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Teddy Roosevelt impersonator to visit McKimmon Center Actor Joe Wiegand, a renowned Teddy Roosevelt impersonator, will relive Roosevelt’s adventures as a rancher, Rough Rider and the 26th president of the United States. Wiegand has performed across the country and at the White House multiple times. This one-man show will run today 7-8 p.m. at the McKimmon Center. The show is part of the College of Natural Resources 85th anniversary celebration. Admission is free. Teddy Roosevelt visited the NC State Fair on Oct. 19, 1905, which at the time was located on the other side of Hillsboro Street (correct spelling at the time) near NC State’s campus. SOURCE: NC STATE NEWS
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Hip-Hop and R&B artist Jeremih holds hands with a fan Thursday at the annual PackHowl Homecoming Concert in Reynolds Coliseum. The sold-out concert featured a performance by Big Sean with opening acts by Jeremih and T-Pain.
Thousands of students and fans packed Reynolds Coliseum to see rap artist Big Sean with openers T-Pain and Jeremih at Thursday’s sold-out PackHowl homecoming concert organized by the Union Activities Board. This is the first year the annual homecoming concert has ever sold out, according to Wesley Grant Rhodes, the Union Activities Board vice president and a senior studying nutrition science. Tickets for the concert sold out 72 hours prior to the show, topping the concert’s capacity at 3,700 people, according to Assistant Director of Student Involvement Jermisha Dodson.
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Headliner Sean Anderson, better known by his stage name Big Sean, is considered one of the music industry’s most popular up-and-coming rappers. Following the show, the rapper answered questions about his choice not to attend college and about his journey to fame. A nderson had col lege on his radar while in high school, but the 3.7-GPA student changed his mind. “I had scholarships and everything,” Anderson said. “I was on my way to Michigan State. I had my roommate and my classes. At the last minute, I didn’t go. I decided that I’m doing what I want to do—whether I get paid for it or not.” Though he didn’t choose college, he said he supports
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A shooting late Saturday night injured one man near North Carolina Central University in Durham, causing a campus-wide lockdown. NCCU officials issued an active-shooter alert to the campus after the shooting of a 23-year-old man at a home on 2210 Fayetteville Street. The man was taken to a nearby hospital and a spokeswoman from the Durham Police Department said the man sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was reported in stable condition. NCCU lifted the lockdown at 1:09 a.m., approximately one hour after the shooting. SOURCE: THE NEWS & OBSERVER
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Emmy award-winning actor Tony Hale, most famous for his role as the 30-year-old momma’s boy Buster Bluth in the critically acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development, joked about his life and career during a discussion and book signing in Hunt Library Saturday evening. Hale’s sister, Kimberly Hale Andreaus, is a professor of social work at NC State and helped bring the event to the Hunt Library auditorium as part of homecoming weekend. “Social workers, social work educators, celebrities—tonight, in all seriousness, our paths do intersect,” Andreaus said. “And it is not because many of the characters he portrays need social workers.” Andreaus said the values Hale deals with in his children’s book Archibald’s Next Big Thing, such as mindfulness, appreciation for the present and self-awareness, are some of
the same values at the core of social work. In addition to being relevant to the work of social workers, Hale said the moral of his story is also relevant to the lives of many college students. In his children’s book, a chicken named Archibald receives a card telling him that his “big thing is here,” which spurs him to go on a fantastic journey looking for that big thing he thinks he is going to find. Hale said many college students can learn something from Archibald, who is unable to appreciate all the great adventures he has throughout the story because he is looking for his mysterious big thing. “You have tremendous value right where you are right now,” Hale said. “It’s not always about that next big thing.” Hale answered a series of questions from a moderator before he opened the floor up
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The homecoming pep rally organized by LiveIt Up! on Hillsborough Street spent only $5,000 of its $8,000 budget, according to David Dean, director of programs for Live It Up! on Hillsborough Street. The homecoming parade and pep rally pumped students up for the homecoming game on Hillsborough Street Friday evening. and the pep rally was set in front of Groucho’s Deli on the corner of Horne Street and Hillsborough Street. The homecoming parade and pep rally was sponsorsed by the NC State Alumni Association and Live It Up! on Hillsborough Street, and was supported by Groucho’s Deli and Bluetique, according to Dean. The Raleigh Police Department was also present to assist with the parade. To get students out to the rally, the vendors provided gift packages for the first 300 students to check in with their student ID. Bluetique gave $1,500 away in gift cards and Groucho’s Deli gave out $3,000 in food and passed out “Groucho’s Swag Bags” with $5 gift cards and drink Koozies. “The event was a great way to come together with my peers and fellow students from other colleges,” said Maurice Goldston, a freshman studying political science. “There wasn’t anything not to enjoy besides the weather,” Goldston said. “The event could have gotten a larger turnout if there was more wordof-mouth broadcasting of the event and schedules posted.” Both head football coach Dave Doeren and men’s basketball coach Mark Gottfried spoke at the pep rally. Performers included the Ladies in Red, the university’s all-female a cappella group, Sube Ritmo, a student Latin Dance team, and the band Barleycorn & Rye. “Just from what we saw along the parade route on Hillsborough Street, it was a much bigger crowd than what we’ve seen in years past,” Dean said. “It’s really starting to take root. Every year, more and more people come out to the parade.”
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to questions from the audience. Many of the questions in the continued from page 1 Q&A were centered around stories from the sets of his most famous roles, including Buster Bluth from Arrested Development and Gary Walsh on the HBO comedy VEEP. One audience member asked Hale what is was like to go to work with the same cast after taking a six-year hiatus, referring to the break between seasons three and four of Arrested Development. Hale said he was nervous to get back into playing the same character after such a long break, but after hearing the voice of Jessica Walter, the actress who portrays Buster’s overbearing, manipulative mother on set the first day back, he immediately was able to snap back into Buster’s ridiculous character. “It was like Pavlovian,” Hale said.
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Areon Mobasher, an undeclared sophomore, said he came to the event because, as an actor himself, he was curious to see how actors are in real-life settings. Mobasher also said he was a big fan of Hale’s work. “People [who] have never seen Arrested Development may have trouble understanding just how brilliantly he portrays this iconic and strangely submissive character,” Mobasher said. Mobasher also said he wasn’t expecting the discussion about Hale’s children’s book to be so relatable. “The big point he was driving home was contentment in the place that you are in life,” Mobasher said. “It got very personal. A lot more than I thought it would be.” During his talk, Hale mentioned how lucky students at NC State are to have so many resources available to them and joked about Hunt Library’s high-tech design. “This library is ridiculous,” Hale said. “It’s like Gattaca!”
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Ashley Eli, a forward on the women’s basketball team and a junior studying industrial engineering, was named the 2014-2015 Leader of the Pack at the homecoming football game against Georgia Tech on Saturday. The Leader of the Pack award recognizes students who make contributions to NC State in the areas of leadership, scholarship and community service. The selection process includes an application, personal interview and
a student-body vote. Eli said she was pleasantly shocked when she heard her name called for the Leader of the Pack award during halftime. “I was really nervous at first,” Eli said. “I didn’t get nervous until I actually walked out onto the field. They announced a few other awards before they announced Leader of the Pack, and finally when they announced my name, I couldn’t believe it.” Ashley said she learned about the award this semester and decided to see how she
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would do. “I wasn’t really aware of the award until my academic advisor told me about it and said I would be a good candidate for it. After she told me what it was, I looked it up, applied, and from there everything just happened,” Eli said. Eli said she enjoyed and appreciated the selection process because it really let her present all aspects of herself. “Throughout voting, I really was able to get out there and meet students,” Eli said.
“It was a great experience. Just going to the library or Talley and talking to people was great and made me get more active in the process.” Being a student-athlete, Eli’s time was very limited. However, she said she tried to do as many extracurricular and community service events as she could so she could be a good role model for others. “As an athlete, a lot of younger children look up to me, so I think it’s important for me to give back for
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His sister said she wanted to help bring Hale to NC State to call attention to the important work being done within the Department of Social Work. “He wanted to be here tonight to support the Department of Social Work and to help us to provide financial resources that our students need to conduct our meaningful interactions,” Andreaus said. One piece of advice Hale gave to graduating students was to surround themselves with caring people who will be there to help them cope with failure. Hale said he would never have been able to deal with the rejection in the early stages of his acting career without the support of his family and friends. “It is so massively important to invest in a support system,” Hale said.
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higher education. “I have to pay a business manager, a lawyer, a whole bunch of people and an accountant,” Anderson said. “If I would have learned to do all that myself, I could just do all that myself. I really do encourage education.” Anderson said the life he lives now is far different from his childhood in Detroit. “I came from the bottom,” Anderson said. “I didn’t grow up in a good neighborhood.” Anderson was raised in a small two-family flat with his mother and brother. His great-aunt lived above them on the second floor. “It made me who I am, and I appreciate it,” Anderson said. “Now, my life is a little bit different. I was able to achieve some level of success.” His success is like nothing he’d imagined it would be. “I’m still at the beginning of my career … The sky’s the limit for me and my team,” Anderson said. Before Anderson was collaborating and performing with Kanye West and other top names in the music industry, the rapper indepen-
dently sold CDs of his own music while in high school. “I was just trying to branch out and build a fan base,” said the former starving artist. Anderson also became heavily involved in rap-battle competitions at his hometown radio station in Detroit, and he soon developed close relationships with the station’s DJs. As the victor of several rap battles, Anderson was often given the opportunity to rap on the air. Pure persistence and notoriety at the radio station lead to Anderson performing for Kanye West during West’s visit to the station promoting a new album. According to Anderson, his new album will drop soon and includes “high-level” and “intense” raps. He said he wants to continue to impact culture and do what he does better than anyone else. “I want to be at the top of the rap game,” Anderson said. “I feel like I’m the best.”
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what we have,” Eli said. “When I was younger, a student-athlete came up and talked to me, and I think it is important that I do the same for them.” Along with the honor of being named the Leader of the Pack, the winner received a $2,000 university scholarship. “I am already on an athletic scholarship, so I might use the award
for graduate school if I decide to go, but I am not sure,” Eli said. Eli said she appreciated her supporters and wouldn’t have been able to win the award without them. “I want to say thank you for all the support from everyone who voted for me and everyone who believed in me,” Eli said. “I want to thank all of the athletic staff, our academic advisors, my coaches, my teammates and my parents. I’ve had so much support here, and I’ve had
such a great experience at NC State.” Eli also gave some advice for potential candidates next year: “I just encourage everyone to just apply because you never know what you can do until you try,” Eli said. “That’s exactly what happened to me. I didn’t know what was going to happen. I just kept on going further and further and then I ended up being Leader of the Pack.”
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Movies shouldn’t exploit death A
fter watching Guardians of the Galaxy a few months ago, I was somewhat disappointed. At first, I couldn’t figure out why. The special effects were stunning, it was well plotted and Chris Pratt was in it (what more could you ask for, really). Then I realized Mary Anna why it had Rice rubbed me Staff Columnist the wrong way : t he cheapness of the emotional scenes. Guardians has severa l scenes that were meant to twist a knife in your cry-center—scenes that, ultimately, had little to no buildup or relevance in the context of the movie in its entirety. (Warning: spoilers ahead for those who haven’t yet seen Guardians.) The movie begins with Peter Quill—the man who would become Star-Lord— watching as his mother dies. Shortly after he runs out of the hospital, aliens abduct him. Aside from the fringing of his mother to yield extra angst for our white male protagonist, this scene bothers me for another reason: how unnecessary it is. Peter Quill’s mother did not have to die. Her death exists simply to advance the plot and to give Star-Lord a reason to be kind of sad and tortured. Her death is distorted so that it is not about
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her. The feelings she has about her illness don’t matter, as she is not an integral character. The death of Quill’s mother is a tawdry way for the movie’s creators to engage the audience emotionally without actually doing any work. It’s almost as though the writers said, “Hey, it’s not sad enough that a child was abducted against his will. Let’s throw in a dead mother too.” As well, the ending in which Groot—an anthropomorphic tree—sacrifices himself is played off as terribly sad and unfair and awful. However, moments afterward, it is revealed that—just kidding— Groot is able to regenerate from the branches leftover from the explosion. Though it may seem like it, I don’t mean to single out Guardians as a bad movie because it uses death as a convenient device. The movie merely exists as a good exemplar of how death is misused and trivialized so often in movies today. There are myriad offenders. Nicholas Sparks comes to mind. The “death as cheap, emotional manipulation” trope is so ridiculously common that one can find indicators pointing out quite obviously the ending of the movie. I’ve found in most all cases, if you don’t see the dead body of the person that is presumed by other characters to be dead, then the person usually isn’t dead (often referred to as the dead body test). I’m tired of watching mov-
ies that expect the audience to go along with such forced emotional manipulation. Movies gain their worth through a sense of humanity and realism. When death, one of the most human concepts out there, is trivialized, a movie thereby forfeits some of its humanity. Death isn’t a device to be used haphazardly. It is irreversible and causes many people (if not all people at some point) serious trauma. It happens randomly and cannot be predicted by standard, popularized plot points. In movies, life is easily taken away and given back (I’m looking at you, Joss Whedon). Death holds little meaning in its impermanence and commonness. To see death twisted and deformed purely because a plot demands it or because creators want their works to be sad is to make a mockery of it. Rather than killing characters off and bringing them back as they desire, creators should invest more time in earning emotional leverage through character interactions and good writing. Using death to manipulate an audience is done, perhaps, to death. In reality, death is an aspect of human life that we all must come to terms with. It seems necessary that movies learn to do the same.
Trains are the future
Julie Smitka, sophomore in physics and philosophy
We need more trains in the United States T
he United States has built some incredible architecture that has inspired some of the greatest minds in history, but severely lacks a key component of successful infrastructure: advanced railway systems. It’s no secret our transportation Tyler Gobin system is bu i lt Staff Columnist around cars. In 2011, the average number of passenger vehicles per U.S. household was 1.95, according to the Department of Transportation. In the same year, the World Bank concluded that there are 786 vehicles per 1,000 people in United States, which is the third highest in the world after Lichtenstein and Monaco, which have the combined area of only 62.55 square miles. We clearly have adapted to our inept transportation system by overcompensating with personal vehicles. Nevertheless, we cannot continue to avoid the elephant in the room. By contrast, October marked the 50th anniversary of the famed Japanese bullet train, the Shinkansen, which consists of 1,483 miles of track and can reach speeds of 130-170 mph. It has run since 1964 and transports millions of pas-
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“It seems to me that they aren’t actually leading the pack other than being a representative of a model citizen. So I’m not really sure that they are representing true leadership qualities. For example, just because you have a great GPA does not qualify you to be a good leader.”
“I think it is representative of their true leadership qualities. I think that if you are going to be the Leader of the Pwack, you should display honesty, responsibility, motivation and great communication skills because there are a lot of us in the pack, and they need to stand out.”
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sengers every year. We used to consider high-speed trains unique to Asian countries, but, with the help of Japanese and Chinese engineers, they have quickly spread to the UK, Australia and Europe. Pick any two large cities in Europe, and there will be a high-speed train connecting them. Amsterdam to Paris, Rome to Milan, Barcelona to Madrid, London to Paris, Munich to Prague and the list continues. If we had a comparable train system of our own, Europe’s transportation technology would be nothing to gawk at when we travel across the pond. What we have to show for ourselves is pathetic. For most parts of the country, Amtrak is more of a tourist attraction than a means of transportation. For example, driving by car from my hometown of Billings, Montana, to Seattle, Washington, takes about 12 hours. Yet, a direct train ride to Seattle takes 16 hours, not including the 4-hour drive to the departing train station near the Canadian border. Trains are intended to be faster than cars or at least more convenient. The Northeast is the only location in the United States where that holds true. The Acela Express connects New York City, Boston, Washington D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia and is the only line rivaling travel by car. It’s too bad because the East Coast is a perfect en-
vironment for a network of trains linking cities such as Atlanta, Miami, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Raleigh and Virginia Beach to cities in the Northeast. There are always talks though. Politicians and engineers constantly discuss the prospects of implementing a high-speed train from Las Vegas to Los Angeles or from Houston to Dallas. But that’s all talk. Let me know when something actually happens. Something needs to, but it seems like nobody is in any hurry to do anything about it. Japanese and Chinese companies are competing to lead the world in high-speed rail technology exports, so why not let them help? It’s clear we’re not getting a lot done on our own. Some people might think trains would be a waste of time, but it would solve more problems than one might expect. Implementing a better train system would reduce airfare by increasing the number of transportation methods. According to a study conducted by Train Chartering, traveling by train requires 70 percent less energy and generates 85 percent less pollution than f lying. More trains would also reduce the numbers of cars on the road, which generate the most pollution. Trains are not a technology of the past, but a gateway to the future and we need to take them seriously.
You better hope it’s not your parents’ Republican party T
he Republican Party needs a clearer message if it’s going to survive the 2016 elections. Although the recent midterm elections may seem like a landslide victory for the Republican Mike Helms Party, the Contributing DemoColumnist cratic Party now stands to gain the most in 2016. The unpredictable voting public has once again shown its willingness to scuttle from one political ship
and board another, but most would agree that the stakes are much higher in the 2016 elections, and the Republican Party cannot continue to weather its blunders of the past two years. At least, it can’t if it wants to maintain its majority position in Congress (and possible return to the White House). Democrats are often described as wild-eyed idealists, but the Republican Party suffers more from this diagnosis. The Republican Party has shunned practical, hands-on grassroots politicking as it squabbles about how to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, manage
super-PAC money in politics (something that both parties benefit tremendously from), resist pushes for gun control and handle the budget deficit and national debt. The problem with idealistic positions is that they are entirely open to interpretation and hyperbole from one’s political opponents, and they often don’t ref lect the changing social tide in the country. A great example of this is same-sex marriage. A lightning rod for many social conservatives, the party has had to make an uneasy truce with rapidly expanding gay rights. For many social conservatives, this may be
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Student runs father’s election campaign Kaitlin Montgomery Senior Correspondent
Editor’s Note: Molly Donovan is currently the design editor for the Agromeck, which is part of NCSU Student Media. Given her role as a student, design editor for Agromeck, member of the Impact Leadership Village and public relations chair for Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity, Molly Donovan has been performing a delicate balancing act this semester. But unlike most of her fellow students, Molly spent the past four months as campaign public relations head for her father, J. Brad Donovan. “It’s been something,” said Molly, a sophomore studying communication. “If he hadn’t asked me to help him run for the seat, I would have been insulted. I told him right off the bat, ‘I’m your PR person, Dad. We’re business partners now.’” Molly’s father, J. Brad Donovan, a licensed member of the N.C. State Bar for 25 years, ran alongside 18 other competitors for the 2014 N.C. Court of Appeals seat. With so many competitors, J. Brad Donovan said it made it even tougher to get his, or any other message, out there. The Donovan campaign team consisted of three people: candidate J. Brad Donovan, Melissa Donovan, his wife, and campaign manager and public relations head Molly Donovan. According to Michael Cobb, a political science professor, it’s not uncommon to see families pitch in during lower-level races.
“These aren’t expensive races because funds are harder to raise, so you need volunteers,” Cobb said. “Families have been the bulk of campaign teams before, even in higher races. However, you don’t want family help if they don’t know what they are doing.” The trio filed for the race in August, but the Donovans said as a family, it wasn’t an easy decision. This particularly came to light after she arrived home from a friend’s birthday, watching her dad stare at the TV screen. “He started to tell me that he didn’t think we could handle the campaign, that the people who ran in the race had professional campaign teams,” Molly said. “He said it was meant for the candidates that have the money to hire people to do everything for them. He kept saying that we only had the three of us and our friends.” But Molly gave him a pep talk. “I told him that his conceding before we even started was going to ruin his whole point. Everything he said he was going to fight for. I told him that his uncertainty just got me more fired up. His whole point was that it should be people like him running and winning the race— people who don’t have big money backing them.” According to J. Brad Donovan, his daughter “made” him run. Molly said her parents first met in the Court of Appeals building in downtown Raleigh. She remembers growing up there, wandering in and out of judges’ offices and playing in the book stacks. “I feel like it’s all I’ve heard about since I was little,” Molly said. “My
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Molly Donovan, a sophomore studying communication, served as chairperson for her father J. Brad Donovan’s campaign for the N.C. Court of Appeals judicial seat. However, Donovan, who was one of 18 candidates was unsuccessful in his bid for the seat.
dad doesn’t like talking about himself or all of this political nonsense, which means it’s my job to do it for him.” Molly said her dad also received huge support from family and friends. “When people originally found out he was running, you could see the effect of it on their faces,” Molly said. “At first they were surprised. Then they would say things like, ‘Wow, Brad! That’s great! You’d be really good for
that.’” As votes came in the evening of Nov. 4, though, J. Brad Donovan learned he did not win the N.C. Court of Appeals seat. Instead, John Tyson won his second full term on the court with 24.13 percent of the vote, while John Arrowood placed second with 14.53 percent. No other candidate took more than 10 percent of the vote. The next morning J. Brad Donovan posted a message on his campaign Facebook page thanking his
family and the 30,000 people who voted for him because they agreed with his message. Molly said although it’s hard to see it end this way, she’s glad they took the chance. Her father seemed to show the same feelings, stating on his Facebook page, “One more thing, please pick up any signs you see out and about. You can return them or toss them, but it will be great to see a state free of political signage again.”
Interstellar transcends time and space travel Lauren Vanderveen Staff Writer
Interstellar
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When the first teaser trailer for Interstellar came out almost a year ago, the specifics of what this movie would be about were left undeniably mysterious. “Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, but our destiny lies above us,” narrates Matthew McConaughey over found footage of NASA expeditions and an awed public. Two minutes and one single tear later, I was hooked. What director Christopher Nolan promised all those months ago is delivered in heart-racing, devastating glory. Interstellar is a grand sci-fi epic that captures the fragility of modern environmental ethics and how humankind seems hell-bent on destroying itself. McConaughey plays Cooper, a father and trained engineer in the not-so-distant future. His present-day depicts an irreversible Depressionera landscape. Resources are critically low and dust storms are rising. Higher education is no longer available to the general public, and the Apollo space missions are dismissed as propaganda hoaxes of the bygone past. Effectively, the film targets exactly what we
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From left to right: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and David Guyasi play Cooper, Brand and Romily in Interstellar respectively.
take for granted now. To rectify the seemingly global situation, Cooper has no choice but to team up with the last remnants of NASA to discover a new planet for the human race to call home. It’s incredibly difficult to not be mesmerized by space travel in movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apollo 13 and Gravity are all testaments to this. But the journey here into interstellar space to find another inhabitable dimension will engross even the most stubborn of viewers. What we normally perceive to be simply the science and technology of it all is transformed into visual poetry with dis-
cernible biblical implications. When the crew lands on a planet completely covered by water, a towering 1,000-foot wave hurdles toward them. Its gargantuan-ness would put the imagery of the great f lood and Noah’s Ark to shame. Other poetic themes are prevalent throughout the film. At the start, Cooper looks out onto the corn fields that make up his livelihood. It’s a sea of life still holding on to a dying planet, yet he vocally resents these circumstances that reduce him to Earth’s caregiver instead of its explorer. He even says, “This world’s a treasure, and it’s
been telling us to leave for a while now.” This statement gets to the bottom line of our sense of environmental ethics. We place more, if not all, intrinsic value on human life and even the technological life we create over the Earth’s sustainability or condition. The treatment of the film’s talking, sarcastic robot TARS (Bill Irwin) is one example. Though TARS plays an important role within the otherwise all-human crew, and even frequently saves them from certain death, Cooper and co-explorer Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway) can’t help but view it as only a tool
or a resource to exploit. Likewise, Earth is viewed as an inert thing we can just take from without considering its “life.” But this ideology is confronted with the extreme monkey-wrench of a scenario—would a person be willing to sacrifice his or her family for the greater good? Cooper appears to make this sacrifice when he leaves behind his two children, even when a few hours in another dimension can mean decades have passed on Earth. Events that lead the expedition to go south eventually test Cooper’s willingness of sacrifice. He’s told by the others: “You
can’t just think about your family. You have to think bigger than that.” In Interstellar’s scope, human emotions and free will are our ruin. As a result, we can destroy each other in an infinite number of ways. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema and the effects team magnificently create visuals that most of us will never actually see in reality. At times, it’s a choreographed dance of sleek space crafts; other times, human morality transmutes across the galaxy like a modern Bosch painting. Without a doubt, Interstellar is a beautiful warning.
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An Open Letter to the Apparel Ten: Step Up In Our Moment of Need
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Our families are in need. We are seeing our children travel thousands of miles purely on hope that there will be more opportunity to live a dignified life in the country to the North. The lives that they leave behind are violent and were created by forces outside of their control; they are collateral damage to a social and economic environment they have little control over. Our governments, both here in the US and in our home countries, have created these conditions by enacting damaging policies like the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Your industry has benefited the most since CAFTA went into effect ten years ago--about half of the products imported from the region are apparel sold in U.S. retail stores. The Textile and Apparel industry closed 565 textile plants in the United States to employ more than 220,000 workers in Central America, earning 1/10th of the salary of their U.S. counterparts. And our families back home perceive that your industry get more attention from their governments; they build you roads and canals to expedite shipment of goods, they add turbines to dams so you can have uninterrupted flow of electricity, and they construct water treatment plants to supply fresh water to the gleaming factories where thousands of our community members sweat to eke out a living. All this so you can manufacture goods cheaply, have a quicker production schedule to meet market demands, and import everything duty-free. CAFTA has forced our families to move—from rural towns to urban centers to compete for jobs at your factories, and from our countries to trek through deserts and ride atop trains to come to the United States. The mass migration of unaccompanied minors at the border represent a clear indictment of the conditions that have been festering in our countries for decades worsened by CAFTA. As companies of the industry who have benefited the most from CAFTA, you have the responsibility to step up in our moment of need. Immediately, our children cannot be separated from us again; they need competent legal representation to make their asylum claims. Your industry’s supply chain employs hundreds of thousands of families in our home countries. In partnership with our governments, you can raise the standard of living of those you depend on so that migration becomes an option and not a necessity for survival. For the long-term sustainability of our communities, your industry can play a critical, positive role as well. You can start that by participating in an evaluation of CAFTA’s impact in its first 10 years. We, the Central American community and allies living in the US, are demanding the following: 1) The Apparel 10 allocate 1% of their pretax profits* since 2005 to help address the humanitarian crisis that is happening in the region. 2) Ensure that the working conditions of these families who have not left are up to, and eventually exceed, current standards. 3) Participate in an independent third party evaluation of CAFTA and its effects on the region over the course of its implementation in these countries. These demands are just the start in being able to address urgent needs and future issues that will plague the Central American community, both that have been forced to leave and those who have stayed. We urge you to take part in bringing a just and sustainable solution.
National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean
Central American Resource Center-CARECEN
Communities-NALACC (Chicago)
(Los Angeles)
SHARE-El Salvador (Berkeley)
Nicaragua Center for Community Action- NICCA (Berkeley)
Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America (St. Louis)
Unión Salvadoreña de Estudiantes Universitarios-USEU (California)
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador-CISPES (San Francisco)
School of the Americas Watch (Washington DC)
Central American Resource Center-CARECEN
Chicago Religious Leadership on Latin America-CRLN (Chicago)
(Washington DC)
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (Portland)
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El SalvadorCISPES (Washington DC)
Alliance for Global Justice (Tucson)
Centro Presente (Boston) Trabajo Cultural Caminante (San Francisco) Families for Freedom (New Y ork) Latin American Solidarity Committee (Milwaukee)
La Voz de los de Abajo (Chicago) United Food and Commercial Workers– UFCW Local 540 (Dallas) Task Force on the Americas (Larkspur) Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action– TIGRA (Oakland)
The Apparel Ten
*The Foundation Center, “Key Facts on Corporate Foundations”, August 2012. Historically, corporate giving as a share of companies’ pre-tax profits— excluding giving by corporate operating foundations—reached a record 2 percent in 1986. Following that peak, corporate giving fluctuated between 1 and 1.6 percent of pre-tax profits until 2004, when the share had dropped to below 1 percent. As of 2010, the share remains slightly below 1 percent.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014 • PAGE 7
Pack overcomes Lenoir-Rhyne despite first half woes Daniel Lacy Staff Writer
Zack Tanner Senior Staff Writer
In its first exhibition game, the NC State women’s basketball team took down LenoirRhyne in a closer-than-expected game, 70-52. While the score might suggest that the Wolfpack won handily, the Pack was only up 30-28 at the half and shot a mediocre 31.6 percent from the field. Head Coach Wes Moore expressed some dissatisfaction with his team in the post-game press conference. “Obviously, a rough opening night,” Moore said. “Give Lenoir-Rhyne credit, they came in here with a lot of energy and weren’t intimidated on a big stage. On our end, we didn’t do the little things, we had too many people worrying about their shot and we didn’t shoot the three well, and maybe we let that affect us on the other end of the floor.” The Wolfpack started off slow, scoring just six points in the first five minutes. However, despite its scoring
struggles, the Pack led for all but one minute in the first half. Things started to look up for the Pack, as it went on a 10-2 run with four minutes left in the half. However, the Bears were able to close the gap to two points, putting the score at 30-28 as time expired in the first half. The Wolfpack was able to pick up the slack in the second half, improving its shooting percentage to 36.5 percent on the game by shooting 41.7 percent in the half. However, the team finished with a mere 4-for-24 from beyond the arc, with no single player making more than one three pointer. “In shoot-around today, we shot the heck out of the three, so I don’t really know what happened,” Moore said. “I think sometimes it’s contagious, but this team needs to do a better job of shooting the ball and are certainly capable of doing that. But this year, with the losses we had inside, the perimeter is going to have to step up.” In addition to that, the Wolfpack only had three players who shot more than 30 percent while attempting at least three shots. Those players were sophomore
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Sophomore guard Miah Spencer, drives through the lane to finish with a lay-up after flying past Brooke Robinson of Lenoir-Rhyne. NC State defeated Lenoir-Rhyne at Reynolds Coliseum. The final score was 70-52. Miah Spencer was the top scorer for the Pack with 15 points on Friday.
“We’re going to need Carlee to step up. We had some great losses from last year, two kids were drafted in the WNBA, another is playing professionally overseas, so we have some big shoes to fill,” Moore said. “Akela Maize is out with an injury, and hopefully we’ll get her back next week. She’s a freshman with good length at 6-foot-5 and is very athletic, so hopefully she will give us some depth at the post posi-
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Georgia Tech outruns the Pack NC State lands local quarterback recruit The NC State football team recently received a commitment from Dylan Parham, a quarterback from Southeast Raleigh High School. Parham has prototypical size, standing 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighing in at 198 pounds. The high school star is set to graduate in 2016 and is the Wolfpack’s third commitment for that class, joining center Harrison Gee from North Carolina and safety Tim Glass from Virginia. Parham is not currently ranked by any of the major recruiting services due to being two years from his graduating date, but certainly fills a future need for the Wolfpack at the quarterback position. SOURCE: 247SPORTS.COM
Volleyball avenges the Pack, defeats Georgia Tech The NC State volleyball team recorded its second conference sweep of the season against Georgia Tech on Sunday. The Wolfpack (1410, 3-9 ACC) hit a season-high .398 during the match and recorded eight service aces. Freshman outside hitter Perry Ramsey led the team in kills with 12, and sophomore setter Maggie Speaks dished out 33 assists, notching five kills on just six attempts. The Pack addressed its season-long concerns on finishing in the match. The team trailed in each set, but fought back to win each time. SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS
Women’s basketball team receives fourth four-star commitment The NC State women’s basketball team gained another verbal commitment from one of the nation’s top prospects in power forward Rydeiah Rogers. ESPN recruiting nation ranks Rogers as the 63rd-best high school player in the nation and the fourth-best in the state of North Carolina. State’s impressive 2015 recruiting class now features four 4-star recruits. Before Roger’s commitment, ESPN placed NC State as having the 16th-best recruiting class in the country. When ESPN publishes its updated list with Rogers committed to State, the Pack will assuredly climb in the rankings, as they are one of just six teams that have received commitments from at least four 4-star recruits. SOURCE: ESPN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY “We had some guys coming off the bench who were hungry.. It’ll take a while to figure out who should start.” Men’s basketball head coach Mark Gottfried
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In the NC State football team’s first opportunity to gain bowl eligibility at home, the Wolfpack fell to No. 24 Georgia Tech by a lopsided score of 56-23 Saturday. State had a promising start. After the Yellow Jackets (8-2, 5-2 ACC) struck first off of a 15-yard rush by redshirt sophomore quarterback Justin Thomas, the Pack (5-5, 1-5 ACC) responded with two unanswered scoring drives. The Wolfpack ’s first touchdown was highlighted by an agile scramble made by redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett. With the ball 15 yards from the end zone, Brissett flushed out of the pocket and dodged his way to the goal line. In an incredible display of athleticism, Brissett took flight at the one-yard line and was clipped by two Jackets defenders, who sent the quar terback spinning across the scoring plane. Senior Niklas Sade’s extra point was blocked, making the score 7-6 in favor of Georgia Tech. On the ensuing Georgia Tech possession, Wolfpack true freshman Airius Moore came up with a huge play after stripping redshirt senior running back Synjyn Days. Redshirt junior Mike Rose recovered the fumble, giving Brissett and company the ball at the State 29-yard line.
Brissett again marched the Pack down to the Georgia Tech red zone before sophomore Matt Dayes flashed out of the backfield and scored a 17-yard touchdown run. Just before the end of the first quarter, Georgia Tech’s triple-option offense struck again off a 53-yard blast up the middle for a touchdown by Days, giving the Jackets the lead once again at 14-13. On the first drive of the second quarter, Carter-Finley Stadium witnessed perhaps the strangest sequence of events in the stadium’s 300-game history. The Wolfpack offense started the drive by continuing the rhythm it had established in the first. On 2nd and Goal from 5-yard line, Brissett targeted redshirt senior receiver Bryan Underwood. The ball trailed behind the slanting Underwood, and was deflected off the heel of Underwood’s defender, redshirt junior Chris Milton. The ball then floated right into the hands of Georgia Tech’s redshirt senior linebacker Quayshawn Nealy. Nealy took off with the ball and raced 71 yards before Wolfpack freshman running back Jaylen Samuels tackled Nealy from behind and stripped him of the ball. Samuels recovered the fumble, giving the Pack the ball at its own 28-yard line. The wild play which featured two turnovers essentially made for a 67-yard loss for the NC State offense. “I knew I would catch up to him eventually because [Nealy] was trying to juke and everything,” Samuels said. “I knew it was a big play. I just thought it was going to give us momentum after we recovered the
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Freshman wide receiver Bo Hines catches a pass as he crosses into the end zone during the homecoming football game against Georgia Tech in Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday. The pass; heavily contested by Georgia Tech freshman defensive back Lawrence Austin; was ruled incomplete by the officials. The Wolfpack’s two season drought of home conference wins continued with a 56-23 loss to the Yellow Jackets.
fumble.” After the bizarre recovery, Brissett threw a second interception. This time though, the Jackets would take the distance, making the score 21-13 Georgia Tech. On the following drive, the Pack fell prey to the Georgia Tech turnover machine yet again. On 3rd and 5 at the NC State 26-yard line, redshirt junior linebacker Tyler Marcordes blew past the State offensive line untouched. Brissett, who noticed the attacking Marcordes, attempted to roll to the right and make something out of the broken play. Marcordes tackled Brissett from behind and caused the fumble that would result in the 43-yard scoop and score by Nealy. “Within a minute and a half, there was a 14-point swing in the game with their defense scoring for them,”
head coach Dave Doeren said. “That’s crazy right there, and obviously you don’t expect those types of things to happen.” After another Georgia Tech touchdown late in the first half and a second field goal by Sade, the score was 35-16 in favor of the Yellow Jackets as the two sides entered the locker rooms. The second half would prove to be even more disheartening, as NC State defense simply could not make a stop. The Jackets capped two unanswered scoring drives in the third quarter thanks to their efficient running game that consistently gained first downs. Georgia Tech added a third touchdown early in the fourth quarter, making the score 56-16. The Pack added one last touchdown on its final drive of the game off of a 19-yard reception by redshirt soph-
omore David Grinnage. State’s touchdown would give the game its final score of 56-23. Brissett was 18 for 35, throwing for 213 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Brissett also led the team in rushing, scrambling for 88 yards in nine attempts with one touchdown. Freshman wide receiver Bo Hines led the team in receiving, hauling in six catches for 70 yards. Georgia Tech’s Synjyn Days led his team in rushing, with 157 yards in 19 attempts with one touchdown. The Yellow Jackets as a whole rushed for 489 yards. NC State will face off against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Saturday at Carter-Finley Stadium at 3 p.m.
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State defeats Queens in exhibition Zack Tanner Senior Staff Writer
The NC State men’s basketball team defeated Queens University on Saturday, 78-47, behind a 48-point second half. The matchup was the Wolfpack’s final exhibition before the beginning of the regular season on Friday. The first half was not a pretty one, as over two and a half minutes passed before either team was able to score. State was abysmal from the field in the first half, shooting only 28.6 percent, including a two-forseven clip from beyond the arc. Head coach Mark Gottfried said that his team’s struggle in the first half was a lesson for his young players. “It was a good challenge for our guys,” Gottfried said. “We started the game off and it somewhat seemed like we had some jitters, but hopefully we get that out of the way and get ready for next Friday night.” The Pack starters did not make much of an impact early in the contest, scoring only eight of the team’s 30 first-half points. Red-
shirt junior guard Trevor Lacey and redshirt senior Ra lston Turner scored nothing through the first 20 minutes. Lacey was visibly frustrated on the court after missing six straight shots to start the game. “My role on this team is to come out with energy and set the tone,” Lacey said. “I let my offense frustrate me; shots that I make all the time were in and out.” Instead, freshman forward Caleb Martin made his presence felt for the Pack as soon as he took the floor five minutes into the game. The Mocksville native racked up 10 points on 4-6 shooting in the opening half. “He played confident, like he always does,” freshman forward Abdul-Malik Abu said. “I rode on his confidence.” Martin ended the night as the Pack’s leading scorer with 16 points in just 19 minutes of play. The freshman also recorded three steals and sank four of his six attempts from long range. Abu also had an impressive showing on Saturday, recording 14 points and five boards off the bench. The big man showed great skill with his back to the basket,
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Redshirt junior Trevor Lacey looks for a way to the basket during the exhibition game against Queens (N.C.) in PNC Arena Saturday. Lacey had 7 points, 4 assists, and 3 steals in the Wolfpack’s 78-47 victory over the Royals.
demanding the ball in the post and making use of his 6-foot-8, 240-pound frame to bully the smaller forwards on the Queens roster. Despite conceding the lead to Queens late in the first half, the Pack used a few big plays to boost itself to a 30-28 lead heading into halftime. Lacey said the first half was not representative of his team’s true skill. “We didn’t come out struggling, we just came out f lat,” Lacey said. “We missed a lot of shots that we should have made; we were just going through the mo-
tions, and you can’t play any game like that.” As bad as State was in the first half, the team played outstanding basketball in the second. The Pack scored 20 straight points before allowing Queens to record its first points of the closing half. “I thought in the second half we were a lot quicker,” Gottfried said. “We got in the passing lanes, we defended them pretty well, and we turned a lot of those opportunities into fast breaks.” The Pack bench contin-
ued its dominant play in the closing half, and the State reserves finished the game with 50 of the team’s 79 total points. Gottfried attributed the team’s second half revival to his role players and said that no one’s starting spot is safe. “We think here in November that we know who should start, but that could change,” Gottfried said. “We had some guys coming off the bench that are hungry. They’re coming, and they’re pretty good. It’ll take a while to figure out who should start.”