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STEM majors not immune to attrition, dropping out

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extremely effective in driving down the price of solar energy. These solarfarm systems are going in at a rapid pace.”

Wind energy, on the other hand, is more complicated, Kalland said.

Military officials have said they’re worried wind farms could create barriers to their training.

Smaller startups are also making their impact on the renewable-energy scene, in the form of consultations and microgrid technology, according to Kyle Barth, a senior in

Due to the difficulty of degree programs in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, many students who are studying these fields at N.C. State are likely to either switch majors or even drop out.

STEM programs, which have won N.C. State global recognition for their research leadership initiatives, have high dropout rates nationally, according to a new study by the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.

According to the national study, 48 percent of students who entered college in the 2003-2004 academic year seeking a bachelor’s degree in a STEM major left the field before completing a degree.

Trey Standish, assistant director of enrollment planning for University Planning and Analysis, said students who enter STEM fields at N.C. State are likely to switch majors before graduation.

According to Standish, 59 percent of students who entered N.C. State between 2005 and 2007 in a STEM discipline graduated with a degree in that discipline within six years. Standish said that of those students who begin in STEM, 73 percent graduate with a degree at N.C. State.

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Fossil Free N.C. State participates in a protest of the Keystone pipeline in Washington D.C. Fossil Free advocates for the use of clean and renewable energy and decreasing reliance on fossil fuels.

N.C. seeks a sustainable future, faces policy fight Joseph Havey

Energy. Last month, Duke Energ y announced it would build three utilityscale solar-power projects, totaling 30 megawatts, in Eastern North Carolina.

In 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Renewable Portfolio Standard, which required that 12.5 percent of all energy must be generated by renewable sources by 2020.

“We’re working very hard to meet those standards,” Wheeless said.

According to Wheeless, Duke also has a growing portfolio for increasing the state’s generation of

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A combination of government policies, utilities companies, startups and activist groups are increasingly defining the path to renewable energy in North Carolina.

During the last seven years, Duke Energy, the sole provider of energy in North Carolina, spent $3 billion for renewable generations, according to Randy Wheeless, communication manager at Duke

solar power.

North Carolina Solar Center Executive Director Steve Kalland said the renewable energy climate in North Carolina is currently “a mixed bag” of solar, wind and biofuel sources. However, solar power stands apart from the rest as the cheapest and most convenient source of renewable energy for the state.

“The biggest piece of sustainability in North Carolina right now is solar farms,” Kalland said.

“The [RPS] law, along with 27 other similar laws in other states, has been

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48% of all students who entered in STEM fields between ‘03–’04 dropped out

59% who entered N.C. State between ‘05– ’07 graduated with STEM degree within 6 years

73 % of all students who start with STEM major graduate with a non-stem degree

41% of N.C. State students who start in STEM fields change majors or drop out GRAPHIC: AUSTIN BRYAN

Fast-food workers to walk out today in protest of minimum wage, union laws Staff Report

Fast-food workers in the Raleigh-Durham area will participate in a walkout today as part of a 100-city strike wave.

The Workers are demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation from their employer.

Workers participating in the strike include employees of McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and KFC. Members

of area churches, elected officials and community supporters are also planning to attend the strike.

According to a press release, the fast-food industry is recording record profits, though the workers low wages are forcing them to rely on government assistance that costs taxpayers $7 billion a year.

The Raleigh-Durham area is home to 22,240 fast food workers who make a median of $8.57 an hour. However,

a single parent with one child must make $20.07 an hour working full time in order to afford the basics, according to research by a professor at MIT. Strikes will also occur today in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Hartford, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland and Tampa.

This strike will be the latest in a reoccurring series of walkouts and protests by workers across the country.

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State legislatures to debate teacher pay when General Assembly resumes Hofmann protest scheduled for Friday

Protestors hang a banner from the balcony of the Erdahl-Cloyd wing at D.H. Hill Wednesday in response to plans to sell the Hofmann Forest.

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Students, faculty members and environmental activist groups are planning another protest of the Hofmann Forest sale in the Brickyard Friday.

The event will start at noon and build upon previous protests that occurred during the summer and earlier this semester, according to Ron Sutherland, a conservationist for the Wildlands Network.

“We’re trying to do bet-

ter with getting the word out about the protest, and we’re getting a lot of different groups involved,” Sutherland said.

Members from the groups that have expressed interest in attending the protest include the Sierra Club, Environment N.C. and the N.C. Policy Watch, according to Sutherland.

Sutherland said organizers of the protest want to voice their opinion and halt the sale of the Hofmann Forest.

“The purpose of Friday’s

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protest is to show that there’s a strong and united opposition to the idea of N.C. State breaking its promise of keeping a working forest,” Sutherland said. “We want to hold University administrators accountable for not conducting this sale the right way.”

Sutherland also said the protestors want to halt the current sale contract with Hofmann Forest LLC and make sure there is a working forest easement if the Hofmann is sold.

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A microgrid can connect and disconnect from a main power grid, enabling it to operate to provide power for itself without impacting the macroprovider, Barth said.

“Microgrids aren’t exactly anything brand new,” Barth said. “They are just a differ-

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uring the Holiday Meal, Mrs. Wuf wipes her tail on Mallory Jahanbozorgi, a freshman in communication, at Fountain Dining Hall. Jahanbozorgi had a conversation with the overly animated Mrs. Wuf. University Dining hosts multiple special meals throughout the year including a Thanksgiving meal and the Holiday Meal Wednesday.

ent way for configuring your system.”

Microgrids are most often used at industrial campuses, college campuses and military grids. They are also used at off-shore drilling rigs.

“With very remote areas, grid connection is not an option,” Barth said. “You’re all but required to provide your own energy resources. On industrial or college campuses, you usually have continuous ownership of one entity over a pretty large area. You have

a large demand for power in a small area, so sometimes, offsetting that demand with some self generation can be advantageous.”

Barth said there are currently about 30 true-working microgrids in the United States. However, projections show that this number could increase to more than 300 in the coming years. Because microgrids power a small area, operators can have a better idea of power usage, Barth said.

“We don’t consume a constant amount of power,” Barth said. “Every time you flip a light on or off, you’re changing the net load of the building or the net power demand. That demand curve tends to be pretty repeatable.

You can actually build your microgrid to better meet that load specifically.”

This knowledge allows a company to create energy supply based on demand, and not the other way around, making the process more reliable and economicallyfriendly. Also, because microgrids can use a variety of sources, including solar, battery energy storage and natural gas, they tend to be more sustainable, Barth said.

In addition to new technology, legislation is affecting change in renewable-energy use. William Kinsella, an associate professor of communication at N.C. State who specializes in science and technology policy and rhetoric, said there are two kinds of states: regulated and deregulated. In a deregulated state, such as California, different companies compete on the energy market, and the company that offers the lowest price succeeds.

Southeastern states tend to be regulated states, or states

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in which a governing body such as the North Carolina Utilities Commission decides what company or companies will provide energy to consumers, Kinsella said.

“In my view, there are really urgent needs to move toward clean, sustainable energy technology,” Kinsella said.

“The necessity is going to become so undeniable that it will happen. But the question is, how fast will it happen?”

Because public policy plays such a large role in North Carolina energy, activist groups are seeking to raise awareness about government interactions with utility companies. Fossil Free N.C. State, an environmental activist group that seeks to eliminate dependence on fossil fuels in the UNC-System, uses demonstrations to educate people on campus about renewable energy, said Hannah Frank, a member of Fossil Free and freshman in nutrition science.

“It’s hard to impact policy, because that can be driven by who has money,” Frank said.

“Activism is important because it gives people a chance to voice their opinion.”

Fossil Free members have met with Duke representatives to discuss a renewable energy tariff and voiced concerns at Duke shareholders meetings or at public forums hosted by the N.C. Utilities Commission. Frank said one of the club’s main goals is to

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impact North Carolina policy by joining forces with other members of the UNC Board of Governors.

“The UNC-System is a big Duke Energy customer,” Frank said. “We have such a powerful voice, not as a few college kids but as a customer.”

Kinsella said he thinks public voice will be essential in deciding the direction that energy policy will move toward.

“Not every single person should become interested, but there must be a substantial public conversation and enough different points of view so all possibilities can be considered,” Kinsella said.

Critics have said renewable energy is only profitable to companies because of government subsidies, such as tax incentives. However, Kalland said this argument is not quite true. State tax incentives, combined with federal incentives creates a healthy incentive to drive sustainability forward, but all resources have incentives, he said.

“Coal, for example, has incentives in the mining and extraction side,” Kalland said. “Also, if the federal government hadn’t used eminent domain to build railroads across the country, it would be much harder today to use coal as an energy source. Solar incentives are more obvious, but only because they are new and haven’t had time to bury themselves in the tax code.”

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dents beginning in STEM, who either switch majors or leave the University without completing a degree, represent a slightly higher retention rate than the national average.

Jamila Simpson, assistant dean for diversity and student services in the College of Sciences, said that despite dropout rates, N.C. State makes an effort to keep students in STEM. “The emphasis N.C. State puts on undergraduate research is one of the key ways to retain students in STEM,” Simpson said.

Jo-Ann Cohen, associate dean of the College of Sciences, said that although N.C. State is proactive in creating programs to promote students in STEM disciplines, students who enter STEM as freshmen sometimes aren’t prepared for the coursework in the science fields.

“High school courses give students a glimpse of the STEM discipline, but that

is just the tip of the iceberg,” Cohen said. “Once students get to college and take STEM courses, they sometimes discover that their passions lie in other fields.”

The national survey indicated that non-STEM fields, including those in the humanities, education and health sciences, have similar attrition rates to that of STEM programs, with between 52 and 62 percent leaving the programs for another one.

For example, candidates for business and social or behavioral sciences degrees have an attrition rate between 45 and 50 percent.

Jerome Lavelle, associate dean for the College of Engineering, said that students in both STEM and non-STEM programs choose to switch majors for various reasons.

“As educators in STEM, we are continuing to talk to students about what STEM fields represent, including what kinds of careers and life work they can achieve as STEM workers of 21st century,” Lavelle said. “We are attracting as many students as

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As a result of that legislation, teacher salaries were frozen, leaving many uncertain about the future of education.

Currently, entry level teacher salaries in North Carolina are $30,779 while the national average starting teacher salary was $35,672 in 2012, according to the National Education Association.

The average salary for teachers in North Carolina during the 2011-2012 year was $45,947, ranking the state 46 out of 50 in the country with the national average for teachers being $55,418.

Gov. Pat McCrory and legislators said they agree something has to be done to increase teachers’ pay. However, they haven’t been able to agree as to what it should be.

One proposed idea in the Senate intends to link students’ test performances to teacher salary bonuses that would give 25 percent of teachers a $500-a-year raise and include a four-year contract.

However, that plan has faced a lot of opposition from teachers and professors alike.

“My opinion is that the legislature’s plan for the teacher salary is a plan to save money rather than reward performance,” said Stanley Baker, a professor of curriculum, instruction and counselor education at N.C. State. “There will be no annual salary increases for teachers across-the-board. They will reward a select few whose students perform well on tests.”

Student performance will likely be based on how well they score with standardized tests, making the proposed legislation even more controversial.

“What are the tests actually measuring?

When you take a test in a classroom, you expect to cover things you study,” Baker said.

“That’s a criterion reference test. Some of those tests are made up in a central location by a group of people who think what students should know but isn’t taught by every teacher

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we can, but we are also there to move them in other directions if they find that STEM isn’t a good fit.”

Lavelle said that some students who enter N.C. State in STEM fields leave because it didn’t meet their expectations, while others struggle with the academic side of it.

“Some students come in and don’t have rigorous academic background needed for their courses and start off behind the ball,” Lavelle said.

“If I’m a student struggling in Bio 183, I might rethink my choice to major in biology.”

However, Lavelle said that in the College of Engineering specifically, he sees many students with high academic standing that nonetheless choose to leave the field for different reasons.

“There isn’t one specific reason that students leave STEM,” Lavelle said. “The goal is to line up any student’s interest and aptitude with a corresponding choice of major as early as possible in their path in higher education.”

in every class.”

Baker said this policy could result in a teacher shortage in the future.

“They eliminated the salary schedule and they have been treating it like it’s merit pay, but it’s really cost of living,” Baker said.

Meanwhile, the House is drafting another plan that intends to restore annual pay hikes based on years of service. However, that plan is still being formulated, and it is uncertain if it will even be proposed.

Generally, salary bonuses are intended to keep up with inflation and cost of living increases. According to the National Education Association, North Carolina saw a 15.7 percent decrease in average teacher salary in the last decade when adjusted for inflation.

“What’s going to happen is that people are going to leave teaching in North Carolina, and we are going to have a massive teaching shortage in North Carolina,” Baker said.

There has also been a question as to how North Carolina would afford pay increases.

In the fiscal year of 2013, North Carolina was facing a $2.3 billion deficit.

“They don’t have the money to do the things they want to do because they cut taxes in a time that they aren’t making enough to pay salaries, anyway,” Baker said. “I don’t see how the legislature can engage in the new systems, because they don’t have the money.”

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Businesses on Hillsborough Street will offer food and drink specials Thursday night as part of the Hillsborough Holiday Santa Hike. Several businesses will also hold costume contests.

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The Hillsborough Holiday Santa Hike takes place today from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., where participants can visit the Hillsborough bars and restaurants in their tackiest Christmas sweaters, Santa or reindeer costumes.

According to Jeff Murison, the executive director of the Hillsborough Street Community Service Corporation, having a hike on the last day of the semester has always been a tradition. Even though it’s on a Thursday and not the weekend, he said the merchants are prepared for the evening, and he hopes many people come out.

“It is an anomaly that this is on a Thursday, but students indicated this is the night they would be out since it’s the last day of classes,” Murison said.

Murison said restaurants and bars are offering prizes such as gift cards for best costumes. People can compete in a scavenger hunt for a chance

to win about $150 in prizes He said Chile Bomba, McDaids Irish Pub, Mitch’s, Two Guys Pizza, The Keg, Melvin’s at the Bowling Alley, The Lounge, Jersey Mike’s, Pita Pit and East Village Grill are all having costume contests.

East Village is giving away $50, $25 and $10 gift cards for best costumes.

The Keg will be having live music with a DJ and the band Star Studies, fireball specials, an ice luge and pictures with Santa. Seniors can come out to The Keg for free food from 9 p.m. to midnight.

“I heard about the free food for seniors from The Keg and special drink deals. I would definitely like to go,” said Ben Philips, a senior in fashion and textile management.

Garren Plemmons, a junior in communication who plays bass guitar for Star Studies, said the band is a “soulful blues-tinged rock and roll band,” and it has several other State students as members.

“I’m really excited about this hike because our band is playing at The Keg,” Plem-

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mons said. “It’s always a great time playing for my fellow Wolfpack fans.”

Plemmons said he has always liked going to the hikes because it is an event that everyone has the chance to get out to enjoy the nightlife right on Hillsborough street.

“The hikes are a tradition and part of the student experience at State,” Murison said.

“It’s meant to connect the students with Hillsborough Street. Students are encouraged to be safe and have a fun night with friends.”

Murison said he wanted to remind people to drink responsibly, and don’t drink and drive.

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Biphobia and the sexuality dichotomy

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he sexuality dichotomy is strong this week.

Monday, Olympic diver Tom Daley said he had been involved in a relationship with Dustin LeBlanc for some time. Most headlines read: “Tom Daley comes out as gay.”

Daley said he has also been involved in heterosexual relationships.

But he’s not completely straight, so he must be gay.

Nicky A day prior, actress Maria Vaught Bello said she is currently inDeputy Features volved in a serious relationEditor ship with another woman.

Headlines read: “Maria Bello is gay.”

In fact, one headline actually asserts that she is gay just before clarifying that Bello considers herself a “whatever.”

It’s safe to assume Bello uses “whatever” to mean she does not want to adhere to any particular label, which is perfectly reasonable.

But she’s not straight, so she must be gay.

Too often, the media and the masses are quick to dismiss bisexuality. People write it off as either an experimental or transitional phase or as a qualifier to cover up someone’s homosexuality.

Bisexuals are seen as overtly sexual or slutty, as wanting to sleep with everyone. But that makes as much sense as assuming gay men want to sleep with every man. It’s nonsense.

This dismissal and stigmatization of bisexuality is referred to as biphobia, and it works the same way as homophobia.

In two popular YouTube videos, “What Lesbians think about Bisexuals” and “What Gay Men think about Bisexuals,” an overwhelming majority of those interviewed said they would not date someone who identifies as bisexual.

Many said bisexuals (of both genders) are liars and greedy.

And it isn’t as though media representation is doing them any favors. In one episode of The L Word, a television drama depicting lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people in

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adlack’s Heroes, Schoolkids Records, The Groom Room Barbershop and other businesses currently inhabit the block between Enterprise Street and Maiden Lane. However, in just more than a month,

by Dec. 31, they will have to pack up and leave.

Their replacement? A 125room luxury hotel.

N.C. State, the owner of that plot, awarded a contract to build a hotel and groundf loor retail and restaurant center to Bell View Partners Ishan of Raleigh and The Bernstein Companies of Washington, Raval D.C. (Of the businesses loStaff columnist cated in that complex, the Bell Tower Mart and Soo Cafe plan on returning to that ground floor.) In 2011, the owners of the businesses that would be displaced found out about the finalized deal not through the University, but through affected customers and media phone calls; i.e., only after the news went public.

Sadlack’s Heroes has been on Hillsborough Street since 1973. Sadlack’s is a sandwich shop (with notable vegetarian options) and bar and music venue (the only one on Hillsborough Street). It’s also dog-friendly. But most importantly, it’s a community hub. Not too much of a student community (like Mitch’s), but community nevertheless: From the downand-outers that refined college students are supposed to feel ill-at-ease associating with, to Zach Galifianakis, who said he tries to stop by there whenever he’s visiting town, Sadlack’s is where real culture — expression and experience by the broad community of outside institutionalization and commercialization — still resides.

Places such as Sadlack’s are the ones that connect us to our culture; they have an atmosphere exuding a gritty-yet-warm genuineness reminding us there’s more to the world than what’s reflected off our glossy college degrees.

But they are being done away with.

There’s a word for this: gentrification. This is the process by which an area is renovated and improved so as to conform to middle-class taste. It’s been happening on Hillsborough for quite some time now, and sadly, much of the sentiment for this on campus has been positive.

It hasn’t always been happening, though.

In his story “Keep Hillsborough Street funky,” Bob Geary, writing for IndyWeek in 2009, traced the street’s history as being the epicenter of Raleigh’s identity and culture — “the place where Raleigh’s disparate parts are joined in an authentic urban whole” — and recalled its heyday. But by the 1980s, he lamented, “Raleigh had moved on,” Hillsborough Street declined and “[s]oon N.C. State turned away, shutting the street entrance into its main library, D.H. Hill, and hiding other buildings, including the chancellor’s residence, behind tall shrubs.”

And N.C. State, as it is today, became fragmented from the urban whole, and as education became more and more a thing of privilege, it rejected — through its administrative initiatives and students’ own recreational choices — culture that was more than a mere commodity for students’ restrictedly socialized tastes. As N.C. State became more dis-

connected, that created more disjunctions in the culture and community around the area, it led to more purely commercial setups on Hillsborough Street. And today, to me, Sadlack’s and the Reader’s Corner down west are the last vestiges of authentic, vibrant culture in the N.C. State-Hillsborough Street area.

(Apart from Cup A Joe and Global Village perhaps, but coffee shops are meant to be community spots by definition. Mitch’s is another contender, but its mainly exclusive N.C. State atmosphere, and its contemporary university detachment curbs the kind of messy equilibrium with its surroundings to qualify it as a producer of real culture.)

But gentrification isn’t bad just because of the value of authentic culture — connected to its place and native residents and free to unfold outside of the directedness of capital.

It deals tangible consequences upon many. As property values in and around a newly renovated hub increase, lower-income people are displaced, and soon, the city is neatly divided into haves and have-nots. This isn’t completely the case yet for the area behind Hillsborough Street, which is still remarkably diverse, but if luxury hotels and redevelopment initiatives have their effect, it will be.

Raleigh has already been tremendously affected by gentrification though. As Ryan Thomson wrote about downtown in his column in September in lieu of the incident of police threatening to arrest community group members for feeding homeless people at Moore Square, “The block … situated on S. Pearson and E. Hargett St. (once referred to as “Raleigh’s Main Black Street”), is currently worth around $7.7 million … (but is being appraised much higher). In light of this process, the city’s recent relocation of the Salvation Army begins to paint a picture of gentrification.”

His description of the downtown “redevelopment” efforts can stand for Hillsborough Street as well: “The history books will likely reflect a similar narrative to that of Fayetteville Street having now been “beautifully restored,” but in doing so we neglect the communities and cultural nuances of the Oak City … The redevelopment narrative and would ultimately seek to create yet another Brier Creek or Glenwood South by expanding the commercial district.”

In the nick of time, this September, Sadlack’s announced that it had found a place downtown on Martin Street to relocate. Schoolkids Records is moving to Mission Valley. But Hillsborough Street won’t be what it used to be.

Katmandu and Shakedown Street won’t ever be back. Sadlack’s will be somewhere else, and won’t be the same thing. We’ll celebrate the polished floors and characterlessness of Saxby’s Coffee and a Starbucks in the new Talley, we’ll drive-by, smirk at Cup A Joe’s griminess, and we’ll continue to exercise our finely honed, upwardly mobile sense of good and bad. We’ll cease to experience the world in a rich way, and worse, we’ll annihilate its richness. Some of us might even live our whitepicket-fence fantasies, but on the other side of the fence, there won’t be a sandwich place left to go to when the cash flow has fizzled out to redevelop our side.

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their everyday lives, one character referred to a bisexual character as “a dirty bisexual” and prompted her to choose already between men and women.

That might explain why so many people think anyone married or in a committed relationship can’t be bisexual.

The one bisexual character on the sci-fi program Doctor Who is depicted as a textbook nymphomaniac, hitting on every person he meets.

Representation isn’t representation if it isn’t accurate.

Could it be that biphobia and the general aversion to any form of sexual ambiguity are reactions to fear of one’s own hidden fantasies?

Margaret Mead once said, “I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.” Could it be the case that extreme homosexuality as well as heterosexuality is a perversion? That maybe everyone is at least a little bit bisexual?

If that’s the case, it makes sense that people who identify as strictly straight or strictly gay

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“Buddha’s Belly because I buy a lot of my skate stuff there, and it has a great atmosphere.”

“Schoolkids Records because I love music, and I have an appreciation for vinyl records.”

“Buddha’s Belly because I enjoy going there, and it’s where I buy paint for the Free Expression Tunnel.”

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bushels of corn. If we assume that each acre of Hofmann When we began our law- Forest’s “virgin organic soils” suit attempting to block (as they were described in the N.C. State from selling Hof- leaked prospectus) could mann Forest, we knew that produce up to 200 bushels of by taking on the University corn per year, then Hofmann we were challenging some Farms could yield nine milpretty powerful interests. We lion bushels of corn per year, didn’t know at the time who raising in-state corn producthe buyer was (though we had tion by as much as 10 percent heard seemingly inexplicable over the next decade. rumors which turned out to Who in the former land be true). But we did know we of the longleaf pine stands had a pretty clear legal argu- to benefit from such an imment that the University had mense boost? Is it the 10 erred by not properly review- million human consumers ing the significant environ- of corn on the cob at 4th of mental impacts of its decision July picnics, you might ask? to sell the 79,000 acre forest. Perhaps. But who else eats a However valid that legal lot of corn in this state? How argument might be, it has about the 9 million to 10 since come to our attention million pigs that make their that we may be fighting not home on hog farms around just the University but also North Carolina, but who one of the largest and most are especially concentrated powerful industries in the down at the coast? Bingo. state. I can’t claim credit for It turns out that due to our this insight — it was a re- massive production of pigs cent call from a concerned (and poultry too, to be fair), landowner in eastern North North Carolina actually has Carolina that tipped me off. a corn deficit of 200 million He said, “Look at who is on bushels a year. The giant pork the NCSU Board of Trustees, producing companies have and then look at who the to import this feed in from buyer is. Connect the dots.” Midwestern states at considLet’s start with the buyer — erable extra expense, cutting Hofmann Forest LLC. We into their corporate profits. know that the principal inNow take a look at the vestor is Jerry Walker, a large- N.C. State Board of Trustscale corn farmer from Illi- ees. You’ve got Mr. Wendell nois. We don’t know who else Murphy, whose family owned has joined Mr. Walker in the Murphy Farms, a giant in the project. But we do know that pig production world until sometime on or after April of they sold out to Smithfield this year, Hofmann Forest Foods. You also have Mr. Ron LLC prepared a prospectus in Prestage, whose family owns which they presented a clear Prestage Farms, another giplan to potential investors to ant pork and turkey company bulldoze 45,000 acres of the who sells their pigs directly to forest into cropland over the Smithfield Foods. Last year, next 10 years. the price of Midwestern corn In 2010, North Carolina was so high that Prestage and produced roughly 88 million Smithfield Foods worked to-

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Or maybe biphobia comes from the hegemonic masculinity so deeply ingrained in our society.

For instance, as a bisexual friend of mine pointed out, “If a man is bi, he is assumed to be gay … If a girl is bi, she is assumed to be straight and experimenting.”

In both cases, people assume bisexuals love men.

If that isn’t proof that bisexuality has been warped to fit the patriarchal mold, then what is? Does everything have to revolve around penis?

Bisexual men defy prescribed gender roles.

From a misogynistic point of view, they are a threat to masculinity.

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gether through an LLC to import 30 million bushels of corn from Brazil. If these gentlemen saw a major opportunity in the sale of Hofmann Forest to help alleviate the local corn shortage for their industry and their friends, why wouldn’t they push for it?

I’m not saying they did anything illegal. But given the facts I’ve outlined above, I would argue that there are compelling reasons to think that the outcome of the sale of Hofmann Forest may have been manipulated in some form or fashion by North Carolina’s powerful swine lobby. Even if Murphy and Prestage didn’t lift a finger to influence the Hofmann decision, there is no denying that corporate livestock farms in eastern North Carolina will be the primary beneficiaries of converting a massive pine forest into a massive corn farm.

Of course there is a downside to destroying the forested watershed of three different rivers, and of course the black bears will suffer from the loss of so much habitat, and of course the Marine Corps will be frustrated when the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake gets put on the Endangered Species list. But we’ll have a lot to be thankful for in 10 years when our Christmas hams from Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods cost 10 cents less per pound. I’m sure that is the legacy Doc Hofmann had in mind when he established Hofmann Forest back in 1934.

Ron Sutherland NCSU Biology ‘99

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Honors Program ‘unplugs’ research Emma Cathell Deputy Features Editor

On any given Friday at 3 p.m. in the Berry Lounge, students and faculty members can be found discussing a wide variety of topics ranging from the future of genetically modified organisms to wealth and income inequality.

For the last three years, Aaron Stoller, associate director of the University Honors Program, has led Research Unplugged, a program that invites professors and students to participate in discussions about current topics. Through this medium, participants are able to bring their own unique background and perspective to enrich the level of discussion.

“Research Unplugged puts the students’ education into bigger terms.

It makes their education not just be about a set of classes that they take to get a degree, but to be about big issues, big problems that are faced by society and understanding their major, but their discipline as a way to help and contribute to solving those,” Stoller said.

Stoller said he was inspired to create Research Unplugged when he came to N.C. State and noticed there were faculty-member presentations and lecture series but not many opportunities for students to interact with their professors outside of class.

“I wanted there to be a space where faculty could really come in and tell their research story,” Stoller said. “The story behind why they got involved in their discipline and what are the things that interest them, rather than offering a lecture because we have enough lecture series that are all very good, but you don’t really get the story behind that. You

just get the outcome — the product.

You don’t really get the process. So we wanted to explore the process.”

For the first year, Research Unplugged started as just that: Faculty members came individually and told the students about their journeys from college freshmen to their current positions and how they began their research.

“That worked well, but what I found was the audience was not as diverse as I hoped,” Stoller said.

“We’d have a physics professor come in, and most of the students who came were physics students.”

The program has evolved so that now all of the seminars are conversations between faculty members and students about a wide variety of topics. To select topics, Stoller said he surveys students and looks at current events that will engage faculty members and students from different disciplines who might not necessarily come in contact with one another.

“That seemed to draw a much more diverse crowd, and it also seemed to be something that moved away from faculty talking at students to a more democratic dialogue,” Stoller said. “That was really what we wanted: a place where students felt comfortable asking questions.”

On any given week, the event will attract anywhere from 35 to 40 people, Stroller said.

“Every time I go, the faculty are surprised, ‘Oh my gosh, you didn’t even have to offer pizza, and it’s Friday afternoon,’” Stoller said.

“People want to be here. People enjoy it; people want to get engaged about issues.”

There are still a few goals Stoller has in mind for the program. For example, he would also like students

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Aaron Stoller founded Research Unplugged in the fall of 2011. It started as an opportunity for faculty members to share their research stories, and it has evolved into a weekly student-and-faculty discussion.

and faculty members to be able to get to know each other outside of class and for students and faculty members from different concentrations to exchange ideas.

“Right now, I’m working on actively recruiting faculty to come, but I would love to get to a moment where it just becomes something we do on a Friday afternoon,” Stoller said. “Maybe you are a graduate student or a faculty member and you don’t even know the topic, but you can show up.”

William Crumpler, a sophomore in material science and engineering, has attended Research Unplugged regularly since last year.

“I am hoping that the model of Research Unplugged will be incorporated by other villages and or-

ganizations across campus, which will help build an increased sense of academic community among the students and professors and provide the opportunity for students to truly engage with their education in a way that is impossible for many in their traditional classroom settings,” Crumpler said.

Next semester, the seminars will include discussions about open access, the practice and economics of fracking in North Carolina, pollination and agriculture in North America and will feature Chancellor Randy Woodson who will speak about the future of N.C. State.

“Education is more than just a set of classes. It’s really about engaging yourself in ideas and investing yourself in a community of people,”

Stoller said. “Research is not this mechanical activity, nor is it like a club you’re a member of. Research is really an extension of who you are, where you find yourself in the world, and what you hope to contribute to the world.”

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Open access The practice and economics of fracking Pollination and agriculture in North America The future of N.C. State The role of humanities in education SOURCE: UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM

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Gender gap in education favors females Emma Cathell Deputy Features Editor

Women are breaking national records by making up 57 percent of undergraduates, earning 60 percent of all masters degrees and earning 52 percent of all doctoral degrees, according to U.S. Education Department statistics.

During the mid-1970s, girls’ educational underperformance was a consistent problem. However, by the 1990s, the concern changed from girls’ underperformance to boys’, which has become a cause for concern for educators.

“Right now, there are slightly more females than males in college in general, especially in undergrad,” said Susan Bracken, adult education associate professor and program coordinator. “The thing to know about that, though, is that just because there are more females overall, you still tend to see traditional groupings. For example, there are more males in engineering or in the sciences and more females in liberal arts and in education.”

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AT N.C. STATE As of now, N.C. State’s student population is 56 percent male and 44 percent female and, as Vice Chancellor Mike Mullen noted, those percentages make a unique gender achievement gap.

“In contrast to the national data, our gender gap for enrollment is different,” Mullen said. “We have more total men on campus than women.

This is driven mostly by engineering enrollments, where about 81 percent of all engineering undergraduates

are men,” he continued.

Males also appear to be succeeding in academics. For instance, the data recorded from 2011 registration and records show that the retention rate for males was 92.4 percent, while the women’s retention rate was 91.5 percent.

However, women are more likely to graduate within four years. Fiftytwo percent of women graduate on time, compared to 31 percent of men. Furthermore, of the students that don’t graduate in four years, 76 percent of women graduate in six years while only 69 percent of men do.

“The difference in the four year rate is very much affected by engineering, which is male dominated and often takes more than four years to complete,” Mullen said.

“However, women do indeed graduate at higher rates than men at N.C. State, which is in accordance with national data.”

Bracken provided an explanation for the difference of the gap between universities.

“When you study a school like N.C. State and look at the balance of the majors and colleges compared to other state schools you’ll probably start to see some slightly different patterns here because this is definitely a STEM focused school and that changes things a little bit when you look at these more national numbers,” Bracken said.

WHY DOES THE GAP EXIST? Research suggests that the achievement gap begins as early as kindergarten, where girls start to outshine boys. Christopher Cornwell, David Mustard and Jessica Van

Parys, who wrote an article called, Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School, concerning the academic performance of children in primary school, found that gender differences in elementary grades emerge early in all subject areas and favor girls in every subject.

According to New York Times opinion writer Christina Hoff Sommers, this immediate difference between genders could occur because the differences in attentiveness, persistence, eagerness to learn and the ability to sit still and work independently.

Sommers said in the article that girls typically develop these skills earlier than boys.

Mieke Van Houtte, a professor from Ghent University, wrote an article called, Why Boys Achieve Less at School than Girls: The Difference Between Boys’ and Girls’ Academic Culture, where she conducted a study about secondary education in which she explored the girls’ and boys’ adolescent culture as an explanation for the achievement gap.

“It is demonstrated statistically that the effect of gender on achievement can be explained by the gender-specific study cultures,” Van Houtte said.

For example, the boys’ culture is less study-oriented than the girls’ culture because academic achievement is less rewarded . In this case, males are deciding they want to focus on other things rather than their studies to maintain their images in line with their culture.

“Women tend to study abroad, volunteer in the community and

spend longer hours preparing for class,” said Libby Sander, a writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Men spend more time playing video games, relaxing, and watching television.”

Men and women often have dissimilar interests during college.

Women tend to spend more time on school work and extracurricular activities, and men focus on intramural sports and other relaxing activities. However, although this achievement gap between genders exists, men tend to spend more time interacting with faculty and working on research projects, according to Sander.

“Sometimes it’s interesting to know students’ attitude toward school,” Bracken said. “These reports are based on national surveys of students and they are self-reported, which is not necessarily saying it’s true. This might not actually be what they are doing, but it is what they say they are doing.”

THE GENDER GAP’S FUTURE The impact of academic engagement on students’ overall success tends to be stronger for men.

“Surprisingly, female professors were just as likely to favor a male candidate for a position as lab manager when they were given identical applications with either male or female names,” said Katherine Mangan, a writer of The Chronicle of Higher Education. “The male student was also offered a higher starting salary and more mentoring.”

A national survey reported female graduate students tend to worry more than male graduate students about peoples’ perceptions of them,

while males tend to worry more about money than females do.

“Female graduate students tend to report a perception of more institutional bias, or sexism,” Bracken said. “They report their experiences, and their perception is that it is not as friendly a place for women as it is for men. In the surveys, they report some of that bias coming from other women not just other men in terms of authority figures.”

Beyond the perception of sexism or bias in the workplace, there are factual numbers that report differences between males and females, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“Even though more women are going to college at all ages, women earn about 82-85 cents on the dollar compared to men when they get one year out of college, so there is still a pay equity gap,” Bracken said. “In certain fields, that gap is not there because there are very tight controls over how someone is paid, particularly at the entry level, but for the most part, they’re still showing right up until last year that this salary gap is still there.”

Along with the equity gaps, glass ceilings are a problem too, according to Bracken.

“I would like to see more females at N.C. State and I would like to see more males persist and earn their degrees,” Mullen said. “There are reasons for the differences, but I would like to see men be more successful. We also need for graduation rates of all students to increase.

Once a student is at N.C. State, we want them all to get a degree and become part of the educated work force for N.C. and the country.”

Solarize Raleigh centralizes sustainable energy Sara Awad Staff Writer

The North Carolina Solar Center at N.C. State plans to initiate Solarize Raleigh, a program that seeks to make solar energy more affordable for Raleigh residents, in the spring.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Solar Outreach Program will grant between $15,000 and $20,000 to Solarize Raleigh, according to Jim Kennerly, policy analyst and solar policy outreach coordinator for the Center.

The City of Raleigh approved the program and will assist with its promotion as well as provide the permits and inspections required for construction, according to Robert Hinson, renewable energy coordinator and project manager for the City of Raleigh.

The center will work with companies that will provide a volume discount for consumers when groups of residents purchase solar panels for their homes, Kennerly said.

By selling in bulk, companies are able to reduce the cost of manufacturing the panels.

“We want to get as many people interested as possible so you can get a volume discount for the product,” Kennerly said.

Asheville city off icials have already employed the program’s volume discount tactic, after which the cost of solar panels decreased by 26

percent, according to Kennerly. Portland and Boston implemented the program, too.

“Asheville is a smaller community so we want to achieve that and hopefully do even better,” Kennerly said. “As long as we have these grants it’s going to be our goal to help municipalities reduce the cost of solar.”

The program should also increase awareness about solar energy, according to Kennerly.

“We want more people to see the benefit of this technology and unlock this market,” Kennerly said. “The cost of solar had gone down dramatically, and now it’s even easier to finance at a lower cost,” In addition to finding a group of solar photovoltaic installers, the center will continue outreach and marketing for the program and take advantage of the resources provided by the City of Raleigh and other outside partners, Kennerly said.

“We want to bring all those people together and facilitate what really is a private business transaction,” Kennerly said.

By collaborating with the center on the program, the City of Raleigh will take one step closer to its goals because it is a “natural fit” with its mission statement of creating a “21st century city of innovation” through practices such as environmental

and economic sustainability, according to Hinson.

“From the City of Raleigh’s perspective, we hope to grow the solar industry and this is a way to start that process.”

Hinson said. “It’s an opportunity to learn what the new technologies are, what the cost of solar really is… and a way of providing a better resource.”

Though “Solarize Raleigh” is currently a residential program, it may expand to commercial institutions in the future if successful, according to Hinson.

Kennerly said that with the solar center’s location at N.C. State, he also hopes the program will encourage students to learn more about the solar industry.

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Through its efforts as a partner with the Department of Energy’s SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership the North Carolina Solar Center has received approval from the U.S. Department of Energy to go through with a group solar purchase program called “Solarize Raleigh.”

Solarize programs such as this have been successful in Boston, Portland and Asheville.

SOLAR CENTER RECENT MILESTONES • • •

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2009 Solar Center establishes Energy Policy Program 2012 Solar Center begins Certificate in Renewable Energy Management 2012 Solar Center helps create the first Southeastern Coastal Wind Conference 2012 Solar Center establishes North Carolina CHP Initiative 2013 Solar Center establishes Boiler MACT technical assistance program

SOURCE: NC SOLAR CENTER

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The North Carolina Solar Center has received funding to execute “Solarize Raleigh.” This program will allow a group solar panel purchase for Raleigh.

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Wolfpack basketball looks to finish 2013 strong Christian Candeloro

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N.C. State will hit the road for just the second time this season as it squares off with SEC powerhouse Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.

Picked to finish third in the SEC this season, the Volunteers have not disappointed, defeating Xavier and Wake Forest while taking third in the Battle for Atlantis Tournament in the Bahamas. The Wolfpack will surely be tested in Knoxville and Gottfried will hope his team has improved since its 68-57 loss to Cincinnati on Nov. 12.

As the final days of 2013 wind down, students at N.C. State are working hard to finish the year off strong. The Wolfpack basketball team is no exception. After early conference tilts against major conference teams from the Big Ten and American Athletic Conference, the Wolfpack will hope to continue building momentum as it enters ACC conference play in January. Head coach Mark Gottfried has made it a priority to test his young players early, and the final days of December will be filled with new challenges for his team.

DEC. 7 - LONG BEACH STATE Fresh from competition in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, the Pack will concentrate on the 49ers of Long Beach State. With their schedule laden with NCAA Tournament teams, the 49ers have endured a difficult 1-8 start to their season. The 49ers are led by junior guard Mike Caffey, who currently averages 16.1 points per game.

DEC. 14 - DETROIT After taking on the 49ers, the Wolfpack will welcome Detroit into Reynolds Coliseum for the annual Reynolds Heritage Game.

The game will celebrate the rich history of Reynolds and offers students a break from their finals. Detroit, who last made an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011, will look to steal the show. Led by redshirt junior Juwan Howard Jr., son of former NBA star Juwan Howard Sr., the Titans are coming off a mixed performance at the 2K Sports Classic and a win over the University of South Florida.

DEC. 21 - EAST CAROLINA The first rivalry game of the 2013-2014 campaign will pit the East Carolina Pirates versus the Wolfpack in a non-conference tilt at PNC Arena. ECU senior guard Akeem Richard and N.C. State sophomore forward T.J. Warren will matchup against each other in a battle of two of the most talented players North Carolina has to offer.

DEC. 28 - MISSOURI Though the Wolfpack’s trip to Knoxville will bring a host of intriguing challenges, the toughest SEC team on the Wolfpack’s schedule will travel to PNC Arena on Dec. 28. Former University of Miami coach Frank Haith will bring the Missouri Tigers to Raleigh in hopes of continuing their dominant early season campaign. Entering the Big 12/ SEC Challenge, the Tigers hold a perfect 7-0 record and winning the tournament will virtually guarantee that the Tigers will come to Raleigh ranked in the Top 25. The Tigers have two electric guards in redshirt juniors Jabari Brown and Jordan Clarkson, both averaging more than 19 points per game. N.C. State

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• Two days until men’s basketball takes on Long Beach State at PNC Arena.

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N.C. State athletics’ fall report card

Stengel to stay on with Under-20 squad Following a training stint from Nov. 24 – Dec. 1 with the United States Under-20 Women’s National Team, N.C. State women’s soccer freshman forward Jackie Stengel has been invited to remain with the team as it prepares for the upcoming U-20 CONCACAF Women’s Championship.

The U.S. Soccer U-20 Women’s National Team training camp will be held in Sunrise, Fla., from Dec. 14-21. This camp will serve as the final preparation for the team and its selection before the CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Championship from Jan. 9-19 at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in George Town, Cayman Islands.

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Cheerleading qualifies for Nationals After endless hours of practice and conditioning, several Wolfpack cheerleaders have qualified to compete in the 2014 UCA College Nationals in January. Two separate groups will represent the Wolfpack, including an all-girls group and a partner stunt couple group.

Allison Haller, Megan Holzer, Abigail Tucker and Morgan Pierce were chosen to compete for the all-girls stunt group after sending in a tape with a routine that ultimately would be their ticket to the National Championship. For the group of girls, this is their second year in a row that they have been able to qualify.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I just wanted to come out of the gate and be aggressive and make plays around the basket.”

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Coming off a season in which the team earned its first NCAA tournament berth since 1987, the N.C. State volleyball team had high expectations entering the 2013 season. After a hot start in which the team won eight of its first 10 conference games, the Wolfpack dropped seven of its final team matches, including its final five games. The rocky end of the season led to a No. 58 RPI ranking for State, which resulted in the team barely missing the postseason. However, the Pack did finish within the top five of its conference and posted the secondlowest opponent hitting percentage in the ACC. In the end, the team had a solid outing in 2013, but could not make the most of its early success.

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With a stacked conference and a team that posted a winless record against ACC opponents in the previous season, first-year head coach Tim Santoro had an uphill battle this season.

However, N.C. State’s abysmal season had a silver lining— freshman forward Jackie Stengel.

Stengel led the Wolfpack with nine goals on the season, tied for 14th best in the conference. This was not enough to overshadow the 7-12 record, 2-11 in ACC play, but Stengel’s play should give State fans hope that success is on the horizon in the Santoro era.

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Despite winning four of its final five games, the Wolfpack (8-5-4, 3-5-3 ACC) missed out on both the ACC Tournament and the NCAA Tournament in head coach Kelly Findley’s third season at the helm.

N.C. State’s attack had difficulty scoring goals early in the season, especially junior forward Nick Surkamp, who missed the entire 2012 season due to injury. But Surkamp came on strong as the season progressed and partnered with senior midfielders Nazmi Albadawi and Alex Martinez to form a lethal attacking trident.

Junior defender Clement Simonin stabilized the defense and launched pinpoint passes from central defense, helping the Pack take down No. 10 UNC-Chapel Hill in its final game of the season thanks to an overtime strike from Albadawi.

Although State missed out on its preseason goal of making the NCAA Tournament, the future is bright for Wolfpack soccer under Findley’s leadership.

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Top left: Head football coach Dave Doeren.

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Nobody really expected the N.C. State football team to compete for an ACC title in head coach Dave Doeren’s first season, but nobody expected the team to be this bad. Despite eight home games and 10 games in the state of North Carolina, the Wolfpack posted a 3-9 record, going 0-8 in conference play.

After blowing out Central Michigan on Sept. 28, the wheels completely fell off for the Pack. Inconsistent quarterback play between junior Pete Thomas and graduate student Brandon Mitchell, as well as several significant injuries, doomed State. Only one of the Wolfpack’s nine losses this season was by single digits, and State was barely competitive after being eliminated from bowl contention.

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Pack tames Wildcats in ACC/Big Ten Challenge Andrew Schuett Deputy Sports Editor

Christian Candeloro Correspondent

Sophomore forward T.J. Warren scored 12 of N.C. State’s first 16 points to help the Wolfpack dominate the Northwestern Wildcats 69-48 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Wednesday night at PNC Arena.

Warren finished the game with 22 points, eight rebounds and three steals in a well-rounded performance, looking every bit like a preseason AllAmerican. Warren said that his teammates have been telling him to assert himself early in games.

“Everybody’s been telling me I have to bring it in the first half,” Warren said. “I just wanted to come out of the gate and be aggressive and make plays around the basket.”

Warren stole the show early, but senior center Jordan Vandenberg quickly joined him in the spotlight. Vandenberg had five blocks, coupled with 12 points and used his size to alter numerous shots in the paint.

Vandenberg helped the Wolfpack’s defense hold Northwestern to 25 percent shooting throughout the game. Head coach Mark Gottfried said he was impressed with his team’s defensive effort against the Wildcats.

“I really liked our defense tonight,” Gottfried said. “What stood out to me was how our young players did a pretty good job paying attention to detail in practice in the last couple of days … I thought our guys did a nice job taking their threepoint shots away.”

Gottfried said that Vandenberg has helped the Wolfpack immensely on defense since his return from an ankle injury suffered in the preseason.

“I think he’s protected the rim pretty well so far,” Gottfried said. “He’s altering shots, he’s blocking a few and I think our guys are gaining confidence in him as well. I think we’re a much different team when he plays well for us.”

Freshman forward Lennard Freeman recorded his first career double-double as a member of the Wolfpack, racking up 10 points and 10 rebounds against the Wildcats. Freeman used his toughness to dominate the boards, reminding many Wolfpack fans of former State forward Richard Howell,

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Sophomore forward T.J. Warren drives toward the basket during the game against Northwestern Wednesday. Warren had 22 points and 8 rebounds in the Wolfpack’s 69-48 win against the Wildcats at PNC Arena.

a comparison Freeman said that he’s used to.

“I’ve been getting that [comparison] since high school, people saying ‘you’re going to be the next Richard Howell,’” Freeman said. “But that’s not enough for me. I can see the similarities though.”

Gottfried said Freeman’s greatest asset is his versatility.

“I’m excited for Lennard because he’s such a young guy that’s excited to play,” Gottfried said.

“He plays hard, blocks shots, gets rebounds, gets a couple of dunks and plays with energy. He can also go out on the floor and guard their stretch forward who can make three-pointers. He can get out on the perimeter and move his feet to contain the guy, so he’s doing a nice job for us right now.”

The Wolfpack tried to establish itself early in the game and run its high-tempo, end-to-end offense.

But the Wildcats countered with their own halfcourt offense, trying to slow the game down as

much as possible to stifle State’s offense.

Northwestern’s slow-paced strategy didn’t affect Warren. The 6-foot-8 sophomore put his mark on the game early, highlighted by numerous tip-ins and a step-back jumper on the baseline.

Warren helped the Pack outscore Northwestern 20-0 in the paint in the first half to help send the Pack into halftime with a 31-20 lead.

State came blazing out of gates to start the second half, hitting an 11-3 run to stretch its lead to 19 points. Freeman brought the Wolfpack faithful to its feet early in the second half with a monstrous block and some nice finishes around the rim.

The Wildcats were never able to pull within reach of the Pack as State’s defense held Northwestern’s offense in check to send the Pack home with its third straight victory.