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Perhaps singer Dean Martin overlooked an important fact when he uttered the words, “Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning.” As it turns out, there are about 45 finer states to be in than North Carolina. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, North Carolina ranks fourth in the nation among states with the highest pollution and poor air quality levels. “It presents one of the greatest pollution challenges in the country,” Bob Bruck, professor of plant pathology and forestry, said. According to Bruck, North Carolina is caught in a transitional state as it is shifting away from its historically agricultural roots. “We aren’t a blue-collared economy anymore,” Bruck said. Bruck said the rate at which the state’s population is growing is one reason the pollution levels are so high. North Carolina is second only to Texas in its rate of population growth over the last 40 years, ac-
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Students, faculty, vendors, student organizations and environmental groups gathered in the Brickyard on Wednesday in celebration of Earth Day. The event featured roughly 75 different organizations, each with their own booth. At the different booths, students could win prizes, like t-shirts, buttons and water bottles, and learn more about maintaining a sustainable lifestyle and making environmentally friendly decisions. “I like how N.C. State hosts awareness events,” Susan Mykalcio, a freshman in computer engineering, said. “They’re always large, so they draw my attention and I get to learn a lot of vital information.” Students could also sign the “For the Farm” pledge, which states their desire to incorporate more locally grown food into dining facilities on campus. Lindsay Batchelor, program development specialist for the University Sustainability Office, explained that the For the Farm initiative would allow for students to grow food on campus to be served in dining halls. The number of in-person pledges was “easily 750 and quickly reaching 1,000,” according to Batchelor. Students can still sign the pledge online or in person at any of the Earth Day events. Samantha Hinson, a senior in biological sciences, said she
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Jonathan Tufts, a sophomore in biological sciences, juggles three red onions while riding a unicycle on the Brickyard during the Earth Day celebration Wednesday.
appreciated the emphasis on local food. “I think it’s a great opportunity to raise awareness about how N.C. State is going local,” Hinson said. “It’s good to get back to roots as an agricultural institution.” William Paige, an Earth Day volunteer and senior in tourism management, agreed with Hinson. “We’re an agricultural school, but we don’t have anything in place where students can grow crops for other students to eat on campus,” Paige said. Paige added that having a system
like For the Farm would support University Dining and students studying agriculture. WESA completed another art project for its Plastic Propaganda campaign and displayed it at the event. Flowers made from 1,000 plastic bottles were given to those who went to the event to raise awareness about single-use plastic waste. 86it, a Wake County based campaign to encourage people not to litter, was also at the event. “It’s important to keep our roads and sidewalks clean because litter
can end up in storm drains and then be carried to bodies of water and our water supply,” Jenny Bonchak, a representative with 86it, said. “We want to build pride, keep communities beautiful, and protect our natural resources.” Another booth was hosted by NC GreenPower, a Raleigh-based nonprofit. GreenPower works with individuals and businesses to help them utilize clean energy, which includes electricity that is generated from
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Germany’s role in the international scene grows Joseph Havey Deputy Viewpoint Editor
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Sagar Patel, sophomore in electrical engineering, takes the oath of office as a newly elected student senator. Patel was joined by the rest of the new senators as they were sworn into office to kick off the first meeting of the 93rd Session of the Student Senate of North Carolina State University.
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Student Government assembled Wednesday for their first senate meeting of the 93rd Session, setting the tone for a semester of activism. The meeting included the induction of new members, speeches by faculty, and news that Packapalooza would become an annual event. Student Senate President, Alex Parker opened the meeting with warm remarks of congratulations
to senate members before swearing them in. Parker reminded Senators their key purpose is to serve students, uphold the student body constitution and faithfully execute office. Mike Mullen, vice chancellor and dean of N.C. State’s Division of Academic Student Affairs, was the first guest speaker. Mullen said N.C. State is the only large research university that combines student affairs with undergraduate academic programs.
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Approximately 90 people crowded into Caldwell Hall Wednesday to hear German Consul General Christoph Sander speak on Germany’s growing role in the modern world. Sander’s talk, titled “Germany Today: Responsibilities and Challenges in the Heart of Europe,” mainly covered Germany’s role in the European debt crisis but included other topics such as the Iranian nuclear threat and German integration of green technology. Though the audience was largely students seeking class credit, some members were also faculty and non-N.C. State affiliated. Before the talk started, the group had to move buildings because the original room wasn’t large enough to fit the entire audience. He l g a Br au n b e c k , w ho planned the event, said that she hope attendees left with a greater understanding of the complexity of Germany’s role in Europe. “It’s important for students to see the big picture,” said Braunbeck, who is also the Section Coordinator in the NCSU Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. “It’s not just
Germany, but Germany in the context of the European Union. I think [Sander] conveyed that.” Sander, who has an extensive background as a German diplomat, now serves as German Consul General to the southeast portion of the United States and is headquartered in Atlanta. His visit at N.C. State is one among several in a tour across North Carolina. The talk began with a reminder of today’s positive German-U.S. relations. Sander mentioned notable German companies that had invested in facilities on American soil, such as Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen. He then moved on to explain the importance of Germany’s location, stating that diplomacy and politics are often determined by geography. “Germany is always affecting its neighboring countries because of its location,” Sander said. Sander reasoned that Germany has been able to help these neighboring countries because of steps it has taken in the past. During a financial crisis in the early 2000s, Germany’s government launched a series of reforms that lowered the cost of doing business and created more flexible labor laws.
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cording to Bruck. What concerns Bruck more than the growth rate is the number of non-commercial vehicles owned by North Carolina residents. “The state’s population is currently at 10 million people and there are 12 million vehicles on the road,” Bruck said. Bruck said North Carolina is in a unique position because of its geography, being “at the buckle of the Sunbelt.”
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Germany also raised the retirement age to 67, which is almost 10 years higher than Greece’s retirement age of 58. “Most of these reforms were in place when the Euro crisis hit,” Sander said. “Our ability to help our neighbors didn’t come by accident. It was something we had to work for.” The talk also covered Germany’s aversions to bailing out struggling European countries, such as Greece or Cyprus — chief among them was fiscal responsibility. “We in Germany will not finance politicians who will not make tough decisions in their own countries,” Sander said. Still, Germany has been able to significantly help Europe. Sander reminded the audience that in the past year, the euro stabilized and has generally re-
He said the state’s hot, sweltering summers provide the right conditions for photochemical oxidation to take place. The process essentially cooks pollution particles in the warm, stagnant air. Urban areas across the North Carolina are forced to deal with unsafe and unhealthy levels of ground-level ozone, according to Bruck. The Asheville valleys region, the Charlotte metropolitan area, the Triad and the Triangle regions experience some of the worst air quality readings in the United States.
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Christoph Sander, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany speaks in Caldwell Hall April 17, 2013 about the problems that face Germany today. “Last summer we started the European Stability Mechanism which has been financed for 700 billion euros. Germany is guaranteeing 200 billion euros of that and if I would compare 200 billion in comparison to the German economy that’s just like the United States guaranteeing one trillion U.S. dollars. So it’s really a huge amount of money that we have underwritten.”
mained steady in relation to the dollar. Sander defended Germany against allegations that it was taking too long to do anything. “The European Union is composed of 27 independent nations, and we have to come to compromising decisions,” Sander said. “These always
take a little bit of time.” Germany, which is committed to expanding its role in the world, has become increasingly involved in United Nations affairs. Earlier this year, when France invaded Mali, Germany assisted by offering aircraft. Sander said this was
notable because German citizens are generally against Germany’s aiding other European countries. “We are still, given our history, in a very difficult situation regarding European relations,” Sander said. After Sander’s talk, students were able to ask ques-
Coal-fired power plants passed to cut down on harmwere once used heavily to ful emissions. help meet the energy needs Bruck said the state must of a raplook toidly inward creasing forms populaof altertion. native After it energy was dissuch as covered wind Bob Bruck, professor of plant that the or solar pathology and forestry power power. plants Acwere responsible for the cording to a 2012 press release hazy and smoggy conditions, from Environment North laws such as the N.C. Clean Carolina, the state now ranks Smokestacks Act of 2002 were in the top five nationally for photovoltaic or solar-pow-
ered installations. The Wolfpack Environmental Student Association is a group of N.C. State students dedicated to advocating for clean, sustainable energy and a healthy environment. WESA recently organized a campaign with the goal of eliminating plastic items on campus called Plastic Propaganda. “I think North Carolina is such a high polluter because energy in this state is mainly powered by coal and it is really cheap,” Lee Howe, co-president of WESA and a senior in natural resources policy and administration, said. “With cheap energy, not many people think about the consequences of over consumption.” North Carolina has a lot of potential for implementing renewable and efficient en-
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tions, which ranged from Germany’s role in sanctions against Iran to European expansion into Turkey. Sander also answered several questions about Germany’s dwindling population. “We will have trouble finding a workforce in a couple years,” Sander said. In the end, most students left more informed about Germany’s role in the world. Ryan Smith, a senior in nuclear engineering, said although he came for class credit, he found the talk interesting. “It was very informative,” Smith said. “I’m in a class similar to what he was talking about. It was nice to see his input as a German representative.” Braunbeck said she was impressed by Sander’s presentation. “I thought it went really, really well,” Braunbeck said of the talk. “He adds a lot of depth to his view because he’s been a diplomat for so long. He looked back into history to see the big picture.”
ergy sources, especially wind power, according to Howe. Howe said he is concerned for the future because House Bill 298 is being debated in N.C. legislature. According to Howe, if the bill is passed, it will nullify the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard of 2007. Howe said WESA partners with a new student group called Fossil Free during Earth Week. Fossil Free is dedicated to 100 percent renewable and sustainable energy initiatives at N.C. State. The group is participating in a global day of action against Arctic drilling Thursday. Those who are interested are encouraged to meet on the lawn by the Wolf Ears at noon.
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Technology takes jobs, gives them back, professor says Tim Gorski Staff Writer
The theme of advanced machinery ending mankind’s prosperity is prominent in science fiction, and is symbolized by evil, artificial intelligence such as HAL 9000, from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Skynet, from the Terminator series. In reality, machines taking jobs from human laborers has been a prominent occurrence in recent years, causing many in the manufacturing sector to lose their jobs.
However, an N.C. State professor is trying to dispel the idea that technology is bad for the economy and job growth. �Mike Walden, the William Neal Reynolds Professor and North Carolina Cooperative Extension economist, recently explored the effects of technology outsourcing jobs. Walden found that in the short term, mechanization will cause a decrease in available jobs, but thereafter the market will produce more jobs for people to take. History is filled with numerous occasions in which
new technologies have caused a decrease in the necessity for human labor, or eliminated the need for human labor outright. From the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture, to the widespread use of factories to produce goods, technology has always made it easier for a smaller amount of people to do more with their time. This has led to an increase in total production of goods, and a greater net wealth for consumers and producers.
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The prosperity people all around the world today enjoy is due in great part to the role of technology bearing a greater burden of human labor. However, as useful as new methods of production have become, humankind has not always welcomed the spread of new technologies with open arms for fear these innovations may threaten their job security. The negative effects of new methods production are particularly debilitating when they eliminate the need for a human laborer. In recent times, the fear that a robot may one day take your job has become greater than ever. Surprisingly, skilled labor is
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Regarding whether machines will destroy the need for human labor or not, Walden said, “I think new industries and new jobs will be generated, as in the past.” In an article concerning this matter Walden wrote, “The productivity, income and wealth created by machines and technology generated resources and spending in new endeavors, and these endeavors, in turn, created new jobs.” According to Walden, the birth of new jobs in the place of ones lost to technology has been the trend throughout history, and there is no indication that it will end anytime soon.
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often at just as much of a risk for technological outsourcing as the more mundane tasks. Andrew McAfee, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-author of the book Rage Against the Machine, said at a conference that workers in fields such as accounting, law, and auto-work could end up jobless at the hands of new genuinely intelligent machines such as IBM’s Watson. However, Walden is not as worried as many that the effects of technology will take away all opportunities for human labor. He, like many other economists, supports the theory that while much work will be replaced by machines, labor will more or less shift to different areas.
Gov. Pat McCrory and other Republican leaders are trying to change state taxes by proposing to lower the state’s corporate and individual income tax rates. According to the News & Observer, past governors and other leaders have tried to reform taxes, but have been unsuccessful due to opposition from groups claiming that lower corporate taxes will only detriment the poor and help out the rich of the state. However, GOP leaders such as Representative Tom Murry (R-Wake), primary sponsor of House Bill 642, want to change the tax code. Since North Carolina has a higher corporate tax rate than
other states in the South, the bill aims to make more businesses chose North Carolina over states like Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee when deciding to relocate or establish a new company location. The bill aims to make North Carolina corporation friendly by proposing that the state should lower their state corporate tax rate from 6.9 percent to 4.9 percent. Universities and other government-funded organizations may feel the impact from government funding if certain taxes are lowered, since taxes are one of the main ways governments generate revenue. Leaders may have to seek alternatives for raising revenue, like raising other current
taxes (sales tax, for example) on different products across the state. Gov. McCrory and other Republican leaders have not reached an agreement on how much they want to reduce some of North Carolina’s tax rates by, but some leaders have claimed that they want to see the individual and corporate taxes completely removed. According to the Tax Foundation, North Carolina’s corporate tax rate currently ranks 24th lowest among states levying corporate income taxes. The top rate for individual income tax in North Carolina is at 7.75 percent, which ranks 10th highest among states levying an individual income tax.
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Increasing NC sales tax: Levying a dry levee 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.
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uesday, Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political group, announced its $500,000, 90-day campaign encouraging North Carolina lawmakers to simplify tax code. Additionally, the group aims to at least decrease, if not completely eliminate, personal and corporate income taxes. Though Gov. Pat McCrory’s budget director, Art Pope, said McCrory has never called for eliminating the corporate income tax, McCrory expressed interest in eliminating income taxes during his campaign. If passed, we would join Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming as the eighth income tax-free state. “With high income tax rates, a crippling franchise tax and a reckless and random local privilege tax, North Carolina taxes citizens and businesses too much and makes the tax code too confusing,” AFP President, Tim Phillips, said.
AFP’s “tax less, tax fair, tax simple” slogan sounds appealing but the state would have to make up for this lost revenue in some way. The group suggested “a broad-based sales tax that treats all sales equally,” according to PR Web. By “[treating] all sales equally,” items like clothing, non-prescription drugs and groceries will no longer be eligible for special, lower taxes. “Raising the sales tax on food from 2 percent to 8 percent would add $312 to the annual grocery bill for someone who spends $100 a week on food at the supermarket,” according to Laura Leslie of WRAL. This will no doubt hurt the 18 percent or 1.7 million of North Carolinians who live in poverty. Budget director Pope previously served as an AFP board member, but does not entirely agree with AFP’s campaign. As reported by
The News & Observer in January, “Pope cited concern that the higher sales tax is ‘absolutely no doubt’ regressive, meaning it would hurt low-income taxpayers the hardest.” The motives behind AFP’s tax code generally sound noble, but — for once — we’re with Pope on this one. If a family is struggling just to afford groceries, it is even less likely to have the financial ability to send its children to college. Right now, as college affordability wanes out of the scene and student loan debt reaches an all-time high, considering college if you can barely afford to eat becomes a distant dream. We’re not arguing that this proposed tax code would eliminate teams of college applicants, but it further discourages the discouraged. It doesn’t take a college degree to understand
that. By making it harder for parents to afford to send their children to college, AFP’s proposed tax reform contradicts the idea that all qualified North Carolinians should be able to earn a college degree. Those of us who are already in college will also feel the sting of the increased sales tax which, according to Pope, amounts to a gross income tax “without any regard to whether you are making money.” Because we college students are trying to put ourselves through school, many of us—71 percent of all college undergraduates in the United States —only have time for a part-time job, if any job at all. Therefore, it would benefit us if we were taxed proportionately on the little money we do make rather than increasing the tax on the groceries we have to buy. If decreasing income tax means increasing sales tax, AFP is “for prosperity” only in name.
Compassion, not victimization, should lead to mourning for Boston
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be in anguish regarding the loss of life, though the feeling is present. If this were fundamentally the basis of our grieving, we would be grieving a lot more, even if we decided that grieving need not be directed toward any but our own. Rather, our selective mourning tendency is best explained as anguish regarding victimization. A sense of “it is so horrible that innocent people died” is not enough to generate the national sentiment that was generated on Monday and after; the outburst of lamentations seen across social media, and to a lesser extent in “the real world,” also needed the feeling of “how could such a thing possibly happen to us?” We are fortunate that such things do not happen to us frequently — because of that, shock is natural — and sadness is a legitimate response for such events. However, it seems that our grieving depends on being disturbed by a sense of victimization. This not only makes the terrorism successful, but also makes us ignore the 22 veterans that kill themselves every day. Though innocent civilians were definitely victimized in Boston, there are many other tragedies going on, both at home and abroad. Feeling victimized as a people due to this incident is about as reasonable as feeling victimized about someone in our family catching a cold when people in families all around are getting pneumonia. Being upset about this unfortunate event is perfectly fine, and perhaps
even necessary to take action about it. But retaining some perspective about the situation would lead one to find it unreasonable if all the healthy people ignore all the cases of pneumonia, both in their families and in other families, and focus just on that one unfortunate case of the cold. It is with such a sense of unreasonable victimization that Americans have grieved about the Boston blasts. A sense of victimization, even when not accompanied by contradiction and insularity, breeds an attitude of entitlement. Which, given enough power, leads to war. Which leads chaos and disintegration. Which leads to Monday in Baghdad. Which should remind us that though we suffer, in the grand scheme of things, we of all people are not the tragic victims, and that there is much more suffering going on (both within and beyond our borders) than three people dying in Boston. Grieving for the deceased and wounded is noble, but less so if it stems from and results in a myopic sense of victimization. True nobility would lie in forbearingly being able to face up to our loss, while maintaining an understanding that our suffering is minor compared to that going on elsewhere … sometimes in part due to ourselves. Those who died in Boston were likely the center of the lives of many of us, but we as a whole are not the center of the world.
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tartup companies are an important cog in the wheel of economy for any country, more so for the ecosystem they are a part of. The startup boom has been accelerated by the growth of Internet. A vast majority of the startups are in the technology industry Naman itself, Muley Staff Columnist woven around social media. The high reachability allows startups to stay close to their revenue — the consumers. Startup companies do not form the high density cycles of the ecosystem they are a part of. They are those pieces of the jigsaw which are annoyingly necessary but often out of sight. Once the idea is implemented, you tend to feel, “Oh! How good that someone did that.” One needs to look at startups from the vantage point of a potential consumer to make sense of their position in the industry. Startups are, above all, problem solvers., but not just any general problem — the ones that need getting hands dirty. They are the ones that you shun subconsciously. You don’t want to solve that problem yourself but wish that somebody could do that for you. That is the mental block that startups exploit and founders make fortune out of. Take Paypal or Airbnb, both of which solved
problems that have existed for a long time. Online payments were insecure and a complex puzzle that needed someone to get their hands dirty and figure out all the legal entanglements. Paypal got on to that and made a fortune. Incidentally, Paypal’s co-founder Elon Musk is the real life equivalent of Iron Man. The physics genius also co-founded SpaceX, a company that makes rockets, along with Tesla Motors which makes electric cars. Airbnb, or Air Bed and Breakfast, took a simple idea — a marketplace for people to rent out homes and spare rooms as if they were hotels — and turned it into a revenue-generating business. Startups cannot take on mainstream problems. The big sharks will corner them out economically. There are exceptions, like Google and Facebook, but they were riding on the wave of a completely new paradigm. They had the advantage of being the first explorers. Most startups now take up those small problems that are big enough to get the bucks out of the pocket, yet small enough that big companies will spend their human resource and advertising budgets on them. Startups are agile and free from the shackles of management structures. This gives them the freedom to max out on solving problems, something that the mid-size and higher companies take a lot of strategizing with. There is a whole ecosystem in place for anyone willing to start a startup company. Venture Capitalists and Startup Accelerators act as catalysts. The latter provides guidance to the founders, most of
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whom are youngsters out of college or college dropouts. A startup is not started with the aim of taking over the industry. On the contrary, startups are looking to be acquired by the bigger sharks. Paul Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, the biggest startup school in United States and the co-founder of one of the first startups, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo. He talks extensively of the nature of startups in his book Hackers and Painters and observes that work at startups is more compressed than the work an individual might perform at a big, stable company. Founders typically work hard during a period of a year or two and earn their millions while employees who work for stable companies earn steady incomes in a period of decades. N.C. State has an incubator which adopts startups in their early growth. The N.C. State Technology Incubator nurtures entrepreneurs as they build their businesses. It provides startups with rented office space, conference facilities, laboratories and other amenities that startups require to establish themselves. The Poole College of Management also hosted a Startup Madness March 27 in Hunt Library, where young startups competed and pitched not their ideas or business plans, but working prototypes to a panel of judges. Startups require qualities from founders that are found rarely — street smartness, determination and foresight. If you have a great idea and are willing to work for it, the market is hot for you to make your millions.
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‘42’ entertains but doesn’t knock it out of the park Lauren Vanderveen Staff Writer
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Director: Brian Hegeland Studio: Legendary Pictures
Recovered vintage rolls across the screen of 42 , boldly setting the World War II context and racially-charged tension of the film directed by Brian Helgeland. Following this footage is a freeze frame of Jackie Robinson, whose legendary number for the Brooklyn Dodgers emblazons the film title, charging mid-sprint. It’s a near-perfect shot of how one man challenged the status quo of American baseball by becoming the first African American to play for the major leagues. Though Helgeland occasionally steers 42 into overdramatic feelgood family film territory, solid performances and an inspirational story steadied his hand. Robinson’s journey — fraught with generations of ingrained racism, threats and abuse both in and out of the game — is worthy of at tention. When the Dodgers’ genera l ma nager, Branch Rickey, controversially chooses to champion Robinson, all hell breaks loose. The film’s two-hour running time encapsulates only a short sliver of Robinson’s life, primarily 1947 to 1948. It was during this time that he climbed up the ranks of base-
ball to garner a spot with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In an era when bathrooms and water fountains still hung signs for “Colored Only,” Robinson faced a team and a white general public that resented his placement, merely because of his skin color. This hatred, combined with a scandal that had manager Leo Durocher (Christopher Meloni) fired, left Robinson for the most part alone in the game he loved. To quote Rickey, “We’re a ship with no captain and a typhoon is coming.” With a cadence closer to a 90-year-old bulldog than an actual person, Harrison Ford gives us Rickey. The jury is still out on whether Ford was the best casting choice here, but he gets the job done well enough. However, t he re’s no arguing with the decision to have Chadwick Boseman portray the late Robins on . Ev e n with the immense challenge of living up to Robinson’s persona, Boseman’s own commanding presence onscreen is undeniable. Standard, blocky lines stunted the actor at times, but his heart-wrenching, an-
“Boseman’s own commanding presence onscreen is undeniable.”
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Chadwick Boseman steps up to the plate as Jackie Robinson in a scene from 42. The film chronicles Robinson’s rise to fame as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
gry release following the crucial scene where the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies taunts Robinson on the field is pure acting prowess. The unwaveringly supportive and quick-witted wife of Robinson, Rachel, is sufficiently played by Nicole Beharie. The dynamic between the two is endearing and understated. If baseball is the foundation of the film, then their love story is the backbone. There’s something nostalgic and classically American about the roar of a crowd, the scent imagery of mowed grass and hotdogs, the hilariously strange analogies of commentators like Red Barber (John C. McGinley). Even the non-sports fans, such as
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I, will end up loving the game of baseball after seeing 42. The crack of one of Robinson’s home-runs also does the trick. Several side characters, such as the reporter Wendell Smith (Andre Holland) and future baseball player Ed Charles (Dusan Brown) as a kid, directly demonstrate Robinson’s influence on other African Americans during the time. Still, I would have liked a better sense of who Robinson actually was, what it really cost him to remain silent in the face of his adversaries and be the better man. The over-dramatization of certain aspects of the plot, complete with soaring My Dog Skip-
esque music, made generic what could have been a gritty testimonial to Robinson’s struggle. The arrival of the film’s final scene of Robinson, in which he makes a victorious home-run lap in slowmotion, is a perfect example of this. It will either be excruciating or empowering, depending on how you felt about the film as a whole up until that point. 42, though honorable and generically safe, missed its opportunity to celebrate the legendary Jackie Robinson in a tour de force film.
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Frank Vignola: musician, comedian, showman Joseph Cabaniss Staff Writer
Arts N.C. State invited virtuoso guitarist Frank Vignola to Titmus Theatre for a concert. Instead, Vignola gave the audience a full-on performance. Vignola delivered a show reminiscent of gypsy street performances. Ba lanced in even proportions were his raw and unchallenged skills with the guitar and his almost-cheesy sense of humor. Vignola was unafraid to dance badly, play beautifully and mock his sidekick, Vinny Raniolo. As he began a rendition of
Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake ACT I Finale,” he and rhythm guitarist Raniolo began to prance around, leaping into the air and lunging across t he stage without skipping a beat. While playing Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E Minor,” the t wo began to stand on one foot. They played perfectly in rhythm as they hopped about, try-
ing to knock the other over at various points throughout the piece. Comedy never took a back seat to the music. Vignola passed freely from song to song, playing around with Beethoven’s Fi f t h a nd dramatically breaking into Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” Vignola exercised his flexibility with the guitar by taking suggestions
“Vignola was unafraid to dance badly, play beautifully and mock his sidekick.”
during the intermission and encouraging the audience to sing along to his lyrical songs. Raniolo always seemed uninformed of Vignola’s antics and jokes. When Vignola would jump, Raniolo had to watch and follow, when Vignola nudged him, he had to make time to nudge him back. He was always a step behind with their skits, but when they played guitar, he was unafraid to surge sideby-side with Vignola in playing high-speed and complex riffs. Jokes aside, Vignola and Raniolo are both exceptional guitarists. Jazz guitar legend Les Paul has named Vignola
as one of his top five admired guitarists. Vignola played on a regular basis with Paul while he lived in New York, and he dedicated a song to his fellow musician in the middle of the performance. Vignola played on a beautiful guitar with a cut-out classical body, a black wooden pick guard, an electrical pickup at the fret board position and chrome frets. Even the paint job was impressive, a Flame Maple reminiscent of the original Les Paul guitars. Raniolo played a steel-string guitar with a blue rosette inlay. Vignola showed on stage that he was not a musician,
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a comedian or a virtuoso; he was something more. He was a showman. Vignola exercised unbelievable skill with a guitar, but it was not for the purpose of playing the instrument or testing his limits. Vignola was playing to entertain the audience, a feat he could not have done better.
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“natural play opportunities and educate parents and teachers about the advantages of outdoor play for children,” Julie Murphy, an N.C. State alumni and design assistant for NLI said. Students were also given pine trees at the event, which they could take with them and plant. Freshman Morgan McNeil, a genetics major, said she could not wait to go home and plant her pine tree. “I think it’s important to let people learn about the environment through things like planting initiatives,” McNeil said. I’ve always loved Earth Day because we get to plant
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Turner is essential to the team’s success. He gets on base nearly 50 percent of the time with a 48.9 on base percentage. And when he’s on base, he has the ability to steal almost at will, putting himself in scoring position. Turner is a special athlete. Depending on how his ankle heals, Turner will find success at any level of baseball in which he plays. He and many of the players for State have promising careers ahead of them — but Turner takes the cake, or base.
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Sophomore shortstop Trea Turner throws the ball during the N.C. State victory over Virginia Tech on April 5, 2013.
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lot of things that happen a lot quicker in the game of fast-pitch and you have to be perfect.”
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Rychcik: a hit in first season Jeniece Jamison
Moore names Nikki West women’s basketball associate head coach Newly appointed N.C. State head coach Wes Moore announced Wednesday that Nikki West has been named associate head coach for the Wolfpack women’s basketball program. West served on Moore’s coaching staff at Chattanooga for the last nine seasons, including six years as an assistant coach before being elevated to associate head coach her final three seasons with the Lady Mocs. At Chattanooga, West played a key role in winning seven Southern Conference titles, and making eight postseason appearances, including five NCAA Tournaments. In nine seasons with West on staff, the Lady Mocs earned 25 first-team AllSoCon selections. Additionally, UTC had five SoCon Tournament MVPs and 23 all-tournament selections dating back to 2004-05. The Lady Mocs had a record of 22068 (76.3 percent) with West on the sidelines. A native of Seneca, S.C., West led Seneca High School to the state championship her senior year. In June 2011, she married UTC football assistant coach Marcus West. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Wrestling sends five to U.S. nationals N.C. State wrestling will be traveling to Las Vegas this weekend to compete in both the U.S. Senior Nationals and the FILA Junior Nationals. In the freestyle wrestling format, the top seven finishers in each weight class will qualify for the World Team Trials. Nick Gwiazdowski will be competing in the U.S. Senior Nationals at 120 kg, 264.5 lbs, and he enters as the seventh seed. The Pack will also have four grapplers compete in the FILA Junior Nationals, which is for athletes born between 1993 and 1995. Freshman Tyler Hunt and Cohl Fulk will both be in the 66 kg, 145.5 lbs, weight class, sophomore Thomas Gantt at 70 kg, 154.25 lbs, and sophomore Ryan Fox at 74 kg, 163 lbs. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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In his first season at the helm, softball head coach Shawn Rychcik has already changed the aurora around the program. He is turning a desolate team into a confident bunch that believes it can compete with anyone in the country. This season, the Wolfpack is holding a 23-18-1 record and is at .500 in Atlantic Coast Conference competition. State is also leading the conference in home runs this season. When Rychcik arrived in Raleigh after serving as Boston University’s head coach, he planned on building a program that revolved around fast base runners and players that are self-motivated. During his time in Boston, Rychcik learned that it’s better to rest his players rather than use all of the allotted time toward preparation on the field. He adapted this strategy to State and this, according to Rychcik, has led to positive results for the Wolfpack. Rychcik never had a losing season in his eight years as a head coach. Senior outfielder Catlin Dent, who was recently named an ACC Player of the Week, said Rychcik has brought out the best in her and the rest of the team by being a great motivator. “He’s just very motivational and very uplifting,” Dent said. “He keeps calm and we all know that he believes in us. In practice
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Senior outfielder Bethaney Wells screams as she stops at third base after a double by N.C. State against UNCChapel Hill April 13, 2013. Wells went 1-for-3 with two earned runs in the Wolfpack’s 11-8 win against the Tar Heels at Dail Stadium.
he pushes us to the next level. He has definitely just been that inspiration, that motivator that we’ve needed.” Dent’s batting average increased from .213 last season to .298 in the 2013 campaign. She’s also hit 10 home runs through this season after hitting a career-high of four in 2012. “He just has always took me off to the side and talked to me and motivated me in a way that he believes in me and saw the potential that I’ve had in playing,” Dent said. “He’s always uplifted me and encouraged me.” He was also considered one of the
best fast-pitch men’s softball players in the world. Over a 23-year career, Rychick won three International Softball Congress World titles and was named the United States Olympic Committee men’s fast-pitch player of the year twice. “I loved it. I played college baseball,” Rychick said. “I had the opportunity to play and make the national team. I grew up with the sport. My dad played it, so I grew up with it my whole life.” Rychcik said men’s fast-pitch softball is more difficult than playing baseball. Men do play on the same
sized diamond, but the pitching mound and fences are sometimes further than a traditional softball field. “I watched a double-play in baseball yesterday take 10 minutes to turn,” Rychcik said. “People are waiting and waiting. You get a onehop hit in softball and you can’t even turn a double-play. “The pitching is 15 feet closer. Reaction time as a hitter is onethird of a second less. There are a
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There is an “I” in team: Trea Turner Jonathan Stout Senior Staff Writer
As the old saying goes, “There’s no ‘I’ in team.” In the case of the N.C. State baseball team, this saying is far from the truth. Sophomore star shortstop Trea Turner missed 10 games this season, 11 away from the field, with a severe high ankle sprain. The team finished 5-5 in Turner’s absence. With Turner in the lineup, the team has excelled, with a 24-5 record. Turner leads the team with a .420 batting average, 5 home runs, 15 stolen bases and a .670 slugging percentage, and is second on the team with 29 RBIs — an RBI per game average. In 63 games last season, all starts for Turner, he finished with a .336 batting average, 43 RBIs and 5 home runs, the same number of homers through 29 games this season for Turner. The All-American suffered his injury March 8 in the late innings against Clemson in the opening Atlantic Coast Conference series matchup for the season. Turner returned March 23 in the second game of a doubleheader against Virginia, replacing redshirt freshman designated hitter Brian Taylor. He went 0-2 with an RBI in his first action since the injury. Since his return to the lineup, and the field at shortstop, State is 11-1. Head coach Elliott Avent and
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Sophomore shortstop Trea Turner catches a ground ball against Villanova Feb. 21, 2013. Turner went 2-for-3 with 1 earned run in the Wolfpack’s 14-3 win against the Wildcats at Doak Field at Dail Park.
the rest of the team, as well as the rest of the sports world, would say that one player can’t change the outcome of a game. But the sad truth is that State is an average team without Turner. He can hit, get on base, field almost any ground ball hit his way and is among the fastest players in collegiate baseball, if not the fastest. Without Turner, State fell to UNC-Greensboro. Yes, UNC-G of the Southern Conference that has a record of 17-20, who sits second to last in their conference.
Perhaps the preseason rankings were a bit too high for a team that lost many great starters, resulting in a lot of pressure on sophomore ace pitcher Carlos Rodon, catcher Brett Austin, outfielder Jake Fincher and Turner. The team went on a 5-5 slump without Turner. Slumps happen to every team, but stats don’t lie. The numbers show that the team struggles to score without the Lake Worth, Fla. native. In Turner’s absence, through 10 games, the team averaged 4.5 runs
per game. Through the 29 games that he participated in, the team averages 7.2 runs per game. State could go on another slump, they could lose 10 games in a row with Turner in the lineup, but it’s a doubtful scenario. There are few players in the history of sports who could carry a team that without them would completely crumble — Turner is one of them.
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