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The results for Student Government 2015-2016 elections will be announced tonight at 9:30 p.m. in the Talley Governance Chambers. Voting ends at 8 p.m. Students can find a link to vote online on the NC State Student Government’s website. Positions announced will include student Body President/vice president (joint ticket), student senate president, student body treasurer, student body chief justice, senior class president, union activities president, student centers board of directors president, student centers board of directors (four seats), student media board of directors (three seats) and student senate (64 seats).

$4 million in gold stolen from truck in armed robbery

Three gunmen reportedly robbed a truck of more than $4 million worth of gold near Wilson, North Carolina, on Interstate 95 Sunday night. Two armed security guards, who told authorities they worked for TransValue Inc. in Miami, said they were transporting a truckload of gold from Florida to Massachusetts when they had to pull the truck over because of mechanical problems. Three armed men driving a white truck reportedly approached the truck, ordered the guards to get on the ground, tied their hands behind their backs and told them to march into nearby woods. While the guards were bound in the woods, the gunmen took several barrels of gold from the truck and fled the scene. Local and federal authorities are still searching for the gunmen and the stolen gold.

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The popular dating app Tinder released a premium version this week in 140 countries where users will be able to use special features if they pay a monthly fee. However, not every premium user will pay the same price; user age will determine the price he or she pays. Tinder Plus is charging users in the U.S. $9.99 per month for premium access if they are under the age of 30.

Older users (anyone over 30) pay $19.99 per month for the same service. Two new features are available for Tinder Plus users: Rewind and Passport.

The Rewind feature allows users to undo their last swipe in case of an accidental mistake.

The Passport feature allows users to set their own locations, giving users the ability to match with people in other parts of the world instead of just users in their area.

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Gavin Harrison, a senior studying biological engineering running for student body president and Meredith Mason, a junior studying elementary education running for vice president, respond to questions at the Diversity Debate held in Harrelson Hall Monday night. The questions asked ranged from promoting gender equality to initiatives they would take to ensure equality and safety of minority communities in the university.

SG candidates debate diversity as polls open Inez Nicholson Assistant News Editor

Candidates running for student body president, vice president, student senate president and treasurer debated topics related to diversity Monday evening, including racial, economic, and religious and LGBT diversity at NC State.

Just one hour before polls officially opened, more than 20 people gathered in Harrelson Hall to hear the debates, including students, Student Government members and support-

ers of the candidates.

The debate began with the three tickets for student body president and student body vice president, following a separate debate that included student body treasurer candidates and student senate president candidates.

Each student body president candidate was asked how they planned on implementing diversity on campus. The candidates include Chris Becker, a senior studying philosophy and mathematics, Gavin Harrison, a senior studying biological engineering, and Khari Cyrus, a senior studying biological sciences.

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The NC State Campus Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house this weekend.

Campus Police Chief Jack Moorman said a person reported the sexual assault happened early Sunday morning at the fraternity house at 1402 Varsity Drive.

Because the investigation is ongoing, Moorman said the authorities cannot release more information at this time, including the victim’s gender or whether or not the victim was a student.

“If the victim is a student, we want to do everything we can to protect the identity of the survivor,” Moorman said.

“We don’t want to release any information that might help people discover the identity of that student.”

Moorman said authorities are continuing to interview people.

“At this point in time, there is not a lot of information for us to release,” Moorman said. “But one thing that is important for students to know is any allegation or report is something that we take very seriously.”

University Police sent out a WolfAlert email notifying the entire NC State community of the reported incident at about 1:30 a.m. Monday.

In addition to the criminal investigation, Moorman said Campus Police are working in conjunction with the Office of Student Conduct to ensure the university is aware of any information Campus Police find that may also violate NC State’s Code of Student Conduct.

Although other news outlets have reported the incident occurred at a party at the fraternity house, Moorman said University Police are not referring to it as a party because many people interpret the term party differently “To some people a party might be an official universitysanctioned event, and to some people it might not be,” Moorman said. “What we can say is that it occurred in the house there.”

The assault was originally reported to the Raleigh Police Department but the case was handed over to Campus Police once the RPD determined it was in University Police’s jurisdiction.

University plans to create more faculty clusters Gavin Stone Staff Writer

The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program, the program responsible for forming interdisciplinary clusters at NC State, is accepting proposals for a second round of clusters, which could result in the formation of four to six additional clusters and addition of approximately 15 to 20 new faculty members.

The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program (CFEP) was founded in 2011 to challenge complex societal problems by hiring groups of interdisciplinary researchers to address them in a new way. More than 70 proposals were submitted, and in 2012, 17 interdisciplinary groups of faculty, or clusters, were selected and allowed to hire new members to their research team, according to the program’s website.

In his fall address, Woodson announced that, based on the success of the first round of cluster hires, the CFEP would be accepting a second round of proposals. Each cluster will submit a final proposal with recommendations for hiring three to four faculty members, at any rank, who the cluster thinks will be effective at advancing the national prominence of the research group. The CFEP second round deadline for submitting a proposal is Friday.

The first round of cluster hires began in February 2012 with the goal of hiring 42 new faculty members with interdisciplinary talents.

So far, 35 positions have been filled.

Laura Severin, special assistant to the provost, said it takes about 100 new faculty members to create the kind of institutional changes that the CFEP hopes to achieve, a number based on data from other universities. Currently, the university does not have the faculty it needs to

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Chamberlain Collier, a senior studying political science, dances on stage during Rave Hour of the Dance Marathon on Friday in the Talley Ballroom. Collier’s personal fundraising contribution was $3,259, far more that her original goal of $2,000. The contributions came from a wide range of friends and family. Dance Marathon is a year-long fundraising effort for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center in Durham.

Dance Marathon raises $67k for Duke Children’s Hospital Sasha Afanasyeva Staff Writer

Students danced for 16 hours straight at this weekend’s Dance Marathon fundraising event for Duke Children’s Hospital in the Talley Student Union State Ballroom, helping this year’s event raise a record amount of funds.

In this year at NC State, the event raised a total of $67,001.24 for children suffering from chronic illnesses, beating its $50,000 goal by about $17,000. Proceeds from the previous Dance Marathon were donated to Duke Chil-

dren’s Hospitals, one of 120 hospitals within the Children’s Miracle Network.

About 250 students participated the marathon, which began at 7 p.m. on Friday and lasted until 11 a.m. on Saturday.

This year’s Dance Marathon was the largest and most successful Dance Marathon ever to be held at NC State. Last year’s event, the second at NC State, raised $41,022.59 with about 200 people attending.

Various musical performances took the stage throughout the night to entertain the dancing guests, including The Ladies in Red, an all-

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Cuban relations could impact research opportunities Rachel Smith Staff Writer

While President Barack Obama’s Dec. 17 announcement to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba does not lift the trade embargo, it does put U.S. research intuitions one step closer to establishing partnerships with their Cuban counterparts.

Over the past three decades, Cuban biotechnology efforts have resulted in the production and commercialization of a variety of vaccines, medications and therapeutic products that could be beneficial to the U.S. as well as research centers and institutions such as NC State.

According to Ruben Carbonell, a professor of chemical engineering

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sustain those goals “The provost is always evaluating what the departments need based on changing enrollment across the institution, so there is always a view to looking at where new students are coming in and where faculty need to go,” Severin said.

Jonathan Horowitz, the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Development and a member of the cluster proposal selection committee, said the clusters are judged on their ability to interact with interdisciplinary topics and produce results individually.

“What makes this hiring process so special is that it’s interdisciplinary, it breaks down any existing barriers between departments and colleges and we believe it’s going to catalyze a new era of interdisciplinary research at the university,” Horowitz said.

Although clusters have the potential to tackle challenging societal and institutional problems, the introduction of clusters has challenged the way hiring faculty has traditionally been accomplished at a university. Colleges must adjust hiring practices, departmental autonomy, and tenure to meet the needs of a newly integrated system.

Horowitz, who has been a witness to the cluster hiring process since its

and a Cuban native, the research being conducted in Cuba has the potential to greatly benefit faculty and student research in areas such as the College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, College of Engineering and NC State’s biotechnology program.

“The Cuban medical establishment has always been very strong, even before the revolution,” Carbonell said. “When Castro came to power, the population had a lot of medical problems, and in the absence of cash with which to buy medicines, Cuba decided they were on their own. They created their own infrastructure, their own institutes and their own research centers.”

In addition to aiding research in

the U.S., the economic status in Cuba could benefit from the partnerships.

“Currently, these products are owned by the Cuban government, and therefore not profit-driven,” Carbonell said. “If investors in the U.S. begin to get interested in products that are developed by some of the centers in Cuba, I can see the Cubans basically licensing them out to American companies to make a profit.”

According to Carbonell, Cuba has 30 vaccines for infectious disease as well as 30 oncology products that are either in the world market or under investigation.

“Their research centers and institutions are known worldwide, and I would say this research is the highlight of what Cuba does,” Carbonell said.

However, for research partnerships to happen between the U.S. and Cuba in the biotechnical field, a number of steps need to be taken.

Nicholas Robins, a professor of history and the head of the Cuban study abroad program at NC State, said that until the embargo on Cuba is lifted, any kind of scientific collaboration with the U.S. is highly unlikely.

“Any collaboration cannot be seen as a service or having commercial purpose, and since all of the biotech market is run by the government, any partnership would be seen upon as such,” Robins said.

In addition to lifting the embargo, Carbonell believes that making long term stays in Cuba easier as well as finding a way to have Cuban students

come to the U.S. to study is essential to successful biotechnical research partnerships.

“I can imagine, NC State —being a university driven by a very practical way of looking at things— could be a really good place for students from Cuba to come,” Carbonell said.

Carbonell also said that he would not hesitate to send his students to Cuba to participate in research.

“I can certainly envision Cuban institutions having a major impact on faculty and students from North Carolina, and particularly NC State,” Carbonell said. “It would give them a perspective on research that they haven’t seen before.”

beginning at NC State, described the first round of hires as “uneven,” with some positions being filled right away while others are still unfilled.

“In the traditional process, you are usually hiring someone who is doing something that is very relevant to a particular department,” Horowitz said. “In this new process we are looking for people whose research interests span multiple departments, even multiple colleges.”

Severin said that though existing faculty are excited to have new research partners to work with, there have been some difficulties in communication. “[Interdisciplinary faculty] don’t spend their entire time in their department because they’re working with honors across the university, so the faculty in the department don’t necessarily see what that interdisciplinary faculty member is doing the way that they could if the faculty member were in the department,” Severin said.

Among the first successful hires is Alyson Wilson, the associate professor in the department of statistics since fall 2013. She was hired as a member of the data-driven science cluster.

Wilson works at the intersection of computer science, mathematics and statistics and has developed a course called Introduction to Data Science.

Wilson does not have a traditional

academic background and was working on science policy in Washington, D.C. when she was hired.

“I don’t know that I was brought in to specifically do something but it has worked out that I have become the principal investigator for the lab for analytic sciences,” Wilson said. “I think I was simply brought in as a faculty member with a history of interdisciplinary work that would help build additional collaborations at NC State.”

When she was a candidate, Wilson was interviewed by the data-driven science cluster to make sure that her interests were consistent with the interdisciplinary goals of the cluster. She was then interviewed by the department of statistics in order to confirm that she could be an effective member of the department.

Wilson described the way in which a cluster is formed.

“A group of faculty on campus will get together and write a proposal and given the current strength of the university, they make a proposal about a particular interdisciplinary area where, if they made a few strategic hires, they could really push forward what’s happening at the university,” Wilson said.

Severin said the influx of so many new hires has put a strain on the budget and the amount of work space for many of the new faculty, forcing uni-

versity architects to get creative.

“There has to be a balance between interdisciplinary hiring, which does not necessarily address some of the departmental needs, and more traditional forms of hiring,” Severin said.

Wilson was not one of the faculty members who required a lot of accommodation by the university, but said she can see where the problems arise.

“You give me a desk and a computer and I’m good to go,” Wilson said. “I didn’t have that issue, but you can imagine that issue for faculty that come in to work in lab science.”

Clusters chosen out of the second round of proposals will be announced by the end of the spring semester, according to the provost’s website.

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Becker said the key to fostering diversity is linking in with different student organizations and meeting with those student leaders.

Harrison said the best way would be to host a diversity roundtable discussion.

“If an organization feels marginalized, they can come and voice that issue,” Harrison said.

Cyrus looks to expand the Respect the Pack slogan to include diversity.

“We want to transform it into something that can address racial and gender tensions but also expand it to include things like mental illness and physical handicaps,” Cyrus said. “When you reach out to all students and

give them a seat at the table, I think we can transform Respect the Pack into something that goes further than just respecting the Pack.”

In response to the Chapel Hill shootings that killed three Muslim students, Harrison said nurturing those affected is the best way to respond in a tragic incident.

“It’s important to support communities they’re in,” Harrison said. “No student should have to feel like they can’t go to class because of fear of the religion they’re affiliated with.”

Looking at affordability and making tuition accessible to minority groups, especially Native Americans, is part of Cyrus’ platform.

“We have a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds, and we need to look at what experiences

they can bring the table, and bring those conversations to administration,” Cyrus said.

“We need to take personal experiences into account and how their decisions impact NC State.”

Becker said he is looking to create more gender equality on campus through a campaign similar to actress Emma Watson’s He for She campaign.

“By putting more emphasis on men, we can start to make the change,” Becker said.

Student senate president candidate, Cody Long, disagrees that diversity exists at NC State, and said the university has a long way to go before achieving it.

“We are a predominately white institution, and only 25 percent of Wolfpack members identify with another ethnicity,” Long said.

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Long stressed the importance of including the LGBT community.

“I cannot even imagine the pain and sorrow that the members of that community go through,” Long said. “But members are not alone and they can stand shoulder to shoulder and know that they are always included on campus.”

Zack King, the other candidate for student senate president agrees with the inclusion of the LGBT community, as someone who identifies himself as a member within it.

The “I love diversity” Tshirts and implementing gender neutral bathrooms on campus are ways that NC State can support the LGBT community, King said.

Student body treasurer candidate, Karli Moore, hopes to implement a financial litera-

cy program to help students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Moore said this would increase diversity by reaching out to students who normally wouldn’t consider college and help students stay in college while they are here.

With the $26,000 budget cut to Student Government appropriations, Josue Berduo, the other student body treasurer candidate, stressed the importance of managing that money effectively.

“We’ve got to make sure that our money is used wisely,” Berduo said.

As part of the budget cut, candidates for student body treasurer and student senate president were torn as to how they supported the funding for Wolfpack Pickups, a program that provides transportation to class for students with disabilities.

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King and Berduo believe that Student Government should not be the organization to fund the program.

“University Transportation should be taking the lead on this,” King said. “I don’t see why Student Government is taking the financial hit.”

Long supports a fee increase to help fund the program and said it is one of the best campus initiatives NC State has ever seen.

“This is a student-led program that shows students we care and that we will give them a ride from point A to point B,” Long said.

Students can vote for candidates until tonight at 8 p.m.

A link to the voting website can be found on the NC State Student Government website.

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The organizers of the 2015 Dance Marathon at NC State revealing the final amount of money raised by the dancers Friday night in the Talley Ballroom. Dance Marathon is a yearlong fundraising effort for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center in Durham. The total donation was $67,001.24.

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female a capella group, and the Lion Dance Group.

The event was la rgely orga nized by Cha mberlin Collier, the president of Dance Marathon and a senior studying political science.

During the event, several children and families who receive care f rom Du ke Children’s Hospital visited the marathon to inspire and interact with the dancers.

“Kids got to interact with our students,” Collier said.

“They are all local families from the community that benef it from the money being raised. The students are able to see f irsthand how their efforts are able to help the local community.”

This year’s Dance Marathon had a carnival theme.

“We had carnival games for kids to play with to help t hem interact w it h students,” Collier said.

Dance Marathon was also the first overnight event to

be held in the Talley Student Union, according to Collier.

St udent orga ni z at ions compe ted a ga i n st e ach ot her during t he Dance Marathon in teams to raise the most money for the hospital.

Severa l soror it ies a nd fraternities participated at the event in a Miracle Cup Competition, hoping to raise the most money for the cause. At the conclusion of the event, the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority came in first with $4,089 raised.

Maddie Afshar, a member of the Morale Committee for the Dance Marathon and a sophomore studying psychology, said about 25 women from the sorority attended the event.

“I recruited a bunch of my sisters [from Kappa Alpha Theta],” Afshar said. “I am sort of a liaison between the team and the organization.”

Afshar, who has been involved with the group for two years, said she joined Dance Marathon her freshman year, knowing little about the organization in the beginning.

“It was rea l ly a n eyeopening experience, one that I will treasure for the rest of my life,” Afshar said.

“I will definitely try next year and try to have a more rigorous role. It’s a great experience, and you get to meet some of the children who have been to the hospital. It’s great to be part of something so meaningful.”

Collier said her favorite part of the event was getting to work with an “amazingly dedicated group of students.”

“They are an outstanding, incredibly passionate group of students,” Collier said. “They worked so hard for the event to be successful, and they deserve all the credit for the success of the event this weekend.”

This was the third Dance Marathon, and Collier expects the event to continue in future years.

“There will be another marathon next year and hopefully there will be more people involved and we can raise more money for the kids,” Collier said.

NC State Student Media has rescheduled interviews with those students who have applied for the top leadership positions at the Technician and the Student Business and Marketing Office for 2015-2016.

These interviews are open to the public, and we encourage anyone with an interest in our organizations to attend.

The students will be interviewed by members of Student Media’s Newspaper and Business Office advisory boards, which include both students and industry professionals. There will be time set aside for questions and comments from the public before the advisory board members adjourn to executive session.

The advisory boards will consider each candidate and make a recommendation to the full Student Media Board of Directors, which will make the final decision as to next year’s leaders. That meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, in Room 356 of the Witherspoon Student Center.

(Room 356 is located in the African-American Cultural Center.)

The dates and times for these meetings are as follows: • Business Office Advisory Board – Tuesday, March 3, 6:30 p.m., Witherspoon 324 (Student Media Conference Room) – Student Business Manager candidate: Mark Tate, junior, business administration and international studies • Newspapers Advisory Board – Wednesday, March 4, 7 p.m., Witherspoon 324 (Student Media Conference Room) – Nubian Message Editor In Chief candidate: Christopher Hart-Williams, senior, political science; Technician Editor In Chief candidate Kaitlin Montgomery, junior, communication

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tudent Government election polls opened at 8 p.m. on Monday, and that means it’s time for the Technician editorial board to make our endorsements. The Technician editorial board will endorse candidates for student body president, student body vice president, student senate president and student body treasurer.

Student body president and vice president: We endorse Chris Becker and Kelly Elder. The Becker and Elder ticket demonstrates great potential, especially in regard to promoting inclusiveness amongst the student body.

Becker already represents upward of 12,000 students as president of both CHASS Council and the InterResidence Council. Becker was one of two people to propose fee recom-

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Additionally, Elder has been one of assault, an effort physically manifested Moore has worked to sponsor the the most active senators in Student in her column published in the Wash- Social Justice Mini-Grant and the Government this year. She has spon- ington Post that detailed her experi- Indigenous Peoples Day Act, which sored some of the most influential leg- ences fighting gender inequality. will change Columbus Day to Indigislation passed in the last year, such as We believe Becker and Elder will enous Peoples Day. Moore would use the Social Justice Mini-Grant and the most effectively bring about benefi- her position as Treasurer to encourage Indigenous Peoples Day Act. cial and necessary change to campus. financial literacy. This would promote At the Diversity Debate hosted by Student body treasurer: a more inclusive university in regard to the Office for Institutional Equity and Karli Moore openly expressed her class and socioeconomic status.

Diversity, Becker said he was “proudly progressivism in the debate hosted by Student senate president: a feminist,” and that solving gender the OIED. Moore opened the Student Zack King’s experience sponsoring inequality starts with getting men Body Treasurer debate by saying, “I legislation and his role as the chair of to be proud about being feminists. identify as she/her,” and by explain- the appropriations committee make Elder has also made strides to create ing that she “wants to work to help him more qualified for the position

of student senate president than his competitor. King has sponsored the Indigenous Peoples Day Act, the Appropriations Reform Act and the Indoor E-cig Ban Act. King also is working with NARAL in sponsoring the Reproductive Health Care and Counseling Fair Choice Act to end the automatic referral of NC State patients to the politically motivated Crisis Pregnancy Centers, which actively discourage abortions. Each of these bills work to make the univeristy more inclusive and safe for NC State students. As Student Senate President, he will continue to support bills that continue this work.

To cast your vote, visit getinvolved. ncsu.edu. Polls close at 8 p.m. today.

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Erin Holloway, senior studying anthropology and English

The new week brings yet another sexual assault Y

esterday morning, we all woke up to another WolfAlert warning of sexual assault in a fraternity house near campus. Yet again, sexual assault occurred in our NC State community and the world kept turning.

If you think that the constant college rape controversy in the news is getting a bit monotonous, good. From the University of Virginia’s recent fraternity rape allegations, to the student who was caught mid-rape by campus police at Stanford and, Katherine recently, the student who raped Waller and abused a fellow student Staff Columnist and claimed he was reenacting a scene from “Fifty Shades of Grey,” we see an increase in absurdity and intrigue with each new sexual assault case.

When hanging out with girlfriends, a popular topic of conversation is situations we have been in where men have tried to take advantage of us.

Whether it occurred at a frat party, at a bar, on a date, at work or maybe just interacting with some guy who lives down the hall, it has happened to the vast majority of my friends. Few of us label these experiences as sexual assault or attempted assault; instead it is something we expect from men.

It is a frustrating world to live in. As a woman, I am constantly forced take precautions to avoid assault or unwarranted sexual attention.

I am sick and tired of the victim-blaming, the mainstreaming of unwanted sexual advances (Barney Stinson, I’m talking to you) and people trivializing the trials women face. I’m sick of rape culture, as everyone should be.

The NC State crime statistic report provided by the University Police for 2013 notes only six “sex offenses” for the year. With liquor law violation disciplinary referrals approaching 500, this statistic just doesn’t make much sense. At least 50 percent of the sexual assaults on a college campus are fueled by the use of alcohol, according to a 2012 statistic by Campus Safety Magazine.

This means that, according to NC State’s crime statistics, only about three people experienced alcohol-related sexual assault on campus in 2013.

This is hard to believe.

Statistically, one in five women experience sexual assault on college campus. So if we divide our nearly 11,000 female undergraduate students at NC State by five to represent this fact, account for the fact that only about 12 percent

of sexual assault is reported and finally divide by the four years of being an undergrad, we may observe that the University Police report should hypothetically show about 66 reports of sexual assault on campus in 2013. Even this is a low estimation, considering that more than 80 percent of women who report sexually coercive experiences experienced them during their freshman or sophomore year.

Do the math however you like, but the number shown in the crime logs is much lower than we should expect. This isn’t because NC State students are more morally upstanding people than average college students; in fact, sexual assault isn’t publicized as it should be, and proper disciplinary action is rarely taken.

If I were a parent, I would be more comfortable with sending my child to a university with honest rape and sexual assault statistics than a school that chooses to brush the truth under the rug to get more admissions. Such is the case with most universities. With honest statistics, I would know whether a university openly acknowledges the problem it needs to address.

While the WolfAlerts about sexual assault depress me, they are also wonderful, as they signify that someone was brave enough to report it. I counted four WolfAlerts about sexual assault this school year, which is more than I remember having last year.

Let’s work toward a world that doesn’t have jokes about freshmen students being issued rape whistles on move-in day, a world where parents leave pepper spray off the college packing list and women don’t have to always go out with a large pack of friends by their side to feel safe.

Rape on college campus is a crisis, and has been long before the recent media attention it has garnered. Every WolfAlert about a sexual assault is a horrible victory—horrible because it happened, but a victory because it was reported and got the attention such a serious issue merits.

Most of all, we shouldn’t shrug off the campus sexual assault crisis because some view it as third-wave feminists tooting their horns. We need to acknowledge this issue immediately and universally, in the media that cultures boys to grow into men who will rape, in the fraternities that only allow hordes of freshmen girls into their parties and in university statistics and reports that are fair depictions of what it is like to be a female student at their schools.

ir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton may have been talking about physics, but this statement can easily be applied to a number of occasions of social injustice.

For example, with the discussion of affirmative action comes the argument Estefania that it isn’t fair to help those Castrowho need it most at the cost Vazquez of others. What began as a Assistant Opinion Editor way to ensure that all had a shot at their pursuit of happiness soon experienced a whiplash of disdain from those who see it as an unfair way to take from some to give to others.

And in this scenario, it’s not entirely wrong to say we are taking from some to give to others, but it’s important to be aware that this Robin Hood-esque technique is used not because it is the fairest system out there.

It’s used because at its most simple level, it is the right thing to do.

Rather than the equal and opposite reaction being one of feeling scorned for not receiving what is fair and deserved, it should be one of added support to the matter at hand.

In a workshop titled, “A black woman took my job,” American sociologist Michael Kimmel asks white men who supposedly suffer from affirmative action, “What makes you think it was your job to begin with?” This sort of example serves as wonderful fodder for thinking about how entitlement works in the United States.

When the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter starting trending, it wasn’t long before #AllLivesMatter rose to the surface. Following the murders of several African Americans,

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Following the grotesque murder spree committed by a man with clear sexist and misogynist values, the issue some chose to press was that not all men are like the murderer. They chose to forget about the victims and pay no mind to the sexist and misogynist roots of the issue. Rather, they focused on remembering those who are really being repressed in their eyes: men.

These arguments are not wrong by any means. It is true that all lives matter and that not all men are sexists. The problem is that these reactions come at the wrong time for the wrong reasons.

It’s an elementary school playground set up.

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Sometimes it isn’t about us. It’s time we come to terms and realize that the right thing to do is sometimes not the most fair.

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Obstáculos para personas indocumentadas Paula Gordon Bienvenidos Editor

Jorge Luis Acosta Solís, de Charlotte, no sabía que era diferente a otros estudiantes hasta que llevó su acta de nacimiento mexicana a su clase de manejar. En el primer día le preguntaron por su acta de nacimiento y otros documentos de identificación. Cuando llevó su acta de nacimiento le sorprendió la diferencia entre su acta de nacimiento y el certificado de nacimiento Americano que podía ver en el salón.

“En México es un documento muy grande, y yo no sabía eso,” dijo Acosta. Acosta y su familia son de Acapulco, México. Cuando tenía dos meses de edad, emigró con su familia a California, y luego se mudó a Charlotte.

Cuando le preguntó a un compañero de clase si podía ver su acta de nacimiento, Acosta dudó en mostrar el suyo. Cuando volvió a su casa aquella tarde, se dio cuenta de que él no era de aquí.

Acosta nunca regresó a su clase de manejar, avergonzado. “Nunca volví.

Yo no quiero que vean mi acta de nacimiento y se burlen de mí,” dijo Acosta.

Con cerca de 31,000 estudiantes, Carolina del Norte tiene una de las poblaciones más grandes de indocumentados en la escuela secundaria en el país. Sin embargo las barreras en la educación impiden que la mayoría de estos estudiantes sigan aprendiendo.

Sólo el 2.5 por ciento de los 31,000 estudiantes indocumentados se matriculan en las universidades y colegios en Carolina del Norte, según estudios las barreras a la educación impiden que la mayoría de estos estudiantes a sigan aprendiendo.

Sólo el 2.5 por ciento de los 31,000 estudiantes indocumentados se matriculan en las universidades y colegios en Carolina del Norte, según Golden Door Scholars. La matricula es a menudo uno de los mayores obstáculos para los jóvenes inmigrantes indocumentados, ya que muchos de

estos estudiantes provienen de padres y familias que trabajan.

Un estudio en el 2010 del Centro de Estudios de Inmigración muestra que cuando se toma el tamaño del hogar en cuenta, el ingreso mediano por hogar por persona para los inmigrantes era 40 por ciento inferior a la de los hogares nativos en Carolina del Norte.

Para combatir esta realidad, unos 18 estados actualmente tienen políticas que permiten la matricula estatal para esos estudiantes. En el 2001, California y Texas fueron los primeros estados en permitir la matricula estatal para estudiantes indocumentados, y desde entonces, otros 16 estados han seguido con disposiciones similares.

Además más de cinco estados California, Minnesota, Nuevo Mexico, Texas, y Washington actualmente permiten a los estudiantes indocumentados solicitar y recibir ayuda financiera del estado, de acuerdo con la Conferencia Nacional de Legislaturas Estatales.

No todas las legislaturas estatales están de acuerdo en qué hacer con sus estudiantes indocumentados.

Sin embargo, Arizona, Georgia, e Indiana les prohíbe a los estudiantes indocumentados recibir tasas de matrícula estatal, y Carolina del Sur y Alabama tienen leyes que impiden a los estudiantes matricularse en sus colegios y universidades estatales.

Jorge Luis Ramos Ramos cursa el último año en la Escuela Middle Creek High School en Raleigh.

Mientras sus compañeros esperan ansiosamente cartas de decisiones de universidades locales, él no está seguro si va a aplicar o si todavía puede.

“Es una cuestión monolítica en mi mente,” dijo Ramos.

Ramos aún recuerda su primer día de escuela primaria como un inmigrante reciente, recuerda tratando de no llorar en el lugar desconocido.

Arrojado a una clase donde el profesor sólo hablaba inglés, se basó en otros estudiantes latinos jóvenes

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Jorge Luis Ramos Ramos, left, and Jorge Luis Acasto Solis sit and talk with a friend on Feb. 1, 2015. Ramos Ramos and Acasto Solis don’t let their immigration status define them, instead finding strength through advocacy projects in their communities that help other undocumented immigrants.

para salir adelante. Desde entonces, se ha sentido más en casa aquí que en cualquier otro lugar. Mientras que él califica para DACA, programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia, no crea un camino a la ciudadanía, residencia legal, o la matrícula estatal.

“Yo no sé ni cuando la transición ocurrió, yo sólo podía hablar inglés,” dijo Ramos. Ahora él tiene dificultades para expresarse plenamente en su lengua nativa. “No puedo expresar la misma forma que yo quiero en español,” dijo.

Su historia refleja lo que muchos jóvenes latinos atraviesan después de que sus padres inmigran con ellos a cuestas.

Carolina del Norte ha cambiado su política en el Sistema de Colegios Comunitarios de NC más de cinco veces en los últimos 15 años. Desde el año 2009 ha permitido a todos los estudiantes indocumentados que fueran a una escuela secundaria en

Carolina del Norte poder asistir a los colegios comunitarios y pagar la matrícula como extranjero para poder asistir a los programas del sistema. Para tomar 15 horas de crédito en Wake Techincal Community College, un estudiante extranjero (fuera del estado) puede llegar a pagar hasta 3,960 dólares en comparación con $1080 para un estudiante residente, casi cuatro veces más. En las universidades públicas de cuatro años, esto equivale a un promedio de 20,000 dólares en la matricula solamente.

Durante la escuela secundaria, Acosta se involucró con United 4 the Dream (U4TD), un grupo de defensa liderada por jóvenes de la Coalición de Estados Latinoamericanas. Cada año se toman un viaje a D.C. para hablar con representantes de Congreso sobre el cambio de la legislación y contar sus propias historias. Su madre estaba preocupada por Acosta saliendo como in-

Immigrants still face obstacles to go to college despite DACA Paula Gordon Bienvenidos Editor

Jorge Luis Acosta Solis of Charlotte didn’t know he was any different from other students until he brought his Mexican birth certificate to his drivers’ education class.

On the first day they asked him for his birth certificate and other forms of identification. When he brought his birth certificate in, he was surprised at the difference between his and the American birth certificates he could see in the room.

“In Mexico it’s a big really big paper, and I never knew that,” Acosta said.

Acosta and his family are originally from Acapulco, Mexico. When he was two months old, he immigrated with his family to California and later moved to Charlotte.

When he asked a fellow classmate to see their birth certificate, Acosta was hesitant to show his. When he went home that afternoon, he realized that he wasn’t from here.

Acosta never returned to his drivers’ education class, ashamed and embarrassed.

“I never went back. I didn’t want them to see my birth certificate and make fun of me,” Acosta said.

With close to 31,000 students, North Carolina has one of the largest undocumented high school populations in the country. However, barriers to education prevent the majority of these students to continue learning. Only 2.5 percent of the 31,000 undocu-

mented students enroll in universities and colleges in North Carolina, according to Golden Door Scholars. Tuition is often one of the largest hurdles for young undocumented immigrants since many of these students come from a background of working parents and families.

A 2010 study from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that when household size is taken into account, the per-person median household income for immigrants was 40 percent lower than for native households in North Carolina.

To combat this reality, some 18 states currently have policies allowing in-state tuition for these students. In 2001, California and Texas were the first states to allow in-state tuition rates for undocumented students, and since then, 16 other states have followed with similar provisions.

Additionally, more than five states—California, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas and Washington—currently allow undocumented students to apply for and receive state financial aid, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Not all state legislatures agree on what to do with their undocumented students, however. Arizona, Georgia and Indiana each prohibit undocumented students from receiving in-state tuition rates, and South Carolina and Alabama each have laws preventing students from enrolling in their state colleges and universities.

Jorge Luis Ramos Ramos is

a senior at Middle Creek High School in Raleigh. While his classmates anxiously await decision letters from local universities, he waits, not sure if he’ll apply or if he still can.

“It’s a monolithic issue in my mind,” he said.

Ramos still remembers his first day of elementary school as a recent immigrant trying not to cry in the unfamiliar place. Thrown into a class where the teacher only spoke English, he relied on other young Latino students to get by. Since then, he’s felt more at home here than anywhere else. While he qualifies for DACA, Deferred Action for childhood arrivals program, it doesn’t create a pathway to citizenship, legal residence or in-state tuition.

“I don’t even know when the transition happened, I could just speak English,” Ramos said. Now, he finds it difficult to express himself fully in his native tongue. “I can’t articulate the same way I want to in Spanish,” he said.

His story reflects what many young Latinos go through after their parents immigrate with them in tow.

North Carolina has overturned its policy for the NC Community College System more than five times in the last 15 years, but since 2009 has allowed all undocumented students who went to a high school in North Carolina and who are able to pay out-ofstate-tuition to attend programs in the system.

To take 15 credit hours at Wake Technical Community

College, an out-of-state student can expect to pay $3,960 compared to $1,080 for an in-state student, almost four times as much. At public four-year universities, this amounts to an average of $20,000 in tuition alone.

During high school, Acosta got involved with United 4 the Dream (U4TD) a youthled advocacy group of the Latin American Coalition.

Every year they take a trip to D.C. to talk to representatives about changing legislation and tell their own stories. His mom was worried about him coming out as undocumented and told him that he shouldn’t tell anyone so he wouldn’t get deported or get the family in trouble.

In the intimate setting of the trip, things changed.

“Everybody was telling their stories, and I never talked to anybody about my issues,” Acosta said. “I thought I was the only one with them.”

The group asked more people to share their stories, and Acosta told them about how his dad had been deported, but he thought that was commonplace. The group continued giving support, and eventually Acosta told them he was undocumented, something he’d never told anyone outside of his family.

With the amount of support Acosta felt, he started regularly attending U4TD meetings and became increasingly involved. “I felt comfortable,” Acosta said.

documentado y le dijo que no debía decirle a nadie para que no conseguiría deportados o lleve a la familia en problemas. En el ambiente íntimo del viaje, las cosas cambiaron para él.

“Todo el mundo estaba diciendo sus historias, y yo nunca hablaba con nadie acerca de mis problemas,” dijo Acosta. “Pensé que era el único con ellos.”

El grupo pidió a más personas a compartir sus historias, y Acosta les habló de cómo había sido deportada a su padre, pero él pensó que era algo común. El grupo continuó dando apoyo, y con el tiempo Acosta les dijo que era indocumentado, algo que nunca había dicho a nadie fuera de su familia.

Con la cantidad de apoyo Acosta sentía, comenzó asistiendo regularmente a las reuniones U4TD y se convirtió cada vez más involucrados.

“Me sentí cómodo,” dijo Acosta.

UNDERSTANDING DEFFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS In 2012 the Department of Homeland Security enacted provisions to help young people avoid being deported under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Once they’ve been approved under DACA, these people are eligible for a work permit for two years, which will allow them to get a social security number and drivers’ licenses in some states. After the initial two years, they will have to reapply and be reapproved. To be eligible, applicants must prove they meet the following criteria, in addition to paying a $465 fee to the DHS:

• Came to the United States under the age of 16

• Continuously resided in the United States for a least

five years before June 15, 2012 and was in the United

States on June 15, 2012

• Currently in school, has graduated from high school,

has obtained a GED certificate, or is an honorably

discharged veteran of the Coast Guard or

Armed Forces of the United States

• Not been convicted of a felony offense, a significant

misdemeanor offense, multiple misdemeanor

offenses, or otherwise pose a threat to national

security or public safety

• Under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012 SOURCE: OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES

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Features Riding a ‘Naked ELF’ down Hillsborough

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Kevin Schaefer Associate Features editor

Instead of driving his car, Josh Thomas uses a threewheeled bike he built to get around town. And no, it’s not a tricycle.

It’s called a Naked ELF, and it’s a spinoff of another product developed by members from the company Thomas works for. At 35 miles per hour, Thomas said it rides like a motorcycle. He enjoys riding it along Hillsborough Street and around Raleigh.

Thomas, an NC State alumnus who graduated in 2009 with a degree in mechanical engineering, now works as a systems engineer for a startup company in Durham called Organic Transit. When one of his former coworkers built another version of the Naked ELF, it sparked his interest.

However, he said the earlier models could have used some improvement.

“When I built it last summer, I tried to implement as many new designs as possible,” Thomas said.

Working on his own time, he was able to acquire the frame for a previous model as a freebie because it was a defect, then use it to construct

his own version. He then purchased the battery, motor and wheels from the company. Unlike Organic Transit’s standard ELF model, Thomas’ version is without a body shell, which reduces the weight and makes it faster and more agile.

“So it’s technically a bike, but you’ve got all the amenities of a car, and a lot of the systems are electrical,” Thomas said.

Davis Carver, Thomas’ former coworker, built several Naked ELF models and gave Thomas the idea for his version. The main differences between Carver’s version and the one Thomas built have to do with its speed and motor position.

“The regular ELF is cool, but there’s a lot of people who really don’t care about protection from the elements and want something a little lighter and more rugged,” Carver said.

“It’s kind of more of a workhorse and that’s kind of what I wanted to do.”

Thomas said the frame, seat and front steering assembly on his bike can already be seen on the vehicles at Organic Transit.

He did, however, add his own spin on it to create a unique customization.

“On a regular bike you have the gears inside the wheel,

and here I put them outside,” Thomas said.

By placing the gearbox in the middle of the frame instead of inside the wheel like a traditional bike, it allows him to use a hub motor in the rear and still maintain a wide selection of gears.

While U.S. law states that electric bikes are allowed to reach a maximum speed of 20 mph, Thomas said he can go any speed he wants as long as he’s riding along side streets and on bike paths. He said that since it’s technically a bike, he can take it almost anywhere except on a highway.

During and after the building process, Thomas said several engineering problems have come up. Although he finished building it last summer, he said he continually adds on new designs.

“Originally I had the gearbox mounted above the frame, causing the chain tension to bend the frame,” Thomas said.

“Placing the gearbox below the frame canceled out most of the frame bending and gave better pedal performance.”

And while he said the vehicle has definite market potential, he’s not ready to make his version accessible to the public.

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Josh Thomas, a 2009 alumnus who studied mechanical engineering, designed and built a trike, a motorized tricycle. The vehicle, based off Organic Transit’s “Naked ELF” vehicle is capable of moving as fast as 40 miles per hour.

easy sell, considering how fast it goes, what it looks like and what it can do,” Thomas said.

“But I don’t think I would want to sell it right now. It’s too much fun and I can get around without using my car.”

Carver said the Naked ELFs he helped build prior to leaving Organic Transit was a side project he did with one of the company’s other co-founders, Rob Cotter. Carver now runs several businesses up north in Maine, including a bike shop.

“To do the Naked ELF I think it just makes sense,” Carver said. “Josh’s is really cool too.

His is a little bit different than mine, but it really makes sense.

His is a little quicker and it’s got a little bit of a different drive train.”

Thomas said he has always loved building things and one of his other projects is a 1974 Volkswagen, which he has been restoring since he was in college.

“Ever since I was little I’ve

been into something, some sort of project,” Thomas said.

“I recommend for anyone who’s like that to have a project portfolio. Until I did that, I couldn’t get a job.”

And while he loves riding his bike around Raleigh, there is one more place he would like to take it to eventually.

“I’d love to take it down to the beach, if I could transport it somehow,” Thomas said.

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Metalsmith Mary Ann Scherr is an instructor of metal crafts at NC State’s Crafts Center. Scherr is world-renowned for her metal jewelry and artistic pieces as well as her research in the development of metallic “body monitors.”

Metals instructor has golden past Katherine Waller Staff Writer

NC State’s Crafts Center boasts a metal instructor who has worked in a multitude of industries and museums all over the world, who has a unique and interesting past with the World War II home-front efforts, who has won innumerable awards, and overall, and who has quite a story to tell.

Mary Ann Scherr is an artist, designer, educator, and metalsmith. From automobile design with Ford Motor Company to toy design, from fashion design and book illustration to experimental metal research and product development, Scherr is truly a jack of all trades.

Scherr began her career as an artist at the Cleveland Art Institute. She studied to be a graphic designer and started her career as a cartographer. Scherr will tell you that a career rarely turns out how a person imagined it.

“As a teacher, all I tell students is to study hard and be prepared because you never know where your talents are going to take you,” Scherr said. “It doesn’t always follow ‘what you study is what you’re going to get, or even want.’”

During World War II, she also worked for the Navy department developing charts that would discuss the progress of B29s and other fighter planes.

“I got into the employee incentive department and I worked on inviting special military people to talk to people who were working for the war effort,” Scherr said.

“We had all types of special parties and affairs. Movie stars would come as part of the employee incentive program. It was very social type of wartime effort.”

At the end of the war, she left for Chicago where she became a graphic designer for a

major company. When Scherr married, she moved to Detroit where she and her husband opened a design company, and the couple traveled all over the world working with all types of disciplines.

“When I became a mother, I discovered that I hated housework and I decided I better take a night class, and the only class I had never studied was metalworking,” Scherr said. “I always planned on being in product design. I never thought I would become a metalsmith.”

Scherr remembered how she discovered a knack for metalworking in the early 1960s while interacting with a woman who had a tracheostomy tube.

“It was so ugly, I could barely look at her while we were talking, so I asked if I could take it and redesign it for her,” Scherr said.

“That set me in motion to start doing ‘cosmetic cover-ups’.”

This led Scherr to get the first-ever U.S. patent on an electronic body monitor in 1977. Scherr said medical professionals and scientists have many designs for body monitors, now for walking, air pressure, and heart pressure, all of which are alert systems. However, she claimed that none of them have the same approach that she did, which is jewelry masking the mechanisms.

“I had to look hard for biomedical engineers who would understand my concepts, I would design them and they would help to integrate their knowledge into the pieces,” Scherr said.

These Body Monitors received a large amount of publicity. Major news organizations such as “Good Morning America” and NBC’s “Today” show covered it at the time, according to Scherr. However, this wasn’t enough to mass produce the product due to the possible risk.

All eleven of her original body monitors

are in the United States National Archives.

“I still make traches and other types of jewelry monitors for people with different medical needs individually,” Scherr said.

Her work on body monitors led to international recognition. She earned the Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Scherr moved from New York to Raleigh in 1990 with her family. She began teaching at Duke then Meredith College and finally, she said, “NC State called.”

At NC State, Scherr worked with H. Troy Nagle of the biomedical engineering department. They worked on a heart monitor Scherr had developed and created a remote system for the monitor.

Ryan Hodges, now a postdoctoral research scholar with the ASSIST center, worked with Scherr and Nagle as a graduate student. This set Hodges in motion to continue his work with similar monitoring devices.

“After surveying the items at the consumer electronics show, one of the reasons items such as the smartwatch still aren’t being popularly adopted is because they aren’t very fashionable,” Hodges said.

“There is a push from these companies to make these devices more pleasing to the eye. What people wear says a lot about them.”

Scherr enjoys her time teaching students at the Crafts Center because she likes staying in touch with young people.

“I enjoy teaching because I enjoy the effort and what happens with people when they discover the possibilities,” Scherr said. “Teaching is a very serious requirement in my life.”

Gigi Davidson, the director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention’s most prestigious honor, the 2015 Beal Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service.

Davidson is the fifth person, the first female, and the first veterinary pharmacist to receive the Beal Award.

According to the USP website, USP was founded in 1820. The Beal Award is given to a person, or group of people, who has made significant contributions to public healthcare while also serving as a volunteer for USP. “It is very humbling to have even been considered for something like this because it is such a prestigious award and in the past it has only been given to men,” Davidson said.

“I also think what it does for me personally is validate all the volunteer time I’ve given to USP in the last 15 years. It makes me know that not only does USP appreciate it but all of their voting conventions and nomination committees for this award do too.”

Davidson believes that winning this award will benefit NC State.

“It puts veterinary pharmacy on the map,” Davidson said. “Now it is starting to be recognized more.”

Aside from the award itself, Davidson also received a sculpture representing USP’s volunteerism, a lifetime membership to the USP Convention and a $10,000 cash award, which Davidson has donated to NC State’s veterinary pharmacy program.

According to Davidson, USP selects volunteer experts through a competitive process every five years. These volunteers sit on expert committees and help develop the standards for the convention. One work cycle for USP is five years; Davidson served as chair of the Compounding Expert Committee in 2010.

Davidson said she thinks

her her nomination is due to incredible hard work, determination and passion.

“The very tragic fungal meningitis episode with compounds happened in October 2012 under my watch of compounding standards,” Davidson said.

“The compounding standards then became the focus because these companies that call for all these steps were not following USP compounding standards.”

However, through Davidson’s tenacious and steadfast hard work, now USP compounding standards are enforced by state and federal law.

Rick Schnatz, the Senior Scientific Liaison for Compounding at USP, went on to further explain the nomination process.

“Anybody can nominate someone for the Beal Award,” Schnatz said.

Schnatz said the nominator would write a letter of recommendation, which is placed in a pool with the names of the other nominees. Then, a committee gathers to review the candidates, read their letters of recommendation and their contributions to USP, and finally, pick someone to be the recipient of the award.

Kim Leadon, director of experiential education at UNCChapel Hill, knows Davidson through her work as a preceptor. Leadon explained that a preceptor takes a student into their practice site for a monthlong rotation. Davidson offers an elective rotation in veterinary pharmacy.

“The fact that she is the first female pharmacist to receive the Beal Award is really remarkable,” Leadon said. “It’s not surprising because she’s a remarkable individual and is really top in her field of veterinary practice.”

Like Davidson, Leadon also believes that this award will benefit NC State.

“It will probably elevate the visibility of the vet program there and the fact that you can be a pharmacist and practice in a veterinary college,” Leadon said. “I am hoping it will elevate the profession as a whole.”

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but the team can’t slip up against Clemson or Syracuse.

6. Pittsburgh (19-11, 8-8 ACC) Sunday night was a huge letdown for the Panthers, which were listed as a First Four Out team by ESPN’s Joe Lunardi heading into the game against Wake Forest.

The Panthers lacked energy and were simply smoked by Wake’s three-point shooting in a bubble-bursting loss.

6. Syracuse (18-12, 9-8 ACC) The Orange upset Notre Dame to start the week and then got steamrolled by Duke in Cameron Saturday night and against Virginia yesterday. They would probably

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and Orange are all tied for the 6th spot in this week’s power rankings. They are all bubble teams (minus Syracuse, who would be if not for the selfimposed ban) that simply hurt themselves in the last week.

6. NC State (17-12, 8-8 ACC) The Wolfpack helped its cause immensely by beating UNC-Chapel Hill but then shot itself in the foot by losing to Boston College Saturday.

The Wolfpack is probably still in the Tournament for now,

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Wolfpack fans and players alike have noticed has been sophomore guard Anthony “Cat” Barber’s play over the last month. Barber scored in double figures in six of his last

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that the team is established by late April. They consist of two days to learn different style routines and techniques before the potential members are evaluated.

“It is a very intense two day process,” Roediger said. “We will usually make a first cut, and if the girls make it past that, then they will come back and audition more individually for the final day.”

be a Tournament team right now, but instead they enter their final week of the 2015 season.

6. Miami (18-11, 8-8 ACC) The Hurricanes continue to blow opportunities to gain a big win before Selection Sunday, and with the loss against UNC-Chapel Hill Saturday, the Hurricanes have run out of chances before the ACC Tournament.

10. Clemson (16-12, 8-8 ACC) The Tigers pulled out a close win against Georgia Tech Saturday in a game where the Tigers blew a 23-point lead. Clemson has two more chances to play spoiler in games against NC

State and Notre Dame this week.

11. Wake Forest (13-16, 5-11 ACC) Sunday saw another case of ACC madness as Wake Forest bounced back from only scoring 34 points to beat Pittsburgh on Greek Night in Winston-Salem.

12. Florida State (15-15, 7-10 ACC) This was a disappointing week for the Seminoles, which dropped two games and ensured a losing ACC record. A major bright spot for Florida State was freshman guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes, who scored 26 straight points and did not miss a shot during that scoring stretch in a

seven games and hasn’t committed more than three turnovers in a game in more than a month.

Including Tuesday’s matchup with the Tigers, the Pack has two games remaining in the regular season before the ACC Tournament begins next week in Greensboro.

At the moment, many experts and bracketologists have the Wolfpack in the Big Dance, but nothing’s certain until Selection Sunday. The Pack can’t afford any slip-ups as it heads into the regular season’s home stretch.

After the team is set, it will come back in the summer for a preseason.

“We come in the beginning of August before school starts for preseason week, and that week ends with camp in Myrtle Beach,” Roediger said.

The team travels to NDA camp in Myrtle Beach to try and win its bid to nationals, which it has been successful in doing for the past couple of years.

Camaraderie is one of the team’s strongest selling points.

“Being with all my friends is one of the best parts of being on the team,” Wideman said. “We all came into college together before it all started since we had tryouts in April. We also have a great and sound support system with a coach that really cares for every one of us, and it’s a great time.”

As April comes closer, the team continues to practice and perfect its routines with the hopes its hard work will pay off at nationals.

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Pack faces must-win at Clemson Addison named CoMVP at Track & Field Championships Junior Jonathan Addison of the NC State Track & Field team was named CoMVP at the Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships this past weekend in Blacksburg, Virginia. Addison’s 23 points helped the men’s team finish one spot higher than last year’s finish. On the women’s side, Alexis Perry’s 14 points helped the women to a sixth-place finish, three spots higher than last year. Overall, the men’s team finished in a three-way tie for ninth with 29 points, and the women’s team finished sixth with 55.59 points.

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Bilis named Most Valuable Swimmer at ACC Championships Not only did the men’s swimming team win the ACC Championship this past week, but junior Simonas Bilis also took home the award for Most Valuable Swimmer of the meet. Bilis won all three of his individual events of the meet, the 50-, 100-, and 200-yard free with times that earned him NCAA ‘A’ cuts in each swim. In addition to his dominating individual performance, Bilis also participated in four out of the five relay events for the Wolfpack; three of which earned gold medals.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “It’s good to create opportunities, but if you don’t capitalize you put yourself in a spot where you can drop the game. ”

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Following an ugly loss to one of the worst teams in the ACC, the NC State men’s basketball team travels south for a showdown with rival Clemson at Littlejohn Coliseum tonight.

With March comes madness in college basketball, and it couldn’t be more evident in the Wolfpack’s recent play. Prior to a crippling home loss to Virginia, the Pack saw itself slumping, losing four of its last five games.

Then, after stringing together three straight victories, which included impressive, resume-building wins on the road at Louisville and UNC-Chapel Hill, the Wolfpack (17-12, 8-8 ACC) laid an egg Saturday on the road at Boston College.

Now, the Pack faces the Tigers (1612, 8-8 ACC) who won’t go down without a fight.

The Tigers and Pack last met Jan. 28 in PNC Arena, with Clemson running away with a 68-57 victory.

The Pack dug itself in a hole early in the game, scoring only 16 points in the first half. Despite 17 points from junior guard Trevor Lacey and a late rally, the Wolfpack fell to a surprisingly good Clemson team.

Clemson guard Jordan Roper, a man who averages 6.7 PPG on the season, dropped 18 points in the first meeting with State. The Pack

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Redshirt senior guard Ralston Turner defends against Clemson freshman forward Donte Grantham during the game against Clemson Jan. 28. The Wolfpack fell to the Tigers 68-57 in PNC Arena.

also shot a jaw-dropping 18-for-63 in that game, indicative of the team’s “beat anyone, lose to anyone” roller

coaster of a season so far.

The Tigers’ leading scorer Jaron Blossomgame has lived up to his

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE Today BASEBALL VS. EAST CAROLINA Raleigh, N.C., 6:00 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL @ CLEMSON Clemson, S.C., 9:00 p.m.

Tomorrow WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. VIRGINIA TECH Greensboro, N.C., 3:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL @ ELON Elon, N.C., 5:00 p.m.

Friday WOMEN’S TENNIS @ VCU Richmond, Va., 2:00 p.m.

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BASEBALL VS. CLEMSON Raleigh, N.C., 6:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS @ WASHINGTON Seattle, Wa., 10:00 p.m.

Saturday WOMEN’S GOLF @ LADY GATOR INVITATIONAL Gainesville, Fla., All Day RIFLE @ SEARC CHAMPIONSHIPS Charleston, S.C., All Day MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. SYRACUSE Raleigh, N.C., 12:00 p.m.

13.0 points per game average, as he’s scored in double figures in seven of his last eight games. Blossomgame, who has shot close to 50 percent on the year, along with guard Rod Hall, who averages 3.5 APG, have provided the Tigers with leadership and productivity all season long.

Despite Saturday’s loss, the Wolfpack seems to have turned its season around. Having won three of its last four, it appears the Pack has moved off the bubble for the NCAA Tournament, but that doesn’t guarantee anything.

Clemson’s 8-8 conference record doesn’t correlate to the true skill of this Tiger team. The Tigers took both Notre Dame and Louisville down to the wire and earned quality wins over Syracuse, Arkansas and Pittsburgh.

However, the Tigers do have some hiccups on their resume including losses to Gardner-Webb, Rutgers and Winthrop. Bad losses aside, the Tigers’ overall body of work illustrate the ACC’s depth and competitiveness this season.

One advantage State does have entering Tuesday’s contest comes in the paint. The Wolfpack rank 41st and 17th nationally in rebounds and blocked shots, respectively. With seven blocks in his last two games, look for sophomore forward BeeJay Anya to create defensive trouble in the paint for Clemson.

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The NC State dance team performs a routine during the women’s basketball game against Minnesota in Reynold’s Coliseum Dec. 3, 2014.

Wolfpack dance preps for nationals Nicole Malanaphy Correspondent

With nationals just around the corner, the NC State dance team is working on perfecting its competition routines while balancing its hectic performance schedule for basketball season.

After winning a paid bid to the National Dance Alliance National Championship, the women will be heading to Florida this upcoming April. The team will be performing three new routines on the competition floor that have never been done in the history of the dance team. This is the team’s only competition of the year, and they will be competing against other college teams from across the country.

The team practices two hours a night, four nights a week in preparation for its only competition of the year. It has one day of team practice and then the other three nights it concentrates on specific routines for the national competition.

“I’ve never experienced anything

pushing me so hard in my entire life,” freshman Courteney Sebastian said. “College nationals are a totally different level of hard than high school nationals.”

As a first year member to the team, this will be Sebastian’s first time competing at nationals for NC State.

“I’m definitely nervous but also really excited since we have some great routines to take with us,” she said.

Alongside preparation for nationals, the team performs at all home basketball and football games and games. Add in extra practices with the marching band to be ready for gameday, and the team’s schedule is crammed, to say the least.

“I love the performance aspect and getting the crowd hyped during football season, but at basketball games we get to show off our technique and what we’ve learned throughout the years,” senior and captain Kylee Wideman said. “For dance teams, basketball is more of the dance aspect of the season.”

Wideman has been a part of the team for three years, and this is her second year as captain.

Wideman and Sebastian, along with the rest of the team, are under the instruction of head coach Amanda Roediger. Roediger has coached the team for seven years with the help of her two assistant coaches Jaclyn DeVita and Ashley Zimtbaum.

Roediger feels confident in the team in regard to nationals and feels that the team this year has the personnel to succeed.

“We feel awesome going into it this year,” Roediger said. “We are putting three routines on the floor which we haven’t done before, but we have the personnel to do that with this team. It’s a great group in terms of talent.”

With a little over a month to prepare, the girls continue to work hard at every practice. “We still have a lot of work to go, but we’re excited to get down there in April,” Roediger said.

Tryouts are held in the spring of the preceding academic year so

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1. Duke (26-3, 13-3 ACC) Who else but the Blue Devils for No. 1 in our rankings? They have held the top ranking ever since their win in Charlottesville at the end of January and don’t seem to have any intentions of letting go. Duke dismantled a Syracuse team that we thought was dangerous and went to overtime against a team ranked last on this list (Virginia Tech). They emerged unscathed, however, so they are still No. 1.

2. Virginia (28-1, 16-1 ACC) Virginia is hot on the Blue Devils heels and they are making a stronger and stronger case for the No. 1 spot.

The Cavaliers went on the road and held Wake Forest to a ridiculous 34 points (That’s not a typo. The Demon Deacons only managed 34 points).

They also easily managed their instate rivals and Syracuse to go 3-0 for the week.

3. Notre Dame (24-5, 12-4 ACC) Only one game on the slate for the Irish, a home tilt against Syracusewhich they lost. I hate the ACC. 4. Louisville (23-6, 11-5 ACC) The Cardinals recorded a blowout win Saturday over Florida State that will probably be remembered for forward Montrezl Harrell’s high flying dunks and alley-oops. The team is supposedly trending downwards but on Saturday they made the case for the opposite.

5. UNC-Chapel Hill (20-9, 10-6 ACC) The Tar Heels split a pair of games with bubble teams, winning against Miami after losing to NC State earlier in the week. The Tar Heels lack any real scoring threat but still have the talent to keep them in games.

The Wolfpack, Panthers, Hurricanes,

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