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Student Orientation kicks off Monday; 4,300 set to attend

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Beginning next week, the first batch of 4,300 incoming students will attend New Student Orientation.

This year, administrators hope to show students more paths to finding success during their time at N.C. State, according to Michael Coombes, interim director of New Student Programs.

“A few of the big things that we’ve changed is really trying to beef up some of the programming to provide very, very concentrated focus on student success,” Coombes said.

“One of the things are our firstyear student objectives which our institution has adopted.”

The four areas the University is emphasizing are Study Abroad, Service Learning and Leadership, Undergraduate Research and Career Development.

Activities such as studying abroad can have dramatic effects on a student’s development, Coombes said.

“We have students that go anywhere from the coast to Nicaragua,” Coombes said. “Students that go on these trips may find out that they’re tremendously interested in sustainable development, which may alter their career path and track significantly.”

Coombes said students who par-

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Earlier this month, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to expand federal student loans.

raising taxes, according to Greene.

“They’re using it more as a political weapon because they know Republicans will never agree to increasing taxes,” Greene said.

Because it is so widely known that the bill would not have passed in the Republican-dominated House of Representatives, Democrats could’ve proposed the bill to gain the turnout of young voters in the midterm elections, according to Greene.

“Part of what Democrats are try-

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Although the federal government has made recent efforts to bring tuition debt relief to students, partisan politics have gotten in the way of bringing reform.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order on June 9 to expand the program letting students pay 10 percent of their monthly income toward their student loans.

However, the recent bill proposal written by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to allow some students to refinance their loans did not pass in the House of Representatives.

Steven Greene, a professor in political science, said the key component to reforming student loans is working out how it’s going to be paid for, which must happen by either imposing more taxes or by cutting programs.

The News & Observer reported the rejected senate bill would have been financed by a tax on citizens with an income greater than $1 million.

Now that Republicans have the majority in the House of Representatives, as opposed to in 2012, Democrats would have known the bill would fail, Greene said.

Because the bill essentially relies on increasing taxes, Democrats in the Senate never intended on it becoming policy in the short term.

This is because, historically, Republicans have always been opposed to

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ing to do is anything they can to get young people actually turning out to the polls in the midterm elections, since it’s an issue that resonates with many of them,” Greene said.

Only 11 percent of voters were from age 18 to 29. They reported the majority of votes swayed Democrat, as opposed to other

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ticipate in these activities tend to be more successful than those who don’t.

“We’re really trying to get them to focus on what that student success looks like and how we can support students,” Coombes said.

Coombes said in conjunction with current national dialogue, the Orientation will also spend a significant amount of time engaging students in discussions about consent, sexual violence and other Title IX topics.

“It’s not something that our campus is immune to, so students must understand the rules of our community,” Coombes said.

Coombes said sexual violence dialogue has changed in the past few years, so the way the University handles it must evolve with the dialogue.

“It can become difficult to deliver so many messages at one time in a way that is engaging, but also meaningful,” Coombes said. “The reality is if I just say something to you, it won’t mean much. We need to engage students in order for them to understand.”

NSO will run from Monday until July 24, and students will attend based on the colleges in which they were accepted.

“Orientation is the one time that you potentially have the entire class

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Researchers work toward 3-D printing organs Viggy Kumaresan Correspondent

Binil Starly, the director of industrial engineering and systems engineering lab for Engineering Biological Tissue Systems at N.C. State, is leading research into 3-D printing

technology that could lead to huge advances in the future, including the production of human organs.

The applications of 3-D printing for biomedical purposes are almost endless. One of the main areas involves the testing of drugs. Currently, researchers grow liver cells

and insert the drugs that are being tested into the liver to see if the drug is safe and efficient.

The problem with this method, Starly said, is the testing is all done two-dimensionally in animal cells, but human cells grow three-dimensionally in the body.

These studies are also ruling out drugs that could potentially be useful to humans, according to Starly.

Starly said Penicillin was an example, saying that certain influential drugs used today wouldn’t make it through the long legal acceptance process.

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“If [Penicillin] were to be invented and tested today, it would not go through, because it is lethal to pigs,” Starly said. “Drugs can be lethal to animals, but not to humans, so we are losing out on so many drugs.”

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Technology helps improve accuracy of football calls

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of lower utility bills and maintenance costs,” said Energy Management program coordinator Claudia Powell in a press release from Sustainability at N.C. State. “LED technology is particularly favorable when replacing energy intensive bulbs or those in hard to reach or heavily utilized spaces.”

Jerry Atkinson, a building technician, said lights used in the office now draw less than one amp of-

Researchers from N.C. State and Carnegie Mellon University have partnered with Disney Research to develop a technology that will take the guesswork out of tricky referee calls in American football.

By placing a low-frequency transmitter inside a football that relies on magnetic fields to indicate positioning. With the transmitter integrated into the football, the ball will still be within the standard deviation of acceptable professional football weight.

David Ricketts, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and senior author of a paper describing the work, explained how the football-tracking system works.

“Basically, the football emits a magnetic field like a magnet,” Ricketts said. “We put antennas around the field to measure the magnetic

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The N.C. State Constructed Facilities Lab recently received an eco-friendly lighting upgrade that replaced inefficient interior lighting systems in several research areas, stairwells, conference rooms and offices with highly efficient LED technology.

“Replacing traditional lighting systems with LED technology provides financial benefits in the form

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from making billions of dollars in profit.

Even though the amount of money given through Pell Grants, a federal program that provides need-based grants to college students, was raised that year also, the New York Times reported it only covers one-third of the average cost of a public college’s tuition. In the 1970s, when the Pell Grant was started, it covered threequarters of the cost.

Cobb said the main problem with the price of college education is that tuition is rising faster than the ability to help subsidize those costs for the middle class and people with lower incomes. Getting tuition costs under control and increasing the amount of financial assistance are the two most important factors of reform.

you can put it on an athlete’s leg or arm and measure their performance while doing sporting activities. You can also use it to track animals.”

According to Ricketts, the technology to install the magnetic transmitters would be affordable for consumers, and the transmitters that go in the football would cost just a few dollars.

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seeing and hearing the same thing other than graduation,” Coombes said.

Similar to previous years, Coombes said incoming students will have the opportunity to hear from the college they will be enrolling in and still learn about common University values.

One of the major differences between last year’s incoming class and this year’s class will be the access to Talley Student Union.

“Having Talley back is a huge, huge bonus. Having the space, having the ability to have this as an initial welcome won’t be what I call a game-changer, but it’ll definitely have an impact.”

age groups, according to the Washington Post.

Greene said even though Democrats are trying to help relieve graduates’ burdens of debt, this seems to be more of an effort at symbolic politics than something that actually has a chance of passing right now.

Michael Cobb, a professor of political science, said the bill may have been a ploy, but regardless, a ploy such as this one has the potential to have good policy outcomes and make it easier for more people to obtain a degree.

“College education is becoming crucial to do well in today’s economy,” Cobb said.

“But the cost of tuition has

importantly, you would be able to see the football when the eyes can’t.”

This tracker will allow the referees, analysts and viewers watching the game on TV to visualize the ball’s location.

Ricketts said the technology will have many uses within the sport due to often confusing situations referees face on the field when trying to make calls.

“It will be important when you have a rush on the goal line and you can’t see where

the ball is,” Ricketts said.

“Did it go over the goal line or not? This will allow you to see that.”

This technology could have multiple applications outside of the football stadium, Ricketts said.

“It’s basically a general sensor to measure the position and orientation of an object, and because it uses magnetic fields, it would be ideal,” Ricketts said. “For example, you could build a bracelet that measures gestures, and

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fields that the magnets put out.”

A GPS, cellphone or WiFi all use an electric and a magnetic field, and the electric field doesn’t transmit through the body. What sets this research apart is the technology’s ability to transmit magnetic fields through human beings. Additionally, the magnetic fields are able

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to give accurate orientation, so if a football is pointed up toward the sky or if it is laid down on its side, the transmitter can give the position of the football.

“We use a magnetic field, and humans are transparent to magnetic fields, so if 22 players are on top of the ball, or if no players are on top of the ball, we get the same magnetic field at our antennae,” Ricketts said.

Other methods using highfrequency radio waves have

been tested to track footballs, but these radio waves lack the abilities of the magnetic fields. Radio waves are often absorbed by players on the field or hindered by environmental factors in the football arena.

“We’ve been told that in American football, the chains they put out to measure distances are only accurate to about a half a football,” Ricketts said. “Our hope is that this technology would allow the same accuracy, but more

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been far exceeding the pace of inflation.”

Cobb said a college education is becoming crucial for people to do well, but the costs have become incredibly high because tuition increases are far exceeding the pace of inflation.

Cobb said the cost of college tuition is one of the highest rising costs of any sector.

“While N.C. State is a bargain comparatively, it’s still fairly expensive for a large percentage of the kinds of students that come to State,” Cobb said.

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power per fixture in comparison to the more than 100 amps the old fixtures drew.

“The office areas are now able to light the space using 50-person power, or half of what is available,” Atkinson said “The high bay area lights are extremely difficult to access and took some time to warm up and come on. We now have instantaneous lighting and a much longer lasting product.”

The LED technology will ultimately reduce the cost of lighting the lab because LED lights don’t have to be replaced nearly as often as the lights that were previously in place, and the lab’s high ceilings require renting mechanical lifts to reach bulbs in need of replacement, the press release stated.

Motion-sensor lighting will now also be featured in the building’s stairwells, and individual office sand conference rooms now have customizable lighting levels to save power. After a period when

no movement has been detected, the new lights in the building will automatically dim to avoid unnecessary power consumption.

Atkinson said he encourages all of the lab’s users to use less power whenever possible.

“I personally promote energy conservation in the lab with all of the building occupants by encouraging turning off and shutting down all electrical equipment at the end of each day,” Atkinson said.

The lig hts were purchased through an energy conservation fund managed by N.C. State’s Energy Management, a unit designed to manage University energy resources in a cost-effective and efficient manner, according to the unit’s mission statement.

N.C. State’s Energy Management aims to reduce building energy consumption by 30 percent by 2015.

The Constructed Facilities Lab is used for civil engineering, full-scale testing of structural-based components and industrial service testing for companies involved in the construction and building industries, according to Atkinson.

Atkinson said the facilities zone

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shop recommended the building to receive the upgrade.

Installing LEDs in the Constructed Facilities Lab is helping the University decrease its ecological footprint, and there are more plans

for more LED installations around campus set to get rolling in the next fiscal year. Some of the plans include adding new LED chandelier lights at the Park Alumni Center and replacing old lighting with LEDs in Nelson

Hall stairwells, where expected annual savings are estimated to reach $1,700, the press release said.

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Bioprinting allows physicians and researchers to create complex human molecules, which is beneficial for testing purposes. However, there are problems associated with manufacturing.

“As manufacturing engineers, our goal is to produce these molecules in large quantities reliably,” Starly said. “If we make 100, every single one of the 100 must be quality approved, and scientists have to trust this. Since we are dealing with living molecules, there is complexity involved, as opposed to manufacturing metals. How do you quality proof something that is living?”

Another application of bioprinting involves testing drugs as they relate to space travel, Starly said.

NASA is interested in testing the effectiveness of drugs in space. It would be impossible, however, to send animals into space to complete testing. Starly said we could create a liver device, perhaps containing 100 one-inch by one-inch squares, each with the ability to test a different drug.

This way, NASA would be able to test multiple drugs at once, and save money on expensive equipment and training.

Starly said the most exciting application of this technology might not have to do

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Junior in industrial and systems engineering Roy Millberg watches a test run of their prototype deposition system in Daniels Hall Tuesday.

with organ printing.

In the Netherlands researchers are working on making beef and leather in a lab, according to Starly.

Growing beef is essentially making a mixture of muscle and fat, but instead of using it for medical purposes, it would be used for human consumption.

Because producing meat this way involves the creation of living tissue, there are still many problems to be faced before people will ever see this kind of meat in the store, but the research is surging forward.

In addition, if it were possible to create skin using a bioprinter, it would open up the possibilities of creating all sorts of different textiles, including leather.

“Right now, we have all this media frenzy on organ printing, but that might be a little bit too vague,” Starly said.

“Our immediate concern might be associated with

creating tissue and creating leather because if we can’t do those things, we certainly can’t create something as complex as a human organ.”

The Research Triangle Park area is known for its innovation, especially when it comes to agriculture and livestockrelated biotechnology, according to Starly.

Starly said he is excited by

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Binil Starly, associate professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is conducting research on 3-D printing cells instead of plastics or metals.

the possibilities, and how this could bring more industry to the area.

“Creating stem cells could be in the future, and for this, you need an industry to produce the necessary raw ma-

terials,” Starly said. “This would increase local industry and get more people involved with the process. This research must be done now, for we are hoping that five years down the road, the applica-

tions will be ready and will attract industry and more funding.”

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Fast-food harms more than just our health P

eople in this country wanted the freedom to choose when, where and what they ate. They wanted instant gratification and convenient locations, which encouraged restaurants to serve Tyler things fast, cheap and everywhere. Thus, Gobin Staff Columnist the fast-food empire was born, leading most of our country toward an attitude that emphasizes want over need, even for food.

Obviously no one can definitively invent fast-food because food has been served quickly at roadside shacks, carts and trucks for centuries. But the industry we know today was constructed in the United States.

I’m talking about McDonald’s, Bojangles’, Taco Bell and other worldwide chains that populate our gas stations, buildings and malls.

Italy brought pizza, England serves

fish and chips, India spices things up with curry, Japan serves us sushi, and plenty more countries have contributed something to global food ways.

The U.S., on the other hand, is known for our fast-food chains. The U.S. is a relatively young country, and that age difference contributes to our eclectic food ways, but it doesn’t explain our unhealthy contribution.

Some might say that a market with fast-food is required for a growing population and for increased convenience, but other countries existed hundreds of years before us and they never progressed into a fast-food era, so why was it that we felt the need to create such a powerful industry?

It wasn’t just some entrepreneur with a bright idea one day who flipped the script and started something cutting edge, but years of influence from how the country was developing that led to the creation

of fast-food. We emphasize freedom, individuality and capitalism in this country and each one of these values influenced the origins of fast-food.

The individuality characteristic is what contributes to the several chains that all produce the exact same food. How many different fastfood burger, taco or fried chicken chains exist in this country? We have all these chains because people wanted the freedom to choose and the individuality from creating something slightly different than what already existed. There are too many chains to count, and I would love to see the results from a couple of blind taste tests.

An element of capitalism played a role in creating a profit-driven industry, too. You cannot tell me that the CEOs and owners of each franchise have your best interest in mind when they opened these chains. If they

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Behind the siren of Starbucks

Demystifying Starbucks offee behemoth Starbucks recently announced a plan to pay for its United States employees’ college education in partnership with Arizona State University. Of its 135,000 U.S. workers, those work ing at least 20 hours a week w i l l be eligible to Ishan get an online Raval deg ree f rom Staff Columnist ASU, with full tuition paid for those with at least two years of college credit and subsidized costs for those with fewer than two years of credit. Workers will not be required to stay employed with Starbucks as part of the deal.

Now, as reported by Forbes, even if 3 percent of workers enroll in this program, it would cost Starbucks only $50 million annually, though its after-taxes profits for the last quarter was $427 million.

Furthermore, the spending will be tax-deductible, or, “it should have minimal effect on its profitability,” as Forbes said.

Still, the fact stands that this spending should be, to some extent, an expenditure for Starbucks possibly motivated by genuine benevolence. As The Associated Press reported, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said this issue was personal, as he was a first-generation college student.

“I could care less about marketing,” Schultz said.

“This is not about PR.” But I’m not impressed.

The very fact that this is

happening, whether or not it’s guided by pure motives, could not be possible without faults and distortions in the economic system. How has Starbucks acquired the level of wealth and financial stability that allows it to fund so much education?

Above all, the answer is the same thing that makes Starbucks the empire it is: thuggery at every step of the supply chain. Starbucks viciously exploits its farmers.

For example, in Ethiopia, the farmers, two million of whom are children working an average of 30 hours per week, are paid 2.2 percent of the projected retail price of a pound of coffee they grow.

On the consumption end of business, Starbucks pays its workers poverty wages and has been involved in unionbusting activities. Moreover, it’s a conglomerate with an invasive nature, throttling local businesses wherever it goes. It has also been implicated in tax evasion. Basically, Starbucks has made its fortune by furthering an unjust and precarious economic system.

There is also the matter of online education. As Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said to MSNBC, “... Studies indicate that online education not only doesn’t work well for [low-income students], but can also propel them backwards.” Regarding the Starbucks-ASU partnership, Goldrick-Rab also said, “ASU Online is a profit venture … and basically, these

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two businesses have gotten together and created a monopoly on college ventures for Starbucks employees.”

Programs such as this one—or charity in general—can only help a bit on the supply side of things, but in a way that an unchanged demand for education would keep its cost at the inordinate levels it is at. In other words, charity can’t repair an outrageously overpriced system. And that is where our emphasis should be, as well as on Starbucks’ misdeeds and the greater structure of exploitation it forms a small but sure part in sustaining.

Applauding this move of Starbucks would be to uphold the ideology that the ideal economic setup involves some people making as much money as they can and want through conditions that disallow most people from making enough to comfortably survive, and then giving some of that as charity.

This is opposed to a setup wherein everyone can earn fair amounts. Wherein the system is designed in such a way that charitable interventions by monopolies— interventions that end up validating monopoly power—aren’t necessary. Displays of corporate altruism are, generally speaking, lies and obfuscations of greater problems, and so, Starbucks—or any business like it—cannot do good without fortifying an inherently bad arrangement.

ucts, an attitude that doesn’t necessarily create healthier food, but often does. Small businesses rule the roost in other countries where the fast-food industry is less common, but you can find restaurants to satisfy your need better then Ronald McDonald can.

Without a doubt, fast-food will not crash and burn anytime soon, but will unfortunately only get bigger and stronger as it intrudes more countries and takes away small business opportunities for business people. Our development contributed to the fast-food industry’s existence by the cultural elements we stressed, and unless we drastically change, they will continue to encourage their development. But if you want to make a difference, choose a small business over a fast-food chain and all parties will benefit.

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he passing of Amendment One in 2012 marked what many in North Carolina considered an immense disappointment. Unfortunately, Amendment One was able to pass with a majority vote of 61 percent versus a 39 percent disapproval vote. I witnessed the overall disgust of the amendment and what all it would entail, but then I witnessed more concerned voters rally together in order to vote for the amendment.

Drones of citizens gathered to support legislation that would inevitably slaughter the rights of more people than they would ever comprehend.

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had your best interest in mind, they would emphasize quality over quantity, which is not something that can be said for a chain with more than 35,000 outlets.

Despite the fact that many of the first fast-food restaurants were erected as a response to the unhealthy foods offered at food trucks, it seems the roles have reversed, as fast-food is now notorious for its lack of health qualities. It’s saddening how many corporations make a profit by contributing to nationwide health epidemics.

The development of the U.S. and the characteristics of the country unfortunately shaped the fast-food industry into the pathetic market it is today, but you can save yourself from the epidemic by eating at non-chain restaurants in your area.

Sole proprietorships around the world emphasize high-quality prod-

pecially since the House has been called back into session. We need to utilize the publicity and the nationwide coverage Moral Mondays acquires. Monday, June 23, is our opportunity to illustrate the fact that the LGBTQ community and its advocates are here. We are here to stand up for the rights and equality of all people. We are here to advocate for a change, to make a difference, to show the world the support that should have been show n when Amendment One passed.

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lina, the LGBTQ community, Equality North Carolina, the NAACP, Planned Parenthood and countless others as we march for change, advocacy and to show our interminable presence in the State of North Carolina.

Trenton McNeill

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despite making up only 12 percent of the population in the U.S. “Black men are sent to state prisons on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men,” Erik Kain, author of the Forbes article, reports.

The racial disparity does not exist because black people are more likely to engage in drug use than white people, but because they are disproportionately targeted for theose crimes.

“Arresting and incarcerating people fills prisons and destroys lives but does not reduce availability of illicit drugs or the power of criminal organizations,” Kain writes, citing the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

Further, if the war on drugs were really about reducing drug use and not about debilitating non-white communities, cops would crack down at music festivals, making record arrests. It’s time to end this racist War on Drugs.

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on MDMA, LSD, peyote and just about anything else, very few police officers worked the event.

As an attendee, I saw only two horse-mounted cops during my entire stay. That’s it. Surely, there were more working, but not enough to pose a real threat to drug users’ comfort.

Richard Nixon launched his War on Drugs campaign roughly 40 years ago, during the summer of 1971. Many speculate he wanted to target the African-American community specifically, due to the high rates of cocaine use in impoverished areas inhabited primarily by black people.

The actual “War,” however, did not begin until the mid 1980s.

Since then, according to a 2011 report by Forbes, more than 25.4 million Americans have been incarcerated due to drug-related charges. Of those incarcerated, 62 percent have been black Americans,

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Forestry professor receives BOG Award for Excellence in Teaching GEORGE HESS CHALLENGES STUDENTS TO SOLVE REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS

Sara Awad Staff Writer

George Hess uses the classes he teaches as opportunities to create a professional environment in which students provide solutions to problems in the real world, a technique worthy of one of the highest teaching awards in the state.

Hess is an associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. The North Carolina Board of Governors named him as one of 17 recipients of the BOG Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2014.

Hess said the recognition honored not only him, but also the amazing work of the other nominees and past recipients. In his acceptance speech at the Teaching & Learning Symposium, Hess said he had worked with previous honorees, such as Rich Felder, Bill Swallow and Sarah Ash, who are also professors at N.C. State, and said the award was the work of the community.

“Wow, I’m honored and I’m just standing here stunned,” Hess said he told Chancellor Randy Woodson, who broke the news to him via phone

call after Hess answered the call from a number he didn’t recognize.

A side f rom receiv i ng $12,500 and a medal as congratulations, Hess said he hopes to use his recognition as a platform for educational change.

“I worry about the process of grading because I’m asking students to take a lot of risks they’re not used to taking in class, and I know they’re worried about making a mistake,” Hess said. “I can comment on their work and tear it apart and it’s all good, but when I put a number on it, the dynamics in the class change and that bothers me.

I don’t want to let grades get in the way of learning.”

The risks students take in Hess’ undergraduate classes resemble the environment a graduate student might find themselves in: courses designed around research topics, data collection, analysis, publications and working with outside agencies, Hess said.

This year in an undergraduate course about measuring natural resources, students worked with Raleigh Parks to learn about the number of

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people using the greenway system and activities they were using it for, while also collecting information about wildlife, soil and water on the greenways, according to Hess.

The course culminated with a report to the City of Raleigh on their findings, as well as a public presentation at the Nature Research Center.

“Through this whole process, the students not only have to learn about the academic aspects of how one measures natural resources, but they also have to organize themselves and figure out all the logistics of getting out in the field and collecting the data and putting a report together with 30-something people involved, and a lot of what I do in the classroom is coach them through that process,” Hess said. “They counted 42,000 people during this process … and typically when they come into this class, they have no conception of how to deal with that and when they leave, they do.”

Outside of the classroom, Hess said he researches green-space conservation in suburban areas, or how the design of open spaces can affect and support wildlife.

One aspect of that research involves looking at how paved pathways in greenways cut through wooded areas and how the width and proximity of the wooded area to the path affects the types of wildlife present in the area.

Hess also said he works with the WakeNature Preserves Partnership, an initiative dedicated to protecting open spaces by providing organizations with the resources to design a management plan to protect the spaces and support wildlife there.

Hess said, however, he did not start off in conservation.

He worked as a software en-

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George Hess, a professor of ecology and conservation, the 2014 Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, the top teaching award at N.C. State.

gineer for a few years until his dissatisfaction with the career led him on a path to biomathematics and how he could use math to understand biology and the environment, an interest he had since childhood as he witnessed the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the passing of the Clean Water Act.

“I wanted to apply computer programming to something more meaningful to me,” Hess said.

His programming skills came in handy with the design of his website, which Hess said serves as a creative outlet for him along with the photography he posts on the site.

Hess said he also enjoys cycling as a way to stay active, as he often cycles to work and participates in triathlons and charity rides. He grew up in New York City and saw cycling as an “amazing” way to get around due to its “level of freedom.”

22 Jump Street: fun, but repetitive 22 Jump Street

+++ Kevin deMontbrun Staff Writer

Like its predecessor, 22 Jump Street is hilarious. Not only does it have an assortment of laugh-out-loud gags that could leave anyone in tears, but the overall themes surrounding the film are once again remarkably satirical and beautifully self-aware.

The directors of 22 Jump Street, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, are experts of self-aware themes when it comes to movies. With 21 Jump Street, they suddenly brought a ‘80s crime-drama television show with only brief popularity back from the dead, and it was unexpectedly brought back well. It parodies every aspect of itself, including media portrayals of high school and crime drama.

Now, its sequel continues the parody of the original with a slight twist.

22 Jump Street follows the familiar premise of 21 Jump Street, but instead of exploring the cutthroat social hierarchy of high school, now Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) are off to college,

experiencing it in all of its stereotypical glory. They are there to track down the dealer of a drug called “WHYPHY” that caused the death of one of the school’s students. But of course, the investigation is not their only challenge.

While attending drunken frat parties and late-night art-scene events, they must learn what their identities are as college students; and much like in 21 Jump Street, they get swept up in the culture of college and find themselves in different cliques.

What redeems 22 Jump Street from being a dud of a sequel is the new satirical angle the film takes. The movie is not only a spoof of college life and the popular notion of it, but it is also a parody of sequels in general. The movie is, after all, a sequel about how bad sequels are, and to quote the movie, it is about how they are “always worse the second time around.”

A ny com mon sequelpitfalls the film falls into (which are many), it knows, and it makes sure that viewers know that it knows, taking every opportunity to make a joke at its own production before you even get the chance. Though not too overt, it is impressive how effortlessly the film keeps up with this idea, and by the end,

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Jonah Hill (left) and Channing Tatum (right) play Schmitt and Jenko, respectively, in 22 Jump Street.

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I couldn’t help but feel that I had taken the movie more seriously than even the film crew…And I did not take it very seriously at all.

Another interesting satirical aspect of the film is its take on the relationship between Schmidt and Jenko.

Jenko becomes friends with Zook (Wyatt Russell), who

is a fraternity mogul and a suspect in Schmidt and Jenko’s investigation. With Zook’s help, Jenko becomes a football star and fraternity brother. Jenko and Zook become the dream team at the expense of what seems to be Jenko and Schmidt’s friendship.

The film parallels these

friendship dilemmas to the dilemmas of a romantic relationship. It often depicts the two as more than just partners in the police force. Is this a subtle statement against homophobia, a parody of homosexuality itself or neither?

I’m not sure, which I must admit, made these scenes a little uncomfortable, especially because of how frequently and obviously the idea was laid out.

Even though their friendship is put to the test, the characters of Jenko and Schmidt are as good as ever in the film. Like Jenko’s football finesse, Tatum makes art out of being an air-headed beefcake, which is an actual compliment. And Hill is just as adroit at talking himself into awkward and uncertain situations as he was in 21 Jump Street. They make for an entertaining pair, no matter how much of a “dream team”

Jenko and Zook are portrayed to be in the film.

Overall, Lord and Miller knew exactly what they were doing in using the same premise and ideas as the last film, but this doesn’t change the fact that they used the same premise and ideas as the last film. I enjoyed the movie. However, I could have watched the first film and been just as enthused.

The added self-awareness was a bonus, but was it bonus enough to make the film truly worth it?

Its relationship to its predecessor aside, 22 Jump Street is a fun film with genuinely hilarious jokes and a premise that will leave you just as interested as its predecessor, exactly as interested. If you’re looking for a light-hearted film that will have you laughing, I would give 22 Jump Street a shot.

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Sustainable strawberries RESEARCHER’S WORK ON STRAWBERRIES COULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT RESULTS IN NORTH CAROLINA Sara Awad Staff Writer

At the rate of producing 10 to 15 tons of strawberries per year, North Carolina ranks third in the nation in strawberry production, but the state may one day become even more successful through the work of N.C. State crop science doctoral student Amanda McWhirt.

McWhirt’s project emphasizes the use of summer-cover plants, vermicomposting, which is the practice of using worms to naturally improve the soil, and inoculants, which can improve overall soil health in a sustainable way and lead to better strawberry yields.

The National Strawberry Sustainabilit y Initiative funds McWhirt’s research through the University of Arkansas.

McWhirt is conducting the research at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, the largest facility in the region dedicated to sustainable agriculture research, outreach and education. It’s run jointly by N.C. State, N.C. A&T and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Michelle Schroeder-Moreno, an assistant professor of crop science who serves as McWhirt’s adviser, said the work is based on eight years of previous work in organic strawberry production.

Strawberry farmers previously relied on methyl bromide fumigation to rid the soil of unwanted pests that killed the strawberries, according to Schroeder-Moreno. However, the issuance of the Montreal Protocol called for

the phasing out of the fumigant due to its effects on the ozone layer in countries participating to the treaty, which includes 196 countries, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

In 2005, methyl bromide reached “100 percent phaseout” status, though the phase-out exempted strawberries under the critical-use exemption because strawberry growers didn’t have many alternatives when compared to other crops, according to the EPA. The state has since halted production of methyl bromide, according to Schroeder-Moreno.

“It was banned completely in the U.S., but strawberry growers could keep using it for a few years, and now it’s where no one should be using it, but there is still some out there where people are using it kind of under the table,” McWhirt said.

McWhirt adds organic mat-­ ter and diversity to the soil, and because the technique al-­ ready worked for other crops, it made sense for it to work with strawberries, according to Schroeder-­Moreno.

“Amanda’s research is re-­ ally, I think, the pinnacle of it because we’ve researched these sustainable soil man-­ agement practices, but we haven’t really done it sepa-­ rately and with or without fu-­ migation,” Schroeder-­More-­ no said. “Change is hard for producers, it’s costly, and so we really not only wanted to show the yields, but also the economics of what it would be to take on some or all of these practices.”

McWhirt said she takes FKDUJH RI UXQQLQJ WKH ¿HOG studies at CEFS, which will entail two years of data col-­ lection and lab analysis.

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Amanda McWhirt, a Ph.D. student in crop science, is working to develop sustainable soil methods on strawberry farms to keep North Carolina the third strawberry producer in the nation. In the lab, researhcers check the strawberry roots for the presence of arbuscular mycorrhical fungi, which helps the plants to flourish.

scale producer, an organic producer and a small grower.

McWhirt tries to communi-­ cate with strawberry growers and the community through articles, a Facebook site and hosting a webinar, according to Schroeder-­Moreno.

“We’ve done a lot of out-­ reach with potential grow-­ ers,” McWhirt said. “We made a video that kind of explains the vermicompost-­ ing and how we incorporate the vermicomposting into the production system.”

Schroeder-­Moreno said the research also serves the com-­ munity, as McWhirt delivers some of the strawberries to the N.C. Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.

McWhirt said she still has to balance her classwork with research. That’s especially challenging during straw-­ berry season when she spends more than 40 hours a week working on the project.

“Besides eating a lot of strawberries, I’ve actually HQMR\HG GRLQJ D ORW RI WKH ¿HOG stuff,” McWhirt said. “It’s a lot of work, but I have a lot of people who help me that are really great, and so it’s fun to go out and get out of the RI¿FH DQG GLJ LQ WKH GLUW DQG do that kind of thing every once in a while.”

McWhirt said she also

works with undergradu-­ ate student workers Sarah Wiebke and Austin Wrenn.

“I know I was a student worker when I was an under-­ grad, and so that’s probably what got me thinking about graduate school originally and thinking about doing re-­ search,” McWhirt said. “So it’s interesting now to be kind of full circle and have student workers working for me be-­ cause I can see them start to get interested or decide if they like it and they get the same experience. I think it just adds to your education because otherwise you’re just taking classes and, you know, professors have this other side that they’re doing.

You don’t really know what they’re doing, and so it’s good to actually participate in that part of the University.”

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Most of the strawberries produced in North Carolina remain in the state.

A one-acre strawberry farm can yield up to 20,000 to 30,000 pounds of strawberries each season.

Strawberry flowers take about a month to produce a fruit ripe enough for consumption.

150-200 seeds cover a typical strawberry’s surface.

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Monuments delivers fresh, groovy rock Danger Bird Records

++++ Taylor Quinn Assistant Features Editor

Monuments, Ume’s newest album, came out March 4, and it’s a real treat. Ume is from Texas, but the band is bringing the tunes of this heavy-hitting album to Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, N.C. on June 27.

Grammy award-winner Adam Kasper, who had a part in producing albums for major bands such as Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, produced the album. Ume is a three-piece band comprised of front-woman Lauren Larson, bassist Eric Larson and drummer Rachel Fuhrer.

Monuments is definitely a rock album, but is made unique with indie sounds resembling that of the groovyrock ‘70s. Lauren Larson’s raspy but sweet-sounding

voice, coupled with the heavy sounds of the instruments, is truly a match made in heaven.

This album is a great listen, and takes audiences on a journey through fun, heavy girl power songs to slower, more melodic songs that really show off Ume’s talent for making music.

The first song of the album, “Black Stone,” is a real standout. It grabs listeners and lures them in to keep listening. The head-banging melody hits listeners in the face hard, but in a way that doesn’t hurt. It’s a song that would be awesome to hear live because it’s full of energy and attitude.

After “Black Stone” come a couple of high-energy, intricate-sounding songs.

In the music industry today, too many high-energy songs are only good because they are high-energy. But on this album, those high-energy songs are so much more. The melody and tempo change

often so the listener cannot quite guess the next note, which is a great musical trait.

If a listener can sing along to the song during the first listen, then there is a problem.

Another enjoyable aspect of the album is how full it sounds. Despite being a three-piece band, Ume sounds more like a five- or six-piece band. That being said, it doesn’t sound overproduced and duplicated, which is a nice breath of fresh air for listeners.

After those high-energy songs, “Too Big World” takes the listener down a notch. This song shows off the band’s talent for creating whimsical melodies and heartfelt lyrics. My favorite lyric from this song is “If you are lost, I’m lost,” which sounds simple but turns out to be rather powerful. “Too Big World” and “Chase it Down” each have significant instrumental parts. Bands have gotten away from put-

ting an instrumental break in between lyrics, and I really like how Ume uses the instrumental breaks in these two songs.

“Until the End” is also a standout song. It provides a nice, groovy addition that makes the album all the more upbeat. I really enjoyed how the band coupled long, melodic notes on the guitar with more punk-sounding staccato notes from the drummer and bassist. Then when Lauren’s voice adorns the track, it adds a perfect touch to an already wonderful song.

“Barophobia” is another favorite of mine. It is the only acoustic song on the album and really complements the rest of the album. Every album needs that one acoustic song to enjoy, and Monuments provides just that.

It seems as though the album gets progressively less heavy as it goes on, except for “Barricade,” which resembles the first few tracks’ power.

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The album takes listeners on a nice journey and is a morethan-enjoyable listen.

I am sure that this band would be fun to see live; it has great songs, a great attitude and great energy. Not to men-

tion that it sounds different than most up-and-coming bands. I highly recommend this album to anyone who enjoys good music.

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consequence of a massive restoration undertaken in 2010.

The new-look Pinehurst No. 2 was actually an old look. Renowned architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw returned the course to its 1930s look, providing a much different test of golf.

Less manicured green, more brown, wider fairways, but no rough to save a misplaced tee shot greeted the Open’s contestants. Bouncy and fast, the course features

large bunkers, wire grasses, and native areas filled with the natural f lora found in the North Carolina Sandhills.

The Pinehurst got the better of the majority of the golfers. Wickedly sloping greens meant that any shot at the green lacking precision would bounce or roll right off the side.

More than one golfer found this out the hard way, as hitting too long into most holes resulted in balls coming to rest well beyond the back of the green.

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day total of 130 was the lowest ever for 36 holes at a U.S. Open, and he dominated with a combination of strong driver and iron play.

Even when Kaymer got in trouble, his putting saw him save par, and he capped his performance with a 15-footer on the 18th hole.

For Kaymer, the U.S. Open at Pinehurst gives him a second major win. The Düsseldorf, Germany native also won the 2010 PGA Championship.

No one even came close to the former world No. 1 and his score of nine under par.

Erik Compton and Rickie Fowler tied for second at one under, eight strokes behind Kaymer.

Six-time runner-up Phil Mickelson hung around gamely, but lost strokes on Sunday on the greens, finishing at +7. Former Wolfpack golfer Garth Mulroy, a 2002 All-American, finished at +9 for the tournament.

Pinehurst No. 2 now turns to host the Women’s U.S. Open, the first time both tournaments have been held back-to-back at the same venue.

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fully next year I can have a better finish.”

On the final day of competition for the Pack athletes, Colley took the stage to compete in his third Outdoor Championships. Colley, a seasoned veteran of distance running, finished 10th at the Regional meet and entered the National event looking for the fifth All-American honor of his career.

Thirteen minutes and 51 seconds later, Colley crossed the finish line in 11th place, earning him All-American status but falling short of receiving points. With his top-12 finish, Colley becomes only the second N.C. State athlete with multiple All-American selections in the men’s 5,000-meter, joining fellow five-time AllAmerican Bob Henes.

After the race, Colley said although the accolades were nice, he was not satisfied with his result.

“I wanted to go for top four or top five and get some points for the team,” Colley said. “I wanted to represent the University and get us

points. We distance runners are never satisfied.”

Despite how Colley may feel, this year’s competition in the 5,000-meter was as tough as ever. Both of the top-two finishers, senior Lawi Lalang of Arizona and freshman Edward Cheserek of Oregon, shattered the previous national record of 13:20.63 by at least two seconds. Lalang has eight NCAA titles to his name, while Cheserek has earned four in his first year.

The Wolfpack ended the Championships with zero points on the board, a fact that State head coach Rollie Geiger called “frustrating.”

However, with three of the team’s four All-American athletes returning, Geiger said that he has high hopes for his 2015 team.

The Pack coach said that although his athletes had the talent to reach NCAA Championships, the key for more national qualifiers would be a better showing at Regionals.

“We need a better Regional meet,” Geiger said. “Obviously it’s competitive—it’s the first round of NCAAs—you can never take that lightly.”

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Pack wraps up outdoor season Recently-graduated N.C. State golfer wins first amateur tournament Ana Menendez, who graduated from N.C. State in the spring, won the Women’s Eastern Amateur Golf Championship on Friday. Despite finishing the first day of competition with a score of 77 (+5), Menendez shot to the top of the standings by shooting a 72 (E) and 69 (-3) on the final two days of competition. Her final result of 218 (+2) left Menendez tied for first place with former Central Florida Knight Monifa Sealy, leading to a playoff round, which Menendez won on the first hole.

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Turner, Austin appointed to All-American clubs The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and Baseball America recently released their All-American selections. Former Wolfpack shortstop Trea Turner, who was drafted by the San Diego Padres on June 5, earned first-team honors from both NCBWA and Baseball America. Turner is still up for nomination for the Brooks Wallace Award, which recognizes the nation’s top shortstop. Former Wolfpack catcher Brett Austin was also selected to the Baseball America third team, the first All-American selection of his career.

Austin was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the fourth round earlier this month.

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Women’s basketball selected for preconference tournament On Nov. 27, the Wolfpack women’s basketball team will travel to the Grand Bahama Island to participate in the 2014 Junkanoo Jam. The three-day tournament will feature two pools of four teams, with State competing in the Freeport. The Pack will face George Washington at 1 p.m. Nov. 27, and will face the winner or loser of a PurdueTexas Tech matchup the following day. Neither George Washington nor Texas Tech qualified for the NCAA Tournament last season, while Purdue competed as a No. 4 seed and advance to the Round of 32.

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Three N.C. State athletes traveled to Eugene, Ore. to compete in the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Thursday and Friday. Of the three, redshirt senior Andrew Colley and redshirt sophomore SeQuoia Watkins garnered All-American honors in the men’s 5,000-meter and women’s discus, respectively.

Watkins got things kicked off for the Pack on Friday in the women’s discus throw. Watkins entered the competition ranked 21st in the nation and coming off the best throw of her career, breaking her own school record with a distance of 180’ 4”.

To prepare for this year’s Nationals, Watkins said she thought back to 2013, when she finished 21st in the Outdoor Championships.

“This time, I had a year to sit and think about what happened last year, when I got there with the perfect conditions and I messed up,” Watkins said. “I had been waiting to get that second chance for over a year; that’s what pushed me.”

Watkins took advantage of her second chance, throwing for a distance of 173’ 11”, only two inches out of eighth place. The throw earned Watkins an All-American selection and the best finish by a discus thrower in school history.

“I’m extremely proud,” Watkins said. “I wasn’t expecting to make it that far.”

Looking forward, Watkins said she “had a plan” for her next two years at State.

“Next year, I’m going to try and

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score points,” Watkins said. “Then a year after that: national champion.

Senior year, I have to be a national champion. There’s no other choice now that I’ve seen what I can actually do.”

Later that evening, sophomore Jonathan Addison participated in the men’s long jump competition.

Addison had the best result of the three competitors at the NCAA Regional Championships, finishing in

third place with a new personal best jump of 25’ 4.75”.

The 7:30 p.m. start time brought chilly Oregon weather to the event, which proved to be problematic for the Raleigh native.

“It was much colder than I was expecting, so it was a little hard for me to warm up,” Addison said. “On my first two jumps, I was a little stiff running down.”

Despite the rough start, Addison rebounded with an impressive third jump of 23’ 2.5”. At the time, the jump was in the top eight in the competition, and Addison had all the momentum heading into his final leap.

However, on the sophomore’s final jump, weather played a factor again.

“We were jumping into a headwind the whole time,” Addison said.

“On my last jump, the wind flipped, and the ref called a foul.”

Due to a foot fault, Addison’s final attempt was scratched from the record, despite it being his best of the competition thus far.

“That one probably would have made me get top eight,” Addison said. “It’s just unfortunate the way things happen sometimes.”

Addison finished the event in 20th place. Though the result may have been disappointing, Addison said he would only work harder to improve for next season.

“My plan is just to work out the small kinks I have,” Addison said.

“Everyone has small things [they need to work on], but mine were glaring at Nationals. I need to work on my inconsistencies, and hope-

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If you weren’t able to head to Brazil for the FIFA World Cup, do not despair. The London Bridge Pub and WakeMed Soccer Park are two of the best places in Raleigh to watch the world’s most popular sport on its biggest stage.

After a dour and reserved 2010 tournament, the 2014 iteration’s group stage has been a firecracker thus far.

Boasting more goals per game after the first round than any tournament since 1958, Brazil 2014 has seen absurd finishing, valiant come-

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Ana Menendez @AnaMenendez1 Thanks @WEGAGOLF for a great week in Southport. #feelingblessed #WEGA

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backs and last-minute victories.

And it has only been a week.

So, if you are looking to get into the soccer spirit and either lack a television or wish to share your experience with other fans, Raleigh has two great options.

BuzzFeed’s Matt Kiebus named London Bridge Pub the best bar in North Carolina for soccer fans.

Dog-friendly, in the heart of the downtown and open to those under 21 until 10 p.m., London Bridge is the perfect place to rub shoulders with other World Cup viewers.

With the United States’ 2-1 victory over Ghana on Monday, soccer fever is in full swing right now. If sup-

porting the red, white and blue is your fancy, consider coming out to one of WakeMed Soccer Park’s U.S. viewing parties.

Home of the Carolina RailHawks, WakeMed features a massive 38-foot by 20-foot video screen, and has already hosted one successful viewing party for the Ghana game.

Expect more viewing parties to come as the U.S. takes on Portugal and Germany in the remaining group-stage games.

Check out CarolinaRailHawks. com to find out more information about future viewing parties.

German Martin Kaymer won the U.S. Open Golf Championship in record-breaking fashion at Pinehurst No. 2 on Sunday, shooting a four-day score of 271.

Kaymer’s 271 is the secondlowest 72-hole score in U.S. Open history, and he did it on arguably the toughest test yet.

Located about an hour and a half south of N.C. State, Pinehurst No. 2 is one of the premier courses in the country, legendary golf course architect Donald Ross’s gem.

“I sincerely believe this course to be the fairest test of championship golf that I have ever designed,” Ross said, quoted on a sign near the first tee of No. 2. “It is obviously the function of the championship course to present the competitors with a variety of problems that will test every type of shot which a golfer of championship quality should be qualified to play.”

Kaymer certainly proved up to Ross’s challenge, shooting back-toback rounds of five-under on the first two days, conquering a much different golf course than the one that hosted the tournament in 1999 and 2005.

For the first time in U.S. Open history, the championship was played on a course lacking grass rough on the sides of the fairway, a

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