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Legislature ignores UNC-System police NCSU POLICE CHIEF SEEKS TO EDUCATE STUDENTS ABOUT GUN SAFETY Jake Moser News Editor

Despite opposition from UNCSystem police chiefs, a state law allowing concealed weapons on college campuses will go into effect Oct. 1. As a result, N.C. State Police Chief, Jack Moorman, and others are concentrating on gun safety education.

North Carolina House Bill 937,

which also allows concealed firearms in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, became law in July.

However, the bill does impose some restrictions on the use of guns.

“This legislation prohibits guns in classrooms, dorms and administrative buildings on college campuses.

Additionally, this legislation gives bar owners the authority to prohibit guns in their establishments,” Gov. Pat McCrory said, according to

WRAL. Prior to McCrory signing the bill, Moorman and police chiefs from other UNC System schools attended a committee hearing at the general assembly to “make sure the opinion of the chiefs in the UNC System [was] heard,” according to Moorman.

They presented a letter, signed by all UNC System police chiefs, addressing their concerns.

“What is first and foremost with myself has always been the safety of our campus, the safety of our students,” Moorman said. “We felt this bill was not in the best interest of promoting the safety of out students.”

Moorman said there were several reasons for his trip to the general assembly. Two of them involve restricting guns to the owners’ vehicles.

“Any weapon on campus would have to be stored in a vehicle, and vehicle break-ins are a crime that occurs on college campuses,” Moorman said. “You have a potential there for a vehicle to be broken into and a gin falling into the hands of the individual who committed the crime.”

Another scenario where the gun

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North Carolina increases solar panel construction Jason Katz Staff Writer

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Members of the Dance Visions group perform at Harambee, a Kenyan celebration, on Monday.

The group performed in the Witherspoon Student Center.

Harambee brings students together across campus Jacqueline Lee Correspondent

Wednesday night about 190 people attended Harambee, an event sponsored by the African American Cultural Center, in the Washington Sankofa Room in Witherspoon Student Center. The word Harambee is Swahili for “coming together”, and the event embodied its definition, with every seat taken and many people standing to take part in the festivities.

Harambee is an annual event where new

members of the N.C. State community are welcomed and encouraged to meet and interact with fellow students and the AfricanAmerican community on campus.

At the event, freshman, new student leaders, faculty, administrators and staff were encouraged to introduce themselves to the community.

Bethany Kendall, a freshman in African studies said she enjoyed the event.

North Carolina, which is known for being “First in Flight,” continues its tradition of being a leader in the technology and innovation, and N.C. State is among the piloting forces of a new era.

Months after N.C. State was awarded for its sustainability, Solarbuzz, a market research and analysis group, ranked North Carolina second in the nation in new solar construction. Although the state was significantly behind California, who led the nation in the category, N.C. State appears to be among the driving forces of a movement to continue to make North Carolina more energy efficient.

According to Tracy Dixon, the sustainability director at N.C. State, the University currently has 53 solar ther-

mal panels, 112 solar pool One example of innovation heating collectors produc- at N.C. State is The Solar Paing hot water, and 550 solar vilion — a charging station photovoltaic panels. This is powered by solar panels on enough to power about 23 campus. The pavilion is a homes for one year. product of the Think Out“N.C. State side the Brick has been competiworking totion, which ward becomawards stuing more dents up to sustainable $ 1, 0 0 0 t o for ma ny complete a years,” Dixsustainable on said. “Reprojec t on ceiving the N.C. State’s Raleigh Encampus.

Tracy Dixon, sustainability director vironmental Other of N.C. State Stewardship competiAward, the t ions have City of Raleigh’s highest hon- also helped push students to or for sustainability, is great get involved with N.C. State recognition for the univer- sustainability. sity and the many people on Jack Colby, the co-sustaincampus working to make the ability officer and assistant N.C. State leaner, smarter and vice chancellor for facilities stronger through sustainable projects and programs.”

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“N.C. State has been working toward becoming more sustainable for many years”

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City of Raleigh awarded grant to improve train station downtown Joseph Havey Deputy News Editor

Last Wed nesday, U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s office announced that the federal government awarded the city of Raleigh a $10 million grant to revamp Union Station, located in downtown Raleigh.

This follows a $21 million grant the previous year for the same project.

Hagan announced the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery V grant in a news release on Wednesday.

“Completing a new Union Station is an important investment that will bring economic development to the City of Raleigh and improve the lives of commuters and tourists who utilize the rail facilities every day at one of the Southeast’s busiest stations,” Hagan said in the news release.

Eric Lamb, a manager in the City of Raleigh Office of Transportation Planning, said the previous year’s grant for $21 million was a “longshot” and that last week’s announcement felt as if “lighting struck twice.”

“We were exuberant to get any money in the first place,” Lamb said. “To get money from TIGER V after getting money from [last year’s] TIGER IV is almost unheard of.

So this is actually a pretty big deal.”

Currently, Union Station’s principle purpose is to service Amtrak trains traveling through the city. Raleigh Department of Transportation officials have proposed a multi-phase plan to remake the station, adding rails, additional parking and bus lines to open up the nowcramped station at the foot of West Martin Street. The grant money will move the

city closer to turning the first phase of the plan into reality.

“We are fundamentally replacing the existing train station we have now, which is an old and outdated station,” Lamb said. “It should have been replaced 20 years ago, if I had to guess.”

Lamb said the train station is currently running over capacity. When his department researched the southeastern transportation system, it found that Raleigh is the third most popular stop in the Southeast, behind Richmond and New Orleans. The downtown station, which doesn’t even have a loading platform, services more people per year than Charlotte, Miami and Atlanta.

Lamb said the results, though surprising, showed a strong need for a new, highcapacity station. The need is

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Alex Parker, student body president and Kelsey Mills, acting student senate president discuss the state of the Student Wolfpack Facebook group Monday, Sept. 9 in Harrelson Hall. At the meeting Student Government officials and concerned students discussed the direction of the group.

Student Government debates merits of Wolfapack Students Facebook page Katherine Kehoe Correspondent

More than 25 students gathered on Monday to discuss the possibility of stricter regulation of the Wolfpack Students Facebook page, currently run by Student Government.

The open forum addressed issues with Wolfpack Students, including harassment, excessive joking and a general lack of useful information on the page.

The meeting began with a brief history of the Facebook group. According to Student

Body President Alex Parker, Student Government initially created the page to facilitate discussion between students and administrators.

Any N.C. State student is allowed to post, read or comment about university related issues on the Wolfpack Students wall.

“The purpose of this meeting was to have an open discussion dialogue about the mission of Wolfpack Students, to find out what students want from that resource and to kind of bridge the gap between student government and oth-

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operations at the University, said water reduction competitions between residence halls, and between N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill, helped save water.

“We tracked the water consumption to see who reduced consumption the most,” Colby said. “I think everybody had a good time with it and [it] also raised awareness

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about the fact that our water resources are finite.”

Colby said that the efforts cut water consumption on campus by 40 percent during that period.

“Our students, in many cases, are where our innovation comes from, and so we want them thinking about the future — not what has happened in the past,” Colby said. “With that competition, we raise the level of innovation that’s being applied here on campus.”

Dixon said recent efforts

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have made a difference. Campus energy usage is down 21 percent from 10 years ago, and water usage is down 49 percent.

“That’s significant cost savings and good management of natural resources,” Dixon said.

Dixon said the University adheres to a standard set by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a subgroup of the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED rates buildings based on environmental friendliness.

“N.C. State has also committed that all new buildings or renovations over 20,000 square feet achieve at least LEED Silver [the third highest rating] certification for energy and environmental leadership,” Dixon said.

Colby said the University recently spent about $40 million on a co-generation plant, which uses two large gas turbines to help reduce carbon footprint by 8 percent, saving $4 million a year.

“At a time when [the] University is faced with the

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extreme pressure on the financial side, keeping the cost of operations low is very important and it really makes sense,” Colby said.

Colby said some sustainable solutions don’t involve technology at all. Students can help out by practicing good recycling habits, which Colby said he has noticed already.

“Even on game days at Carter Finley, now we have a major recycling effort,” Colby said.

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tions could help sustainability become a part of everyday life.

“If we can imagine classrooms that are interactive and buildings that are smart buildings sensing where we are, increasing and decreasing light levels where they’re needed, moving temperatures up and down based on which spaces are occupied and really beginning to apply technology to our everyday environment,” Colby said.

NCSU student finds fame in family photo Emma Cathell Staff Writer

A family photo meant just for the eyes of relatives and friends ended up being published by Vanity Fair and the Huffington Post.

Kristen Bloch, a junior in psychology, and her family recreated the cover of the Breakfast Club, as a fun holiday photo.

“I had no idea that Vanity Fair or anyone would have any interest, but they really liked it and were marveling about it,” Bloch said. “After I had seen all the posts on Reddit, I let it go. The next day, my friend called and told me that he was online and saw my picture on the Huffington Post the day after I saw it on Reddit.

It had blown up overnight.”

Last Easter, the Bloch family took pictures to send to family. After taking traditional portraits, they decided to switch it up.

“I don’t want to take the credit, but I was just like, ‘Let’s do something else, let’s not have that general family picture with the clip art that says Happy Easter on it. Let’s do something different,’” Bloch said.

“We took two takes of the picture and I was really happy with it. It was just fun and quirky, so we put it up.

And that was the end of it.”

It appeared to be the end until Bloch discovered the picture online five months later.

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The Bloch family poses for an Easter photo modelled after the iconic cover of the Breakfast Club. The photo went viral after being posted on Reddit.com.

“I was just baffled because I didn’t put it up,” Bloch said. “I looked at it and the views were increasing as I refreshed the page and I was just like, ‘What’s going on?’”

After that, the photo then spread like wildfire, Block said.

“Reddit kind of blew over,” Bloch said. “But two days later, I saw that we were on the Huffington Post and I thought, ‘No, this can’t be the same picture,’ but then I looked, and it was.”

Three days after the Huffington Post article, Bloch discovered her photo again, this time on a more

surprising website.

“I saw that we were on Vanity Fair online, which was exciting because I read that magazine,” Bloch said. “It’s kind of like being published in your favorite book. I just thought, ‘What do they have interest in me for?’”

Both the Huffington Post and Vanity Fair commended the Bloch family for their original photo. Huffington Post described their photo as “perfect” and Vanity Fair describes it as “cool”, applauding the family’s originality.

“We didn’t take the picture in hopes that Vanity Fair would find

it,” Bloch said.

The Vanity Fair article suggested the family arrange to appear in a segment on television.

“I read through the article in Vanity Fair and I saw that they wrote, ‘They should book a segment on the ‘Today’ show,’ and they gave us the email for the editor,” Bloch said.

Bloch said the entire family is excited about where their family photo may take them.

“It’s funny to see [my family’s] different reactions,” Bloch said. “My dad is all for it, and all for going on talk shows and my mom emailed,

but she’s a little uneasy and wondering where all of this is going to go.

My sisters are pretty excited about it too.”

The Bloch family awaits a response from NBC’s “Today” show and they are trying to figure out where their photo will lead them next.

“It all happened so quickly and I didn’t even know that anything was going to come from it,” Bloch said. “It’s such a simple picture, but I think what people really like about it is that it’s a genuine, fun time.”

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expected to keep growing.

Last year, Forbes Magazine ranked Raleigh as the fastest growing city in the U.S. “We want a train station that fits [current needs], but we also want to address our future growth needs,” Lamb said. “The planned station lays the groundwork for the future high speed rail service, and it also lays the groundwork for the potential for commuter rail service that will be provided by triangle transit.”

Mary Curtis, a junior in biological engineering, said improved logistics sounds like a good idea.

“I’m sure the current station is really old, and you can tell,” Curtis said. “I’m sure it would help them — at least get people on and off — to have a bigger station.”

Curtis, a Florida native, said she traveled by Amtrak train between Raleigh and Jacksonville, Fla., four times a year during her freshman and sophomore years. “[The current station] is okay,” Curtis said. “It’s really small. My train went all the way down to Orlando, so there were always a lot of people riding it. The train station would get really crowded, especially if you had a lot of baggage.”

Curtis said her roommate always picked her up from the Raleigh station so she never

had to worry about transportation to N.C. State. However, she thinks improved bus routes to the station will help some Raleigh travelers avoid pricey cab fees.

“If someone didn’t have someone they knew in Raleigh, they would probably have to call a cab, which can be kind of expensive,” Curtis said.

Curtis said delays also made it hard for people to travel once arriving in Raleigh.

“The train sometimes got delayed for four or five hours,” Curtis said. “It would come in much later than you thought you were going be there. It was nice for me that I had someone that was really flexible that could pick me up.

I don’t know how most people who rode the train did it.”

Lamb said the new station will fix these types of problems.

“If I’m a student at N.C. State, this is going to provide me with better choices,” Lamb said. “Once you get here, [transportation] is going to be a better experience.

It’s going to be more convenient. It’s going to be easier to use.”

However, Lamb said the current TIGER V grant money will only be used for the first phase of the multiphase project, which entails the rebuilding of Union Station. The second phase will add additional parking and work to further integrate the Raleigh Capital Area Transit

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The Raleigh Amtrak station is currently overcapacity. With federal grant money, the city hopes to rebuild the station to meet the demand which has increased over the years.

bus system.

“Phase one is not just the cornerstone of development,” Lamb said. “It’s really the first step.”

Lamb said the goal is to create a “signature station” for North Carolina’s capital city. One proposed idea is to utilize the event space on top of the station as an outdoor patio, which might be rented to businesses or for events.

Still, the end result depends on how much money is raised.

The City of Raleigh committed $6 million to the project, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation committed $9 million. Lamb said currently — through a combination of city, state and federal funding — the City of Raleigh can afford to rebuild the current station.

However, his department is working on other options for additional funds. The goal is to raise at least $60 million, but Lamb said he prefers to

raise closer to $73 million.

“The bottom though is we have enough money … that we can deliver a complete product of a working station with all of the track improvements,” Lamb said.

“The question becomes if we can get more funds, then we can deliver a better product.”

Lamb said this “better product” is a station that mimics the functionality of Union Station in Washington D.C.

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“I enjoyed the message,” Kendall said. “There were so many people and people of different color.”

Members of the African Student Union welcomed attendees to the event by performing the “Call of the Drum”, a traditional African song.

At tendees were g iven bingo cards that reinforced the spirit of Harambee and encouraged them to interact with people they would not otherwise get to know.

Squares on the bingo came included someone that is a junior, someone who is in the College of Design or someone that has a job on campus.

“I wanted to get N.C. State’s cultural feel and be surrounded on campus with people like myself,” Velvet McClurkin, a senior in human biology, said John Miller IV, junior in psychology, performed an excerpt from his modern dance piece “A Day Underneath the Angel Tree” accompanied by the Uninhibited Praise Gospel Choir and the DanceVisions Dance Company.

The performance received a standing ovation.

Miller choreographs his own dances in an independent dance study. According to Miller, his inspiration for the performance was inspired by the historic Angel Oak Tree on Johns Island in South Carolina.

Uninhibited Praise Gospel Choir does not usually accompany dance routines, but worked with Miller on this project.

“Being in a gospel choir, we usually do songs of praise and celebration. This time in-

er users of Wolfpack Students,” Parker said.

Student senate president Kelsey Mills and Parker ran the forum, asking students to express their own personal concerns. They also asked students to give opinions about how Student Government should address the problems facing the Facebook group.

The possibility of enforcing a stricter set of posting rules sparked heavy debate. Emily Benson, a senior in business marketing, said that although she sees a problem with harassment, it gets “tricky” when deciding how to moderate discussions.

“We should decide what can be moderated and what can’t be moderated and who’s in charge of that and set forth guidelines if there are going to be some,” Benson said.

Conversely, some students, such as Stephon Beaufort, a sophomore in mathematics, did not want to see stricter moderation of the page at all.

“I was a little disturbed by the fact that [Stu-

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John Miller IV performs an original dance at Harambee.

stead, we did songs about our ancestors. It was good to do a song about our roots and experience something we’re not familiar with doing,” Julian Tucker, a senior in criminology and Uninhibited Praise Gospel Choir, said.

In November, the entire dance will be performed.

“This is my favorite event because of the energy everyone has and how it brings people in our community together,” Toni Harris Thorpe, Program Coordinator for the African American Cultural Center, said. “At the end of the event, everyone present says ‘Harambee’ seven times getting louder each time so that our ancestors hear us

celebrating.”

Thorpe said the event was a success and expressed her enthusiasm for forthcoming African American Cultural Center events.

“Tonight was a great event and was especially nice to see so many members of the NCSU community coming together to celebrate African American traditions,” Jasmine Omorogne, Assistant Director of Multicultural Student Affairs, said.

After the end of the festivities, students continued to embody the spirit of Harambee, socializing in the Washington Sankofa room.

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rights bill might cause trouble is in the event of a “shooter situation,” Moorman said.

“Individuals might return to their vehicle to get their weapon if there’s a shooter on campus,” Moorman said.

“If anyone did that it would lead to chaos and confusion and not knowing who the shooter was. We didn’t want some well-intentioned citizen mistakenly identified as the perpetrator.”

Some students, like Junior in animal science, Adrianna Burchfield, agree with Moorman and the UNC System chiefs.

“Adding more [guns] to a

“We’re interested in making sure that the station is not just a station,” Lamb said.

“We want it to be a very dynamic, useful facility.”

Lamb said that Hagan’s office, Rep. David Price (DN.C.), the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Rail Administration were instrumental in the process to get the TIGER V grant.

dent Government] wanted to enforce more policy on it. I like the fact that it is open and free. It’s like the internet as it applies to N.C. State, so I really like that I don’t want that to change that’s why I came here,” Beaufort said.

After students finished listing their concerns, Parker concluded the meeting by inviting students back on Wednesday, Sept. 18, when the committee will debate on specifics of the bill before it moves to the Student Senate Sept. 25.

Everything discussed at the Monday meeting will be reviewed and discussed by the committee on Sept. 18. This committee will vote on a list of characteristics defining what will be regulated in the Wolfpack Students group. The meeting will be open to students who want to give more input on the subject.

Overall, Parker said he was pleased with the results of the forum.

“I think it was a great forum,” Parker said.

“I think we have some clear next steps that we can pursue and there is still plenty of time for students to voice their opinions about certain things and what to do.”

campus of young adults who don’t always make good decisions seems to be more detrimental than safe,” Burchfield said. “Guns are only safe in the right hands.”

Despite concerns, Moorman said University Police is not going to protest the law — instead, they will educate students and faculty on gun safety.

“Our whole purpose in going down [to the general assembly] then was to make sure they understood out concerns,” Moorman said.

“Now that that it becomes a law October 1, our focus has really switched to education.

There’s no point in continuing to voice opposition to it.”

In order to educate N.C. State’s campus on gun safety, University Police held an educational meeting on Centennial campus earlier this month and planned another meeting Sept. 25 from 11:30a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Harrelson Hall room 113.

“We do [these meetings] periodically to make sure we maintain as good of communication as we can with the campus community,” Moorman said.

The meeting will include information about safety concerns for pedestrians and bicyclists as well as changes to state gun laws. For more information, call 919.515.5963.

Candle light vigil set for 7 p.m. tonight Staff Report

In honor of World Suicide Prevention Day, N.C. State’s third annual candlelight vigil will take place at 7 p.m. today at the Tri-Towers on Central Campus.

World Suicide Prevention Day was first established by the International Associa-

tion for Suicide Prevention in 2003, and is meant to help spread awareness on the causes of suicide.

“Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the world, especially among young people,” the IASP said on its website. “Nearly one million people worldwide die by suicide each year.”

The website said that most suicides occur in people who suffer from mental illnesses.

The concern is that there is a stigma attached to these illnesses due to a lack of knowledge. Educating people on such health issues through events, like World Suicide Prevention Day, could help save lives.

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tarting Oct. 1, North Carolina House Bill 937 will go into effect, and permitholding students will be allowed to keep firearms in their cars parked on campus.

When this bill was being debated, UNCSystem police chiefs attended a committee hearing at the General Assembly, and they even presented a letter to the state government expressing their disapproval of the legislation.

But the legislature went against the opinion of those perhaps best qualified to comment on this matter and passed the bill, which will also allow concealed firearms in bars and restaurants unless the owners of the establishment explicitly forbid them.

“We felt this bill was not in the best interest of promoting the safety of our students,” said N.C. State Police Chief Jack Moorman.

He outlined two main concerns regarding the law. First, he pointed out that vehicle break-ins

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of the Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief. occur on college campuses, and it would be unwise to risk letting guns fall into the hands of those inclined to break into cars. Secondly, he presented a likely way events might unfold in the case of a “shooter situation,” wherein people would return to their cars to get guns, causing potentially lethal confusion about who the shooter is.

Apart from Campus Police, Chancellor Randy Woodson also spoke out against having guns on campus is a bad idea.

But now that the law has been passed, Moorman has said that his priority is no longer fight it but to educate the campus community regarding gun safety.

We understand and appreciate Moorman’s

intention to switch the priority of Campus Police to education, but we do think that the General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory should have listened to the police chiefs.

They lack the experience and wisdom Moorman is able to provide, but that’s no excuse for their lack of common sense. For the sake of common sense, the editorial board of the Technician would like to state this: Giving guns to drunken people or potentially militarizing colleges is a bad idea. Allowing guns in bars and in cars on campuses is plain stupid. As the students of N.C. State saw in 2004 after the tailgate shooting: guns, alcohol and college students do not mix well.

In any case, it’s not like there are mass

shootings at schools and colleges because of the lack of guns on campus. The problem isn’t about how to stop mass shootings—it’s about addressing what leads to the increase of mass shootings in the last few years in the United States. It’s about mending our social fabric.

However, thinking about deeper issues is tough, and because the government hasn’t been able to put its finger on fundamental problems, it’s advocating that we put our finger on our triggers instead.

If this campus has reached a state wherein people think students should have guns on campus, then we don’t actually need guns on campus, we need to transfer somewhere else.

But we think this campus hasn’t reached that state, so, please people, let’s hold our horses, not our guns.

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n Sept. 4, 17-yearold Luis Alonzo pu l led a k nife during a fight with his classmates, killing one and injuring three. The fight, which occurred at Spring High School near Houston, Tex a s, d id not receive nearly as Megan much press Ellisor as the Dec. 14 Deputy shooting at Viewpoint Editor Sandy Hook Elementary, and for obvious reasons. Luckily, Alonzo didn’t have a gun with him— if he did, the three whom he injured might also be dead.

The stabbing, along with multiple new North Carolina gun laws, has again raised the question, “Why do we have guns?”

The obvious answer is “Because of the Second Amendment.” But we should question our interpretation of the Second Amendment. When James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights, guns could only fire one shot before they required reloading. But guns today allow the shooter to fire multiple rounds before reloading. “In writing the Second Amendment, the Framers didn’t envision the kind of gun toting that is permitted across this country today,” said Melynda Price, an associate professor at the Uni-

versity of Kentucky College of Law, in a piece for the Room for Debate section of The New York Times.

The ever-popular pro-gun argument is “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”

Yes, people with the intention to kill will do so whether there is a gun available to them or not. But guns sure do make for efficient killing machines. Just think if Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook gunman, wielded a knife instead of a gun.

Coincidentally, a violent spree similar to the one at Sandy Hook occurred on the same day at a school in Chengping, a village located in the Henan Province of central China. But Min Yingjun used a knife, not a gun. He attacked 22 children and one adult, none of whom died or even suffered life-threatening injuries. This goes to show that although knives and baseball bats and almost anything can be employed as weapons, guns can turn an injury into a death much more quickly.

In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn. and the mass movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., liberal states have tightened gun laws. But this is not the case in our Republican-controlled state.

Gov. Pat McCrory signed House Bill 937 into law in July. The law will take effect

on Oct. 1, allowing permit holders to keep firearms in cars parked on college or public school campuses.

What’s worse is that the law also allows permit holders to carry concealed firearms into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, so long as the owner doesn’t expressly forbid it. Guns and alcohol sounds like a bad combination to me, but I’m comforted by the fact that those with guns in bars are “not supposed to consume alcohol,” according to WRAL. Equally (dis)comforting is the fact that HB937 also allows guns at public recreational areas such as playgrounds and greenways.

The North Carolina Legislature also passed Senate Bill 443 this summer. Better known as the “save the gun” law, SB443 “requires that lawenforcement agencies donate, keep or sell confiscated guns to licensed gun dealers, provided the weapons aren’t damaged or missing serial numbers,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

The General Assembly is attempting to make North Carolina safer by making weapons more readily available and simply hoping those who carry them will only use them for good. Clearly, something is wrong in our state when the legislature’s response to a mass shooting is to loosen gun restrictions.

Sam Jones, freshman in English

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Head over heels for Ferris wheels Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer

They tower above the North Carolina State Fair.

They are favorites at pop-up carnivals in mall parking lots. There’s even a full-sized one inside the Toys“R”Us in New York City.

Originally known as the “pleasure wheel,” the Ferris wheel has been a fascination of Norman Anderson, a retired professor of science education, for more than 33 years.

While in graduate school, Anderson, with the help of his friend Walter Brown, wrote a collection of educational books for middle and high school students about topics such as lemurs and Halley’s Comet.

Searching for new topics, Anderson and Brown were captivated by the story of the debut Ferris wheel at the 1893 World’s Colombian Exposition in Chicago.

“It’s a fantastic story of engineering.” Anderson said.

“We did some more research and we were writing books, and so I fixed up a proposal, and a friend of ours bought it. The problem was that because it was the last part of a series, it didn’t stay in print for a long time.”

Though the book was not in print for long, Anderson found a life-long interest in the carnival attraction.

“Normally when we finished a book like that I’d put the stuff in a box and put the box in a closet,” Anderson said. “But I got hooked on Ferris wheels and I just don’t know why.”

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., the creator and designer of the Ferris wheel, built the first Ferris wheel in only six months. At 264 feet tall, the Ferris wheel had 36 cars — each about the size of a small streetcar or trolley. Anderson said that the Ferris wheel held about 2,000 passengers, car-

rying 60 passengers in each choose it. I think a lot of car. times you have interests, but “To me that’s as amazing generally, you can’t be specifas the size of the wheel,” An- ic on why you like something. derson said. “Nowadays if You just know that you do.” you get on the Internet you’ll Anderson recently donated find all kinds of places that a collection of books to D.H. have tried to build big Ferris Hill Library titled “the Norwheels.” man D. Anderson Collection Anderson said the immen- of Ferris Wheels and Other sity of the Ferris wheel was Related Material.” Among what sealed his affinity for other information about the fair ride.

Ferris wheels, the collection “I thought it would be a includes various books writgreat retirement project,” ten by Anderson.

Anderson said.

He also said he plans to In 1993, Anderson wrote a make a donation of more book regarding the 100th an- than 3,000 different Ferris niversary of the Colombian wheel postcards.

Exposition and the Ferris According to Anderson, wheel. many moments during the “I thought I was going many years of his Ferris wheel to w rite research are more stuff ingrained in but when his memory.

I ret ired “I cou ld in 1994, I go on forevended up er about the having the people I’ve opportumet and the nity to go stories I’ve back to heard,” Anpart-time derson said. work t he “It’s been a ver y nex t lot of fun, day,” A nand I still Norman Anderson, retired derson said. hear f rom professor of science education Anderson the differs a id t h at ent people after publishing his book in that I’ve met.”

1993, he realized, with the Anderson spoke of one moInternet gaining momentum, ment in particular that will information on Ferris wheels remain with him. During a was more readily available. trip to the National Archives “I started a newsletter,” An- and Records Administration derson said. “In total I sent in Washington, D.C., Anderout 161 issues, but for the first son and a friend stumbled 90 I actually mailed it out in upon a hidden treasure. hard-copy.”

“We went through the Anderson said that he’s al- boxes, and one of the things ways been interested in the we found — something we history of technology and will never forget — was what engineering even though his looked like a piece of oil cloth background is in science edu- that was probably something cation. like 20 by 30 inches,” Ander“Honestly, I think it chose son said. “When we opened me,” Anderson said. “I didn’t it up it was an advertisement — a beautiful color lithograph of a Ferris wheel that had been built out in Ohio.”

According to Anderson, their discovery caught the attention of the director of

“Just think about it ... it’s only a matter of time before we have a 1,00w0-foot one.

It’s only a matter of time.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON GALE FERRIS JR.: The creator and designer of the Ferris wheel built the first Ferris wheel, which stood 264 feet tall and had 36 cars, holding about 2,000 passengers.

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Norman Anderson, a retired professor of science education, dedicated his free time to the study and appreciation of the Ferris wheel. Anderson and a colleague wrote a series of educational books for middle and high school students and recently donated the collection to the University.

the NARA. “He just couldn’t believe it,” Anderson said. “It had been folded up in some box for almost 100 years.”

Since its invention, the Ferris wheel has undergone many modifications and mod-

ernizations. To Anderson, there’s no stopping the changes.

“Just think about it,” Anderson said. “The original

Ferris wheel in Chicago was 264-feet tall. It’s only a matter of time before we have a 1,000-foot one. It’s only a matter of time.”

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A team of researchers from the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences says no.

Daniel Rosenfeld, a researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Thomas Bell, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, originally made the published reports that tornadoes take the weekend off after noticing patterns in storm activity. Together they wrote a paper titled “Why do tornadoes and hailstorms rest on weekends?”

Their assertion was that the increased use of aerosol products during the workweek played an intricate role in the formation of tornadoes.

A recent study conducted by N.C. State professors Sandra Yuter and Matt Parker, and postdoctoral researcher Matthew Miller, disproved this claim.

Aerosol is found in a variety of everyday products such as hairspray, foaming cleaners, deodorants and cooking oils. Aerosol

pollution may also be attributed to the burning of fossil fuels.

Rosenfeld and Bell said large amounts of aerosol delay the formation of raindrops in clouds. According to the study, delay of raindrops affects air temperature and increases the possibility of tornado formation.

“It’s been widely known for a while that there are weekly cycles in aerosol use,” Miller said.

“Much more is used during the workweek than on the weekends.”

According to Miller, the location of the study affects the amount of aerosol use and that the amounts of aerosol released into the atmosphere will vary depending on the area in question.

Yuter, Parker and Miller were able to show that the areas of increased aerosol pollution were not in fact common areas for the formation of tornadoes.

“It is unlikely that the aerosol pollution would impact the so called ‘Tornado Alley’ considering that the pollution is occurring in more eastern locations,” Miller said. “The different concentrations of naturally occurring aerosol versus manmade should be considered.”

Despite the known cycle of aerosol use, N.C. State researchers saw that their data did not support the claim for a weekly tornado cycle.

“Another thing that they looked for was the time period,” Miller said. “If you change the time period you look at, the results will differ. They looked at 1994 to 2009. We looked at an alternate time period and found out that the weekly pattern of tornadoes varied depending on how you processed the data.”

The N.C. State team looked at tornado data from the past 48 years and, while there is variation of how many tornadoes were formed on any random day, there was no clear pattern to suggest that tornadoes “take the weekend off.”

“When we read their hypothesis we saw that it was in [contrast] to our experience in working with tornadoes,” Miller said. “One of the biggest problems was how they processed the data. They only looked at tornadoes for June, July and August while most tornadoes occur in the two months preceding that.”

Yuter, Parker and Miller concluded that the storm systems capable of producing a tornado are capable of winds speeds high enough to delay the formation of precipitation regardless of the amounts of aerosol in the atmosphere.

“The different concentrations of naturally occurring aerosol versus manmade should be considered,” Miller said. “We’ve seen no consistent evidence that aerosol affects tornado formation.”

NCSU researcher uses DNA computations to ID cancer cells Katie Sanders Deputy Features Editor

After being diagnosed with cancer, patients are given limited treatment options.

Among the most common are chemotherapy and radiation treatments, both of which kill great numbers of cells regardless of whether or not the cell is cancerous.

According to Alex Deiters, a former N.C. State professor of bioorganic chemistry, there is another way to treat affected cells. Deiters’ research shows that DNA computational devices can be used to specifically mark mammalian cancer cells.

Researchers have been using DNA for some years to create simple and incredibly small computation devices, or logic aids, but they have been using them mainly for tiny electrical circuits.

T he DNA log ic a id s recog n i z e chem ic a l or electrical aspects in their surroundings, ca l led inputs. If the DNA logic aid recognizes certain inputs specific to its build, it creates a response, or output. These logic aids can therefore act like switches–they activate when certain premises are true, completing the circuit.

The devices have been given the name “microtronics” and can be used to create molecular-scale technology.

However, Deiters is now applying them back to the biological field of study from which they came.

“You have the advantage that those molecules, those devices, are tiny and can be easily interfaced with biologic

material,” Deiters said. “What we have shown is that you can actually use these DNA-based logic aids and apply them in mammalian cells.”

Deiters has placed a DNA “AND gate,” a type of logic gate that will only produce an output if two specific inputs are simultaneously present, into mammalian cells.

“We are basically using an AND gate that has been designed to recognize two d i f f e r e n t m i c r oR N A s , microRNA 21 and microRNA 122,” Deiters said. “These m icroR NA s a re R NA molecules that are often overexpressed in cancer cells.”

Therefore, when Deiters placed the DNA device into a non-cancerous cell which didn’t have enough of the speci f ic m icroR NA s to activate it, the device didn’t respond. However, when Deiters placed the DNA logic aid into a cancerous cell, the presence of the microRNAs activated the DNA logic aid, which produced an output.

“T he out put t hat we g e ne r at e d i n t h i s par ticular example was just f luorescence,” Deiters said. “But this can be used to differentiate between ca ncerous a nd noncancerous cells, and even between different types of cancerous cells, based on microRNA patterns that are present.”

Deiters said he plans to continue the project by increasing the variety and complexity of DNA logic aids that can be used in cells.

“We wou ld a l so l i ke to ex pa nd t h is to not just labeling cells w it h

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Alex Deiters, a former NCSU professor of bioorganic chemistry, is working to combat cancer by isolating cancerous cells.

Deiters is using a DNA AND gate program to treat cancerous cells, while leaving healthy cells alone. According to Deiters, the technology is a long way from being stable and ready for use in humans.

fluorescence but to releasing therapeutic agents,” Deiters said.

Eventually, these DNA computation devices would not on ly ma ke a good diagnostic tool, but also be able to detect whether or not a cell was cancerous and then, as well as marking it, would release a toxin to kill it. This would allow cancer treatments to be highly selective and much less invasive than is currently medically possible.

Moreover, microRNA 21

causes cancer in specific cells by turning off a cell’s tumor suppressor genes. Researchers might be able to cure cancer cells instead of killing them by isolating microRNA 21 production.

“W hen you t u r n of f suppressor genes, a cell turns from a happy and healthy cell into a cancerous cell,” Deiters said. “In order to revert that, we could use a DNA computational t o m a y b e s hu t d ow n microRNA 21 production which would hopefully lead

to the activation of the tumor suppressors again.”

However, much more research is still needed.

Deiters said that he is not even sure that the DNA logic aids will work in human cells, and it will be many years before this technology reaches the marketplace.

According to Deiters, the DNA logic aids are generally unstable biomolecules.

“They are stable for work in mammalian tissue culture, but if you want to inject them into humans they

would have to be stable for days, most likely,” Deiters said. “They would need to be stabilized, either through chemical modifications or some specif ic packaging mechanisms in order to make them accessible to mammalian organisms.”

Deiters said he considers his work as a major step forward in the DNA computation device field.

“It was the first time that DNA comput at ion wa s demonstrated in mammalian cells,” Deiters said.

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against the Tigers, the game could be closer than some anticipate.

Redshirt junior quarterback Pete Thomas is fourth in the conference in passing yards and completions. Boyd is fifth and sixth in both categories, respectively.

Considering that Thomas started the season as the backup to graduate student quarterback Brandon Mitchell, and that Thomas has yielded snaps to freshman quarterback Bryant Shirreffs and Josh Taylor, these statistics should speak volumes.

However, these particular stats are overshadowed by the fact that Thomas has yet to throw a touchdown while Boyd has thrown three, tying him for fifth in the ACC. It is a battle State fans will need to keep their eyes on throughout the night. Another point of concern for Wolfpack fans also comes on the offensive side of the ball: the running game.

State’s rushing attack has improved significantly from the previous year. The Pack is ranked 38th in the nation with 425 yards on the ground.

Around this time last season, it did not even crack the top 100 in total rushing yards.

Freshman running back Matt Dayes’ performance has helped catalyze State’s offense

with 127 rushing yards and three scores on the ground as well as a receiving touchdown. Dayes ranks ninth in the nation in scoring with 24 points.

Add the freshman’s production to junior running back Tony Creecy, a hardnosed veteran with tough running style, and the Wolfpack have a pretty potent running tandem.

State’s offense has continued to find ways to be productive after the departure of the 2012-2013 class. It ranks third in the conference in first downs with 51 behind Maryland and Duke, with Clemson trailing further behind. State is also tied with Clemson in first downs through the air with 29.

The Pack’s defense has contained opposing offenses and kept them off the scoreboard in times of offensive drought. Despite surrendering 21 points to Richmond last weekend, it held strong in the second half and allowed its offensive counterparts a chance to catch up.

At first glance, the Pack doesn’t have much of a chance against the Tigers.

But when the individual matchups are broken down, State shows the potential to pull a stunning upset.

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Redshirt junior quarterback Pete Thomas goes down after a failed read-option play during the football game against the University of Richmond at Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 7. The Wolfpack defeated the Spiders, 23-21.

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Richmond, the Wolfpack raised several red flags. An inexperienced secondary allowed Spiders quarterback Michael Strauss to complete 29 of 45 passes for 300 yards and a pair of touchdowns. This came a week after State limited Louisiana Tech’s Scotty Young to 178 yards and no touchdowns.

After turning the ball over just once against Loui-

siana Tech, State committed three turnovers on Saturday.

All of those miscues took place in Richmond territory.

Of course, the Wolfpack won the game. I apologize if I sound disappointed, which I’m not. A win is a win no matter how you slice it.

But here is the point I’m trying to make: State is a young team. Young teams often struggle with consistency, especially if they’re still trying to grasp a completely new offensive system.

They can practice it ‘till the cows come home, but until

the Wolfpack gain regular game experience in Doeren’s system, which they eventually will, the bumps in the road will likely continue. But they should become less frequent as the season moves along.

When Clemson comes to town, the Pack will have to contain Tigers quarterback Tahj Boyd. This is the same Tahj Boyd who torched State for 426 yards and five touchdowns in Death Valley last season.

The Tigers feature a level of speed and raw talent that few teams in the nation can

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I said it before the season, and I’m going to stick with it-State is going to a bowl game this year. Which one it will be in anybody’s guess. The road to get there, however, will be anything but a straight shot.

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Sade and Norman win awards Juniors Art Norman and Niklas Sade both won Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week awards for their performances against Richmond over the weekend. Norman, who had four tackles, a sack, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery against the Spiders, won ACC co-defensive lineman of the week. Sade won ACC specialist of the week thanks in part to his game winning 48-yard field goal with 0:33 left in the game. Sade was also named a Lou Groza Award National Star of the Week for the second consecutive week.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

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Daniel Wilson Staff Writer

Sophomore forward Brittany Stanko scored twice and N.C. State survived a tough test from UNC-Wilmington on Sunday with a 2-1 win over the Seahawks at Dail Soccer Stadium.

It was Stanko’s third multigoal game.

The Wolfpack won for the fifth time in six games and next faces No. 6 Notre Dame on Thursday at home. It will mark the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams and the first ACC action for the Fighting Irish, a new addition to the conference.

Wolfpack head coach Tim Santoro was not satisfied with his team’s performance on Sunday but was happy with the win.

“We did not play well,” Santoro said. “It was a very lethargic performance, but we found a way to get the win, so that is a positive for us.”

State went up 1-0 in the 12th minute on Stanko’s first goal as both junior forward Jennie Krauser and junior defender Shelli Spamer picked up assists on the play. “[Krauser] sent me a really good ball from the left side, and I just sent it into the left corner,” Stanko said.

But the lead did not last long into the second half.

The Seahawks responded in the 52nd minute with a game-tying goal by UNC-W

sophomore midfielder Lindsey Byrne, her first of the year The Wolfpack’s persistence paid off in the 80th minute as Stanko gave State the lead for good. It was her third goal of the season, once again assisted by Spamer this time via a free kick. “[Spamer] sent me a great ball over top of me, and I just headed it into the back of the goal,” Stanko said.

Stanko missed a hat trick on the night after being called offsides just as her shot ripped into the Seahawks’ net later in the game “[Stanko] was dangerous near the goal,” Santoro said.

“On the other end of the field, she could have caused a little bit more problems for the other team and be a little more consistent within the game, but for the most part, she has been a dangerous player for us.”

Wolfpack freshman goalkeeper Mackenzie Stelljes made eight saves against the Seahawks. “[Stelljes] has had a good run here,” Santoro said.

“That is why she has been in the goal for us. I think she definitely wanted that goal back. She made about three or four saves she probably should not have made, so that evened itself out.”

Stelljes was busy against the Seahawks, who blasted 21 shots, including nine that were on target.

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Sophomore forward Brittany Stanko and Seahawk defender fight for possession of the ball.

Stanko scored two goals in the Wolfpack 2-1 win against UNC - Wilminbton Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013 at Dail Soccer Field.

“[The Seahawks] definitely gave us some trouble,” Stelljes said. “We were not as organized as we should have been, but we know that we will work at it in practice this week.”

State’s performance was plagued by numerous fouls throughout the game. The Pack was called for 12 fouls, while the Seahawks were only charged with nine.

GOALS SCORED Player

Goals scored

Jackie Stengel - F

5

Brittany Stanko - F

3

Carolina Gentry - F

3

Jessica Baidy - F

2

Shelli Spamer - D

1

SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS

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Freshman quarterback Bryant Shirreffs jumps into the endzone after a 28-yard run on Saturday, Sept. 7 at Carter-Finley Stadium. The Wolfpack defeated the Richmond Spiders 23-21 after junior kicker Niklas Sade made a game-winning 48-yard field goal with 0:33 remaining in the fourth quarter.

Freshman fullback Bryant Shirreffs fumbles the ball during the football game against the University of Richmond in Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 7. The Wolfpack committed numerous turnovers throughout the game, but survived to narrowly defeat the Spiders, 23-21.

Achieving the unthinkable: A cause for optimism

A realistic perspective on the state of Wolfpack football

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ith two out of 12 ga mes in the books, N.C. State (2-0) is looking ahead to its conference home opener on Sept. 19 against No. 3 Clemson (2-0).

Most exper t s w i l l Daniel Wilson likely predict the Tigers to Staff Writer come out on top in this matchup. However, the Wolfpack have the potential to shock the nation.

State is missing its top players from last year such as quarterback Mike Glennon and cornerback David Amerson, but the Pack has rebounded from that with

the hiring of a new coaching staff, led by head coach Dave Doeren.

The last time Clemson came to Raleigh in 2011 the Wolfpack dominated the Tigers, winning 37-13. At the time, Clemson was ranked No. 7 in the nation and the Wolfpack were coming off a crippling loss against Boston College. It was the unlikeliest of upsets at a time when the Pack were 5-5, seemingly destined to miss out on a bowl.

Another team that has had trouble playing under the lights at “The Carter” is Florida State. Last year, the No. 3 Seminoles lost a 17-16 thriller to the Pack. Now, No. 3 Clemson will hope for better luck in Raleigh than the

‘Noles had.

A primary concern for Wolfpack fans is how its offense will keep up with Clemson’s high powered unit. The Tigers’ offense, led by its star senior quarterback Tajh Boyd, put up 38 points against a vaunted Georgia Bulldogs’ defense on the opening weekend.

Boyd, the preseason Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, then led the Tigers’ to a 52-point performance against Football Championship Subdivision opponent South Carolina State.

Although the Wolfpack may not match up on paper

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aving grown up in another state and in a different college football culture, I’ve learned to appreciate N.C .

St ate fa n s during my fou r yea rs in Raleigh.

They’re loyal Luke Nadkarni and they’re Staff Writer a lways excited for the next game, no matter how badly the Wolfpack may have played the week before. And finally, they’re always optimistic that the Pack will do well.

No matter how deeply the “N.C. State Crap” sen-

timent may pervade, Carter-Finley Stadium is still packed every Saturday. The Wolfpack has best fans in the ACC, no question.

And I love the optimism.

I really do. I want so badly for State to win every game by five touchdowns and win the ACC title and play for a national championship.

But let’s be honest. That isn’t going to happen. Not this year, not the next, and probably not the one after that either.

That isn’t me being pessimistic. It’s me being realistic.

That isn’t to say that Dave Doeren isn’t an awesome coach. I firmly believe that State football is in very good shape heading down the road.

Athletics director Debbie Yow knocked that hire out of the park.

But I want to focus on the present. Right now the Wolfpack sit at 2-0. It’s hard to complain about winning your first two games, but this team has a lot of work to do, and everybody knows it.

If it weren’t for junior kicker Nicklas Sade’s golden toe, the Wolfpack would be dealing with an embarrassing loss to an FCS school right before playing what may prove be the Pack’s toughest test all season--a home matchup with national title contender Clemson on Sept. 19.

In that 23-21 squeaker over

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