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STEM students drop, change majors at increasing rates Jess Thomas

tural Sciences had also withdrawn by their second year. In addition, nearly 18 percent of students who Students who are pursuing a de- entered into the College of Physigree in science-related fields are cal and Mathematical Sciences had dropping out or switching their ma- withdrawn by their second year. jor at increasing numbers, accordAccording Jim Martin, a chemising to the University of California try professor at N.C. State, the reaat Los Angeles. son why STEM majors tend to drop According to the study students out or change their major is because majoring in STEM fields are drop- students who enjoyed science in high ping or switching school do not realout of their respecize that at a higher tive majors. education science The data indiis “completely difcated that about 40 ferent.” percent of students Martin also said, enrolled as STEM “[Many students] major sw itched went into science . subjects or failed because it was this Jim Martin, professor of to get a degree. sort of very well chemistry This trend has also defined, methodibegun to occur at cal thing and then N.C. State, where about 40 percent you get into the actual, more proof the student body is enrolled as fessional practice of it and find the STEM majors. complexity, the question, and the According to data that was pub- problem solving nature, it comes as lished by N.C. State University a shock and that’s why it becomes Planning and Analysis, 11 percent difficult.” of freshman students who entered Professor Jeff Braden, the Dean of into the College of Engineering in College of Humanities and Social 2009 had withdrawn by their sec- Sciences, said that class difficulty ond year. alone does not necessarily explain 11 percent of students who entered into the College of Life & AgriculSTEM continued page 2 Correspondent

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The NSA has access to the data sent and received from your smartphone.

NSA cracks smartphone data security programs Marty DeFrancesco Correspondent

The National Security Agency is now able to bypass smartphone security measures and access data from Blackberry, Android and iPhone devices, according to German news outlet Der Spiegel.

The Deutsch magazine said that

the NSA, along with U.K. counterpart GCHQ, has established teams designated to crack security codes of major smartphone providers. The team’s goal is to gather intelligence pertaining to potential terrorist activities.

Secret documents cited by Der Spiegal indicate that the NSA’s techniques are being used for surveil-

N.C. State engineering ranks 27 internationally

lance of potential terrorist threats and not for mass surveillance of Americans. No mention was made of how the documents were actually acquired.

According to Der Spiegal, the data in question includes, “contacts, call lists, SMS traffic, notes and location

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“ ... it comes as a shock, and that’s why it becomes difficult ”

Researchers super stack solar panels, increase efficiency Sasha Afanasieva

Chris Hart-Williams

Staff Writer

Correspondent

Researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, published The Academic Ranking of World Universities, which reported N.C. State is No. 27 of the top 200 universities in the world in the field of engineering.

In the U.S., The ARWU ranks engineering at N.C. State No. 20 in the nation, but among public universities alone in the University ranks No. 12.

The ARWU evaluates more than 1000 institutions.

“Institutions were ranked based on several indicators, such as highly cited researchers, papers indexed in science citation index-expanded, the percentage of papers published in the subject journals that are regarded as the top 20 percent of all subject related journals and the expenditures the institution invests in the subject related research,” according to ARWU. According to the College of RANK continued page 2 Engineering, the university

Speaker discusses religion, democracy and citizenship Rachel Coffman Correspondent

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, along with the Academic Study of Religion club, introduced the University of Maryland’s Ian Ward in a public lecture about Thursday afternoon entitled Solidarity in a Secular Age: Religion, Democracy, and the Work of Citizenship.

The lecture, as part of the club’s Religious Studies Col-

loquium Series, emphasized the importance of citizens overcoming their differences in religion and beliefs.

N.C. State assistant professor Levi McLaughlin, who went to graduate school with Ward, organized the lecture event.

“Ward is one of those rare people who bridges the gap between a variety of studies,” McLaughlin said. His [Ward’s] research includes democratic political theory, critical thought and the aca-

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Researchers at N.C. State have developed a new way for improving overall efficiency of solar panels that will reduce the cost of solar energy production.

The new technique improves the connections between layers of stacked solar cells, which allow them to operate at solar concentrations of 70,000 suns worth of energy, as opposed to the previous commercially available concentrations of 500 to 1000 suns.

Peter Colter, a research assistant professor from the electrical and computer engineering department at N.C. State, explained how the process worked.

“The big improvement is that it removed tunnel junctions as the bottleneck,” Colter said “A tunnel junction is used as the interconnection between multi-junction solar cells.”

Tunnel junctions are what connect the layers of solar cells. Solar cells are made of multiple layers for more energy conversion efficiency.

Before the recent breakthrough, the tunnel junctions were a big limiting factor to the amount of energy a solar panel could absorb efficiently.

While multi-junction solar energy cells existed for several years, they were expensive and mainly used in space for

Solar field on the roof of the Keystone Science Center.

satellites and Mars rovers.

“These multi-junction cells are commonly used for space satellites,” Colter said. “All the television satellites have multi-junction cells on them these days. The main cost of a solar panel in space is launching it rather than the cost of the cells. It saves money by making them smaller.”

Previous multi-junction cells such as the ones used in space were very limited by the amount of energy they could absorb.

Commercially available solar cell modules can only absorb 31.8 percent of solar energy. The highest recorded multi-junction solar cell could absorb 44.4 percent.

The new discovery hopes to

significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells beyond that.

“The connecting junction was a problem because you can’t use it with a very high solar concentration,” said Salah Bedair, professor of electrical engineering at N.C. State and one of the main researchers on the project. “We solved the issue by doing some tricks.”

According to Bedair, it was recently discovered that by inserting a thin film of gallium arsenide into the connecting junctions of stacked cells, almost all the voltage loss can be eliminated without blocking solar energy.

“The stacked junction solar cell is more than just one

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cell. It needs to be connected together with other cells,” Bedair said. “The connecting junction is very critical in multi-junction stacked cells. At the current energy absorption efficiency of 44 percent, we have difficulty using stacked solar cells over 800 suns. After that, higher concentration doesn’t work very well. The achievement we made is that we allowed the connection junction to be used for 70K suns.”

The recent development hopes to curb the high cost of producing the multi-junction cells.

“Rather than having a large area of solar cells that are very

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Course audit policy subject to enforcement Sara Awad Staff Writer

The University requires professors to take attendance in all introductory courses, but connecting faces to names still poses a challenge for many professors.

As a result, professors of some lecture classes may not notice an unfamiliar face in the back of the room, which causes problems for the enforcement of university policies.

“Even if a faculty member is taking attendance regularly, it may be hard to know whether a student has sent a

friend in his or her absence in a very large lecture course,” said Karen Young, College of Humanities and Social Sciences assistant dean and director of undergraduate programs.

Students cannot attend courses for which they are not enrolled, according to University policy. However, professors claim they have seen unregistered students attend their lectures.

Kami Kosenko, a Department of Communication assistant professor, said she has seen friends of students and parents attend lectures. One person who was not supposed to be there even snuck in and

assaulted students, according to Kosenko, which she said made her more concerned for students’ safety.

“I don’t have a problem with it, but I think it is a problem in a sense that we don’t know who these people are,” Kosenko said.

Legal and safety risks like these are part of the reason why the University does not allow the practice, Young said.

Chemistry lecturer Nathaniel Finney said he sees attendance in lecture courses as an “enormous waste of time,” and he was not aware of the policy.

“I will not restrict access to

PROS OF AUDITING A COURSE: • • •

Auditing allows you to refresh yourself on the content of the course without having to repeat the course.

Auditing does not affect your GPA. In foreign language courses, auditing can allow you to get experience in a language without having to worry about poor performance.

CONS OF AUDITING A COURSE: • • •

You still have to pay full tuition for the course.Auditing does not affect your GPA. You cannot receive credit for the course.

Failure to complete an audit results in an “NR,” or “no recognition,” on your transcript, which may decrease chances of admission to graduate, law and medical schools.

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my classroom unless I need to for practical reasons,” Finney said.

Psychology professor Roger

Azevedo said when he used to

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Award-winning poet recites poetry to students and faculty Chris Hart-Williams Correspondent

Thursday evening, the University welcomed critically acclaimed poet Mark Doty to campus.

Doty gave a poetry reading in the Caldwell lounge as part of a series of readings hosted by the University’s creative writing program.

Students and faculty filled the lounge all the way to the

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why students in STEM fields often switch majors.

“Many of the students change from engineering to humanities and social sciences, or to the college of sciences, say department of biology for example, because they decide they might well be able to do the work, but they don’t particularly like it as much as they like the pas-

back as Doty recited several poems from his new collection to a standing-room-only crowd.

According to Dorianne Laux, director of the creative writing program of the N.C. State English department, an unprecedented number of students attended the reading.

“Doty is one of the most awarded contemporary poets alive” Laux said.

Of his more notable accomplishments and awards, Doty is a recipient of the T.S. Elliot Prize for Poetry.

“To have him here is a great honor and great thrill for my graduate students and undergraduate students,” Laux said. “The idea of everybody coming together in the name of poetry, in the name of stopping and listening and seeing the world for the great mystery that is and see

sion for writing and reading,” Braden said.

According to the New York Times, difficult classes in STEM majors often discourage students from pursuing their degree and make it difficult for students to develop an affinity for their classes.

In order to improve the way these STEM classes are being taught Martin said that tools such as Webassign often push students away from developing real scientific skills.

“The process of the sci-

entist is largely struggling through failure to try to figure out what’s going on,” Martin said. “Again it’s not really that there is the right answer, but what your standardized education, your instant feedback tends to do is develop guessers, develop what I call recognition based learners, rather than people who are willing to struggle with the problem and think about it.”

our lives for the great mystery that they are, is really wonderful for this many people; it’s like going to church.”

Doty says he began writing poetry while attending high school in Tennessee.

According to Doty, it was after his high school drama teacher suspected him of plagiarism that he discovered his talent, and so did everyone else.

“It changed my life,” Doty

said.

Doty’s teacher shared his work with a poet in their community who would later have a big impact on his life and his writing.

“He showed me that there were people in the world – at least people where I lived, who centered their lives around human expression,” Doty said.

Doty said he became a poet because poetry gave him a

community in which he belonged.

Doty is an author of 11 books, three of which are memoirs and eight are collections of poems.

In addition to writing, Doty teaches at Rutgers University, where he serves as chancellor of the Academy of American poets.

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spent nearly $160 million in research expenditures during the 2012-2013 school year.

“That’s significant,” said Louis Martin-Vega, dean of the College of Engineering.

The college of engineering’s goal is not to only be a leading U.S. public college in the field but also one of the very top in the world, Vega said.

“I think it’s a point of pride,” said Vega. “The fact that we are at that level… with how many colleges of engineering are around the world.”

The colleges that made the list make up an elite group, the number ranked in the field of engineering only included 200 schools in the whole world.

In addition to the ARWU, the U.S. News and World Report ranked N.C. State 8th in up-and-coming schools as well as 29th in graduate engineering programs.

Vega said he attributes the success of the college to its faculty and students.

“We’ve been able to bring in some really outstanding faculty,” Vega said. “It’s a result quite honestly of just tremen-

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demic study of religion, In a packed lecture room on the second floor of Daniels Hall, Ward began explaining how constitutional democracy is not a gift granted to citizens, but an achievement that must be fought for.

In Maryland, Ward currently teaches a course entitled, “Does Democracy have a Future?” In the course, Ward stresses to his students the crisis of democracy in the modern era.

Democracy is in crisis because government officials do not accommodate to the interests of the common citizen, according to Ward.

“We have an asymmetry of information between government and ordinary citizens,” Ward said. “Through the growth of security regulation, government officials are coming to know more and more about the behavior of citizens, and citizens know less and less about the behavior of government officials.”

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information.”

In response, thousands of protestors in Berlin demanded the NSA stop spying on internet users, according to BBC News.

Students on campus have expressed mixed feelings about this apparent cell phone spying.

“I feel like I don’t want to be spied on, but I also feel like we’re in an environment where we need to be cautious, said Stephanie Deguzman, a junior in psychology.

Stephen Marrujo, a junior in business administration, said he was outraged by the possibility of the NSA moni-

dous efforts by our faculty and our staff and students.

Our students are extremely competitive; externally they win all sorts of award and things” 60 percent of incoming freshman in the college are in the top 10 percent of their class according to the College of Engineering’s website.

Members of faculty have received honors such as National Medals of Technology and Innovation, Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring and an Emmy Award for plasma display technology.

Vega said he believes it is critical for the university as a whole, that the college of engineering continues to thrive.

Vega said he wants to make it clear that he is not satisfied, and he wants his college to go even higher.

“In my mind we want to be even higher,” said Vega. “We don’t want this to be a high water mark.”

Vega said he has high expectations for his college most of all because of the impact it will have on the success of its students in terms of career opportunities.

“It’s one of the best engineering schools,” said Arda

Cole, a sophomore in computer engineering. “Several different top college lists say that it’s one of the best” Cole said he desires to have a career working with computers and chose to come to the University because of its reputation and what he heard from various college university rankings.

According to Vega the college of engineering’s reputation and growth has attracted employers from all over to take an interest in N.C. State students.

“We’ve got 300 plus companies coming here to look at hiring and recruiting engineering and computer science students for full-time positions, co-op positions and internship positions,” said Vega referring to the Engineering Career Fair.

Companies who attended in the past include Microsoft Corporation, Centex Homes and AT&T. Vega says part of the college of engineering’s responsibility is to help it achieve its goal of being a premier technological research university.

“The goal is to continue to move upwards, really for the benefit of our students more than anything else,” Vega said.

Ward continued to detail the aspects of government that make its accountability to citizens inadequate, including the growing income gap between rich and poor, the environmental disasters that arise from human interactions with nature, the effects of global financial decisions and the power granted to government in times of emergency.

According to Ward, government decisions made in these situations reflect small interest groups and ignore the desires of average citizens.

“In emergency situations like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, democracies enact laws that give sweeping power to officials, and we are put in a position where their accountability to the public is suspended,” Ward said.

Ward said that these scenarios make the public “scattered, mobile and diverse,” leaving citizens to seek solidarity and a defined political identity. To accomplish this unity, nations often seek religious nationalism, eliminating the deemed “problem” of religious differences.

Ward determined that the only way for citizens in diverse locations to find solidarity is to change their definition of citizenship from a legal term, defining belonging to a country, to a role in assuming the shared responsibility for common arrangements.

He proposed that through interfaith groups like the Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research located in Mumbai, India, citizens can acknowledge their successes and failures and achieve this unity by building trust despite their differences.

At the conclusion of his lecture, students questioned Ward in a brief Q&A session, in which they related his discussion to current issues facing North Carolina and college campuses.

Mirna Dave, a sophomore in biology and international studies, said, “A college campus is very diverse, so it’s hard to build solidarity. We have to learn to be accepting if we want to move forward.”

toring smartphones.

“The fact that they’re capable of knowing so much about my iPhone activity absolutely terrifies me,” Marrujo said.

“There has to be something unconstitutional about this.”

Professor Mladen Vouk, N.C. State Computer Science Department Head, is uncertain of the NSA’s real ability to obtain smartphone information, but he stressed the importance of encrypted data in today’s society.

“Encryption is an absolutely necessary and valid part of information technology, electronic data , transaction integrity, reliability, security, privacy and safety,” said Vouk. “It protects against accidental and/or deliberate attacks on our data, infra-

structure and our information assisted day-to-day activities and our well-being”.

Professor Vouk is not alone in his opinion among experts in the field.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Facebook, along with other internet giants from Microsoft, Google, Apple and Yahoo have denied accusations of NSA access to their servers, according to Fox News.

Zuckerberg said that the NSA’s assurance of only targeting terrorist threats has not helped international companies with a diverse customer range. “[They said] don’t worry, we’re not spying on any Americans,” Zuckerberg said to Fox News, “Wonderful,

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DataPalooza participants stand together at the museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh, Sept. 12, 2013.

Raleigh welcomes DataPalooza for the first time Staff Report

North Carolina hosted the first ever regional “DataPalooza” at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences on Thursday, the first location to host the event anywhere other than the White House.

According to its website, ncdatapalooza.com, the event connected local entrepreneurs and innovators. N.C. DataPalooza focused on open data in the fields of “health, energy and education.”

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teach large courses, unregistered people asked to attend lectures because they were interested in the subject. He said he had no problem with this as long as they did not disrupt the class and there was space available.

“You would never want to limit access to knowledge,” Azevedo said.

It is tough to say whether the number of people attending courses for which they are not enrolled is a widespread problem, according to Young.

“Could you have someone pretending to be a student sit in on a large lecture class all semester long? I think it is very unlikely,” Young said. “In my classes I would have caught it because I am very watchful of that kind of thing.”

An attendance roster and assigned seats allowed her to know what name went with

that’s really helpful for companies trying to work with people around the world,”.

Zuckerberg also told reporters at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco the U.S. government did a poor job balancing the situation.

“Our job is to protect everyone who uses Facebook,” Zuckerberg said to Fox News “Our government’s job is to protect all of us and our freedoms and the economy and companies...frankly I think the government blew it.”

The article comes days after U.S intelligence officials declassified documents revealing over three years of privacy violations committed by the NSA.

The members of the winning team came from a local citizen group called Downtown Living Advocates The winners of the event created a prototype app that could help people find parking spaces in downtown Raleigh. According to the DLA, the team hopes to have a fully functioning parking app available in Raleigh next year, and they hope to expand to other cities throughout the country.

The NC DataPalooza web-

site said that the keynote speakers included: Marshall Brain, the founder of HowStuffWorks, Ian Kalin, a former White House Innovation Fellow for the Department of Energy and Gunnar Hellekson, chief technology strategist for Red Hat’s U.S. Public Sector.

Representatives from N.C. State, SAS and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina were among the panel of judges.

each person, Young said.

According to Registration and Records Associate Registrar Michelle Johnson, all teachers have access to a photo roster and can ask students to present their student identification card at any given time.

Young said she does not think students sit in on classes for which they are not enrolled intentionally.

“I think most of the time people are acting in good faith and it is a clerical issue,” Young said. “Nonetheless, it is important to fix these problems in a timely manner.”

Auditing a course is an option for students looking to sit in on courses while still being compliant with university regulations. By auditing, students can take a course for no credit, but they still have to pay full tuition for the course.

“It becomes even more important that we make sure that we are respecting the students that are here, who are paying for tuition and be-

having in accordance with the rules and expectations set by the university,” Young said.

Auditing, though, underwent stricter enforcement spring 2011 due to space reasons, according to Johnson.

“The associate deans felt like seats in classes should be going towards students progressing towards their degree,” Johnson said.

As a result, the University asked professors to enforce the part of the policy that requires undergraduate students to inform professors if they are auditing a course, according to Johnson. Instructors could then decide whether they would or would not allow the audit.

“Instructors now have more control of the makeup of their class roster,” Johnson said.

The University allows graduate students to take courses without instructor permission and allows each graduate student to have one free audit.

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expensive, we can use smaller solar cell areas,” Bedair said.

Currently, the solar energy cells are grown in a laboratory.

“The most economical way to fabricate these cells is to grow them monolithically from two different materials,” Colter said “The growing process is similar to growing crystals in a lab but with different materials and equipment.”

Colter and Bedair are working on a project that intends to increase solar concentrations from 1000 suns to 2000 suns.

“Our tunnel junction had

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Commercially available solar cell modules can only absorb 31.8 percent of solar energy.

The highest recorded multi-junction solar cell could absorb 44.4 percent.

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at best shown a conductivity of 70,000 suns--the current carrying capacity,” Colter said. “The tunnel junction will no longer be a limiting factor for the 2,000 suns project. We cut the cost by doubling the concentration it can operate at. Thus, tunnel junctions are no longer a bottleneck.”

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How do you feel about the NSA being able to access your smartphone?

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“It’s doing more good than bad.

It’s more beneficial that they’re able to access our phones.”

Anthony Conforti freshman, First Year College

“It’s a bit of an invasion of privacy but I can see how it would be beneficial in other ways (for national security purposes).”

Annalisa Kristoffersen junior, international economy and environment

“I feel that in order to protect the community as a whole, you sometimes have to give up certain privacies. The reason is for our own safety and our own good. Although it’s not ideal, I feel that it’s necessary.”

Tyler Allen senior, biological science

In response to “Hide your kids and your guns” Ms. Ellisor’s opposition to the recently passed House Bill 937 echoes many of the common anti-gun sentiments heard of late. Empirical evidence suggests that many of the conclusions she draws from these assertions are patently incorrect.

The author quoted Melynda Price, an associate professor at the University of Kentucky, as saying, “In writing the Second Amendment, the framers didn’t envision the kind of gun toting that is permitted across this country today.”

This is entirely incorrect. The framers actively sought a “repeating” firearm (that could fire multiple rounds in short succession), and they encouraged its research and development in the federal armories at Springfield and Harper’s Ferry. Subsequent American patents by Samuel Colt, Rollin White, Daniel Smith, Horace Wesson and John Browning (to name a few) show a steady progression toward the repeating firearm, which reached its zenith in

Apple, fingerprints and the NSA

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ndoubtedly, Apple owned this week’s technology press.

Apple revealed the iPhone 5S on Tuesday at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Amidst Nokia sarcastically thanking Apple for Naman copying its Muley brightly colStaff Columnist ored outer covers in the iPhone 5C, and the various memes cropping up on the Internet related to the National Security Agency’s access to the fingerprint database that Apple allegedly will own, allow me to delve a shade deeper on the fingerprint sensor that has created so many waves.

On July 27, a security company by the name of AuthenTec announced its acceptance of Apple’s $356 million acquisition offer. Talks of the deal started as early as May. This was not publicized and it is suspected that AuthenTec was prohibited by its contract with Apple to talk about the acquisition. AuthenTec held the Intellectual Property on 2-D fingerprint sensors.

The iPhone 5S has a fingerprint sensor embedded right in its home button. The new home button is a sapphire crystal that acts as a lens while the metallic ring surrounding it detects whether your finger is on the home button or not. The sensor beneath the lens layer captures the difference in conductivity of the epidermal layers of your skin to generate an image — your fingerprint.

Unlocking your phone with your fingerprint is one thing, but authenticating iTunes purchases with your fingerprint is another.

It is this extensive use of the fingerprint for cloud applications that has cultivated

a generic fear that Apple is going to build a database of fingerprints which, consequently, the NSA will be able to access.

Apple has clarified that the fingerprint image will rest locally and securely in a chip inside the phone. There are numerous ways of allowing the pressing of your finger on the home button to authenticate a song purchase on iTunes. The fingerprint image can be cryptographically converted into a huge number used as a hash key. This key, nothing but a series of bits, can then be used to authenticate almost any application that requires authentication.

It is this seemingly random series of numbers that will be sent out via the Internet and not your fingerprint. It would be primitive to suggest that Apple sends the actual fingerprint via the Internet (unless Steve Jobs was secretly an NSA advisor and Apple holds tutorials in cryptography for the NSA engineers).

Apple is hardly the first company to experiment with fingerprint recognition as a means of authentication: Motorola first rolled out the Motorola Atrix in 2011 which gave the users an option to swipe on the screen and have the phone authenticate the user based on the fingerprint scan it took from the swipe.

But the Atrix fingerprint scan was buggy, and users found themselves swiping multiple times without success before simply entering the passcode to unlock the phone.

It’s in light of recent events and NSA’s surveillance that Apple has faced the brunt of the criticism from the Internet community at large. Data privacy is a valid concern, but readers, at this point in history, we all can do with fewer conspiracy rumors.

Davis Leonard, senior in science education

Put down the guns and pick up your words

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hy do people protest for peace when most of them are disturbing it themselves? It is irrational, and it does not s ol ve problems.

Our world has become a t w i s te d merry-goTaylor Quinn r o u n d o f Staff Columnist violence which seems to be spinning out of control now more than ever. Building bigger guns and stronger nuclear weapons to kill our enemies will inevitably end the human race for that matter. Can we live in harmony, or is violence human nature?

With events such as the anniversary of 9/11 and the controversy with Syria, one can only blissfully daydream about what our world would be like if war and terrorism didn’t exist.

Of course I know that the whole world will not join hands and sing kumbaya any time soon, but I feel as though our mentality of

success is becoming more and more warped. Winning wars based on death tolls is sick. Our country is responsible for the deaths of countless innocent people who did nothing to us and vice versa.

But the United States has been war crazed for years, beginning with the war that won its independence. The U.S. started 1-0 with the Revolutionary War, sending the confidence level of Americans skyrocketing. The revolutionaries were proud and that was great—we are still proud of them—but pride has brought us into more than a few issues over the years.

We learn about war on the pages of our textbooks, and words like “glory” and “war hero” are usually used to describe the situations and the people. Many aspects of U.S. culture have brainwashed citizens into believing that killing people is fun and powerful—just look at our videogames for proof. “Games” is the key word there—we have games such as “Call of Duty,” in which players gain points for killing other players. This

teaches players to cheer for death.

Given the current state of the world, we will not know peace any time soon. Countries are consumed with issues rooted deep v in their culture, and we are all fighting to be the best. There is room in our world for all of the countries to be great, but not everyone in the world shares the same ideologies.

And until we can either agree to follow one set of rules or accept our differences, we will remain in a disjointed state.

We need to put all our weapons down and use our communication skills instead of our artillery skills.

We need to trust that others won’t shoot us while our backs are turned and figure out valid solutions to our problems. My wants for the world are too implausible for our time, but if we continue to nurture a culture of acceptance, I think someday my goals will be close enough for us to reach.

was so uniformly against responsible adults being able to possess weapons on campus.

As an adult student living off campus, I often find myself walking on campus late at night. I would be an ideal mark for a criminal looking for an easy target. As a lawabiding citizen I would be, by definition, disarmed.

I am a victim of violence.

Nineteen years ago, a knifewielding criminal mugged me. Then, as now, the best the police could do was to write a report. Sadly, my assailant was never found, but I continue to carry the emotional burden of that attack.

When assaults happen on campus, the only people who are guaranteed to be present are the perpetrator(s) and the victim(s). The chances of law-enforcement being present to stop the attack are very small—small enough that I’d prefer to be lawfully armed and able to protect myself, instead of being beholden to my assailant and non-present law enforcement officers. House Bill 937 won’t allow me to carry a concealed handgun on campus, but it is a small

step in the right direction.

I hope Ms. Ellisor never knows what it’s like to be a victim, and I similarly hope I never have to use a weapon to defend myself. That being said, I’m sick of being disarmed for my so-called protection. The only things being protected are the delicate sensitivities of people who choose to outsource their security and safety.

The school shooting at Newtown is indeed a tragedy.

It did take place in Connecticut, though, which already had strict gun control laws in place when the December 2012 shooting occurred.

Similarly, the second deadliest school shooting in 2012 (with seven fatalities) took place in California, another state with strict gun control laws. Correlation and causation are two different things, but one may safely correlate that the worst acts of school violence in 2012 took place in the states with the most gun control.

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{LETTER TO THE EDITOR } the late 19th century. There is no evidence to suggest that the Second Amendment was contingent on the contemporaneously low-firing rate of weapons, and it’s true that people of the day were encouraged to procure the best weapons they could afford.

Then, as now, it was common understanding that military supremacy depended on having the best possible weapons, and that was one reason that weapons development and manufacturing was (and is) such a vital industry in this country.

Additionally, the 1958 Supreme Court case United States v. Miller affirms the assertion that the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear military-grade arms, just as District of Columbia v. Heller affirms that the Second Amendment is an individual right, and not a collective right.

In terms of North Carolina law, most of the provisions in House Bill 937 apply specifically to concealed handgun permit holders, including the provision that allows licens-

ees to carry concealed in restaurants that serve alcohol.

To become a licensed concealed carry permit holder, the applicant must undergo training, must submit fingerprints to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, must complete an extensive background check (including a check of mental health records), and they must reapply every five years.

Concealed handgun permit holders are, by definition, law-abiding citizens.

An exposé-style investigative journalism piece by The New York Times (with a clear antigun agenda and questionable methods for data collection and interpretation) found that less than 0.002 percent of all North Carolina concealed carry permit holders had subsequently committed violent misdemeanors or felonies. In contrast, the number of felons in the U.S. is estimated at somewhere between 7 and 8 percent of the population.

As law-abiding segments of the population go, concealed carry permit holders stand as a shining example.

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CHVRCHES falls short of holy expectations

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The Bones of What You Believe CHVRCHES Glassnote (US)

CHVRCHES catapulted into the indie music scene after premiering its first single, “Lies” in may of 2012.

Since then, the Scottish synthpop trio was ranked fifth in BBC’s “Sound of 2013,” featured regularly on Pitchfork and Spin, and performed on Jimmy Fallon.

A handful of CHVRCHES’ acclaimed songs f loated around the Web for more t ha n a yea r w it hout a proper album and generated considerable hype. But the band’s honeymoon phase is over—its premiere album The Bones of What You Believe leaked last week.

To put it simply, The Bone of What You Believe is a pop album with the façade of a late-80s exercise montage but in that way it is great.

The Bones of W hat You Believe is lyrically as deep as a pop album gets and offers a refreshing sound, but its faults lie in repetition.

Songs from The Bones of What You Believe are what should play on the radio, and they very well might.

The songs aren’t too edgy for the public, although the 80s synth-pop aesthetic strays left of the mainstream.

The subjects of CHVRCHES’ songs don’t stray from typical pop—most are about love, for better or worse. They are easily relatable but remain poetic.

The album’s fuse is lit by, “The Mother We Share,” which takes vocal samples to create a mirroring synthtrack with Lauren Mayberry’s sweet, powerful vocals rising above it.

Mayberry sings “Until the night falls, we’re the only ones lef t/I bet you even know, where we could go/ And when it all f**ks up, you put your head in my hands/It’s

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a souvenir for when you go.”

The lyrics are esoteric, but rooted in love. Whether it is interpreted as a break up or a fight, they are ultimately optimistic, as pop should be.

“Tether” is a beautiful power ballad. It begins slow and plain, and it ends with

Mayberry singing strong over frantic synth that could have come straight from Top Gun. Mayberry sings, “I’m feeling capable of seeing the end/I’m feeling capable of saying it’s over.” Once again, the songs follow a theme of acceptance and moving on.

Apart from its high-octane synth sound, the album is constructed as a traditional pop album. It has mainly catchy tunes, with a few ballads and unfortunately a few fillers.

The danger of leaning so far into the pop pool arises f rom steady tempo and repetitiveness and that is the biggest downfall of The Bones of What You Believe. Many of the choruses “Lies” is one of the songs that just shouldn’t be present on the album. The song is slow-going, with harsh synth and percussion that is slowgoing beneath Mayberry’s drawn out vocals make for a lackluster song.

Perhaps “Lies” is t he weakest song on the album because it is also their oldest track (by release). It seems dull and underdeveloped in comparison to fully-conceived tracks like the title track, “The Mother We Share.”

If CHVRCHES cut some fat, the album would be exceptional, but because some songs drag behind as others

jettison forward, it gives a non-cohesive feel to album with mainly A+ works on it.

Some tracks, however, stray away from the bands main sound and delve into deeper, more interesting sounds.

Reverberating synthesizers in “You Caught the Light” end the album with sounds that reminisce Alphaville’s classic “Forever Young.” It is a beautiful way to end an otherwise good album.

“Lungs” is a choppy-robotic ballad that stands out as one of the best tracks on the album.

It sounds like a more modern electronic piece and works cohesively with the other tracks without sounding like a repeat.

Although CHVRCHES isn’t the next Radiohead, The Bones of What You Believe is a welldone album that could have done with less songs and more variation. The songs are more fit for a workout than deep thought, but still provide something more important than a typical pop album.

Amnesia provides exciting gameplay and social criticism Bryce Hart Correspondent

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Developed by: The Chinese Room Published by: Frictional Games

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Goulding’s Halcyon Days was released on August 27 and is available on iTunes and most record stores.

Ellie Goulding picks up slack on Halcyon Days Nicky Vaught Deputy Features Editor

Ellie Goulding’s 2012 sophomore album, Halcyon, put the English pop star in the spot light for the first time since her 2010 single, “Lights.”

Singles, “Anything Could Happen,” which peaked at number five on the U.K. Singles Chart, and “Figure 8” impressed fans but the rest of the album, including its third single, “Explosions,” which ranked 14th on the same chart, left fans feeling underwhelmed with Goulding’s talent.

Fans paid more attention to the bonus track, “I Need Your Love,” an electronic dance number primarily by Calvin Harris, than to any bare album tracks.

Late August, Goulding released an expanded version of Halcyon, which she dubbed Halcyon Days, following a tour of the same name. The re-released album features all the original tracks, the original bonus tracks and 10 new tracks.

The first new track, “Burn,” earned Goulding her first No. 1 spot on the U.K. Singles Chart. It is a catchy—but not annoying—summertime anthem about having fun and “giving love to the world.”

Though bordering on the cliché, the lead track is one of the most well executed odes to youth in recent years.

“You My Everything,” first featured on Skins, is another catchy tune that appears in-

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 spired by romantic obsession.

The only thing harder than listening to this song and not dancing is getting the preceding track, “Goodness Gracious,” out of your head.

While Halcyon feels dragged down by five or six slow songs, the re-release features only two more, “Hearts Without Chains,” and “How Long Will I love You”. The former shows us a deep maturity in Goulding’s voice and lyricism, the latter is a surprising love song that would be ridiculous if not so classically beautiful.

The re-release explores a more diverse collection of ethereal dance than Goulding’s past endeavors. Tracks such as “Stay Awake (feat.

Madeon)” and “Flashlight (feat. DJ Fresh)” offer synth more aligned with the house genre than Goulding’s past work, save “Figure 8”.

For those who’d rather vibe out than dance, Goulding provides three exceptional tracks as her foray into chillwave. “Tessellate,” “Under Control” and the album’s final track, “Midas Touch,” are perfect for driving around at night with the windows down.

Halcyon Days is the dance, chill-wave complement to Halcyon and leaves fans in an inexplicable mood, both wanting more yet completely satisfied.

The game Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs begins with a quote by Samuel Johnson: “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” The game critiques the willingness of humans to make life easier with machines and the beasts they create in the name of progress.

Set in London on New Year’s Eve 1899, A Machine for Pigs follows Oswald Mandus who wakes up with a foggy memory following a series of fevers. A hazy Mandus hears and sees his children and sets off to find him, only to realize he must go deep into the heart of an underground machine to find them.

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is an indirect sequel to 2010’s Amnesia: A Dark Descent and retains much of the gameplay from its predecessor. Mandus is weaponless and must solve puzzles to move on while hiding from monsters.

A Machine for Pigs streamlined the process found in the first game by removing the need to manage items in an inventory for puzzles and the need to watch the amount of fuel in the lantern.

Puzzle solutions are close to the puzzle’s origin and the lantern will never run out of fuel, although it will attract enemies. This means the player is never forced to think much for puzzles.

A feature A Machine for Pigs is missing, which hurts its atmosphere and gameplay, is the sanity feature of A Dark Descent. The feature required the player to seek light and look away from monsters, otherwise going slowly insane.

This insanity causes hallucinations and eventual death until a source of light was found and whatever hor-

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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs’ main character, Oswald Mandus, navigates through various creepy locations around1899 London. Mandus must solve puzzles and navigate around monsters in these settings to find his children.

ror was in the room was far away. The lack of this feature makes A Machine for Pigs feel far too safe, with no urgent need to find light or run from monsters to save your sanity.

Even without the sanity feature the streamlined gameplay also works to improve A Machine for Pigs by allowing players to progress through the game with little frustration and challenge giving the player a chance to enjoy the strongest part of the game, the story.

A Machine for Pigs presents a macabre mystery: It’s innocent in nature at first but mystery evolves into a critique of the industrial revolution and in a way human advancement as a whole.

While the main story progresses well and is f leshed out through gameplay, the player can and should collect scraps of paper hidden around the game that explain more about the world. These pieces of paper are poems, songs or journal entries. The pieces of paper add to the sense of dread already present throughout the game.

The atmosphere created by the areas Mandus visits is intense and foreboding. Half open doors, glimpses of creatures running in the distance and events that may or may not be real work together to create an anxiety for what comes next.

The music in A Machine

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Mandus navigates through a steam cellar in A Machine for Pigs.

for Pigs combined with the sounds in each area adds a lot to the atmosphere and feeling of horror. The game combines music and noises perfectly and even makes good use of lack of music.

Standing in a room when the music stops and slowly stepping out only to hear a creature squeal in the distance creates a fear inside that

not many games can match.

Each scare, no matter how small, is preceded by creepy sounds and events that create the perfect feeling of dread and fear scaring the player before they even see what is hiding in the shadows.

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SPARKcon festival starts today THE EIGHTH ANNUAL SPARKCON WILL GATHER ARTISTS ON FAYETTEVILLE STREET THIS WEEKEND

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ideas lies with the individuals, who are required to do all the planning, find volunteers From Friday to Sunday, and manage the booth or acabout 2,000 performers, tivity at SPARKcon. vendors, artists and volun“This can seem a little harsh teers will meet on Fayette- at times, but it’s proven to be ville Street for the 8th annual really effective in getting the SPARKcon festival. programs off the ground and SPARKcon is an “interdis- into the community,” Powers ciplinary creativity, art and said. “circusSPARK, for exdesign festival” and is pro- ample, now holds trainings duced each year by Visual and classes for people who Art Exchange, a nonprofit are interested in acrobatics “creativity incubator,” ac- and juggling and stuff. It encording to the festival’s of- courages lasting relationships ficial website. with the area.”

Sarah Powers, executive The SPARKcon planning director of Visual Art Ex- process begins the week after change, said the build-up to the previous conference ends. this year’s event was more It is an effort to get the ball exciting than ever. rolling while enthusiasm lev“We had more than 35,000 els are still high, Powers said. people come out to SPARK“We really hit the ground con last year,” Powers said. running last year,” Powers “We have grown every year, said. “We hit so hard that so we’re expecting even more we were able to create a topeople.” ta l of 200 Powers SPARKcon sa id usi ng sub-events the open for this year’s source apmain event. proach for We have 700 SPARKcon street paintensured an ers coming event t hat out to add a Sarah Powers, executive w i l l r u n director of Visual Art Exchange huge handspu re l y on on initiative. community creativity.

This part means a lot to me “Open source basically because I’m an artist. We’re means that anyone and ev- essentially taking over downeryone can contribute, any- town Raleigh and covering it thing can happen,” Powers with art.” said. “We really don’t say no Now in its eighth year, to any idea, we just sort of let SPA R Kcon w i l l include it happen. You can learn so 20 venues on and around much about what’s going on Fayetteville Street. Attracin the Triangle by inviting tions include fashion shows, community members into chalk drawings in the street, the planning process.” short-film screenings and Each individual or group food trucks. Arts and crafts that proposes an idea for the vendors will set up shop in next year’s event is given the the bazaarSPARK section in tools and leadership train- front of the State Capitol on ing required to make their Fayetteville Street.

SPARK happen. The execuSPARKcon offers a full tive committee, nicknamed schedule of events from 11 the “Bobbleheads” because a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and of the committee’s inability Saturday and from 12 p.m. to to say no, gives what it can to 5 p.m. on Sunday. the individual SPARKs, but is “Our aim is to expose difallotted a budget of $50,000 ferent talents and bring them and must use that money together,” Powers said. “Letfor logistical needs, includ- ting creative people make ing security, permits and things happen is still the various rentals. Powers said centerpiece of it all, even after the success or failure of the eight years.”

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N.C. State students draw with chalk on Fayetteville Street at SPARKcon 2012. There are an estimated 2,000 artists that will take part in this year’s SPARKcon.

“Our aim is to expose different talents and bring them together.”

Performers do acrobatics on Fayetteville Street during SPARKcon 2012.

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A skateboarder shows off at last year’s SPARKcon.

Artists take to the streets at last year’s SPARKcon on in downtown Raleigh.

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threatening until 20 minutes in. The Wolfpack had a chance to tie the match as junior midfielder Jessica Baity weaved her way around the Notre Dame defense and fired a shot from 15 yards out. However, her shot was punched over the net by Little, who recorded three saves on the night.

A few minutes later, the Irish nearly extended their lead once again as Bohaboy broke through the State defense after receiving a through ball, but Stelljes charged out of the net and knocked the ball away to keep the Pack within striking distance for the time being. Stelies finished with eight saves on 22 Notre Dame shots.

State finished with eight total shots.

“We went into the game knowing we can compete with them,” Spamer said. “It wasn’t a bad performance, but obviously it’s not good that we lost.”

But Notre Dame kept attacking and eventually tallied its third goal with 15 minutes left when Sammy Schofield beat Stelljes from inside the box off a feed from Mandy Laddish. The Irish defense held from there as they took home the win in their ACC debut.

Santoro pointed to Notre Dame’s superior depth as a reason for their performance.

The Irish substituted seven players in during the game compared to just one for State.

“We’re a little undermanned,” Santoro said.

“They were able to play more players and they were a little deeper towards the end.”

The match concluded the Wolfpack’s six-game home stand. State will return to action on Sunday as they travel to ACC foe Pittsburgh for a 1 p.m. contest. Its next home game is on Sept. 26 against Virginia Tech.

“We’re not in it for moral victories,” Santoro said. “need to win games. We’re gonna get back at it on Sunday and win.”

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While Valdes-Scantling has impressed, senior receiver Quintin Payton and junior receiver Bryan Underwood have not. Both have combined for six catches and 44 yards this season.

It’d be shortsighted to ignore the fact that defenses are blanketing both in coverage forcing Thomas to utilize other receivers such as Valdes-Scantling and senior receiver Rashard Smith, who has also impressed.

Another welcoming addition has been the emergence of the Wolfpack’s rushing attack.

Freshman running back Matt Dayes has been getting plenty of love from the Wolfpack faithful, and deservedly so, but junior running back Tony Creecy has been running hard as well.

Both average 4.1 yards per carry, effective enough to make opponents respect the Wolfpack’s ground game.

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burst through seams at the line of scrimmage has been a sight for sore eyes, with the Pack’s rushers last year averaging just 3.1 yards per carry.

This one-yard difference may seem inconsequential.

But after three rushes of three yards per carry, the Wolfpack offense would be one yard short of a first down. You can do the math if State averaged four yards per carry.

State’s defense has looked strong thus far in the season.

To say the least, there’s a no-

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Just ask Florida State: The Wolfpack shut out the Seminoles in the second half of its game last season. N.C. State came back from 16-0 and beat the ‘Noles on a last minute drive.

Here’s the take-home message to Wolfpack nation: Don’t overreact because of

one game. Every team has close calls over the course of the season; that’s just the way it goes.

Good teams find ways to win football games. That’s exactly what head coach Dave Doeren’s team has done over the last two weeks. They may not win every game this season, but I have complete confidence the Wolfpack will be bowl eligible by the end of the season.

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Men’s tennis to open at Duke Fab Four Invite The N.C. State men’s tennis team will open its fall slate Friday when it plays in the Duke Fab Four Invitational at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C. Singles and doubles will begin Friday and continue throughout the weekend, concluding with singles on Sunday The Pack will be joined by nine other teams at the three-day event, including host Duke, Elon, Louisville, UNC, Radford, South Florida, VCU, Wake Forest and William & Mary.

The tournament features three draws for singles and doubles. Overall, eight singles players who are listed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s preseason rankings will compete in the field, including State junior Austin Powell(No. 96) and freshman Nick Horton (Fr. No. 6).

In the blue draw, Powell and Beck Bond will represent the Pack. Powell, the No. 3 seed in the draw, will face South Florida’s Ignacio GonzalezMuniz in the round of 16 Friday, while Bond will face Stefan Fortmann of Elon.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “We’re not in it for moral victories. We need to win games. We’re gonna get back at it on Sunday and win.”

Tim Santoro, women’s soccer head coach

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Freshman forward Jackie Stengel maneuvers past a defender Thursday, Sept. 12 at Dail Soccer Stadium.

N.C. State falls to Fighting Irish in conference opener Luke Nadkarni Staff Writer

The N.C. State women’s soccer team took the field against No. 8 Notre Dame, the highest-ranked opponent it has faced this season, on Thursday night and fell 3-1 in the ACC opener for both teams.

The game was delayed for about 45 minutes due to lightning in the area.

The Wolfpack drew first blood about five minutes into the game on a bizarre play.

Following a foul on the Irish, “Our whole strategy for free junior defender Shelli Spamer kicks is to put it on the goal,” took a free kick from midfield Spamer said. “That’s what we and booted did, and I it toward the don’t think goa l . S e v[Little] was eral players ready for f rom bot h it.” teams went The up for the Fighting header but Irish tied it Notre Dame 10 minutes Tim Santoro, women’s soccer head coach goalkeeper later off of Kaela Little a free kick. mishandled the ball and it Crystal Thomas came out of trickled into the side of the a mad scramble in front of net to give the Pack an early the net to rebound a miss by 1-0 advantage. teammate Lauren Bohaboy

“It wasn’t a bad performance, but obviously it’s not good that we lost.”

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Sophomore forward Brittany Stanko runs past a defender Thursday Sept. 12 at Dail Soccer Field. The Wolfpack fell to the Fighting Irish 3-1.

and beat State freshman keeper Mackenzie Stelljes.

The freshman keeper totaled four saves in the half.

Notre Dame gained the lead in the 27th minute on a goal

by Karin Simonian off of an assist by Thomas. They nearly doubled their lead a minute later but Stelljes made a nifty sliding save off an Irish shot.

“We gave up a couple bad goals in the first half,” head coach Tim Santoro said. “[Notre Dame] put a lot of pressure on us.”

Freshman forward Jackie Stengel had a chance to tie

the game for the Pack shortly before halftime, but her shot from just outside the box sailed over the crossbar.

Stengel led the Pack with three shots for the game. For the half, State registered five shots compared to nine for the Fighting Irish.

“We didn’t do very well with balls in the box,” Santoro said. “And we didn’t deal with first or second clearances. It was disappointing.”

The second half started slowly, with neither team

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Undefeated Wolfpack finds ways to win ballgames The opening 10 minutes of the Wolfpack’s 2013 football season was the most promising of any season I can remember.

However, the next 110 minutes followed with m i x e d re sults.

I thought Louisiana Tech would Andrew give the Schuett Wolfpack a Deputy Sports Editor stern challenge in its opener. In 2012, the Bulldogs beat Virginia in Charlottesville and took Cotton Bowl winner Texas A&M to the brink, losing 59-57.

But the Bulldogs’ losses from the previous year were painfully apparent against the Wolfpack. Former head coach Sonny Dykes is now coaching California and the team returned only six starters from last season, the lowest total in the FBS. In comparison, The Wolfpack looked awesome against the Bulldogs.

Part of that is due to Louisiana Tech’s subpar defense. The Bulldogs allowed 38.5 points per ga me last season and also lost seven defensive starters.

Another reason was the play of graduate student quarterback Brandon Mitchell. Mitchell was electric in his debut for the red and white, leading the fastpaced offense to 14 points

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Redshirt senior Rashard Smith runs the football Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013 at Carter-Finley Stadium against Louisiana Tech. The Wolfpack defeated the Bulldogs 40-14.

on his first two drives.

Then Mitchell went down, stricken by a broken bone in his left foot. The Wolfpack cruised in his absence, beating the Bulldogs 40-14, but State fans will be desperate to see the Arkansas transfer back on the field as soon as possible.

His replacement, junior quarterback Pete Thomas, has given great ef for t a nd has shown a will to win that can’t be taught. The Colorado State transfer dove to recover a fumble against the Bulldogs and stuck his nose in to gain crucial first downs by running against Richmond a week later.

“Good teams find ways to win football games.

That’s exactly what head coach Dave Doeren’s team has done.”

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Redshirt senior defensive end Darryl Cato-Bishop high-fives fans after the football game against the University of Richmond in Carter-Finley Stadium Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. The Wolfpack narrowly defeated the Spiders 23-21.

There have been a few questionable decisions from Thomas: the late interception against Richmond for instance. But he drove the team into field goal range on the very next drive, helping the Wolfpack win the game.

Shortly after throwing an interception, Thomas showed

character and guts by running an effective two-minute drill.

Thomas hasn’t been perfect, but he has been everything we need him to be.

Freshman receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, the Wolfpack’s leading pass catcher this season, has been a sur-

prisingly effective addition to the offense. Valdes-Scantling always seems to be in the right place at the right time, making two crucial catches to jump-start the Wolfpack’s game winning drive against Richmond.

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