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Students will be able to vote on campus for the first time in University history this

fall.Beginning Oct. 18, Talley Student

Center will serve as an early voting site for the nearly 6.5 million reg-istered voters of Wake County.

Tal ley wi l l be one of nine voting precincts located within a mile of N.C. State’s campus and a high-volume site, according to the North Carolina Board of Elections.

Many students are excited they will not have to go far to cast their bal-lot in this fall’s election, and some are finding ways to make sure this is not a one-time-only opportunity.

Alex Parker, a sophomore in Span-ish education and international studies, and president of Wolfpack for Obama, was recently recognized

on President Barack Obama’s of-ficial re-election website for his role in voter registration drives on campus. Since move-in day, Parker and the students of Wolfpack for Obama have been in the Brickyard registering students to vote every

day. For Parker, the movement is about more than partisan politics.

“We will register anyone, regard-less of their po-litical affiliation,” Parker said. “It is so important for students to get in-volved.”

Ac c ord i ng to Parker, students are an undervalued de-

mographic in elections.“We don’t have money, but we do

have heart,” Parker said.Parker is among those looking

forward to voting early on campus in October, and urges everyone to get to the polls.

“Hav-ing Talley as an early voting site is awesome, but if we want to be able to vote there in the future, we need a big voter turnout,” Parker said.

Talley will be open for early voting for 17 days. The last day for students to cast their vote early at the student center will be Nov. 3. Eight other voting precincts in close proximity to the University will be open, but voters must be registered in those districts.

No matter where students vote, whether it’s through an absentee ballot or on campus, their votes in North Carolina are sure to count: Though the state went Democratic in the 2008 election, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Obama are within six points in the polls, with Romney in the lead with 53 point, according to a Sept. 14 Rasmussen Reports’ poll.

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Two out of three college stu-dents graduate in debt and most of them have trouble paying it back.

Student loans are being labeled a “debt sentence” as total out-standing debt among students, graduates and drop-outs exceeds $1 trillion. Only about 37 per-cent of those who take out loans make all their payments on time, meaning an overwhelming ma-jority must push back payments or risk defaulting on their loan. If they get behind on their pay-ments and default they will be subject to heavy fines that often result in years of even more debt.

However, the PNC Financial Service Group has some tips on how to avoid a debt sentence and what they call “The Freshman 15 of Finances.”

Ryan Ciccone, PNC regional manager and N.C. State alum-nus, has some advice for mini-mizing debt problems.

“Focus on paying down the balance on accounts with high interest rates first,” Ciccone said. “Keep between three to six months of living expenses in a rainy day savings account. This account can help you from fall-ing further into debt should you have an unforeseen expense.”

Ciccone also encourages find-ing a bank that will be able to help their client save, manage and avoid fees on their money.

Even if a student does not need a loan for college, they are still at risk of developing lasting finan-cial problems.

“Avoid signing up for a credit card to get free stuff,” Cicco-ne said. “A lot of students don’t know how to use a credit card responsibly and I knew a few

people in college that had to pay off a lot of credit card debt after graduating.”

He urges students to read the fine print because many credit card com-panies charge 15 to 18 percent interest if payments are not made on time. This can become a debt sentence if students are not careful about their finances.

While credit card debt is common among college stu-dents, it seems the student loan prob-lem is much harder to avoid. The average student bor-rower in 2011 had a debt of $23,300 and most struggled to make their payments on time. Between 2004 and 2009, more than 60 percent of borrowers with a federal loan had to postpone their payments or became delinquent.

Debt delinquency is like being on academic probation: If payments are not made in a certain time pe-riod (usually nine months) then the student will default on their loan,

according to Ciccone. At this point, a debt sentence could likely result in a lifetime of consequences.

In addition to large fees, default-ers can have their tax refunds, social

security payments and part of their wages seized by the government. They can also become ineligible to apply for any new loans, resulting in years of debt.

The recession presents another vicious cycle. More students than ever are having to pay off massive student

loans, but 48 percent of 25-34 year-olds describe themselves as unem-ployed or underemployed, making it harder to pay off their debt. This is probably why the number of bor-rowers who defaulted on their loans in 2009 (nearly 10 percent) almost doubled since 2005, Ciccone said.

A great way to avoid a debt sen-tence is to stay in school. Paying off

Lindsey RosenbaumDeputy New Editor

In 2006, New York City imple-mented a ban on trans fats in foods. Since then, many univer-sities have been trying to follow this example of healthier oil and fat options, including N.C. State.

The New York ban required restaurants to redo their menus so no item contained more than a half-gram of trans fats per serving. Trans fats were to be removed from all frying oils in 2007 and from all foods in 2008. Redoing menus included creating healthier options and reducing portion sizes.

Trans fats were created as a way to take polyunsaturated liquid oils and stabilize them by adding hydrogen through a process call hydrogenation. This process was also used to increase the shelf life of many foods.

When trans fats hit the markets in the first half of the 20th cen-tury, they were marketed as mak-ing “crisp foods crunchier and creamy foods creamier.” Howev-er, in the early 1950s, there were increasing concerns that linked trans fats with coronary artery diseases. Trials later conducted on the subject revealed a correla-tion between an increase of 40 trans-fat calories per day with a 23 percent increase in the risk of heart disease.

“We got the idea that trans fats were healthier than saturated fats or anything else, so people started eating more margarine than butter thinking it was bet-ter, but now we know that’s not true,” Lisa Eberhart, dietician with dining and catering opera-tions, said.

According to a Times Health article, only three years after the ban in 2009, the average diner’s meal contained 2.4 grams trans-fat less per meal, and there was an 86 percent increase in health-ier options over a two-year pe-riod.

Eberhart said she believes the ban in New York helped move the food industry away from trans fats. University Dining had already started removing trans fats from the menu prior to 2004, using trans-fat-free grill and frying oils.

“In big institutional food ser-vices, we try to look at our food products and we look at the cost, nutrition and flavor [of what we are purchasing]. We try not to buy things with trans fats,” Eb-erhart said.

However, trans fats can still be found in some foods sold on campus. Margarine, which contains trans fats, is still used in many recipes since many stu-dents on campus are vegan and do not consume any animal products.

Other items including trans fats that can still be found on campus include menu items from Taco Bell and Chick-fil-A. University Dining cannot instruct them on their menus because they are franchises.

“We can warn students if we feel like something is pretty un-healthy,” Eberhart said. “We try to tell students what the healthi-er options are.”

On the University Dining website under fast food services, students can find what healthy options are available to them, such as getting soft tacos to cut

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3 Freedom Temple Church615 Royal Street

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7 Cameron Village Regional Library1930 Clark Avenue

8 Wiley Elementary School301 Staint Mary’s Street

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“ ... if we want

to be able to

vote there in

the future, we

need a big voter

turnout.”Alex Parker,

president of Wolfpack for Obama

Last day to register to vote

Early voting starts at Talley

Last day to request absentee ballot

Early voting ends at 5:00 p.m.

Deadline for returning ballots

Election DayPolls close 7:30

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student fees is particularly difficult for those who do not graduate because they aren’t making enough money to pay off their loans. From 2004 to 2009, 33 percent of those who dropped out became

delinquent and 26 percent defaulted. This is compared to 21 percent of graduates who became delinquent and 16 percent who defaulted. In addition, the number of col-lege dropouts has increased by 6 percent since 2001.

Ciccone suggests making a budget to avoid these fi-nancial problems as well as

others.“It’s important everyone

has some kind of budget no matter how much money they have,” Cicco-ne said. “People who man-age their time and money effectively in school tend to be more successful dur-ing their career as well.”

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on calories, choosing chicken options instead of beef and drinking water instead of soft drinks. Students can also look for the Wolf-Approved

Paw Print on other menu items around campus to ac-tively make healthy choices.

Wolf-approved foods in vending machines and C-Stores are only marked with the Wolf-Approved Paw Print if they are free of trans fats, and Eberhart said that every year that list expands.

While the American Heart Association recom-mends that people limit their trans-fat intake to less than two grams per day, Eberhart disagrees and said “the healthy level for trans fats is none.”

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Although many people may avoid or kill bugs during any other time of the year, more than 30,000 people swarmed the Museum of Natural Sci-ences, Jones Street and Eden-ton Street, drawn by meal worms, crickets and praying mantises this past weekend. BugFest, the museum’s larg-est annual event of the year, attracted its biggest crowd yet and made use of its new 80,000 square foot wing, the Nature Research Center.

According to Meg Low-man, director of the Nature Research Center of the Mu-seum of Natural Sciences and a research professor at N.C. State, BugFest has grown ev-ery year and has continued to add new exhibits and ac-tivities to its family-friendly schedule. This year, the mu-seum expanded its “dining options” with help from Raleigh chefs including Mi-chael Lee, the Executive Chef of Sono, and Oscar Diaz, the Executive Chef of Jibarra. The two chefs competed in an Iron Chef-like cooking competi-tion that kicked off the event.

For many attendees, the opportunity to eat bugs was a chance to challenge their palate and freak out their friends.

“I’ve never been before, but I wanted to come eat some bugs,” Abby Rife, an alumna with a degree in animal sci-ence, said. “[The chance to eat bugs] was a big draw.”

“I’m scared of cockroach-es, but I held a Madagascar hissing cockroach,” Megan Fruchte, a sophomore in bio-logical engineering said. “It was ... fun and ... gross, but I conquered my fears.”

However, BugFest rep-resents more than just op-portunities to conquer fears. Rife and Fruchte also said that they learned a lot about dragonflies and the relation-ship between mantises and other insects.

“I think BugFest is the larg-est insect event in the south-east,” Catherine Early, alum-na with a degree in biology and Spanish, said. “People really like coming to eat the bugs and see all the insects and have a chance to handle insects they would normally shy away from or try to kill.”

Early, who had been vol-unteering at the museum since 2007 when she was a member of the Museum of Natural Science’s Junior Cu-rator program, also said that the event provided volunteers and staff another way to give to the community.

“If you have the education, it’s a great way to share the knowledge with the com-munity,” Early said. “I think it’s really important because many people do not realize how much of our lives are dependent on interactions with insects, with other ar-thropods.”

For other attendees, Bug-Fest also presented an op-portunity to interact with a few scientists leading their

fields with new discoveries. Among several other speak-ers, Mark Moffett, an insect photographer for National Geographic, spoke and an-swered questions about his interactions with insects.

“Moffett gave a very hilari-ous talk called ‘Ants in Your Pants’,” Lowman said. “He talked all about his adven-tures about taking pictures of insects, stepping into ant colonies and getting ants up his pant legs in order to get the perfect photo. It was a magnificent presentation ... But I will confess, I really do love to eat those insects.”

Other speakers and partici-pants in BugFest activities in-cluded other University fac-ulty members including Rob Dunn, professor of biology, who talked about insects in homes and in armpits and belly-buttons. The math de-partment also hosted a booth in the festival where it chal-lenged children and attendees in math skills.

“Kids, believe it or not, were swarming to do activi-ties about math,” Lowman said.

Although the fact that the museum managed to excite attendees with science and math may be surprising to some, Lowman said that it is something the museum tries to do every day. According to her, this is one reason why the Nature Research Center de-cided to partner with North Carolina Universities.

“I think if BugFest can in-spire one or two scientists of

the next generation, then we would have more than done our job. I also think that if BugFest or other museum activities can engage the community in ‘Citizen Sci-

ence,’ then we would really do a good deed for the future policy making and decision making because when people know about science, they can actually make really good

decisions about the health of their lives,” Lowman said.

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Mitt Romney: Full meal between foot and words

I have no idea what Romney thinks some-times.

In 2006, a group of church members protesting gay

rights ruined the funeral of Matthew S n y d e r, a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq. Members of t h e We s t-b oro Bap -tist Church

waved signs in the air de-claring that “God loves IEDs” and thanking God “for 9/11.”

As you can imagine, their actions were highly criti-cized across the country. Albert Snyder, Matthew’s father, sued the group. Later, in 2011, Congress proposed the Sanctity of Eternal Rest for Veterans Act, a bill which was intended “to guarantee that military funerals are conducted with dignity and respect.” It did not pass as it was deemed unconstitu-tional, but it demonstrated the strong disapproval of the church members’ actions.

This was not the first time that a person or group used 9/11 as a means to make a po-litical move or protest some kind of ideology. In 2003, Al Gore criticized George W. Bush for how he handled the tragic event in our nation’s history. In 2009, a biparti-

san movement successfully declared Sept. 11 the National Day of Service and Remem-brance, but in August of the same year, the American Spectator published a story stating this was “Obama’s plan to desecrate 9/11.” What?

It’s utterly absurd to me that anyone would drop so low as to use the awful events that took place 11 years ago as a means to benefit themselves politically, or even as the ba-sis of a publicity stunt.

9/11 is and will always be an extremely sensitive topic for Americans, as it should be. This past week, when NBC’s Today did not pause the show on the morning of Sept. 11 for a moment of silence, social media exploded with harsh criticism. This was despite the fact that Today has only paused the show once in the last 11 years.

As citizens of the United States, we are taught to value life. It’s something that baf-fled Japan in World War II, and still baffles some nations today. To us, life is important. I would even go so far as to say that we consider it holy. It’s why we grieved so much on 9/11. It’s why we unite as a nation against people like bin-Laden. It’s a part of who we are.

So, on Tuesday when Mitt Romney released a state-

ment criticizing Obama and his administration for the way in which they handled the shooting in Libya, I was more than confused. Baffled doesn’t even cover it. Almost every major name in the Re-publican Party (from John Boehner to Herman Cain) released some type of offi-cial statement emphasizing their concern for the fami-lies and the Libyan govern-ment. None of them decided to criticize Obama for how he handled it.

What is the point? What did Romney think he would gain? Brownie points? He has never been good at keeping his foot out of his mouth, but this crosses the line. Four men died for their country. I don’t want to get dramatic here, but I just don’t under-stand why anyone would de-cide to use that as a “gotcha” moment — even in the cut-throat world of politics. This flies in the face of our values as Americans, the same val-ues that made the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church so outraging.

In a perfect world, Ameri-cans would vote this Novem-ber based on the candidates’ proposed policies. However, in the real world, the can-didate must also be likable and respectable. Romney is struggling already. What was he thinking?

One for the insightful

Education: a non-partisan issue

A server is a computer that serves data like websites and cloud services to

your computer. A server farm is a place where huge servers are put in racks with millions of wires running here and there in a below 60-degrees

climate-controlled room. Cisco has a huge server farm near Durham. As

a part of my course — Networks Design and Management — we took a field trip to this particular Cisco Data Center. More than the eye-popping servers and beautiful computer networking, there was a particular conversation that hap-pened in front of me toward the end that I took home as the most amazing moment of that day.

Once we completed our stipu-lated hours of drooling over rows and rows of amazing technology, the Cisco employees dragged us out of the server farm. After a small con-

cluding talk I realized we were hav-ing this moment so that the child who had a cupboard full of trophies could see awe in the eyes of his au-dience — the thespian could take a bow. And then, suddenly, one of them said, “I think we all have Dr. Viniotis to thank for the amazing opportunity. Most of us have either worked with him or learned under him.” In that moment I realized the amount of work that our professor, Yannis Viniotis, had put in to get this trip organized.

Yannis Viniotis is a jolly Greek, probably in his mid-fifties. He comes to class with Coke in one hand and routers (devices that form the core of the Internet) in the other. He teaches us computer networks like a potter passes his art to his disciples. The topics that appear to be monstrous, untamable beasts in my study room lose their fangs in the small room with the Greek at the white board. We go to him

with black holes in our mind and see ourselves diving into them like Alice into her rabbit hole. It is the insight that he brings to each topic that clears the haze of confusion.

The United States celebrates Na-tional Teachers Day every year on the first Tuesday in May. In India, the fifth of September is a celebra-tion in honor of Sarvepalli Rad-hakrishnan, the second president of India and an academic philoso-pher. Even as teachers are appreci-ated and felicitated globally, I want to bring light to the deeper aspects of teaching.

Simply put: Men and women who teach should have spent their lives practicing whatever they go on to teach. A person who has spent a large part of his life working in an area is the one who has most deeply explored that area. He or she has gained insights that others who just touch the surface would never perceive. That is the insight that

students need. Teaching, as much as it is an act

of passing on information, is also an act of passing on curiosity for the subject. Maybe more of the lat-ter and less of the former. A person who has spent their life learning a subject will find it as mundane as waking up and breathing. Teaching comes naturally to such a person.

All studies after primary school-ing need more than a classroom as an environment. The teacher is the primary focal point. If the teacher is in love with the subject, the classroom will cease to be just a classroom. It becomes a theater — a play or a drama teaches better than dry lectures. The teacher shall then become the thespian, and the sub-ject will then become as easy as the theme of a play.

Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, a startup hub, writes in an essay, “It is simple. Pianists must teach piano.”

If you look at it in hindsight, you’ll see why the best teachers are also the ones who, at some level in their profession, failed. Failure gave them insight. The conscious understand-ing of deeper aspects of a profession is what the coach passes on to a stu-dent.

On the way back from Cisco, I had an epiphany. The jolly Greek could tame my monsters because he’d spent most of his life taming even larger monsters.

This article is for those insight-ful men and women who find it worth their time to pass on insight to younger generations. Should any-one else be given the responsibility of teaching?

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Joseph HaveyStaff Columnist

BY GREG WILSON

If you could start a business what would it be?

{ }IN YOUR WORDS

“I’d like to start my own golf couse and club, I’ve played golf for quite a few years and so has my family so you could say it’s in my blood.”

Hidematsu Suekifreshman, First Year College

I would love to start my own bicycle shop, I’ve been biking since I was 10 years old and it’s become part of my life.”

Jake Lowissophomore, mechanical engineering

“I could see myself running a cheese making buisiness, because I love eating cheese.”

Branson Kinseyjunior, chemical engineering

There is a general so-cial consensus that a college education is

essential to having a shot at a steady, fulfilling career in to-day’s knowledge-based econ-omy. Of course, like all other rules, there are exceptions. But unless you’re as passion-ate of an entrepreneur as BIll Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, college is probably your best bet. Unfortunately, some-thing as important as a col-lege education is not always in reach of you, especially in North Carolina.

According to Action for Children NC, a self-pro-claimed non-partisan, non-profit child advocacy orga-nization, North Carolina ranked 17th worst in child poverty rate in 2011. Action for Children cites a report by Bizjournal which claims that 8.9 percent of children in North Carolina are extremely poor — those living on in-come 50 percent below the national poverty line, which the site estimated at $10,600 for a family of four.

That’s just the extreme end of the unfavorable part of the wealth spectrum. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 15.5 percent of N.C. families

live below the poverty line, above the national average of 13.3 percent.

Studies show that children who grow up in stressful households — like those un-der financial stress — do not develop some of the cognitive skills as their more privileged counterparts. This, of course, has long term effects.

As the nation bickers over whom to elect and what de-partments should have their federal budgets slashed, the ones whose futures are being decided have no say in the matter, and the cycle is likely to be continued, as many will not go on to graduate from high school, let alone have a chance at a four-year degree.

With there being a 74 per-cent chance of North Caro-lina going red in this election, according to political blog Five-Thirty-Eight, it’s likely that voters will side with the party that is more open to cutting education spending. But even without huge sums of taxpayer money, it is pos-sible to give children living in poverty a fighting chance.

The New York Times Magazine reported a story about generous anonymous donors, in coordination with

the former superintendent of Kalamazoo, Mich. pub-lic schools, who began the Kalamazoo Promise. The entirely philanthropic effort promised to pay college tuition (at a state university or community college) for students who graduated from the dis-trict’s schools. The initia-tive has not only inspired students to do better, but it gave a much needed boost to the local econo-my, and schools were able to hire more teachers after the first year.

Efforts like the one in Kalamazoo are as possible in much larger cities, like New York City. The maga-zine also reports $20 bil-lion would be needed to provide $5,000 tuition payments for four years to the 52,000 students who graduate from that school district. With 57 billion-aires, and even more mil-lionaires, in the area, it’s certainly possible. So we, as a nation, are left with this question: How much do we care about our students, children and grandchildren?

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.

Michelle Obama will come to N.C. Sept. 19, 2012Matthew Clark, senior in arts applications

“If the teacher is in love with the subject, the classroom will cease to be just a classroom.” -Naman Muley

FeaturesFriday, 3 p.m. - Some-

where in Fuquay-VarinaThey definitely don’t teach

you how to use a GPS in as-sassin school. That’s why my chauffeur Katherine Sanders, a sophomore in microbiology, and I were driving along in a car headed to Fayetteville, N.C., instead of Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh.

Oops.Katie is pretty much hope-

less at everything, but I don’t want to discourage her.

“This is all your fault,” I tell her, but I smile to let her know we can still be friends anyway.

While Katie corrects for her egregious error, allow me to explain the situation.

This weekend, downtown Raleigh is host to SPARKcon, an annual celebration of cre-ativity in the Triangle area. SPARKcon offers a variety of different events, but I was particularly interested in one: SPARKwars.

SPARKwars is a weekend-long game of Assassins, a live-action game where the participants run around downtown trying to "kill" each other by spraying each other with water — a good, wholesome activity.

Friday, 4 p.m. – Down-town Raleigh

We finally arrive at our des-tination, but I don't see any assassins. Was this a test? I thought. Should I kill some-one right now, just to prove I’m worthy?

Instead of murder, Katie suggests I ask around. She’s hopeless, but I oblige her nonetheless. I approach an innocent-looking tent, and ask the man in charge about SPARKwars.

“I’m look ing for the SPARKwars sign up,” I tell

him, real cool-like. Assassins have to be cool, or nobody takes us seriously.

“This is the SparkWars sign up,” he tells me.

The man introduces him-self as Walden Raines, the CEO of Subrosa Games – the company hosting SPARK-wars. According to him, the company’s website encour-ages citizens to start their own games in their own com-munities — and he wanted to start a game on N.C. State’s campus.v

Raines gives me a quick run-through of a few of the rules:

1. Assassins are only al-lowed to use water-based weapons.

2. At random points in the day, someone will send me a text message telling me where the next checkpoint is. If I miss a checkpoint, I’m dead.

I’m also allowed to use a body-double – someone who looks kind of like me who can stand in as a decoy and take a water-bullet if necessary.

I turn to my petite female companion and size her up. I sigh. She’ll have to do.

Raines tells me to meet back at the checkpoint be-tween seven and eight tonight to officially start the game. I call my chauffeur and tell her to ready the car.

Friday, 7 p.m. – Down-town Raleigh

I’m at the checkpoint, but not much is going on. I ex-pected there to be at least a few assassins around so that I could do some networking before everyone got mur-dered, but no such luck.

Raines checks my ID and gives me one more rule to add to the list. He hands me my official kill card: the one thing separating me from life

and death. If anyone else gets their hands on it, I’m dead.

I ask if I can punch some-one and run away instead of handing over my card, but Raines pretends he didn’t hear me. However, I didn’t hear him say no…

As the clock turns towards eight p.m., I feel a small knot in my stomach.

Nervous? Me? Never. It’s probably my assassin gland flaring up in preparation for the fray.

Friday, 8 p.m. – Down-town Raleigh

Okay, guys, I have a con-fession to make. I’m not an assassin. I never went to as-sassin’s school. All I’ve got is a bottle of SmartWater and a gym bag to defend myself from an attack.

My body-double and I be-gin roaming SPARKcon in search of predators or prey.

“How do you know who you’re supposed to kill?” Katie says. She’s clearly never played Assassin’s Creed, but her question raises an inter-esting dilemma.

I have my target’s infor-mation, but there are a lot of people here. It’s clear that I’d have to use every ounce of my wit and cunning to find my target.

Sitting on a bench a few feet away from us are a couple of guys. One of them has a Bat-man shirt on – but, more incriminatingly, a bottle of Deer Park water. Not as sus-picious as a reusable water bottle, but incriminating enough. We lock eyes, daring each other to make a move.

Then, in a stunning, anti-climactic display, Batman-shirt taps his friend on the shoulder and they leave.

A wise move.

Friday, 1 1 p.m. – Riddick Hall

I just received a death threat.

I was minding my business playing "Murder in the Dark" in Riddick Hall (another sto-ry for another day) when I got an interesting email…

I will find you, the message said. It was signed by “Red-Wolf,” but the name on the e-mail account said McRae Massey, so I don’t know why he bothered.

Whoever McRae “Red-Wolf” Massey is, he’s clearly trying to intimidate me to gain an upper-hand.

Saturday, MidnightI’m alone this time. My

body-double/meat-shield/chauffeur said something about “having a life” and was complaining about not being

paid to die for me. Hopeless, but it’s her loss anyway.

I walk the streets alone now. At this time, the other festivities at SPARKcon don’t interest me anymore — it’s all about finding my target and taking him out, before Red-Wolf can find me. Despite my lack of training, I really am beginning to think more like an assassin now.

I scan the city streets look-ing for anyone who looks anything like my target, who appears in his dossier as a...

Is that – I think it is! My target, lying in wait like a sit-ting duck.

He’s pacing around a street corner, holding a Deer Park water bottle — they must be in season.

He’s in a pair of baggy cargo-shorts and … Crocs?

Whatever works for him.I walk ever-so-casually up

to him and pause for a mo-ment to get my water bottle out of my bag. I look over to him, and he glances at me. It was on. I take aim and fire a round at his chest.

“Dude, come on!”“Whoa, wait — you aren’t

playing SPARK ... oh ... oh dear ...”

It was clear by the look on his face that he had no idea what I was talking about. Oh well. Even assassins make mistakes. I would offer him my shirt, but that might just make things even more awk-ward. So I walk away.

I think it’s time for a career change.

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Jordan AlsaqaAssociate Features Editor

Many students have plans to start their own businesses when they graduate. For Katie Charron and Anna Walker, their time at N.C. State has proven to be the perfect chance for them to start work on their own enterprise, Linked NC.

A n o n -profit web-site a imed at providing donations for Special Olympics North Caro-lina, Linked NC offers a variety of handmade jewelry and accessories. The website grew out of Charron and Walker’s shared desire to do something for the special needs community.

“I did my senior project in art therapy for special needs children,” Walker, a senior in landscape architecture, said. “We both have a connection to the subject.”

For Charron, a senior in biological science, the expe-rience came in the form of a summer spent working at a special needs camp. The two shared their experiences with one another and realized they wanted to give back to a community they had learned from.

It didn’t take long for the pair to realize that the answer

they were looking for was in crafts.

“I have a history of do-ing creative things,” Char-ron said. “I wanted to take something that I was good at and turn into more than a hobby, do something produc-tive with it.”

Once the pair had decided on an ap-proach, they knew they would need an inexpen-sive means of produc-tion in order t o m a x i -mize profits a n d k e e p the amount donated to

SONC high. Eventually, the soda can tab became the fo-cus of their low-cost produc-tions.

From earrings and bracelets to full-size purses and clutch bags, Walker and Char-ron have found a variety of unique applications for the small bits of metal. The tabs prove easy to collect and in-cur little additional costs. The pair has also managed to get outside help.

“We have friends that col-lect soda tabs for us, but it is just the two of us for the most part,” Walker said.

Beyond the soda tabs, there are several other items used regularly in produc-tion, with wire lanyards and beaded earrings available in both standard and rainbow-

colored variations. There are also plans to continue of-fering new creations, with ironed trash bags factoring into the next design.

The duo has remained mainly self-reliant due to the amount of business they have received so far. Though they see a few orders every week, the low demand has made it easy for Walker and Charron to manage all production on their own.

Still, the pair is working to get the word out about Linked NC. The website has been represented at nu-merous local events such as NCSU Earth Day, Art After Dark and SPARKcon’s jew-elrySPARK. Ultimately, the duo hopes that such exposure will help inform people not only about the website, but also about the cause that it supports.

“We’re just trying to get [the special needs communi-ty] into the minds of the peo-ple,” Charron said. “We want to dispel the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ sentiment.”

Now a year-and-a-half old, the website has managed to keep working toward that goal. While the project has made only a small impact so far, Charron and Walker are proud to be able to do their part for a cause they believe in.

For more on Linked NC and to browse their products, visit linkednc.com.

GREG WILSON/TECHNICIANCo-founders of LinkedNC, Anna Walker and Katie Charron, work on jewlery pieces in the “Artist’s Backyard” Friday afternoon.

GREG WILSON/TECHNICIANAnna Walker works on a few pairs of bottle cap earrings.

“We want

to dispel the

‘out of sightm

out of mind’

sentiment.”Katie Charron, senior in

biological sciences

Art from scraps backs Special Olympics

Sparkwars: A DiarySTORY BY HASSAN DURANT & KATIE SANDERS | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY NATALIE CLAUNCH

Katie Sanders, a sophomore in microbiology, acted as the body double of Hassan Durant, a sophomore in chemistry, as he struggled in SparkCon’s game of SparkWars, a game of “Assassins” that covered the downtown Raleigh area. Durant failed to eliminate a single person in the competition before he was eliminated by another player on Saturday.

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On the surface, playing vid-eo games seem like a solitary hobby — the stereotypical cliché of a gamer who leaves his basement once a week at most still plagues many peo-ple who identify as gamers. But events like this weekend’s Escapist Expo in the Durham Convention Center put on by The Escapist, an online tab-loid devoted to video games and geek culture, tell a dif-ferent story.

This is the first convention The Escapist has ever held and one of the few gaming conventions on the east coast, making it a landmark in the expansion of video game culture. Many felt that the convention was a roaring suc-cess with about 3,000 guests attending to compete in video game tournaments, table-top gaming tournaments, live-ac-tion tournaments and to sit in on video game-related panels.

“It’s because of the sense of community. It’s the sense of fellowship. We have these adventures and these expe-riences and we just naturally want to share them,” Susan Arendt, executive editor of The Escapist, said. “That’s why gaming communities tend to be so passionate and emotional.”

“The reason why we love these things is not only do we get to play it, we get to live it,” said Michael Ramos, attendee of the expo and a junior in biological sciences.

Some of the video game tournaments included Halo Reach, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. These tour-naments attracted so many spectators that volunteers had to reorganize the expo floor.

“Online [gaming] has its place, but when you can actu-ally see the gamer right across from you that you are defeat-ing, it feels really good. It goes back to the original arcade social interaction,” Michael Everett, the organizer of the tournaments, said.

Another draw of the tour-naments was that some of the game developers came to

play, competing and talking with the fans. Many of the developers of Ghost Recon by Red Storm were at the event, as well as developers from Epic Games.

Older arcade games were there as well with the help of the American Classic Arcade Museum, a non-profit dedi-cated to preserving the his-tory of gaming, which had set up a free-to-play old machine section including classics like Pac-Man and Primal Rage.

“I’ve been in the ar-cade busi-ness since 1981,” Gary Vincent, president of ACAM, said. “It star ted out as what was going to be a 3-week end-of-the-sum-mer job and has now turned into a lifetime experience.”

Vincent noticed in the 1990s that classic but un-profitable games were being thrown out and began to save older games and organize them into a museum. It now has about 300 pre-1988 games that visitors can come in and play. It even has Computer Space, the first commercially available coin-operated video game.

“Any other museum or his-torical institution has that

roped off — ‘you can look at it, you can read about it, but please, do not touch i t ,’ ” V i n-cent sa id . “Whereas w i t h u s , the mission behind the museum, whi le f irst

and foremost is preservation, is also the experience.”

Another aspect of gaming

was represented in the mu-sic of the convention with guests like Gavin Dunne, who performs video game soundtracks and is a lso known as Miracle of Sound, and Rellik Nissassa, music producer for the upcom-ing games Spinner HD and Block. Nissassa believes the music for video games is es-sential to the experience be-cause it completes the illusion and draws the player in.

“I played Tetris Worlds back in the day, and the soundtrack to that is pump-ing trance, and you get sucked into the game. You would for-get to blink and you’d have to pause it because your eyes are burning,” Nissassa said.

The Escapist Expo held more than just video games, though – anyone who enjoys escaping reality every now and again was welcome. Some of the main attractions were a Humans vs. Zombies game and a laser tag arena.

Several cosplayers, people who create costumes of their favorite fictional characters, were present. There was even an Escapist Expo Cosplay Contest.

“I’ll play a game or watch a show and I’ll just find that one character that I really connect with and want to pay homage to by making a costume,” James Rose, a game advisor for GameStop, said. He was competing in the cosplay contest dressed as Squall from Dissidia Final Fantasy, complete with his larger-than-life blue sword.

Rose said a good cosplay will be accurate, detail-ori-ented and the wearer of the costume should be willing to get into the character that he or she is playing.

“If you’ve got this favorite character and you come to a convention and see that char-acter off the screen, walking around in real life, it really brightens up your day,” Rose said.

Another variation of cos-tuming, steam punk style, was also represented.

“My mother calls it the

Victorian era on steroids,” Markell Lynch, chair of the Con Temporal, a steam-punk convention, said. “Essentially it’s an alternate history track where steam dominates in-stead of gas.”

Lynch got into steam punk because of the costuming aspect, but really enjoys the freedom to create and live as another character. While participating in the storyline Con Temporal has going, she is known as The Indomitable Miss M, Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and temporal engineer of a time-traveling ship.

“It’s very embracing, be-cause it’s all about being cre-ative and working together,” Lynch said.

The card game and tabletop game communities were well-represented as well. There was a Magic: The Gathering tournament and board games were being rented for use.

Tabletop gaming started in the early 1970s and then

peaked in the early 1980s with Dungeons and Drag-ons. Tabletop gaming may not be overly popular today, but there has been a lot of renewed interest according to Chris Pramas, president of Green Ronin Publishing, a tabletop game company. They publish a variety of games ranging from the clas-sics to ones based on Game of Thrones and DC superheroes.

“They’re a chance for peo-ple to get together around a table and have a communal experience; it’s group sto-rytelling,” Hal Mangold, of Green Ronin Publishing, said.

“If you claim not to be a nerd about anything, you must be the dullest person in the world,” Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, author of The Es-capist’s video game review video series Zero Punc-tuation, said. “A nerd is just someone who is passionate about something.”

Expo provides the perfect escape for gamers

BOBBY KLIMCZAK/TECHNICIANJason Schaefer, alum in nuclear engineering, and Tyler Ahrendsen, alum in biological engineering, play tabletop games at the Escapist Expo in Durham. “I came to the Escapist Expo to experience some of the gaming culture in the Triangle,” Ahrendsen said.

BOBBY KLIMCZAK/TECHNICIANAustin Graves, a sophomore in biological sciences, plays in the arcade arena at the Escapist Expo in Durham. “Always want to go to a con, but never been close enough until now,” Graves said.

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we love these

things is not only

do we get to play

it, we get to

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State answered back when Martinez capitalized on a penalty kick in the 65th min-ute, cutting the Maryland lead to one.

“We had a lot of good mo-ments, really good moments, but I think we respected them a little too much,” Martinez

said. “Just because they’re Maryland, I think we gave them a little too much re-spect.”

The Wolfpack continued to push for another goal to tie, but was held at bay by the Ter-rapins. Its best chance to tie came within two minutes of the final whistle as the Pack crossed the ball across the field, only to have the Ter-rapin defenders regain pos-session.

“We took a lot of positive things, we’re just going to grow from losing,” Martinez said. “This is our first loss and

I think we’re going to grow. I don’t doubt on my team that we can win it all. I think we can go win the ACC tourna-ment and that’s where I see us from now on.”

State will be back in action Tuesday at 7 p.m when they host Campbell.

“There were key moments where we weren’t as good as we should have been,” Mar-tinez said. “That’s why they put a goal away in the last five minutes of the first half and the first five minutes of the second half. We just need to learn from those moments.”

the game. O’Brien declined to comment on Greene’s status going forward, except to say that Greene was still on the team.

The defen-sive side of the ball saw much suc-cess as well against the Jaguar of-fense. Junior cornerback David Amerson snagged his 15th career interception, only one behind the school record of 16 co-held by Eric Wil-liams and Art Rooney.

Amerson literally grabbed his second pick of the year out of the hands of South Alabama receiver T.J. Glover.

“I just reacted to the ball,” Amerson said. “He had the ball and I just took it from him, used my body to rip the

ba l l away. I guess it’s good i f it works.”

Amerson’s pick was one of two in-terceptions on the day for the Pack, the other by freshman

cornerback Hakim Jones. State’s defense also racked up a total of seven sacks and allowed only 51 rushing yards in an all-around stellar night

for the Wolfpack defensive unit.

“It was nice [to shut them down], but that’s what we’re supposed to do,” sophomore defensive tackle T.Y. McGill said. “We just come out every day in practice, and we work hard every day in practice to do that.

“We’re coming together as a whole team, not just a defense. That’s what it’s all about.”

State’s next game will once again be at home, as The Cit-adel (3-0) makes the drive up from Charleston, S.C., for a 6 p.m. date at Carter-Finley.

“I definitely think we are making strides as a team,” Amerson said. “We are all getting better. I think we are going to be ready.”

early start, winning the first three points of set one. However, the Pack found its rhythm mid-way through the set and began to take charge as sophomore Alston Ke-arns fought for six digs and Merriwether pounded out four kills. A six-point turnaround was the piv-otal point o f t h e f irst set w hen a 13-11 Tar Heel lead shifted to a 16-13 Wolf-pack ad-vantage that was maintained the rest of the set. After gaining a 24-21 lead, State had trouble finishing and had to call a timeout when the score reached 24-23. Following the time out, Carolina an-ticlimactically served out of bounds.

State was a bit more emphatic in the second set, taking it 25-16. Mer-riwether played her best set with five kills and two blocks, but the story of this set was the serving of

sophomore Hannah Thomp-son, who ended it with three consecutive aces. The set’s final two serves hit the top of the net and dropped over, which caught UNC off bal-ance and unable to make a return. Sophomore Nikki Glass, senior Alexa Micek and Cyr all had seven digs a piece, some of which were so acrobatic that they even sur-prised themselves.

“We never give up on any ball,” Cyr said, “but people

we re ju s t throwing h a nd s up and it was going over.” State had a comfortable 2-0 set lead going into the locker rooms before the third.

Set three was the only set that the Pack lost, going down 25-21. The team was less sharp, committing five attack errors and four ser-vice errors. “We were going to the pins too much,” head coach Bryan Bunn said. “We were setting too many outside back sets, whereas in the first two [sets] we were setting in the middle.” But bouncing back was not a problem as they solidified the victory in the fourth set, winning 25-17. Richardson, Merriwether,

and Hopper had the major-ity of the kills for the Pack.

The star of the night was junior middle back Brie Merriwether, whose pow-erful spikes had the crowd roaring. “She played fantas-tic,” head coach Bryan Bunn said. “She’s been great since she’s been here. She works hard and deserves it.”

“Megan [Cyr] sets up our offense fabulously,” Mer-riwether said. “We couldn’t do it without her.”

After the game, Coach Bunn was pleased with his team’s effort.

“The girls were ready to play,” Bunn said. “Their minds were in the right place this time. It’s amazing what our team can do when our minds are in the right spot.”

The team’s focus must be in the right place as tough-er ACC opponents are ap-proaching on the schedule.

“We’ll start from scratch again,” said Merriwether. “This game doesn’t mean anything when we play on Sunday, so back to ground zero.”

After State picked up an-other win against Ohio Sun-day, Pack volleyball will now be back in action Wednesday when it plays Wake Forest at home.

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“It’s amazing

what our team

can do when our

minds are in the

right spot.”Bryan Bunn, head coach

“We’re coming

together as a

whole team, not

just a defense. ”T.Y. McGill, defensive tackle

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COUNTDOWN• 5 days until State hosts The Citadel at Carter-FinleySports

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20-10Overall Standings

N.C. State vs. South Alabama N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State

Connecticut v. Maryland Maryland Connecticut Connecticut Maryland Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Maryland Connecticut Maryland

Virginia v. Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Virginia Virginia Georgia Tech

North Carolina v. Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville

Florida v. Tennessee Florida Tennessee Florida Tennessee Florida Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee

Arizona State v. Missouri Missouri Missouri Missouri Missouri Missouri Missouri Missouri Missouri Missouri Arizona State

Southern California v. Stanford Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal

Notre Dame v. Michigan State Michigan State Michigan State Michigan State Michigan State Michigan State Notre Dame Notre Dame Michigan State Michigan State Notre Dame

Texas v. Ole Miss Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas

BYU v. Utah BYU BYU BYU BYU BYU Utah BYU BYU BYU Utah

Will RaynorStaff Writer

Every now and then, there comes a game where everything goes just right.

For N.C. State, that game came Friday night when the Wolf-pack hammered the Tar Heels to reach 9-1 on the season and claim the team’s conference opener. Now 10-1 after defeating Ohio Sunday, head coach Bryan Bunn believed the win over UNC was undoubtedly the Pack’s most dominant performances this season so far.

Few seats were vacant in his-toric Reynolds Coliseum as Wolfpack fans showed great support in a 3-1 victory. Long back and forth points turned into scores for State as the team reduced mental errors and found ways to get kills from outside hit-ters junior Brie Merriwether and sophomore Dariyan Hopper. The dynamic pair combined for 26 total kills and was assisted by se-nior setter Megan Cyr, who had 38 total assists.

The Heels jumped out to an

Jonathan StoutDeputy Sports Editor

After leading the No. 1 team in the country for the first 40 min-utes, No. 14 N.C. State (6-1, 0-1 ACC) was defeated by Maryland (5-0-1, 2-0 ACC), 3-2, Friday night at Dail Soccer Complex.

The Pack took the lead over the Terrapins in the fourth minute with a strike by junior midfielder Alex Martinez, assisted by junior defender Ryan Metts, but was unable to hold on.

“I just came out and had com-posure,” Martinez said. “I didn’t freak out every time I had the ball, and I wasn’t trying to be the star every time I had the ball. I was doing what I had to do to help the team. They gave me the ball and I was able to beat a guy; I just took a shot and scored.”

Maryland tied the game in the 40 t h m i nute after a score by redshirt junior for ward Ja ke Pace. The goal took the mo-mentum away from the Pack, who gave up two more second-half goals.

“I thought we had some giveaways here and there that didn’t allow us to get good chances,” head coach Kelly Findley said. “I think we were feet away at some times, inches away at oth-ers and sometimes yards away from getting through. In the end, it took

us probably too long to transition

after their goal, and I think that’s something we have to grow into.”

Although the Pack was unable to defeat the Terrapins, Findley said he was pleased with the team’s perfor-mance against No. 1 Maryland in the first half.

“I think we maintained our com-posure in the first half, and we were able to break them down,” Findley said. “They have a tendency to try

N.C. State won its hope opener against the South Alabama Jag-uars by a score of 31-7 Saturday night at Carter-Finley Stadium. The Wolfpack took the field to rabid support from the home crowd, especially from the stu-dent sections. The State stu-dents set a new record for the most student tickets requested for one game in the history of Wolfpack football.

“All in all, I’m satisfied with the victory,” head coach Tom O’Brien said. “I liked the way we started the game. I liked the way we played for three quarters. I wasn’t really excited about the way we played the fourth quar-ter. We tried to get some guys in the game that hadn’t been in to get them some playing time, and we gave up a score and a big play on stuff we can’t do.”

Senior quarterback Mike Glen-non went 24-of-34 for 257 yards and three touchdowns in three and a half quarters of play. On the opening drive alone Glennon went 9-of-10 passing for 75 yards to six different receivers en route to the Pack’s first touchdown.

“I think our receivers did a great job,” Glennon said. “The catches that they made, how they got open downfield ... those were big plays that we needed, and it really put a spark in our team.”

“We did a better job of pro-tecting [Glennon],” O’Brien

said. “We did a better job of run-ning routes, and people were where they were supposed to be. We had better timing and everything which was something that we worked on all week.”

Glennon’s first touchdown pass of the day was to junior wide receiver Rashard Smith. The 33-yard recep-tion was the first touchdown of Smith’s career at State. Also catch-ing his first career touchdown as a member of the Wolfpack was junior receiver Quintin Payton.

The receivers weren’t the only ones on offense making an impression

on Saturday. Sophomore full back Logan Winkles caught the eye of at least one member of the offense, al-beit a very important member.

“Logan did a great job,” Glennon said. “I thought he was a little ner-vous in the first game, and he caught that one. He’s a big guy and he’s hard to bring down, so I was really happy for him.”

While the Wolfpack’s passing game lit up the scoreboard, the State running game put in a solid 127 yards on the ground. Spread over 43 carries, the yards-per-carry aver-age was only 3.0. Sophomore Tony

Creecy did most of the heavy lifting with 68 yards on 15 carries, includ-ing a touchdown on an 11-yard rush in the 2nd quarter.

Although the final numbers sug-gest a successful game for State on the ground, most of the 43 carries were for little or no gain with a few longer carries pulling up the average yards-per-carry to 3.0.

One key member of the Pack’s running game was noticeably ab-sent. Sophomore running back Mustafa Greene was suspended for

Top 10 basketball recruit is Raleigh-boundAnthony “Cat” Barber, a 6-2 165-pound point guard from Hampton, Va., and the No. 9 recruit in the country according to Rivals.com, has committed to N.C. State for next season. Getting the 2013 recruiting class off to an encouraging start for NCSU, Barber will follow in the footsteps of a 2012 class, which features three four-star recruits in Rodney Purvis, T.J. Warren and Tyler Lewis. Barber, who attended Saturday’s football game as a part of his official visit to State, also had offers from Kansas and Alabama. Barber is the first commitment in the class of 2013 for head coach Mark Gottfried, who has four more available scholarships with another two possibly coming open after the season.

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Choi Wins Tar Heel Intercollegiate by six shotsJunior All-American Albin Choi ran away with the season-opening event for men’s golf this weekend at the UNC Finley Golf Course. Choi shot a third round 4-under 68 on Sunday to finish at 11-under 205, six strokes better than second place. Now at five career victories, Choi is tied with Tim Clark and Nolan Mills for second in program history, five shy of Matt Hill’s victory total of 10. The Wolfpack, who led after the first round at 6-under 282, finished fourth at 10-over 874. Duke won the Tar Heel Intercollegiate at 8-under 856, followed by North Carolina (862) and Charlotte (873).

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Nothing runs like a WolfFOOTBALL

MEN’S SOCCER VOLLEYBALL

RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANRedshirt sophomore Bryan Underwood celebrates with the crowd after a 44-yard touchdown pass against South Alabama. The Wolfpack prevailed 31-7 over the Jaguars Saturday, Sept.15, at Carter-Finley Stadium.

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JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANJunior midfielder Alex Martinez takes a shot during the soccer game against Maryland Friday, Sept. 14. The previously undefeated Wolfpack fell to the #1 Terps 3-2.

Andrew SchuettStaff Writer

Top-ranked Terps rally past Pack, 3-2

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Carolina crushed

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DID YOU KNOW?N.C. State has averaged 2.59 yards per rush through three games, which is No. 118 in the country.

TuesdayMEN’S SOCCER VS. CAMPBELLRaleigh, N.C., 7 p.m.

WednesdayVOLLEYBALL VS. WAKE FORESTRaleigh, N.C., 7:30 p.m.

ThursdayWOMEN’S SOCCER VS. BOSTON UNIVERSITYRaleigh, N.C., 7 p.m.

FridayWOMEN’S TENNIS AT SOUTHERN SHOOTOUTAtlanta, Ga., All Day

MEN’S SOCCER AT CLEMSONClemson, S.C., 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL VS. DUKE Raleigh, N.C., 7 p.m.

SaturdayWOMEN’S TENNIS AT SOUTHERN SHOOTOUTAtlanta, Ga., All Day

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“We took a lot of

positive things,

we’re just going

to grow from

losing.”Alex Martinez, junior midfielder