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Environment Committee kicks off semester Joseph Havey

ments and colleges took part in the meeting Thursday. Officially, PEC’s goal is to The N.C. State Physical En- act as an advisory body to the vironment Committee held vice chancellor of finance and its first meeting of the se- business. It reviews plans remester Thursday to discuss garding facilities, transportaupdates regarding University tion and landscaping. Facilities and Transportation. “As a whole, we review During the 20-minute meet- anything with transportaing, PEC aption and proved minw it h ca mute s f rom pus planning the previous and design,” meeting and said Erin assigned Champion, subcommitPEC chairtees. woman. “We Accordreally look at ing to Ron the plans of Grote, a sthings comsociate vice ing up and Tom Skolnicki, university chancellor give recomlandscape architect for facilities, mendations t hese subor approve committees are where the anything that’s going to get real work gets done. built on campus.” “This meeting was just an Tom Kendig, the director organizational meeting,” of university transportation, Grote said. “All the subcom- said the committee mainly mittee work is where every- benefits him by giving feedthing starts happening. Then, back on transportation’s upthey report out to this com- coming plans. For example, mittee.” next on the PEC agenda is a PEC is composed of faculty, discussion of the transportastaff and students. Represen- tion office’s physical master tatives from the office of in- plan. formation and technology, “It provides a sounding the graduate student association, and a variety of departPEC continued page 3 Deputy News Editor

“Historically, it has been a group that has raised sustainability awareness on campus.”

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Laying down another portrait, Luis Gomes and Sarah Hamideh help to spread the Inside Out 11M Project across the world.

Art display promotes diversity and immigration reform Staff report

An interactive art display promoting diversity and immigration reform came to N.C. State Thursday and will be here through Friday afternoon. The project, entitled Inside Out, drives its message home by acting as an enlarged photo booth. Students, faculty and staff wait in line for their photo to be taken, and those photos are printed out as large posters. Then their photo joins several dozen others in a mural spread across the Brickyard. “The project attempts to paint a portrait of America by noting that everyone is important to the fabric of America,” said Garry Morgan, assistant director of Diversity Programs. How long the posters will remain on the brickyard “will be a testament of N.C. State’s respect for diversity,”

said Tracey Ray, assistant vice provost for Student Diversity. Inside Out was created by the French artist JR. He designed it to promote equality and equity for the 11 million undocumented immigrants within the U.S. The project is funded by a $1 million grant from TEDx. Alejandro Morales, an illegal immigrant who volunteers with the project, disputed some stereotypes that are associated with immigrants. “[The stereotype] is that [immigrants] steal jobs, that we’re criminals and that we are here for the wrong reasons, but we aren’t,” Morales said. “We simply want to contribute to society.” Morales works with Inside Out so he can tell his story: He wants to become an Marine Corps officer. “If people heard our story, they would realize who we really are, people who want to serve,” Morales said.

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Members of Local 1208, chant “Walmart, respect your workers!” in protest at the Glenwood Avenue Walmart Tuesday, Sept. 5. Walmart employees in 15 cities across the country held demonstrations to earn the right to unionize without fear of facing disciplinary action.

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Armed with a petition of more than 171,000 signatures, several protesters entered the Glenwood Avenue Walmart with no intention of shopping Thursday afternoon. The United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and OUR Walmart, an employeerun organization dedicated to ensuring that Walmart treats its workers with respect, led the movement, which called for the right for Walmart employees to collectively bargain and unionize without the risk of losing their jobs. Similar movements took place in 15 cities across the country Tuesday, after Walmart failed to meet a Labor Day deadline, set by OUR Walmart, to reinstate workers who the company allegedly fired for speaking out against it. Protesters at the Raleigh demonstration presented

their petition, which asked tain, you’ve got to move it,” Walmart to stop retaliation Plowe said. against employees who exerIn addition to the right to cise their right to unionize, to unionize, protesters requestthe management of the store ed a living wage. in hopes that it would be Director of the North Carpassed along to company ad- olina Justice Center’s Workministration. However, when ers’ Rights Project Carol the store manager declined Brooke said that and average the petition, organizers be- Walmart worker makes $8.81 gan to chant per hour. At “Walmart, this pay, an respect employee your workworking 40 ers” before hou r s p e r disbanding week would when police still fall officers arshort of the rived. 2013 Federal Tuesday’s Poverty Levprotests were el for a famthe largest ily of three, demonstrawhich is set David Zonderman, professor of history tion against at $19,530, t he comaccording to pany since last November’s Brooke. Black Friday protests and MaryBe McMillan, secrewere a necessary follow-up, tary treasurer of the North according to Cheryl Plowe, Carolina AFL-CIO, a state a Walmart employee of labor union organization, 20-years who participated in emphasized Brooke’s point the protest. during a forum that took “It’s going to take time, but place shortly before the prowhen you get to that moun- test.

“We’re not there yet, but potentially this really is the new generation of organizing.”

Professor researches micro-mites Sara Awad Staff Writer

Rob Dunn, assistant professor and director of Your Wildlife Project and biological sciences, along with other researchers, started the “Meet Your Mites” project this year aimed at sampling mites in order to better understand the evolution of the tiny arthropods. It sounds like something that came straight out of a

horror movie – tiny Demodex mites, naked to the human eye, crawling all over your face at night. Hundreds of these mites can inhabit a single hair follicle. Dunn said he wants to learn more about these mites in the near future. “These microscopic parasites (too small to feel or be seen with the naked eye!) spend their days hiding in our hair follicles, sucking on sebum (the oily secretions produced by the sebaceous

glands) and eating the cells lining the hair follicles. At night, under the cover of darkness, adult mites emerge, crawl around, and … mate on your face,” according to the project website. Project Research Assistant Megan Thoemmes said they hypothesized that the mites would be more diverse than previously thought, especially between the mites found on different people from around the world. Past research examined mites on cadavers,

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“We have Walmart workers who stock shelves with food but can’t feed their own kids,” McMillan said. “This kind of cruel irony cannot go unnoticed. The working poor cannot go unseen. And the causes of inequality cannot remain unspoken.” McMillan pointed to the right to unionize as the key to improving working conditions for the nearly 51,000 Walmart employees in North Carolina. “If we can change the south, if we can change Walmart, the behemoth of corporate greed born here in the south, then we can change the nation,” McMillan said. N.C. State Professor of history David Zonderman, also spoke at the forum, and though Zonderman said he was hesitant to be overly optimistic, he said that recent organization of workers, especially in the south, is promising. “We’re not there yet, but potentially this really is the new generation of organizing,” Zonderman said.

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but scientists only discovered two species of mites present on the human face, according to Dunn. “The first day that I found one,hearing that they crawl on your face, I did not sleep for four nights,” Thoemmes said. Previous research also failed to determine whether the mites were beneficial or harmful, though there appears to be a correlation be-

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board for us,” Kendig said. “After all, they are the campus community.” Kendig also said that the office of transportation needs approval from the committee on certain decisions, such as parking pass fee increases. “All of our proposals [including the physical master plan] are recommendationbased,” Kendig said. The PEC meeting is one step in that process. Tom Skolnicki, the university landscape architect, said the committee helps ensure the quality of the University’s physical side. “PEC’s role is to think about whether or not building is being done in the right way—the best way—for N.C. State,” Skolnicki said. Part of that consideration is based on sustainability. “[PEC] always addresses people’s projects and deals with issues regarding sustainability both inside the building and out,” Skolnicki said. “Historically, it’s been a group that’s raised sustainability awareness on campus.” While there are typically four undergraduate representatives on the committee, only two graduate students represented the student body Thursday. Grote said this is because the undergraduate representatives have not been appointed yet. Still, Champion said that any student is welcome to come if they want. The committee meetings serve as an open campus forum and have previously welcomed designers or other facilities representatives. The next meeting will be held on Oct. 3.

The Wake County School Board and the Wake County Board of Commissioners adopted an $810 million school construction bond last week that has become a topic of political debate. The bond, which has been endorsed by Democrats and condemned by Republicans, would provide most of the funding for the $939.9 m illion const r uct ion program, according to The News & Observer. Though many politicians disagree, the issue has bipartisan support within the school board. “It’s i mp or t a nt t o recognize that the support of the bond is unanimous by all members of the board,” said Jim Martin, school board member and professor of chemistry at N.C. State. But just a few years ago the school board was notorious for its infighting, ignited by political party ties.

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tween mites and patients diagnosed with rosacea, according to New Scientist magazine. In dogs, large “population explosions” of mites cause mange in dogs, Thoemmes said. and one of the species of Demodex mites closely resembles the dog mite in terms of genetics. “Everybody has them, but we don’t know what role they play. To think that they probably live on everyone’s face, and we don’t even know is pretty amazing,” Thoemmes said. The mites could also help illustrate how humans

Steven Greene, a professor slat e of scho ol b oa rd of political science at N.C. members with differences State, says that the school in policy goals, primarily board has made things diversity policy. difficult. He says the Democratic “ T h e Wa k e C o u n t y Party has done the same School Board has gone from in their own right after something being a fairly mobilizing to get democrats consensual, elected. relatively “Our nonpartisan board is a political nonpartisan institution, board. to a quiet There’s not partisan a decision polarized t h a t I’ve body,” m a de t hat Greene said. I’ve thought Since the ‘is t h is a 2010 debate democrat or said by Jim Martin, school concerning republican board member the school decision,’” system’s said Martin. diversity Members policy, the school board has of the school board and the become a partisan group, board of commissioners according to Greene. held joint meetings in the Greene says the school winter and spring of this board partisanship began year to discuss the needs about four years ago. of the cou nt y’s school Republicans, with support system and made plans for from the state Republican the construction program Party, aimed to make school together. board elections more partisan According to Mar tin, and put forth a republican the school board works in

“If the bond doesn’t go through, we’re going to see a lot longer bus rides...”

evolved, according to Dunn. For example, researchers were able to reconstruct the evolution of humans after examining the lineages of head lice, Dunn said. “So what we can do is figure out how different are the mites on different people from around the world, and do we actually see different species of mites that look the same, but are actually very very different,” Dunn said. “In your lifetime, the mites may have reproduced 400 to 500 times, and so in terms of human generations…that gets you 5,000 years.” One of the previous problems in studying mites was the lack of technology available to get a decent look at the little creatures, according to Dunn. While current tech-

nology has enhanced the observation of mites, there still remains the problem of keeping the mites alive, according to Thoemmes. “Mites don’t last more than 24 hours in oil on the slides,” Thoemmes said. This spurred the molecular work of Dan Fergus, another of the project’s collaborators who is researching new techniques for studying the mites, according to Thoemmes. The team’s strategy included holding local sampling events, where they used a spatula to scrape mites from the sides of volunteers’ noses and surrounding cheek area, Thoemmes said. “It seems kind of ridiculous, but people seem okay with it.” Though the team welcomes

conjunction with the county a nd it s mu n icipa l it y’s demographers to produce d a t a p r oje c t io n s . T h e demog r aphe r s evalu ate them in order to determine infrastructure needs based on population growth. The school board also works with the Institute for Transportation Research and Education, a center at the University, to make population projections. The school board deter mined that the constr uction program is needed to meet the needs of 2017 to 2018. According to The News & Observer, the construction program includes building 16 new schools, renovating six schools, upgrading aged tech systems at 79 schools and other new projects. The 16 new schools alone are expected to cost $533.75 million. County voters will decide Oct. 18 whether to approve the bond issue or not. The difference between t he $810 school bond issue and the total $939.9

million needed to fund the construction program will be paid in cash from county revenue. If not approved , t he school board and the county commissioners will have to reconvene, and make decisions on based on reevaluating finances and priorities. Martin said in absents of the school construction bond, there will be increased yearround busing and higher taxes. “The fund mechanisms to meet the needs, will be much more expensive to the tax payer if we don’t have the bond so you’ll pay more for less…I’m sure we will also be forced to consider expanding year round schools which are popular for some but people sue don’t like to be forced,” Martin said. “If the bond doesn’t go through we’re going to see a lot longer bus rides because where we have capacity is not where we have the highest population growth.”

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New technology allows researchers to conquer the problem of keeping mites alive while observing them.

all students who are interested in becoming subjects in the study, Theommes said they do need more international students to sign up at their sampling events to see how mites vary across the

globe. Three-hundred-and-eight people attended 10 etvents organized by the project this year. The team collected more than 60 mites from more than 39 participants.

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WITHIN OUR GREAT WOLFPACK CITY, MANY SMALL, INTIMATE VILLAGES EXIST... The African American Cultural Center invites you to participate in our annual Harambee program on Monday, September 9, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30. Harambee is the Swahili word meaning “let us come together.” At Harambee, we gather together to welcome new members into our village and to celebrate all of the members of our community. Harambee allows us to introduce student leaders, faculty, administrators and staff. This year Harambee showcases a sneak preview of “A Day Underneath the Angel Tree” choreographed by John Miller IV, a junior majoring in psychology. This Afro-modern work in progress celebrates the Gullah Geechie culture through dance and song and includes a performance by our own NCSU Uninhibited Praise

The Details • Welcome • Meet and Greet Activity • “A Day Underneath the Angel Tree” • Introduction of African American Student Advisory Council • Introduction of new members of the Community • Reception and socializing (really good food) • Harambee!!

Team. “A Day Underneath the Angel Tree” will be presented in full during the Fall Dance Progam Concert November 14-15 at Titmus Theatre at Thompson Hall. This work is part of an independant study with NCSU Dance Program.

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almart runs on the rollback policy. “We’re rolling back prices,” it continuously claims. But with the way Walmart pays and treats its employees, it gives the message of “We’re rolling back standards, rights and wages.” The current and former Walmart employees that make up the Organization United for Respect Walmart gathered in at least 15 cities, including Raleigh, to hold labor forums and protests on Thursday. OUR Walmart promised its protests would continue if its demands were not met by Labor Day. The protesters requested the right to unionize, which stems from the fact that most Walmart employees do not earn enough to make a decent living, averaging only $8.80 per hour. If they cannot earn the right to unionize, they request a full-time salary of $25,000 or $12 an hour, according to USA Today. As we have stated in a previous editorial, the Technician is all for increasing the federal

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“I would give them an F. The big issue for me is the school situation and the budgeting. They don’t have the right mindset. We are 49th on education and that is not okay with me.” Allen Coates freshman, international studies

“B+ They can’t make everybody happy. They do a good job for the majority; any legislature that can do that is a success.” Ryan Geary freshman, textile engineer

“I would give them a B. I do not think they are doing that bad a job but there are things to improve.” Ben Pierce freshman, civil engineering

“F because the proposal of the Amendment 1 was ludicrous and the school budget cut. I am not big on state legislature.” Allison Schaefer freshman, chemistry

minimum wage. North Carolina’s chapter of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations advertised Raleigh’s OUR Walmart forum on its website. The AFL-CIO “[helps] people who want to join together in unions so they can bargain collectively with their employers for better working conditions and the best way to get a good job done.” The word “union” is often stigmatized. Despite the fact that unions charge dues, they benefit workers in many ways. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employers on average cover 83 percent of health insurance premiums for union members and their families while they only cover 66 percent for nonunion members. And in his blog for The Wall Street Journal, Ben Casselman said union

his week saw a lot of gears change in the field of Information Technology. It is curious how the marketing gurus played out their roles in order to create the ripple.  The biggest news was the takeove r of Naman Nokia’s Muley phone Staff Columnist business by Microsoft. The latter shelled out $7.2 billion to be able to control the phone’s hardware on which their Windows Phone operating system runs. The first Nokia phones to run a Windows Phone operating system came out in October 2011. Since then the Nokia-Windows partnership has been consistently underperforming in the market. The Samsung-Google partnership, which sells Android phones, has been the clear winner until now. Yet, Microsoft’s strategic acquisition of Nokia’s phone business means Microsoft is going to continue fighting in the smartphone market.  Owning Nokia’s phone business will mean Microsoft also owns a heap of patents that Nokia had gathered throughout the years. Not only did Microsoft gain intellectual property, but it will also hold greater control over its phone. When a company owns the hardware and the software, it can tweak and twist everything, resulting in the best user experience and performance.   Integrating Windows Phone operating system tightly with the hardware will allow Microsoft to do what Apple has done. Apple is similar in that it makes both the hardware for its devices and the software that runs on top of it. That marriage is what makes iOS and its cousins drool-worthy. Somewhere up there, Steve Jobs is cursing Microsoft again for copying

what he did (in 1988, Apple sued Microsoft because Windows copied the Macintosh’s graphical user interface elements). Yahoo! also earned press recently. Marissa Mayer is the current Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo! Under her new regime, the search giant went on an acquisition spree. With stocks up by 75 percent since the time she took over, former employees returning and the company investing in recovering a depleted research division, there is hope for Yahoo!  Yahoo! also sprung a surprise with its new logo. Calligraphers will notice the tilted exclamation point and curving lines. Mayer, with a team of designers, came up with the new logo this summer. Yahoo! is definitely seeing changes. Whether its new strategy to attack personalized information market will succeed or not is yet to be seen.   And finally, Google has also had its share of the marketing gossip. It came up with another fun name for the latest 4.4 version of its mobile operation system, Android. They named it KitKat after the confectionery product. Android versions have always been named after sweets, from Cupcake (Android 1.5) to Donut (Android 1.6) to the most recent predecessor of KitKat, Jelly Bean (Android 4.1). The search giant has always come up with innovative marketing gimmicks. From Google Doodle to Google Glass, the company has always stressed thinking outside the box. Google recently came up with a cool idea of having air balloons high in the stratosphere act as relays for wireless communication. Ideas and innovations like these have made Google the magnet for talent.   More often than not, the marketing of such giants is inexplicably catchy. Google came up with a website for KitKat and modified it to become a classic pun so that one cannot tell whether the website is referring to the candy or the operating system.  As these giants play among themselves, they are pushing boundaries. Technology pervades. It is altering our lives.

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Twerkin’ for a change: One man’s twisted fantasy

a n’t pay for college ? Well don’t fret because a hero has come to the rescue and he goes by the name of Juicy J. Yup, if you are a young woman between the ages of 18 a nd 25 and can shake your beTaylor Quinn hind well enough Staff Columnist to spark his liking, he will give you $50,000 scholarship. To put it in his words, the Three 6 Mafia rapper tweeted that he will give a $50,000 scholarship to “the best chick who can twerk.” If that does not make the inner feminist in you projectile vomit, it gets better—in a press release he said that the scholarship is “out of the kindness of his heart.” So basically he is corralling women who need money for college to objectify themselves. But I guess it is okay because the idea was born out of “kindness.” For those of you who are unfamiliar with what exactly “twerking” is, Urban Dictionary defines it as “the rhythmic gyrating of the lower fleshy extremities in a lascivious manner with the intent to elicit sexual arousal or laughter in ones intended

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members are “more likely to get paid vacation and sick time and retirement and life insurance benefits.” But Walmart has done more than just deprive its workers of decent pay. According to OUR Walmart, the company has disciplined or fired more than 60 workers because they spoke out for change. This problem is bigger than the minimum wage issue because while nothing in our Constitution guarantees a certain minimum wage, our Constitution prohibits laws that “[abridge] the freedom of speech.” By firing and disciplining its workers for expressing their concerns, Walmart has scared its employees into silence. “People are scared because they see how Walmart retaliates,” said Colby Harris, a member of OUR Walmart and

an employee at a Dallas location. And while many workers want to tell Walmart how they feel, Harris said “not everyone has spoken out because of the reality of losing their jobs.” Essentially, the employees are stuck in a cycle— it’s hard to speak out against a company that does not allow its employees to speak freely. Our Founding Fathers would be disappointed to hear that citizens are afraid of utilizing their rights for their intended purposes. Walmart spokesperson Brooke Buchanan “shrugged off the latest protests,” according to MSNBC, describing them as “a handful of union-orchestrated media stunts.” It is important that Walmart employees continue to make their voices heard until the company comes to at least respect them, if not oblige their requests. Walmart ranks number one on the Fortune 500 and should be setting an example for other companies. Its sales increased to a whopping $443.9 billion in 2012, while its employees continue to just get by.

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audience.” And if you would like it in the context of a sentence, Urban Dictionary also provides that: “Hey girl, let’s twerk on the dance floor.” If you would like a visual example, just check out Miley Cyrus’ latest Video Music Awards performance. No, this scholarship is not based upon intelligence. No, this scholarship is not based upon effort. But yes, this scholarship is based on how well the “applicants” move their “lower fleshy extremities” wea ring, I assume, revealing shorts. I don’t want to come across as a straitlaced drama queen, so don’t get me wrong. Twerking is fine. It is simply a dance. I’ve dabbled in it and you probably have as well. We’ve all twerked—or attempted to—but what gets my blood boiling is that only women are allowed to participate. That just tells me that this Juicy J character is holding this contest not out of the kindness of his heart but instead for the pleasure of another body part. It is as if he is paying $50,000 to put on a show for his own enjoyment. It should be called something like “Twerkin’ for Change: One Man’s Twisted Fantasy.” Of course nobody is being

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forced to participate in this contest. But if you want to attend college and need money, in a way you are. Money is money and sometimes dignity and pride take a backseat when needs can be fulfilled with objectification such as this. I have nothing against the girls who decide to participate—desperate times call for desperate measures—but I do have a huge problem w ith the person behind this escapade. We a r e supposed to be progressing, as a country, with gender equality, but a man sitting back watching young woman twerk and giving money to the “best” one in exchange for an education is really putting a damper on things. Then again, I guess we can’t expect much from a man whose song titles include “Slob on my Knob.” So Juicy J, I slow clap in honor of you. You’re a classy guy... real classy.

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Raleigh police’s K-9 unit gives criminals a ‘ruff’ day Holden Broyhill

odor of disturbed ground, not from the scent of a piece of clothing like most people The use of police dogs think. around North Carolina has “They can track by the been on the rise in the last de- scent of broken glass, discade, and the Raleigh Police turbed earth and even disDepartment’s K-9 unit has turbed dirt in a parking lot,” grown steadily over that time. Tomczak said. Axe, Jens, Phantom, MarThe dogs can also look ko, Onya, Mex, Kito, Tuckey, for discarded objects, such Jago, Cobra and Dingo help as a weapon a suspect has officers with the police detect thrown into a field. They do bombs and drugs, find miss- this based on scent discrimiing people and evidence, and nation. protect their handlers. “The dog does not know “Twice a year we certify the that it smells a weapon or K-9s with the Police K-9 As- discarded money, but the sociation,” Lt. Tim Tomczak dog knows that it doesn’t said. “It is a voluntary asso- smell like the rest of the field,” ciation, but it shows that our Tomczak said. dogs are some of the best in The dogs receive a lot of bathe country.” sic training before they even The Raleigh K-9 Unit is join a K-9 Unit. Most of the made up of nine patrol dogs dogs start the training with and two bomb dogs. the police between 1 and 2 “The two bomb dogs that years old. only do bomb work have got “We expect the dogs to to have great do some banoses, and sic bite and these other tracking n i ne dog s work as well have got to as to not be be able to afraid of aghandle a vagressive peoriety of other ple,” Tomtasks,” Tomc z a k s a id . cz a k sa id. “ We n e e d “They’re dogs t hat like people. are capable Some dogs of tracking are good at d r ug s a nd Lt. Tim Tomczak, detecting people in Raleigh Police Department while others addition to are good at being able to being aggressive.” be aggressive to apprehend a Police send the bomb dogs suspect.” in to sweep areas that are unAfter the police purchases der bomb threats and stops a dog, the department brings along the car routes of high- it back to Raleigh to live with priority targets that visit. its K-9 officer. The dog is then “If a dog is trained to find put through 14-20 weeks of drugs or track, and they training with its handler befail, it’s unfortunate, but if fore they hit the streets. they don’t find an explosive, “The K-9 unit officers go that’s a very big deal,” Tom- to training every other Tuesczak said. day for a full 10 hours unless Patrol dogs, on the other something breaks loose in the hand, are used to detect city and they have to go redrugs, track people fleeing a spond to that,” Tomczak said. crime scene, apprehension of Some of the training the suspects and building search- dogs go through is focused on es as necessary. agility, discipline and trainThe dogs track by using the ing commands. Tomczak said Staff writer

“They’re like people. Some dogs are good at detecting while others are good at being aggressive.”

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The K-9 unit is made up of two types of dogs, bomb dogs and patrol dogs. Bomb dogs are specially trained to detect explosives, and patrol dogs handle a variety of other tasks, such as tracking suspects, detecting drugs and protecting their handler.

one of the most important things a police dog needs to know is when to stop. “When you send it to apprehend someone, it needs to stop when it gets called back,” Tomczak said. “We’re not looking for dogs that are just willing to take down a bad guy.” The dogs are also trained to defend and protect their handlers and are very specific to the officers they work with. Tomczak said that even though he spends a great deal of time around the dogs and sees them on a regular basis, if he were to push a dog’s handler the dog would immediately attack him. The K-9 unit dogs will work as long as they are physically able or until their handler retires or gets promoted or transferred, as it’s often difficult to retrain them for a new handler. Instead, they retire into the custody of the officer they worked with. Working with the Raleigh K-9 unit is a coveted position. In the past five years there has only been one position open for a new human to serve as an officer on the police K-9 unit. According to Tomczak, 28 well-qualified officers applied.

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Above: The K-9 unit trains for 10 hours every other Tuesday. Below: Each Raleigh police dog is trained to protect its handler. The handlers and dogs form a close bond and the dogs retires into their officers’ custody.

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Theatrical hip-hop group welcomes new dancers Hassan Durant

was a project we all kind of talked about,” Phuong said. “We were thinking ‘what if There is a whole host of we did a set that’s more than dance teams on campus for just a hip hop performance? students to be a part of — but What if we added characters perhaps none of the existing and a story?’” teams are anything like The Phuong said he intended for Production, a new hip-hop the group to be a one-time group that just formed last affair that would disband at semester. the close of the semester — Un li ke ot her hip-hop but his plans changed as the groups who may concentrate semester wore on. on stage presence and the “[During the semester] we intricacy of movement itself, picked up almost 20 people The Production is marketing who were down to keep itself as a more “theatrical” this up…we really bonded hip-hop group. through the group,” Phuong “Every said. “It was performance supposed we do will to be a onehave a contime project, cept/story but it grew w ith charinto someacters so the thing much audience has more.” something The group to fol low started rethroughout hearsing in the perforJanuar y in Johnny Nguyen, mance,” said preparation sophomore in computer science Ricky Phufor its debut ong, a senior performance in design studies. “We want at last semester’s Asia Night to present a story for [the —unfortunately, Asia night audience] to connect with.” was cancelled. Still, The ProPhuong co-founded the duction was prepared to give group at the beginning of last a show. semester as a small project to “For Asia Night we had a do before his friends’ immi- sort of ninja-themed set,” nent graduation. Phuong said. “We had our “I had a couple of friends costumes, and masks and evwho were graduating last erything. We threw in some year, and [The Production] martial arts, and some leaps Staff Writer

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The Production has yet to have its debut performance. It will participate at NCSU’s Best Dance Crew competition in November and will hold auditions for new members after every performance. The group currently has 35 members and markets itself as a theatrical hip-hop group. Each dance the members do has a concept or story with characters that the audience can follow throughout the performance.

and flips to kind of highlight the ninja-esque theme going on. It was really fun to put together.” Phuong said he can’t say too much about the story for their latest work, but teased that the newest set will feature a love story that takes place in a “corrupted circus”. According to Johnny Nguyen, a sophomore in computer science and social chair for the group, after the auditions last weekend, The Produc-

tion’s membership jumped from 21 to 35 members. The Production took in dancers across a broad spectrum of skill — Phuong said some of its members had never really danced before joining the group. “We didn’t want to push anyone away,” Phuong said. “If someone really wants to dance, we want to let them develop.” “It’s not about people who are really good at dance but

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are, and no matter how involved a dancer wants to be… we try to work with them.” According to Phuong and Nguyen, students don’t have to wait for auditions next semester to try out for The Production. The Production plans to hold auditions for new members after every performance they do, and its debut performance will be at this year’s NC State’s Best Dance Crew competition in November.

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State to face Spiders on Military Appreciation Day Daniel Wilson Staff Writer

After a strong season opener against Louisiana Tech, N.C. State (1-0) will face a tough Football Championship Subdivision opponent in Richmond (1-0) Saturday evening in its annual Military Appreciation Day at Carter-Finley Stadium. The Wolfpack defeated the Bulldogs last weekend by a score of 4014. However, the Spiders are fresh off of a 34-0 victory over the Virginia Military Institute. State holds a 17-1-1 record against Richmond; State shut out the Spiders the last time it faced them with a 42-0 victory in 2004. “We know they have a good football team,” head coach Dave Doeren said. “They are returning a lot of starters, and it is a team that has done well in the past playing up, particularly in our state. We look forward to the opportunity, and we know it’s going to be a definite challenge on Saturday.” Military appreciation events will include a pregame tailgate hosted by Coca-Cola Co. and N.C. State Athletics, the Wounded Warrior Walk of Champions. The Power Sound of the South will perform a halftime ceremony that will feature a special military tribute, a full-field sized flag and a parachute team jumping into the stadium. “I wouldn’t be standing here as a coach if we didn’t have those guys fighting for us,” Doeren said. “The men and women of our country that make this a place that we can do what we do are very important to

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Freshman wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling takes off down the field after receiving a pass against Louisiana Tech Aug. 31. Valdes-Scantling had four catches for 87 yards in the Wolfpack’s 40-14 win against the Bulldogs at Carter-Finley Stadium.

us. We’re really excited about going out and playing for them this week.” Redshirt junior quarterback Pete Thomas will start his first game with State after entering last weekend’s contest in place of injured graduate student quarterback Brandon Mitchell; Thomas completed 15 of 27 passes for 212 yards and one interception. “When you’re a backup, you don’t take the same number of reps as the starter in practice,” Doeren said. “You have to show the ability to be ready mentally without physically

getting the activity. He did that.” S ophomore r u n n i ng bac k Shadrach Thornton will return to action after being suspended for a game after he was charged with assault over the summer. Thornton, who made his collegiate debut in last season’s Military Appreciation Day against the Citadel, led the Pack in rushing with 694 yards on 154 attempts and three touchdowns. Thornton joins redshirt junior running back Tony Creecy and freshman running back Matt Dayes

in the backfield. Creecy gained 47 yards and scored once while Dayes earned 84 yards on the ground with three scores. “There is never going to be a downfall despite who is in the game.” Creecy said. “[Dayes] has great vision and explosion. Some guys see it. Some guys, you have to rep it and rep it, and then they see it. Matt sees it right away. He’s got that vision.” The Spiders’ primary offensive threat comes in the form of senior wide receiver Ben Edwards.

The preseason FCS All-American caught seven passes for 95 yards and one score. Richmond redshirt sophomore quarterback Michael Strauss will start behind center after completing 23 of 36 passes for 265 yards, three touchdowns and an interception. “Offensively, they’re not going to give it to you,” Doeren said. “You’re going to have to take it from them and play sound. Like us, they do a lot of different things.” Kickoff is Saturday at 6 p.m.

Thomas ready to step in as starting quarterback Luke Nadkarni Staff Writer

The football team’s quarterback battle was one of the most scrutinized points going into head coach Dave Doeren’s first season. Doeren refused to tip his hand throughout preseason practice as to who his quarterback would be, waiting until the last minute to reveal whether graduate student Brandon Mitchell or redshirt junior Pete Thomas would replace the recently graduated Mike Glennon. When the Wolfpack took the field in the season opener last Saturday against Louisiana Tech, Mitchell, a transfer from Arkansas, lined up under center. Just as Wolfpack Nation thought they finally had some stability at the position, Mitchell went down in the first quarter with a broken bone in his foot. He will be out for 4-6 weeks, giving Thomas an opportunity to lead the Pack’s offense. “It was definitely not the way I wanted to become the starter.” Thomas said. The transfer from Colorado State, who sat out last season in compliance with NCAA transfer rules, completed 15 out of 27 passes for 212 yards in his Wolfpack debut. He will get the start on Saturday against

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Richmond. While at Colorado State, Thomas completed 414 of 652 passes for 4,269 yards and 18 touchdowns. He completed .647 percent of his passes as a freshman at Colorado State which set a school record. Despite the intense competition for playing time, Thomas views himself, Mitchell and all the other quarterbacks on the roster as a family. This applies not only in practice but away from football as well. “We’re really close off the field, in the meeting room and obviously on the field,” Thomas said. “I believe that’s what makes a quarterback successful. All of us are tight friends and always helping each other out.” Thomas arrived at State while Tom O’Brien was still at the helm. Doeren’s spread offense is different from O’Brien’s pro-style scheme, and Thomas acknowledges that adjusting was no walk in the park. “It was difficult at times,” Thomas said. “I’ve never run a spread offense before. All the offenses I’ve been in have been pro-style. But this happens all the time in college football, so I have to make the best of it.” Thomas is faced with the inevitable task that all collegiate athletes must tackle—balancing his studies with his sport. But Thomas, who graduated high school a semester

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Redshirt junior Pete Thomas completed 15 of 27 passes for 212 yards last week against Louisiana Tech.

early with a 4.0 GPA, said he feels like he has a solid handle on all aspects of being a student-athlete. “It’s definitely a challenge, but I came here to get a degree as well as play football,” Thomas said. “The coaches do a great job of staying on top of things and making sure we get our schoolwork done and go to class.” Thomas said his older brother,

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Chris, is his inspiration to play football. Chris Thomas recently completed a wrestling career at the Air Force Academy. “We have a real good relationship with each other,” Thomas said. “We’re best friends.” A native of El Cajon, Calif., Thomas grew up rooting for the San Diego Chargers, whose quarterback is former Wolfpack great Philip Rivers.

Now he occupies the spot where Rivers once stood—first-string quarterback for N.C. State. “It’s too bad that Brandon got hurt. He’s a great teammate, a great friend, and a great competitor.” Thomas said. “But stuff like that happens in football. Now I have to prepare and do whatever I can to help this team win.” ww

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