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Becton residents aim to !ght chargesStudents raise questions, plan to appeal

Amber KenneySenior Staff Writer

When a resident advisor dis-covered vandalism in the second floor men’s bathroom of Becton Residence Hall on Feb. 27, and no one took responsibility for the actions, all residents of Becton Hall were charged for the dam-ages.

In response to the charges, resi-dents of Becton Hall gathered in the Honors Village Commons building Sunday to get further information regarding the Feb-ruary vandalism that has led to resistance from residents of the

community.Brandon Moore, a junior

in chemical engineering and Quad resident, said the forum was informative, but said it also brought about more issues.

“We definitely got some of our questions answered,” Moore said. “But it kind of brought about more questions than it answered.”

Among the information dis-cussed at the forum was the existence of a previous incident involving damage to a Becton bathroom last year when resi-dents were told half of the hall using the bathroom would be charged for the replacement.

“We were informed that the sink was supposed to be replaced, and it was,” Moore said. “But also

that no one was charged for it.”Jordan Luzader, the commu-

nity director of the Quad, said after finding the vandalism , facilities and the housing staff followed protocol to evaluate the damages. Because it was less expensive, the staff attempted to repair the damages, but the efforts were deemed unsuccess-ful. Facilities workers decided the bathroom stall would need to be replaced leading to each resident of Becton Hall having a total charge of $4.88 added to his or her student account.

Although not a huge charge, the students who attended the community meeting Sunday evening said fighting the charges was more about the principle of the matter than the actual cost.

“This is an object that could have been repaired for under 10 dollars,” Moore said. “And hous-ing goes out and spends over a thousand - those are decisions we have to question.”

Luzader explained the ap-peals process to the students and even mentioned a group appeal option offered specifically for the situation dealing with the Quad. Moore said the policies were online, but appreciated the personal explanations.

“Obviously it’s something stu-dents could look up themselves,” Moore said. “But it’s nice for the administrators to come out and tell us we have these avenues.”

Luzader stressed the impor-

New Student Government leaders prepare to take office, officially

Derek MedlinManaging Editor

The newly elected officers in Student Government, who were chosen by the student body a little more than two weeks ago, have started the somewhat te-dious process of transitioning into new positions before the end of the year.

Tim Lipka, special assistant to current Student Body President Jay Dawkins, said he has assisted president-elect Jim Ceresnak in beginning his transition process.

Lipka said he and Ceresnak have worked together to produce a Web site, tranistion.ncsu.edu, designed to inform students about open positions and allow Ceresnak to inform the student body about what is going on in SG.

“I’m required by statute to post the open positions and t h a t ’s b e e n done by the transition Web site,” Ceresnak said. “Jim and I have talked and are working on filling those po-sitions because certain people have to be ap-pointed by the end of the se-mester.”

Numerous open positions, in-cluding director of government relations and director of com-munity service, will be filled by Ceresnak during the coming weeks.

“I want to keep a lean staff to begin with,” Ceresnak, a junior in political science, said. “It’s easier to manage if we have a small, tight knit staff to begin with.”

The transition Web site is also a place where Ceresnak can tell the student body about some of

his goals, or “Common sense so-lutions,” as Ceresnak calls them.

Ceresnak lists problems and goals about financial issues, student life and even traditions on campus.

Ceresnak said the transition process has gone well so far de-spite his lack of experience with-in Student Government.

“It’s been going real well,” he said. “We’ve been taking one step at a time with all the different tasks. There’s been a slight learn-ing curve but everyone has been helping me to better understand

the system.”During the

next few weeks Ceresnak said he will expand his small staff and begin to build a group of people to help him ac-complish his platform goals.

“We haven’t made any ap-

pointments yet, but I feel pretty strong in my head about who my main staff will be,” Ceresnak said. “We’re going to start the recruitment process soon to fill all those positions.”

Lipka said a certain number of positions must be filled by cer-tain dates before the end of the semester.

Newly elected Student Senate President Kelli Rogers, who took office last week, said the dates are

Transition period in full swing

Team plans to paint “Howlometer” this weekend, make finishing touches before student body president’s approval

Ty JohnsonNews Editor

A senior design project com-missioned by Student Body Pres-ident Jay Dawkins to be a noise meter for home athletic events is in its final stages of completion according to the design team.

The “Howlometer” will mea-sure the decibels of crowd noise and help Wolfpack athletic teams secure a decisive home advantage in match-ups.

“We want to push the loudness envelope,” Dawkins said. “Noth-ing gets in the opposing players’ heads like 7,000 people scream-ing in their ears.”

James Coleman, a senior in electrical engineering, says the noise meter, which is structured to be a 10-foot replica of the Bell Tower, should be completed ahead of Design Day April 22.

“We have two weeks left be-fore design day, and all we have to do is a little more painting and touch it up,” Coleman said. “Things have been going as planned.”

Josh Wilson, a senior in elec-trical engineering, said finishing the heavy work early will im-prove the aesthetics of the final product immensely.

“We’ll be finishing it up and making it look like a stone struc-ture,” Wilson said. “Now we’ll have some time to take care of smaller details.”

Dawkins said the meter doesn’t look great in its current stage, but the prospect of the completed product is exciting.

“It’s like a monster assembly of wires, 2x4s and lights - kind of looks like Medusa,” Dawkins said. “But when they turn the lights on, I just start giggling with joy.”

Coleman said making the tow-er portable is the last structural addition the team will need to make, and plans to have it ready for painting this weekend.

“We just have to mount the wheels so we can move it around,” he said. “ We’re at the stage where we’re about to start painting.”

Noise meter near completion

DAVID MABE/TECHNICIANAfter a vandalism incident in a Becton Residence Hall bathroom Feb. 27, University Housing chose to charge the entire community with the replacement of two bathroom stall walls. Residents voiced con-cerns at a community forum Sunday night and laid out plans to ap-peal the charges to their student accounts.

TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANDancing with Bhangra, Varun Goswami, a sophomore in biology, and Heerangi Amin, a fresh-man in animal science, perform at the Best Dance Crews competition Sunday night. Their ensemble was one of the !nalists in the dance-o" but lost to the Clogging team.

N.C. STATE’S BEST DANCE CREW COMPETITION

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THE TRANSITION ONLINEJim Ceresnak, student body president-elect, has a blog with a short introduction to the junior in political science and links to help students get involved in his team of supporters.The Web site also contains Ceresnak’s platform and offers ways students can contact the incoming student body president.

SOURCE: STUDENTS.NCSU.EDU/TRANSITION

READ MORE ABOUT JIM CERESNAK Student Body President for 2009 - 2010 Jim Ceresnak has

a variety of platform goals he said he hopes to accomplish and challenges he will inevitably face in the upcoming year whether it is delaying spring break a week or dealing with ongoing budget cuts.

Ceresnak ran on a platform of unifying the campus and its students and promoting financial solutions, student life solutions and enhancing traditions.

Check out more in Technician and on www.technicianonline.com this week about Ceresnak’s life as a student and his new life as SBP.

“It’s easier to manage if we have a tight-knit staff to begin with.”

Student Body President Jim Ceresnak on his new staff

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LIVE, PLAY, AND CREATE TOGETHER“The Arts Village is

a home away from home.”

–Jason CooperWant to live in Arts Village?

Deadline to apply: April 13, 2009

For more information:ncsu.edu/arts/artsvillage

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Florida, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Louisiana,

Georgia, Michigan and Indiana

From: U.S. Department of Energy

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Saja Hindi at [email protected].

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THROUGH CHRISTIN’S LENS

Suited for Greek life, a chant for brotherhood begins

Jerry Vaughn, a sophomore in computer science, demonstrates as a pledge for Omega Psi Phi, Inc. fraternity in the Brick-yard. The pledges stood in a single file line, wearing classic black and white suits and would shout historical poems from the fraternity’s past, “Determination, courage ...” Vaughn chanted. The pledges would also run to greet other brothers that

would walk through the brickyard with a series of movements and chants as a form of respect and celebration

PHOTO BY CHRISTIN HARDY

CAMPUS CALENDARApril 2009

Su M T W Th F Sa

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5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30

Today EXAM TIPS WORKSHOPD.H. Hill Library, 10 to 11 a.m.

SOFTBALL QUICK SKILLS CHALLENGELower Miller Fields, 6:45 p.m.

POETRY READINGCaldwell Lounge , 7:30 p.m.

WednesdayEXAM TIPS WORKSHOPD.H. Hill Library, 3 to 4 p.m.

LOGIC AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE LECTUREWithers Hall, 4:30 p.m.

MOVIE: BLUE VINYLWitherspoon Cinema, 7 to 8:45 p.m.

ThursdayBUILDING BRIDGES WORKSHOPTalley Student Center, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

TURKISH-ISLAMIC ARTS PRESENTATIONSWilliams Hall, 4 to 6 p.m.

LECTURE ON OBAMADaniels Hall, 4:30 p.m.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LECTUREKamphoefner Hall, 6:15 to 7:30 p.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It wasn’t just Jordan or Lisa

or Facilities, but most importantly,

it was not the students making

the decision.”Brandon Moore, a junior

in chemical engineering, on the handling of the Becton

vandalism incident

POLICE BLOTTERFriday, April 312:40 AM | VIOLATION OF UNIVERSITY POLICYWolf Village Report of violation of university policy. Students were advised of smoking policy and Housing issued referral for housing violation. 7:45 AM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTYArmory Lot Report of vehicle breaking & entering. Owner of vehicle could not be located.

7:59 AM | FIRECarmichael GymFP responded to alarm determined to be false activation. 8:26 AM | SAFETY PROGRAMWakefield Middle School Mounted Officer conducted safety program. 9:27 AM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT/PERSONAL INJURYDan Allen/Thurman Dr Traffic accident between vehicle and bicycle. Student on bicycle was assisted to Student Health for treatment. 9:42 AM | SAFETY PROGRAMNelson Hall FP conducted evacuation drill. 10:07 PM | CONCERNED BEHAVIOROff Campus Student reported receiving harassing and threatening messages from another student. Incidents occurred off campus. Subject was referred to the university for Threatening Bodily Harm. 12:24 PM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYCameron Village ALE Officers requested NCSU PD meet in reference to Judicial Referrals. Student was arrested and charged with DWI. Second student was arrested and charged with underage alcohol violation and resist/obstruct/delay. Both student were referred to the university. 2:05 PM | B/E VEHICLEES King Village Student reported theft of satellite radio from unlocked vehicle. 3:41 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT/PROPERTY DAMAGEDan Allen/Thurman DrNCSU PD investigated accident resulting in property damage.

4:17 PM | TRAFFIC STOPSullivan Drive Student was issued citation for speeding.

5:56 PM | SPECIAL EVENT Lee Field Officer monitored Relay for Life. 7:18 PM | SPECIAL EVENTTalley Student Center Officer monitored Step Show. 7:37 PM | FIRE ALARMTalley Student Center Units responded to alarm. Cause unknown. System reset.

IN THE KNOW OIT o!ers exam tips

With exams starting in three weeks, the Office of Advising Support, Informa-tion and Services is hosting two exam tip workshops.

The two workshops, on today, and one April 8, will assist students in acheiveing their desired grade.

The workshop will focus on discovering what material will be on the test, different test formats and student re-sponsibilities.

For more information, an e-mail can be sent to [email protected].

SOURCE: NCSU.EDU

OEO jeopardy aims to inform

The Office of Equal Opportu-nity is hosting a Jeopardy game April 8.

The Equal Opportunity Jeop-ardy game is a game for teams that will review equal employ-ment opportunity laws and history, affirmative action and diversity.

Although no real money will be handed out, the game prom-ises to be educational and fun.

To register for this event, stu-dents should visit www.ncsu.edu/equal_op/education.html.

SOURCE: NCSU.EDU

Yale rep to speak on Obama"

The Department of Philoso-phy and Religion has invited Katie Lofton of Yale University to speak April 9.

Lofton will be analyzing and discussing “The Oprah-fication of Obama.”

The event will be in Daniels Hall room 218, at 4:30.

For further information, stu-dents should send an e-mail to [email protected].

SOURCE: NCSU.EDU

Sigma Pi to Skate for Sam

The Rho Chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity International will be holding its annual philanthropy event April 15 from 6 to 9 p.m., Skate for Sam, at the Cary Ice

House, entry is $8. Proceeds will benefit the Sam Spady Foundation founded in honor of the late Samantha Spady who passed away from alco-hol poisoning.

The foundation’s mission is to combat alcohol poi-soning through educational programs, speaking engage-ments, and asserting the need to be responsible.

F o r m o r e i n f o r m a -tion, email Peter Barnes at [email protected].

SOURCE: PETER BARNES,

SOPHOMORE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

WORLD & NATIONBiden back in N.C.

Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Wednesday, April 8th to welcome home the XVIII Airborne Corps back from Iraq. This is the XVIII Airborne Corps’ second deployment to Iraq since 2006. Vice President Biden will deliver remarks at the Welcome Home Ceremony.

SOURCE: WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

California Pistachio plants have traces of salmonella

FRESNO, Calif. — Food and Drug Administration officials confirmed they found traces of the deadly bacteria salmonella in a California pistachio processing plant.

Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc., the second-largest pistachio processor in the nation, temporarily shut down after it voluntarily recalled more than 2 million pounds of nuts last week. Setton Pistachio supplies nuts to Kraft Foods In. and 35 other wholesalers across the Country.

So far, consumers have to reported illnesses from eating tainted pistachios.

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Man on probation for mailing feces

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A Sioux Falls man is on probation for three years after he pleaded guilty to a count of mailing injurious articles after he mailed animal feces to the Minnehaha County Clerk of Courts.

Jeffrey Dezeeuw, 45, smeared animal excrement on a traffic citation he received, and mailed it July 21.

Dezeeuw was also fined $500 and $451 in restitution.

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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different depending on the position.

“It’s based on the type of ap-pointment it is,” Rogers said. “There are certain positions for Student Government that

need to continue working over the summer so those obviously need to be filled.”

As for Rogers’ transition into Senate president, the junior in political science said things have been going smoothly.

“I have started looking through the old files of Senate presidents and seeing issues they have fought for as well,” she said. “It’s

giving me new and fresh ideas.”Lipka said the transition pro-

cess is difficult because everyone must be on the same page at all times.

“The hardest thing is bringing everybody up to speed,” he said. “There is so much Jay has done that it makes it difficult to make sure everyone knows what he has done.”

tance of acting quickly in order to assure the appeals process could begin.

“I encourage you to appeal your charge -- you feel it is un-just, and if you are choosing to appeal, do so in a timely manner.” Luzader said.

Luzader said the residents were charged because they failed to take action and find who committed the vandal-ism.

“Because you as a collective chose to be passive, you are being charged, but if a respon-sible party is found, I would be more then happy to credit all of your accounts,” Luzader said during the forum. “What it comes down to is students need to ensure they are taking responsibility for their com-munity.”

Luzader also said the in-cident should serve as a re-minder to residents about what

“Generally and specifically this is a sobering experience for the community,” Luzader said. “It has been challenging and it has presented its strug-gles, but in the end students need to be aware of the people in the community.”

Throughout the meeting, Luzader challenged the resi-dents of the Quad to commit to not letting a similar inci-

dent happen again in an effort to protect the University, but Moore said he was mostly concerned at how the decision-making pro-cess appeared to be devoid of any student input, and wanted to as-sure that future incidents would be handled differently.

“You really need to get infor-mation from the people affect-ed before a decision is made,” Moore said. “We want to know if they’re going to change that for the future.”

Lisa LaBarbera, the associate director of East Campus, said residents should not allow the incident to fragment the com-munity.

“This is an amazing commu-nity that has so much to offer,” LaBarbera said. “The students here cannot let one action af-fect the impact this community makes on the campus.”

Moore said the residents don’t blame any one person or depart-ment for the decision to charge the community for the damage, but added that the main issue was the lack of student input in the deliberations.

“Nobody is solely responsible because it was a collaborative ef-fort,” Moore said. “It wasn’t just Jordan or Lisa or Facilities, but most importantly it was not the students making the decision.”

News editor Ty Johnson contributed to this report.

Coleman said the lights and functions of the tower are all in place, ranging from a Carolina blue minimum level to an N.C. State red top lev-el complete with a police siren at the top to indi-cate maximum noise.

Coleman said the meter can be altered for games where crowds aren’t at maximum, and increased for bigger games at large venues.

“We’re ranging it from 90 to 130 decibels,” he said. “But at softer noise level games we can

change the range to 50 to 90. An average conversation is around 60 decibels, so it gives fans a de-cent chance to get loud.”

Coleman said the finished product will await Dawkins’ ap-proval, and the outgoing student

body president has plans for a large unveiling ceremony at a game some-time this year.

“He has a master plan of what he wants done with it,” Coleman said.

“He has a planned setting to bring it out in front of the crowd so everyone can see it.”

Wilson said the design team was pleased with its progress, and is glad to have extra time to

work on the design of the tower. Finishing the structure early will prevent the team - made up largely of engineers - from hav-ing to rush through the final phase of the project.

“Everybody is happy with the result,” Coleman said. “If we don’t finish up this weekend we’ll definitely take care of it next weekend.”

TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANUsing a hand sander, Danny Heater, senior in industrial systems engineering, !nishes a cabinet in the basement of Daniels Hall. “The cabinet is usually a juniors’ project, but this is something nobody actually !nished last year, so I’m !nishing it for the ISE o"ce upstairs,” Heater said. “I’m just about to engrave the ISE logo with a LASER printer.”

PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES BECTONcontinued from page 1

LEADERScontinued from page 1

METERcontinued from page 1

BECTON INCIDENT TIMELINEFeb. 24Key fob access extended to include entireQuad.

Feb. 279:30 a.m. Resident advisor reports vandalism.Campus police investigate.

Feb. 28Facilities staff attempts to repair stall.Work order for replacement door andwall sent.

Mar. 910 p.m. Residents of floor where vandalismtook place hold meeting. Deadlineof Mar. 15 given for student to claim responsibility.

Mar. 11Anonymous student repairs stall.

Mar. 12Quad residents informed of incident andactions by Jordan Luzader via e-mail.

Mar. 15Deadline for student to admit to vandalismpasses, all residents and studentslogged as entering the building beforethe vandalism was discovered held responsible.

Apri 5Administrators and residents meet to discuss incident and appeals process.

SOURCE: JORDAN LUZADER E!MAIL,STEVEN RODRIGUEZ, TIM

DANNENHOFFER, BRANDON MOORE

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“We’re ranging it from 90 to 130

decibels.”James Coleman, senior in electrical engineering

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A group called Finish the Bell Tower is raising mon-ey and creating awareness

for the need to put bronze bells in the Memorial Bell Tower.

The original design for the Bell Tower in the 1920s called for a 54-bell carillon system to be placed in the World War I me-morial, and the group’s ultimate goal is to finish the plan.

The group’s first step is to raise about $300,000 for the first six, largest bells.

Though it may not seem like the best time to renovate, Matt Robbins, graduate student in ar-chitecture and head of the Bell Tower project, said the price of bronze has dropped significantly because of the recession.

Also, the creators of the project

have students in mind because they refuse to create a student fee to help pay for it and instead are asking for donations from stu-dents and asking them to pur-chase T-shirts.

Unfortunately, the group can-not go through with their plans until the Bell Tower is renovated.

The governor’s ban on new construction is preventing the group from moving forward, even though the University has already allocated money to reno-vate.

But students should still work to raise funds for the worthy cause.

Students should show enthusi-

asm and support the project be-cause it would only be finishing what our forefathers started in the 1920s, according to Robbins.

The Bell Tower is one of the most well-known and most used symbols of the University and it deserves to be respected, let alone finished.

Finishing the Bell Tower means more than just making it prettier or putting a couple bells in it.

First and foremost, it would be finishing the memorial for the 33 students who died in World War I.

They deserve our respect, even if comes 90 years down the road.

Secondly, it would help unify

campus. Because the Bell Tower project is a student-led initiative, it would help create a unified campus.

And when the project is com-plete with 54 bells, the Bell Tower will be able to play songs that raise school spirit, such as the alma mater and the Fight Song.

Finishing the Bell Tower may be the boost in school spirit the Uni-versity needs, especially because donations will fund the project and it would be a way to pay our respect to those the University lost in WWI.

If students want to have a single symbol of the University that unifies them, then they must support finishing the Bell Tower.

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. THE ISSUE:The Bell Tower does not meet the expectations of the original designers.

OUR OPINION:Finishing the Bell Tower would respect students who died in WWI and create unity and school spirit on campus and in the Wolfpack community.

THE SOLUTION:Students should support finishing the Bell Tower.

Help !nish the Memorial Bell Tower!OUR VIEW"

With all this rain, it’s nice to know we won’t hear complaints about the drought this year!

Conrad Plyler, freshman in political science

“Yes, because it’s a tradition to have a bell in a Bell Tower, and we should have one for the University.”

Chad Gri!nfreshman, aerospace engineering

“Yes, because it’s deceitful to have a Bell Tower and not have a bell in it.”

Alex Clontzfreshman, business

“No, because it just seems like at this point, it’s just extra expenses. It’s been so long, it just seems unnecessary.”

Bradley Mitchellsophomore, literature

BY DAVID MABE

Do you support putting bells in the Bell Tower? Why or

why not?

IN YOUR WORDS! "

I really wonder sometimes who the pollsters find for these so-called “public

opinion polls.” Despite their assurances that it is a demo-graphi-cally equi-table dis-tribution, I still main-t a i n my doubts.

Notably in this realm, I must wonder about a poll Elon University conducted in February.

In its f indings, the poll showed 73 percent of North Carolinians supported (or strongly supported) an increase in the State’s cigarette tax.

The only thing I can conclude is that 73 per-cent of North Carolinians approve of maliciously deceptive legislation.

Funda-mentally, Gov. Bev Perdue has declared war on one product, not on the colossal tax deficit in this State.

The enormous deficit she helped to create while serv-ing as the state’s chief budget writer and later as lieutenant

governor is nothing more than a muse to go after tobacco.

Perdue must feel like a hero right now. She received nearly incontrovertible support on a righteous bill “that will improve both the physical and financial health of North Carolina for generations.”

Now I must wonder if anyone has actually read H640, also known as the Increase Tobacco Products Tax Bill.

When I did I found out the original bill contained an in-crease on the tax levied upon cigarettes by 1.75 cents per ciga-rette and other tobacco products by 10 percent.

This version raises those values to 5.5 cents per cigarette and 31

percent respec-tively. That is not a contrar-ian ef fort to close the deficit.

This tax is an outright attack on c iga ret te smokers and the 65,000 jobs the cigarette companies ma i nta i n i n this State.

Perhaps the governator will

have her eyes set on obesity next and decide that ice cream is the real culprit to this state’s “physi-cal and financial health.”

Calling upon her TarHellnet of loyal legislators, she’ll have them draft a bill that reads like this:

House Bill 666 Short Title : Increase

Dairy Damage Awareness Tax

An act to increase the tax for ice cream and other ice cream products and to pro-vide increased funds to meet the cardiovascular health and substance abuse needs of citizens of the State.

In Section 1, it states a tax is levied on the sale or pos-session for sale in this state, by a distributor, of all ice cream products at the rate of 50 cents per scoop or equivalent.

The United States is a large nation with significant fund-ing requirements throughout all levels of the government. In an attempt to cover these obligations for North Caroli-na, the governator has turned to the Democrats’ old faithful and decided to tax.

There is a big difference though between raising taxes and attacking a specific prod-uct that has been staple of this region for hundreds of years.

The governator’s deceptive attack on North Carolinians seems to have gone under the radar this time. In the future though, the citizens of North Carolina need to be aware and ready to rise up against the machine.

Let Russell know your

thoughts at [email protected].

Russell WithamSenior Sta! Columnist

The governator of the East reigns in North Carolina

“This tax is an outright attack on cigarette smokers

and the 65,000 jobs the cigarette

companies maintain ...”

Stop the ignoranceThis is in response to the campus

forum letter, “Factory Farm Responsible for Animal Cruelty,” in the April 1 Technician. Contrary to popular belief, farmers have a passion for their animals and spend a lot of time and money to protect them and prevent illness and injury.

When most people see those pictures of the poor sheep with their tails docked, or the chickens with their beaks trimmed, they feel bad for them and don’t realize that the farmer does this for the animals own welfare. Docking a sheep’s tail prevents feces build up and infection that can kill them. It is not done to torture the animal and after just about a minute, the animal is up and running around again like nothing happened.

Chickens do not get their beaks “sliced off.” They are trimmed, leaving about three fourths of the beak and many people don’t know that this is done because chickens have a tendency of cannibalism. Trimming the chickens’ beaks simply stops them from killing one another.

It is simply incorrect and ignorant to suggest that it is common to see cattle and pigs skinned and dismembered while still fully conscious. In every major industry there will be people who do it the wrong way, and animal rights activist groups are excellent at finding the people in the agricultural industry who even make me sick. If it were honestly like that, even I would be a vegan! But I’m here to tell you, it is not. These animals are these people’s livelihood and are respected.

Jamie L. Jordanjunior, biological sciences

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Unions bene#t workersNo one is surprised that the

McDonald’s and Wal-Marts of the world have come out against the Employee Free Choice Act, a piece of legislation that would give workers the freedom to choose how to form a union. Even though worker productivity has soared over the last 25 years, wages have gone stagnant. Working families have had to turn to second jobs, credit cards and toxic loans just to stay afloat. Meanwhile, corporate executives squander workers’ increasing profitability on their golden-toilet lifestyles (AIG, anyone?).

There’s no question that we need to bring a sense of balance back to our economy and our places of work. The Employee Free Choice Act would restore workers’ freedom by allowing them to choose if and how they form a union (instead of that choice being in the hands of the employer, as under the current law), enforcing greater penalties on employers who intimidate and harass their workers, and providing a mediator, if requested, to aid in the contract negotiation process.

Why fight for unions? Union jobs provide better pay and benefits to workers than do non-union jobs, secure safe working conditions and establish grievance procedures that allow workers to report discrimination and harassment. We can all thank unions for the eight-hour workday, unemployment insurance, Social

Security and the minimum wage.We must act now to protect our

wages and benefits in a crippled economy. We need to protect our workers in these hard times, not with handouts, but by paying them fair wages for an honest days work. If American workers go down, the economy goes down with us. Let’s stop talking about bailouts for Wall Street execs and start talking about greater voice and choice for our workers here in North Carolina. Please join us in supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. To learn more, go to www.employeefreechoiceact.org

Julianne PayneN.C. State’s Student-Worker Alliance

Animals treated unfairlyWhile reading Zakk White’s article,

“Veganism meat-and logic- free,” from it was hard to tell if this was serious journalism or a late April Fool’s joke. White states in the article that “it is unreasonable to have the goal of relieving the suffering of all animals because if all animals were set free, a possible outcome would be that those who have a taste for meat would illegally hunt the larger animals to extinction.”

Obviously, a vegetarian nirvana is not going to occur overnight and everyone will set all the animals free into the wild and live happily ever after. It’s about humane treatment for these animals. White also explained that “through farming, we are able to control population and protect animals.” Protection for the animals? Animals are drugged to grow as big as possible, as fast as possible, to the point where they cannot carry their own weight.

They are forced to lay in their own filth in cages that they cannot turn around in. Many are conscious while being skinned, chopped and having their throats slit. Maybe Mr. White could have included those facts before stating that veganism is illogical. Just because animals will never be seen as “equal” to humans does not mean they should be stripped of their own rights.

Emily Peterson junior, textiles

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This Sunday we celebrate the One who uniquely claimed to be God, lived a perfect life, offers us forgiveness, and rose from the dead on the third day after he was crucified. For us. That’s real love. And most uniquely, Jesus Christ pursues a relationship with us. Unlike religions that try to reach their God, with Christ you see God reaching out to us. He came to give us an eternal life with him, for those who will trust him and desire a relationship with him.

And it’s not just a Sunday thing. Being a follower of Jesus is an inter-active relationship with the living God. The way we look at every part of life is influenced by that relationship, beginning with changing our eternal destiny. It cannot be compart-mentalized. It affects the way we look at the poor, the environment, the arts, and justice. We are followers of Christ ourselves: faculty and staff at NC State. We would love to interact with you more about this. We invite you to check out EveryStudent.com. Also, check out the spiritual journeys of a community of professors at MeetTheProf.com.

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A Day to Remember has been around for a while. The band, whose humble beginnings date back to 2003, has put out three albums, including the band‚Äôs latest, Homesick. They have toured relentlessly, creating a major following and making them a heavy contender in the alternative music scene. Over the years ADTR has tweaked their sound in order to com-bine catchy guitar riffs and an overall pop-punk sound with the signature metalcore voice of lead singer Jeremy McKinnon. Homesick proves that ADTR have finally reached the pinnacle of the pop-punk/hardcore sound that they have been striving for.

From the get go, Homesick grabs hold of your eardrums and doesn’t let go. Consisting of amazing vocals, heart throb-bing beats and a number of vocal guests including Mike Hranica from The Devil Wears Prada and Sierra Kusterbeck from Versa Emerge, this album keeps you hooked throughout the en-tire 40 minutes. The first track, “The Downfall of us All”, sets the overall mood for this album with gang vocals followed by McKin-non screaming “Let’s go!”‚ and a guitar riff that gets your blood flowing and adrenaline pump-ing. From that moment on, the album takes you through twelve tracks dealing with the band’s inner turmoil of life on the road while missing their loved ones and the town they grew up in.

The album presses on

with melodic tracks that have a catchy and pop-punk sound, such as “My Life for Hire”‚ and “I’m Made of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made of?”, all the while intermingling McK-innon’s powerful voice and the ear-busting guitar riffs that the band is known for. From there the album transitions straight into the track “Mr. Highway’s Thinking About the End”, which has a sound reminiscent to the likes of Underoath’s Define The Great Line.

Midway through Homesick, the track “Have Faith in Me”, a song about never wanting to leave a loved one, starts off to a beautiful guitar solo helping to slow down the tempo. McKin-non’s soothing voice helps to bring the listener back out of the trance as the beat picks up with the lyrics “I said I’d never let you go, and I never did/I said I’d nev-er let you fall, and I always meant it.” Just as you think the album is going in one direction, the next track “Welcome to My Family” hits you like a ton of bricks. It wakes you up and shows that ADTR has gotten transitioning from pop-punk to metalcore

down to a science. Homesick is A Day to Re-

member’s best album to date, intermingling what normally would be considered conf lict-ing sounds into an alternative rock masterpiece. The band has bridged the gap for listeners on either side of the music spectrum and will continue to rule the pop-punk/hardcore scene, until they truly do become homesick, which hopefully won’t be any time soon.

‘Homesick’ bridges gap for fans

New model gets nitrous

A Day to RememberHOMESICKLABEL: VICTORY RECORDSRELEASED: FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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Morgan McCormickStaff Writer

Here is the sum total of my knowledge about cars—spoilers look like tanning beds, manual is the only way to drive and when you pass a school bus you get five points. I don’t know where ex-actly these points are going but ideally I can cash them in for a toaster oven or a dinette set.

The other thing I know about cars is that movies about them are typically big wet piles of suck, because all the car chases in the universe have been done and over done. It took Quentin Tarantino putting a stunt driver’s life in ac-tual danger in Death Proof just to get my attention, which says a little too much about my affin-ity for sadism, but I refuse to be judged by you “normal” people, so there.

So here’s Fast and Furious, fasterer and furiouser than ever in the fourth movie of the series about men who crash cars and the scantily clad women who love them. Vin Diesel returns and is now literally a diesel fu-eled 18-wheeler, with biceps as big as most people’s Labradors and a muscle frame that could charitably be called gigantic and realistically called Texas. He gets tangled up with Crisco-tanned hunksicle du jour Paul Walker, who since the first two movies has managed to join the FBI in what I can only assume was a hire from the current admin-istration’s desire to put the sex back in Federal Bureau of Insex-tigation.

See, it’s in there. The joke works, OK?

Anyway, they get involved with guns and drugs somewhere along the way because what else do underground street racers do in their spare time? Y’know, besides prostitutes.

Zing!Also, how many times does

a movie drug baron have to be Hispanic before it’s considered racist? This movie answers that question.

I’m cracking a lot of wises be-cause if you’ve seen any movie in the past decade that involved the driving in or theft of really

nice motor vehicles that you’ll never own in your entire life ever, you’ve seen this movie.

Highlights include a lot of un-intentionally hilarious moments of dialogue where the writers were trying to catch the previ-ously unfurioused members

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“Also, how many times does a movie drug baron have to be Hispanic

before it’s considered racist?”

TRACK LIST FROM HOMESICK 1. The Downfall Of Us All2. My Life For Hire 3. I’m Made Of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of? 4. NJ Legion Iced Tea 5. Mr. Highway’s Thinking About The End 6. Have Faith In Me 7. Welcome To The Family8. Homesick 9. Holdin’ It Down For The Underground 10. You Already Know What You Are 11. Another Song About The Weekend 12. If It Means A Lot To You

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Andrew JohnsonSenior Staff Writer

Filmmakers, press and members of the public from all over the world gathered at the Carolina Theater in Dur-ham over the weekend to en-joy the 12th Full Frame docu-mentary film festival, which concluded Sunday. Nearly 100 films were screened over the course of the festival’s four days, nearly 60 of which were in competition for various awards.

The opening night film cho-sen to usher in the festival was Sons of Cuba, which docu-ments the intense training undertaken by twelve-year old boxers in Cuba as they prepare for the national champion-ship. Di-rector An-drew Lang was present a f t e r t h e screening to partake in a conversa-tion moder-ated by Hoop Dreams di-rector Steve James.

“I found my s e l f i n this f lood-lit training ground... And I thought, I’m going to make the film about these kids,” Lang said. “We finished the film three days ago.”

The big winner of the festi-val was Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country, a sus-penseful and eye-opening ex-

ploration of underground jour-nalism in the totalitarian state of Myanmar. Directed by Anders Ostergaard, the film is comprised mainly of handicam footage shot in secret by reporters from the Democratic Voice of Burma, an underground movement that smuggles the footage out of the country in the hopes of gaining international attention.

“It was very intense. I knew in general Burma was kind of a bad place, but nothing to that extent. It hit me hard,” Ragan Dalton, a senior in film studies, said.

Burma VJ won the Grand Jury Award, along with the Center For Documentary Studies Film-maker Award and the Working Films Award.

A Special Jury Award was pre-sented to Un-mistaken Child, which follows a Buddhist monk over the course of f ive years as he searches Nepal for the reincarnation of his mentor. Neither Anders Ostergaard, d i r e c t o r o f Burma VJ, nor Nat i Baratz , director of Un-mistaken Child, were present to accept their

prizes.N.C. State was present in more

ways than one at the festival this year. An N.C. State alum, Robert Greene, had a film accepted into the festival. In his film, Own-ing the Weather, he explores the history of weather modification and how human beings interact

with climate.“I thought it was really well-

done and beautifully shot,” Dal-ton said. “I didn’t know that modification was any big deal, and so the film taught me more about that.”

Another one of the favorite films viewed by filmgoers was The Visitors, which chronicles the long journey a group of wom-en must make to see their loved ones in prison. The film was the first feature-length documentary directed by Melis Birder, who had personal experience visiting an ex-boyfriend in jail.

“I really want to bring this film to prison towns to show the peo-ple there what the visitors are go-ing through. Most of the inmates don’t know their loves ones are going through these hardships just to see them,” Birder said. “I really want to use this as a tool to create some kind of change.”

Despite the absence of usual sponsor The New York Times and fewer big-name celebrities than in previous years (such as Michael Moore and Martin Scorsese), Full Frame was crowd-ed and many films sold out over

the course of the weekend. Final numbers have not been released, but early estimations suggest that ticket sales increased from the nearly 29,000 issued in 2008. Dalton said he hoped the festi-val would continue to grow and more N.C. State students would attend next year.

“You get to see films that you wouldn’t get to see anywhere else, and you actually get to

hear why films were made and behind-the-scenes looks at film-making,” Dalton said.

Look for an interview in Arts & Entertainment next week with director Robert Greene about Owning the Weather and his ex-periences at the Full Frame film festival.

UP AND COMING

Music (Released April 7) Artist: Rascal FlattsAlbum: UnstoppableLabel: Lyric Street

Artist: Jason AldeanAlbum: Wide OpenLabel: Broken Bow

Artist: MIMSAlbum: GuiltLabel: Capitol/EMI

Artist: Neil YoungAlbum: Fork in the RoadLabel: Reprise

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Video GamesApril 5Rhythm Heaven (DS)

April 6WarioWare: Snapped! (DS)Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II (PSP)

April 7Godfather II (XBOX 360, PS3, PC)Elven Legacy (PC)The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (XBOX 360, PS3, PC)Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor (PC)Ninja Blade (XBOX 360)Flock (XBOX 360, PS3, PC)Hannah Montana: The Movie (XBOX 360, PS3, Wii, DS)Hammerin’ Hero (PSP)DCS: Black Shark (PC)Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (PS2, PSP)

April 8Dragon Ball: Evolution (PSP)

April 9Helldorado (PC)

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Movies (Opening April 10)DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTIONStudio: 20th Century FoxSynopsis: Set in the world of the widely successful shows of Akira Toriyama, this movie tells the story of a team of fighters, each of whom has special abilities to add. This team is determined to protect the Earth from forces trying to capture the Dragon-balls.

OBSERVE AND REPORTStudio: Warner Bros.Synopsis: The story of a hyper-intense head of security at a mall as he at-tempts to keep shoppers safe from mall miscreants. When the mall’s patrons are terrorized by a flasher, the hero (Seth Rogen) sees his oppor-tunity to prove himself to the police academy and Brandi (Anna Faris).

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At !e Pour HouseApril 7

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C-PHLAT W/ WRECKED AT BREAKFAST & ROCKET SURGEON & WATTS EUPHORICAdoors: 8 p.m.show: 9 p.m.

April 9

PHASE ZERO “THE FAREWELL SHOW” W/ ALLIED THREAT & LACTOSE QUERVOdoors: 8 p.m.show: 9 p.m.

April 10

THE POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL’S $2 SHOWCASEdoors: 7 p.m.show: 8 p.m.

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At !e Lincoln !eatreApril 9

THE DESIGN W/ SUN DOMINGOdoors: 8 p.m.show: 9 p.m.

April 10

BOMBADIL W/ BENJI HUGHES / LOST IN THE TREESdoors: 8 p.m.show: 9 p.m.

April 11

URBAN SOPHISTICATES / O PERIOD / THE BEASTdoors: 8 p.m.show: 9 p.m.

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COURTESY JORDAN MENDYS/FULL FRAME

“I really want to bring this film to prison towns to show the people there what the

visitors are going through.”

Melis Birderdirector, The Visitors

of the audience up on what happened in the first film. Thus a lot of conversations end up like, “I’m angry at you for betraying me but am still secretly love you.” “I am apologetic for my betraying you and am also still secretly in love with you.”

As for the action, well, let’s say that this is not a movie for people who like cars, this is a movie for people who like car pieces — on fire. This is a movie for anarchists and counterculture types who like to see the upper class’ metallic wieners blown into smither-eens’ smithereens. This not so much a gearhead’s paradise as it is an auto insurance sales-man’s nightmare, as none of the characters have any spe-cial love for their machines.

The actual car chases are decently pulse-pounderific, enough so that me and the rest of the ADD crowd who wage a daily war trying not to run into oncoming traf-fic to retrieve shiny pennies won’t get distracte—what was I talking about? Ooh look, a plastic bag!

Normally I’m the first to tear movies apart for bad CG, and let me tell you that a lot of these car chases happened on a hard drive and not in a hardtop, but they make it work by keeping the crashes fairly frequent and ensuring the audience never goes ten seconds without a Diesel-trademarked eye narrowing plus grunting combo.

And you ladies out there better be prepared to grow some hair on your chest and make vroom vroom noises, because this is a bad guys only affair. It’s really disappointing that there aren’t any wicked cool fems in this movie, and had I known this would be a

sausage fest, I’d have spent the six dollar ticket on breakfast at Denny’s.

Perhaps I’ve finally gone main-stream, but you could settle for worse action movies than this. But if you want an action movie recommendation I suggest you go see Taken again. It owns your soul anyway so you might as well get used to it.

So, do you like watching Top Gear, counting your muscles and seeing fiery balls of doom con-sume illegal street racers? Then this is the only movie for you, you big sick freaks.

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HOW THE MOVIES STACK UP:For this comparison, the scale of Rotten Tomatoes will be used. This scale shows the percentage of positive reviews (fresh tomatoes). In other words, low percentages means larger numbers of bad reviews. These reviews are submitted by “Approved Tomatometer Critics”, according to the Web site.

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS

Tomatometer: 53%Rated: PG-13Runtime: 1 hr 47 minsRelease Date: June 22, 2001Box Office: $142,542,950

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FAST & FURIOUS

Tomatometer: 24%Rated: PG-13Runtime: 1 hr 39 minRelease Date: April 3, 2009Box Office: $70,950,500

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Sportsfloor on multiple occasions, Jef-frey Brookshire, the captain of WPW United and a junior in me-chanical engineering, said he en-joyed the intramural season and the championship game because it gave him the opportunity to enjoy the game of basketball with his friends.

“We just had fun and that was the bottom line. It is nice play-ing basketball for one last time before we all graduate,” Brook-shire said. “We’re happy we made it this far. They were a good team and we played some really good teams in this tournament, this just happened to be the one that got us today.”

The game was a contested af-fair from start to finish, and the crowd of more than 200 com-bined with the intensity of the players to create an atmosphere Griep said made the game all the more enjoyable.

“It was awesome. It was like high school basketball all over again,” Griep said. “It is fun and a lot more enjoyable because the adrenaline stays a little bit longer. It is a great environment and I am glad they set up the bleachers for us. That was really awesome.”

With the exception of the game’s waning seconds, the crowd was at its loudest after a

seemingly impossible 3-point shot by Matt “Ice” Kostelic, a junior in biological sciences. The shot came on an inbounds pass that was thrown with 1.4 seconds left in the first half. The ball fell through the net as the time expired, bringing many in the crowd to their feet.

“I was just thinking, if I can get a little bit of an opening and get a shot off, I can try to give us a little momentum going into the second half,” Kostelic said. “I got it and fired it and luckily it went in.”

The defense in the last minute of the game demonstrated just how badly the players wanted to win, as both teams forced each other into multiple turnovers and struggled to score. In the end, WPW United was unable to close the two-point gap, as they failed to score on each of their last several offensive series. The outcome was finally decided on Griep’s free throws.

“I had some confidence coming into those free throws because I had hit my first three mid-range shots,” Griep said. “So I was con-fident and I was thinking, if I can just make one, we can be able to pretty much have a victory.”

Senior pitcher continues to improve and set an example for players

Taylor BarbourStaff Writer

In only her second year at N.C. State, se-nior pitcher Mendy McKenzie is not only performing at a high level on the mound, but is a team leader on a softball team full of underclassmen. McKenzie, who is one of only two seniors on this year’s softball team, is second on the team in wins with seven including three shutouts.

However, the real importance that McKen-zie has had on her team is providing leader-ship for such a young group.

“It’s been fun to watch her develop from last year, coming in and understanding that every pitch matters and that in everything she does we depend on her,” coach Lisa Na-vas said. “Mendy is a good person, she is a good friend to the kids. They can talk to her. She always has a smile on her face, except when she is on the mound. She is pretty stoic, which is how she should be.”

According to Navas, the way in which McKenzie shows leadership is the greatest part of her game. She said she is able to lead by example and is always receptive to anyone who wishes to talk to her.

“She is a person the players can talk to, she isn’t going to yell at anybody,” Navas said.

“She knows she has a job to do.” McKenzie originally went to Western Car-

olina University, where as a freshman she was named to All-Southern Conference first team and was named female student athlete

of the year for Western Carolina. After her sophomore season she transferred to N.C. State.

“I wasn’t happy where I was,” McKenzie said. “This is a very good program and a very big program, and I knew I could get better here.”

Being one of only two seniors, McKen-zie strives to do whatever she can to help her teammates whether she is on the field or not.

“I always want to try to be a leader and help them in a positive way whether I am playing or not,” McKenzie said. “I just want to help them anyway possible.”

With McKenzie having one of her best seasons this year, Navas credits her suc-cess to an increase in confidence and fo-cus on each and every pitch.

“Confidence was low when she first got here, but now she has really built it up,” Navas said. “It’s confidence and believing in every pitch and that every pitch mat-ters. The cliché of one pitch at a time has really been her motto this year.”

However, McKenzie credits her coaches for-c her vast improvements in her game, going as far as to say that they are the best coaches she has ever had.

“My huge improvement was me coming here,” McKenzie said. “I have never had coaches like I have had here and it has helped a lot.”

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Money Bi$cuits defeats WPW United 49-44 to win Intramural Men’s Open Basketball Championship in front of packed gym

Tyler EverettStaff Writer

The 2009 men’s open in-tramural basketball season concluded Saturday night in a narrow championship vic-tory for Money Bi$cuits—the undefeated No. 1 seed com-ing into the tournament. They prevailed in the final seconds thanks to some crit-ical defensive stops and free throws, much to the delight of their rowdy cheering sec-tion which occupied nearly half the bleachers set up in Carmichael Gym for specta-tors.

Zach Griep, a 2007 gradu-ate and CSLEPS employee, sealed the deal with two free throws in the closing seconds to defeat WPW United, who also entered the game with a 9-0 record.

Griep said after the game he was thrilled to win a cham-pionship in an intramural league with so many com-petitors.

“This is awesome. [we had an] undefeated regular season coming into [the tourna-ment], so I’m just excited and happy for the guys,” Griep said. “Out of 120 something teams and we win, that’s ex-citing.”

Despite ending up on the losing end of an intense game that saw bodies dive to the

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SYNDEY DOTTERER/TECHNICIANGraham Hunt a player for WPW United goes up for a shot while being blocked by Money Bi$cuits players Zach Griep and Elliot Lucas during the men’s intramural basketball !nal Sunday night. Money Bi$cuits took the victory and the championship.

Mortlock adapts to tennis life at State

Become a CaniacThe post-season has re-

turned to Raleigh. And no, I don’t mean a Sweet

Sixteen run by our mediocre basketball team. Last Saturday,

the Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in overtime, se-curing their first run for the playoffs since win-n i n g t h e Stanley Cup in 2006.

Last Thursday, when the New York Rangers came to town, Canes fans packed the RBC Cen-ter for a sellout crowd. After be-ing tied 2-2 for a good stretch of the game, Chad LaRose snagged a loose puck in front of the net and the Canes took the lead. But things got even better, as 28 seconds later, captain Rod Brind’Amour rocketed a shot past goaltender Henrik Lun-dqvist to secure a 4-2 lead and the win. The sellout crowd gave the team a raucous standing ova-tion for well over three minutes. “The last time I heard it that loud was in the playoffs,” LaRose said in a postgame interview.

Now ask yourself – when is the last time that the RBC was rock-ing during a basketball game? I certainly don’t remember. The only game in recent memory that can compare to this caliber of support and excitement is when the buzzer sounded and the stu-dents rushed the court in 2007 as the basketball team sent the Tarheels packing.

If you’ve never been to a hock-ey game, here’s a word of advice – go. If you’ve carried that an-ti-hockey, “It’s a boring sport” sentiment around, just give the game a chance. We have a suc-cessful, winning team just down the road from campus. They just set a franchise record Sat-urday with 11 consecutive home wins and have won eight games straight.

A whiteboard in the hallway leading to the Canes bench dons the message “Good teams find a way to win.” This team is more than good, and they’ve certainly found a way to win.

The ever-growing fan base in North Carolina knows a little bit about Southern hospitality, and the hell of a time that’s called tailgating. A good number of Caniacs fire up the grill for the afternoon before a regular sea-son game. But during the NHL playoffs, you might think there was a game going on in Carter-Finley with the fans coming out in droves in their Wolfpack-red Canes jerseys.

Even if you can’t get a play-off ticket, round up a crew and go tailgate. There’s going to be more people in the parking lots than the arena can hold, and a lot of people without tickets, just watching the game on television outside. And if all else fails, at least you will be getting pumped up for what I’m hoping is an epic football season.

While N.C. State has been ex-periencing its own athletic let-downs, there is a winning team in town, and students should support them. I for one will be out in the lots, grillin’ and chillin’, giving high fives and doing the Ric Flair “Wooooo” on my way into the RBC Center. I’ve never been big on the idea of bandwagon fans…but if my fellow students want to jump on and cheer for my favorite team, then I hope to see y’all at the game, cheering ‘Let’s go Canes!’

Lindsey HallSenior Sta! Columnist

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Freshman Diana Mortlock made the trip from South Africa to make major contributions to the women’s tennis team

Elliot G. BormanStaff Writer

For freshman tennis player Diana Mortlock, making the transition to the United States was a long journey filled with social and cultural challenges and adjustments.

“Well I don’t have lions in my backyard.” She said with a chuckle, “when I first moved here that was the question ev-eryone asked me.”

Growing up in rural South Africa, far from the lion’s gate, but on a farm with sheep and cattle nonetheless, Mort-lock has already become one of the most dominant players on the women’s tennis team.

“I grew up in the middle of nowhere,” Mortlock said. “To play competitive tennis, I had to move away from home.”

She began her journey at 14 when she moved to a school three hours from her home to hone her tennis skills. During high school, she competed at an institution outside of Cape Town, nearly 10 hours from her home. Traveling for suc-cess has allowed her to gain recognition and make a name for herself separate from her mother’s success.

Mortlock’s mother, Linky Mortlock, won the doubles championship at the U.S. Open and finished runner-up in the French Open in 1976.

“My mom was a pro tennis player in the 70s,” Mortlock said. “She was my coach. I’ve loved be-ing around the game my entire life.”

Making the transition to the United States is a common oc-curence for many South African athletes.

“After junior tennis, a lot of players come to the U.S.” Mort-lock said. “That has been my plan ever since I was little.”

Mortlock grew up with two tennis courts in her backyard, and with practice and the influ-ence of a professional, she grew as a player and as a person.

“I didn’t start playing [com-petitively] everyday until the tenth grade. I don’t know if it was luck or just chance but God puts people in your life to help fulfill the path he has for me.”

Not knowing where she would end up, Mortlock came to the U.S. with a dream and a vision. She began her journey at the John Newcombe Tennis Acad-emy in Texas. It was there she was recruited by N.C. State’s tennis program.

“I didn’t know anything about colleges here. I wasn’t in contact with any coaches” she said. “My mom knew some people that lived [in the United States] and contacted a guy who put me in contact with universities. It’s amazing how everything just fell into place.”

The transition has been any-thing but easy for her, as she has dealt with moving across the country and getting situated in new cultures and environments.

“It has been difficult. South Africa is so laid back and slow paced,” she said. “Everything is really fast paced here. That was the biggest adjustment for me; [it is] a different lifestyle, a different culture, and a different world.”

Beyond tennis she is a well-

rounded person, being clas-sically trained in piano and guitar, and pursuing a degree in business management. As for her teammates, they have quickly fallen in love with her.

“No matter how bad of a day she’s had, she puts on a smile and makes you feel great,” senior Neils Barrin-ger said.

DAVID MABE/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOFreshman Diana Mortlock returns the ball during a doubles match against UNC-Chapel Hill Feb. 6.

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