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Raleigh City Manager J. Russell Allen recently released a four-ques-tion survey to get citizen feedback on who should be the next chief of the Raleigh Police Department.

The survey, available on the City of Raleigh website and as a display advertisement in local newspapers, does not include specific candidates, but rather broad questions about what residents want in a new po-lice chief.

For example, one question per-tains to what specific challenges RPD faces and another asks what skills and qualities in a police chief

are necessary to overcoming these challenges. Allen sent out the sur-vey, which is due Oct. 11, in an at-tempt to get opinions from as many sources as possible because he will ultimately decide who the next chief will be.

“Number one, I am doing the survey so I can get feedback from the community as well as the police department,” Allen said. “I want to have a current sense of what they think.”

Any internal candidates or existing staff can apply, and a na-tionwide announcement was made about the vacancy, after the current RPD chief, Harry Dolan, retired Oct. 1. Dolan held the position for

five years, and was previously the chief of the Grand Rapids, Mich. po-lice department. He graduated from the police academy in Raleigh, and had a 32-year career in law enforce-ment.

Deputy Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown will serve as interim chief until a final decision is made some-time next year, according to Allen.

Allen, said he’s hoping to make “major progress by the end of the year.” However, the research process involves other important members of the city, including the Raleigh fire chief, the city attorney and the head parks and recreation officer.

Although Allen said his process is

“very open,” and he does not have anyone particular in mind for the position, there are a few require-ments. The RPD is responsible for the safety of more than 400,000 people and has 850 employees, so

someone with experience in major city with a high command is neces-sary, Allen said.

City wants resident input for new police chief

Megan DuntonStaff Writer

Sara Vogel, graduate student in counselor education and resident director at Wolf Village Apartments, led 20 students on a diversity trip to Cherokee, N.C. to explore the Cherokee people and their culture.

“The reason that I wanted to go to Cherokee was because it was local, and students could learn a little bit about the history of North Carolina and the people of North Carolina,” Vogel said.

The trip was advertised to stu-

dents living in Wolf Village and they had to apply to go on the trip by answering four questions, includ-ing: “What would you hope to gain from this trip?” “What experiences have you had working with issues of diversity?” and “How do you see yourself contributing on this trip?”

Vogel said they looked for students with ranges in experiences with di-versity, accepting applications from both ends of the spectrum.

Michell Hicks, the chief of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee In-

Students engage in Native American outreach

PHOTO COURTESY OF SARA VOGELWolf Village residents pose in front of a Native American monument in Cherokee, N.C.

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The North Carolina Museum of Art is currently holding an exhibit by 19th and 20th century Norwe-gian artist Edvard Munch, perhaps known most famously for his work “The Scream.” Titled “Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print,” the exhibit contains 26 of Munch’s en-trancing prints that range from ex-periences in his life to the different emotions and issues he confronted in his day.

“This exhibit gave you an insight to different parts of Edvard Munch’s life,” Kevin Cossio, a freshman in first year college, said. “There were some pieces about when his sister

died, about when he was alone in life, and about when he was dating a married woman.”

Viewers can see phases of Munch’s life through the pictures his prints present. This is aided by the exhibit, which features Munch’s thoughts on each painting below the work.

In “The Sick Child,” painted dur-ing the period from 1894 to 1896, Munch worked to create a compel-ling, heart-wrenching print of his sister, Sophie, dying of tuberculosis.

His sister’s death inspired his first great “soul painting” and a long se-ries of sorrowful graphic versions after that. Munch considered “The Sick Child” piece to be his best print.

“Few artists ever experienced the full grief of their subject as I did in

‘The Sick Child,’” Munch once said.

Munch also expressed the complexities of love and attrac-tion in many of his works in the exhibit.

“There is a battle that goes on between men and women,” Munch said. “Many people call it love.”

As shown in his exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Munch’s love was many things, but it was never simple. One of his prints, “Ashes II (After the Fall),” shows a proud woman with a man near her filled with

The art of Munch takes the stage

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Friday, Oct. 12Last day to register to vote

Thursday, Oct. 18Early voting starts at Talley

Tuesday, Oct. 30Last day to request an absentee ballot

Tuesday, Nov. 6Election Day, polls close 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013Inauguration Day

Dates to remember:

THE CHIEF OF POLICE:“The Office of the Chief encompasses many areas that are important to the public.”

Chief of Police:The Chief of Police oversees and directs all activities of the Police Department and is the official representative of the Department.

Deputy Chief:“The Deputy Chief reports directly to

the Chief, assumes command of the Department in the Chief’s absence and carries out other duties as assigned by the Chief.”

Internal Affairs:“The Raleigh Police Department is dedicated to serving the community in an efficient, effective, and professional manner. The Internal Affairs Unit helps maintain public confidence and trust in the Department.”

SOURCE: CITY OF RALEIGH

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Jessie HalpernNews Editor

North Carolina gubernatorial candidates, Pat McCrory and Walter Dalton, introduced their campaigns to the public in the first statewide, televised debate on Wednesday, Oct. 3.

WRAL hosted the debate, which granted each candidate an opening and closing statement, in addition to rebuttals. Questions for the can-didates were posed by three North Carolina journalists, and focused on education, infrastructure and

leadership. Republican nominee, Pat McCro-

ry, touted his experience as mayor of Charlotte, while Democratic nominee, Walter Dalton, focused on knocking McCrory down.

Dalton, current lieutenant gov-ernor, said during McCrory’s time as mayor, Charlotte was the highest taxed city.

“I’m very proud of that leadership that created an environment of job growth,” McCrory said.

During the debate, McCrory pro-posed a 25-year plan for infrastruc-ture that he said would “provide

jobs now and for the future.” His platform also included increas-ing services to mental health patients, and fracking.

Fracking, a controversial tech-nique used to excrete natural gas from rock, has been a topic of much debate in North Carolina since Gov. Bev Perdue approved it this summer.

Dalton agreed fracking may benefit the state, but said he has some discrepancies with the governor about the safety of the

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THROUGH BOBBY’S LENS

Exploring insect phylogenetics

The Biology Club host guest speaker Julia Urban from the genomics and microbiology lab at the Nature Re-search Center in the Natural Sciences Museum in Raleigh. The Biology Club is made up of biology and life sciences majors, but is open to anyone interested. Students meet once a month on Mondays. Treasurer of the

club, Ashvi Patel a senior in human biology says goes because “I am able to learn about different professions in the scientific field and I get opportunities to volunteer at different places, such as the Museum of Natural Sci-ences and highway cleanups.” If you are interested in joining the club, email them at ncsubiologyclub@gmail.

PHOTO BY BOBBY KLIMCZAK

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSThe caption for the page eight photo for “State tops Seminoles in final drive” in Oct. 8 publication was incorrect. The correct caption is, “Freshman running back Shadrach Thornton evades tackling during the football game against Florida State in Carter-Finley Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. The Wolfpack took down the No. 3 Seminoles in a nail-biting 17-16 victory.” The photo was by John Joyner.

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POLICE BLOTTEROctober 610:36 AM | TRAFFIC STOPJackson St/Whitmore Dr Student was cited for driving with no operator license.

10:42 AM | TRAFFIC STOP Jackson St/Whitmore Dr Non-student was cited for driving with operator license. 10:53 AM | TRAFFIC STOPJackson St/Whitmore Dr Non-student was cited for driving with revoked license. 11:13 AM | TRAFFIC STOP Jackson St/Whitmore Dr Non-student was cited for seatbelt violation. 11:56 AM | RECOVERED STOLEN VEHICLE

Carter-Finley Stadium WCSO working pre-game security in parking lot reported locating vehicle reported stolen. 3:42 AM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Off Campus RPD charged two students with Underage Possession and Disorderly Conduct, one student with Resist,Delay, Obstruct and Disorderly Conduct, and one student with Resist,Delay,Obstruct. NCSU PD referred all students referred to the university.

9:48 AM | SPECIAL EVENTUniversity Plaza Officer monitored Walk for Human Values event. 1:41 PM | SPECIAL EVENT Carter-Finley Stadium NCSU PD, FP, WCSO, RPD provided security for NCSU v FSU game.

6:58 PM |MEDICAL ASSIST Wolf Village Units responded to smoke-head activation. Student in need of medical assistance was transported for treatment. 9:32 PM | CONCERNED BEHAVIORBragaw Hall Officers responded to student experiencing emotional stress. On-call counselor was contacted and student was issued welfare referral.

October 712:41 AM | ALCOHOL VIOLATIONScott Hall Student was referred after being found to be in possession of alcohol underage. 1:05 PM | VANDALISMCarmichael Gym Report of graffiti.

10:26 PM | DRUG VIOLATIONCarroll Hall Report of possible drug violation. Two students were cited and referred for simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

5:56 PM | MEDICAL ASSISTLee Hall Units responded and transported student in need of medical assistance. 6:00 PM | FOLLOW UPCarter-Finley Stadium NCSU PD took enforcement actions against 34 subjects during the NCSU v FSU game on 10/6/12. 20 were students who were issued judicial referrals and 14 non-students. All were trespassed from Carty-Finley Stadium. 1 was arrest inside stadium (domestic w/ no injury) and 2 arrests in

lots for resisting a public officer. At conclusion of game, 6 people were arrested for coming onto the field and charged with trespassing. Of those 6 one was also charged with assault. Medical personnel responded to 77 medical calls. Student report being assaulted while tailgating earlier in the day and was transported for treatment for intoxication. Non-student reported money taken from his person while unconscious from intoxication in Bunn Field. 7:59 PM | FOLLOW UP Public Safety Building NCSU PD served outstanding warrant on student regarding involvement in earlier incident. Student was also referred.

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practice. He said he would approve fracking in the state, but only when he was guaranteed it could be done safely.

Dalton’s platform fo-cused on education. Dur-ing the debate, he high-lighted the “strength of the North Carolina com-munity-college system,” and claimed he would focus on allocating more funds to the education system as a whole.

“Cuts to early child-hood education have hurt the system,” Dalton said.

The debate concluded after one hour, but not before each candidate had the chance to market themselves to the public.

“We need someone who can bring everyone

together,” Dalton said. McCrory closed with an-

other reference to his expe-rience.

“I have a history as a mayor and as a human being — a mentor to young children of all races,” McCrory said.

Since the debate, both candidates have taken steps to amp u p t h e i r campaigns.

McCrory’s campaign released a series called, “Countdown to a Carolina Comeback” Monday. The blog will use daily posts to highlight a new reason why in 2012, North Carolina “won’t be fooled again and will turn the page on the Perdue-Easley-Dalton era of broken government by electing new

leadership with a new vision for North Carolina.” These daily updates will continue until the start of early voting on Oct. 18, according to the McCrory campaign.

Monday’s inaugural post pointed out similarities be-

t ween t he current gov-ernment and Dalton’s po-tential lead-ership.

“After hav-ing served together for 16 years inside state government and voting

together 98 percent of the time while in the General As-sembly, both Gov. Perdue and Lt. Gov. Dalton defend the status quo and believe North Carolina’s state government isn’t broken,” the update said.

Pat McCrory will visit

Greensboro, N.C. Oct. 10 where he will deliver a speech to the North Caro-lina Economic Developers Association. Later that day, McCrory will take the stage at the Greensboro Coliseum to speak to the Greensboro Rotary Club.

Dalton’s campaign is also working hard to keep fighting for election. In a blog post on Wednesday night, Dalton’s campaign claimed he “clearly won the debate” and “kept Mc-Crory on the defensive.”

While Dalton has not re-leased information about upcoming visits, his web-site has an “achievements” section and an “action center” that allow voters to stay informed about his accomplishments and encourage them to get in-volved in the campaign.

“I’m very proud

of that leadership

that created an

environment of

job growth.”Pat McCrory, N.C. Republican

gubernatorial candidate

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Allen said a chief will need to take ad-vantage of t he most mod-ern and proac-tive po-licing tech-niques, many of which rely on tech-nology. He said the new chief will also be have to

balance the annual RPD bud-get, meet all the RPD’s legal requirements for the city and provide service and protec-tion for the community.

Another major compli-a n c e i s communi-ty-orient-ed polic-ing, which was advo-cated and expanded under Dolan, accord-ing to Al-len. While

most officers are assigned to a certain unit and respond to

problems in their area, com-munity policing involves of-ficers talking to residents in person and getting involved in a particular community with crime problems. These officers figure out from the citizens themselves what their specific problems are, go to neighborhood meetings and get residents involved in positive preventative pro-grams among other things, according to Allen.

“Number one, I am doing the survey so I can get feed-back from the community as well as the police depart-ment,” Allen said. “I want to have a current sense of what they think.”

dians, and four other tribal council members, sat down to lunch with the students to prepare them for the three-day trip. The Cherokee tribe members talked to the stu-dents about the history of the Cherokee people, the Trail of Tears and structure of government.

After the lunch with tribal leaders, students toured Kitu-wah Academy Cherokee Im-mersion School. The school was founded in 2009 with the sole purpose of reviving the dying Cherokee language, which fell into disuse after European settlers came to America.

On the trip, students ex-plored the Cherokee culture through native Cherokee meals, touring a Cherokee history museum, visiting a reenactment village, hiking trails and visiting the Kitu-wah mound, a sacred site for the Cherokee.

Kelsey Standingdeer, a graduate in counselor educa-tion and co-leader of the trip said that showing students her hometown “reinforced what a great home” she came from and the “amazing cul-ture” she has.

Joseph Owle, a graduate student in soil science and a native Cherokee, was a stu-dent on the trip.

“I was really excited to have them there,” Owle said. “The group was very interactive. They were thoughtful and

asked great questions as they explored Cherokee. “

Each night students re-flected on their experiences and emotions in journals. Students wrote about what surprised them, what had up-set them, what they wanted to learn more about, and what they were going to do with the information they learned daily. Students were also able to make global connections.

“For me, that was the most powerful part of the trip just seeing the light bulb mo-ments,” Vogel said.

Vogel said she thought the students learned that there are many common themes throughout history. One of those common themes ex-plored on the Cherokee trip was oppression.

“I think students see that although there has been oppression in the past and although there still is op-pression today, that people can more forward from it and grow from it and grow stronger as a community,” Vogel said.

The Cherokee people dem-onstrated this to students by welcoming the students and being open to sharing their culture.

Vogel said it was important for students who had grown up in North Carolina to really see what the Cherokee people were like because many had a wrong impression of the tribe.

“It was important for many students who had grown up in North Carolina who had heard about the Cherokee who had images of tee-pees

and headdresses to realize that that wasn’t this tribe and that those images belonged to tribes out west. Students got to see how normal life was on a reservation,” Vogel said. “I think those are all great les-sons.”

Vogel said this trip has helped her group counsel-ing skills. The trip helped her practice bridging diffi-cult topics with students like slavery and oppression. It also helped her and other students deal with cultural guilt.

“There is a lot to be learned through out the world, but we can just look in our back-yard to Western Carolina to a population that many do not know about and that there are still issues that hap-pen,” Vogel said. “Coming away from this trip, people

felt empowered to be able to make a change even if it was a small change.”

Vogel said that students learned they could make

small changes and make huge differences in the world.

“When I think about the trip, it was my way of giving back,” Vogel said.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF SARA VOGELStudents traveled to Cherokee, N.C. to learn more about Native American culture and history.

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remorse. This piece is de-scribed as “a man’s guilt and a woman’s triumph in the aftermath of passion.”

Munch described his in-spiration for this piece when he said, “I felt our love lying on the ground like a heap of ashes.”

There are a few prints where Munch conveys his love for a woman to the point where the viewer can feel his passion through his image.

“His work is very emotion-ally captivating,” Cossio said. “I could sense his passion, pain and despair through his art.”

As an example of this senti-ment, the work “Attraction I & II” reveals an image of his true love for a special wom-an. In this work, man and a woman are looking into one another’s eyes.

“When we stood facing each other and your eyes looked into my eyes then I felt as if invisible threads led from your eyes into my eyes and tied our hearts together,” Munch said.

“Attraction I & II” is unique because Munch did several ver-sions of it. One pr int h a s c o lor and another is in black and white. Munch does this with a few of his pieces, and it is to express different sit-uations and emotions.

Munch’s goal is to show how one picture slightly changed can also alter the story and feelings along with it.

There are several prints where Munch focuses on his jealousy and loneliness. These include “Anxiety,”

“Jealousy II,” and “Two Hu-man Beings.” Not only is it the emotions within the piec-es that captivate the viewer,

but Munch’s style of art works aims its magic as well.

“He h a s interesting t y pes a nd techniques of art,” Cos-sio said. “I thought it was a great d i splay of art.”

T his ex-hibit displays a variety of Munch’s styles of art, which includes dry points, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs. One component of Munch’s popularity is based on is his variation of style.

“I like seeing art exhibits because they humble me and remind me that despite

celebrity, all of these creators are or were everyday people,” Lauren Browning, a sopho-more in psychology , said. “Seeing the works in person make them all the more im-pressive.”

“I thought his art was in-triguing and majestic,” Cos-sio said.“It was a great experi-ence for me to see it all.”

Besides students who have already seen the exhibit, there are also many other students who look forward to going as well.

“I would love to see the Edvard Munch exhibit,” Browning said. “When I was younger, I went to the Muse-um of Modern Art and came home with a postcard of “The Storm.” I pinned it on my wall and ever since have been a huge fan of the painting and some of his other works.

Editor’s note: All quotes from Munch in this article are taken from the exhibit.

MUNCHcontinued from page 1

“His work is

very emotionally

captivating. I

could sense his

passion, pain and

despair through

his art.”Kevin Cossio, freshman in FYC

BOBBY KLIMCZAK/TECHNICIANNorth Carolina Museum of Art opens the Edvard Munch gallery.

“Number one,

I am doing the

survey so I can

get feedback from

the community as

well as the police

department.”J. Russell Allen, city manager

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Anonymous asks, “Why haven’t four-year universities caught up with community colleges? Do professors not re-alize that, more than ever, stu-dents are forced to make up the difference among higher tu-ition, lower financial aid and higher EFC (expected family contribution)? I understand that there is

probably no realistic way to regulate students who work 40 hours a week versus stu-dents who have the luxury to dedicate themselves to their studies, but should we not start considering that notion?

It is nearly impossible to re-ceive the extent and breadth of education for which students are paying while also being bogged down with the burden of paying for college, paying for living expenses and hop-ing once they finish their de-grees, they’ll actually have jobs to pay back all of those loans anyway.”

I honestly cannot speak to what they do in community college, but the simple answer is because it is our job to give you the best damn educa-tion we possibly can in the 15 weeks of the semester you spend in our class. And that means high expectations.

If we structured our classes such that we treated all of our students like they had full-time jobs (or were on an inter-collegiate athletic team,

for that matter), we simply would not be demanding enough of our students to give them the education they deserve. It is unfortunate that some students have so many demands to juggle in addi-tion to their education, but I don’t think we can be ex-pected to lower our academic standards in any way.

That said, my take has al-ways been that before you are my student, you are sim-ply another human being. To me that means being un-derstanding, being compas-sionate, and taking appropri-ate consideration of difficult circumstances when the situ-ation is warranted. But that has to be on a case-by-case basis.

When you are a student at this University, your job here is to get all you can out of your education, and mine is to help you do that. On that, there will be no com-promises.

Y.A. asks, “Would you want your kids to enroll in the politi-cal science program at State?”

Yes and no. First, the no. I actually want my kids to be “real” scientists or en-gineers. Political science is great and has a lot of value, but this country needs more engineers, chemists, materi-als scientists, etc., not more people with political science degrees. Especially not people who think it’s the premier route to law school (nothing against lawyers, per se, we’ve just already got too many of them and I don’t think PS serves a particular value in preparation for law school).

And the yes. I think we do a

really great job in the PS pro-gram preparing our students for all kinds of careers. Not everybody is cut out for en-gineering or science (though, I think far more people ac-tually are than realize it) so if my kids were not, I think they would get a great edu-cation from my department or political science at most universities.

I think far and away the most important thing we do is not teach our students about politics, but teach them to be better writers and bet-ter critical thinkers. Now those are abilities valued all throughout “the real world.” If you want to see the value of a social science degree in chart form, here’s a blog post I wrote on the matter a while back, http://wp.me/pVrH3-1Qg. (Short version: social sciences and natural sciences/math are head and shoulders above other disciplines in teaching critical thinking).

Anonymous asks, “Tell me about your first breakup.”

No. You tell me about your first breakup and how you need my oh-so-wise advice to get over it.

This column is “Ask a Pro-fessor” not “Confessions of a Professor.” Give me some good questions and who knows, I may just throw in a story about how a girl once told me she thought I was awesome but had some con-cerns because she thought she might be a lesbian, and if she wasn’t, she really had the hots for my best friend. But we should go out anyway. Needless, to say that was not a successful relationship.

Tony Hankerson, junior in arts application

A passion for pumpkin

Once a year, for the span of about three

months, our country finds itself obsessed over the pumpkin. It reminds

me of the w a y i n which we obsess over pol-it ics for about six months every election.

Think about it. People blog about pumpkins (check out Pumpkin Spice Blog or Pumpkinmania), they tweet about them, they talk about them in everyday conversation. As I am writing this, my friend is next to me googling pumpkin reci-pes.

It’s impossible to go a day without seeing at least one advertisement for this vegetable, or fruit or whatever it is. Its preva-lence in our lives during fall is astounding. This past week, I ordered a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks, a pumpkin ba-gel with pumpkin cream cheese from Brueggers and pumpkin muffins from Harris Teeter. That same friend and I are planning on having a “pumpkin” day in culmi-nation of our temporary love for the pumpkin. We’re thinking of having it on the 6th of November.

As with most trends, not everyone joins this

cult-like following. Some people think they are “bet-ter than” the pumpkin. Oth-ers don’t like any variety of pumpkin — saying things like “it’s too sweet” or “it’s too traditional.” Still others, particularly college students, just don’t care enough to go out and buy any of these de-lectable treats.

But for the vast majority of people that do enjoy this three month phase of fall, the pumpkin is almost idolized. There are pumpkin growing contests t hat de-termine whose pumpkin is bigger (and thus better). Any food item with the word pumpkin in it is consumed by America. Those pumpkin muffins I bought from Harris Teeter? They were the last ones.

But is it the pumpkin itself that we’re so obsessed with? A recent column in the Wall Street Journal titled “Who Killed the Great Pumpkin” asks this same question. Is it actually the squash we care about so much, or is it this relatively new stuff called pumpkin spice? “Pumpkin became less a vegetable,” writes author Charles Passy, “and more a platform for piling on the flavor — cin-namon, brown sugar, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, you name

it.” It seems as if the pumpkin has been dramatized by all of this extra stuff.

It makes sense. After all, pumpkin, by itself, is sup-posed to be enjoyed with a side of butter and some salt and pepper. To me that just sounds so…boring. I want the spice. I want my taste buds to be stimulated by a variety of intense flavors. I want action and drama. I want to turn on the news and hear about

pumpkin t h i s a nd pumpkin that. I want m y l i f e flavored w it h t he same spice with which various market-ing teams flavor their pumpkin products.

Have we lost the pumpkin completely? Have we so dra-matized the pumpkin that we will never be able to just enjoy the pumpkin for itself? Maybe, maybe not. I person-ally appeal to the food com-panies that we enjoy pump-kin year-long. Maybe ease off of the crazy obsession we get once a year and turn the pumpkin dialogue into a year round thing with much less flair.

Pumpkin should still get the spotlight during its peak season, but let’s lay off the over-the-top fixation. It’s a squash. It’s not a movie.

Joseph HaveyStaff Columnist

Let’s welcome ‘Bienvenidos’

I have studied Spanish since my freshman year of high school, and as I progressed to the Advanced Placement level, con-

tinuing my education in the Spanish language and Hispanic culture seemed natural when I came to N.C. State. I entered N.C. State as

a Spanish major, and though I added another major too, Spanish has been near and dear to my experience at N.C. State.

I’ve used Spanish during travels abroad, with His-panic friends on campus (ex-girlfriends included) and through community service

with the Latino population in Raleigh. When Miguel Sánchez, a Mexican-American stu-dent, approached me to start a Spanish lan-guage publication, it only seemed natural.

North Carolina’s Latino population ac-counts for a quarter of the growth of North Carolina in the past two decades, and native

births have recently overtaken immigration in terms of growth for the demographic, accord-ing to the Office of the Governors. The fact is, Latinos are here to stay, and I want to in-clude their voices and perspectives into Technician’s coverage.

Technician will publish a weekly sec t ion c a l led “Bienvenidos,” which translates to “Welcome” in English. Starting Wednesday, you can find it in Technician’s inside pages. “Bi-envenidos” will be a bilingual section, with Spanish articles in print and both Spanish and the English translations on the web, at www.technicianonline.com/bienvenidos. In the paper, we will feature the principal article in both Spanish and English.

As a student majoring in Spanish, I have fallen in love with the language and Hispanic culture, and at home I speak it off and on with my Chilean stepmother, though those conver-

sations are comprised mostly of Spanglish.

Although I check off “White, non-Hispanic” on the census, I have embraced my ties to the Latino community just as much as it has graciously accepted me, despite all my mispronounced words and embarrassing at-tempts to salsa dance.

Engaging in this bilingual dia-logue, for me, only makes sense

as the editor of a publication. I don’t see Tech-nician as an echo chamber of the same opin-ions, but rather a forum for diverse discourse.

There is no official language in the United States, and I believe there should never be. Excluding someone from a conversation be-cause they can’t speak English is not a value we

should support. Europeans speak several lan-guages, and it’s time that we, Americans, start to attempt to learn about our neighbors, both south of our border and within our own. And on that note, I hope to demonstrate that ev-erything south of the Rio Grande isn’t Mexico.

If you’re uncomfortable seeing Spanish next to English in Technician, all I can say is get over it. The Hispanic population in the U.S. is growing, and there are more students of Hispanic descent at N.C. State than there have ever been. I don’t believe that an installment of a Spanish-language section is past due, but rather right on time — Latinos may very well decide who our next president will be.

Instead of staring down Latinos as adver-saries, we should take the opportunity to welcome them as deserving members of our democracy. And what better way is there to include everyone in this publication, with a section called “Bienvenidos?”

MarkHerringEditor-in-Chief

PHOTOS AND QUOTES TAKEN BY

BOBBY KLIMCZAK

Do you think U.S. citizens should learn Spanish?{ }IN YOUR

WORDS

“No, I don’t think Americans should have to learn Spanish because the majority of U.S. citizens speak English and the Constitution is written in English.”

Jamie Mclean Freshman, First Year College

“Yes, because it will benefit you if you are working with people that do not speak your language.”

Allison Nuckols Sophomore, textiles

“Yes, because it brings diveristy to the United States, and people should be educated. I think not enough people are educated about other countries, and the things that they should be.”

Rachael PuszczynskiSenior, biology

Answers from a professor

“As with most

trends, not

everyone joins this

cult-like following.

Some people think

they are ‘better

than’ the pumpkin.”

“I don’t see Technician

as an echo chamber

of the same opinions,

but rather a forum for

diverse discourse.”

Features

Nicky VaughtStaff Writer

Every year, many students dedicate a semester to study-ing abroad in new, unfamiliar places. Whether their planes take them to England, Spain or Australia, it is unlikely many students visit a place as noted for its happy atmo-sphere as Disney World.

The Disney College Pro-gram occurs every year and is open to students across the United States, so long as they are actively enrolled in a college or university. The program lasts four to six months and offers students a paid internship at one of two locations: Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla., or Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.

“It’s open to any major,” Lizzie Harkey, a senior in parks and recreation and tourism management and campus representative for the program, said.

The role of the representa-tives, according to Harkey, is to promote the program around campus. Representa-tives have advertised through chalking and painting in the Free Expression Tunnel.

“As long as students hear about it and know there’s an opportunity with Dis-ney, then our job is mostly done,” Chris Horne, another representative and a senior in computer engineering, said. “Whether they do it or not is up to them.”

“We’re also an on-campus resource for those who have gotten in,” Harkey said. “We’ll do an info session, so they can ask us questions about what to expect.”

Additionally, a recruiter comes from Orlando at the beginning of each year to host recruitment. While this year’s event has passed, it normally takes place during October.

According to Harkey, those

who are interested can still contact the representatives to get involved.

Interested students choose from a long list of possible job opportunities. The more jobs a student is willing to do, ac-cording to Horne, the better a chance that student has of getting accepted.

Jobs include positions in at-tractions, merchandise, food, hospitality and character at-tendants, as well as custodial work, vacation planning and transportation.

Before an intern begins working, the program of-fers two weeks of training, in which students learn the traditions and history of the park.

“There are opportunities

to move up in your job, too,” Harkey said. “I was doing merchandise, but I was able to do relief coordinating, so I got trained to work in the money room at night.”

Not only does the program offer a job in the park, but it also offers a variety of classes through co-op programs. This way, students are able to stay full-time, maintain-ing twelve credit hours per semester.

According to Horne, one class, “Marketing You,” teaches a student how to be a more impressive candidate for jobs, build resumes and find job opportunities.

“Doing the college pro-gram gets you that foot in the door,” Harkey said. “You

never know who you’re going to meet, you may meet some-one who’ll give you a job later in life.”

After the program, a stu-d e n t c a n pursue pro-fessional internships, in which the student re-turns to Dis-ney for a ma-jor-specific program. According to Harkey, who is currently applying for this type of internship, anyone who gets accepted into the professional internships has participated in the college program.

Disney interns are also given unique opportuni-ties related to the park itself. Horne was able to shadow an Epcot engineer and see the

inner work-ings of Space Mountain. Harkey was able to tour the Haunted Mansion in the same fashion.

One of the most memo-rable experi-

ences with the program, according to the two, was making visitors feel special, including a chance to interact with children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“I’ve heard stories from guys who’ve gone above and beyond to make it really spe-cial for the Make-A-Wish kids,” Horne said. “You never know, with the Make-A-Wish kids, if they’re on their last leg, so you do everything you can for them.”

Harkey shared a story in which she was the first to congratulate an older couple on its 50th anniversary.

“It’s not always perfect,” Harkey said. “It can be very frustrating at time, but if you keep a smile on your face, it’ll be fine and worth it.”

For students wishing to get involved with the program, an application can be found at disneycollegeprogram.com.

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Day of the Dead celebrates those who have passed onKatie SandersSenior Staff Writer

Many Westerners approach death with a fearful solem-nity. Even our most festive acknowledgement of death, Halloween, is inherently morbid.

“Halloween’s focus is scary witches, demons, ghosts; it’s a spooky time. And then you have Day of the Dead and it’s about respecting life and dead and remembering those who have gone before you,” said Jenny Williams, co-curator of Duke University’s “Days of the Dead: From Mexican Roots to Present-Day Practice in the United States.”

This photography exhibit, which can be seen in Duke’s Fredric Jameson Gallery, is made up of images taken at Oaxaca, Mexico, during the 2011 Day of the Dead celebra-tions.

“Our interest was selecting images that told the story of how the Day of the Dead celebrations are rooted in the community life of these villages and the individual lives of these families,” Bill Bamberger, an instructor at the Center for Documentary

Studies and co-curator of the event, said. “We wanted the images to capture the history, the mystery, emotion and the beauty of the celebration as well.”

The Day of the Dead is ac-tually celebrated over several days at the end of October and the beginning of No-vember, usually consisting of three days and two nights of visitation with ancestors. This year’s dates are Nov. 1 and 2.

The holiday is primarily of Mexican origin, predating the Spanish conquest. How-ever, celebrations today are a hodgepodge of traditions. Not only has the Day of the Dead acquired some Chris-tian elements introduced by Spanish colonists, such as crosses, but its proximity to Halloween has caused jack-o-lanterns to become a com-mon sight.

“There are a lot of U.S. citi-zens who are interested in the Day of the Dead,” Williams said. “I think it’s really inter-esting in particular schools are teaching lessons to do with the Day of the Dead.”

The exhibit includes two murals created by elementary

school students, one of a skull and the other of a “tree of life,” and a map with a mark made on it for every large Day of the Dead celebration across the U.S.

“It’s a wonderful way for children to remember and try to come to terms with and understand death, and that someone can still be with you,” Williams said.

Last year, Williams finally got to fulfill a life-long dream and attend Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico, traveling to Oaxaca with a group of photogra-phers.

“My main interest was capturing on film the family cele-bration at the personal altars in the home and the gravesite vigils,” Williams said.

Williams was able to talk to the families she was pho-tographing about their lives and stories.

“Our first instinct was to respect their privacy and stay away, but what was remark-

able was how each of our pho-tographers and I were invited into these family circles to be part of these ceremonies,” Bamberger said.

The event and themes it encompassed made the cel-ebrations a very personal and powerful experience for Wil-liams.

“My husband’s health has been very complicated, and he has been very close to death numerous times,” Wil-liams said. “There have been

times when the medical tea m told m e , ‘ Yo u have to pre-pare to say goodbye.’ So I have a per-sona l pre-occupation with death.”

Even though the holiday focuses on remembering the dead, the mood is festive, a refresh-ing element for both Wil-liams and Bamberger.

“Rather than being mourn-ful, it’s a joyful reconnecting with family members that have passed,”Bamberger said.

Families think of the occa-

sion more like a reunion than a memorial, celebrating with parades, bands and holiday foods.

Mole, a chili-pepper-and-chocolate sauce, and atole, a cinnamon-and-vanilla-fla-vored hot drink, are common foods at such events. During the all-night vigil people are social, play and tell stories of loved ones who have passed away.

The Duke exhibit also in-cludes an altar created in the style of one from an Oaxacan family home. Visitors to the exhibit are invited to leave small photos of their lost loved ones on it.

“Visually, it’s a remark-ably beautiful celebration. Families gather graveside and the graves are adorned with photographs of loved ones and candles and ceremonial bread, among other things,” Bamberger said.

Traditionally, altars for the dead in Mexico are also decorated by flowers, espe-cially marigolds, which are representative of the sun and whose sweet fragrance are said to lead ancestors home.

People also leave symbolic offerings, including salt, rep-

resentative of the preserva-tion of the body and wisdom; and water, representative of purity and life, and which also serves to quench the an-cestors’ thirst; and candles, symbols of eternal love and hope.

Features& ENTERTAINMENTARTS

Disney college program offers unique study abroad destination

PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIFER HILZNERParticipants in the Disney College Program stand at a recruiting display. The program welcomes participants of all majors to ake part in a chance to work at either Disney Land or Disney World.

“If you keep a

smile on your

face, it’ll be fine

and worth it.”Lizzie Harkey, senior in parks

and recreation

“Visually, it’s

a remarkably

beautiful

celebration.”Bill Bamberger, instructor at

the Center of Documentary Studies

DAY OF THE DEAD TRADITIONSYucatan: A contest where entrants design and decorate an altar tocommemorate those who have passed on. Prayers, photos of the deceasedand other cultural items are often integrated.

Xantolo: A celebration of the relationship between man and nature.This is also a reminder of a time when death was seen as a voyage toanother place and not an end of mortality.

Oaxaca: A celebration of the intense love of life held by the people.While it is widely celebrated, many societies have slightly differentways of honoring it.

SOURCE: DAYOFTHEDEAD.COM

FeaturesPAGE 6 • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 TECHNICIAN

Brooke ShafranekStaff Writer

While Green Day has had a ton of promotion for its new album, ¡Uno! comes on the heels of new releases by Mumford & Sons, Pink and No Doubt. With high-profile releases from several other artists, the question on my mind was whether or not Green Day, a band I’ve been a die-hard fan of for almost a decade, would be able to stand out.

¡Uno! opens up with “Nu-clear Family,” which is ener-getic and reminiscent of the band’s sound before Ameri-can Idiot, the album that changed the band’s image completely. It was a refresh-ing start and gave high hopes that the band was reaching back to its roots.

I was disappointed by what followed. ¡Uno! ’s guitar riffs lack the hard punk sound that are present in earlier albums, even in American Idiot. The album sounds very similar to the previously released 21st Century Breakdown.

However, t he a lbu m features dif ferent styles throughout that feel like dif-ferent genres, giving the sense that there are two unrelated albums in one.

“Stay the Night” and “Oh Love” have the punk-rock feel, and easily could have come from 21st Century

Breakdown. While that was a disappointing release, the similarities at least showed that the group hasn’t re-gressed. Plus, the tracks still have that inherently Green Day sound.

On the f lipside, however, there is “Kill the DJ,” which is completely unrecognizable as a Green Day song. The guitars have an odd twang and the hyper-repetitive-ness makes it sound even more l i ke garage rock than punk. Further, the lyr-ics of the chorus (“Shoot the [expletive] DJ”) are repetitive and go nowhere.

Something I found odd in some of the songs was the obvious influence of Green Day’s garage-rock alter-ego, The Foxboro Hot Tubs. This side-band includes all the members of Green Day and is used to book and perform

secret shows. It released Stop Drop And Roll!!! in 2008, and aspects of ¡Uno! definitely sound more like The Foxboro Hot Tubs.

In fairness, there’s nothing wrong with The Foxboro Hot Tubs and their enjoyable twist in style. However, those pur-chasing ¡Uno! as a Green Day

CD may not f i nd what they are hop-ing for.

One posi-tive note is that ¡Uno ! breaks the t r e n d o f Green Day’s political

rock opera. American Idiot was a groundbreaking album for the band, which launched them to a new level of star-dom and gained them a new fan base. 21st Century Break-down easily could have been a sequel, mirroring the politi-cal messages and the idea of having characters within the album.

Both of these albums are

enjoyable, but it is refresh-ing to have songs that aren’t about politics for a change.

Something I found dis-heartening is that the lyrics aren’t what they used to be. I find that the songs on ¡Uno! lack the same level of mean-ing behind “Good Riddance” or the simplistic genius of “Basket Case,” elements that made both songs some of Green Day’s most popular hits.While there are a few tracks that have a glimmer of this poetry, there’s nowhere near enough of it.

One of the main problems that detracted from the lyr-ics was the use of profanity. Green Day has used exple-tives in plenty of its songs, but in the past, profanity was used to show the band’s anger. Here, though, it never feels as genuine or warranted.

Despite its f laws, I don’t hate the album. I have been a loyal fan and will continue to follow Green Day through-out its journey, including its transformations and its ups and downs. That said, new fans will not be introduced

to the true Green Day that old fans know and love, while older fans will be as perplexed as I am with the new album.

¡Uno! is the first in Green Day’s album trilogy. ¡Dos! is set to release Nov. 13, and ¡Tré! on Jan. 15.

While this news of a tril-ogy is exciting, I think some of the songs should have been cut. I would have preferred one awesome Green Day al-bum rather than what looks to be three decent ones.

¡UNO!Green DayReprise Records

New Green Day album isn’t numero ‘Uno’

PHOTO COURTESY OF REPRISE

Students touch the sky at trampoline arenaLindsey SchaefferStaff Writer

There are many ways in which students can stay ac-tive and also have a good time. With obesity becom-ing an increasingly large problem, one way to battle the “Freshman 15” is at a trampoline park.

DefyGravity, located in Durham, opened June 7 and became the first trampoline park in the Triangle re-gion. Inside t he pa rk, t here a re multiple trampo-lines on the f loor and along some of the walls, a foam pit, a basketball hoop and a dodge ball court.

“It’s something new in the way of fitness,” Vicky Car-penter, owner of DefyGrav-ity, said. “You get your ex-ercise and you’re still having fun — it’s for all ages.”

GravityFit, one of the many events that is hosted every week, is an exercise routine where each person gets their own trampoline section and partakes in an intense cross-fit workout where it is possible to burn up to 1,000 calories an hour.

“It’s getting people up off the couch. On a rainy day, you can exercise without getting wet,” Carpenter said.

Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics up-dated a policy statement discouraging parents from lettings kids bounce on trampolines at home. The

statement informs parents that most injuries hap-pen when multiple kids are bouncing on the same tram-poline, resulting in fractures and dislocations, while some kids are even bounced com-pletely off the trampoline onto the ground.

In 2009, 98,000 trampo-line-related injuries were re-ported in the U.S.

“We’ve had 53,000 come through our doors in the

l a s t t h ree months and we’ve prob-a b l y h a d only 30 to 40 injuries — most ly bumps and bruises,” Carpenter said.

Accord-ing to Claire

Basista, sophomore in envi-ronmental technology, De-fyGravity isn’t for everyone.

“If you have bad joints, I wouldn’t recommend it. As I was bouncing, my knees were starting to hurt a lot,” Basista said.

However, Basista added that it wasn’t just an ordinary evening out.

“It really was the experience of a lifetime — something you’d have to try for your-self,” Basista said.

Along with DefyGravity, another trampoline park is coming into the Raleigh area as well. SkyZone is opening right in N.C. State’s backyard and is set to offer similar op-portunities to DefyGravity.

Although there is always a risk when using trampolines, there is a risk while perform-ing most physical activities.

The point of the trampoline park is to keep kids active while providing a fun expe-rience for those who want to participate.

“It made me feel like a kid again, being able to flip around like I used to when I was young,” Chris Wolfe, a sophomore in information technology, said.

The trampoline park has activities for everyone and many feel that it is an op-portunity to work out while socializing with friends and having a good time.

“If you ever want to do tri-ple backflips into foam while bouncing, I’d check it out,” Wolfe said.

“You get your

exercise and

you’re still having

fun — it’s for

all ages.”Vicky Carpenter, Owner of

DefyGravity

THE DIFFERENT WAYS TO BOUNCEOpen Jump: With a three day advance, the weekends offer a chance forguests to have full use of the facilities and have simple fun jumpingaround on the trampolines.Club Gravity: Friday and Saturday night offer the chance fortrampoline action with a lights-out laser show.Family Night: At a special price on Monday nights, families are ableto bounce together.Theme Night Thursdays: From an ‘80s throwback to a night of jumping inpajamas, each week offers a different way to enjoy the bouncing.GravityFit: A more structured workout offers a unique way toexperience the trampolines.

SOURCE: DEFYGRAVITY.US

Features& ENTERTAINMENTARTS

A TRILOGY OF THEMESUno marks the first in a trilogy of new albums to be released by Green Day in the next few months. While the albums are loosely connected, each work is meant to evoke different styles and genres of music

Uno: The first album in the series has been developed with a focus on power pop songs, while also including shades of garage rock and dance songs.

Dos: The middle entry in the trilogy is aimed at focusing more on the garage rock genre, with songs having a dirtier feel meant to give the sense of being in the middle of a party.

Tre: For the final album, the band is aiming for a stadium rock feel to pervade the songs. Further, the album will explore the entire history of the band, from their early days to their more recent rock opera leanings.

SOURCE: GUITARCENTER.COM

“‘Kill the DJ,’

is completely

unrecognizable

as a Green Day

song.”

wanted to be here, so it feels good to here now. Scott [Wood] has been helping me a lot. I feel like our chances [this season] are really good.”

The big story over the sum-mer was the eligibility of Rodney Purvis. According to Gottfried, there were some nervous moments while the basketball staff was awaiting word from the NCAA.

“I was really concerned,”

the second year head coach said. “I always felt like the right thing would be that he would be eligible to play. He took all the right classes, he did everything he was sup-posed to do and he stayed in one high school.

“I was excited when it panned out [Purvis being declared eligible] that way.”

While Gottfried is happy to start the season soon, ex-pectations are a concern. As a former assistant at UCLA during the Bruins’ national title run in 1995 and the head coach of Alabama teams that

were ranked No. 1 and played in the regional finals, Gott-fried feels that his past gives him some perspective on how to handle the preseason hype.

“Nothing takes the place of experience,” Gottfried said. “You can always draw from some of those [past teams]. The one you do learn is…that everybody can beat anybody on any given night. You bet-ter learn that you better play extremely hard every night, period.”

“It’s been great,” Lambert said on his first year as a crew chief. “I’ve really enjoyed it. I feel like our whole group, all our teams have worked well together. There’s good days and bad days, but I enjoy the challenge of racing and the immediate results, good or bad.

“To me it feels a lot like being in college and having a final exam every Friday af-ternoon or Saturday or Sun-day, whichever day the race happens to be on. It’s stressful

at times, but it’s also kind of exciting to watch everything unfold every weekend and see how well things are going.”

Lambert compares his role as a crew chief to a head football or basketball coach. The crew chief is the leader of the team and is respon-sible for technical decisions in improving the race car. On the racetrack, the crew chief works with the driver and his technical support team to de-cide how to improve the car’s performance mid-race dur-ing pit stops. Lambert also has final say on race strategy.

Lambert’s team has been one of the most consistent in

the sport throughout the season. The No. 2 One-Main Financial Chevro-let has accumulated four wins and three poles to go along with 12 top-five and 20 top-10 finishes.

With only five races re-maining on the 2012 Na-tionwide Series schedule, Lambert and his team look to finish the year on a positive note and mark his first full year as a crew chief with an over-all points championship. Their next race is the Dol-lar General 300 at Char-lotte Motor Speedway this Friday, Oct. 12.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 9, 2012

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Monday’s Puzzle SolvedBy Neville Fogarty 10/9/12

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

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Graham. The wide receiver had a pair of catches for 28 yards. The Buffalo offense as a whole did not perform well as the 49ers romped to a 45-3 victory.

Graham’s teammate Ma-rio Williams recorded just two tackles on the day for the Bills. The defensive end, who was the top overall pick by the Houston Texans in the 2005 draft, was hampered by a left wrist injury in the week leading up to the game. Gra-ham, Williams and the rest of Bills will go out west once

again to play the Arizona Cardinals this weekend.

New York Giants running back Andre Brown, who has assumed his regular backup role behind the now-healthy Ahmad Bradshaw, was in-jured in the first quarter of his team’s 41-27 win over the Cleveland Browns. Brown suffered a concussion while returning a kickoff and did not return to the game. It is unclear if he will be ready for a Week 6 showdown with the 49ers in San Francisco.

In primetime, former Wolfpack quarterback Phil-ip Rivers led his San Diego Chargers into the Mercedes-Benz Superdome to face the New Orleans Saints. Rivers

connected on 27 of 42 passes for 354 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw a costly intercep-tion in the fourth quarter, leading to a New Orleans field goal.

That was not his only turnover. Late in the fourth quarter while try-ing to lead the Chargers down the field for the ty-ing score, Rivers was hit by defensive end Martez Wilson and fumbled. Wilson recovered, sending Rivers and the Chargers home with a 31-24 loss and a week to prepare for the Peyton Manning-led Denver Broncos on Mon-day Night Football.

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INSIDE• Page 4: Let’s welcome ‘Bienvenidos.’

Luke NadkarniStaff Writer

A day after the current cast of Wolfpack football players upset the No. 3 team in the nation, a group of former N.C. State stars took to the field for Week 5 of the NFL season.

N.C. State is the only school in the nation with two former quarterbacks starting in the NFL. The first of these two, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, returned to the state where he led the Pack for two seasons, leading his team against the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte. Offense was not the highlight in this game, but Wilson managed to complete 19 out of 25 passes for 221 yards and a touchdown to Golden Tate which gave Seattle a 13-10 lead in the third quarter.

Wilson also threw two in-terceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown by Carolina’s Captain Munnerlyn. The Seahawks got the last laugh, however, as they escaped with a 16-12 victory.

Wilson had a slow day on the ground, rushing for just 12 yards on five carries. He posted a quar-terback rating of 82.3, his third-highest of the season.

In the same game, Seahawks kicker Steven Hauschka was per-fect on the day, nailing an extra point and a trio of field goals from 22, 36 and 44 yards out. Hauschka played one season for the Wolfpack. Wilson and Haus-chka will return home Sunday to face the New England Patriots.

It was a quiet day in San Fran-cisco for Buffalo Bills rookie T.J.

Rob McLambStaff Writer

N.C. State men’s basketball head coach Mark Gottfried and members of the 2012-13 basket-ball met with the media for the first time Monday. Topics dis-cussed ranged from the NCAA investigation into the eligibility of freshman Rodney Purvis, high expectations for the upcoming season and the Wolfpack’s need to expand on gains made after last season’s Sweet Sixteen run.

Gottfried started his portion of the media day by relating how State, while improving tremen-dously last season, still has not reached an elite status solely based upon the Pack’s wonder-ful finish.

“We just have to be better in a lot of areas,” Gottfried said.“I go around town and people say to me a lot, ‘Coach, what a great year last year.’ The truth of the matter is that it really wasn’t a great year, it was a great finish. It was a re-ally fun finish and it was excep-tional for our group, but our year wasn’t great. We were just okay. “We have to be better than that this year. In general, our pro-gram has to take another step.”

Senior forward and All-ACC candidate Richard Howell said he is grateful for the progres-sion he has seen during his first three years from both a team and personal standpoint, but thinks there is still some unfin-ished business left before he graduates.

“Coach Lowe, I take noth-ing from him,” Howel l sa id. “He was a great coach, but ob-viously some-t hing wasn’t work ing and I’m just grateful Coach Gott-fried came in and put the pieces together and we did what we did [last season].

“We all have one goal and that’s to win a championship. I feel like if everyone plays their role we have nothing to worry about. I’m hungry for it. I definitely feel like we can get

it done.”Ple nt y o f

t he e xc i t e -ment around the program i s c entered on this sea-son’s highly rated incom-ing freshman class of Rod-ney Pur v is ,

T.J. Warren and Tyler Lewis — all McDonald’s All-Americans — and the trio is eager to begin its respec-tive college careers.

“It feels amazing every time I put on this uniform,” Lewis said. “My dream was always just to play in the ACC. I have reached one of those goals now that I’m here and I am ready to begin the season and set some new goals.”

T.J. Warren is the son of former N.C. State basketball player Tony Warren, who played for three years (1977-79) under Norm Sloan. Af-ter heavy national recruitment, the 6-foot-8-inch forward from Dur-ham chose to follow in his dad’s footsteps and is also eager to begin his collegiate career.

“It feels so good to put this uni-form on,” Warren said.“Growing up, I was a State fan, and I always

Jeniece Jamison and Andrew Schuett Sports Editor & Staff Writer

Luke Lambert is not only a proud N.C. State alumnus, but he is making waves in the NASCAR world. Lambert, who works at Richard Childress Racing, was named crew chief of the No. 2 OneMain Finan-cial Chevrolet at the age of 29. Lambert and veteran driver El-liott Sadler lead the NASCAR Nationwide Series point stand-ings as the Wolfpack gradu-ate looks to become one of the youngest of all time to win the championship.

Whether it was racing go-karts when he was young or direct-ing one of the most successful NASCAR teams of the year, the Mount Airy native has always been involved with racing. When Lambert arrived at N.C. State, the mechanical engineer-ing department gave him an opportunity to take his passion even further through one of its extracurricular programs.

“I was involved in a program at State called Wolfpack Motor-sports,” Lambert said. “It’s like a student club that competes in a competition put on by the So-ciety of Automotive Engineers. I did that at State through the mechanical engineering de-partment and that really the biggest thing that got me into this sport.”

“The competitions are actual races that you design and build

a race car for,” Lambert said. “We would go and compete each week against around 140 schools from all over the world. The school actually still has the program and they’re still doing it every year. I’ve somewhat kept up with it ever since I left.”

Lambert spent the first part of his first year on the team as the race car driver and also as a handyman who helped with different parts of the car. By the second part of the year, he was entrusted with doing some

of the composite work and chassis construction. Lambert worked his way up to the position of team cap-tain and spent the last two years on the team in this role.

Lambert graduated from N.C. State in 2005 with a B.S. in mechani-cal engineering. He then received a job at Richard Childress Racing as a part-time engineer. After excelling in that role, he was promoted to the full-time role of race engineer on the No. 31 race team with veteran driver

Jeff Burton. Four years later, Lam-bert was the man that RCR chose to replace crew chief Todd Berrier in the middle of a 96-race winless slump.

“I was the intern crew chief there for half of a season,” Lambert said. “That led to an opportunity to do a crew chief deal with Elliot this year. This is my first full-time year as a crew chief.”

COUNTDOWN• Four days until Primetime with the Pack at PNC

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N.C. State named Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the WeekThe Football Writers Association of America named N.C. State the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week Monday afternoon. The announcement followed the Wolfpack’s 17-16 stunning upset over No. 3 Florida State. FSU was the highest-ranked opponent N.C. State has defeated since 1998 when it took down the second-ranked Seminoles.

SOURCE: ESPN.COM

Thomas Teal named ACC Defensive Lineman of the WeekRedshirt defensive tackle Thomas Teal has been named the ACC’s Defensive Lineman of the week. Teal notched six tackles in the win against Florida State, including two tackles for loss as the Wolfpack held the Seminoles scoreless in the second half. Teal helped the defense hold Florida State to 3 for 15 on third down conversions. State also recorded four sacks against a FSU team that had given up only six sacks in its previous five games.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Taking his career on the fast track

GARRY ELLER/HHPNo. 2 OneMain Financial Chevrolet crew chief Luke Lambert smiles during a NASCAR Nationwide Series practice on Saturday, May 19, 2012 for Sunday’s Pioneer 250 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, IA.

RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANHead coach Mark Gottfried talks to reporters at the N.C. State men’s basketball team media day Monday, October 8, 2012 at Dail Basketball Center. The Wolfpack kick off their season November 9, 2012 against Miami (OH) at the PNC Arena.

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Wolfpack’s

NFL family

continues

campaign

Basketball readies for challenge

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The whole UNC

thing, if they got

off, how could

[Rodney

Purvis] not?”Junior men’s basketball guard Lorenzo Brown at media day

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Jake Robinson @JakeJams_Vol3Just to clarify, I’m not honey boo boo’s father, and I may or may not be “the white rick ross.”

Mark Gottfried @Mark_GottfriedCongratulations to @PackFootball and Tom Obrien What a great win This team showed Character Toughness and Resiliency #gopack #WPN

Julius Hodge @Follow24HodgeI’m a #STATE fan but do the math: Duke lost 1st round to Lehigh, UNC loses 4guys to the draft, we return starting 5 and great class #STATE

Hakim Jones @HakimOmarIs crazy because the same people who said we sucked last week suddenly turned into #1 fans.

Mario Carter @Carter_Gang412They said I wouldnt graduate from Elementary, Middle, Highschool or College Ay guess what I’ll be graduating in December

Scott Wood @ScottWood15These folks in a Pennsylvania Buffalo Wild Wings think I’m crazy screaming at the state game! Lets go wolf pack! Upset city!!!!!!

“We all have

one goal and

that’s to win a

championship...I’m

hungry for it.”Richard Howell, senior foward

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