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Raleigh, North Carolina Imam Abdullah Antepli spoke to students about the sharp rise in the fear of Muslims and hopes to inspire students to learn the truth about Islam. Brooke Wallig Staff Writer This message, “Islam is evil, and Muslims are terrorists,” is one that Imam Abdullah Antepli is trying to combat every day, and he said he hopes students will join him in the fight. Antepli, Duke University’s Mus- lim Chaplain, spoke to students on Monday night in Withers Hall about the realities of Islam and the world’s controversial perception of Muslims post-9/11, calling it “Is- lamaphobia.” After providing a brief overview of the different perceptions of Is- lam, Antepli said Islam is not a monolithic institution to be fought as the United States fought the So- viet Union during the Cold War. “Islam is not the ‘scary monster’ that the media likes to portray it as. This view is somewhat new, but it is fabricated.” Citing media outlets including Fox News, Antepli said this is an inaccurate representation of Islam and has been circulated so much that, to many people, the truth no longer matters. “There has been an extensive and sophisticated campaign to give Islam a negative image, and this quick association of Muslims with violence and terrorism is one of the biggest problems we are fac- ing,” Antepli said. “People view Islam as if our values are irreconcilable with Christian and Western beliefs,” said Antepli. “Muslims today are marginalized, and we feel like the unwanted members of the human family.” Antepli’s talk stressed the separation of the violence of extremist terrorist organizations and the Islamic faith, though he acknowledged members of the public often come to the conclu- sion that they are one and the same. “I’m not denying the existence of some evil people and their horrible actions in the name of Islam, but the number of these people is dispropor- tionate with the global Muslim popu- lation,” said Antepli. “You have to put TECHNICIAN b 5 technicianonline.com Fall Break Special Select sweatpants $12.00 / Long Sleeve Tees $12.00 Senate votes on Fee Referendum Bill Man arrested after Jackpot Bar attack insidetechnician viewpoint 4 money & business 5 classifieds 7 sports 8 Junior’s breakout season leads culture change in midst of career- best start to 2010, Kristina Argiroff looks to make Pack more competitive in ACC play. See page 8. Actor brings popular local memoir to Stewart Theater Muslim Chaplain invites students to combat “Islamaphobia” LEE DANIELLO/TECHNICIAN Student Senate President Stephen Kouba, a senior in political science, speaks at the Senate Body Meeting Oct. 4. The meeting was held to discuss the tuition and fees increase for the 2011-2012 academic year. Other topics of interest included local hunger, agriculture appreciation, orientation counseling for the 2011 summer and Women’s Center awareness. Play based on civil-rights era book makes stop at N.C. State Chris Boucher Deputy News Editor Tuesday night at Stewart Theater, actor Michael Wiley performed his critically acclaimed one-man show based on a popular memoir detailing racially charged events during the Civil Right era. Wiley brought Blood Done Sign My Name, Tim Tyson’s memoir about a 1970 murder and subsequent public unrest in Oxford, to the stage for sev- eral hundred attendees. Gospel singer Mary D. Williams provided backing vocals and hymns during the produc- tion. University Scholars and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion co-sponsored the event. Wiley said he is always happy to per- form Blood Done Sign My Name for college students, because it’s a part of history that they should know about before they leave college and enter the adult world. “I think it’s important that students of all ages, especially college students, look to this recent history to make ties to current socioeconomic problems, political policies, the widening of the achievement gap,” Wiley explained. During the performance, Wiley es- timated he plays about 20 characters, among them: Tyson, Tyson’s father, a 10-year-old white boy, a white rac- ist secretary, and a black Civil Rights activist trying to call attention to the killing and trial. Other than Williams and Wiley, the stage featured just a few props and a video screen that flashed pictures and news clippings relevant to the events in the play. The story centered on the murder of Henry “Dickie” Marrow, a black Vietnam veteran who was gunned down in the streets of Oxford. Three white men stood trial for the crime: Robert Teel, his 18-year-old son and his 21-year-old stepson. Despite testimony from a pair of black eyewitnesses, an all-white jury acquitted the three men, setting off a series of marches, boycotts, and riots; two tobacco warehouses burned dur- ing the unrest, and glass from shat- tered storefronts littered the streets of Oxford. The event is credited with galva- nizing the Civil Rights movement in Granville County. It also nearly tore the town apart, however, as the trial brought out both angry black protes- tors and white supremacists (most no- tably the Ku Klux Klan) that showed public support for Teel and his sons. Wiley’s treatment of the material has earned high praise from Tyson. “Mike is a brilliant artist and edu- cator. This [story] is about mending the broken world through the power of story … I am proud to have Mike as a colleague in those efforts,” Tyson BLOOD continued page 3 DANIELLE NEUJAHR/TECHNICIAN Abdullah Antepli, an imam or religious leader at Duke University, speaks to students during a lecture on Oct. 4. “We don’t want people to fear Islam because that’s not what it’s about.” Antepli said. The speech also discussed the four practices of Islam and what each one meant. Charles Poll Hillsborough Street attacker ISLAM continued page 3 With only 148 respondents to Student Government’s fee survey, the Senate concluded the responses were ‘unusable’ and did not affect the bill’s construction. Chelsey Francis Deputy News Editor Student Senate proposed a $108.96 fee increase for the 2011-2012 school year. The bill passed with 31 votes and eight against, with also two senators abstaining and eight absent from the meeting. The Fee Referendum Bill included requested fees from several depart- ments on campus. These departments include the athletics department, Campus Recreation, Student Center operations, Student Health, Student Legal Services and University Trans- portation. Combined, the six departments re- quested a fee increase of $86.90. The committee recommended increases totaling $55.69. Because of amendments to the bill, Student Senate ended up recommend- ing a total fee increase of $55.41, not including the second phase of the Tal- ley Student Center. According to Student Senate Presi- dent Stephen Kouba, the total fee in- crease is presented as a package recom- mendation. “The fee committee itself is not in- terested in looking at different bills,” Kouba said. “Each senator is welcome to amend any of these amounts. The recommendation can only be as high as the department originally request- ed.” Before debate and amendments be- gan, senators said they were concerned with whether the money each of the six departments received from student fees. Thomas Stafford, vice-chan- cellor of Student Affairs, explained the process for interpreting previ- ous fees. “The best way for you to answer [if each department used the mon- ey from last year as they indicated] would be for the Tuition and Fees Committee to look at how the fees were used for the 2010-2011 school year,” Stafford said. According to Senator Patrick Devore, the survey Student Gov- ernment conducted did not receive enough student input to use that in making the decisions for the bill. “The survey had 148 respondents. Only four-tenths of a percent of the student population voted, render- ing it unusable,” Devore said. Senator Ethan Harrelson, said he doesn’t like fee increases, but he still supported the resolution. “I don’t think anyone in this room likes fee increases. With this bill we’re able to say this is where students want their money to go. I can’t think of anything Patrick [Devore] has brought up that is de- batable. Let’s forget the economic times and think about the expan- sion of our University. I support this bill,” Harrelson said. Every department gave the Sen- ate a line-by-line division of what the money they were requesting was to go for, except the athletics department. According to Devore, the spon- sor of the resolution, since athletics didn’t give the division, the com- mittee chose to recommend $25. After debates, the decision was made to decrease that recommen- dation to $20. The overall longest debate over SENATE continued page 3 Nathan Hardin News Editor Raleigh Police Detectives charged Charles Zachary Poll Monday with assault inflicting serious injury in connection with a Sept. 30 incident outside 1303 Hills- borough St., accord- ing to a press release from Jim Sughrue, spokesperson for RPD. Poll was taken into custody without inci- dent, according to the release, and has been transported to the Wake County Jail. Sughrue also explained tips stem- ming from media coverage of the case were instrumental in identifying Poll as a suspect. On Sept. 30, 23-year-old Evan Law- rence stepped outside the Jackpot Bar in downtown Raleigh and was in- volved in an altercation, according to police reports. Lawrence received life threatening injuries and was transported to Rex Hospital where he remains in critical condition as of Monday night. According to an Oct. 3 News & Observer report, Lawrence walked outside the bar for a cigarette. Upon accidently flicked the cigarette onto a man, the unknown person attacked. Lawrence arrived at the hospital Thursday evening, the article says, and was wheeled into surgery by 10:30 p.m. for a blood clot in the his brain.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Imam Abdullah Antepli spoke to students about the sharp rise in the fear of Muslims and hopes to inspire students to learn the truth about Islam.

Brooke WalligStaff Writer

This message, “Islam is evil, and Muslims are terrorists,” is one that Imam Abdullah Antepli is trying to combat every day, and he said he hopes students will join him in the fight.

Antepli, Duke University’s Mus-lim Chaplain, spoke to students on Monday night in Withers Hall about the realities of Islam and the world’s controversial perception of Muslims post-9/11, calling it “Is-lamaphobia.”

After providing a brief overview of the different perceptions of Is-lam, Antepli said Islam is not a monolithic institution to be fought as the United States fought the So-viet Union during the Cold War.

“Islam is not the ‘scary monster’ that the media likes to portray it as. This view is somewhat new, but it is fabricated.”

Citing media outlets including Fox News, Antepli said this is an inaccurate representation of Islam and has been circulated so much that, to many people, the truth no longer matters.

“There has been an extensive and sophisticated campaign to give Islam a negative image, and this quick association of Muslims with violence and terrorism is one of the biggest problems we are fac-ing,” Antepli said.

“People view Islam as if our values are irreconcilable with Christian and Western beliefs,” said Antepli. “Muslims today are marginalized, and we feel like the

unwanted members of the human family.”

Antepli’s talk stressed the separation of the violence of extremist terrorist organizations and the Islamic faith, though he acknowledged members of the public often come to the conclu-sion that they are one and the same.

“I’m not denying the existence of some evil people and their horrible actions in the name of Islam, but the number of these people is dispropor-tionate with the global Muslim popu-lation,” said Antepli. “You have to put

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LEE DANIELLO/TECHNICIANStudent Senate President Stephen Kouba, a senior in political science, speaks at the Senate Body Meeting Oct. 4. The meeting was held to discuss the tuition and fees increase for the 2011-2012 academic year. Other topics of interest included local hunger, agriculture appreciation, orientation counseling for the 2011 summer and Women’s Center awareness.

Play based on civil-rights era book makes stop at N.C. State

Chris BoucherDeputy News Editor

Tuesday night at Stewart Theater, actor Michael Wiley performed his critically acclaimed one-man show based on a popular memoir detailing racially charged events during the Civil Right era.

Wiley brought Blood Done Sign My Name, Tim Tyson’s memoir about a 1970 murder and subsequent public unrest in Oxford, to the stage for sev-eral hundred attendees. Gospel singer Mary D. Williams provided backing vocals and hymns during the produc-tion.

University Scholars and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion co-sponsored the event.

Wiley said he is always happy to per-form Blood Done Sign My Name for college students, because it’s a part of history that they should know about before they leave college and enter the adult world.

“I think it’s important that students of all ages, especially college students, look to this recent history to make ties to current socioeconomic problems, political policies, the widening of the achievement gap,” Wiley explained.

During the performance, Wiley es-timated he plays about 20 characters, among them: Tyson, Tyson’s father, a 10-year-old white boy, a white rac-

ist secretary, and a black Civil Rights activist trying to call attention to the killing and trial. Other than Williams and Wiley, the stage featured just a few props and a video screen that flashed pictures and news clippings relevant to the events in the play.

The story centered on the murder of Henry “Dickie” Marrow, a black Vietnam veteran who was gunned down in the streets of Oxford. Three white men stood trial for the crime: Robert Teel, his 18-year-old son and his 21-year-old stepson.

Despite testimony from a pair of black eyewitnesses, an all-white jury acquitted the three men, setting off a series of marches, boycotts, and riots; two tobacco warehouses burned dur-ing the unrest, and glass from shat-tered storefronts littered the streets of Oxford.

The event is credited with galva-nizing the Civil Rights movement in Granville County. It also nearly tore the town apart, however, as the trial brought out both angry black protes-tors and white supremacists (most no-tably the Ku Klux Klan) that showed public support for Teel and his sons.

Wiley’s treatment of the material has earned high praise from Tyson.

“Mike is a brilliant artist and edu-cator. This [story] is about mending the broken world through the power of story … I am proud to have Mike as a colleague in those efforts,” Tyson

BLOOD continuedpage3DANIELLE NEUJAHR/TECHNICIAN

Abdullah Antepli, an imam or religious leader at Duke University, speaks to students during a lecture on Oct. 4. “We don’t want people to fear Islam because that’s not what it’s about.” Antepli said. The speech also discussed the four practices of Islam and what each one meant.

Charles PollHillsborough Street attacker

ISLAM continuedpage3

With only 148 respondents to Student Government’s fee survey, the Senate concluded the responses were ‘unusable’ and did not affect the bill’s construction.

Chelsey FrancisDeputy News Editor

Student Senate proposed a $108.96 fee increase for the 2011-2012 school year. The bill passed with 31 votes and eight against, with also two senators abstaining and eight absent from the meeting.

The Fee Referendum Bill included requested fees from several depart-ments on campus. These departments include the athletics department, Campus Recreation, Student Center operations, Student Health, Student Legal Services and University Trans-portation.

Combined, the six departments re-quested a fee increase of $86.90. The committee recommended increases totaling $55.69.

Because of amendments to the bill, Student Senate ended up recommend-ing a total fee increase of $55.41, not including the second phase of the Tal-ley Student Center.

According to Student Senate Presi-dent Stephen Kouba, the total fee in-crease is presented as a package recom-mendation.

“The fee committee itself is not in-terested in looking at different bills,” Kouba said. “Each senator is welcome to amend any of these amounts. The recommendation can only be as high as the department originally request-ed.”

Before debate and amendments be-gan, senators said they were concerned with whether the money each of the six departments received from student

fees. Thomas Stafford, vice-chan-cellor of Student Affairs, explained the process for interpreting previ-ous fees.

“The best way for you to answer [if each department used the mon-ey from last year as they indicated] would be for the Tuition and Fees Committee to look at how the fees were used for the 2010-2011 school year,” Stafford said.

According to Senator Patrick Devore, the survey Student Gov-ernment conducted did not receive enough student input to use that in making the decisions for the bill.

“The survey had 148 respondents. Only four-tenths of a percent of the student population voted, render-ing it unusable,” Devore said.

Senator Ethan Harrelson, said he doesn’t like fee increases, but he still supported the resolution.

“I don’t think anyone in this room likes fee increases. With this bill we’re able to say this is where students want their money to go. I can’t think of anything Patrick [Devore] has brought up that is de-batable. Let’s forget the economic times and think about the expan-sion of our University. I support this bill,” Harrelson said.

Every department gave the Sen-ate a line-by-line division of what the money they were requesting was to go for, except the athletics department.

According to Devore, the spon-sor of the resolution, since athletics didn’t give the division, the com-mittee chose to recommend $25. After debates, the decision was made to decrease that recommen-dation to $20.

The overall longest debate over

SENATE continuedpage3

Nathan HardinNews Editor

Raleigh Police Detectives charged Charles Zachary Poll Monday with assault inf licting serious injury in connection with a Sept. 30 incident

outside 1303 Hills-borough St., accord-ing to a press release from Jim Sughrue, spokesperson for RPD.

Poll was taken into custody without inci-dent, according to the release, and has been transported to the Wake County Jail.

Sughrue also explained tips stem-ming from media coverage of the case were instrumental in identifying Poll as a suspect.

On Sept. 30, 23-year-old Evan Law-rence stepped outside the Jackpot Bar in downtown Raleigh and was in-volved in an altercation, according to police reports. Lawrence received life threatening injuries and was transported to Rex Hospital where he remains in critical condition as of Monday night.

According to an Oct. 3 News & Observer report, Lawrence walked outside the bar for a cigarette. Upon accidently flicked the cigarette onto a man, the unknown person attacked.

Lawrence arrived at the hospital Thursday evening, the article says, and was wheeled into surgery by 10:30 p.m. for a blood clot in the his brain.

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poliCe BloTTeroctober 11:31 a.m. | Damage to propertyCentennial Park & Ride Student reported damage to vehicle side view mirror. 2:35 a.m. | assist another agencyOff Campus Student was referred to the University for Disorderly Conduct and Resist/obstruct/Delay for incident that occurred with Raleigh police Dept. 7:35 a.m. | special eventcarter-finley staDium NC State vs. Virginia Tech. officers took enforcement action against 35 subjects. All subjects were trespassed from Carter-Finley Stadium. 10 students were referred to the University. two arrests for trespassing. two arrests for assault on law enforcement officer. one arrest for Intoxicated and Disruptive. Fire protection and EMS responded to sixteen medical calls. 1:45 p.m. | suspicious personcarter-finley staDium Report of non-student showing inappropriate material to people. All file checks were negative. It was determined no crime had been committed. 12:57 p.m. | meDical assist carmichael gym Units responded to non-student in need of medical assistance. transport was refused.

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Students’ Gmail accounts have settings allowing students to change the amount of filtered spam, according to the University.

Shivalik DagaStaff Writer

With the removal of Postini, students are now contending with a brimming spam folder.

Students’ University Gmail accounts have seen an increase in spam mail in recent days. After Postini was stopped from monitoring student accounts, there has been an increase in spam mails across campus.

According to Steven Mc-Grath, sophomore in com-puter science, some students have been receiving e-mails that look like they are from the University’s financial aid office, but actually are spam.

“I get almost five to six spam e-mails every day. A lot of them look like they’re for scholar-ships,” McGrath said.

Marc Hoit, vice chancellor for the Office of Information Technology, said there are set-tings in Gmail which allow

students to stop this. “There are ways to train

Gmail on how to reduce spam,” Hoit said.

The present surge in spam can essentially be controlled and reduced by students them-selves, Hoit said. They should be careful and cautious while clicking on suspicious links, and take care never to divulge any personal information that compromises their security.

According to Hoit, if a spam e-mail is not already marked spam by Gmail’s blocker, stu-dents can always report that as spam, which helps Gmail block such e-mails more effectively in the future.

The e-mail addresses from which people receive spam of-ten look like good imitations of real IDs, and students could end up compromising their in-formation if they are not more careful. Most of the links that students get are from fake ids, as spammers use multiple fake addresses, Hoit said.

According to Hoit, students can also immediately verify online if an e-mail is spam or not. Websites such snopes.com can help students verify the text

of their e-mail to see if it fits a pre-defined template for e-mails circulated by spam-mers.

“There are many legiti-mate websites that can help students to understand if the e-mail they receive is spam or not; students should use them,” Hoit said.

Hoit explained Postini was previously used to filter spam and archive e-mails. Faculty and staff emails are archived in compliance with the laws that require all official e-mail correspon-dence of state employees to be recorded. Such archiving is not required for students.

Recalling Postini was also a cost-cutting measure, ac-cording to Hoit, as it costs the University $15 a year per faculty or staff for us-ing Postini to monitor their e-mail accounts.

“Postini costs us $4 for spam filtering, and $11 for archiving emails per year, per faculty. We maintain nearly 40,000 accounts, and using Postini for all of the spam filtering can be very costly,” Hoit said.

Absence of Postini leads to increased spam

said in a statement.While entertaining drama

is the main goal of the perfor-mance, Wiley takes the “educa-tor” role Tyson mentioned very seriously.

“I hope the play helped them really understand how we’ve gotten to this place as a society – the positive and the negative,” he said.

“We’ve trudged over some re-ally deep and treacherous wa-ters to get here, but we still have many more miles to swim,” said Wiley. In terms of racial relations, Wiley said “we’ve done well as a society, but we’ve got so much more to do.”

Ashley Klein, a freshman in animal science and poultry science who lived in Oxford briefly, attended the play be-cause one of her high school teachers had high praise for Tyson’s work.

“My teacher was always talk-ing about the book, so I wanted to check this out,” Klein said.

Other students, like Corinne Fischer, attended the play be-cause they had read the book in high school.

“I thought parts of the book were real ly shocking and

graphic,” said Fischer, a sopho-more in elementary education. “The actor [Wiley] was really entertaining and passionate. He changed his character and demeanor so often.”

After three years of schedule wrangling, University Scholars and Office of Diversity were fi-nally able to get Blood Done … to N.C. State.

“We were delighted to bring the show to campus. It took a little while, but we’re excited that it finally happened,” said Ken Johnson, assistant direc-tor of the University Scholars Program.

Wiley first performed Blood Done … at Duke in 2008. Since then, he has taken the show on the road as far afield as Wis-consin and New Jersey, though most of the performances oc-cur in-state. He’s performed Blood Done … at UNC-Chapel Hill, Wesleyan College, and even in Oxford multiple times.

The performance always gets s a stronger reaction when he performs it locally, Wiley said.

“The closer the performance is to Oxford, the more outrage and sadness the audience has,” he said. “Many people in the audience think ‘In my back-yard? This happened just up the road and I did not know anything about it?’”

This lack of knowledge is not restricted to the events

depicted in Blood Done …, Wiley said. He also performs a one-man show about Em-mett Till, a 14-year-old black boy murdered in Mississippi under similar racially charged circumstances.

“I’ve performed the Till show in Mississippi; most of the time, when I ask people in their teens and 20s about it down there, most kids say ‘I’ve never heard about it.’”

Johnson said he hoped at-tendees left the show more informed about the Oxford incident – and entertained.

“There’s something to be said for attending a play, no matter what it is; but I also hope stu-dents and other attendees see the power and courage it takes to stand up for something,” said Johnson. “There’s a reason more people did not stand up [to racism] back then; it isn’t easy, and people are just terri-fied sometimes.”

“It was not just racism, but also fear, that ruled that era,” Johnson said.

The message was not lost on Klein, who expressed disbelief that something so tragic hap-pened so close to campus so recently.

“It’s incredible that it only happened 40 years ago,” she said. “A lot has changed, but there’s still so much that has not changed in those 40 years.”

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things in perspective.”Antepli said Islamaphobia is

not a new phenomenon, and this type of fear and hatred has been a recurring problem throughout history.

“This is nothing new—it’s a human weakness. Society is once again sick with fear. Islamaphobia is nothing but a manifestation of previous human failures and have been directed toward a collective group of people,” said Antepli. “Look at the social patterns of how we fought anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, etc. It took millions of people to turn to ash in the 1940s as the whole world is watching before the masses fought against anti-Semitism.”

As an imam, an Islamic reli-gious and community leader, Antepli counsels many Muslim students about the problems

they face regarding the public’s view of their religion. However, Antepli’s collegiate advisees are not the only ones feeling the ef-fects of this fear. Antepli said his nine-year-old daughter is bullied constantly as a result of the perception of their faith.

“My daughter would come home from school and ask me, ‘Are you sure it is okay to be Muslim? Are you sure there is nothing wrong with us?’ She is bullied at school all the time by teachers and students who say, ‘Your parents are terrorists. They blow up buildings.’ She’s perplexed by this, and it’s left a different kind of scar on her soul,” said Antepli. “How can you expect a nine year old to understand this? It is forcing her to grow up too quickly. It’s stealing her childhood and her innocence.”

Assir Abushouk, a sopho-more in mathematics education and statistics, said he complete-ly understands how Antepli’s daughter feels.

“In high school, when people asked me what my religion was and found out I’m a Muslim, it was like they’d stay far away from me and wouldn’t associate with me, even though they were fine with me before they knew,” said Abushouk. “But here at N.C. State, people who have talked to me about my religion have understood that there is diversity at the university level, and most people just want to know what Islam really is.”

Anna Bigelow, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies, said she and her colleagues invited Imam Abdullah to speak about Islam following the rise in negative media attention toward Mus-lims.

“We invited him given the recent upsurge in the apparent fear of Islam with incidents like the ‘Qur’an Burning Day,’ said Bigelow. “Since he is one of the only Muslim Chaplains, we thought it would provide an opportunity for students that only a few other universities have to truly learn about the religion and how he handles the current situation.”

Bigelow said she wants stu-dents to primarily remember Antepli’s assertion that it is the public’s responsibility to find out the truth for themselves.

“People have to take respon-sibility for seeking out the truth, instigating their own search for knowledge, and get-ting to know their peers,” Big-elow said. “They have to make the changes they want to see.”

Abushouk said if students want to know the truth, they should ask students that are Muslims.

“Go ask a Muslim. We are al-ways welcoming to people and we are always open to ques-tions. Go find out for yourself,” said Abushouk. “The media looks at Islam from the outside, but the way to really find out about Islam is to ask someone who is living it.”

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an amendment to the original resolution occurred over Sena-tor Devore’s amendment to in-crease the recommendation for Student Heath Services fee from $6.72 to $11, only $1 less than the requested amount.

Near the end of the debate, senators discussed the lack of student votes.

“It doesn’t matter if only 148 students voted, because we represent all 33,000 students,” Harrelson said.

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In the mid-90s a profes-sor at Clemson University developed a synthetic ver-

sion of THC. Batches of the chemical have been made ever since and sprayed on herbs and flowers for sale. Although marijuana is illegal—mainly because of the effects of THC on humans—K2 is completely legal in North Carolina and many other states in the U.S. Raleigh area stores offer the product and it is readily avail-able to students. Because it is legal, students should be free to use it at their own discre-tion, but they should also be informed about the product.

Marijuana has arguable ben-eficial and deleterious effects,

and students should be aware K2 could have the same effects. According to the Police Blot-ter entry on Sept. 17, a student in Wood Hall was taken to the ER due to a seizure caused by smoking K2. People who have a tendency to have seizures have been warned to avoid us-ing K2, but the general popu-lation’s health could be in jeopardy as well. Campus and federal authorities have said more research is needed to say anything definitive about the effects. With this in mind, stu-dents should be wary if they use K2.

If students do choose to use K2, they should use it respon-sibly. Use it in moderation and remain in control of their deci-sions and actions. Reports have said the product limits inhibi-tions and on some occasions made users delirious. Students should aim to be in a safe envi-ronment when using K2.

Students do not have to go out and buy some just because it is available. After long peri-od of time it is said to be just as addictive and unhealthy as smoking cigarettes. With this in mind, students should make a decision about the future of

their health and trust them-selves to look out for themselves in the future. They should also consider the steps the Univer-sity administration may take if students start abusing K2 and it becomes detrimental to the learning environment.

Since K2 is readily available, students are bound to use it, but they should be aware of the effects of the product and the fact there is still research being done on the ingredients. Stu-dents should be cautious and informed before they choose to use, but should also be free to choose.

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

responsibility of the editor-in-chief.

Free to seek a legal highThe FacTs:K2 is a general term for a synthetic version of the chemical that causes the halucinogenic effects in marijuana. Area shops in the Raleigh area offer the product for $30 to $100.

Our OpiniOn:Although the health benefits are questionable, students should be free to use it, because it is not illegal. However, students should be informed and responsible about what they are buying and using.

I feel it is important to bring light to a number of recent incidents regarding the Preiss Company and its staff of leasing agents at University Village who are supposed to oversee the maintenance, safety and needs of residents of the numerous Preiss Company apartment complexes in Raleigh. These incidents may affect students in the local area in a significant way and thus I hope the following letter can serve as a warning for the way students can expect to be treated if they become a Preiss Company resident.

On Sunday, October 3, there was suspicious activity at my apartment complex, Gorman Street Village. A car was driving back and forth through the parking lot for several hours and slowly followed students who were coming in and out of the building and their cars. I contacted the University Village leasing agents to let them know of the activity, ask if they would be able to send over Preiss Company security and alert them that I’d be calling the

police as well. The leasing agent who I explained the situation to was not only completely unconcerned with the activity, but also told me something to the effect of‚ “I don’t know what to tell you. I guess you’ll have to contact the police on your own. We really can’t do anything.”

This response was disrespectful to me as resident who genuinely felt unsafe in one of the complexes that this leasing company manages. I feel it is the company’s responsibility to help its residents, most importantly when we feel there is dangerous activity in the apartment complex. The Preiss Company has security officers constantly roaming complexes and stopping students who they suspect may be heading to a relatively harmless party, but they appear to have no one available when a true threat arises. This is just one of many incidents in which the Preiss Company blatantly neglects and disrespects its residents and clearly has extreme difficultly following any ethical and sometimes even legal practices.

For example, Gorman Street Village boasts a number of fire extinguisher casings in the

building, and yet two out of the six casings are lacking fire extinguishers, which are required by North Carolina law to be available in case of emergency. Another violation that is overlooked by the company is that not a single parking spot at Gorman Street Village is denoted for handicapped students and vehicles, which caused extreme difficulty for a roommate of mine who suffered a debilitating injury and had nowhere to park. This error also violates the American Disabilities Act that requires 1 out of every 25 spaces to be handicap accessible.

A final instance to exemplify the Preiss Company’s disrespect for students is the line-up of bands for its upcoming Oktoberfest celebration. One of the bands the Preiss Company has hired to play in this event includes a member who was recently banned from the Preiss Company’s University Village property by police after he was drunk and disorderly and assaulted a female resident at a pool party on the property. Even if he is not legally banned from the Oktoberfest venue which is held at Preiss Company’s University Woods, a neighboring complex to the area from which he is banned, it still makes one question the morals the company has if it is willing to hire an individual with this reputation to perform at its parties.

Signing my lease with the Preiss Company for 12 months was obviously a terrible mistake. I hope that the numerous incidents that I have cited which have occurred in recent months helps other students make informed decisions when they are choosing their future apartments. The Preiss Company seemingly has

a sense of entitlement because it has such a large number of properties, but its egotistical and blameless attitude leaves residents feeling the brunt of its many mistakes.

Rebecca Katowitzsenior, communication

Like many other parents, I picked up a copy of your publication this Saturday while attending the Parents weekend at NCSU.

I found your publication informative and relevant enough that I added it to my browser Favorites.

One of the articles, titled “Town hall on tuition draws few,” spoke about tuition increase and the disappointment in the student lack of attendance. We all agree that the students should be aware of the tuition costs and how it impact their choices in the future. We also agree that the majority of the students are supported by parents.

Chancellor Randy Woodson’s decision to hold the a tuition meeting two days before the parents arrive is at least insensitive and pusillanimous.

We [parents] understand that in a certain way NCSU holds our precious off-springs hostage. If you are going to increase the ransom, Chancellor Randy Woodson, you should have the morality to face the people that are writing the checks.

Luis BaptistaNCSU Dad, Warwick, NY

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Brian Schultz, sophomore in environmental design in architecture

As college students, one of our most precious com-modities is time. We al-

ways need more of it, and we never seem to have enough of it. Time management is a very important skill to have, and one of the first steps toward it is getting organized.

From litt le things like our backpacks to our office area as a whole, it’s really impor-tant to utilize the space we have as ef-f ic ient ly a s possible. This could be by

labeling things and putting them in stacks or even assign-ing entire shelves to them. Not only will you be able to locate things eas-ily and as you need them, but you will have a better understand-ing of what all you have and what you need.

M y d a d has a house rule that he’s been trying to enforce for years: “If you take something, put it back exactly where you found it.” We always seem to ignore this rule, and before you know it the house looks like a war zone. I try to implement that rule now that I have my own place, and realize how practical it is. Now, I spend less time searching for the remote when my favorite show is about to come on and more time re-laxing.

I know that it has happened to me a million and one times where I’m looking for some-thing that I misplaced, go out and buy a replacement, then end up finding it two days later in a completely different place. If I had put it in a prop-er location in the first place, I wouldn’t have run into that problem.

Some of us are paying our way through college and then there are those of us who have help from home. Wherever

your money comes from, you should keep track of where it comes from and goes to. You can save yourself a lot of trou-ble by organizing your finances and balancing your checkbook. You may find you even putting have a few dollars extra dollars to put in a savings account here and there.

Another advantage of staying organized is managing dead-lines. Studies show that the more organized a person is, the more likely they are to use their

overall time efficiently. This means you can fin-ish that pa-per before the weekend, a n d r e l a x for the rest of the time. You’ll be less likely to for-get things like exam days, birthdays or

making that phone call home because you were too preoc-cupied trying to finish your Webassign.

You don’t have to wait until spring. Take a little bit of time out this weekend when it is cold outside and you’re stuck in your room or your house to reorder everything. Put things in a more efficient place. Find ways to locate your belongings effectively. Maybe even turn it into a full-fledged overhaul of your place.

Spend some time to get your organization on. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how useful it actually is. From keep-ing your bookbag and room or-derly, to managing your time and budget, being organized and staying organized can dave you a lot of trouble and, most importantly, helping you stay sane in college.

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Eatery stays true to Lebanese cultureNeomonde Restaurant and Bakery offers traditional Lebanese cuisine at college-student prices.

Mark HerringStaff Writer

There is more to Lebanese culture than the half-true connotations of Hezbollah and civil unrest. Cuisine is culture, and the Lebanese have an outstanding one to share just down the road.

Pita, falafel and hummus are taking college towns by storm. Besides cheap beer and Chinese take out, Mediter-ranean restaurants have become new essentials to the college experience.

Nonetheless, like most rampant trends, there are always trade-offs, and authenticity un-fortunately tends to be the most compro-mised element in this business focused on profits and marketing.

Howe ve r, Ne o -monde Lebanese Res-taurant and Bakery defies this trend and continues to assert what it means to cook rustic and tra-ditional Mediterranean food.

Neomonde opened in 1977 upon the arrival of Fahd Saleh, a Lebanese immigrant who left his country in the midst of political unrest and a gruesome civil war that carried on for decades.

Once he arrived to the United States, Saleh was determined to establish a restaurant that paid homage to his home and culture, which he regret-tably had to abandon while seizing the opportunities that abounded in the “New World,” a phrase that inspired the name of the restaurant. Even after the death of Saleh, Neomonde con-tinues to turn out Lebanese cuisine executed with the care and warmth found in a family kitchen.

Tucked behind Hillsborough Street on Beryl Road, Neomonde’s location does not attract too much traffic but nevertheless has a core group of pa-trons who consistently return to the restaurant.

The layout is impressive, with a large dining room on one half of the build-ing and a grocery store on the other. In the middle, patrons order their food deli-style.

The staples of the restaurant include hummus, baba ganoush, stuffed grape leaves, pita and kebab. For a complete meal, it is not difficult to keep the price under $10.

Next to the cash register are enticing Middle Eastern desserts like baklava, pastries called mamoul stuffed with dates or nuts and lady fingers made with phyllo dough.

There is l itt le pretension at Neo-monde. The res-taurant serves the food on disposable plates with plastic cutlery, but the intention is to let the food speak for itself. Unlike many fad restaurants,

Neomonde bakes its own pita, as well as a selection of other artisan breads sold in its grocery store.

Moreover, the restaurant does not deviate from traditional recipes to sat-isfy the skepticism of the American palate. There are no chicken-caesar paninis nor basil pesto fusion wraps.

Neomonde’s goal is not to capital-ize on the whim of the gastro-craze, but to serve Lebanese food that with little convincing overcomes any cul-tural barriers. The only requirement is a taste.

Authentic dishes Neomonde serves that would be pressing to find at faux-Mediterranean restaurants include kibbeh, a serving of ground meat lightly fried with spices and pine nuts; zaatar, a Lebanese pie served

with dried spices; and a pizza-like pie called fatayer, with fresh cheese, tomato, olives and occasional meat topping.

With the convenience of its own bakery at its complete disposal, the baked pie dishes are produced cheaply without any gouging. These filling foods will not exceed $5.

The wait is minimal, and within 10 to 15 minutes the food comes out of the kitchen. The ambience of the res-taurant is very casual and the dining room is not upscale, so Neomonde by virtue lends itself well to nonchalant dates and informal get-togethers.

The restaurant also provides a ca-tering service, which Independent Weekly has rated highly.

The grocery store connected to the restaurant offers indigenous Middle Eastern goods not commonly avail-able in American supermarkets.

Neomonde sells a variety of mari-nated olives, a selection of Arabic coffee and teas, snacks, juices and specialties like authentic feta cheeses, Lebanese olive oils and Middle East-ern kitchenware.

The grocery is not exclusive to Arabs or adventurous foodies. As an exten-sion of the dining room, it invites people to browse through and find inspiration in food, which expresses an important statement.

Despite the tragedies and conflicts Lebanon and the greater Middle East have experienced in the past and un-doubtedly will experience in the fu-ture, Neomonde showcases that the cuisine of the region transcends the negativity that unfortunately con-notes Middle Eastern culture. One taste is enough to persuade the nay-sayers.

The Neomonde experience is one of little ostentation. The aim is to feel like eating in the comfort of a Leba-nese home.

Alex CAnoutAs/teChniCiAnmounir Saleh, owner of neomonde restaurant, prepares a platter for a customer. “We open zero cans here; all of our ingredients are fresh. Lots of n.C. State staff and professors eat here but I’d like to see more students in the restaurant,” Saleh said. “Since the food is so healthy and we have tons of vegetarian dishes, eating at neomonde would be a great way to fight the freshman 15,” Saleh laughed.

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Legal incense such as K2 or Spice, which produce a high similar to marijuana, are sold online and in local shops.

Nick SolovieffCorrespondent

A type of incense being used as a marijuana alterna-tive possesses many names, according to a Depart-ment of Justice newsletter. Most commonly referred to as K2, or Spice, the different incense are merely herbs and plants coated with chemical compounds similar to tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, the newsletter said.

When smoked, the incense mimics a high very similar to that obtained from using marijuana. Sold by a plethora of online manufacturers outside of the United States, the Department of Justice emphasizes that K2 is gaining national popularity as well and is now actually banned in sev-eral states, including Kansas and Kentucky.

One of the main com-pounds was original ly derived from the findings of an organic chemist at Clemson University in the mid-1990s. Phillip Brown, an associate professor of or-ganic chemistry at the Uni-versity, said the compound was manipulated to fit the wishes of the drug culture.

“Its papers were published for scientific purposes only, and it’s being perverted now by these idiots who have these little designer labs. They take it, they make it, the quality’s always suspect, you never know how pure things are and they sprinkle it on anything,” Brown said.

When explaining how the drugs are still legal, Brown analogized steroids to K2.

“These people try very hard to circumvent the law,” Brown said. “‘This steroid is illegal, so we’ll make a steroid that’s very similar but we’ll make one little modification in the molecule—we’ll change it way up here—with the hopes that because it’s not that particular molecule, then it’s legal.’”

Something like K2 could easily exacerbate condi-tions in people who have underlying issues, Brown said.

“There will always be that small segment of people who are already a little fragile, already have some blood pressure issues or maybe they’re susceptible to having a seizure,” Brown said. “So if you’re already susceptible to seizure disorder, you start smoking K2, you might induce a seizure.”

Brown said he does not believe the companies who make the drugs conduct clinical trials to make sure the product is safe before putting it on the market.

“They’ll give it to a few junkies, make sure they don’t get sick, the junkies like it, so they start put-ting it out on the street. Their clinical trials are very questionable, indeed. I would not trust any of it,” Brown said. “That’s why pharmaceutical companies spend so much money and millions of dollars trying to put out a drug because they do all these studies, they want to know what the hazards are.”

K2incense.org, which advertises K2 online, does not mention drug use on its website and clearly states the product should be used as incense. There is only one mention of legality on the site.

“Our NEW products are 100% legal! Including Kansas, Russia & the UK!... EVERYWHERE,” the site said.

There is a disclaimer at the end of many product descriptions regarding effects of the drug.

“We make no claims in regards to the physiologi-cal or psychological effects of the K2 Blends on the

human body. Any references to ‘K2 effects’ are anecdotal and in relation to traditional use of incense, NOT consump-tion. Consuming ANY K2 product under any shape or form is forbidden by the K2 manufacturer,” the website said.

One blend of K2 on the site is advertised in a package deal at $279.95 for 30 grams.

N.C. State University Crime Prevention Officer Steve Carl-ton said there is not a lot of in-formation on the incense for local law enforcement.

“It’s kind of something that’s going to be like salvia, in the case that we’re going to have to wait and see how training comes from the Department of Justice about how to recognize it and to see what it’s effects are,” Carlton said.

On-campus medical emergencies rarely involve something like K2.

“Most tend to be alcohol related,” Carlton said.Friends Jenna Hunter, a freshman in microbiology,

and Cassandra Bumgarner, a freshman in interna-tional relations, had differing opinions about the safety of products that are new and not widely tested.

“I have a scientific perspective,” Hunter said. “No matter what it is, you’re body’s reaction to it may not be what it is to everybody else. There’s always going to be a side effect.”

Bumgarner said “I don’t think it’s safe, it’s just if you want to do it or you don’t want to do it.”

Matt Poehler, a sophomore in psychology, when asked whether or not he thinks a widely used but untested drug is safe, replied hesitantly.

“That’s a hard question to answer,” Poehler said. “If a wide variety of people have used it and there have been no immediate effects, I believe it’s fine to try as long as you don’t abuse it.”

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Springthorpe’s arrival will produce victories is rapidly approaching.

In Argiroff ’s four year high school career, winning was more of an expectation. She led the First Flight Night-hawks with 28 goals her senior year while capturing a fourth

consecutive conference cham-pionship with a 22-2 record. Argiroff said she is starting to notice the winning mental-ity she learned as the captain of her high school soccer and basketball teams being adopted at N.C. State.

“In high school, we knew we were going to win,” Argiroff said. “I felt like when I came here that the team was better, but we weren’t winning. Be-cause we had a losing record,

I think we had to sit back and make sure the other team didn’t score. Now we know we’re good enough to play de-fense and push past them. It’s starting to feel more like what I felt in high school.”

Argiroff and the Pack travel to Winston-Salem Thursday to take on Wake Forest at 7 p.m.

people might think, especially when there are older girls pres-ent to lend a helping hand.

“We have a lot of girls that have played before,” Drum-mond said. “But then we also have a few girls that have just started playing and never picked up a stick before until this year. So it’s been up to the older girls to teach the game to the newer players.”

Despite the lack of experi-ence by the team’s newcom-ers, Drummond said the fun-damental concepts of lacrosse are surprisingly easy to learn.

“As soon as you get down the basics, like catching and throwing, it’s really easy to pick up,” Drummond said. “The hardest part is just getting the

basic skills down pat. It really doesn’t take that long to learn.”

One strategy veterans have thought of to give newcom-ers more experience, as well as toughen the team up for its next game, is to scrimmage against the men’s lacrosse team.

“We coordinate with the men’s team a lot,” Drummond said. “We’ll talk with their coaches and learn new things. We support each other’s teams and do a lot of things together. We’ve been talking with the men’s coaches about holding a scrimmage.”

Seeking its first win of the fall season, the women’s lacrosse team plays its next game Oct. 17 against conference-rival Duke.

ALEX SANCHEZ/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOJunior midfielder Kristina Argiroff dribbles around Coastal Carolina defender Colleen Schohl in an Aug. 23 match. Argiroff’s family was in town for the game as she led the team with 2 goals in the 7-0 victory.

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“We’re starting to change our vision

and realize what we can do.”junior midfielder Kristina Argiroff

to FCS opponent James Madi-son, but narrowly lost a tossup a week earlier to Boise, a team that figures to contend for a na-tional title. Expect the Hokies to play a big role in determin-ing the 2010 ACC champ.

But if State could come that close to beating a team like Tech on an afternoon filled with red zone miscues and some poor decision making by its best player, one can’t help but wonder what the Pack’s limits are if and when it devel-ops a killer instinct and does a better job taking care of the ball against high-caliber foes.

This doesn’t change the fact

that State had a golden oppor-tunity to go 5-0 and establish itself as the team to beat in the ACC. But in coming so close to winning in spite of so many things going wrong after the first 16 minutes, the Pack showed that no matter the op-position, it is anything but an easy out, even on an off day. For a squad that only won two con-ference games a year ago, that has to be at most encouraging, and at the very least, somewhat comforting.

Send Tyler your thoughts on the VT game to [email protected].

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COUNTDOWN• 46 days until the football team takes on UNC-Chapel

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Smith named to John R. Wooden Award preseason listSenior forward Tracy Smith was one of 50 student-athletes named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 list, which was announced yesterday by the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Since its founding in 1976, the award has become the most prestigious individual honor in college basketball. It is bestowed upon the nation’s best player at an institution of higher education who has proven to his or her university that he or she is making progress toward graduation and maintaining a minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA. As a junior last season, Smith was an All-ACC Second Team selection after leading the Pack in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage. Of the eleven conferences represented on the Wooden Award Preseason List, the ACC boasted a total of eight players, second only to the Big 10.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Bhambri and Nagaraj remain undefeated at ITASenior Sanaa Bhambri and junior Sandhya Nagaraj combined for three wins Sunday to advance out of pre-qualifying at the ITA All-American in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Bhambri notched her third win in two days with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over sixth-seeded Ecaterina Vasenina from South Florida. Nagaraj later joined Bhambri on the doubles court to pick up a pair of victories, moving the team into doubles qualifying. Nagaraj and Bhambri defeated SMU’s Hatamova/Cieplucha 8-5 in the second round, and knocked off third-seeded Cercone/Hitimana of Florida 8-6 to advance.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

In midst of career-best start to 2010, Kristina Argiroff looks to make Pack more competitive in ACC play

Sean FairholmStaff Writer

For junior midfielder Kristina Argi-roff and the rest of her fellow upper-classmen teammates, earning respect for a program that hasn’t recorded a winning season since 2002 has been a case of year-by-year progress. Due in part to the the early breakout perfor-mances from several freshmen, the Kill Devil Hills native said there is a definite optimism in the air that this team will be the one to finally break through.

“I think this is our year,” Argiroff said. “We should be able to do it this year. We’re starting to change our vi-sion and we’re starting to realize what we can do.”

Despite being on a team that has had freshmen account for 27 of the 75 points on the season, Argiroff may be the big-gest surprise considering she had never started a game in her collegiate career until the junior worked her way up to the opportunity this year. Four goals, four assists, and 27 shots later, the mid-fielder has established herself as a top scorer for coach Steve Springthorpe’s squad. Argiroff said the competitive and open style the former Fresno State coach has implemented is one of the most prominent factors in her success.

“I loved it when he first came in because I was pretty much told that I wasn’t going to start my freshman year,” Argiroff said. “When he came in, he brought this whole new vision. Every practice you battle for a spot, and there’s never a set starting team. Nobody’s comfortable and it makes us better.”

After picking up just two conference victories in the previous three seasons, the Wolfpack (7-5, 1-2) knows its chance to prove that the culture change since

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MEN’S GOLF @WOLFPACK INTERCOLLEGIATELonnie Poole Golf Course, All day

MEN’S TENNIS @ ALL-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPSTulsa, Okla., All day

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WednesdayWOMEN’S TENNIS @ ITA ALL-AMERICANPacific Palisades, Calif., All day

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

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The silver liningThe playing of Green Day’s

‘Time of your Life’ did precious little to make life

better for fans disappointed in the way the foot-ball team’s early 17-0 lead gave way to a 41-30 loss to Virginia Tech Saturday at Carter-Finley.

A beautiful ear-ly-October day began with fans wondering how

far the Pack would rise in the polls with a win over preseason ACC favorite Virginia Tech. It ended in a stinging loss that left some fans reevaluating a team that looked so dominant through four weeks of action.

Disappointment was the last word on fans’ minds in the early going. Less than a minute into the second quarter, the Pack looked like it might cruise to 5-0. State led by 17 and faced first-and-10 from the VT 43 with about nine minutes remaining in the half. A blowout win, perhaps the biggest victory of Tom O’Brien’s tenure in Raleigh, seemed imminent.

But it wasn’t. Over the remain-der of the second quarter and the first play of the second half, Wilson threw two interceptions to Tech’s Jayron Hosley, the de-fense gave up a touchdown drive highlighted by a 71-yard run by Tyrod Taylor and VT scored on a kickoff return to make it 17-13.

The touchdown return to open second half play helped Virginia Tech outscore State 34-13 over the final 30 minutes and prevail, 41-30.

As is almost always the case in losses, several ugly numbers jumped off the post-game stat sheet at distraught fans, some of whom quickly resorted to won-dering if the 4-0 start was a fluke.

Yes, it is easy to wonder if the defense has taken a sudden step backward. Allowing the opposi-tion to pick up 8.6 yards per carry and pile up nearly 320 rushing yards will create such doubts. State let the Hokies’ Darren Ev-ans pick up 161 yards and average nearly 11 yards per carry and had just as much difficulty corralling Tyrod Taylor, who rushed for 147 more from the quarterback posi-tion.

And the fault doesn’t lie on the defense alone. The offense gained 507 yards, but scored only one touchdown and 13 points after the first minute of the second quarter had elapsed. All three of the team’s turnovers were com-mitted after the strong early start, and on the day, only two of the Pack’s five forays into the red zone led to touchdowns. Virginia Tech was out-gained by more than 60 yards, but came away with touch-downs every time it got in the red zone.

But even on an afternoon when so much went wrong, late in the fourth quarter, the Pack had the ball and a chance to pull out a thrilling victory over a team that started the season in nearly every-one’s top 10.

It’s hard to lose the turnover battle 3-1 and beat good teams. It’s nearly impossible to be com-petitive, much less victorious, when giving up a non-offensive touchdown on top of failing in the turnover department.

Expecting to pull off such a feat against a team of VT’s caliber would be unreasonable at best. Virginia Tech dropped a shocker

Tyler EverettSports Editor

ARGIROFF’S YEAR BY YEAR TOTALS2008 2009 2010

Games Played 2 5 12

Games Started 0 0 8

Shots 0 1 27

Goals 0 1 4

Assists 0 0 4

Points 0 2 12

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHELTICS

ANDY MUSSELMAN/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOJunior midfielder Kristina Argiroff battles for possession of the ball Sunday, August 29, 2010 at Dail Soccer Field. The 49ers defeated the Pack 2-1 in overtime.

Tucker FrazierDeputy Sports Editor

Over the past few years, the N.C. State women’s lacrosse team has undergone changes that have led to increased team participation, as well as improvement on the field. Club president Courtney Drum-mond and vice president Courtney Sparr have transformed a team with only 10 members just three years ago into a team with over 30 girls on the active roster for the 2010-2011 season.

“When I started three years ago, we had a roster of about ten girls,” Drummond said. “Now, we have an active roster of 31 girls so we’ve become three times as competitive as we used to be. We have enough players for two full teams when we practice now plus substitutes so it makes us more competitive.”

The increased participation has revitalized the team and allowed it to better prepare for opponents in the Carolina Women’s Lacrosse League. The CWLL is one of the most competitive leagues on the east coast and includes schools such as North Carolina, Duke,

Elon, Wake Forest and East Carolina, among others.

The team opened up the fall season on Sept. 19th with games against Ap-palachian State and Elon, losing both contests. Despite the two losses, the team is still committed to improving in time for the spring season.

“We play year-round but our main season is in the spring,” Drummond said. “In the fall, we have four games

and then a big tournament at East Carolina where we play against teams from our conference and around the east coast.”

Although there are many experi-enced players on the team, there are a few with little to no lacrosse expe-rience. However, learning the basics of the sport is a lot easier than many

CLUB SPORTS

Women’s lax primed for fall season

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TEAM POISED TO MAKE MOST OF INCREASED MEMBERSHIP

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