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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s opposing views on the issue of abortion have been well publicized this cam-paign season.

Obama is for abortion rights. Romney is anti-abortion and stated life begins at conception, Roe v. Wade should be over-turned and states should have the right to decide the legality of abortion.

Romney also supports the 1976 Hyde Amendment, which bars the use of certain federal funding for abortion. Accord-ing to his website, he wants to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which funds some abortions.

Abortion has long been a prominent issue in presidential elections. According to a 2004 Gallup poll, 19 percent of vot-ers claimed that abortion “com-pletely directs” which candidate they are willing to support.

The poll also mentions that anti-abortion voters are three times as likely as abortion rights voters to make abortion a sin-gle-issue voting platform. This would provide Romney with a significant support base, and could change the results of the election.

It is also worth noting that, when Obama was elected in 2008, there was close to a 50-50 split between those who sup-ported and those who opposed abortion. Now, the 2012 Gallup data indicates that 50 percent of Americans are anti-abortion, compared to only 41 percent who are for abortion rights.

Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which includes plans that will cover abortion, has been criti-cized for forcing anti-abortion Americans to cover other peo-ple’s abortions.

However, the law requires that states have at least one health care plan that does not cover abortion. For those who want abortion-included plans, at least $1 of their premiums must be contributed to a fund that en-sures money will be available for abortion services.

The health care system uti-lized in Massachusetts in 2006 while Romney was governor did not include the word abortion in it. But, due to a ruling in 1981 by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, abortion-accessible plans were required through private insurance plans subsidized by the state.

Linguistic diversity celebrated at State Fair

Abortion in the presidential campaigns

Megan DuntonStaff Writer

Members of the North Carolina Language and Life Project educated fair-goers about North Carolina’s language diversity through a booth at the North Carolina State Fair.

Sightseers learned about North Carolina dialects through eight banners, a documentary, a dialect quiz and dialect buttons.

This year the booth expanded to include a Spanish language section.

Leaders in the NCLLP booth said they wanted to quell myths associ-ated with the Spanish that is spoken in North Carolina. Directors also aimed to have a bilingual volunteer at the booth at all times.

This focus on Spanish reflects the organization’s interest in the emerg-ing varieties of English spoken by Latin Americans in rural and met-ropolitan areas like Raleigh.

Ryne Jones, senior in biological sciences and French language and literature teacher education, said to-

day it’s about more than just learn-ing a language.

“In the 21st century with its global economy, to effectively communi-cate and live and be successful you have to be proficient in another language,” Jones said. “It’s not just the language but it’s knowing that culture and being accepting and knowing that things are done dif-ferently. “

Jones said language is one of the ways to explore and understand diversity in the classroom. He also

said students in foreign language classes can learn cultural context through stories and life experiences that the native speakers have to offer, especially those of peers.

“Here at N.C. State we do a good job with diversity educa-tion,” Jones said. “Our foreign lan-guage department is amazing. Even at the beginning levels all the way up you’re exposed to so much culture

and learning has never been by the book.”

Jones said K-12 edu-cation is what needs the most work be-cause most of the time a foreign language is

viewed as only a re-quirement. He also said a

foreign language helps students develop critical thinking skills that help with taking standardized tests,

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BOBBY KLIMCZAK, GEORGIA HOBBS & JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANThe 2012 North Carolina state fair had many types of fried comfort food for patrons to try, such as frozen cheesecake on a stick, fudge on a stick, and fried variations of familiar foods. (Left) Colorful cake pops from The Cake Pop Shop’s booth at the State Fair. (Top Right) Students from Liberty University Ashley Jones, a senior in history, and Meagan Henry, a senior in family and consumer science, enjoy a pumpkin spice funnel cake. (Bottom right)

Noah RouseStaff Writer

Professors from the Department of Political Science held a panel on the upcoming presidential election in Winston Hall Monday to dis-cuss issues that might decide which candidate will be elected on Nov. 6. Speakers included associate profes-sors William A. Boettcher, Steven Greene, Sanford H. Kessler, Elisha Savchak, and were moderated by Professor Andrew J. Taylor.

Boettcher began with a brief dis-cussion on the role of foreign policy this election cycle and its potential impact to sway likely voters. He made clear that 2012 was not going to be a foreign policy election, and that the American public was still fixated on the national recovery and “foreign policy fatigued” from the Bush years to give these issues much attention. As for the candidates themselves, Boettcher saw little difference in their policies despite their contrasting approaches.

“It is surprising [when you go to his website] to see that so many of the policies that Romney is call-ing for resemble Obama’s record, and Obama’s policies [on his web-site] resemble Romney’s rhetoric.” Boettcher said.

Greene followed Boettcher with an update on where both can-didates stood, taking note of the extremes the campaign has gone through.

“Romney began his campaign in the general elec-tion as one of the weakest Repub-lican candidates in American his-tory, and now has made the largest post-first debate comeback in American history,’ Greene said. “Despite most pundits, political scientists are able to predict elections six months in advance, but

these rapid swings in popular opin-ion are unprecedented.”

Greene also dismissed the analogy that has been made by right-wing critics of the president that this elec-tion will resemble the failed reelec-tion campaign of president Jimmy Carter in 1980, saying that polls are

far higher for the president than they were for Carter and in-stead suggested the possibility of a 2004 reelection or even a 2000 scenario where Obama wins via the electoral col-lege.

Savchak and Kessler finished the panel by dis-

cussing the future of the Supreme Court and the roles of culture and religion in politics, respectively. Savchak noted that like foreign policy, the courts would not play a

decisive role in the upcoming elec-tion. She predicted that a second term for Obama would see more seats being filled on The Supreme Court by minorities than those appointed by President hopeful, Romney, who would appoint judges based on social issues. Kessler de-voted most of his time discussing the social sciences and changes in national culture that might sway the election in an unpredictable direction.

“We have seen little mention of re-ligion in this campaign, despite how critical it is to the American people. The country has been locked in a deep culture war for the past few decades, and religion is at the cen-ter of it. The debate has centered on abortion, gay marriage and the divi-sion of church and state for years, but who is making these decisions is changing. For the first time in our country’s history, Protestants now

Political Science department hosts election panel

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mention of religion

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despite how

critical it is to the

American people.”Sanford H. Kessler,

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Alex ParkerCollege Democrat

“I believe that since Roe v Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it, and I sust ain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice. And my personal be-liefs, like the personal beliefs of other people, should not be brought into a political campaign.”

This is a quote from a 1994 debate and it echoes what Vice President Joe Biden told the nation in Thursday night’s debate regarding his religious views and his stance on abortion. This quote, not surprisingly, sums up many arguments made by President Barack Obama’s administra-tion and other pro-choice candidates. But most people wouldn’t guess who the au-thor is—presidential candi-date Mitt Romney.

Obama and his ad-ministration have worked to preserve the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade and to “protect this constitutional right,” which he told the na-tion on Jan. 23, 2011 on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

This year, on te anniver-sary of this landmark Su-preme Court case, Obama

restated that he has supported programs that “prevent un-intended pregnancies, sup-port pregnant women and mothers, reduce the need for abortion, encourage healthy relationships, and promote adoption.”

It is clear that if Obama is reelected he will support the Supreme Court, protect a woman’s right to choose, listen to medical experts and allow them to make decisions with their patients, and sup-port families during his time in office.

The contrast be-tween Obama and his op-ponent could not be any clearer. As mentioned above, presidential candidate Mitt Romney has not given a con-sistent answer to his opinion on abortion.

In the beginning of his political career Mitt Rom-ney was pro-choice. In his debate on Oct. 25, 1994 Mitt Romney said that, “We will not force our beliefs on oth-ers… and you will not see me wavering on that.”

The American people have witnessed him wavering. Since 2005, he has said he is “pro-life.”

In October 2011, Romney told Mike Huckabee that he “absolutely” supports a

Constitutional amendment banning all abortions. After Todd Akin gave his famous television interview declar-ing that only some rapes are “legitimate,” the Romney campaign stated that they supported an exception in the case of rape, incest and health of the mother.

Last Tuesday, Oct. 9, a year after his interview with Huckabee, Romney told the Des Moines Register that “there’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.” Later that day GOP spokes-woman Andrea Saul “clari-fied” her candidate’s remarks saying, “Mitt Romney is proudly pro-life and will be a pro-life president.”

The debate about abor-tion defines the fundamen-tal difference in these two candidates. While Obama’s competitor tries to find the most politically appealing stance on abortion and oth-er issues, Obama has a clear and consistent vision for this country. He is committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose along with “ensuring that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”

John FradyCollege Republican

Many American citizens abhor the thought of abusing a young child. Many more completely reject the idea that a baby should receive anything but unconditional love. But when it comes to fertilization and an embryo, there is a gray area that few are quick to dive into.

So why is it that every elec-tion cycle the opinions sur-rounding abortion are in-jected into the midst of the debate?

The reasons are simple; it is a tactic. Once again it is not surprising to see parts of this election cycle center around abortion. At the Democratic National Convention we heard speaker after speaker hammer home the idea that Republicans want to strip away all rights of a woman to do anything other than stand in a kitchen and make sandwiches. Some of you may be wondering why we heard such outlandish rhetoric.

There has been a large shift in women voters between the 2008 election and now. In

2008, then Senator Barack Obama held a very comfort-able lead over his rival John McCain among women vot-ers.

Now, in 2012, that lead has virtually been erased, espe-cially since the first presiden-tial debate, and it is a problem for Obama. If he does not win these voters back, and quick, he will lose this election.

Accordingly, we see how the election is evolving. The Obama campaign is talking to women with such un-intelligent arguments that it is astounding, insulting even. The campaign really believes that all they need to do to convince women to vote for Obama is to paint Romney as extreme. It is as if they believe that women are so simpleminded that they do not need to worry about constructing a logical or in-depth argument for reelection. So, who is really insulting women here?

It is not a stretch of the imagination to realize that Romney is pro-life. He is a member of the Mormon Church and so it is no sur-prise that he follows the same set of values. However, this

has not been an integral part of his campaign. For the same reason that Rick Santorum was not able to hold on to an early lead in the Republican Primary, Romney is not focusing on his pro-life stance.

This election is about three things: the econ-omy, the economy and the economy. Not so-cial issues. That is what has erased Obama’s lead among women voters and what Romney refuses to diverge from.

Though Romney clearly supports pro-life legisla-tion, he is not extreme about it, as most sources would have you believe. Many politicians from both sides are content with the idea of leaving it up to states to decide how best to handle such a deep issue. A vote for Romney is not a vote for some moral extremist—it is a vote for someone who is ready to work to make America strong again and to quit the petty games with voters.

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Newsexcelling in academics and interacting with other people and students.

“Foreign language chal-lenges our minds to think in ways we don’t often think. The critical thinking skills help us in other areas such as science, math, and reading,” Jones said. “It’s that criti-cal thinking that solves the world’s problems. ”

The NCLLP was founded in 1993 at N.C. State to facilitate research and community out-reach focusing on the socio-linguistics of the American South.

The goals of the NCLLP include gathering basic in-formation about language varieties in order to under-stand the nature of language variation and documenting language varieties in North Caro-lina that re-flect cultural traditions.

The NCLLP studies re-gional, so-cial, and eth-nic varieties of Southern English. Researchers for the organization study Outer Banks English. They also study African American English in remote commu-nities in Southern Appala-

chia and the Coastal Plains. The NCLLP is also interested in tri-ethnic communities

where Native Americans, European Americans and African Americans live together.

Some of the ac-complish-m e n t s o f the NCLLP i nc lud e a

collection of more than 1500 recorded sociolinguistic in-terviews and development of new language preservation techniques.

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ChanCellor’sRescheduled foR Tuesday, OcTOber 23, 10:30 a.M.

In honor of the memorial service of NC State alumnus and former UNC system president William C. Friday, the Chancellor’s Fall Forum has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 23.

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GEORGIA HOBBS/TECHNICIANVendor tables in the North lobby of the Dorton Arena are flocked by fairgoers Saturday Oct. 13. Displays of local produce abound in the interior of the Got to Be NC Agriculture tent at the State Fair.

“Here at N.C.

State we do

a good job

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education,”Ryne Jones,

senior in biological sciences

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make up less than half of all Americans, and unaf-filiated Americans have risen to 20 percent. With so much of The Republi-can party’s platform built on social conservatism, it will be interesting to see how this will play out over the next few years.”

A question and answer session followed at end of the panel with students asking about issues as diverse as voter ID laws, the role of parties in voter turnout and how the next two debates will reshape the campaign.

A follow up panel will be held the day after the election on Wednesday, Nov. 7 to discuss how the impact of the winning candidate will change the next four years.

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Two nights ago, as a kickoff to N.C. State’s Diversity

Education Week, the Free Expression Tunnel was decorated with the words “n----- f--” which were

splayed across the wa l l s in pink. Nice touch, by the way. If you read i n t o i t with the scrutiny

of an English professor, you could even argue the case for bringing in gender through t he color choice.

Sigh. Ev-e r y ye a r, something like this gets written on the walls of the tunnel. And every year, we as a student body react to it. This is not to criticize how the University handles it at all. Each time, the reac-tion is both admirable and appropriate. A statement about diversity is issued, Technician covers it. It’s all great PR for diversity, but it’s getting to the point that I feel like the Joker from The Dark Knight, observing the actions of the mobsters.

It’s all so…boring. Look, I really applaud

the efforts of whoever you are that writes these hate-ful things across campus. The writing on the door of the GLBT center? Way to hit close to home. It’s get-ting to the point that this is becoming a tradition, and it’s been repeated of-ten enough that I’ll have something to tell my kids

about “back when I went to N.C. State….”

But seriously, can we move on? Because I’m beginning to tire of the blasé nature of it all. The Civil Rights movement was way back in the ‘60s. It’s true that Amendment One passed, but I thought we’d moved beyond the middle school-style insults towards same-sex relationships. Come on, am I not right? Gum is a far more interesting item to stick on a wall than hateful words. That was so high-school-bathroom-stall stuff.

But then, to your credit, it could be the case that your angle is sim-ply medioc-rity. I guess in a strange way it’s not main-stream to go for completely

unmemorable, live-in-the-moment jazz. I can bend my mind around it if I really try. Yeah, there’s beauty in the av-erage. There’s comfort in the run-of-the-mill. The second rate can indeed be glorified.

Wait, what am I say-ing? Look, no one really cares about you and your issues with certain minority groups. People aren’t going to change their outlooks on life because you wrote a few words on the walls of the Free Expression Tunnel.

It’s nice that you’re trying as hard as you can to start a new tradition here at N.C. State, but it’s just too middle-of-the-road.

Why don’t you just save your paint and get some sleep during those wee hours of the morning. That will save us here at Technician some page space to cover some-thing much more interesting.

Dr. Marvin ‘Pop-Pop’ Herring

Could you get more mediocre?

For many of us, wa-ter simply f lows from a faucet, and

we think little about it be-yond this point of contact

... [We for-get] water is the basis of life and t he blue arteries of the earth! Everything ... depends on f resh

water to survive.” Wise words from San-

dra Postel, director and founder of the Global Wa-ter Policy Project. We un-derstand the disparity of living conditions between the nations of the world. Some of us know firsthand the disabling nature of not having basic needs.

Still, I do not believe the majority of us enjoying the regular comfort of a hot shower or the aesthetic pleasure of an ornamen-tal fountain possess an honest understanding of the luxuriousness of a presumably infinite and unquestionably sanitary water supply that can be accessed immediately, at any given time or location.

This common, seldom pondered resource is not the gift of Mother Nature, rather, an engineering feat — the result of scientific study and analytical ap-plication.

The World Health Or-

ganization reports that more than 21 percent of the world population lack access to clean, safe drinking water. In Africa alone, more than 40 billion hours are spent every year walking to acquire water. According to Charitywater.org, many women travel up to five miles daily to fetch loads averaging 40 pounds to trudge back to their families.

These scarce water supplies are often short-lived due to over exhaustion, and fre-quently contaminated with disease and animal waste. Mothers, oppressed with sickness and malnourish-ment, laboriously manage this task for the welfare of their young. Too often these mothers watch their children succumb to death, carried back in what was supposed to be life-sustaining water.

Whole societies lack the technology and scientif ic understanding to harness and purify water. This in-capacity manifests in1.8 bil-lion deaths annually related to contaminated drinking water, poor sanitation and lack of hygiene. According to the WHO, 90 percent of the victims are children under the age of 5—that translates into 3,900 children robbed of existence daily, because the only water available to them is pungent with disease.

When every waking mo-ment is spent f ighting to survive there is no physi-cal or mental energy left to devise true solutions, and

cyclical poverty and fam-ine persist. Without enough water to drink, every drop spared to agriculture and livestock are missed by the lips of the thirsting babes, and the plants and animals never get enough to multiply in adequate supply.

Is it not our moral obliga-tion to redeem the life ex-pectancy and experience of one-fifth of our brothers and sisters? Especially when the task is monetarily moderate compared to the billions we spend in the United States alone on cosmetics and en-tertainment every year. Are we not morally challenged to right this atrocity by under-standing our overwhelming ability to do so? Then what obligations do we have to cor-rect the wrongs of our forefa-thers, who created the frame-work of degradation in many of the areas still suffering?

What can you do? To start, make sure to swing through the Brickyard between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. this Wednes-day to view a visual demon-stration of the only quality of water available to more than 1 billion people today. The Global Health Committee, a campus-based CSLEPS ser-vice-leadership team, will be conducting the demonstra-tion and available to discuss the many ways that we can all make a difference.

Heather TroutmanStaff Columnist

Joseph HaveyStaff Columnist

Purchasing power to purify water

Miscreants cause a big stinkDiversity Education Week

began yesterday with a lecture on the myth of

Christopher Columbus and a GLBT Community Alliance ally rally in the Brickyard. And what better way is there to begin a week of education on diversity than with this hateful pejorative scrawled in bright, pink letters in the Free Expression Tun-nel: “N-----f--.“ Whoever painted the word in the tunnel managed to offend many groups on campus: black students, gay students, those who appreciate Associated Press style and those who have any shred of decency and dignity.

The tunnel has often been at the center of controversy on campus. The last big fracas over “speech” in the tunnel was in 2010, when some-

one spray paint-ed the N-word next to a depic-tion of President Barack Obama. And just two years before, there was a threat directed at the then newly-elected president.

To be as crude as some of the ex-pression in the tunnel, each time controversy wafts onto campus along with the odor of paint fumes, the reactions on campus aren’t dis-similar to reactions to public flatu-lence…

Some people just want to pretend the depravity never took place, so they just sit in the stink of it all and wait it out. Others want to call out the offender and reprimand him or her for the debasement. And then there are those who take offense

to having their — potentially foul — free speech limited in the public sphere.

Just because you can fart in public, it doesn’t mean you should.

Those who are Constitution-savvy often make their arguments by agreeing that painting intolerant speech is morally wrong, but will of-ten follow that by saying something along the lines of, “But it’s within a person’s rights to do so.”

The line between being a citizen who’s knowledgeable about his or her rights and an outright dunder-head has been blurred.

Certainly whoever painted the

words in the tunnel would defend the ac-tion by citing

the First Amendment, but what the “artist” really ought to say is “I just want to be a scumbag.”

There’s no easy solution for get-ting rid of hate speech in the tunnel. In fact, the only solution would be to get rid of the tunnel itself. Some have suggested installing cameras to catch the miscreants among us, but that would be contradictory to the tunnel’s purpose, and cameras would certainly be painted over.

Intolerant speech can only be combated by equally free, produc-tive speech. Many didn’t have the misfortune of seeing the offensive graffiti, and that’s because it was

promptly painted over after one student reported it to Campus Po-lice, and that behavior is to be com-mended.

Every day thousands of people walk through the Free Expression Tunnel and make a stink-face at something generally perceived as lewd — and nothing more, they just sit in the stink. The question we ask should be “How can we stop offen-sive language?” Rather, “How can we use our speech productively?”

Send your thoughts to viewpoint@technicianonline.com

BY BOBBY KLIMCZAK

If you could make one change to this campus,

what would it be?

{ }IN YOUR WORDS

“Remove Harrelson, it is just an outdated design, and the classrooms are terrible.”

Anunt Singhsophomore, computer science

“I think the on campus dining and dining halls need to better than they are.”

Patrick Houstonsophomore, mechanical engineering

“I would rather have better food in the dining halls, the Atrium is okay but not the dining halls.”

Jon Sommervillesophomore, aerospace engineering

“I think students should continue to have access to Dan Allen Drive and walk through there.”

Tara Dockeryjunior, communication media

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Professor Greene will respond to questions in a bi-

weekly advice column.

“... just save

your paint

and get

some sleep...”

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responsibility of the editor-in-chief.

FeaturesWill Brooks Staff Writer

Born of a cruel summer, T0W3RS’ most recent EP, Wyatt, reflects upon child-hood, death, vacation and, most importantly, the Wild West.

The EP begins with “Mo-bius Strip,” a playful, me-lodic indie-pop song conjur-ing thoughts of high school summer or, more specifically, an end of school-year celebra-tion.

It is precisely the reaction intended by main songwriter Derek Torres who, along with his girlfriend and band-mate Jacki Huntington, lost his job in June, leaving him with the first taste of grade-school summer in some time.

“The first song is kind of about the idea of having an endless summer, kind of hid-ing yourself away and making yourself worthwhile,” Torres said. “It was the first time we had a summer vacation in a while, so that’s kind of how we ap-proached it.”

The rest of t he a lbu m takes on a different pat h, s t i l l pa int ing a high-synth backdrop, but telling a slightly differ-ent story.

Torres sings matter-of-factly, often using strange pronunciations that give T0W3RS a unique sound that at times resembles Animal

Collective or The Doors. Still, the band definitely maintains a sound all its own.

“Bounty” comes second as a rhythmic rock song with a synthesizer present, but not at the forefront of the melody. The song fits with the album’s overall theme, but is compar-atively less exciting.

One of the less interesting songs on the album, “Boun-ty” starts T0W3RS’ all-en-compassing Western theme, which is present following the first four songs of Wyatt.

The imagery of the Wild West is intentional, accord-ing to Torres, explaining that Wyatt was a character inspired by the son of his friend who recently died.

“The idea of it was, ‘What will my friend’s son be deal-ing with in 20 years,’” Torres said.

Torres said that the he brought in themes of a fic-tional post-depression world resembling the Wild West, drawing in Wyatt as a mem-ber of this new way of life.

Themes o f t h e West reso-nate most vividly during “Draw_Fold,” which is placed in the center of the EP’s

lineup. The song begins as a three-minute instrumental introduction with synthe-sizer taking a slow-going lead melody resembling the beginning of a Western film.

When Torres enters the

song, all is quiet, with a snare-drum to lead and swooning guitars and back-ground vocals providing the feel of the West in full-effect, “Draw_Fold,” appropriately placed in the center of Wyatt, shows some of Torres’ stron-gest songwriting yet.

According to Huntington, T0W3RS wrote the album as a band more so than the pre-vious album If All We Have Is Time, which was primarily written by Torres alone.

“With Wyatt, I finally got to have some sort of musical input,” Huntington said.

Huntington explained that although she didn’t write any

of the lyrics, she was respon-sible for many of the “high pitched, strange noises” on the album, as well as the fe-male vocals.

Fitting with the Western theme, the high-pitched synthesizers and female vo-cals often serve a similar, abstract purpose, and Hun-tington’s input is substantial and important.

Torres continues by paint-ing his pseudo-futuristic world in a more experimental “Ours,” coming second-to-last in Wyatt’s track lineup. “Off with their heads,” serves as the main lyric in the song, with an experimental rock

sound most-resembling Ani-mal Collective.

Ending with the album’s most intricate songwriting is “Scandles,” which seems to tie in Wyatt’s first song to the rest of the album and serves as a solid conclusion.

Sounding more like a good indie-punk song than a pop song, the song repeats, “15 lit candles give all that you wanted,” several times. Either in Wyatt’s world or a world of endless summer, the song draws strongly upon child-hood, as does the album as a whole.

For Torres, the album doesn’t necessarily have its

own specific meaning.“I kind of want people to

make their own story out of it,” Torres said.

With the direction hazy at times, but general themes poking out amongst the en-tire album, to me, Wyatt sym-bolizes all that is summer. The album is happy, but often brutal with heat, representing a time of freedom as well as boredom, and similar to the Wild West, a time in which people made their own rules.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE T0W3RSWyatt is also being released on a cassette tape. T0W3RS is among several local and national artists releasing their music on casettes to allow fans to have a tangible, unique product.

“The first song is

kind of about the

idea of having an

endless summer.”Derek Torres,

T0W3RS lead songwriter

Lauren Vanderveen Staff Writer

From the first minute all the way to the start of the credits, Argo was nothing short of nerve-wracking, combining thumping antici-pation with sharp irony and humor. Credit for the palpa-ble tension lies in the real-life events the film is based on, the Iranian hostage crisis.

Along with a decent run-down of what led to the ca-lamity, the terror and urgency caused by rebels pounding at the embassy door captivated me within the first 15 min-utes. The streets throbbed with hundreds of protestors chanting in unison, while Uncle Sam replicas and American flags burned. This was all juxtaposed with the diplomats inside the building scrambling to burn and shred confidential files.

The situation worsens as the supporters of the Ira-nian Revolution overtake the entire embassy, with the exception of six individuals who manage to escape.

As the CIA grasps at straws trying to find a solution to get the six out of Iranian terri-tory, I was sometimes left

disoriented by the complex-ity and speed of the jargon the characters were speaking.

Enter Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck, also the film’s direc-tor), a CIA ‘extraction’ ex-pert. Inspired by his 10-year-old and the 1973 movie Battle for the Planet of the Apes he comes up with the solution of a rescue mission by means of a fake movie, an outlandish science fiction film that re-

quires Iranian locations. To build the credibility of

the cover story, they get a script, create a production company, and advertise for the film they will be shoot-ing, Argo.

Here comes the ironic bril-lianceof what is essentially a movie about a fake movie. Not only did Affleck’s film poke fun at the absurdity of Hollywood, but also the film

industry as a whole.Who better to do so than

great and wondrous f ilm veterans like Alan Arkin and John Goodman? Arkin plays producer Lester Siegel and Goodman takes on the role of real make-up artist John Chambers.

Under the guise of looking for a set location for Argo, Mendez travels to Iran to safely get out the six diplo-

mats, who have found tempo-rary refuge in the Canadian ambassador’s home.

Watching them attempt to execute the far-fetched plan had me emotionally stand-ing on a precipice the likes of the Grand Canyon at several points throughout the film.

It was reminiscent of the 2002 thriller directed by David Fincher, Panic Room. I can’t be the only one who

still holds her breath as Jodie Foster – in slow-motion, even – has seconds to get back into the panic room after acciden-tally alerting her home in.

Similarly in Argo, one un-savory look from a passerby, the tiniest glitch of a bus stick shift, clenched my heart.

This does, though, seem to be where the film is getting the lion’s share of criticism, in regards to the dramatic lib-erties it took in retelling an actual moment in history. I’ll admit the close-contact car chase with an airplane was so outrageous it was laughable.

Further, the film claims the CIA worked cohesively with the Canadian government during the crisis. However, the CIA just so happens to grab the most screen time and the ending scene between Mendez and his supervi-sor Jack O’Donnell (Bryan Cranston) puts that claim on shaky grounds.

Still, those who have no background knowledge of the Iranian hostage crisis will find that Argo came out on the right side: informing and engaging with equal measure.

Argo is supported through-out by solid performances, relentless apprehension and an overall tense and well-told story. These elements help mark Affleck’s third directo-rial feature as one of the best historically-inspired films.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.Ben Affleck (left) in a scene from Argo. The historical film, which is inspired by true events, is Affleck’s third film serving as both an actor and director.

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Parsons Dance Company returned to the N.C. State stage for the first time since 2005.

For some, Parsons Dance was a great way to make use of Stewart Theatre’s last few moments before it shuts down during the continuing renovations to Talley Student Center.

Parsons Dance, a dance company based in New York City, made its stop at N.C. State on Oct. 12 with a per-formance lasting about an hour and a half. According to Rebecca Josue, the company and stage manager, N.C. State was one of its first stops this season, with about 30 other locations still ahead in the tour, including Michigan, Wisconsin and Korea.

“It’s amazing to go to a theater and meet everyone and I love the people that I travel with,” Josue said. “It’s an honor to be here. We love it here. It’s great to be back.”

The dance company, known for modern contemporary dance pieces, showcased dif-ferent pieces that made use of Stewart Theatre’s stage space with pieces that featured any-where between one and eight different dancers.

Parsons Dance opened its show with dances that highlighted shapes and bold color with dance formations and bright costumes that fell

within a color theme. As the show continued, the dance company showcased other talents of the dancers with some performances focus-ing on developing characters using the sounds of a bustling city.

One dance piece which featured a single dancer used strobe lights to give the illu-sion that the dancer was fly-ing across the stage, dancing without ever touching his feet to the ground.

This dance piece was a favorite for Alex-i a L ip -scomb, a sopho-more in computer science. Lipscomb said she had seen many advertise-ments for the program and was intrigued because she had been dancing since she was only 6 years old.

“It was incredible,” Lip-scomb said. “I never thought about using strobe lights in a dance so I was sitting there with my jaw dropped. It was definitely the highlight for me. I had never seen anything like that before.”

Sabrina Talso, a freshman in clothing design and tex-tile management, said she was drawn to Parsons Dance because she loves dance and had heard that Parsons was one of the best. Talso said

that she had seen what they did through the internet and was interested but had high expectations. However, she said that Parsons was able to meet those expectations and show her things that she had never seen before.

“I thought it was pretty cohesive,” Talso said. “In the beginning there was a theme of circles and they had so many types and then each section would end in a differ-ent pose, but it’d all be related

to circles. So even though each section was separate, it was all to-gether.”

“They’re dancing is very precise a n d v e r y

meticulous with all of their movements, down to what their toes were doing,” Lip-scomb said.

St i l l , no mat ter how skilled the dancers were, some attendees said that the performance was still bit-tersweet in light of the lim-ited number of shows left before Talley renovations close the stage in November. “It’s going to stink for a little while, but all those lucky peo-ple who are going to be able to see shows in the brand new theater are going to enjoy it,” Lipscomb said.

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When the Bell Tower’s ex-terior was completed in 1937 through a stimulus package from President Franklin Roosevelt, the interior design called for 54 bells.

Instead, due largely to the Great Depression, funding became almost nonexistent and the University only raised enough money for a speaker system and the 246-bell grand sym-phony car-illon to ring in the Tower u nt i l rea l bells could be installed.

To com-memorate the 125th anniversary of N.C. State, five university organi-zations sponsored a free con-cert Saturday featuring Tif-fany Ng, a Ph.D. candidate in musicology and new media and an associate carillonist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ng, who pursued an under-graduate degree in English and music from Yale, knows a thing or two about these “uncommon marvels.”

Carillons, similar to the pipe organ in structure and mechanics, originated in Europe in the 1500s and are among the rarest instru-ments, with only 800 or so worldwide. The majority of these instruments still re-main in European countries.

“They’re extremely sym-

bolic throughout history,” Ng said. “They’re more than just a time-telling device. They told and still tell people when to pray and even when to pay taxes. Carillons are a source of real civic pride and have proven to really bring people together.”

After graduating from Yale in 2005, Ng attended the Roy-al Carillon School in Belgium where she graduated in 2006. Ng has commissioned over a

dozen acous-t ic and electro-acoustic pieces for caril-lon and organ and has toured

in eleven countries play-ing more than 80 concerts around the world.

“When you play an instru-ment like the carillon, it’s re-ally easy to be noticed,” Ng said. “That doesn’t mean it’s easier by any means, rather that the carillon world is a very small one. You’re a re-ally big fish in a really small pond.”

The Bell Tower’s Maas-Rowe Carillon is a rare and innovative instrument with almost no repertoire of its own. Ng and her counter-parts within N.C. State have worked for years to create pieces for the carillon from baroque to avant-garde, from folk songs to film scores. Their goal has always been to reveal the carillon’s potential

for lyricism and musicality.Finish the Tower, a student-

initiated grassroots move-ment to restore and finish the tower, aims itself at student, alumni and community in-volvement. The movement seeks to raise money through donations and various stu-dent fundraisers to install the 54-bell carillon into the Tower as originally designed in 1920.

Matthew Robbins, a 2009 architecture graduate, is now the director of Finish the Tower and has become an authority on the landmark. To Robbins, the Bell Tower is much more than just a sym-bol of the University.

“The Bell Tower is sig-nificant in that it unifies the student body,” Robbins said. “When the Wolfpack wins, we all look up to see the tow-er lit red. It reminds us that we’re all a part of something even bigger.”

For Ng, being a part of the celebration was an honor.

“I first heard about the movement through an article I read in the school newspa-per a while ago,” Ng said. “I knew I wanted to help in any way I could.”

Robbins has been head-ing up and working with the Finish the Tower movement since its inception and hopes that having Ng perform will raise awareness and outline the steps needed to complete the Bell Tower’s original de-sign.

“We’ve got the tower and we’ve got a few bells,” Rob-bins said. “We’ve even got a

great carillon. All that’s miss-ing is the human element. That’s where people like Tif-

fany [Ng] come in. Her pas-sion and dedication show that people still care about this

instrument and the pride it promotes and encompasses.”

RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANStudents sit outside the Bell Tower Saturday, October 13, 2012 to listen to the carillon concert performed by Tiffany Ng. A carillon is a set of bells sounded by hammers controlled by a keyboard and the N.C. State Bell Tower hosts a set of these bells.

“It’s amazing to

go to a theater and

meet everyone.”Rebecca Josue, company and

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Parsons returns to Stewart

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significant in that it

unifies the

student body.”Matthew Robbins,

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Sportsseum to the inside of PNC Arena was symbolic of some-thing more than just a change of venue. PNC Arena has been the home of Wolfpack basketball since 1999, re-placing Reynolds Coliseum. Reynolds was the home of the Wolfpack under legendary coaches Everett Case, Norm Sloan and Jim Valvano and was regarded as one of the toughest venues to play at in the nation.

Despite the historical and sentimental value to Wolf-pack nation, Mark Gottfried has made it known that PNC

Arena is the new home of the Pack. He believes that we should accept and embrace this change, and I think that Gottfried’s opinion was a major factor in the moving of campout to PNC Arena.

Coach Gottfried, as well as the athletics department, want students to have some sort of inner connection with PNC Arena—the same kind of connection that the Cameron Crazies currently have with Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke and the same kind of connection that Wolfpack fans once had with Reynolds Coliseum.

During campout, the clas-sic basketball film entitled “Hoosiers” was played in

the arena. Throughout the movie, the only light in the arena were the lights from the big screen reflecting onto the court. Due to the lighting ef-fect, my eyes were drawn back and forth from the big screen to the court.

As I kept looking at the hardwood, all I could think about was the coming sea-son for the Pack. There were thoughts of the triumphs and tribulations that would take place on the floor right beside me.

This is a new era for N.C. State men’s basketball. Cam-pout was a simple foreshad-owing of history to be made.

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and three touchdowns with no interceptions. The Patriots defense held Wilson’s rushing attack in check for the night, however, allowing him only 17 yards on five carries. The Seahawks return to the field on Thursday at San Fran-cisco.

In Arizona, a defensive struggle was underway. For Buffalo, T.J. Graham had another slow night. He only had one reception for 6 yards. His teammate Mario Wil-liams, coming off of a wrist

injury, had two sacks to add to his total of three tackles in the game. The stat is even more impressive based on the limited amount of time that Williams played during the game. Buffalo, with a strong defensive effort from players like Williams, took down the Cardinals in overtime on a field goal, 19-16.

In Philadelphia, Detroit’s Stephen Tulloch had 8 tack-les on the night, leading a de-fense that held Michael Vick and the Eagles scoreless late in the game. The Lions of-fense was finally able to capi-talize on the defensive stops, scoring 10 points in the last 3 minutes of the game. A Lions

field goal with 3 seconds left sent the game into overtime.

The Lions defense held the Eagles to a three-and-out on their first possession of over-time, giving the ball back to the Lions. Matthew Stafford drove the Lions down the field, getting well within field goal range. Kicker Jason Han-son drove the ball through the uprights, giving Tulloch and the Lions an overtime win in Philadelphia.

In San Diego, quarterback Phillip Rivers and the Char-gers were up big on the Bron-cos at half time, 24-0. Phillip Rivers threw for 131 yards and two touchdowns along with one interception in the

first half. The Chargers de-fense was stifling in the first 30 minutes of play, as well as the special teams, forcing two fumbles that set the Chargers offense up in the red zone. Rivers first touchdown pass to Antonio Gates made his-tory. It was the 50th touch-down combination between the two, the most between a quarterback and tight end in league history. Rivers added one to the record, combining with Gates once again with 29 seconds left until halftime to increase the lead to 24-0. The final score was 35-24 Broncos.

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campout.

COUNTDOWN• 5 days until the football team travels to College Park,

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Kickoff at Chapel Hill set for 12:30 p.m.After having its bye week this past week, the Wolfpack jumps back into ACC action with back-to-back road games.N.C. State heads to Maryland this Saturday, facing the Terps at 3:30 p.m. on ESPNU. The next week, the Pack heads to rival North Carolina for a 12:30 p.m. contest on the ACC Network.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Volleyballís Wilson named ACC Player of WeekN.C. State sophomore middle blocker Alesha Wilson and Boston College freshman outside hitter Katty Workman have been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Volleyball Player and Freshman of the Week, the conference announced on Monday.Wilson, a sophomore who has worked her way into the starting lineup after beginning the season as a reserve, led the Wolfpack to two wins over the weekend as NC State improved to 17-3 and 7-2 in conference play.

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Campout was different this year. Not a bad different, though. It was a good kind of different. The N.C. State Student Govern-ment Association partnered up with men’s basketball head coach Mark Gottfried, the men’s bas-ketball team and the athletics department to give students the Primetime with the Pack cam-pout.

Let’s start by going over the changes made to the event. First of all, it wasn’t 48 degrees and raining like it was last year outside of Reynolds Coliseum, stranding campers outside the entire night in a downpour. De-spite the miserable weather stu-dents experienced, the weather could’ve certainly been much

worse in the middle of January.This year, campers spent the night

inside the newly renamed PNC Are-na. Most noted changes compared to last year were that it was warm and dry inside the home of N.C. State men’s basketball. Campout was also staged in October as op-posed to January, another change put on by the N.C. State Student Government.

In a final modification, students that completed the exercise received six loyalty points that can be used when requesting basketball tickets. This gives these students a bet-ter chance of attending basketball games throughout the year instead of just the North Carolina game. In the past, students that successfully completed campout were guaran-teed tickets to the game against UNC.

It goes without saying that there

was a new feel to campout. Perhaps the changes were meant to coincide with the massive change in the for-tunes of N.C. State basketball. Why not institute a new feel for a new era? One of the early signs can be seen in the rebranding of the Red-White game as Primetime with the Pack.

After all, everything about the Wolfpack has seemingly changed under second-year head coach Mark Gottfried. So far, Gottfried has brought highly talented recruits and a winning attitude to the Pack that was previously missing. After an NCAA tournament run and a high-flying Red-White scrimmage, campus is buzzing and students can’t wait for basketball season.

Throughout the event, I couldn’t help think that the move from camping outside of Reynolds Coli-

Tyler EllisStaff Writer

Although there was no football Saturday for Wolfpack nation, Sunday brought plenty of ex-citement and cheer for Wolfpack alumni in the NFL. Week 6 of the NFL season brought upsets, nail biters, and overtime thrillers, in which former Wolfpack players played a major role.

The biggest game of the day was dependent on the arm of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson. During Wil-son’s short professional career, we have seen him knock off Tony Romo’s Cowboys, Aaron Rodg-ers’s Packers and Cam Newton’s Panthers. Hardly imaginable, Wilson pulled off the feat once again against one of the NFL’s all-time greats.

In what some thought would be a battle between the No.1 of-fense in the NFL in New England and the No. 1 defense in Seattle, no one ever thought it would be decided on the arm of Russell Wilson and the Seattle offense. Facing a late-game deficit, Rus-sell Wilson and the Seahawks mounted a furious comeback against the Patriots.

Down 23-10 with 9:21 left in the fourth quarter and facing a stout Patriots defense, the chances of a comeback looked very bleak. But as N.C. State fans have seen Russell Wilson do many times before, he led his team back. Throwing for two touchdowns, the last coming on a 46-yard pass with 1:18 left, Russell Wilson and the Seahawks pulled off the improbable come-back, defeatingTom Brady and the Patriots 24-23 and improving their record to 4-2.

Wilson threw for 293 yards

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ACC coaches pick Pack to finish first

TYLER ANDREWS/TECHNICIANStudents participate in the 3 on 3 basketball tournament at the 2012 Campout on Friday Oct. 12 at PNC Arena.

Staff Report

The results of the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Bas-ketball Coaches Preseason Poll were announced Monday and should have N.C. State fans in high spirits.

All 12 of the conference’s head coaches participated in the poll, which asked the coaches to pre-dict the final standings in the conference, as well as preseason predictions for the All-ACC team, conference player of the year and conference rookie of the year.

N.C. State was picked to fin-ish first in the ACC, receiving eight of the 12 first-place votes and 139 points. The Pack fin-ished fifth in the conference last season, finishing 24-13 overall and 9-7 in the ACC. The team is returning four starters from last year’s team. All four players averaged double-digits in the scoring column. Head coach Mark Gottfried also brought in a highly touted recruiting class featuring three McDonald’s All-Americans.

Duke was voted second in the poll with three first-place votes and 130 total points while UNC rounded out the top three with a single first place vote and 124

total points.The Wolfpack was also well rep-

resented in individual preseason player honors.

The Preseason All-ACC team con-sisted of NCSU junior guard Loren-zo Brown, NCSU junior forward Calvin Leslie, UNC sophomore

forward James Michael McAdoo, Duke senior forward Mason Plum-lee and Florida State senior guard Michael Snaer.

Leslie took the Preseason ACC Player of the Year recognition. Last season, Leslie averaged 14.7 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Fresh-

man guard Rodney Purvis was Pre-season Rookie of the Year.

This was the first time that ACC coaches have officially predicted the order of finish in the conference or voted on the preseason individual honors.

ThursdayWOMEN’S SOCCER V. WAKE FORESTWinston-Salem, N.C., 7 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS AT REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPSCary, N.C., All Day

WOMEN’S TENNIS AT ITA REGIONAL INDOORSWinston-Salem, N.C., All Day

FridayVOLLEYBALL V. BOSTON COLLEGEReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

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KATHERINE HOKE/TECHNICIANHead Coach Mark Gottfried answers questions at mens basketball media day in the Weiseger-Brown athletics facility on Monday Oct. 8, 2012.

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