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Bryan Perlmutter, Program Coordinator of IgniteNC and 2013 graduate of N.C. State, advocates for the addition of N.C. State as an early voting station for the fall election at the Wake County Board of Elections meeting Tuesday afternoon in downtown Raleigh.

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Students hoping to cast their ballots in November for Midterm elections won’t be able to vote with the convenience that they had in the 2012 election, as N.C. State will not be hosting an early voting site

this fall.

On Tuesday, the Wake County Board of Elections held a public hearing in the WNBC center in downtown Raleigh to pick eight early-voting sites.

The three-man board unanimously voted to approve five voting sites and selected the last three

sites by a 2-1 margin. In addition, Wake County is required by law to use the Board of Elections office, which is located downtown.

There were 40 speakers at the meeting, which lasted for about three hours, including students

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Chancellor Randy Woodson, alumni, and friends and family of Hondros gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to honor N.C. State alum Chris Hondros, who was killed on assignment for Getty Images as a war photojournalist in Libya on April 20, 2011.

Hondros and his colleague Tim Hetherington, the director of the Oscar-nominated film Restrepo, were killed in Misurata, Libya during an attack by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces against rebels in the city during the Arab Spring uprising. Hondros died several hours after suffering a head wound from a mortar attack.

An award-winning photojournalist, Hondros covered many of the world’s major conflicts after graduating from the University in 1993. He covered wars and the struggles of daily life in Kosovo and Macedonia/Albania, Angola,

Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, Cuba, Pakistan, Nigeria, Liberia and ultimately Libya for more than a decade, his work featured on the covers of acclaimed publications such as The New York Times and the Washington Post.

Because of his work in Liberia, Hondros was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography in 2004, and in 2005 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal, which is awarded to the “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise,” according to the Overseas Press Club of America.

He was nominated posthumously for a Pulitzer Prize again in 2012 for his coverage of the Arab Spring.

Greg Campbell, a friend and colleague of Hondros, spoke Monday about Hondros’ effect on the profession of war photojournalism and about the lives Hondros touched

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GLBT Center seeks new director Antivirus software requires updates Staff Report

The University has begun its search to find a new director of the GLBT Center. The first of three candidates visited campus Wednesday.

Justine Hollingshead, director of the N.C. State GLBT Center since January 2008, stepped down from her position at the GLBT Center to assume a new role as assistant to the Vice Chancellor and Dean for the Division of Academic and Student Affairs onMay 19.

The search for a candidate to fill Hollingshead’s old position is currently in progress. The search committee for the position, led

by Associate Vice Provost for Equal Opportunity and Equity Amy Circosta, has narrowed the applicants down to three potential candidates.

The three candidates must come to campus and give a presentation before the final hiring decision is made. The first can-

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North Carolina at Greensboro, currently serves as the LGBTQA Coordinator/Director of the Bayard Rustin Center at Guilford College as well as the Deputy Directory of the Trans People of

On June 29, the Univerdity will replace its current free antivirus software, Trend Micro, with the Russian antivirus software Kaspersky. If students currently using Trend Micro do not change to Kaspersky, they will lose the license to use Trend Micro and will no longer be protected by the software.

Kaspersky, just like Trend Micro, will be free for students, faculty members and staff to keep both personal and university data secure from cyberattacks.

Mardecia Bell, director of Security and Compliance in the Office of Information Technology, said the three year contract

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Justine Hollingshead, the former director of the GLBT Center, addresses the student Senate March 19, 2014.

didate, Parker Hurley, visited campus Wednesday. The last two candidates, Renee Wells and Jenny Kurtz, will visit the week after the Fourth of July.

Wells will speak on July 8, and Kurtz will speak on July 11. Both presentations will take place

from 1 to 2 p.m. in 100 Winslow Hall.

Circosta said the presentations are open to the public, and students are encouraged to attend.

Hurley, who is enrolled in a Ph.D. program for Higher Education at the University of

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Danesha Seth Carley, a crop scientist, examines the grasses of Pinehurst No. 2.

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For the past few years, researchers and professors from N.C. State partnered with Bayer CropScience to restore Golf Course Two at Pinehurst Resort, the location for

the 2014 U.S. Open.

Danesha Seth Carley, coordinator for CALS Sustainability Programs, said N.C. State was asked to work with the United States Golf Association team as well as Bob Farren, who is in charge of all the golf courses at Pinehurst Resort. Farren and

the USGA were preparing for the U.S. Open when they undertook the renovation of Golf Course Two. N.C. State was asked to help manage the areas of the course where about 40 acres of Bermuda grass,

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with Trend Micro expired this year, which gave OIT the option of either renewing the contract or shopping around for other software options.

“From a usability perspective, there were multiple problems with Trend Micro, so we were looking to use other products,” Bell said.

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around the world.

Campbell said it is a bittersweet memory that the first assignment he and Hondros worked on together was for the Technician in Washington, D.C., covering President Bill Clinton’s inauguration.

Although the two did not have press credentials, they managed to bluff their way through the press registration area and obtained two all-access passes.

“It’s meaningful to stand here, reflecting on my time with Chris, back here where it all started,” Campbell said. “[Hondros] had an incredible amount of innate ability… He also had an unbelievable dedication to the story…

He had this amazing amount of confidence.”

Campbell said Hondros’ talent was not simply a fluke, and at the end of the day, he

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named as a part of the 2014 Trans 100 List, a list honoring people who make a difference in the GLBT community.

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The problems with Trend Micro included performance issues with the Mac version and inconsistencies with the blocking of websites that did not contain viruses or malware, according to Bell.

Some minor installation issues regarding Kaspersky have already been resolved, and OIT does not anticipate any major problems during the course of its use, according to Bell.

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worked harder than anyone else to do the things he wanted to do.

“It was a part of who he was,” Campbell said. “It was a part of his character.

Chris developed a personal style. Chris had this sort of boundless optimism and need to gain knowledge–he was very curious. He had that ability to bring out the common human thread that runs through us, and he had the ability to bring that out.”

Woodson said he f irst heard of Hondros during his first week as chancellor while visiting the Gregg Museum, which was displaying some of Hondros’ photographs.

Woodson also presented a gift to Inge Hondros, Hondros’ mother, who attended the reception as well. Woodson said Inge Hondros is creating a memorial scholarship in her son’s name to help students at N.C. State pursue study abroad programs.

Six of Hondros’ photographs were available for

the assistant director for the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Michigan Technological University and previously worked as an English instructor at the University of Alabama. In May 2013, Wells received a Michigan Technological University Student Affairs Staff Award.

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the University uses to select its antivirus solution are protection, usability and the rate at which the software can detect viruses and malware, Bell said.

“Kaspersky is rated pretty highly in all of those categories,” Bell said.

The University mandates that all devices connected to the campus network be protected by approved antivirus software, which is why the University provides an-

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tivirus software access at no charge so it is not a burden to acquire, according to Bell.

To aid in the transition, OIT has made efforts to inform users about the new software and provides instructions on its website as to how to download and install the program.

Although the University provides a software option for free, many students elect to use other programs, such as Norton or Avast!, in or-

der to protect its personal devices. OIT has established guidelines for acceptable alternatives but is not responsible for installation, troubleshooting or maintenance for them.

N.C. State has provided free antivirus software since the early 2000s. According to Susan West, director of Technology and Support Services at OIT, when the University first began to offer free antivirus software there were

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limited options for free or low cost products. Since then, both West and Bell said they agree providing free antivirus software has cut down on N.C. State’s cybersecurity problems.

Once students have graduated from N.C. State, they are no longer licensed to use the University’s antivirus software.

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An attendee examines the work of Chris Hondros, a war photographer who was killed in action while assignment in Libya.

Hondros graduated from N.C. State with a degree in English literature in 1994.

reception attendees to view, courtesy of the Gregg Museum. Students, faculty, staff and alumni who wish to view some of Hondros’ photographs may visit the

Park Alumni Center, which houses 14 of his works.

Campbell is currently directing a documentary about Hondros’ life and work, titled “Hondros: A Life in Frames.”

More information about Hondros and Campbell’s documentary can be found at chrishondrosfilm.com.

Laura Wilkinson is a former editor-in-chief of the

Technician and is currently a graduate student at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Kurtz recently left her position as director of the Center for Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities at Rutgers University. In 2013, she received both the Rutgers University Human Dignity Award and the ACPA Association Voice of Inclusion Medallion.

Hurley, Wells and Kurtz were chosen out of a pool of nearly 40 total applicants for the position, according to Circosta.

“We were pleased with the number of people that did apply,” Circosta said. “We were very impressed by the diversity and depth of candidates.”

Joanne Woodard, Vice Provost of the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity, will make the final decision on which candidate will be offered the position after the search committee gives her its recommendation.

Circosta said the chosen applicant would ideally begin

the position on August 1, but the exact date may be pushed back if necessary.

“We would love to have that position filled by the time students get back to campus, but realistically, we are not even completing presentations until, at the earliest, July 11th,” Circosta said.

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and faculty members from N.C. State and representatives of the NAACP. Residents who attended expressed frustration as the room did not have a microphone, and it was often difficult to hear what the speakers were saying.

Monika von Windheim, a resident of Wake Forest, said she was proud to have voted with her daughter who attends N.C. State during the earlyvoting period.

“It was so energizing for our family to vote together and to see our daughter vote for the first time so easily,” von Windheim said.

Those who spoke were most concerned about early-voting sites at N.C. State and Chavis Community Center. In the past, Chavis has attracted a significant population of African-Americans, and has historical significance to the black community.

Supporters of making Chavis a voting site, which included representatives from the NAACP, argued that unlike the Board of Election building, which is not open on Sundays, Chavis can be open after church when many African-American churches conduct voter drives

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or turf grass, was removed.

Researchers helped plan what the new areas would look like coming into the U.S. Open.

Two factors motivated the push to restore the Pinehurst golf course. The first, Carley explained, is that Farren and lead designers Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw wanted to bring back the original and historical design.

Donald Ross first designed the course in 1907 in the style of the original golf courses in

called “Souls to the Polls.”

David Robinson, chairperson of the Wake County Board of Elections and fellow board members Mark Ezzell and Brian Ratledge agreed unanimously on these sites: Optimist Community Center in North Raleigh, Knightdale Recreation Center, Apex Community Center, Herbert Young Community Center in Cary and The Northern Regional Center in Wake Forest.

Together, Robinson and Ezzell voted for Chavis Community Center, Lake Lynn Community Center and Wake Technical Community College’s main campus near Fuquay-Varina by a 2-1 margin.

Robinson and Ratledge decided not to endorse N.C. State, citing its lower voter turnout than other sites and relative difficulty of parking.

Ezzell said he was disappointed N.C. State was not selected as an early-voting site, but he said he was excited to see Chavis was selected.

The other early-voting sites are all outside the beltline except for the Board of Election building downtown.

The closest voting stations for students who want to early vote this fall will be Chavis Community Center, which is about 3.6 miles from the heart of campus.

Ezzell, the sole Democrat on the Board, said even two years ago when

Scotland.

“It was a lot rougher than what the course had become through the ‘80s and ‘90s, as they put more and more turf grass in and the course had become more manicured,” Carley said. “They wanted to restore it back to its original form.”

N.C. State researchers were also working on redesigning the course to improve its sustainability, Carley said.

“Turf grass takes a lot of resources, mostly water but also chemicals and mowing and labor,” Carley said. “They wanted to help to reduce their

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Deborah Hooker, director of the N.C. State women’s and gender studies program, addresses Wake County Board of Elections members (from left to right) Mark Ezzell, David Robinson, and Brian Ratledge Tuesday afternoon in downtown Raleigh. The board heard public comments concerning the selection of early-voting venues for the November election.

N.C. State hosted an early-voting site at the Talley Student Union, the Board of Elections did not approve it to do so. That time, one of the Board members appealed the decision to the State Board of Elections, which declared that N.C. State would host a site.

However, Ezzell said he will honor the decision of the Board and will not pursue similar actions.

More than 13,000 people voted at Talley in 2012, the Technician reported.

Stacy Roberts, a graduate student in history, said she was especially

ecological footprint, and they wanted to be a more sustainable golf course. By taking out 40 acres of Bermuda grass, and managing the natural areas with native vegetation, they were able to reduce their water use by over 50 percent.”

N.C. State professors also did outreach and educational work at Pinehurst. They did a thorough survey of the course and reported back to turf managers and superintendents about what vegetation was on the course and how to help manage the native vegetation, according to Carley.

Researchers did participate

disappointed with the Board’s decision and said she did not completely understand its reasoning in reaching its decision.

Roberts said many of speakers who opposed expanding earlyvoting sites did not understand the difficulty working people would face in attempting to get to the polls.

“They made it seem like public transit is really easy, but the fact public transportation is not as convenient as they made it sound,” Roberts said. “Plus, it’s not just students that would vote here. Faculty, staff and members of the Hillsborough

in formal research, but it was more ecological. They established formal research plots on 17 out of the 18 holes on the course, and did an ecological survey on the plots to see what type of vegetation they contained. They then compared the findings to the natural ecosystem that would be found in a forest setting in the Carolina Sandhills, Carley said.

“One of the publicly perceived negatives of golf courses is that they are seen as very biologically stagnant, and that there is no real diversity,” Carley said. “We wanted

community would play a huge role.

Mike Mullen, Vice Chancellor and Dean of Student Affairs, sent a letter to the Board Tuesday, urging the Board to strongly consider the University as an early-voting site.

“This is important for our students, faculty and staff, and would be a service for the greater community as well,” Mullen wrote. “With over 40,000 people on campus each day, having an early voting location would be an asset for the Wake County Board of Elections.”

to test a hypothesis whether or not this new style of golf course is ecologically more stable. We discovered that it was indeed more diverse. We found over 75 different species and over 75 percent of those species were considered true natives.”

N.C. State’s involvement in Pinehurst resort’s restoration has brought a lot of press attention to the University, especially with Pinehurst’s influx of visitors and boosted media buzz brought because of the U.S. Open.

“We as a University have gotten a lot of really positive

press because of this project,” Carley said.

Carley said the reason Pinehurst asked her and her colleagues to do the work is because of how well-known N.C. State is and because of its reputation as one of the leading research universities in the country.

“They knew that we did good work and good quality work and they could be proud of the results when working with us,” Carley said.

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Julie Smitka, junior in physics and philosophy

Why Brazil hates the World Cup T

he World Cup is well underway in Brazil.

As well, there is much unrest spreading throughout the country. There have been protests for the last year about government priorities and the spiraling costs of the tournament, which is estimated at $11.5 billion.

Many BraSophie zilians have Nelson Staff columnist demanded “FIFA standard” hospitals, schools and public transportation, rather than just stadiums.

The government foolishly anticipated that the population would forget about its woes once the tournament began. The error of its way was exposed when activists from the Homeless Workers Movement marched on the São Paulo stadium, where the hosts kicked off the tournament against Croatia. Riot police used tear gas against the indigenous dissidents.

The hacktivist group, Anonymous, has threatened cyberattacks against World Cup corporate sponsors, and public transport workers in São Paulo have carried out strikes that gridlocked the city.

The objections of the people are reasonable, as despite Brazil’s progression into a major economic super power, social development has been depressingly slow. About 35 percent of the population lives on or below the poverty line, on less than $2 a day, a disconcerting statistic for a country attempting to prove itself as a developed society.

The 2000s saw an economic

boom that mainly affected two groups. The very wealthy experienced an immense increase in their wealth, whilst the lives of Brazil’s poorest were also transformed. Despite this, the last 10 years have included a string of poverty and hunger-reduction programs as part of the Bolsa Família social welfare program that has resulted in the greatest decline in hunger and absolute poverty the country has ever seen. The increasing help for the poor raises the question as to what has triggered the huge scale of protest that is evident during the tournament.

The unrest has stemmed from the middle classes, who believe they have not profited at all from Brazil’s economic development. Social policy has been controlled by the macroeconomic conservatism of the administration so that public healthcare and education have persisted to be drastically underfunded.

The protesters in Brazil have expressed that the $11.5 billion spent on the World Cup should have been more sensibly used toward improving vital public services. According to a Pew Research Poll, 61 percent of Brazilians do not think hosting the World Cup is worthy of celebration. Instead the people of Brazil view hosting the tournament as a perfect opportunity to protest against a vast range of issues affecting the country.

The situation in Brazil indisputably links politics to sport, as great sporting events so often do. There is a lot of

frustration from the people at the government’s lack of will power to tackle corruption and the “entrenched elite” that dominate Brazilian politics and business.

As demonstrated in Sochi, global attention as a result from a sporting competition brings to light concerns that affect the country as a whole.

It also raises speculation as to whether it is appropriate to abandon spending on vital public services to instead devote large amounts of money on sporting events.

There is no simple answer.

The long-term benefits of a World Cup and the Olympic games are unpredictable. Regardless of Brazil’s dominant economic position in the world, in terms of globalized popular culture, Brazil’s presence is negligible. The government hopes to expand the brand identity of Brazil in the global tourist market by hosting the two major sporting tournaments.

The World Cup has allowed Brazil the chance to reform whilst presenting its people an opportunity to express their resentment at the regime in the spotlight of the world. Undoubtedly, the level of funding for the World Cup is excessive, but perhaps the great power of sport will help the people of Brazil get their message across to the government. As a spectator, it would seem that the protesters, too, make up a team worth rooting for.

he Wake County Board of Elections met Tuesday to discuss and vote on eight early-voting sites needed for the Midterm elections this fall, not including the lawbound ninth site, the Board of Elections office in downtown Raleigh.

Despite hearing from about 40 speakers, many who argued in favor of including N.C. State and Chavis Community Center as early-voting sites, the three-man board voted against endorsing N.C. State as one of the eight sites.

It did, however, decide to name Chavis, a predominantly African-American community, as one of the sites.

This ruling will force students to travel off campus to vote, as opposed to making their way to the Talley Student Union, which served as an early-voting site in 2012.

The Wake County voting site closest to N.C. State’s campus is Chavis Community Center, located 3.6 miles away, making for a sevenminute drive.

It’s no surprise that the board, ruled by Republican majority, would omit N.C. State as an early-voting site, as many college students tend to vote Democrat.

The voting demographic for the University, however, was not provided as a factor in the board’s decision to exclude N.C. State from the early-voting sites. Instead, the board raised concerns about parking-space availability on campus and low voterturnout.

Whether parking is a factor

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In 2012, more than 13,000 people voted at N.C. State’s early-voting site, so it’s hard to take the board’s critique of low voter-turnout very seriously. Further, even if this number somehow seems low when compared to other sites, it makes little sense to deprive 13,000 people of a convenient voting location, which may encourage more students to vote.

Alone, the board’s ruling could be defendable. However, it comes almost a year after the North Carolina General Assembly passed House Bill 589, otherwise known as the Voter ID bill.

House Bill 589, effective Jan. 1, 2016, renders student IDs as invalid forms of identification.

Additionally, the bill includes what is referred to as “The Dependency Clause,” which states that students may not vote in their universities’ counties unless they declare independence from their parents. The clause obstructs dependent, out-of-county students, a large demographic, from voting unless they can find it in their schedules to travel often long distances to their parents’ homes.

Though the General Assembly and the Board of Elections exist as separate entities, the board adheres to guidelines the General Assembly established.

Further, the Board of Elec-

tions carried out the General Assembly’s decision to shorten early-voting time from 17 days to 10, meaning fewer hours of operation for each early-voting site. Considering college students’ often packed schedules, this decrease in hours proves problematic.

With so many of our supposed representatives making choices that disenfranchise students, it’s difficult not to wonder whether our representatives actually represent us.

Intention becomes more questionable considering the North Carolina State Board of Elections ruled the N.C. State campus a voting site before the presidential election in 2012.

The state board had made the ruling after a member of the Wake County Board of Elections challenged its decision not to include the University as a site.

Mark Ezzell, the sole Democrat on the board, said he would not challenge the decision to exclude N.C. State from the list of early-voting sites.

Voting should be accessible and convenient to all people.

Continuously and covertly restricting that right to people, especially people who skew a political demographic opposite to that of those making these decisions, infringes on the ideals of democracy.

It seems our Republican representatives want to make it harder for college students to vote, and with this Board of Elections ruling, they have accomplished exactly that.

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The defeat of Eric Cantor and the future of corporate politics T he stunning defeat of the House majority leader Eric Cantor on June 10 has shaken the landscape of American politics. Never before had an incumbent House majority leader lost an election during the primary.

Cantor’s deZiyi Mai fe at worStaff columnist ried the Republican leadership in the House, with the rising of the Tea Party’s vowing to fight against Wall Street bankers, big businesses and crony capitalism.

Business leaders around the country are more anxious with this political earth-

quake than those politicians in Washington. According to The New York Times, the share prices of many big companies, such as Boeing, have lost most of the gains cumulated in the past year.

Analysts said that this can be attributed to the startle loss of Cantor.

Why did a House representative’s failure to get reelected shake the stock market in a magnitude no less than it did in politics? The answer is that Cantor is a powerful ally to many big businesses that rely on federal government for financial and regulatory support. But this is the crony capitalism that Cantor’s challenger David Brat and his Tea Party supporters rail against. In a recent speech at

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the Dominion Club, David Brat accused lawmakers in Washington of supporting corporate interests by giving them billions of dollars in tax credits instead of taking care of average Americans.

The financial industry is more generous and enthusiastic in pouring huge chunks of money toward Cantor’s campaign. As Jeremy Peters and Shaila Dewan of The New York Times point out, Goldman Sachs, the Blackstone Group and Scoggin Capital Management were the three biggest contributors of Cantor’s campaign, donated $5.4 million in this election.

But Cantor is one of the allies these businesses rely on.

After his defeat, these corporations shifted resources

quickly to U.S. senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, ensuring that he will not meet the same fate as Cantor when facing competition from another populist.

The tie between lawmakers and corporate interests has been becoming stronger since the late 19th Century, getting far away from the republican framework that founders had intended. The founders intentionally let the representatives only have a term of two years to prevent lawmakers from becoming professional politicians, like Cantor, because the House is the chamber that is closest to the American people.

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When those newly elected representatives sit in the House for a long time, they might also bow their head to corporate interests. But one must have faith in our Constitution to replace any incumbents that lose connection to the people. This requires every citizen to act upon political obligation— participating in as many elections as possible.

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Alternative ways to learn a language Taylor Quinn Assistant Features Editor

Assorted combinations of letters and characters make up what humans call language.

In terms of mastering one besides your native tongue, there are a number of ways to do so.

Jeffrey Allen, a French language professor at N.C. State, discussed learning languages and what he thinks the best ways to obtain fluency are.

According to Allen, the best way to learn a language depends on the motivation for learning that language. He grouped the motivations into two sections: travel and other.

“For travel, make sure to cover the essentials such as greetings, numbers, simple questions,” Allen said. “I have recently finished and endorsed a conversational course in Dutch called ‘The Primsleur Approach’, this method focuses largely on oral comprehension and production with four short reading lessons and provides you with those aforementioned fundamentals.”

Allen explained that he put the other reasons for learning a language into “other” due to the “sheer number of possibilities.” Allen offered a simple tip for those learning a language for “other” reasons.

“Immerse yourself in the target language,

most often one will hear, ‘You just have to go where the language is spoken,’” said Allen.

Allen continued and said that fluency entails so much more than what a traditional classroom can offer.

“While this [the classroom] is a great place to start, many resources are available with the advent of the Internet and other technological avenues; I would suggest aligning current interests with the pursuit of language acquisition,” Allen said. “One can follow the news, read magazines, read familiar literature such as The Hunger Games in the target language and watch familiar movies. The previous knowledge about the content will help grasp the literature or film in the target language.”

Allen said that he was a huge advocate of listening to music in the target language, to practice, and recommends searching within a genre one likes to find a few artists.

“Research the lyrics and define any words or expressions you may not know, and load your newfound music onto whichever device you use and take it with you,” Allen said. “If you really like what you’re listening to, the foreign words and expressions become automatized in your vocabulary the more you listen.”

According to Allen, it is harder for some people to learn languages than others because we all have natural inclinations to excel where

others cannot. He offered a personal example to explain: “I am an atrocious math student,” Allen said. “That said, I understand and respect the utility of the field and often prefer to delegate any sort of math-related question to others.

By no means does this imply that learning a language is an impossible task, a lot of the motivation to learn lies within the necessity to do so.”

Allen said that effort is key in learning a language.

“Another notion to keep in mind is the musicality of language, some language learners are discouraged because they cannot reproduce the foreign sounds and as a result, give up,” Allen said. “The sooner one accepts that this may not be possible, the sooner one can move past this potential road-block. What matters in the end is the effort one makes.”

Learning a language also takes dedication and determination, according to Allen.

“Personally, I think the most formidable challenge is to simply let go of feeling selfconscious, the sooner you are willing to throw all caution to the wind and try out a new word or phrase, the sooner you will feel comfortable in your language ability,” Allen said. “Sure, you might make a mistake, but this way, there is instant affirmation or comical negation.”

Allen said that the idea of f luency is an interesting one, as it could mean conversational, completely bilingual or something in between.

“At the age of 17, I had completed three 4.0 GPA years of French and attended a 3-week immersion academy where I successfully and without much effort completed requirements to graduate from the Virginia Governor’s French Academy,” Allen said. “Subsequent to that immersion experience, I embarked on a trip to live with a family in Lille, France and I was far from prepared.”

It took more than schooling to become fluent in French, according to Allen. It took immersing himself in the French culture.

“I had never had a little brother or sister - in French. Needless to say, when pleading my case as to who was stealing Carambars, kind of like a Tootsie Roll, or who gouged a large hole in the drywall, my language skills sky-rocketed,” Allen said. “Since then, a stint working in France and assuming more education, I have developed my ability to juggle linguistic nuances and consider myself a nearnative speaker.”

Allen said that the biggest tip he could offer is to avoid giving up, and added that coffee instantly tastes better when ordering it in another language.

Madison delivers fresh pop with In the Bright Light In the Bright Light Independent

Chelsey Winstead Staff Writer

Indie-pop artist Madison is not a newcomer to the music scene, but she has created a signature sound that combines the best and most quirky elements of the Dance and Pop genre into a unique head bopping blend. The New York native’s new EP album “In the Bright Light” offers a fresh blend of tracks sure to be included in the summer music mix.

The EP offers four tracks, and Madison’s songs create an excellent combination of

strong guitar riffs, solid drumbeats and a distinguishable bass line. Madison knows how to use her sweet soprano voice while still creating pop-rock ballads. The first three songs offer the recently forgotten use of real instruments in song production instead of synthesized dub-step beats.

The EP’s first track “Gotta Have You” brings a new twist on the typical yearning heart crooning to make a decisive female telling her crush “I gotta have you/you’re the one.”

Reminiscent of late 2000s pop, the track spotlights the lead electric guitar and a prominent snare and high hat combo.

The second song “Give Me Your Oh” is flirty and sexy. The lyrics are sensual enough without crossing the borderline of being trashy.

“Give Me Your Oh” was picked up by Victoria’s Secret and was recently featured in the

May 2014 TV commercial for the lingerie company. According to HellHoundMusic, Madison has already had other songs featured in television shows such as Dallas, Parks & Recreation, Nashville, 90210, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost and Gossip Girl.

“Start a Fire” easily earns the power ballad title on the EP. Madison uses spoken stanzas to start the track, but the chorus crescendos with a choir of people shouting, “Can you feel it? Let it go!” Many oh’s and yeah’s round out the chorus and pump up the power.

All tracks could easily be spun in the club setting, but the title track “In the Bright Light” features the computer beats and static overlay popular among dance floor dwellers. “Bright Light” encourages the listener to “just move your body left, right, left.”

I normally steer towards classic rock and

a track with strong guitar, but Madison’s new EP “In The Bright Light” reminds me of what I love about pop music. The songs are fun and freeing. The bright notes and upbeat lyrics are ideal for jamming out on the road or playing as the soundtrack to your pool party.

Madison’s original voice is a refreshing burst of energy from the typical alto indie singers.

This singer/songwriter bombshell is in the fast lane on her way to mainstream broadcasts.

To learn more about Madison and hear her other EPs, check out her website www.noiseofmadison.com, or her Tumblr page noiseofmadison.tumblr.com, or visit her Facebook page. “In The Bright Light” came out on May 27th and is available to download now.

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Israel: An Apartheid State?

Is there any truth at all in this oft-repeated calumny?

At many universities Arab militants and other radical students hold Israel Apartheid Weeks. Even some establishment politicians have taken to using the word “apartheid” to describe Israel’s policies or the danger of Israel becoming a segregationist state. What justification is there for this odious characterization?

What are the facts?

allowed in apartheid South Africa.

South African Apartheid. “Apartheid,” the DutchBut, yes, there is one difference: Jewish Israeli men Africaans term for separation, was the social order of are obligated to a three-year stint in the Israeli the former South Africa. It meant exactly that. The Defense Forces (IDF) and serve in the reserve until Black majority of the nation and the so-called they are 50 years old. For Arabs, this service is Colored were kept strictly apart in all aspects of life. voluntary. Except for the Druze, hardly any Arabs White domination over the native population was volunteer to serve in the armed forces. mandatory. For instance: Non-Whites had to carry a Israel has granted permanent residence and full “passbook.” Passbook infringement could lead to citizen rights to a large number of legal and illegal deportation to one of the foreign workers and their Bantu “homelands.” families – from the “To call Israel an apartheid state Blacks and Coloreds were Philippines, Eritrea, being kept from a wide is an expression of ignorance, Colombia, Nigeria, and from array of jobs. Black-White many other countries. anti-Semitism, and malice.” sex was a serious jail-time Nobody, of course, is forced criminal offense. Hospitals or requested to convert to and ambulances were strictly separated. Whites Judaism as a condition of their being allowed to stay. enjoyed free education until graduation. Not so for Israel has accepted a shipload of Vietnamese Blacks, whose education was strictly limited by the refugees who had sought asylum. No Arab country oppressive “Bantu Education Act.” has accepted a single one of those refugees. Israel By law, no mixed sports were allowed. Park has brought in about 70,000 black Ethiopian Jews, benches, swimming pools, libraries, and movies were who despite their backwardness have become fully strictly separated. Blacks were not allowed to integrated citizens of Israel. Everything that Blacks purchase or imbibe alcoholic drinks. And that is were not allowed to do in South Africa is totally only a partial and small list of the many abusive open to non-Jews in Israel. impediments that non-Whites suffered under the The “Apartheid Wall.” Another reason for which South African apartheid regime. left-wing zealots and anti-Semites like to refer to Israeli Equality. In fact there can be no Israel as the “apartheid state” is the fence between comparison of these policies to life in Israel. To the Israel proper and the territories. This fence (which is contrary: Not one single apartheid law or practice indeed a fence and not a wall over most of its can be found in Israel. Israel is by far the most length) was constructed at great cost in order to racially mixed and tolerant nation in the entire prevent the suicidal attacks that had killed Muslim Middle East. Arabs, who are about 20% of hundreds of Israelis and grievously wounded Israel’s population, enjoy, without any exception, the thousands more. Thankfully, this “wall” is same rights and opportunities in all fields as their exceptionally successful and has totally prevented Jewish fellow citizens. The total equality of all Israelis any such attacks since its completion. There is little is assured in Israel’s founding document. All nonquestion that this separation fence is the cause of Jews (which means primarily Muslim Arabs) have full inconvenience for some of the Arab population. But voting rights. At present, eleven Arabs sit in Israel’s it is an annoyance that they have brought about Knesset (parliament): Three Arabs are deputy themselves. And, of course, there are walls for speakers. Arabs are represented in Israel’s protection all over the world. The Chinese invented diplomatic service all over the world. Arab students it hundreds of years ago. Our own country has a may and do study in all Israeli universities. All long, high, very sophisticated wall across our border children in Israel are entitled to subsidized with Mexico. It is a wall, not to keep out criminals education until graduation, without any restrictions who want to kill Americans, but people who want to based on color or religions. In short, Muslim Arabs come here only in search of a better life. To call the and other non-Jews are allowed everything that Jews Israeli fence an “apartheid wall” is an expression of are allowed, everything that non-Whites were not ignorance and of malevolence.

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Theatre company acquires grant for production Sara Awad Staff Writer

The A.J. Fletcher Foundation, an organization dedicated to bettering the lives of North Carolinians, awarded Raleigh’s Burning Coal Theatre Company a $37,500 matching grant last week. This grant will help fund the world’s first performance of The Iron Curtain Trilogy in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Tony Award-winning playwright David Edgar created this series, which will debut Sep. 4–27 before moving to London’s Cockpit Theatre Nov. 13–30, according to a press release.

Burning Coal Theatre Artistic Director Jerome Davis said he envisioned the production years ago after the theatre performed the piece as separate shows, but never in its full three-part form. The company performed the U.S. premiere for two of the three plays.

“The plays are all about that geopolitical event [the fall of the Berlin Wall], which I think is the most important event in the world since the World War II, and it led to a complete reshaping of the history of Europe and continues to play out to this day in Syria, with the Arab Spring that took place three years ago and with the situation in Ukraine that was happening just a month or so ago,” Davis said. “All of those things are a direct result of the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

Edgar came to Raleigh five times in the last decade to work with Burning Coal Theatre on the individual shows, according to Davis. Edgar’s relationship with the theatre started after a fellow playwright, Alex Finlayson, approached him about the company’s production of one of his plays. When Finlayson’s sister, Kate, was in Burning Coal’s production of Pentecost (the second part of the trilogy), she told Edgar the play was “the best thing [she] had ever seen,”

leading Edgar to visit the theatre when they performed the play again 10 years later.

“What really has set this up is our relationship with him, the playwright, and the fact that we had already done all three of them,” Davis said. “I wouldn’t think about taking on something this big from scratch.

The fact that we already know how to do them, more or less, means that we have a better chance than a theatre that was just attacking them blindly for the first time.”

Performing the trilogy poses many challenges, including Edgar’s “dense” and “complex” writing style, the minimum 2.5 hour length of each play, the huge cast and a set that has to blow up at the end of one of the plays, according to Davis.

“Figuring them out is not easy and one of the reasons his plays don’t get done as much as they ought to is, I think, that a lot of artistic directors start reading them and about five pages in their heads are spinning around,” Davis said. “His plays take work and we like that. We like doing plays that challenge our audiences and get them leaning forward and listening and trying to work things out in place of just giving them up a pure, simple, easy story that everybody gets after the first five minutes.”

The events surrounding the fall of the Iron Curtain also add to the trilogy’s complexity.

“When the curtain fell, freedom came to people, so the question is now what are they going to do with it and sometimes that answer can get ugly depending on who is involved with it, so it is a complicated story,” Davis said.

Students studying world history at five high schools in Wake County will receive 450 tickets for three consecutive matinees (about 150 tickets for each matinee) as part of the educational partnership between the theatre and the Wake County Public School System, according to Davis.

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The cast of the Burning Coal Theatre Company production of David Edgar’s The Prisoner’s Dilemma.

The theatre’s director of education will go to the participating schools with actors to perform an excerpt from one of the plays, after which Edgar will talk to the students via Skype to discuss what they thought about the performance.

To add to the discussion, members of the Department of European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill will create an interactive website dedicated to giving students a more comprehensive understanding of the Cold War from the dictatorial rule of the Soviet Union to the differing ways in which countries under its rule managed to escape.

On Nov. 9, 1989, East Germany’s politburo agreed to set up a system that allowed Germans to apply for visas to travel outside of the country after hearing complaints from its citizens, so they sent a spokesperson out to deliver a press release to the public.

“There were hundreds of press, and people all over the country

were watching it on television on these big screens set up out on the Berlin Wall…and the guy reads this thing saying, ‘Forthwith, we shall create a system that allows people to travel outside of the country,’” Davis said. “He read this speech and when it was done, one of the press people raised their hand and asked what does forthwith mean, and he didn’t know, and he said, ‘Uh, it means right now!’ Over the wall they went, and the crowds just exploded and started climbing over the walls, and the guards they were just there with their machine guns and normally they were looking at one or two people trying to climb the wall, but there were 50,000 people trying to climb the wall.”

No one gave the guards orders to shoot, so they laid down their arms and let the people pass through, according to Davis.

“We tell the story in America that communism is this really bad idea that somebody had and thank God

it’s over, but it’s not that at all,” Davis said. “It’s a far more complex story than that and we find out in so many different ways, in so many of those little countries over there. It’s important that young people know that story, which is really why we wanted to do the plays and work with the school system on it.”

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In the United States, Edgar is known for his adaptation of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, which won the Tony Award for “Best New Play.”

He created the first advanced degree in playwriting in England at the University of Birmingham where he also used to teach a course.

Edgar headed the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain for several years.

Edgar contributes articles to The Guardian newspaper on a regular basis.

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Jersey Boys lacks liveliness of Broadway musical Jersey Boys

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Kevin Schaefer Features Editor

Jersey Boys is Clint Eastwood’s first attempt at directing a musical, and it shows in the film. Rather than deliver a lively, upbeat production, the Hollywood icon gives au-

diences a more documentary-like picture that lacks the proper substance it requires.

While Million Dollar Baby is still Eastwood’s best work to date, that kind of noir style just does not belong in a film adaptation of a hit Broadway musical.

The movie tells the story of the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons, with lead singer Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young). Other members include songwriter Bob

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Gaudio (Erich Bergen), singer Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) and the cocky, sleazy leader of the group Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza).

Eastwood gives us a biopic of the group before, during and after it was The Four Seasons. The story opens with the group growing up in the streets of New Jersey and affiliated with the mafia.

When they’re not in jail, they perform night-shows at bars and clubs, eventually working their way into the music industry.

From there, we see their successes and failures, conflicts with one another, tragedies that befall them and a series of other events that all lead up to a more optimistic conclusion. But sadly, the music itself, while fantastic and performed brilliantly by the cast, tends to be underscored and only comes in when necessary.

All in all, the film spends most of the time treading along darker material than is expected from a musical.

Then again, Hollywood has not had the best success with this genre in the last decade.

Despite its popularity, Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables is nevertheless a movie that bombards viewers with three hours of extreme close-ups, rapid editing and annoying songs, to the point where all it does is rip apart the source material.

Yet, the film makes the mistake of relying solely on its music and grand performances to guide it, watering the story down to a pulp, Jersey Boys definitely overshad-

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John Lloyd Young (right) and Renee Marino (left) play Frankie Valli and his wife Mary, respectively, in Jersey Boys.

ows the soundtrack with its biography components.

In this movie, the acting is fantastic, the music great, the script high quality, yet the pacing and direction are major factors that keep it from being great. While it is no doubt a treat for viewers to see hit songs like “Sherry” and “December 1963” performed by a knockout ensemble cast, getting to these moments requires audiences to first endure a string of painfully eerie and flat out lifeless moments.

Eastwood approached this film with the mindset of delivering a biopic about the Four Seasons, in an attempt to portray the true story behind the famous band. With that said, it would have been more befitting for him to have

just made a documentary.

Since this movie tries to bridge the gap between biopic and musical adaptation, it often gets lost in terms of its direction. Ninety percent of the time, the movie demonstrates bleak, noir style cinematography coupled with moments of extravagant Broadway liveliness. Though the final scene is great and plays out like any other musical curtain call sequence, it still feels out of place with the rest of the movie. Even Christopher Walken’s role as mob boss Gyp DeCarlo is condensed to a few unremarkable scenes.

The cast is perhaps the only redeeming factor in the less vibrant portions of the film. Piazza gives the best performance out of the four, even if his character is a bit

cliché. Each of them take turns breaking the fourth wall as they tell the audience their side of the story, though Frankie of course gets the biggest amount of screen time.

The chemistry among the four is solid throughout, and their interpersonal conflicts with one another are more than believable. And given that three of the four also starred in the Broadway show at some point, they make it clear how comfortable they are in these roles.

All in all, Jersey Boys is a decent enough film to garner a viewing from fans of the musical and casual moviegoers alike, but it is far from greatness.

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take pressure off of Lowry to score and give the point guard an opportunity to play more of a facilitator role. Though No. 20 was further down the list than State fans may have hoped, Warren will likely be put into a starting role on an instant Finals contender.

PREDICTION: No. 19 to Chicago Mock Draft Cleveland Cavaliers - SF Jabari Parker, Duke After last year’s draft debacle, the Cavaliers simply cannot blow another first round pick on a reach prospect. Thankfully for Cleveland, the team’s biggest need is also the safest pick in the draft. Parker has shown that he can play with the big boys of the NBA and that he can do it on a high level. Wiggins may be more talented, but Parker presents an instant and surefire solution.

Milwaukee Bucks - SG Andrew Wiggins, Kansas This may have been the easiest pick of the mock draft.

With Parker off the board, Wiggins becomes the clear best available player. Though he does have injury history, the Bucks need a boost to

their lackluster play. Wiggins has the explosiveness to make Milwaukee basketball watchable, and paired with Brandon Knight, the Bucks may have found their guard combo for years to come.

Philadelphia 76ers - SG Dante Exum, Australia This pick may be a bit risky, but from the tape that has been released of Exum in Australian leagues, he looks like the man to take the shooting guard spot in Philadelphia. Working as more of a combo guard, Exum could step cover the point role with reigning Rookie of the Year Michael Carter-Williams is on the bench and can provide a scoring punch when the two take the court together.

Orlando Magic - PF Noah Vonleh, Indiana This pick came down to two players: Vonleh and Kentucky’s Julius Randle.

Honestly, either would be viable option for this club, but Vonleh looks to be the more NBA-ready of the two. With a big need at the 4-spot, Orlando will likely jump at Vonleh and his unique set of post moves. Plus, he will be paired with fellow Hoosier, Victor Oladipo.

Utah Jazz - PF Julius Randle, Kentucky With Joel Embiid still on the board, the Jazz will be

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Sophomore forward T.J. Warren takes a shot against UNC Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill.

tempted to snag the sevenfooter in a steal of a pick.

Ultimately injury concerns will be too much of a factor to overlook. With Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter both averaging double-figures at the center position, Utah will look for a power forward with a wide variety of skills to create an even more formidable frontcourt.

Boston Celtics - C Joel Embiid, Kansas Los Angeles Lakers - PG Marcus Smart, Oklahoma

State Sacramento Kings - PF Aaron Gordon, Arizona Charlotte Hornets - SF Doug McDermott Philadelphia 76ers - SG Nik Stauskas, Michigan Denver Nuggets - SG Gary Harris, Michigan State Orlando Magic - PG Elfrid Payton, Louisiana-Lafayette Minnesota Timberwolves PF Adreian Payne, Michigan State Phoenix Suns - SF James Young, Kentucky

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German coach Joachim Löw prefers a 4-3-3 formation with Philipp Lahm, Sami Khedira, and Toni Kroos orchestrating in midfield.

While past German teams have played high-intensity, counter-attacking soccer, this team is more controlling, suffocating opponents with midfield ball possession.

There is simply no way the United States will dominate possession, so breaking into space behind the German back four will be crucial.

Löw has so far selected two natural center backs instead of more adventurous fullbacks on either side of Mats Hummels and Per Mertesacker, the preferred central defensive pairing.

All four are behemoths but lack true speed, which U.S. forward Dempsey can exploit through clever runs into the channels.

To facilitate this, however, the U.S. must press diligently in midfield. German captain and defensive midfielder Lahm is an intelligent and experienced player; however, he is naturally a right back and has played midfield for less than a year, doing so

only because of injuries to key players.

If Bradley can pressure him and force turnovers, the U.S. will create chances on goal, especially if right back Fabian Johnson, who is half German himself, can get forward and create 2-vs-1 opportunities against opposing left back Benedikt Höwedes.

Finally, and most importantly, the U.S. must maintain composure and cut out simple errors until the whistle blows.

The United States enters the match needing a result because players failed to dig just a little deeper against Portugal and avoid mental and technical mistakes.

Whether in the first minute, 45th, or 95th, the United States cannot go to sleep on the pitch. The players cannot give in to exhaustion. Passes must be crisp. Clearances must be confident. Possession cannot be gifted away.

Composure both mentally and technically combined with proper tactics and execution will see the U.S. through to the knockout stage.

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‘Group of Death’ finale today Jordan Beck Assistant Sports Editor

West Virginia transfer chooses State Sophomore shooting guard Terry Henderson, a native of Raleigh, announced Tuesday via text message that he would be transferring to N.C. State next season. In late May, Henderson narrowed his list to seven schools, including fellow ACC schools Maryland and Wake Forest. The 6’4” guard averaged 11.2 points per game with the Mountaineers during his sophomore campaign. Following his decision, Henderson became the second guard to transfer from West Virginia this offseason, as teammate Eron Harris transferred to Michigan State earlier this year. Due to NCAA transfer rules, the Raleigh native will have to sit out the 2015 season, but will still have two more years of eligibility.

SOURCE: NBC SPORTS

Marchand garners ACC academic honor Recently-graduated golfer Brittany Marchand was named ACC Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year on Friday, adding to her already extensive collection of accolades. Marchand, a three-time all-conference golfer, was appointed to the 2014 ACC All-Academic team earlier in the year, alongside recently-graduated teammate Ana Menendez. Earlier in the season, Marchand helped lead the Wolfpack women’s golf team to a 10th-place finish at the NCAA Championships, the best finish in school history.

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Wolfpack reveals new court design On Monday, N.C. State revealed a new design for the court at PNC Arena and Dail Practice Facility. The court is quite different than its predecessor, featuring an enormous cutout of Tuffy’s head at halfcourt and a twotone wood court. The new ACC logo is also featured at the free-throw line.

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Shirreffs to transfer from NCSU Last week, it was announced that rising-sophomore Bryant Shirreffs would transfer from N.C. State to an unknown school. Reportedly, Shirreffs made his decision after being moved to fullback during the spring, as he preferred to play in the quarterback position. With his decision to transfer, Shirreffs became the second quarterback to transfer from the Wolfpack program, following junior quarterback Pete Thomas’ departure in April. Redshirt senior Jacoby Brissett is the set starter for the Pack at the quarterback position, with freshman Jalan McClendon and redshirt junior Garrett Leatham competing for the backup spot.

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Currently sitting in second place with four points from two games, the United States Men’s National Team will play against Germany today in its final group-stage game at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The U.S. currently sits at +1 in terms of goal differential.

The Germans will provide the toughest test yet, and if the United States wants to advance out of the so-called “Group of Death,” head coach Jürgen Klinsmann must learn from the team’s previous matches: a win over Ghana and a heartbreaking draw with Portugal.

The U.S. came out of the gate strong in the opener versus Ghana and team captain Clint Dempsey scored inside 30 seconds.

However, the team’s quality dipped after the goal and Ghana created considerable danger.

The United States conceded possession too easily and was poor building out of the back in its 4-4-2 midfield diamond formation.

Whether by luck or lack of skill, Ghana struggled to find a finish, although the side had 62 percent possession.

Eventually, the Black Stars’ athleticism and interplay saw midfielder André Ayew break through on goal, and he finished calmly past U.S. keeper Tim Howard in the 82nd minute to level the match at one apiece.

Not settling for a draw, U.S. substitute defender John Anthony Brooks, on for the injured Matt Besler, scored the winner in the 86th, heading home a corner kick from fellow substitute Graham Zusi.

Despite the win, the U.S. came out of the match banged up. Key striker Jozy Altidore suffered a hamstring injury that has sidelined him for the rest of the tournament.

As a result, Klinsmann adjusted his formation for the Portugal game, bringing in Zusi, a wide midfielder, and moving to a 4-2-3-1, with

SOURCE: US SOCCER

Midfielder Jermaine Jones celebrates his goal in the 64th minute of the United States’ match with Portugal. The game ended in a tie on a literal last-minute goal by Portugal’s Silvestre Varela. The U.S. looks to gain a spot in the round of 16 with a victory against Germany today at 12 p.m. ET.

Dempsey as the lone striker.

The match on Sunday was nearly the opposite of the Ghana game, with Portugal scoring inside five minutes when center back Geoff Cameron fluffed an easy clearance.

The ball fell to opposing right-winger Nani, who roofed his shot over Howard.

The U.S. recovered, dominating proceedings with solid possession play. Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo cut a frustrated figure, as a lingering knee injury robbed him of his searing speed and thus limited his involvement.

Event ua l ly, t he A mer ic a ns grabbed goals through Jermaine Jones and Dempsey in the 64th and 81st minutes respectively.

Seemingly with three points in the bag and headed through to the knockout rounds, the U.S. lost concentration in the fifth and final minute of stoppage time.

Midfielder Michael Bradley lost the ball carelessly and the Portuguese stormed forward on the counter. The ball found Ronaldo on the right flank, and the Real Madrid forward played an excellent cross to Silvestre Varela, who slipped behind

the U.S. defense and headed in to tie the match at the death.

The first- and second-place teams in each group advance, so to ensure its own fate, the U.S. needs either a win or draw versus Germany. If the team loses, it needs an appropriate result from the Ghana and Portugal game to go through on goal difference.

Currently, two goals separate Ghana (-1) and the US (+1), so any Ghana win and U.S. loss with a net margin of three or more goals would see the African side through.

As such, the U.S. must look for at least a draw against an elite German side that matches an industrious work rate with superb technical play and intricate passing.

If the European side lines up the same as the past two matches, however, the U.S. has a clear game plan that hinges on three key aspects.

First, Klinsmann, the former German national team manager, must ensure his side maintains its shape.

Against Ghana, the U.S. lost its positional structure in midfield and ended up chasing the ball around the pitch, causing players to tire in the Brazilian heat.

Instead, the Americans must stay compact when without the ball and force the Germans into playing risky passes that can be easily cut out.

Another issue against both Ghana and Portugal was with midfielder Bradley, one of the team’s key players and the farthest midfielder forward, who came too deep to collect the ball.

Bradley is, by nature, a deep-lying midfielder who makes runs forward.

However, Klinsmann tasked him with a creative role in behind striker Dempsey. When Bradley comes too deep, the U.S. is deprived of forward passing options and fails to move the ball out of defense.

Bradley must stay higher up the field. The team simply functions better when he does. Distances are more suitable for passing, and the team has space to move the ball up the field.

A second key to the game will be the fluidity of the U.S.’s counter attack, which rests upon the team’s ability to press the German midfield.

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Looking forward to the NBA draft Zack Tanner Sports Editor

Former N.C. State forward T.J. Warren was a force to be reckoned with in his two years as a member of the Wolfpack men’s basketball team. There seemed to be no weaknesses in his game, but there was a clear strength that stood out from the rest: an ability to score. No matter if he was three or 24 feet from the basket, Warren had an uncanny ability to find a way to put the ball into the hoop.

During his sophomore campaign, the Durham native recorded 30-plus points nine times and ended the season by scoring 20-plus in each of his final 19 games. Warren’s 24.9 pointsper-game average was the best in the ACC and good enough for third in the nation.

Currently, Warren is projected to be taken somewhere in the late teens.

With the NBA Draft airing tonight on ESPN at 7:30 p.m., we decided to take a look at three likely destinations for the former Wolfpack star.

Phoenix Suns Pick(s): No. 14, 18 Current Starting SF: P.J. Tucker This, by definition of the word, is a stretch. As far as NBA-readiness, Warren is not a lottery pick. Phoenix has a big need at both forward position, and more attractive players like James Young and Doug McDermott may still be available at this point. However, the unique scoring ability that Warren possesses is exactly what the Suns need

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Sophomore forward T.J. Warren walks onto the court during the player introductions before the game against Pitt in PNC Arena Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014. Warren is projected to be drafted in the late teens tonight during the NBA Draft, airing at 7:30 p.m on ESPN.

to take pressure off of the guard trio of Eric Bledsoe, Goran Dragic and Gerald Green. Green began to take over the starting small forward role, as he was Phoenix’s leading scorer, despite starting the 2014 season on the bench. Though he can find the hoop, Bledsoe is not necessarily a scorer, and with an extra scoring boost from the 3-spot, he can focus on his best attribute: defense.

Again, it must be emphasized that this pick would be quite a reach for the Suns at No. 14, but look for Warren’s name to be called by Silver at the No. 18 spot.

Chicago Bulls Pick(s): No. 16, 19 Current Starting SF: Mike Dunleavy Small forward is a huge need for Chicago, and assuming that the team can’t land all-star forwards

LeBron James or Carmelo Anthony in free agency this summer, Warren would be a great pick for the Bulls.

Not only would the team like an upgrade at the 3-spot, Chicago needs a scoring boost. In the 2014 season, the team was best in the league in opponent points per game, but last in points per game. With star point guard Derrick Rose sidelined for all of last season, the Bulls had no go-to scoring option. Though Dunleavy is a shooter, he is not a “scorer” by any means. Dunleavy would be much more likely to sink a wideopen 3-point shot off of a set play, but Warren can do something much more valuable; he can create his own shot. Warren could deliver the scoring punch needed to make the Bulls offense spark, and possibly become an instant starter for the club.

Toronto Raptors

Pick(s): No. 20 Current Starting SF: DeMar DeRozan At first glance, it would seem odd that a team with an all-star starting small forward would be in the hunt for Warren. However, DeRozan is not a small forward. He’s a shooting guard. Due to the lack of depth at the 3-spot, Toronto was forced to run a three-guard line-up with Kyle Lowry, Terrence Ross and DeRozan for most of the season. Though Ross is a strong defender, this left the undersized guard vulnerable to the strong small forward attacks of other teams in the Atlantic Division, such as the Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony and the Nets’ Paul Pierce. Warren would not only be able to provide defensive stability at his position, but it would

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