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Young Democrats fight N.C. Senate Tim Gorski Deputy News Editor

While the Republican-led General Assembly is pushing for tax reform, the youth arm of the North Carolina Democratic Party is challenging the state Senate’s plan, claiming it’s biased in favor of the wealthy and corporate interests in the state.

The N.C. Fair Tax Act, a tax reform plan proposed

by Republican Senator Phil Berger, aims to cut taxes and reform what Berger and other members of his party call an outdated tax system.

The plan essentially shifts the burden of tax revenues from income taxes to taxes on spending. It would lower the income tax level from 7.75 percent to 4.5 percent and increase taxes on items like groceries. It would also add sales taxes to services that are

not currently taxed.

According to the tax calculator on the website for the Tax Fairness Act (nctaxcut.com), a site run by the state Republican Party, a taxpayer making $30,000 per year with a dependent spouse and one child would pay almost $1,000 more in taxes each year under the plan.

However, a taxpayer making $100,000 per year with a dependent spouse and one

child would receive a tax cut of nearly $3,200 per year.

The state’s Young Democrats have taken the lead in speaking out against the Fair Tax Act. The group has created a website (nctaxhike.com) which argues that the plan would negatively affect North Carolina’s lower and middle class citizens, students, young children and the elderly while benefiting the state’s wealthiest residents.

Young Democrats president Sam Spencer said there is no good evidence that the proposed act would benefit the state overall.

“Think tanks in North Carolina have looked at how this idea of tax reform has played out in Southern states that went Republican long before North Carolina,” Spencer said. “What they found was no evidence that [this kind of] tax reform led

to job creation. North Carolina has always had different values, and we have the best community colleges, colleges, and universities in the Southeast. We have a comparative advantage when it comes to education, and education is what creates jobs in North Carolina – not slash-andburn economics.”

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CLYDE SORENSON Cicadas are emerging in North Carolina after 17 years of development.

Cicada swarm skips Raleigh Siva Ramesh Staff Writer

After 17 years, cicadas are beginning to re-emerge in various parts of North Carolina this summer, but Raleigh residents may not need to worry about the chirpy insects.

When cicadas surface, there can be anywhere from 200,000 to 250,000 of the insects per acre. Though the medium-to-large sized

insects, often between one and two inches long, generally aren’t considered pests, their habit of cutting into plants to lay their eggs can kill the vegetation and makes them an annoyance to farmers.

W hile people f rom other parts of the state are reporting an increase in the population of the

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Tax reform bills move through House, Senate Sasha Afanasieva Correspondent

The North Carolina House and Senate are weighing three different tax proposals that have prompted a heated debate about how the outcome will affect the residents and economy of the state.

Currently, there are two tax reform bills in the Senate and one in the House. They are all based on the idea of lowering the state income tax and increasing sales taxes, though the details of the plans differ significantly.

The most notable bill is Senate Bill 677, also known as the N.C. Fair Tax Act, which would gradually cut personal

income tax by about 50 percent.

However, the N.C. Fair Tax Act would also increase sales tax and expand it to include more than 100 services and goods, ranging from haircuts to groceries to auto repair. About $1 billion in revenue will be cut in the next three years but a long-term outlook suggests an overall boost to North Carolina’s economy.

Experts across the state, including N.C. State accounting professor Roby

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Demonstrators in Downtown Raleigh protest Republican-fueled tax reform and other conservative legislation.

151 arrested at mega Moral Monday Sasha Afanasieva

building, Rev. William Barber, president of the N.C. NAACP, made a speech covMore than a thousand dem- ering issues ranging from onstrators marched toward voter ID laws to Senate Bill downtown Raleigh on Mon- 677, also known as the N.C. day, resulting in 151 arrests Fair Tax Act. at the largest Moral Monday “It’s disturbing what’s goprotest yet. ing on when you cut taxes The protestors gathered on corporations, personal behind the North Carolina income tax, and then raise State Legislative building sales tax that makes us pay where they held up signs and for hair-do’s and haircuts and criticized Republican-backed food and prescription drugs. legislature.

Something is wrong with “Forward together, not one that...this is extreme polistep back” was the mantra of tics...this is regressive polit he crowd tics,” Barber throughout said, referthe event. ring to SenMoral ate Bill 677.

Mondays Currently, star ted on the Fair Tax April 29 and Ac t wou ld has resulted reduce perin over 300 sonal income arrests since. tax from 7.75 Demonstrapercent to 4.5 tors’ conpercent while Nicole Welsh, senior at UNCcerns covexpanding Chapel Hill ered charter sales tax to school fundcover many ing, removal of same-day vot- services exempt under curer registration, Sunday voting rent laws. and cuts to early education Shortly after the speeches funding. concluded, the protestors After the protestors gath- marched into the General Asered behind the legislative sembly. Some protestors wore Correspondent

“I hope that our movement will create a reminder to the state that it is responsible to the people.”

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Some protestors in the General Assembly wore green wristbands, representing their willingness to get arrested.

green wristbands, signifying their intention to get arrested.

When police told them to disperse, demonstrators with the wristbands remained.

In total, 151 people were arrested, including an N.C. State student and numerous alumni.

Ryan Thomson, a member of the N.C. Student Power Union, and a graduate student at N.C. State was among those arrested. He was released at 4 a.m. Tuesday morning with the help of the NAACP. According to Thomson, he was charged with trespassing, holding a sign, and failure to disperse.

“I have made dozens of

friends in a very empowering experience, in addition to the three misdemeanor charges that will likely be thrown out,” Thomson said a few hours after his release.

“I learned a good bit about myself personally. Most of the time we spent was either being processed, joking with one another, or watching TV while the magistrate takes their time processing everyone.”

In addition to students, the elderly and people from various church groups were major groups participating in the rally.

More than 1,000 people

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POLICE BLOTTER June 2 11:08 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Patterson Hall Officer spoke with subject who appeared to be carrying sword.

It was determined there was no weapon or threat.

4:24 A.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Off Campus Student was referred after RPD charged with Provisional DWI, Hit&Run, Speeding to elude, and red light violation.

6:45 P.M. | UTILITY PROBLEM Partners I NCSU PD, FP, and Facilities responded to lab after there was minor leak in ceiling.

No structural damage and some possible water damage to equipment. Appropriate notifications made.

June 3 10:35 A.M. | PROPERTY DAMAGE Wildlife Resources Report that padlocks had been cut from lockers. Nothing appeared to be missing.

11:18 A.M. | LARCENY Pylong 10 Employee reported metal dock plate stolen.

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10:06 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Winston Hall Non-student was arrested for 2nd Degree Trespassing and issued new trespass warning.

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athryn McCullough, a junior in animal sciences, levels a mold with bon-do in order to provide a sturdy grip on the artificial bones inside.

The bones endure a series of tests to compare the results with real bones.

“We are going to be twisting to see how they compare to real bones,” McCullough said. She works with Ph.D candidate Tim Horn as a part of a team to find an alternate use of bones for research and testing.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CLYDE SORENSON

Periodical cicadas lay their eggs inside branches, causing small trees and other plants to perish.

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Soil temperatures must reach 64 degrees Fahrenheit for this to happen, Sorenson said, and this year’s unseasonably cool spring delayed Brood II’s emergence.

“Ultimately, though, their sheer biomass means there are simply too many periodical cicadas for predators to consume,” Sorenson said.

“The cicadas just swamp the predators.”

“At times, this overabundance of protein-rich insects has proved a boon,” Sorenson said.

“Native Americans habitually ate them in large quantities. In New York, the Onondaga tribe was sustained by cicadas during famine,” Sorenson said. “This brood has also been known as the ‘Onondaga brood.’”

According to Hannah Burrack, extension specialist and assistant professor of entomology, organic pesticides are generally ineffective against cicadas. Wrapping netting around vulnerable plants and tree branches before cicadas emerge is the

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5:33 P.M. | PROPERTY DAMAGE Coliseum Deck Non-student reported vehicle had been intentionally scratched.

June 4 6:19 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS PERSON West Parking Deck University Police responded to the report of a suspicious male loitering at the West Deck. The subject was located and found to be intoxicated. He was trespassed.

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loud, orange-eyed invaders, Raleigh has been relatively quiet — a fact N.C. State professor of etymology Clyde Sorenson verified. According to Sorenson, the insects are making their presence known in “more northern latitudes.”

“We know for a fact they’ve been emerg i ng a rou nd Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Reedsville and Madison,” Sorenson said. “Raleigh’s not the place to see them.”

Cicadas can be grouped into those emerging on a 17year cycle and those emerging every 13 years. This summer’s cicadas are of the 17-year variety. Cicada emergences are known as broods, according to the N.C. State and N.C. A&T Cooperative Extension Service webpage about North Carolina ornamental and turf insects.

For example, this year’s emergence is k now n as “Brood II” within the 17year cycle. This particular brood last emerged in 1996, and after this year, will not re-emerge until 2030.

There are 14 sequentially numbered broods emerging on a 17-year cycle, and three broods, on a 13-year cycle.

“One name tied to this [brood] is the ‘Great Eastern Brood,’ Sorenson said. “Their range is from the northern Piedmont of North Carolina to Connecticut, New York, Virginia and Maryland.”

Periodical cicadas spend 13 to 17 years as soil-dwelling nymphs, living a foot to a foot and a half underground and feeding on sap sucked from tree roots. At the end of this period, and after the soil warms up, the nymphs dig their way to the surface and emerge, according to

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Saw yers, are studying how the N.C. Fair Tax Act would impact North Carolina’s economy.

“Overa l l, [t he Fa ir Tax Act] should have a stimulative effect on the economy in the long run,” Sawyers said. “In the short run, it’s a bit more uncertain since revenues may decline. However, new companies may expand into North Carolina, and we can expect long-term economic benefits. That means more jobs in North Carolina.”

Sawyers said it was difficult to determine how the act would impact students and residents of North Carolina.

“A really broad explanation is it will help some and hurt some,” Sawyers said. “It’s hard to say exactly, because everyone consumes and does things differently. Do you go out to eat? Do you have a mortgage? Do you get a haircut? It all depends on that.”

The other two bills being debated are Senate Bill 394 and House Bill 998.

Senate Bill 394 would set a 5.95 percent flat tax on corporate and personal income and it would impose a 6.5 percent sales tax rate that would apply to goods that are currently not taxed, including lawn care and car maintenance.

House Bill 998 proposes a flat 5.9 percent tax on all income, a gradual decrease to 5.4 percent on corporate income tax and a 6.65 percent combined state and local sales tax rate that would expand to include movie tickets among other things.

At 7.75 percent, North Carolina’s income tax rate is one of the five highest income tax rates in the United States and the highest income tax rate in the Southeastern region. North Carolina also taxes fewer services than most other states.

Currently, it is uncertain which bill will be passed.

“There will be some compromise,” Sawyers said. “We may see something in the next few months. It’s hard to really guess what form the tax reform will take. But we will know soon, I hope.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF CLYDE SORENSON

More than 200,000 cicadas can live on just an acre of land.

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Six to seven weeks after the females have finished laying eggs, they will hatch and tiny cicada nymphs will crawl down to earth and burrow into the soil, there to remain until the next emergence, according to the Cooperative Extension Service webpage.

In North Carolina, most Brood II cicadas are currently mating, and according to Sorenson, “most will have died off in another two weeks.”

He continues to monitor their activity, though.

Sorenson knows the insects can irritate people, but he asks those living in their range to try and appreciate the emergence of periodical cicadas as yet another of nature’s wonders.

“If you find them, you should feel blessed you have them on your property, or on your parents’ property,” Sorenson said. “It’s one of the coolest natural phenomena in the world, and it happens nowhere else.”

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participated in the rally— about five times more than the previous protest.

During the arrests, some attendees continued to sing gospel songs and participate in prayer as their numbers slowly dwindled.

At the conclusion of the arrests, the onlookers dispersed as it started to rain.

Nicole Welsh, a senior in anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill attended to support

her friend, Josh Orol, a senior from UNC-CH majoring in communication, who was arrested Monday night.

“The North Carolina legislature has chosen to be unresponsive to the will of the people of North Carolina, and that’s a problem,” Welsh said. “I hope that our movement will create a reminder to the state that they are responsible to the people.”

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However, Spencer said tax reform in North Carolina is a good idea, but the kind of reform Republicans are proposing has proven to be detrimental in other states where it has been implemented.

“There’s absolutely merit to the idea of reforming the tax code, but it’s all in how you do it,” Spencer said. “Making the poor pay more and cutting services while the rich get a tax break is immoral,

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and it’s bad economic policy.

North Carolina is recovering from a recession, so the last thing we need to do is raise prices at local businesses.”

The Young Democrats are encouraging students and others who would be affected by the plan to call Gov. Pat McCrory’s office to make their feelings known.

“Call Gov. McCrory and ask your friends to do the same. He needs to hear from the people of North Carolina,” Spencer said.

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Sam Spencer, president of the Young Democrats of North Carolina, says Republican tax reform won’t create jobs.

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Moral Mondays: Where secular Jews like me find a congregation

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tanding in a crowd of about 1,600 demonstrators at the most recent installment of Moral Monday, a political rally organized by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, I saw news cameramen and other people standing on Mark the balcony Herring of the state Guest Columnist legislative building that overlooks Halifax Mall, a grassy area full of activists that afternoon.

As the crowd roared while Rev. William Barber preached a sermon about legislative fire and brimstone, his baritone voice echoing between government buildings surrounding the mall, I focused my attention on the dozen or so suited men standing crossarmed on the balcony of the General Assembly. After all, despite how much I enjoyed listening to Rev. Barber and his engaging speech, he was preaching to the choir about his discontent with our state’s elected leaders. I didn’t go to Moral Monday to get informed. I went to feel my opinions validated

by a crowd of people from all walks of life.

Perhaps the men on the balcony were joking with each other as they observed an angry crowd of liberal dissidents, “unlawful” and “unacceptable” demonstrators as our governor considers us. Or maybe these men, who I’m assuming are Republican lawmakers or aides (I have a 66 percent chance of being right), were looking at the rainstorm on the horizon that threatened to extinguish the apparent ruckus we were causing.

But after five minutes or so, the plump men and their suits went back into the legislative building to get back to work, or according to some NAACP organizers inside the General Assembly, to get back to their pizza party.

One thing I’m sure of, though, is that when the 151 people — ranging from doctors, grandparents, preachers, farmers, single mothers and professors — walked into the legislative building to participate in civil disobedience, those men on the balcony wrote them off as fanatics. “We should not give credence to unlawful demonstrations,” Gov. Pat McCrory,

the ringleader of the new and unimproved North Carolina, said with a smirk during an interview with ABC 11 News.

I consider myself a political moderate, but with our current legislature, my political viewpoints strike a chord with those of the other Moral Monday-ers. As writer and radio host Alan Watts said during the counterculture movement that hippies and corporate businessmen need each other to feel validated and secure in their identities. The activist in me will naturally come out when our elected leaders craft a regressive tax code that will place the burden on the working poor and the middle class. As a future health care provider (I will attend dental school this fall), I find it absurd that our lawmakers will happily deny extending Medicaid to 500,000 uninsured North Carolinians while they enjoy their government health plans. I am baffled that my parents would have been financially penalized because I voted at the Talley Student Center and not at the district my dad is registered in, which is two hours away, if Senate Bill 666 were in place last year. And just as a de-

Retirement as a ritual “I want to point out that the whole drama of retirement is made to look a shade too sentimental.”

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ournalists take pride in their observation skills.

As spectators, we steal the front seats to every show.

Anyone who has attended a funeral or a wedding is familiar with the feeling of being a spectat o r. O n e sits calmly, observing Naman the minutMuley est details, Staff Columnist remarking upon them (especially us Viewpoint columnists), commenting and debating, reveling in the gossip as it plays out in front of the world. Except, journalists don’t get invites — they have a license to gate crash.

Recently, I began to observe the phenomenon of retirement as a play, acted out by individuals and ecosystems in various areas of human endeavor. The retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United’s manager, the retirement of Rahul Dravid from the Indian Cricket Team and that of David Beckham from soccer were all major ripples in their ecosystems. We see a lot of individuals retiring in sports or politics but few on Wall Street. It seems almost as if making money is easier than any other occupation.

They say true winners — people who beat the game — make a habit of it. Somehow winning consistently seems like a good example of Newton’s first law of maintaining balance. One often hears phrases like “the winning combination” or “the winning streak.” All of them

seem to point at some sort of finite state achieved by various parameters of the ecosystem that they want to continue to be in — parameters like team rhythm, strategies, player fitness or a catalyst work environment. A single individual leaving the ecosystem is a huge unbalanced force hitting the niche of this delicate balance.

Ferguson was the manager of Manchester United for 27 years. During his term, Manchester United went from the 19th place in the old first division to winning the English Premier League 13 times and stacking up 49 trophies of all sorts. “He’s like a seat in the stadium, the grass on the pitch,” said Roberto Mancini, manager of Manchester City, the suburban rivals of Manchester United. When a man of that stature leaves, it shakes the whole system. It will take a lot of effort from the rest of the entities to cancel out the forces.

For the very same reason, I want to point out that the whole drama of retirement is made to look a shade too sentimental. No individual committed to his or her team’s success will want to create such a sudden imbalance.

He or she must account for the best time to leave so there is cushion for the rest of the team. There are plan Bs and Cs to be made, replacements to be found and synchronization to be carried out to make the process as smooth as possible for the winning rhythm to continue, for the state to not change. It is, in most cases, a timed, planned event.

Yet, like a chemical reaction,

if the N.C. GOP continues putting North Carolina in a spiraling nosedive, I’m not sure who wouldn’t be compelled to stand in line inside the General Assembly to get arrested.

Though I am a secular Jew, I still embraced my neighbors when the reverend asked me to during his sermon on Moral Monday. When Rev. Barber finished, I cried amen too. I don’t follow the gospel, but during the singing and chanting at Moral Monday’s revival-like festivities, I’m not sure if it was the Holy Spirit, but

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s I write this on Monday afternoon, Rep. Michele Bachmann has been quite the sensation these days. So, there has been a little discussion about uproar goi ng on a bit further away, whose Ishan Raval crucial imViewpoint Editor plications we shou ld be soaking in.

Michele Bachmann (RMinn.) announced May 29 that she will not seek reelection to Congress for a fifth term. Since then, the 2012 Republican presidential nomination candidate has been a central subject in news and social media. Now, some attention on her could be justified ­— after all, she did found the House Tea Party Caucus. But the commentary has gone beyond that. Liberal and progressive news sources have got a grand opportunity to mock her and the far right; The Daily Beast, for example, wrote a story titled “Who’ll Take Over Crazytown?”

This may actually be a valid question. I think that Bachmann has proven herself to be deludedly misinformed about the government, history, the environment, homosexuality, etc. and I contend that she and her far-right compatriots could fairly be described as comprising “Crazytown.”

But that does not mean it is a question worth discussing, especially when events are transpiring around the world of far more seriousness than Tea Party lunacy.

In the last few days, massive uprisings and violent state repression of them have been underway in Turkey. The unrest began as a peaceful demonstration by about 50 environmentalists in Gezi Park, one of the last remaining

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green spaces in the European side of Istanbul, to prevent its destruction and replacement by a mall and luxury apartments. After three days of occupations, the protesters were met with water cannons, pepper spray and tear gas. As this news spread through the country, protests also erupted throughout the country against state misconduct. As similar police brutality was used against these protests, Turkey was in a riotous state.

Between Saturday and Monday, tens of thousands of people took to public spaces and streets, most notably Taksim Square in Istanbul, and stood up — with stones, fire, spray paint and immense numbers — to helicopters spraying tear gas, riot police and their vehicles driving through crowds of civilians.

What had started as a small environmental protest had turned into a nation-wide uprising against a general trend of the government’s increasing authoritarian tendencies, and as demonstrated by the banks and multinational companies that were attacked by civilians, neo-liberal capitalism as well. As of Monday afternoon, Turkey’s public sector workers union’s members have planned a two-day strike, beginning tomorrow (Tuesday), to protest “state terror.” More than 1,700 people have been taken into custody, more than a thousand protesters have been injured and, according to Amnesty International, two have been killed.

The events in Turkey are momentous for us because Turkey, unlike the countries involved in the Arab Spring, is a democratic country with a rising, capitalist economy — it is lauded as a model of “Islamic moderatism.” However, looking at the grounds on which the protests escalated and the response to these

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there WAS a spirit, a united spirit, there. The presence of heart and soul and fire and brimstone that Pentecostal choirs get at. I’m not a believer in that religious sense, but among my newly “christened” brothers and sisters of North Carolina, I was praying for salvation too.

The men who were on the balcony, I thought to myself, can laugh all they want. We’ll see who’s laughing in 2014.

Amen, brothers and sisters.

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you can plan as much as you want but environmental factors can prove to be too chaotic to maintain the balance. Even if the whole world comes to know of the news of retirement one fine morning, the people behind it plot it for months, like a wellplanned Apple release.

Then there are the fans.

The social media campaigns, the long obituaries and the media interviews — all of them are a crucial part of the ritual. The fans must be addressed. The audience is a crucial part of any play.

There are numerous cases when teams have abruptly fallen off the peaks of their games.

Liverpool Football Club fizzed out of its golden era in the ‘70s and the Brazilian soccer team and the West Indies cricket team of the ‘70s and ‘80s never came back after the loss of their golden players.

Teams often find it difficult to regain the winning combination. It is not so different in other fields like research teams in academic institutions, electoral campaigns and corporate industries.

Retirement is more than just a personal act — it is undoubtedly driven by an individual but played out by the whole ecosystem.

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cent person (at least I’d like to think), I am disappointed to see undocumented immigrants — the people who make this nation and state function at the fundamental levels in agriculture and construction — vilified even more and denied access to higher education.

I didn’t get arrested at Moral Monday. I went to bask in its atmosphere (and it was a humid one last Monday), a spirited milieu I have been craving lately. Maybe I’m too docile or too civil and not disobedient enough, but

uprisings, as the philosopher Slavoj Zizek said, “the protests are a living proof that the free market does not imply social freedom but can well co-exist with authoritarian politics.” We in America should think about that. Both for the sake of vigilance toward what could happen in our future, near or far, and to put in perspective civil liberty offenses that are already occurring today, even if we don’t get appropriately angry about them.

To return home to Bachmann, my point isn’t just that liberal democratic governments shouldn’t be outside of the purview of public skepticism and outraged popular opposition. It is also that the media here should expose its audience to critical events that inform it about its position and potential in the world. If the media’s purpose is to educate the populace, rather than entertain it, we should hardly hear about Bachmann and other nutcases of her ilk. An effective response to their ignorance and the fundamentalism it engenders is to not give them attention — they just aren’t worth taking seriously.

But people rising up against governments that work, necessarily so in a neo-liberal economy, to appease commercial interests, and the state brutality that subsequently takes place — be it in the United States with the Occupy Movement or in Turkey — should be taken seriously. And they should be taken seriously in exactly that manner of analysis — as a systemic interplay of people, governments and capitalism, not as freak incidents that just couldn’t happen in democracies like ours. As long as we remain under that impression, we’re not much less delusional than Bachmann.

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N.C. Symphony merges modern and classic

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Lost In The Trees performs live.

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Everything was in its right place at Meymandi Concert Hall Wednesday night as the North Carolina Symphony took on a grandiose production that combined the works of Radiohead and Brahms.

The program’s composer, Steven Hackman, has found himself torn between the worlds of classical and popular music since he was a child, so to deconstruct two pieces as sonically different as OK Computer and Brahms’ First Symphony was only natural.

“My father had an old album of Chopin piano music when I was a child,” Hackman said. “And as much as I loved that Chopin record, I loved that Beatles record or that Radiohead album.”

These diverse inf luences shined brightly as Hackman and the North Carolina Symphony seamlessly interweaved fan-favorites such as “Let Down,” “Paranoid An-

droid” and “Subterranean Homesick Blues ” with the whimsical works of Brahms.

Opener Ari Picker and Emma Nadeau of Chapel Hill’s Lost in the Trees were joined by a small string section to provide a warm welcoming to the event. The group’s delicate brand of chamber-folk rang throughout Meymandi Concert Hall and commanded concertgoers’ attention. Vocal harmonies between Picker and Nadeau played on the brilliant counterpoint between the two and showcased the tender, heartfelt lyricism on display in the group’s music.

But the highlights of the evening lied within brilliant machinations of Hackman’s mash-ups. Steven Hackman has been enamored with the world of mash-ups since he was thirteen, listening to house DJs mashing-up various beats and vocals on the radio in Chicago. Such a versatile scope makes Hackman a perfect fit in the world of

Steven Hackman directs the North Carolina Symphony.

mash-ups.

“They’re one of the great exHackman’s first large scale amples of contemporary art. attempt took form with the I’ve done some arrangements works of Beethoven and [for their music] here and Coldplay—originally switch- there but they were a great ing back and forth between choice for this large scale the pieces with little overlap. mash-up because their maHackman gradually honed terial is so rich. It’s so large his technique and was able in scope that implementing to take two vastly different an orchestra or Brahms sympieces and phony didn’t synthesize seem to out t hem i nto of place.” something The masnew and sive soundoriginal. scapes RaUtilizing diohead the insanely built never talented felt as imsymphony mense as a nd t h re e they did on vocalists Wedneswho evenly d ay n i g ht Steven Hackman, director of divided when the Radiohead Meets Brahms well-known symphony Radiohead swelled with melodies both solo and har- the climax of “Let Down”. moniously, the concert took The gorgeous vocal meloRadiohead’s music to an un- dies slowly rose to a spineimaginable place. chilling crescendo as the “I’ve wanted to do Radio- vocalists rang out in unison, head forever,” Hackman said. perfectly meshing with the

“As much as I loved that Chopin record, I loved that Beatles record or that Radiohead album.”

overwhelming presence created by the symphony. Alternatively, songs like “Paranoid Android” utilized the vocalist’s smooth delivery and created a brilliant dichotomy with the gritty lyrics of this aggressive, spastic song.

By the end of the show, songs began to bleed together and truly take their own form. As “Exit Music (For A Film)” reached its peak of intensity, the symphony erupted with a beautiful blend of various timbres that mesh into one harmonious outburst of musical perfection.

While tracks like “Karma Police” and “Electioneering” felt a bit rushed, both the symphony and the vocalists packed enough of a punch to draw attention away from the awkward speeds and towards the passionate display of booming vocals and encapsulating instrumentation.

It’s clear that Steven Hackman’s hours of labor on these two dense pieces of work paid off immensely. The com-

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poser combined his massive amounts of formal and informal training to combine two starkly different pieces of work into a product that feels not only natural, but whimsical as well.

Thankfully this brilliant mash-up won’t be Hackman’s last, the composer plans to finish his work on a Beethoven and Coldplay mash-up and then hopes to work on more in the future after he completes work on his own solo album.

“I definitely plan to do more Radiohead albums with this. I’d love to do Kid A and In Rainbows for sure.

Right now I’m working on my own music, but I think it would be really fun to do an Animal Collective thing combined with some Stravinsky,” Hackman said.

Future plans aside, Hackman achieved a great feat with his combination of these two brilliant artists.

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‘Empire’ proves itself a worthy summer soundtrack Will E. Brooks Features Editor

The first thing you should pr o b a b l y k n ow a b ou t GRMLN is its—or rather, his—band name is a gross misrepresentation of its music. GRMLN isn’t mischievous like a gremlin, nor is it remotely electronic, as its capitalization and lack of vowels might imply. It is indie surf rock that f loats somewhere between Weezer and Wavves, and I’d only be kidding myself to say I don’t love it.

Empire —the first fulllength album by Japanesebor n, Ca l i for nia-ra ised Yo o d o o P a r k , A . K . A .

GRMLN—is an angsty summer soundtrack I can’t get enough of.

The album isn’t profound, or even that original, but that’s okay. I don’t want to listen to some screwball from Williamsburg rehash the Beach Boys—I want Yoodoo Park to do it. I want surf rock from a guy who is as naïve and angsty as Brian Wilson, and Park might just be that guy.

Park sings “I see your smile in the summer/ And I’m waiting for you baby” in “Summer

Days.” The chorus follows with, “Say what you want/It doesn’t mean a thing to me.”

It is simplistic, longing and as Park insists, the songs revolve around naivety.

In an interview with DIY Magazine, Park said “Summer Days” was written in high school and “Implanted from the countless hours of watching ‘The Notebook’ and ‘A Walk To Remember.’”

In that interview he went through each track of Empire and explained how pretty much every song is about young, naïve love.

What else would a naïve millenial want to listen to during his or her last summer break?

While nearly every track deals with the idea of love and naivety, the songs aren’t repetitive. Park has definitely created an album, not a motley crew of singles and fillers.

Empire begins with threechords, a bass and drums beneath “I’ve given up, when I don’t even know your name/ Time’s running out, when I don’t even know your name.”

The vocals are whiney and muff led, and they remind me of how surf rock nearly always boils down to upbeat emo music.

Empire

GRMLN Carpark Records

 Short and fast three-instrument surf tracks with long reverberating vocals make up 75 percent of the album. They flow well into “Cheer Up,” a gorgeous 60s-sounding ballad that really should have ended the album but was instead the second-to-last.

“Cheer Up” places scaling bass and guitar lines against soft vocals that make one last push for Park’s nostalgic angst. He sings, “You’re so naïve to think that everything’s alright to me/ You know that everything’s alright to me.” These words either mean nothing or represent the bewilderment of summer love.

The last track, titled, “Dear Fear” seems like more of a “whoops, this ‘album’ only has eight tracks” moment than anything else. It’s an acoustic track that Park claims to be “One of [his] most sentimental tracks,” and sure, it’s sentimental, but it doesn’t fit on the album, especially as the ninth and final track. Basically, this is an EP

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sold as an LP, with a bonus acoustic track on the end.

T he la rgest fau lt s of GRMLN’s Empire seem to come from poor marketing more than anything else

(thanks, Carpark Records).

Beyond a band name and album cover that misrepresent Park, there is no logical explanation for the album title, Empire.

Either way, the album rocks and rolls. It’s as naïve as young love or anything else having to do with teenagers and nothing better represents summer.

Non-profit ‘welcomes home’ refugees Taylor Quinn Staff Writer

Escaping from danger is daunting, but leaving a country for the United States can be too. For six years, the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants has worked to aid refugees and immigrants in Raleigh.

USCRI, a non-profit agency headquartered in Washington D.C., resettles refugees and immigrants from various parts of the world to the U.S. The organization opened a North Carolina office in Raleigh in 2007.

“Basically as a resettlement agency, we are offering services to refugees that come to the United States,” said Rebecca Rolfe, volunteer coordinator and coordinator of USCRINC’s Welcome Home Project.

“We start pretty much before they arrive with pre-arrival planning.”

USCRI receives a notice that a refugee is scheduled to arrive, arranges housing— an apartment equipped with donated furniture— and insures food and medical care are available. When the refugee arrives, a USCRI volunteer picks the immigrant up from the airport with an interpreter to ‘welcome them home.’

“The main goal of our agency is to really support refugees in their transition into American life and help them on that path to self-suffiency,” Rolfe said. “And we do that through a number of different ways.”

USCRI provides cultural orientation workshops to teach the refugees about American life and it connects immigrants with ESL and vocational training courses at Wake Tech. Employment services are another facet of USCRI-NC. “We are really trying to get [immigrants] that first job in the United States because obviously that is a really important aspect of self-sufficiency, being able to support yourself financially,” Rolfe said.

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A Zambian refugee mother and her four children shortly before they travel to the United States.

Refugees jump over hurdles in order to arrive in the United States to start—they typically leave home due to fear of persecution based upon race, religious background, nationality or creed.

“They may arrive in a refugee camp in a neighboring country, for example.” Rolfe said. “And once they are there they register for refugee status through the UN.” Only one percent of refugees resettle to a third country other than the U.S. and USCRI typically gives two options—stay in the U.S. or return home.

“For example if a country was at war and signed a peace agreement that is of course the ideal [situation] for people to be able to return home,” Rolfe said.

If that does not look like it would be an option, they see if they can integrate the refugees into the geographic area they have escaped to—if that

fails they look into resettling some funding restrictions,” into a third country.

Rolfe said. “It is always great “But resettlement depends for us to have groups that on quite a few different can donate all of the furnithings,” Rolfe said. “In order ture and all of the household to resettle into the United items necessary for a refugee States particularly, you have home,” Rolfe said. to pass through quite a few Organizers of the Weldifferent come Home security Project proclearances, v ide a list background of required checks and household medical items for clearancrefugees’ fues— this is a ture homes. process that Groups and could take a individufew years.” als typically Once collect these Rebecca Rolfe, volunteer t hey ju mp items over coordinator, USCRI through all the span of a of the necesmonth. Rolfe sary hoops, they have a legal said Goodwill and donation status as a refugee in America drives typically source homefor one year. They then are el- items for incoming refugees. igible to apply for their green “We are really trying to card. After five years they are place a strong emphasis on eligible for U.S. citizenship. people having the items do“As a non-profit we have nated,” Rolfe said.

“The main goal of our agency is to really support refugees in their transition into American life.”

O nc e volu nt e e r s a re matched with a refugee family they begin arranging the apartment for a family. The key is to move in furniture to create a home away from home before arrival. USCRI briefs volunteers about a family’s cultural background to keep in mind when setting up the home.

“It’s an awesome way for groups to get involved because first of all the group has this connection to the family already, they have been working for a month or so to gather all of these donations for the family,” Rolfe said.

“That anticipation has been building because of the hard work they have put in to set up the home.”

USCRI strives to make the refugees feel welcome. They want refugees to know people are excited to be in the U.S. “It’s really a great feeling for the refugee to have, because as a refugee agency they know

we are here to support them.

That’s our job, but to see that people outside of the agency are also excited and welcoming to them is great,” Rolfe said. “It’s great for them to see that people are excited for them to start their new lives here.”

North Carolina is the 10th most popular state for resettlement and Raleigh is popular due to public transportation, job opportunities, universities, and relatively affordable housing.

“I think it’s important for people to know that refugees are here in North Carolina and that they are active participants in the community—hey some of your classmates may even be refugees,” Rolfe said.

To get i nvolved w it h USCRI-NC, contact Rebecca Rolfe through her email address rrolfe@uscrinc.org.

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Freshman third baseman Lana Van Dyken throws the ball to first base against North Carolina Saturday, April 13, 2013. Van Dyken had one RBI in the Wolfpack’s 11-8 win against the Tar Heels at Dail Stadium.

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the plate before her heroics during the final home series against the Tar Heels. N.C. State already created some momentum prior to taking two-of-three games against Carolina, but the turnaround began in earnest on that warm day at Dial Softball Stadium.

After losing the opening

game against the No. 24 ranked Tar Heels, in which Dent made the final out with runners on first and second base, the Pack began its march towards greatness.

The turnaround had been brewing within the softball program all season. After coming back to Raleigh from Fullerton, Calif. with an eight-game losing streak, the Pack shrugged off its losing record and began to gel at the most opportune time.

The run to the ACC title,

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which N.C. State head coach Shawn Rychcik aptly labeled “a magic carpet ride” after the NCAA Selection Show, showed that State, if guided by the right people, is a school with the wherewithal to compete for conference and national honors in all sports.

In a conference with several schools that are perennial NCAA Tournament teams, the Wolfpack softball team had the least expected of it, yet it was the squad that did the most at N.C. State.

Rychcik walked into a great situation at N.C. State, but his hard work was needed to move the Pack forward.

Now that the carpet ride is over in 2013, it must now be expanded on.

After the winning the ACC Tournament, the first-year coach related how he was receiving emails and other forms of correspondence from traveling teams inquiring about the availability of scholarships or perhaps wondering if Rychcik would

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team’s 15-year history in Raleigh. The primary logo crest remains the same but has been reduced in size.

The original colors remain the same, with the exception of the metallic silver, which has been changed to a matte finish.

The home jersey remains distinctly red and features two red stripes on the sleeves and at the bottom of the jersey, and includes a black color with white lacing, giving the jersey a classic look.

“I’m a fan of the red,” Von Jess said. “I like the classic stripes and laces, and keeping all the red.”

The white, also significantly different, features a red shoulder yoke that extends down to the player nameplate. Bold red striping is found on the sleeves and bottom of the jersey

be willing to look at a certain player for consideration for his program.

The tools are in place for sustained success at N.C. State. Sophomores Renada Davis and Emily Weiman were major players in State’s success. Most of this season’s team will return in 2014.

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outlined by a thin black stripe.

Missing from the new uniforms is the hurricane warning flag stripe that used to be featured at the bottom of the past uniforms, which is now found inside the neckline.

The secondary logo, found on the previous edition’s shoulders has been removed.

“The white is going to have to grow on me,” Von Jess said.

“The warning f lags never grew on me, and I don’t miss the flags on the shoulder either.”

Warf said the team will continue to use its current third alternate jersey for the upcoming season.

“Sometimes a jersey that has as much going on, on our past jersey, sometimes it can be a little bit stale,” Rutherford said. “We wanted to go to a more traditional and cleaner look.”

“I thought the whole experience was really cool,” Von Jess said. “I really do like the jerseys a lot.”

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Pack, Raleigh to host first NCAA Super Regional Rob McLamb Staff Writer

N.C. State (47-14) will seek to advance to its first College World Series since 1968 when the Wolfpack hosts the Rice Owls in the NCAA Super Regional, beginning on Friday at 4 p.m. at Doak Field in Raleigh.

The Pack advanced through last weekend with three straight wins led by senior first baseman Tarran Senay, the Raleigh Regional’s Most Outstanding Player, and sophomore lef t-ha nded pitcher Carlos Rodon, who pitched a complete-game shutout on Saturday against William & Mary to extend his scoreless innings pitched streak to 23.

The Wolfpack had it tough last weekend, playing bothgames against William & Mary.

N.C. State head coach Elliott Avent does not believe dodging top-seeded Oregon—who the Owls upset at home—giving the Pack an opportunity to host the Super Regional for the first time in school history—will

be a respite for his team.

“If you’re one of the 16 teams left in the country right now, there is not a bad one in the bunch,” Avent said. “You don’t want for anything. You just have to play well yourself.”

“Rice will be a good challenge for us,” Avent said.

The Owls, winners of the Conference USA Tournament and co-champions during the regular season, enter this weekend with a 44-18 record on the season. Rice has appeared in 19 straight NCAA Tournaments, which is currently the sixth longest streak in Division 1 baseball history.

In the Eugene Regional Final, the Owls thumped No. 8 Oregon, 11-4.

“Rice has been the epitome of [Conference USA],” Avent said. “They feel like they are playing pretty good right now to go to Oregon and do what they did.

“We’re playing in front of our fans. Our guys have played good the last six weeks of the season and our guys will be ready this week.”

“It’s going to be timely hitting and making a pitch when

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Sophomore catcher Brett Austin stands on the pitchers mound with head coach Elliott Avent during N.C. State’s match against Binghamton University Friday, March 31, 2013. The Wolfpack defeated the Bearcats 4-1 at Doak Field.

you have to make a pitch.”

The Pack will be playing in front of its fans for the second straight weekend in the NCAA Tournament. This weekend, however, there will be more at stake.

N.C. State’s lone appearance in the College World Series was 45 years ago. In 1968, the Pack advanced to Omaha with wins against Alabama, East Carolina and Florida State in Gastonia, N.C.

State sandwiched a loss to St. John’s with wins over Southern Illinois and Texas before being eliminated by Southern California.

Avent, who has spent 18 seasons at N.C. State, 17 years

as a head coach and one year as an assistant in 1988, has the 1968 team on his mind this week.

“Our history is 1968 and that team has embraced us so much,” Avent said. “Every living member of that team may be back here, and they want this team to advance.”

“We’re just so proud of our tradition here, and it starts with the 1968 team.”

Rodon, who has only yielded three hits in 19 innings pitched this postseason, has gone to the mound on three straight Saturdays, but Avent is leaning toward giving his workhorse the starting nod on the Friday afternoon opener.

“We’ve tried to keep routine that’s big for us” Avent said. “It’s probably going to be Carlos Rodon on Friday.”

The first two games of the best-of-three series, Friday and Saturday, will be televised at 4 p.m. on ESPN2.

Game three, if necessary, will be shown on ESPNU Sunday at 4 p.m.

Hurricanes host fans at jersey-change unveiling Jonathan Stout

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The away jerseys now have a red shoulder yoke surrounding the name plate, a feature unique for the Hurricanes and the NHL.

Warning flags have been moved to inside the neck line.

The two solid white stripes and white laces give the jersey a “classic” look.

Bold red stripes line the bottom and sleeves accompanied by black stripes on either side.

Both jerseys: The size of the primary logo has been reduced for flexibility.

The numbers have been updated to a sans-serif font.

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N.C. State freshman Robert Von Jess attended a historical event in the Carolina Hurricanes organization, and in his ‘Canes fandom, unveiling the team’s new home and road uniforms for the 2013-14 season Tuesday at PNC Arena.

Fans were randomly selected to attend the jersey unveiling press conference through a social media contest—Von Jess was one of the few selected to attend the event.

For 12 days leading up to the press conference, the Hurricanes “teased” pictures of the uniforms on the team’s Instagram account, giving fans a small glimpse before the unveiling.

“I put my name in once, out of six thousand people, and got an email yesterday,” Von Jess said. “I thought the whole experience was really cool. I liked the press conference and being on the floor of PNC.” Though the event is historically limited to staff and

media only, Von Jess and the other winners sat with among local media and watched as Hurricanes captain Eric Staal, general manager Jim Rutherford vice president of marketing Doug Warf and senior director of marketing and brand development Ben Aycock, fielded questions about the new changes.

Von Jess said his favorite part was watching videos that built up to the moment when the curtain was taken off the models to unveil the jerseys.

After the press conference, all in attendance were treated to lunch on the PNC Arena floor. Each had an opportunity to take pictures with the jersey models and speak with Hurricanes staff.

“I liked the whole format of it, and how I was treated special,” Von Jess said.

According to Warf, the process was a two-year journey, rendering many different concepts.

The change marks the first major uniform overhaul the

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Softball sets winning standard Rob McLamb Staff Writer

At the 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Softball Tournament in Tallahassee, Fla., a metamorphosis was completed.

When N.C. State upended top-seeded Florida State, 1-0, for the ACC championship, buoyed by senior centerfielder Caitlin Dent’s gamewinning RBI single which bounced off the Seminole pitcher and around the infield like a pinball, the Pack crossed a threshold it needed to cross. And it came from what seemed to be the most unlikely team.

Dent’s reaction to the fortuitous ricochet was both charming and telling. As the senior reached first base safely, she beamed with a wide smile that exuded happiness at the Wolfpack seizing the lead and expectancy that a dream N.C. State had always insisted it could achieve was actually close to happening.

Dent secured the conference title with a game-winning single and put an elegant face on the achievement that was an appropriate encapsulation of both N.C. State’s season and her collegiate career.

With Dent, the story often tends to drift to her father, Bucky Dent. But what she

accomplished in her senior season was remarkable in its own merit. With the RBI single in Tallahassee, along with the walk-off game-winning homer on Senior Day against UNC-Chapel Hill, Dent was able to write her own fairytale ending.

After struggling at the plate for her first three seasons in Raleigh, Dent finally put it all together as a senior. Going into the campaign, she had seven home runs in her first three years at State. She doubled that total with 14 for the Pack in 2013.

There were great days at

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