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Raleigh delays discussion on parking fee increases

The Wake County school board voted to raise teacher’s salaries with $15.75 million in pay raises Tuesday. In addition, the school board voted to offer $510,000 more in salaries for physical and occupational therapists. The new salary schedule, which plans to raise teachers’ salaries up to the national average by 2020, will raise salaries this year by between $875 and $3,202.

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Raleigh city leaders discussed implementing a $5 fee to park downtown on the weekends Tuesday, much to the dismay of weekend city-dwellers. Leaders delayed making a decision until Mayor Nancy McFarlane and Councilman Eugene Weeks are able to be present to weigh in on the issue. Local business owners are worried the fee increase would discourage people from coming downtown. The Raleigh City Council voted to increase fees this summer to cover the increase in pollution and vandalism parking decks have received. This $5 fee increase is projected to bring in $1.42 million a year to repair equipment and pay for deck cleaning six nights per week.

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According the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more schools are choosing to buy local food for their cafeterias. Some 42,000 schools spent nearly $600 million on local food during the 20132014 school year. Despite the higher costs, schools found their students were eating healthier food and throwing less away since making the decision to buy local. In contrast, some schools in opposition say buying local can be challenging to coordinate with delivery schedules and planning menus for each growing season, but across the country more schools are participating in this trend to support local farmers and students’ health.

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Astrophysicist and 2011 Nobel Laureate Adam Riess visited NC State and delivered the annual L.H. Thomas Lecture Monday afternoon. Riess, pictured here in his office at Johns Hopkins University, sat down with the Technician to discuss a wide range of topics including the expansion of the universe and funding of scientific research.

Freshmen classes in years to come may have an easier time to applying to NC State than you did, thanks to a new college admissions system NC State is implementing this year.

In an attempt to streamline the college application process and make it more accessible to a more diverse group of high school students, NC State joined the more than 80 colleges and universities in the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, which includes a standardized application as well as college-planning resources available to students throughout their high school careers.

The key reason NC State joined the Coalition is for its emphasis on access and outreach, which Thomas Griffin, the director of undergraduate admissions, said is of the highest priority to NC State and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

High School freshmen, sophomores and juniors will be able to begin using the online tools that the Coalition will provide starting early in 2016, although specific dates vary.

The college application process can be overwhelming and frustrating for many high school students, including Bradley Caison, a freshman studying fashion and textile management.

“My biggest problem with applying for college was that I got super frustrated juggling applying for schools that did have Common App and those that didn’t,” Caison said. “It got to a point where if [the school] wasn’t using Common App, I wasn’t even interested in applying because of how overwhelming it was.”

The Coalition aims to alleviate such confusion by providing a free online platform that will help students begin planning for college as early as their freshman year in high school. It will also aid current seniors in high school starting to apply for

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Dance Marathon apologizes for painting Staff Report

Dance Marathon at NC State issued an official apology on its Facebook page Saturday after painting over the work of Native American Student Association’s decoration of the Free Expression Tunnel for Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Oct. 12.

The students in Dance Marathon repainted the tunnel in the middle of the night to promote their upcoming charity event just hours after the Native American Students Association decorated the tunnel to celebrate the holiday.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrates the cultural history and significance of the various tribes of Native Americans that are indigenous to the United

States. Many Americans celebrate it as its own holiday or as an alternative to Columbus Day, which numerous people have argued glorifies the destruction of indigenous cultures that began after Columbus’ arrival in North America. NC State’s Student Government passed a bill in the spring that would replace NC State’s recognition of Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The university has yet to recognize the bill, but students continue to celebrate the holiday each year.

The text of the apology read as follows: “To the NC State community: We, as an organization, strive to positively

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Members of the GLBT Community Alliance spray paint the Free Expression Tunnel to take back the space in honor of National Coming Out Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Oct. 12.

FEATURES Acamedic advisor, cancer survivor shares her reality See page 6.

Check out Chi Omega and Phi Gama’s Puppy Palooza on page 3 SPORTS Pack wrestling primed for big year See page 8.

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Elizabeth Furches, a freshman studying elementary education, holds Swann, a Glen of Imaal Labrador pup, at Puppy Palooza on Stafford Commons Tuesday.

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October 18 1:16 A.M. | DRUG VIOLATION Aurora Hall Student was referred for simple possession of Marijuana.

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2:34 A.M. | FIRE ALARM Ricks Hall Officers and RFD responded to alarm caused by steam pipe rupture. Facilities and Fire Marshal were notified.

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10:24 A.M. | FIRE ALARM Cates Ave Steam Plant FP responded to alarm caused by malfunctioning fire pull station.

Thursday CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH 2015: FBI CYBERSQUAD Talley Student Union, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

1:48 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE Waste Mmgt Facility Report of unattended vehicle.

Staff member stated vehicle had left prior to officer arrival.

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2:12 P.M. | FIRE ALARM Innovation Hall Officer responded to alarm.

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2:32 P.M. | FIRE ALARM Caspian Hall Officer responded to alarm caused by cooking.

4:12 P.M. | AFFRAY Main Campus Dr Report of two subjects fighting. Two non-students were trespassed from NCSU property.

5:55 P.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT The Greens Apartments Non-student struck fence causing damage. No injuries reported.

6:25 P.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Pi Beta Phi Two students were involved in traffic accident. EMS responded to passenger complaining of neck pain.

Transport refused.

6:35 P.M. | FIRE ALARM Innovation Hall Officers and RFD responded to alarm caused by student etching wood and not turning on vent.

6:36 P.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Oval West Deck Student struck parked vehicle while attempting to park.

10:28 P.M. | HAZMAT INCIDENT Research II Staff member reported water leak from ventilation hod causing acidic smell and leaking to second floor. Fire Marshal and EH&S responded.

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laire Chambers, a junior studying textile technology and management, and Rachel Daum, a senior studying human biology, play a fair game called “Bottle Up, Set Up.” Both are involved in Cru, “a group passionate about connecting students to Christ,” and are volunteering to show and let people practice this game for the fair.

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Research suggests that many students who come from low-income households

college in 2016 by giving them a centralized environment for students to receive information from whichever Coalition schools they would like to learn more about, as well as provide basic advice about the admissions process in general.

According to Griffin, the Coalition developed an online tool that gives students advice about applying to college and allows them to keep track of their progress over time through high school.

“Many of the schools in North Carolina have a student-to-counselor ratio of 400 to one, so to expect them to give great advice to all of those students on top of all the other issues they deal with seems unreasonable,” Griffin said.

The Coalition will also aim to assist underrepresented and first-generation students who may feel that college isn’t for them.

or are firstgeneration college students aren’t as comfortable with process of applying for college. More specifically, these s t udent s tend to have a harder time navigating the financial aid and scholarship application process and, as a result, do not receive the financial help they would otherwise be entitled to receive.

“What’s exciting about the Coalition is not that it’s an-

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tion platform and the Coalition Application itself.

The college locker allows students to store various files such as writing, classwork, personal thoughts or other personal documents. It is a confidential, private space for students to organize and collect their thoughts and college information, as the locker will be viewable only by the student.

Students are free to share items from the locker with teachers, advisors and whoever else they might want to review their work, and students will be able to share any documents they choose with their prospective colleges when the time for application comes.

According to Griffin, the advantage of using the Coalition’s tools and its application over using Common App is that Common App “doesn’t currently have the advising tools that the Coalition plans to offer; the Common App is simply an application.”

move forward, we now understand the importance of campus awareness so incidents like these may never occur again, at least on our behalf. We hope that the university as a whole will learn from this and all student organizations will begin to take more precaution and understanding to one another campuswide because through our ties, we can only get stronger as a Pack. To NASA, GLBTCA, and AISES, again, we give KAYDEE GAWLIK/TECHNICIAN our deepest apologies and applaud each Ryan Levine, a freshman studying fisheries and wildlife science, spray of you for the incredible things you are paints the Free Expression Tunnel to take back the space in honor of doing for NC State.”

National Coming Out Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Oct. 12.

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influence the lives of those around us and create an atmosphere where all students feel welcomed and valued.

This past Monday morning, we did not live up to those values and the expectations we have for ourselves when we mistakenly painted over murals in the Free Expression Tunnel that were in celebration of National Coming Out Day and Indigenous People’s Day.

We sincerely apologize to the Native American Student Association, American Indian Science Engineering Society and GLBT Community Alliance, and we are saddened to know that our unfortunate mistake prevented you from fully reaching the goals our campus had for Diversity Education Week.

We sincerely wish we could undo all of the hurt that was caused to the Native American community, GLBT community and student body as a whole. Each and every one of our members take full responsibility for this action, and as we

Along with NC State, more than 80 public and private schools have joined the Coalition, including all the Ivy Leagues, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, The College of William and Mary, Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University.

The online platform will be designed t o a l l ow students to build their personal portfolios of their various interests and GRAPHIC BY ANTHONY MOTRONI other applicaextracurricular action … it’s the idea of getting tivities, writing samples and information out to students recommendation letters. who maybe don’t have great The various tools available college counseling or don’t via the Coalition’s online have great resources,” Grif- platform to students include fin said. a college locker, a collabora-

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BoG to Puppy love helps raise money for rescue center elect new president Friday Cole Bass

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After a month-long process, the UNC Board of Governors is planning to elect a new system president Friday.

The board is considering four candidates, including front-runner Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education under the Bush Administration of 2005-2009.

The UNC Board of Governors, which governs the 17-campus public university system in North Carolina, has remained fairly quiet about its search for a new UNC System president after former president Tom Ross, 65, was pressured to step down without explanation in January. The monthslong search for a new system president, which has been riddled with questions and controversy, will come to an end Friday when the board will finally choose Ross’ successor.

This silent treatment continued last Friday after the board held an emergency closed meeting on the SAS campus to meet with Spellings.

During her time in North Carolina, Spellings also met with Governor Pat McCrory, the News & Observer reported.

According to the N&O, several members of the Board have called for the resignation of Board Chairman John Fennebresque, worried any candidate may be tainted by the process. The legislature passed a bill last week requiring the presidential search committee bring forward three names for the whole board to consider.

Hu nd reds of students lined up on Stafford Commons Tuesday afternoon to spend time in a pen with 15 puppies at the first-ever Puppy Palooza event sponsored by Paw fect Match Rescue Shelter along with Chi Omega Sorority and Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity.

A ny s t ud e nt p a s s i ng had the opportunity to be showered in puppy love for $3 — a dea l hundreds of students couldn’t pass up.

The groups ended up raising $1,159 for the shelter throughout the course of the day. Students were also encouraged to bring toys and dog food to donate to the shelter’s supply.

According to spectators, the highlight of the day was the ongoing battle between the German shepherd and black lab puppies that were fighting for supremacy on Talley Turf by jumping on each other’s backs and gently biting each other’s noses.

Nadia Drabick, a senior studying polymer and color

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Kimmie Zoll, a senior studying art + design, holds Pringle as he falls asleep during Chi Omega and Phi Gamma Delta’s Puppy Palooza Tuesday afternoon. Puppy Palooza was held as a fundraiser for Pawfect Match, a rescue and rehabilitation for abused and neglected dogs. Students at Stafford Commons had the opportunity to hold and pet the puppies for a $3 donation to Pawfect Match.

chemistry and the Community Chair for Chi Omega at NC State helped organize t he phi la nt hropic event along with Chris Bentley, a senior in Phi Gamma Delta studying business.

“Generally people don’t

choose to go toward shelter dogs,” Drabick said. “We’re raising awareness that these dogs do need help.”

Drabick said most of the dogs don’t get much playtime, so while students love destressing with puppies,

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A group of students hold Gollum, a collie hound, during Puppy Palooza on Stafford Commons Tuesday.

the socialization also benefits the dogs.

“It’s nice to have a big crowd of people play ing with these dogs,” Drabick said. “It’s helpful both ways, benefitting us and Pawfect Match.”

Chi Omega and Phi Gamma Delta plan to work with Pawfect Match Rescue again next semester to hold another Puppy Palooza.

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Amor Camatcho, a freshman studying textile technology, and Lia Reisner, a freshman studying science education, hold a golden retriever puppy during Puppy Palooza on Stafford Commons Tuesday.

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It’s time to make your voice heard A He’s on fire

Christopher Hamby, sophomore studying engineering and management

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ast week, I wrote a column about the troubling impact of youth voter disenfranchisement in our state Logan Graham today.

Correspondent Following my column, I was approached by numerous peers, all asking me the same question: “Why on earth would anyone think limiting youth voters is a good idea and vote for it?”

The a nswer to t hat is simple. Many lawmakers in our state feel we must have strict voter regulation in order to prevent voter fraud. However, the problem is that voter fraud is more of a fallacy than a fact.

In early April 2014, the North Carolina State Board of Elections released an audit claiming that more than 35,750 people had committed voter fraud in North Carolina during the last election. Many conservative lawmakers used this report as justification for their choices a year earlier to enact strict voter restrictions. North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope even released a statement applaud i ng the General Assembly “for passing North Carolina’s commonsense voter ID law and working to protect the integrity of the ballot box” following the announce-

ment.

The only problem, however, was that the statement wa s h ig h ly m islead i ng.

Instead of finding actual cases of voter fraud, this study highlighted 35,750 people who voted in North Carolina in the 2012 election whose names and dates of birth matched those of voters in other states. Unfortunately for the voterregulating lawmakers, the so-called “Holy Grail” of voter fraud they claimed to have found, was none other than many people sha ring t he sa me na me and date of birth across our country. Two people named Bob Bobbers, both born on March 3, and both voting in separate states, is not fraud; it’s just proof that two sets of parents, who were far too obsessed with the name Bob, had children on the same day.

After a short study, none of 35,750 voter fraud cases that were said to have occurred were actually proven to have occurred and taken to court. In all actuality, there’ve been only two confirmed cases of voter fraud in North Carolina from 2000 to 2014.

Let t hat sin k in for a second. Out of the almost 35 million votes cast during that 14-year stretch, only two of them were ac-

tually considered fraud.

That comes out to a pitiful 0.00000007 percent. Now let me ask you this, is it really worth enacting incredibly strict and limiting voter restriction laws for something that occurs less often than a Wolf Print printer actually functioning properly when your paper is due in five minutes? Of course not.

But this is exactly what our state has done. Instead of opening up doors and enabling more people to take part in the great right that is voting, we’ve disenfranchised hundreds of minority voters, including college students, to try to avoid something that simply doesn’t exist. To draw a comparison, instead of allowing people to walk freely in the woods, we’ve closed them because “Bigfoot is definitely going to attack.”

Until voter fraud actually starts occurring (and it may never), we should take every opportunity to make voting as easy as possible. Enable same-day voter registration, extend voting periods and actually allow NC State students to vote with their NC State IDs on their own campus. Because voter fraud really isn’t occurring in our state, all arguments for voter restriction seem to fall just a little f lat.

ccording to reports from The News & Observer, two ongoing events will eventually affect many students at NC State. One is the Hillsborough Street area plan and another is the parking fee charged by parking decks on nights and weekends. I urge NC State students and nearby residents to take part in hearZiyi Mai Staff Columnist ings and public meetings in regard with these two events.

The city of Raleigh will host two public meetings next week for residents to view a draft of the small area and offer feedback.

One of the public meetings will take place in the Mountains Ballroom at Talley Student Union.

Residents near Hillsborough Street have witnessed rapid developments in the past few years. In August, the Stanhope Center student housing complex opened on Hillsborough Street near Dixie Trail. Like many other housing complexes in cities, the first floor of the Stanhope Center has been constructed as shops and restaurants, while the above floors are used as student housing. This month, the Aloft Raleigh Hotel and restaurant opened near the intersection with Pullen Road. These projects were aimed at serving the large population of NC State students, but they worry some long-term residents.

The multifunctional housing complexes certainly will give students more options for housing, if prices are reasonable. The short distance of these buildings to NC State’s campus makes it possible to commute without cars. This could ease the pressure of the already limited campus parking spaces, leaving more room for students who choose to live far from campus. In addition, the rising numbers of shops and restaurants will provide tremendous convenience for students. For example, there is no grocery store in walking distance to the campus. The nearest grocery store is Harris Teeter in Cameron Village, which takes 15 to 20 minutes walking from campus. With intense schedules, most students may want to shop and grab something to eat with walking time no more than 15 minutes.

In the long-term, however, these projects and new buildings might increase the congestion on Hillsborough Street, given that the street’s lanes were not widened itself despite

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” Chase McLamb’s Monday column titled “Why you should not vote” was appalling and possibly the worst thing I’ve ever read. Not only does McLamb fundamentally misunderstand the concept of a representative democracy — we as voters choose legislators to make laws that we feel will benefit society — his position is downright dangerous.

Voter turnout among 18- to 25-year-olds is generally the lowest of all age groups, especially in years without presidential elections. 18- to 25-year-olds saw 17.8 percent turnout in 2014, despite having more than 840,000 registered voters in 2012. In the 2014 election, Thom Tillis beat Kay Hagan by roughly 50,000 votes, or 6 percent of the youth vote.

If just a 25 percent of young voters had gone to the polls, not half, not even a third, but if

“If the university were to increase tuition by 10 percent, I would more than likely have to be working along with going to school to pay for the difference.”

Bailey Cadden freshman, fashion and textile management

“If tuition was raised 10 percent I would most likely have to find a part-time job to help my parents pay the extra amount. Also, one reason I came to NC State was for its low cost so it being raised 10 percent might have made me go to another university.”

Michael Brown freshman, brand management and marketing

“I would be unhappy with the decision because the low cost was a large part of my decision to attend State.

However, I would likely just accept the price increase and finish my degree.”

Aaron Springer sophomore, environmental science

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accessible by privatizing it. All of these things are technically the results of people voting the powers-that-be into office, as McLamb points out, but the greater blame falls on those who don’t vote for better alternatives, and instead choose to complain about the results of their inaction.

If you have a problem with politicians who criminalize nonviolent uses of marijuana or the sale of untaxed cigarettes, or if you have a problem with politicians who support affirmative action or military operations 2,000 miles away, or if you have any other opinions about what the government should and shouldn’t do, vote.

Exercise your most important right, a right that millions around the world fought and died, or are fighting and dying, for. The only way you can truly make your voice heard is with a vote. Write all the newspaper columns you want, but only elections produce results.

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just a quarter of us young voters had cast their votes, Hagan could have won. 25 percent participation from us, the young voters, could have drastically changed one of the most hardfought elections in history.

In what world is 25 percent participation too much to ask?

Turnout regarding our state’s horrendous general assembly is even worse. In 2010, 14.8 percent of young voters voted.

Coincidentally, 64.4 percent of voters 66 and up cast their votes, and, coincidentally, the Republican Party gained control of our state’s House and Senate, both previously controlled by Democrats. The 2014 election, again with only 17.8 percent youth turnout, did not upset this majority but instead gave the Republican Party one more seat in the state Senate. Our Republican-majority state legislature’s disgusting track record is no secret: they pushed for less LGBT rights, tax breaks and relaxed environmental regulation for fracking companies, less tax breaks for businesses and households using renewable energy, a series of deplorable attacks on teachers and education, cuts to mental health funding and plans to make Medicaid less

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the increasing traffic flow. While business complexes rise from the ground, it is expected to attract more customers and residents to the area. But facilities such as parking have not kept an equal pace with those projects. The street is still narrow, and it is becoming even narrower by setting aside street parking slots.

Congestion usually happens during non-rush hours, even worse in rush hours, largely because of the narrow lane, pedestrians crossing the street and cars looking for parking. Hotels and restaurants along the street without private parking lots could deter customers and cost them time to find parking spaces.

Another event, concerning charging parking fees in decks in downtown Raleigh, has drawn significant opposition from business owners downtown. The Raleigh City Council voted this summer to charge a flat $5 parking fee to night and weekend parking. The city council now reconsiders the plan and will host public hearing regarding how much fee should be charge. City officials argued that parking fees should apply to decks in town in compensation of costs of cleaning and maintenance due to damage caused by people having nightlife.

Indeed, charging a parking fee is an efficient way to make use of the parking facilities, as the same time raising some revenue to the local government. But since the parking decks are not run by the market, how much to charge cannot be estimated by forces of supply and demand. It must be open to the public and receive feedback from different groups of people: downtown business owners, regular customers, churchgoers and cleaning staffs. Charging a flat price of $5 for all might not be as efficient as it gets. If the city officials are mainly concerned with nightlife people, they should charge a relatively higher price for hours to them. They also need to consider churchgoers on Sunday, given that downtown area has many churches. They should not share the same burden of parking as those who participate in nightlife.

NC State students should become more active in these public issues related to our communities and neighborhoods. They might be trivial but would affect all of the residents living in the area. If there is a democratic process that is open to the public to have access, students better take advantage of it and make their voices heard.

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The cosmic puzzle of our expanding universe

Q&A Adam Riess with

Ravi K. Chittilla Contributor

When astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess visited NC State Monday, he visited physics classes, had lunch with both undergraduate and graduate students studying physics and delivered the annual L.H. Thomas Lecture. Riess also sat down with the Technician to discuss what it meant to be a scientist who had won the Nobel Prize, the progress and discoveries within his own scientific work and an expanding universe could hold in store for human beings.

Riess shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Brian Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter for their discovery that the rate at which the universe is expanding is accelerating.

The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Q: For any scientist, winning a Nobel Prize is a life changing and life affirming experience.

Did it change your life in any way?

A: For the most part, it didn’t. It didn’t change what I wanted to be doing, which was doing good science. It could have changed my life more dramatically, and I would say for most people it does. Most people accept most of the invitations they get, and they tour around speaking in places like India, China and all over the world. I say no to most things so that I can continue maintaining the science that I do, and so I can stay close to my family especially because I have young children, ages 4 and 11.

So I didn’t want to be on the road.

But to be honest, I will say that I have been amazed that people think I am a lot smarter than I actually am. And so there are many rooms that I am in where I feel that I am getting a kind of respect, an intellectual respect that I am not used to and that isn’t always merited.

Q: What kind of progress have you and your colleagues made since your initial discovery?

A: So we have been trying to char-

acterize the nature of this dark energy that seems to be causing this acceleration, and in the last decade we have been able to measure that well enough that it looks similar enough to this thing Einstein theorized, called the cosmological constant. We still have a ways to go in terms of characterizing it. It could have looked quite different, and that wasn’t the case. So we have measured the equation of state of dark energy, which is the amount of the strength of dark energy per cubic centimeter that pushes the universe, and we’ve been able to calculate that equation within about 10 percent of precision.

Now we are trying to measure if that value has been changing over time.

Einstein’s cosmological constant makes specific predictions that it would not be changing over time and then the value would be completely exact. So we’re trying to improve our data by taking all kinds of measurements with telescopes.

Q: We know that the rate at which the universe is expanding is accelerating based on your work. What kind of effect does the expanding universe have on us and what impact will it have?

A: Well, we understand more about our world when we understand physics. And technology usually flows down from a deeper understanding in physics. It’s not immediate; it’s not like next year, but a lot of physics that people worked on in the 1930s and 40s, quantum theory and general and special relativity looked purely theoretical and esoteric then, but they gave rise to lasers, circuits, your GPS, are all reliant on that science. I think if you had asked Einstein back in in 1917, “General relativity, what is it going to be good for?” He would not have been able to say that if you had a smartphone and a network of satellites, you’d be able to find your location on the globe using GPS. These are not things people usually are aware of. Technology enables all of this. And you know there is also the curiosity factor that people want to understand what’s out there and what it means. What is the nature

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of the universe? For people that are deeply curious, this is not a large investment of time or energy or resources to spend to answer why we are here.

Q: As a member of the High-Z Supernova Search Team, you were competing directly to find evidence that the universe was expanding with the Supernova Cosmology Project. Your team published its paper in 1998, and the SCP team followed suit by publishing a paper confirming your results in 1999. On that note, do you think that there is enough competition in science?

A: There are different types of competition. There are places with healthy competition and unhealthy competition. I think a healthy competition is when two groups are working on something exciting and both want to be first to make a discovery. But in the end, even though one of the groups comes in second, it is very valuable to science to have some experiment replicated so we can know it is right. So I think multiple people trying to be the first to do something important, that is how science should work and everybody gains.

Sometimes the competitiveness exists because science funding is so

WEEKEND CONCERT PREVIEW The Love Language and Spider Bags take on the NC State Fair Michael Ashburn Daytime DJ Every fall the State Fair showcases the best North Carolina has to offer. This year, in addition to enormous pumpkins and fried foods, which dance the tightrope between disgusting and delicious, the “Homegrown North Carolina” concert series will be showing off North Carolina’s musical talent. On Friday, Oct. 23, Chapel Hill-based Spider Bags will play Dorton Arena at 7 p.m., followed

by Raleigh natives The Love Language.

Spider Bags formed in 2005 under front man Dan McGee. The group was initially long distance, with McGee mailing tapes to his high school friends living in Chapel Hill, but after a road trip to North Carolina to record with a full band, McGee stayed. The band released three full-length albums with the help of many different touring musicians before deciding to narrow down to a three-piece band. They then recorded their most recent album, “Frozen Letter” in 2014.

Spider Bags delivers a mixture of

up-tempo, high-energy, guitardriven indie rock, featuring catchy riffs and even catchier lyrics.

Raleigh-based band, The Love Language, formed after the demise of frontman Stuart McLamb’s former band and previous relationship. The breakups lead him to record a series of emotional demos, which then expanded into a fulltime recording project. McLamb self-produced the full-length album “The Love Language” in a storage unit using an old fourtrack recorder, and with the help of rotating musicians, was able to begin touring shortly after.

He has since released two fulllength albums, recorded with a talented line up of backing musicians. Mclamb’s mixture of emotional indie pop and lo-fi energy is intoxicating to listen to, and his bubbly instrumentals and bleeding heart lyrics will leave you both joyful and introspective.

The doors of Dorton Arena will open at 7 p.m. Friday night for this free show. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will conclude by 9:30 p.m., leaving you plenty of time to soothe your post-concert depression with fried foods. It’ll be the best $0.00 you ever spent.

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low. I’m thinking about the National Science Foundation now, which can fund less than 10 percent of projects.

Then I think the competition can become unhealthy. It isn’t clear to me which is the best 10 percent of science to be doing and the way the process is set up that different groups are arguing for the claim that what they are doing is the most important thing to be doing, we don’t often know if that is the case. But the way the system is set up, these groups are competing are by using different tools of marketing and business and I think this is when it becomes unhealthy.

ship of that and scientists will go and follow the great experiment because that’s where the breakthroughs will occur and they want to be part of that.

I’ve seen it happen in limited situations where there was a facility to build, and the U.S. doesn’t want it, so people will leave. I don’t know if that will a broad phenomenon or not, but I think it is important for the United States to maintain leadership in these areas.

Q: If science funding remains low, do you think we could see an exodus of scientists to other countries that are willing and able to provide sufficient funding?

A: I would say that I know sometimes that science can seem hard and the people that pursue it might seem quirky, but it is definitely worth the effort to put in to learn about it because it’s part of understanding who we are and where we are in the universe.

And I think never before has it been so easy to access information about science. When I was a kid, you had to pick up one of these books called an encyclopedia and actually had to look stuff up, and they didn’t tell you very much. Now you have Wikipedia, and you can find out anything you want.

You know, it has never been easier to sit in your pajamas in your house and find out everything we know about the universe. I hope people take advantage and find answers to their questions.

A: I don’t know. I do know that there are some areas where we see an exodus because the United States makes clear that it isn’t willing or able to fund a big project or experiment. Take the Large Hadron Collider for instance, this big particle accelerator in France/Switzerland. The United States had an opportunity to be leading in that. It started the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, but Congress canceled it, and the Europeans took the lead. That had always been our area, energy particle physics, cyclotrons. We ceded leader-

Q: Do you have anything else you want to say regarding physics, scientific research, education or the Nobel Prizes?

NICE PRICE’S CASSETTE STORE DAY Coleen Kinen-Ferguson WKNC Public Affairs Producer Nice Price Books and Records hosted a mixtape exchange Saturday as part of the worldwide event Cassette Store Day. Unlike vinyl records, which can be expensive and take more than six months to produce, cassettes are relatively cheap and easy to make.

The same goes for devices that can be used to play cassettes.

“You can just find tape players,” said Molly Hastings, designer for Nice Price Books. “I’ve found working ones in the dumpster.”

Hastings, or local musician beverly tender, helped organize the event.

The bookshelves inside were moved to make space for the official mixtape exchange. Participants came and went, leaving behind their own personally designed tapes and browsing through the selection on the table.

Hastings describes the event as a “reaction to Record Store Day.” “It typically costs a lot of money to play vinyl,” Hastings said. “So they’re very picky about who releases. It’s a lot easier for smaller bands to release cassettes instead.”

Hastings would know, as her songwriting vehicle beverly tender is releasing an original tape through Cassette Store Day. Nice Price also published a zine, or a self-published booklet, about how to make mixtapes for the event.

Novelty is appealing when it comes to music, especially when combined with the nostalgia that comes with making a mixtape.

“There are special releases for the day, and we have a mixtape exchange going on,” said Brian Shaw, Nice Price Books and Records owner. “Bring one and you can leave with one. We also have a dubbing station so if someone brings a mixtape that a lot of people like, they can copy and record it to other tapes.”

Cassettes have begun to resurface in the dialogue surrounding modern music, despite their age and unfamiliarity.

“A lot of bands are self-releasing through cassettes because it’s an inexpensive way to release a record,” Shaw said. “You can turn it out really quickly. Everything that sucks about putting out an album, logistically, doesn’t exist when you use cassette tapes.”

Cassettes are virtually obsolete, which adds to their character. It’s normal for cassette tapes to have quirks or something similar that affects the quality of sound.

“Cassettes have this airy quality to their sound,” Shaw said. Shaw explained a Mariah Carey cassette that had a lot of distortion on it.

As a result, Mariah Carey ends up sounding “like she’s underwater.”

What’s cooler than a mermaid Mariah Carey underwater? Looks like I need a tape player.

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Academic advisor, cancer survivor shares her reality Katherine Hughes Correspondent

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Mindy Sopher, an NC State academic advisor, shared her story of living with breast cancer for over 13 years. Sopher plans to use her experiences to give back through Zeta Tau Alpha’s Pink Out Week by speaking on their Breast Cancer Education Panel tonight at 7 p.m. in the Talley Coastal Ballroom.

Sopher recalled an experience when she was lying naked on a long, cold metal table that had draped over it a single sheet that was supposed to keep it warm.

The medical technician placed the treatment fields in the correct positions on her skin based on the tattoos she had gotten so they could properly aim the radiation in the same spot at each session.

After prepping, the doctor left and shut the door, which, being entirely made out of lead and isolating her in this room, she said resembled the door of a prison cell.

She remembered that there was an overwhelming feeling of aloneness and reality of the situation like no other that came about her as that door shut. At this point, she said, “there was no way to deny that I had cancer.” The doctor standing in a booth above the room told her to hold her breath, and as she did so the buzzing noise from the radiation chimed.

Six months previously, in August of 1999 Sopher went in for her annual physical, noting to her doctor that she had felt something different in one of her breasts. Upon examination the doctor immediately took her in for an ultrasound and biopsy of both her breasts’ tissue.

Next, Sopher said was the worst part of the whole process — the waiting.

After nine days of waiting on the test results, constantly worrying and wondering what her future would look like, she got the phone call from her doctor. He said, “We’re ready to set you up for surgery, and we want to take out the lump in your breast because it’s definitely cancerous. Stage 3.”

She went in for surgery in September, “9/9/99” to be exact, and the doctors removed the plumsized tumor from her breast. For the next six months, she had chemotherapy treatments.

A widely unknown side effect of the chemotherapy is that it causes teeth to become frail and easy to crack. A week before her brother got married, she fell and chipped her front teeth because they were so brittle and dry from the treatment. Ever since, she has had to use dentures, which, as she puts them in every day, are a constant reminder of the fact that she had cancer. In high school, she had won the award for Best Smile, and after having braces, everyone always told her that she had a beautiful smile. It was her trademark, until her teeth fell out.

Since 2000, she has had three rounds of breast cancer and one diagnosis of urine cancer. From 1999 until 2013 she was ill, and is currently in her longest cancer-free streak, going on a little over two years without another diagnosis.

But that does not mean that cancer has ever left her mind.

“Every day I wonder if it’s going to come back,” Sopher said. “It’s just been living with cancer for all this time.”

Sopher uses her experiences to give back to the cancer community by educating others and spreading awareness about all the effects cancer has on somebody that others do not often think about.

She teaches a nonprofit leader-

ship class where once, while she was going through a round of chemotherapy treatments, she let a good friend shave her head to give the class a face to the problems people hear about cancer. Additionally, she and her students volunteer with the Koman Foundation, American Cancer Society and Pretty in Pink.

As part of Zeta Tau Alpha’s Pink Out week at N.C. State, Sopher will be speaking at a panel alongside geneticist Katie Hoadley and an oncologist from the UNC Healthcare system to interact with students and inform them about breast cancer.

Kate Goudy, a junior studying business administration and the Pink Out Week Chair for Zeta Tau Alpha, said the goal of the panel is to give students a closer look into breast cancer education and awareness. She said they reached out to Sopher because of her energy and her ability to communicate her story to an audience.

“Being so involved on NC State’s campus as an academic advisor, we thought Ms. Sopher would be a great choice to connect our philanthropy with our school,” Goudy said.

Because she has given speeches on several occasions, Sopher has a list titled “Top Ten Cancer Secrets” that she said she likes to share whenever she speaks at a conference. One of them states, “no one can hold your hand during radiation. I’ve never felt so alone.

It’s a cold and scary place. No matter what, cancer’s a lonely road at times.”

In 2015, 40,290 women are expected to die from breast cancer.

Statistically, one of every eight women in the United States will be diagnosed.

Sopher believes that Breast Cancer Awareness Month is important not only because it helps to raise

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NC State fraternity FarmHouse won Zeta Tau Alpha’s “Pink Out Your House” competition Tuesday. The house-decoration competition was in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

awareness for the issue and inform patients about the types of support that are available to them, but also it helps to establish a sense of pride for those who are diagnosed with breast cancer, both men and women. Because even though she says she was surrounded by more love and support than she could ask for, there were still times she felt hopeless. She hopes that others can find hope again, as she did, through the help that organizations such as the Koman Foundation and Zeta Tau Alpha provide.

“There are times when any one of us could have given up,” Sopher said. “Whether you have cancer or not, there are choices that you make every day, like whether or not you’re going to get up out of bed and make something of your day.

“And we all do that — some of us do that with cancer.”

ATTEND THE EVENT: Breast Cancer Education Panel Where: Talley Student Ballroom When: 7 p.m.

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Sitting at 5-1, the Blue Devils are second in the nation in points allowed, yielding only 9.3 PPG. Junior quarterback Thomas Sirk has played mistake-free football, and the Blue Devils have run for 13 touchdowns this season. Duke must play four of its last six on the road, which will test them, but don’t be surprised if they win the Coastal.

North Carolina has ridden its 10t h-ra n ked offense in the nation to a 5-1 start, easily erasing the

woes of losing to hapless South Carolina on opening night. A lthough the offense has played incredibly well (40.9 PPG), the defense’s i mprovement s have the Tar Heels back in contention. The Tar Heels’ defense ranks 28th in the nation, one year after finishing 118th.

Don’t sleep on Miami, eit her, which has a pro prospect at quar terback (sophomore Brad Kaaya) leading its explosive pass of fense t hat can be too much to handle for opposing defenses. Just ask Nebraska, who allowed Kaaya to rack up 379 yards and two touchdowns in a 36-33

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however.

“I’m brand new to the [Steeplechase],” Simon said. “I did it a few times my freshman year but didn’t

Hurricanes win.

Also, technically in the conversation is Virginia.

At 1-1 in the conference, the Cavs are one game back of the leaders. Their lone wins of the season have come against Syracuse (in triple overtime) and William and Mary (by six points), however, so don’t expect the Cavaliers to be in the picture very much longer.

The Tar Heels will square off against Pittsburgh in Week 9, followed by games with Duke and Miami (FL) at home in following weeks.

These games will undoubtedly go a long way toward who will represent the ACC Coastal in the Champion-

know too much about it. I had a pretty bad fall and kind of quit the event altogether because I didn’t enjoy it very much.”

It wasn’t until last year that Simon gave the event another try.

“It took me a few years to get back,” Simon said. “This last year,

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ship Game.

Focusing on the Atlantic, no teams have even made an attempt this season to knock Clemson or Florida State from their perch. The two teams face a virtual elimination game Nov. 7 in Death Valley, with the winner likely advancing to the ACC Championship Game.

The Seminoles have been utterly dominant at home but struggled with Boston College and Wake Forest on the road. Clemson has already passed a major test by beating No. 6 Notre Dame at home earlier this season.

Each team has an athletic, star quarterback leading the way, with Clemson’s soph-

2015 outdoor season, my coach at the University of Washington [encouraged me] to go back to the Steeplechase. That was my best bet of making it to outdoor nationals.”

Last spring, he placed fifth at the Pac-12 conference champion-

omore Deshaun Watson spearheading the Tigers’ 30th ranked passing attack and Florida State’s redshirtsenior Everett Golson teaming up with stud running back Dalvin Cook to create an explosive tandem for the Seminoles.

Each team plays tough defense and will make life difficult for the offensive coordinators heading in.

However, Florida State has the edge because of Golson’s ability to protect the ball.

Golson does a tremendous job of releasing the ball quickly and avoiding sacks ; however, he is doing it safely. Plagued early in his career by turnovers,

ships and successfully qualified to compete at the NCAA Division-I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

With a greater focus on the Steeplechase, Simon is poised to improve upon previous success in the event.

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Golson has changed his game for the better in Tallahassee and has proved to be the antithesis of former Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston, who turned the ball over frequently.

If Golson plays mistake free and Cook is given the opportunity to run wild on the Clemson defense, we could see a similar result in Death Valley as years past (Florida State has won the last three matchups).

Either way, the Coastal f igures to be waiting for them with a more than willing opponent, something no one was expecting.

“I still don’t know how to hurdle,” Simon said. “Coach Geiger will be able to teach me how to hurdle a little more efficiently and just be able to get better at the event all together. Once [the event] clicks, you can go so far.”

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Pack wrestling primed for big year Joseph Ochoa

Dempster, Horton for ITA National Indoor Championships

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NC State men’s tennis juniors Ian Dempster and Nick Horton won the 2015 ITA Carolina Regional Doubles Title yesterday after five days of competition. The pair outlasted Wake Forests’ Romain Bogaerts and Maksim Kan 6-1, 7-6 at the Cary Tennis Center to take the title, qualifying for the ITA National Indoor Championships in the process. Dempster and Horton are ranked 41st nationally and went 5-0, undefeated, through the rounds of the tournament. This is the second straight year NC State has won the doubles portion of the competition, but it was only Dempster and Horton’s second time playing together.

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Rifle jumps into CRCA poll top-10

The NC State rifle team jumped from No. 17 to No. 10 in the Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association poll this week.

The team’s strong showing at the U.S. Naval Academy, which featured program records broken in air rifle, smallbore and total team score was the catalyst behind the team’s climb in the rankings. Still undefeated, the Wolfpack returns to action Oct. 31, when it travels for Charleston to take on Nebraska.

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Pyke to wrestle at NWCA All Star Classic

Wolfpack wrestling redshirt sophomore Chad Pyke will participate at the 50th National Wrestling Coaches Association All Star Classic Nov. 1. A native of Georgia, Pyke will wrestle as a “Local Feature.” Pyke started at 157 pounds last year for the Wolfpack team. He finished with a record of 13-17, including 7-11 in duals, with his most memorable moment being an 11-3 major decision over the No. 10-ranked wrestler when the Pack visited Missouri last year.

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In less than a month, the NC State wrestling team will begin its 2015-2016 campaign in Troy, New York against Sacred Heart, Army and Minnesota.

The Wolf pack had a stellar 2014-2015 campaign, including a 16th overall finish at the NCAA tournament, redshirt senior Nick Gwiazdowski finishing with his second national championship in just as many years and the rise of promising sophomore Kevin Jack among others.

This year, the Pack’s schedule will pit them against some of the best teams in the country, including matchups with seven teams ranked in FloWrestling’s top-20: Edinboro (No. 16), Old Dominion (No. 15), UNC-Chapel Hill (No. 11), Nebraska (No. 10), Missouri (No. 7), Virginia Tech (No. 5) and Oklahoma State (No. 2).

Despite the tough schedule, the team is ready for the challenge.

The Pack has started the season ranked ninth in the country by FloWrestling, with Gwiazdowski slotting in at second in the poundfor-pound rankings behind Oklahoma State senior Alex Dieringer (165).

Beside Gwiazdowski, who holds the top rank in the heavyweight division, the Wolfpack also has four other wrestlers listed in the top-20 of their respective class: sophomore Kevin Jack (no. 4 at 141 pounds), redshirt senior Tommy Gantt (no. 8 at 157 pounds), junior Pete Renda (no. 18 at 184 pounds) and junior Max Rohskopf (no. 10 at 163 pounds).

The team had breakout perfor-

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No. 1 redshirt junior Nick Gwiazdoski battles for the takedown against No. 6 Oklahoma State University. Although Gwiazdoski won this match 4-1, the Wolfpack lost a tough battle with a final score of 12-20 in Reynolds Collisuem on Feb. 22.

mances from Rohskopf and Jack during the season. Jack finished with the record for wins by a freshman with 31 wins and even finished in fifth place at nationals. Rohskopf also had a breakout year for the team, with an overall win-loss record of 25-16, including a streak when he won 18 out of 21 matches.

Head coach Pat Popolizio has been a major catalyst for the success for the Wolfpack as well.

Since his hiring in 2012 from the University of Cincinnati, the

Wolfpack has finished better in nationals every year, culminating in the team’s 16th-place finish at the national championship in 2015, the school’s best finish since 1993.

The recent success of the Pack has not gone unnoticed either.

In addition to current members such as Gwiazdowski and Jack, NC State also landed a stellar recruiting class that included twin brothers Thomas and Daniel Bullard, as well as Hayden Hidlay and Kellen Devlin, all of whom were ranked

top-60 prospects by FloWrestling.

Wit h a mi x ture of ta lented young wrestlers, strong leadership from Gantt and Gwiazdowski, and steady progress under Popolizio, the Wolfpack looks primed for a strong season and another run for the national championship.

The wrestling team will make its first appearance at 3 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Brickyard, when the team hosts its outdoor wrestle-offs.

From husky to wolf: Simon boosts Wolfpack XC Garrison Rountree Correspondent

After graduating from the University of Washington in Seattle, runner Meron Simon wanted a change of scenery.

That desire took him on a 2,800-mile journey to NC State, where he’ll compete this year for the Wolfpack cross country team as a redshirt senior and study youth development and leadership as a graduate student.

“I’m originally from Seattle,” Simon said. “Washington was one of the main schools I looked at growing up. I’m a huge Huskies fan, and I just graduated from there, so that’s awesome.

Coming down to my fifth year, I decided t he best thing to do was get out of my home state, go out explore and see what else the country has to offer.”

Last spring, Simon spent much time researching different programs across the country but settled on NC State af ter communicating with the coaches at the school and making friends with some of the members of the Wolfpack team at a cross country camp in Boulder, Colorado back in summer 2013.

“I talked to schools all over and got a feel of what other programs and coaches were like,” Simon said. “I talked to coach Geiger and coach Seaton a few times.

Honestly, I thought those two coaches were such great people, and they welcomed me in so easily.”

Already one of the top runners in the Pac-12 and a competitor at the NCAA Division-I Championships in spring 2015, Simon has thrived since running with the Pack. Although he was predicted to be the team’s third runner this season,

the Seattle native was the first Wolfpack men’s cross country runner to break the plane at the highly contested Notre Dame Invitational Oct. 2.

However, despite recent success on the cross country course, Simon’s primary focus is on the track, where he competes in the 3,000-meter Steeplechase, a long distance race that requires competitors to traverse barriers, such as water jumps and large hurdles.

With that being the case, the cross country season primarily serves to condition him for track in the spring.

“Right now, I’m running as much as I can, trying to stay healthy, [moving] into different racing cycles and getting mileage in for the outdoor season,” Simon said.

Simon has already gained Internet notoriety for his exploits on the track. Last

PHOTO COURTESY OF MARCUS SNOWDEN

Redshirt senior Meron Simon races at the Notre Dame Invitational Oct. 2. Simon placed first for the Wolfpack cross country team at the event. The Seattle native came to NC State after graduating from the University of Washington earlier this year.

spring, a video of him overtaking an Oregon runner who prematurely celebrated victory in the Steeplechase went viral, garnering

plenty of hits on YouTube and taking the top spot on SportsCenter’s “Not Top 10” countdown.

Internet fame belies the

former Husk y’s relat ive newness to Steeplechase,

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Taking stock of the ACC football divisional landscape Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

Now midway through the 2015 season, the ACC divisions are still somewhat up in the air. Here’s a look at the strengths and weaknesses of contenders in each division.

The ACC Coastal Division hasn’t won t he ACC Cha mpionship Game in five years, back when quarterback Tyrod Taylor led the Virginia Tech Hokies over Florida State in a 44-33 barn burner and has generally looked up to the

Atlantic Division as Big Brother, with the two-headed monster of Florida State and Clemson thoroughly dominating play for much of the last decade.

Georgia Tech was the Coastal’s f lagbearer at the beginning of the season, picked by many to supplant the Seminoles as top dog in the ACC. Through seven games of the season that notion has been tossed out the window, as Georgia Tech has lost five straight games and has a conference record of 0-4.

With games against No. 9 Flor-

ida State, Miami (FL), and Georgia still on the docket, the Yellow Jackets face the possibility of going from preseason No. 16 in the nation to staying at home for Christmas.

With Georgia Tech out of the equation, the ACC Coastal surprisingly features a loaded division poised to make life difficult for conference f ront-runners Clemson and Florida State.

No. 25 Pittsburgh was assumed done after the loss of Preseason ACC-Player of the Year running back James Connor, but has willed

its way to a thrilling 5-1 start. If you haven’t been paying attention to the Panthers over the last year, boy have you been missing out.

The Panthers have had close victories over Youngstown State, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Virginia, with the average margin of victory in those games being just five points. Nothing about the Panthers is pretty. They are a hard-nosed football team that is going to beat you with their stout defense and rushing attack. It’s the brand of football that head coach Pat Narduzzi brought with

him from Michigan State and it is paying dividends.

The next few paragraphs will make NC State fans cringe, but North Carolina and Duke are part of what makes the Coastal so deep and terrifying for opposing coaches.

No. 23 Duke falls into the category with Pitt, playing a physical brand of football that has made them relevant in the ACC for several years.

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