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monday september
10 2012
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Campus views of Arizona’s Women’s Health and Safety Act Megan Dunton
The main mission of the Women’s Center is to be a catalyst and resource that advances gender On Aug. 23, Arizona lawmakers equity and social justice through passed a law titled the Women’s education, advocacy and leadership Health and Safety Act, which de- for the campus community. The fines pregnancy as starting two center’s main vision is a Wolfpack weeks before conception. community that champions gender This law means that women in equity and promotes respect for all. Arizona are no longer legally alHowever, many do not see this law lowed to get an abortion after the as a negative, such as the Univertwentieth week of pregnancy. This sity’s chapter of Students for Life. is based on the disputed medical “We agree with the bill because theory that fetuses can feel pain it saves lives and makes abortion after twenty weeks of pregnancy. safer,” Teresa Pincus, president of Before the law, women in Ari- Students for Life and a junior in zona were legally civil engineering, allowed to get an said. abortion up until Pincus said the the twenty-third bill made abortions or twenty-fourth safer through new week, as established regulations includby the historical ing hospital privicourt case, Roe v. leges, stating that Wade. women who unTeresa Pincus, In North Carodergo an abortion president of Students for Life lina, a woman is must be within 30 allowed to get an miles of a hospital abortion without a medical rea- in case something goes wrong and son up until the twentieth week are in need of medical attention. of pregnancy. After the twentieth The FDA must also approve drugs week, there has to be a medical rea- and equipment used in abortions. son to abort a pregnancy that would The main mission of Students for threaten the life and health of the Life is to inform and educate people mother. about the pro-life position. “Our Ashley Simons-Rudolph, director main goal is to share our idea that of the N.C. State Women’s Center, all life should be protected from has been following Arizona’s Wom- birth to natural death,” Pincus said. en’s Health and Safety Act and is Pincus expressed that Students well aware of the new law’s back- for Life focused on both the life and ground. health of the mother and the fetus The Women’s Center does not instead of just the mother. take an official stand on abortion. Abortion has been a hot topic in However, it does facilitate discus- politics. Arizona was not the only sions to enable people to form their own opinions on women’s issues. ARIZONA continued page 3 Staff Writer
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Members of Costa Rican dance group Pura Vida perform at Fiesta del Pueblo in Moore Square Sunday, Sept. 9. The festival was a celebration of Latino community and culture within Raleigh.
Fiesta del Pueblo advocates Latino identity Mark Herring Editor-in-Chief
As Triangle residents came to Moore Square in Downtown Raleigh Sunday to celebrate Latino culture at the 19th annual Fiesta del Pueblo, civic organizers seized the opportunity to educate Hispanic voters. Fiesta del Pueblo, an event organized by Hispanic advocacy group, El Pueblo, Inc., attracted Latinos and non-Latinos alike to share typical Latin American food, music and performing arts. Merchants of artisan goods represented 19 Latino countries and food vendors lined Martin Street, selling tacos, pupusas, empadas and arepas. As hundreds of cultural enthu-
siasts filled the closed-off park, civil liberty societies, political groups and representatives of law firms manned booths to educate the growing Latino constituency about civil services and political platforms. Rep. David Price spoke to the crowd of visitors, with the help of a translator to reach out to the bilingual audience. Price represents North Carolina’s fourth district, which contains half of Wake County. “[At the Democratic National Convention] there were also people we never heard of, ordinary Latino citizens, residents of this country, aspiring to a better life, especially those young people we call Dreamers, many of whom are here today,”
Price said. “The Dreamers — what they want is not only to remain in this country, but to pursue their education … we should have passed the Dream Act.” As politicians campaigned at the event, volunteers like Adam Bungarner, 2012 graduate in food science and nutrition, worked with El Pueblo, a non-partisan organization, to register voters. “We’re getting people to register to vote because it’s really important here in North Carolina,” Bungarner said. “At the RNC and the DNC, you could see how both parties were con-
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“...all life should be protected from birth to natural death...”
Cain to speak on Wednesday Staff Report
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Herman Cain speaks at the Wake County Republican Convention on March 22, 2012.
Herman Cain will visit Stewart Theatre Wednesday evening, bringing his College Truth Tour 2012 and campaign against President Barack Obama on behalf of the GOP to campus. Since Cain suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination primary Dec. 2, 2011, the Tea Party activist hasn’t suspended his tour across the nation to advocate for conservative policies. Cain visited North Carolina in April while on his Solutions Revolution tour, stopping by UNCChapel Hill and the Wake County
GOP Convention at the N.C. State Fairgrounds. “If there is one thing I know for sure, is that the young people of America have to get in the game to ensure that the decisions and policies coming out of Washington will lead them to a future that allows them to live their American dream,” Cain said in a promotional video on his website. “Unfortunately at this present time, that future does not look so bright.” Cain visited the University of Iowa and Iowa State University
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Initiative promotes student diversity Jake Moser Staff Writer
The N.C. State Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity was recently awarded a $3.6 million grant by the National Institutes of Health. The program aims to get student groups who are typically underrepresented involved in the fields of biomedical and behavioral research. Specifically, the IMSD wants to bring the social and cultural perspectives of these groups to the research field in order to create a diverse workforce. The $3.6 million grant was paid for by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is part of the NIH, an organization that actively supports diversity in the field of research. The NIH started out in 1887 as a one-room hospital for Marines and merchant seamen and now gives out millions of dollars in research grants every year. In addition, the NIH’s goals are to improve and
protect national health as well as to expand the knowledge base in medical and associated sciences by investing in research. The Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity selects 30 promising freshmen and sophomores and follows them throughout their time at the University. The program funds mentored lab research to give these students experience and guidance during their undergraduate years. Other services provided by the IMSD include supplying undergrads with courses tailored to the biomedical and behavioral research fields and preparing students to enroll in and complete a doctoral program in these fields. After graduation, the IMSD provides support and two years of funding to students pursuing their doctorates. Trudy Mackay, principle investigator for the IMSD, believes diversity in a lab will create a more efficient atmosphere. “The major issue is that scientists, professors and researchers in
the biomedical and behavioral research fields are mostly white males, and everyone else is heavily underrepresented,” Mackay said. “We want everyone else to get real meaningful lab experience and to understand the research culture. Our goal is to get less biased representations.” The grant was given to the N.C. State IMSD after a proposal was written to the NIH. “Diversity is very important because it allows us to fully tap all of this nation’s resources,” David Shafer, co-principle investigator for the IMSD, said. “Having people from different backgrounds doing research makes us more competitive. We want to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to pursue a career in research.” The N.C. State IMSD is closely associated with the North Caro-
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The Love Language performs outside CAM Raleigh for a Hopscotch Music Festival day party on Friday Sept. 7.
COMMENTARY
Hopscotch shows off new music and local talent On the first weekend in September, residents of the Triangle displayed everything that was, is and will be exceptional about its music scene. Despite intermittent thundershowers, Hopscotch Mu sic Fe s t iv a l Will Brooks 2012 showed its Staff Writer local-music guns while mixing in international artists in a presentation that showed how truly world-class the Raleigh-area’s music scene has become. Among the talent at Hopscotch were UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus Sam Logan and N.C. State alumnus Derek Torres, both of brother bands Lilac Shadows, led by Logan, and T0W3RS, led by Torres. The musicians made a special scavenger hunt EP release over the weekend. T0W3RS’ new EP “Wyatt” was split up into cassette tape singles, or “Cassingles,” and hid throughout downtown Raleigh.
“Each cassette coincides with a letter of the record, which is Wyatt,” Torres said. “There is another separate Hopscotch artist on every B-side.” Among the bands featured on the tapes’ b-sides were Gross Ghost, Toddlers, Lollipops, Jenny Bestzt and Lilac Shadows, who played at various shows over the weekend. T0W3RS gave a solid yet obscure performance on Saturday night, using projectors to display moving art and two gymnasts in bright colored unitards who danced on stage at the Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh. Projections were a common theme of many shows, including Dan Deacon’s memorable performance. On Friday night, Baltimore’s Deacon blended his synth-heavy compositions with flashing lights, projections and even a phone-application, as the crowd was part of
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