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As a targeted murder unfolded in Cameron Village Monday morning, Campus Police and Uni-versity Communications did not immediately issue any emergency communications because the inci-dent was not an imminent threat, according to Campus Police Chief Jack Moorman.

Christopher John Bertrand, 42, of Hoover, Ala., shot and killed his ex-wife Kathleen Ann Bertrand, 41, of Cary, N.C. in the Cameron Vil-lage parking lot in front of Kathleen’s place of work, Pier 1 Imports. The Ra-leigh Police Department responded to the incident at about 9:30 a.m., and Christopher Bertrand’s body was found about a mile away that afternoon, where he turned his pis-tol onto himself.

As the event ensued, organizations responsible for campus safety didn’t communicate the information of the shooting, as the news circulated through social media and local news agencies. At 12:52 p.m. Monday, the

University issued a Crime Warning, an automated email to all NCSU emails. A WolfAlert, an automated text message sent to all registered cell phones, was never sent.

Safety communication has im-proved in the past six months, Moorman said, but Monday’s shoot-ings demonstrated that improve-ments need to be made.

“The hole we’re looking to fill in is the fact that our students get more and more spread out, and it

makes it very dif-f icu lt k now i ng where our students are off campus,” Moorman sa id . “We want to es-tablish procedures that directly impact campus, so we need to find an area that

we will still cover.”David Rainer, associate vice chan-

cellor for Environmental Health and Public Safety, said campus safety agencies must do better.

“The bottom line is that there is an expectation that people receive in-formation,” Rainer said. “We want to fulfill that expectation. Even if we know it’s not an imminent hazard to campus, it’s not enough to not tell everybody else who wants to know

or hears rumors or has misinforma-tion.”

Monday’s shootings proved that

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State discusses the future of fracking

After shooting, campus safety looks to react more promptly

NATALIE CLAUNCH/TECHNICIANA police officer puts up barrier tape around the perimeter of the shooting crime scene at Cameron Village around noon on Monday, September 10.

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technologyNoah RouseCorrespondent

Researchers from N.C. State and the ImagineOptix Cor-poration have developed new technology that should make smaller, cheaper, more efficient and cooler-running liquid crys-tal display projectors possible in the future.

Michael Escuti, associate pro-fessor of electrical and computer engineering at the University, is a leading photonics and electro-optic materials expert pioneering the development of polarization-independent devices and trans-formational diffractive optics. He co-authored the paper de-scribing the research.

The paper was published July 10 in Applied Optics and was co-authored by post-doctoral researchers Jihwan Kim and Ravi Komanduri; Kristopher Lawler, a research associate; Jason Kekas of ImagineOptix Corp.; and Escuti.

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THROUGH JORDAN’S LENS

Paying tribute to the fallen

Paola Rodriguez, a freshman in animal science snaps a photo of the September 11th tribute outside D.H. Hill Library Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Rodriguez wanted to get a photo to pay her respect to those lost 11 years ago. She said she remembers the attacks that happened when she was in second grade. “My mom came to get me out of school, and

her eyes were red from crying so much,” she said. “I didn’t know what had happened until she showed me the television. I’ll never forget the look on her face.”

PHOTO BY JORDAN MOORE

John WallStaff Writer

Although the North Carolina Senate passed Bill 820 setting up the possibility for legalizing the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in North Carolina, exploitation of shale gas reserves in the state are not certain.

Experts in geology, economics and natural resources, as well as state bureaucrats, have been work-ing feverishly to study the prospect of fracking. A newly formed com-mission, called the Mining and En-ergy Commission, must have rec-ommendations for rules on how to proceed to the General Assembly by no later than Oct. 1, 2014.

The timetable for delivering recommendations to the General Assembly, which must approve all measures with regard to fracking, has been described as “aggressive” by experts and state bureaucrats -- the contentious fracking issue has a range of variables that require

extensive research.

How it worksShale gas reserves are held

within shale formations deep below the Earth’s surface. The formations, formed when the supercontinent Pangea split, lie horizontally below the surface and resemble layers of stacked pancakes.

In order to reach the reserves, miners must first drill vertically to reach the depth of the target formation. Then, they must drill horizontally because of the hori-zontal nature of the formations. Finally, they begin the fracking process.

The formations are not po-rous enough to simply release the sought-after shale gas once a hole has been dug. Miners utilize the fracking process to soften the formations, which then re-

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Student ticketing causes drama on campus

Nolan Evan & Alex SanchezDeputy Sports Editor &

Agromeck Editor-In-Chief

Student tickets for Saturday’s home opener for N.C. State foot-ball against South Alabama were distributed last night but it didn’t come without controversy.

Social media sites Facebook and Twitter exploded with angry N.C. State students, namely upperclass-men, who didn’t receive a ticket in the lottery. Many students have now called the new ticketing system through N.C. State Athletics’ web-site, GoPack.com, into question.

“Obviously they screwed up with the new system and are sticking to their allotment numbers,” Forbes Starling, a senior in engineering, said. “I’ll watch the game elsewhere if this is how loyal fans are treated.”

However, Student Body Presi-dent Andy Walsh confirmed with Associate Athletics Director Dick

Christy that the system worked the way it was intended to.

According to the ticketing policy, the top 25 percent of point earners receive an automatic ticket. The re-maining 75 percent are entered into a weighted lottery and are selected at random.

“For any student that thinks it might have been the new student ticketing site, that’s not the case. It ran perfectly fine. That’s how our policy was written and it has been that way for two years now,” Walsh said.

Walsh noted that every automatic ticket that was distributed went to seniors and the remaining seniors were entered into the lottery. There-fore, out of 8,610 tickets distributed, at least 2,152 were awarded to se-niors, leaving approximately 8,800 additional student requests in the lottery to fight for 6,458 tickets.

“I understand it’s the first home game of the season and everyone’s

excited and I can see how if you didn’t get a ticket you’d be disap-pointed, but that’s just the nature of the beast when you only have so many tickets to give out to stu-dents,” Walsh said.

“It’s really a competition between juniors, sophomores and freshmen primarily in the weighted lottery.”

Walsh welcomes feedback on the ticketing policy and students are already beginning to respond.

“There should be more student seating,” junior in business ad-ministration Callen Leak said. “If students can’t go to football games, there is a problem. Every student that pays an athletics fee should be guaranteed a ticket.”

Leak was a two-year member of the Power Sound of the South, the N.C. State marching band.

“I practiced long hard hours for

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“We could have

done better, no

doubt about it.”David Rainer, associate vice

chancellor for Environmental Health and Public Safety

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The research was funded by ImagineOptix, a start-up company co-founded by Escuti and Kekas.

“ T h i s t e c h nolog y, which we call a polariza-tion grating-polarization conversion system, will significantly improve the energy efficiency of LC projectors,” Escuti said. “The commercial impli-

cations are broad-reaching. Projectors that rely on bat-teries will be able to run for almost twice as long.”

Escuti also said LC projec-tors of all kinds can be made twice as bright but use the same amount of power they do now.

“However, we can’t prom-ise that this will make classes and meetings twice as excit-ing,” Escuti said.

All LC projectors use po-larized light to display im-ages, but more efficient light sources like LEDs produce unpolarized light. In order to be viewed, the light generated by LEDs has to be converted into polarized light.

The most common way to polarize light is to put it through a polarizing filter. The process, however, is inef-ficient and wastes more than 50 percent of the original light, since most of it lost in the form of heat. This is why older projectors often become

overheated and stop working. The new device created at

the University has a polar-izing rate of about 90 per-cent. Researchers used the technology to create a small picoprojector, which could be embedded in a smartphone, tablet or other device.

In 2009, LG partnered with ImagineOptix to create a de-vice that could display images and video on f lat surfaces, much like a school projec-tor, called the LG eXpo. The idea was revolutionary at the time but never made it past the concept stage, as the extra weight added onto the phone by the projector made it im-practical to carry around in a consumer’s pocket.

ImagineOptix’s partner-ship with the University, however, has changed the concept’s prospects, as the technology developed by Escuti and his team would be capable of creating phone projectors that would have

the same picture quality as much larger projection systems that don’t cur-rently use the technology.

This July, Samsung announced the Galaxy Beam, which had been touted as the world’s thinnest projector phone released thus far, a record that is not likely to stand when this technology reaches the market.

Smartphones represent the richest potential mar-ket for the technology. For instance, business meet-ings or lectures that would have otherwise been post-poned due to projector problems could continue if the presenter’s smart-phone had this technol-ogy. Other uses, includ-ing impromptu movie screenings, would also be possible.

But the potential uses of the technology wouldn’t stop at smartphones. Pro-jectors of all kinds could move toward sleeker and more compact designs. Problems such as over-heating or dim bulbs could disappear entirely in the near future.

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communication is neces-sary, even though the inci-dent didn’t pose a particu-lar threat to campus. Brad Bohlander, chief commu-nications officer, said the perceived dangers should be dealt with as immedi-ately as imminent threats.

“While we’re worry-ing about safety, we have media outlets blowing this thing up and we

have schools closing, but that’s because most external people don’t have the facts,” Bohlander said. “University Police has been doing a great job with WolfAlerts and crime warnings and campus safety, and I think this is the next logical step. I think yes-terday highlighted the need to get that done.”

Campus Police and public affairs officers for safety meet quarterly to assess areas of improvement in communi-cation and transparency, ac-cording to Rainer, and he said

the University’s response to Monday’s shootings will im-pact changes in policies.

“We try to make it trans-parent and simple to imple-ment—that doesn’t mean that we are always success-ful,” Rainer said. “I think it’s important to acknowledge we’re not always successful, though we try to be.”

Moorman said the response from the campus commu-nity, parents and news agen-cies directly weighed in how campus safety officials will improve public awareness,

and all three public safe-ty organizations said they could have done better.

“We could have done better, no doubt about it, with this incident,” Rainer said. “Now, we’re going to put together a system that tries to communicate all real or perceived threats to make sure people at the University have the infor-mation to make appropri-ate and good decisions in an emergency.”

THROUGH ERIN’S LENS

Never forget the lives that were lost

In the Brickyard, a memorial was set up for the 9/11 victims, by the Never Forget Project. This program began in 2003 in order to help students across America remember the anniversary of the September 11 Terrorist attacks. Today they made a figure of a man holding a flag in the grass by placing tiny American flags in the grass.

PHOTO BY ERIN TOOLEY

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSIn Monday’s Technician article, “Campus views of Arizona’s Women’s Health and Safety Act,” Teresa Pinus was misquoted and actually said “Our main goal is to share our idea that all life should be protected from conception to natural death.” The act also says the abortionist must have hospital privileges.

In Tuesday’s Technician article “A bigger win than most” and an alternate box, it states that Tom O’Brien has gone winless on the road in ACC competition. He has yet to record a road win in the Atlantic Division of the ACC.

Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Mark Herring at editor@technicianonline.com

POLICE BLOTTERSept. 511:34 A.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENTOval West DeckStaff member reported striking parked vehicle.

9:01 A.M. | LARCENYTompkins HallStudent reported bicycle stolen.

1:31 P.M. | ASSAULTSigma Phi EpsilonNCSU PD investigated alleged assault involving two students. One student was referred to the University. Investigation ongoing.

12:15 P.M. | LARCENYColiseum DeckStudent reported bicycle stolen.

3:52 P.M. | LARCENYBecton HallStudent reported bicycle stolen.

9:21 P.M. | DRUG VIOLATIONSyme HallReport of possible drug violation. Officers found student in possession of marijuana. Student was cited for simple possession and referred to the University.

Sept. 61:47 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS PERSOND.H. Hill LibraryOfficer located non-student who had been previously trespassed. Subject was arrested for second degree trespassing and re-trespassed from NCSU property.

11:24 A.M. | INFORMATION - UNIVERSITYPublic Safety CenterStaff member reported unsafe work environment. Concern was documented and staff member was referred to Human Resources Office.

11:38 A.M. | LARCENYNorth HallStudent reported item taken from room during fire alarm.

Sept. 711:25 A.M. | LARCENYMackenzie HallNCSU FP reported finding handicap parking sign in student room. Student was referred for theft and sign was turned over to Transportation personnel.

12:23 A.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYOff CampusRPD requested assistance with report of nuisance party involving students. RPD arrested two students who were charged with resist, delay or obstruct public officer. Students were referred to the University for same.

9:56 A.M. | LARCENYAlpha Sigma PhiNCSU FP reported fire extinguishers had been removed from facility without authorization.

4:09 P.M. | LARCENYNCSU BookstoreStudent was caught stealing property. Student was issued referral and trespassed from Bookstore.

8:28 P.M. | LARCENYBiltmore HallStudent reported bicycle stolen.

9:04 P.M. | DAMAGE TO PROPERTYBecton HallStudent reported light fixture had been torn from exterior of wall.

9:49 P.M. | MISSING PERSOND.H. Hill LibraryNon-student reported not being able to locate student. Student was later located at this location.

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months and have done every-thing to support the football team and I can’t even go to the game,” she said. “That is ridiculous.”

Walsh acknowledges that many students are upset about the situation but re-mains firm that the system worked the way it was sup-posed to and that it worked as fairly as possible.

“I know that there’s over 2,000 students that didn’t get tickets so we’re going to get a lot of feedback and it’s going to be from all different classes,” Walsh said. “We’ve always made it very clear that just because you’re a senior or junior it doesn’t guarantee you a ticket.

“When you break it down statistically, about four out of every five students that re-quested a ticket got a ticket.”

If tickets are available, the on-demand period for tick-eting will begin at 9 p.m. tonight. If students fail to receive a ticket, they can attempt to enter the game through the stand-by line beginning two hours before kickoff.

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News

Staff Report

The mid-1960s was rife with civil unrest over racial inequality, and photographer Spider Martin was there to capture it a l l on camera.

The African American Cultural Center is hosting a black-and-white photo exhibit, “Selma to Mont-gomery: A March for the Right to Vote,” Sept. 12 through Nov. 7 to display Martin’s work.

Martin, a Birmingham, Ala. native, documented a series of civil rights march-

es focused on encouraging Alabama Governor George Wallace to enact legislation to secure voting rights for his African American constitu-ents, according to the exhib-

it’s press release.

On March 7, 1965, also known as “Bloody Sunday,” approxi-mately 600 pro-testers gathered outside Brown Chapel in

Selma, Ala. to march to the capitol in Montgomery, ac-cording to the release. On March 9, Rev. Dr. Martin Lu-ther King, Jr. led a march to the site where the first march

ended. The final march began March 21 at Brown Chapel and ended five days later at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.

According to the release, King praised the work of Martin and other photog-raphers who captured the events of the marches.

“Spider, we could have marched, we could have pro-tested forever, but if it weren’t for guys like you, it would have been for nothing. The whole world saw your pic-tures. That’s why the Voting Rights Act was passed,” King said to Martin in August of 1965.

The exhibit, hosted in the gallery of the African Ameri-can Cultural Center in With-erspoon Student Center, will feature 46 photos of marches occurring from March 5-25, 1965.

lease the gas in great enough quantities to warrant the ex-pensive and highly technical drilling process.

The fracking process con-sists of pumping water, sand, rock and chemicals, some of which are proprietary and held secret, into the wells. The formations then fracture and release their contents.

Neither fracking nor hori-zontal drilling is allowed until the General Assembly approves regulations.

The economic boomStates in the northeast, in-

cluding Pennsylvania, West Virginia and North Dakota, have seen an economic boom resulting from drilling for their shale gas.

Stephen Davis, plant man-ager at Shamrock Environ-mental Corporation based in Greensboro, N.C., has drilling crews in the north-east. Shamrock deals with the vertical drilling aspect of the process and has “a couple” satellite offices in West Vir-ginia, according to Davis.

“I can’t hire enough peo-ple,” Davis said. “This is the gold rush of our time. In the states we operate in, you can’t find a hotel room to stay in for the night.”

Davis attended a presen-tation hosted by the North Carolina Department of En-vironment and Natural Re-sources at the McKimmon Center Monday. Before the presentation began, he sat at a table near the front of the room extolling the explora-tion of shale gas.

“It’s just amazing,” Davis said.

George Holding, District 13 candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, said em-ployment opportunities that stem from shale gas produc-tion reach further than just those opportunities created on the mining site.

“You know how much a

McDonald’s employee gets paid in North Dakota? $19 an hour because they’re extract-ing all this energy in North Dakota. It’s a boom. They’ve created something like 80,000 jobs in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia that bor-ders around Western Penn-sylvania extracting shale gas,” Holding said.

The volume problemThere is much less shale

gas in North Carolina than in states in the northeast.

There are two shale gas re-serves in North Carolina: the Dan River Basin near Rock-ingham, N.C. and the Deep River Basin that runs through the central Piedmont and borders Cary, N.C. Together, the two reserves make up the ‘Triassic Basins.’

Combined, the Triassic Ba-sins have an estimated 1,079 billion cubic feet of natural gas, according to Evan Kane, ground water planning su-pervisor at the N.C. Division of Water Quality.

However, the Marcellus Formation, the largest reserve in the northeast, contains an estimated 84,198 billion cubic feet of shale gas, according to Kane.

“I would be very sur-prised if someone wanted to come i n a nd dri l l as soon as the Gen-eral As-sembly wants us to have regula-tions for drilling,” Kane said, refer-ring to comparatively lower amount of North Carolina reserves.

Not only are reserves in North Carolina smaller, but their make-ups are not fully known, according to Ted Feitshans, extension associ-ate professor in agricultural

and resource economics.“The composition of our

shale is unknown,” Feitshans said. “There are several com-ponents that can come out of shale. In some cases you get oil, in some cases you get mostly methane (dry gas) and in some cases you get natural gas liquids.”

Natural gas liquids in the Tri-assic Ba-sins are es-timated at 83 million barrels, while liq-uids in the Marcellus Shale are estimated a t 3 , 329 million barrels, ac-cording to Kane.

The price problemThe price of shale gas is

down.At current prices, dry shale

gas is selling at less than the average cost of production, according to Feitshans. The industry’s success is to blame for the price depression, Feit-

shans said.“[The industry] has been

producing far more gas than the market can absorb,” Feit-shans said. “Most people who I follow don’t expect market conditions to improve that much in two years.”

The land leasing process is one of the main problems with the excessive produc-tion of shale gas, according to Feitshans. The leasing process has two phases in states that allow fracking: the explora-tion phase and the produc-tion phase.

“In most of the producing areas, these leases are only three to five years. They have to bring in a producing well in order to keep their lease. If they don’t bring in a produc-ing well during the explora-tion phase, the lease expires. So, there’s an incentive on the part of people who own leases to go ahead and drill and find something so that they don’t lose the bonus money that they paid the landowner for the right to explore,” Feit-shans said.

The water problemThe fracking process re-

quires water, produces con-taminated water as a byprod-

uct and is conducted near potable water supplies.

Each well requires three to five million gallons of water to operate. Drilling compa-nies place an average of six wells on each mining site, according to Kane.

“One of the problems with the state of North Carolina is that the distance between the valuable ground water and the shale gas formation is not very large compared to many other states. The separation is much less, which means that the chances for groundwa-ter contamination are much greater,” David Schlobohm, engineering extension spe-cialist in IES Operations, said.

In the areas where shale formations are found in the state, fresh water is usually found at or above a depth of 1,000 to 1,300 feet. Target formations are usually found at 2,000 feet.

In the Northeast, fresh-water is found at or above a depth of 700 feet and target formations are usually found a depth of 10,000 feet, ac-cording to Kane. Also in the northeast, saltwater separates fresh water from the target formation, whereas that is not

the case in North Carolina.Anywhere from 10 to 30

percent of the water used in the fracking process comes back up to the surface, ac-cording to Kane.

“There is a concern about the water that comes back up,” Schlobohm said. “The water already contains some hazardous chemicals [from the fracking process] that you have to be concerned about, but in addition it can bring with it certain things that are naturally occurring in the ground, like arsenic or radioactivity.”

One option for the disposal of fracking fluids is well injec-tion, a process by which the fluids are pumped into the ground and remain there. However, injection wells have been known to cause earth-quakes in North America, according to Kane.

Kane said injection wells are the “least good” option for disposal of wastewater and they probably would not be utilized in North Carolina. Instead, he said the best op-tion would be to reuse the wastewater as fracking fluid.

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Photo exhibit to showcase Civil Rights era

GRAPHIC BY DERRICK FREELAND

“In some cases you

get oil, in some

cases you get mostly

methane (dry gas)

and in some cases

you get natural

gas liquids...”Ted Feitshans,

extension associate professor in agricultral and resource economics

SPIDER MARTINPhotos by civil rights photographer Spider Martin are on display at the African American Cul-

tural Center Art Gallery on the second floor of Witherspoon Student Center.

“Spider, we could

have marched, we

could have protested

forever, but if it

weren’t for guys like

you, it would have

been for nothing.”Martin Luther King Jr.

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No one wants to be the boy who cried “wolf.”

On the other end of the spectrum of possibilities, no one wants to be the boy who stayed silent. Like everything in life, there needs to be a happy me-dium. To some, it would seem that Campus Police had not found that happy medium Monday morn-ing when a shooting took place in Cameron Vil-lage—just a few blocks from N.C. State’s campus.

The Raleigh Police De-partment identified the shooter as 42-year-old Christopher Bertrand and said he shot his ex-wife, Kathleen Ann Ber-trand, in Cameron Village in front of her place of work, Pier 1 Imports.

Due to its proximity to campus, Cameron Village receives a lot of traf-f i c f rom N.C. State students—it’s a popular hangout spot. It’s likely that there were several students eating lunch, shopping or getting coffee in Cameron Village when the shooting took place, and there were probably even more students on their way.

C onsider i ng Ca m-eron Village’s popularity among students, it’s rea-sonable to expect Campus Police to alert students promptly when there is a perceived threat.

And that’s the question: Was Monday’s shooting a threat to students? Hind-sight is 20-20, and it seems that students were rela-tively unaffected by this tragedy. Campus Police did not send out an SMS warning because when the suspect fled the scene, he was heading away from campus.

However, after news media had broken the story—but before all the details were known—stu-dents immediately took to Facebook and Twitter,

asking why Campus Police were remaining silent. Ru-mors that the shooter was f leeing towards campus began circulating, causing confusion among the student body.

The shooting happened at 9:30 a.m., but students didn’t receive any updates from Campus Police until 1:30 that afternoon via email. The SMS

system was not utilized.

There may h ave b e e n disparity in knowledge: Campus Po-l i c e k n e w what students didn’t know unti l much later. Perhaps there wasn’t a

legitimate threat to N.C. State students, but that’s still worth knowing.

It’s understandable that Campus Police doesn’t want to cry wolf. If they were to send out an SMS alert for ev-ery incident, then students would stop taking them se-riously.

Howe ve r, s ome t h i ng should have been done to put the Internet rumors to rest. Facebook and Twit-ter posts made it clear that students were concerned for their safety—Campus Police should have communicated with students better.

Campus Police should have sent out an email or text as quickly as their messaging systems could have allowed after the shooting, even if it was just to tell us there was no need to worry.

Send your thoughts on Wol-fAlerts to viewpoint@techni-cianonline.com.

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Rachel Jordan, junior in architecture

Back in blacks

My hiatus has ended and I’ve don ned my

server blacks once again.Let me back up a little

bit. About two months ago, I quit my job without having another one wait-ing for me. I just quit, and assumed things would fall

into my lap-- they didn’t. I like to pride my-

self on being a mature, re-sponsible person, and this decision was quite a devia-tion from that.

So, I spent roughly two and a half months unem-ployed and broke. It’s not fun–at all. The money I had in my bank account went away very quickly when I didn’t have any-thing coming in. Between bills, gas, and groceries I had no money left for fun stuff. I couldn’t go out for dinner and drinks with friends, or catch a movie because I didn’t have the funds.

I’m completely aware that being denied the luxury of entertainment is not the worst thing that could happen to me. But it did make for a lonely summer.

Fast forward to this week and I’ve been given a second chance. My job was offered back to me and I jumped at the op-portunity. My first night

back was Friday, and I legiti-mately had butterflies walk-ing through the door of a place where I’d worked for almost three years.

I spent the days in between accepting the offer and my first night back building up the experience in my head. I worried about all the poten-tial tragedies that would inevitably occur Friday n ig ht , l i ke s p i l l i n g a tray of drinks onto a four-year-old, dropping a $150 bottle of wine or trip-ping and fall-ing in the middle of the floor. I played these scenarios over and over in my head, because I felt that I deserved to have something horrible happen.

And while it would’ve been fun to relay those events to you, nothing like that hap-pened. I was greeted with hugs and “How are you?”s by everyone I used to work with, and everything just kind of fell into place. The night was an interesting mix of the familiar and the new. The restaurant was still the same, I knew where to find everything I needed and I remembered the menu like I had never left.

However, this time around each tip received was appreci-ated. The weight of worrying about my finances was less-

ened as the night went on. I had forgotten how good it felt to earn money. By the end of my first night my feet were absolutely killing me. They failed to recall what eight-and-a-half hours of standing felt like. Ouch.

After this weekend I’m suf-ficiently exhausted, but I’ve

got money in my pocket—a nd t hat ’s wor t h t he aching joints.

Second chances are easy to build up in your head, especially if you feel you don’t deserve

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A happy medium for WolfAlert

Lessons from MaAs I was driving to the office a few Sundays

back for yet another night of production, I gave my great-grandmother a call to catch up on all the family gossip and what I was missing

out on back at home. First a little background on

my Ma, she is the most mo-bile 92 year-old you’ll ever meet, and according to her doctor, she will live to be 102 just out of spite of the people who say she can’t.

She was born in a simpler time to a mill family in the

piedmont. She grew up during two World Wars and the depression, leaving her to be very fiscally conservative. As for most people from her generation, going to church wasn’t just a Sunday outing, but a way of life.

She worked at a hospital for nearly a quarter of her life and then at the church daycare well

into her retirement. Needless to say, she be-lieves in working hard to get where you want to be in life.

Over the twenty years I’ve known her — and that’s not an exaggeration seeing as she practically raised me — she’s provided me with these gems of wisdom that are hard to let go of.

For example, when fam-ily members or friends are in dispute and want you to weigh in on the subject, her response is merely, “Well, I just keep my mouth shut.” Or when someone is obviously giving you a line, she looks them square in the eye and responds, “Psht, that’s a bunch of poppycock.”

During my weekly call, our topics range from all sorts of things. Typically we discuss

school, church, work, etc. However, she always surprises me with how our conversations will end. For this instance in particular, it went

something like this: “Now Trey, do you plan on voting in this next election? Because I want you to think and pray long and hard about who you’re gonna vote for, you hear me?”

I was taken aback for a sec-ond. A woman who was born under the Harding adminis-tration and who has since seen 19 more presidents come and go was still so concerned

about the state of the union. I politely told her I would think and pray

about who I wanted to be my next president. But over the course of that week at Technician, we were dealing with the back-to-back con-

ventions, which made me think even harder on the matter. And after hearing each can-didate and their supporters take the stage to merely bash their opponent and glorify their party, I had decided I didn’t truly care who is sworn in this January, because it is going to be another four-years of the same political dribble, which has no real effect on the quality of the average American life.

I’m not by any means underplaying the importance of voting. I am merely empha-sizing that our priorities should not be so strongly focused on the next resident of the White House. We should take a lesson from Ma and do what we have to in order to ensure our quality of life improves. If Ma can, as she says, “Still get along,” there’s no reason any one of us has to rely on our government to make sure we can succeed in our life, liberty or pursuit of happiness.

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Katie Sanders Senior Staff Writer

Vegetables pack more of a punch than many people give them credit for. Research-ers have recently found that some vegetables contain small quantities of a natu-ral steroid responsible for increasing muscle strength: brassinosteroids.

Brassinosteroids are hor-

mones that regulate the growth and development of plants, according to Slavko Komarnytsky, a metabolic biologist and assistant pro-fessor at N.C. State’s Plants for Human Health Institute.

Brassinosteroids are pres-ent in almost all plants, but usually in very small quan-tities.

There is one genus of plants, the brassica genus, which

contains greater amounts of the compound. Broccoli and cabbage both belong to the brassica genus.

While brassinosteroids are responsible for protein syn-thesis in plants, researchers were uncertain of what effect the hormones might have in animals.

“Plants and animals at some point in evolution were related — so you would think

some compounds would have targets which predate the time when plant and animal cells split. It was basically a guess,” Komarnytsky said. “It was a far-fetched guess, but it worked.”

One of the laboratories has been working with ho-mobrassinolide — a type of brassinosteroid — looking at their effects on protein syn-thesis and muscle strength.

Researchers added a ra-dioactively labeled amino acid to the homobrassinolide cultures, and looked to see to what extent these amino acids were incorporated into the protein created by the cell.

In the presence of greater quantities of brassinosteri-ods, more of the radioactive amino acids were included in the protein that the cells cre-ated, meaning that these cells demonstrated an increase in protein synthesis.

“After we noticed that ho-mobrassinolide increased protein synthesis in muscle cells in cell culture, we moved onto the animal study,” Ko-marnytsky said.

The researchers first tested the compound on cell cul-tures from the muscle of a rat.

This allows researchers to look at the compound’s effect on the rat’s entire body, and also allows more opportunity for researchers to determine if the compound is toxic.

Rats were fed the pure com-pound for 24 days before re-searchers examined them for a change in muscle size and strength. To test these factors, the researchers looked at both the live rats and sections of their muscles, examining the size and type of their muscle fibers.

“We noticed that after the treatment, these rats became stronger. If you gave them something to grip, their grip was much tighter than the control animals,” Kom-arnutsky said. “There was a dramatic increase in the muscle size and size of the

muscle fibers.” According to Komar-

nutsky, the strength of the rats’ extremities increased by 10 percent.

“It’s definitely very help-ful, especially if you think of the future of these compounds if they ever become drugs — for pa-tients who are recovering from cancer or a similar disease, or muscle atro-phy — even a 10 percent increase in their muscle strength is very significant,” Komarnutsky said.

Any disease characterized by muscle dysfunction could theoretically be ameliorated with this compound. That is why creating new medicines is the goal of the project.

“A treatment like this could slow down or even prevent muscle loss in people with these diseases,” Komarnutsky said.

Researchers also recognize that the compound could also be used for muscle improve-ment in healthy patients. Ko-marnutsky personally hopes that one day the compound could be used to improve the muscular health of as-tronauts while in space.

While the researchers have high hopes for the com-pound, it has yet to be tested on humans as of yet. There is no guarantee that the com-pound would have the same effect on humans as it does rats.

“Rats and humans are quite different. So sometimes the effect that you see in rats does not translate directly to hu-mans. That does not mean that they will not repeat, but they may repeat at different

degrees,” Komarnutsky said.Researchers have also yet

to see if large amounts of the compound would have toxic effects on a patient.

“Twenty-four days is not suf f icient to determine whether there is any toxicity or not — from what I can see, they behave as usual. Their appetites actually increased. But that doesn’t mean there are no toxic effects in the long-run,” Komarnutsky said.

To test the compound for toxicity, rats will be fed the compound for 90 days be-fore they are given complete physicals and biochemical profiles.

If this study is successful, researchers can move into human clinical studies.

If youíre looking to take advantage of brassinosteri-ods now, it would be difficult. Even with its increased con-centration in brassica plants, you would still have to eat a lot of cabbage.

“I do love cabbage, but I know a lot of people who don’t. It’s an acquired taste,” Komarnutsky said.

Lindsey SchaeferStaff Writer

At N.C. State, there are many clubs and organiza-tions that students can join to help give back to the commu-nity and enrich the lives of oth-ers. Something as simple as donating to a blood drive or volunteering at a soup kitchen for a day may offer students t he sat i s fac-tion of giving back while also maintaining a balance be-tween schoolwork and daily college life.

One such volunteer op-portunity that may be con-venient for busy college students is the Literary and

Social Justice Youth Devel-opment Program, developed by Jennifer Castillo , associate director of the Women’s Cen-ter. This program focuses on educating children from kin-

dergarten to f i f th grade from low-income families by help-ing them develop both academi-cally and socially so t hey

can become active citizens in their community. The pro-gram is said to acknowledge the change in demograph-ics in classrooms through diverse literature that rep-resents many different eth-

nicities. Volunteers meet with their

mentee once a week for an ne else’s experience. Even if a kid wasn’t able to leave their surrounding area, they could travel all over the world with different books, expand their minds and see what’s pos-sible,” Foster said.

Some of the ways this ben-efits the children includes the development of adult role models through the en-couragement that volunteers provide for the children, higher expectations in them-selves, the ability to read for pleasure, integrity, cultural competence and the encour-agement to positively interact with people of all races.

“This program also benefits the volunteers, as they are a ble to engage with children and transform their own out-look on society while contrib-uting to this revolutionary

change impacting classrooms all over the country. Being able to learn more about how we can help spread the aware-ness and appreciation for all cultures, while also helping children in need, is an incred-

ible opportunity,” Foster said. “Over 12 weeks, you get

paired with one student,” Foster said. “So you get to develop a relationship with them. By the third week, my mentee would run up and

hug me. Just forming that relationship is the most re-warding thing for me.”

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FeaturesYoung LeeAssociate Features Editor

On April 23, an hour or two after midnight, hundreds of people found themselves in the middle of a downtown Raleigh street waiting to get into the North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienc-es. The museum celebrated Earth Day with the opening of the latest addition to the building: the Nature Re-search Center wing.

It has been a few months since the excitement of the grand opening. However, ac-cording to Brian Malow, cu-rator of the Daily Planet sec-tion of the Museum of Natu-ral Sciences, museum orga-nizers continue to try to find new ways to engage college students, the Triangle area and the scientific commu-nity. Many o f t h e s e new initia-tives involve the 80,000 square-foot Nature Re-search Cen-ter.

“In many muse-u m s , t h e main wing i s g e a r e d towards younger audiences, maybe around Elementary School,” Malow said. “The NRC, while suitable for all ages, aims at an even higher age group - Junior High and older.”

The new wing boasts inter-active displays on topics such as nanotechnology, deep-sea exploration, evolution and dinosaurs. The wing also at-tempts to connect the public in new ways previously unex-plored at the museum.

Roland Kays, the director of the biodiversity lab in the Nature Research Center, is in charge of some of these new features. Kays begins his daily research in a lab at the mu-seum that is oftentimes open to the public.

According to Kays, the laboratory is a relatively new initiative by the museum to allow audiences to see science and live research happen be-fore their eyes — and occa-sionally participate in new research themselves.

While untraditional, for people like Malow, this new level of accessibility for the public represents the chance for museum organizers to share the scientific research

process with everyone.“Traditionally, museums

have answered the question ‘What do we know?’” Malow said. “The NRC likes to dig into the question of ‘How do we know?’”

According to Kays, this new way of interacting with the public is one of the most interesting aspects of his job.

“I like talking to people occasionally and I don’t mind people looking in,” Kays sa id. “It’s great to le t people s e e w h a t we’re doing. Sometimes it’s boring, sometimes I’m working on a grant, but ot her

times, we’re working on spec-imens or working with coyote scat in there. Right now, we have flesh-eating beetles that are cleaning up a skeleton.”

The biodiversity lab also engages the public by follow-ing in the philosophy of the “Citizen Science” movement. This movement connects sci-entists with members of the public who volunteer to help drive the scientists’ research forward.

This year, the biodiversity lab initiated a project that involves spreading camera traps all around the state. At the biodiversity lab, organiz-ers allowed members of the public to pick up cameras to set up around different loca-tions. The cameras’ data will be an important component of the lab’s research.

In addition to the biodiver-sity lab, the Nature Research Center also contains an open paleontology lab, astronomy lab and genetics lab.

According to Malow, the new wing presents college students with special oppor-tunities.

“Each of the four directors [of the open labs] and Meg

[Lowman], the director of the whole NRC, hold positions at local universities,” Malow said. “A couple of them are at NCSU, but some of them are at other universities. That’s part of the design here. We’re fostering strong connections with the universities. We want that. We welcome that. If there are college students that are interested in any of these fields, there are people here that would be happy to talk to them.”

This year, several N.C. State graduate students had the op-portunity to work with Kays at the biodiversity lab.

“It’s great. So far, they really like it,” Kays said. “A lot of them appreciate that contact and the opportunity to share the cool science that they’re doing with the public.”

In addition to opportuni-ties to work with researchers in the museum’s new open labs, Malow said that the museum also holds events targeted at col lege-aged visitors called “A Taste of Science.” These events typi-cally occur every Thursday and many of them are hosted at the museum’s own Daily Planet Cafe.

“It’s set in this casual en-vironment where we serve drinks and food, including adult beverages,” Malow said. “So you can sit here, have a beer and get a scientist not giving a lecture, not usually a Power Point presentation, but a really casual, fun pre-sentation... it’s very interac-tive, it’s bringing science into a casual atmosphere.”

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Museum of Natural Sciences opens new wingN.C. MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES OPENS RESEARCH LABS TO THE PUBLIC

BOBBY KLIMCZAK/TECHNICIANRachel Frick, a sophomore in social work, takes part in the new interactive exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. “I have come to learn for a class I am taking at State,” Frick said.

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get a scientist

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The Museum of Natural Sciences plans to hold its an-nual tribute to bugs, BugFest, on Saturday Sept. 15. The event will last from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will feature both in-door and outdoor activities. The event will center around the museum and will spread onto Jones Street, The Plaza and Edenton Street.

Although the event is a celebration of all bugs, mu-seum organizers have chosen mantids – more commonly known as praying mantises –as this year’s theme bug.

Organizers hope to en-tertain attendees with bug-centered displays, exhibits and activities. BugFest will also challenge visitors’ pal-ates with the museum’s Café

Insecta — an event that chal-lenges visitors to eat bug-based cuisine from around the world. Café Insecta will involve chefs f rom loca l restaurants including Buku, Mar-ket Restau-rant, Rocky Top Hospi-tality and the Wilmoore Café.

Participating restaurants plan to serve such appetizing-sounding dishes as: peanut bugger crunch, chocolate chirp ice cream, bugz-on-a-log, buggie brittle, cricket moon-pies, cinnamon-sugar crickets, cricket bruschetta and superworm enchiladas.

Colt Pierce, a junior in

mathematics education, vis-ited BugFest two years ago, to satisfy a requirement for one of his classes. Pierce said

he enjoyed BugFest — a nd e ve n tested h is taste buds at the Café Insecta.

“BugFest taught me that choco-late-covered

bugs aren’t…horrible-tast-ing,” Pierce said.

“Don’t ask me what type of bug it was, but it was ac-tually pretty decent. You’d think that a bug would have a certain taste or texture, but it was actually decent.”

BugFest swarms back to Raleigh

“Don’t ask me

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it was, but it was

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rejuvenated Mark Sanchez and company, 48-28.

Finally, after having to wait an extra day to watch the face of N.C. State football alumni, Monday Night Football pre-miered for the 2012 season. Phillip Rivers returned to the gridiron in prime form, run-ning the Chargers’ offense like a well-oiled machine in their 22-14 defeat over the Oakland Raiders. Connect-ing on 22 of his 33 passes for 231 yards, Rivers found Mal-colm Floyd four times for 66

yards and Robert Meachum twice for 49, who caught his one touchdown pass of the night. Rivers threw no in-terceptions, and San Diego’s defense held up well enough to start the season off on the right foot.

To wrap up, some alumni had big games, such as Riv-ers and Tulloch, while others such as Williams and Russell Wilson are still trying to find their groove. Expect rookies Audi Cole and T.J. Graham to find their way onto the field before the end of the season, but as for week one in the Na-tional Football League, it was back to work for the veterans.

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capped off with a final Pack kill and big celebration.

Bunn took no credit for the comeback, saying it wasn’t a coaching change or technique change, only the girl’s change of attitudes which caused the win.

The team’s next home game is Friday against rivals, UNC-Chapel Hill at 7 p.m. When asked about preparations for Carolina, Bunn said “We will be practicing with a pur-pose, coming in everyday and working hard and not going half speed.”

State’s record improved to 8-1 overall.

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N.C. State is a team car-ried almost exclusively by underclassmen who have already been a part of the best season in program history. After starting fall 2012 with a 7th place finish in the 24-team Cou-gar Classic, the team will have a solid foundation to improve upon throughout the season.

Sophomore Augusta James and f reshman Lindsay McGetrick led the Wolfpack in the Charles-

ton, S.C. tournament which ran from Sunday through Tuesday. James, a native of Bath, Ontario, Canada, carded rounds of 70-74-72 to finish even and in a tie for 14th. Leading State in the final round was McGetrick, who fired a 2-under, 70, to help NCSU to a final round team score of 2-over par, 290. The Colorado native finished in a tie for 25th in the event after reaching 4-under during the last day and then suffer-ing two bogeys over her final six holes.

Finishing third for State

was sophomore Brittany Marchand, who had one of the team’s three under-par rounds throughout the tournament. Despite a dis-appointing 78 in the final round, Marchand still fin-ished in a tie for 43rd in a field of nearly 130 competi-tors. Junior Ana Menendez finished just one shot behind Marchand in a tie for 48th, while senior Amanda Baker rounded out the team’s scor-ing with an 11-over, 227.

The Florida Gators left Charleston with both the in-dividual and team titles, as

the team posted a three-day total of 13-under par. Duke finished in second place as the ACC’s top team at the tour-nament, and North Carolina turned in as the third best conference team seven shots behind State.

The next time the Wolfpack hits the course will be on Oct. 12 when it heads over to Cha-pel Hill for the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational. After the tournament, State will head east to Wilmington on Oct. 26 to end the brief fall season.

Pack finishes 7th at Cougar Classic

JENIECE JAMISON/TECHNICIANThe team celebrates after scoring a point against UNC-Wilmington on Tuesday. The Pack game back from being down 2-0 to take the match, 3-2.

VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS

SCHOOL W L PCT.

Miami 7 1 0.875

Boston College

6 4 .600

N.C. State 9 1 .900

Duke 8 1 .889

North Carolina

8 1 .889

Clemson 8 2 .800

Georgia Tech 7 2 .778

Virginia Tech 6 3 .667

Virginia 4 5 .444

Wake Forest 3 5 .375

Florida State 6 1 .857

Maryland 5 4 .556

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

WOMEN’S GOLF

INSIDE• Page 7: A recap of the Cougar Classic

women’s golf tournament.

Daniel NealStaff Writer

The N.C. State volleyball team fought back from two sets down to defeat UNC-Wilmington. Sophomore outside hitter Dari-yan Hooper led the team with 17 kills, while senior setter Megan Cyr had 52 assists. Sophomore libero Alston Kearns had 22 digs to lead the team’s defensive ef-fort.

According to Head Coach Bry-an Bunn, this game served as a wakeup call for the team.

“The girls decided they need to play to win,” Bunn said.

During the first two sets, un-forced errors from the Wolf-pack and strong blocking from UNC-W caused State to fall behind near the end of the first set. Two unforced errors and a kill gave UNC-W the first set, 21-25. UNC-W once again took advantage of State’s uncharacter-istic sloppy play in the second set to win, 22-25.

The third set got under way and it looked like it was over for the Pack. State called a timeout at 11-17, the bench looked hope-less.

“Our minds weren’t in the game,” Bunn said.

The play did not improve as State once again fell behind by six, this time at 16-22. An unusu-

al quiet filled Reynold’s Coliseum as UNC-W was three points away from sweeping the Pack. Fans started to round up their belongings, but be-fore they could get to the exits, the light bulb came on for the Pack. The Pack went on a 10-3 rally to win the set, 26-24. The win set the storyline for the rest of the game. The must-win sets that followed brought the return of the Pack’s normal form

and the departure of many unforced errors.

State dominated early on in the fourth set. A diving kick from Alston Kearns to save a point got the crowd on its feet, fully behind the Pack. State was up, 6-2, in the fourth and showing a real difference in at-titudes and production. However, UNC-W didn’t go away easily, as it tied the game at eight and brought

it to a one-point game six different times. But, State held strong, with a 9-1 rally to win the set. Kearns had seven digs in the fourth set.

In the shortened fifth set, the team’s focus was business as usual, winning the set, 15-11. Hooper had four kills in the set and Cyr tallied nine assists. The comeback was

COUNTDOWN• 3 days until the football team’s home opener against

South Alabama. SportsTECHNICIANPAGE 8 • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Volleyball rallies from 2-0 deficit

JENIECE JAMISON/TECHNICIANSenior defensive specialist Alexa Micek prepares for a serve during the Pack’s victory over UNC-W, 3-2.

NFL Roundup: a recap of week one Will RaynorStaff Writer

It was a ground and pound first week back in the NFL, as relentless defense was the de-fining factor of many victories across the league. At least, that was the trend for former N.C. State defensive players, who, in some cases, put up big numbers. Then again, Phillip Rivers looked pretty good throwing the pigskin around the yard Monday night. In case you missed any of the NFL action over the weekend, here’s a breakdown of how State alumni performed for their re-spective teams.

Steven Hauschka, placekicker for the Seattle Seahawks, went a respectable three of four in Sun-day’s loss against the Arizona Cardinals. Putting up 10 over-all points, including one extra point, Hauschka’s longest make was from 47 yards. The 2008 alum, who made a near-perfect 16/18 in his tenure at State over one year, went undrafted after the Pack’s losing season. Since then, he has found his way onto seven different teams, and con-tinues to prove he can help out teams with his specialized talent.

On the subject of the Se-ahawks, Russell Wilson was in the forefront of every State fan’s mind on Sunday, wondering how he would fair in his debut as a starting NFL quarterback. He’s come a long way from playing shortstop for the Asheville Tour-ists, a Class-A minor league team in Asheville, N.C., with hopes of being called up to the Colorado

Rockies someday. In his first NFL game, Wilson completed 18 of his 34 passes for 153 yards with one touch-down and one pick. Nonetheless, he couldn’t will his new team to victory

as Arizona solidified the win after a 20-yard field goal with 34 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Regard-less, Seahawks fans must be encour-aged by the emerging quarterback’s

leadership and potential that State fans are all too familiar with. The Seahawks take on the Cowboys next Sunday.

Shifting to defense, former Pack linebacker Stephen Tulloch led the defensive stats for the Detroit Lions, and for most of the NFL on Sunday. The fourth round pick of the 2006 draft had nine total tackles for De-troit, three of them solo tackles, and reminded the organization why they resigned him after coming off a 111 tackle season in 2011. Tulloch was the MVP of the 2005 Meineke Car Care Bowl, where the Pack shut out the University of South Florida 14-0.

No surprise here, strong safety Adrian Wilson performed for the Arizona Cardinals in their defeat over the Seattle Seahawks, register-ing two solo tackles in the books. The five-time pro-bowler, who was drafted late third round in 2001, has been a Cardinal for life, and helped them get to Super Bowl XLIII where they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Wilson seems to still be healthy in his 11th season in the league, and promises to continue to be a threat to slot receivers and halfbacks.

This takes us north, to Mario Williams. To the disappointment of many, Williams only recorded one tackle in the Bills’ tragic per-formance against the New York Jets on Sunday. The former first round pick in the 2005 draft signed the most lucrative contract for a defen-sive player in NFL history, pulling in $100 million over six years starting this season. But on Sunday, there was very little Williams was pull-ing in, as his team went down to a

LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANDuring the fourth quarter in Carter-Finely, redshirt sophomore quarter Russell Wilson tries to dodge USC’s defense in the first home game of the 2009 season. Wilson had 74 rushing yards in the game. N.C. State lost to USC 3 to 7.

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Updates from the ticketing office Almost 11,000 tickets were requested for the game against South Alabama so about 4 of every 5 students that requested a ticket will receive one in the lottery.

Almost 14,000 students activated their online account this weekend which exceeded any single week of activity under the old software.

Students no longer need to claim a ticket that they won in the lottery so all students who won a bar-code print-at-home ticket were emailed Tuesday night with their ticket.

If any tickets are returned or canceled, the “On-Demand” phase for left over inventory begins Wednesday at 9pm.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATLETICS

QUOTE OF THE DAY“The girls de-

cided they need to

play to win.”Bryan Bunn

volleyball head coach

ThursdayWOMEN’S SOCCER AT VIRGINIACharlottesville, Va., 7 p.m.

FridayVOLLEYBALL V. NORTH CAROLINAReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER V. MARYLANDDail Soccer Field, 7 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY ADIDAS XC INVITECary, N.C., TBA

SaturdayFOOTBALL V. SOUTH ALABAMACarter-Finley Stadium, 6 p.m.

MEN’S GOLF TAR HEEL INTERCOLLEGIATEChapel Hill, N.C., All Day

SundayWOMEN’S SOCCER AT VIRGINIA TECHBlacksburg, Va. 1 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL V. OHIOReynolds Coliseum, 2 p.m.

MEN’S GOLF TAR HEEL INTERCOLLEGIATEChapel Hill, N.C., All Day

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