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Car robbed at Pullen Park Two men were robbed of their car at Monday at 10:05 p.m. by two black males at gunpoint, according to Campus Police. The Raleigh Police are currently investigating the robbery.

In an email, Campus Police said the suspects were wearing dark hoodies and were approximately five feet six inches and five feet nine inches tall.

The stolen car is a four-door, 2005 Toyota Camry with a North Carolina license plate ZZR-7004. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Raleigh Police Department.

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Students seek justice on campus Mark Herring Editor-in-Chief

After UNC-Chapel Hill sophomore and alleged rape victim Landen Gambill made news in December when the UNC-CH Honor Court exonerated the student she accused of assaulting her, some N.C. State students found it surprising that a student disciplinary committee dealt with such a serious allegation.

Could the same thing happen at N.C. State?

Yes, said Paul Cousins, direc-

tor of the Office of Student Conduct.

Going through the Student Conduct office for a rape case, a crime punishable by the death penalty for most of the United States’ history, is not only possible, but preferred by some victims, Cousins said.

“A criminal process is public, and our process has protections that aren’t offered in the criminal process,” Cousins said. “They say that the legal process is so hard and time consuming that it’s getting victimized a second time. Getting cross-examined by someone’s defense attorney in a rape case can be

a daunting task. There is no representation, nor are there attorneys speaking for people, so it is a less adversarial conversation to have in Student Conduct.”

The Gambill case, which flared in February after the UNC-CH Honor Court claimed that alleged victim was creating an “intimidating environment” for the acquitted defendant, received attention from the national media after she publically urged the Honor Court to drop her charges. The threat of expulsion motivated Gambill, and 300 other students, to protest what she calls a

“gross injustice.”

Though Gambill could have pressed charges in the criminal justice system, Cousins said many students he has worked with opt to work out settlements through student conduct organizations.

“I cannot comment on behalf of Gambill as to why she took her course of action in the UNC-CH Honor Court, and I stress that neither the UNC-CH Honor Court or N.C. State’s Student Conduct office are trying to replicate the crimi-

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The housing selection process reopened Monday morning and will remain open until Friday March 15 at 5 p.m. This process allows current onand off-campus students to apply for housing during the 2013-2014 academic year. Off-campus students registering for housing will be assigned after new students. The housing application can be found on MyPack Portal.

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The Route 2 Hillsborough Shuttle will not serve Cameron Village until further notice. The detour is due to a road closure on Oberlin road.

Bell Tower tours are back Tom Stafford, former vice chancellor for student affairs, will hold his first Bell Tower tour since returning from New York Wednesday. The tour will be for members of the History Club, but the tour will be open for everyone.

Any students who are interesting in participating in the tour should meet in front of Holladay Hall at 4 p.m.

Disaster Drill The University will hold a full-scale disaster drill on Wednesday March 13 from 8 to 11 p.m. The drill will simulate a severe weather situation and occur near the residence halls of central campus. Any students, regardless of where they live, must participate in the drill if they are on this part of campus during the drill

Ravi Chittilla HUB Raleigh hosted the first Triangle Startup Weekend Education challenge this weekend.

Startup Weekends are global events that bring together a diverse group of entrepreneurs hoping to make an impact using member’s skills and knowledgebase.

Startup Weekends have spread globally and are led by the Kauffman Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in Kansas City. Similar events were held in multiple locations across the United States, as well as in Canada, Spain and Israel this weekend. More have been held internationally.

A key mission of the Kauffman Foundation is “fostering economic independence by ad-

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Entrepreneurs discuss strategies to improves education at HUB Raleigh last Saturday.

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In Pack Poll, student body divided THE PACK POLL REVEALS STUDENTS ARE DIVIDED POLITICALLY, BUT MAINLY LIBERAL ON SOCIAL ISSUES Will E. Brooks Deputy News Editor

The latest edition of The University’s Pack Poll revealed 10 percent of polled students don’t know Roe v. Wade is a Supreme Court case dealing with abortion, and students are skewed liberally toward social issues.

Many polled students identify with the Republican Party, while the majority label themselves prochoice and support providing a path to legal citizenship. This is a trend that has persisted since the poll’s inception three years ago, according to

Michael Cobb, professor of political science and director of the Pack Poll.

Cobb said more students tend to identify with conservative ideology, while most social issues — excluding gun control — have been decidedly liberal during the past three years.

The poll showed 33 percent of polled students identify with the Republican Party, 30 percent identify as independent and 28 percent democratic. Cobb said as a tech-based school in the South, such a divide is not unusual.

Cobb works with a group of five chosen students during each school year to aid his study, including

Joanne Wu, junior in political science, who said the political opinion is not surprising of college students.

“I think it is just the young demographic of being a college student.

You want to have your social freedom,” Joanne Wu, junior in political science, said.

The poll had a 24 percent response rate, with around 1000 random student responses reflecting the results of the polls. Cobb said the polls are an accurate representation of the student body, with 53 percent of student responders being male,

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8:02 P.M. | SKATE VIOLATION Language Labs Officers made contact with several subjects skateboarding in the area. Subjects were advised of university policy. No damage was found and subjects complied to leave the area.

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3:45 A.M. | SHOTS FIRED Off Campus Officers responded to report of possible gun shot. Officers checked the area but did not locate anyone in distress. RPD notified.

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vancing education and entrepreneurship.”

About 120 people from different career and education backgrounds gathered Friday night at HUB Raleigh, all with their own creative, education-based pitches. As pitches were voted on, 13 teams were formed with a mission to develop a plan to change the face of education.

Participants included students, engineers, programmers, administrators, professors, designers and teachers, including many Teach For America members.

Mital Patel, director for the event, is an attorney in Raleigh who provides legal services to small, tech startups as well as small- and medium-sized businesses. Before attending law school, Patel developed his enthusiasm for technology by studying computer science at N.C. State.

Patel said the lack of mobility that education has experienced over the last 100 years was a key motivation behind the conference. He said the key to the success of the weekend was bringing

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together people with different skill-sets who might not normally come together to work on a project.

“We were able to get together educators and entrepreneurs in the same room, which doesn’t happen very often,” Patel said.

Teams were formed based on pitches that were voted on Friday. The teams went to work Saturday and spent all day — and much of the night — putting their plans into action.

Sagar Shukla, a sophomore attending UNC-Chapel Hill, said finding himself immersed in an entrepreneurial environment was an inspirational experience he will not forget.

While Shukla chose not to pitch an original plan, he found himself thrown into a mix of people willing to “shake things up.”

Shulka formed a team with other educators and programmers to form an educational medium called “Path 2 Code,” which took 2nd place honors at the judging round and tied for 1st place in the “people’s choice” category.

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in multiple ways. By teaching high school kids who might not otherwise have access to learning tools how to code and program, “Path 2 Code” establishes a mutual relationship between employer and employee.

The winning prize went to a team who established a program called “Coursefork.” The idea behind Coursefork is a curriculum that computer scientists can use to teach, share and improve others’ lessons, much like an online “wiki” in which information is open to edits and improvements but monitored by overseers.

Top prize honors include legal advising services provided by Mital’s marketing firm and a working space at HUB-Raleigh, totaling approximately $10,000.

Triangle Startup Weekend will move to Durham in April and Chapel Hill soon after. While the targeted topics of both events have yet to be finalized, Patel said a key factor in the success of Startup Weekends in the future will be students.

Patel said that students are the future workforce, and because of the worldclass universities that make up the Research Triangle Park, the talent pool may be limitless.

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nal process in miniature,” Cousins said. “The difference here is that a criminal process is public, and our process has protections that aren’t offered in the criminal process.”

Despite the difference between the student-conduct and criminal-justice systems, Cousins said his office offers students the option to pursue cases in the legal system in tandem with his office’s investigations. In this case, reporting to the legal system means reporting to county authorities.

“We don’t force anyone to use any process,” said Turi Watson, associate director of the N.C. State Office of Student Conduct. “We offer them their options, and we explain what the dynamics are like, what the experience is like, but we never say, ‘You have to use it.’”

A Department of Education 2009 mandate has influenced campus conduct policies across the nation.

The Dear Colleague Letter, a memorandum from the department’s Office of Civil Rights, stipulates that even if an assaulter abuses a student, but the victim

doesn’t want to come forth, it is still the institution’s duty to try to correct the possible misbehavior.

“It’s our responsibility to correct anything going on in the community, which could be environmentally, structurally or culturally instrumental in the problem … but the federal government expects us to do everything within our control to have a safe community,” Cousins said.

C a mpu s pol ic ie s a nd student-conduct councils’ procedures for conducting hearings vary from university to university, and UNC-CH upholds its decisions to a high standard of proof.

“Based on clarification of the Title IX law, which is the federal law, the standard of proof is more likely than not — or preponderance of the evidence,” Cousins said.

“In simple terms: 51 percent.

In all other regards, Chapel Hill has used the criminal standard: beyond reasonable doubt.”

The Dear Colleague Letter primarily addresses sexual assault and harassment of students and standardizes a recommended response — elaborated in Title IX — to preserve the right for students to “receive and education free from discrimination.”

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7:22 P.M. | LARCENY Noth Hall Student reported bicycle stolen.

March 11 12:47 A.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST - ALCOHOL Carroll Hall Units responded and transported student with possible alcohol poisoning.

Student referred to the university.

3:19 P.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Off Campus RPD charged student with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of concealed firearm. NCSU PD referred student to the university for same.

Justice reported that one of five women falls victims to sexual assault while in college, according to the Dear Colleague Letter. Between 2007 and 2010, N.C. State reported eight cases of rape on campus.

Cousins said that while his office seeks to give everyone equal treatment, Student Conduct doesn’t have the luxury of being an advocacy group for victims.

“We’re looking at the alleged victim, the rights of the respondent, and we are looking at the rights for the community,” Cousins said.

“It’s places like the Counseling Center and the Women’s Center that can play that role of advocacy.”

The Women’s Center offers many interpersonal violence resources, including a 24-hour anonymous and confidential sexual violence hotline, at 919-618-RAPE (7273). The Counseling Center has a 24-hour “Counselors on Call” program every day of the year, which can be reached at 919-515-2423.

“We want to be a resource that students can trust, and I’m not sure who’s willing to play these things out publically,” Cousins said. “We’re happy to help whoever we can.”

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The State of NCSU

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THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS ARE PROVIDED BY THE N.C. STATE PACK POLL, A PROJECT OUT OF THE POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT. PROFESSOR MICHAEL COBB HEADS THE STUDY, WHICHSURVEYS STUDENTS EACH SEMESTER. THE STUDY MAINLY POLLS STUDENTS, AND FACULTY MEMBERS ARE SOMETIMES INCLUDED IN STATISTICS.

Breakdown of pack poll respondents based on college College of Engineering - 287 (31%) College of Humanities and Social Sciences 172 (19%) College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 170 (18%) Poole College of Management - 101 (11%)

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and slightly more upperclassmen responding to the email survey.

“We think we have done a very good job of accurately representing the student body,” Cobb said, “[The response was] pretty dang good, all things considered.”

Wu said the students working with Cobb collaborated to decide a few of the questions, one of which showed how much polled students knew about federal law on abortion.

When asked to name the subject matter of the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, 9 percent of students said it dealt with school desegregation, 1 percent responded with the death penalty and 89 percent responded with the correct answer.

Cobb said he thought the number of students who were familiar with Roe v. Wade was high, and that many of his own political science students have trouble listing political information like court cases and officeholders.

“People tend not to know the answers to political information, even if they’re majors in politics. So I was surprised

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that that many knew,” Cobb said.

Wu said she was surprised at the number of students not familiar with the court decision from 1973 that set precedent for abortion, but it was nice to see most students knew.

The poll also showed the majority of polled students in favor of principals being armed but not in favor of teachers being armed. All of the results can be found on packpoll.com, Cobb said.

The poll is specifically made for students to gain insight on their own habits.

“The whole project is designed to help students be better consumers,” Cobb said, “I want students to know what other students think.”

The poll also gives students working as pollsters an opportunity to gain experience. Cobb said the Pack Poll group recently travelled to Washington D.C., where they were introduced to national pollsters.

“As a political science student, you hear this word [polling] thrown around, but to actually be the person surveying is a new experience,” Cobb said. “It’s basically an in-depth look at public opinion.”

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Let the sun shine on our government

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his week is Sunshine Week — an annual event that celebrates open communication, freedom of information and public governmental affairs. It commemorates the public’s right to know what the government is doing and why.

The term “sunshine state” refers to a government that is highly communicative with its citizens, with transparent policy. The term got its name from the 1976 Sunshine Act — one of the many Freedom of Information Acts — which provides, with ten specified exemptions, that “every portion of every meeting of an agency shall be open to public observation.” Florida was the first state to adopt these principles — thus the perky nomenclature.

In accordance with Sunshine Week, N.C. State Student Media co-sponsored Sunshine Day 2013 with the North Carolina Open Government Coalition. Yesterday, the McKimmon Center was host to a variety of panelists ranging from Dan Kane, The News & Observer reporter who investigated

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the recent UNC-Chapel Hill academic scandal, to Russell Allen, Raleigh’s City Manager.

One panelist who particularly stuck out to us was Lucy Dalglish, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, who harshly criticized the federal government’s lack of available information after 9/11.

“9/11 transformed how we define transparency on the federal level,” Dalglish said. “I don’t feel [that lack of federal transparency after 9/11] is making the country that much safer.”

Dalglish pointed out that since 2001, the federal government has invoked what’s called “state secrets privilege” more than 30 times. This privilege allows the government to throw out a court case based on national security issues, but it has been used far more than necessary. For example, in 2006, Maher Arar sued the Bush administration for wrongfully kidnapping him, taking him to

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“I’m not too worried with my major I have to take the initiative and get interships which will decide how my career goes after I graduate.”

Yolanda Muñoz freshman, sport management

“I’m in education so we always need new teachers specifically in my field but I would say that I’m worried for my peers in other fields, a four year degree may not be enough.”

Dean Hardy junior, technology engineering and design education

“I wouldn’t call myself worried just optimistic.”

Mary Kate Jagoda sophomore, english literature, international studies

“I’m not worried with internships and gaining experience while I’m in college so I’m pretty confident I’ll find something.”

enezuelan president Hugo Chavez died March 5 after a two-year battle with cancer.

The leader, who ruled from 1999 until his death, “projected himself in religious, nationalistic and radical Megan Ellisor terms as Deputy Viewpoint VenezuEditor ela’s savior, and it largely worked,” according to Daniel Wallis, a columnist for Reuters media.

But others viewed him as a power-hungry dictator, and his socialist reforms certainly did not earn support from the United States.

After hearing the news, Rep. Ed Royce, R-California, said, “Hugo Chavez was a tyrant who forced the people of Venezuela to live in fear. His death dents the alliance of anti-U.S. leftist leaders in South America.

Good riddance to this dictator.”

Venezuela, which shipped 49 million barrels of oil monthly to the U.S. in 1999, only shipped 31.9 million barrels in February 2011.

This decline correlates with the increasing disparity between Chavez’s views and those of the U.S. leaders.

In the U.S., we tend to believe that most countries want to be our friends.

Chavez, conversely, wanted no diplomatic relations with the U.S. But we should not vilify him for vilifying the U.S., which has a track record of intervening in Latin American affairs.

Despite criticism and poor relations with the U.S., Chavez’s leadership significantly aided the poor. The percentage of Venezuelans living below the poverty line peaked at 62 percent in 2003 but decreased to 29 percent in 2009, according to The World Bank. Illiteracy also declined from 7 percent in 2001 to 5 percent in 2007 under Chavez’s presidency.

Chavez invested the country’s oil wealth into social programs like “state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education

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Syria and torturing him for information he didn’t have. The court threw the case out, covering up its decision on state secrets, claiming that even mentioning the reason for Arar’s arrest was a national security issue.

We can see why Dalglish said this privilege isn’t necessarily making us safer.

Look to the Cold War Era to see how overused the privilege has become. Between 1953 and 1976, the government only invoked the privilege four times.

Though President Barack Obama declared in his first day of office that “a democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency,” he’s had a hard time with the follow-through. His administration has already invoked the states secret privilege at least seven times.

Contrast this with North Carolina’s communicative behavior. State government auditing agency N.C. Open Government Coalition released a Sunshine app yesterday that

works to “bridge the gap between seekers and holders of public government records.”

Earlier this month, a group of lawmakers proposed a bill that would make it a crime to be secretive about the public’s business.

The federal government has most often claimed to be protecting CIA interests when enacting the state secrets privilege, and we acknowledge that North Carolina doesn’t have to keep the same type of secrets. But when the government uses this privilege more than 30 times in the past 11 years, they need to calm down, and eat their words. The White House stated: “[The Obama] administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.”

Instead of lending Obama our ears, all we can do is roll our eyes.

As journalists, we agree that there is a need for open public information, and Dalglish summed up the idea perfectly: “The media and other watchdogs want the information for the best of reasons.” And so should our elected officials.

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programs” according to The Associated Press. But A.P. called these contributions “meager compared with the spectacular construction projects that oil riches spurred in glittering Middle Eastern cities, including the world’s tallest building in Dubai and plans for branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi.”

This statement dismisses Chavez’s social accomplishments entirely. A country’s buildings are not representative of its success or the success of its leaders.

Surely Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi are largely regarded as two of the greatest leaders of all time for their social work.

The fact that A.P. suggested that the opulence of a city’s edifices shows greater success than the condition of its citizens signals a problem in our system of values. Graham Hill, writer for The New York Times, found that “[Americans] take up more than three times the amount of space per capita than we did 60 years ago.”

The average size of a home in the U.S. increased from 983 square feet in 1950 to 2,480 square feet in 2011.

Super-sized drinks and ha mbu rgers fol lowed the obsession with huge homes. The quest for a spot in the Guinness World Records led to the creation of many unnecessary giant pancakes and tall buildings.

Our obsession w it h “bigger” should not outweigh the importance of programs that advocate for the betterment of the lives of citizens. From the American perspective, Hugo Chavez may not fall among the ranks of Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi, but his leadership should not be seen as faulty because he spent the country’s money on people rather than construction. Likewise, we should not discredit his social endeavors and achievements because he was not the biggest cheerleader for the U.S.

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Internet will never replace universities

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here’s a lot of talk circulating about the modern American university “going out of business” due to the abundance of Zach Milburn f ree i nformation Guest Columnist on the Internet and sky-high tuition rates. This is a legitimate concern. The estimated cost of attending N.C. State for the 2013–14 year is an astounding $22,184 for North Carolina residents and $35,639 for those out of state.

Higher education is valuable and absolutely necessary, but are we really getting our money’s worth?

Most of the information I have truly retained didn’t come from required courses.

Why is it that employers no longer look for a college degree alone on our resumes? What employers want to see today are internships, involvement in organizations and extracurricular activities outside of the classroom.

Don’t get me wrong — we ignorant college students need the guidance that comes with our hefty tuition fees. We need to know what information is trustable and what information isn’t. We need deadlines and enforcement from authority to get things done. If we were simply given a computer with Internet connection and were told to obtain a college education in four years, many of us wouldn’t last a month (or would we?).

But there are some alternatives. Some of the top private American universities

— including Harvard, Yale and Stanford — just began releasing Massive Open Online Courses, or “MOOCS,” for free. Stanford recently released a course worldwide, and a mind-boggling 190,000 people enrolled in it.

So why do we need universities anymore? If the world’s top-notch professors are offering their courses online for free, why pay thousands of dollars to sit in a room of 400 students to have an almost equal experience as the online students? The answer lies within the “almost” part of “almost equal.”

It all comes down to the real purpose of attending college: the experience. This is the reason why many of us go $80K into debt to attend the modern university — not to take Psychology 101 or to understand debits and credits. We have YouTube for that. There is an important human element that cannot be replaced by the Internet alone. We are designed to operate and learn amongst our fellow species, through hands-on experiences — not in our bedrooms, drooling over our laptops.

Why are we paying faculty to lecture when those same lectures are being shared online for free from some of the world’s most experienced lecturers?

I will not criticize without offering some sort of a solution. Let’s go back to the Stanford example: 190,000 people enrolled in the course — perhaps we can work with that. Let’s put a $5 price on that course. A five-course semester now costs only $25.

Now let’s say that half of the people don’t enroll because

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of the price. That still leaves 95,000 students. At $5 and 95,000 students, Stanford just made $475,000 on a single course.

Now let’s say we, N.C. State, start doing the same thing.

Would that allow us to solve our intense cost problem?

Would we make education achievable, once and for all, throughout America’s disadvantaged socio-economic classes? Why are we still telling people they need to go to college to be “successful,” when frankly, they don’t?

In addition to solving cost problems, we could still use the classroom and building resources that we already have to allow N.C. State students to attend these courses in the same room — together.

Might that solve the onlineuniversit y’s communit y problem?

What if we still have our grad students, or other learned volunteers, function as “T.A.s” for these courses?

We could then solve the unanswered questions and student-professor disparity problem.

In conclusion, we could eventually solve our “broken” higher-education problem, our debt problem and the ethical problem of charging students thousands of dollars to sustain an institution that is arguably no longer worth what it claims to be worth.

The university will never go out of business. We need it, and we always will. It cannot and will not be replaced by the unprecedented availability of knowledge that the Internet offers. On the other hand, teachers can be replaced, and to a certain extent, they will be.

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Estate Boutique sees success downtown Shaw University, he knew there was a market for quality skatewear and Will E. Brooks streetwear.

Deputy News Editor “I said, ‘Instead of me going to try do a store in New York or L.A. or Miami Greatness takes careful planning and time. Taurean Lewis, owner and where [skatewear and streetwear] is manager of Estate Boutique in down- already saturated, bring it to an area town Raleigh, said this idea is some- where I know guys like myself here are thing he has lived by. And it seems to looking for the brands,’” Lewis said.

Three years later, Lewis said he be working.

Since last October, when Lewis scanned over his crowded boutique moved his “streetwear” boutique from in downtown Raleigh during a free Chapel Hill to Raleigh after a year of show with rapper Drique London on business, he has seen an increasing Feb. 9 and asked himself, “Should we amount of foot traffic, and expects to have charged?”

The ongoing concert series titled expand his business.

“The store is always a work in prog- “Estate Live” has drawn crowds to the ress,” Lewis said. “I have to pace my- store. It is one of several ways Lewis plans on making Estate a household self.”

Lewis has yet to put a sign up, but name in years to come.

“I want to get into skateboard decks, said that finding customers for his store in the 300 West Hargett block denim, t-shirts and hoodies and really brand the store and represent Raleigh,” hasn’t been a problem.

Lewis said.

Lewis said excluAfter posting a picsivity is an important ture of a t-shirt design part of Estate’s image on Instagram, Lewis and that social media said he immediately and word of mouth — received inquiries on not signs or advertisehow to buy it and rements — have been ceived compliments the business’s primary from people from advertising tools. around the country.

“I don’t ever want “There’s a market to bring stuff that is for it. I don’t want to saturated,” Lewis said.

Taurean Lewis, owner and rush myself — I want With six brands that manager of Estate Boutique to pace myself,” Lewis are in the Triangle, said. including Greed and Lewis said networking has played a Backstabbers, Lewis said he hopes to bring brands exclusive to the Triangle. huge role in getting his business off the Lewis left Shaw University after his ground, and other downtown clothsophomore year and moved to New ing stores like Lumina and the recently York City to work his way up as as- opened High Cotton have worked with sistant to the editor at King Magazine. him.

“I’ve met so many people [in RaLewis said his work in photo shoots with celebrities like Kanye West, Jay-Z leigh] who are talented in everything,” and T.I. is what first threw him into the Lewis said.

Estate has made a mark on West world of fashion.

Lewis then moved to Atlanta, where Hargett Street among a growing rehe said his work with Big Boi’s wife, tail scene in downtown. Lewis said who ran a clothing boutique, gave him he looks forward to seeing expansion within and beyond Raleigh. the idea to run his own store.

“I love it when it is small, but I’m “She kind of taught me the business of owning and running a store,” Lew- excited to see the transformation,” is said. “I realized then that I always Lewis said. wanted my own store.”

The Triangle worked for Lewis, who said that because he had spent time at

“There’s a market for it. I don’t want to rush myself — I want to pace myself.”

Courtesy of Taurean Lewis

Taurean Lewis, owner and manager of Estate Boutique located in the 300 West Harett block in downtown Raleigh, said he has seen his business grow since he moved his store from Chapel Hill last October.

Documentary showcases NC sound communities Jordan Alsaqa

their life and the challenges they’re facing.”

Assciate Features Editor Hutcheson said that this main thread of the film will Following a community that has existed for several be fleshed out with a more inhundred years, the documen- depth look at the history of tary film CORE.SOUNDERS the Core Sound area.

Dealing with a communitakes viewers into the Down East communities of North ty made a straight narrative Carolina’s Core Sound re- harder to accomplish, but gion. A production of the Hutcheson said he feels that the film will North Carodo a good job lina La nrepresenting g uage a nd what t heir Life Project, lives are like. the film was The f i lm directed began as by Neal more of a Hutcheson, Neal Hutcheson, director of side project an alumnus.

CORE.SOUNDERS — the idea The Lanof ma k i ng g uage a nd Life Project’s goal is to pro- a film was not originally on duce work that serves to re- Hutcheson’s mind.

“It sort of started without search and document the cultural and linguistic history much focus,” Hutcheson said. of North Carolina. CORE. “I started just filming things SOUNDERS strives to do the I was interested in without same for the fishing commu- the concept of doing a film. I nities of the state by explor- would say it didn’t really take ing their histories and docu- focus and gain traction for a menting the struggles they couple of years until I got to know the people over a three have faced in recent years.

Hutcheson said that the to four year period.”

After spending enough time narrative line in the film follows a day in the life of a Core in the area, Hutcheson realized there was an opportuSound community. “[The film] follows the nity to show audiences a side course of a day spent fishing,” of the fishing industry that Hutcheson said. “As you go, they may not think about. In some of it is experiential as particular, Hutcheson said you’re exposed to the fishing. the film shows how involved You learn about the quality of in environmental issues the

“[The film] follows the course of a day spent fishing.”

courtesy of neal hutcheson

A scene from the documentary film CORE.SOUNDERS, shows the day-to-day lifestyle of sound communities. The movie was directed by Neal Hutcheson, an alumnus.

fishermen are.

Hutcheson explained that many of the fishermen are recognized and advocated for by conservation groups because of their efforts.

“One of the ideas in the movies that may be novel to some people is that fishermen are stewards of the resources on the coast,” Hutcheson said. “They’re always the first ones to report it if there

are issues. They’re not always portrayed as being as sympathetic to the environment as they really are.”

Hutcheson said he hopes the film will allow audiences to not only understand what life is like in the Core Sound area, but also get a bigger sense of the change taking hold of many similar communities around the state.

Because the community is

changing so quickly, the film has already become a historical document, Hutcheson said.

“I think it’s specifically about that area, but it’s also a community that’s representative of other areas and cultures facing the same challenges,” Hutcheson said.

CORE.SOUNDERS aims to explore the issues and history of the Core Sound area with

a personal, human approach.

The film’s premiere event on March 14 is full, but a second screening is scheduled at 3 p.m. on March 16 in Witherspoon Student Cinema. More information can be found at coresounders.com

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Technician

Financing study abroad: How’s the exchange rate?

1. Universidad de Costa Rica: $6,900 2.Universidad San Francisco de Quito: $7,680

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tudents are frequently encouraged by faculty and advisors to take advantage of study abroad opportunities available through the school. Deciding to go abroad is the easy part. The difficulties begin for many students when facing the question, “How am I going to pay for this?”

Students going abroad often take out large loans to cover their expenses. In some cases those loans are equivalent to an entire year of in-

state tuition at N.C. State.

Applying for financial aid to study abroad can be very confusing. If finances are tight, the most important thing is to apply for as much financial assistance through as many avenues as possible.

There are four primary ways to apply for study abroad funding at N.C. State.

The Study Abroad Office provides an average of $950 per student through their scholarship application process. Applying for multiple

scholarships on the application increases a student’s chances of receiving financial help.

The Study Abroad Office doesn’t award applicants the scholarships until after down payments are due for study abroad programs, and those down payments are nonrefundable. Consequently, if a student needs more than approximately $1000 of assistance, it is vital to apply for additional financial aid.

So what are some of the

Numbers are an estimate from ncsu study abroad

“Having someone here fullother avenues for financial time to work with students is help?

Student fellowships are an something that I think was excellent source of additional very important,” Kershner financial aid. Applications said. “I want to meet with are handled through the students individually to Fellowship Advising Office. make sure that they’re really These prestigious national a good match for a particular fellowships award larger fellowship program ... and try sums of money, and stu- to figure out which opportudents can apply for them to nities would be the best fit for fund many things, including them.”

She organizes mock-instudy abroad.

For the past two years, Tif- terviews with distinguished fany Kershner, a personal N.C. State alumni and adadvisor for students at the ministrators to prepare stuFellowship Advising Office, dents for the national interhas worked to help as many view in the fellowship appliundergraduate and graduate cation process.

“There’s a lot of support students as possible receive from the administration bethese national fellowships.

In the past, N.C. State av- cause they see these opportueraged one or two Benjamin nities as important ones for Gilman Scholarship winners the students, but also for the University p e r c yc le . as a whole,” Last fall, said KershKershner asner. sisted in obThe most taining ten competitive of these felapplication lowships for time is the N.C . State summer. students.

Summer “We’ve fellowships seen a lot can provide more diverTiffany Kershner, a personal up to $3000. sity in the advisor for students at the Fellowship Advising Office Kershner kinds of stumentioned dents applying for these,” Kershner said. that students who are more Fellowships like the Gil- financially pressed could apman have many individual ply for spring fellowships. requirements that students These provide up to $5000 have to meet. Kershner does and are less competitive bepersonal advising to help stu- cause fewer students apply dents know which fellowships for them.

However, these fellowships they are eligible for. She also reviews students’ applications are also awarded after the due with them as much as neces- date for study abroad down payments. Kershner advises sary before the deadline.

“For a lot of these fellowships, it’s not easy, and sometimes impossible, to do it last minute”

students to start the fellowship application process very early so that she can work with them to produce the highest quality application possible.

“For a lot of these fellowships, it’s not easy, and sometimes impossible, to do it at the last minute,” Kershner said. “You want to put together a strong application for the campus committee because you want to be endorsed.”

Outside scholarships are another source of financial aid. These scholarships, as well as the student fellowships, are listed on the study abroad website.

For personal advising about applications and deadlines concerning outside scholarships and questions regarding international experience, one should visit the Study Abroad Office. Advisors will work one-on-one with students to answer questions and guide them through the application processes for all outside scholarships.

A final way for students to receive funding is through the Office of Financial Aid. After students have submitted their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in the spring, the loans that they receive may qualify to be used for study abroad.

When students accept financial aid awards, they should not decline any that they don’t intend to use for tuition in the fall semester — they may be applicable for study abroad later in the year, Kershner said.

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stall the defensive package,” Huxtable said.

Huxtable has experience in the state of North Carolina as well as in the ACC. He served as linebackers and defensive line coach at East Carolina for two years, as well as defensive coordinator at rival North Carolina. He also made a stop at Georgia Tech.

However, his experience in the conference was more than 10 years ago. Huxtable said he is focusing his efforts toward improving his players in the spring before planning for conference opponents.

“Our focus has to be on our players here and what we do, teaching them the things we want to get done as a defense,” Huxtable said. “We’ll start game planning some of those [opponents] this summer.”

One major issue last year, led by defensive coordinator Dana Bible, was the tenden-

COURTESY OF N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Defensive coordinator David Huxtable enters his first season calling the plays for the Wolfpack. Huxtable interits a defense that allowed 25.6 points and 404.7 yards per game. His former team, the Pittsburgh Panthers, was the 16th best defense in the NCAA last season.

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cy of the Pack’s defensive backs to give up big plays.

State has lost three defensive backs to graduation and the NFL. He said he is already working with the current crop of defensive backs to transform the new Wolfpack secondary.

The linebackers will also lose its leader in Sterling Lucas to graduation, making another hole on the defensive end that Huxtable is working toward filling.

He said he plans on getting the young defensive unit to believe in his scheme through repetition in the spring practices.

“We’ll go out there and get these guys as many reps as we can to teach them the proper fundamentals, technique and the scheme of the defense,” Huxtable said.

State will officially hit the field to begin its spring practice schedule March 19 and the 2013 Kay Yow Spring Game will be held April 2

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who was a freshman on the championship team, said.

“You can’t say [any] more than that. I knew the ending, but all of the other stuff in between those stories — some stuff I may have forgotten — just brought it all back.”

“That was like a movie instead of a documentary for me,” Myers said.

Wittenburg also had an emotional reaction to the film, but the location of the premiere in Reynolds Coliseum also brought back the emotions and memories of that time period.

“This is the place where I played,” Wittenburg said.

“The reunion and the reflections going back because [this is] the place that you played. All of the memories come up. This is such an emotional place to be as opposed to having a premiere somewhere.”

The documentary features interviews from members of the team and its noted

opponents, such as Ralph Sampson, Hakeem Olajuwan and Mike Krzyzewski.

Hock said he took an omnipresent approach to including Valvano’s commentary into the film. It features speeches, including the famous speech from the 1993 ESPYS, press conferences and other speaking engagements from his time during and after his coaching career at N.C. State.

“It was just this timeless, any where voice of coach Valvano here,” Hock said.

“It could’ve been anytime here. It was his spirit inhabiting the whole film because we obviously couldn’t interview him.”

“It was better, different than interviewing because it was coming from this place that was above it all,” Hock said.

The film will premiere nationally Mar. 17 on ESPN at 9 p.m.

“For a new generation to experience that, know what happened — and knowing the whole sports world is going to see that — it’s going to be awesome,” Myers said.

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• 2 days until men’s basketball takes on Virginia Tech in the opening round of the ACC Tournament.

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• Page 7: Continued commentary of men’s basketball head coach Mark Gottfried.

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ESPN documentary premieres on campus Huxtable

ready to turn defense around

Four players earned AllACC honors Men’s basketball senior forward Richard Howell was named first team All-ACC. The honor is Howell’s first appearance on the All-ACC team. Junior guard Lorenzo Brown and forward C.J. Leslie were named to the ACC’s second and third teams, respectively. Both received their second All-ACC nod. Freshman forward T.J. Warren was selected to the All-ACC Freshman Team.

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ing the historic run through the postseason.

It also touched on the NCAA’s investigation of the program that led to sanctions and Valvano’s exit from the program.

Despite living through the events the film profiles, members of the team said they were still taken back by the film’s portrayal of that moment in time.

“I lived that and I was on the edge of my seat,” Ernie Myers, who was a freshman on the

The turnover from former football head coach Tom O’Brien to the current leader of the Wolfpack, Dave Doeren, has brought other new faces to the program as well.

As Doeren filled the positions once occupied by the old regime, he took the team’s past performance into consideration. Last season, N.C. State allowed 25.6 points and 404.7 yards per game. Both stats fell in the middle of the pack of the Atlantic Coast Conference — fifth and eighth respectively.

Defense also struggled in defending aerial assaults. State allowed 249.9 passing yards per game, which ranked it ninth in the conference.

Dave Huxtable, the Pack’s new defensive coordinator, is ready to elevate the expectations of a defense that some would have considered mediocre last season. He will bring 31 years of experience on the sidelines, three conference championships, 10 bowl appearances and a 4-3 defensive scheme to Raleigh.

In his previous stint as Pittsburgh’s defensive coordinator, the Panthers were ranked 16th nationally in total defense and 21st in scoring defense.

Huxtable said he will stress getting back to the basics during spring practice.

“We want to be fundamentally sound,” Huxtable said. “We want to be sound in our structure. There’s 11 guys between the white lines that [have] to do their jobs, be where they’re supposed to be.”

“Those are the things that we’re going to stress defensively as we install the defensive package,” Huxtable said.

Huxtable has experience in the

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Men’s golf one shot off mark The Wolfpack is one shot off the lead at the Palmetto Intercollegiate in Aiken, S.C. after two rounds of competition.

It is 11-over 571. South Carolina leads the field at 570. N.C. State shared the first-round lead with Augusta State at 4-over-284.

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Former men’s basketball head coach Sidney Lowe drives against Houston guard, Alvin Franklin, in the 1983 National Title game in Albuquerque, N.M. The Wolfpack won, 54-52, on a last-second dunk by Lorenzo Charles. The film chroncling the title run, Survive and Advance, premiered in Reynolds Coliseum March 11.

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Before N.C. State fans got their first look at the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Survive and Advance in Reynolds Coliseum Monday, director Jonathan Hock said the film was “a love story that you’ll see on screen.”

Following Hock’s comments, nine members of the subject of the film, the 1983 national champion men’s basketball team, joined one of the film’s producers and fellow teammate,

Dereck Wittenburg, on stage.

Wittenburg said he came to Hock with the idea of the film and trusted him to bring the story to life. Wittenburg said he was inspired to make the documentary after watching the popular 30 for 30 film The Fab Five.

The film not only chronicles the familiar story of the team’s improbable run to the 1983 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title and the NCAA national title, but it also parallels the events of that historic season and head coach Jim Valvano’s battle with cancer follow-

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Gottfried not “The Gottfather” yet Jonathan Stout Senior Staff Writer

The Sidney Lowe era at N.C. State, as a whole, was miserable. However, everything changed when head coach Mark Gottfried was named the new man in charge.

In Gottfried’s first year, he led the basketball program to a 20-win season en route to a magical run to the Sweet 16. His first full offseason with the team compiled continued success by landing three McDonalds All-American recruits in freshman guards Rodney Purvis, Tyler Lewis and forward T.J. Warren.

The combination of four returning starters, an excellent finish to the 2011-12 season and the addition of three talented freshmen arose expectations that had not been echoed around N.C. State for years.

Fans latched on, but Gottfried did not.

Before the team’s trip to Spain last summer, Gottfried said that the team had a good finish to the season, but it wasn’t a great year. He also said the team still had to grow to be worthy of all the pre-season accolades it acquired.

He was right: It didn’t deserve a No. 6 preseason ranking, but had Gottfried made different decisions, the team could have achieved much more.

Don’t get me wrong — last second shots and tip-ins happen, such

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Head coach Mark Gottfried watches the action unfold at the far end of the court during the final home game against Wake Forest in PNC Arena Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2013. The Wolfpack defeated the Demon Deacons, 81-66.

as those in the waning moments against Maryland and Miami, but the team shouldn’t have been in those down-to-the-wire situations.

This year’s Wolfpack squad has arguably the most talent of any team in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and more than many in the country.

But you can’t win on talent alone.

Who’s responsible for not harnessing that talent into a juggernaut?

Well, it essentially falls on Gottfried.

Could this team win the ACC Championship this weekend? They have as good of a chance as anyone in the field.

Does the team have what it takes to win a National Championship?

Maybe, but it better pull itself together — and quickly.

With a lineup that includes senior forwards Richard Howell and Scott Wood, junior forward and guard C.J. Leslie and Lorenzo Brown, and the combination of freshmen Purvis and Warren, the team should have ranked no lower than third in the

ACC. State has been one of the most inconsistent teams in the ACC: It came out with a convincing win against top-ranked Duke, followed by a loss to bottom-dwelling Wake Forest.

The Pack crushed Florida State in Raleigh but fell to the Seminoles in Tallahassee in a game that would have clinched a first round bye in the ACC tournament.

In Gottfried’s second season at the helm, the team finished 22-9 and 11-7 in the ACC. Their record is nothing to be ashamed of. Two back-to-back 20-win seasons is great for a team that wants to remain on top in the conference annually.

On the flip side, the team had the potential to win 25 or more games, but Gottfried wasn’t able to get it done. He alone can be credited for the transformation of Howell and Leslie’s game. There’s no doubt that he can win, recruit and help in the growth of players’ skills, but his decision-making at times has been head scratching.

He could lead the team to greatness. He could cut down the nets in Greensboro and Atlanta. But if the team’s season ends sooner rather than later, fans will be wondering “what if” for years. Gottfried’s reputation as a coach could be tarnished if perhaps the best team to grace N.C. State’s campus since the 1983 team fails to mediocrity.