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IN BRIEF University disbands Pi Kappa Phi Talley hosts Hillsborough Street visioning sessions next week

The City of Raleigh will be hosting two Hillsborough Street Visioning Sessions at NC State next week, one on Monday and one on Wednesday. Monday’s workshop will include an interactive Work Session followed by a presentation on Wednesday. The session on Monday will be from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Talley Student Union Mountain Ballroom and consist of group activities to discuss land use and student opinions regarding the future of the street. After this session the Raleigh Urban Design Center at 220 Fayetteville Street, Suite 200 will host open studio hours from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday and 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

The City will be hosting a final community presentation from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Talley Student Union Coastal Ballroom.

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NC State’s Tau Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi will be disbanded on campus for a minimum of three years after accepting responsibility for book with offensive comments found near campus last week, Chancellor Randy Woodson announced Monday.

In addition to the suspension, the brothers currently living in the house will be required to vacate the oncampus house immediately and seek alternative housing at the university if necessary.

Woodson also announced that Mike Mullen, vice chancellor and dean of academic and student affairs, will lead a comprehensive review of NC State’s Greek system in collaboration with the four Greek councils on campus.

The review will determine whether fraternities and sororities are living up to the behavioral standards and values of the university, paying close attention to

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Chancellor Randy Woodson speaks outside of Holladay Hall Wednesday at a press conference regarding the three year suspension of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. The fraternity was banned following the discovery of a pledge book, which contained a variety of derogatory comments.

94 bills in 94th session: Student Government ‘s latest year in review

NC House rejects medical marijuana proposal

A committee in the NC House unanimously rejected a proposal Wednesday that would allow medical marijuana in North Carolina. Members of a judicial committee of House members heard the pleas of medical marijuana users before the vote, including military veterans and members of a group called Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition.

The bill, House Bill 78, made more progress in the NC General Assembly than any other proposal to legalize marijuana the State has ever seen. A similar bill was directed to the House rules committee two years ago, which ended when Republican leaders cut off discussion and killed the bill after hearing only four speakers.

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Service Raleigh to return Saturday

Two thousand volunteers will participate in the annual Service Raleigh event that will take place throughout the city Saturday. Service Raleigh is an annual service day that takes place throughout Raleigh.

Organized by NC State’s Student Government and Park Scholars in 1988, volunteers from the university and sounding areas participate in a number of volunteer projects to provide assistance to organizations around Raleigh.

The event is funded by donors as well as the Park Foundation, Student Government and the Inter-Residence Council.

Partners include the Boys and Girls Clubs of Wake County, Brown Bag Ministries, Interfaith Food Shuttle and dozens of others.

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in her sense of humor.

“When people tell me that Rosa [Parks] only decided to stay sitting because she was tired, I say that is crap,” Giovanni said. “The bus where Rosa Parks stood is sacred ground, not unlike the area in Greensboro where those four young men took a stand.”

Giovanni spoke about the Pullman Porters, who were black men hired to work on the railroads. The Pullman Porters are considered historically

The 94th Session of the Student Senate ended Wednesday.

After the resignation of Alex Grindstaff, Cody Long was sworn in as Student Senate President as prescribed by constitutional succession at the first meeting of the Spring semester.

The induction of the Executive Office of Student Government includes Khari Cyrus, the student body president elect, Nate Bridgers, the student body vice president elect, Cody Long, who will begin another term as student senate body president, Karli Moore, the student body treasurer elect and Thomas Pulliam, the student body chief justice will be Friday at 3 p.m. in the Talley Governance Chambers.

Student Senate members will be inducted April 9 in the first meeting of the next session.

This year’s body has been active, proposing 94 pieces of legislation.

Three diversity and inclusion acts were passed including the Inclusion Act along with the Social Justice Mini-Grant which fund collaborative educational opportunities on topics of diversity and social justice on campus, and the Indigenous People’s Day Act, which changes Columbus Day to a day for recognition of indigenous peoples.

The University Records and Registrations adopted the request of Student Government to add credits to student transcripts for the completion of military training that do not have an equivalent course at NC State. The approved change to the military articulation of credit, allows up to 12 hours of “free elective credit for military education deemed upper level” by the American Council on Education (ACE)” is to be awarded at the discretion of each college department.

The Executive Branch worked with the Division of Academic and Student Affairs and the Women’s Center to spread awareness about the It’s On Us campaign. The campaign is aiming to end sexual vio-

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Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet who was part of the Black Arts Movements during the 1960s, spoke in Talley Student Union Wednesday evening.

Nikki Giovanni, noted poet, speaks in Talley Ravi K. Chittilla Editor-In-Chief

Renowned poet and social activist Nikki Giovanni spoke in the Talley Student Union Wednesday night, touching on race relations and racial progress in the United States.

In addition to reading her poems and providing social commentary on a variety of topics with pertinence to black Americans, Giovanni also mixed

Women allowed in sixth engineering pageant Brenden Parsons Correspondent

For the first time, both male and female engineers participated in the annual pageant hosted the by the Society of Women Engineers which returned to Witherspoon Student Center Wednesday night.

The sixth-annual Crown the Engineer Pageant, formerly the Mr. Engineer Pageant, showcased the talent of different engineering students in way that is more playful than how engineers are often perceived, according to Anna Renfro, President of Society of Women Engineers.

Carlos Vega, a senior studying civil engineering, won the pageant after he stole judges favor by reciting almost 50 digits of Pi and dancing a salsa routine.

“The pageant itself is just supposed to be a fun and lighthearted opportunity for engineering students to showcase what talents they have that aren’t represented by a GPA,” Renfro said.

“All the proceeds go to Relay for Life, as well as any money we have left over in our allotted budget,” Renfro said.

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Carlos Vega, senior studying civil engineering, who won the competition being escorted by Jessica Gallo, junior in social work and introduced by Apoorva Thatavarty, a sophomore studying chemical engineering at the Crown the Engineer event on Wednesday at Witherspoon Student Center. The annual event organized by the Society of Woman Engineers raises money for Relay for Life.

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ugh Fisher, a graduate student studying business administration, comes up with some words for a Mad Lib out of the monologue from “The Taken” while senior studying business administration Raul Gonzalez listens to his ideas by the elevators of Talley Student Union Wednesday. Gonzalez and other members of the Clown Nose Club offered students the chance to “brighten people’s spirits” by allowing them to create their own Mad Libs out of a set of choices ranging from the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song to NC State’s “Red and White” chant. “I think it’s a really cool thing they’re doing. Just giving people a chance to laugh and de-stress can make a difference for somebody who’s having a rotten day,” Fisher said.

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see how good-humored, and yet powerful, someone of Giovanni’s stature could be.

“I just think it was great to hear her stories , and I think this kind of goes with PanAfrican Week in general — the idea of black excellence,” Cyrus said. “Just taking away the idea that African Americans on campus and in society in general, taking away the negative stereotypes and replacing those with positive examples and positive role models, just having her coming here and speaking for Pan African Week was amazing.”

Chancellor Randy Woodson agreed that Giovanni provided meaningful dialogue for the audience.

“She’s an amazing poet,” Woodson said. “Anyone that has written about the history that she has is going to have such a strong voice.

i mpor ta nt because t hey contributed to the development of a black middle class in the United States, which would later evolve into the first all-black union and organization, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

When successful musicians, such as Louis Armstrong, performed for predominantly white audiences a nd d id n’t open ly pa rticipate in the Civil Rights Movements for fear of retribution, they would provide funding through the Porters to support NAACP and other activists’ efforts, Giovanni said.

Student Body Presidentelect Khari Cyrus said that it was amazing for him to

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She tells great stories and shares her poetry beautifully.”

The event was sponsored by the Black Students Board, and Giovanni served as a keynote speaker for this year’s Pan-African Week.

At the conclusion of the ceremony, BSB president Amira Alexander presented Giovanni with the 28th annual Role Model Leader Award. Past recipients include former Gov. James B. Hunt and Maya Angelou.

“Nikki is alike a lot of people in our country that we need to hear from, that inspire us, that remind us of our past, that motivate us to keep us focused on what’s right, and we have a lot we need to keep working on, not just here at NC State but around the country,” Woodson said.

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NCSU on the brink of a $1 billion endowment Jess Thomas Staff Writer

After years of fundraising and savvy investing, NC State is on the brink of reaching a $1 billion endowment.

Brian Sischo, vice chancellor of university advancement, said the reason for this tremendous growth in university funding has been a combination of new gifts to the endowment and a shrewd investment strategy.

The university’s endowment, or investment portfolio, earns money for the university over time. It is traditionally used to run day-to-day operations at the university as well as to provide funding for various student and faculty oppor-

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sexual assault, misconduct, substance abuse, diversity and inclusion.

“The review will ask us to really take a hard look and ask if that community is living the values that they clearly espouse to in their charters,” Woodson said.

Woodson offered no timeline for the review, stating the university wants to “do it right.”

“To have a lasting cultural change, you can’t administer that,” Woodson said. “You have to have students with buy in.”

Although he set no formal timeline, Woodson said he hopes to see the review come to serious conclusions before the end of the semester.

In a statement, Mullen said the university fully expects the Greek community to “embrace this challenge, raise the behavioral bar and work proactively to create the best Greek system possible.”

In conjunction with NC State’s decision, the national Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity announced it will no longer rec-

tunities.

The growth of the endowment can also mean availability for more things that students need, such as scholarships and financial aid.

“The larger the endowment, the more funds that are available for to support things that students care about, a large part of it going towards supporting scholarships and financial aid for current and future students,” Sischo said.

When Randy Woodson came to NC State in 2010, NC State’s endowment was at roughly $430 million. At the end of the last fiscal year, the endowment’s value had grown to about $885 million.

“In effect, the endowment has doubled since the Chan-

cellor’s arrival,” Sischo said.

Alumni gifts have been a critical factor in NC State’s endowment growth over the past few years, which have contributed approximately $185 million to the university in the past four years alone, Sischo said.

“We have roughly 200,000 alumni out there who care very much about the wellbeing of the university,” Sischo said.

Sischo said Woodson devotes a significant amount of his time to being involved with external constituencies and being active with alumni, donors and various corporations.

“What I and the chancellor will do is work very closely with individuals as well as

ognize the Tau Chapter as a facet of its organization.

“We appreciate the support and collaboration with the NC State administration,” Pi Kappa Phi CEO Mark E. Timmes said in a statement.

“Together, we acted quickly to address this situation and reaffirm our commitment to maintaining an environment where everyone feels safe, respected, and valued.”

Individual members of the fraternity will not receive additional disciplinary action or be subject to any university sanctions due to free speech clauses in the university’s Code of Conduct.

“Our Code of Conduct is very clear in terms of hate messages and derogatory messages that are not aimed at individuals,” Woodson said. “They are really an individual’s right.”

Although people have the right to free speech, Woodson said the university must hold communities associated with NC State to a higher standard.

“We have to hold a community to higher standards,” Woodson said. “The action is really against the fraternity itself and not against individuals.”

Max Copeland, the president of the Tau Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi, accepted responsibility for the book and apologized for its offensive content in a letter submitted to the Technician Sunday.

“These quotes were not intended to offend individuals or the community, but they are unacceptable by any means,” Copeland wrote.

“The quotes were in poor taste and show a lack of respect to our fellow students. This was truly unacceptable behavior on the part of our chapter’s members. Our behavior has brought anger and dismay to the NC State Community, and we accept responsibility.”

Woodson said the university chose three years because it allows the current students who may have contributed to the group’s problem to leave before members are eligible to reapply to return.

In response to the news of the book, the Interfraternity Council self-imposed alcohol cessation at social events in fraternities within the council IFC president John Stewart said all chapters will be required to re-evaluate their risk-management policies and create strategies to ad-

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lence on our campus and produced a PSA that featured more than 100 students.

The Student Senate is still advocating for the reduction of the amount of major-specific electives to allow students to have minors in majors that have limited free electives, such as the College of Engineering, College of Sciences, College

of Textiles.

Student Body President Rusty Mau has until April 2 to veto any of the legislation passed during the March 18 meeting and until April 6 to veto any legislation passed Wednesday.

Mau said that there are five bills from the meeting on March 18 that he has yet to decide whether to veto, sign, or pass without being signed.

And there may be more.

“So tonight is the last meeting so if I veto something it can’t be over-

corporations and foundations that have the capacity to support the university at a transformative level but also have an interest in doing so,” Sischo said.

Much of the university’s fundraising time is spent traveling to various locations to meet with different potential donors in addition to hosting engagement events in Talley Student Union and in the Chancellor’s Residence, according to Sischo.

“It’s a combination of those things that leads to the engagement of people in the life of the university,” Sischo said.

Sischo said the process by which endowments are grown is complicated and

it requires a combination of savvy investing as well as procuring gifts from donors and alumni.

“How it works is over time some donors will earmark their giving to the endowment, and those funds are set aside and invested by the university for investment return so that over time the endowment fund will grow,” Sischo said.

The UNC Board of Trustees established a minimal 4 percent spending rate for university endowments. The idea is to net more than that amount, which will then be put toward growing the endowment.

In the last fiscal year, the u n iversit y ’s i nvest ment return on all of its endow-

ments combined was 15.7 percent. Due to the spending cap, 4 percent of that was used toward the annual operating budget, and the remaining 11.7 percent was returned to the endowment.

Siddharth Vadakkeveedu, a senior studying biomedical engineering said with a larger endowment, there could be more opportunities for students to pursue their interests.

“I feel that if we have a larger endowment, there will be a larger amount of money that students will be able to use to pursue interests such as clubs, organizations and even funding their own projects,” Vadakkeveedu said.

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A pledge book belonging to a member of the Pi Kappa Phi - Tau Chapter was found at a restaurant near campus. The book contains racially and sexually charged comments and derogatory racial remarks.

dress problems that often occur at social events. IFC’s plan of action will involve trainings, evaluations and response plans.

The length of the alcohol cessation will vary depending on the chapter, Stewart said.

Additionally, IFC will be working with the Women’s Center in preparation for Sexual Assault and Prevention Awareness month to help promote inclusion and diversity among members, Steward said.

turned, I say that jokingly, but it is the truth,” Mau said. “Depending on what gets passed tonight, I’ll be vetoing at least one bill. There are just some things that I’m not necessarily excited about the direction that we’re heading in, and I think that we’re going away from our roots as an organization and some of the great things that we do and potentially causing more red tape for ourselves,” In particular, Mau said is concerned about the Appropriations

“IFC is committed to instilling a sense of unity and acceptance in our men,” Stewart said.

Woodson said the comments and views expressed in the book are completely inconsistent with NC State’s core values and called the discovery of the book a “gutcheck.”

“It made us realize that we have a lot of work to do here,” Woodson said.

The university also suspended its chapter of Alpha

Reform Act. The changes to appropriations haven’t received the due diligence of the Student Senate and the changes should be continued in the next session, Mau said.

“When representatives of the executive branch haven’t been directly contacted in a meeting or something that would allocated an additional five percent of the budget each year, I see that as a red flag,” Mau said. “I think it could be a really great idea, but I just don’t think we’ve done our

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The program consisted of three parts: an attire portion, where contestants attempted to personify their major, followed by a talent portion, where contestants demonstrated talents beyond crunching numbers.

The program concluded with a question portion, where each contestant was asked a question by the judges related to engineering.

Kat her i ne Freema n, a senior studying materials science and engineering, said the pageant was nerveracking.

“When we all got here it was all fun, and we all just had a good time,” Freeman

Tau Omega Friday. University Police released a WolfAlert about a reported sexual assault that happened at the house in early March.

The organization is currently under investigation by the university regarding allegations that one or more of the fraternity’s members were dealing drugs.

Woodson said Alpha Tau Omega is still under temporary suspension, and the investigation is still ongoing.

due diligence as a body.”

In the event of vetoes or crises, the Senate President is able to call the Senate from recess for a period up to one week for purposes of reconvening the body to repeal an executive veto.

Several bills, including the Crisis Pregnancy Center bill and the Appropriations Reform Act, will be reintroduced in the next session.

said.

For the attire portion of the show Freeman dressed up as a bottle of nail polish that, with the pull of a string, changed colors.

Freemen did a short dance for her talent portion and proceeded to ma ke ice cream on stage with liquid nitrogen, or as she called it, “Nano ice-cream.”

Laura Bottomley, the advisor for Society of Women Engineers said the pageant is all about busting stereotypes.

“The purpose of the pageant has always been to bust stereotypes of engineers as geeks or nerds or whatever insulting word people want to use,” Bottomley said.

“Engineers are the same as folks from every discipline with a wide range of inter-

ests, talents and passions.”

The Society of Women Engineers has almost 500 members and emphasizes career development, interview and resume preparation, networking and internships.

Meagan Raviele, a sophomore studying computer and electrical engineering and the Philanthropy Chair of the Society of Women Engineers, was largely responsible for organizing Crown the Engineer.

Rav iele sa id t he society started preparing for Crown the Engineer in the fall, getting a committee together and choosing dates.

In the spring semester the committee planed all the advertising and logistics of the pageant.

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The President is a person, too.

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t’s a common practice to assume that a person’s occupation is their entire identity. It is fairly typical for a first encounter with someone to primarily consist of asking what the person does for a living and conversing about his or her job.

We all encounter this on a daily baAnnie Grant sis. As students, we Staff Columnist frequently ask others what their majors are and then pigeonhole them in a certain stereotype associated with their specific major or college.

Because it’s common to make these types of associations, it is important to remember that identity

is not solely defined by occupation.

As unusual or difficult as it might be to accept, this also includes those in political offices.

Whoever holds the office of U.S. president deals with being defined by his occupation to an extreme degree. This is not necessarily ‘right,’ though, and can be harmful to the way society views those holding presidential office.

It is easy to think of him as “the president” and nothing else. When we classify others only by their occupation, especially the President of the United States, it can lead to their dehumanization.

Many people view the president and other political office holders as merely entities existing only to serve the interests of others. While

this is part of their job, it can be harmful to view them solely as public servants and then become disappointed when they fail to live up to the expectations placed on them.

Although the job is a major factor in a president’s identity, it is not their entire identity and people should be mindful of this.

When we dehumanize the president, or other political figures, we decrease them to simply a means for accomplishing personal wishes or desires. It does not usually stop there either.

Because people only view the president as a tool to meet their own needs, once he implements policies that go against their ideologies, it is easy for them to clas-

sify him with complete negativity.

People on a daily basis describe past presidents, and the current one, as radical, evil and a person who wants to destroy the country.

Measuring success becomes black and white solely based on an individual’s opinions.

Consider President Obama.

While you consider him, disregard your opinion of whether or not he has done a “good” or “bad” job in office.

As hard as it is for us to disassociate him from his title, sometimes it is necessary to view him simply as a human being. He is a person with his own ideology, passions, strengths and weaknesses. It’s impractical to expect him to accomplish everything we want him

to accomplish in the way we deem best. If we view him as simply a person with his individual beliefs, it is easier to respect him and not expect him to move mountains.

This is not to say that President Obama is allowed to do as he pleases without question or criticism. But when criticizing him, or any past president, be sure to remember he’s only capable of doing what any human can do and nothing more. He was elected with the hope that he would serve the country well and help it to benefit in the long term. Sure, disagree with his politics, but give him the chance to be a human, apart from his also being the president.

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ur phones go every where with us. From the moment we wake up to the seconds before we go to sleep, these little supercomputers are the only things we keep with us all day.

But while they’re entertaining and useful in a number of ways, there should be a time and place where we Tyler Gobin put down our phones.

Staff Columnist Mo bi le phone s’ endless options understandably make them hard to put down. From social media to games and everything in between, phones can honestly do too much. Because of the endless options, we spend an average of 2 hours and 57 minutes on our phones per day while the old average for TV usage was 2 hours and 48 minutes, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And that statistic shot up very fast, very recently.

As early as 2012, the daily usage of mobile phones was only 109 minutes.

That has increased by an hour in less than 3 years. What caused the dramatic inflection?

Well the increase in app time almost solely can be blamed. In just the past ten months app time increased by almost 10 percent according to the BLS. There are more apps than people know what to do with, but let us think about phone usage in another way.

The time spent on smartphones shot up by more than an hour in less than three years, which also means the time spent doing other things has decreased by more than an hour in less than three years.

Understandably, it’s not an exact swap. Some of things we previously did on other platforms are now available on our phones, so the swap is incidental. We check email more often on our

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phones now, we can keep up with our bank balance and transfer money and we can browse the internet seamlessly because websites are required to have a mobile version. Therefore, the swap is almost meaningless and just a swap from one screen to another, but some of that time is still being taken away from other areas.

We spend less time exercising, less time sleeping, less time doing work and most importantly less time with our phone down. We’ve become too attached and it has consequences that we can’t fully understand yet.

What is going to happen to the communication skills of the generations who grow up with a phone in their diaper? How will all this screen time affect them? We can’t say, because it’s impossible to know. Only time will tell. The grammar and writing skills of our generation have already been shown to be negatively affected by all the tweets, texts and posts.

The funny thing is, we look forward to vacations where we can put the phone down. A vacation on an island or a camping trip in the forest. Some place where Wi-Fi or data doesn’t exist. Somewhere to regain some bearing and get a hold of yourself.

But why does it take some secluded area to put our phones down? We might not be able to spare an entire day, but start with a couple hours. The most important place we can start is when we’re with friends.

Good relationships take attention and effort, so stop wasting the time and effort on reddit or Instagram. Instead of learning some meaningless junk from people across the country posting about their cat, learn something about the families of the friends sitting across from you. It will benefit you and those around you in more ways than one.

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Re: Fireworks Why should we legalize consumer fireworks here in North Carolina? It is an issue of personal responsibility. One representative here in North Carolina is currently working on a bill to legalize consumer fireworks. Fireworks here in North Carolina should be legalized because the government should not take away our right to enjoy fireworks.

Can Duke Energy accept responsibility already?

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n March 10, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources fined Duke Energy $25.1 million for the corporation’s pollution of groundwater at the Sutton power plant. And what is the company’s answer to this indictment? Deny, deny, deny. The Mary Anna company plans Rice to “vigorously Assistant contest” this fine.

Opinion Editor Imagine a child crying because their sibling has a telling bruise, and they know they will get in trouble. If they are crying along with their sibling, they think they will be subject to less punishment.

Duke Energy’s culpability in the charges filed is seemingly undeniable. Evidences of the company’s absurd, almost decadent amounts of contamination have piled up over the last year, and the whole extensiveness of the pollution is still not entirely known. The Dan River coal ash spill of February 2014 drew apparently unwelcome attention to Duke Energy’s many sites of ash pollution, one of which includes Wilmington’s Sutton power plant.

Duke Energy’s suspect actions don’t end here; in addition to the immense magnitude of the contamination, Duke has a certain history of endeavoring to cover up its illegal tracks. The company spent $1.8 million on a new water supply line near Sutton when test

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It is a personal responsibility issue because just like other rights we have, we have a right to it, but we still need to treat it responsibly. Fireworks are the same way. Enjoy consumer fireworks, but at the same time, be responsible with them. Another reason? Another reason is that it would provide some jobs with firework stores as well.

Philip Jones senior studying computer science

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wells indicated toxic groundwater was heading toward a neighborhood in late 2013. Though an estimate of 27 million gallons of water were contaminated by various metals in the Dan River spill, Duke Energy did not release a public statement regarding the spill until the next day, according to CatawbaRiverkeeper.com.

Paul Newton, Duke Energy’s North Carolina president, proclaimed the actions by the N.C. DENR to be an example of “regulatory overreach” as well as a “chilling message to the North Carolina business community.”

Note how Newton attempts to ground Duke Energy’s effective monopoly as the “largest electric power holding company in the United States” by pointedly mentioning North Carolina’s “business community,” as though he may rightly lay claim to the troubles confronted by small businesses—troubles that are frequently initiated by corporations like Duke Energy.

How nice! He’s suddenly concerned for us commoners— those whose water his company quite literally poisoned. North Carolina’s business community was likely threatened to a larger extent by the vast amounts of contaminated water than by the N.C. DENR’s charges against a (proven) guilty party that can more than afford it.

It may be hard to assign a monetary value to the various implications of the company’s extensive pollution—the coal ash elements found in testing sites at

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Duke Energy’s Sutton plant had exceeded state standards for up to five years—but $25.1 million seems like a more than fair amount for the prosperous corporation to pay in reparations.

Duke Energy can most definitely afford it.

Though the effectiveness of fining polluting companies (many of which are repeat offenders) is an oft debated topic, I am more concerned with Duke Energy’s posthumous self-positioning as the victim, especially considering that Duke just last month negotiated a $102 million settlement in response to its federal criminal charges concerning six of its power plants.

A business that intentionally disobeys sanctions instituted to help ensure our safety cannot be a victim. Though Duke Energy is eager to claim “community” and play the “We didn’t mean to!” card, we shouldn’t be so eager to go along with the ruse.

Duke Energy is yet another bullying, abusive corporation that dares to contest its own vices contrary to evidence and contrary to the basics of human decency. And why? To preserve an image that they regularly contradict.

Large businesses have behaved like impetuous children for years upon years, and we should at some point stop giving in to their whining. Although they may have poisoned the well, we don’t have to continue to drink from it.

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Studying southern dialects Kevin Schaefer Associate Features Editor

Erik Thomas has had a knack for vowels ever since his youth.

A linguistics professor within NC State’s English department, Thomas is now one of the world’s leading experts on American dialects.

Born and raised in Ohio, Thomas came to NC State in 1995 after acquiring his doctorate at the University of Texas. Walt Wolfram, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English Linguistics at NC State, said that Thomas was the first person he hired back when the program was still in its early stages. He said that Thomas has probably analyzed more vowels and dialects than anyone in the world.

“He’s the foremost sociophonetician in the country,” Wolfram said.

Wolfram described sociophonetics as the relationship between the production of acoustics of sound and its relation to social status, which includes region, ethnicity and social classes.

What began as a childhood interest in word pronunciations developed over time into a lifelong career. Thomas said that his main area of interest deals with how language variation overlaps with phonetics.

“I’ve been interested in phonetics and pronunciation since I was a kid,” Thomas said. “It had been kind of a side interest throughout my time in high school when I got into it a little bit. When I got into college I found out about all the dialect research that had been done. That gave my interest a big spark.”

After teaching himself the International Phonetic Alphabet when he was in high school, he said he then started taking foreign language classes, where he learned about the grammatical features of language.

Thomas was recently interviewed in a Vox.com article regarding the bizarre southern accent of Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood on “House of Cards.”

Stating that the actor’s take on

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southern dialects is rather unrealistic, Thomas said that southern accent features in more urban areas are diminishing.

“What we’re seeing now is the big urban centers are losing their southern accent features,” he said. “Younger people in rural areas still acquire southern accents, although it’s often not as strong as their parents’ or grandparents’.

We are seeing an urban rural split within the south. How long that’ll remain is a good question.

We’ll have to see about that.”

With dozens of research publications over the course of his career, Thomas often collaborates on books and papers with graduate students and other professors. In 2002, he and Wolfram wrote a book on the development of African-American speech, in which they studied an area in Hyde County in Ocracoke.

“We ended up focusing on how African Americans in the county spoke and how it was related to the local white vernacular,” he said.

Thomas said that through this research, he and Wolfram discovered key grammatical differences

among these groups of people.

“My part was mostly on looking at the vowels,” he said. “The vowels were where there was a lot of assimilation between the two groups. Although you started to see some difference among younger generations. Some individuals would use exactly like the whites, and others like African Americans in other parts of the south.”

Thomas is currently working on a project on Mexican-American English in a community in southern Texas. He said that the focus is on what happens when you have influence from another language on an ethnic group and how the dialect develops as a result. This project will look at how an ethnic dialect develops out of this whole situation and what kinds of complexities exist.

Wolfram said that when he hired Thomas, Thomas’s mentor was a friend of his and recommended him.

“Hiring him was a godsend,” Wolfram said. “He’s really patient with students with the skills and expertise, he’ll sit with them for hours and teach them how to

measure vowels. He’s really an amazing colleague.”

Both Thomas and Wolfram agree that exposure to linguistics even before college would benefit students greatly.

“I think linguistics should be taught in high school simply for the reason that it’s so critical to language and there are so many misconceptions about how language is structured,” Wolfram said.

Thomas said that earlier exposure to linguistics would help with any kind of foreign language instruction.

“The public, in general, tends to get fed the notion that ‘the standard’ is the language and we linguists tend to say ‘standard is just another dialect and there’s nothing sacred about it,’” he said. “In a way, we want students to understand that they don’t need to take the standard as seriously as they’re always taught to. It has its place, but there are limits to it.”

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Talley Student Union to host student art purchase Noah Russ Correspondent

NC State has developed an exciting new program for student artists to earn money and recognition.

On April 7 from 3:00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. in the Talley Student Union, Arts NC State will host their first ever student art purchase.

Student artists will have the opportunity to submit up to two works to be purchased by other students, faculty members and the general public.

This is the f irst public art sale held at NC State; however, the new program

is a direct offshoot of an already existing program of the university. In 2001, NC State began to hold an annual contest to showcase artistic talent around campus. The contest focused on visual art such as drawings, paintings and sculptures.

Students from any college were able to submit their artwork into the contest.

After each student’s piece was reviewed by a jury of five to six judges, around five pieces of art were purchased by the university for display around campus.

These works can now be seen and enjoyed in venues such as the Witherspoon

Student Center, the Student Health Center and eventually the new Talley Student Union.

T his contest has seen large-scale grow th since its inception. Since 2001, the school has purchased 128 pieces of student art.

At that time, only 10 works of art were entered into the contest, but recent years’ entries have increased to nearly 50 pieces of art.

The increasing number of entries and the overall quality of the entries caused many excellent works of art to be rejected for purchase by the university.

“I felt bad that some very

good art was not purchased by the universit y,” A my Sawyers, the Coordinator of Arts Outreach for Arts NC State, said.

Sawyers also became concerned that the university’s art purchase would need to be decreased due to limited areas to display the art, meaning even more great pieces would have to be rejected.

Fortunately, students and faculty members began to express interest in purchasing student artwork. This became the spark for the new public art sale.

The student art purchase w i l l be conduc ted ver y

similarly to the original contest. Students will bring their art to Talley Student Union on Apri l 7 f rom 9:00 a.m. to noon. During the three hours of the sale, anyone will able to view and purchase the art. Students will be notified if their art is purchased later in the day.

The university still plans on buying at least one student art piece for its permanent collection. Roger Manley, the interim vice provost and director of the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, will select this piece.

Though excited, Sawyers does not know what to expect for the upcoming art

sale.

“I do not know if 50 or 200 art pieces will come in or how many people will come to purchase them,” Sawyers said.

Saw yers hopes that the new format for the student art sale will allow more students to receive hardea rned recog nit ion a nd honor for their art.

“This art sale is unique a nd specia l because we don’t have a major in visual art but we still support our student artists,” Saw yers said.

Mock trial team keeps an eye on national tournament Alexandra Goodfred Correspondent

Pretending isn’t just reserved for theatre students at NC State.

The Mock Trial Team competed in a regional competition late February that feeds into the national competition. There were 20 schools present at the regional competition, which took place at the Durham County Courthouse and was hosted by

UNC-Chapel Hill.

The Mock Trial Team began five years ago to educate students on the importance of trial advocacy in a courtroom. Though it did well at the regional tournament this year, team president and junior in political science Aaron Vodicka would like to see further progress next time around.

“My goal in the long run is to make it past the regional tournament and make it to

the opening round of the championship, because that is considered part of the national tournament,” Vodicka said.

At the beginning of the year, the team receives a packet from the American Mock Trial Association that contains the case information it will be using for their imitation court case. The team receives all of the information it would get if it were preparing for a real trial—the affidavit

of different people involved in the case, the rules and different kinds of evidence.

“I think it is loosely based on a real case,” Alex Fleming, Mock Trial Team member and senior studying history, said. “This year it was about two kids playing with a gun and the gun ended up going off and killing one of the kids.

We assign different roles, they can be a witness or an attorney, then we go to competitions and compete with other

teams.”

The competing teams must prepare for both the defense and prosecuting sides of the case and must perform for four rounds with two judges per round. The team this year won its first trial and walked away with two rounds won.

Though the team has done well so far, there are challenges that come with competing.

“The challenges I can think of are things like how do you prepare a case, and how do

you make an argument of something that you were just given,” Fleming said.

“You read all these facts and all this data and you have to figure out how do you make a case upon that. Also, being consistent in mock trials and creating a theme throughout your case.”

Vodicka also said that there is a problem figuring out how to recruit students. The team is done meeting for this year and will open up tryouts

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‘What’s in a name?’

PRELIMINARY RESULTS FIND GENDER BIAS IN STUDENT FEEDBACK TOWARD INSTRUCTORS Sam Roberson Staff Writer

Every semester, thousands of students at NC State fill out ratings for their professors. Perhaps even more look at the ratings of their future professors on Rate My Professor, a popular site where anonymous users rank their instructors for everyone to see. NC State researchers are conducting a study to find if a difference exists in how male and female professors are rated at the end of their courses.

It has long been speculated that students will have differing perceptions toward their professors based on gender.

Benjamin M. Schmidt, an assistant history professor at Northeastern University created a tool that charts words used to describe instructors on Rate My Professor and sorts them by field and gender. The word “genius” is used to describe males almost twice as often as female professors, whereas the word “bossy” is attributed to females significantly more than their male colleagues.

“There’s still the perception that the true authority figure is a masculine authority figure and students inevitably bring that perception with them because the ultimate authority in our culture is overwhelmingly male,” Deborah A. Hooker, the director of the Women’s and Gender Studies at NC State, said.

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next fall using the same case it used in the regionals this year.

“We haven’t established our recruiting practice quite yet and so that is something we have had to figure out year to year so far, and then the orga-

Many studies have been carried out to examine a difference in reviews for genders on sites like Rate My Professor and traditional classrooms. When Lillian MacNell, a doctoral candidate in sociology at NC State, came up with her study, she was not primarily focused on gender inequality, but was inspired by her own experience teaching.

“I noticed a lot of student emails challenged my decisions or going over my head to talk to a course instructor,” MacNell said.

MacNell later vented to male colleagues, only to find they had no such problem and students rarely challenged their decisions. While talking with Adam Driscoll, who earned his doctorate degree in sociology at NC State, the idea came up to obscure gender through teaching an online class under a male name.

“At first we joked about her doing an online class as a male to get away from the challenges,” Driscoll said.

“We realized we could do it in an analytical sense.”

The research study consisted of one male and female professor teaching the same material for an online class. Each professor used a male name for one group and a female for another. In this way, the interaction with each gender could be examined using the exact same person as some students believed

the instructor to be male and others female.

“There’s a number of welldone studies done before on gender bias in the classroom, but they can’t abstract that bias from the actual gender of the professor,” Driscoll said.

With the only difference being the students’ perception of the instructor’s gender, differences could be observed in a controlled environment. Upon completion of the course, the students rated their instructor using a 1-5 scale of their traits.

The results yielded higher rankings for a perceived male instructor, regardless of their gender for all traits. While this points to a bias against female instructors, the sample size study was only able to cover 43 students.

“The results are interesting and important, but we do see this as a pilot study,” MacNell said.

It had always been a challenge to study gender in a classroom as even when comparing male and female professors, studies were still comparing two different teaching styles along with the gender. The research model used in the study is a cleaner method as the interaction would be genuinely with the same instructor with the only difference being gender perception.

It also stands out by producing numerical, quantitative results with aggregated scores of instructors in a field

were qualitative results are prevalent.

With the paper, “What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of

Teaching,” now published in the Innovative Higher Education journal, MacNell hopes to carry out further studies in more courses to gain a greater

perspective on the issue.

“It is a small study and I hope bigger ones are carried out because of it,” MacNell said.

nization of it—having to find a room for everyone to meet in to figuring out when everybody can meet, and figuring out what AMTA requires of us,” Vodicka said.

Though there may be organizational problems to tackle throughout the year, the team concentrates primarily on the presentation of their case.

“It is kind of like competitive, elaborate story telling—

we are given all this random stuff and have to figure out how do we make something out of this. I think that is one of the biggest challenges,” Fleming said.

For all the challenges the Mock Trial Team presents, the rewards are plent y.

Fleming and Vodicka agree the team gives participants a chance to practice a range of skills. Vodicka, who plans to

take the LSAT this September, finds the team to be good practice for law school seeing as he will have to do mock trials there as well.

“I usually tell people it’s really the only place where you can get actual trial experience as an undergraduate student,” Vodicka said.

Fleming notes that while the team does provide practice for those intending to go

to law school, it does have other benefits. The Mock Trial Team allows students to practice public speaking, learn about the law and learn to think on their feet.

“Almost everybody joins because they want to eventually go to law school. This definitely changed my mind on law school— obviously in good ways. I just feel I wasn’t the best at it and that it wasn’t

for me,” Fleming said.

Fleming joined the Mock Trial Team last year and found that she did not want to go to law school, but decided to continue with the team. Fleming said that the Mock Trial Team allowed her to think outside of the box more and develop her teamwork skills.

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Wolfpack hunts Owls in WNIT third-round clash Daniel Lacy Staff Writer

Coming off convincing victories in the first two rounds of the 2015 Women’s National Invitation Tournament, the NC State women’s basketball team enters a third round matchup against the Temple Owls in Philadelphia.

The Wolfpack (18-14, 7-9 ACC) jump-started the tournament with a strong second half performance against East Tennessee State to coast to a comfortable 73-58 victory.

However, the second round was a different story, as it relied on a late comeback from an eight-point secondhalf deficit to scrape by East Carolina in a 69-65 victory.

In the first round victory against the Bucs, secondyear NC State head coach Wes Moore earned his 600th career win and now holds a 601191 (.759) all-time record.

NC State’s top performer so far in this tournament has been sophomore guard Miah Spencer, who combined for 49 points in the pair of victo-

ries, including a career-high 26 points against the Pirates.

She shot a combined 17-for32 from the field in those games and led the team with four assists in each game.

Another key performer has been sophomore forward Jennifer Mathurin, who has been dominant on the glass en route to a combined 24 rebounds, with half of those being on the offensive end of the court. Mathurin scored eight and 10 points in those games, respectively.

In its first two rounds of the WNIT, Temple (18-16, 12-6 American) has seen mixed levels of play. The Owls started off with a convincing 67-54 victory over Marist but were forced to squeeze by Penn behind 37 second-half points to come away with a 61-56 victory.

The Owls’ leading scorer on the season is freshman guard Alliya Butts, who is averaging 12.1 points per game and is shooting 33.2 percent from the field on the season. She scored a mere two points on 1-for-7 from the field in the

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first round against Marist but countered that with a teamhigh 12-point performance in the second round against Penn.

Another Temple player to look out for is junior guard Erica Covile, who averages 11.6 points and a team-leading 8.4 rebounds per game.

She has played in all but four minutes of the first two rounds of the WNIT and combined for a team-high 28 points in those games.

The key for the Wolfpack will be to slow these two dynamic scorers down. Against Penn., the duo combined for an abysmal 8-for-26 from the field, forcing the pair into taking tough or awkward shots would be a good start for the Wolfpack.

While neither team is particularly elite in shooting from the field, NC State holds a slight advantage, as it shoots 38.4 percent from the field and 32.6 percent from three point range compared to the Owls’ 36.8 and 32.1 percent, respectively.

Another advantage the

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Wolfpack has is that it plays in what head coach Wes Moore has consistently referred to as the strongest conference in the nation: the ACC. NC State has faced seven conference rivals that ended the season with 10 losses or fewer, winning one of those games,

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Pack to battle Cards for Elite Eight Zack Tanner

Moye named ACC Performer of the Week Redshirt sophomore Megan Moye was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Outdoor Performer of the Week, the ACC office announced Tuesday. Moye earned All-American honors in the distance medley relay at the NCAA Indoor Championships March 13-14 and placed first this past weekend in the women’s 800m at the Dennis Craddock Carolina Relays in Chapel Hill. Her time of 2:09.34 is good enough for first in the ACC and sixth nationally. This was Moye’s first time receiving “Performer of the Week” honors.

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Women’s soccer ready for weekend exhibitions

The NC State women’s soccer team heads to Advance, North Carolina for a pair of friendlies against South Carolina and Wake Forest in the Southern Soccer Showcase. The Wolfpack has started its spring exhibition season off strongly, posting a pair of victories in its first two games. The Pack defeated Campbell 2-1 at the end of February and East Carolina 1-0 Sunday. Junior forward Caroline Gentry scored the Pack’s goal off an assist from sophomore forward Jackie Stengel, who was injured the majority of the 2014 season.

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Cat Barber apologizes to Obama

After being caught on camera using profanity in regards to President Barack Obama after NC State’s victory over the No. 1 seeded Villanova, sophomore guard Anthony ‘Cat’ Barber apologized to Obama via email Tuesday. Barber’s rant went viral on social media after being caught on TBS cameras. His profanity was used in response to the president picking Villanova to go to the Final Four in his NCAA Tournament bracket.

Head coach Mark Gottfried said that Barber’s comments were “in the heat of the moment,” but he still wanted the guard to apologize. Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who graduated from NC State in 1993, helped Barber get in touch with the president to issue the apology.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “We have a

great challenge.

We have to get over that hurdle and beat a team twice and do it in the Sweet 16.”

Mark Gottfried Head men’s basketball coach

ATHLETIC SCHEDULE Today WOMEN’S BASKETBALL WNIT THIRD ROUND @ TEMPLE Philadelphia, P.A., 7:00 p.m.

SWIMMING AND DIVING MEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Iowa City, Iowa, All Day Friday WOMEN’S GOLF LSU GOLF CLASSIC LSU Golf Course, Baton Rouge, La. All Day SWIMMING & DIVING MEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Iowa City, Iowa, All Day TRACK RALEIGH RELAYS Raleigh, N.C., All Day BASEBALL VS. PITTSBURG Raleigh, N.C., 3:00 p.m.

Assistant Sports Editor

The curtain has not yet closed on the NC State men’s basketball team’s 2015 NCAA Tournament run, and after fighting through two high-powered opponents, the Pack now has a date with 4-seed Louisville in the Sweet 16 Friday.

The 8-seed Wolfpack is quite familiar with Rick Pitino’s squad, having run the Cardinals out of their own gym on Valentine’s Day. The 74-65 loss was Louisville’s worst defeat at home up to that point in the season; not even Kentucky beat the Cards as bad as State did.

Despite the win earlier in the season, NC State head coach Mark Gottfried knows that Friday’s contest will not simply be a repeat of the teams’ regular season battle.

“We have a great challenge,” Gottfried said. “We have to play a team that we’ve already beat once, and that’s kind of the hurdle for us.

We have to get over that hurdle and beat a team twice, a good team, and do it in the Sweet 16.”

The Pack’s win at the KFC Yum! Center came at a crucial point in its season. When Gottfried’s crew made the trip to the Bluegrass State, the team was 14-11, having dropped five of its past six contests, and was desperately trying to find a way to sneak into the Big Dance.

The rest is history. State has since won eight of its past 10 games, knocking off basketball giants such as UNC-Chapel Hill and most recently, Tourney 1-seed Villanova.

The elevated play of Anthony ‘Cat’ Barber has been a huge factor in the Pack’s recent success.

The point guard has scored double digits in each of the Pack’s last eight wins, while totaling just eight points in the two losses.

Barber and the Pack’s high-volume guards will look to overcome a Louisville backcourt which has changed drastically since the teams’ last meeting.

Senior guard Chris Jones was re-

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Redshirt junior guard Trevor Lacey shoots a three-pointer at the buzzer to end the first half of NC State’s 3rd round game of the NCAA Tournament against Villanova Saturday. Lacey had 17 points in the Wolfpack’s 71-68 win over the No. 1 seed Wildcats at CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh.

leased from the team Feb. 22 after violating team rules. In February, Barber and Jones dueled for the entire game, netting 21 and 20 points, respectively.

The ex-Cardinal has been replaced by freshman Quentin Snider, who has averaged 13 points per game in the Tournament so far. Snider and second-team all-ACC selection Terry Rozier make the Louisville backcourt a worthy opponent for State’s star guards.

“They’ve figured out how to play and play well without a guy like Jones,” Gottfried said. “I also think we’re a little bit different. I think we’re a little bit better and we’re defending really well right now.”

The true power of Louisville comes from its post play. Second team All-ACC selection Montrezl Harrell has averaged just over 15 points and nine rebounds per contest.

Harrell is the heart and soul of this Louisville team. When he doesn’t perform well, the team suffers greatly. For example, against 13-seed UC-Irvine, Harrell scored a meager eight points and grabbed only four boards, and the Cards nearly suffered a second-round upset.

“We have to slow him down,” Pack forward Abdul-Malik Abu said of Harrell. “We feel like his offensive skillset is one where if he’s comfortable, he’ll be a dangerous player.

We have to do our best to lock him down.”

Against the Pack in February, the combination of Abu and Lennard Freeman limited Louisville star big man to seven points on 1-for-5 shooting. The State bigs will need to duplicate this performance in order to take down the Cards.

Thankfully, Abu and Freeman are coming off arguably their best performance of the season. Against

Villanova, the duo combined for 24 points and 24 rebounds and held the Wildcats’ 6-foot-11 Daniel Ochefu to four points on 1-for-7 shooting.

It has been well documented that the Pack reaches another level of play when it has control of the interior. State is 11-2 when outscoring the other team in the painted area, which includes the team’s wins over Duke, Villanova and Louisville.

“The good news is right now, all four of those interior guys are all helping us in different ways, Gottfried said. “You have the LSU game, and you think of the spark Kyle gave us. That’s important for us.”

At this point in the Tournament, a win will not simply come down to one or two players, but the entire team. The Pack has shown that balance in its past two games, but will need another great team performance to take down the Cards and advance to the Elite Eight.

SWIMMING & DIVING

NC State dives into NCAA competition Justine Turley Staff Writer

Fresh off an undefeated season and an ACC Championship title, the NC State men’s swimming team will begin competition today in Iowa City, Iowa for the NCAA Championship meet.

This season, the Pack proved itself as a top program in the country and, with one championship already in the books, boasts a strong presence to push for more silverware at the NCAAs. “They’ve had some success the last two years at NCAAs being top 15,” head coach Braden Holloway said about his team. “They’re going to have many more opportunities to score. We have more individual opportunities besides relays. I think they know, ‘why stop now?’ Let’s just have the year they dream about.”

Fourteen swimmers will represent the Pack inside the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center at the University of Iowa, led by seniors Stephan Coetzer, David Williams and John Newell.

Joining them are juniors Simonas Bilis, Jason Deana and Christian McCurdy; sophomores Soren Dahl, Andreas Schiellerup, Adam Linker and Derek Hren; and freshmen Ben Cono, Ryan Held, Anton Ipsen and Hennessey Stuart.

Freshman Harrison Mitchell also represented NC State at the NCAA Zone B Diving Championships in Athens, Georgia, March 9-11.

The swimming program has picked up speed and intensity since Hollo-

way’s first season as head coach four years ago. Last season, NC State finished within the top 15, in 13th place, with California, Texas and Florida placing at the top. The Pack has higher goals for this year; however, especially after the team’s dominant performance at the ACC Championship.

According to NCAA rankings, NC State is ranked seventh heading into the national championships. The top competitors for the Wolfpack include the number one ranked Texas, California, Georgia, Florida and Michigan, who finish out the top five teams, respectively.

The Wolfpack relay teams have been a strong point for NC State all season, especially at the ACC Championships where the men won four out the five relays.

Other notable events for the upcoming meet are the freestyle sprint events where the 2015 ACC Most Valuable Swimmer of the meet, Simonas Bilis, has dominated throughout the season. Both Bilis and his teammate Ryan Held will sprint for the Pack in the 100-yard free, where Bilis is ranked No. 3 and Held at No. 9.

McCurdy had a great 2014 NCAA showing as he placed fourth overall in the 200- butterfly and currently holds the seventh seed entering this year’s National Championship.

Newcomers Ipsen and Stuart enter the meet for NC State coming off strong debuts in the ACC Championships. Ipsen has dominated distance events this season, and swept the ACC distance events.

The Birkenrod, Denmark, native will look to continue his top-drawer

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Freshman Hennessey Stuart launches off of the starting block at the start of the 100yd backstroke during NC State’s meet with Minnesota Jan. 23 at the Casey Aquatic Center. Stuart finished the event with a first-place time of 47.50 and also claimed first-place finishes in the 200yd backstroke and the 400yd medley relay. Both the No. 8 men’s (201-127) and No. 16 women’s teams (189-145) recorded victories over the Golden Gophers.

performances on the national level as a No. 7 seed in both of his events. Stuart enters his NCAA introduction as a No. 2 seed for the 200-backstroke after claiming the ACC title in the event.

The meet will consist of three days of competition with both preliminary and finals sessions each day. Prelims begin at 11:00 a.m., while finals start

at 7:00 p.m.

The Wolfpack has earned the ACC Championship title 25 times in the program’s history, with this year’s win after a 23-year championship dry spell, which could spell good news for the team at the NCAAs.