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IN BRIEF ‘Taste of Latin NC Department of Transportation warns against State Fair traffic About a million people are expected to visit the State Fair this year during the course of 11 days, creating heavy traffic conditions for I-40 and I-440, Wade Avenue, Blue Ridge Road, Edwards Mill Road, Trinity Road, N.C. 54 and Hillsborough Street.

Local transit agencies and Amtrak will be providing park-and-ride services from downtown Raleigh and Durham, north Raleigh, Cary and Garner. Amtrak is adding a stop at the fairgrounds on its daily Carolinian 79. GoTriangle will also offer a weekend shuttle service.

NCDOT recommends that motorists not attending the fair avoid the roads near the fairgrounds if possible.

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Raleigh roller derby team hosts doubleheader to support South Carolina flood victims.

Raleigh Junior Rollers, the Triangle’s only junior roller derby league, will host the Columbia Quad Squad Juniors Sunday at United Skates of America on 2901 Trawick Rd. to aid the animal shelters in Columbia, South Carolina. The competition against the Columbia Quad Squad Juniors begins at 10 a.m. Tickets are $7. A cash donation will be accepted at the door, and attendees are encouraged to donate dog and cat food (dry and canned), pet blankets, dog and cat treats, cat litter, bleach, trash bags and paper towels.

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NC State will celebrate the final day of National Hispanic Heritage Month Thursday with “A Taste of Latin America,” an event that includes Latin American meals and festivities at Fountain Dining Hall. This event is the result of collaboration between University Dining and Multicultural Student Affairs and is expected to bring more than 2,000 participants.

Featuring a wide range of dishes such as picadillo with tortillas, vegetarian tamale pie, fried plantains and mango jicama slaw, the event is a display of diversity within Latin American food.

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Evan Heiman, Guerino Davi, Robert Jamison and Andrew Tong designed the “Infinity Cube” as part of their senior engineering design project in spring of 2015. It was inspired by and is now showcased at “The Worlds of M.C. Escher” exhibit in the North Carolina Museum of Art.

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Fairgoers slowly make their way through a congested midway Oct. 25, 2014, at the North Carolina State Fair.

The North Carolina state fair kicks off at 3 p.m. Thursday, marking the start of fall activities for NC State students.

Unlimited ride wristbands are available from 3 p.m. to close today for $28. If you’re looking to save 50 percent on admission tickets, Friday is the day to go. Students can buy tickets for $5 instead of $10 if they present their student ID at the gates. An unlimited ride wristband will also be available for $34 Friday.

The N.C. State Fair continues to welcome new musical guests, new rides and new mostly deepfried food to attract patrons each year.

More deep-fried options to

satisfy your junk food dreams: More than 20 food vendors will serve fairgoers a variety of high-calorie, fried delicacies.

These include deep-fried options of the following: -peanut butter pick les topped with bacon, chocolate sauce and powdered sugar -bacon-w rapped Tootsie Rolls -pimento cheese -Pop-Tarts -s’mores -MoonPies stuffed with Oreos, Ho Hos and Reese’s peanut butter cups topped with cream cheese icing, chocolate and powdered sugar If deep-fried foods don’t satisfy your sweet tooth, there

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Apple loses patent lawsuit against University of Wisconsin, must pay hefty fines A United States jury found Tuesday that Apple wrongfully used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in chips found in many Apple devices.

The company could face up to $862 million in damages. The chips found were Apple’s A7, A8 and A8X processors, found in the iPhone 5s, 6, 6 Plus and several versions of the iPad. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation also sued Apple in January 2014 alleging infringement of the 1998 patent for improving chip efficiency.

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The Alternative Vehicle Showcase featured a variety of exhibits and alternative methods of transportation, ranging from horses to electric cars, in an effort to highlight the different university services and vehicle options available to NC State students Wednesday on the Brickyard.

Electric cars and hybrids were showcased, including the university’s Zipcars, the ride-share service sponsored by the Transportation Department. The lineup included f lex fuel vehicles, a Nissan Leaf, and a Toyota Prius to advocate for fuel-efficient vehicle transportation.

“We just want to make students aware of the alternative options of

transportation available to them through the school and even the City of Raleigh,” according to Carla Davis, communications coordinator for the NC State Sustainability Office.

University Recreation’s free bike clinic checked student bikes in the Brickyard, to advocate for campus bicycle transportation.

“We fix bikes for free every week from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Fridays outside of the Outdoor Adventures building,” said Dylan Lawson, a junior studying Civil Engineering.

“We’re just bike mechanics fixing up bikes.”

The NC State Stewards were also a part of the event, focusing on educating students about sustainability projects on campus.

“As State Stewards, we work to make actual changes happen at

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Stuart Avant, a freshman studying general agriculture, tries to close the sunroof of the Model S Tesla while inside it at the Alternative Vehicle showcase on the Brickyard Wednesday. “It’s a pretty neat showcase,” Avant said. “It makes you strive to succeed in life.”

NCSU,” said Amelia Fujikawa, the student coordinator for the State Stewards and a senior studying Environmental Science. “We like making ourselves present at events like this, to talk to interested students.”

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ment also had a presence at the event, with officers on horses and Segways.

“Students are more comfortable approaching officers using alternative forms of transportation,”

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Seize the Grid aims to rid campus of fossil fuels Ady Francis Correspondent

NC State’s Seize the Grid, a campaign that pushes the university toward 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2030, launched Wednesday on the Brickyard.

According to NC State’s 2012 - 2013 Annual Water and Energy report, the university paid $16,571,705 to Duke Energy, the campus’ electricity provider. Only 1 percent of the outputted energy from Duke Energy comes from

renewable energy sources.

“We want people to see that going 100 percent renewable is not only environmentally responsible, but also economically viable,” said Stacy Partin, the campaign manager and a freshman studying environmental science. “In the long run, renewable energy is cheaper, and would provide just as many jobs as natural gas does.”

Seize the Grid is a joint effort between the Sierra Student Coalition and Fossil Free NCSU, an NC State student organization focused on decreasing

campus fossil fuel dependency. The campaign is part of a national effort to bring more than 600 university campuses to operate solely on renewable energy within the next 15 years.

Wednesday’s launch campaign in the Brickyard cumulated 100 signatures for the petition.

“Right now, Seize the Grid is a grassroots movement at NC State,” said Hannah Frank, a junior studying Sustainable Food Systems for Global Health and co-president of Fossil Free NCSU. “At the end of the day, students

are the stakeholders at this university, and it’s our responsibility to put pressure on the administration to secure a better future for the campus.”

Claire Wang, the Duke University campaign manager for Seize the Grid, contacted Partin to bring the movement to campus.

“We had been thinking about starting it on campus, and when Stacy came to us with the campaign, we thought it was the perfect time to start,” said

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Nelson Santiago, the assistant director for Latino Student Affairs, has been involved in the production and organization of this event since its inception and said there have been many steps to the process.

“University Dining reached us almost a year ahead of time to figure it out,” Santiago said. “They wanted to make sure they do everything culturally appropriate, that people that had expertise in the area were involved.”

Remembering the Cinco de Mayo event at Case Dining Hall from spring of 2014, the sombreros and mustaches on sticks that were given out to students at Case Dining Hall, and the resultant backlash from the Latino student population of NC State, special emphasis was placed on making sure that students were involved and that their opinions were heard.

“In every culture, food is always a central theme,” said Keith Smith, director of the Board of Operations/Sustainability. “To that end, we have the unique ability to share these cultural experiences with our students to broaden their horizons and ours too. We’ve also learned that working with students to ensure our meals are authentic has

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Allison Kenlan, co-president of Fossil Free NCSU and a junior studying environmental science.

Fossil Free NCSU spearheaded the first clean energy bill in 2014, which was passed by the Association of Stu-

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iana Artero, a graduate student studying civil engineering and a teaching assistant, helps Nick Crowder, a junior studying civil engineering, and Weston Murphy, a senior also studying civil engineering, work with the total station equipment during a surveying lab across the street from Mann Hall on Wednesday. The purpose of the lab was to learn how to use the total station to measure existing coordinates and heights of select benchmarks in the vicinity of Mann Hall. “I really like the lab,” Crowder said. “You get to learn how to use the equipment, and I think it will be useful when we have to interpret surveying data in our civil engineering careers.” Javion Henderson, a senior studying construction engineering and management, described the course as a necessity and said, “We use surveying a lot to get grades for job sites, and most job sites are based off of surveys.”

made the events more meaningful for everyone.

“While the situation was unfortunate, it led to some valuable and enlightening conversations that have built some incredible relationships with Multicultural Student Affairs, two of which are coming to fruition right now: our ‘Indigenous North America’ dinner and ‘A Taste of Latin America’ meal.”

Jennifer Gilmore, director of marketing and communication for Campus Enterprises, said that event was a learning experience and an opportunity to build a relationship within the university.

“What I love about working in the university environment is that we are always learning – even when you work here,” Gilmore said. “We make mistakes and grow from them. And in the right environment, your relationships grow stronger as a result. That’s really what happened after our Cinco de Mayo event. We built a relationship with our colleagues in Multicultural Student Affairs that is bearing fruit.”

Both Multicultural Student Affairs and University Dining place an emphasis on the student as both imperative to the production of cultural events such as these and also as the key metric for measuring the success of these events.

“We love pushing the limits on our own culinary abilities in order to expose our students to foods they may

dent Governments. The bill called upon the UNC System’s administration to put pressure on Duke Energy to produce more renewable energy for the UNC System, which contains 17 universities and 222,000 students.

“That was a huge victory for us,” Kenlan said. “We had been focusing on getting legislation passed at the system level for a while, and we’ve

have never tried before,” Gilmore said.

“We know we’ve succeeded when students who know what the dish should taste like, because they grew up eating it and give us the nod of approval.”

“A Taste of Latin America” falls within the scope of diversity education week.

This works in the event’s favor because it also portrays the diversity within Latin American culture.

Latin America is a large geographical area, and the word “Latino” is extremely broad. According to the website Operation World, the word “Latino” applies to a total of 22 countries, each with its own history, tradition, culture and cuisine. How do you create a representative showcase of so many very different places all in one menu?

“There’s no way to capture it all,” Santiago said. “When you’re doing entrees and you’re only going to have five, it’s tough to find broad entrees. I let them know that they should come to one of our Latino Collaborative meetings.

The Latino Collaborative has student leaders from all 12 of the Latino-based entities from NC State. ” University Dining, Santiago and the Latino Collaborative all worked together to try to find an answer to this challenge. Instead of focusing on individual countries, they grouped them up into regions – Central America, South America and the Caribbean – and tried to find dishes that were shared by the

encountered a lot of road blocks. Now we want to focus our efforts within the campus with Seize the Grid.”

Partin said Seize the Grid’s next step is to contact the Office of Sustainability and other administrators with the resolution. “Since NC State is one of Duke Energy’s biggest consumers, we have the right to ask where the university’s energy comes from. We want

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countries in each of these regions.

“The students were 100 percent involved with the menu choices,” Santiago said. “We wanted to make sure that as people go through this menu, they know that all of Latin America doesn’t eat jalapenos and spicy food.

There’s so much more diversity to the meals that we have, and we feel that the menu really highlights those things.”

However, the event isn’t just about the taste of the food — it’s also about experiencing the flavors of the cultures that the foods came from.

“It’s going to be an experience from the moment people walk in,” Santiago said. “On the walls, there’s going to be a poster from every single one of the Latino nations, so students can see the different countries, the flags and geographically where they’re at, followed by facts.”

NC State Latin dance team Sube Ritmo will perform live in Fountain Dining Hall at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. with paired couples dancing bachata.

“It’s not only about food, [dancing] brings more of culture, and we’ll be sharing it with the people at Fountain,” said Angelica Rodriguez, a senior studying biological sciences and co-director of Sube Ritmo. “It’s a great way to bring alive Fountain.”

to put pressure on them to generate more renewable energy, and for all of the campus’ energy to come from that source.”

Partin and Wang are also working on a toolkit to help potential campaign managers and plan to reach out to universities that haven’t adopted the Seize the Grid Campaign yet.

“We want others to be able to access

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important information and start their campaigns without the obstacles and difficulties we encountered,” Partin said.

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said Sergeant Tim Hammonds. “They serve as a conversation-starter sometimes too.”

The police department exhibit focused heavily on bike transportation, with pamphlets on bicycle safety, and armbands for walking and biking pedestrians.

The NC Clean Energy Tech Center, a College of Engineering public service, exhibited its statewide social media campaign, “Fuel What Matters.” Students posted pictures of themselves using clean transportation on Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #FuelWhatMatters, and they were entered for a chance to win a $100 cash prize.

“The purpose of the campaign is to promote clean non-petroleum based transportation across the state,” said Moses Ifamose, a clean transportation consultant and a graduate student

are new non-fried options as well. Howling Cow will introduce a new ice cream flavor, Lemon Wafer. Carolina Crab bites, which are fair-friendly crab cakes and sweet corn in a cup, are some not-so-typical fair foods that will enhance the fair’s menu.

Thrill-seekers rejoice: There will be plenty of opportunities to get an adrenaline rush at this year’s fair with more than 100 rides.

About a dozen of them are new attractions.

The Super Cyclone roller coaster and Mighty Mouse Spinning Coaster are new thrill rides, but calmer rides like a new mid-sized Ferris

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studying Technical Communications.

The NC Clean Energy Tech Center also sponsors Energy Talks, an oncampus lecture series.

“Energ y Talks brings experts to campus to discuss the clean energy economy and careers in the field,” said Michael Terreri, a Clean Trans-

portation Specialist for the NC Clean Energy Technology Center.

The showcase was a joint effort between the Sustainability Office, University Recreation, the Transportation Department and the Energy Management department, Davis said.

wheel are available for those who aren’t seeking an adrenaline rush.

Supporting more local musicians: After years of shrinking crowds and losing national headliners, the N.C. State Fair made the decision to only include musicians who originated or currently live in North Carolina.

More than 80 acts from myriad genres will perform during the 10-day fair.

Today, the Jon Stickley Trio, a bluegrass band, will perform at the Bluegrass Stage at Heritage Circle at 5:30 p.m.

The Sidecar Social club will play old-timey jazz music at the Waterfall Stage, also at 5:30 p.m.

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n the wake of the recent college mass shootings, gun debates dance across the festering wounds of our country. So now, guns are threatening to encroach upon t he boundaries Katherine of academia Waller Staff Columnist everywhere, strapped on the hip of students and teachers alike. Stressed out and sleep-deprived college students packing heat? Not the answer.

Aggravated and underpaid kindergarten teachers toting guns? Not the answer.

As a country, guns are already allowed on public college campuses in Wisconsin, Texas, Utah, Oregon, Mississippi, Kansas, Idaho, Colorado and Arkansas. Fifteen state legislatures have introduced bills this year that would make it easier for college students to bring weapons to school.

Beginning in August 2016, Texan college students can bring concealed guns into classrooms. This includes the University of Texas at Austin, where in 1966 an engineering student killed his wife, mother and more than a dozen other people after he climbed the campus clock tower and opened fire—an event that many consider to be the beginning of a half-century of mass school shootings.

The concealed carry ruling, of course, has garnered a massive amount of criticism from both students and faculty, in particular with a movement

by University of Texas students demarcated on social media by #CocksNotGlocks. In response to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signing the new campus-carry law, students are rallying others to openly carry dildos around in protest. Also known as “Campus (DILDO) Carry,” the protest has been subject to a firestorm of pro-gun, concealcarry enthusiasts who don’t appreciate being mocked.

Group founder Jessica Jin described her reasoning on the Facebook group’s bio — while guns will soon be legal on Texas campuses, sex toys are not. Jin wrote, “You’re carrying a gun to class? Yeah, well I’m carrying a HUGE DILDO. Just about as effective at protecting us from sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play.” Truthfully, it probably isn’t the best idea to give sexually repressed individuals guns.

The NRA fired back with a stance it has been hiding behind for years — “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the NRA. What many seem to overlook is that “good guys” commit gun violence as well. This romanticized, “wild-west,” John Wayne shoot-out scene has been severely misjudged.

Several of the same people who are advocating for college conceal-carry rights online are the same people who are using hostile and intolerant language, calling Jin a slut, among other slurs.

Hostility and intolerance are

not characteristics of what the “good guys” with guns should have. I seem not to be the only one alarmed with concerns of these “good guys” carrying concealed weapons as an economics professor at UT at Austin just resigned because of concerns for his personal safety.

The North Carolina Legislature just passed a bill that would allow concealed weapons on college campuses, bars and restaurants where alcohol is served, playgrounds, hiking trails, recreational areas and public school campuses. This bill was opposed by all 17 of the police chiefs at University of North Carolina college campuses. Many student government associations oppose the bill, and several are making personal appeals to lawmakers. Appalachian State Student Body President Dylan Russell claimed that college has a tendency to be overwhelming and suggested that this does not necessarily mesh well with guns now being more accessible to college students. This bill is a big change from the current rule at NC State that states students are only allowed to have concealed weapons in closed containers inside of their cars on university-owned lots.

Good guys with guns commit gun violence all the time, whether accidentally, self-imposed, or in moments of rage or mental instability. People get mad, they get drunk, they get depressed, they get suicidal — the reality of gun violence is not good versus evil. We are human, we are chaotic, and we disagree every step of the way.

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ot all hours are equal. Are you ready to make an hour of your week more meaningful?

What was one charAnnie acteristic common to Astraikis all Messiahs/prophets?

Correspondent I’m going to use Jesus as an example because most people in America know at least a little bit about Jesus. What did he do all day?

He healed the sick. He fed the hungry. He clothed the poor. He did not, however, spend an hour a week inside singing songs and debating the tenets of religion. The tenants of every major religion are the same when you boil it all down: 1. Help your neighbors if they are in need 2. Be nice to everyone 3. Be selfless The three points are completely obvious, and there is no need to debate what your religion calls you to do. You know what you have to do.

You don’t need any more information about what your God wants you to do. It’s all about helping your fellow human beings and the only way that you can do that is by getting outside and actually doing it.

Let me give you some numbers to think about: 77.2 percent of people in the United States identify as religious, which is roughly 246,190,800 people.

It’s estimated that between 31 and 36 percent of the religious people in this country attend a religious service once a week or more. Just for the sake of math, let’s take the average of that number, which is 33.5 percent. So if 33.5 percent of the 246,190,800 people who say they are religious are attending religious services (which are about an hour in length, usually) once a

week or more, that equals about 82,473,918 hours of people attending church services. 82,473,918. My question is, what could be accomplished in those hours? The short answer is so much. But since I’m a writer, I’ll give you the long answer.

Instead of spending an hour a week in a religious service, why not spend an hour a week (or more) volunteering? The lessons you learned in your religious services were clearly stated.

There’s no need to continue learning about them in a “classroom”-like setting. Why not learn about what it means to be selfless in real life? Why not do as your Messiahs/prophets did and spend that hour a week doing something truly meaningful?

The next time you’re in your religious service and you’re asked to bow your heads in prayer, think about who you are praying for your God to help.

Is it homeless people? The hungry?

Single mothers? Rape victims? Orphans? Animals? Your God cannot solve all our problems. Only we can do that. Real action is worth infinitely more than a prayer directed in a certain direction.

So here’s some food for thought: Even if you already volunteer a lot, why not add another hour on? If you don’t volunteer at all but you attend a religious service every week, go out and volunteer for an hour instead.

Your God will be grateful to you because you are taking his teachings to heart and taking action. Skip your religious service and go out and make a difference, even if it’s only for an hour a week. Together, our single hours could equal 82,473,918 hours of volunteering instead of 82,473,918 hours of not volunteering.

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lead college students to make a lot of dumb decisions. Most of these events result in little lasting harm and are counted as lessons learned, but if guns are added into the college mix, dumb choices might become a lot more deadly or violent.

Alternatively, it’d be safer to insist on more armed security guards, alternative defensive strategies, or more serious approaches to the dangers of poor mental health. Guns on campuses will only distract from the learning environment instead of doing much good, and it will be insufficient to put an end to tragic mass shootings — that is a problem with culture, not with an inadequate amount of guns.

“As a country, we are generally very proud of the diversity in the U.S. However, people generally aren’t very interested in immigration as a whole.”

“I don’t think it really does because there’s a difference between our idea of diversity and our idea of national security. Immigration is a problem of national security.”

Anna Haymond sophomore, communication

Andrew May junior, civil engineering

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sea of students passes you by, each wearing a different mask of emotion on his or her face. One look s obv iou sly Kevin Kronk rushed with flushed Correspondent cheeks and an open hanging mouth. Another has enormous dark bags under his eyes, yawning as he passes by. Looking over at a third person, her face remains completely still while her eyes dart from side to side.

For whatever reason, today the faces seem to stand out a little more than usual. Your mind begins to wonder about what kind of day they are having. Maybe in another life the two of you would be best friends or maybe you will never see them again. In a school with almost 34,000 students, chances seem to decide who we meet. The rest are just faces filling up the space, but also living their own lives.

Human beings are social creatures, and yet as students we live in an environment that can be empty to us. Strangers do not quite fill the void, leaving room for feelings of sadness and loneliness especially during rough weeks. Robin Williams once said, “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end

up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.” In a sense, this explains the feeling of alienation while in a crowd or even amongst peers at school.

The truth is, we have not really been conditioned to know how to act around complete strangers in such a social environment. In a small town, everyone will greet each other with a friendly smile.

It might be more of a civil gesture than a true sign of interest, but it gets the point across. In a big city, people become a bit more callous.

It is not really their fault; they are simply overwhelmed and end up having to ignore almost everyone.

After all, strangers are just strangers.

On campus, we sort of opt for an awkward in-between: surreptitiously looking around with the occasional head nod or eyebrow raise. Maybe worried about our appearance, especially for that cute girl or guy walking by. Or possibly believing their lives are perfect. It is easy to idealize someone else’s life while knowing all the flaws and struggles in your own.

It is our peers who make us feel alone because we do not see that they also go through the same

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of death by homicide between 40 and 170 percent. In fact, studies have shown that carrying a firearm significantly increases a person’s risk of being shot in an assault. By carrying a gun, people not only make people around them uncomfortable but also make themselves a volatile target. It follows similar logic, if you were concerned about the threat of being cut by a knife, would you further armor yourself by going and sitting in a room full of knives?

A 2013 study by the Violence Policy Center found that defensive gun use occurs about 98.5 percent less that the gun lobby has claimed in 20072013’s nationwide statistics.

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It’s illogical to think that adding more guns to the mix will prevent gun violence.

Mass shootings, while random and terrifying, do not account for the majority of gun violence. Most of the 1.5 million Americans who have lost their lives to gun violence since 1968 have not been in a mass shooting. Arthur L. Kellerman’s 1998 study, “Injuries and deaths due to firearms at home,” cites that it is more likely for people to hurt themselves or someone else in an accident with their guns than to injure someone else who is intruding their home.

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troubles as us. Difficult weeks, bad grades, stress and keeping up with friendships arguably affect every student. Perhaps all of us feel especially lonely during these times.

There is something comforting in just knowing all of this — empathy. Our environment is unnatural, and quite possibly the people you walk past every day feel the same as you, sharing similar experiences.

School life can get a bit ridiculous and hectic at times, becoming an absurd haze. Do not feel isolated or sad in a sea of strangers. Instead, remember that most likely the next person you walk by is going through the same struggle. We really are all in this together.

With your work finished for the week, you become filled with a strange desire to get up and go somewhere. Your legs begin marching out the door and onto the street, passing students and strangers alike. This time though, because you know they are just people like you, the faces bring you happiness. Emotion wells up as you listen to your favorite music through your headphones. You are completely alone walking down that street with a sea of faces flowing by and yet you find yourself smiling for no reason.

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Above: M. C. Escher, Drawing Hands, 1948, lithograph, 11 1/8 x 13 1/8 in., Private collection, Texas, © 2015 The M.C. Escher Company, The Netherlands. All rights reserved. www.mcescher.com

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Left: Bruce Winkler created a structure that shows how Escher’s art piece “Belvedere” would have to have been built for it to look like the actual art piece. © 2015 The M.C. Escher Company

Exploring infinity with M.C. Escher at NCMA Adam Davis Correspondent

October is a big month for the North Carolina Museum of Art. The museum will be opening an M.C. Escher exhibit, a Leonardo da Vinci exhibit and hosting its annual College Night, a free event for college students.

“The Worlds of M.C. Escher” A staircase that leads to its own beginning, hands that draw each other and tiny alligators who walk in and out of drawings of themselves— “The Worlds of M.C. Escher: Nature, Science, and Imagination” opens Saturday.

“It is the most comprehensive Escher exhibition ever presented in the United States,” said NCMA Communications Manager Emily Kowalski.

The exhibit, consisting of 131 of Escher’s works, illustrates the artistic progressions throughout his life. Parts of the display show evolutions of specific ideas, beginning with sketches and ending with finished works.

One example of this is with Escher’s famous work, “Hand with Reflecting Sphere,” in which he draws a self-portrait through a first person perspective looking into a spherical mirror.

Next to the portrait hangs one of his earlier drawings, which is also through a similar perspective. However, the

viewer can clearly see that Escher improved his ability to draw himself in a mirrored perspective in the time between the two pieces.

Including lithographs, wood engravings, watercolors, mezzotints and many other media, the exhibit also explores a wide variety of Escher’s styles and ideas.

“No matter your background, you’re going to find something that relates to you,” Kowalski said.

Many appreciate the way in which Escher intersects the arts with different topics. Science and math in particular are among some of his key topics.

“Most of these works bring art and science together,” said Larry Wheeler, director of NCMA. The math and geometrical structures of his work often convey a sense of logic and order amidst his own paradoxical environments. NCMA Curator of European Art David Steel said he thinks Escher “sought to bring order to a world around him.”

In doing so, many of his works evolve geometric shapes into something living. This idea can be seen in his piece “Double Planetoid,” in which he creates buildings and a living landscape from two intersecting triangular pyramids.

Escher is perhaps most famous for his optical illusions and paradoxes. He once said, “Are you sure that a floor can-

not also be a ceiling?”

Steel said that although many ideas in his works contain self-contradictory perspectives, they still maintain a sense of reality. Referring to one of Escher’s paradoxes, Steel said, “You sort of believe it because it’s all in the same building.”

“He was very playful and very disciplined,” Kowalski said. “He played with what his viewers would be seeing.”

The “Infinity Cube” The “Infinity Cube,” an electronic piece designed by four students from the NC State College of Engineering, will accompany the M.C. Escher exhibit.

The piece is made from several LED lights in the shape of a cube, which is then inside of a box made from two-way mirrors. The lights have a series of repeating patterns that, thanks to the mirrors, seem to continue into infinity [See page 1].

“Dazzling. It’s just a fabulous work of art,” Wheeler said.

This spring 2015 senior design project by recent graduates, Evan Heiman and Robert Jamison, and current seniors, Guerino Davi and Andrew Tong, has thematic ties to both the Escher exhibit and the upcoming Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit.

“What we were really trying to find was something with reflection, because Escher has a lot of reflection,” Jamison said.

“We pulled ideas from

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At “The Worlds of M.C. Escher” exhibit in the North Carolina Museum of Art, patrons admire Escher’s works, which include optical illusions that make the stairs appear as if they go on continuously. The exhibit will be open to the public on Saturday and run until Jan. 17. © 2015 The M.C. Escher Company

Escher’s products,” Davi said.

“The use of infinity, reflection and things along those lines worked in well [with Escher’s artwork].”

NCMA College Night The annual NCMA College Night will be held Friday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. The event is free with a college ID. This year’s College Night focuses around “The Worlds of Escher,” granting free access to the exhibit and offering many Escher-themed activities.

Among the events, students from the NCSU College of Textiles will be holding a fashion show with clothing based on

Escher’s art.

There will also be dance performances from dance students at East Carolina University and William Peace University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will have an art truck at the event.

Attendees will be able to explore their own creativity in the Beta Box, a travelling makerspace, in a shipping container. There, students can learn about 3-D printing, wood laser cutting and other ways to create projects of their own.

“We love it because it’s a great

way for students from all over the state to get together,” Kowalski said.

However, College Night is not the only time the museum rewards students. The museum’s special exhibits, including “The Worlds of M.C. Escher,” offer free admission with a college ID every Friday night from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.

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Student to discuss gender inequality at UN panel Julia Conlon Correspondent

It’s no small feat to be selected to speak on a panel at the United Nations, yet that’s exactly what Maya Krishnan has accomplished.

Krishnan, a senior studying business management, is one of four students to receive a Commission on the Status of Women Fellowship this year from the local nonprofit organization WomenNC. Students who received this fellowship have the opportunity to attend and participate in the Commission on the Status of Women conference at the United Nations in 2016.

Here, they will present the research they conduct on local women’s issues as part of their fellowship as well as attend meetings and discussions.

“Looking at the book of [conference topics], it’s like going into a candy store,” Krishnan said.

Krishnan plans to conduct her research on gender inequality in positions of power.

“In politics, in businesses,

why is there a disproportionately small amount of women in leadership positions?”

Krishnan said.

Krishnan said she hopes to work with Lillian’s List, a local political action committee with the goal of getting women elected into leadership positions.

The theme of the 2016 conference is women and sustainable development, which Krishnan believes women in positions of power “is a big part of.”

In addition to doing and presenting hard research, fellows will develop policy recommendations related to their topics. For example, Liv Alvarado, a fellow chosen last year, did her research on women in the military and proposed policy to ensure their access to “female-specific healthcare, motherhood rights and family planning.”

Fellows work with local nonprofits such as Lillian’s List, among other resources to help develop these policies.

Krishnan attributes some of her interest in women’s issues

to a student-led honors seminar she took at NC State on societal perceptions of gender and sexuality.

“I had never looked at gender from an academic standpoint before, and it was absolutely fascinating,” Krishnan said. “I started getting really into issues of gender inequality and learning more about gender and sexuality.”

Though Krishnan was only very recently awarded her fellowship, she’s already excitedly thinking about her future with WomenNC. “I hope I can contribute and give back to the organization, even after the fellowship is over,” Krishnan said. “They’re doing really great work.”

Former Commission on the Status of Women fellow and NC State alumna Katie Starr, who now works as WomenNC’s public relations chair, seems to have had the same idea.

“My experience with WomenNC as a fellow informed my work and what I did after graduating NC State,” Starr said.

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Maya Krishnan, a senior studying business administration, was one of five students selected from a large pool of applicants to receive the Commission on the Status of Women Fellowship.

The fellowship has provided leadership development opportunities to university students in the Triangle area since 2010 and is awarded to students based on their academic achievement, leadership experience and passion for advancing women’s rights.

Starr said advocacy and leadership are the two biggest goals of WomenNC. “Our leadership development focuses on training and teaching students about gender issues in North Carolina and how those issues relate to

global women’s issues,” Starr said.

Aside from the fellowship, WomenNC offers leadership training and advocacy opportunities and hosts events such as rallies and film screenings.

“The women involved in

the organization are inspiring — they’re strong, they’re dedicated and they know their stuff,” Krishnan said. “Being in a community of women like that, people like that, is very motivating.”

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Club swimming works to make a splash at meet Samuel Griffin Correspondent

More than 400 swimmers from 14 schools are all fiercely competing in a sport that tests one’s speed, endurance and grace. This one-day event, a fight to find out which school is the best of the best, is taking place at NC State this Saturday and is completely student-run. It’s the Raleighwood Invitational, an all-day swim meet hosted

by NC State club swimming.

This is the fourth year NC State club swimming has hosted the Raleighwood Invitational. According to Courtney Like-Mathews, a senior studying science education and co-president of NC State club swimming, the meet is growing in size with the amount of swimmers and teams attending increasing from last year by 120 more swimmers and five more schools, The club swimming team has 118 official members and placed ninth in Nationals of the 74 teams last year. LikeMatthews said the club team was named Executive Team of the Year, as well as was in the running for Sport Club of the Year, by NC State Club Sports.

“We’re like one big family of swimmers,” Like-Mathews said. “We focus on making friends, staying fit and having a lot of fun.”

NC State club swimming is more than just having fun, however. The 118-person club practices three times a week on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Carmichael Gym pool. At practices,

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NC State club swimming welcomes any student who loves the sport. The club competes against other schools in the Southeast on the weekends and is hosting their largest meet ever, with 14 other teams from all over the East Coast Saturday, from noon to 5:30 p.m. at The Carmichael Aquatic Center. The swim club practices Monday, Wednesday and Thursday every week.

members are allowed to pick from either the normal level of practice, which is a series of different workouts that equal about 1,700 yards, or a more advanced workout that can amount to about 3,000 yards.

The club practices for meets like the Raleighwood Invitational and plans to swim in nine different meets during the fall and spring, including Nationals, where club swimming teams across the country compete in Atlanta.

Last year, the club won fifth place in Women’s Nationals

while competing against 74 different teams.

“We pride ourselves on having swimmers of all abilities,” Like-Mathews said.

“We brought [to Nationals] swimmers who had not been the greatest of swimmers and swimmers who have been swimming all their lives.

With this team, we got fifth in the nation.”

Like-Matthews and fellow club member Michael Ross, a senior studying anthropology and psychology said that what makes NC State club

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Not only does the club swimming practices include swimming laps in the pool, but “drylands” as well to do core training. The club team is student-led and has 114 members.

swimming different than the NC State swim team is that club swimming is a lot less serious.

“We focus more on fun and team bonding than actually winning meets,” LikeMathews said. “We can still have a competitive atmosphere, though. The freshmen this year have taken up their own lane and are working really hard, swimming over 3,000 yards per practice.”

Like-Mathews said the club’s large size is due to the

inclusiveness of the club, as well as the club’s large presence at RecFest.

Ross and Like-Mathews said the club members often meet outside of practice informally to eat together, go to the gym together and play games together outside the pool.

“It’s really just one massive family,” Ross said. “I really, truly felt that I belonged at NC State after I joined club swimming.”

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munity service. The club team is in the preliminary stages of planning various community service events such as collecting canned food and a special swim meet planned for a pajama drive.

On Jan. 29, the club will hold a swim meet along with Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill where swimmers are required to donate three pairs of pajamas instead of paying meet fees. All of the collected pajamas will be donated to UNC Children’s Hospital.

Students interested in joining club swimming are encouraged to come to a practice and talk to a club officer. Potential new members are allowed to try out for the team for a week or two before becoming an official member. This allows interested students to see if they like the club before having to pay.

Like-Mathews said while the club has no off icial coaches because it is entirely student-run, there are several members of the club who teach swim lessons or coach swimmers outside of club swimming, and they are more than willing to help out a beginner.

Students interested in supporting club swimming can come cheer them on at Raleighwood Invitational Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. The meet will feature universities from across the East Coast, such as the University of Virginia, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, James Madison University and the University of Central Florida, as well as North Carolina universities like East Carolina University and UNC-Wilmington.

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again, and after my sophomore year I was unhappy swimming-wise and in other facets of my life as well.”

Holloway had been a huge part in Bonk’s decision to first swim at Virginia Tech and played a major role in his decision to transfer to the Wolfpack.

“Braden got me super interested in Virginia Tech,” Bonk said. He’s a big reason why I went there initially and definitely got me hooked on them and hooked on State as well. I guess I’m a big Braden Holloway fan.”

Despite the stretch between initially recruiting him to Virginia Tech and Bonk’s outreach a few years later, Holloway still believed in Bonk’s ability and what he could contribute to the team both in and out of the pool.

“One big thing we expect and are already seeing is him being a leader, especially for our younger guys,” Holloway said. “I think he can provide a great leadership role as we continue go toward a national championship. And as far as in the pool, I think he can come in and help us imme-

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diately in the sprint events, and obviously have a pretty big role to play in the relays.”

Although adjusting to a new school and program can be difficult, Bonk has had no problem fitting right in and dedicating himself to his training.

“The team has embraced me with open arms, so it’s been a relatively easy transition,” Bonk said. “The guys here are great, and I enjoy training with them and hanging out with them.

They are just genuinely great guys.”

As the season progresses and training becomes more difficult, Bonk’s competitive nature drives him to work harder and maintain his passion for the sport.

“I like the competition,” Bonk said. “I’m very competitive especially when it comes to going against other people. I’m intrinsically motivated and outwardly as well. I have my own personal goals to beat other people and go up the ranks as much as I can, and that’s really a lot of fun for me.”

Both Bonk and the team have hig h hopes for t he season as they continue to stride for a national championship.

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Salvage your fantasy season Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles tore his ACL and is officially out for the rest of the season. For all of the owners who invested a high-round draft pick or traded valuable assets in exchange for him, the news is devastating for their fantasy football team’s playoff chances. So, for everyone sitting at 0-5 or 1-4 and their playoff dreams slipping away, here’s your guide for what to do with the rest of your fantasy season.

Do: Try and replace underachievers with sleepers If you keep rolling with Peyton Manning out there at the quarterback position and he keeps scoring five points a game, instead of rolling the dice with non-traditional starters such as Andy Dalton or Sam Bradford, then what chance do you really have? Try mixing up your lineup with sleepers like Dion Lewis, Willie Snead or Jaelen Strong and try to strike gold. What do you really have to lose?

Don’t: Stop setting your lineup There’s no excuse for your starting lineup having two players on their bye week and an injured player in the f lex. This is just embarrassing for you and may cost you an invite to the league again next year. It’s not fair if a team gets to play your empty lineup with the playoffs on the line.

Plus, it’s just a matter of pride.

Do: Embrace the role of spoiler Behind only winning the league, there is nothing better than beating your trash-talking friend who luckily auto-drafted Devonta Freeman in the 14th round to keep him out of the playoffs. Embrace the role of the bad guy. Go out and try and ruin someone else’s season. Make sure that trash-talking friend enjoys the pain of defeat and playing in the consolation game at the end of the season.

Don’t: Collude Nothing is more frustrating than seeing a team that is 0-8 trade away Tom Brady and Odell Beckham Jr. for nothing, to a team that you are competing for the last playoff spot with.

Don’t collude with another team so that they can have amazing players at the expense of all the other teams in the league.

Do: Cry In all likelihood, you spend a lot of time reading articles and doing research to scour the waiver wire for the diamonds in the rough. You’ve invested a lot into your team and no doubt your ego is damaged to the point of no repair from watching people who don’t know anything about football win the league. It’s OK to cry once. One time.

Don’t: Give up Your playoff chase isn’t over ‘til the fat lady sings. At 1-4 or 0-5, there is still time to pick yourself and win the league. If you win out, you will still likely make the playoffs and all you need is a chance. So go out and find yourself a gem on the waiver wire.

Just don’t give up.

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Junior Jason Deana plows down the lane while competing in the 100-yard butterfly during NC State’s meet with rival UNC-Chapel Hill Jan. 31 at the Casey Aquatic Center. Deana placed third in the event with a time of 48.58. The No. 8 Wolfpack men’s team remained undefeated, beating the No. 20 Tar Heels 180-118 . The No. 12 women’s team just barely missed topping the No.5 Tar Heel women 146.5-134.5.

Bonk hopes to contribute to Pack Justine Turley Staff Writer

It is not often that three-time All-American collegiate athletes transfer from one school to another, especially when they have found as much success as swimmer Joe Bonk. Now a junior at NC State, Bonk transferred this summer from Virginia Tech in hopes of building upon his Hokie success and continuing his swimming career with steadily growing program.

“It was a really hard decision,” Bonk said. “But I’m happy that I was able to make the decision to leave Virginia Tech for the bet-

ter, and I’m happy where I am now.”

As a Raleigh native, Bonk got into swimming at an early age and quickly discovered his natural talent and love for the sport.

“I’ve been swimming summer league since I was 5 years old,” Bonk said. “I watched my sister swim, and that got me interested initially, and then when I was about 10 years old she was swimming year-round with the [YMCA], and I followed suit and fell in love with it immediately.”

When Bonk really started to distinguish himself from his peers, he started to consider continuing his swimming career

on the collegiate level. After researching several schools, Bonk found a match with Virginia Tech.

Current NC State head swim coach Braden Holloway had initially recruited Bonk to swim with the Hokies before returning to his alma mater to coach the Wolfpack in 2011.

“He just was a good swimmer,” Holloway said. “He had a good feel for the water. He wasn’t crazy strong. He didn’t have perfect technique, but he had a very good feel for the water. He also had a good catch out front and was able to move really well through the water, and I just

figured you could add a lot of strength to that and do something with it.”

After two years with Virginia Tech where Bonk was a threetime All-American and ACC champion, he wanted more and decided to make a change and pursue training elsewhere.

“A f ter my f reshma n yea r, I didn’t really quite have the season I wanted to at Virginia Tech,” Bonk said. “I sat down with the head coach and talked it over, and he told me he wanted me to give it another year. But it ended up not working out once

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Pack struggles with October woes The NC State football team jumped out to a commanding 4-0 start to the season, unloading on its opponents in the process. After that, the Pack entered ACC competition with high hopes against middleconference teams, only to be squandered in the form of two straight losses. What has gone wrong?

The offense has been the biggest issue in the two losses.

Daniel Lacy After outscoring opponents Assistant Sports 185-48 in the first four games Editor of the season (an average of 46.25 points per game), the Wolfpack has put up just 13 points in losing efforts against Louisville and Virginia Tech.

This lack of production begins and ends with the running game.

NC State’s offense is designed around its power run game. With the dismissal of Shadrach Thornton two weeks ago, the offense lacks its premier power back, leaving junior running back Matt Dayes to shoulder the load with the talented but young freshman running back Reggie Gallaspy II as his primary backup.

The running backs and offensive line have struggled against the much more formidable defenses of the ACC. In the first four games, the Pack carried the ball 199 times for 1,036 yards and 20 touchdowns, good for averages of 5.2 yards per carry, 259 yards per game and five touchdowns per game.

In the previous two games, State has rushed

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70 times for 202 yards and one touchdown for averages of 2.9 yards per carry and 101 yards per game. To put that into perspective, the Pack totaled 330 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground against South Alabama alone.

While State garnered a respectable 157 yards against Virginia Tech and appeared to be getting back on the right track, this offense will need more if it wants to consistently put points on the board.

Much like the running game, the passing attack has also struggled in the past two games. Senior quarterback Jacoby Brissett has struggled to throw the ball down the field, as the longest passing play of the game went 24 yards to sophomore fullback Jaylen Samuels, most of which came after the catch.

Brissett started off the season strong, passing for 196 yards and two touchdowns and throwing just two incompletions throughout the entire game in the season opener against Troy. After the first four games, he had passed for 809 yards and six touchdowns while completing 77.9 percent of his passes.

That efficiency has seemingly dwindled away in the last two games, as he combined for 296 yards, two touchdowns and one interception while completing merely 52.8 percent of his passes. The interception late in the fourth quarter snapped his streak of 241 passes without throwing an interception. Who knows, though—maybe now that the streak is over Brissett might start being less trigger-shy and start going for the big plays down the field. NC State will certainly need him to, as it will likely

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need more out of the passing game with the running game struggling for the time being.

On the defensive side, the run defense has been solid, if you take away the big runs.

Against Louisville, freshman quarterback Lamar Jackson ran for a 68-yard touchdown and against the Hokies, freshman running back Travon McMillian ran for a 59-yard touchdown. Take away those runs and those teams will have combined to average only 3.5 yards per rush.

The problem for the defense has been defending the pass. While Jackson and Virginia Tech backup quarterback Brenden Motley combined for just 261 yards through the air and had completed just 43.6 percent of their passes, they were able to make the key passes when it mattered.

For example, Louisville converted on 6-of10 third down conversions, a lot of those coming on slant patterns that the NC State defense was unable to figure out until the second half.

Motley threw three touchdown passes to Isaiah Ford, who is talented but shouldn’t be able to tear up the NC State defense in the red zone like he did.

However, from a yardage and points standpoint, the NC State defense has been decent.

It needs to work on minimizing the big plays because this was likely the difference in the last two games.

If NC State wants to remain competitive, it will start with the offense improving. Scoring 13 points per game will not win the team many games of collegiate football.

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