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The FDA and US Department of Health and Human Services prepare to mobilize flu vaccine, University remains uninformed

Nick Tran Staff Writer

Flu season arrived early this year in the form of H1N1. In an effort to stem what has been declared pan-demic, yesterday the Food and Drug Administration cleared the H1N1

vaccine for nationwide distribution. Less than a week ago, the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Services scheduled the distribution of the flu vaccines for early October, earlier than the previous October to early November date.

This comes as good news to stu-dents like Mac Scott, sophomore in mechanical engineering

“Preparedness is good,” Scott said. “We just need to keep ourselves healthy and once it gets here we’ll

be fine. It is good the government is taking precautions to combat H1N1 and the flu season in gen-eral.”

The University, however, has no information on when the vaccine will arrive or how distribution will be conducted. Medical Director of Student Health Services Dr. Mary Bengtson said,

“Specifics on campus distribu-

University gets positive feedback regarding Get-Well Meal Kits

Amber KenneyDeputy News Editor

The number of students being diagnosed with H1N1, or f lu-like symptoms, is doubling every day, says Dr. Jerry Barker, director of Student Health Services. With the number of cases on the rise, Student Health representative Dr. Mary Bengtson approached University Dining and University Housing to create a plan that ensures sick students are getting proper nutrients through Get-Well Meal Kits, Barker said.

The Get-Well Meal Kits feature

soups, Powerade, Sprite, crackers, applesauce and oatmeal, said Jen-nifer Gilmore, a representative from University Dining.

Gilmore explained the system as an easy tool for students to use. Self-quarantined students can go to the University Dining Web page and fill out a short form, then students must have it signed by their RA and send a friend to pick up the kit. For students with a meal plan, the kit is free, for all other students the kit is $15, she said.

“We feel it is our job to make sure these students are getting fed,” Gilm-ore said. “Many of these students have meal plans, so whether they are sick or healthy, we feed them.”

Although the program has been

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Woodward will move forward with 6.5-percent capThough this year’s suggestion hasn’t been determined, chancellor won’t approve a fee package any less than the BOG’s proposal last year

Ty JohnsonEditor-in-Chief

Chancellor Jim Woodward said the decision to keep all fee increases–in-cluding the $83 Talley Student Cen-ter fee proposal which isn’t included among student fees but is an indebted-ness fee–below the 6.5-percent sug-gested cap put in place by the Board of Governors last year is his decision as the leader of the University.

Woodward said even if the BOG, which meets today and Friday, sug-gested a lower percentage cap, he would stick with the 6.5 percent sug-gestion that the university system’s governing body passed down to chan-cellors last year.

Woodward said he felt the 6.5 per-

cent cap was adequate, but said he would not move forward with a fee increase proposal of much more than that unless the student-led fee review committee made a very strong case for a slightly larger fee.

“At this time and given the sensitiv-ity [of the budget situation],” Wood-ward said. “I feel this is the best op-portunity for getting this approved.”

Woodward said to keep the fees un-der the 6.5% cap he has allocated some administrative salary sources from student fees to state appropriations. The move was made to free up some cap space for fees.

“The limit I put into place,” Wood-ward said of his 6.5-percent cap de-cision, which had no student input. “Reflects my judgment of what posi-tion we’re in right now.”

Woodward said the decision of the fee committee will weigh into his final decision, but said he’ll view the com-mittee’s decision as a recommenda-tion, and will revisit with the com-mittee if he can’t reach an accord with

the group.“Under no circumstances would

decisions be made in this office with-out significant student interaction,” he said.

Co-chair of the fee committee Kelli Rogers said over the weekend that the Talley fee would not rob other fee in-crease proposals of their chances at being implemented. A concern raised among organizations with fee increase proposals has been that the proposi-tions would be “knocked off the table” because of the Talley project.

The Talley fee, which would account for 81 percent of the 6.5-percent in-crease, is not typically included within the student fee cap. Woodward said it would be difficult to get the BOG to accept an increase package that in-

cluded a 6.5 percent increase on top of a large indebtedness fee.

Woodward said his unilateral deci-sion to limit all increases to 6.5-per-cent was intended to aid the fee com-mittee.

“I think it would be unfair to the fee committee if I didn’t give them my recommendation,” Woodward said, adding he wouldn’t want the com-mittee to go through so much work to propose a plan that wouldn’t be approved.

Woodward said if the package wasn’t approved the committee would then have a few days to put together a new fee proposal package, but he doesn’t want to take a chance on a package that wouldn’t be approved by the Board of Trustees, UNC President Erskine Bowles and the BOG.

“I won’t put a proposal out there that won’t be approved,” he said.

ChanCellor’s fee reCommendations quiCk faCts:Woodward recommended the $83 Student Center indebtedness fee be implemented, and has asked the committee to keep the fee, which isn’t a part of the general student activities fees cap, to be counted into the 6.5 percent cap the Board of Governors released last year.

The BOG meets today and tomorrow and will likely release new suggestions for fee increases.

Woodward said Wednesday he will maintain the 6.5-percent cap even if the BOG asks for a smaller cap and has said that only a “strong case” by the fee committee will result in his moving forward with a package in excess of 6.5 percent.

Source: Jim WoodWard

CampusLIVE aims to aggregate Web sites

Dining and Housing help sick students stay nourished

New Web site provides ‘one stop shop’ for students

Sneha Patel Correspondent

A relatively new addition to N.C. State’s virtual world is the Cam-pusLIVE Web site. Launched only about three weeks ago, the site intends to provide a “one-stop shop” for stu-dents, according to Boris Revsin, the co-founder of the CampusLIVE Web site.

This Web site, which is meant to be set as a homepage, includes several links to popular pages like Twitter, Rate My Professor, Pandora Radio, Facebook, and many major e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail.

It provides links to N.C. State spe-cific sites as well, like MyPack Portal, GoPack.com and Vista. When set as a homepage, Revsin says this will save students the hassle of checking several different Web page every morning.

Other things which are included are restaurant reviews for students to find a place to eat, local television listings, local weather forecasts and movie tim-ings for nearby theaters.

The Web site is a project that was created by college students from Uni-versity of Massachusetts at Amherst in an attempt to simplify student life and currently spans 87 campuses across the country.

According to Revsin, before this site is launched at any campus, a team is

University responds to continuing flu outbreak

mariSa akerSa/TechnicianRob Rager, a sophomore in engineering, waits at the pharmacy in the Student Health Center. He had to miss classes to come in and see a doctor because he woke up with flu-like symptoms. Rager, however is not scared by the recent outbreak of H1N1. “I didn’t really expect to get sick because I don’t know anybody that’s sick,” Rager said.

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CoRReCtions & ClaRifiCationsIn Monday’s page 7 article “Pack earns win, tie on weekend,” Technician incorrectly stated Tanya Cain scored in State’s 2-0 win over Elon and that she and Kara Blosser have made up almost 65 percent of State’s offense. The player that should have been mentioned in both statistics was sophomore Paige Dugal.

In Wednesday’s page 1 story, “New mobile site packages information,” Jason Austin’s title was incorrect. He is an application developer.

The story also stated the Transportation application was developed by the N.C. State Mobile Web group. It is part of the Transloc service Transportation provides.

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Data grim for black cardiac arrest patientsBlack hospital patients are far less likely to survive cardiac arrest than white patients, new research shows. And the reason in many cases

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Explaining the stages of cooling and heating, Diane Mays, a technician in the horticulture department, walks Erin Moody, a post-graduate student in horticulture science, through the Fox Lab greenhouse’s environmental control system. The main computer uses temperature and humidity sensors in each room to control two six-foot fans, a lowering

wall radiator, and water sprayed as a mist — all to maintain a cool temperature throughout the day and trap heat at night.

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Newsrunning smoothly, there has been one oversight when kicking off the new program, she said. “We did not plan ahead for off-campus students to use the program,” Gilmore said. “But we have worked through that, and it is now open to on and off-campus students.”

John Steeb, a freshman in engineer-ing, thinks highly of the program. “[Get-Well Meal Kits] are a good idea because they help everyone,” he said. “It prevents the person who is sick from spreading the sickness, and it also lets the sick person relax and have food that will aid in their recovery.”

Both students and parents have been appreciative of the program, Gilmore said. “Having a sick child creates a cer-tain angst for parents, but knowing that their child is taken care of creates

a sense of relief, and the students are getting proper sustenance,” she said.

“The program has been appreciated by students,” Barker said. “It serves a double-purpose of keeping campus that much healthier.”

Barker, who supports the program, still urges all students to take as many health precautions as possible. “Prac-tice all the good health habits you can, because the flu has a serious side,” he said.

Sick students should keep a distance

from other students, and be self-isolat-ed for at least 24 hours after the fever breaks, Barker said.

“The vaccine for H1N1 is set to ar-rive in October,” he said. “I urge all students to get the vaccine.”

Even when the vaccine comes to campus, University Dining has in-tentions to keep the Get-Well Meal Kits an on-going project. “Students are sick all the time, not just when there is an outbreak,” Gilmore said. “If students are too sick to get out of

bed, they should still be taken care of.” “I think it would be beneficial to

continue [the program] to help pre-vent other major outbreaks on cam-pus,” Steeb said.

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tion have not yet been released. There are no dates on when the vaccine will arrive or the amount which will be pro-vided.”

Bengtson said the University would be a distribution site and the vaccine would be pro-vided to priority groups first. These traditionally consist of pregnant women, followed by caregivers for children under six months, and then people six months to twenty-years of age – the range con-cerning most on campus.

More i n-formation would come only once the vaccine actu-ally arrived, Bengston said.

Some stu-d e n t s e x-pressed doubt towards the availability of the vaccine to the general populus.

“There definitely won’t be enough vaccine to go around given the size of the student body,” Lily Huynh, sopho-more in business administra-tion, said. “The vaccine is not guaranteed anyway. We can only rely on ourselves to stay hygienic and make sure we don’t catch the flu.”

The FDA conducted trials for months preceding yesterday’s authorization to distribute. The vaccine has been show ef-fective in protecting against H1N1 with no considerable side-effects. Additionally, the

FDA reports that a single dose is sufficient to combat the flu, opposed to two doses from ear-lier trials.

Manager of Industrial Hy-gine for Environmental Health and Safety Ken Kretchman said the distribution procedure is not in the university’s hands.

“It is an ongoing, changing procedure dictated by the Cen-ter for Disease Control, who delegates to county adminis-tration, who then directs the university.” Kretchman said.

Kretchman said regard-less of the university’s esti-

mated needs, t he count y decides the amount dis-tributed by the Univer-sity,.

Nathan Combs, sophomore in mathematics, said a univer-sity shortage is not a major concern; with a city like Ra-leigh, there

are bound to be other distri-bution centers.

“Student Health Services is not the only source for the vac-cine,” Combs said. “It won’t be as bad as people think. The flu has just been overhyped.”

Roseanne Thomas, a junior in history echoed Combs’ sen-timents.

“By now many people know someone who has had H1N1 and has seen them recover in a day or so.” Thomas said. “The news just hypes up the situation and causes people to panic.”

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sent down and surveys the area and finds out where the students are eating and where they enjoy going. This is all done in coordination with the student campus representative. This information is then used to create a site for students to use that contains pertinent in-formation.

However, when the site was created for N.C. State, there weren’t any students on the team. Students can now enter in-put for miss-ing links or apply to be a Campus Rep-resentative.

There are “dozens of repre-sentatives” across the country, according to Boris Revsin, co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of CampusLIVE, and “currently looking to hire N.C. State students in representative positions.”

According to Jeannene Lang, a freshman in English, “the fact that N.C. State students have been given input doesn’t bother me,” she said, “only because it’s all stuff that I already used, just in one place.”

Restaurant reviews and hours of operation are also available on the site. The listing is pro-vided free but the site generates profit through advertising.

The advertising revenue cov-ers the site’s operating costs.

“All the employees at Cam-

pusLIVE are 21-23 years old,” Revsin said, “so this isn’t some big corporation giant. We’re all student entrepreneurs working on a budget.”

After about one semester, the entrepreneur group begins to hire interns at each of the cam-puses. The interns help keep up with the office side of the site, and are paid.

None of the links that are featured on the Web site pay CampusLIVE, Revsin said, but certain sites such as Fandango

and TvGuide have created partnerships with Cam-pusLIVE.

Revsin sa id about 500 students submitted their e-mail addresses during New Student ori-entation and

received e-mail notifications about the site.

The site now averages about 3,000 hits daily and has almost 1,000 registered users.

Erin Kamm, a freshman in animal science, received noti-fication through e-mail.

“I find this site useful, only because it really does shorten the time that I’m on the Inter-net. Everything is just in one place,” she said.

According to Revsin, 3,000 hits in three weeks is a good number due to the size of the campus. He said, “Our goal is to have 10,000 hits daily by the end of October.”

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“There are no

dates on when the

vaccine will arrive

or the amount

which will be

provided.”Dr. Mary Bengston on the access of the H1N1 vaccine on campus

“We’re all student

entrepreneurs

working on a

budget.”Boris Revsin on the CampusLIVE

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By DAViD MABE

Should the University require a fee to pay for

the renovation and expansion of Talley

Student Center?

{ }in your words

“No, I don’t think so because we already pay a lot. We already pay for everything else.”

Shane Swickfreshman, mechanical engineering

“The building really needs to be renovated, but it should be an optional fee and not a required fee.”

Lydia Joslinsophomore, graphic design

{ }our view

University officials are looking to implement an $83 fee to help fi-

nance the renovation and ex-pansion of Talley Student Cen-ter.

Talley is a poorly lit eyesore on campus, and building a stu-dent center for future genera-tions that is aesthetically pleas-ing and conducive to creating a good environment for students is a worthy cause. But given the hard economic times, the dif-ficulties on campus with aca-demics as classes decrease in number and increase in size and the scandals, now is not the best time to be building a new student center.

According to Chancellor Jim Woodward, the UNC Board of Governors has unofficially capped increases on student

fees to 6.5 percent. Further, Woodward said indebtedness fees like the one proposed to help finance the Talley expan-sion do not have to be included within the 6.5 percent fee in-crease.

However, Woodward has im-posed the 6.5 percent cap on all student fees, including the proposed $83 indebtedness fee. As a 6.5 percent fee increase amounts to about $102.30, this leaves only $19.30 in increases for all other student fees.

This does little to address the immediate concerns for other programs funded by student fees and may have negative long-term consequences for

these organizations. Improving Talley is important, but Uni-versity administrators should not jeopardize the health of other student fee-funded pro-grams and focus solely on fix-ing up the student center.

Ideally, the chancellor should try to keep the indebtedness fee separate from the student fees, thus funding both cur-rent programs and servicing the debt for Talley. But unless the political atmosphere in the UNC System changes or stu-dents overwhelmingly support making the indebtedness fee a separate item to include with other fee increases, now is not the time to force the issue on

improving Talley. The econo-my is still recovering from the recession, and the University is not in a position to try to make a stand on a fee increase when it has already been plagued by scandal and budget cuts.

This is not to say renovating and expanding Talley should be put on the back burner and ignored for several years. But the University would do best to build up a modest stock of rev-enue and hit the market when the economic and political en-vironment supports it.

Until then, students may just rally themselves into the brick wall of economic and political reality.

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

of the Editor-in-Chief.

Take a rain check on Rally4TalleyThe FacTs:University administrators are pushing an $83 fee to pay for renovating and expanding Talley Student Center, which is to be included within the estimated maximum increase of $102.30 for student fees.

our opinion:The political and economic environment is not conducive to implementing this fee, and the administration should look to push the issue on this fee when the situation improves.

yep, Jerry Maguire had the best question regarding university budget cuts.

Mack Garrison, senior in art and design

EDITOR’S NOTELetters to the editor are the individual opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Technician staff or N.C. State University. All writers must include their full names and, if applicable, their affiliations, including years and majors for students and professional titles for University employees. For verification purposes, the writers must also include their phone numbers, which will not be published.

Let’s Rally — later

There has been a lot of talk recently about renovat-ing Talley Student Cen-

ter. A complete overhaul might

be a more appropriate term for what the modernist-ugly

piece of junk needs, but we’ll go with renova-tion for the fun of its absurdity.

When I think of renovation, I envision in-stalling a couple flat screen tele-visions, throw-

ing on a new coat of paint and replacing some wires here and there.

The Talley proposition is a brand-new architectural unit, no ifs, ands or buts about it. There might be a few 1970s era concrete pillars in the plan, but this building will definitely cost just as much as new construc-tion. Students should under-stand f rom the start that th is bui ld-ing will cost somewhere in the vicinity of $100 million.

This is not an issue of reallocating some campus f u nd s a nd raising stu-dent fees for a couple years. The University will be issuing bonds — es-sentially taking a mortgage out — on the backs of current and future students.

I’m not trying to mischarac-terize the program, the goal is to provide students with ad-ditional food options, group meeting spaces and other fa-cilities to bring the relic into the 21st century.

Nonetheless, we are talking about an $83 Talley fee, a $200 tuition increase, another $19 give or take in run of the mill student fees and the potential for $400 in state mandated health care.

That’s an additional $700 a lot of students will have to pay next year. If that weren’t bad enough by itself, financial aid is going to be hit harder than Kanye’s reputation by the ad-ditional scholarship burden.

A college education that was already unaffordable in this economic climate will become impossible for many students.

By itself, $83 is not an egre-gious sum. If we look at this through the appropriate lens, though, it becomes clear that

the fee for next year would be nothing more than a down payment on a long-term mort-gage. Generations of students will be paying for this building.

To argue that Talley meets the needs of this campus would be comical. The building is a leftover of a bygone era, and must be replaced sooner or later.

That’s the key though: this project could be put off a few years.

During these dire economic times, the University should focus our fees toward programs that directly aid students to go out into the work force and make their degrees more valu-able.

Classroom sizes, faculty lay-offs and building maintenance should, and must, be addressed before a new student center en-ters the University’s conversa-tions.

I’m not even sure the Tal-ley plans in place are the right

ones. Where’s the bar in the new design? The original Talley had a pub in it, a place where students could gather after a rough day of school to refresh and recoup.

There is a distinct possibility prohibi-tion will end sometime in the next decade and bring an enormous new revenue source to the University’s student cen-ters. We could actually pay for this thing.

Why isn’t the new center be-ing built on Centennial Cam-pus? Talley may be an ugly mess (think of the party you had last weekend), but it’s still a functional building. Instead of gutting it and rebuilding, why don’t we build the new building on the campus of the future?

If the need is to build office space and meeting areas, Cen-tennial Campus is just as good a place as any.

N.C. State deserves a new student center. But that fact doesn’t outmaneuver the po-litical and economic reality the University has experienced during the past year.

Let’s Rally — later.

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University should prioritize needs of current students

i have noticed a trend with the construction on campus in that the projects seem to take an awful long time to complete.

As a freshman this did not bother me as it does now — maybe i was blind to the fact that the money we pay as students goes to these projects.

We are in quite the economic downturn and many people, companies and universities are under a lot of staffing and financial straits.

This is why i am so baffled that we, as a university, continue to pay for these projects to go unfinished for so long. Wouldn’t the University want to get the work done in the least amount of time to minimize cost and labor pay?

i have observed the construction on the stairs beside Williams Halls and progress is slow and completion does not seem urgent.

Why are these projects taking so long to complete? Why does the University allow this to continue to be aesthetically and financially

burdening?The administration at N.C. State

seems to have fallen in love with the new Talley Student Center in order to upgrade the campus like Beyoncé, perhaps to attract future students. They seem to have forgotten about today’s students.

Could we be allocating money from future projects to the completion of the smaller current projects to improve the look of our campus?

While future students will have the new Talley Airport Terminal, today’s students are blessed with unfinished projects, detours and fenced-off stairs and walkways.

Ian Dudleyjunior, fisheries and wildlife science

White takes the wrong stance on death penalty

There are two points i want to make about this ridiculous column.

First, White proposes a hypothetical situation that reverts back to barbaric abrahamic “justice” used by religious tribes of killing a criminal along with a member or members of his/her family.

How can anyone be willing to allow an innocent person to be punished for another’s crime? What if the defendant had no parents? What if he/she only had a child? Kill the child? it is unethical

to take the life of an innocent person without justified reason.

Secondly, before one can consider the ethics of capital punishment, one must first look at the unfair representation of defendants.

Do you not know over 97 percent of death row inmates had public defenders? And you can read time and again that public defenders don’t have the money to defend them in murder trials, some offices even asking judges to remit the death penalty because of lack of money to defend properly.

if you have money for a lawyer, you can get off the death penalty, simple as that.

Once you fix the fairness of defense aspect of the process, you can then determine whether or not the death penalty should be implemented. you cannot use force and fear to promote peace.

Ryan Streetersenior, business management

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Caribbean not just for pirates

Though his job is not quite like the idea romanticized in the Indi-ana Jones movies, Fitzpatrick said he does have friends who have been chased by looters or fired upon. Fitzpatrick said he enjoys traveling and getting to meet new people everywhere you go and work. In particular, a discovery he made on the island of Palau in 2007, where The Discovery Chan-nel show “Bone Detectives” was filming while he excavated.

“We found this skull,” Fitzpat-rick said.

With the cameras still rolling, he removed the sand to find a part of a two-year-old’s skull in-side the first skull, which he said had clearly been placed there on purpose.

According to Fitzpatrick, bury-ing the remains this way was a mark of loving memory, some-t h i ng mo s t people forget to look for amidst the dust and artifacts.

“It’s easy to sor t of lose c ont e x t , to forget the fact that these are real people,” he said.

Fitzpatrick said emotional discoveries such as this one show that ancient peoples were con-cerned about the same things we are, such as survival and family health.

Research in the field has char-acterized his work during his 13 years in college.

“Anthropology is one of the lon-gest; it takes a lot of field work,” Fitzgerald said.

His research includes study-ing in the Caribbean, England, Washington, Barbados, Okinawa, Panamanian Islands and the West Pacific.

“Island archaeology is kind of my specialty,” he said.

Fitzpatrick said questions about colonization and new sea-faring technology are answered through the study of islands.

“It’s important from an archae-ological and historical standpoint to have a better understanding of why people went out to these places and how they evolved cul-turally over time,” he said.

According to Fitzpatrick, is-lands are a great place to do that. Each is a microcosm of how peo-ple develop culturally, not having contact with other groups.

“In a real general sense, [we are]

trying to understand how people were doing things in the past and how that affects us today,” Fitz-patrick said, which brought him to a paradoxical realization.

“Even though there are so many differences, one of the things we see is that [ancient peoples] really are no different than us,” Fitzpat-rick said.

His study also focuses on how humans impact the environ-ments, particularly on previously uninhabited islands.

“People bring things they need to survive,” Fitzpatrick said. “This inevitably leads to impact-ing the environment. Wherever humans step foot, we tend to not do things in a sustainable way.”

This largely alters the view of damage done to the environ-ment. The earth’s current state is, most accurately, the endpoint

of millennia of i mpac t s , according to Fitzpatrick.

In a l l h is studies, Palau remains his favorite place to visit.

“ I t ’ s a n amazing place, with dif fer-ent endemic species, div-

ing, kayaking and archaeology,” Fitzpatrick said.

Palau houses one of the oldest burial sites in the Pacific, dating back nearly 3,000 years. Fitzpat-rick said the different layers of ar-tifacts cover an impressively large sequence of occupation.

Many of these artifacts from the burial site at Chelechol ra Orrak found their way to the archaeol-ogy laboratory in Park Shops, which holds skeletal remains to be analyzed by the bioarchaeol-ogy graduate program.

Undergraduates also work in the lab, particularly studying shells from the burial site.

From 2002 to the opening of Park Shops, these artifacts re-mained in storage, according to Meagan Clark, a senior in bioar-chaeology and human biology, who works in the archaeology laboratory and hopes to spend next summer at one of the field schools in Fitzpatrick’s study abroad program.

“[Fitzpatrick] hadn’t been able to do anything,” said Mira Abed, a junior in international studies and polymer and color chemistry, who also works in the laboratory.

Both Abed and Clark work to

analyze Strombidae strombus gibberulus, a mollusk which served as a source of food for Palau’s inhabitants. By examin-ing shells from different layers at the burial site, they hope to learn about the practices of the indig-enous peoples over time.

“If [the shells] are smaller, then it might be because they were overharvesting them [at that time],” Abed said.

Abed enjoys the work in the laboratory, and she said particu-larly finding out something about people who lived in the past that

we don’t really know anything about. “It’s like looking into the past,” Abed said.

However, the lack of certainty in the work can be frustrating.

“We can only make educated guesses,” Abed said. In terms of the shell project, the overharvest-ing could be a result of a sudden population flux or irresponsible handling of resources, she said.

Archaeological research offers unique deterrents and rewards.

“You have to have a lot of pa-tience,” Clark said. “You’re never going to get quick answers, but in

the end, it’s really rewarding. It kind of feels like you’ve discov-ered something, figured out a mystery. It’s amazing to look through what other cultures have left us and analyze how our cul-ture reacts to that.”

Also, Fitzpatrick’s involvement makes working in the lab even easier.

“He’s extremely intelligent,” said Clark. “It’s an honor to work with him.”

Christin hardy/teChniCianMichael Vaeth, a junior in arts application and bioarchaeology, sorts through piles of shells in Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick’s research lab. This is an ongoing process and students contribute when they have time. “I took Fitzpatrick’s Intro to World Archeology and became really interested, so here I am. Also I want to go to one of his field schools next summer,” Vaeth said.

Christin hardy/teChniCianMira Abed, a double major in international studies and polymer, color chemistry, measures the length and width of shells to see if size changes over time. In theory, if the shells get smaller over time then it is possible that they were over harvested as adults. “With my job I want to be able to always travel, and this is definitely a good major for that,” Abed said.

Christin hardy/teChniCianA human skull found by Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick is examined by students in his research lab in Park Labs. Human skulls aren’t uncommon to find while excavating however, generate lots of excitement when compared to something like a clay pot.

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step foot, we tend

to not do things in

a sustainable way.”Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology,

Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropol-ogy, has visited the Caribbean and Western

Pacific Islands countless times, all during his field work as an archaeologist in anthropology.

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Amy Lockwood, a graduate student in

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the festival with temporary red lady bug tattoos.

Other types of festive wear included pipe-cleaner

bug antennae, face paints and Bugfest T-shirts. “This

is one of the best public ways to talk about what [entomologists] study,”

Lockwood said.

Madagascar hissing cockroaches sit tamely in a volunteer’s hand at Bugfest. Unlike other roaches, they are wingless and are the only known insect to make their hissing noise by forcing air out through breathing pores located on the abdomen. Other insects do so by rubbing together their legs or wings.

Bryan Lessard, a doctoral student in entomology, participated in Bugfest 2009, which was held downtown at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science. Lessard spent his day informing the public about the importance of flies. “Flies don’t just go squish, they actually help pollinate many species of plant,” Lessard said.

Every year something creeps and crawls its way into Raleigh: Bugfest. Bugfest is the annual festival held downtown at the N.C. Museum of Science and celebrates all things insect. There are booths for face painting, making antennae out of pipe cleaners, and even a bug buffet to which the likes of

Timon and Pumbaa would love. The event is always very fun as well as educational teaching the public of the importance of insects.

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and our setter is doing her job, as hitters we just have to be able to finish.”

The team will also have to shake off a plethora of mistakes committed at home last weekend, including 109 attack errors and 31 service errors.

“We’ve been talking about how it’s men-tal, and how we push through mistakes,” Burns said. “I think that if we just keep attacking, keep going at teams and attack-ing teams, keep on playing our game, then we’ll do fine.”

In addition to overcoming the mental aspect of coming back from a 1-3 week-end, the team will also need to step up play in the middle, according to Stubbs.

“We have to have the players in the middle ready to score every single time and to stop the opponent’s middle in or-der to put ourselves in a good position to be able to win,” Stubbs said. “We’re

playing against a few teams that really set the middle a lot.”

The players also recognize the impor-tance of winning matches quickly after playing three of four matches last week-end to five sets.

“[The matches last weekend] make us realize that we have to try to get it done in three [sets],” Kretchman said. “Going five [sets] is hard and we are able to finish it in three.”

The Pack plays Friday at noon and 5 p.m. and Saturday at noon and 7 p.m. All matches will be played at the Fleming Gymnasium in Greensboro, N.C.

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funding,” Tariq, said. “We have one lined up for October 11th at Pfeiffer University, which now has a varsity men’s volleyball team. We’ll get to play against NCAA ath-letes instead of just club teams.”

Beach volleyball player and returner Addison Musser, a sophomore in bio-chemistry, said he is looking forward to playing with a more experienced, orga-nized team this year.

“We’ve got a lot of experienced players, and a lot of freshmen who played in high school,” Musser said. “I’m very excited [that] it’s going to be more organized this year with more tournaments.”

Last year’s team was entirely self-coached and had successes with this

method; the team came in fourth at a Tennessee tournament and beat UNC on its home court.

However, this year, Litzenberger and Tariq are trying to implement more out-side help to further the squad’s progress.

“There’s potential for outside coaching by someone who is a certified coach with USA Volleyball,” Litzenberger said. “Any help he can give us would be great.”

The club team, which began as ten guys playing pick-up, has become a competi-tive team that is finding its niche at the University.

Litzenberger stated that the main goal of the team is to make the sport itself more widespread among all age groups.

“That’s what we’re trying to do -- push the sport,” Litzenberger said. “Not just at N.C. State, but everywhere.”

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Team prepares for Million Meter Row event this Friday

Chadwick O’Connell

Staff Writer

As the scorching heat of sum-mer begins to fade into the fall, NCSU Club Crew takes to the water for its fall season in hopes of building upon last year’s ac-complishments.

Those accomplishments in-clude winning the gold medal in the men’s four category at the Head of the Hooch Tour-nament and earning the most overall points in the Augusta Invitational last spring.

The crew club welcomes one of the largest recruiting classes in recent memory and looks to maintain the success of last year’s rowing squad, ac-cording to member Rebecca Wood, a sophomore in First Year College.

“This will be my very first time competing in 5K races and all the new novice rowers are going to be a great addition to the team,” Wood said. “Hope-fully this will be one of the best seasons of Wolfpack rowing.”

The official start of the club’s season will be this Friday when the team participates in the an-nual Million Meter Row event. Since its inception in 2004, the event has been used as a fund-raiser for the Jimmy V Founda-tion and has also been raising money for the club.

The event requires members to row a million meters collec-

tively over two days. Members of the crew will take thirty-minute shifts on the rowing machine and row six different shifts.

The event will take place in the Brickyard starting this Friday at 7 a.m. and will end at the flea market at the N.C. State Fairgrounds on Saturday.

The club begins its rowing season by hosting an exhibition match on Sept. 26 at Falls Lake and will be competing against other crews from around the state.

The team then heads to Bos-ton to compete in the Head of the Charles, the largest boat race in the world with over 300,000 spectators on hand.

Other key competitions in-clude the Head of the Hooch in Chattanooga, Tenn., and a regatta at Davidson. The Pack ends its fall season at the Head of the South regatta in Atlanta, Ga. on Nov. 14.

Club President Errikos Anag-nostopoulos said he would like to see more of the same from the team this year.

“In general, I would like to see the team continue to grow and to have success at the re-gattas,” Anagnostopoulos said.

Anagnostopoulos said it is satisfying it is for him to see new members earning gold medals at the competitions and allowing the club to grow each and every year.

The club is celebrating its 20th anniversary and contin-ues to focus on competing at a high level at regattas, gain-ing new membership through events such as the Million Me-ter Row, and developing the skills of novice rowers.

“Seeing Crew doing better year by year is the most impor-tant thing of all,” Anagnosto-poulos said.

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William alligood/Technician archive phoToErrikos Anagnostopoulos, a freshman in engineering, and other members of the men’s rowing team work on their form and tech-nique Monday, sept. 10 2007.

After a 1-3 performance last weekend, the Pack looks to improve in Greensboro

Brent KitchenStaff Writer

After a disappointing weekend at home, the wom-en’s volleyball team will head to Greensboro, N.C., this weekend for its final regular season tournament.

The Pack will face High Point (7-5), LaSalle (2-11), Georgetown (5-5) and the host team UNC-Greens-boro (4-6).

The team has battled through injuries to major players and has scrapped to match its tournament win total of six matches from last year. The team could surpass that total with just one win this weekend.

Sophomore outside hit-ter Kelly Wood switched to outside hitter this season af-ter playing all of last season at libero.

“We’re just trying differ-ent things this year,” Wood said. “Anybody could be called to the table to do something different.”

Wood was named to the All-Tournament Team last weekend, recording 35 kills in three games at outside hitter, including 16 in the final match against Dart-mouth.

“I just do what people need of me,” Wood said. “As a team we had the mindset that we are going to win this game [against Dartmouth] and I think it proved a little bit.”

New players have also stepped up their play with freshman outside hitter Sarah Griggs leading the Pack in kills in two of four matches last weekend, and freshman setter Kelly Burns

notching 58 assists in the team’s win against Dartmouth last weekend.

“It’s definitely a big confi-dence booster,” Burns said of her performance against Dart-mouth. “I’m really proud of how we went five games, fought to the end and managed to pull it off.”

Coach Charita Stubbs rec-ognized how important a five set win at home is as the team looks towards matches in Greensboro.

“Anytime you can win a five set match after losing puts you in a good place mentally,” Stubbs said. “It allows the girls to know that they are capable of fighting and coming back in

any given match.”T he Pac k w i l l have

to remember how to over-come the mental aspect of the game like it did in the Dartmouth game in order to come away with wins.

Senior middle blocker Lisa Kretchman had 14 kills in the Dartmouth match, but ad-mits that in the other match-es, she wasn’t able to step up her game like she needed to.

“In the rest of the games, my offense was not up to where I think it should have been, but [against Dartmouth] I think it just clicked,” Kretchman said. “Our defense can pass

Freshman thriving in place of injured starter Jamelle Eugene

Tyler Everett & Taylor BarbourDeputy Sports Editor & Senior Staff Writer

Before last Saturday’s game, which pitted N.C. State against Murray State, redshirt freshman James Washington boasted an unimpressive resume.

The 6 foot, 180-pound true freshman from Or-lando, FL was not aggres-sively scouted and came in with little fanfare. Accord-ing to Scout.com, the only other Division I football program to offer him a scholorship after he ran for 17 touchdowns and nearly 1600 yards during his senior season was Memphis.

However, he had a solid showing in his new team’s opener against South Car-olina, when he accounted for 16 yards — more than a fourth of the team’s total rushing yards. His 5.3 yards per carry average, in a game in which State averaged less than two yards per carry

against the Gamecocks, led to his increased role and a subse-quent breakout performance against Murray State. Now, Washington is securely the team’s second running back.

Washington rushed for 35 yards against Murray State and finished with three touch-downs, one receiving and two rushing - all in his second game

as a college student.Head coach Tom O’Brien

said he was impressed with Washington’s performance and glad he was able to benefit from the snaps he received against Murray State.

“It’s something where he now can go back and has some things to look and be graded on what he needs to get better

at, and he is the type of indi-vidual that will look at it and hopefully get better next week,” O’Brien said after the game.

Washington was v isibly thrilled after his first collegiate scoring play and afterward, saying contributing to the final tally was something he needed.

“It was really important to come out and score,” Wash-

ington said.He described his role on the

team as multi-purpose.“I would say I am explosive

and block when the team needs me to and [I can] also make the first guy miss,” Washington said. “I try to hit the hole be-fore the defender can get there.

“I see it as if I hesitate, it gives them a better chance to catch me and as long as I hit the hole with 110% it gives me an ad-vantage.”

Senior Toney Baker, who a lso f inished with three touchdowns, said Washing-ton is an important piece of a promising of fense. “He’s def initely going to be good before it’s over,” Baker said. “[That game] was fantast ic for h im.” O’Brien said the tandem of Washington and Baker wil l continue to improve put up points for State, at least while Eugene is absent. “I think that the receivers made a concentrated effort that they had to get better [against Mur-ray State].” O’Brien said. “They practiced hard and spent a lot of time catching balls, and its just a matter of concentration. Once they got going, there was a good feel down there.”

COUNTDOWN•52 days until the football team’s homecoming game

against Maryland

INSIDE• Page 7: A story on State’s club crew team

and continuation of the varsity and club volleyball stories

• Page 3: Continuation of the James Washington featureSports

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Men’s club volleyball team still looking to spark interest in students and the public alike

Kate Barnes Staff Writer

Junior Davis Litzenberger

and senior Murs Tariq share a passion for a sport that has not yet been admitted into the mainstream.

At a university that offers a wide range of club sports in-cluding, but not limited to, water polo, social ballroom dance and cricket, there has not been as much publicity for the sport of men’s volley-ball -- until now.

In the 2005-2006 school year, a men’s club volleyball team was started. However, the team’s existence was short-lived. Now Litzenberg-er, who played on the only competitive men’s volleyball team in the state, and Tariq are aiming to spark interest for the team that began with amateur pick-up games.

Litzenberger and Tariq, the president and vice president, are expecting a turnout of 30-

40 men at the tryouts, which are being held next Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Carmichael on court nine. This turnout would nearly double the amount that tried out last year.

Though this poses more stress for the president and vice president, Davis said he sees this more as an asset than a hindrance.

“Already, there’s a larger interest for the team,” Litzen-berger, a junior in textile engi-neering, said. “Depending on how competitive the turnout is, there are probably going to be some good players cut.”

Since all of the players from last year are returning and there are many freshmen with raw talent looking to join the team, Litzenberger and Tariq are expecting great things in the season to come.

Tariq believes the campus’ involvement will greatly im-prove their results for this season.

“We know of a ton of tour-naments [we’d like to compete in], but it all comes down to

Club shows volleyball isn’t just for girls

Jeffrey fowler /TechnicianKarl Redelfs, a senior in mathematics education, receives a serve during open volleyball practice in Carmichael gym on Wednesday. “More volleyball, live long and prosper,” said Redelfs, who played on the club team last year. Wednesday’s practice was the last practice before the club holds try outs for this year.

Volleyball heads to Greensboro

luis ZapaTa/Technician file phoToJunior setter Alex Smith sets the ball for senior middle blocker Lisa Kretchman during the Saturday match against George Mason. Smith had 28 set assist during the four set match. N.C. State lost to George Mason 3 - 1.

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Gender requirements for Co-Rec changed In order to prevent a situation in which a team loses a player due to injury or ejection and does not have an available substitute of the same gender to replace him or her, Campus Recreation has instituted a new rule for Co-Rec intramural teams, stating teams may not have more than three or less than one player of either gender on the field. In the past, this team would have been forced to bench a player of the opposite gender and play with five in order to meet gender ratio requirements, which will no longer be a necessity. Goaltenders may be either male or female. The rule applies in Co-Rec play only - graduate, faculty and staff leagues are exempt from any gender ratio requirements.

source: campus rec

AthLetiC sChedULe

FridayMen’s Tennis in Cliff’s fall ClassiCTravelers Rest, S.C., all day

WoMen’s Tennis in UniversiTy of virginia inviTaTionalCharlottesville, Va., all day

volleyball vs. HigH PoinTUnC greensboro ToUrnaMenTGreensboro, N.C., noon

volleyball vs. lasalleUnC greensboro ToUrnaMenTGreensboro, N.C., 5 p.m.

Men’s Cross CoUnTry in WolfPaCk inviTeWake Med Soccer Park, Cary, N.C., TBA

WoMen’s Cross CoUnTry in WolfPaCk inviTeWake Med Soccer Park, Cary, N.C., TBA

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did YoU know?O. Max Gardner, one of the namesakes of Gardner-Webb University — which the N.C. State football team will face at home this Saturday — played football for the future N.C. State in the early 1900’s and is the only known player to captain both N.C. State and UNC’s football teams.

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Washington making his markFootbALL

nick TopTine/Technician file phoToJames Washington, a freshman halfback for the Wolfpack, catches a pass right at the endzone for a touchdown early on in N.C. State’s game against Murray State on Sept. 12. Washington posted 12 rushes and three receptions for a total of 63 yards and three touchdowns in the Wolfpack’s 65-7 win.

QUote of the dAY

“Anyone could be called to the table to do something

different.”Sophomore Kelly Wood

Coming soonFriday: A preview of the men’s soccer team’s game against MarylandMonday: A recap of the football game against Gardner-WebbTuesday: A feature on women’s soccer player Kara Blosser