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NCSU to refrain from agent use in admissions despite change in recruiting rules Rachel Coffman Correspondent

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Student Body President, Alex Parker spoke Wednesday night in Harrelson Hall about next year’s tuition and fees. Parker was looking for a better turn out since said he is interested in student input.

Student Senate votes on proposed fee increases Katherine Kehoe Correspondent

Student Senate debated tuition and fee increase recommendations in front of members of the N.C. State Fee Review Committee Wednesday after holding a town hall meeting in Harrelson Hall for student input.

According to the Student Body President Alex Parker, attending this meeting gave students a direct channel to members of the committee who vote on tuition increases.

Parker began the meeting by providing general information about the university budget and UNC General Administration policy and gave a brief overview about previous conversations between tuition review committees.

The president of the UNC-System Thomas Ross said that he did not recommend any tuition increases for undergraduate in-state students at any state school in 2014, so the tuition increases being debated may only

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The National Association for College Admission Counseling voted to permit the use of commissioned agents in recruiting international students for U.S. colleges and universities on Saturday.

Despite the new ruling, N.C. State will not utilize commissioned agents, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions’ website.

“It is not necessary to engage an agent in order to have a strong chance of admission to N.C. State,” according to the website. “Admission decisions are not based on the recommendations of agents.”

Elizabeth James, the Director of the Office of International Services, said the use of commissioned agents can present ethical concerns.

“Anytime you involve money in recruiting students, there is a possibility to affect the integrity of the process,” James said.

N.C. State’s international recruitment efforts are by admissions employees who work directly with the University to target students through recruiting fairs and other efforts.

Without the use of commissioned agents, the number of international students enrolled at N.C. State has increased in recent years.

Last fall, 119 non-U.S. first-year students at

the University. In 2010, there were 46. Numbers for this year are estimated to be about 140, according to University Planning and Analysis “N.C. State is already attracting a large number of international applicants without the use of commissioned agents,” said Thomas Griffin, the director of Undergraduate Admissions at N.C. State. “[Commissioned agents] are not necessary or desirable because their incentives for enrolling students are not in the best interests of the students themselves.”

Although some universities and colleges may choose to use incentive-based agents, James said that they do not always seek what is best for the success of students and are not necessary to enroll a base of international students.

“N.C. State’s ultimate goal is to enroll the best-qualified students who really want to attend university,” James said. “We have achieved incredible success in the recruitment of international students without the use of agents, and we will continue not to use them,” In the recruiting process, commissioned agents from lesser-known institutions can sometimes misrepresent aspects of the college or university to encourage students to

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Woodson, Martin lead charge for security review in UNC-System Chris Hart-Williams Correspondent

Chancellor Randy Woodson and two co-chairs will lead a committee to review security policies and procedures at all UNC-System campuses.

According to Woodson, the Board of Governors is calling for a system-wide review of its 16 universities and two high schools.

Woodson and co-chair, Chancellor Harold Martin of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University are in charge of a committee of three working groups of leaders from across the system, such as academic leaders, police officers and legal counsel.

“Chancellor Martin and I are leading the whole effort, and there’s a working group related to campus public safety, one on security reporting and awareness and the third is on responding to offenses

against persons, things like sexual harassment” Woodson said it was not one event that sparked the review.

“I wouldn’t blame it on any one institution, but there’s been some issues,” Woodson said. “I think there’s just a national growing awareness particularly in areas like harassment and intimidation and those kinds of things that are sort of a national concern.”

According to Woodson, the review is an attempt to evaluate all the current policies and practices of each campus to ensure that every campus is doing what it needs to provide a safe and secure environment for its students, faculty and staff.

Woodson said the University is a fit leader for others in the system when it comes to security.

“It’s an attempt to share best

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Akram Khater, director of Middle East studies at N.C. State speaks to a crowd of people at the Syrian Crisis Panel Discussion in Riddick Hall Wednesday. The panel discussed the state of the Syrian conflict and how it affected the region.

Middle East studies faculty leads discussion about Syrian Crisis Ravi Chittilla Staff Writer

College Beverage employee arrested after allegedly selling synthetic marijuana in store Staff Report

Police arrested an employee of College Beverage Wednesday on charges of selling synthetic marijuana over the counter.

North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement arrested 50-year-old Mahadev Prasad after seeing him sell synthetic cannabinoids to a customer. Prasad also sold it to ALE agents several days later.

An ALE agent reportedly saw a patron talk to Prasad who then went to a back room and brought out selections of the product. Prasad allegedly sold the patron ten grams of synthetic pot for $40.

According to a warrant, agents seized 27.5 grams of synthetic marijuana. Prasad faces felony charges of possession and selling synthetic marijuana. He was released on a $5,000 bond.

The Middle East studies faculty led a panel discussion about the Crisis in Syria in Riddick Wednesday night. By the end of the discussion, members of the audience had come to the realization that the crisis in Syria is dire, and a global diplomatic effort would pave the way toward peace.

The panel was led by Professor Akram Khater, director of the Middle East studies program, and students, faculty members and citizens interested about the crisis attended to discuss and learn about the events of the civil war in Syria, which has ravaged the Middle Eastern nation for the last three years.

Other panel members included Anne Clément, assistant professor of history, Anna Bigelow, associate professor of religious studies and Jodi Khater, section coordinator for Arabic.

Bashar-al-Assad, president of Syria, has refused to step down even after the U.N. has reported about 100,000 dead. This month his regime was accused of using chemical weapons on civilians, resulting in the death of more than 1,000 people.

After the United States and its allies threatened to bomb strategic targets in Syria, Russia, which had been a stalwart for opposing the United States at the U.N. Security Council, aided in brokering a deal with the United States and Syria, which resulted with the three na-

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tions signing an agreement that Syria would destroy its chemical weapons starting in November 2013 and completed by midway 2014.

Though Khater applauded the United States’ and Russian’s diplomatic efforts, he criticized approaches that the United States had taken in the past.

“One of the problems I have with how the United States has approached the Middle East for the last 30 years or so, is, basically, we see the Middle East as a series of nails and we have the hammer,” Khater said. “At any moment, our approach has been to just hammer away. We seem to think that every problem in the Middle East can be solved

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olland Messina, a junior in visual arts, Graham Pirtchard, a graduate student in civil engineering, and Benoit Domont, a graduate student in business, enjoy freshly made crepes at a French Club meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 25. French Club meets every other Wednesday in Withers room 331 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. and welcomes everyone with an interest in French. Currently, many SKEMA students from France attend the meetings to meet some American students and help them learn French culture.

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11:55 P.M. | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Dan Allen Dr/Sullivan Dr Student was cited for stop sign violation.

2:17 P.M. | FIRE ALARM Vet School Research Bldg FP responded to alarm caused by autoclave. System reset.

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SAT subject to change following criticism Madeline Safrit Correspondent

The College Board is considering changing one of the nation’s most popular standardized tests in response to criticism from students, educators and students.

The Scholastic Assessment Test, or the SAT, is composed of three sections, critical reading, writing and math. In recent years, the writing section has become notorious for allowing testers to fabricate inaccurate facts and statistics, according to Inside Higher Ed. In reaction to this and other shortcomings, the College Board is looking to not only improve the writing portion of the test, but the entire layout itself.

For David Coleman, president of the College Board,

redesigning the SAT means aligning the test closer with high school curriculum. Instead of spending long hours studying never-ending lists of SAT words and practice problems, students will be able to apply what they already have learned throughout high school in order to do well on the test.

However, at the annual meeting of the National Association of College Admission Counseling, Coleman concentrated about his plans to transform the essay portion into more of an analytical writing style. He also suggested changing the writing portion to emphasize information analysis.

Thomas Griffin, the director of Undergraduate Admissions at N.C. State, commented about these potential

changes. “[The SAT] could [become] more like the ACT where it’s looking at certain subjects,” Griffin said. “Instead of trying to project college success, they are looking more at achievement in the individual subjects,” Griffin also said SAT scores are important, but Undergraduate Admissions at N.C. State looks at several factors to determine who is accepted. “[The SAT] is one piece of data that helps us in determining which students are ready for college and which ones are most competitive and most ready for N.C. State.” Griffin said. “We have a lot of information from a student’s high school transcript and we also have all of the other information that a student tells us on their ap-

practices and to ensure that all of our campuses are safe,” Woodson said. “A campus like N.C. State is so large and has been at this business for a long time … and can help a lot of other campuses with security issues.”

The task force is in its first days of development, and the committee of leaders will have its first meeting Oct. 1.

“It’s just getting started we haven’t even met,” Woodson said.

It will be several months before the committee will have a final report to submit to the Board of Governors.

“I’m confident that N.C. State has appropriate policies and procedures in place, but we can always get better,” Woodson said.

attend. Although this is not always the case, agents paid by the number of accepted students to particular universities can influence a student’s application to the point where it is not representative of their own work.

NACAC’s decision to permit the use of commissioned agents applies only to the recruitment of international students.

Federal law prohibits the use of incentive-based agents to recruit U.S. students because of the ethical challenges it presents.

The decision, made at NACAC’s annual national conference held in Toronto, Canada, brought change to the association’s ethics standards and revised its Statement of Principles of Good Practice.

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and he is intrigued by the potential changes now that talk of modifications to the test is beginning. Specifically, Lewis said the integration of a more analytical style essay could be a step in the right direction.

“I liked [how the College Board]. You were able to read more than one piece of information to get the details,” Lewis said.

Despite the support that has been exhibited in regards to the changes, some critics think that the writing portion of the SAT should be eliminated altogether. Coleman has faced opposition from Jon Reider of San Francisco University, who believes that it would be best to get rid of the writing section entirely, according to Inside Higher Ed.

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plication.”

N.C. State formulates a collection of statistics, or first year facts, every year in order to summarize the successes of these applicants.

First year facts allow the public to get a sense of the demographics of the applicants, their academic achievement through high school and their scores on Advanced Placement tests.

The 2013 First Year Facts recorded a SAT composite score average of 1828 for the middle 50 percent of this year’s incoming freshman.

Students, such as Jamel Lewis, a junior in business administration and international studies, also have an opinion about the current SAT format.

Lewis said the SAT was important to him in high school,

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ing they follow guidelines that ensure accountability, integrity and transparency.

The decision to allow incentive-based recruiting will take effect in a year, after NACAC’s Admission Practices and International Advisory

Committees debate implications of the policy.

NACAC’s resolution calls for member institutions to release clear statements about their use of incentive-based agents.

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with military intervention.

Whether we’re talking about cruise missiles, or putting boots on the ground, or funding rebels, we seem to think in military ways.”

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a grated from Syria, said he was skeptical of intervention by the United States.

“I can tell you right now, the United States has no business to attack anybody for no reason,” Jabr said. “The chemical weapons that everybody is talking about; there are 150,000 people that have been killed in Syria. Every day there are about 200, 300 people dying. It’s just now

that the United States, and their allies have woken up to save the Syrian people, because of chemical weapons?”

Anna Bigelow, professor of religious studies, and one of the panelists present at the discussion said the solution that would lead to peace in Syria would be led by diplomacy, not violence.

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gelow said. “Elections are a form of conflict management.

You can think of us having a civil war every four years, but we resolve it through ballots rather than guns. We are always working out internal conflicts in our society, and we’re working it out in much healthier ways here.”

Despite all the talk of violence and tragedy, Jabr told the audience that the Syr-

ian people continue to seek a peaceful future for their nation.

“Syrian people are human just like you and me; beautiful people, educated people, old men and women, beautiful kids, everybody in Syria, we love each other. Before this happened, we had so many different friends from so many different factions, there is a lot of hands and

a lot of countries who have interests in dividing Syria. I don’t want you to leave here thinking that Syria is a land where everybody is killing everybody, it’s a very peaceful country where everybody loves each other.”

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af fect in-state graduate s t u d e n t s , o u t- o f- s t a t e underg raduate students and out-of-state graduate students. Their tuition may be increased from 6 percent to 12 percent.

“The fact that we are not raising the tuition on instate undergrad students extinguishes a fire that we would most likely have on campus because that is most of the students that we have here,” Parker said.

Fees, however, are not included in Ross’ no increase suggestion.

The Student Senate has a cap that it will not exceed a 6.5 percent fee increase for each student. According to Parker, the Senate wants to keep the number below the cap if possible. Right now, if all programs are approved to be funded fully, each student would be required to pay a 6.3 percent fee increase for next year.

Much of the fee increase is going to Student Activities.

A total of 10 programs are asking for a combined fee increase of $99.81 per student. A representative from each student activities

prog ra m request i ng a n increase gave a statement about what the money is for and why his or her program should be supported.

David Meyer, the vice president of t he Union Activities Board said the 50 cents fee increase that UAB is asking for would go toward supporting the new Talley Student Union as well as increasing programs on Centennial Campus.

“The arts love you, you love the arts, please support us,” said Alex Miller, vice provost for the Arts N.C. State, which is asking for a $10.55 fee increase for next year.

Other programs asking for increases include the Office for Institutional Equit y and Diversity, University Recreation, Education and Technology, Student Health Services, Student Media, Student Gover nment, Student Legal Services and University Transit.

Student Senate voted in front of the Fee Review Committee on the fees after listening to student input.

However, according to Sandy Jones, the director of business ad m i n ist rat ion for t he Division on Academic and Student Affairs, the process does not end here.

“On October the 4th, the Fee Review Committee meets

for the last time and they hear the student’s positions on the fees,” Jones said. “They vote and Kelsey and Alex will vote the way the student senate comes out. Then it goes to the Chancellor.”

According to Jones, the Chancellor’s review team is called the Conference Committee. It consists of Chancellor Randy Woodson, Provost a nd E xec ut ive Vice Chancellor Warwick Arden, the Vice Chancellor and Dean of Academic and Student Affairs Michael Mullen, Parker and Student Senate President Kelsey Mills.

The Conference Committee will meet and discuss the process and the concerns of both the students and the administration.

In t he nex t step, t he Cha ncel lor sends his recommendations to the Board of Trustees, and then the Board votes in November.

The Board of Trustee’s vote then goes to the Board of Governors who vote in February and finalize the Tuition and Fees increases.

Lastly it goes to the N.C. State Legislature, but that is just for the purpose of information, Jones said.

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Africana studies to host documentary film festival Graduate programs fair scheduled for October

Staff Report

T he A f r ic a na Stud ies Program and the African American Cultural Center will host the world premiere of the documentary Opening Doors: The Lives and Legacies of Dr. Lawrence M. Clark and Dr. Augustus McIver Witherspoon on Tuesday, Oct. 1 at the Witherspoon Student Center’s Campus Cinema beginning at 6 p.m.

The evening will also feature the premiere of Voting Rights: An Africana Studies

Perspective, which was produced by 2012 African Studies graduates.

These premieres will kick off the 14th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival, which is produced by the Africana Studies Program and the African American Cultural Center in association with the Southern Black Film and Media Consortium.

Other films in the series include: • Tuesday, Oct. 8 – Dr. Bello, a 2012 film from Nigerian director Tony Abulu

starring Isaiah Washington and Vivica Fox. • Tuesday, Oct. 22 – Soul Boy, a 2010 film from Kenyan directors Hawa Essuman and Tom Tykwer starring Samson Odhiambo and Leila Dayan Opou.

• Tuesday, Oc t. 29 – Soundtrack for a Revolution, a 2009 film featuring performances by John Legend, Wyclef Jean, Joss Stone, Richie Havens, the Blind Boys of Alabama, C.T. Vivian and Harry Belafonte, among others.

• Tuesday, Nov. 5 – Residue: This Ain’t No Song and Dance, a 2013 film from the American director Charles S. Martin.

Each film will begin at 6 p.m. in the Campus Cinema.

Members of the Africana Studies Program and other experts will lead discussions following each screening.

For more information, see http://oied.ncsu.edu/aacc/ SOURCE: AFRICANA STUDIES PROGRAM

Staff Report

The N.C. State Career Development Center will host a Graduate Programs Fair on Tuesday, Oct. 8 from 6-8 p.m. at the McKimmon Center.

A variety of schools and programs will be there, including UNC Wilmington, East Carolina University, University of South Carolina, Wake Forest University, Meredith College, N.C. State, and UNC Greensboro

just to name a few. Students can see a full list of attending programs on ePACK. The event will be an opportunity for graduate school representatives to meet and interact with potential students.

For more information, contact Kelly Laraway, the CDC’s pre-law advisor, at khlarawa@ncsu.edu or (919) 513-1370.

SOURCE: CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER

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A letter to ethnocentric Americans

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They’ve figured out what we really want out of all our traveling, mission work and volunteering in soup kitchens, and we need to do Nicky something Vaught Deputy Features about it.

They beEditor lieved for long enough that we do all those things to widen our horizons—to gain a more global perspective.

They thought we wanted to welcome other cultures into our minds. They really believed it.

But something changed.

They figured out we wanted nothing to do with their culture, only to watch and admire their quaintness.

They welcomed us, as missionaries, into their homes and living spaces and let us rebuild their disaster-stricken communities—this time with more churches. They were shocked when we didn’t want anything in return.

They watched as we toured their undeveloped backyards with our cameras. They smiled when we took photos of their plants and wildlife.

They dropped their grins when we took photos of them in the same shoot.

They welcomed us into the kitchen, the one to which they barely make it every Saturday.

They smiled as we poured them soup and offered bread.

They wondered why we did not eat with them.

They did not realize we only travel to vastly different cultures because it is the privilege of our social class to stare agog at the living conditions of those below us.

They thought we wanted to help further their designs, when we only ever wanted to see our own designs on different paper.

We knew it was racist. We spread the idea that travel cures racism to deflect criticism. It worked for long enough.

We covered up the fact that our travels and our volunteering are nothing more than cultural voyeurism, born of a deeply ingrained sense of wealth- or classbased superiority.

We recognize that Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is racist, but we don’t know why.

But our entire façade is under attack now, as more and more non-ethnocentric

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Americans stick up for the minorities we so delight in observing.

Unnecessary and empty phrases such as cultural appropriation make their way into the dialogue to deter us from indulging in the glamorous aspects of other cultures.

We remind them that there is such a thing as reverse racism, but our reason goes unheard. They say reverse racism is, in itself, a racist term.

So we don’t use it as much, but we still think it.

We need to do something to restore our privileges— nay, our rights as middle- to upper- class citizens to travel the world for the sake of judging it through our own cultural lens.

Part of our culture requires we travel and make ourselves feel good and global—we’re supposed to read Eat, Pray, Love and not want to go to India? But how can we again make people think we aren’t acting out of class superiority?

Perhaps when we travel, instead of building churches or taking pictures of people in their natural habitats, we should try to fit in—or at least make it look like that.

We should do as the Romans do, without beforehand looking around at our friends and saying, “Do as the Romans do, I guess, ha ha!”

My fellow travelers, we should do our best to hide the fact that our culture is better. When we travel, let’s behave as though we want to become a part of the culture we’re invading.

We must never let them hear our thoughts or know how we perceive them. We must not let them know we are only visiting because we read Eat, Pray, Love. We must hold every urge to tell them about the joys of Christianity as we help rebuild their devastated cities. We must hold every urge to tell them how awful their lives are by our standards.

Instead of staying in fivestar hotels in countries marked by ever-increasing rates of poverty, instead of expecting the locals to know English so we might get around better, we should do our best to be anything but inconvenient.

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Why you shouldn’t care about the ‘NSA snooping’

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irst and foremost, contrary to what sensationalists in the media may have told you, the National Security Agency most certainly doesn’t care about you unless Tim Gorski you a re a Deputy Viewpoint Editor terrorist or a serious criminal. Believing otherwise is narcissistic and baseless.

Ever since Edward Snowden illegally leaked the details of the NSA program PRISM, activists have droned about how this program invades the privacy of everyday Americans.

Seriously consider the claim made by popular political pundits, both liberal and conservative, that the NSA is wasting its time senselessly sifting through the phone calls of regular, everyday Americans hoping that they will come across a terrorist. That sounds pretty stupid, doesn’t it?

When people consider what the PRISM program does, many make the mistake of confusing what it has the ability to do and what it actually does. It is true that the NSA obtained the phone and Internet records of Americans in order to try and find terrorists.

However, the way that they did this without violating the privacy of the American peo-

ple was rather clever. In the PRISM program the NSA collected data from phone calls, such as call durations, phone numbers and times calls were made and stored this data in its databases.

Then they looked at the number of times certain groups of people called each other and more or less constructed social circles of people who communicated with each ot her. T hey did this without knowing who these people were or what they said in their calls.

Once they constructed these networks, they identified those within the list of networks who were known terrorists. This way, they were able to identify potential suspects without having to know information about the people in which they were not interested.

Any further investigation, such as wiretapping, would require the written consent of a federal judge. In recent cases, there is no reputable evidence to suggest that the NSA acted extra-judicially in this regard.

Other critics acknowledge that the NSA is not really spying on Americans but postulate that the fact that the NSA has the ability to do so is dangerous and a threat to our constitutional rights. After all, absolute power does corrupt absolutely.

I think this is a somewhat valid point, however, there are things more dangerous t h a n t he potential violation of privacy rights, and t he y ju st so happen to be the things from which organizations such as the NSA are established to protect us.

The threat of global and domestic terrorism is all too real, and according to NSA Chief Gen. Keith Alexander, PRISM has played an important part in stopping terrorist attacks here at home and abroad.

In a cyber-security conference in Washington, Alexander said PRISM played an integral role in thwarting at least 10 terrorist attacks.

But the threat of terrorism certainly does not excuse any

“ ... the world will undoubtedly be a more dangerous place.”

Do you think Mike Glennon will do well as a starting quarterback in the NFL?

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violation of civil liberties, and privacy is still an important right that our lawmakers should serve to protect.

The argument often made by proponents of government spying—that if you don’t have anything to hide, you shouldn’t have to worry if the government is snooping on you—simply holds no weight.

This argument irrationally assumes that the only things worthy of being hidden are illegal things.

This simply is not true.

There are plenty of personal matters worth concealing which have nothing to do with illegal activity.

That being said, checks and balances are an important part of any government organization, and the absence of them invariably leads to abuse. However, the NSA is not without oversight—all of its activities are monitored by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act courts.

We can only hope that these provisions will do well to prevent abuses of power from those with the ability to do so.

If they don’t, and if our security agencies lose their credibility and subsequently their power, the world will undoubtedly be a more dangerous place.

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‘Prisoners’ captures audiences’ attention Kevin Schaefer Staff Writer

This has been one of the lousiest summers of hyped blockbusters in recent years, and I’ve been waiting patiently for Hollywood to provide just one film worth seeing.

Prisoners is that film.

Spellbinding from start to finish, this is the best thriller since Christopher Nolan’s Memento in 2000.

The story opens on a cold Thanksgiving Day as the families of Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) and Franklin Birch (Terrence Howard) gather to celebrate the holiday together. However, this peaceful setting is interrupted when the youngest daughters from each family go missing.

The likeliest suspect behind their abduction is the mysterious and reclusive neighbor Alex Jones (Paul Dano), who appears to have been inside his recreational vehicle when the girls went missing. However, police are unable to find any substantial evidence to link him to the crime.

But the lack of proof doesn’t keep Dover from pursuing this man and anyone else potentially responsible.

As Dover finds himself on the verge of madness in a desperate attempt to find his daughter, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) attempts to unravel the case before time runs out for the help-

Prisoners

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 less young girls.

The premise of this film has been done before. Law Abiding Citizen, A Time to Kill and Taken are prime examples of films with protagonists who take matters into their own hands when the law isn’t sufficient.

Yet what separates Prisoners from other crime dramas and thrillers is the manner in which it delivers the perfect amount of both suspense and character development.

Not only do viewers get to see Dover undergo a radical transformation during the course of the film, but they also witness countless twists and turns that the script delivers brilliantly.

French-Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve makes his United States debut with this movie, but his previous directing credits including Incendies and Maelstrom, and his innate artistic ability and keen eye for detail show in this film. Perhaps his experience in the world of foreign filmmaking allowed him to bring something fresh to a well-established genre and to defy conventions of the Hollywood style.

Both the exquisite cinematography by Roger Deakins, who recently received an Oscar nomination for Skyfall

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‘Prisoners’ is the story of a man named Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) searching for his youngest daugther and her friend after they are abducted on Thanksgiving Day. After her kidnapper cannot be found by the police, Dover begins to track down the most likely suspect.

and the chilling soundtrack

by Jóhann Jóhannsson correlate beautifully with the gritty tone of this film. Even with a 2 1/2 hour running time, Villeneuve and the crew do a remarkable job of maintaining a high-level of intensity throughout.

Jackman delivers what is perhaps the best performance of his career. Going from a good family man to a tormented father who’s willing to do anything to get his daughter back, his embodiment of the character makes viewers believe every moment

that he’s on screen.

His physicality is especially dynamic, and he does a seamless job reflecting the emergence of his inner demons.

Jake Gyllenhaal also does a superb job as the conflicted detective struggling to solve the case, while also having to keep a close eye on Dover. As Dover ventures further into the gray area of morality his actions come to impact everyone around him.

Yet as good as the acting and technical components of this film are, the real highlight is the mesmer-

izing screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski. With his only other previous writing credit being the 2012 action flick Contraband, his work here is remarkably innovative as it exhibits a wealth of originality through its execution.

Rarely is a thriller that’s presented in a linear fashion able to keep audiences guessing the entire time.

While most films within this genre are blatantly predictable, Prisoners resembles a puzzle in which all the pieces don’t come together until the mouth-dropping conclu-

sion.

Between The Lone Ranger, The Hangover: Part III and countless other Hollywood disasters, this has been a pretty terrible year for movies.

Yet despite the cliché atrocities that have been released during the past few months, Prisoners is a well-crafted and thoroughly entertaining film geared toward moviegoers who value high quality storytelling and high quality filmmaking.

AN EROTIC COMEDY WHIRLWIND.” “

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Shane Salerno The Weinstein Company

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‘Salinger’ doesn’t deliver as much as namesake deserves Grant Golden Staff Writer

While most authors would revel in the fame that comes along with creating one of the most well-known American novels of all-time, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger defied all expectations by retreating to Cornish, N.H., to live in relative obscurity for the remainder of his life.

Now, however, Shane Salerno’s latest film Salinger has pulled the author back into the public eye.

Salinger’s 1951 novel swiftly morphed from a mere book into the collective representation of an entire generation’s frustrations. However, as the years passed, Salinger faded into relative obscurity.

That’s one of the reasons why Salerno’s Salinger rubs me the wrong way — it feels a bit unfair to release a tell-all tale of one of the most famously reclusive men in recent history The film delves deep into Salinger’s psyche, and it attempts to explain the reasoning behind Salinger’s seclusion and general career choices. It fills you in about every bit of knowledge you could ever wish to have about Salinger. Salerno’s film draws from estranged friends, colleagues, lovers and family members to provide a comprehensive snapshot of Salinger’s complex life.

Salinger was pushed into the Army by his father, which,

ironically enough, gave his writing career the boost it needed. While Salinger was in the bunkers he was said to be constantly working on the manuscript for Catcher, and the film provides some of the only stills of Salinger working on his classic novel.

However, one of the detracting points from Salinger is how strongly it tries to push the argument that all of this information is exclusive. The film’s editing and soundtrack certainly don’t lend to its storytelling, and at crucial points of Salinger’s story the film would cut away to a dramatic and poorly filmed re-enactments. Rather than relying on the immersive storytelling of Salinger’s acquaintances, the filmmaker uses a poorly put together re-enactment that looks better suited for an A&E special than a feature film.

However, spotty visual effects and an overly dramatic score couldn’t pull me away from still enjoying this film.

It’s still terribly entertaining to learn about Salinger’s demons that drove him to what some may consider insanity.

Salerno’s film accounts that Holden Caulfield, Salinger’s iconic narrator from Catcher, was primarily based upon his own self. Thus when he would find rejection, criticism or controversy with the character he could barely contain his anger. He wept when a potential publisher

thought Caulfield was crazy and was driven into deeper seclusion when three murders, including that of John Lennon, were attributed to the killer’s fixation with Caulfield and Catcher.

The film seems to hint at Salinger enjoying this media attention, claiming that he would beckon reporters to do brief stories about his seclusion, but that seems to be a bit of a stretch given the way Salinger’s friends said he hated the unwanted attention. Surely Salerno and his crew were aware that prying so deeply into a dead man’s life was something that should be touched on lightly, which makes the film all the more surreal. Is it great to finally understand the motives behind this famously reclusive author. But it all feels unnecessary.

It’s great to have learned the inner-workings of one of our country’s finest voices, but it comes at a cost. The film reveals that Salinger planned to posthumously release the novels he was wrote throughout his 40 years of seclusion, which feels a bit like an attempt to end the movie on a high-note for those salivating Salinger fans. But ultimately the film still leaves a sour taste, mostly because it’s a prying piece of work about a man who is notorious for his desire to be left to his own devices.

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5-1 run, but the Heels responded with a 6-2 run to tie the score. The continued from page 8 teams traded points until UNC jumped ahead with a 9-4 run. middle blocker Alesha Wilson and The Pack ignited with eight confreshman outside hitter Eve Davis. secutive points, bringing the score “[Dariyan] did great,” Bunn said. to 23-19, but after a timeout, the “She was moving the ball around Heels shifted the momentum with and hitting over the blockers. That six consecutive points to take the is what we need from her night in 25-23 win. Davis led the team in and night out.” the penultimate set with five kills Sophomore setter Tanna Aljoe followed by Wilson and Hopper added 30 assists, and junior libero with three.

Alston Kearns and “Ou r h it ters junior outside hitmoved t he ba l l ter Nikki Glass led around really well State’s defense with with the block in 13 digs. front of them,” AlThe Pack and the joe said. “[Davis] Heels exchanged really stepped up 5-1 runs in the first tonight.” set. State jumped The State defense a he ad by fou r, out-blocked t he but UNC rallied Heels as the Pack ahead and took the amassed 18 team Junior outside hitter opening set, 25-22. blocks against Dariyan Hopper Wilson led the Pack UNC’s 15. Wilson with three kills folled the team with lowed by Richardson and Hopper five assisted blocks and the team’s with two kills apiece. only unassisted block.

In the second set, the Pack earned “Our middles did an excellent job the first three points and held an of taking the block with them and early 9-5 lead, but the Heels hopped giving the outsides a good seam,” on a 9-2 run to take the lead. State Hopper said. rallied with a 3-0 run, and then The Pack will return to Reynolds the teams traded points until UNC Coliseum Sunday afternoon for its ended the set with a 4-1 run to take home conference opener against the 25-23 win. Hopper powered the Notre Dame at 2 p.m. offense with seven kills while Aljoe “We came out fired up [tonight],” added 13 assists in the set.

Hopper said. “They have a great “When we served them tough–we team, and we played really well. got them on a run,” Hopper said. That shows how much we have to “We had them up and forced them give when we play the rest of the into errors, but they adjusted and conference.” came back while we didn’t.”

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After going winless in their RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIAN first three games of the season Above: Former quarterback Mike Glennon and redshirt junior fullback Tyler Purvis walk toward the student section after the with quarterback Josh Freewin over Wake Forest. man at the helm, the ‘Bucs are Below: Glennon threw for 258 yards and two touchdowns in the Wolfpack’s 37-6 win over the Demon Deacons at Carter-Finley moving in a new direction.

Stadium.

“When we got to a conclusion as a group, we made the decision organizationally Glennon was selected in tv 2012 STATS that we were going to make he third round, 73rd overall, Completions 330 of 564 a change at quarterback,” in the 2013 NFL draft. He 4,031 Schiano said. “Mike Glennon compiled 4,031 yards passYards is our starting with 31 130.7 QB Rating ing quartertouchdowns Touchdowns 31 back.” and 17 inInterceptions 17 “We fe lt terceptions at this time in his senior SOURCE: ESPN t hat M i ke season with Glennon t he Wol f- football player who loves the gives us the pack. game,” Schiano said. “I think best chance The rook- he works extremely hard. to win.” ie quarter- He will try to go out and do Tampa Bay Buccaneers Freeman back played what we’re coaching him to head coach Greg Schiano struggled in all four do. He’s not going to be perin his first preseason fect, no one is, but he’s going three games ga me s for to try to execute to the best as starter for the ‘Bucs, com- Tampa Bay completing 33- of his ability. I think he’ll be pleting about 45.76 percent of of-70 pass attempts for 397 accurate and I think he’ll go his passes for 571 yards, two yards, three touchdowns and out and do it.” touchdowns, three intercep- three interceptions. tions and one fumble.

“Mike’s a smart, tough

“We felt at this time that Mike Glennon gives us the best chance to win.”

MEN’S GOLF

Today WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. NO. 23 VIRGINIA TECH Raleigh, NC, 7 p.m.

Q&A Thursday: Logan Harrell

Friday MEN’S SOCCER VS. BOSTON COLLEGE, Raleigh, NC, 7 p.m.

Daniel Wilson

Saturday CROSS COUNTRY AT ROY GRIAK INVITATIONAL Minneapolis, MN, TBA

Staff Writer

MEN’S TENNIS AT ITA ALLAMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS, Tulsa, OK, all day WOMEN’S TENNIS AT ITA ALLAMERICAN TOURNAMENT Pacific Palisades, CA, TBA SOFTBALL VS. CAMPBELL Raleigh, NC, noon SOFTBALL VS. PITT CC Raleigh, NC, 2 p.m.

FOOTBALL VS. CENTRAL MICHIGAN Raleigh, NC, 3:30 p.m.

COURTESY OF THE DAILY TAR HEEL

N.C. State volleyball lost its ACC conference opener against UNC-Chapel Hill, 3-0, Wednesday night at Carmichael Arena. Junior outside hitter Dariyan Hopper led the team with 12 kills.

VOLLEYBALL

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Mike’s a smart, tough football player who loves the game.”

Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano

Wolfpack swept by rival Tar Heels in conference opener Daniel Wilson Staff Writer

N.C. State opened its conference schedule on the road Wednesday night against No. 14 UNC-Chapel Hill.

The Wolfpack and Tar Heels battled for the lead in all three sets, but State fell flat on its attempt for a road upset as the team was swept in Carmichael Arena, 3-0.

“We had our chances, and

we didn’t take advantage of them,” head coach Bryan Bunn said. “We had late leads in all three sets, and we have to find ways to put them away.”

The Pack was able to match t he Heels —t he hig hest ranked team in the ACC— in all three sets but came up short: 22-25, 23-25 and 23-25.

“If we can stay locked in and play like we did tonight, we should be in good shape

in the conference,” Bunn said. “UNC is a very good team, especially at home.

We held their attack, and we out-defended a very physical team. We just have to make the plays when we have a late lead.”

Junior outside hitter Dariyan Hopper led the Pack’s attack with 12 kills, followed by eight apiece from junior

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N.C. State senior golfer Logan Harrell will begin the 2013-2014 campaign aiming to improve last year’s ninth-place finish at the ACC Championship. The Technician spoke with Harrell, who earned a win at the Hootie and Bulls’ Bay Intercollegiate in Awendaw, S.C. last season.

Technician: How would you describe your performance and the team’s performance thus far this season?

Harrell: “Personally, I have not gotten off to a very good start. I have been struggling for a while. As far as the team goes, we played pretty well at Chapel Hill as a team. [N.C. State head] coach [Richard Sykes] has said that anybody can help out any day, and that is the truth. We have seven or eight guys that are going to be in and out of the lineup all year, and all of them are good players. It is just a matter of who is going to play well one week and establish themselves.”

Q: What were your experiences in golf in high school and during your tenure as a member of South Carolina’s golf team?

A: “Prior to going to college, I was seventh in the

world in my graduating class.

Then I got to USC, and I did not get off to a good college start at all. I had my differences with the coach, and I decided to come here. Since I have been here, my game has turned back around. It is still not where it should be, but it is getting closer.”

Q : What were the differences in the Wolfpack’s program as opposed to the Gamecock’s program?

A: “I would say the major difference between the two programs is the coaching styles. [Sykes] instructs you more by you learning from your own experiences, and [South Carolina head] coach [Bill] McDonald was more of a hands-on coach and wanted to get in your business and know what was going on everyday whereas coach Sykes lets you go and lets you do what you need to do to get better which any good player would like to see the program run. They don’t need someone telling them what to do all the time. If you’re a good player, you got to that point for a reason.”

Q: Talk about your progression from when you started with State up until now?

A: “I was only eligible for

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