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Shutdown halts several research projects and jeopardizes student visas Staff Writer

The government shutdown is still affecting research at N.C. State, and should it continue, more projects may be put on hold. Students from other countries might also lose their visas.

Millions of dollars in federal research funds have already been held back because of the federal shutdown, according to Terri Lomax, vice chancellor of Research, Innovation and Economic Development.

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million in grants are on hold. Some of the research projects include a $450,750 soil-science project that will help with corn production and another $250,383 U.S. Army project, aiming to improve camouflage manufacturing.

One project from the College of Veterinary Medicine at N.C. State that was put on hold concentrated on medical research. The project, led by Duncan Lascelles, a professor from the Department of Clinical Sciences, was researching tissue engineering for cartilage repair. Originally, the project was supposed to receive a $501,647 grant earlier this month.

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Teachers schedule walkout in response to recent legislation Madeline Safrit Correspondent

North Carolina teachers are initiating a statewide walkout on Nov. 4 in response to bills passed by the N.C. General Assembly this summer that eliminated pay raises and tenure and created a reduction in educational funding.

Mike Ladidadi, a Wilmington real estate agent, launched the idea for the walkout through an event page that he created on Facebook.

Across North Carolina, teachers are encouraged to either take a personal or sick day to voice their opin-

ions concerning the issues with pay and working conditions they face everyday in their jobs.

As of Oct. 15, 587 people had registered on the event page and said they will participate.

Michael Maher, an assistant dean for professional education, said teachers have been ready to voice their opinions for a while now and this is their chance.

“There seems to be a very negative atmosphere in general about teaching and teachers, and I’m talking mostly in the General Assembly—not necessarily in the public,” Maher said.

However, this general consensus seems to be at odds with recent government statements.

“Now what they’ll tell you is that we’re spending more than we have ever spent before, but that does not account for growth,” Maher said.

“We have more children than we’ve ever had. We have not adjusted for inflation. So when you adjust for inflation the percentage of the state budget that goes to education is actually smaller.”

Because North Carolina is a rightto-work state, the law prohibits public employee strikes.

Maher said that although this type

of strike has yet to occur in North Carolina, it has taken place in several other states, including Illinois and New York.

Teachers who plan to walk out on Nov. 4 could potentially jeopardize their jobs or face misdemeanor criminal charges due to the restrictions on public employee unions.

“I think that some teachers may do it, but the vast majority won’t,” Maher said. “I think some of them do not want to be fired and incur those negative consequences.”

On the other hand, there are some people who are willing to take this chance in order to make a change,

such as Albert Zay. Zay has been teaching in North Carolina for 15 years and has spent the past eight years working at Brunswick County Early College High School in Bolivia, North Carolina.

Zay said he decided to attend the teacher walkout because changes to the pay scale and a loss in tenure have started to affect his family.

“Both my wife and I teach, and we have not had a significant pay change in seven years,” Zay said. “I began working on a master’s [de-

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More low-income students apply to college, Lunch with the chancellor set to some still wary of high application fees return in November Estefania Vazquez-Castro

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Low-income students are reaping the benefits of a progressively cheaper college admissions process. However, a new report suggests there is still room for improvement.

The National Bureau of Economic Research published a study that found that $6 could determine whether a student applies to a selective university.

The study makes its claim based on observations when the ACT changed its policy in 1997. Previously, test takers could only send results to three potential universities, and now they can send results to four. Also, students were required to pay $6 for every additional score report sent out.

Before the ACT offered students the option to send four score reports, only 5 percent of students did so compared to 65 percent after four score reports were allowed, according to an article published in Inside Higher Ed. This change in policy has resulted in lower income students applying to more competitive schools. Highly

of such aid.

Taliyah McBride, a freshman in communication from South Carolina, considered other universities before her financial aid was settled due to the high costs of applying and attending an out-of-state university.

“I was pretty close to attending Costal Carolina University because it would

Full-time students are now able to apply to have lunch with Chancellor Randy Woodson.

Students will be able to learn more about the chancellor’s role at the University and share their own story.

The lunches will be held Wednesday, Nov. 13, Wednesday, Jan. 22, Thursday, Feb. 6, Monday, March 17 and Wednesday, April 9. Groups of 10-12 students will be selected, and they will meet at Holladay Hall in the chancellor’s conference room.

The conversation lasts from noon to 1 p.m., and during the 2013-2014 academic year, about 55 students will be able to attend the lunches.

Any full-time student currently attending the University can sign up for both the lunches and the one-on-one meetings. In order to apply for either the lunch with the chancellor event or the individual meetings, visit www.ncsu.edu and click on the “about ncsu” tab and then on the “chancellor” link. A representative from the chancellor’s office will contact you with information about your meeting.

According to the N.C. State webpage, this is a good setting for a student to get to know other student’s stories as well as discuss whatever topic they would like with the head of the University.

Students usually discuss topics such as the University’s budget, what it is like to be chancellor and anything they would like to know about the University. However, as mentioned on the N.C. State website, this is not the proper channel to address personal problems directly to the chancellor.

According to Woodson, he enjoys the diversity of people that attend and likes meeting students from colleges around the world. Woodson said the atmosphere is very relaxed and informal so everyone feels comfortable enough to participate.

Woodson has been hosting these lunches since he arrived at the University in the spring of 2010.

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qualified, low-income students who applied and were accepted into competitive schools are attending these higher level universities, leading researchers to believe that these students could further benefit from cost reductions in other areas pertaining to the application process.

However, these students also depend on financial aid once they are accepted.

For the 2012-2013 academic

school year, 68 percent of N.C. State undergraduates applied for financial aid through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. 52 percent were classified as demonstrating financial need under FAFSA guidelines, according to the 2012-2013 University survey.

These data show that a large portion of N.C. State’s population is dependent on some sort of financial aid, further highlighting the importance

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“[These lunches] are one of my favorite things to do,” Woodson said.

In addition to these lunches, Woodson sets aside time every month to meet with students. These time slots are for students who would rather meet one-on-one than in a group setting. The meetings are usually blocked off in 15-minute segments and are designed for students to discuss concerns that would not be appropriate to bring up in a larger group. Woodson describes these brief meetings as “office hours with the chancellor”.

Woodson became the 14th chancellor of N.C. State after arriving from Perdue University, where he was executive vice president for academic affairs as well as provost.

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be more cost efficient for my family, considering I was applying to an out-of-state school,” McBride said.

Currently, the cost of applying to the University is $75 for domestic students and $100 for international students. In contrast, applying to community colleges is generally free, according to the Office of Admissions website.

McBride said high application fees can have a discouraging effect when applying to

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“You have to have a strong gut feeling about where you’re applying so you don’t feel like it’s wasted money,” McBride said.

Krista Domnick, director of Scholarships & Financial Aid at N.C. State, said it is important that the University is accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.

“Low income students add to the rich diversity of the student body at N.C. State,” Domnick said. “Their experiences add to the education experience for everyone. I do not have any data I can provide…but anecdotally speak-

ing, we find low income students to be equally as successful academically as other students despite the financial difficulties they may face.”

Domnick also said the Office of Financial Aid tries to assist students and their families so that finances are not a barrier to their education.

“We carry this mission in our speech and behavior as we visit with prospective students,” Domnick said.

The Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid offers students and their families several aid opportunities. Staff volunteers are present at different college events across

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the state to answer questions students may have concerning financial support. The office also participates annually in the College Foundation of N.C.’s FAFSA Day, which allows students to receive professional aid in submitting the FAFSA form.

N.C. State even serves as a host site for FAFSA Day every other year, according to Domnick.

While $6 may not seem like a substantial amount of money, it is clear that such a small change in policy could have a major impact on a student’s academic decisions.

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University to hold viewing party for Justin LeBlanc in Hunt Staff Report

Art2Wear and the College of Design will host a viewing party for the season finale of the show “Project Runway” in honor of Justin LeBlanc on Thursday.

Justin Leblanc is an associate professor at the College of Design and a finalist on the show “Project Runway.” The season finale airs on Lifetime at 9 p.m. and will feature LeB-

lanc competing against three other finalists.

The viewing party will be in the ground-floor auditorium of the James B. Hunt Library on Thursday between 8:30 p.m. and 11 p.m.

The College of Design encourages students and faculty to join Chancellor Randy Woodson and LeBlanc at the viewing party.

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Fast-food franchise starts from scratch WENDY’S REBUILDS ON WESTERN BOULEVARD LOCATION TO IMPROVE ITS IMAGE Holden Broyhill Staff Writer

Wendy’s opened its newand-improved location on Western Boulevard earlier this month in an attempt to relaunch its image.

Tony Cathcart, director of Raleigh Area Operations, said it took 17 weeks to construct the new Wendy’s building from demolition to completion.

While the construction only took a few months, the company went through a tremendous amount of research for the project. According to Cathcart, the research aspect of remodeling the building took nearly three years.

As a result, the new Wendy’s has a completely renovated design that is part of a campaign to reimage the company, Cathcart said.

“This was a project driven from our corporate office called image activation,” Cathcart said. “It’s a whole project that we’ve gone through and our goal was to reimage the restaurant all the way from the directional signs to the faucets on the hand sinks.”

According to Cathcart, the image activation isn’t static and will continue to gradually change.

“We’ve had these buildings now for about a year,” Cathcart said. “We’re still testing it and evolving it as we go.

We want to provide an environment where people feel welcome and can take their

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Now, the future of it remains uncertain.

However, the shutdown doesn’t just affect researchers and their work. Some foreign students face the risk of losing their visas should the shutdown continue.

“We are using reserve funds to keep projects open,” Lomax said. “If we have to lay off students who have H1B visas, they will have to return their visas. We can’t use any state dollars, so we can only use federal dollars we have on hand. If we run out of those, we will have to start furloughing workers and shutting projects down.”

Lomax said the lack of research funding may eventually lead to people being fur-

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The Wendy’s on Western Boulevard opened after a 17-week remodeling process was completed earlier this month.

time and we strive to be a cut above.”

While the 17-week timeline might seem short for such a large project, the remodeling team experienced some unavoidable delays.

“We had a lot of rain after we first tore down the old building,” Cathcart said. “It was a tremendous amount of rain which pushed back our timeline.”

Cathcart also said there were problems with the site’s foundation that need to be fixed.

“We ran into soil issues that we had to fix. When they tore the old parking lot up they realized the ground underneath was just a mess,” Cathcart said. “We had to basically lay two parking lots down.

We had to treat the soil with a type of concrete-like mixture so they could put the new parking lot on top [which] cost us about ten days.”

Despite all the delays, Cathcart said the process could have been done quicker.

Typically, a project of this size takes thirteen weeks to

loughed at N.C. State.

“One thing that we are very concerned about is that it the shutdown goes on too long, is that we will have to start shutting projects down. We are using reserve funds to keep projects open,” Lomax said.

Research that was funded prior to Oct. 1 will not be affected by the shutdown and will be funded by University reserves. However, new research proposals can’t be turned in, and new projects can’t be started since the shutdown began.

According to Lomax, N.C. State receives about $300 million in federal grants each year for research and spends approximately $400 million.

The state of North Carolina will not provide funding for research projects, leaving the fate of research at N.C. State

in the hands of the U.S. Congress.

“We can’t start new projects, and we can’t turn in new proposals for funding since the government is closed,” Lomax said. “This is impacting some students who were going to start working on projects and can’t get their Social Security number or other permits that they need to start working.”

The government shutdown is in its16th day, and the country faces a potential default on its debt, according to CNN. House Republicans also cancelled plans to vote about the budget, postponing it until today.

Should the government default, interest rates will likely spike and could have an adverse impact on the nation’s economy.

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gree] hoping that it would lead to an increase in pay. That is not possible now and we are essentially stuck in a dead end job.”

Zay said he has worked with his high school Civics class this year in order to help them to understand the importance of this issue.

He said that although the walkout may not initiate immediate change, he is determined

to stand by his beliefs no matter the outcome.

“I know most teachers will not participate due to many circumstances and fear of reprisal, and I’m okay with that,” Zay said. “I, for one, have to do this and am willing to take whatever repercussions there may be.”

While many teachers from Brunswick County Early College High School will remain in school on the day of the walkout, Zay is determined to take a stand for himself and the students that he teaches.

complete, but in ideal conditions it can be done in twelve.

Cathcart said Wendy’s used the construction company Qualified Builders to tear down the old building and construct the new one.

“We only utilize approved builders that have been approved through Wendy’s through the corporate engineering department,” Cathcart said. “They go through rigorous testing.”

To open a brand new Wendy’s, Cathcart said it costs about $1.2 million. But again

the unforeseen circumstances were a burden.

“This Wendy’s cost about 1.7 million because of the demolition of the old building and the soil issues,” Cathcart said.

According to Cathcart, Wendy’s is recycling “We don’t cut corners,” Dave Thomas’ slogan that is both a statement on the restaurant’s business values and a reference to its distinctly square burgers.

“Through the years [the meaning of the old slogan]

got lost a lot and that’s why we’re coming up with this new image activation,” Cathcart said.

The new building was designed to reflect this slogan.

“Quality is our recipe, and we wanted a building that would sort of recognize that slogan,” Cathcart said.

“That’s why we want a building where people will realize when they come in that this is not an ordinary quick-serve restaurant.”

While on the outside, the new Wendy’s looks like a two story restaurant, it is actually a single level. According to Cathcart, there are a variety of liabilities that go along with having a second story and since they had the room to expand outward there was no need to expand upward.

Cathcart said he expects the building to house Wendy’s for the next two decades.

Wendy’s buildings typically stand about twenty years and the franchise agreements are good for twenty years as well.

Cathcart also described how Wendy’s hopes to provide an option for students who want to grab a bite to eat and study.

“We are so glad to be close to N.C. State,” Cathcart said.

“Their students are a big part of our business model so we’ll do anything to take care of them.”

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Possibility for a trillion-dollar coin

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am sure that all of you are aware by now that the budget crisis is a serious problem that has widespread ramifications for both the United States and the global economy.

Tim Gorski In his tesDeputy t i mony to Viewpoint Editor t he Senate Finance Committee, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew said, “If Congress fails to meet its responsibility, it could be deeply damaging to the financial markets, the ongoing economic recovery, and the jobs and savings of millions of Americans,” when discussing the implications of the U.S. defaulting on its debt.

To be specific, Thursday is the last day that the Treasury Department can borrow money. Faced with impending obligatory multi-billion dollar payments to Social Security, Medicare, federal salaries and the military, the government will be hard-pressed to obtain the funds necessary to cover these aforementioned expenditures.

That being the case, if this crisis can be averted in any way other than with the House of Representatives passing a budget that does not defund the Affordable Care Act, it would be nothing short of a godsend.

There may, in fact, be a solution that is as ridiculous as it is apt to solve our problems—a trillion-dollar coin.

According to the United States Mint, “All circulating, bullion and numismatic operating expenses and capital

investments incurred for the Mint’s operations and programs are paid out of the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.

“By law, all funds in the PEF are available without fiscal year limitation.”

The United States Mint said, “Revenues determined to be in excess of the amount required by the PEF are transferred to the United States Treasury General Fund as off-budget and on-budget receipts.”

The crazy idea behind the trillion-dollar coin is to use this legal loophole in the Mint’s policy to generate one trillion dollars-worth of seigniorage (the difference between the cost that it takes to physically produce currency and the value that currency has) which would then be transferred to the general fund, and, subsequently, the Treasury.

Although the policy that enables this procedure was not intended to do so, the surplus of funds would give the executive branch the ability to pay the government’s bills without having to wait for Congress to appropriate funds.

Though this sounds like a joke, it has been taken seriously by many inf luential economists and business analysts. Most notably, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been outspoken in his support of implementing the trilliondollar coin as a solution to the budget crisis.

In his article in The New

York Times titled, “Be Ready To Mint That Coin,” Krugm a n s a id, “ [P re sident Obama] will, after all, be faced with a choice between two alternatives: One that’s silly but benign, the other that’s equally silly but both vile and disastrous. The decision should be obvious.”

That statement raises an important point: Sure a trillion-dollar coin is crazy, but is it really any less crazy than the most powerful country in the world defaulting on its debt because its elected officials could not agree on a budget?

Moreover, apart from the executive branch usurping the separation of powers, what is so crazy about creating a trillion-dollar coin anyway? Throughout the past five years, the Treasury has printed the equivalent of two of those coins in the form of Treasury bonds.

Of course, rapidly increasing the monetary base runs the risk of inf lation. However, this increase would not be much different than the practice of quantitative easing, the results of which are contingent upon the public perception of the expected values of inflation.

I am not optimistic about the prospects of the trilliondollar coin. I am more optimistic that Congress will be able to pass a budget.

But if it can’t, I would much rather see a trillion-dollar coin with John Boehner’s face on it than a default.

{LETTER TO THE EDITOR} In response to ‘Bishop Gene Robinson lectures about religion and GLBT community’ Since Bishop Gene Robinson’s appearance in Witherspoon’s Campus Cinema, I have heard awful things about Robinson and the GLBT community. These things have come from what I would perceive as students who normally show good character.

After “Bishop Gene Robinson lectures about religion and GLBT community” was printed in the Technician and put online, there has been a small backlash by students who are anti-GLBT. These students, not publicly in letters or flyers but in conversations, have debased Robinson and everything he stands for.

I have been in direct conversations with several students in the Scholars Program and around campus who have criticized Robinson.

Most of these students were themselves Christian, but their denominations were different.

The two most common statements I have heard are “he is a hypocrite” and “how can he believe in God?” A man with such strong faith and such a strong voice should not be ignored or attacked.

I believe that the people who have said these things are, in fact, hypocrites themselves. A true Christian should not judge another person so harshly, but should care for each other and show love like Robinson does.

It is disgusting, to say the least, that these socalled Christians would verbally attack a man who is trying to do nothing but spread the message of universal love. In a world where Christians claim to want love and peace, there is an awful lot of hatred around the Christian community.

The saddest part about this is that Robinson was awarded the 27th Annual Role Model Leader Award, a high distinction from N.C. State, and students are demeaning him.

This is an embarrassment to the University,

the faculty and the students. After several incidents of racism and hate in the Free Expression Tunnel and the vandalism of the GLBT Center in 2011, N.C. State has tried to gain back a credible reputation for being a university that is accepting and caring of people in minority groups.

I believe that it should be necessary for every student to take courses like USC 100, Transition into a Diverse Community, which guides students to have a better understanding people who are different from them.

After taking USC 100 this summer, I experienced a culture shock with who was here at N.C. State. I feel that every student needs to open their eyes to the world around them because N.C. State isn’t going anywhere, but how you think and act can stop you from becoming what you want.

As the saying goes, “the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”

If we cannot maintain a stable social environment that promotes the care and respect from every single member of this university for every single member of this university, then how are we going to have a community that promotes academia for everyone?

The simple answer is we cannot promote academia for everyone until the Pack sees its failure, until students hold themselves responsible for their actions, and until we get on with all of this hate.

There needs to be a call to action for the University, parents, faculty, students and anyone else that could possibly affect our community to end discrimination at all points and promote a social environment that is acceptable for a neo-diverse world.

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Ancient Chinese philosophy in American colleges: Seeking truth or exoticism?

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ead philosophers’ ideas usually resurrect and strive in places that are far from their original land. When the French abandoned the political thoughts of Baron de Montesquieu, Alexis de To c queville and Frédéric de Ziyi Mai Bastiat, the Staff Columnist American patriots borrowed their theories and founded a republic in the new world. Recently in the United States’ top private institutions, ancient Chinese philosophy courses have garnered popularity among students—especially freshmen.

The Atlantic reported that Professor Michael Puett’s course of Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory has become the third most popular class at Harvard University, behind Computer Science and Introduction to Economics. Students at Harvard rush to the class not only because they are exposed to a counter-intuitive reasoning of philosophy but also because Puett promised that “this course will change your life.”

Students in the course are required to read the original texts such as Confucius’ Analects, the Mencius and Tao Te Ching—texts that even most Chinese students don’t read today. These philosophers explored the human natures, self-cultivation and the way of living a harmonious life with others in their writings.

Unlike western philosophy, which starts off based on a list of assumptions, much of these ancient authors’ writings are prosaic rather than structural and logical. The

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way that the ancient Chinese viewed human nature was radically different from most western philosophers.

Confucius and Mencius believed that humans were born to be only of good character, like the snow from the air without stains. They argued that people become malicious because of the bad influence from the society and their lack of self-cultivating influence. The concept of original sin never appeared in their dictionaries.

When it comes to personal cultivation and how to be a better person, conventional wisdom always recommends Confucius’ and Mencius’ teaching. Their ideas are truly good character traits that people who are selfmotivated and ambitious already have. They describe a utopian society in which each person is well-educated and respectful to one another, giving special social status to teachers and the elderly, bowing your will to the emperors and parents.

Unfortunately, the Chinese society hasn’t turned out the way Confucius and his disciples had long been advocating for since a great emperor of Han Dynasty adopted Confucianism 2,000 years ago as the state doctrine that every student must learn in school. The core idea of its political thought is that the governing officials should adopt a list of doctrines of self-constraint that help keep them from being influenced by evil thoughts. This idea externalizes the bad side of human behavior and overestimates human nature to resist temptation. Countries that have been inf luenced greatly by these ancient thoughts had failed to forge

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a civilized nation. Ironically, countries such as Korea and Japan have become prosperous and civilized at the time when they adopted the western political philosophy.

Often the reason behind these obsessions with ancient Chinese philosophy is that American students in elite schools are looking for another path to succeed as efficiently as possible. Students turn from their traditional culture and look for foreign philosophies as a guideline to lead them to better life and a bright future. The exotic philosophy is a perfect model for them in a sense that it’s a set of doctrines claimed to be perfect for self-cultivation without a supernatural deity.

Yet doctrines are still doctrines—there is no way to get around it. The nature of the ancient Chinese philosophy is nothing more than a list of rules that teach you how to be a nice person from the standpoint of an honorable ancient Chinese scholar. With that said, ancient Chinese philosophy is not unique. Other phi losophers, including Plato, Aristotle and Buddha, also teach ways of how to gain wisdom and become a good person.

There’s nothing wrong with the fact that students so desperately want to open their eyes to the world that they are willing to sit on the floor in Puett’s packed classroom.

But to see taking this course as a means of becoming a better person heads the wrong way. The fact speaks for itself: If these doctrines were so great, why did they fail to turn people, who learned them day and night, into the first civilized citizens in the world?

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Reforma de inmigración choca una pared Paula Gordon Editor asistente de Bienvenidos

Kenneth Smith-Lopez Traductor, editor asistente de Bienvenidos

Los inmigrantes ilegales esperando por la reforma legislativa van a tener que esperar un poco más La semana pasada un grupo bi-partidista de seguidores de la reforma migratoria pidieron al presidente Obama que no usara acciones ejecutivas para expandir la política de no deportación porque podría amenazar las

chances para aprobar una ley más importante en el congreso. El Centro de Políticas Bi-Partidarias, apoya el camino a la ciudadanía de inmigrantes, el cual está siendo bloqueado por el Congreso.

Mientras la Casa, controlada por Republicanos, siguen con el tema, las deportaciones continúan, y gente argumenta que está mal reportar a gente que más tarde podría quedarse si la legislación es aprobada.

En Septiembre, el presidente Obama dijo que no buscaría expandir el programa de la Acción Diferida para Llegadas de Niños porque no era una opción. Rebecca Tallent,

director de la política de inmigración en el Centro de Políticas Bi-Partidarias, dije que “Cree en la expansión de ADLN solo se enfoca en un solo aspecto de la reforma y va a minimizar el objetivo general de la legislativa presentada”.

El pasado martes, un grupo de ocho miembros del Congreso fueron arrestados debido a desobedencia civil mientras apoyaban la reforma de inmigración en frente del Capitolio.

Al menos cien personas fueron arrestadas.

Entre los arrestados están Luis Gutierrez y Jan Schakowsky (Illinois), John Lewis (Georgia), los congresistas Charles Rangel y Joe

Crowley (New York), Raul Grijalva (Arizona), Keith Ellison (Minnesota) y Al Green (Texas).

La protesta consistió en sentarse frente al Capitolio para pedir que se apruebe la reforma migratoria. Fueron culpados de “acumulación de gente, obstrucción e incomodar”.

Para Jones y Lewis, ésta es la 5ta vez que fueron arrestados por protestar como miembros del Congreso, incluyendo dos veces en la Embajada de Sur África protestando por el apartheid.

Pulling Strings tiende un puente cultural por medio de serenatas y sorpresas Pulling Strings

Miguel Sanchez Editor de Bienvenidos

Dirigido por Pedro Pablo Ibarra Pantelion Films

En las mismas líneas de Spanglish, Pulling Strings entra el mundo bilingüe de una manera raramente visto en el cine estadounidense.

Siguiendo en los pasos de Instructions Not Included, la película Pulling Strings, producida por Pantelion Films, trae una combinación justa de español e inglés al público americano en un período muy importante para los hispanos: el Mes de la Hispanidad.

El trama es sobre un hombre llamado Alejandro Fernandez (interpretado por Jaime Camil) que trabaja de músico para conseguir una visa para que su hija, María, pueda llegar a vivir con sus abuelos en Arizona. Él quiere una vida mejor por su hija, pero al presentarle a la diplomada (Rachel, interpretada por Laura Ramsey) sus documentos, ella le niega la visa. Desde allí, él hace su mejor para conseguir esa visa para su hija.

Días después, Alejandro encuentra a la diplomada en una fiesta donde él está interpretando varias canciones, pero ella no lo reconoce.

Después de la fiesta, Alejandro la encuentra durmiendo en una parada de autobús, y la lleva a su casa para que sea segura. Al despertarse ella la próxima mañana, se acuerda de su

 computadora que parece ser perdida y empieza buscarla frenéticamente.

Pero, Alejandro concede ayudarle a encontrarla con su compañero, Canicas.

Aunque sea obvia a la audiencia la razón por que él decide en ayudarla, ella no se nota de nada [pues es güera] y les acompaña por donde vayan en este viaje de diablos por toda la Ciudad de México con la esperanza de encontrar esa computadora.

Sin embargo, por todo este camino, ella ve por primera mano que buen hombre que es Alejandro— por su cariño y dedicación a María, por su caballerismo, entre otras cualidades que tiene de verdad.

Rachel se da cuenta de la realidad que, a pesar de estar dos años en esa hermosa ciudad, nunca había intentado aventurarse afuera y experimentar la cultura esperando a la puerta. Él se da cuenta de lo que en verdad importa en la vida, y de lo que realmente necesita su hija María. Se da cuenta de que ella no necesita el lugar o ambiente perfecto, necesita el amor, cariño, y confirmación que

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Alejando Frenandez, interpretado por Jaime Camil, un actor famoso para sus roles en telenovelas, trabaja en un grupo musical en la película.

sólo se puede entregar por un papá.

Esta película combina un cuento alentador y cariñoso con su propia parte equitativa de comedia también. Omar Chaparro, quien interpreta el personaje Canicas en el film, toca el papel de compañero necesario para cualquier tema o cualquiera tarea. Se puede contar con él. Lo único es que no habla inglés, o pues, no tanto. Pero, si él habla demasiado rápido para usted, no se preocupe; hay capciones en inglés. Una cosa que faltó la película

fue subtítulos en español cuando hablaban inglés, algo que lo puede hacer difícil para los hispanos que no dominan el inglés.

Es mejor si puede entender el español y lo coloquial, pero se entiende y se aprecia el cuento sin importa cual idioma usted prefiere. Y si es familiar con las telenovelas mexicanas, de las cuales es famoso el Jaime Camil, será impresionado/a con su actuación de rol bilingüe. Oh, y ¡no se pierda sus interpretaciones, que salen por toda la película! (Dada

su previos papeles como actor en Broadway y su discografía, Jaime Camila encaja perfectamente en el papel de mariachi.)

Esta película toca muchos temas comunes en nuestra sociedad. Habla de amor, de relaciones entre dos raíces, y es llena de escenas conmovedoras y otras que le hacen reírse sin parar. ¡Si tiene un/a “alguien especial,” sea latino/a o no, se lo merece andar para ver esta película!

Viva Raleigh informa y se implica con la comunidad hispanohablante Miguel Sanchez Editor de Bienvenidos

Carros alinearon las calles alrededor de Green Road Community Park por la tarde este sábado pasado para el quinto festival anual de Viva Raleigh de la ciudad. Este año el festival coincidió con el Día de la Raza, un día festivo celebrado por América Latina y España como la fecha del nacimiento del idioma español en el Hemisferio Este.

Viva Raleigh fue iniciado como manera divertida para la Ciudad de Raleigh conectarse con la comunidad creciente de hispanos a través de interpretaciones, premios y comida mientras proporcionándoles con información sobre varios servicios que la Ciudad ofrece a sus residentes.

El festival de esta año presentó varias medias incluyendo La Noticia, La Conexión USA, Univisión 40, News 14

Carolina, La Ley 101.1 FM y diferentes departamentos dentro de la Ciudad de Raleigh. Tacos Campa y Tacos y Pupusas Marina, una camioneta de tacos y una de pupusas, respectivamente, también se presentaron.

Viva Raleigh 2013 también se presentó varios grupos de música y baile, incluyendo Grupo de Danza Azteca (que bailó danzas tradicionales de los Aztecas), Coro de la Universidad Interamericana de PR y una banda en vivo.

El evento de este año también incluyó interpretaciones del equipo de baile latino de N.C. State, Sube Ritmo por la primera vez.

Para Luis Molina, estudiante de segundo año en el equipo, fue su primera vez presentando en frente del público fuera de N.C. State.

“Ya que no conocía a nadie no me preocupé con equivocarme. No estuvimos en una plataforma, por eso sintió

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Bailadores del grupo de danza Azteca muestran sus talentos en Viva Raleigh. El grupo representó una de las exhibiciones más interesantes del evento.

más como bailar para diversión en vez de interpretar,” dijo Molina.

Aunque a primera vista éste puede haber parecido un evento sólo para la familia, o quizás una feria informativa

y divertida, la muchedumbre universitaria no fue ausente.

Norma García, estudiante de tercer año de biología en Meredith College, vio el esfuerzo de la Ciudad de Raleigh en llegar a la comunidad

de un nivel personal también.

“Vi cómo la policía estaban dando información sobre cómo reportar un delito y cómo no deberías tener miedo de llamar a la policía,” dijo García. “La gente puede

ver diferentes culturas de América Latina, lo cual pienso bastante importante dado que permite que los niños aprenden de su herencia.”

Viva Raleigh informs, delivers and engages the Hispanic community Cars lined the side streets surrounding Green Road Community Park on Saturday afternoon for Raleigh’s fifth annual Viva Raleigh festival. This year the festival coincided with Día de la Raza, a holiday celebrated across Latin America and Spain as the birthday of Spanish in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Viva Raleigh was initiated as a fun way for the City of Raleigh to engage the growing Hispanic community through performances, prizes and food while providing them with information about various services that the City

offers its residents.

This year’s festival was attended by La Noticia, La Conexión USA, Univision 40, News 14 Carolina, La Ley 101.1 FM and different departments within the City of Raleigh. Tacos Campa and Tacos y Pupusas Marina, a taco truck and a pupusa truck respectively, also made their appearance.

Viva Raleigh 2013 also featured various music and dance groups, including Grupo de Danza Azteca (an Aztec Dance group), Coro de la Universidad Interamericana de PR, and a live band.

This year’s event included performances from N.C. State’s Latin dance team, Sube Ritmo, for the first time.

For Luis Molina, a sophomore on Sube, it was his first time performing for the public at a location outside of N.C. State.

“Because I didn’t know anyone I wasn’t worried with messing up. We also weren’t on a stage, so it felt more like dancing for fun than performing,” Molina said.

Although at first glance, this seemed like a family event or a fun informational fair, the college and young

adult crowd was not absent.

Norma García, a junior in biology at Meredith College, saw the City of Raleigh’s effort to meet with their community on a personal level too.

“I saw how the police officers were giving information on how to report a crime and how you should not be afraid to call the police,” García said. “People can also see different cultures from Latin America, which I believe is especially important since it allows young children to learn about their heritage.”

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Grupos musicales captaron la atención del público en este evento, que está en su cuinto año.

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Schoolkids plans move to Mission Valley Taylor Quinn Staff Writer

Hillsborough Street won’t be quite the same come January, but students won’t be deprived of a record store near campus. Schoolkids Records plans to move out of its Hillsborough Street location on Jan. 1 in lieu of imminent demolition to make way for a hotel, but Schoolkids owner Stephen Judge said the record store has found its new home—Mission Valley.

Although the record store has changed buildings before, Schoolkids Records has run business along Hillsborough Street for almost 40 years.

Judge, who bought the record store in April 2012, said that he’s optimistic for Mission Valley, but that doesn’t mean he wants to leave Hillsborough Street.

“I think it is an unfortunate change, I mean I think that our three businesses [Schoolkids, Sadlack’s and Buddha’s Belly] have a good camaraderie with each other and it’s going to be a shame to get broken up,” Judge said. “I love Sadlack’s and I’m really close with the owner and all of the bartenders and workers so I am really sad not to be next to them anymore come next year.”

Being an N.C. State graduate, Judge talked about his

partiality for Hillsborough Street and his store’s place on it.

“I share the same concerns that I think most of my customers do. I hate the idea of taking away the special thing that we have on this block and the history we have,” Judge said. “I don’t like seeing that.

I am very traditional. I still like the original eight teams of the ACC, I don’t like all of this expansion.”

Though Judge said he is sad to see his store move, he said he understands the circumstances.

“I understand and accept the changes and I know that it is inevitable but I don’t have to like it,” Judge said. “But I definitely look at it as an opportunity for my business to do something that I haven’t been able to do before.”

Schoolkids will be housed in a bigger space that will allow for a different type of environment and a shopping center with greater car accessibility.

“The store will expand a little bit, it’s going to be about three or four hundred square feet more and maybe find better parking,” Judge said.

“All the things that this space and location has limited.”

Judge said he’s confident the new location won’t feel as clustered as its current location.

“We will be able to open up from the claustrophobic aspect of the store we have now and parking will be immensely better,” Judge said. “The most important things about the extra space is getting to pursue my future plans.”

Judge said he is also working on the paperwork and licensing to have a bar inside of the new store.

“My plan is to have a bar in the store and sell craft beers so I have to get all of the paperwork in lock for that,” Judge said. “But I’ve been wanting to do that for quite some time, I would want to work with the local breweries.”

Judge expressed his excitement for moving into a new place and expanding on the “hangout” vibe that already exists in the old store into the new store.

“I kind of want to create more of a kind of hangout type place because we have a lot of people that come here and just kind of hang out in the store even if they aren’t buying anything,” Judge said.

“But I feel like because of our space and parking limitations it’s not really the best space for that so at the new location I’m going to try to slowly grow us into that.”

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Schoolkids Records owner Stephen Judge (above) began working at the record store in 1990.

He has run the store since buying it in April 2012. Schoolkids will move to Mission Valley shopping center in January after 40 years of business on Hillsborough Street.

Wolfpack Motorsports: Engineering in the fast lane STORY BY BRYCE HART | DESIGN BY AUSTIN BRYAN

Unlike most clubs, Wolfpack Motorsports is a team divided: Team Baja and Team Formula make up this club of gearheads who design, build and ultimately race cars. Each team designs and constructs cars that are entered into several competitions sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Wolfpack Motorsports members study varying fields but most study engineering and have a keen interest in automotive design. At their core, SAE competitions evaluate automotive engineering.

“A lot of people forget it’s not just some boys who want to go racing. There’s a large engineering aspect to [racing],” said David Bohle Jr., co-captain of Team Baja and junior in mechanical engineering.

Students learn something a classroom cannot teach by working with car parts and systems in Wolfpack Motorsports.

“One of the really cool things is that a lot of the things we do here you aren’t learning in class, like gear calculations,” Bohle said.

“That may be senior or graduate level stuff but Nathan and I were juniors teaching ourselves how to do it.”

Both teams of the Wolfpack Motorsports club are required to create a fast, well-running car. Tyler James, a senior in agriculture and environmental technology and a member of Formula, said he believes usability is a key part of the car’s design.

“The car is a small scale open wheel auto cross car. The basis of the design is for a general everyday average Joe to go out and take this car to an autocross course and have a good time,” James said.

The bulk of the hours put into each car come from the design and building processes. Team captains spend anywhere from 30 to 40 hours a week on their cars, while new members are expected to put in five to 10 hours a week.

The design process itself involves several steps for a single part. Nathan Brace, a senior in biological engineering and team captain of Team Baja, is trying to use old connections and last year’s performance to improve the car.

“Every year after competition we restart the design process and focus on a component we really want to improve on for the next year,” Brace said. “We sent out our designs to our alumni base to get some feedback and then use their suggestions to keep refining our ideas.”

Each competition spans several days. For both teams the first day consists of talking about the car in design reviews, mock business pitches and cost reviews along with testing the weight and other engineering checks.

After that teams move on to other dynamic tests such as a brake lock test, acceleration run or even a tilt test where the car runs at a 60 degree tilt making sure no liquids leak out.

The last day, consisting of endurance tests, is something several members look forward to. Formula uses two drivers for 20 minutes each in their endurance test.

However in that competition Josh Goughnour, a junior in mechanical engineering and a member of Formula, said many teams don’t pass the dynamic events of the previous days.

“During the dynamic events you have a small window to pass them and many teams don’t,” Goughnour said. “We did pretty well in a lot of the dynamic events; we were top 20 in all the events.”

In Baja’s competition, 100 people drive their cars on the track at once for a fourhour race. The amount of cars on the track and the stress to cars mean many vehicles are forced off the track for short periods of time.

“At competition the whole goal of the course designers is to push your car beyond its limits and they succeed probably nine times out of 10,” Brace said.

With such strenuous conditions and 100 cars on the track, many cars don’t make it far before breaking or needing repairs. Baja did well in its competition in Rochester against the odds.

“Probably 50 percent of the cars are out on the first lap. In Rochester, we got fourth place in endurance,” Bohle said. “Our car didn’t break and we only stopped three times for fuel.”

For Taylor Gettys, a senior in mechanical engineering and team captain of Formula, when his car runs and does well it validates the time put into the car.

“It’s really stressful when you’re ma k i ng t he car but once you see the car come together and see it actually work and go fast that’s when you feel the best about this,” Gettys said.

Many student in Wolfpack Motorsports end up going on to jobs in the automotive industry not necessarily related to racing.

“We have a lot of alumni in NASCAR or organized racing. Beyond that, we also have a lot of people go to aftermarket parts designers and parts suppliers for different motorsports crews,” Gettys said.

Along with opportunities to work with motorsports crews or NASCAR, Bohle and Brace said that team members also end up going into related but not necessarily automotive fields. Many members go on to get masters in mechanical engineering or work for companies such as Cummins and Caterpillar.

For anyone interested in automotive engineering or cars in general, the Wolfpack Motorsports club provides a great opportunity to learn things that classes may not teach and to create a car that can withstand even the toughest tests in a competition.

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Michele Makdad, a freshman in mechanical and aerospace engineering, grinds a pipe to fit to her vehicle’s frame at a Wolfpack Motorsports meeting.

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Club sports spotlight: Basketball seeks second championship Zack Tanner Correspondent

Members of the N.C. State club basketball team have national championship aspirations after an early exit in last year’s American Collegiate Intramural Sports Basketball National Championship.

State’s club basketball team was founded in 2009, and the University has hosted the ACIS National Championship in May ever since. Although the team is fairly new, the Pack established itself as one of the best club programs in the nation, winning its first and only national title in 2010.

Senior captain Andrew Wilson said that this year the goal for the team is a second national championship.

“I’ve been here four years, and this is the best team that I’ve ever seen,” Wilson said.

“I feel like our goal should be to win a national title because we have the caliber of team that could win.”

Last year’s run at a national championship ended with a disappointing loss in the sweet 16 to archrival UNCChapel Hill.

“Looking at last year, our

team had some communication problems,” Wilson said.

“We didn’t play quite as a team but more as individuals.”

With five new players on the roster, the Pack has put an emphasis on improving team chemistry. One of the ways the club has tried to get everyone on the same page is with a coaching change.

In the past, players would coach the team, often leading to biased decisions down the stretch. This year, senior Tanner Hogue took the reigns as the team’s first official head coach, and the move has paid off. “[In the past,] we didn’t have a coach, and we would go out there and play pick-up ball,” Wilson said. “[Hogue] helps us be more organized.

It makes people work harder, and people actually trust each other more.”

Another factor the head coach is addressing is new players’ transition into the program. More relaxed practices help the players bond as a team and concentrate on their ultimate goal.

“After a couple drills, we’ll play pick-up,” freshman forward Austin Lotuhan said.

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“We only practice one time a week, so the biggest thing for us is getting to know each other.”

The club is 2-1 in scrimmage matches so far this season, including a victory at East Carolina. The other two games were part of a doubleheader against UNC-Greensboro’s first and second teams.

Look i ng back on t he games, Louthan said that the strength of the team is the fact that everyone contributes.

“We’ve had a very balanced attack so far,” Louthan said.

“I think that’s what makes us good, the fact that we don’t have one player who we rely on to win.”

On Friday and Saturday, the Pack will head to UNCG for the Spartan Classic, a tournament that showcases club teams from around North Carolina and other states along the East coast.

State wants to return to Raleigh with its first tournament championship of the season and hopes carry that momentum all the way to the national championships in May.

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Redshirt junior Pete Thomas rushes in the middle of the third quater for 15 yards against the Syracuse Orange at Carter-Finley Stadium.

ell went down with a foot injury in the season opener, it opened the door for junior Pete Thomas to show what he could do despite losing the preseason quarterback battle.

Thomas has done his best to convert from being a pocket passer to the mobile quarterback needed for Doeren’s system, but he has looked shaky at times. Perhaps the most telling statistic of Thomas’ five starts are his eight interceptions compared to just three touchdown passes.

Speaking of injuries, the Wolfpack has been troubled by them in recent weeks. Senior safety Jarvis Byrd was just ruled out for the season with a torn ACL, making an

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already suspect secondary thinner. Byrd, Smith, Dayes, Mitchell, tackles Rob Crisp and Tyson Chandler, senior defensive end Daryl CatoBishop, and freshman wide receiver Marquez ValdezScantling have all missed time due to injury this season.

The Pack’s offensive line has given up 18 sacks so far this season, which is the second most in the ACC. State is also averaging seven penalties for 56.8 yards per game, a figure that needs to be reduced.

defeated three non-conference opponents at home and lost to one of the best teams in the country. Starting off October on a two-game losing streak has instilled some d i scom for t t h roug hout Wolfpack Nation, especially because both opponents in those games, Syracuse and Wake Forest, were easily beatable teams. But what’s done is done, and State still has plenty of time to get back on track this season. I said it at the beginning, and I’m sticking to it– State is going to a bowl game this year. But as it stands now, the Wolfpack deserves a C+ at the midway point of the season.

THE CONCLUSION: Through September, State was exactly where everyone thought they should be. They

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Jarvis Byrd out for season N.C. State head football coach Dave Doeren has announced that redshirt senior safety Jarvis Byrd has a torn ACL and will miss the remainder of the season. Byrd was injured during the Wolfpack’s game at Wake Forest on October 5.

Byrd, a member of the team’s Leadership Council, started the first five games this season at safety after playing cornerback in previous campaigns. He has played 302 snaps in 2013, tallying 17 tackles, and served as a team captain for the Richmond game.

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Warren named preseason AllAmerican Senior midfielder Nazmi Albadawi falls to the ground during soccer match against new Davidson at Dail Soccer Field Sept. 24.

T.J. Warren was named preseason All-America by CollegeInsider.com. He was one of 22 players to be recognized by the college basketball website.

Warren, a sophomore from Durham, N.C., is N.C. State’s leading returning scorer. He averaged 12.1 points and 4.2 rebounds per game as a freshman last season and led the ACC with a .622 field goal percentage.

State struggles despite vast potential THE WOLFPACK’S INABILITY TO WIN TIGHT MATCHES LEAVES THE TEAM 10TH IN THE ACC Andrew Schuett Deputy Sports Editor

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At the midway point in its season, N.C. State is not where it wants to be.

After tying three of its last four games, the Wolfpack (4-3-4, 1-3-3 ACC) are 10th in ACC standings. The team’s preseason goal of making the NCAA Tournament is still reachable, but every game from this point forward is a must-win for the Pack.

State’s schedule only gets harder from here on out too, as it plays No. 7 Notre Dame on Friday and travels to No. 9 Maryland in two weeks.

State’s attacking style has been entertaining to watch all season. The Wolfpack creates plenty of scoring opportunities and generally

dominates possession.

But head coach Kelly Findley’s team has an Achilles’ heel: an inability to score consistently.

State’s defense has been solid, allowing 1.45 goals per game. But the Pack has been let down by sub-par offensive production when it gets opportunities to score.

However, things aren’t all bad for the Wolfpack. It played great, competitive matches against No. 18 Virginia, No. 20 Clemson and No. 22 Wake Forest and arguably could have won all three games. If State had won just two of those three games, it would be in the top half of the conference and on the inside track for a NCAA Tournament bid.

“Our quality of play has been getting better in each game,” Clement Simonin

said. “I think we should expect better results going forward.”

The Wolfpack features a core group of young talent this year.

Fresh ma n mid f ielders Travis Wannemuehler and Michael Bajza, along with sophomore midfielder Holden Fender, have been regular starters for State this season.

Freshman midfielder Roland Minogue and freshman forward Davi Ramos have also played significant minutes.

These young players are going to be the nucleus of the Wolfpack soccer program in years to come. Findley’s foresight to give them immediate playing time ensures a bright future for Wolfpack soccer.

State’s program has developed a blue-collar identity, where players work hard on both sides of the ball to maxi-

mize possession and create scoring chances.

“We’ve grown in our ability to apply different tactics that will help us get results,” Findley said. “We’re a hardworking team with some quality, and we’re pretty good going forward but as a group all the guys are willing to do the little things that matter to get results. That’s been a big step for us this year.”

The little things that Findley refers to include working hard in defense, a mentality largely missing from Wolfpack teams of the past. But State’s current crop of players know that playing tough defense is key to earning consistent results.

“I’ve been impressed with our ability to transition from attack mode to defense,” Findley said. “We have a lot of guys who aren’t used to

defending and don’t really want to defend, which no one really wants to. But I’ve been impressed with their willingness to do that because they know it gets results.”

The Wolfpack is within sight of becoming a top program in the ACC, one of the best soccer conferences in the country.

All the pieces are in place.

The Pack has the right players, the right mentality and the right coach to establish a national soccer powerhouse in Raleigh. It has even played close, competitive games with some of the best teams in the nation and should only get better in the coming years.

N.C. State’s recent results simply don’t reflect the massive strides the program has made during the last three years.

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Head football coach Doeren and the N.C. State football team are led by Graduate Student Asa Watson with the North Carolina flag and Senior Dontae Johnson with the American flag to start the game.

Football earns even record after first half and no ACC wins Luke Nadkarni Staff Writer

Six games down, six remain, and N.C. State sits at 3-3 and 0-3 in the ACC. Here’s a look at what has gone well and not so well through the first half of the season.

THE GOOD:

State’s rushing attack, a cornerstone of new head coach Dave Doeren’s offense, looked promising. The Wolfpack rank 57th in the nation in rushing yards per game, which is in the upper half of the Football Bowl Subdivision. Freshman running back Matt Dayes has emerged as a threat alongside sophomore

starter Shadrach Thornton, who has overcome disciplinary issues at the beginning of the season to take the starting job. Dayes had three touchdowns in the season-opening win against Louisiana Tech but an ankle injury suffered against Central Michigan has limited his production of late. But the Pack’s run game

looks to be in good hands moving forward. Running backs aren’t the only players who can move the ball on the ground--receivers Bryan Underwood and Rashard Smith have shown flashes of brilliance on end-around plays.

Smith has also stood out as the Pack’s punt returner. His 16.3 yards per return is good

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Senior cornerback Dontae Johnson pushes the Syracuse ball carrier out of bounds during the football game against new ACC member Syracuse in Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday.

The Orange defeated the Wolfpack 24-10, dropping N.C. State to 0-3 in conference play.

for second in the ACC, and he had a 67-yard return for a touchdown against Central Michigan.

Redshirt senior linebacker Robert Caldwell, a junior college transfer, has emerged as a leader on the defensive side of the ball. His 48 tackles lead the Wolfpack and rank seventh in the ACC.

Junior kicker Niklas Sade has made 12 of 14 field goals on the season, including a 48-yard game winner against Richmond and is tied for second in the ACC in field goal percentage.

THE BAD: When graduate student quarterback Brandon Mitch-