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field. Following the recession, there was a slight drop in the number of students enrolled in arts and humanities graduate programs. However, in the year 2011-2012, the number of Ph.D. candidates in humanities and arts increased by 7 percent.

According to The Atlantic, 43 percent of students who graduate with a humanities or arts Ph.D. don’t have a job.

Braden said about half of the N.C. State Ph.D. graduates in humanities and arts go on to work for universities while the other half go into private industries. However, he cautions students who are considering pursuing a Ph.D. as a pathway to academia.

“If a student wants to get a Ph.D. and pursue the classic career path of moving into a university, it is probably

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The number of students pursuing doctoral degrees in humanities or arts has increased at N.C. State, following a national trend.

The Atlantic recently reported an increase in the number of students receiving Ph.D.s in the humanities and arts. According to the magazine, this increase was greater than every other graduate field, even compared to degrees in math and science.

Jeffery Braden, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at N.C. State, said he has seen a steady increase in the number of Ph.D. programs in the humanities and arts at N.C. State as well.

“People who have Ph.D.s in humanities are finding that the skills and the depth of knowledge they bring to understanding problems is appreciated not only in universities who hire them as professors but also in private industry, government and other sectors of the economy,” Braden said.

According to The Atlantic, the recession has had little influence on students’ decisions to pursue a Ph.D. in this

not a good career decision,” Braden said.

Instead, he recommends that humanities students with Ph.D.s look into nontraditional career paths in the public sector.

Susan Katz, an associate professor and director of the English department’s internship program, also said

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Starting next month, the Raleigh Police Department will be setting up more DWI checkpoints around the city.

At least two of these will be in close proximity to campus.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded RPD a $525,270 federal grant for DWI enforcement, according to The News & Observer. The grant will allow the department to form a new unit, which will include four officers and one sergeant. The unit will be outfitted with new vehicles, uniforms and portable breathalyzers. The grant will also pay for salaries, training and additional equipment for an additional three years.

Lt. Tim Tomczak, who helped develop the grant proposal, said that while RPD currently makes about 1,500 arrests per year, the department now expects to see each officer make 150 to 200 arrests during a span of 12 months, culminating to 2,000 to 2,400 arrests per year.

According to Tomczak, the squad will have two purposes.

The first will be to contrib-

ute to the overarching goal to prevent crashes, especially those that result in death and injury caused by impaired driving. The second, according to Tomczack, “will be to get out there and be seen and let people who are impaired know that they should find another way home other than driving.”

RPD will concentrate on stopping impaired drivers by organizing specific checkpoints, which will be selected by statistical methods.

“It’s almost like fishing, you go where you know you’re going to catch fish,” Tomczak said. “If you’ve been to one location, and you’ve never caught fish in your life, I wouldn’t expect to catch fish there this time. But if you know, that you go over here that you throw live in the water, and you know you’re going to catch fish, chances are you’re going to be successful.”

Tomczack said current checkpoints have yielded tremendous success in upholding the law.

“I can tell you that one of the most successful checkpoints was on Capitol Boulevard,” Tomczak said. “We

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NAACP protesters and students continue to fight against N.C. voting laws

N.C. State researchers try to keep up with growing beer industry

Chris Hart-Williams

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Young protestors carried empty caskets around North Carolina’s Executive Mansion as part of a Moral Monday protest led by the NAACP on Sept. 16.

Protesters marched from First Baptist Church on Wilmington Street in Raleigh to the Governor’s Mansion where they circled the grounds while demonstrators carried four empty caskets.

Lauryn Collier, interim president of the N.C. State NAACP chapter, said demonstrators organized to oppose the new state voter bill passed by the Republican-led legislature.

DeMonte’ Alford, the president of the East Carolina University NAACP chapter, helped plan the protest said there is significance in the date of the protest and the caskets used in the processional. The caskets symbolized the four little girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala. 50 years to the date the protest took place.

“The significance of the date and their ages, and its power in history, and 50 years later you know there may not be physical attacks on the young as it was with the four little girls who were killed in the bombing, it’s an attack on voting rights and education on the young people that is happening today,” said Alford.

The News & Observer reported that about 150 people marched in

protest. NAACP university chapters from across the state protested, including the N.C. State chapter, joining other state youth groups allied with the NAACP, according to Alford.

Alford and Collier said demonstrators oppose the new voter bill because they think it attacks the voting rights of the state’s youth.

They marched in hopes of delivering the message to Gov. Pat McCrory and the state legislature.

McCrory’s off ice released a statement following the protest confirming that he was away at a Republican Governors meeting in South Carolina at the time of the protest according to The News & Observer.

Collier said it was unfortunate that the governor was not in Raleigh at the time, but she said she is sure he saw it on the news.

Alfords said that he wants McCrory to use his executive authority and call a special session to undo recent legislation, such as the new voter bill, he and other members NAACP feel are unjust.

“The voting bill just passed is a monster bill,” said Alford. “For instance 17 year olds in civics classes aren’t able to register to vote. Students aren’t able to vote on the campuses they attend without fear of losing their dependency status on their parents’ taxes, it’s now impossible to use your student ID as

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Jason Katz Although the craft beer industry is quickly growing in North Carolina, N.C. State researchers have to work hard to overcome some of the natural roadblocks of growing hops in the state.

According to Forbes.com, the number of breweries in North Carolina grew 33 percent since last year—to 70 breweries. Additionally, t h re e nat iona l ly ac c red ited breweries, Sierra Nevada, New Belgium and Oscar Blues, will soon move to the state.

“We’re in such a unique position with all of the craft breweries that we have, and with having the big three coming into the area now,” said Jeanine Davis, associate professor and extension specialist in the Department of Horticultural Science at N.C. State.

According to beerpulse.com, Sierra Nevada alone is investing $107.5 million during the next five years in its brewery—bringing 95 full-time jobs, 80 part-time jobs and 60 construction jobs to North Carolina.

H o w e v e r, e n v i r o n m e n t a l conditions in the state are not ideal for growing hops. As a result, there have been several research grants issued to help learn more about how to overcome some problems.

In Januar y, t he Technician spoke with N.C. State’s Davis and Rob Austin, a research specialist in soil science in the College of

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N.C. State researchers are trying to grow hops, which are plants used to help stabilize and flavor beer, in the North Carolina climate.

Agriculture and Life Sciences, about their research in the hop farming industry in North Carolina.

Austin completed his grant and has moved on to other responsibilities,

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Davis said hops grown in the south do not produce as much agricultural

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students should think about their decision to work toward a university. Katz said receiving tenure relies heavily on the field pursued. If a student receives a Ph.D. in a newer and expanding field, he or she would have a higher chance of being granted tenure.

“In fields such as English literature or American history there are many, many Ph.D .programs producing graduates and an insufficient number of new positions for

all those individuals,” Katz said.

Options for humanities and arts degrees range widely from areas such as English and history to communication and psychology. Katz said she received a Ph.D. in communication and rhetoric in 1996.

“I initially went to graduate school to earn a master’s degree in technical communication, but I quickly realized that I enjoyed being in an academic environment more than in an industrial environment,” Katz said.

Still, the reason for an in-

crease in humanities Ph.D.s is a bit of a mystery.

“No matter how badly the job market might degenerate, there will always be enough lit and history lovers ... to fill classroom seats,” Jordan Weissmann wrote in The Atlantic.

Weismann also suggested that an increase of foreign exchange students and a lack of knowledge about student debt are possible reasons for the rise in Ph.D. candidates.

However, he adds these are just “shots in the dark.”

One month after previous grant, Raleigh receives $5.5 million for Union Station Staff Report

The federal Department of Transportation awarded the City of Raleigh a $5.5 million grant to improve Union Station, located downtown.

Raleigh’s transportation office announced this grant on Sept. 16, less than a month after a previous $10 million grant for the same project.

Eric Lamb, a manager in the Office of Transportation Planning, said this money will continue to add to the fund to rebuild the train station at the foot of West Mar-

tin Street.

“We have just over $50 million so far, so we’ll continue looking for options for additional funds,” Lamb said.

Mitchell Silver, the city planning director, told The News & Observer that the new federal grant brings Raleigh to within $16.5 million of the City’s goal.

Lamb said the much-needed new station will help move traffic through Raleigh. Currently, Union Station services more rail traffic than either Miami or Charlotte.

“We … have some very high

ridership that is crammed into an aging station facility that simply isn’t sufficient to meet our existing and future demand,” Lamb said.

Lamb said he thinks Raleigh’s location played a role in the USDOT’s decision to award the city the grant.

“I’d like to think the project has been receiving funding based on the quality and importance of Raleigh strategically from a rail perspective on the East Coast,” Lamb said. “It’s a critical link relative to the future plans for High Speed Rail.”

output as those grown in the north and northwest because the plant requires long days, which allow it to become stronger before the flowering phase.

“We had really great concerns about the yields the first couple of years, but they’re increasing,” Davis said. “We’ll never reach Pacific Northwest levels, you know like they have, but I think that we will continue to improve our yields as we learn better how to grow these plants.”

Davis said that North Ca roli na is rea l ly t he southernmost place for high-yielding hop farming.

“I mean you can grow hops all the way down into Florida, you just don’t get that many cones,” Davis said.

She said that her team is coming up with ways to trick the plant. This is

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fairly new research. Many of the problems associated w it h g row i ng hops i n North Carolina don’t exist elsewhere in the colderclimate, drier areas in the country where hops are more commonly grown.

Davis said she thinks the hop industry will grow in the future.

“A lot of the big commodity crops are changing and I think that this could be another really high value crop, very similar to the wine-grape industry that we see,” Davis said.

According to Davis, many people initially doubted suitable grapes could be grown for wine here in the state. Now, the industry is doing very well. According to the North Carolina Tourism Board, there are more than 400 v ineyards and 100 wineries across the state.

“I think you’re going to see the same thing with hops,” Davis said.

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research grant for the project, but she said in order to really accomplish her goals in the field, more money is going to be needed.

“It’s just enough [money] to keep the research hop yard up here going, and to do some outreach,” Davis said. “So if we really want something to happen, we need to bring in more money.”

Dav is hopes to work w it h re se a rchers f rom surrounding states, whom she’s already been in contact with, to get a multi-state grant going.

“It would make more sense to serve as a region instead of just a state,” Davis said.

The support for North Carolina crops and products will have a lot to do with the industry’s success, Davis said. So will all of the people in the hops industry, who are all working together to find solutions. Still, Davis has high expectations.

“They’re going to make it happen. They’re a tenacious bunch,” Davis said.

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made an arrest every nine minutes. That’s phenomenal if you think about that. In the course of an hour you’re going to have at least six impaired drivers drive by.”

Downtown Raleigh will certainly be a significant target due to the high volume of bars and restaurants there, t but he new squad will not be exclusively pinned to the area, Tomczak said “These officers will work around the entire city,” Tomczak said. “There are impairment-related crashes around the entire city. Are there more in downtown Raleigh? There absolutely are, but I believe this is more of a

function of the large number of restaurants and bars in the area. But there are problems with impaired driving across the entire city.”

Drivers on campus should be wary of the two significant hot spots for arrests on Western Boulevard, between Gorman Street and I-440 and on Hillsborough Street, between Dan Allen Road and I-440.

Jeff Mickel, the general manager of The Flying Saucer, welcomed the increased strength by law enforcement.

“We’re certainly not happy to see anybody drunk driving, and if this limits that, then that’s good,” Mickel said. “As long as that money and enforcement is used properly, I see it as a good sign.”

According to Mickel, enforcement in the area could result in folks staying closer to home if they plan to consume alcohol, but he said he felt that more downtown visitors are concerned with a safer environment.

N.C. State Campus Police declined to comment on this story. However, Police Chief Jack Moorman said in an email that his department works hard to address DWIs on campus.

“DWIs and other offenses that jeopardize the safety of our campus community are crimes that we take very seriously and aggressively enforce with zero tolerance,” Moorman said.

a possible state-issued ID for voting but a gun license is.”

Collier helped carry one of the four caskets as the rest of the demonstrators marched beside her.

“It meant a lot to me personally to carry one of [the caskets], like I wouldn’t even be in college if it weren’t for the civil rights movement that happened and it was the 50th anniversary and we were doing it to say that you know we want to keep moving forward in America,” Collier said.

This Moral Monday protest was different because it was led and organized primarily by young people. Collier said this was critical because it showed it doesn’t take older people to protest something.

“We have so many people who are college aged or younger out there telling them that we understand the legislation, like we are keeping up with it,” Collier said.

“We’re in tune with what’s happening in our political lives.”

Alford said the new voter law will halt progress, as did the bombing 50 years ago during the civil rights movement. Alford, along with the state NAACP, is not done

with bringing attention to the new voter bill and other legislation he opposes.

“No matter what happens if it hurts people in the state of North Carolina we will be ready to organize people on every street corner throughout the state,” Alford said.

“We’ll organize every person, every person walking every person alive, every young person, every old person — every black, every white, every gay every straight, every Muslim, every Jew, every Christian, doesn’t matter— we’ll organize.”

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Campus MovieFest returns to NCSU Staff Report

The world’s largest student filmmaking festival, Campus MovieFest, is returning to N.C. State for its sixth year in a row this October.

Participants have one week to create a movie, and the top 16 short films will be showcased at N.C. State’s Red Carpet Finale on Oct. 27. Campus MovieFest provides Apple laptops, Panasonic HD camcorders and training free of charge for every group that participates. All films must be five minutes or fewer.

“Campus Moviefest is a great opportunity for stu-

dents to express themselves, learn about filmmaking and of course have a lot of fun with the chance to win great prizes,” said Jodi Gilbert, a Campus MovieFest promotions manager.

According to Gi lber t, those prizes include $20,000 cash,12-month memberships to Adobe Creative Cloud, Hollywood pitch meetings, exposure at the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner and in-f light showings through Virgin American airlines and more.

Since the launch in 2001, more than 500,000 college students all over the world

received the chance to create and share their ideas on the big screen through Campus MovieFest festivals.

The weeklong event will launch on Wednesday, Oct. 16 in the D.H. Hill Reading Room at 12 p.m. Completed films will be collected in the same location at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The finale showcase is at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27 in the Witherspoon Student Center in room 117.

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Is death a problem that needs solving?

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oogle is working to increase our lifespan. The company that we mostly think of as a search engine and online advertising business is now in the life-extending business. But we can’t be too surprised—Google, after all, is also involved in the “driverless-car business, the wearable-computing business and the business of providing Internet access to remote areas via highMegan altitude balloons, among Ellisor countless others,” according Viewpoint Editor to Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman of Time magazine.

To pursue this ambitious endeavor, Google

is launching a company called Calico. Arthur Levinson, chairman and ex-CEO of the biotech company Genentech, will run the company.

Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page has not released any details as to how he and Levinson will tackle death, and said on his Google+ account that there’s “not much more to share yet.”

In a recent issue of Time magazine, McCracken and Grossman asked, can Google solve death? This assumed that death is a problem that needs solving. But is it?

I remember learning in middle school about how much the life expectancy of humans had increased and thinking, “Thank goodness we can live to be 80 years old—40 years isn’t

enough!” But now my more highly educated self can’t help but think of the negative impacts that might result from a 164-year lifespan that continues to work toward immortality.

With a greater life expectancy, people will have to work for a much longer period of time, meaning people of future generations better love their jobs. They will not be able to retire in their mid-60s as most people do now because there will not be enough workers to pay the social security checks of the older generations.

Additionally, the planet will not be able to hold millions or billions more people and maintain the current standard of living that we enjoy in the United States. The population will skyrocket. This might result in the government setting a limit as to how many

children couples can have. More extremely, some governments might limit who is allowed to have children—probably granting this right to only the wealthiest and smartest people.

In no way am I saying I want to die or that death is good, but rather that death is essential.

The earth will be unable to support the strains that a rapidly increasing population would place on it. And because we might be able to live for a century and a half, our lives will become less valuable, which may result in a sloth-like existence.

McCracken and Grossman claimed on the cover of Time magazine that the effort to increase our lifespan “would be crazy—if it weren’t Google.” I say it’s crazy no matter who’s behind it.

In response to ‘What are you going to do with that?’

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icky Vaught’s column raises a concern I’ve struggled with in the past. As a history major, I have often been the butt-end of jokes about limited career Michael potential.

Helms My favorite Guest Columnist is “History majors can make hundreds of dollars per year!” I’ve been accused of not being able to get into a better program and was even accused once of being a leach on taxpayers’ dollars.

Defensive responses to these questions reinforce the idea that humanities majors have something to prove.

I now offer the following response to the “What will you do with that degree?” question: “I’m going to be a better citizen.”

This response almost always provokes a confused silence. If I’ve made my audience stop and think, I’ve already asserted the intellectualism so typical of a good humanities student.

If I’m asked to explain, I start with Santayana’s most famous quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Science majors borrow from this wisdom every day. Av rttvts they test and modify their hypotheses, they must know what they’ve done already. So it goes with being a responsible citizen: How can we move forward as individuals and as a society if we don’t understand what came before us?

Being a history major has taught me not only how to gather large amounts of information, but also how to synthesize disparate (and often conflicting) sources into

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a coherent narrative. As the owner of a profitable technology-based small business, I use these skills every day as I develop my understanding of my clients’ unique, complex and often-conflicting needs.

A fundamental concept of history is that events are rarely as simple as they appear on the surface. Humans are infinitely unpredictable and full of contradictions, and this comes as no surprise to any history scholar. As any good citizen strives to live his best life, being able to understand the world as living, fluid and dynamic enables him to make more thoughtful and nuanced decisions.

The communication skills I’ve learned in history are perhaps the most important to me. The best ideas in the world cannot be profited from if they can’t be communicated effectively, and the world is full of examples of good ideas that were capitalized on not by their inventor, but by the person who could best communicate them. Steve Jobs was by no means the best engineer, but his mercurial attention span, his good instincts and his ability to communicate with his audiences have earned his company a near-monopoly in the technology sector. Small wonder that he was a liberal arts dropout!

Being a humanities major isn’t about vocational training. I would argue instead that a humanities degree teaches one to listen, to think and to communicate.

Whether that’s through the study of history, English literature, psychology or sociology is largely a matter of personal choice—the core skills remain similar across the sub-disciplines.

As a 15-year-veteran of corporate America and a small business owner, I don’t hesitate to explain that my humanities education has been a huge factor in my success. University students spend a lot of time trying to be the smartest person in the room, but “smart” doesn’t always mean “right.” Similarly, “smart” and “right” don’t always mean successful. The challenges of negotiating a contract or developing a solution for a client are often more human than technical, and it is the humanities that has taught me how to navigate these waters.

Vocationally trained professionals are undoubtedly essential. I don’t want to drive over a faulty bridge any more than I want to be operated on by a well-intentioned, but completely untrained surgeon.

Similarly, I don’t want people imagining that the solutions to our problems (as individuals, as a nation or as a culture) are entirely mathematical.

Both sets of skills are essential, and I’d argue that the most successful people have a blend of both.

To humanities majors: At some point you’ll need to decide how you are going to earn a living, and you may need to think more vocationally than women’s studies or history to do that. But don’t disparage the value of what you’ve learned. It will serve you well in whatever vocation you choose.

To STEM majors: Good for you for choosing a field in which you’ll likely earn a good living. And don’t be surprised if you end up working for a humanities major someday.

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Christian O’Neal, senior in mechanical engineering

Loopholes in e-cigarette regulation

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erbert A. Gilbert may have created the first electronic cigarette in 1963, but leave it up to the millenials to popularize the technology-dependent smoking device. If we didn’t have Tyler Gobin enough Staff Columnist gadgets in ou r l ive s already, electronic cigarettes will add another battery to the lot and require a new assortment of regulations to regain control.

The e-cigarette is becoming increasingly popular, especially among kids, and is currently lacking enough regulation. Laws surrounding cigarettes do not apply to this new electric form, and e-cigarette users might think they have found a loophole, but they should know that politicians will be close behind.

The e-cigarette is an inhaler meant to simulate or substitute tobacco smoking.

It can be used for quitting, but is also providing a way for people to regain smoking rights in areas where they were previously prohibited.

People can smoke e-cigarettes in places where nor-

mal cigarette smoking is not allowed, such as inside buildings. Advocates lean on the fact that e-cigarettes produce water vapor rather than harmful smoke, but that doesn’t make them right.

It’s a sad truth for some, but smoking, regardless of whether it results in secondhand smoke, does not belong inside buildings such as schools, churches, grocery stores or malls. We understand that e-cigarette smoke is harmless, but smoking stereotypes have not changed.

The image people associate with smoking is negative, and we have our culture to blame for that.

However, the battle to force e-cigarettes out of certain locations will not be easy due to the fact that the vapor is harmless to bystanders. But we should easily be able to crack down on e-cigarette use among children.

Before the popularity of the e-cigarette, tobacco use among young people was rather constant. According to a scholarly article from the National Center for Biotechnolog y Information, e-cigarette use among kids, grades 6-12, increased from 3.3 percent in 2011 to 6.8 percent in 2012.

Additionally, 10 percent of those kids who used an elec-

tronic cigarette have never smoked, contributing to the idea that e-cigarettes might be a new gateway drug. Also, the lack of regulations in some states allows kids to purchase them legally. This leads to a pretty bitter conclusion, and politicians need to get their heads around this problem fast before it causes too much harm.

Unfortunately, politicians might have a harder time fighting e-cigarettes now than they did fighting cigarettes in the 1970s. Part of the externality created by cigarettes has been eliminated with the e-cigarette’s lack of secondhand smoke. An externality is created when the sale of a good affects someone who is not directly doing the buying or selling. E-cigarettes make smoking seem more acceptable, but the nicotine they contain can make them as addictive as real cigarettes, which are nearly as addictive as heroin or cocaine.

Politicians may want to look at the past and see what the government did regarding cigarette policies in order to handle this new beast. In the long run e-cigarettes should not be exempt from the cigarette’s regulations because, regardless of their effects on the general public, smoking will never be healthy.

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‘The Bone Season’ leaves room for improvement Hassan DuRant Staff Writer

The Skinny: The Bone Season is enjoyable, if unpolished. Samantha Shannon is a new author who is a little wet behind the ears, but she shows great promise.

I picked up Shannon’s The Bone Season on a whim. The name sounded vaguely familiar, and the plot sounded interesting enough that I decided to give it a shot.

As I left the bookstore, I realized The Bone Season sounded familiar because the book’s author, Samantha Shannon, is being lauded all over the news for her brilliant debut novel.

U.S.A. Today compares The Bone Season to the works of George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien. Vanity Fair compares the book to A Clockwork Orange. And everyone is comparing Samantha Shannon to J.K. Rowling.

Let me get something out of the way right now: The Bone Season is none of those things, and Samantha Shannon is no J.K. Rowling. The fact that so many news sources have come to the conclusion that Shannon is some sort of messiah of literature makes me question whether I read the same book as everyone else.

Still, The Bone Season is good enough that I would recommend it to anyone who has money to burn and is looking for a good paranormal story to keep them occupied for a day or two.

The year is 2059, and Paige Mahoney, a young clairvoyant, is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London. One day, Paige is attacked and her life changes forever. Kidnapped and drugged, she finds herself in Oxford — a city kept secret for 200 years, governed by an otherworldly race called the Rephaim who seeks to capture clairvoyants for its own sinister purposes.

Despite a promising beginning, the book winds up being predictable and formulaic, but by no means does it ever come off as boring. Still, there are a lot of moments that are frustrating.

Paige finds adjusting to life ruled by extraterrestrial hominids a bit difficult. So she proceeds to break every rule in Oxford, endangering her life and the lives of others for no other reason than “F--your rules, you alien swine.”

You’ll find this gets old pretty quickly and wonder if Paige is actually capable of learning or if she’s just instructed to find the cleverest way to get herself killed.

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The Bone Season, by Samantha Shannon, garnered international attention and created a buzz among paranormal-fiction readers.

But this isn’t a strange quirk of Paige’s — all of Shannon’s characters come off a bit onesided and dull, which shows negligence on Shannon’s part.

For example, a particular character dies in the middle of the book, and that was really sad. Or at least it should have been sad. Shannon

spends a lot of time after the fact trying to make you sad about this character’s death — but we literally only met the poor guy twice, and he didn’t give us too many reasons to care.

Yet Paige is inexplicably distraught about the character throughout the entire book. She will often take breaks in between throwing pies at the aliens’ faces and tying the aliens’ shoestrings together to cry about this minor character for no apparent reason.

Two of the other characters feel like they’re supposed to function as Paige’s Ron and Hermione, but even after hundreds of pages, I didn’t really find myself caring about either of them, even when the Hermione character was close to death.

All of this is really a shame, because Shannon introduces the characters in a way that makes you want to know more about them — but then she sets these porcelain characters aside for hours only to smash them on the floor at the last minute, expecting you to feel bad about it.

Even though I have a lot of gripes with the book’s characters, the book shines in other areas. The main plot is a cookie-cutter “Single hero leads a revolution against

oppressive rulers” bit, but the supernatural elements Shannon throws into the mix are enough to keep the world feeling fresh. You’ll find yourself fascinated by all the different powers clairvoyants have, and you’ll want to know more about what has happened to the world, and about Paige’s former life as the assistant to a criminal mastermind.

Shannon does well in creating a world you want to know more about, but her plot and characters fall flat, and the book comes off as a bland but hearty adventure. It’s a really good read, especially for a new author, but Shannon needs to spend more time crafting her characters and giving them the attention they deserve.

Despite all the praise being showered on Shannon, she has not done anything miraculous for the world of paranormal fiction — yet. But that’s all to be expected. After all, Shannon is a new author fresh out of college. Though The Bone Season was nothing special, Shannon shows great promise and I will gladly buy the next book in this planned seven-part series.

But if the second book is just more of the same, I’m jumping ship.

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BugFest crawls into Raleigh STORY BY KAITLIN MONTGOMERY Guests of all ages sported bugeyed glasses and painted faces at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science’s 17th annual BugFest on Saturday, Sept. 21.

Each year, the museum transforms several blocks of Jones Street into an outdoor, hands-on community classroom. BugFest is the museum’s annual attempt to educate the public about arthropods, or animals with exoskeletons such as insects, arachnids and crustaceans.

According to the museum’s website, its goal is to provide the community with the opportunity to interact with entomologists and get an up-close look at the world of bugs.

Kari Wouk, the museum’s senior manager of presentations and partnerships, said the festival has increased in size and substance since its inception in 1996.

“It was very small with just a few people here at the museum cooking bugs and serving them to the public,” Wouk said. “It was just so hugely popular that it’s grown from year to year to year to now where we have 35,000 visitors in one day.”

Wouk said BugFest is one of the biggest events in Raleigh, and it attracts hundreds of scientists, entomologists, or scientists who study

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insects, and educators to teach the public about bugs.

“It’s really popular,” Wouk said.

“You can get sort of everybody out to BugFest. At the museum here we have a lot of scientists, and a lot of educators and people truly have a fascination with bugs.”

Wouk explained that, with bugs, there’s a sort of sweet spot that attracts visitors with specialized interests.

“I think bugs really hit on something,” Wouk

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Ashley Walker, a senior in zoology, tells an interested visitor that a newborn honeybee cannot use its stinger.

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The honeybee is the state insect of North Carolina There are more than 1,500 species of spiders in North Carolina The Giant Swallowtail has a wingspan of six inches and is the largest butterfly in the state There are 10-12 species of cockroaches native to North Carolina SOURCE: N.C. MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES WEB SITE

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One of every four animal species on Earth is a beetle Pillbugs, or roly polys, are not insects. They’re landdwelling crustaceans The mantid, commonly known as praying mantis, is an ambush predator adapted to catching and eating insects and other small prey.

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said. “We have all the excitement of people bringing in live bugs and live animals. There’s the quirky side with Café Insecta where people are really fascinated with eating bugs. People get really excited about it. The lines for Café Insecta are just massive. It’s the same every year — people line up to get bug food.”

The museum uses the excitement to draw in attendees of all ages, Wouk said.

“I think one of the things we do with BugFest, we do this for all of our events, is that we cater to every age,” Wouk said. “We have lots of fun things for little kids like arthropod Olympics and the ant, dung beetle and bee races. I think all kids have an age where they’re drawn to bugs and are just really interested in them.”

Wouk said the museum invites entomologists to host panels and Q & A sessions for visitors who are looking for a BugFest experience outside the arts and crafts world.

“We have some entomologists from around the state come,” Wouk said.

“These are Ph.D. scientists who are coming to talk to the public about their research and then there’s everything in between. It really is just a big festival. We have a stage with bands and we have vendors. People come and spend all day at BugFest.”

The theme of BugFest this year was scorpions.

“Every year we pick a theme, and that’s really fun for us as planners,” Wouk said. “We get to really come up with cool ideas and plan for cool researchers.”

Wouk said that, after 17 years, the BugFest staff has the way things work down to a science.

“We learn stuff every year — what

works and what doesn’t,” Wouk said.

“We’ve been doing it for long enough now that we’ve figured out the big stuff. It’s the little things we like to change up. At this point we can’t really get much bigger. We already have to close down two roads, but we’re always looking for more exhibitors — more people to come and be a part of the event.”

This year, for the first time, the museum implemented a new section on its volunteer sign-up sheet calling for those willing to translate for BugFest’s international visitors.

“The response from the sign-up sheet was overwhelming,” Wouk said.

“I got so many different languages.

There were just so many people willing to translate for visitors. Hopefully that’s something we can move toward in the years to come — the ability to no longer have language be a barrier for education.”

Though a self-proclaimed bird person, Wouk said the public’s obsession with bugs is simple — bugs are sensible.

“See, I’m a bird person,” Wouk said.

“It’s really complicated to see them though. You need the binoculars and it’s very difficult for young children to use binoculars. With bugs everything is right there. Even the littlest kid, I have a 2-year-old, can get down and see the bugs. Bugs are so accessible because they’re right there — literally everywhere.”

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Tulloch, who played for the Wolfpack from 20032005, recorded six tackles to help the Lions beat the Washington Redskins, 27-20. Tulloch has been a force in the middle of the Lions’ defense since signing for them in 2011.

The former State standout was the MVP of the 2005 Meineke Car Care Bowl against South Florida, helping him get drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Tulloch will hope to lead an imposing Lions’ defense back to winning ways following a disappointing 4-12 season in 2012. Detroit made the playoffs in 2011 in part due to Tulloch’s defensive contributions.

Quarterback, Seattle Seahawks: 14-21 for 202 yards, 4 TDs and 1 INT Wilson led the Seattle Seahawks to a 4517 rout of the Jacksonville Jaguars. The third-round pick in 2012 was ruthless against one of the league’s bottom dwellers on Sunday, throwing three touchdown passes in the first half and a fourth just after halftime. His four touchdowns against the Jaguars ties his career high, set last December against the San Francisco 49ers.

Wilson is currently second in the NFL with 9.1 passing yards per attempt and is tied for fourth in the league with six passing touchdowns this season.

Wilson, the 2012 NFL.com Rookie of the Year, has been instrumental in Seattle’s success since being named the starting quarterback, and he is a key reason why the Seahawks are a favorite to win Super Bowl XLVIII in Feb. 2014.

Since taking the starting job at the beginning of 2012, Wilson’s record is 15-6. His 71.4 winning percentage since the start of the 2012 season is better than former Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers (61.9) and Drew Brees (52.6) in the same stretch.

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Philip Rivers Quarterback, San Diego Chargers: 20-24 for 184 yards and 1 TD Rivers posted an impressive 83.3 completion percentage in Sunday’s loss to the Tennessee Titans. The Chargers were winning until the last minute of the fourth quarter, thanks in part to a touchdown pass from Rivers to tight end Antonio Gates in the first quarter. However, the Titans scored the go-ahead touchdown with 0:15 left in the game, dooming the Chargers to a 1-2 start in 2013.

Now in his 10th season as an NFL quarterback, Rivers’ play in recent years has been shaky. The fourth overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft will be eager to regain his form and help the Chargers reach the playoffs for the first time since 2009.

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Men’s soccer ties Virginia N.C. State played to a 3-3 draw at Virginia last Friday evening.

The Wolfpack took a 2-0 lead before the Cavaliers tied the game at two. Junior defender Clement Simonin scored a go-ahead tap-in goal for State with three minutes remaining, but Virginia scored the tying goal with six seconds left in regulation. The Wolfpack (3-1-1, 1-1-1 ACC) play against Davidson (4-2-1) on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in Raleigh.

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Weber and Mudge take doubles title

Senior Sean Weber and junior Robbie Mudge won the doubles title in the Black Draw this weekend at the UVa + 1 Invitational. Weber and Mudge beat Wake Forest duo Adam Lee and Pedro Dumont 8-7 in the final after posting an 8-4 upset of No. 2 seed Justin Shane and Luca Corinteli from UVa. Wolfpack duo sophomore Simon Norenius and freshman Nick Horton also took the consolation title in the Red Draw.

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he dust has finally settled from N.C. State football team’s 26-14 loss to No. 3 Clemson last Thursday night.

Much has been made of the whistle that blew dead a touchdown run by junior wide receiver Bryan Underwood. The official judged ruled that as Luke Underwood Nadkarni Staff Writer was running a long t he sideline, he had stepped out of bounds, and thus whistled the play dead before Underwood reached the end zone.

Wolfpack fans were confused because as the junior sped into the end zone, a sideline official signaled a touchdown. But by rule, a play that has been blown dead cannot be reviewed.

Thus, Underwood’s potential momentum-changing 83yard score was changed into a 1st-and-10 from the Clemson 47-yard line.

Pending the extra point, the touchdown would have given the Pack a 14-13 lead midway through the third quarter.

State also would have gained momentum coming into a crucial stretch of the game.

Following the game, numerous social media posts condemned the off iciating crew, a recurring theme among Wolfpack fans after losses. Head coach Dave Doeren, who was standing near Underwood as he ran along the sideline, said after the game that he did not see Underwood step out of bounds.

After the game, both Doeren and Underwood admirably refrained from outwardly criticizing the officials.

Was it a bad ruling? Yes. Was it a momentum shifter?

Absolutely. But was it the reason the Pack lost the game?

No. After all, it wasn’t the officials’ fault that redshirt junior quarterback Pete Thomas fumbled three plays later and Clemson recovered the ball, or that the Tigers scored a touchdown moments after recovering the fumble.

Officials make mistakes just like players do. But you

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As the National Football League’s season continues, many former N.C. State stars have continued to shine on the professional stage.

The Seattle Seahawks are undoubtedly one of the league’s best teams, led by former Wolfpack quarterback Russell Wilson. Wilson completed 14 of 21 passes for 202 yards, four touchdowns and one interception on Sunday.

Wilson helped his team beat the Jacksonville Jaguars in a blowout win, 45-17.

Wilson is currently second in the NFL in average passing yards per attempt with 9.10.

The former N.C. State star is also tied for fourth in the league in passing touchdowns this season with six.

Another N.C. State alumnus, Seahawks placekicker Stephen Hauschka, also placed his mark on Seattle’s

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have to move on and keep playing.

As a matter of fact, it’s difficult to point to one single aspect of the game that led to State’s loss. The Tigers were certainly the better team on both sides of the ball. On offense, Clemson exhausted the Wolfpack’s defense. The Tigers had 415 yards of total offense and were 10-of-19 on third down opportunities.

State’s defense performed courageously throughout the contest, holding back the Tigers’ offensive juggernaut for as long as it could and giving its offense a chance to gain the lead. But eventually, Clemson broke through the Pack’s staunch resistance and put the game out of reach.

Quarterback Tajh Boyd, Clemson’s Heisman Trophy candidate, exorcised the demons from his first visit to Raleigh, throwing for 244 yards and three touchdowns.

On defense, Clemson sacked Thomas five times and forced a pair of turnovers. State forced none.

Clemson is ranked No. 3 in the nation for a reason. They came out and showed that, plain and simple. State just couldn’t match its firepower.

The Wolfpack finished 3-for-16 on third down,

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Freshman quarterback Bryant Shirreffs tackles Clemson’s Mackensie Alexander Thursday, Sept.

19. at Carter-Finley Stadium. The Wolfpack was losing to the Tigers 13-7 at the end of the first half.

which is alarming for two reasons.

First, you’re not going to score touchdowns if you can’t convert third downs to sustain drives. And second, if your team was pushed to third down 16 times, your offense probably isn’t playing very well.

By comparison, the Pack converted 8-of-16 against Richmond on Sept. 7 and 9-of-18 in the season opener against Louisiana Tech. In both games State’s offense arguably did not play well,

but in those games the Pack at least managed a 50 percent conversion percentage.

Sure, Clemson was the toughest opponent State has faced this season, but a 19 percent conversion rate on third down is unacceptable.

The Pack committed a lot of penalties against the Tigers.

State was flagged nine times for 57 yards. This doesn’t sound like a lot of distance, but many of those flags were pre-snap penalties that killed drives.

In total, the Pack commit-

ted five false starts, far too many, especially for a home game. This reinforces another basic rule of offensive football: You’re not going to sustain drives if you commit penalties.

But none of that matters anymore. What’s done is done. The Wolfpack must forget this game and move forward. State now needs to worry about Central Michigan, which visits CarterFinley Stadium at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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Redshirt sophomore defensive end Mike Rose and freshman defensive tackle Monty Nelson sack Clemson’s quarterback Thursday, Sept. 19. The Tigers led the Wolfpack 13-7 at the half at Carter-Finley Stadium.

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win. Hauschka made all six extra point attempts along with a 21-yard field goal, accounting for nine total points. Hauschka is tied for eighth in the league, seventh among kickers, with 24 points in the 2013 season.

The Detroit Lions (2-1) have also found success so far this season. The Lions defense currently features former Wolfpackers Stephen Tulloch and Willie Young.

Tulloch, the Lions’ starting middle linebacker, recorded six tackles against the Washington Redskins while Young, the backup right defensive end, racked up five. Tulloch and Young both helped the Lions beat the Washington Redskins on Sunday, 27-20.

Washington’s David Amerson registered three tackles and defended two passes in the loss to Detriot. The Redskins (0-3) are tied with the New York Giants at the bottom of the NFC East.

The San Diego Chargers’ record does not reflect how well former quarterback Phillip Rivers has performed.

Despite his team’s 1-2 record, quarterback Rivers is tied with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers for second in the league i n passi ng touchdowns with eight.

He threw for 184 yards on 20 complet i on s a n d one score as his team lost to the Tennessee Titans 20-17 on a last-minute Titans touchdown.

The Philadelphia Eagles have also only earned one win thus far this season, but they are second only to the Dallas Cowboys (2-1) in their division. Former State safety Earl Wolff added five tackles last

weekend against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Eagles’ 26-16 loss. Wolff is tied for seventh on the team with 11 tackles in the season.

The only team that has received contributions from Wolfpack alumni on both sides of the ball is the Buffalo Bills (1-2). On offense, wide receiver T.J. Graham has been limited by opposing defenses, making just two catches for 13 yards on the season.

On defense, Bills’ linebackers Manny Lawson and Mario Williams are both key members of the Bills’ front seven. Lawson recorded 14 tackles on Sunday, one of which resulted in a two-yard loss, while Williams added

“Williams continues to lead the team in sacks with 4.5, tied for second in the NFL.”

two more in Sunday’s game against the New York Jets.

However, the Jets took the win, 27-20.

Lawson is third on the team with 23 tackles this season while Williams continues to lead the team in sacks with 4.5, tied for second in the NFL. The Redskins are not the only team that has yet to win with a former Wolfpacker on the team. The Pittsburgh Steelers, one of six winless teams in the league, are also members of this club.

Wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery is third on the Steelers with 145 receiving yards on 10 catches. He added three receptions on Sunday for 52 yards against the Chicago Bears. The Bears took the win, 40-23.

The San Francisco 49ers travel to St. Louis to take on the Rams Thursday night during the fourth week of the NFL season.