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One-hundred-fifty-eight non-violent protesters have been arrested in the past month—each for proteseting the great number of conservative legislation introduced in the North Carolina General assembly recently.

Moral Monday is a weekly protest of right-wing legislation. The demonstrations are spearheaded by the North Carolina chapter of the NAAC.

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Protests began the week leading up to the first Moral Monday on May 6, and the number in attendance—and arrested—is increasing.

Bryan Perlmutter, a recent graduate in business administration at N.C. State was arrested on April 29 for protesting in the General Assembly. Since then, he has continued to protest, carefully, on Moral Mondays.

“I think we were using a constitutional right to go down and talk to legislatures,” Perlmutter said.

Perlmutter was charged with a

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Moral Monday protestors rallying in downtown Raleigh walk toward the legislative building, led by Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP.

building code violation, second degree trespassing and failure to disperse. He refused to comment on whether he expected to get arrested, but said the protesters all knew there was a chance they would get arrested in protest at the general assembly.

“We were prepared to get arrested if the legislature did not come down and listen to folks, but we were in our constitutional right to be down there,” Perlmutter said.

Perlmutter said he thinks the new policies put forth by state legislators are “regressive,” “extreme” and to some extent, “racist.”

“What we’re trying to do is get legislators to listen to people and to realize that the their policies really only benefit a few people at the expense of the majority,” Perlmutter said.

A legal team that thinks the arrest of non-violent protest violates their

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first amendment rights will represent the protesters and most of those arrested had unsecured bonds that allowed them to make bail.

So far, the NAACP has led Moral Mondays, according to Perlmutter, but several smaller groups across the state included the NC Student Power Union are in coalition with

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Protestors bring Hoffman controversy to Chancellor’s door Jake Moser

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Within the past three months, numerous occasions of robbery and sexual assault have spiked on N.C. State’s campus.

Campus police have utilized additional provisions to respond to the crime increase and investigate the crimes that are still unsolved.

From April 25 to May 5 there were four reported instances of crimes—robbery, sexual assault and an assault on a female.

Marlon Miller, the suspect in the sexual assault case that occurred near the Free Expression Tunnel that occurred on April 25, turned himself in to Wake County officials to face charges of communicating threats, sexual assault and kidnapping this past Sunday.

During the incident, it is alleged that Miller approached a female student on the North side of the Free Expression Tunnel at 4 a.m., pushed the female into the bushes, and sexually assaulted her. Miller allegedly threatened to kill the victim if she screamed.

Miller, 21, lives in Garner less than ten miles away from the location of the incident.

According to Lieutenant Frank Brinkley of the criminal investigation division of the N.C. State Police Department, campus police took extra measures to investigate and help solve the unsolved crimes following that attack.

During that time they increased patrol frequency and the number of private security officers in order to get more eyes

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On April 29, McDonough was arrested along with 17 other people in protest of voter ID bills in front of the N.C. General Assembly along with the NAACP. Back again two days later, McDonough said that given the weather, she was very happy with Wednesday’s turnout.

“I like that we’ve got students from all over the state,” McDonough said.

“That’s what I’m most happy about.”

One such student was Dhruv Patak, a freshman at UNC-Greensboro, majoring in African American studies. Patak also spoke to the group at the Bell Tower. He said the protest represented students fighting for their rights.

“We are the ones who make up the universities,” Patak said. “But we are the ones who have no say.”

The audience cheered.

Protesters left a collection of baby pine trees in front of Chancellor Randy Woodson’s house May 6 in objection to the planned sale of N.C. State’s largest forest.

However, the protest could be a futile attempt to stop University executives from turning a valuable asset into a quick paycheck.

The 80,000-acre Hofmann Forest, owned by the N.C. State Natural Resources Foundation, generates $2 million annually from logging companies and donates the total profit to the N.C. State College of Natural Resources.

Hofmann, which also serves as an outdoor forestry lab, is a testament to sustainability—for every acre that is cut down another acre must be planted.

Mary Watzin, dean of the College of Natural Resources along with the NRF want to sell Hofmann Forest and invest returns in a stock portfolio, despite disapproval from faculty, students and foresters.

The buyer or the price hasn’t been identified, but Watzin and others expect over $100 million.

Ron Sutherland, an N.C. State graduate and conservation scientist for Wildlands Network, led the protesters with the help of four others.

Joe Roise, professor of forestry and environmental resources at N.C. State, participated in the protest as well. He said the event was about sustainability in general, not just the Hofmann sale.

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Organizers protest in downtown Raleigh before marching to the North Carolina General Assembly on May 1. The NC Student Power Union led the protestors who were speaking out against Gov. Pat McCrory’s proposed budget, which recommends $139 million in cuts to the UNC System among other measures.

May Day protestors demand representation Joseph Havey Deputy News Editor

About 200 people gathered at the N.C. State Bell Tower on May 1 to march through downtown Raleigh in protest of various conservative policies, including the Governor’s proposed $139 million in cuts to the UNC System.

Organized by the N.C. Student Power Union, most protesters at the May Day protest were N.C. State students and professors. Students from other universities across North Carolina also joined, but all had the same mission--make their voices heard.

“This [turnout] is great,” N.C. State alumnus Andrew Payne said.

“It’s how students effect change, by turning out and showing up.”

In 2001, Payne, a former N.C. State student body president, organized a similar protest in which ap-

proximately 5,000 people marched against a proposed $125 million in cuts to the UNC System. Payne traveled from New York City, where he currently attends Columbia University, to attend the May Day protest in Raleigh.

“Sometimes the only way to effect change is to show up on [our politicians’] doorstep and bang on the door,” Payne said.

Molly McDonough, a freshman studying women’s and gender studies, said she was frustrated with the governor, who she said thinks her major is “useless.” She also disagrees with a proposed combination of the African American studies department with the women’s and gender studies department at N.C. State.

“I think it’s a reflection of the fact that our administration sees everyone who’s not a straight, white male as the same,” McDonough said. “But they’re not.”

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the protest movement.

“I think people who are from all different issues have come together to see how their struggles are interconnected,” Perlmutter said.

Barbara Zelter, a clinical assistant professor in the department of social work at N.C. State was also arrested April 29. Zelter said she was arrested once before in a different protest but does not agree with the legality of the arrests.

Those arrested April 29 will go to court on June 24. On that day lawyers will challenge the legitimacy of laws

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Josh Warden, a junior in animal science, successfully completes a transfer with a Barred Owl during Raptor Group at Piedmont Wildlife Center. All the raptors are rehabilitated unreleasable birds from the Carolina Raptor Center, and are socialized through handling by the Raptor Group for use at educational events. “These are beautiful and intelligent animals,” Warden said, “I am driven to become an exotic vet to help animals like these, and also to teach others about them.”

that allowed police to arrest the 158 non-violent protesters within the past month.

Zelter and Perlmutter both said the policies not only harm the majority of North Carolinians, but that they are racially charged.

“The voting laws they are proposing are racist laws,” Perlmutter said. “They are specifically targeting people of color that tend to vote against the people who are in office.”

Perlmutter said the majority of North Carolinians who vote on Sunday are African American, and legislators attempted to pass a bill banning votes on that day. Zelter said these voting laws and a legislative attempt to repeal the Racial Justice Act “dis-

proportionately affect people of color” Perlmutter said he thinks a similar sentiment went into gerrymandering North Carolina districts.

“It’s just the totality of things that are unrolling 40 years of progress,” Zelter said.

Zelter said most republican legislators in the General Assembly are part of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that promotes “fundamental principles of free-market enterprise, limited government, and federalism at the state level through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators.”

“This is part of a national extremist agenda and now leaders of our state are push-

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ing that agenda,” Zelter said.

Zelter said getting arrested in protest is more of a consequence than a goal.

Barbara Parramore, a retired professor of education at N.C. State from 1969 to 1996 was arrested on Monday, along with 57 others.

Parramore, 80, said her decision to protest came after seeing one of her students get arrested in one of the Moral Monday protests. She disagrees with a lot of recent legislation, but most fervently disagrees with education reforms.

“I was there because I wanted my presence to indicate to the members of the legislature that I wanted to object to the nature of the laws affecting public education in North

Carolina,” Parramore said.

Parramore said she felt strongly enough about bills expanding charter schools to protest, with the risk of arrest. A proposed second board of education for charter schools would make for a less-inclusive school system, according to Parramore.

She also said legislation to appoint the state superintendant, rather than vote, is unnecessary and takes voting power away from citizens.

Parramore said she had no problem with the arrest process, and has respect for the policemen. However, she said the grounds for arrest are questionable—Parramore said she stood in protest inside the rotunda but did not speak a word.

“It’s the right of the people to assemble in a peaceful way to express concern about an issue that affects the whole state,” Parramore said.

Next Monday is a bye week for those on Moral Monday, but Perlmutter said the first Monday of June is expected to be the largest Monday so far, with an expected 500 people in attendance.

Perlmutter said beyond anything, he just wants his and others’ voices to be heard.

“We went down to the legislature to raise our voices, to demand they listen to us,” Perlmutter said. “Instead of listening to us they decided to arrest us.”

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left campus for the summer.

Despite this fact, investigators are still “making significant progress,” according to Brinkley.

One of the crimes was later found to be in the jurisdiction of city police officials, who said the incident did not occur on campus.

Despite the recent crime surge, crime on campus has been on the decline this past semester according to the police department. When comparing Spring 2012 to Spring 2013 instances of larceny, motor vehicle theft and burglaries, have decreased by 27 percent, 28 percent and 27 percent respectively.

Instances of larceny, the most prevalent crime on campus, decreased from 180 to 131 from Spring 2012 to Spring 2013.

N.C. State is not the only university afflicted by a sexual assault case.

Lieutenant David Kelly of

the campus police department visited Elizabeth City University this Tuesday to help the department recuperate from a recent scandal that caused the chancellor and approximately half of the campus police department to resign, according to sergeant William Davis of the NCSU campus police.

According to local news sources in the area, Sam Butler, a residence security officer who worked for Elizabeth City University has been taken into custody for allegedly using his position of power to sexually assault student Katherine Lowe.

This altercation prompted an investigation by the Elizabeth City Police who discovered over one hundred and twenty crimes, including eighteen sexual assaults, that took place since 2007 but were never investigated by campus police.

Chants included “Hey, hey, ho, ho. Budget cuts have got to go,” and “Pope says cutback. We say fight back.”

Hundreds of onlookers stood on sidewalks, some cheering, and others just staring. Occasionally, a car drove by and honked, prompting cheers from the crowd.

After approximately 45 minutes of marching and chanting, the protesters— along with police who escorted them through Raleigh — arrived at the Civitas Institute, a think tank that renowned as “North Carolina’s conservative voice.”

The institute is owned by Art Pope, and regularly publishes statements opposing big government and liberal ideology.

Students chanted in front of the building, before Bryan Perlmutter, a senior in business administration and member of the N.C. Student Power Union, rallied the group together.

“We will continue to raise these issues and continue to raise Art Pope until he gets out of education,” Perlmutter, who was also arrested Mon-

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and ears on the ground to stop crime, Brinkley said.

Police distributed pictures of the alleged sexual offender, Miller, and administered checkpoints to gather information about who may have committed this crime. Locals subsequently identified Miller to investigators as the person at the Free Expression Tunnel the night when the assault took place.

“We are grateful that the community responded the way that they did,” said Brinkley when discussing the civilian involvement in the investigation.

Of the other three crimes reported, police are continuing to investigate leads although the majority of people who may have information regarding those crimes have

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Patak said he wanted to see more N.C. State students at the march.

“They’re missing out on a lot,” Patak said. “This is their education that’s being cut.”

After the speeches, the march began. The group carried cardboard signs, drums, megaphones and a few Guy Fawkes masks and migrated down Raleigh sidewalks, chanting against Art Pope, voter ID laws, tuition hikes and immigration policies.

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“We wanted to address conservation and ethics,” Roise said.

“Our college used to be about conser vation and sustainability, and by selling something that’s truly a conservation effort, and we’re stepping away from that.”

Roise said the University selling Hofmann isn’t a new idea, and has been discussed for decades. However, there was never enough support in the past.

According to Roise, a major reason for N.C. State maintaining control of the forest is because foresters formerly

PHOTO COURTESY OF RON SUTHERLAND Protestors left dozens of pine trees in front of the Chancellor’s house May 6.

controlled the NRF. Foresters in general want to keep the forest for as long as possible and generate money at a consistent rate while sustaining the land for future use, Roise said.

“The whole profession of forestry was founded on and still revolves around sustainability,” Roise said. “Conservation is not about preserving everything for the sake of preservation, it is to use the resources wisely.”

In 2008, the NRF was merged and the foresters lost control of Hofmann Forest.

“The [NRF] board is now a group of industrial-typepeople and non-foresters,” Roise said. “Their perspective isn’t conservation, it’s about money.”

Selling Hofmann Forest will support the University in the short run, Roise said, but the sale’s profit will eventually run out, as opposed to guaranteed income in the

future.

However, Roise said Hofmann’s value cannot just be measured monetarily.

The forest is used for education and research and has been a major conservation effort for more than 70 years, according to Roise, and the University abandoned that idea “for the highest cash flow.”

“There’s conflict between people that want to have short term cash versus people who want a long term sustainable system and to treat to land with respect,” Roise said. “We’re all about the future. We love the college and we want to protect it for as long as possible.”

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day with McDonough, shouted into his megaphone.

After Perl mutter’s speech, the group marched to Moore Square.

Several men in suits and ties stared disapprovingly at the shouting students as they made their way through the banking section of downtown.

In addition to the strong student presence, several professors came out to voice their opposition to the proposed conservative legislation. Among

them was David Zonderman, the chairman-elect for N.C. State’s faculty senate.

Zonderman said he was happy with the turnout and reiterated that it was very important for students to speak up.

Dick Reavis, an associate English professor at N.C. State, had only one comment about the protest.

“It’s about time.”

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Applause for Moral Mondays

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hough many people greet Mondays with resentment and an overall lack of enthusiasm, not everyone shares this sentiment.

In response to the nearly 2,000 bills the state Republican supermajorit y has proposed since the end of January, the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its coalition partners have called for acts of civil disobedience every Monday in the N.C. State Legislature. Since the first Moral Monday on April 29, 153 people have gotten arrested for entering and refusing to leave the legislative building or “the people’s house.” 17 people, including two N.C. State students, one N.C. State professor and NC NAACP head Rev. William Barber were arrested on the first demonstration. The next two followed with 30 and 49 arrests respectively, which

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The most recent demonstration this Monday brought in 57 people willing to get arrested. More than 500 people gathered outside the legislature for this protest, and hundreds also entered the legislature, standing in the rotunda outside the senate chamber in solidarity with those getting arrested. Each time, many N.C. State students and faculty, apart from the arrestees, have shown up.

The NAACP expects that the next Moral Monday, on June 3 after Memorial Day, will be a “super-Moral Monday.”

Among the new policies that are being considered or have already been implemented by the N.C. government are: Voter suppression hurting minorities, lowincome voters and students; cutbacks on environmental

regulation; reductions in Medicaid and women’s ability to access reproductive healthcare; cuts to public education; elimination of public financing for judicial elections; and finally, a topsy-turvy tax plan that would slash personal and corporate income tax, while increasing sales tax and taxing vital consumption.

Technician believes that things are going in the wrong direction with the government, but in the right direction with how people are responding to it. A report by Public Policy Polling showed that only 10 percent of North Carolinians are in support of the Senate’s tax plan, which would ensure that lower income people would have to pay a larger share of what they earn for basic necessities than already-financially-secure higher income people. Still, it’s the people not getting

arrested in the legislature who have the final word, and right now, the state of affairs in North Carolina is tilted against ordinary people more than in any conservative state in the country.

The News & Observer, after the third string of arrests, wrote: “The people getting arrested in waves at the General Assembly are carrying a message from many thousands of North Carolinians.

They represent not only those who need government services, but those who believe the legislature is breaking the traditions and reversing the gains of a great and enlightened state.”

We as well salute those who have been engaging in peaceful civil disobedience against the state government, and encourage more N.C. State people to participate in the rising tide of demonstrations.

Playing with fire How would you like to be able to set your water on fire?

I’ll admit, the idea turned me off at first, but think of the possibilities. Layers of excitement will be Erik Vosburgh a d d e d t o your life as Staff title your chances of dying in a fiery explosion skyrockets! It could double as the new party trick you’ve been waiting for and a way to save money on lighter fluid.

Also, you could save those pesky few minutes that it often takes to boil water. (When it isn’t instantly vaporized by the flame that could shoot out of your faucet instead).

Of course, I am referring to the fast-approaching use of hydraulic fracturing in our state. The method, popularly known as fracking, has been used for the recovery of natural gas in North America for years now. The process involves the injection of a mixture of water, sand and chemicals at an extremely high pressure, thousands of feet underground. This stream of f luid is used to open up cracks and fissures in rock, allowing natural gas to f low into a horizontally drilled well.

Because of the pollution that fracking causes, many landowners in Pennsylvania, where some of the largest natural gas reserves in the world are, have experienced illness, sick livestock, and yes, flammable water. These cases have been attributed to the contamination of aquifers by fracking operations. Yet,

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The Hofmann Forest, located in Jones and Onslow counties, has served the Department of Forestry, the College of Forest Resources, and now the College of Natural Resources, since Doc Hofmann procured the property for the University in the 1930s. The Hofmann Forest has served as a teaching, demonstration and research forest for students and returns a significant income to the University. The N.C. State Natural Resources Foundation Board of Directors

fracking is exempt from the Clean Water Act. But it should be acknowledged that to some, fracking is seen as a golden opportunity. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and other states with fracking have seen an influx of money and jobs. And in the past decade, the price of natural gas has dropped significantly because of the operational efficiency of hydraulic fracturing. But some of the largest drivers in the pro-fracking push are political. Representatives who are seeking re-election can promise employment to their constituents by allowing fracking companies to access reserves, and natural gas is upheld as the key to an energy-secure future for America.

I should point out that in North Carolina, the debate has been settled: It’s probably going to happen. Back in 2012, both the Senate and the House approved the “Clean Energy and Economic Security Act,” which would legalize fracking in our state. The bill flopped for a brief moment when Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the legislation, but her maneuver was overridden the very next day by legislators.

Since then, natural gas companies have made moves to buy up land, and some property owners have cashed in.

Even so, many North Carolinians aren’t yet ready to accept fracking into their backyards. You could count David Schlobohm as one of these people. oversees the operation of the Forest, and last month it decided to sell the forest.

I write to praise the work of the outstanding members of the faculty that opposed the sale and did so in a professional manner. Specifically, Fred Cubbage, Joseph Roise and Robert Abt all of whom put together an economic justification for keeping the Hofmann Forest and did their best to present their case to the board of directors of the foundation (other people also participated; however, these people deserve the praise). I praise their efforts and their professional spirit to try to protect one of the last-remaining, large tracts of Forest on the Eastern Sea Board.

Joe Cox College Forest Manager

A President’s job is to do political things, in case people are starting to forget. But if a reminder needs to go anywhere, it ’s t he White House itself, regarding Ishan Raval perhaps the most Viewpoint (self-) Editor glamorized president of all time.

After the 2008 elections, Newsweek’s Evan Thomas had prescient words about President-elect Obama.

“There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all this … He’s clearly managing his own spectacle,” he said. Since then, Obama has maintained an image of coolness and virtue, or been given one

by America’s institutions.

Of course, he isn’t the only president who has gone out of his way to paint a favorable picture for himself. But no president has cultivated a personality cult like Obama.

Schoolchildren have sung praises to Obama to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

MSNBC has hosted an entire debate on whether Obama’s face should be etched on Mt. Rushmore.

The New York Times has “leaked” material before elections to prop up Obama’s image as a strong, swashbuckling leader. The First Lady, who can’t be detached from Obamania, exemplified the blending of politics with glitter when she presented the Academy Award for Best

Picture this year.

Most recently, nine-year “Kid President” Robby Novak, who became famous in the lead-up to the 2012 elections with his viral videos, was finally adopted by the White House for April Fool’s Day, appearing behind the podium for “A Special Message From the President” when people expected Obama. He also coannounced, with Obama, the White House’s Easter Egg Roll, and was a special guest at the event. With that, the White House had successfully co-opted a pop cultural icon that could be associated with goodness and fun transcending partisan politics.

“Sexy” and “hip” aren’t words that we should be bothered about associating with political figures, but that’s the spectacle The Obama Phenomenon attempts to create, and that’s how our societal tendency of mixing everything with entertainment is manifesting itself in the political realm.

We’re accepting personas being manufactured for political figures that judge them based on their integration into the cultural cool and their association with glamor — not how it should be.

The effort on the part of the USA to believe in Obama as a Great Leader-cum-Mr. Cool is evocative of personality cults created in dictatorships.

Such glitterization of politics is unhealthy for democracy. Enmeshing political figures with entertainment and glamor — especially a political figure whose actions affect billions of people, who is responsible for making direct decisions about the lives and

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deaths of civilians — renders politics frivolous. It fosters a setting in which the biggest things the country takes from the presidential debates are binders full of women and Big Bird. It turns anything the President does into a hollow spectacle, meant only to either contribute to or detract from his personality cult.

It also settles notions about political leaders that lead us to electing student body presidents who run on a platform of bringing more parties and concerts to campus. While, of course, we shouldn’t be alright with having perpetually lame-duck SBP’s who are little more than red-suited mascots for the administration, grinning and making wolf-gestures in front of the Bell Tower and making students feel represented.

Politics, whether here or in Washington, is becoming little more than a show. Everything isn’t in our hands, but some things are. Such as the power to turn off the tube when it becomes little more than an unconscious ad hominem propaganda vehicle for (or against) presidential awesomeness. And the power to take a stand against people immediately around us who don’t take a strong stance for student interests when it is their job to do so.

Politicians are not celebrities — be they in the White House or on our campus — and if we care about the ways in which, and whether at all, they act with regard to our lives, we shouldn’t regard them as celebrities.

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Mr. Schlobohm, a U.S. Depa r t ment of Energ y qualified specialist, gave a talk on campus recently on the ramifications of fracking in our state. He brought up a study that was conducted by the Department of Energy and Natural Resources (D.E.N.R.), evaluating the feasibility and safety of fracturing operations in North Carolina.

The typical fracking well is ten thousand feet underground, and water is located at around 600 feet below ground. But here, water is one thousand feet underground, and the study concluded that companies would likely be drilling at just four thousand feet. This means that the hundreds of chemicals used in fracking f luids are that much closer to entering the water cycle. And while most states do not require full disclosure of these ingredients, they often include mercury, lead, formaldehyde, benzyl chloride and other known carcinogens. Mr. Schlobohm strongly warned that the risk of contamination is high, as less than half of injected fracking fluids are actually recoverable.

Sadly, words can only go so far to stop fracking, and there aren’t enough groups like Earth First! unwaveringly committed to fighting fracking. Water’s supposed to beat fire, but in North Carolina, like in other states, we seem to be defying nature.

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From a number of the top beers brought forth for judging at the 2012 North Carolina’s Brewer’s Cup, three brews originated at N.C. State. These beers were created by researchers in the brewery cradled within the lower level of Schaub Hall.

John Sheppard, a professor of food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences, spearheaded the creation of the N.C. State brewery to research the brewing process in 2006. Since then, Sheppard has seen it grow in scale and recognition. The brewery produced 50 to 60 barrels— more than 1,550 gallons—of beer last year as part Sheppard and three graduate students’ research.

During that time Sheppard and his team shared their brews at more than two dozen University functions, including events hosted by the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Engineering and the Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences Department.

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and beverage industry,” Sheppard said. “What we’re trying to do is provide a facility and expertise that helps to facilitate high-quality products in North Carolina. By spreading the science behind brewing to the people that are involved in the local craft brewing industry we’re hoping to really make North Carolina a craftbrewing center in the U.S.” For Blake Layfield, a Ph.D candidate in food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences studying under Sheppard, this means many hours spent trying to better manage the brewing process and sharing his knowledge of beer.

“In my research, I’m looking at yeast aging, and we’re also looking to reduce this variability in fermentation,” Layfield said. “It’s about maintaining a yeast management strategy and making a better brew.”

However, in the process of researching ways to make better brews, Layfield and his peers amassed a full catalog of brews. With much of their research being active yearround, the N.C. State brewery has also taken some characteristics of a commercial brewery including an offering of beers that changes based on the season and the movements of the beer market.

Since the team started brewing on a more regular basis two years ago, different parts of the University have been able to offer funds to get a chance to taste some of the brewing researchers’ results.

Although the brewery doesn’t sell its products to the public, the money generated from the distribution of its beers to different parts of campus has helped to grow the means for brewing students to learn how to manufacture beer.

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Joseph Hildebrand, Black Layfield, John Sheppard and Thomas Clawson stand in the Pilot Plant brewery of the Schaub Food Science Building. The brewery is part of the master’s program offered by the Food Science Department.

Ale that won first place in its category in the 2012 N.C. Brewer’s Cup, an amber ale, a pilsner and a kolsch. However, every researcher has their favorite.

“I think [the pilsner is] most sophisticated beer we make,” Sheppard said. “It takes the longest to make and it has a very complex taste but it’s also nice and refreshing so it’s not a heavy beer — but it’s not Bud Light. And because of that, you can have maybe more than one glass.”

In addition to research goals and furtherance of fermentation science, the research team at the brewery conducted outreach that included lab analysis work for a handful of Triangle-based c ra f t bre wer ie s — Nat t y Greene’s and Raleigh Brewing Company among them.

Sheppard and his students also traveled around the world to talk about their research at the World Brewing Congress, the American Society of Brewing Chemists and the European Brewing Convention.

“It’s been great,” Layfield

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said. “We’ve gotten some awards in the form of scholarships for our research and we’ve also gotten some great accolades for quality in terms of the taste perspective of our beer.”

The N.C. State brewery is not open to any undergraduate courses, but Sheppard and his team have conducted a few tours for campus groups.

“Right now it’s only for my graduate research program so there are no actual courses in brewing science,” Sheppard said. “We are considering the possibility of offering some short courses, but that’s in the works.”

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ence,” Layfield said. “ The entire brewing process is a fun vehicle for teaching food science in general ... You’re learning a little about everything without even thinking about it and that’s really the best way to learn.”

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Daft Punk proves it’s more than a memory Random Access Memories

Grant Golden Staff Writer

Who better to breathe life back into electronic music than two robots from outer space? At least, that’s what Daft Punk seems to believe.

Thomas Bangalter and GuyManuel de Homem-Christo—collectively Daft Punk— are heralded as robotic icons in the musical world who have transcended norms for the last two decades.

From the duo’s pumping French-house of the early 90s with Homework to an animated film that followed the duo’s quest to be Human After All, the group has always shoved expectations aside and made art that stirs up the cultural pot. The robots continue this theme in a manner that no one expected on Random Access Memories, the duos latest release.

Random Access Memories has been one of the most heavily hyped albums in recent memory, and until Kanye pulled his “New Slaves” debacle—an uncensored Saturday Night Live

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 performance—last week, it was the most creatively hyped as well. Gone were the countless tracks leaking day-by-day; instead the group turned to an older form of promotion with television spots and 60 second clips that left crowds salivating and begging for more. Random Access Memories chronicles Daft Punk’s self-described goal to “ bring life back to music,” as it reignites the disco f lame that originally kicked off the Electronic Dance Music craze so long ago.

The musical landscape today isn’t that different from 1997, really, as EDM has snowballed into an uncontainable entity that bleeds into Top-40s and independent music alike. Daft Punk recognizes its place within this genre and instead of embracing its role as the robotic overlord of this glitchy, computer-based genre, the

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group instead seeks to bring the groove back to dance music through a new-aged Donna Summers tinged blend of blissful disco, house and soft-prog. Enlisting equally iconic musicians such as Nile Rodgers, Pharrell Williams, Panda Bear and electronica’s godfather Giorgio Moroder, Daft Punk explores massive electronic soundscapes via analog instrumentation.

Random Access Memories is aptly titled too—the lyri-

cism evokes hazy memories filled with the vague nostalgia of instant crushes and places long forgotten, ranging from the vocoded soft-rock ballad, “Within,” to tight-grooving, “Fragments of Time” that reminisces on days of youth played back through a faded lens.

But just because Daft Punk gets all sad and introspective doesn’t mean it can’t get equally funky. The lead-single, “Get Lucky” is one of the

most bombastic dance tracks in recent memory. Infectious disco-inspired guitar riffs serve as the foundation for Pharrell’s falsetto croon that glides along with finesse and precision, but slowly bleeds into the vocoded robotic vocals we’ve come to know and love from Daft Punk.

Tracks like “Lose Yourself To Dance” are equally tantalizing and lean towards the slower, groove based rhythms of the disco realm. Pharrell beckons listeners to wipe your sweat off with shirts and lose yourself to dance, which isn’t hard to do with these deliciously funky songs.

While Daft Punk shined a light upon the genre that made EDM possible, it went above and beyond what many could have expected from a nu-disco album. Plenty of musicians combine house music with the 80s dance craze, but few do it with the amount of innovation of Daft Punk.

Rather than sample the musicians who’ve inspired them, Daft Punk opted to bring them to the studio

and f lesh out their eclectic tastes to suit their robo-disco needs. All of the collaborations feel f luid— “Instant Crush” feels like a perfectly synthetic Strokes song with Casblancas’ vocoded vocals that stand tall alongside the electronic duo, while Panda Bear brings a more organic approach to the sleek dance track, “Doin’ It Right.”

But it all comes back to their album-opening mantra of “letting the music of your life bring life back to music.”

Has Daft Punk revolutionized the EDM genre once again? Probably not. However, Random Access Memories does serve some grander purpose—it provides the world with yet another selfcontained piece of dance music mastery from two of the finest in the genre.

Daft Punk have returned with an invigorating piece of music that is far-reaching enough to feel like a bold leap forward for the band while maintaining enough of their pulsing electro-jams to not feel completely foreign to fans of their older style.

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After sophomore shortstop Trea Turner walked to load the bases, sophomore rightfielder Jake Fincher singled to leftfield driving in Armstrong. The throw to the infield was muffed and Ratledge also crossed home plate, giving the Pack a lead it would not relinquish. Brett Austin then doubled to centerfield, driving in two runs to put the contest out of reach.

“I thought we played really good tonight,” Avent said.

“For us, Brad Stone kept them at bay, but we also played really good defense.”

With the win, N.C. State is better placed to advance from pool play into the knockout phase of a tournament that featured upsets on opening day. The Pack was the only higher-seeded team to win on Wednesday.

The Pack will return to action in ACC Tournament pool play on Friday at 11 a.m. against the eighth-seeded Miami Hurricanes in Durham.

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As a student at N.C. State, you’ve likely heard of Mike Glennon, C.J. Leslie, Trea Turner and other athletes who have recently made their mark on the Wolfpack athletic program. Go back a few years and you’ll encounter names such as Julius Hodge and Philip Rivers.

But until now, you may not have heard of Albin Choi.

Choi, a junior studying sport management, is making a name for himself as one of the best golfers to ever set foot in Raleigh. The Toronto, Ontario, native has won eight tournaments since he started his career at State, including four this season, and he is currently ranked eighth in the nation among amateur golfers. This year alone, he has failed to finish in the top six in just one of his 10 events.

He was named the 2013 ACC Golfer of the Year and named one of 10 semifinalists for the prestigious Ben Hogan Award, which honors the nation’s top collegiate golfer.

Choi’s honors have not been limited to his collegiate career. In 2012, he finished with the top amateur score at the PGA Tour’s RBC Canadian Open, advanced to the final 16 at the U.S. Amateur Championships and was

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named the top amateur golfer in his native Canada.

Choi first picked up a golf club at age 4 and, like many young golfers who grew up in this era, idolized Tiger Woods as a youngster. He said he tries to watch professional tournaments “whenever I can” in between his own tournaments and practice rounds at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course.

So how did he end up at N.C. State? Choi said it wasn’t a very hard decision.

“I didn’t really get recruited by a lot of schools,” Choi said.

“But I really liked the area, nice weather. I just really loved the atmosphere here, and I really wanted to go to a big school.”

One of the perks of being on the golf team is travel-

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ing around the country and playing various courses with all their quirks. Choi’s favorite course is Old North State Club in London, N.C., where the ACC Championships were held the weekend of April 26.

Choi’s career with the Wolfpack began in 2010, and in his first semester of competition he won two titles within a week of each other, first at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate and then at the Rod Myers Invitational. He ended up being voted ACC Freshman of the Year for that season. The next year, he won two more events and earned All-ACC honors for a second consecutive season.

From the looks of things, that streak will likely be extended to three years.

When his time at State is over, Choi has no intention of slowing down. Like many college golfers, he has dreams of making it big professionally, something he has had his sights on for a long time.

“I really love the game,” Choi said. “I’ve always wanted to take my golf to a professional level. [College] is kind of like a stepping stone.”

It is not uncommon for a professional golfer to have a successful college career.

Tiger Woods played two seasons at Stanford before turning professional.

Choi and the rest of the team’s season ended after finishing ninth in the NCAA Tallahassee Regional. He finished tied for 54th, 7-over par, at regionals.

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It was the only at-bat Boulware did not reach safely on for the evening, going 3-for-4 with a home run.

“Easley came in with very electric stuff tonight,” Avent said. “He was really good.”

“He (Easley) bounces back pretty quick,” Avent added. “We would not be able to pitch him tomorrow but I would be very shocked if he was not available on Friday.”

“We have a very loaded bullpen, so we do not have to force that issue.”

The Pack appeared buoyed by the Tigers inability to produce with runners in scoring position and in the bottom of the seventh inning took over the game.

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Rodon, Senay and Turner make All-ACC team N.C. State sophomore pitcher Carlos Rodon, senior outfielder Tarran Senay and sophomore shortstop Trea Turner earned mentions on the 2013 All-ACC Baseball team Monday by the Atlantic Coast Conference.

For the second year in a row the Wolfpack has multiple first teamers and three or more total mentions. In 2012, N.C. State sent three players to the first team and one to the second.

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Kissell’s season ends in first round match N.C. State junior Joelle Kissell saw her season come to an end after suffering a first-round defeat in the 2013 NCAA Women’s Tennis Singles Championships on Wednesday.

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Kissell, the 53rd-ranked player in the nation, finished the 2012-13 season with an 18-13 overall record. The 2013 AllACC selection became just the second player in program history to earn a bid to the singles championship in consecutive years.

Starting freshman pitcher Brad Stone pitches to the Clemson Tigers at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C., during the first round of the ACC Tournament Wednesday, May 22 2013.

Pack tames Tigers, 6-3

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Kingston named to Academic All-District Team

Swimmer Brandon Kingston was named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-District At-Large Team.

Originally from Ontario, Canada, Kingston carried a 3.8 GPA his final year and graduated from N.C. State this past Saturday with a degree in biological science.

Kingston garnered All-America honors at the 2013 NCAA Championships as a member of the 800 freestyle relay team. He swam the fourth-best time in school history in the 500 freestyle, seventh-best in the 200 freestyle, eighth-best in the 1650 freestyle and ninth-best in the 100 freestyle as well.

He is also a member of the schoolrecord 800 freestyle.

N.C. State defeated the Clemson Tigers, 6-3, on Wednesday evening in the Wolfpack’s opening game of the 2013 ACC Tournament at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

The winning pitcher for the Pack was freshman Brad Stone (3-2). The lefthander, who did not make it out of the first inning in the final game of N.C. State’s crucial series in Raleigh against Florida State, pitched five innings in his first postseason appearance. Stone yielded two runs, one earned, on six hits while fanning three batters and walking one.

Senior reliever Josh Easley pitched and then stole third base later durfour solid innings of two-hit ball, al- ing the same at-bat. Kennedy then lowing only one late run, to earn his scored on a passed ball. second save of the campaign.

The Wolfpack responded immeThe losing pitchdiately. er for Clemson was In the bottom freshman starter of the second, Daniel Gossett (9s e n ior t h i rd 4). The righthandbaseman Grant er was outstanding Clyde smashed for six innings but a Gossett offaded in the sevfering over the enth to take the “Blue Monster” loss. in leftfield to tie Clemson opened the score at one.

Elliot Avent Baseball Head Coach the scoring in the It was Clyde’s top of the second fourth homer inning. Junior third baseman Shane of the season.

Kennedy reached base on a fielder’s In the next frame, N.C. State took choice. Kennedy promptly stole sec- its first lead of the game. ond base on a failed pickoff attempt Designated hitter Jake Arm-

“Brad Stone kept them at bay, but we also played really good defense.”

strong rapped a single to leftfield.

The sophomore then advanced to second base on a sacrifice from sophomore second baseman Logan Ratledge. After a walk and a strikeout, sophomore catcher Brett Austin hit a sharp grounder and Clemson second baseman Steve Wilkerson booted the ball, allowing Armstrong to score the Pack’s second run of the evening.

Clemson leveled the game a second time in the top of the sixth, but was left to rue a lost opportunity.

After Stone loaded the bases with no outs, N.C. State manager Elliott Avent summoned Easley. The native of Weatherford, Texas induced a double play from Clemson catcher

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Today TRACK AND FIELD NCAA EAST REGIONAL Greensboro, All day NCAA DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIPS Urbana, Ill., TBA Friday BASEBALL VS. MIAMI @ ACC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Durham, 11 a.m.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “She left one out in my sweet spot, and I did with it what I am supposed to do.”

Senior left fielder Bethany Wells

The N.C. State softball team was eliminated by the Tennessee Volunteers 7-0 at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium in Knoxville, whilce participating in its first NCAA Tournament since 2007.

State entered the tournament riding high. The Pack came to Knoxville with a 12-game winning streak and having won 19 of its last 21 contests, including its second ACC Championship in school history the previous weekend in Tallahassee.

The Pack extended that streak on Friday with a hard-fought 2-0 victory over the James Madison Dukes, the first-ever win for the Pack in a first-round regional game. The difference came in the bottom of the sixth inning when senior left fielder Bethaney Wells bashed a two-run homer over the right-field wall that actually hit the James Madison team bus.

“She left one out in my sweet spot, and I did with it what I am supposed to do,” Wells said. “It was what we needed at the time.”

With the win over the Dukes, N.C. State advanced to the winners’ bracket for a highly anticipated matchup against Tennessee.

The Pack was eager to battle the Volunteers, having lost twice earlier in the season to Tennessee in the South Florida Tournament in Tampa.

I n S a t u r d a y ’s c o n t e s t , t he a nt ic ipat ion showed .

Tennessee has appeared in two of the past three College World Series, but N.C.

State matched the Volunteers pitch-for-pitch for the afternoon in a highlyentertaining affair.

With two competitive pitchers at the top of their game, the contest was scoreless until the bottom of the 11th inning, when freshman designated player Rainey Gaffin laced a game-winning triple to center field, scoring sophomore infielder Cheyanne Tarango for the only run of the game.

N.C. State sophomore pitcher Emily Weiman, the ACC Pitcher of the Year and ACC Tournament MVP, went 10.2 innings in the contest, the lone run on eight hits with six strikeouts, two walks and two hit batters.

We i m a n t h re w 162 pit c hes on the evening.

Unfor tunately for t he Pack, Tennessee senior pitcher Iv y Renf roe was slig ht ly bet ter.

Renfroe went the entire 11 innings for the Vols, giving up only four hits while striking out 13 and issuing four walks in her extra-inning shutout win.

“I’ve been in fastpitch softball since I was 15 years old and played in some big games on the national and international level,” head coach Shawn Rychcik said. “That’s one of the best softball games I’ve ever been involved with.”

With the loss, the Pack faced a Saturday rematch against James Madison, which defeated Longwood 5-0 after the nail-biter between State and Tennessee.

The game was tied at four when it was postponed until Sunday due to heavy rain. After it resumed, N.C. State scored two runs in the final three innings to advance to the regional champi-

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Senior outfielder Caitlin Dent reacts after hitting into a double play during the second game of a double-header against UNC Charlotte April 3, 2013.

The Wolfpack defeated the 49’s 2-0 in game one and 10-3 in game two taking them to 17-16-1 on the season.

onship game with a 6-4 victory.

Weiman ultimately pitched 28.1 innings and threw 423 pitches.

The heavy workload took its toll and Tennessee scored seven runs off Weiman in 3.2 innings to advance.

Wit h t he loss, N.C . State f inished t he season 35-20-1.

Senior outfielder Caitlin Dent, who drove in the winning run in the ACC Championship game against Florida State, along with outfielder Bethaney Wells and infielder Katie Mansilla finished their careers at

N.C. State as contributors to the best team in the program’s 10-year history.

“I am so happy for all three of them,” Rychcik said. “I told them afterward that they put a great mark on their time in the program by winning an ACC Championship and going to a regional championship game. They have helped set the standard for where the program goes from here.”