Technician - September 10, 2009

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Senate wants hike to benefit University Student Senate discusses tuition hike, student input on issues Amber Kenney Deputy News Editor

Student Senate held their bi-weekly meeting Wednesday and discussed a proposition to alter the way the funds from the tuition hike will be distributed as well as the need for student input.

Senators from the Tuition and Fee’s committee brought up the discussion of a $200 tax that will be added to tuition next year.

Elmo Lamm, student body treasurer, said he wanted to see more student input on fighting the fee increase.

“The number one issue in fighting this is communicating with students,” Lamm said. “If [students] knew the details, they would be outraged.”

The $200 increase is state mandated, and none of the money will be returned to the University, said Jake Bloodworth, the Tuition and Fee’s Committee chair. “We are not happy about this,” he said. “We want to fight to be able to use part of the money to help better the University.”

The ideal situation would be for the $200 dollars to be split so $100 would go to the state, and $100 would be put back into the budgets of the colleges that took the greatest hits from budget-cuts, Bloodworth said.

Bloodworth said senators are working on the publicity and visibility of the issue.

According to Lamm, Student Government will increase use of “The Howl” e-mail system to get all students on the same page about this issue.

“The second issue surrounding the in-

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At the Student Senate meeting, Stephen Kouba, junior in political science, listens as guest speaker Mat Burke, the Associate Vice President of Government Operations and Community Service gives a presentation on marketing strategies.

crease is how to fight it,” he said. Students are not only encouraged to speak to student senators about their concerns, but to take them directly to state senators as well, he said.

As well as pushing for student involvement on pertinent issues, Student Senate is working to improve the current student experience on campus.

The University Affairs Committee is using

student opinions to address issues including the mandatory, hard-waiver student healthcare policy, dining facility overcrowding,

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Noise ordinance violations pile up Committee aims to make

tuition hike work for students

Police aim to reduce noise complaints through tough action

University leaders say $200 student tuition increase should benefit students not the government

James Cox

cost of attending the University, and half of which is used for improving services and financial aid.

“CITI put together a proposal to argue that it’s better for the University to have a tuition increase to benefit Joanna Banegas the campus and students than it is to Staff Writer have a $200 tax on students that does The Tuition Review Advisory Com- nothing to improve the University,” mittee met Wednesday to discuss Ceresnak said.

Student Senate President Kelli Rogwhether it should increase the underers said the General Assembly mangraduate tuition for next year.

Every year, the committee meets dated the $200 increase with none of the money going to discuss the to the UniverCampus Initisity because they ated Tuition Inwanted to balcrease. It looks at ance the state’s the undergradubudget. ate tuition from “This committhe past year and tee is working on decides whether presenting an alto recommend ternative to that an increase in $ 20 0 i nc re a se tuition. where a portion T he tu it ion Student Body President Jim Ceresnak of that can come money is genback to the Unierated through financial aid, faculty promotion and versity,” Rogers said.

Rogers said the University budget quality and accessibility.

This year the state legislature passed cuts were seen in the classroom as well a law mandating that tuition will in- advising sessions.

“The cut was only 3 percent, a small crease by $200 for every undergradufraction of an overall teaching effort. ate student on campus.

Student Body President Jim Ceresnak said the General Assembly mandated the increase to offset the TUITION continued page 3

Staff Writer

Raleigh Police officers now have the ability to write civil citations for noise and party violations.

Jim Sherue, the public information officer for the Raleigh Police Department, said those accused are then left to choose either to pay a fine or challenge the charge.

“People have the option of paying the fi ne or appealing the violation,” Sherue said.

Sherue warned officers can still write criminal citations if they deem necessary, but for the most part, civil citations will be the new norm for noise and party violations. In fact, Sherue said there are still a handful of officers not trained on writing the civil violations even though the ordinance creating the civil citation was enacted on July 1.

According to Chapter 5, section 12-5001 through -5011 of the Raleigh Municipal Code, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., the volume of noise emitting from a residence cannot exceed 45 decibels.

The civil penalty for breaking this ordinance is a $100 fine to be paid by any person violating the ordinance.

However, if criminal penalties are deemed necessary then the person deemed guilty of the misdemeanor can either be held for 30 days in jail, or be fined $500.

Even if the party you are at is subject to a visit by the police, the officers will use their discretion to either warn the party to turn the music down, dole out civil citations or press criminal charges, according to Sherue.

“Contrary to popular belief, police don’t exist to write tickets,” Sherue said. “What we are going for is voluntary compliance.”

Jason Hibbets is the organizer of the

“My top priority is to do as much as we can to restore classes and services lost to budget cuts.”

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Greg Bennett, a junior in mechanical engineering, plays water pong with his friends.

Lineberry Alliance, a collection of different home owners associations in the Raleigh area.

Hibbets, an alumna, said he welcomes the Noise and Party Ordinance and is working to help college students understand what they mean.

“Some of this stuff I would have loved to have known [when I was in

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He said the ordinance is something everyone seems to be confused about.

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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

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Tuesday’s page 1 story, “Few organizations file for funds,” reported the incorrect deadline for appropriations filing. The final day to submit requests is Sept. 15.

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alking through the Brickyard, Shawnette Jenkins, a junior in communication, takes a look at Bebe, a Campus Police horse, while heading to class Wednesday. “I was really surprised, I’ve never seen a horse on campus before,” Jenkins said. Campus Police have two horses and patrol all across campus. “I think they should have more–horses can go a lot of places cars can’t,” Jenkins said.

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Black community joins together to fight disease

On September 19, the sociology department will hold a health educationtraining workshop for African-American students.

The workshop will focus on preventing and fighting the HIV and aids epidemic in the Black community.

All African-American men and women, 18 years or older, who attend the event will receive $20.

For further information, students should e-mail NCSUhealthproject@gmail. com.

Faculty member shows musical talents Dr. Jonathan Kramer, a music faculty member, is joining with Arts Now! to put on a concert featuring music from around the world.

Kramer, who has performed with the Tucson Symphony, the San Francisco Opera and Ballet, and the North Carolina Symphony, will be playing pieces composed by both Korean and American composers.

The concert will be held on Thursday, August 10, at 7 p.m. in the Talley Student Center Ballroom.

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Leslie Robertson visits Raleigh Leslie Robertson, the worldrenowned structural engineer, will be speaking to community members about his experiences and new-age architecture.

Robertson, who was the chief structural engineer of the former World Trade Center, has redefi ned high-rise engineering, and will be discussing

the relationship between structural engineers and architects.

The speech will be held on September 14, at Raleigh Little Theatre. Students can pick up free tickets in the main office of Mann Hall.

TODAY at 7pm Talley Student Center Ballroom Arts Now! Series:

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Admissions are stable With competition to get into college increasing, the University is keeping enrollment steady

attention for students. “I think too many enrolled students could affect each individual student’s success” she said.

Griffin said this is not an issue; the University has a target Alanna Howard enrollment that stays regular Correspondent for years at a time, assuring one As the economy tries to re- year enrollment does not offset cover, many colleges are expe- capacity.

“The University’s prelimiriencing an increase in applicants. University admissions nary numbers for enrollment assures students numbers stay can change based on student fi xed, as the University meets retention, but overall the tarenrollment goals yet provides get number does not increase,” Griffin said. for student achievement.

Griffin said an increase in College education has increased in priority over the applicants paired with holdyears, yet the Director of ing enrollment steady creates Undergraduate Admissions, tougher competition. In 2009 the University Thomas had an adGriffin, said missions rate acceptance of 56 percent, numbers are compared to stay ing t he 59 percent in same. “The 2008, which numbers beGriffin said tween 2008 brings more and 2009 are capable sturoughly the y dents on camsa me, w it h pus. the small difGaston Caperton, president of “ We c a n ference atthe College Board accept hightributing to er-caliber extenuating circumstances such as student students when more apply,” he said. “Tougher competition retention,” Griffin said.

This fall, the number of benefits everyone.”

Some out-of-state students freshman applicants the University received was 18,401, like Danny Harris, a freshwith 4,644 admitted, compared man from Illinois majoring in to 17,685 applications in 2008 engineering, said he applied to schools at home and in North with 4,692 admitted.

“The number of applications Carolina but he received more has definitely increased,” Grif- money from NC State and fin said. He said continued rec- and it has a better engineerognition as (NC State) being ing school than his choices at the place to go has influenced home. “It was cheaper to go here and just as easy to apply as more applications.

Melody Harkness, a fresh- a school such as the University man in First Year College, said of Illinois,” Harris said. “I love too many students could be an it here, except when I can’t go issue if they affect one-on-one home as easily as most every-

“Without well educated citizens, we will struggle economically and sociall .”

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neighborhoods that were getting out of control,” Hibbets said.

Sherue said the switch to civil citations will be used to better figure out where problems areas are.

Hibbets said he and his family just want to have a high quality of life, and the noise ordinances are helping in that desire.

In an e-mail to members of the Lineberry Alliance dated Aug. 17, 2009, Hibbets said he was told by Raleigh Police there were nine party violations in the weekend of Aug. 14-16 and the biggest nuisance parties

were on Voyager and in Trailwood Hills.

Student Body President Jim Ceresnak urged students to avoid situations which could potentially lead to them getting a ticket.

“Students are going to have a good time, students are going to party,” he said. “You’ve got to be responsible and try and avoid situations where you could potentially be issued a ticket of that sort.”

Ceresnak, a senior in political science, said he felt the police are well within their right to punish those who break the law.

one else.”

College Board, the organization in charge of SAT and AP testing, released a press release in 2008 regarding the United States’ world standing. Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, mentioned how as a country the United States has lost ground in the educational drive.

A College Board panel presented an argument to Capitol Hill discussing the country’s entire educational makeup. The report noted the decline of educational attainment among 25-34 year olds.

“A nation’s success lies largely on the quality of its human resources. Without well educated citizens, we will struggle economically and socially,” he said.

The University is doing its best to make education accessible to everyone, Griffin said. “The University is a land grant facility whose purpose is to extend education out to all people, especially North Carolina citizens. The key to economic stability and an overall better life is education, and we are doing our best to provide that,” he said.

Griffi n said the best way to advertise for the University is “word of mouth.” He said, “we do some of our best advertising by students telling other students or their friends about the great experiences they are having here at N.C. State. Our best recruiters are our current students.”

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and improvements to transportation, said Stephen Kuba, the chair of the University Affairs Committee.

The Campus Community Committee is reviewing student ticketing for football games and is making necessary changes, as well as making Student Government more tangible for students, according to Arialle Crabtree, the chair of the committee.

“We are working on increasing student-senator interactions,” Crabtree said. “It will be a beneficial relationship for both parties

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Blake Burnette, a junior in engineering, fills out a flyer that Ren Den, a junior at Western Carolina, was handing out on Hillsborough Street. “This is a flier supporting the Clean Air Act,” Den said. “It’s going to support the cap and trade, which is going to cap the amount of emissions that certain industries produce and once the cap is in place it forces the companies to go green.” Den added that if companies’ emissions are below the cap, they can sell the difference to other companies.

involved.”

The Campus Community Committee is working on putting together a Student Government tailgate for students, getting a team of senate volunteers to be at large events, including the Shack-A-Thon, and attending student group meetings across campus to improve communication between students and government, Crabtree said.

“In order to be heard, students can always contact senators through e-mail, coming to the office, and attending open committee meetings,” Kuba said.

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But it will affect students’ graduation and obviously a tuition increase can’t make up for that,” Rogers said.

The University spent more than $5 million on seats and sections in the past year and cut 300 class sessions, which means 9,750 fewer seats.

“Whether there is a tuition increase at the University or not, only a portion of that goes to improving the academic experience of students.” Ceresnak said the committee hopes the

RECOMMENDATIONS: The final recommendations of the Tuition Advisory Committee must be sent to the chancellor by the first week of October 2009.

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Ceresnak also said, “My top priority is to do as much as we can to restore classes and services lost to budget cuts.”

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The Facts:

With the Sept. 15 deadline for filing for appropriations funds, only four student organizations have completed the application process.

Our Opinion:

This is a rare chance for students to get their fees back and use it to help finance many of the organizations they belong to — they need to seize the opportunity and request these funds before it’s too late.

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In defense of Red Terror As the Student Government official that has organized Red Terror this year, I want to address several things mentioned in yesterday’s Viewpoint about Red Terror.

First, the bus company (First Transit) invoices Student Government on a fixed hourly rate from when the bus leaves the yard to when it returns to the yard, regardless of if the bus is in service. So providing a continuously operating bus is no more expensive than not providing the service. We decided to have one bus continuously operate because there were some students who wanted to return to campus after kickoff. For example, if a student does not have their ticket scanned within fifteen minutes after kickoff, their ticket is voided and opened for the standby line. If these students decide to return to campus, they will be able to ride Red Terror back. As the Viewpoint article said, these changes are being made to benefit the students and we will continually make adjustments to Red Terror to provide the best possible service.

Tim Lipka, senior, political science

Sustainability a worthy campus cause The editorial “What is sustainability’s piece of pie?” draws generalized conclusions that miss a large potential for enhancing campus sustainability.

53 percent of campus greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from electricity purchased from utilities. Emissions from electricity consumption are portrayed as indirect in said article, but these emissions are not so indirect.

Progress Energy supplies this energy as a result of demand.

If N.C. State did not demand as much energy, Progress Energy would produce less electricity.

GHG emissions would therefore be reduced. The editorial points out areas where efficiency gains are possible (heating, cooling and lighting) yet claims that the remainder of GHG emissions is unavoidable. Clearly if the University installs more LED lighting and refines heating and cooling protocols, GHG emissions will be reduced.

The editorial suggests that the Office of Sustainability is now irrelevant since the University has successfully reduced direct GHG emissions to the best of its ability.

This was based on their definition of indirect. But how do the editors

Go get your money’s worth W

ith only five days left before the final deadline for filing for appropriations funds from Student Government, only two organizations have completely finished the application process.

This ridiculous situation seems like something from “The Twilight Zone” — students are passing up on the opportunity to get money that comes entirely from fees they pay to the University?

Student fees fund the appropriations process — this means that students have an opportunity to get some of their money back and help finance student organizations and groups that they enjoy.

Filing early may result in the

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief.

organization receiving more money. Why aren’t student groups swarming the Student Government offices and requesting money?

There are problems and hassles associated with filing at the deadline. Student leaders may be unprepared to deal with the interview process for the appropriations process or turn in receipts past deadline, making it difficult to appropriate and reimburse funds properly. Moreover, student groups that turn in the application paperwork early tend to get more money than they would receive if they had filed closer to the deadline.

As both Student Senate President pro tempore Jackie Smith and Student Senate President Kelli Rogers said, information about the application process can be a hurdle for organizations looking to receive appropriations funds, particularly for organizations with new leaders who have little knowledge about the process.

But the information is available — students can get in direct contact with Student Government leaders, attend help sessions on campus or find the information from various online sources,

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make this assessment when the 2008 GHG Inventory is the first time an inventory has been conducted? The editors correctly identify this statement as opinion, but falsely insinuate that it is based on evidence. Furthermore, the Office of Sustainability does more than catalog GHG emissions. Campus sustainability involves a multiplicity of aims from reducing water waste to increasing recycling. The Office of Sustainability serves as a crux of coordination, information, and participation for these ongoing projects.

Jesse Henderson graduate student, natural resources

Campus Police proud to keep fans safe While the article on Wednesday concerning security at home football games was well written, the sub-headline and reference to Raleigh Police and the identification of an Campus Police Lieutenant as a Raleigh Police Officer did a disservice to the men and women of Campus Police.

While Campus Police appreciates the assistance and work of the Raleigh Police Department, the responsibility for the planning, staffing, coordination, supervision,and even insuring officers are paid rests with the members of Campus Police Security for a home football, and especially one like last Thursday night’s ESPN opener represents a challenge for both the police department and the athletic staff. With all of our games sellouts, the NC State Police department have to plan for the attendance by some 60,000 fans, who flood area parking lots with over 15,000 cars. Campus Police employs members of the Raleigh Police Department, the Wake County Sheriff’s Department, and Wake County City-County Bureau of Investigation to assist us in providing police/security services for our home football games.

Depending upon the time of day and opponent, 80 to 110 police officers will be working at least some aspect of security inside and outside the stadium in an effort to provide a safe environment for our fans. These officers are supervised by, and responsible to, Campus Police Home football games are fun and a source of pride for the Wolfpack nation, and members of Campus Police are proud to be a part.

Chief Tom Younce Campus Police

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Should students be allowed to hold certain administrative positions at the University? Why or why not?

by Tim O’Brien

Tailgating is the best medicine.

Mack Garrison, senior in art and design “Sure. It will help get students’ points across and help make changes easier and faster. “

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ack when I was a young lad, I remember my teachers saying that everyone’s brain worked a little differently.

At the time, I thought this was a way to make the unintelligent students feel a little better about their incompetence.

Now, I tend to think of it more in terms of Russell Crow’s Russell schizoWitham phrenic Viewpoint Editor character from “A Beautiful Mind.”

Some of us see words; others see brilliant patterns (I’m not going to try and make a judgment as to which is better).

Maybe I have some form of early-onset madness — most people would probably affirm this — but I was definitely having a John Nash moment while I read Saturday’s New York Times.

The front page of the business section presented a story on the ballooning teenage-unemployment rate and another covering the rising cost of college. Like a dazzling spark of lighting, the solution to both problems struck me.

Teenage unemployment is at an all-time high of 25.5 percent and the salaries of administrators, who in many cases vastly outnumber the teaching and research faculty, are burdening college campuses (not to discount the other problems, of course).

The logical solution is to replace the overpaid and redundant administrators

(at least at Chapel Hill, and probably here as well) with college students who are willing to perform those jobs at a fraction of the cost. This would lower the University’s costs and reduce the financial burden on students (through employment and lower tuition costs).

N.C. State’s campus is brimming with a gigantic pool of out-of-work talent. Why not use that resource to its fullest advantage?

This campus offers just about every major imaginable — I refuse to be convinced that it doesn’t have qualified workers for almost every possible nonteaching position.

I don’t want to start sounding like a utopian socialist (the words burned my lips as I uttered them), but can you imagine that commune.

Graduate students are advising undergrads on their classes; finance majors practice their skills by handling the University’s assets (under faculty supervision); turf management students learn on this massive campus instead of in a classroom; engineers and design students spend their classes designing the campus of the future instead of working with hypothetical models.

This sort of concept would transcend a bastardly utopia; we could create real learning and send students forth with some semblance of practical knowledge to exert on real-life situations.

All the while, newly redundant administrative positions would wither away.

It’s not to say that some administrators on this campus don’t serve vital missions.

Some administrators enable and create learning moments in a way that a student never

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could.

The problem, though, lies in the fact that the University is under siege by a vicious economy. It may be loosening its death hold, but it’s certainly still in our midst (and most likely will be for quite some time).

The American university system requires revolutionary changes, and they need to happen sooner rather than later. A student upheaval may be a little extreme — we’re not necessarily going for shock and awe here. But the system must change.

The article by Ron Lieber in Saturday’s New York Times proposed cutting departments or majors (which would in turn slash administrators — kudos to the College of Design), increasing faculty productivity and offering a three-year format.

It’s not to say that any of these are necessarily THE FIX. But this is the sort of outside the box thinking that NCSU and other universities across the country will need if they expect to remain the env y of the world.

We all need to work, students, faculty and staff alike, to find real solutions to the problems we’re facing — otherwise we’ll be losing our minds and universities.

Send Russell your thoughts on restructuring administrative positions to letters@technicianonline. com.

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Ashley Myers freshman, poultry science

“I don’t think it’s such a good idea. Students are here for school and it’s too much added responsibility. It’s too much for one person to handle.”

Chi Lee sophomore, biomedical engineering

“I don’t think they should have a primary role, but maybe an assisting role. Upperclassmen have experience with the system and they can help share that.”

Kris Hoover junior, statistics

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Engineering at N.C. State crosses disciplines Electrical engineering is more interdisciplinary than some may thin Gomathinayagam Balasubramanian Correspondent

N.C. State is known for many academic excellences, among which falls the College of Engineering. According to U.S. News and World Report, NCSU’s engineering program is ranked 31st in the nation.

Beneath the engineering umbrella there is aerospace, civil, mechanical, nuclear, electrical and several more, giving students a total of 18 different bachelor degrees, 17 master’s degrees, and 13 doctoral degrees to choose from. In addition to the diversity of majors, there are concentrations within each major like microelectronics, telecommunications, networking, communication, signal processing and computer architecture, which are only to name a few.

What’s happening in the electrical world?

The size of the first computer nearly took up an entire room, but thanks to electrical engineers phones, laptops and media players are now sized for human hands. When thinking about all the functions these gadgets perform it is hard to imagine them all encapsulated into the ounces of material that usually constitute their designs. With circuit designers striving harder to make their designs faster and more compact the question is, what’s next?

Communication has advanced leaps and bounds over the years and is probably at a point where even more progress can be made.

One thing made possible by electrical engineers is the minimal delay, noise and distortion on phones and Web cams.

Another advancement and area of progression is the ability to transfer data. A few decades back, computers were networked manually. Transferring data from one entity to another required human intervention by physically carrying data over magnetic tapes.

Of course today we use a mouse and a keyboard in conjunction with USB cables and flash drives.

Kasturirangan Parthasarathy, a graduate student in electrical engineering with a concetration in networking said, “The Internet is the by-product of marvelous minds and one of the best advancements is that of wireless networking.” In the face of so many options within wireless networking like Bluetooth,

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to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals.

Computer architecture is the conceptual design and fundamental operational structure of a computer system. It focuses largely on the way by which the Central Processing Unit(CPU) performs internally and accesses addresses in memory. Computer architecture engineers are more algorithm/program oriented people and they interconnect hardware components

According to Dr. Trussell,”Engineering is in better shape than any other non technical fields at this point of time. A large number of reputed companies are hiring most of our students for summer co-ops as well as full time position even in this situation which is quite different from other non-technical fields”.

Parthasarathy said, “I’m pretty excited about working in this field. ” Projects : Research is going on in almost all fields in NCSU. Some projects include work on high speed devices, which are built save power and enhance battery life for things like cell phones.

Though electrical engineering may seem specific to wires and signals, a product developed by electrical engineers will incor-

porate many other disciplines. For instance, production of a GPS unit involves hardware design, signal processing and networking.

In summary, electrical engineering is truly interdisciplinary, especially in the realm of consumer products. Electrical engineers must work closely with others, like industrial designers for example, in order for technologic performance to match the devices form function.

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Electrical engineers also have an advantage at NCSU because there is room to advance into deeper areas of study with both a graduate and a PH.D program. There are many perks to getting more than a four year degree.

One is the increased knowledge on a subject and another is something a bit more concrete.

“A master’s degree will bring definite monetary success in a career when compared to a Baccalaureate degree,” Director of Graduate Programs Joel Trussell said.

Currently, there are over 580 graduate students pursuing their master’s degrees in electrical engineering. Trussell used to survey students on what helped them choose NCSU and he found that the largest factor was word of

mouth or references, second was the school’s ranking and the third and least determining factor was location.

Students have praise for the program and the classes that they take. Vijay Shanmugasundaram, a graduate student in electrical engineering said, “Most of the projects that we do are practical oriented and it is veritably interesting.” Shanmugasundaram also spoke on the many fields of research in computer architecture, nano and power electronics. “[All the fields of research] give us a wide scope in our career search because it opens up availability of the global job market, which has beneficial pay,” he said.

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orority rush is officially underway at the University, and as members of the Wolfpack are rushing to join these organizations, it is interesting to see how the pack psychology of animals mirrors Greek social structures.

In the wild, packs form for the benefit of all members, according to wolfcountry.net. The community is mutually advantageous, whether for the raising of pups or fending off or attacking larger animals.

In terms of campus life, joining a sorority is useful. There are social advantages for each and every member, whether that of association, sisterhood, or opportunities. This is why the packs form. Something makes that particular pack attractive for survival.

Furthermore, though sorority sisters might never plot to bring down a large animal, their cohesion is potent for attacking predators, or anything that threatens the pack.

Pack members can assemble to take on large projects, which grants packs, like sororities, social power.

Sororities apply this power to take on anything from service projects to recreational events.

Caribou migration is another example of the power of the pack.

Caribou “may travel more than 600 miles…along well-trod annual routes” leading to the tundra, the National Geographic website said.

Together, they are able to do what would be unthinkable for animals, let alone a single caribou.

Also, pack members are more keenly sharpened to face natural selection. The Web blog “Tasty Human” calls this effect “observational

learning and modeling,” which is “when the animal learns a behavior through watching other animals conduct.” For wolves, hunting falls into this category.

This is another advantage of pack membership: the acquired knowledge of the leaders. The “alpha” wolf is the highest-ranking individual in the pack, though “they are not ‘leaders’ in the human sense of the term,” wolfcountry.net wrote. “ ‘Leaders’ in all animals control assets more often than they control individuals through the use of force,” said 4 Paws University, a website on training and behavior solutions for dogs.

In terms of the pack, those assets are just as much tangible as intangible. For a wolf, its skills may include knowledge of a certain terrain or hunting ground and the best way to navigate it. For a senior sorority sister, her skills include knowledge of campus, professors, and the other unique features of the University’s terrain.

This system of seniority itself is an important aspect of both packs and Greek life. Without some sort of ranking, a pack cannot function. For example, “the dog is a pack animal and needs a pack leader,” wrote 4 Paws University.

Faran Dulberg, a senior in Public Relations is not in a sorority but a part of another campus organiza-

tion, Hillel, and is also the president. For Hillel and many other organizaDulberg says that being leader of a tions, fellowship, or meeting of the group has shown her how much of group, is what builds strength.

Furthermore, it is not surprising an impact groups have on individual lives. “I never knew how much an that a pack’s system of ranking is organization can impact people. dependent on social and psychoWhether it’s the speakers, the re- logical skills as its power is largely ligious ceremonies, the events... social. Those who have more control people are affected and usually in of these intangible assets rise higher in the ranks. a positive way,” she said.

Sororities are not the only orgaThe establishment of rank, for wolves especially, is even more in- nizations who bears the hallmarks o f p a c kteresting. psychology.

The order Ultimately, is maintained any organithrough a sezation that ries of “ritualoffers beneized fights and fits to memposturing best bers and the de s c r i b e d a s promise of ritual bluffing,” a powerful ac cord i ng to and protecWolfCountry. t i ve c om net. “Wolve s Diana Hardy, senior in accounting munity is a prefer psychopack. l o g i c a l w a rThis turns fare to physical to anot her confrontations, meaning that high-ranking status characteristic of animal behavior, is based more on personality or what “Tasty Human” calls “instincattitude than on size or physical tive behavior” or a “fixed action pattern,” which “[does] not require strength.”

The system of pledging and bid- learning or prior experience for [its] ding appears is, in many senses, as expression.” The weblog cites the co“ritualized” as the wolves’ process. coon-spinning spiders, who perform In both cases, members of the pack 6000 individual, identical motions are competing for a spot, a spot that while making their cocoons.

“All of them behave the same way, will somehow increase their chances and they have never learned this of survival.

In humans what strengthens rela- ability,” “Tasty Human” wrote.

As students rush to join the varitionships isn’t exactly group ranking but rather fellowship. Hillel has what ous “packs” on campus, all without is called Shabbat every Friday and is being told, a certain instinct bea celebration of the Jewish weekend. comes apparent. That is the instinct

“I’ve been able to work with people who are committed and passionate in everything they do.”

to find and establish community, a place to assert oneself psychologically. Individuals find the places they belong and fit in—their pack rank.

This basic human need for survival, the need to have a “pack,” is more complex though.

Wolves join packs according to the cold equations of basest welfare, according to WolfCountry.net. Man’s drive to search for a pack is much more complicated because his survival needs are more intricate. Otherwise, there would only need to be one pack for humans to join.

Humans have the power of choice, whether choosing between the Wolfpack and other universities, the Honors program or the Scholars program, or even between Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Omega Epsilon.

These packs are important, not only for the benefit of their members, but also for the power they wield. The strength of the pack is what empowers every member of N.C. State’s Wolfpack to make a difference, leave a mark, and change the world.

“I wouldn’t be able to imagine my past three years with out being Greek...it is so much more than letters on a t-shirt,” Diana Hardy, a senior in accounting, and a member of Delta Gamma said. “It has given me so many opportunities and I’ve been able to work with people who are committed and passionate in everything that they do. I have been able to make friends with truly wonderful people,” she said.

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Women’s Soccer Record by year year

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2005

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University of Maryland Intercollegaite

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ers now.”

The loss of Vera and Krzeszewski was remedied in part since the team had no other graduating seniors. Former coach Laura Kerrigan had been dealing with a number of players quitting over the past few seasons, leading to inexperienced teams overall in the past. For example, out of the 13 player freshman class in 2007, only 6 remain on the team today. But Dugal said that this trend is changing under Springthorpe.

“Since it is a fresh slate and we start over new, I don’t think as many people will be dropping off,” Dugal said. “We have more dedication.”

In addition, Dugal said the sophomore class has actually vowed not to quit the team.

“I know my class has made a pact that no one else is dropping off,” Dugal said.

The team has drawn together and seems to be making real progress, according to Dugal.

“We are all really excited about [this season]. We are closer than ever as a team this year. Each practice we work even harder and draw closer as a team,” she said.

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of Springthorpe’s tenure, according to freshman midfielder Kara Blosser.

“One of the first things we did during the preseason was we went to the beach and we made this list of goals and everything that we wanted to accomplish over the next season,” Blosser said. “We put it up in our locker room and we see it every day so when we look at it we see our goals and what we need to accomplish.”

But despite the new attitude within the women’s soccer program, only time will tell how if it will translate into ACC success.

“We definitely have the potential to do [better in the ACC]. We’re being realistic — we know we are not going to win every game in the ACC, but we do have the confidence that we will continually improve, be relevant, and make a statement,” Dugal said. “[Springthorpe] wants us to leave a statement after every game that we fought harder than any team, even if we are down and losing, we never stop and we never quit. And if we fight hard we will improve, get better, and start winning games.”

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ability to play against ACC opponents.

“It was a big win for us because, of course, all of our players got in and it was good to play around, but they weren’t the best competition for us to prepare for [ECU]. It’s really good that we got that win and we came back from that 1-0 loss [to UNLV], so we know that we can bounce back, so we have confidence going in,”

said Blosser.

Coach Springthorpe has kept practice as normal as possible to prepare for the Pirates and get his team mentally prepared for the ACC schedule.

“Well, I don’t know that we’ve spent a lot of time preparing for ECU specifically— we know what they’re [going to] do, we know how to play,” Springthorpe said. “But we’re more concerned about the things we need to improve on as a team.

We haven’t done anything much different for ECU.” The bottom line for Spring-

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McMillen won the 2009 N.C. Amateur championship held at the Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham, N.C. in June.

Hill said this added experience and success may tip the Pack over the edge in terms of tournament standings. While team members found individual success in 2008-2009, a first place team finish continually eluded the team.

“We had a lot of guys who were playing well last year but maybe didn’t get quite as much out of their tournaments as they would have liked and didn’t play to their full potential,” Hill said.

Last year at the Maryland Intercollegiate, the Pack was one thorpe is that every win counts, no matter what team they come up against.

“Overall we [want to] win as much as we can going into conference,” Springthorpe said.

“It’s going to be tough, but we are going to prepare as much as we can for that first conference game.”

Blosser said she believes this season is her chance to make an impact on the program that is regaining confidence. She said she wants to contribute to the team and win for the sake of the senior class.

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of three teams to finish under par and took second out of the field of competitors. Individually, Hill finished in fourth place and Revell 13th.

Hill said the team would like to start the season off with a win.

“We’re all playing really well.

We all know the golf course and we know what to expect,” Hill said.

Golf World Magazine has the Pack ranked 13th nationally in a preseason poll, with Hill and Sutton earning spots on lists for players to watch and newcomers, respectively.

“I can speak for the rest of the guys when I say we’re not going to be happy with [13th place]. We need to be better,” Detweiler said.

“At the beginning, we all had to share some thoughts on our season and talk about how this is [the] last time [the seniors will] probably ever be playing soccer in their lives,” Blosser said. “I’m playing for them because I still have years to play after this. It’s a fresh opportunity for the freshman coming in, and a cool thing for the seniors because they get a chance to make an impact when everything is brand new,” said Blosser

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Military Appreciation Day to be held Saturday Saturday’s football game against Murray State will also be Military Appreciation Day. N.C. State and the Wolfpack Club will sponsor a variety of activities prior to and during the game, including working with the Back Home Box Foundation. The marching band and cheerleading squad will also be welcoming soldiers from the Wounded Warrior Project.

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After several seasons of high turnover rates and large freshman classes, the women’s soccer team, now five games into the tenure of coach Steve Springthorpe, is starting to take shape.

“Certainly, as a new coach and coaching staff coming in, we are excited about the direction of the team and how hard the girls are working,” Springthorpe said.

Sophomore forward Paige Dugal

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pointed out the toughness of the seniors on this year’s team, who have stepped up into leadership roles.

“The seniors have stepped up a lot because they know it is their last year.

We have so much potential this year to make a really big impact and improve,” Dugal said.

Springthorpe has encouraged the seniors to take this larger role since he arrived on campus earlier this year.

“I talked with the seniors in the spring, got together and challenged them. This is their team, their opportunity,” Springthorpe said. “I want that class to be the one to lead us through and start that for us.”

Alex Berger, Chantalle Dugas and Katie Ruiz, a junior and two seniors

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“We have so much potential this year to make a really big impact and improve.”

Team opens season this and Sunday.

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Kara Blosser, freshman in first year college, fends the ball from going out-of-bounds against Old Dominion Friday afternoon, after assisting Paige Dugal, sophomore in biomedical engineering, score the first goal of the winning game.

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Pack prepares for Pirates

The women’s soccer team did not win a single conference game last season.

The women’s soccer team is ready to stand up to their final home non-conference test against East Carolina

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respectively, have taken a greater leap, above the rest and into the captain roles on Springthorpe’s squad.

“They have great leadership qualities,” Springthorpe said.

It is not just the upperclassmen that are rising to the occasion. The entire team has had to work hard and come together after the graduation of both of last year’s captains, four-year starters Lindsay Vera and Tami Krzeszewski, Dugal said.

“Lindsay and Tami were great leaders on the field,” Dugal said. “We’re all stepping up and being individual lead-

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Pirates. This will not be an easy task for the Pack, as ECU has gone 3-1 so far this season, but it is coming off of a tough loss as Wake Forest shut it out 0-4 this past Sunday.

State is riding a positive streak as the team is currently 4-1 and coming off a 4-0 win against Stony Brook. The coaching staff and the players are riding on high expectations for this ECU matchup and say they view this game as a big step towards the ACC competition that will begin soon.

“We’ve actually improved a lot over last year. We played a lot of difficult teams so far outside of our region, [including] ECU this Friday. It will be a good game to [lead] us into the ACC,” senior defender Gia Cipollini said.

According to freshman midfielder Kara Blosser, the team’s last win against Stony Brook was more of a confidence builder than a true test of its

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Revell, junior Matt Hill, sophomore Mark McMillen and freshman Mitchell Sutton will Kate Shefte travel to Maryland.

Sports Editor In his first year with the Pack, After a long summer expectations for Sutton – the that has seen several of team’s sole freshman – are high its members achieve great after he won the Canadian Jupersonal success, the men’s niors this summer. He beat out golf team will compete in its future teammate and fellow first event of the season at Ontario native Hill, who tied the River Marsh Golf Club for third place.

“He’s a rein Camally good bridge, player and we Md. expect a lot The of big things team will f rom him. play i n We’re excited two more to have him,” tournaDetweiler said ments of Sutton.

– one in Because of late Sepjunior Brandon Detweiler his experience tember, at Juniors, Hill one in October – to close out its is familiar with the incoming fall schedule. It will host Pack player and what he can do.

“He played really well and has its first home tournament at the new Lonnie Poole some confidence coming into Golf Course on Centennial this season,” Hill said.

The rest of the Pack has hardCampus Apr. 9-10.

“We’re better this year ly taken the summer off. Hill than we were last year,” said Revell played “really well” junior Brandon Detweiler in the U.S. Amateur in August, said. “We have more expe- advancing to the second round. rience.”

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“We expect a lot of big things from [Sutton,] we’re excited to have him.”

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