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Inflammatory posts mar O’Rear’s campaign Sam DeGrave News Editor

After one student posted several screen shots of a Facebook conversation in which Student Body President candidate Dwayne O’Rear made several anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic remarks, the post went viral and spread from Reddit to Facebook, earning O’Rear negative attention he claims he doesn’t deserve.

Ian Shearer, a senior in interna-

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tional studies, posted the screen shots to the N.C. State subreddit page on Saturday evening.

By Sunday afternoon, somebody had posted the im- Dwayne ages to the Wolf- O’Rear pack Students group on Facebook, where they attracted the attention and disgust of many students.

The screen shots depict a conversation that took place on Josh

Girón’s Facebook in April 2011.

Girón, now a junior in computer engineering, originally posted a status about President Obama, which immediately sparked a debate between O’Rear and several other students about President Obama’s religious affiliation. In the conversation, O’Rear attacked the president and a Muslim student, saying Islam is a false religion and is “frowned upon.”

(The discussion can be seen in full on page three.)

The screen shots outraged many students and prompted several people to post screen shots they had taken of other offensive interactions O’Rear had posted on vaarious social media sites. Among these posts were comments bashing gay people and women.

According to O’Rear, he was unaware of all but one of the posts screen shot and posted on the Wolfpack Students page.

“When these comments occurred, I stayed in a hall-style dorm, and I

often left my door unlocked and my Facebook up, and sometimes I’d get control of my Facebook and sometimes I would not,” O’Rear said in regard to the anti-Muslim post.

O’Rear also said he doesn’t have a lock on his phone, which allowed a friend, who he refused to name, make a tweet about a female basketball announcer for ESPN, which can also be viewed in full on page three.

One student, however, said he

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Nicky Vaught Deputy News Editor

More than 300 students and faculty heard six of their peers talk different interpretations of this year’s TEDxNCSU theme: taking action.

The talk reconciled the disparities between various subjects of the talks like denial in history education, personal development and starving artists.

The following sections outline Saturday’s presentations and their treatment of “taking action.”

America the Beautiful Sales Pitch: Psychology professor Rupert Nacoste, the final speaker of the event, started his presentation by singing “America the Beautiful,” a praise song he would soon dismiss — along with standard American history education — as a sales pitch and a misrepresentation of American history.

“I’m proud to be an American,” Nacoste said. “But the only America I’m proud to be a part of is one that

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Wolfpack basketball head coach Mark Gottfried flies down to the court from the upper levels of the PNC Arena during Primetime with the Pack Friday night, Oct. 12, 2012. Primetime with the Pack, which replaced the old Red and White game, started with some activities to excite the crowd, followed by a team scrimmage and a campout for loyalty points.

Manufacturing changes gears

Voter ID debate may affect college students Emily Weaver Staff Writer

The North Carolina General Assembly’s agenda for the current session shows the controversial voter identification legislation requiring voters to show photo identification at the poll is still making waves in the legislature.

Supporters of voter ID legislation hope to prevent fraudulent voting at the polls and instill confidence in our democratic system.

Interest groups such as the Na-

tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Democracy N.C. and other national organizations oppose laws that would require voters to show photo identification.

The NAACP compares the voter ID laws to the times of civil rights movements in the 1960s.

Reverend William Barber, president of the NAACP, has stated that requiring a voter to show ID is comparable to a poll tax

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Steel factories, conveyor belts and sweaty workers are images that scream “manufacturing.” These things do not define manufacturing in North Carolina and they never have.

Until the late 20th century, manufacturing in the state revolved around tobacco —growing it, processing and packaging it — textiles and furniture. Today, it revolves around pharmaceuticals and technology, and makes up roughly 20 percent of the state’s economy.

North Carolina manufactures twice as much as the national average, and the state is the fourth biggest manufacturer in the country.

The face of this sector is changing, said Michael Walden, William Neal Reynolds distinguished professor and extension economist at N.C.

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Walden said renewed political interest in the manufacturing sector could be good for the state, but should not be expected to provide ample job opportunities.

“We are never going to see the kinds of numbers of workers in manufacturing [again],” Walden said. “We make products much differently today than we did 50 or 100 years ago.”

Businesses in the state produce technology, but many times technology is the producer itself, often eliminating the necessity of human laborers, Walden said.

“It is much more technological and machinery oriented,” Walden said, referring to new automated processes that cut down demand for human labor.

Technology is crucial to both sides of the manufacturing process in North Carolina, but a large hu-

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New policies are in the works to train those workers.

“There has been a lot of new talk about pushing vocational educa-

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doesn’t believe O’Rears story.

Brian Panasiak, a junior in religious studies, lived down the hall from Dwayne in Owen Hall during the 2010-2011 academic year and said this post was typical of O’Rear’s interactions with his peers.

“He was very vocal in his beliefs about not liking groups of people,” Panasiak said. “Everyone knew he didn’t like gays, everyone knew he didn’t like Muslims.”

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O’Rear was known to have an abrasive and, at times, antagonistic personality.

“Derogatory language was a regular part of Dwayne’s vocab,” Panasiak said. “It was common speech for him, calling people gay, f*****t, c***sucker.”

Panasiak said he doesn’t doubt that it was O’Rear who posted the hateful comments on his Facebook.

Marshal Crawley, a junior in English and friend of Panasiak, agreed that it was likely O’Rear who posted the anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim comments on Girón’s wall and took it upon himself to

take the screen shots that surfaced on Reddit Saturday night.

One of the targets of O’Rear’s hateful rant, Yousef Abu-Salha, a senior in biology at UNC-Chapel Hill, said he saw O’Rear’s comment and felt obliged to correct the allegation that Obama is a Muslim.

“It is outrageous that one could be automatically classified as a Muslim based on an Arabic middle name,” Abu-Salha said. “Obama’s father was Muslim, but Islam is a religion and a choice rather than an inheritance.”

Abu-Salha had not met O’Rear at the time of the comment-thread argument. But after reading the apology O’Rear posted on the Wolfpack students page Sunday afternoon, which has since been removed, Abu-Salha said he believes it was O’Rear who he was speaking with on Facebook in 2011 and not a mysterious status jacker.

According to Abu-Salha, O’Rear’s apology was tailored to the people he offended with his antMuslim and anti-Islamic remarks.

All of the screen shots a nd comments about O’Rear posted on the Wolfpack students page were removed Sunday afternoon at the request of O’Rear, who insists that the recent controversy has not hurt his campaign in any way.

“My c a mpa ig n ha s responded positively,” O’Rear said. “We are not going to let adversity and certain things hurt our campaign that are untrue.”

Regardless of whether it was O’Rear or someone else who posted all of the hateful comments in his

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he North Carolina Soaring Association displayed sailplanes on Centennial Campus Thursday, March 21. “This is a DG 808B, and I can take off with the engine on and then glide with it off,”said Woody Cannon. The NCSA, a non-profit organization, has five instructors that teach for free. Any student who wants to ride can apply for membership and one introductory flight for $210 or a temporary membership and one flight for $99. If the application is accepted, two-thirds of the flight costs, monthly dues, and yearly membership are paid by the NCSA. Get more information on their website www.ncsoaring.org or contact the NCSA (919) 274-0312, info@ncsoaring.org.

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tional opportunities down to the high school level,” Walden said.

Walden said high school students who don’t have interest or aptitude to attend a four-year university may soon be able to take vocational courses to train for a specific industry. Many of these vocational courses would center on manufacturing.

Gov. Pat McCrory said he supports vocational high school and communit y college preparing students in specific manufacturing fields. Community colleges already often work hand-inhand with businesses to make sure manufacturing positions are being filled.

“If North Carolina attracts a manufacturing firm in some part of the state, and they need workers trained in a particular way, our community college system will develop a customized train-

ing program to train those workers,” Walden said.

Specialized manufacturers need specialized workers, and education largely focuses on manufacturing management in fields like pharmaceuticals and energy.

Ashley Hedrick, a public policy staff member for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, said manufacturing energy plays a large role in the state and its largest city.

“We are ver y focused around energy and a lot of our manufacturing specifically growing into the area tend to be in that field,” Hedrick said.

Hedrick said manufacturing has changed, but the public often does not conceive it that way.

“The thing I have noticed the most is that manufacturing has gone from this unclean, unsafe kind of perspective to a whole different [process],” Hedrick said.

Marshall Brain, the founder of HowStuff Works and speaker at today’s event ManufacturingWorks@NCState,

said the U.S. is a leader in clean manufacturing, and a resurgence of manufacturing in North Carolina won’t pollute the state’s environment.

“If you go visit factories, there is a gigantic effort to make zero impact,” Brain said. “Economically, it makes sense for factories to reduce and eliminate waste. Subaru has basically created zero impact factories. Everything. All the packing is recycled. There are basically no emissions. It makes sense for the environment, the economy and the social conscious. That mentality is permeating the manufacturing landscape for these reasons. It is largely invisible, but it’s a powerful trend.”

Imagery of the industrial revolution doesn’t represent manufacturing today, but the term “manufacturing” can still be easily defined, according to Walden.

“Essentially, the definition of manufacturing is the same,” Walden said. “It is the creation of a durable product, something that is long-lasting, something you can touch.”

Manufacturing looks different today than it did 50 years ago, but it still manages to play an important economic role in North Carolina. Today, the state is moving away from tobacco and textiles, and now toward sustainable, high-tech, more stable industries.

“I think people probably historically thought of manufacturing as cars, appliances and steel,” Walden said. “Of course that is important but with growth of the medical care sector, providing pharmaceuticals is much more important.”

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name, on numerous occasions, O’Rear said he will use this as a learning experience.

“I need to monitor my accounts, and if problems like this arise, I need to deal with them in the mindset of ‘students first,’ rather than my own personal interests, if they do arise,” O’Rear said.

Hopefully, O’Rear will make good on this prom-

ise, because as his tweets and Facebook posts prove, he hasn’t learned this lesson yet.

O’Rear’s roommate from his freshman year, Bruce Hall II, now a junior in business administration, declined comment when he was contacted to verify O’Rear’s story.

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admits to and corrects its mistakes.”

The socia l psycholog y expert infused his speech, “Speaking up for Neo-Diverse America the Beautiful,” with poetic repetitions.

Nacoste talked about his time as a sailor in the Navy, which integrated when he served in the ‘70s.

Nacoste explained how the neo-diversity, diversity beyond black and white, causes anxiety in blurring the lines between in-groups and outgroups. This anxiety leads to intolerant language, which he said we must work to eliminate.

Good Creation: Nicholas Sailer, a senior in industrial design and third live speaker of the day, started his presentation, “How Everything We Create is Connected,” by stumping the audience by asking it to find the connection between items including a sandwich, an iPad and American Beauty.

The answer, he said, is that all are designs or creations, terms he used synonymously. More than that, though,

he outlined five essentials to any good creation.

Good creations, according to Sailer, provoke a reaction or cause a change. They have strong contrast, within themselves or to the external world.

Good creation follows a pattern, concept or algorithm and applies it throughout.

Good creation should be unexpected but inevitable; saying the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense is a prime example.

Finally, good creations must escalate and lead to a climactic or focal point.

Beatboxing and Hiking: Ibrahim Zafar, junior in biomedical engineering and second speaker of the day, came to the stage dancing and beatboxing to make a point about the importance of stepping out of one’s comfort zone.

Zafar’s presentation, “Tajumulco: The Mountain that Killed Me,” reflected the message of his entrance.

He also touched on overcoming fear and learning from struggle, citing primarily his experience hiking a 14,000-foot Guatemala volcano, Tajumulco.

Further illustrating his point, Zafar also used his nerve, as he said it was his second time speaking publicly, as an example of stepping out of his comfort zone.

Learning Transfer: The first live speaker of the event, Sarah Egan Warren, assistant director of the professional writing program, talked about “learning transfer,” the concept of learning and applying skills from one area of life to others.

Using the example of ballet, for which she said she has a passion, Warren outlined five “Lessons from the Barre.”

“You can’t be good at something,” Warren said, “[but] let’s face it, you can’t be adequate at something unless you practice.”

A New Approach to Poverty: Laura Bottomley, assistant professor in the colleges of engineering and education and NCSU alumna, drew on her experiences with the GK Villages Project in the Philippines to explain how engineering can help combat poverty.

Bottomley explained how using root-cause analysis to assess the main factors of

A needed event for a growing city Liz Moomey Staff Writer

On Saturday, about 1,600 people volunteered for the 16th annual Service Raleigh, a citywide day of community service.

Service Raleigh is a time to work with and meet other students and to give back to the community, according to Dylan Cawthorne, a senior in environmental engineering and one of the organizers for the event.

“I really like interacting with people in a service setting that I normally wouldn’t, like my group, Engineers Without Borders, was paired with a sorority group,” Cawthorne said. “Interacting with those people in that way was something that I never would have done and it was a very valuable experience.”

Morgan Westbrook, a sophomore in civil engineering, saw Service Raleigh as a social event as well as a service project, which attracted her to come back and volunteer for a second year. “[Last year] we only had five people, we got to have a lot of fun and bond with it,” Westbrook said.

Her group, Student United Way, was small this year as well and was looking forward to a getting to know each other.

The effect Service Raleigh had on N.C. State attracted Meera Venkataraman, a se-

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That is on me.

“And [Friday] is disappointing, no question disappointing,” Gottfried added.

“I take full responsibility. You guys [media] can put it all on me.”

Temple senior guard Khalif Wyatt was a thorn in State’s side all afternoon. The Atlantic 10 Player of the Year went for 31 points and dished out five assists. �Graduate student forward Jake O’Brien added 18 points on 7-for-9 shooting, 4-of-6 from three-point range, and five rebounds, with 13 of his points coming in the first half when the Owls began to open up a lead. “[Wyatt] is really crafty,” Wood said. “He is a good player and that is what makes

nior in statistics, to help lead the event as co-chair.

“It’s a really great way for people who haven’t been that involved with service as much before to get involved with their community,” Venkataraman said. “It is definitely one of N.C. State’s biggest traditions.”

Tradition is what made Paul Charron, a senior in biological engineering, come out to Service Raleigh with his fraternity, Phi Sigma Pi. “We try to do a few volunteer projects every semester and Service Raleigh has been one of them for a couple years,” Charron said.

Tsekai English, a senior in mathematics, volunteered for her fourth year with the Society of African American Physical and Mathematical Scientists.

“It’s something that my organization does every year, so we kept with tradition,” English said.

Though many volunteers had participated before, Spechel Wooten, a junior in criminology and community service chair for National Society of Leadership and Success, was looking forward to her first Service Raleigh after hearing a lot about it.

“I am excited to be doing it because it is my first year and I’ve always heard it was a great experience,” Wooten said.

Service Raleigh offers various types of projects for the

volunteers ­— everything from outdoor landscaping to indoor tutoring with children from area Boys and Girls Club.

“I liked how diverse all the different service projects were, like some people were doing things outdoors, some people were inside,” Alex Johnson, a freshman in chemical engineering, said.

“You never knew what you would end up doing and that was exciting.”

Johnson mulched and turned soil at the Ellen Mordecai Gardens downtown.

Other projects were riding bikes around campus cleaning up and planting trees with Trees Across Raleigh, one of Service Raleigh’s partners.

Service Raleigh is open to more than just N.C. State students, which was something that interested Cawthorne.

“I liked seeing a cool organization outside of N.C. State and helping them and learning what they have to offer,” Cawthorne said.

Outside of the University involvement was a huge push

by Service Raleigh organizers for the last couple of years, according to Venkataraman.

“More people in the community know about it, rather than just N.C. State students,” Venkataraman said. “That’s what we wanted, to have that connection between N.C. State and the community.”

them go.”

Junior guard Lorenzo Brown, in perhaps his final college game, was the Wolfpack’s leading scorer with 22 points, along with nine assists. Brown has a total of 589 assists in his three seasons in Raleigh, good for third-best in State’s history.

Junior forward C.J. Leslie, who may also potentially leave Raleigh for the NBA, added 20 points on 8-for-12 shooting along with five rebounds and two blocks.

Howell closed out his collegiate career with 14 points and 15 rebounds. Howell finished with 1,055 rebounds at State, good for fifth place in school history, and is the all-time leader in offensive rebounds with 392.

“Me and Scott [Wood] are definitely leaving a better place than when we first got

to N.C. State,” Howell said.

“It has been a great experience, especially these two years with coach Gottfried and the type of turnaround we had.

“Everything that could possibly go wrong in the first half — it did — and it definitely bit us in the butt.”

Af ter struggling early, Wood got going late to finish with 10 points on 2-for7 shooting from the f loor and 2-for-6 from three-

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Speakers for Saturday’s TEDxNCSU event pose after the program concluded. Speakers discussed issues like racial discrimination, world poverty and self-improvement.

poverty helps address the actual problem, rather than just the symptoms.

With other volunteers, Bottomley partnered with poverty-stricken residents of slums to effect change in individuals, families, communities and eventually the country.

“We don’t just come in and say, ‘We’re gonna knock down your houses and build you something nice, how do you feel about that?’” Bot-

tomley said, reiterating the project’s emphasis on partnership.

“Ultimately, the solution will not be legitimate unless everybody is at the table,” Bottomley said.

Starving Artists: Anna Wolfe, senior in communication-media and arts entrepreneurship, spoke about changing perceptions of artists.

Backed by her experience in a group called Entrepreneurs

Marketing the Arts, Wolfe explained how artists don’t choose unemployment and are seldom their stereotypes.

Art, Wolfe said, is a type of entrepreneurship, but society does not receive art as gratefully as it does entrepreneurship.

“We reward people like Steve Jobs for being a creative, entrepreneurial thinker,” Wolfe said, “but we punish artists for being ‘too creative.’”

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“We must update ballot Bob Hall, executive di- access and ballot protection rector of Democracy N.C., as we have updated our abilopposes the bill and called ity to register to vote and to voter ID legislation “a fan- vote,” Francis DeLuca, presitasy tool to stop fraud.” He dent of the Civitas Institute believes citizens will go on in Raleigh, said. to fraudulently produce Polls could deny voting photo IDs. depending on where voters Hall ended his argu- obtained their ID, even if it ment at the panel discus- is government-issued. This sion by encouraging a makes them inadequate for shift of focus to the third voting wherever they are

currently living in North Carolina.

Absentee ballots would be an option for students but those in opposition believe this would decrease voter turnout and would become especially difficult for students studying out-of-state.

Statistics on voter turnout revealed a rise in turnout for the 18-24 age bracket. In the days of early voting this past election, the 18-24 age ranges turnout had escalated almost 40 percent from the 2008 election.

Both North Carolina residents and the involved interest groups feel it is likely legislation will pass due to the Republican majority in the General Assembly and the Republican support on voter ID legislation.

This is not the first attempt at voter ID legislation from the General Assembly. In the previous session, Governor Bev Perdue, a Democrat, vetoed a bill requiring photo identification and lawmakers were unable to override the veto.

Thirty states across the country have already enacted some form of voter identification laws and 11 states have enacted laws with photo identification.

If the legislation is proposed and passes, it is likely that the voter ID laws could be changed by mid-April.�

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point range. Wood also will graduate from N.C. State as a record-holder. The sharpshooter finished his career at State with 334 three-pointers. “[Richard Howell and I] have been through the ups and downs,” Wood said. “We both came here [for] the same reason, to put N.C. State back on the map.

“I like where it is at, and I know coach Gottfried is going to continue to do a good job with it,” Wood said.

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Throw in the towel, Dwayne O’Rear

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ontroversy erupted Sunday when screenshots from Student Body President candidate Dwayne O’Rear’s Facebook profile and Twitter account, dating from 2010 to Feb. 2013, were unearthed and shared on Reddit and other social media outlets. Now, we know our SBP candidate is homophobic, Islamophobic, sexist and in our opinion, ignorant and unsupportably prejudiced.

In Nov. 2010, O’Rear saw two gay people embracing each other and kissing in the Brickyard, which he posted on Facebook about, exclaiming, “helllllllllll no!!!” He also once offered advice “to the cute girls always with the gay guy: get yourself a real man.” In April 2011, he stated President Barack Obama is a Muslim, Islam is a “false religion” and no one likes Muslims. On this same Facebook post, he called another commenter with a Muslim name a “raghead” and told him to “go blow yourself up like your cousins do lmfao!” Last month, he tweeted during an N.C. State basketball game, “Why is there a female commentator covering our game @espn?”

O’Rear, in an interview with Technician, denied making all of these hateful statements, apart from the one about two gay people kissing. He said his Facebook “was like a com-

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. munity Facebook,” and that someone else had the entire hour-long exchange about Obama and Muslims without his knowledge — in fact, he didn’t even know about the post until yesterday. He said the basketball game tweet — which he knew about and consciously did not remove — was made by a friend who had his cell phone … which he claims does not have a security lock. As for the status about the gay couple kissing, he says he has grown since his freshman year and now supports gay marriage … despite having made pro-Amendment One statements as Student Senate Liaison for Chandler Thompson and having posted a pro-Amendment One video on his Facebook last year.

But then, as he said to vindicate himself of some other homophobic and sexist statuses,

“[his] Facebook isn’t really [his] own” and other people have his password and sometimes use it.

We at Technician believe O’Rear’s “explanations” are wild fabrications.

This may come as news to O’Rear, but our university is home to GLBT people, Muslims and — brace yourself Dwayne, we know this is flabbergasting — women. It is an insult to these groups, and to everyone who regards them as meriting respect and dignity like any other peoples, that Dwayne O’Rear should consider himself worthy of representing the North Carolina State University student body.

The attitudes and views O’Rear espouses — or “once” did — are ignorant and morally questionable. Barack Obama is as Muslim as Dwayne O’Rear is Irish. Across-the-board animosity against Muslims is as justified as across-the-board animosity against Chris-

“... O’Rear, with his outdated and benighted beliefs, will be an insult to N.C. State’s student body if he gets elected.”

tians. Discrimination against the GLBT community today is as justified as the discrimination against African Americans during the Jim Crow era. And if O’Rear thinks women aren’t qualified to give sports commentary, then Lauryn Collier may want to ask him whether he thinks she can run for SBP. Dwayne O’Rear, with his outdated and benighted beliefs, will be an insult to N.C. State’s student body if he gets elected. With the uproar that has been generated in the past day, Technician trusts the N.C. State student body to not elect him as SBP. However, we also believe the right thing for him to do would be to own up to his dogma and accept it as being unsuitable to carry into the Student Body Presidency at N.C. State.

This is an institution which stands for tolerance and compassion, which O’Rear’s comments apparently do not. If O’Rear has any respect for his own dignity and the sentiments of those he has endeavored to represent, he should withdraw from the SBP race.

To quote O’Rear, it’s not that he can’t ever be worthy of representing N.C. State’s student body — however, “[his] beliefs just need to be worked on a little.”

Why I support Dwayne O’Rear for SBP

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’ve been tossing and turning in my sleep since Student Body President campaigns began — I just couldn’t decide who to vote for. But in light of recent news, I now know who to not not vote for: Dwayne O’Rear.

Facebook comments Ahmed Amer and tweets Viewpoint Editor by O’Re a r dating back to November 2010 inspired the ire of the student body. Despite this, I am supporting Mr. O’Rear.

If one thing is clear, it’s that Dwayne O’Rear plays the long game. And I don’t mean “long game” like when he was on the football team for one year — longer than that.

Think about it. Since 2010, Dwayne has been wooing the voting groups that are usually ignored by politicians: homophobes, Islamophobes and sexists — otherwise known as the “intolerance trifecta.”

He’s just one racial slur away from an endorsement from Jake Knotts (former S.C. governor candidate who called his opponent, Nikki Haley, a raghead because of her Indian heritage in 2010).

Readers, it’s not news that I am staunchly opposed to gay people. Just thinking about two guys loving each other gets my blood boiling. But just to be clear, I don’t think about gay men a lot — that would be gay. I only think about it when I hate them … and that’s all the time.

So it would only make sense that I support Dwayne for SBP because of his — now viral — O’Rear queer smear (not to mention the rhyming opportunities his name

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provides). On Nov. 15, 2010, O’Rear posted on his Facebook, “Just saw two dudes hug and kiss each other in the quad. Helllllllllll no!!!”

It didn’t stop there. Another post read, “To the cute girls always with the gay guy: get yourself a real man.”

Exactly, Dwayne.

Gay men are not real men — they’re a threat to O’Rear’s masculinity because women would rather be with them.

And, ladies, you’re missing out. If anyone knows how to treat a woman right, it’s Dwayne.

How do I know? Twitter.

Last month Dwayne sent a concerned tweet to ESPN asking why a female commentator was covering our game against UNC-Chapel Hill.

Dwayne’s not sex ist, he probably just thinks a female reporter would have been more comfortable in her environment: folding laundry in the kitchen while preparing dinner. So, ladies, if you want a traditional man who assumes your needs are his wants, get on the Dwayne train.

But there’s one more reason I support Dwayne in addition to his coming out on Facebook as anti-gay. Like myself, Dwayne struggles with his own identity. I don’t need to explain to you how being an Arab-American can cause internal conflict. I love the United States of America. I bleed red, but I feel blue when I realize I’m not white.

And the last time I became

aware of my non-whiteness was while reading Dwayne’s use of the term “raghead” in a Facebook thread.

I was happy to see Dwayne seems to share some of that confusion. In November 2010, WRAL filmed a story about the “black out” at the Free Expression Tunnel in which African-American students blocked the tunnel to protest hate speech in it. O’Rear, who appears in the video, said, “If white people went down there … and didn’t let black people through, we’d be [called] racist.” …

My initial reaction was probably similar to yours: “Wait a minute — has anyone told Dwayne O’Rear he’s half-black yet?” But it a l l m a ke s sense in the context of his preSBP e le ction work.

O’ Re a r i s making a n appe a l to the oftoverlooked minority — Islamophobic, homophobic and sexist white males.

It’s a bold move no SBP candidate has dared to try before, and if I had to guess why, I’d say it’s because there are gay students, Muslims and women on campus. If you’re not one of those three, then the choice is clear — vote O’Rear.

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ven if it doesn’t seem like it, spring break has passed and summer w i l l be here before you know it.

And with Tyler Goben summer Staff Writer comes less clothing and more skin.

Now with spring holiday starting this week, we might get the wakeup call we need to shed those “insulation pounds” and resume working on our New Year’s resolution plan.

Though the Carmichael Complex offers a plethora of classes, there will still be plenty who pound the pavement with their iPod on their pump-up playlist, running until their lungs cry for help. Running was always thought to be simple, with undisputed theory about it, until the “minimalist” or “barefoot” trend emerged recently.

The barefoot trend started to emerge in the beginning of the 21st century and continues to gain followers. But it never should have disappeared in the first place.

Look back to when you were a kid running through the lawn playing games like capture the flag and tag. How did you run?

Or take your shoes off and

go for a jog around the Lower Miller Fields. Feel different from running in those gigantic-soled running shoes?

When running started to become popular, companies started producing what they thought were proper running shoes. They produced shoes with massive heel-toe drop, or heel drop for short.

It simply means the larger the heel drop measurement, the taller the heel is than the forefoot. Traditional running shoes are manufactured with approximately a 12 mm difference between the heel and forefoot, according to a Harvard study. With these shoes, there was only one way your foot could strike the ground — heel first.

Now the new barefoot trend follows shoes which have a 0mm heel drop. This forces the foot to strike the ground with the forefoot. So basically you either have a heel strike with traditional running shoes or a forefoot strike with barefoot style shoes.

Being an avid runner my entire life, I didn’t accept this nicely. But forefoot strike is how we were meant to run.

Watch a young child run before he slips his feet into traditional running shoes. He won’t be landing on his heel.

Studies have been researching this new fad with increased interest.

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Harvard conducted a study about biomechanical differences between foot strikes that made me grin from ear to ear. While the data was fun to sort through, they provided some simple analogies to summarize what they found.

According to this study, a heel strike leads to a high impact transient about one-and-ahalf to three times your own bodyweight, while forefoot strikes have impact forces seven times lower. The study compared heel strike to being hit in the heel with a hammer using one-and-a-half to three times your bodyweight over and over. The giant heels on traditional running shoes only hide the impact — they don’t get rid of it. Think about it: Why land on your bony heel while your forefoot has plenty of tissue?

But while I am upset at Nike, Adidas, Asics and the rest of the running shoe market for misleading us, I strongly recommend running exactly how you are supposed to. During my freshman year of college I became a barefoot follower and slowly made the painful transition. Since I had been conditioned to run with heel strike, I wasn’t utilizing certain parts of my calves and feet until then. I had to start very slowly and build up to larger distances, but now I’m all barefoot.

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Freshman guard Rodney Purvis hold his head down while in the locker room after falling to Temple Friday, March 22.

Wolfpack stopped at first round

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hen asked to break dow n t he season following the Wolfpack’s loss to Temple on Friday in Dayton, Ohio, N.C. State head coach Mark Gottfried showed little willingness to make excuses for what many believe to be an underachieving season for the Wolfpack.

With the loss to the Owls, a seed lower than NCSU, the time for mincing words had passed.

Phrases to describe the team like “immaturity at times,” “hard at times to have everybody buy in,” “doing things the right way” and “putting team first” cropped up from Gottfried unexpectedly in the final post-game press conference of the season.

The coach bluntly and personally accepted all blame for not living up to the lofty preseason expectations.

“I take full responsibility,” Gottfried said.

In many ways, it was almost as if the ending of the 2012-13 campaign gave Gottfried the freedom and enough cover to express views that had been on his mind for several weeks — things he was previously unwilling to say publicly.

Having a wildly inconsistent and underachieving season in the course of building a successful program, along with searching for answers as to why a team is not fulfilling its potential, is a quandary that is not exclusive to Gottfried. Nor has Gottfried been the only coach to experience lofty preseason hype and fail.

In 1985, Mike Krzyzewski of Duke had a team returning all

five starters from an NCAA tournament team from the previous season and was ranked as high as No. 2 for several weeks. But the Blue Devils were an average team in the second half of the year after opening with 12 straight wins and finished 23-8 after a befuddling one-point loss to a Boston College team coached by Gary Williams and led by diminutive guard Michael Adams in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Jim Valvano also had to deal with inconsistency and pressure to take a veteran team far. During the 1982 season, the Wolfpack made its first NCAA Tournament appearance under the charismatic coach but was surprisingly upset

by Tennessee-Chattanooga, 5851, in its opening contest, which raised questions as to whether Valvano had what it took to lead State on a deep run in March.

N.C. State now faces the loss of senior forwards Richard Howell and Scott Wood. The Pack also will potentially deal with the departures of Lorenzo Brown and the mercurial junior forward C.J. Leslie in the coming weeks to the NBA Draft. Gottfried is close to losing all of the talent he inherited when he accepted the job after the 2011 season.

But Gottfried was also reflective in regards N.C. State’s growth since his arrival.

“I also kind of look at the big picture here,” Gottfried said Friday. “And I see the picture of winning 48 games in two years and going to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments, getting back to the top-25 here and there. … So, there are good things happening.”

The coming off-season, with its departures, will be a bridge that Gottfried and the N.C. State basketball program will cross. But where it will lead the program is still not clear. Regardless of who actually leaves or transfers, there will still be significant talent remaining in Raleigh and more on the horizon.

There has been a willingness from most to give Gottfried some leeway with the inconsistency this season, since his two teams at State have still been a marked improvement over the previous five years.

The listlessness of Sidney Lowe’s tenure as head coach has faded away and is a repressed memory now. For all of its suffering over N.C. State’s mediocrity during throughout the last 25 years, the Wolfpack Nation has never had a problem with raising its expectations or letting its voice be heard when it like what it sees.

The biggest benefit for Gottfried that comes from that exodus of players will come from the knowledge that N.C. State basketball from here on will be almost a complete reflection of the work he and his staff have done since arriving in Raleigh. He can no longer blame his predecessor for his team’s shortcomings.

The willingness for Gottfried to take responsibility publicly is probably the best gesture he could have possibly made at his final post-game press conference of the season.

Whether he realized it or not,

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s they sat at the podium one last time as student-athletes of N.C. State, senior forwards Scott Wood and Richard Howell had to find the tough balance of reflecting back on the growth of the Wolfpack basketball program over the past four years with the inevitable feeling of wonder at how a season with so much promise could end so badly.

State was eliminated from the 2013 NCAA tournament with a 76-72 loss to the Temple Owls Friday afternoon in the second round of the East region play at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio. The Wolfpack ended its campaign with a 24-11 record, while Temple improved to 24-9 and advanced to take on top-seed Indiana Sunday.

In a performance that encapsulated the entire season, the Pack shot only 40 percent and committed 10 turnovers in the first half, but managed to connect on 70.4 percent of its shots and turned the ball over only three times after the halftime break.

Conversely, Temple shot 53.3 percent from the floor in the opening frame but was held to 40 percent shooting in the second half. The Pack only forced five turnovers from the Owls in the afternoon.

“I think we got off to a really poor start,” head coach Mark Gottfried said. “[Temple] turned just about every turnover into a basket. This particular team never seemed to get to the point where we could sustain and maintain great defensive effort the entire game.

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Junior forward C.J. Leslie goes under the net for a reverse layup against Temple Friday, March 22. Leslie had 20 points in the Wolfpack’s 76-72 loss to the Owls during the second round of the NCAA tournament at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.

Junior forward C.J. Leslie walks off the court with his head down for a timeout against Temple Friday, March 22. Leslie had 20 points in the Wolfpack’s 76-72 loss to the Owls during the second round of the NCAA Tournament at the University of Dayton.

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Freshman guard Rodney Purvis puts pressure on the offense during the second round of the NCAA tournament against Temple in University of Dayton Aren in Dayton, Ohio Friday, March 22. The Wolfpack ended its season with a 76-72 loss to the Owls.

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Head coach Mark Gottfried reacts to an official’s call during the basketball game against Florida State in PNC Arena Tuesday, Feb. 19. The Wolfpack defeated the Seminoles 84-66.

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YogaFest positioned for record Nicky Vaught Deputy News Editor

Four-hundred people all doing yoga together under one teacher’s instruction sounds like some sort of North Carolina record, and that’s because it would be and might be thanks to an upcoming event.

Legacy Event Planners, backed by 16 different organizations, is hosting its second YogaFest from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 6 at N.C. State’s McKimmon Center.

For $35, the event will allow participants of all skill levels to take various yoga classes all day, ending in a large group class of 400 to learn together under one instructor.

In addition to the classes, 16 sponsoring exhibitors are set to be in attendance, according to Sarah Plonk, a senior in psychology and event manager.

Exhibitors include You Call This Yoga, the primary sponsor, as well as Irregardless Café, Acupuncture Associates, Ten Thousand Villages and others. Neomonde, a local Lebanese and Mediterranean café and deli, will cater the event.

“One of my main responsibilities was getting exhibitors at the event,” Plonk said.

“The exhibitors are usually willing because it’s an opportunity to promote health and wellness.”

Along with involving busi-

nesses, Plonk said she spread awareness to hype the Raleigh community.

On its second year, the event planners already anticipate a little more than twice as many participants as last year, which had about 200.

Planners have shifted their focus from just adults with various wellness problems to include students as well.

“I think the main aim last year was to get adults to come,” Plonk said. “I think now that I’m involved, as a student, they want to involve more students. They’re like, ‘Oh, you enjoy yoga? I had no idea younger generations enjoyed it.’”

Established in 2008 by three N.C. State students, Legacy Event Planners works with non-profit organizations to host various events.

Plonk started working with Legacy in January as event manager, but said she has mostly worked on organizing YogaFest.

“They dove me right into [the position],” Plonk said. “I interviewed on Tuesday, I had the job on Thursday, Sunday I was leading a meeting.”

YogaFest is the signature event for You Call This Yoga, a non-profit Dr. Howie Shareff founded in 2010.

Shareff said he first found yoga while in dental school when a teacher gave a demonstration. Fifteen years later, a patient encouraged him to take a class.

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Participants attempt to master the extended triangle pose, or utthita trikonasana, during one of the yoga classes conducted by the staff at YogaFest NC 2012.

Yoga helped manage stress from his work as a dentist as well as with his athletic training, Shareff said.

When Shareff had to retire from dentistry due to arthritis, he turned to yoga to manage neck pain as well as to make a living.

“As I was approaching my 50s, I felt what I was doing would be beneficial to the boomers,” Shareff said.

Shareff had once made a

wellness video for the baby boomer generation before starting his organization.

Seeing yoga as an opportunity to help spread the ideas of health and wellness in an accessible way, Shareff founded You Call This Yoga.

“The mission of You Call This Yoga is to bring the benefits of yoga to community,” Shareff said.

Benefits of yoga, according to Plonk, are both physical

and mental. Yoga helps with flexibility and preventative wellness by reducing the risk of muscular and skeletal problems. It also improves frame of mind, she said.

“Yoga works,” Shareff said.

“It’s adaptable to the person, it can be free and can be done anywhere — even in a chair.”

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Redress Raleigh addresses local, eco-friendly fashion Katie Sanders

for example, makes custom wedding gowns out of handme-down fabrics or discardThe fashion and textiles in- ed materials. If she does have dustries are currently worse to buy material, she says she for the environment than tries to buy eco-consciously. many people realize — they “There’s just a lot of value cause large amounts of waste — especially in your wedding materials and chemicals, and gown,” Kirchem said. “It adds many lightly worn items are depth. It’s kind of special, for simply tossed away instead of example, if it’s made of your being recycled. mother’s wedding gown, Redress, an eco-friendly or if being eco-friendly is company dedicated to pro- something that’s important moting loca l designers, to you.” kicked off their inaugural Melissa Lowery, owner and Redress Eco-Fashion & Tex- designer of SSD Jewelry, on tiles Conference in order to the other hand, focuses on combat the problem. more off-the-wall accessories.

“Our mission in the long While she also makes jewelry term is to be a catalyst for and belts, this year she was change in the fashion and specializing and experimenttextiles industries toward ing with headdresses, keeping more sustainable resources,” to what she called a “heavy said Beth Stewart, the stra- tribal modern nomad feel.” tegic director and one of the “I’ve incorporated some founding members of Re- antlers,” Lowery said. dress.

These mostly feathered The conference was in- headdresses ranged from tended to start a dialog about small accessories that Lowery green clothing, as well as to suggested one might wear to highlight the local designers a music festival, as they have that Redress works with and a bit of a “fantasy element,” promotes. to huge, difficult-to-engi“A lot of neer pieces smaller demodeled signers are after tradidoing t his tional Native on the side,” American Stewart said. headdresses.

“So for us, She reinwe can see forced this the fashion stylistic ena nd how vironmenthey could t a l c hoic e get there, but through Beth Stewart, strategic they aren’t the materidirector of Redress Raleigh necessarily als that she able to do it used — they themselves.” were made out of discarded A wide variety of these lo- leather from local businesscal designers were there to es, felt made out of recycled participate, showing off ev- bottles and feathers naturally erything from eco-friendly dropped by birds living on a shoes to jewelry made from peacock farm. discarded materials.

Jessica Moore, owner and Emily Kirchem, owner designer of Little Grey Line, and designer at Edie Kaye, showcased dresses she had Deputy features editor

“Our mission ... is to be a catalyst for change in the fashion and textiles industries.”

made for small girls out of discarded men’s dress shirts.

Moore said she got the idea when she and her husband were about to donate two bags of dress shirts that were still high quality and she decided to try to make one into a dress for her two-year-old daughter. Her daughter is now four and her dress-shirt to tiny dress idea has become a small business.

Two green design organizations, “Revamp” and “Good Girl Studio,” also worked together on a line for the conference called “Guardian.” The line included reconstructive vintage jewelry from “Good Girl Studio” that was mainly made of bullet casings. Jamie Powell, the designer for “Revamp” and a director and founding member of Redress, created the matching clothing for the line.

She wanted to make the clothing everyday easy-towear clothes, such as jerseys and informal dresses, and stuck to a grey, black and dark blue color scheme.

“It has this kind of warrior look to it,” Powell said.

However, she kept the whole line eco-friendly by making everything out of lyocell, a fabric made with recycled plant pulp.

“It’s a way to create fabric with a waste product,” Powell said.

Speakers were also invited to attend in order to advise up-and-coming eco-designers, one of whom was Nathan Rothstein, the president of Project Repat. Project Repat is a company that turns old T-shirts into blankets — customers send in T-shirts that they no longer wear, and the company sends them back a blanket made of the material.

They’ve sold 12,000 of them in the last year.

“America prints a T-shirt

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Above, a model wears a design by local accessory retailer, Melissa Lowery. Lowery, who is both the owner and a designer at SSD Jewelry, focuses her talents on off-the-wall designs. Inspired

by Native American headdresses, Lowery tries to incorporate a “heavy tribal modern nomad feel” to every piece she creates.

for every event,” Rothstein said. “They’re like adult trophies … People have all these memories in these T-shirts and they don’t necessarily wear them anymore, but they don’t want to donate.”

Many of the products dis-

played were sold at a conference market Sunday, but anything not bought can be found online at Lipi, an ecommerce marketplace that sells local specialty goods, created by Brian Marks, the founder of WebAssign.

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Wining and dining for a cause

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(Left) Attendees mingle during the Department of Food Sciences’ annual Wine and Cheese Gala, held at the Flanders Gallery in downtown Raleigh. The event benefitted Wine to Water, a nonprofit organization committed to providing clean water to poor countries. (Top Right) More than 200 students and faculty gathered at the Flanders Gallery downtown to raise money and awareness for Wine to Water. (Bottom Right) Tables scattered throughout the gallery displayed various wines and cheeses. Each wine was paired with several cheese varieties and information cards gave a little background on the wines and vineyards.

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Among the obesity-themed art pieces displayed at the Flanders Gallery in downtown Raleigh, the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences held its annual Wine and Cheese Gala Saturday night.

The event, a decades-long tradition of the Department of Food Sciences, attracted a group of more than 200 students and faculty. Featuring 10 wines and cheeses in addition to a keg of the depart-

ment’s own beer, the largest social food science event represented another great year and an opportunity to give to charity, Jennifer Lu, a Ph.D. candidate in food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences said. “[The Wine and Cheese Gala] is an event that the club has been hosting for a number of years,” said Suzanne Johanningsmeier, an assistant professor in food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences. “It’s a nice opportunity for faculty and students to network in a more relaxed

environment. I was a student at this department back in ‘96 and it had already been going on for a few years then. The event pre-dates me.”

This year, Lu was charged by her peers to help organize the event as one of the co-chairs in the Wine and Cheese Gala committee.

“I’ve been in the States for five years,” Lu said. “Every year, I would come to the Wine and Cheese event. It’s the most popular event in our department.”

While the charity aspect of the event is a relatively new

addition to the gala’s long history, with about five years as a partner to Wine to Water, a North Carolina-based faithbased nonprofit organization, Lu said it has become an essential part of the event and an aspect she was eager to be a part of.

“I feel like the priority is the charity,” Lu said. “However, by doing this, we bring people together to socialize and build relationships and bond. It’s a thing for everyone to look forward to. If we get together and have fun while helping others, we feel great.”

This year, Lu said the department and the student organizations set aside $4,000 to fund the event. Last year, she said the event raised more than $1,000 for Wine to Water.

In addition to its charity mission, Kimberly Spence, a masters student in nutrition and co-chair of the Wine and Cheese committee, said she also hoped attendees were able to learn a little about wine and cheese pairings from graduate student volunteers and undergraduate volunteers from the Food

Science Club, a 60-member student organization whose goal is to help inform the public about food science. “[The Gala] brings together really nice wines and really nice cheeses and students that may not be able to afford a normal wine tasting like this,” Spence said. “This year, we really focused on education by putting education cards on tables. We want students to learn about wine, learn about cheese and how to pair them.”

Alumni engages local a cappella groups for non-profit Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer

Harmonies of Taylor Swift’s “Trouble” wafted from Hunt Library’s auditorium Friday night as a cappella groups and a cappella lovers alike came together in support of clean water worldwide.

Friday, March 22 was World Water Day, a day in which the world observes the global water crisis, educating others on what can be done to help. N.C. State’s Center for Student Leadership Ethics and Public Service decided to hold their first ever Wine to Water benefit in which all proceeds would go to the Wine to Water organization, a non-profit created by N.C. State alum Doc Hendley.

“We wanted to give back to Doc and to Wine to Water,” said Mandy Scott, a junior in business administration and director of the Science Leadership Team’s community outreach. “One of the many things Wine to Water does to raise money is hold wine parties. With everyone on campus not being of drinking age, we decided to do something a little different and hold a concert.”

Doc Hendley, a 2004 N.C. State graduate, started Wine to Water while working as a bartender and nightclub DJ in Raleigh. The organization focuses on providing clean water to disadvantaged people around the world.

Josh Elliot, Wine to Water’s campus coordinator,

spoke Friday evening about the organization’s desire to strengthen their connection to students and their universities.

“We’re really proud that N.C. State wanted to represent us, especially on World Water Day,” Elliot said. “State is Doc’s Alma mater and I, personally, got involved with Wine to Water through my campus when I was in school.”

Since Wine to Water’s start in 2004, the organization has been able to bring clean water to more than 160,000 people worldwide.

Wanting to keep with the idea of community support, Scott decided to extend the a cappella invitation to the other harmonizers down the road.

“We really decided to create a community effort by inviting a cappella teams from Duke, Chapel Hill and of course here at N.C. State,” Scott said. “We received an overwhelming amount of interest from the groups and while we never intended on having seven performances, we didn’t want to turn anyone away that wanted to give their time.”

The benefit’s lineup included Ladies in Red, Acappology, Grains of Time and Wolfgang from N.C. State and Tarheel Voices and UNC Achordants from UNC as well as the Duke Pitchforks from Durham.

According to Alexander Parker, a sophomore in Spanish education and interna-

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The benefit concert Wine to Water on Friday 22 March at 6 p.m. at Hunt Library Auditorium showcases several acapella groups from all over the state including N.C. State’s Ladies in Red, Acappology, Grains of Time (shown), and Wolfgang, UNC’s Tar Heel Voices, and UNC Chapel Hill’s Achordants. The proceeds of the concert benefitted the Wine to Water organization, a non-profit organization focused on providing sustainable, clean water to people around the world.

tional studies and director of the Science Leadership Team’s global awareness, the benefit was the SLT’s first go at a group project.

“We’ve never done something like this before,” Parker said. “We’ve all done events on our own focusing on our individual subject matter, but this was a chance for us to work together. We took a week to impact the community in a larger way than we

have before.”

According to Scott and Parker, marrying their week with Wine to Water was a nobrainer.

“Their concept is amazing and it just made sense for us to partner with them, especially on World Water Day,” Scott said. “We were able to raise $1,138.27 with all of the proceeds going directly to Wine to Water.”

El liot, addressing t he

crowd, implored students to discover the opportunities available through Wine to Water.

“We have college programs now that we’re started,” Elliot said. “I’ve had the opportunity to work with about 10 different universities … universities like N.C. State that are helping the clean water mission. It’s been a blessing to bring the organization to students and have that become

an arm for the organization.

It’s a way to give back.”

Scott stressed that, looking past the singing and the money raised, it’s the effort to raise awareness that drove the SLT’s desire to hold a benefit.

“Those efforts site to raise awareness and create unity within humanity,” Scott said.

“Everyone should have clean drinking water, that’s a fundamental right.”

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learning curve on day two,” Holloway added.

The Wolfpack began day two with the 200-meter medley relay event. Freyman, Poli, Grogg and Bonnema combined to record a time of 1:40.10. Freyman began the relay with her backstroke and recording a time of 25.66, followed by Poli with a 28.44 with the breaststroke. Grogg swam a 23.62 in the butterfly segment and Bonnema concluded the event with a 22.38 in the freestyle.

Grogg also competed as an individual in the 100-meter backstroke event, recording a time of 53.91, beating her personal best of 55.08 recorded Jan. 16, at Virginia Tech.

State recorded a time of 7:18.41 in the 800-meter freestyle relay with the help of Freyman, Henley, freshman

Kirstin Connors and senior Allison Hendren.

In diving, senior Hannah Hopkins and sophomore Rachel Mumma competed on the 3-meter diving board.

Hopkins earned a score of 293.20, while Mumma earned a score of 259.10.

The NCAA Championships concluded March 23. N.C. State competed in 400-meter freestyle relay, 100-meter freestyle and the platform diving event.

Freyman, Henley, Hendren and Bonnema teamed up to record a time of 3:19.84 in the 400-meter freestyle relay giving the Wolfpack its third best mark in school history.

Henley also competed in the 100-meter freestyle event, beating her personal best of 50.81 recorded Nov. 15, 2012, at the Janis Hope Dowd Nike Cup with a time of 49.57.

Senior diver Hannah Hopkins concluded her collegiate career by claiming All-Amer-

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ica honors in the platform diving event. Hopkins posted a score of 272.95 in the preliminaries and a 280.65 (13th) in the finals.

The All-America honor was the second in as many years for Hopkins after her seventh-place finish at last year’s NCAA Championships. Hopkins scored four points for the Wolfpack team total in the process.

Georgia brought home the top honors with a score of 477, followed by California (393), and Tennessee (325.5). N.C. State finished 37th.

The N.C. State men’s swimming and diving team will compete at the 2013 NCAA Championships, March 28 through March 30. The meet will also be held in Indianapolis, Ind.

Junior guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman drives against James Madison University guard Jazmon Gwathmey in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament March 24. The Wolfpack dropped the game to the Dukes, 72-66.

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Men’s tennis completes ACC road sweep The Wolfpack picked up two road wins in the Atlantic Coast Conference over the weekend. It defeated No. 15 Clemson Friday, 4-2, and Georgia Tech, 4-3, on the road. Sophomore Austin Powell, senior Dave Thomson and sophomore Beck Bond picked up singles wins against the Tigers. The duos of freshman Thomas Weigel and sophomore Robbie Mudge picked up a 9-7 doubles win while Powell and Bond teamed up for State’s other win in doubles competition.

Powell, Thomson and Bond picked up singles wins against the Yellow Jackets, while Mudge, Weigel, Bond and Powell picked up doubles.

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Women’s golf finishes 10th in Baton Rouge State shot a final round of 39-over 327 to finish 10th at the LSU Golf Classic. It has placed in the top-10 in all seven of its tournaments through the fall and spring seasons. Junior Ana Menendez was the Pack’s top individual finisher.

She finished tied for 16th overall with a 12-over 228 through three rounds of competition.

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Softball picks up sweep at Virginia Tech The Pack picked up two wins in Blacksburg, Va. against the No. 19 Hokies Saturday, 10-5 and 9-2. Their final contest Sunday was cancelled due to inclement weather. The wins marked the first time in program history State has won two games in the same day against a ranked opponent.

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Gymnastics takes EAGL title Jonathan Stout Senior Staff Writer

N.C. State climbed out of an early deficit to claim the program’s fifth East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championship, the first since 2009, Saturday with a score of 195.175. The team scored a decisive 49.125 points after trailing Maryland by 49.050 late in the contest, squeaking out the win by .075.

Senior Rachel Fincham said at the top on the list of team goals, which hangs inside the gym as a daily reminder, was winning the EAGL Championship.

“When you win it’s not necessarily for yourself,” Fincham said.

“We were so excited because our coaches got the win, our school got that win. Being on top at the end of the year, constantly improving and being on top of where we think we should be would be a great way to go out. … Moving forward it’s a great confidence boost and a great morale boost.”

UNC-Chapel Hill, Maryland, George Washington, Pittsburgh, New Hampshire, Rutgers and Towson all competed in the event.

Maryland finished second overall with 195.100 and Pittsburgh finished third with 194.875 points.

After starting with a bye in the first rotation, the team took to the vault. Junior Diahanna Ham claimed third with a score of 9.875, the highest score for the

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Junior Kristen Harabedian finishes her routine on floor during N.C. State gymnastics meet against West Virginia Friday, Jan. 23. The gymnastics team took home the East Atlantic Gymnastics League title March 23 in Chapel Hill.

Pack on vault. The team scored 48.950 after the second rotation.

Fincham took the uneven bars title with a score of 9.85, the first State gymnast to win the honor since Lauren Deuser and Brittany Vontz tied for the title in 2009. Junior Stephanie Ouellette finished second to Fincham in the bars event with 9.775.

State led the match at the mid-way point with a score of 97.750.

The team finished with a 48.300 on the beam event after being docked points for a mistake; both Fincham and junior Kristen Harabedian fell during their beam rou-

tines.

“We were down, we could have let our spirits fall and get frustrated but instead we just fought back,” Fincham said. “We were just going to fight our way through and do the best that we could.”

State needed a stellar performance on the floor exercise to clinch the championship — and they answered, scoring an event team high 49.125.

“We tried to give the meet away on balance beam but the kids came out and rocked the floor,” head coach Mark Stevenson said. “They never gave up and did everything we asked

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Tuesday MEN’S TENNIS V. WISCONSIN J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 2:30 p.m.

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Freshman swimmer, Haley Tomlinson, swims the breaststoke during the 400 yard individual medley against UNC-Chapel Hill on Saturday, Feb. 2. The Wolfpack women placed 37th at the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis March 23 .

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MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Indianapolis, Ind., All Day Friday SOFTBALL V. GEORGIA TECH Atlanta, Ga., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS V. FLORIDA STATE J.W. Isenhour Tennis Complex, 2:30 p.m.

BASEBALL V. MARYLAND Doak Field, 6:30 p.m.

TRACK AT RALEIGH RELAYS Dail Track Complex, All Day

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BASEBALL V. UNC-WILMINGTON Wilmington, N.C., 6 p.m.

them to do.”

Ouellette scored a 9.875, earning her the program’s first individual floor exercise title since 2010, when Brooke Barr and Taylor Seaman achieved the honor.

“We just got together as a group and decided that win or lose, there’s no harm in putting your best out there, so we might as well put our best out there on the floor,” Fincham said.

Ouellette finished tied for second, 39.150, and Ham claimed third, 39.125, in the all-around competi-

While most N.C. State fans were glued to a television to see their beloved men’s basketball team play in the first round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament at Dayton, Ohio, the women’s swimming and diving team took to the pool next door in Indianapolis, Ind., for the NCAA Championships.

The action for the Wolfpack began Mar. 21. The Pack competed in the 200-meter freestyle relay, 50-meter freestyle, 400-meter

medley relay and 1-meter diving events.

“We got off to a slow start at the NCA A Championships,” head coach Braden Holloway said.

“We put together the best lineup we could to put ourselves in position to score some points, but we came up a little short,” Holloway said. “We’ll need to execute our races better on Friday in order to get ourselves on the board.”

In the 200-meter freestyle relay, sophomore Hannah Freyman, senior Marifrances Henley, senior Allison Hendren and freshman Riki Bonnema teamed up to finish with

a time of 1:30.60. Bonnema and junior Zina Grogg participated in the 50-meter freestyle, timing in at 22.95 and 23.38, respectively.

In the 400-meter medley relay, Freyman, sophomore Lauren Poli, Grogg and Henley combined to record a time of 3:40.09. Sophomore Rachel Mumma earned a score of 271.65.

“It’s everyone’s first time being here so we have to make some adjustments and learn how to be fast and that’s all part of the learning curve, but we hope to get out of the

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The Wolfpack came to a close at the hands of the James Madison Dukes, 72-66, in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament. This marks the second-consecutive year the Pack’s season ended in the second round of the WNIT. Senior guard Marissa Kastanek scored nine points in her final game in a Wolfpack uniform.

She went 3-for-10 from the field and 1-for-7 from behind the arch.

Her career-scoring total of 1,655 points ranks eighth in program history. She is also drained 240 career three-pointers, which ranks second in the program.

Redshirt sophomore guard Len’Nique Brown led the team in scoring with 13 points. Junior forward Markeshia Gatling and guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman also contributed 12 points each.

Gatling also led the team in rebounds and blocks with nine and five, respectively, in the contest.

The Wolfpack held a 43-42 lead midway through the second half, but JMU got out to an 18-4 run in six minutes to pull away from the Pack.