $3,000 for her project. In the summer of 2011, she returned to Ghana again.

“My goal kind of changed when I got back to Ghana [and spoke with Volta Aid],” Wilson said. “I realized they needed health insurance first

and foremost, so that there would never be an excuse for them to go to the hospi-tal when they got sick. And secondly, that they needed multivitamins every day.”

Childhood is the most im-portant time for people to get the nutrients they need. These orphans were not get-ting enough because of their eating habits, and these vita-mins help with that.

“It was so important that I went back [to Ghana] with an open mind,” Wilson said. “I told people that I was roughly going to buy just mosquito nets and bunk beds, but the real purchase that meant so much was the health insur-ance and the multivitamins. That’s what I’m most proud about because bunk beds can break and malaria nets can rip, but the health insurance is guaranteeing their future more.”

All of her purchases were made in Ghana to help the local economy. With the re-mainder of the money, Wil-son created a fund for future volunteers to add to so that the children can continue to get more.

“I think the children were very grateful,” Wilson said. “I think the older children knew what was going on, but I nev-er said, ‘This is from Nellie. You’re welcome.’ It was just giving it to them that mat-tered and getting to see how happy they were when they got [it all].”

According to Wilson, her time in Africa is not one that will ever be forgotten. She said her experiences modified the way she lives her life and completely turned her world upside-down.

“I think that when you see poverty like I did, there’s no turning back or forget-ting it,” Wilson said. “These kids completely changed my worldview and helped me realize what I was passion-ate about, which is helping people. And now, when I see struggle is when I realize how beautiful life is.

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Taylor QuinnStaff Writer

Ten years ago, when the GLBT Center was just get-ting ready to open its doors at N.C. State, a survey was conducted among the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender community gauging the climate of equality within the University. Now the cen-ter is conducting the survey again to see how things have changed and if the full equal-ity of treatment is in sight.

Justine Hollingshead, di-rector of the GLBT Center, wanted to conduct this sur-

vey to discover “how to make changes and meet the need of the community,” and added “research and assessment is a need.”

This survey is unique to N.C. State but takes elements from national surveys as well as from the survey taken in 2003 that was used in Vice

Provost Lisa Zapata’s disser-tation. She is one of the as-sociates responsible for the health and counseling centers who did research gauging cli-mates of the GLBT commu-nity. Zapata helped with the planning and analysis of this survey to make sure it would maximize the information they received.

The GLBT Center’s admin-istration felt as though it was time to conduct another sur-vey to compare the results to see how, or if, the University has grown as a more inclusive community.

“[The survey] is open to

all students, faculty and staff who are in the GLBT commu-nity,” Hollingshead said.

Aside from gain-ing knowl-edge about the climate of the GLBT community, Hollings-head and the GLBT Cen-ter are work-ing with a graduate student in the survey process and are giving them an opportunity to get class credit.

“Being able to partner

with a graduate student to get them credit,” Hollings-head said. “Experience is

rare for our field because we are not in the science o r S T E M fields.”

When the survey comes to a close, Hol-lingshead

said she would like to use the results to gain more knowl-edge about the issues that impact the community and hopes to find ways to address

the issues as the center’s di-rector.

“I really don’t have a pre-conceived notion,” Hollings-head said. “But I’m hoping to be able to compare the results on the other survey and hope to see that the climate has im-proved.”

This survey is taking place through Feb. 14 and can be found on the GLBT Center’s website. The survey takes ap-proximately twenty minutes to complete and should be answered as honestly as pos-sible.

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the climate has

improved.”Justine Hollingshead, director

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Crossing oceans for a cause

GLBT center conducts follow-up survey

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completely

changed my

worldview and

helped me

realize what I

was passionate

about.”Genelle Wilson, senior in

international studies

JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANGennelle Wilson, a senior in international studies, studied abroad in Ghana in the summer and worked with a local orphanage. She returned the next summer with approximately $3,000 in donations for the orphanage. “The hardest part for me was to see the poverty”, Wilson said “I thought I knew poverty and then lived with 30 kids for two months”.

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Nicky VaughtDeputy News Editor

To those who have ever craved Mediterranean cui-sine and frozen treats at the same time, Hillsborough Street may finally have the place for you.

Abbes Khelfa opened Ami-na’s Cafe, 2508 Hillsborough St., at the beginning of the year and runs the cafe inde-pendently, primarily to sell frozen yogurt.

On one side of the cafe, Khelfa sells Mediterranean dishes, such as panini, gyro and kabobs; on the other, frozen yogurt and ice cream. According to Khelfa, frozen yogurt and Mediterranean food pair well and both har-bor certain health benefits, so he decided to sell them together.

With students and faculty as his most frequent custom-ers, Khelfa focuses mostly on selling to students as he has the most experience selling to them.

Prior to relocating to the Raleigh area, Khelfa and a partner owned and oper-ated Angora, a frozen yogurt shop near Boston College and Boston University. After its initial success, Khelfa and his partner expanded, turn-ing Angora into a three-store chain.

“Customers who have spent time in Boston often find out the same man who started Amina’s is the one who started Angora,” Khelfa said. “They get excited.”

Khelfa said he hopes Am-ina’s gains the same kind of popularity. According to Khelfa, people in many states know about Angora.

Success in Boston inspired Khelfa to start Amina’s near N.C. State and, as it’s at the center of a fast-paced, rapidly growing city, Khelfa expects to see the same level of op-portunity.

Khelfa started Amina’s on his own, leaving his business partner with the three An-gora establishments.

The man behind Amina’s got into the frozen yogurt business after leaving his business selling ice cream in Algeria. He and his Turkish partner started selling frozen yogurt in 1990. Their shop gained popularity, as it was the only frozen yogurt busi-ness in the area.

“Nobody sold it, really,” Khelfa said. “I’d seen it around and at the mall, but it’s not the same. [Ours] isn’t

like, you know, the soft serve, it’s different.”

Amina’s Cafe joins an im-pressive lineup of Mediterra-nean restaurants and frozen yogurt shops on Hillsbor-ough Street. Some students wonder if the cafe will see much success.

“There are already so many restaurants like that,” Josh Poole, a junior in mechanical engineering, said. “There’s Jasmin and Freshberry. It’s like Amina’s is a flower seed that got planted after the rest have already grown and it won’t see much light.”

Poole, eating a small bowl of Nutella-f lavored yogurt, said he enjoyed the business for its integration of two popular, healthy food items.

“Hopefully people do go to it,” Poole said. “If not a lot

of people, just enough for it to stay in business. It’s a re-ally interesting place and it doesn’t get carried away by its own gimmick.”

High Cotton Ties redefine style

Amina’s Cafe combines student staples

Kaitlin MontgomeryStaff Writer

High Cotton Ties is bring-ing a “true southern accent” back to Raleigh with the help of one of North Carolina’s most renowned and historic products — cotton.

Judy Hi l l, owner and founder of High Cotton Ties, was born and bred in Raleigh and is no stranger to the tex-tile talent tucked away in the capital.

“I grew up in Raleigh, so by nature I’m a Wolfpack girl,” Hill said. “My father was an N.C. State research scientist for soil science. I went to N.C. State myself, cleaning bea-kers in my dad’s lab. It was because I grew up around all of the professors at State that I was very familiar with the tex t i le in-dustry.”

Hill’s company features 100 percent homegrown-cotton bow t ie s a long with a num-ber of other accessories, all of which are handmade in North Carolina.

“I’ve always wanted to start a business that would ben-efit North Carolina,” Hill said. “So when I came back to North Carolina five years ago after living in Washing-ton, D.C., I started thinking about what I could do to ben-efit my state.”

Hill attributes the idea for High Cotton to her oldest son, Cameron, who was in medical school at the Uni-versity of Virginia when the plans were hatched.

“He always wore bow ties so I figured I’d make him three for Christmas,” Hill said. “I had made my own pattern and when I went to go get fabric they didn’t have any silk so I got cotton instead.”

O t her doc tors of ten stopped Cameron when he wore the bow ties, but their reactions weren’t as expected.

“They told Cameron he wasn’t supposed to be wear-ing bow ties,” Hill said. “There had been a study showing doctors were car-rying germs from patient to patient on their neckties. Cameron explained to them that his bow ties were cotton and washable because that’s the way I had made them.”

That’s when Hill’s idea took off.

“When we found out that this had been an issue we re-alized that we had stumbled upon something,” Hill said.With people grabbing the ties out of her hand at Starbucks when trying to show friends, Hill understood that a wash-

able bowtie was some-thing that hadn’t been seen previ-ously.

“I had a son, James, at Chape l Hill, he was t he presi-dent of his fraternity,”

Hill said. “I took at least 100 ties and I got eight of the boys, sitting them all on this fraternity bench in the bow-ties for a photo shoot. People walking by would try to stop and buy ties off of the hanger I had with me. By the end of the day we had sold almost all of the ties we had with us. It was a phenomenon; no one had ever seen a cotton bowtie before.”

Realizing the product could come solely from the Caroli-nas, Hill saw this as her op-portunity to give back to the state.

“From the start we’ve had an unwavering mission to be a true southern company, making all of our products here,” Hill said. “It was our mission from the start to em-

ploy our neighbors as much as possible.”

Alex Peden, a 2012 graduate of N.C. State’s College of Art and Design and a recent hire of High Cotton, explained their passion for employing their neighbors.

“One of their main ideas for coming to Raleigh was to pull from the talent at N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill,” Peden said.

“We’ve gone a step fur-ther,” Hill said. “We’ve made a commitment not only to North Carolina, but to my hometown of Raleigh; we’re investing here.”

With 150 stores carrying their products, High Cotton is sold all the way from Maine to Texas. It will be in Raleigh, though, that they first open a retail store all their own.

“We’ll be able to show our story to folks in hopes that they’ll understand what we’re doing,” Hill said.

Elizabeth Hardy, a 2008 graduate of N.C. State’s Col-lege of Textiles and a recent hire of High Cotton, has lent a helping hand in their recent growth.

“I’m helping with fabric sourcing and developing,” Hardy said. “Two weeks ago I went with Judy [Hill] to pick out the fabric for our new spring collection. I get to use what I’ve learned in New York, where I was for four years after graduating, but here in Raleigh with High Cotton. It’s the perfect com-bination.”

Being one of the two Col-lege of Design graduates working at High Cotton, Peden credits a majority of his hire to the College of De-sign.

“I credit my getting this job to the College of Design and my professors there,” Peden said. “There are two people, Kathleen Rieder, assistant professor of Art and Design, and Chandra Cox, head of the department of Art and Design. … They’re the reason

I have this job. They set me up for success big time.”

According to Hill, it’s this recipe of Hardy, Peden and the homegrown culture of the business that has set High Cotton up for success.

“It’s because of the cul-ture, our products are made by people in the south,” Hill said. “We go so far as to use cotton from North Carolina for all of our products. We try not just to make them here but to pick the cotton for most of our products here too.”

In the end, according to Hardy, the locality and natu-ral angle High Cotton takes is what makes them and their product so different.

“There’s so much prod-uct out there,” Hardy said. “Coming from New York I’ve seen how a lot of companies throw food at the wall and see what sticks. They run out of time and they’re trying to please all of their retailers … the product suffers. With the way High Cotton makes every piece, we’re not going to make that same mistake.”

High Cotton Ties will have their grand opening with First Friday on March 1 at 19 West Hargett St.

“We’ve made a

commitment ...

to my hometown

of Raleigh; we’re

investing here.”Judy Hill, owner and founder

of HIgh Cotton Ties

COURTESY OF HIGH COTTON TIESHigh Cotton Ties features designs representative of classic Southern style. New products and styles, such as polos and T-shirts, have broadened the company’s repertoire.

COURTESY OF HIGH COTTON TIESHigh Cotton Ties are available and appropriate for any occasion. The line includes everything from traditional stripes to unconventional patterns.

COURTESY OF HIGH COTTON TIESHigh Cotton Ties are machine washable and more durable than traditional silk bowties.

JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANStacks of toppings line the walls of Amina’s Cafe, a frozen yogurt and mediterranean cafe, on Tuesday. Options available for mixing include Oreo’s, York Peppermint Patties and N.Y. style cheesecake.

JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANAmina’s Cafe owner, Abbes Khelfa, displays chicken kabobs which is one of the many mediterranean delights on Tuesday. The cafe also serves made to order frozen yogurt combinations. “I am bringing high quality yogurt and fresh mediterranean food,” Khelfa said.

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Commence-ment i s bot h a n

end and a begin-ning. It is the end of a student’s jour-ney in college, a time to stand with the thousands who shared this journey

and to reflect upon it. But it is also the

beginning, a time to

walk forth

into a new life with the thou-sands who shared the milieu of the University and stud-enthood. And to motivate graduates for this passage, universities traditionally in-vite a commencement speak-er to speak on graduation day.

Some of the most distin-guished members of our so-ciety have addressed gradu-ates in universities across the country. Fame isn’t the pri-mary qualification for being a commencement speaker, it is necessary for speakers to have affected the world in a signif-

icant way: to have proven that through their own

actions,

they can speak meaningfully about contributing to the world. A commencement speaker should be inspira-tional — graduates should feel like doing things not presented as normal choices in the classroom. In this, the speakers should be realis-tic idealists. The speakers should also be insightful. They should say something graduates would otherwise not have thought or been advised about during col-lege. It definitely shouldn’t be a 10-minute-long truism.

In other words, they should be all that our commence-ment speaker last year, former

N.C.

State and current San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, was not. Rivers told the class of 2012 about the three priorities of his life: faith, family and football. He sermonized about how “if that [football] doesn’t get you fired up, I don’t know what will.” and talked about his hobbies (“golf, fishing, whatever”).

This is not what any grad-uating N.C. State class de-serves. Some members of Technician’s editorial staff graduating this May actual-ly say that they would rather go to Duke’s commencement ceremony and listen to Me-linda Gates rather than their own. UNC-Chapel Hill im-presses this year, featuring AOL co-founder Steve Case.

So who is our commence-ment speaker this year? We won’t know until March. But UNC-CH and Duke found out about theirs in October

and November, respectively. Maybe it’s appropriate why they have speakers that aren’t mediocre … the relevant powers there actually seem to care. It’s not a “big-name-school” thing. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2010 brought in Al Gore, and last year, NC A&T had Michelle Obama.

A commencement address should be a culmination of one’s time at university, not a review of it, and surely not a floundering formality like last year’s. But there was one thing Rivers said that our student government and administration should take to heart. The quarterback looked earnestly at his audi-ence, and then spoke his final words: “Class of 2012, go all the way.” To whoever chooses the commencement speaker, go all the way, and make sure that this year’s com-mencement stands out to be as memorable and special an occasion as such a culmina-tion merits.

Technician’s Top 12 Picks

Who will speak at commencement?

2008 Erskine Bowle s The 2008 UNC-System President

2009Dr. John Seely Brown Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation

2010Charlie RoseAmerican television talk show host and jouranlist

2011James RogersCEO of Duke Energy

2012Philip Rivers San Diego Chargers Quarterback and N.C. State alum

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OUR COMPILATION OF PEOPLE WHO CAN SPEAK PUBLICLY ABOUT IMPORTANT ISSUES

Cynthia Breazeal

Breazeal teaches and researches at MIT and directs the Personal Robotics Group, a lab that designs social robots. She built Kismet, a robot that can convey emotion, and another of her creations, Leonardo, can mimic human expressions. Her expertise pertains not just to technology, but als o to psychology and interpersonal interactions.

Tom Regan

Regan, a professor emeritus of N.C. State’s Philosophy Department, is considered the philosophical leader of the modern animal rights movement. His expertise isn’t just limited to vegetarianism: Regan is what Technician considers “a homeboy”: a scholar who has helped put the University on the academic map.

Morgan Spurlock

This documentarian from West Virginia made a name for himself with Supersize Me, a movie that exposed obesity and aggressive fast-food marketing in the U.S. Spurlock’s adventurous nature has led him to subject himself to many of the world’s hardships, but his sense of humor and courage handlebar mustache make him quite the storyteller.

Sue Gardner

Who could graduate from college without the help of Sue Gardner, the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the host of Wikipedia? Gardner’s work with Wiki has not only impacted us as students, but she has expanded the company’s readership and contributor-ship globally.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Ehrenreich made a name for herself after she published Nickel and Dimed in 2001, a book based on her experience living on minimum wage in the United Stated. She considers herself a humanist and refers to her writing as advocacy and activism for social justice.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tyson is an astrophysicist and a common contributor to NOVA SceinceNow and The Colbert Report for science news. Tyson’s leadership in science education and communication has made him the de facto spokesman for NASA and STEM education.

Marshall Brain

Brain is the founder of HowStuffWorks. Before achieving success as an entrepreneur, author and public speaker, he earned a master’s degree in computer science from N.C. State, and taught in the computer science department here for six years.

Naomi Wolf

Wolf became the leader of the “third wave of the feminist movement” after her 1991 book, The Beauty Myth. Her works expose chronic societal problems, like sexism and ethnocentrism, but her social criticism is ultimately hopeful and encourages higher social standards.

Rajendra K. Pachauri

Since 2002, R.K. Pachauri has been the chairperson of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Perhaps our most eminent alumnus, he received his master’s degree in industrial engineering from N.C. State.

V.S. Ramachandran

Ramachandran is a neuroscientist who teaches at UC San Diego, and as the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, he has pioneered research in the physiology of psychology. He is not only a leader in medical research, but social progression and development in India.

Angela Davis

An activist and scholar, Angela Davis was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement and the Communist Party USA. She taught at UC-Santa Cruz, and has written prolifically on “feminism, African American studies, critical theory, social consciousness and prisons,” among others subjects.

Cookie Monster

We grew up with Cookie Monster, and the famous character from Sesame Street has taken up vegetables to address childhood obesity. Mr. Monster is a leader in entertainment and Epicureanism, and most importantly, he’s still a better speaker than Philip Rivers.

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when it left his hand. After a pair of turnovers,

Leslie was fouled underneath the basket and went to the line for a one-and-one situ-ation with the score at 78-76, Pack. Leslie missed the front end of his one-and-one and

then fouled Miami’s Durand Scott on the other end, who made one of his two free throws.

State got the ball back and Gottfried called a timeout to set up a play for Lewis, who had the hot hand through-out the game. Lewis drove to the basket and pulled up for a 12-footer, but missed. Miami grabbed the rebound

and after a timeout sent the Wolfpack faithful home dis-appointed.

“It all happened so fast,” Leslie said. “It was very simi-lar [to the Maryland game]. It’s just one of those things. ”

At the end of the day, Gott-fried said the loss does not overshadow the good things he saw from his team. Fac-ing a Miami team that has

seemingly run away with the ACC, he felt encouraged by his squad’s perseverance.

“If we keep playing hard like that, if we keep compet-ing like that, good things are [going to] happen for our team,” Gottfried said.

Despite falling short at the buzzer, Gottfried said he was pleased with his team’s ability to continue fighting. When

asked about the last play, he kept it simple.

“Look, sometimes in sports you have years where you have all those plays go in your favor. Sometimes they don’t,” Gottfried said. “I thought there was a lot of competitive greatness in our team to keep digging.”

With the loss, State falls to 16-6 overall, 5-4 in the ACC,

while the Hurricanes remain undefeated in ACC play with a perfect 8-0 record, 17-3 overall.

The Wolfpack’s next game will be against Duke at Cam-eron Indoor Stadium Thurs-day night.

State led at the half, 36-24, as the Deacons were held to 33 percent shooting in the opening 20 minutes.

Wake Forest responded in the second half and man-aged to cut the deficit to just two points with 12 min-utes remaining in the game when senior guard Lake-via Boykin, a Raleigh native, completed a three-point play.

The Pack, however, was able to shift momentum back in its favor by holding the Deacons scoreless over the next three minutes of play. State held Wake Forest to 15 points for the remainder of the game.

“Wake Forest has been very good offensively all season long,” Harper said. “I am re-ally proud of our defensive ef-fort today. I thought that was where this game was won.”

N.C. State shot 38.6 per-cent from the floor, but the Pack was 55.6 percent from three-point range. State out-rebounded the Deacons, 49-36, for the afternoon.

“We did not shoot well in the second half but we did a nice job attacking and getting to the rim,” Harper said.

The Wolfpack will return

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est time in school history in the 200-meter breaststroke, nearly breaking the two-minute mark and finishing ahead of the rest of the field at 2:00.08.

“It’s kind of bittersweet to do it and we still lost,” Maty-sek said. “It’d really be a lot more fun to do it and con-tribute to a win, but it’s still pretty cool to ball out and beat some UNC guys and get my name up on that board, hopefully for a while.”

Freshman Simonas Bilis, senior Joe Martin, junior Jonathan Boffa and sopho-more David Williams won the 200-meter freestyle relay with a time of 1:19.89.

In the 400-meter medley relay sophomore Hannah Freyman, sophomore Lau-ren Poli, junior Zina Grogg and senior Marifrances Hen-ley recorded the third fastest time in school history, com-pleting the event with a time of 3:43.73, just beating out the Tar Heels by .08 for first place.

Freshman Payton Schrum set a pool record in the 100-yard breaststroke at 1:03.93, good for first place and fifth all time in school history.

“This is the first year that we’ve actually been com-petitive with [Carolina],” Schrum said. “Now they’re actually scared of us. They were scared coming here. They didn’t know what was going to happen.”

Although the team lost the meet, Henley was all smiles after her final competition at N.C. State.

“This is my fourth year with the team and this is the closest it’s ever been,” Hen-ley said. “So the fact that my team is moving forward in a

positive way is awesome.”The Wolfpack dominat-

ed the Tar H e e l s i n diving. State took the top t wo spot s in women’s one-meter and three-meter springboard. In one-me-ter, sopho-more R a-chael Mumma took first with a score of 308.02 and senior

Hannah Hopkins took sec-ond at 277.80. In three-me-

ter, the two swimmers swapped s p o t s a s Hopkins s c o r e d a 318.52 and Mumma scored 307.50.

The men took first in one-meter

and the first three spots in three-meter. Senior Hud-

son Rains took first in both events with a one-meter score of 366.75 and a three-meter score of 385.95.

“It’s been a wild roller coaster today, being a se-nior and having all this great support here,” Rains said. “It was really, really awesome to do what I did today and perform well in front of this big support.”

The Wolfpack will take a break from action for the next few weeks and pre-pare for the ACC cham-pionships. Head coach Braden Holloway is not happy about coming away with a loss but saw a lot of positives that the Pack can take away from the meet and build on for the ACCs.

“I think we can do bet-ter,” Holloway said. “We had a lot of people step up today. We had some fresh-men coming out of the woodworks to show what the future can be like. We can bank this and bring it back out in a month. I was happy overall. We did pretty well today.”

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JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANFreshman swimmer, Haley Tomlinson, swims the butterfly during the 400 yard individual medley against UNC-Chapel Hill on Saturday. The Wolfpack women lost to the Tar Heels with a score of 157-142. The Wolfpack’s final meet will occur at the ACC Championship in Greensboro, Feb 20-23.

“So the fact

that my team is

moving forward

in a positive way

is awesome.”Marifrances Henley

women’s senior swimmer

Daniel Wilson & Rob McLamb

Staff Writers

The N.C. State women’s bas-ketball team (11-12, 3-8 ACC) defeated Wake Forest (10-12, 3-7) Sunday afternoon at Reyn-olds Coliseum, 64-55. The Lady Wolfpack earned its third conference win in the last four games after dropping its first seven games against ACC oppo-nents. The team played without junior guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman, who injured her left ankle in practice Friday.

State was led by senior guard Marissa Kastanek who scored 23 points and grabbed eight re-bounds in 39 minutes of action.

Kastanek made eight of her 16 shots, including three of five shots from three-point range.

“The coaches, over the past couple of practices, have put a big empha-sis on assist-passes, and that plays a big role,” Kastanek said. “If I can get open for just a split second and the pass is perfect, that helps me get my shot up.”

Sophomore guard Krystal Bar-rett added 14 points for the Pack, tying her season high against Elon in December.

Redshir t sophomore guard Len’Nique Brown, who started in place of Goodwin-Coleman, also played 39 minutes and had four points and nine assists, the latter a team-leading statistic.

“Knowing Myisha [Goodwin-Coleman] was not going to play, I

had zero concern with Len’Nique Brown,” head coach Kellie Harper said. “I am very confident with her ability.”

Junior center Markeisha Gatling scored 10 points and led the team with nine rebounds.

State began the game strong, scoring 13 points before the De-mon Deacons made a basket. At the midway point of the first half, State held an 18 point lead with Kastanek accounting for half of the Pack’s points.

“We have been working so well as a team lately,” Kastanek said. “We have grown and learned so much from playing that I do not think anyone can throw something at us that we have not seen.”

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and diving’s meet against North Carolina.

COUNTDOWN• # 3 days until men’s basketball travels to Cameron

Indoor Stadium to take on Duke. SportsTECHNICIANPAGE 8 • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Wrestling falls to UNCDespite picking up wins at the 157- and 285-pound classes, the Wolfpack fell to North Carolina Friday, 30-6. Junior Matt Nereim picked up the 157-pound win against Chris Mears, 11-8. Freshman Mike Kosoy had the Pack’s second win of the match against Cody Klempay, 6-2.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Pack picks up victories at Hilton Garden InvitationalWomen’s track and field had wins in the jumps, throws and middle-distance events at the Hilton Garden Invitational Saturday afternoon. Junior Elizabeth Shuman claimed first place in the high jump. Senior Danielle Adams finished second in the event and sophomore Caitlynn Filla recorded her personal-best to finish fourth. Redshirt sophomore Tremanisha Taylor took the shot put’s top spot and junior Kenyetta Iyevbele won the mile run. Redshirt junior Andie Cozzarelli finished behind Iyevbele for second. Freshman Jonathan Addison also finished first in the men’s high jump.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

ThursdayWOMEN’S TENNIS V. UNC-GREENSBOROJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL V. DUKEDurham, N.C., 9 p.m.

FridaySOFTBALL AT PANTHER INVITATIONALMiami, Fla, All Day

MEN’S TENNIS V. ELONJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4 p.m.

GYMNASTICS AT MARYLANDCollege Park, Md., 7 p.m.

TRACK AT VIRGINIA TECH ELITE MEETBlacksburg, Va., All Day

WOMEN’S TENNIS AT ITA NATIONAL TEAM INDOORSCharlottesville, Va., All Day

SaturdaySOFTBALL AT PANTHER INVITATIONALMiami, Fla., TBA

WRESTLING V. MARYLANDReynolds Coliseum, 5 p.m.

TRACK AT TYSON INVITATIONALFayetteville, Ark., All Day

WOMEN’S TENNIS AT ITA NATIONAL TEAM INDOORSCharlottesville, Va., All Day

TRACK AT VIRGINIA TECH ELITE MEETBlacksburg, Va., All Day

TRACK AT HUSKY CLASSIC Seattle, Wash., All Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I thought Tyler

[Lewis] stepped

up and was ter-

rific, just terrific.”Mark Gottfried,

men’s basketball head coach

Following the timeout, senior forward Richard Howell led an offensive surge for the Wolfpack. Around the 10-minute mark, the Pack leading 25-24, Howell had 11 points while the rest of the team combined for 14.

After a technical foul by John-son on Warren, the crowd at PNC roared to life — and so did junior forward C.J. Leslie. Leslie was yet again the Pack’s top performer, scoring eight points in the final nine minutes of the first half. Leslie finished the game with 18 points and 12 rebounds.

Purvis closed the half with an emphatic SportsCenter top-10 worthy put-back dunk off a Leslie miss. A confident Wolf-pack group went into the locker room ahead, 40-34. The Pack led the Hurricanes in all shoot-ing percentages and rebounds in the first half.

Had the Wolfpack won, the story of the game would have been Lewis’ breakout perfor-mance. Lewis, who has seen little playing time this season because of Lorenzo Brown’s pre-eminent level of play, emerged as the Pack ’s unquestion-able leader in the second half. Lewis played much big ger than his 5’10” stature would suggest, finish-ing the night with 16 points and five assists in 36 minutes.

“I thought Tyler [Lewis] stepped up and was terrific, just

terrific,” Gottfried said. “I couldn’t be any more proud of him. Maybe a positive from this is that we’ve learned he’s ready to go. ”

Lewis added that he too was pleased with his perfor-mance.

“I had to take ad-vantage of my op-portunity,” Lewis said. “I thought I played a pretty good overall game.”

But Lewis was his biggest critic

regarding the second-to-last play of the game.

“Coach told me to come off a ball screen and make a play happen,”

Lewis said. “Obviously, I didn’t make the play happen. I didn’t make the shot. ”

Lewis went on to call Brown the best point guard in the country.

Regardless of the result, Lewis’ ferocious and fearless play prom-ises good things for the Wolfpack’s future at the point guard position.

With 8:56 left in the game, Miami retook the lead and went up, 67-62, before Gottfried called timeout. The Hurricanes lead was a product of their 15-2 run, including 11 unan-swered points. But Purvis answered the bell with a slashing drive and a quick three to put State right back in the game.

The end of the game felt all too familiar for Wolfpack fans, whose

four ACC losses have all come by three points or less. Two of those losses have come off last minute tip-ins by the opposition.

“I think we’re getting better all the time — the frustrating thing is we have four league losses to show for it,” Gottfried said. “It’s a game of seconds and inches, and the ball was perfectly right there, in the right place.”

Purvis also weighed in on the Pack’s struggles down the stretch.

“We just [have to] find a way to finish close games better,” Purvis said.

He added that he thought his fi-nal desperation heave had a chance

SWIMMING & DIVINGWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

PNC gets rocked by a Hurricane

CHRIS RUPERT/TECHNICIANHead coach Mark Gottfried reflects on his loss to Miami Saturday at PNC Arena. The No. 19 Wolfpack fell to the No. 14 Hurricanes 79-78 after a last second tip-in by Miami’s Reggie Johnson.

JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANSenior guard Marissa Kasttanek works to gain possession of the ball during the N.C. State 64-55 win against Wake Forest on Sunday. The Wolfpack win improved its 11-12 over all and 3-8 in the ACC.

“We just [have

to] find a way

to finish close

games better.”Rodney Purvis

freshman guard

Nolan EvansStaff Writer

The N.C. State men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams fell to North Carolina Saturday on Senior Day, the last meet of the regular season, despite breaking multiple pool and school records and several top-10 marks in school history at the Willis R. Casey Natatorium.

The No. 22 men’s team fell to the 16th-ranked Tar Heels, 159.50-140.50, while the Wolf-pack women lost to No. 14 UNC, 157-142.

Freshman Louis Wojciechows-ki completed the 200-meter freestyle in 1:36.74, N.C. State’s fastest time of the season and the third fastest time in school history. Wojciechowski finished a full second ahead of the next closest swimmer to win the event for the Wolfpack.

Another freshman stepped up for the Pack Saturday. Reed Wheeler completed the 100-me-ter backstroke in just 49.14, good enough for first place and the sixth fastest time in school his-tory.

Continuing the trend, fresh-man Christian McCurdy won the 200-meter breakstroke by setting a new school record at 1:46.92 in the 200-meter but-terfly.

Junior Jake Matysek grabbed the pool record and the fifth fast-

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State drops Tobacco Road meet

Wolfpack women down Deamon Deacons for third ACC win

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