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IN BRIEF SG campaign time shrinks, pressure rises Student Government debates to take place today, tomorrow

The Diversity Debate will take place today in the Talley Governance Chamber from 7 p.m. to 8:30 PM for student body president, student senate president and student body treasurer candidates.

The Technician will also be hosting a debate Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Harrelson Hall in room 314 for the three pairs of student body presidents and student body vice presidents.

Questions for the candidates for the Technician debate can be sent to technician-editor@ ncsu.edu

Triangle Area is expecting more snow this week

A light series of flurries may come across central North Carolina today. Four public school districts have already cancelled school and three others are operating on a twohour delay. Raleigh has an 80 percent chance of receiving up to an inch of snow by Tuesday afternoon, according to WRAL. Wednesday night could bring in an addition 3-6 inches of snow into Thursday morning, but it might not stick due to the warm ground after unusually warm temperatures on Sunday.

SOURCE: WRAL

ECU medical school asks for more state funding

ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard wants the state legislature to fund the Brody School of Medicine at ECU with an $8 million boost this year, and $30 million each year going forward. Administrators say the increase will produce more family doctors for rural North Carolina and so its clinics can continue to treat Eastern North Carolinians, especially those who can’t afford to pay for medical costs. State funds account for 20 percent of the school’s operating budget.

The UNC Board of Governors included a request for the $8 million in the budget it proposed to Gov. Pat McCrory.

He is scheduled to present his budget proposal to the General Assembly this week.

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Uber accused of refusing service to blind riders

A Twitter user claimed that his blind friend was denied an Uber ride because he had a guide dog. Uber apologized and said it was unacceptable, but this was not their first incident with discrimination against blind riders. In 2014, the National Federation of the Blind of California filed a complaint against Uber, saying the company’s drivers had refused service to blind riders at least 30 times. Uber released a statement saying they do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of disability and would fire any driver who was found to be guilty of such behavior.

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Ian Grice Staff Writer

The Student Government campaign cycle has been shortened from a two and a half week period that took place after spring break to a one week cycle in March, after the student senate voted to change the statutes on Dec. 2, 2014.

Student senate advisor Laura Stott said the change was a result of candidate’s falling grades.

“It was right after midterms, it was tough to be attentive to both your campaign and your grades,” Stott said. “The staff was in agreement, the students really wanted it and that’s why it was changed.”

Rusty Mau, student body president and Devan Riley, student body vice president lobbied Student Senate for the change after taking office.

The transition will increase candidates academic success by decreasing the time spent on campaigning, Riley said.

“We realized after our campaign how stressful it was that it needed to be cut to a week,” Riley said. “It’s a lot to ask of a student to take two full weeks out of their academic career and campaign, especially for the student body officer races. It

consumes your life. It’s everything you do for two weeks because you want to get elected so badly.”

The shortened campaign period will also require student body officer team tickets to be creative as they have to reach out to as many students as possible in one week, Mau said.

“How do you reach out to a majority of the student body, how do you get the majority of students to vote for you?” Mau said.”You have to figure out what’s your central brand, what’s your image.”

The change will allow the candidates to rejuvenate over spring break and it gives Student Government an additional month to transition, which in turn will enhance the effectiveness of Student Government, according to Mau. “Everyone has their different networks on campus as well as their different strengths and experiences so it’s who can reach the most students in this time period and show them why a vote is important,” Mau said.

The change has positives and negatives, according to Meredith Mason, executive assistant for the executive committee.

“I think it’s good overall for the candidates sanity-wise, but

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Family members Susan Yow, Debbie Yow and Ronnie Yow, along with Jeffery Johnson, a senior in business administration, and Jim Barnhill, sculptor of the memorial, unveil the memorial for Kay Yow beside Reynold’s Coliseum Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010.

Statues will honor basketball legacy Marcus Blyden Correspondent

Four full-body statues will be constructed of former NC State basketball coaches in a project called “Coaches Corner” that is expected to open in the fall of 2016.

The four coaches that will be honored at Coaches Corner will include: Everett Case, Norman Sloan, Jim Valvano and Kay Yow. The goal is to have all four statues tell the story of NC State basketball through the years.

Each coach was selected for their individual accomplishments in the game of basketball.

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Case led the Wolfpack from 1946-1964 and compiled the best record in school history. Sloan led the Wolfpack to its first national championship in 1974 and Valvano led the Wolfpack to the 1983 national championship. Yow won a gold medal in women’s Olympic basketball.

“Each statue of the coaches will be unique to not only their character but it will also ref lect their legacy and the impact they left on campus,” said Andy Walsh, former NC State student body president.

The idea for the Coaches Corner project came after Yow passed away. While student body president at the time, Walsh, asked

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Hillsborough Street sees multimillion dollar investments Brendan Parsons Correspondent

Stanhope student apartments are scheduled to finish construction in early August, bringing more than 800 beds and 25,000 sq. ft. of retail space to Hillsborough Street.

Stanhope is located at 3001 Hillsborough Street, across from Cup-A-Joe and expected to have primarily NC State undergraduates as residents.

John Kane, the developer of Stanhope, is also the developer and owner of North Hills, an upscale outdoor shopping mall.

Because of Kane’s reputation and success with North Hills, there is much anticipation for the opening of Stanhope.

Kane Realty is offering students and faculty from the College of Design the opportunity to submit artwork, wall installations and sculptures for Stanhope. If selected, the creations will be permanent to the building. The deadline for submitting artwork is the end of March, and the winner will be chosen in April.

Jeff Murison, executive director of Live it Up! on Hillsborough, a community service corporation that advocates for the revitalization along Hillsborough Street, said “[Stanhope] is going to be a fantastic building, will hold a little over 800 beds, great amenities like a cyber café and infinity salt-water pool.”

Elyse Pizzella, a junior studying chemical engineering, will live in Stanhope apartments next semester.

“It’s a little pricey in comparison to other

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More than 50 students and staff members attended the Fill the Jails virtual MLK speech. “The idea behind this project is recreating a space in a digital way to make for an experience that would otherwise escape us,” said Dr. Victoria Gallagher. Such new experiences involve the immersion of the audience within the speech itself.

MLK digital speech recreation helps understanding of public addresses Rachel Smith Staff Writer

Phase two of the Virtual MLK project was showcased Monday night to more than 50 NC State students and staff members in the virtualization lab in Hunt Library.

The multi-phase project, conducted by members of NC State’s communication department, is aimed at creating an immersive experience that will place audience members in a multimedia

representation of Martin Luther King’s “Fill Up the Jails” speech, which originally took place on Feb. 16, 1960 at the White Rock Baptist Church located in Durham.

The speech, which was a response to the 1960 Greensboro sitins, represents the first time that King told civil rights activists to participate in creative protests as a means for achieving civil rights.

“The idea behind this project is recreating a space in a digital way to make for an experience that

would otherwise escape us,” said Victoria Gallagher, a professor and associate dean for the college of humanities and social sciences.

Gallagher and her team have created this project to allow the audience to experience public speaking in a new way.

“Public speaking is so ephemeral. It moves us and it transforms us, but it’s here and gone,” Gallagher said. “We asked ourselves, how can we recapture this speech when there is no audio recording and when the place it was origi-

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it does make it difficult to talk to the most student organizations and really have time to feel like you’ve covered everyone you want to talk to,” Mason said.

The way statues are written do not allow for any prior planning for campaigning, according to Jasmine Scheitler, communications director for the executive committee.

Technically, students are not supposed to schedule meetings with student organizations before the day campaigning starts.

“Looking at changing that in statues and allowing a two week time period before campaigns that you’re allowed to organize yourself or get your team toget her a nd schedu le meetings would be benef icial for candidates,” Scheitler said.

Cody Long, student senate president, said that while he is excited to go all out for a full week and be done, it will be difficult.

Candidates had to begin scheduling speeches a nd event s no ea rl ier than Monday, otherwise it would be considered a pre-planning campaign

violation.

“It’s literally a week to plan and execute a campaign that could ultimately take 35,000 voters. It’s pretty daunting and pretty near impossible to do in a week’s time.”

Nute Thompson, a college of humanities and social sciences student senator, said he understands the mental and physical toll that executive officers experience during the campaign, but that candidates for other positions need the extra time to reach out to their constituents.

“As a senator with much less notoriet y, for our campaigns it would be nice to have the extra time to get the name out and the publicity that the less prestigious offices don’t necessarily command,” Thompson said.

Mau said that having three strong tickets for the student body president and vice president race enhances the image and effectiveness of student government.

“I think that student government is in a great position this year,” Mau said. “I really think any of those tickets will do a great job of continuing the success and inf luence we’ve built this year.”

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nally given is gone. Our idea was to create an immersive digital recreation.”

In June of 2014, Gallagher and her team hired an audio actor to re-enact King’s “Fill Up the Jails” speech at the White Rock Baptist Church, which has been rebuilt since the original speech was given.

Justin Drust, a local audio designer and recordist set up microphones around the sanctuary to not only capture the audio actor’s voice, but the voices and movements of members of the audience.

“We knew we wanted to capture the experience in the church of the actual speech, and we also knew we wanted multiple perspectives,” Drust said. “We did a multi-track recording setup and had microphones placed by the podium, in the middle of the crowd to get some of the responses and reactions to the speech, as well as in the balcony and other odd places around the church.”

By doing this, Drust was able to capture the sounds of the atmosphere in the church, which gives the audience a better perspective as to what it would have been like to be

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Attendees view the Dr. Martin Luther King “Fill the Jails” speech. “Our idea was to create an immersive digital recreation,” commented Dr. Victoria Gallagher. To that end, audience members are surrounded by photos of attendees of the time and are able to take everything in by walking around during the speech.

there in real time.

Two five-minute clips were showcased to the audience Monday night. Members of the audience were encouraged to move around the room so that they could experience the sounds of the speech from these different perspectives.

Nicholas Sorensen, a sophomore studying history, said he was impressed by how the project members were able create a space where the sound perspective would change depending on your placement in

the room.

“I think this project is a great interactive experience for students who want to gain knowledge about this civil rights movement and communication technology,” Sorensen said.

Gallagher hopes that this project will also serve as a learning tool to students in NC State’s communication program.

“We envision this being used in a lot of different ways,” Gallagher said. “We are obvi-

ously using it for research, but we also want to use it in classrooms and to use it to study and understand the impact of public addresses.”

Phase three of this project is expected to be finished within the next year and a half, according to Gallagher. It will include digital recreations of the interior and exterior of the original White Rock Baptist Church.

“We want it to be like you are walking into the original sanctuary,” Gallagher said.

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Stanhope Apartments is a new student apartment and retail complex that will house 300 student apartments, a retail center that includes a CVS Pharmacy, and a parking deck. The complex is being built on the lot that had parking and vacant storefronts on the 3000 block of Hillsborough Street, between Concord Street and Friendly Drive. Stanhope is aiming to finish by the targeted deadline which is July, 2015.

options off-campus,” she said.

“There are other apartments and houses off Gorman and Tryon that aren’t as expensive, but I think for the location and price it will be worth it.”

The two-bedroom rate at Stanhope is $805, while Valentine Commons’s two-bedroom rate is $750, and College Inn’s is $765.

In addition to the residents, Stanhope will bring a commercial space below the complex.

“I am extremely confident we are going to see whether it’s a cool new restaurant, bar and

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students how they should honor her legacy. Amongst the responses, many students pushed the idea of honoring her legacy with a statue outside of Reynolds Coliseum.

The idea picked up traction within student government and f lourished into a bust of Kay Yow that is now between Reynolds and Talley Student Union.

“They then made additional plans to expand that site into something called Coaches Corner,” said Karli Moore, finance committee chair of the project.

As the project has taken shape and expanded over time, the decision was made to replace the bust of Yow and make it a full head-totoe statue, along with adding the other three coaches.

The cost of the project is estimated to be $300,000, and is all funded privately, through alumni and resources outside of the university, according to Moore.

The statues will cost ap-

nightlife, some great new retail. The mix of businesses are going to be a great attraction to students,” said Murison.

The Stanhope Development is just the beginning of the rejuvenation of Hillsborough Street, according to Murison.

“For a long time the city has been working on a plan to revitalize Hillsborough Street, that started in 2009 with Phase 1 which ran from the Bell Tower up to Gardner street. Now the city is ready to move forward with Phase 2, which will go from Gardner Street, where the first phase

ended, all the way to Rosemary Street—just shy of Sub Conscious.”

The City Council approved plans for Phase 2 of the revitalization of Hillsborough Street to move forward next month. The plans include new streets, a median, new sidewalks, new street furniture and lights. Construction is expected to begin spring 2016 and should take about 18 months to complete, according to Murison.

“The city’s investment in $13 million in Phase 2 will add more gasoline to the eco-

proximately $55,000 each.

“The fundraising for this project is still ongoing, though it has been successful to this point and time,” Walsh said.

Coaches Corner was originally supposed to be unveiled in 2014, but because of delays in the Reynolds Coliseum renovation that is about to begin, the goal is to unveil the four statues in the fall of 2016. They plan to sync the two projects and have them revealed together, according to Moore.

To find artists to design t he stat ues, a nat iona l search was put out. Fortyseven submissions were received and two were selected.

“We are extremely happy w it h t he product and the quality of artists that we a re get t ing for these statues,” Walsh said. “ We h a v e t wo a r t i s t s work ing on the project, and bot h a r t ists a re

getting compensated the same $110,000 each.”

Tyson Snow is one of the selected artists and from Utah. The second artist is Ben Victor from Idaho. Victor is the only living artist in the U.S. to have two statues in the National Statuary Hall in the Capitol Building, according to Moore.

Coaches Corner will be visible to those passing by between Reynolds and Talley Student Union, according to Walsh.

“I’m tru ly excited for when we reach that finish line so we can have a place to honor our history,” Walsh said.

nomic engine that will attract more redevelopment,” said Murison.

Developers hope the revitalization of Hillsborough Street will make it more userfriendly, safe and beautiful, as well as help private companies thrive.

There are also other smaller developments currently taking place on Hillsborough Street.

“We have six private sector developments going on Hillsborough Street that should be done in the next six months to a year,” said Murison.

The construction on the corner of Dan Allen Drive and Hillsborough Street, in front of University Towers, is part of the six private sector projects this year. The building will be more premium student apartments, holding somewhere from 45 to 60 beds with retail commercial space on the ground floor.

The building will be very similar to 2604 Hillsborough Street, the apartment complex above Saxby’s Coffee. The same architect and developer from 2604 Hillsborough Street designed Stanhope

apartments.

Another part of the six projects on Hillsborough Street is the Aloft Hotel that will be located on the corner of Maiden and Hillsborough Streets across from the Bell Tower. According to Murison the hotel is expected to bring a metropolitan feel to Hillsborough.

“What you are seeing is a very significant investment in Hillsborough Street over the next three to four years,” said Murison.

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Letter from Chancellor Woodson and Chancellor Folt regarding Chapel Hill Shooting Dear NC State and Carolina Communities: As we have come together during the past week to grieve the loss of Deah Barakat, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, we have been inspired by their incredible life stories – recounted with grace and resilience by their family and friends.

As our own campus communities came together in vigils Wednesday and Thursday, and in so many other displays of love and support over the past week, we have also been heartened by your compassion and respect for one another.

Collectively, it has been an incredible testimony to the strengths of our shared university communities.

At the vigil on the Carolina campus, we were joined by NC Central Chancellor Debra Saunders-White and Duke’s Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta

as they brought students from their campuses to join ours in an outpouring of love and support. Students and community members from Chapel Hill and around the region came to NC State the following evening to honor and celebrate the lives of Deah, Yusor and Razan. We would like to thank everyone who has stood with us during this difficult time.

To those in the NC State and UNC Muslim Student Associations, as well as the broader Muslim community, we know this tragedy has been especially trying for you. We will continue to care for you in all that we do and strive to build on the response to this tragedy as a way to bring us all closer together.

To all in our campus communities, we encourage you to honor the memories of Deah, Yusor and Razan by following their examples of working to make the world a better place. We also ask you to join us in our ongoing efforts to ensure Carolina and NC State are communities that always value inclusion, respect, tolerance and

TECHNICIAN equality for people of all faiths, ethnicities and perspectives.

We would like to extend our deepest appreciation to the many campus organizations and support staff who worked around the clock to make the campus vigils, funeral service and other events possible. We also would like to thank the Chapel Hill Police Department, the FBI, the U.S. attorney’s office and other law enforcement agencies for their tireless work. We ask everyone to remain patient as the investigation continues.

Thousands of us gathered on our campuses last week to remember and celebrate the lives of three young people who showed compassion for all humanity. Let us continue to honor them by respecting each other in our words and our deeds.

EDITOR’S NOTE Letters to the editor are the individual opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Technician staff or NC State University. All writers must include their full names and, if applicable, their affiliations, including years and majors for students and professional titles for University employees. For verification purposes, the writers must also include their phone numbers, which will not be published.

Randy Woodson, NC State Chancellor Carol L. Folt, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor

Class differences affect students M

oney is a touchy topic—especially in college. For me, after attending community-based public schools for my primary education, moving into my dorm at NC State f reshman year was one of the first times I faced a diverse population of people, all from different backgrounds and incomes.

Katherine Over the past Waller few years, I’ve Staff Columnist observed the different divisions of the “broke college student.” The first consists of students who consider themselves broke because it is the first time they have ever had to budget; the second consists of those who are truly broke and only have $5 in their checking accounts.

There is a significant divide between students who constantly worry about money and those who don’t. Stress caused by financial instability influences your studies a great deal; it plays a contributing factor in determining your major.

I know students who pick majors because they know that they need a substantial starting salary to pay off college loans. Money also factors in to whether you choose options such as studying abroad or Alternative Service Breaks. Your finances decide whether you attend graduate school.

Money also affects the psyche of the college student. Paying your own way might induce you to try harder because you understand the value of the classes you are paying for, or it might cause you to crumble with the stress of balancing both working and school. Not having to worry about where your payments come from either allows you to be more focused or causes you to slack off because you don’t really think much about the cost of it all.

On a daily basis, I come across those who could be on full scholarships struggling to make tuition payments or working long hours.

Many students pay for everything themselves, while others rely on their parents. I have friends who have high-paying internships, and many more who work minimum wage jobs. Even what is owed to the university varies, and everyone’s tuition bill is unique.

Forty-eight percent of NC State students receive student loans, averaging at about $5,565 according to a statistic by Niche. This statistic neatly divides our student body into the “haves” and the “have nots.”

Social stratification becomes much more pronounced in college. The students who have piles of student loans looming over their twenties have very different priorities than the students who are lucky enough to start off a career with a clean financial slate. Students who either come

from wealthy families, or are blessed with scholarships, enter the workforce on much more stable financial footing than those who don’t.

“College-educated adults without student debt have a typical household net worth of $64,700, or about seven times the household wealth of a college-educated adult paying off student loans, at about $8,700,” according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center. This goes to show that doing well in college and getting a well-paying job after graduation does not ensure financial success.

Furthermore, in college, students divide themselves into socioeconomic groups based on major. This may not be true across all fields of study, but, for example, an education major has very clearly declared their financial future to be different from the financial possibilities of a peer who is an engineering major.

These divides create subtle frictions between majors.

Even students within a particular major experience segregation. It is not just the proximity to one another that perpetuates the relevance of class differences, but also an aversion to being uncomfortable around those of different socioeconomic status. Involvement in expensive Greek organizations can also further segregate these classes.

Monetary issues can breed a lot of resentment among friends. Financial disparity rears its ugly head when friends decide to apartment-hunt, brainstorm spring-break trips and coordinate group reservations at restaurants.

Even in a public university like NC State, money is a huge deal. As we begin to face the real world, inequalities become more and more distinct.

Education, which is supposed to be the ultimate equalizer, truly is not.

Talking about money makes most people uncomfortable because it brings attention to our inequality.

The stratification among students is often unspoken, but chiefly and excessively present. The fact is, we are not one, solidified “Wolfpack.”

Our financial demographics make it difficult to produce a candid camaraderie.

Money is an uncomfortable topic for many, and I advocate for more frequent, realistic discussions about the reality of this type of diversity on campus. Our university does do a good job with needs-based grants and programs like work-studies; however, this is simply a Band-Aid on a much deeper issue. The inner workings of universities in the United States are deeply classist, despite the efforts to promote equal opportunity. The success of the educational system in the U.S. should not be based on anecdotes about the outliers who overcame adversity, but instead on stories about the average student who didn’t get so lucky.

Erin Holloway, senior studying anthropology and English

The U.S. is more dangerous than we’re led to believe I

don’t think most people realize just how dangerous the United States is compared to other developed countries. We seem to brush it under the rug until something hits close enoug h to home, or we Tyler gain an outside perspective that Gobin Staff Columnist ob s e r ve s t he United States from afar.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime published a list of rates of intentional murders in countries around the world, based per 100,000 people. The United States had an intentional murder rate of 4.7 murders per 100,000 people. This number may seem low and unimportant, but hopefully listing some of the countries’ intentional murder rates may put things into perspective. Saudi Arabia has a 0.8 murder rate, Australia has 1.1, Libya has 1.7, Iran has 4.1, India has 3.5 and Egypt has a rate of 3.4. Liechtenstein has a rate of zero for intentional murders and Singapore is close behind with 0.2. Relative to these rates, the rate for the United States seems much higher. The most recent data from the UNODC is from 2012, so understandably, some of those numbers have probably changed, but we need to consider our posi-

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tion a serious one, regardless of the circumstances.

People here have a romanticized view on how safe the United States actually is. Tell your parents you’re going backpacking around Europe and they’re concerned for your safety, but tell them you’re going for spring break in Florida and they say have fun. One of those trips is significantly safer than the other – and it’s not the spring break vacation.

To give some perspective on the United States, we need to consider an outside viewpoint. Studying abroad in the Netherlands last semester gave me that outlook. The local news was now the Dutch news and the European news came out of London. I didn’t hear much of what was going on in the United States, but I did hear about the violence.

Europe didn’t publicize news from the United States unless it was big news, yet shootings and police violence came up far more often than I was comfortable with.

Seldom did the London Times publicize good news. They chose the bad stuff because it was more interesting to read about. It’s not like we know much more about France other than the shooting that took place in the beginning of January. That’s an example of us receiving a catered view on what Europe is like. We hear about the violence, and that’s it.

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I’ve lived in the United States for almost 22 years, and I’ve been receiving this ethnocentric view of Europe and the rest of the world since I could buy the newspaper.

But that doctored view of Europe I was receiving for the past five years was not as bad as the catered view of the United States I received while abroad in Holland.

I was ashamed by the amount of continuing violence that was constantly publicized. And apparently, this was nothing new for my European friends. They were already well aware that the United States is a dangerous place.

To go into gun laws would require another column, but I can say this much: gun laws are much stricter in the European Union and for most of Asia. Arguments don’t have the option to escalate to gun violence in most circumstances, which seems to help the case that their nations are safer places to live.

Our conflation of gun ownership with freedom is absolutely ridiculous. There’s no question that I think gun ownership should be much more restrictive, but at this point, it’s ingrained in our culture.

If the government took any serious action restricting gun ownership, it would likely cause a small revolution. We live in a pretty great place, but just remember, it’s not as safe as it might seem.

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Professor and students join in combating HIV Alexandra Goodfred Correspondent

While working on his master’s degree in Britain in 1987, Uganda native and NC State communication associate professor James Kiwanuka-Tondo found that whenever he mentioned his home country, people only knew two things about it: the former dictator Idi Amin and AIDS. Discovering that his former home was synonymous with a terrible disease and a terrible dictator led to his understanding of how serious the problem is.

Kiwanuka-Tondo said his experience in Britain in the late 1980s and his work compiling education information and communication materials about health for the United Nations Population Fund helped develop his understanding of the crisis. During this time, he got in contact with the National AIDS Control Programme in Uganda.

“I started understanding the issues of HIV/ AIDS, but also during those days we lost a lot of people and I began experiencing HIV/AIDS firsthand [because] many people in Uganda had relatives, people from our extended families dying and leaving behind AIDS orphans, and so I began to understand how big of a problem it was,” Kiwanuka-Tondo said.

When he really began to develop an interest in the disease and health communication, Kiwanuka-Tondo said Uganda had the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world, with more than 18 percent of the adult population of the country affected.

Uganda was the first country in Africa to decrease its rates of HIV/AIDS, according to Kiwanuka-Tondo, and it was the only country in the 1990s able to bring down the rates of the disease. This breakthrough prompted his dissertation.

Kiwanuka-Tondo said the director of the NAACP at the time, who he knew from school, provided him with information about campaigns taking place in Uganda during the 1990s.

“He told me that at that point because of the very aggressive and vigorous campaigns, the rates of HIV/AIDS would peak in 1994 and start falling,” he said. “And it happened, so for me, actually, I decided to find out why.”

Kiwanuka-Tondo’s dissertation, published in 2013, focuses on what organizational factors led to successful AIDS campaigns in Uganda.

“One of the things I found out is that what was very different about Uganda was not only was everybody involved, the politicians, the president, religious leaders, but the policy was to involve everybody in the whole campaign,” he said.

Kiwanuka-Tondo said that if a health campaign is to be successful, it is necessary to

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James Kiwanuka-Tondo is an associate professor of Communications who specializes in HIV/AIDS campaigns and their effectiveness. “I’ve been doing research on HIV/AIDS campaigns since 1996,” Kiwanuka-Tondo said. “A lot of work has been done looking for a cure or a vaccine, that is ongoing research and someday we will get there. Over the past 20 years there has been a relaxation with HIV/AIDS because people can live longer with antivirals; this has led to a kind of HIV fatigue or complacence. We need to put out the message that this is still a problem,” Kiwanuka-Tondo said. “In the U.S. every year 50,000 people contract HIV/AIDS.” “It’s not just looking for a vaccine or a cure; we still need to prevent the spread of the disease.”

make the intended audience participate and be a part of the whole problem and solution, and said that writing about this topic has been his greatest contribution to his area of research.

When he’s not teaching and doing research at NC State, Kiwanuka-Tondo said he goes back to Uganda every year and to Botswana on study abroad trips with students. In Botswana, he and his students focus on understanding why there is such a high rate of HIV/AIDS. Though the country has economic and political success, it has the second highest rate of HIV in the world. “[The program] offers the opportunity to understand health issues, particularly how do people understand health issues because people in the US and in Western cultures are individualistic, they understand health very differently from people who are in communal cultures, like in Africa,” Kiwanuka-Tondo said.

Taking students to Uganda serves a somewhat similar purpose. Kiwanuka-Tondo has been working since 1996 with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), which is the largest AIDS organization in Uganda. He said that when he takes students, faculty and people from the community, they visit TASO so participants of the study abroad can interface with AIDS survivors.

“They call themselves AIDS survivors be-

cause they are people who have been living with HIV/AIDS for a long time, 25 years, so many years and they tell us their story,” Kiwanuka-Tondo said.

Tracy Anderson, one of Kiwanuka-Tondo’s former students, went on both trips with him when he was her thesis chair. Her thesis focused on HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns in Botswana and health behavior campaigns related to risky behavior that leads to the transmission of HIV/AIDS. “He was really my guide through all of grad school— in terms of academics, personal development and career development,” Anderson said. “I think he is so well liked by his students because of the genuine passion he has for what he’s teaching. When we were learning about how to design a social marketing campaign, he was relating real life stories to us about his home country and how the principles that he’s teaching us are a matter of life and death essentially.”

Anderson also felt that these trips went beyond the typical study abroad experience. She and other participants went to fishing villages and spoke to children and adults there, one time even speaking to Ugandan war victims.

They were there to understand the culture and to learn how to bridge connections to NC State.

“He’s always traveling all the time and working on these extra projects that he has,”

Anderson said. “And he does that because he is actually so passionate about making a difference in people’s lives.”

Kiwanuka-Tondo said his attitude toward the problem of HIV/AIDS has changed over the past three years -- to focus more on activism and trying to make sure people understand the problem.

“Since 2000 there has been this sort of feeling that we have overcome the problem of HIV/AIDS, and yet we haven’t,” he said.

He said that the US is one of the countries with the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, with more than 1,148,000 members of its population testing positive.

Kiwanuka-Tondo currently co-chairs with Sheila Smith Mckoy on an AIDS fund that gives grants to small community organizations that deal with the patients of the disease, and insists that the Affordable Care Act has changed a number of things by allowing AIDS patients to get insurance and granting more access to healthcare.

“It is very difficult [to communicate health issues and prevent the spread of disease] because it involves behavior and attitude changes,” he said. “This is an issue we will deal with until humanity is done; it will never go away as long as we have people on the Earth.”

Oscars display social justice theme throughout show Kevin Schaefer Associate Features Editor

“Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” stole most of the spotlight at the Oscars this year, with each film coming away with four awards. While they had their time to shine, especially with “Birdman” taking home Best Motion Picture of the Year, each of the eight nominees in this category managed to win at least one award.

Between Patricia Arquette’s feminist-driven speech as she accepted the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Boyhood,” to host Neil Patrick Harris opening with a one-liner about how the academy was here to honor “Hollywood’s best and whitest,” political aspects dominated the show’s atmosphere, more so than in previous years.

Upon winning Best Adapted Screenplay for penning “The Imitation Game” script, Graham Moore said in his acceptance speech how he contemplated suicide as a teenager and encouraged people to “stay different.” This made for one of the most emotional moments of the evening, along with John Legend and Common performing the Best Original Song winner “Glory” from the “Selma” soundtrack. This brought the movie’s star David Oyelowo to tears.

In addition to winning the big one, “Birdman” also received Best Achievement in Directing, Best

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Writing and Original Screenplay and Best Achievement in Cinematography. Director Alejandro González Inárritu said in his speech, “Two Mexicans in a row.

That’s suspicious, I guess,” noting Alfonso Cuarón’s winning Best Director for “Gravity” last year.

E dd ie Red may ne appea red breathless when he won Best Actor for his portrayal of the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything”; while Best Actress winner Julianne Moore also gave a heartfelt speech as she accepted the award for her role in

“Still Alice.”

J.K. Simmons won the first Oscar of the night, receiving Best Supporting Actor for his role as a brutal music instructor in “Whiplash.”

The film also received Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing.

Despite being the most financially successful of its contenders, “American Sniper” only came away with one technical award, receiving Best Sound Editing. This also marks star Bradley Cooper’s third year in a row he’s been nominated for Best Actor.

A major highlight of the evening

featured Lady GaGa performing “The Hills are Alive” with Dame Julie Andrews coming onstage at the end, resulting in a wave of audience applause.

And while “The Lego Movie” didn’t even receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature, much to the dismay of its fans, the show nevertheless included a live performance from Tegan and Sara of its hit song “Everything is Awesome” from Andy Samberg’s Lonely Island. Though the fact that the lesser acclaimed “Big Hero 6” took home the award brought disappointment

as well.

Harris’ spoof of a scene from “Birdman” as he came onstage in his underwear garnered a lot of laughs, while he also delivered a decent amount of one-liners. However, Jack Black’s attack on superhero movies at the beginning received little reaction from the audience.

While less entertaining than last year’s show, the 87th Academy Awards highlighted three of the more original films from 2014, while also displaying a call for social justice.

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“Vestiges & Claws” offers listeners an experience “Vestiges & Claws” José González Imperial Recordings

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The best word to describe José González’s newest album, “Vestiges & Claws,” is soothing. It is not difficult to imagine copies of it lining the shelves customers peruse while waiting in line at Starbucks, which isn’t a bad thing.

The album is folksy and contained, and it encourages an experience rather than a deeper analysis.

The music is part expressionist, part thoughtful lyricism. González creates feelings rather than an overarching narrative. Such is the popular thing to do at present, to produce a story and write songs around it.

While many other albums are novels, “Vestiges and Claws” is a collection of short stories, a culmination of thoughts.

If there’s one thing González is good at, it’s atmosphere. His music builds slowly and effectively. Even if his songs are deficient of the pressures and tensions of contemporary pop music, he is able to generate as much of an impact with his careful, gradual layers and textured musical arrangements.

Each song starts out in a similar place, though their conclusions vary to great effect. It’s just a matter of getting there. González works hard to achieve his endings, his emotional release. This is perhaps most evident in “Let It Carry You,” a song that’s resolution is buoyant in its orchestral tones.

However, this can work against the intimacy the music may attain with its listeners; at times, the songs

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take just too long to pull themselves together. By the time they reach the spot they want to reach, the listener may be disconnected and unavailable.

González is a self-aware soft-spoken crooner, and what he lacks in outward bravado, he makes up for in tenderness. He joins the ranks of The Lumineers and Jason Mraz with his seemingly familiar entry into the modern folk pop genre. González does not maintain the same pretentious air that accompanies many such artists. González’s new album is what happens when Sufjan Stevens meets the defter techniques of

Imogen Heap.

The title, “Vestiges & Claws,” is dropped in “What Will,” a wandering and existential melody that brings to mind the primary themes of the album: the impossibility of what we want and what we will do to chase after it. This is stressed in the lines, “Refining with our paws / Fight for a common cause.” A “vestige” is something that no longer exists—we may endeavor to claw our way to our dreams, removing obstacles with tenacity and hope, but we may never receive what we desire.

You get the sense that González

is toying with the idea of absolute minimum—he only utilizes what he deems necessary: acoustic guitar, shy percussion, pretty vocals and the occasional bouts of clapping. He is rather meticulous with his simplicity, and though the album doesn’t have the polish of other releases, that is part of its charm. He plays with silence and its conflict with music.

If you aren’t a fan of this sort of music, then the album will probably seem rather one-note. Its consistency tends toward flawlessness, meaning that if you don’t particularly care for the first track, you likely

won’t care for the rest of “Vestiges & Claws.”

The album also lacks a sense of discovery, of experimentation. It is safe and it is more than competent.

However, it lacks the various trials involved in the conception of a great addition to music. For what it is, the album definitely succeeds, but it doesn’t reach.

A working summation of “Vestiges & Claws” may be found within “Leaf Off/The Cave,” in which González pleads, “Take a moment / to reflect where we’re going.” Don’t run off, don’t give up; we’re just getting to the good part.

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aged to stop the bleeding as of late with back-to-back wins over Miami before squeaking a victory out against Georgia Tech.

6. NC State (16-11, 7-7 ACC) The theme of the week for the Wolfpack was not making mistakes. The team had only had one game, against Virginia Tech, and a loss would have effectively ended any tournament hopes. State can hang its hat on its first winning streak since December.

7. Pittsburgh (18-10, 7-7 ACC) A huge road win over Syracuse has the Panthers squarely on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament. Converting last Monday against Virginia would’ve been huge and there are no more op-

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tunities, which develop from high-powered offensive rebounding.

The Tar Heels are statistically the second-best rebounding team in college

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happily see the world and try foreign foods.

Incidentally, the Durham native gets to travel quite a

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portunities for the Panthers to pick up quality wins during the regular season.

8. Syracuse (17-10, 8-6 ACC) If the Orange hadn’t selfimposed a postseason ban due to NCAA infractions, Syracuse would be a bubble team with a chance to make a run at the Tournament. Instead they are attempting to play spoiler.

9. Miami (17-10, 7-7 ACC) The Hurricanes are playing themselves off of the bubble right now, nearly giving away a game in Boston College before falling to Louisville in a crucial road tilt. North Carolina at home will provide a chance at a quality win.

10. Clemson (15-12, 7-8 ACC) It’s been a rough week for the Tigers, as they dropped two games by double digits against teams on the opposite end of the ACC standings.

First was Georgia Tech, who defeated the Tigers by 11, then Duke creamed Clemson by 22 to wrap up their week.

11. Florida State (15-13, 7-8 ACC) The Seminoles came so close to pulling off the upset in Charlottesville Sunday but were suffocated in the end by the stifling Virginia defense.

The Seminoles did pick up a win against Boston College, so overall it’s been a good week for them.

12. Wake Forest (12-15, 4-10 ACC) It was a quiet week for the Demon Deacons. They only played one game and it was a loss on the road to Notre Dame, which was expected.

We’ll see if they can make some noise when they host Virginia Wednesday.

13. Georgia Tech (12-16, 3-13 ACC) Over the last month the Yellow Jackets had been in

every game, looking like a competitive team in the ACC. And then Saturday happened. The Yellow Jackets lost to North Carolina 89-60 in a game that was never close and dropped a narrow 52-51 game to Louisville last night.

14. Boston College (9-17, 1-13 ACC) So close again for the Eagles, who lost in double overtime to Miami last Monday.

If Patrick Heckmann’s layup at the end of the first overtime falls we are looking at a different week for Boston College.

15. Virginia Tech (10-17, 2-12 ACC) The Hokies have lost their last three games by double digits (road games at Clemson, Miami, and NC State).

Fans in Blacksburg should start thinking about football season.

Senior Desmond Lee drives toward the basket against Virginia Tech in PNC Arena Saturday. Lee contributed three points in his nine minutes of play in the Wolfpack’s 69-53 victory against the Hokies.

basketball, grabbing 42.4 boards a game, thanks in large part to a talented yet inconsistent front court led by junior forward Brice Johnson and sophomore forward Kennedy Meeks, who average 7.9 and 7.5 rebounds per game, respectively.

Because Carolina scores so

many second-chance points, it will be crucial for the Pack to limit the number of offensive rebounds Carolina pulls down.

One way State may attempt to match the rebounding of Carolina is by relying more on sophomore forward Lennard Freeman.

Freeman is the Wolfpack’s best rebounder, averaging 5.6 boards a game. Look for Freeman to step up and be a contributor both on the boards and defensively against a talented and big UNC frontcourt, but the Wolfpack needs all of its bigs to contribute and play well in

order to beat the Tar Heels.

This rivalry game is important for both teams. NC State could certainly use another win against a top 25 team to help build its NCAA Tournament resume and solidify a spot in the Big Dance. UNC looks to get back on the right track after losing four of its

last six games.

Much like the first meeting between these two teams, expect this one to go down to the wire.

bit to compete with other schools around the country, allowing her to pursue two passions at once.

Perry credits her current success to a diverse range of factors, including a number of positive influences in her life.

“Definitely listening to

my coach got me to where I am today.” Perry said. “I’ve learned a lot of life lessons from my parents and trackwise I have learned a lot from my coach and my teammate Jonathan Addison.”

Wit h her dema nd i ng schedule, the former News & Observer Triangle Area Fe-

male Athlete of the Year finds motivation from her mother.

“Not every day is going to be great,” Perry said. “She is always there to let me know that it’s completely okay and tomorrow will be better.”

Gaining a total of four first-place finishes and four second-place finishes out of

the 15 events she competed in, Perry had a great 2014 outdoor season and has taken on 2015 with gusto.

“It’s hard for me to find a weakness for Alexis,” Geiger said. “I don’t know if it is a weakness, but she has high expectations of herself.”

According to Geiger, Perry

has improved each season, and with another year still to go, it looks like the sky’s the limit for the Wolfpack standout; the upcoming ACC championships are just another venue for her to prove herself.

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State in sixth, Blue Devils stay on top

Men’s golf competes at Puerto Rico Classic

The NC State golf team finished its second day at the Puerto Rico Classic at the Rio Mar River course.

The Pack has struggled in the classic but did improve by four strokes on the second day of competition.

Stanhope Johnson, James Chapman, and Jacob McBride all improved their scores from the previous day’s round.

Johnson led the Pack on day two with a score of 71 (-1). NC State will finish the tournament today.

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erything starts with Paige,” Gottfried said. “We have to do a great job on him.”

Expect a pivotal matchup in the backcourt as NC State sophomore point guard Anthony “Cat” Barber will draw the assignment of playing against Paige.

In the previous game against UNC, Barber struggled, scoring only five points while turning the ball over four times, but the sophomore has elevated his play recently, averaging a scorching 18.6 points, 4.2 assists and only one turnover in his last five games.

In addition to his scoring and playmaking ability, Barber could be just as important on the defensive end, as his speed and ability stay in defensive position will be important when guarding the Heels’ primary perimeter scorer.

As Paige is UNC’s only significant threat from deep, North Carolina relies on points generated from second-chance oppor-

1. No. 4 Duke (24-3, 11-3 ACC) The ACC game of the year (and possibly NCAA game of the year) goes to Duke’s overtime win over UNC-Chapel Hill last Wednesday.

The Blue Devils proved they won’t quit and they have the makeup of a team that can go deep in the tournament.

2. No. 2 Virginia (25-1, 13-1 ACC) It’s a good thing this isn’t a beauty pageant because the Cavaliers would be dead last on this list (OK they’d be in front of Boston College), but Virginia’s methodical style works, and it was evident again this week in wins over Pittsburgh and Florida State.

3. No. 9 Notre Dame (24-4, 12-3 ACC) The Fighting Irish continue to rack up points, beating lowly Wake Forest and Boston College and scoring 88 and 87 points in each. They have all but locked up a 2nd-round bye in the ACC Tournament.

4. No. 15 UNC-Chapel Hill (198, 9-5 ACC) It was a week of heartbreak for the Tar Heels, which began when they were defeated by the Blue Devils in a game they probably should have won in Cameron Indoor and ended with a memorial service for the legendary Dean Smith.

5. No. 17 Louisville (22-6, 10-5 ACC) The Cardinals are an infuriating team to watch and dropped another ACC contest last Wednesday against Syracuse. They have man-

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400 free relay team captures ACC title

Wolfpack swimmers Alexia Zevnik, Riki Bonnema, Lotta Nevalainen and Natalie Labonge had an impressive showing at the ACC Championships Saturday, capturing the 400 freestyle relay title. After swimming a time of 3:14.57, the relay team was the second Wolfpack team to be crowned ACC Champions in 2015. Overall, the Wolfpack set 11 school records, one ACC meet record and one conference at the four-day competition at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta.

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Softball Head Coach Signs Two-Year Extension

While in his third year with NC State, head softball coach Shawn Rychcik has signed a two-year extension to lead the Wolfpack through 2019. In his time at State, Rychcik has led the Pack to back-to-back NCAA appearances and the 2013 ACC Tournament Championship title in his first year.

With that 2013 Championship, Rychcik became the only first-year head coach in ACC softball history to claim the ACC title. Rychcik also earned the fourth-most wins and fewest losses in school history his second year with a 36-18 record.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “A lot of times people think it’s all verbal, but Ralston is more by example. He’s been very steady in that regard for us. ” Mark Gottfried Men’s basketball head coach

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Freshman forward Abdul-Malik Abu plays defense during the game against North Carolina Jan. 14. The Wolfpack fell to the Tar Heels 81-79 at PNC Arena.

Pack seeks upset at UNC David Kehrli Correspondent

After handily defeating Virginia Tech Saturday, the NC State men’s basketball team looks to further bolster its NCAA Tournament resume with a win over No.15 UNC-Chapel Hill at the Dean Dome tonight.

The W olfpack (16-11, 7-7 ACC) heads into the matchup with the Tar Heels (19-8, 9-5 ACC) following its first back-to-back win since December. The Pack hopes its newfound confidence and momentum are enough to beat the Tar Heels this time around.

The Wolfpack lost narrowly to the Tar Heels 81-79 in a nail-biter Jan. 14 in PNC Arena. The contest ended in heartbreaking fashion for the Pack as a game tying tipin attempt from freshman Cody Martin just missed at the buzzer.

“We’ve studied that film, and we gave up way too many offensive

rebounds to them,” NC State head coach Mark Gottfried said at the weekly ACC coaches teleconference.

“We had some good looks, and we didn’t make them. We could have defended them better at times.”

Like NC State, Carolina heads into Tuesday night’s matchup coming off of an impressive victory. After losing four of its last five games, the Tar Heels bounced back by shooting better than 60 percent from the field en route to an 89-60 victory against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

UNC is one of the top offensive teams in the nation, ranking 14th in points scored at 79.5 per game, and is led by junior point guard Marcus Paige, who is averaging 13.6 points and 4.4 assists this season.

Paige has consistently proved to be a thorn in the Pack’s side. In January’s meeting, the ACC’s Preseason Player of the Year recorded 23 points while shooting 5-for-5 from threepoint range and dishing nine assists. “[UNC is] very talented and ev-

TRACK & FIELD

Perry stands out for Wolfpack track & field Alexis Hester Correspondent

With the ACC Indoor Championships set to begin this Thursday, NC State track and field junior standout and All-ACC competitor Alexis Perry looks to continue her history of top-notch performances.

A qualifier in the long jump and 60-meter hurdles, Perry has picked up awards and records in bulk during her time with the Wolfpack. The Durham native currently owns four of the top six marks all time in the long jump program’s history.

At the 2014 Raleigh Relays, Perry posted an astonishing 21-feet, 2-inch jump to set the NC State school record.

“In the moment it felt like a really good jump,” Perry said. “It took a little while for it to hit me how far it was.”

Beginning track in the seventh grade, Perry has been working towards her goal for quite some time. However, it wasn’t until she tore her ACL cheerleading during her sophomore year at Jordan High School that she realized she wanted to focus on track.

“That was kind of my revelation to really pursue track seriously if I wanted to do it in college,” Perry said.

Despite the injury setback in high school, Perry came back stronger than ever, and her list of achievements during her years at NC State is incredibly extensive.

Perry earned ACC Women’s Performer of the Week honors, ranked in the top 15 at the 2014 Raleigh Relays, and earned all-ACC honors in the 100m hurdles at the 2014 outdoor track and field ACC championships.

Additionally, the junior has performed in the classroom as well, earning ACC All-Academic team honors for both indoor and outdoor track in both 2013 and 2014.

Perry said she would love to jump or run professionally, but hopes to get a job after graduation and has thought about continuing her education through graduate school.

She currently majors in nutritional sciences.

“I’ve looked into a lot of different internships,” Perry said. “Hopefully I will come across something this summer that will guide me in the right direction.”

Perry has earned plaudits from the coaching staff for her immense focus on her chosen events.

“She is extremely committed to track and field,” head coach Rollie Geiger said. “She’s extremely competitive.”

Despite the desire to compete athletically, Perry remains bal-

PHOTO COURTESY OF NC STATE ATHLETICS

Junior Wolfpack track & field competitor Alexis Perry sprints down the track during a long jump. Perry set the school long jump record in 2014 and will compete at the 2015 ACC Indoor Championships in Blacksburg, Virginia, which start Thursday.

anced. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, an advisor on the student-athlete committee and a peer mentor under the multicultural student affairs program.

When not competing, she loves to spend time with her sorority sisters and watch House on Netflix.

She also loves to travel, saying that if money wasn’t a concern, she’d

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