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Student leaders’ opinion differ on ASG

Amanda Wilkins

several student leaders commenting on the situation say they aren’t involved with or informed about ASG’s activities.

ASG is a statewide, student-run organization whose goal is to lobby for and represent students at the UNC Board of Governors.

The ASG President sits on the BOG and is the only student able to speak at the meetings without approval. ASG is also the only student government organization recognized by North Carolina

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The Association of Student Governments represents all 17 schools in the UNC System, but N.C. State student leaders, past and present, disagree over its effectiveness and N.C. State’s role in it.

This has sparked controversy and discussion in Student Senate about the future of the University’s involvement in ASG. However,

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Alum Ethan Harrelson, who served as N.C. State’s 2011-2012 Student Senate President, said ASG allows students from all the campuses to speak with one voice.

“I personally think it is the only way to bring together students with different opinions and create a consensus to take to the Board of Governors and North Carolina Legislature,” Harrelson said in an email interview.

Chancellor Randy Woodson also

said ASG’s function to gather the collective voice of the students of the UNC System is critical.

A number of current student leaders, including student body president, Andy Walsh and student senate president, Regan Gatlin, have repeatedly criticized ASG for their seeming lack of accountability and communication with the University.

“I think it is kind of important, especially for an organization that represents a lot of other student

bodies across the state, to stay accountable to the people they are receiving money from,” Gatlin said.

“I’ve had a love-hate relationship with ASG,” Walsh said. “I love the theory behind it. I hate the application of it. I hate the financial application of it. I hate the history of some of the student leaders who have been in it, because the

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Alum creates tour for college boarders Keegan Fisher

startup businesses, including Capital Promotions, a screen-printing company that offers its services to N.C. State alum Keegan Guizard Greek organizations, as well as other is combining skateboarding with his student groups. business degree for some interesting Guizard graduated with a bachentrepreneurial results. elor’s degree in business manageGuizard graduated from the Poole ment, with a concentration in entreCollege of preneurship Management in and a minor December and in Spanish. recently started Guizard has the Collegiate been a lifeSkate Tour, the long fa n of first national skateboarding college skateand wanted to Keegan Guizard, N.C. State alum board compecreate a way tition. for younger “There is a disconnect between generations to experience the thrill skateboarding and society, and I of skateboarding along with the also want people to see that skate- benefits of higher education. In boarding is such a productive thing addition to the Skate Tour, Keegan in so many kids’ lives,” Guizard said. also formed a skate club during his Collegiate Skate Tour is the first freshman year which grew into a skateboarding contest series that club sport a year later. focuses on the college market.

Through the N.C. State Skate In addition to the tournament, he boarding Club, he managed to build is also involved with several other several practice facilities, host small Staff Writer

“The entrepreneurship curriculum...showed me how I could start a project.”

tournaments for charity and organize groups to travel and skate the east coast. The University was important in developing Guizard’s entrepreneurial efforts and provided him with resources for starting a small business.

“N.C. State has been an integral part of enabling me to move forward with what is now Collegiate Skate Tour,” Guizard said. “The entrepreneurship curriculum, specifically, showed me how I could start a project of my own and create a scalable business to enforce my own interests. I have met so many individuals that have also inspired me to follow my passion and do something different. There are too many to name.” Keegan’s success story serves as an example of how to turn personal interests into a career.

“To anyone that is unsatisfied with what they are doing or not doing currently: Put 80 percent of your time into the things that genuinely matter to you, and great things will follow,” Guizard said.

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Keegan Guizard, an N.C. State alum, started his own skateboard competition.

Vegetarian options: still improving Avery Hocutt Staff Writer

University Dining introduced more vegan and vegetarian options this semester, but students say there is still room for improvement.

This past December, University Dining increased the frequency of vegetarian meals and added the option of grilled vegetables, such as Portobello mushrooms and eggplants, which can be cooked fresh for students.

So far, these changes have received positive feedback from vegetarian and vegan students. Tiffany Bowman, Food Services Supervisor for Case Dining Hall, says that vegetarian students eat at the dining hall on a regular basis and that she has received compliments from students on the new meal options. “[Vegetarian students eating at dining halls] seems to be a growing trend,” Bowman said. “This semester, Food Services made sure to always carry vegetarian options in the grill area. Before, it wasn’t always guaranteed.”

Other students are still disappointed with the amount of vegetarian and vegan options. ________ Ben Saddler is a lifelong vegetarian and says the vegetarian and vegan menu is monotonous.

“After a while you get sick of the same five options over and over,” Saddler said.

Dara Russ, president of NCSU’s vegetarian club, S.A.V.E (Students Advocating Vegetarian Eating) and senior in sociology, says the Univer-

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Joe Murray, vegetarian and senior in mathematics, dines at Clark Dining Hall Monday evening, Feb. 11, 2013.

There is an ongoing discussion on campus about whether or not University Dining provides enough vegan and vegetarian options for students. “The only thing I would request is that they serve more fresh fruit, more often,” said Murray, who thinks University Dining does a great job accommodating for vegetarian and vegan students.

sity has been very cooperative in working with vegetarian students to improve options.

“My first experience with eating at the dining halls in 2011 was really bad,” Russ said. “We asked Food Services to take measures to improve vegetarian and vegan options.”

N.C. State’s registered dietician for University Dining, Lisa Eberhart, met with the unsatisfied students to discuss potential improvements.

“[Eberhart] heard us,” Russ said.

“It was clear to us that [University Dining] really wants to meet students where they are.”

If vegetarians and vegans are unsatisfied with their options, it is important they make their presence known to University Dining. The administration needs to understand the level of demand for vegetarian options in order to make a change, according to Russ.

“University Dining seemed very open [about working with vegetar-

ians], but there has to be an incentive or it’s just not convenient for them,” says Russ.

According to Food Services records, almost 2 percent of NCSU students who use the dining halls are registered as vegetarian.

Both Russ and Bowman agreed that the University is willing to meet the demands of vegetarian students, but it is up to the students to make their presence known.

Campus Police officers detained a student Feb. 6 who they thought was implicated in an armed robbery from December. After releasing the student, an African American, without pressing charges, the student and his family request an official apology on behalf of the University for racial profiling.

The student, who wishes to remain anonymous, said he was detained in the Atrium while eating lunch with his friends. He said he was taken to the Campus Police Department in handcuffs, and after questioning, police released him without a record.

Police detained the student, a freshman, after getting a false tip that he was involved with robbing a resident of Avent Ferry Residence Hall Dec. 3, 2012.

Lt. David Kelly, the public relations officer for Campus Police, said the robbed student lost his wallet, Xbox games and clothing items, including an expensive pair of shoes, during the breaking and entering of his dormitory. Kelly refused to comment on last week’s incident because of further investigations into the December robbery.

The victim of the armed robbery, according to the detained student,

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POLICE BLOTTER Tuesday 10:17 A.M. | DRUG VIOLATION Western Blvd/Dan Allen Dr Student was stopped for seatbelt violation. During course of stop officers discovered marijuana in vehicle. One student was cited for seatbelt violation. Both students were referred to the university for possession of marijuana.

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Tuesday’s story “Democrats face dissent from far left,” Gene Messick is referred as “her.”

Messick is male. Technician regrets this error.

10:33 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Witherspoon Student Center Student reported suspicious incident. Investigation ongoing.

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11:23 P.M. | ASSAULT Lee Hall Officer responded to dispute between two students. Student was arrested for domestic related assault and referred for Alcohol Underage, Domestic Dispute, and Inflicting Bodily Harm. Housing was involved in process and aware of outcome.

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3:00 P.M. | FOLLOW UP INVESTIGATION Laurinburg, NC NCSU PD followed up on earlier event identifying non-student as one of the suspects in late night robbery on 2/11/13.

Warrant was obtained for Robbery with Dangerous Weapon and subject was arrested by Laurinburg PD. Investigation ongoing.

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adison Murphy, a junior in english, observes Ash Wednesday on Wednesday Feb. 13 2013. Ash Wednesday is a christian holiday which is the first day of Lent and marks the preparation for the Easter celebration. “I am used to getting weird looks,” Murphy said “I’ve been doing it my whole life”.

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of the past. They aren’t reaching out to the student bodies as a whole or doing anything for the students they supposedly represent.”

accountability hasn’t been there.”

Eileen Coombes, who has served as the staff adviser for N.C. State Student Government for the past five years, said she recognizes ASG’s potential as a student advocacy group — as well as its lack of tangible outcomes.

“There’s a ton of potential,” Coombes said. “I just don’t think there is anyone challenging that potential, or the peer-to-peer challenge isn’t working for the organization.”

The UNC ASG Removal Act going through committee in the N.C. State Student Senate reflects Coombes’ thoughts.

Both Walsh and Gatlin said they haven’t made any extraordinary efforts to reach out to ASG and said they believed it was ASG’s job to communicate with the campuses. Gatlin and Walsh also said there had been trouble with the ASG emailing service, and they weren’t getting emails about the meetings and legislation at the beginning of the year.

“We are lacking a lot of communication with ASG,” Gatlin said. “I do not think that is necessarily any fault of the student body officers

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Each university in the UNC System gets four voting delegates at ASG. While the ASG website lists four delegates for N.C. State, only one, Rutger Blankley, a senior in nuclear engineering, has been regularly attending the meetings as Walsh’s proxy. Walsh has only attended one meeting and Gatlin has never attended ASG. The fourth delegate is inactive. Gatlin has named a proxy, but hadn’t followed up with him at the time of the interview.

Blankley meets with Walsh before ASG meetings to go over the legislation and to he represents the University thoroughly.

Walsh said Blankley’s role as proxy is sufficient for the purpose of attending and interacting at ASG meetings. Blankley also sits on the Finance and Budget Committee and recognizes that there are fundamental issues with the process.

“I think there are more fundamental things holding them back,” Blankley said, citing travel costs and administrative overhead as issue areas. “We’re trying to increase the amount of funding that goes back to the students.”

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Read more about the historical role of ASG at N.C. State and the ASG Removal Act that Student Government is proposing Blankley said it seems like N.C. State already does all the things ASG wants to do.

“For the most part, I’ve just been hanging out, going to the meetings and representing Andy,” Blankley said. “Andy and I have had talks about ASG.” Blankley said ASG President Cameron Carswell and her vice president are doing a good job this year with restructuring the organization.

“We had our reservations, but it seems to have been working out great,” Blankley said.

According to Chapter 1, Article 3 of the Student Body Statutes, Blankley and other active delegates should also be reporting to the Student Senate Public Affairs Committee. Several representatives interviewed for this story did not know anyone from N.C. State had been attending the ASG meetings.

Sean Pavia, Public Affairs Committee Chair and sophomore in sociology, told the Government Operations Committee Feb. 6 that he

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was unaware of the requirement until recently.

Also, even though Blankley has been attending the meetings, no delegates or proxies have been officially confirmed or recognized by N.C. State’s Student Senate, as is also required under Chapter 1, Article 3 of the Student Body Statutes.

Some senators, however, have criticized N.C. State’s lack of attendance at ASG meetings even as they’ve criticized ASG itself.

“We need to try to participate before we try to make changes,” said sophomore management major, Megan Wright, who chairs the Student Senate’s Tuition and Fees Committee.

Past leaders also agree that there needs to be more involvement on N.C. State’s part.“If N.C. State does not go to ASG meetings, then N.C. State students are not being represented at the Board of Governors level,” Harrelson said.

Walsh, however, does not see the value to attending the meetings.

“What’s the value to our student body? To this day I haven’t been able to find one,” Walsh said.

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ers haven’t recognized is the role ASG and the BOG play in the tuition and fees process. Essentially, without attending ASG meetings, N.C. State students aren’t being represented at the BOG or the General Assembly, who have the final say in tuition and fee increases.

“The Tuition and Fee process needs ASG because no one school can speak on its own at [the BOG] level,” Harrelson said. “First of all, the President of ASG is the only student able to speak at Board of Governors meetings. Second, even if an individual school were to speak with a Board of Governors member, that school would only represent a fraction of the students in the system.”

Walsh and the senators who support the UNC ASG Removal bill think they can effectively lobby for N.C. State to the General Assembly.

Chancellor Woodson warned student leaders to be careful about withdrawing from ASG. “You do not want to lose a voice at that table,” Woodson said. “We do need a form of student government that not only serves the campus but also reflects that we are a system and provides a strong voice for students at the Board of Governors.”

At the Feb. 6 Government Operations Committee meeting, graduate student senator Bryan Hoynacke, a graduate student in public administration, said he had spoken with Walsh before the meeting and Walsh said he didn’t want to get involved because there is too much to be done.

“For him, it was so daunting in terms of the changes that need to be made that it was easier to say ‘I’m going to send someone else and hopefully they can figure it out for me,’ because he really does have a lot he is working on on campus,” Hoynacke said.

T. Greg Doucette, alumnus, past N.C. State Student Senate President and twoterm ASG President, said it would take some effort to fix ASG, but he said the current leaders haven’t tried at all.

“That’s what is comes down to: laziness and not wanting to deal with confrontation,” Doucette said. “To not attend has nothing to do with ASG sucking. It’s just because you’re f***ing lazy.”

Harrelson also challenged Walsh’s reasoning.

“If they do not trust the organization, then why haven’t they been trying to improve it?” he asked.

Doucette said the ASG had done some good things in the past. In 2008, ASG successfully fought a student tax from the General Assembly that would have put funds into a general fund for the state instead of back to the campuses to benefit students. This effort saved UNC System schools more than $27 million over the course of two years, according to Doucette. “[ASG] saved [N.C. State] students $157 bucks for students who we haven’t even graduated yet,” Doucette said. “[Students are] still saving money based on what we did [in 2008-2009]. So why would you not go and make sure that happens?”

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Printing on campus: now just a card slipe away Taylor O’Quinn Staff Writer

The new FollowMe printer system� launched Monday at the James B. Hunt Library and aims to provide students with a more efficient printing experience.

FollowMe Printing is different from other printing systems because of its card swiping technology. Students just swipe their student I.D. at the printer after submitting their print job according to Jim Hansen, assistant director for materials support and WolfCopy.

“Students will no longer have to worry about printing to the wrong printer or picking up the wrong print job,” Hansen said.

The FollowMe printers are not only convenient, but energy efficient as well. Hansen said the free standing, multifunctional printers can print out 55 pages-per-minute after a five-second warm up, and the tabletop models can print out 70 pages-per-minute.

Hansen said the FollowMe

Printers will soon be capable of printing from a USB flash drive. This technology will be activated sometime between spring break and summer, according to Hansen.

David Ladrie, assistant director of learning space support, said this new printing system will allow a student to submit their print job online or in a campus computer lab to the FollowMe Printing queue.

New technology doesn’t necessarily mean higher prices. According to Hansen, the price for printing will remain the same at 10 cents a page in the library, and 6 cents elsewhere.

“One of the best features of FollowMe Printing is that the student isn’t charged anything until they swipe their card and select print,” Ladrie said.

Once the print job is in the queue, the student has up to 12 hours to print at any of the FollowMe Printing locations, according to Hansen. If the student doesn’t print within 12 hours then the print job

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is removed and the student is not charged.

There are currently four multi-functional FollowMe Printers in Hunt Library.

In addition, 34 are being installed during spring break and 50 more will be added during the summer on Main and Centennial Campuses, according to Ladrie.

Twenty-six of the printers being installed are free standing, multi-functional printers and the remaining eight will be tabletop models. By the time all 80 printers have been installed before fall semester, 90 percent of student printing will be done with FollowMe Printing, accord-

ing to Hansen.

Students can print at both N.C. State libraries by choosing either WolfPrintBlackAndWhite-Libraries or WolfPrint-Color-Libraries. If a student wishes to print at any of the other locations on campus, they can choose WolfPrint in black and white or color, according to Hansen.

If students want to print double-sided, Hansen warns they should select that option on their document before submitting the print job.

However, the copying function of the new printers has the option to print doublesided on the screen.

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The new FollowMe printing system at James B. Hunt Jr. Library was activated Monday.

This project was planned to be implemented at the start of the semester; however, Ladrie said they wanted to wait for “the latest and greatest” Lexmark printers.

PaperCut, the software through which N.C. State’s printing system is run, is

the company that developed FollowMe Printing, according to Ladrie. Other colleges have this printing system as well, including our neighbor, Meredith College.

Ladrie said he is unsure whether FollowMe Printing will be implemented into the new Talley Student Center.

“We would love to be in the new Talley and hopefully they’ll love to have us there as well,” Ladrie said.

The FollowMe Printing webpage can be found by going to N.C. State’s homepage and searching FollowMe Printing.

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called Campus Police after seeing the detained student wearing similar shoes in the Atrium.

“The police shouldn’t go after my son just because of his skin color and the fact he wears nice shoes,” said the detained student’s mother.

“My son is an Eagle Scout, he was an honor student in high school … he’s just a sweet kid. Why should he be stereotyped and humiliated just because he has nice shoes and is black?”

The student and his family said they are still waiting for an apology from University officials, and the student said he’s most upset about being publically humiliated.

“The officers were professional, but what offends me was how they went about [questioning me],” the student said. “All the people eating lunch in the Atrium were probably thinking I was a criminal, and that’s not fair. I believe I deserve an apology.”

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Insourcing manufacturing jobs

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hen outsourcing jobs became the mainstream business model for companies like General Motors and Ford Motor, “manufacturing” became almost a dirty word. It was as if we Americans thought of ourselves as too good – we were the innovators who came up with the ideas. We bought cheap labor in countries like China and Cambodia to do the work that was below us. But recently we have stepped away from this egotistical notion. Manufacturing is coming back to the United States as a reputable and vital cornerstone of the economy.

The Institute for Emerging Issues held its 28th annual forum Monday and Tuesday.

This year’s emerging issue regarded American manufacturing and the benefits of a “manufacturing renaissance” in North Carolina.

Though Technician criticized the event as a

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Should the university upgrade the printers on main campus for the sake of efficiency at the cost of one or two more cents per page?

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“Students need more efficient printers so they can work a lot faster.”

Damian Smith freshman, criminology

“I think the printers are fine.”

Elisabeth Beard freshman, nutrition science

“I have never used the school printers so I don’t know.”

Casey Burcher sophomore, applied mathematics

EXPANDING NEW PRINTING SERVICE FollowMe Printing has been added to Hunt Library. The system is compatible with your AllCampus account so you no longer have to go online and add money from your debit account, making it more efficient and user-friendly.

However, this service is only available in Hunt Library. Technician proposes to make this a campus-wide service, funded by additional cost of one to two cents per copy. We have created a survey on our website, www. technicianonline. com, where you can vote on this proposal.

Technician would appreciate your participation and will forward the results to the appropriate people.

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.

PR stunt in Tuesday’s editorial, its intentions were respectable and relevant. In fact, President Barack Obama discussed what the government is doing to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. in his State of the Union Address Tuesday night. Caterpillar, Ford and Intel are just a few examples he gave of companies that are outsourcing fewer and fewer jobs.

Although the majority of students will not work in the manufacturing field, it is important that we recognize manufacturing as a necessary part of our

“... it is important that we recognize manufacturing as a necessary part of our economy.”

Service or scourge? The Krispy Kreme Challenged

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don’t eat babies, nor am I an advocate of child cancer. But I have to ask: Is the Krispy Kreme Challengemore of an evil than a good?

I think the fundraiser does good. The amount of $177,000 for the North Carolina Children’s Hospital can literally make the difference between life and death, many times Ishan Raval over. That value is inDeputy Viewpoint Editor calculable.

But there can be degrees of incalculable: The value of saving a hundred lives is much less than the value of saving a thousand lives. The K2C, despite saving those hundred lives, breeds a mindset that sacrifices thousands, making itself more of an evil.

Most fundamentally, certain messages are implicit in K2C’s model. And as the K2C is one of N.C. State’s two premier “service” events (along with Service Raleigh), these messages are normalized for the entire campus community. This has dangerous effects.

There’s a notion that your share of contributing to society can be fulfilled just by devoting one or two Saturday mornings every year. Because of the feel-good, consciencecoddling effect while having fun, such an amount of “service” is the ideal degree that we are taught to think should be taken up.

But the major problems of our society cannot be solved by one-off, self-congratulatory, “service”-fundraisershindigs. Poverty, war, environmental menaces, etc. need collective, sustained organization and action to be solved, and they will only be solved by normal people like us.

But by making the K2C one of the two large-scale “service” events conducted by students, the idea is normalized that the only, or at least the best, way to make a difference in the world is through one-off events. Anything that perpetuates such a myth will only do more harm than good to the world.

The same can be said for fundraisers, which do nothing but reinforce the notion that if just enough money went to the right causes, everything could be corrected.

But the deepest of our societal problems are those of the illegitimate exercise or concentration of power.

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economy. For every $1 spent in manufacturing, $1.48 is added to the economy, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also found that about 17.2 million jobs in the U.S. are supported by manufacturing. And for every added manufacturing job, five jobs are created in its wake, according to Tom Kurfess, professor of automotive engineering at Clemson University.

In Tuesday night’s speech, Obama said, “After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our

manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three.” He added, “If you work full time, you shouldn’t be in poverty.” To support this idea, he proposed an increase in the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 per hour.

The president visited Asheville Wednesday as the first stop in his post-State of the Union push to revive the U.S. economy. There he took a tour of Linimar Corp, a Canadian-based company with 160 workers in its Asheville plant, according to The Associated Press. Obama said the company plans to hire 40 more workers by the end of the year.

President Obama will also seek support for his proposals in visits to Georgia and Illinois in the coming days. When 7.8 percent of the country remains unemployed, we cannot afford the hierarchal thinking that led us to outsource jobs in the first place.

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But power concedes nothing without demand, as Frederick Douglass said. Fundraisers couldn’t have won us independence, universal suffrage, the eight-hour workday or civil rights. But here’s the K2C, presenting charity as the way to do your bit for society.

Put simply, the more people buy into the idea of doing good through the K2C and its ilk, the worse we’ll be in the long run. The more people “do their bit” for the world by taking part in lone fundraising “service” masquerades, less will be our chance of, say, defending our civil liberties or preventing ecocide.

Now, someone might say that children’s illness is a reality that cannot be removed, so donating to this cause is an act of good. I agree that children’s illness isn’t a problem like poverty or war — I don’t see humans discovering a cure for disease any time soon — but I argue that this feature of the K2C, that it donates to help out sick children, makes it even worse.

Yes, children’s illness isn’t a problem that persistent activism can solve, and thus, for the cause of helping sick kids, it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect that from people. But the pretense of the K2C is that this is how “service” in general works (rather than “service” for redressing children’s illness). So, the effect the K2C has is that of sending out the message that just since this issue can be ameliorated by one-off events, and can’t and shouldn’t require un-abating action, no causes would require this.

And regardless, even if children’s illness isn’t something that can be done away with, we can do away with social conditions in which people can’t afford to keep their loved ones alive — whether it’s because of a screwed-up healthcare system, or because of inequality and poverty — both of which are features of this society. In this sense, the money generated by the K2C is only a Band-Aid solution. In fact, by keeping this problem in check through donations, it creates the impression that action around the root of the problem ­— unaffordable healthcare and poverty — isn’t as necessary, and thus it perpetuates an unacceptable status quo.

The appeal of doughnuts and bandwagons shouldn’t deter us from doing the greatest good.

Matthew Clark, senior in arts applications

Gauging the value of college with salary data

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ryce Harrison hoped his bachelor degree in political science would land him a job. But Harrison, a graduate from Goucher College, a private school in Baltimore, has h a d no such luck seven months after Ziyi Mai graduaStaff Columnist tion.

Harrison is one of thousands struggling to find a job in the current economic state. Facing enormous pressure from the public, both federal and state officials are urged to hold colleges accountable for what happens after graduation, with frustration mounting over student debt.

At the state level, officials like Governor Pat McCrory of North Carolina have been intensifying efforts to throw employment into the equation to find how much state funding should be given to public universities.

At the federal level, congressmen are also pushing for new ways of gauging the value of college. Senators Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) introduced the Student Right to Know Before You Go Act this week. The Act would require states to make the average salaries of college graduates, categorized by major, more accessible. They claimed that these salary data would help prospective students compare salaries by college and major to assess the best return on their investment.

On the surface, the Act seems to do students a big favor by mandating colleges to provide salary information.

But some wonder if this Act is redundant. Some colleges are resisting the push, saying it would be burdensome for states to collect information that would tell students little they don’t already know. To judge whether this Act is redundant or not, we need to look at what information the market has provided to students in this field.

Students who rea l l y w a nt to compare salaries of graduates from various schools or programs may find websites like glassdoor.com and collegeatlas. org useful. These institutes have researched and gathered information regarding salaries of college graduates with plenty of statistical details including the average, median and ranges. For instance, if you want to find the salary of a software developer at SAS Institute, Inc., Glassdoor can tell you the average, minimum and maximum, along with bonuses and other compensations.

This kind of information is already free to the public and easy to access for students and parents who are serious about finding it. When it comes to the relation between different programs and salaries, a comprehensive database doesn’t really tell a lot on the different of salaries.

People don’t need a database to tell them that students who major in social work generally earn less than those who

“Salary data... are hardly a compass of guiding high school seniors on what university to attend.”

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major in engineering.

The Act has also brought up concerns regarding disclosure of privacy. It requires states to put together wage data submitted by employers with information on graduates submitted by colleges.

Virginia is one of the first states to publish the wages of college using social security numbers. However, this presents a potential risk of privacy – the data could be sliced so thinly that it is likely to reveal information about individuals.

Salary data themselves are hardly a compass of guiding high school seniors on what university to attend.

Data themselves might contain misleading information if you ignore common sense.

We all know that Harvard and Princeton are superb Ivy League universities. But when you compare to averaging starting salaries, they are surpassed by colleges with engineering-intensive majors like Stevens Institute of Technology. Just because the starting salary is lower doesn’t mean Harvard isn’t a great university.

Let’s get back to using common sense. We go to college to open our eyes, strengthen our minds and to think independently. Earning a good living is part of the goals but certainly not the only one. If the goal of going to college is to earn money to pay off the debt, then college education is a burden instead of a wealth in our lives.

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Raleigh music scene has New Sweat on its brow Katie Sanders Deputy Features Editor

On a particularly warm night in 2007, just before they started a tour around the northeast, Garrett Cummings, Taylor Cummings and Abe Kline still hadn’t picked a name for their band. When a friend gestured to the nowsweaty guitar Kline was playing and asked if it was new, Kline replied, “Yeah, the sweat’s brand new.” From then on, the group had found their name: New Sweat.

“We thought those two words together described the sweat of playing a gig and PHOTO COURTESY OF NEW SWEAT getting yourself onstage and Douglas McCullough, the newest member of New Sweat, plays keyboard at a show. people dancing,” Kline, who plays bass and does vocals, said. blend. We just play what we gether throughout middle quaintance of the Cummings The band name has been up think sounds cool.” and high school, but the through attending NCSU, on the chopping block a few The group has also adopted Cummings played in bars sings and plays guitar. times, but the band members some country and folk styles around N.C. State when they “Doug made the mistake of say it’s too late to change now. into its music. Many of the were in college. While they revealing that he has a velvety They just released their first songs are about the charms were all visiting their home- smooth and powerful voice,” CD in December, called No and complications of country town, Kline, who studied at Garrett Cummings said. “He Instructions. culture. Garrett Cummings Pennsylvania State, joined smoothed out all the edges.”

The said that them.

The band’s vocals incorpoband they were “I’ve always looked up to rate three-part harmonies besaid their inspired my brother, and then he asked tween McCullough, Garrett sound b y t h e me to play with him,” Taylor Cummings, and Kline, with is inf lu“small Cummings said. “I thought Taylor Cummings singing enced by coalthat was a pretty huge honor. backup. all genres, country It was fun to play Friday and “Anytime you hear a band from ‘90s town” of Saturday nights, just with my with three part harmonies grunge Bloomsbrother, on my little broken- your like ‘Oh yeah, these guys Garrett Cummings, guitarist and vocals for New Sweat to Hootie berg, Pa., down drum set.” can sing,’ whether they can a nd t h e where the The band came together sing or not,” Garrett CumBlowfish. three grew up. once Taylor and Garrett mings said.

“I’d say [our sound] is a “We’ve been playing to- Cummings graduated and Garrett Cummings wrote rootsy pop-rock,” said Gar- gether since eighth grade,” Kline moved to Raleigh. In the song structures for the rett Cummings, who plays drummer Taylor Cummings 2012, Douglas McCullough tracks on No Instructions, guitar and does vocals “It said. was incorporated into the but each of the band memkind of takes on its own Not only did they play to- band. McCullough, an ac- bers wrote the parts for their

“I’d say [our sound] is a rootsy pop-rock.

It kind of takes on its own blend.”

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Garret Cummings sings lead vocals for New Sweat.

own instruments.

“We just kind of make up our parts and fill them in along the way,” Kline said.

New Sweat says that in the future they would love for more people to hear their music, but they are content with continuing to perform just to enjoy each other’s company.

“It’s sort of a band of brothers,” Garrett Cummings said.

“It’s one of those things where

you would enjoy it if you were doing it anyway, but you enjoy it especially because you’re with your best friends and family. ... The three of us grew up together.”

“Because we’re like brothers, we can be honest and be like ‘hey man, that sounds like s***, stop doing that,’” Kline said. “There are no hurt feelings because you can’t break bonds like that.”

Even McCullough, who joined the band recently, agreed with the sentiment.

“You see a lot of bands where the chemistry doesn’t work because everybody’s egos are playing, but for me to come in, mediocre at my instrument, and learn on the job, these guys made it fun,” McCullough said. “There was never any pressure.”

New Sweat plans to write more songs together and put out another album eventually. Until then, the band can be seen performing live at local venues in the Raleigh area.

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ComedyWorx brings the laughs to Raleigh Young Lee Associate Features Editor

The Triangle has developed a comedy arts scene recognized by the comedic community on a national scale.

And one the nation’s premier improv comedy clubs sits, tucked away, just down the street from N.C. State.

Improv comedy, made famous by shows such as Whose Line is it Anyway?, involves comedians who perform games and skits using input from the audience members.

As a kind of impromptu, interactive form of Mad Libs, improv has continued to grow in popularity and sophistication, with hundreds of schools in the country teaching the craft.

Twenty-three years ago, when there were only a handful of comedy clubs specializing in this brand of comedy, Richard Gardner helped open ComedyWorx, where he still works as the executive producer of the comedy shows.

“We were the first improv place in Raleigh,” Gardner said. “It was just a place where you could get comedy at a reasonable price and do something different because, at the time, there was nothing quite like this around.”

Gardner said that when he first started out, his friends saw starting ComedyWorx as a risk.

“When I told my friends what we wanted to do, that there was going to be two teams and a referee and they

would tell jokes, they all thought I was crazy,” Gardner said. “Still, we’ve been doing the same show for 24 years, and rarely is it not absolutely hilarious.”

Mark Curry, a sophomore in science education, said ComedyWorx’s shows made for an enjoyable evening.

“It was a great experience,” Curry said. “It was a lot of fun and it really helped take the stress away for a few hours.”

ComedyWorx has inf luenced campus culture beyond offering students another way to relax on the weekend.

A few years ago, members of ComedyWorx helped the Comedic Improv Association create a student organization at N.C. State.

According to past member Kevin Bragg, an alum with a degree in psychology, improv comedy helps fine-arts performers as well.

“Improv is life,” Bragg said.

“You don’t have a script when you’re talking in everyday life. We’re making it up as we go along. I used to have a touch of social anxiety and I think improv has helped me so much with that, with just talking with people and not worrying about what I’m saying.”

Improv, by its nature, cannot be performed by a single performer as other forms of comedy such as stand-up can.

Improv relies on community and communication, both among performers as well as the audience.

According to ComedyWorx

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At Comedy Worx, a competitive improv comedy game show on Feb 1, 2013, comedian Bailey Pate plays Challenge, a game where the person who is “it” speaks on an audience-supplied topic and other players yell, “Challenge!” when they think the “it” person has said something false. Jason Matthews challenges Pate.

performer Lora Hawley, an alum with a graduate degree in toxicology, the improv community in Raleigh remains close.

“I’m a scientist. I work a lot with very rigid, analytical scientists and it’s very serious and specific and scientific at my job,” Hawley said. “So [improv] is just an outlet for fun and craziness with amazing and talented people.”

Hawley, similar to many other improv comedians, first came into contact with the idea of improv through the-

ater. Having done theater in high school and college, she looked for ways to continue stage art after graduation.

She came to ComedyWorx one-and-a-half years ago to take a few introductory improv classes that ComedyWorx offers to aspiring comedians, stage performers and other interested parties.

Hawley has been performing ever since.

According to Ronnie Ansley, a trial attorney who graduated in 1984 with a degree in agricultural education,

improv can enhance business performance as it builds confidence, which is one of the reasons why he finds performing at ComedyWorx beneficial.

“I’m a trial attorney and I do a lot of criminal work,” Ansley said. “I have to think a lot on my feet in court because you don’t know what’s going to happen in there. It’s the same on stage. One helps me train for the other.”

Still, many Raleigh citizens don’t know about the comedy scene in the Triangle. Ansley

said that this may be due to the rapid growth of cities in the Triangle, with many still trying to figure out what defines the area.

“I think it’s one of the hidden treasures in the Triangle,” Ansley said. “We have a very talented and dedicated group of people that are involved in improv, and most people don’t even know it’s in Raleigh. This is one of the happening places in comedy here.”

An album with little charge Will Brooks Deputy News Editor

Beta Love Ra Ra Riot Barsuk

 It is unlike any band—or artist, or record label or any human being for that matter —to accept their first major release as the beginning of a fiery journey off of a tall cliff.

In attempt to avoid such a cliff, Ra Ra Riot has reinvented itself with its third full-length release, Beta Love.

The result is a collection of rushed electronic pop beneath overpowering vocals that haven’t altered since the band’s orchestral debut, The Rhumb Line.

Beta Love is almost completely devoid of the cello compositions that defined the band from its inception in 2006. Instead, there are heavy electronics that simply feel out of place.

The band walks a dangerous line between cheesy and ironic. At times, songs are accompanied by silly computerized whistles and bops; at others, tracks incorporate an 8-bit-style synthesizer which does not agree with vocalist Wes Miles’ clean, professional singing.

Miles’ technically brilliant voice, which sounded so appropriate over an orchestra, instead feels forced over the thin, inconsistent layer of 808 bass and bright synthesizers.

In addition, the scant cello pieces in the album seem as if they were probably incorporated to avoid excluding any original band members.

When cello does occasionally pop in and out, it serves as an accent rather than a lead and only further contributes

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to the band’s identity crisis.

In brief sections when his vocals are auto-tuned, the package feels complete, resembling Miles’ experimental electronic side project with Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, Discovery. The incorporation of various electronics is fruitless without matching vocals, leaving the band without any signature sound.

The band’s lack of commitment to a single sound or concept is its true downfall.

There’s the sense that the album consists of five people just playing instruments rather than one solid group.

Lyrically, the album is equally confusing, using computer terminology like “beta” and “binary” in attempt to match a lost theme of computers and robots. It comes across as unserious, and to be honest, the words just feel empty.

When listening, I began to question what message the album was trying to get across, the most prominent having something to do with computers taking over the world.

It is the reason I was thrown

to hear lyrics such as, “Come and dance with me, pretty sweet fool, I want to be your toy,” that appear in the album’s opening song, “Dance With Me.” Although Beta Love lacks a clear formation, “For Once,” and “Dance With Me,” stand well alone, and contain quality construction and make sense without consideration of the entire album. In fact, many of the songs make more sense individually, which makes the entire album an enjoyable, easy listen, but any thematic through- line is ambiguous across the album.

Beta Love is Ra Ra Riot’s attempt to reestablish itself.

Though the band made a concerted effort to do that, it failed for lack of following through with whatever it attempted to establish. The group’s intentions were poorly executed and lacked direction. The questionably-titled Beta Love fails to answer — or tell — anything.

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UNC System implements five-year plan Brittany Bynum Staff Writer

The UNC System and Board of Governors approved a $910 million plan to increase the graduation rate of college students, develop more efficiency in schools and fund new research.

The five-year plan is designed to increase the percentage of adults with fouryear degrees in North Carolina from 29 percent to 32 percent. The UNC System hopes to achieve this goal by increasing community college transfers and recruiting more student veterans, active military and those with unfinished bachelor’s degrees, according to the News and Observer.

The UNC System and Board of Governors will be

guided by two committees: The new initiative is also an Advisory Committee on meant to respond to the hard Strategic Directions, con- hits of state needs and ecosisting of business, educa- nomic challenges in the Unittion and government leaders ed States, including strained from across the state, as well budgets, demands for acas selected countability, Board memchanges in bers, UNC the student Chancellors population and faculty and technolleadership. ogy.

Among The UNC them is System wants UNC Presito show their de nt Tom commitment Ross. to Nor t h UNC System President, Tom Ross “The plan Carolina by is not meant turning the to stress areas in which the effect of economic weakness University System already ex- into progress by initiating the cels, but to think differently five-year plan. The UNC Sysabout how education is deliv- tem emphasizes that new arered and what emerging areas rangements need to be made are ripe for development,” in order to better students Ross said. and the state as a whole.

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Though the new direction of the UNC System may seem appealing to some, some University professors are critical of the changes. The UNC System’s strategy may intervene with the faculty’s role to make decisions about curriculum and assessment of learning. Fourteen facultygoverning bodies from across the state have brought up their concerns with resolutions in recent days.

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The new strategy brings change, as well as a cost. It calls for an additional $267 million in annual spending by the fifth year or $200 million after campus savings are taken into account. The system received $2.5 billion from the state in the last fiscal year.

According to Fred Eshelman, UNC System board member who led the data analysis, 39 percent of the total cost will be offset by efficiencies and cost avoidance by the changes in the plan.

By producing more graduates, the return on investment will be an estimated

$100 million per year, and $3 billion in lifetime earnings of the additional graduates.

Funding for research could result in an added 33,000 related jobs for North Carolina by 2028.

UNC leaders clearly stated the strategic plan is a “living document” that will be revised and tweaked. If the legislature does not fund the initiatives, then the goals would have to be revised.

“The strategies in this plan will help North Carolina become more competitive both nationally and internationally by positioning our state to win the war for top talent,” Ross said.

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Softball may surprise this season Women’s golf places sixth at Lady Puerto Rico Classic The N.C. State women’s golf team finished sixth at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic with three-day, 38 over-par 902 total. The Pack posted an 11-over 299 in Tuesday’s final round.

The tournament was held at the par-72, 6,191-yard River Course at the Rio Mar Country Club.

N.C. State returns to action Feb. 25-26, at the Sir Pizza Tournament at Shula’s Golf Course in Miami Lakes, Fla. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Woodford earns EAGL Rookie of the Week award Freshman gymnast Michaela Woodford has been named the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) Rookie of the Week, the conference office announced Wednesday.

The Gainesville, Fla., native excelled in the quad meet at Maryland, recording a 9.7 or better in three events. Woodford finished fourth on beam with a 9.7 and fourth in the all-around with a 38.850.

She notched her highest score of the evening on floor with a 9.775, tallied a 9.725 on vault and a 9.650 on bars.

Woodford has competed as an allarounder in every meet this season for the Wolfpack, joining juniors Diahanna Ham and Stephanie Ouellette. She achieved her highest all-around score in the first meeting against Maryland at home Jan. 11.

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There may be something special and unexpected brewing this season within N.C. State Athletics.

This past weekend in Miami, the Wolfpack softball team won the Florida International University Panther Invitational.

State had a little of everything in South Florida. There was great pitching, timely hitting and even an abundance of runs scored while playing the hosts.

The Pack finished 4-1 over the weekend and gained some sweet revenge when it defeated Kansas, the one team that had bested it, in the championship game.

Whenever there is a coaching change following losing campaigns, expectations are typically negligible.

A deeper look within the softball team shows that this year’s squad is loaded with upperclassmen. In Miami, two-thirds of the members of the team that received playing time were upperclassmen.

That veteran presence was augmented by sophomore shortstop Renada Davis, last season’s Freshman of the Year, and freshman first basemen Hanna Sommer, who batted .400 with two home runs over the weekend.

Another sophomore, Emily Weiman, was the Pack’s winning pitcher in all four of its victories in Miami.

Some of the quotes coming from the members of the team in the buildup to this season have been encouraging. The stated desire of many to reach the NCAA Tournament this year belies the common perception that N.C. State is in a rebuilding mode. The addressing of new head coach Shawn �Rychcik by members of the team as “Coach Ry” shows an acceptance of its new leader and a collective willingness to do what it takes to change its fortunes.

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Sitting in the dugout, the Wolfpack softball team cheer on their batters on the field. N.C. State won 4-2 against Toledo Sunday, February 26, 2012 in their final game of the Wolfpack Classic.

Rychcik, for his part, has been supportive and excited. His most common complement given to his team relates to how impressed he is with the off-season work of the squad.

If there is a recent situation within N.C. State athletics to give the softball team’s potential some context, it would have to be last season’s men’s basketball team.

When Mark Gottfried was hired, there had been years of sustained mediocrity for Pack basketball.

Gottfried’s personable demeanor combined with a rotation that consisted of two seniors and three juniors, along with two sophomores who led the squad in scoring and assists.

The team showed a willingness to learn and also worked hard in the off-season. There were ups and downs: N.C. State won only roughly two-thirds of its games last season, but the Pack managed to defy expectations and had a wonderful season.

Like the men’s basketball team, some pragmatism is in order for Rychcik’s squad. The softball team

USF TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE: 02/15/13 vs. Tennessee at USF

Tampa, Fla. Tampa, Fla.

11:30 A.M. ET 4:15 P.M. ET

02/16/13 vs. Coastal Carolina Tampa, Fla.

11:00 AM ET

Semifinals Tampa, Fla. 02/17/13 Finals Tampa, Fla.

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STATISTICAL LEADERS: Batting average

Chelsea Tate - .500 Hanna Sommer- .400 Kristy Grant - .357

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Caitlin Dent - 5 Kristy Grant - 5 Chelsea Tate - 5

RBI Bethany Wells- 4 Chelsea Tate- 3 Hanna Sommer-2 SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

is likely to have its ebbs and flows in 2013, but the potential to exceed pre-season prognostications is real.

State returns to action this weekend when the Pack continues its sojourn in Florida at the University of South Florida Tournament in Tampa.

State has a schedule that appropriately mixes manageable games with contests against bigger name schools. The games the Pack faces in the buildup to conference play should be enough to excite mem-

bers of the team but not so much that State would feel intimidated.

The stated goal of N.C. State softball is to compete for league and national honors. The Pack may have the ability to reach that stage sooner than the experts realize.

COMMENTARY

Rodon looks to continue dominant start

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.C. State baseball opponents will be up against one of the most terrifying and utterly intimidating pitchers in the game on Fridays this season.

They know the game is coming and they have it marked on their schedules as C-Day. Just the name of sophomore pitcher Carlos Rodon is enough to make Nolan Evans opponents shudDeputy Sports der, and for good Editor reason.

A pair of writers from Baseball America selected Rodon as the preseason 2013 pitcher of the year Tuesday afternoon.

Clearly, the Wolfpack’s ace has gained an immense amount of respect from Baseball America, as the publication also named him to its preseason All-American first team, along with fellow sophomore teammate, shortstop Trea Turner.

Undoubtedly, he played factor in the team’s predicted success by Baseball America, which has the team ranked No. 8 in the nation in its preseason poll, higher than any other major college baseball poll.

Who is to blame the writers?

The 6-foot-3-inch southpaw is a machine. Weighing in at 234 pounds, Rodon has put on a significant amount of bulk since leaving Holly Springs High School, allowing him to remain consistent in late

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Pitching a fastball, freshman pitcher Carlos Rodon throws the ball down the center for a strike. Rodon pitched through the 5th inning in the Wolfpack’s 10-0 win against UNCW Tuesday, February 21, 2012.

game situations.

His fastball has the ability to reach upwards of 100 miles per hour, and he has a mean low-90s cutter that keeps hitters wary. He has also worked on commanding his changeup during the offseason and anticipates adding it to his arsenal, making him all the more dangerous.

His arm spits fire and his freshman statistics and accolades back it up.

Rodon led the ACC in earned

run average (1.57), innings pitched (114.2), complete games (2) and opponents batting average (.176).

He also finished second in strikeouts with 135, just one behind former Duke standout Marcus Stroman who was taken 22nd overall by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2012 MLB Draft.

Additionally, he was fourth in ERA and tied for third in strikeouts nationally.

These numbers earned him hon-

ors such as ACC Freshman of the Year, ACC Pitcher of the year (the first freshman presented with the award), Louisville Slugger’s National Freshman Pitcher of the Year and consensus first team All-America credits.

He was even named as one of three finalists for the Golden Spikes Award, which is presented to college baseball’s national player of the year.

The bottom line is that Rodon is a natural born winner. From the mo-

ment he stepped foot on the mound for N.C. State, he made every person aware of that fact as he fanned the first three batters of his collegiate career.

But Rodon’s monster of an arm itself is not the most important feature of the lefty. Instead, his ability to win games can be attributed to the monster within.

Rodon is a competitor. When he crosses the boundary from the dugout to the field, the game becomes a job.

That competitiveness gives him the strength and momentum to carry the Wolfpack into late game situations and remain constant through 8 or 9 innings. Ninety-eight miles per hour for 90 pitches — over and over and over.

That spirit was seen last season against State’s archrivals, Duke and North Carolina, as he went the distance and fanned 12 batters in both games.

Make no mistake, Rodon was born to throw a baseball, but opponents need not blame his arm but his drive deep within.

When C-Day arrives for opponents, Rodon — the machine, the monster, the man — will pitch to compete and pitch to win.