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Thousands of members of the Wolfpack community came to the Court of North Carolina to celebrate the 12th annual Art2Wear fashion show Thursday night.

Organizers replanted the show in the Court, moving it from the Reynolds Coliseum, where the fashion show was held for the past three years. Festivities were centered around the runway, which was covered by a white tent, and organizers said they hoped this layout attendees would be able to enjoy a more intimate experience.

The event was the culmination of hundreds of hours of work put forth by 10 designers and more than 100 student volunteers working as publicists, directors, models, animators and coordinators. Art2Wear exhibited eight collections of art pieces celebrating the “Hypernatural,” a theme several attendees said was complimented by the outdoor environment.

“The runway is closer to the audience. It makes people feel like they are really part of the runway show,” Sarah Cannon, a junior in art design and textile technology and Art2Wear designer, said. “People sitting in the front rows could have probably touched the models, which is awesome.”

Among those in the front rows sat Chancellor Randy Woodson, who said the show and the students’ yearlong effort represented some of the best aspects of the University.

“Art2Wear represents two things that N.C. State really stands for — the entrepreneurship of these amazing students and creativity,” Woodson said. “This was amazing. I loved the venue and I was very excited to have it on the Court of Carolina....

It was a great night.”

Other attendees enjoyed the feeling of community organizers helped to cultivate.

“It’s really exciting to be around

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all these people that have the same passion and drive for fashion that I have,” Davis Derrcio, a freshman in fashion and textile management, said.

For organizers such as Katie Scheuerle, a sophomore in design studies, the feeling after the show was certainly one of excitement, but also one of relief and pride.

“All the planning that goes into it is rough, but it’s worthwhile in the end to see all these people entertained by the designers and the production that we put on,” Scheuerle said. “It’s awesome. It makes me feel happy. I love it.”

According to Marvin Malecha, the dean of the College of Design, the effort of students such as Scheuerle as well as the advice from new faculty members such as Katherine Diuguid, an assistant professor of art and design, and Justin LeBlanc, an assistant teaching professor in art and design, helped to take the production of this year’s Art2Wear to glamorous new heights. “[At Art2Wear,] you get to see the imagination of these students,” Malecha said. “This is a student-run event. We provide some guidance.

We provide some help, but they direct it. They are designing. They are doing it. This is the students’ work and [events such as this] give me faith in the future and that is what makes me so proud to be dean.”

For many designers, participating in Art2Wear has been a longtime goal. Earlier this spring, designer Jennifer Werkhoven a junior in industrial design, said participating in Art2Wear would be “the craziest, greatest thing” she had ever done.

Thursday, she did it.

“I’m starting to feel really tired, but I’m on top of the world,” Werkhoven said.

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(Top) A model shows off a design made from wood. (Above) Elizabeth Rich, a model in Art2Wear, gets makeup applied during the preshow routine. (Right) A design

by Sarah Cannon is modeled at Art2Wear in the Court of North Carolina April 25. This was Cannon’s third consecutive year participating in Art2Wear.

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Researchers predict active hurricane season Staff Report

statisticians and we work together with other departments,” said Montserrat Fuentes, professor of statistics. “I bring in the stats and Xie brings in the science.”

According to Fuentes, the team used data and relationships from the past 100 years to come up with accurate data for their project. Fuentes said it is much more informative to use an interval than a hard number when predicting a hurricane forecast.

This year’s hurricane season, lasting from June 1 to Nov. 30, is expected to be more active than the past few seasons, according to Professor Lian Xie in the department of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences.

The department of statistics and the MEA department have come together to determine the forecast for the upcoming hurricane season.

“The bottom line is that we’re the only team that has

UGA offers undocumented immigrants “Freedom” of educ

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In response to legislation that barred undocumented immigrants from attending universities in Georgia, prominent educators from around the country have come together to establish Freedom University.

Freedom University was founded in 2011 by five professors at the University of Georgia who were appalled with legislation which banned immigrants without documentation from attending a public institution.

Since then its faculty has expanded drastically and includes prominent educators such as the Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz, a creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Silvia Marina Arrom, a professor of history at Brandeis University; and Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, an associate professor of history and director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the University of Con-

necticut. The program includes a list of other distinguished faculty members.

These faculty members volunteer their time and work to provide a quality education to those who have been denied the ability to get one by traditional means.

Freedom University’s teaching practices also vary slightly from those of a regular university.

For example, it offers four classes with about four students in each course, according to organizers for the university. The program also does not reveal the location of classes to the general public, likely for safety concerns.

Professor Overmyer-Velázquez said many of the students who are enrolled in the university commute to class from across the state. Like the professors, many of these students hold jobs during the week, so the classes are held on the weekends.

The program offers scholarships and other forms of funding for stu-

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dents to help pay for tuition.

To qualify, one must be foreign born, not in possession of a green card, must demonstrate financial need and cannot be enrolled in a fouryear college or university.

The college has not received accreditation, so courses that students attend are not likely to count as transfer credit at other universities.

The policy of denying higher education to undocumented immigrants is a controversial, as the bill was passed to make sure that undocumented immigrants would not take up all of the seats in institutions such as the University of Georgia.

This law passed despite evidence from a study released by the Board of Regents of UGA that found that undocumented immigrants made up less than one percent of the students who attend an institution of higher education in Georgia when the legislation was passed.

This law has outraged many activist groups, such as the Georgia Undocumented Youth A lliance, which advocates for the right to an education regardless of legal status. This

3:28 P.M. | B&E - VENDING MACHINE Harrelson Hall Report of unknown subject tacking items from vending machine. Suspect was not employee of vending company.

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raduate student in Horticulture Science Junyan Zhou cuts a section of bamboo in front of Kilgore Hall on Tuesday April 23. Zhou is part of Professor Will Hooker’s Small Scale Residential Landscaping studio.

This class has been working for weeks on designing and creating a large bamboo Dragon sculpture for the J.C. Raulston Arboretum Gala. Students had to design the dragon, chop down, clean, and cut the bamboo, assemble the dragon and paint it. The Dragon will be transported to the Arboretum on Friday.

organization supported the of the United States seems DREAM Act, which the U.S. to be a very difficult task, as Senate failed to pass in 2010. the average amount of time Many of the professors who it takes to obtain legal status volunteer and teach at Free- is 10 years, according to the dom University have found United States Citizenship it to be a highly rewarding and Immigration Service. experience Despite the and find the controversy rhetoric used and the to discourtroubles that age the right accompany to an educaFreedom tion as falUniversity, lacious and profesMark Overmyer-Velázquez unfounded. sors professor at UCON Many of the who characterwork izations, which are errone- with the program enously attributed to the Latino courage students to community, are “myths born challenge themselves, of old prejudices,” according strive for an education to Overmyer-Velázquez. and engage in activism “I learned as much from to help their cause. them as they learned about me,” OvermyerVelázquez said, when spe a k i ng about t he “very smart and courageous” students who have shared their experiences about crossing the border while searching for more opportunities and economic prosper- Sunday, April 28 at 4pm ity. To him, being able to Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre work with these students This free concert will include despite “oppressive, re- a wide variety of original brass quintet literature and classic strictive laws is extremely transcriptions. intense and gratifying.”

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4:20 P.M. | WEAPONS VIOLATION Park Shops Report of subject with bag containing swords. Officers located student in possession of swords to be used for props in acting scene. Swords were confiscated and student was referred to the university.

“[Undocumented students] have a message, political power and a voice that people will listen to,” Overmyer-Velázquez said.

“I learned as much from them as they learned about me.”

5:21 P.M. | CIVIL DISTURBANCE Nelson Hall Officers responded to student who became upset while studying for exam. Counselor was contacted.

5:24 P.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST College of Textiles Units responded to student in need of medical assistance.

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Taking to the street, with art Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer

On Valentine’s Day, the Free Expression Tunnel hosted a massive piece of art dedicated to singles everywhere: it featured a shark and read, “Love Bites.” When students stopped to marvel, few noticed a spray paint-covered Jason Payne standing off to the side watching.

Payne drives a party bus by day and does mostly illegal street-art by night. He spent his first two years as a street artist practicing at the Free Expression Tunnel, and now he’s back to try some of his more ambitious projects there.

A creative child, Payne explained his art career started with stick figure Ninja Turtles that he would draw with friends. “It went from stick figure Ninja Turtles to being able to draw them off the top of my head,” Payne said. “I always liked to draw and create but painting never clicked with me. I was always into pencil drawing and sculpting.”

Payne moved to Raleigh in 2001 to study graphic design at the School of Communication Arts in Wake Forest, but quickly realized that it wasn’t for him.

“There were a lot of things that turned me off about the school,” Payne said. “If I had pursued what I was trying to do at SCA I would have never

picked up on graffiti like I did. I would have never been able to go out and put things up. I would have been stuck inside somewhere.”

According to Payne, it was realizing that he couldn’t work with the traditional methods that pushed him into graffiti. “I lost a lot of my inhibitions on paper,” Payne said. “I hadn’t even started messing with canvas because it seemed like such a daunting task, approaching a blank canvas or page. Even though I felt like I could draw, the medium itself was a challenge.”

Payne explained that, for his process, he approaches his “canvas” with a blank mind and no prior plans. “With any blank area, whether it was an actual canvas or a wall, one of the first things I do now is mar up the space,” Payne said. “A lot of the time I’ll just throw paint on it. I’ll work the wall with different colors, putting it all on there, without a definite plan. It starts coming together and I’ll see things I can do in it.”

According to Payne, it’s important to let an area speak to him. He explained that allowing himself time to soak up the area lets him step back and really understand what he’s working with.

“That was one of the reasons I stopped concept drawing,” Payne said. “When I would come with a plan before the piece, it was frustrat-

ing to have an idea and not be able to watch it come to life.”

Since his first tag in 2004, Payne estimated that he’s done a couple hundred pieces. When he first started, he would go out every day and find something he could do.

“When I first started, it was so exciting that I wanted to go out and put up as much as I could,” Payne said. “It’s always been a combination of both wanting and not wanting people to see my stuff.

Maybe nobody else will ever see it…it’s been a journey.”

According to Payne, much of his inspiration comes from other artists. Juxtapoz, a west coast art and culture magazine, is a main source of Payne’s inspiration.

“I’m visually stimulated by everything in the magazine,” Payne said. He said that he was also inspired by the articles in the magazines, as he found it interesting to read about other artists’ perspectives and takes on life. “It can pull me out of a slump,” he said.

Payne is currently making plans for his biggest project yet: a warehouse five times the size of his “Love Bites,” piece. “It’s exciting,” Payne said. “If everything goes as planned, who knows what will happen. If you go hard with it, network and keep at it, there’s no telling what kind of opportunities will open up for you.”

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“Love Bites,” created by jason Payne on Valentine’s Day of this year in the Free Expression Tunnel.

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Retrospect: A letter from the senior editors

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.C. State and Raleigh are filled with exciting — sometimes obscure — opportunities for exploration. And those experiences outside of the classroom are often the most engaging. The outgoing editors at Technician have compiled a list of ‘Things we wish we would have done’ — and it goes like this …

Art appreciation University Theatre put on two solid shows this semester — both of which sold out. Don’t get us wrong, film screenings at Witherspoon Cinema are fun, but there’s something special about seeing your peers on stage.

The Crafts Center is another resource we wish we would have taken advantage of. It hosted several delightfully quirky opportunities for students (and the public) to learn Chinese brush painting, how to paint cat pictures, pottery — the list goes on.

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.

Coding Chris Bosh, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and other high-profile personalities teamed up for a PSA about the importance of learning how to code. It’s an important skill to have in today’s knowledge-based economy.

SAS, SQL, HTML 5, Java, or even something as simple as Python can go a long way in making students more competitive in the workplace, and better able to execute their own ideas and start webbased businesses.

Several high schools in the nation are now making coding classes mandatory. We think an introductory coding class ought to be a

required course for N.C. State students.

Clubs Take time to find the club that really fits your personality. It could be a sports team such as the Quidditch Club or something as hands-on as Open Hardware Makerspace, there’s one out there that you can really enrich your college experience. Great things can happen at special-interest clubs — things such as Apple.

At the very least, the meetings are a great place to score some free pizza.

By the way, we wish we wouldn’t have eaten so much free pizza.

“we wish we wouldn’t have eaten so much free pizza.”

Soak it in N.C. State has appeared in “Ugliest Campuses” lists — but it’s clear the list makers never set foot in the JC Raulston Arboretum (though it’s remote, it’s still technically part of campus). It’s surprising how many students don’t know about or have never been to the Arboretum.

And when you’ve soaked in enough natural floral scents and colors, trade them for the artificial ones in Downtown Raleigh. And we don’t mean only on Thursday-Saturday night.

Several of these suggestions seem pretty simple and straightforward — but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to do. People often describe the four years at university as a “safe bubble,” but it’s okay for that bubble to burst.

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Reluctant at first, grateful now

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was by no means excited to attend N.C. State when I first got to campus my freshman year. I came in with a poor attitude of pomposity and regret that I didn’t get into UNCChapel Hill.

Short story — I was an ungrateful little punk.

T h at a l l changed Mark when I Herring started Editor-in-Chief working for Technician. I serendipitously showed up to the office on a Sunday night in September my sophomore year, and since then, I haven’t thought about leaving. It seems that circumstance, not choice, orders me to leave the place that has been home for me for the past three years. Though I’m excited to graduate and embark on a new chapter of my life — dental school — I realize I will truly miss the atmosphere of creativity, family and teamwork of Technician.

Working for Technician better acquainted me with student affairs, research and politics at the University, and getting involved with N.C. State made me mature from a little snot into a more humble and mindful person, or so I’d hope.

Being able to report on matters that affect students, higher education, N.C. State and our surrounding Raleigh community has exposed me to people of different walks of life, ways of thinking and supplied me with engaging learning opportunities outside of the classroom — and I

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whether it was editing a column by Ahmed Amer, playing practical jokes amid the rush of deadline, posing for photos in the nude in Chapel Hill (gotta love The Daily Tar Hell) or finding amusement in crappy circumstances.

My advisers and colleagues taught me discipline, but also how to look on the bright side — an often overlooked aspect of journalism.

Through Technician, I found my place at the University, and though I’ve been the orchestrator of much scrutiny and criticism toward the administration and leaders of N.C. State, my motivations come from a place of care and pride. I am proud to represent N.C. State and to have served as the microphone of student concerns, but our University — though great — faces many challenges. Many of my critics consider me to be resentful of N.C. State, but I believe true school spirit entails acknowledging our shortcomings and committing ourselves to improving them. I haven’t been to many basketball or football games, and the frequent use of the word “wolf” on this campus gets on my nerves (Wolfcopy, Wolfprint, Wolf Village…), but I am proud to be a student here, and I will miss this place when I graduate in just a few days.

Looking back on the lessons I learned in college, I’m glad I can identify my former freshman self as a brat. To me, college is not about where you go, but rather what you end up doing while you’re there.

I have Technician to thank.

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am grateful for that. Though my grades in biochemistry and neurobiology might not reflect my natural interest in learning about how things work, Technician has been my outlet for exploration.

I believe that learning entails interaction and communication with people and ideas that I might not always agree with, and I would be leaving this University as a worse student — not gradewise, but in terms of enrichment — without my experiences at Student Media. I have my colleagues, critics, advisers and sources to thank for that.

I admire what journalism stands for, but I’m not a journalism student. My majors are in biological sciences and Spanish, but I believe that journalism can be and should be learned outside of the classroom and in the field.

With that come mistakes and lessons learned. I will be the first to admit to the mistakes I’ve made over the past three years, the misspelled headlines and the stories that I could have better sourced.

But from these mistakes, I have a greater appreciation for accountability. The standards to which I hold those accountable — be it the governor, the chancellor or the student body president — apply to the work I do, and my editorship has humbled me.

Though I take my job at Technician seriously, I am the last to take myself seriously. Working from midday to midnight requires having a sense of humor, and some of the best laughs I’ve had at college were with Technician,

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Government power growth amid tragedies

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s the nation deals with the aftermath of the attack in Boston, Mass. last week, some in the nation’s capital reacted quickly to use t he attacks t o ju s tify their political goals on border Ziyi Mai security Staff Columnist and immigration reform.

On both sides of the aisle, voices have mounted to assert that changes have to be made, from border security and stricter background checks to amnesty, because the two suspects were immigrants from Chechnya.

It’s unfortunate to see that some lawmakers are trying to exploit the tragic events in Boston to advance their legislative agendas, and it doesn’t log ica l ly fol low t hat tightening the measure of national security and applying stricter rules on the immigration system may restore public’s sense of safety.

The emotional, political arguments haven’t made much sense so far. First, the Tsarnaev brothers didn’t sneak across the border to get into the U.S., nor were they here illegally. Second, none of the “new security” measures in the Senate immigration bill, such as biometric exit, would have helped to

better track the terrorists.

Instead, the Department of Homeland Security admits it knew when the older Tsarnaev brother left the country to travel to Chechnya and Dagestan. In other words, the existing system worked.

We don’t know whether the Tsarnaevs were radicalized before immigrating here or after they came to the United States. Any attempt to relate Boston to argue that we need to strengthen our immigration measures so that we are able to identify “who is here” is simply getting ahead of the facts.

Convent iona l w isdom about preventing an attack is to make sure our intelligence and law enforcement have the resources they need to stop terrorists long before the public is in danger. Tragically, this was not the case in Boston.

It’s an unfortunate reminder of the fact that no matter how good our counterterrorism efforts are, we will never be able to stop every threat.

The FBI interrogated the elder Tsarnaev brother a couple of years ago, but it didn’t notice anything suspicious.

Our intelligence and law enforcement know what they are doing. Indeed, their actions have been vital in busting most of the 54 Islamist terrorist plots foiled since 9/11.

Do these attacks imply that we need more government power to protect us, or should we treat them as daily accidents like car crashes?

We are falling into a di-

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lemma. On one hand, if we demand more governmental power to prevent these tragedies, our society would be turning into a police state in which the police force is the largest terrorist group. On the other hand, suppose we follow our due process of law and limit the police power as we usually do; we certainly cannot prevent every attack.

Intelligence agents should not bear the blame at this point.

While most of the witnesses of the Boston attack are still traumatized, emotionally and physically, it’s understandable that they demand more in terms of security.

But they should also be reminded that what builds a great and peaceful society is not police force, but the rule of law, which can’t prevent all the crimes or tragedies, but can bring the responsible to justice.

The danger of an abusive government power always outruns the danger of those terrorist attacks. No matter how much money and manpower we pour into the counterterrorist cause, it’s still impossible to eliminate every plot. We are better off not eroding our rights by granting the government more power.

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Acappology bursts back on campus EVENT INFO:

Nikki Stoudt Life & Style Editor

Acappology, one of N.C. State’s coed a cappella groups, will host its spring concert after almost a year-long hiatus at 7 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday in the Hunt Library auditorium.

Last May, the group lost most of its members to graduation and began what Jessica Lucas, a senior communication-public relations and president of Acappology, called “a rebuilding year.”

“On top of nearly everyone graduating, we were all so busy,” Lucas said. “When we got back to school after summer break, we realized we had a lot of catching up to do.”

According to Lucas, even scheduling day performances was challenging.

“It’s a miracle we can even get together to rehearse,” Lucas said. “Imagine scheduling a weekly group project meeting with 14 people.”

Though faced with a much younger group, a lost performance space as a result of the closing of Stewart Theater and a newer, more challenging set list, Lucas said Acappology didn’t just lie low.

“We really made the best of it all,” Lucas said. “The group really came together even though four of us had never been in any kind of a cappella group.”

Between Nov. 2 and Nov. 4, Acappology competed in the 10th Annual SoJam A

When: Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m.

Where: Hunt Library Auditorium Tickets: $5 for students, $8 for general public

Cappella Festival in Raleigh.

According to Lucas, the group dedicated most of its rehearsal time this semester to perfecting its music set for the festival.

“SoJam, it’s a pretty huge deal in the A cappella community,” Lucas said. “We knew it would be a lot of work but that we were up to the challenge. It gave us an opportunity to grow as a group and really work to something substantial. We learned … we learned a lot.”

Though there are four a cappella groups at N.C. State, to Lucas, Acappology stands out among the rest.

“That’s a fairly biased opinion, but I think all groups on campus have personality of their own — they’re all different from each other,” Lucas said. “Some of what sets us apart is our music style.

We do literally all genres, from country to dubstep.”

The group also defies “a cappella norm” in the way they arrange pieces. Some song arrangements come from a single member, but most arrangements are the result of collaborative arrangement sessions.

“I don’t know of any other group that does it this way,”

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The coed a cappella group, Acappology, will be performing Saturday and Sunday after a year-long hiatus. The group defines itself by singing songs from a variety of genres and arranging pieces as a group.

Lucas said. “With us, we all just sit around and make it up as we go. One person will start with the melody and each part just builds from there.”

This style of arranging, Lucas said, caters to each member’s voice and specific talents.

The concert is not just a way to show off this year’s hard work, but the work of years past. Acappology recently released an EP with all new music. Lucas said this was a factor in deciding on the two-

Author recounts tales of Africa Lindsey Schaefer Staff Writer

Elaine Orr, a professor in the department of English, published her first book A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa, earlier this April. It chronicles a young women’s journey from Georgia to the community of the Yoruba people in Nigeria. The story is particularly close to home for Orr, as she also grew up among the Yoruba people.

Orr said the memories of her childhood life in Nigeria with her missionary parents paved the way for the story.

“One of my Nigerian names in Yoruba was Bamidele,” Orr said. “It means ‘Come home with me.’ I always want my readers to follow me home­— “One of my hopes is that to come home with me.” the reader will see the world In the book, the main and our history, the history of character, Emma, takes the the United States and transatadventure and challenge of a lantic history, in a fuller way,” lifetime by traveling to Nige- Orr said. “Not in a way that ria to be a missionary in the you would learn in a history mid-1800s. b o ok , but “It is an in empathy odyssey on with characma ny le vters.” e l s ,” O r r Although said. “Physishe is a procal, spiritual, fessor of marital, inEnglish, Orr ternational.” s a id w r itAs Emma ing her first le ave s her nove l w a s Elaine Orr sheltered still a challife at a women’s college in lenge. According to Orr, novGeorgia and embarks on this el writing is about as related journey, she discovers things to reading novels as studying about herself that transform architecture is to building her and awaken her to the structures. realities of life outside of the “You study buildings from United States. the outside, looking through “She has witnessed the slave rooms, halls and cornices trade in the U.S but doesn’t and that is like reading,” Orr know what it looks like on the said. “Writing is like tearing other side,” Orr said. out the sheetrock and seeing Religion is also an impor- how the wall was built. It is tant theme of the novel, and looking at everything that through the book, Orr ex- reading the novel isn’t necplored how religion can bring essarily supposed to show.” together people of all origins.

Understanding the com-

“I always want my readers to follow me home — to come home with me.”

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plexities and histories of all her characters, as well as formulating empathy for those characters, were all part of Orr’s learning experience.

“As a writer, it expanded me hugely,” Orr said. “I think in order to write fiction, one has to learn great empathy for your characters, even the ones that don’t seem very admirable. You must understand them and why they are behaving why they are. It allowed me to practice greater empathy in my fiction.”

As Orr follows Emma’s journey, she introduces readers not only to the history of Nigeria but also to her own history. Through Emma’s eyes, the reader can sees Orr’s own voyages through the United States and Africa.

“It is always my hope to show the light in Africa, not the darkness,” Orr said. “The title A Different Sun puts a different emphasis on light in Africa.”

night performance.

“Since we didn’t have a fall concert, we wanted to make this one really big,” Lucas said. “Since we’ve released the EP, we haven’t been able to celebrate with anyone.”

According to Lucas, audiences can expect a mix of covers, including Miranda Lambert’s “Gunpowder and Lead,” The Beatles’ “All My Lovin’” and “Warzone” by The Wanted.

The group plans to feature a few new songs as well as bring back some “old favorites.”

There will also be a series of guest groups each night. On Saturday, N.C. State’s Wolfgang and the UNC-Greensboro Spartones will join Acappology, and Sunday’s groups will be Elon’s Twisted Measure and Raleigh’s Cognitive Resonance.

The inclusion of guest groups expands the repertoire and allows audiences to get a broader sense of what a cappella groups can do. According to Lucas, the group has high hopes for the future and for this weekend’s con-

certs.

“It’s a different venue, but it’ll still be a fun concert,” Lucas said. “We’ve waited a long time for this and we’re really excited to be able to show what we’ve been working on all year.”

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Playing trombone in the N.C. State Pep Band, juniors Christian Evaro, medical textiles and Charlie Lin, industrial engineering, perform before the start of the women’s basketball game against Virignia Tech Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.

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Josh Zajdel, a senior in zoology, prepares to turn in his insect collection for grading. “I think I have close to fifty different families in here,” Zajdel said, “it just takes a while to organize and label them all.”

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Ryan Hinds, a sophomore in electrical engineering, and Anna Renfro, a junior in electrical engineering, work on their circuit designs simulating a vending machine at Hunt Library Wednesday, April 24.

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Austin Williams, a senior in animal science and campus connection representative for ESPN U, covers students celebrating at the Bell Tower after the win against No. 1 ranked Duke Jan 12.

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echnician’s photo staff compiled a series of photos from the 20122013 academic year. These photos reflect a year of student life at N.C. State. Activ-

ites range from snowboarding, kyaking, performing in a play and much more. With the close of another school year, we look to next year for a wealth of new, fun activites.

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(Above) Jackson Farley, a junior in mechanical engineering, jumps off of the last jump in the Neff Land terrian park at Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah. Farley went to Park City with 18 other students for spring break March 2-9.

(Right) Tommy Holden helps tie down kayaks to the rack at Lake Raleigh Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Holden took his kayaking class on the lake as a part of the sea kayaking class offered by the Department of Health and Exercise Studies at N.C. State.

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Rhonda Lemon, a senior in mechanical engineering, waits during a 5 minute hold prior to the start of the play “An Inspector Calls,” Feb 13.

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“It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish. But, in this instance it’s quite reverse.

Our futures are unknown and the end of the road is far from sight. So for now it’s all about our beginnings and that one common link we’ve established over the last four years. We’re all part of a Wolfpack that will ride together but in our separate ways upon graduation. It’s been a great ride, but the best is yet to come.”

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Baker eventually closed out the set 6-3 to win her match and clinch the 4-1 victory for the Wolfpack.

“Rachael has thick skin, she’s a tough competitor, and she always wants to know what to do to improve,” head coach Hans Olsen said. “She’s a great source of energy for this team.”

The 8th seeded Wolfpack (14-8, 5-7 ACC) will play the tournament’s No.

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1 seed UNC-Chapel Hill (24-2, 10-1 ACC) on Friday at 9 a.m. at the Cary Tennis Park.

“We’re always improving the process, tactics and mentality that we take into each match,” Olsen said. “That’s normally what we look to do and that’s the approach we’re taking into each day of this tournament.”

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that even the small tasks he was performing impacted the lives of people in the neighborhood as they would walk by and thank him for the work he was doing.

“At the end of [my first] trip, I felt kind of depressed because I couldn’t really help the people,” Watson said.

“But going back this year kind of made a conclusion to that. Because I realized that there is only so much that you can do. Really, it’s taught me that we can never really see the big picture that God is

doing,” Watson said.

As Watson’s college career winds down, he said he is coming to the realization that his time is running out. But he is using his time the best way he can, staying active in the Raleigh community. On Fridays, he volunteers with Athletes in Action downtown in Moore Square, providing hot meals for free to the homeless.

“The things I do may not have a huge impact,” Watson said, “but if it’s just one small thing to change one person’s life, then that’s enough.”

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• Page 6: A Year in Review photo story

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Taking hope into the heart of darkness Nolan Evans Deputy Sports Editor

Imagine you are driving through the business district of Los Angeles. Skyscrapers paint the landscape, wealthy business executives drive beautiful, exotic cars down the streets and the corporate world is operating in a seamlessly American fashion.

Everything seems flawless and picturesque, the way bustling city life is imagined by many.

Suddenly, you cross into the Central City East area of downtown known as Skid Row. Here you discover tent-lined, litterfilled streets. These tents belong to thousands of homeless people — people that are openly urinating and abusing drugs. The air itself has changed scents and you can taste the foul, tart stench.

Sadly, this mental image is, in fact, a reality. N.C. State redshirt senior tight end Asa Watson faced this reality during the summer of 2011 when he traveled there with Athletes in Action, a sports missions group at N.C. State that is geared toward athletes.

Athletes in Action chapters from around the nation travel to Los Angeles each summer for a three-week mission. The athletes break up and go to five different sites around the city to help out at different nonprofits.

Watson was assigned to Skid Row, a location that is estimated to have as many as over 5,000 homeless inhabitants in about four square miles. This area lies just across from a bustling, thriving city.

“It’s like you’re in a third world country,” Watson said. “It’s so

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Senior tight end Asa Watson catches a pass at the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at the Georgia Dome on August 31, 2012. Watson finished the game with four receptions for 50 yards.

crazy. I literally felt like I was in another country and just the next block over, you’re in the business district.”

Watson solemnly described the scene that he witnessed during his time in Los Angeles, but he was able to find the silver lining while pondering on his trip.

“It’s just a devastating place,” he said. “But at the same time, you see people who just love life and love God. People that are more passionate about life than anyone you’ll ever meet. While there was so much bad things and devastation, you still saw hope and you saw people that were trying to change their lives.”

It is in that depiction that Watson clearly displayed his passion for helping others, something he has been doing for a long time.

Watson was raised by parents that were keen on volunteering and helping others. His father was a pastor, so Watson was introduced to ministry-related community service activities from a young age. Likewise, his mother volunteered her time to help those less fortunate or to assist at her son’s school.

When he was in eighth grade, Watson traveled to Belize on his first mission trip. He has since been on several mission trips to various locations and has found a love for helping others.

Watson is very close in his Christian faith and he cites his love of Jesus Christ for the main motivation behind his volunteer work. “Christ always set aside time to feed homeless people, heal the blind, heal the sick and just visit with people,”

Watson said. “As a Christian, we’re called, out of expression of our love for Christ, to reach out to other people.”

It was that spirit that eventually led him to Los Angeles in 2011 and brought him back earlier this year.

Watson spent his spring break participating in the Urban Project’s one-week program in L.A. This time, he was assigned to the community of Compton.

He spent much of his time cleaning up a local playground doing what he described as “yard work.”

When he began his duty, he was upset that he was not able to directly interact with the people he was there to help. Soon enough, he realized

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Sophomore Sophie Nelson waits for her partner, senior Chloe Smith, to serve the ball to Boston College Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Wolfpack defeated the Eagles 4-1 in round one of the ACC Tournament at Cary Tennis Center.

Wolfpack advances in ACC Championships Andrew Schuett Deputy Sports Editor

The N.C. State women’s tennis team advanced to the second round of the ACC Championships on Thursday, beating Boston College by a score of 4-1.

“We know it’s a tough match [against Boston College],” senior Chloe Smith said. “But at the end of the day, we know we can [get the win].”

The Wolfpack, which handily won the team’s lone meeting during the season, came into the match with hopes of advancing to the second round of the ACC Championships for the third consecutive year. This is also the third straight year that State and Boston College have met each other in the first round of the ACC Championships. The Wolfpack was victorious in all three encounters.

State’s No. 1 doubles pairing of senior Tatiana Illova and junior Joelle Kissell put the Pack on the board first. With the match tied at 6-6,

Kissell and Illova won the next two games to finish off the match at 8-6 for the Wolfpack.

State was not as fortunate at No. 2 doubles. The normally reliable duo of sophomores Elisha Hande and Nicole Martinez lost a hard fought match to their opponents by a score of 9-7. This evened the doubles scores at 1-1, with the No. 3 doubles match to decide which team would claim the potentially vital doubles point.

Both teams soon had an answer.

The Wolfpack’s No. 3 doubles team of Smith and sophomore Sophie Nelson took a 6-5 lead and never looked back, closing out the match 8-6.

Smith and Nelson’s win clinched the doubles point for the Wolfpack, giving State a 1-0 advantage in the dual match. The Pack is 14-1 on the season when winning the doubles point.

State continued its dominance in singles play. Illova, ranked 80th in the nation, won her match at No. 2 by a score of 6-3, 6-4. The win,

Illova’s seventh in-conference victory, gave the Wolfpack a 2-0 lead over Boston College.

Smith, playing in her final ACC Championships, was next to finish at No. 3 singles. The Naples, Fla. native also won her match by a score of 6-3, 6-4. “I think I’ve definitely picked it up this past week,” Smith said. “I’m putting it all out there every day and enjoying every time I’m on the court.” Smith’s victory gave State a 3-0 advantage, only needing one more win to cement a berth in the second round.

However, the decisive point would not come at No. 6 singles for the Pack. Martinez fell in straight sets 6-4, 6-4 to give the Golden Eagles their first point of the day.

This proved to be a mere consolation victory for Boston College. After dropping the first set 6-3, freshman Rachael James-Baker took the second set 6-4 and sprinted out to a 5-0 lead in the third set. James-

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n the typical fashion of a senior that has caught an extreme case of senioritis, I forgot I had to write a farewell column. I was watching a mix of Batman cartoons and NFL draft coverage when the fact dawned on me.

T he problem: I had no clue what to write. When I reached out Jeniece to a couple of Jamison buddies that Sports Editor have or will be in the same boat, both said the same thing: “It’ll come to you.”

So if the next 500-600 words of this column turn out to be a chaotic, yet organized, reflection of my thoughts, so be it.

First, thank you Technician for recognizing my achievements in snea kers by aw a rd i ng me the “Flyest Kicks” award last year. I almost shed a tea r on t hat one. That alone was the highest point of my time spent at the publication.

I didn’t know what to expect when I came on staff nearly four years ago. Only two things were certain: I liked writing and basketball.

Instead of doing what any sensible person would’ve done and walked away because of the long

nights and little pay, I stayed. The fact that I could chop it up at least once a week with a group of people that had an affinity for sports kept me around. I’m glad that my foolish freshman mind decided to return to the break room in Witherspoon every Sunday.

Between the late nights and early mornings, weekends covering tournaments and bowl games and reading emails from either a disgruntled or pleased reader, it was all worth it.

I wouldn’t have changed those experiences for anything in the world.

The high point out of that group had to be when Josh Hyatt, Alex Sanchez and I met Dick Vitale at Hooters in Atlanta.

Well, it’s time for the thank you notes. First up, my family. My parents, grandparents, aunt and brother supported me at every step on this journey, and I wouldn’t be here without them.

I honestly don’t think I would love basketball as much as I do if my brother didn’t take me to the park after school in Manhattan when we were supposed to be heading home.

The sports staff had its ups and downs, but I appreciate everything you all have done throughout the year. You guys have worked your butts off, so take a second to pat yourselves on the back. Jonathan Stout, get ready.

“I didn’t know what to expect...

Only two things were certain: I liked writing and basketball”

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