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PackCon helps students find roomies IN BRIEF Coleen Kinen-Ferguson

Students selected as finalists in Walt Disney competition

A team of four NC State students has been selected as one of six finalists for the Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition. The competition’s challenge is to design a traveling experience that will tour small towns across the United States for families who cannot afford to travel to a Disney park. The team from NC State designed a tour called “Ostium: An Adventure Behind Every Door.” Each of the finalists has been awarded a five-day all-expense-paid trip to Imagineering in Glendale, California.

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President Obama gives final State of the Union address President Barack Obama gave his final State of the Union address Tuesday night. His speech centered on a more broad statement of his vision for the country rather than a policy remedy. Obama worked to paint a portrait of hope for the years to come as he spoke about a resurgent economy and a better standing in the world despite the many ongoing challenges. He also argued that while Americans might be afraid of foreign threats, the country could confront the challenges of the future if its people actively embrace change.

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University Housing and the Inter-Residence Council hosted PackCon, a combination game night and Dress Up and Dance Party in the Talley ballroom to advertise the upcoming housing selection process.

Participants were encouraged to dress up as their favorite character and enjoy a night of board games and dancing with other students. The theme, PackCon, is a reference to Comic Con. “We’re trying to do something fun each year to get students involved,” said Brittany Sweeney, the marketing assistant for Campus Life. “This is the second year we’ve done a big kick off like this, but we’re trying not to take ourselves too seriously.”

University Housing and IRC hosted two simultaneous events in the Talley Coastal and Mountains Ballrooms. Coastal held a variety of different board games and activities for students to get to know each other and potentially meet a new roommate for the next housing year.

“The community is the best part of living on campus,” said Jacob Michel, a junior studying chemical engineering and an IRC Representative for North and Watauga Halls. “I feel like I’m welcome anytime.”

Employees of Student Housing and the IRC dressed up in superhero capes and costumes to reinforce the PackCon theme.

“It’s very fun to see all these people dressed up,”

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Francesco Trotta, standing dressed as “Iota” from the game Tearaway, a sophomore studying animal science, introduces himself to a group of students color pictures of comic book and movie characters at PackCon on Tuesday in the Coastal Ballroom of Talley Student Union.

said Kim Hoff, a freshman studying statistics. Hoff attended the event because she wanted to stay on campus next year, but doesn’t yet have a roommate.

Students gathered at tables and played Scrabble, Monopoly or colored large print-outs of Disney characters.

“One of my friends showed me this event,” said Jamie Berry, a sophomore studying agricultural sci-

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In the last five years, NC State students have spent less on textbooks, while publishers continue to raise the prices of textbooks 7 to 8 percent each year, according to Director of NC State Bookstores Anthony Sanders.

On Dec. 2, NC State Provost and Executive Vice ChanSOURCE: FACEBOOK

Shivakaran Bandi, a graduate student studying electrical engineering, took his own life Thursday. Friends and classmates of Bandi held a memorial service in Hunt Library Auditorium where they shared kind words and support.

Students remember a friend and classmate Adam Davis Staff Writer

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Provost expresses commitment to lower textbook cost

Powerball monies won’t find its way to NC teachers

With the Powerball jackpot at $1.4 billion, the NC Education Lottery is set to receive a frenzy of ticket buyers. However, in a little-noticed change during the 2015 budget session, NC lawmakers shifted distribution of lottery profits from teachers and assistant to bus drivers, janitors and other non-instructional support staff.

The breakdown of the jackpot would be $1.4 billion if taken as annuity, $868 million if taken as lump sum and 76 cents from each $2 Powerball ticket going to education.

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ence. “As a transfer student, NC State is a big adjustment. I’m here to half check out the housing scene, half look around for a roommate for next year.”

The Mountains Ballroom held the Dress Up and Dance Party, with student Elliott Holliday providing music.

Friends and classmates of Shivakaran Bandi held a memorial service in Hunt Library Auditorium Tuesday, to offer kind words and support for those who were touched by his loss. Shivakaran took his own life on Thursday.

Shivakaran was an international stu-

“[It is] an important piece to keeping textbook costs down, which in turn is one piece to trying to keep the cost of education down.”

-— NC State Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

Warwick Arden

dent from India pursuing a graduate degree in electrical engineering.

At the service, a video played in remembrance of Shivakaran. A quote from Prasanth Gormatam, a graduate student studying electrical and computer engineering, read, “Whenever we felt insecure or were in need of advice,

cellor Warwick Arden released the department’s annual memo emphasizing the importance of faculty in regards to lowering textbook prices.

“This memo concerns the relationship between the bookstore and the faculty, to simply make sure that faculty determine what is going to be their desired textbooks in a reasonable period of time before the semester,” Arden wrote. “[It is] an important piece to keeping textbook costs down, which in turn is one piece to trying to keep the cost

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Startup blends dining out with donating Staff Report

SPORTS Wolfpack women’s soccer routs Bucs in road victory See page 8.

For the months of January, February and March, GroupRaise, a startup based out of Dallas, is offering opportunities for students, or any group, looking to contribute to a cause to do so in a streamlined fashion.

GroupRa ise, now act ive on about 300 college campuses in the United States, from Jan. 26 until

March 31 will offer time blocks at Jason’s Deli and Greek Fiesta locations in Raleigh during which groups of patrons can eat and have 15 percent of their bill go toward any cause that they choose, according to Sean Park with GroupRaise.

Participating groups can reserve a time slot online and enter the size of their party, see the average meal cost of the restaurant and

see the estimated donation to the cause that they choose.

The Dallas Morning News summarized GroupRaise’s business model as an “online platform connecting groups with eateries that have agreed to donate on average 20 percent of their sales for a cause. In exchange, restaurants get access to new customers and sales that they otherwise would not have rung up.”

“This is an awesome opportunity for student organizations to partner with local businesses to create something greater over a meal, so we went ahead and made the connection super simple,” Park said.

Two student groups at NC State, Nourish International and the Cross Country/Track Club, have taken advantage of this service, according to Park.

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POLICE BLOTTER January 11 10:22 AM | SAFETY PROGRAM Admin I Officer conducted Active Shooter Program.

11:15 AM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY CVM Main Building Staff member reported tire of vehicle slashed.

12:01 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON North Hall Report of subject panhandling.

Officers did not locate anyone matching description.

12:10 PM | HIT & RUN EB I Student reported unknown driver struck vehicle then left the scene.

1:24 PM | FRAUD Wood Hall Student reported credit card had been used online.

Investigation ongoing.

2:25 PM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT University Plaza Report of subject who had jumped barricade at project booth. Officers were unable to locate subject.

3:40 PM | SKATEBOARD COMPLAINT University Plaza Officers made contact with non-student and advised of skateboarding policy. Subject complied to leave the area.

3:41 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON DH Hill Library Report of suspicious subject in computer area. Officers located non-student but witness had prior to officer arrival.

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4:02 PM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Miller Field Staff member reported windshield of vehicle had been damaged while parked at this location.

6:05 PM | SAFETY PROGRAM North Hall Officer conducted safety program.

6:49 PM | INTOXICATED PERSON Swan Quarter Hall Officers responded to intoxicated non-student causing a disturbance. All file checks were negative and subject was trespassed from NCSU property.

7:00 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Cates Avenue Two students were involved in traffic accident.

9:24 PM | DRUG VIOLATION Parents Park Student was cited and referred for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Second student was referred for Drug Violation.

9:54 PM | LARCENY Watagua Hall Student reported bicycle stolen.

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onak Doshi, a graduate studyinf computer networking and electirical engineering, slices a pepperoini pizza at Red Sky Pizzeria in Talley Student Union on Januarary 12th. Doshi has been working at Red Sky for five months. “It takes about 5-6 minutes to cook a pizza” said Doshi. “My favorite pizza is cheese” Doshi said.

North Carolina ranked 9th in racial progress Staff Report Ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, WalletHub has released the findings of its state by state examination of racial integration. The repor t f inds t hat Nor t h Carolina ranks 9th nationally in racial integration.

This figure is based on 10 metrics:

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of education down.”

For there to be an accurate stock of used textbooks, which tend to run significantly cheaper than their newer counterparts, faculty must inform the bookstore of their textbook choices for the coming semester.

In this memo addressed to deans, directors and department heads, the provost asks faculty to choose the most cost-effective textbooks in a timely manner.

The sooner the better, according to Arden, because it allow the bookstore more time to acquire used books and negotiate with distributors for the best deals on

Employment & Wealth – Total Points: 60 • Median Annual Income: Full Weight (10 Points) • Labor-Force Participation Rate: Full Weight (10 Points) • Unemploy ment Rate : Full Weight (10 Points) • Homeownership Rate: Full Weight (10 Points)

• Pove r t y R at e : Fu l l Weight (10 Points) • Busi ness O w nersh ip R at e : Fu l l We ig ht (10 Points) Education & Civic Engagement – Total Points: 40 • Percentage of Residents with at Least a High School Degree : Full Weight (10 Points)

• Percentage of Residents with at Least a Bachelor’s Degree : Full Weight (10 Points) • NAEP Test Scores: Full Weight (10 Points) •Voter-Turnout Rate: Full Weight (10 Points) The value of these metrics given to blacks was subtracted from that given

to whites. Those states in which blacks scored higher than whites were given the max score on integration and on racial progress.

The report was conducted in response to “prominent incidents of police brutality against blacks during the past several years” which have threatened to “reverse

decades of social progress.”

The reports cites a December 2014 Ga llup poll in which 13 percent of Americans said that race relations were the most important problem facing the nation, which is the highest on that issue since May 1992.

new textbooks.

“Somet i mes it ca n be very difficult for a faculty member perhaps who hasn’t taught a class for a while or who doesn’t know, ‘oh, this is exactly what I want to use for this class’ by October, but in general the earlier the better for everybody,” Arden said. “It just makes it a more efficient system.”

Shelby Sessions, a junior study ing electrical engineering, expressed his distaste for textbook prices.

“I don’t buy many of them [textbooks], because they are so expensive,” she said.

“I either find them online or borrow them from other people.”

Sessions also prefers not to sell books back, claiming he’d only get, “at best”

a third of what he originally paid.

The provost also calls for the need of digital textbooks as opposed to the physica l copies t hat are also difficult for students to carry around.

“It always surprises me that in this day and age that we still rely so heavily on the physical book as opposed to digital versions,” Arden said. “I think there’s a lot of progress to be made with working with publishers and wholesalers to make digital media more available at more reasonable costs to our students.”

But this medium of acquiring textbooks comes with its own limitations, which makes students like Emma Thompson, a junior

studying biochemistry, wish that textbooks could just be cheaper. “Digital textbooks are more complicated and you only have access to them for a limited time, and I can’t use them as a reference for other semesters,” she said.

Sanders said the use of buyback options and renting books has succeeded in lowering textbook costs.

“The bookstore is able to control prices by providing different format options, such as digital or rental, or by locating a lternate vendors such as used book wholesalers or the online m a r k e t pl a c e ,” S a n d e r s said. “In many instances, instructors or bookstore staff members are able to put together custom course

materials that reduce the costs borne by students.”

Book buyback remains an excellent source for students, but has become limited in recent years due to the popularity of rentals, and, therefore, has affected the amount offered for books, according to Sanders. “[With] the rapid increase in the popularity of rental prog ra ms over t he past several years, buyback has become somewhat marginalized,” Sanders said. “Buyback prices are determined simply by market supply and demand.”

Sammi Fernandes, a junior studying human biology and anthropology, said textbook buyback wasn’t beneficial for her.

“I used buyback my fresh-

man year and I don’t think it was worth it. I’d rather just buy them for much cheaper off Amazon,” Fernandes said.

Sanders predicts that the trend toward cheaper alternatives to textbooks will continue in the foreseeable future.

“Pricing analytics, textbook rental programs and the growing shift to digital materials have all been major factors in textbook prices,” Sanders said. “In the immediate future, customized digital texts, adaptive learning products and Open Educational Resources will continue to reduce the cost of course materials for students.”

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Joseph Taylor, a freshman studying exploratory studies and intern for Sweeney in the Campus Life office, designed the posters and T-shirts for the event, which feature wolves dressed up as popular super hero and videogame characters.

“I started out just drawing regular wolves, for the Wolfpack,” Taylor said. “But then we came up with the Comic Con idea and I figured it would be good to incorporate some of the more popular superheroes, plus some Nintendo characters and, of course, we had to reference Star Wars.”

Free posters of Taylor’s work were available at the artist’s table, where he signed pictures of his work for students.

“This is a completely new experience for me, having people come up and recognize me,” Taylor said. “It’s so weird, but still cool.”

When he wasn’t signing posters of his art, Taylor dressed up as Darth Vader for the event.

Prizes are available for students who attended the kickoff event Tuesday night then also sign up for one of the five housing options. After each housing option closes, a winner will be drawn from among those options. Prizes include Amazon and iTunes gift cards, free cable/ResNet for a year and an iPad Mini 2.

“We hope people enjoy living on campus, because we all enjoy working here,” Sweeney said.

Residence Hall Week begins Jan. 24, and will run until Jan. 30. Different residence halls will host a variety of different PackCon-themed activities, with events such as Super Hero movie night, dodgeball and Wii-U Smash Bros. tournament.

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Akira Romero, a sophomore studying biomedical engineering, explains the rules of the card game War to Chyna Lim, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering, at PackCon on Tuesday in the Coastal Ballroom in Talley.

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he was always present in the hour of need.

He will always be in our hearts and we will miss his joyous presence.”

Maitri, the NC State Indian Graduate Student Association, produced the video.

“People respond to these tragedies in all sorts of ways, and some of those ways are hard to put into words,” said Ronni Margolin, a clinical psychiatrist from NC State’s Counseling Center.

Margolin encouraged any student work-

ing through tough times to be with their friends and to come to the Counseling Center. Margolin said, “It’s so much easier to deal with a tragedy together than alone.”

Brian Floyd, an electrical and computer engineering professor at NC State, taught Shivakaran last semester. Floyd described Shivakaran as “eager,” both to earn his degree and to be successful throughout his life.

Floyd urged everyone to “continue on,” despite the tragedy.

Following the ser vice, Shivakaran’s friends met for coffee and tea, sharing their memories and expressing condolences.

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Losing culture on Hillsborough St. The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief.

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radually, Hillsborough Street is being replaced. The small businesses that have managed to hang onto their storefronts shrink in the shadows of not-so-budget-friendly apartment complexes like Stanhope and hotels like Aloft Raleigh. It’s happening slowly enough that we notice on our walk to class as one by one our favorite businesses are closed down, but quickly enough that we don’t feel we can do anything to stop it.

Trendy restaurants continue to rotate through the Hillsborough Street storefronts, with another set to open in the spring. The restaurant, named H-Street Kitchen, will seat 240 people in the Varsity Theatre building that used to be home to Hillsborough Street Textbooks. In a

somewhat official and symbolic rebranding of one of NC State’s most well-known cultural centers, a mid-priced restaurant serving American food will soon sit upon the grave of past failed ventures.

This isn’t the first time that a business in the Varsity Theatre has been unceremoniously succeeded. Hillsborough Street Textbooks was once a movie theater, then an occasional porn theater, then a McDonald’s.

These changes, however superfluous, seem inevitable.

The problem with Hillsborough Street is not

that it kills businesses; it is natural for business ventures to fail. The problem is that when businesses begin to flounder, wealthier corporations snatch up the empty spaces in order to attract a higher class of clientele, forcing the surrounding students and faculty out of their own community.

This isn’t to say that these new restaurants, stores and apartment complexes are necessarily at fault, but rather that their continual establishment in an area steeped in culture buries that culture beneath them. Developers call this revitalization; others call it gentrification.

New does not always mean better. While progression is often a positive thing and tradition can always be improved, the cycle of Hillsborough Street businesses seems to be caught up in is primarily an indicator of both a lack of empathy and a desire for something newer, flashier.

These forced efforts toward “revitalization” are less a movement toward a better area and more an assertion that Hillsborough Street should adopt a “classier” manner. Developers are signaling that college students and nearby residents (both generally populations of lower income) have less of a place on the block than the business clients who stop over for a night.

If I won $1.3 billion W

ith the Powerball lottery at a record high, the jackpot seems to be increasing almost as fast as the national debt. The thought of one person beMissy ing able to win $1.3 billion Furman is crazier than NC State’s Staff Columnist apparently abridged winter break.

Honestly, I can’t even understand how much money that really is considering my bank account has never seen a seven-digit balance. History shows that the majority of people who have won smaller lottery jackpots are left with just a little more than nothing only a few years later. I guess knowing in the back of your head that you’ve got millions makes it easy to, in the words of Jessie J, “Forget about the price tag.”

Hypothetically, let’s pretend I won $1.3 billion. First things first, I would very thoroughly filter through my Facebook “friends.” I don’t need any haven’t-talkedsince-middle-school-but-let’s-catch-upsoon messages, aka “So I hear you’re a billionaire now, what’s in it for me?” Once all the publicity was out of the way (can you get a red carpet walk for winning the biggest lottery ever?) and taxes finished demolishing the good half, here are 10 things I would drop some money for as a student at NC State: 1. Buy one of everything in Wolfpack Outfitters. Not only would family and friends’ presents be set for years, but also I would have the ultimate chance to show off my Pack pride in literally every single way.

2. Hire a personal chef because, even after several months of taking a break from campus food, I’m still not ready to make my taste buds go through that again. Plus I’d rather not gain the sophomore “insert lots of pounds here.” Isn’t all the added Thanksgiving and Christmas weight enough?

3. Buy balloons, a VISA gift card and a cake for every student’s birthday and have it delivered to dorm rooms. Birthdays away

from home can be bittersweet, and I mean, who doesn’t want a free balloon and money?

4. Help rebuild Sushi Nine because I don’t even eat sushi, and even I can’t wait months for them to reopen.

5. Start a committee to create a Disneystyle fast pass card that places you out of those classes you really, really don’t want to take. All you’d have to do is bring it on the first day of class and then you’re out faster than Duke will be out of PNC Arena when we beat them in basketball next week. (Go Pack!)

6. Update Witherspoon’s Student Cinema to a real movie theatre. You know, stadium seating and chairs without wooden armrests and desks attached.

7. Buy a bunch of the bricks on campus, so the university has to take some out. A little more grass would be nice. Just saying.

8. Install a nap lounge in every academic building for the pre-lecture power nap or the post-class snooze. Who said nap time was just for kindergarten? Pretty sure college kids need that more than 5-year-olds. Come on.

9. Put a Dunkin’ Donuts in Talley because a) it’ll make all the other coffee lines that much shorter and b) their hot chocolate is by far the best. Good try, Starbucks, but no.

10. Donate a chunk of it to Financial Aid so that more prospective Wolfpack members can afford to attend the best university ever without taking out loans.

Of course there’s always that cliché that comes up during times such as this. “Money doesn’t buy happiness.” In the long run, it’s true. But if any of my 10 Pack-style Powerball ideas were put into action, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be sad. Like, at all.

Anyway, the pressure is off for me when the numbers are drawn tonight. I chose to sit the odds out on this one because the chances of winning are almost as slim as listening to Adele’s entire album without crying even one single tear. Nearly impossible.

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Samantha White, graduate student studying aerospace engineering

{ Re: Hog waste causes environmental, socioeconomic disasters I cannot believe The Technician published such a blatantly biased, uninformed and inaccurate article about North Carolina’s pork industry (Hog waste causes environmental, socioeconomic disasters, Jan. 6.)

The article gets even the most basic facts wrong. There are approximately 2,100 permitted hog farms in North Carolina — not 8,000 farms. And that error is just the tip of the iceberg.

You claim that the hog industry is “still growing,” but there has been a moratorium on building new hog farms or expanding existing farms in place for nearly 20 years.

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You report that some hog farms are allowed to discharge waste directly into waterways, a claim that is completely ludicrous. That would be a serious violation of the law in North Carolina, which has enacted some of the nation’s toughest environmental regulations on hog farms.

Here’s the truth: Studies show that rivers in eastern North Carolina — including the Black River in the heart of hog country — are cleaner today than they were 20 years ago.

As a student in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences who is majoring in Agricultural Science, I had the opportunity to work with the NC Pork Council last summer. I personally met many hog farmers and can tell you that they are hardworking and dedicated people who

care deeply about protecting our environment.

More than 80 percent of hog farms in our state are family farms, owned by good, honest people who work hard to provide healthy food and take good care of their animals. Most of them grew up raising pigs and all of them have tremendous respect for the land.

I’m disappointed that our campus newspaper would use unsupported opinions and misinformation to attack an industry that means so much to the state of North Carolina and this university. The lack of journalistic integrity is appalling.

Sincerely, Deans Eatman Senior

More government money, more problems B

usiness Insider posted an article in 2014 discussing the biggest problems on college campuses. The main infographic displays the 21 biggest probChase lems for college stuMcLamb Guest Columnist dents ranked from most to least problematic based on survey responses.

The results showed that 63 percent of those surveyed viewed the cost of education as the biggest problem facing college students today. Additionally, 66 percent of the surveyed 1,200 full-time, four-year college students agreed that the “cost of college is too expensive.”

The truth is that per capita income has been stuck at around $30,000 for the past 16 years, according to data from the United States Census Bureau, while the cost of tuition and fees at a four-year public university have nearly doubled in that same timeframe, according to The College Board. This

means people in general are not earning more money each year, but the cost of college continues to rise very quickly.

The end result is more and more people rely heavily on loans to help pay for college education. Thus, we can explain the growing student debt crisis — not to mention that students’ inability to pay off college loans has roughly doubled from 2005 to 2015.

Another interesting note is that huge investments in making higher education more accessible have not increased per capita income compared to increasing cost of living and cost of higher education.

This does not bode well for Bernie Sanders’ plan to “invest” so heavily in higher education by making public college free because investing in something usually means that we would get some kind of return. Historically, this has not been the case.

In 2014, student loan debt broke $1

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trillion with roughly 11 percent being over 90-days-delinquent or in default, according to a presentation compiled

by Free Domain Radio. This is a huge problem not just because of the soul-crushing debt owed by students but also because of the fact that this money has effectively been 100 percent removed from the economy. That means as of 2014 over $1 trillion were unavailable for borrowing, investing in capital, creating jobs, etc. because it was frozen in the form of student debt.

All that aside, the obvious question would be: Why is college tuition increasing so drastically? A 2015 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York analyzed the relationship between the eligibility of federal aid for students and the cost of tuition after policy changes raised education subsidies. The report found that tuition fees increased proportionally with the number of students who were eligible to receive aid around the time

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of policy changes.

Unsurprisingly, this shows that increased demand for a relatively steady supply causes an increase in price. Instead of making college “affordable” as we’ve heard so many politicians claim when talking about subsidizing college education, subsidies actually increase the price load on every student without any noticeable impact on per capita income over time. Recall that over $1 trillion is tied up in student loan debt instead of being invested to create jobs and other opportunities.

Education subsidies over the last 50 years have made the country’s economic standing worse, not better.

The large number of people attending college as a result of the eligibility to borrow money at low interest rates from the federal government has also caused another crisis: the devaluation of a college degree. It’s bad enough that after spending 13 years in school to achieve a high school diploma, work-

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ers generally aren’t viewed as productive enough to warrant a living wage (which speaks to the current state of our primary education system).

Because of this, high school diplomas are only valuable as a means of getting into college whereas they used to be enough to land a decent job.

College degrees are slowly but surely becoming as useless as high school diplomas due to the declining value of high school diplomas and massive government subsidies artificially increasing college attendance rates.

Since subsidizing the cost of attending college is mostly to blame for the student debt crisis, I would first suggest ending these types of federal programs. The next step would be to make a high school diploma worth something again, but this would require a serious rework of our primary education system. In general, just remember: more government money, more problems.

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A food safety specialist weighs in on Chipotle Sam Griffin Correspondent

Across t he United States, a staple of the college diet has been under attack after several foodborne illness cases of E. coli and norovirus. Chipotle, the popular and moderately priced Mexican restaurant, has come under fire after several incidents related to foodborne illness occurred at multiple locations in multiple states The problems began last October when 22 people in the states of Washington and Oregon were reported to have gotten sick after eating at Chipotle. In response to this, 43 Chipotle restaurants were closed in the state and the U.S Center for Disease Control launched a n i nve st igat ion wh ich found a strain of pathogenic E. coli. By Nov. 5, the CDC had reported up to 40 cases of people with cases involving the same strain of E. coli. By Nov. 12, the number of cases had risen to 50 but the CDC’s investigation was unable to identify exactly what food item was acting as the source of the bacterial infection, and there can be several reasons for why that is the case.

“It’s actually very common that we don’t find the source,” said Ben Chapman, an associate professor and food safet y specia list at NC State. “A person who is

sick has to go to the doctor, have the bug identified and then be linked with the other people with the same illness who went to Chipotle. It can sometimes take weeks. By the time all of the dots are connected in the epidemiology world, often the food isn’t around to test anymore.”

Chapman said these sort of outbreaks often involve fresh produce, which usually goes bad and is thrown away before investigators can start looking for the contaminated ingredients.

It is currently unknown whether or not the Chipotle cases involved fresh produce.

On Dec. 4, the CDC had traced 52 cases of STEC 026, the strain of E. coli affecting Chipot le customers.

Even more troubling was the fact that the victims were found in nine different states: Oregon, Washington, California, Illinois, Maryland, Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and New York.

“What you are trying to do is f igure out whether or not the pathogen is in the source. You may rinse the outside of it if it’s fresh produce to try and get the pathogen from it or you may pulverize it to see if you can grow specific bacteria from it,” Chapman said. “What we try and do for bacteria is culture it from the food, and once it’s cultured, then

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we grow it and do further confirmation tests to see what the genetic makeup of the bug is and if it is related to the outbreak.”

Chapman said that finding the source of a contamination involves matching a lot of data before you even get to the science of testing a potentially bad item.

You have to interview the victims for their food history as well as interviewing a control group of people who ate in the same areas but did not get sick, and tr y and match up those two lists to find the right food item through statistics. All of the ingredients in that food item are then analyzed to search for the contamination. This is the basis of epidemiology.

In addition to the E. coli problems the company has been having, Chipotle has

also had a recent incident involving norovirus. As of Dec. 10, 141 Boston College students fell ill with symptoms related to norovirus, many of whom had eaten at the local Chipotle prior to falling ill. The restaurant was shut down on Dec. 7 for health violations such as cooking meat at too low of a temperature and letting a sick employee work.

Norovirus is also commonly k now n as w inter vomiting bug. It can cause intense vomiting and infectious diarrhea in those who catch it. It is spread by fecally contaminated foods and person-to-person contact.

Chapman said norov irus is the most common foodborne pathogen that we have. Unlike E. coli, v iruses don’t grow outside of the body or living environments and cannot

be recreated with current technology in a lab because of this, making it harder to track down the source of the pathogen.

“Practicing good hygiene a nd hav i ng s y stem s i n place to verify that foods are cooked go a long way in preventing these sort of outbreaks,” Chapman said. “On the supplier’s side, systems are needed to make sure that suppliers are managing food safety on farms and the processing companies.”

On the individual’s side, Chapman said there is not much a customer can do to ensure that the food they get from a retailer is safe.

Sanitation scores can be checked as a precaution but mostly it just comes down to trust in the retailer.

“The safety and well-being of our guests are always

our highest priority,” said an official statement from Chipot le a nd Customer Service Consultant Olivia Beltran. “Since this issue began, we have completed a comprehensive reassessment of our food safety programs with an eye to finding best practices for each of the ingredients we use.”

The statement went on to say that Chipotle has i mplemented ne w pro gra ms including end of shelf-life testing of ingredients, DNA-based tests of all fresh produce items, improvements throughout the supply chains based on testing data and improved employee training in food safety and handling.

There is currently no immediate safety concerns at the Chipotle across campus on Hillsborough Street.

So you’ve watched through your Netflix queue?

Did you watch everything on Netflix over winter break? Probably not, considering Netflix is estimated to have 100,000 hours of content to stream. To help you pick between the rest of those few thousand hours, here’s some movies to stream you may not have seen yet.

“Boy” (2012)

“People Places Things” (2015)

While not as well known in the United States, this drama is the highest grossing New Zealand film of all time.

Taking place in 1980s New Zealand, a young boy is obsessed with Michael Jackson and has elaborate fantasies to escape his troubled life without a father.

The story gets interesting when his father returns from prison and the boy meets this man he has only dreamed about.

Fans of “Flight of the Conchords” will enjoy Jemaine Clement starring as Will Henry, a newly divorced father with two daughters. Working as a graphic novelist, he navigates the complexities of fatherhood, writer’s block and restarting a love life. It’s less of a rom-com and more of a comedy with a romantic sideline.

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“Frances Ha” (2013)

“Snowpiercer” (2013)

Taking place in Brooklyn, Frances Ha centers around the titular character of Frances and her struggle in making something of her life. Stylistically, the film stands out with simple shots and being entirely in black and white. In a story relatable to anyone who is graduating soon, Frances tries to fulfil her dreams.

Imagine “The Matrix” and “1984” on a train and you have some idea of what “Snowpiercer” feels like. Not just an action movie, “Snowpiercer” takes place in the future after a global apocalypse where a group of survivors lives aboard a massive train with its own rigid caste system. The lowest caste in the back of the train attempts a revolution and makes their way through the various class cars of the train.

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This hot streak has the Hurricanes believing that the playoffs are within their grasp. Head coach Bill Peters stressed the importance of continuing their improved play as they try and continue to climb the standings.

“The standings are up; they know the standings,” Peters said. We’re in the hunt, for sure, we’re right in the thick of things. We’re playing better. That’s what we like, it’s a process.

Every time the calendar clicks off and it’s a new month, I think we take a step and are going in the right direction.”

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center Kennedy Meeks is the stronger rim protector, with 1.3 blocks per game, and returned to action in the team’s most recent game after missing the previous seven.

As far as total quality wins, no team in the conference matches North Carolina currently, but losses to Texas and Northern Iowa, albeit on the road, do leave some room to doubt whether they are the class of

Canes, stopping 23-of-25 Penguins shots for his third win in his last four.

“He’s been real good, his numbers have been real good for a long time,” Peters said.

The game got off to a slow start, as both teams struggled to get anything going offensively in the first period. Neither Ward nor Fleury were tested much early.

The Canes struck quickly in the second period courtesy of an Eric Staal goal. Lindholm, who had three assists on the night, won a puck battle with two Penguins defenders behind the net and got the puck to forward Kris Versteeg at the top of the crease. Versteeg fed the puck across the crease to Staal, and the captain made no mistake as he buried it from point blank range about four minutes

the ACC. The current frontrunner for the conference’s player of the year resides with the No. 9 Duke Blue Devils (14-2, 3-0). Grayson Allen’s 20.5 scoring average ranks second in the conference, but does little justice in delineating his overall contribution to the team; the sophomore guard is inarguably the source of energy and leadership for this very young Duke team.

Though Duke entered the season with as much talent as any team in the country, it has not shown itself

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into the period.

The Canes benefitted from a fortuitous bounce to take a 2-0 lead about halfway through the period as Versteeg fired a shot from the left faceoff circle that deflected off the stick of Sidney Crosby, came off the glass up high behind the Pittsburgh net and down behind Fleury.

Pittsburgh cut the lead in half shortly after the Versteeg goal as Crosby won a faceoff back to defenseman Olli Maatta, who passed back to defenseman Kris Letang at the point.

Letang wound up and fired a bomb of a slapshot past Ward. Each team had a couple more chances in the period, including breakaways

by Jordan Staal for the Canes and Phil Kessel for the Penguins, but the Canes headed to the

to be a contender on the national scale yet. A 94-74 home win over Indiana was impressive, but neutral site losses to Kentucky and Utah were missed opportunities.

With three warm-up games against the ACC’s bottom-feeders, Duke will have to build its resume from here on out against what is perhaps the toughest remaining schedule in the country.

Earlier in the season, an argument could have been made that No. 13 Virginia (12-3, 1-2) was the team to beat, but losses to Virginia

locker room up by a goal.

Pittsburgh wasted little time tying things up in the third, as forward Chris Kunitz buried Sidney Crosby’s feed from behind the net top shelf to make it a 2-2 game. The Canes played too loose defensively in the third period, but Ward was sharp when he needed to be as the game headed to overtime.

The overtime period was the usual 3-on-3 madness, with odd-man rushes and chances going both ways, but the Canes held Pittsburgh off until their power play was able to go to work and finish it off with Skinner’s goal.

The Canes will next head to St. Louis Thursday night to take on the Blues.

Tech and Georgia Tech have raised serious questions. You can’t forget that they do have the ACC’s most impressive win, an 86-75 drumming of No. 6 Villanova, but they have to build back up to that high following these recent losses.

No. 20 Pittsburgh (14-1, 3-0) and No. 21 Louisville (13-3, 2-1) also have a case to make, but they are clearly a tier below the aforementioned teams at this point.

Sorting through all of this, the favorite remains North Carolina. The Tar Heels simply run deeper and are

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Pack seeks first ACC win against FSU Drew Nantais

Former Wolfpack standouts inducted to N.C. Sports Hall of Fame The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame announced its 2016 induction class that included three former NC State members: Susan Yow, Haywood Jeffires and David Fox. As a member of the men’s swimming team, Fox was a three-time All-American and won the 1993 National Championship in the 50 freestyle.

Additionally, he won the ACC Championship in the 50 and 100 freestyle in three consecutive years from 1991-1993 and was named the 1993 Swimmer of the Year. He also won an Olympic gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics as a member of the 4x100 freestyle relay team.

Yow, who played women’s basketball under older sister and head coach Kay Yow, became the first All-American for the women’s basketball program and scored 19.4 points per game, which is second in program history. She is the third Yow sister to earn these honors, after Kay was inducted in 1989 and Deborah was inducted in 2006.

Jeffires, who played wide receiver for the NC State football team, was a four-year letter winner from 1983-1986. He led the team in receiving during his junior year, catching the ball 36 times for 542 yards and six touchdowns. In the NFL, he was drafted in the first round by the Houston Oilers in 1987. He spent 10 years in the NFL and was selected to three Pro Bowls.

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Kemp, Chavis earn ACC Performer of the Week honors Junior Erika Kemp was named the ACC Women’s Track Performer of the Week and redshirt senior Nicole Chavis earned ACC Co-Women’s Field Performer of the Week. At the BU season opener, Kemp set the record time in the 5,000m, finishing the race in 15:45.46. At the Liberty Kickoff, Chavis won the weight throw with a mark of 67’3.5”, a mark that currently ranks fourth in the country.

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After dropping its first three ACC games, the NC State men’s basketball team looks to right the ship Wednesday night at PNC Arena against t he v isiting Florida State Seminoles.

The Wolfpack (10-6, 0-3 ACC) comes into Wednesday’s matchup looking for answers after a narrow defeat at the hands of Wake Forest. The Seminoles (10-5, 0-3 ACC) find themselves in predicament much like the Pack. The Noles dropped their first three ACC games to Clemson, No. 5 UNC-Chapel Hill and No. 8 Miami (FL) and present a record similar to that of State.

The Seminoles’ most recent outing came on Saturday in Coral Gables, Florida where they were decimated by No. 8 Miami (FL) 72-59. Florida State shot 35.4 percent from the field against the Canes, well below its season average of 45.7 percent.

The rea l head scratcher from the loss came in the Noles’ three-point shooting performance. The Seminoles shot 2 for 19 from three (10.5 percent). That is an atrocious number, even for a college team. Albeit Florida State’s season average from beyond the arc is only 31.5 percent, but it seems the Noles tend to rely on the deep ball to provide a majority of their offensive production.

Leading scorers and freshmen Dwayne Bacon and Malik

Beasley provide a good bulk of the Seminole offense as they average a combined 33.4 points per game between the two. Sophomore Xavier Rathan-Mayes comes in averaging 12.2 points per game, but the Scarborough, Ontario native has raw offensive potential as evidenced in his 30-point outburst against the Tar Heels.

The Noles boast a guardheav y lineup in the aforementioned trio of Bacon, Beasley and Rathan-Mayes.

Junior guard Anthony “Cat” Barber and his two-plus seasons of experience at the collegiate level should provide useful against a young, inexperienced Florida State backcourt. Another advantage for the Wolfpack would come in the post as sophomore AbdulMalik Abu should have a good chance to tally yet another double-double this season.

Barber has been quiet ly having a fantastic season as it is hard to get noticed when players such as LSU’s Ben Simmons, Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield and Providence’s Kris Dunn have been attracting all the attention as of late. Still, Barber is the only player in the country to be averaging at least 20 points, five assists and five rebounds per game as he is averaging 22.9, 5.0 and 5.1, respectively.

The Pack finds itself in a must-win situation against the Seminoles as it tries to avoid an 0-4 start to ACC play. State put itself in a position to win in the first three ACC games of the season, it

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Sophomore forward Abdul-Malik Abu makes a move in the paint against the Louisville defense. Abu had his fourth double double in the last five games during the 77-72 loss to Louisville Thursday in PNC Arena.

just fell short in all three. A win against this Florida State team would hopefully provide some momentum for the Pack as its next game comes Saturday against the rival Tar Heels at the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill.

The jury is still out on how good this Wolfpack team can be. It will not be until junior

guard Terry Henderson returns from injury before the Pack’s full potential as a basketball team can be seen. Until then, the Pack needs to keep scratching and clawing for every win it can get as the ACC only gets tougher from here.

UNC is the best team in ACC basketball right now, but not by much Tyler Horner Correspondent

With winter now in full swing, each of the ACC’s 15 basketball programs has entered conference play and has at least a pair of games under its respective belt.

Just four teams remain unbeaten in conference play (North Carolina, Duke, Pittsburgh and Miami) while four are winless (Boston College, Florida State, NC State and Syracuse).

However, none of these teams has played more than four ACC games yet, so plenty of time remains to carve out the pecking order of what is likely college basketball’s highest powered conference.

With that in mind, let’s explore a question

that remains very much up in the air: Who is the ACC’s best team right now? The polls seem to think it’s No. 5 North Carolina (152, 4-0 ACC), but a closer look shows that the answer is not so cut-and-dry.

Surprisingly, it has been No. 8 Miami (13-1, 2-0), a team that opened the season unranked, that has been the most balanced on both sides of the ball. Led by senior guard Sheldon McClellan, the Hurricanes have been highly efficient this season at the offensive end, ranking among the country’s top 10 in two-point percentage and free throw shooting.

Despite cooling off dramatically from behind the arc in its two ACC games — 18.4 percent compared to 37.2 on the season — Miami has managed 13-point victories in both games

through stout defense, forcing turnovers on nearly one of four possessions and holding opponents to an effective field goal percentage of 37.6, ranking first in the conference by an impressive five-point margin.

The Hurricanes have not skated by against weak competition either, with wins over Utah, Butler, Florida and ACC opponents Syracuse and Florida State. Their lone loss came on a buzzer-beater to Northeastern.

The ACC team with the most offensive firepower is likely North Carolina, who ranks first in the country in adjusted efficiency despite playing six games without Marcus Paige. The senior point guard is averaging 15.1 points and 4.1 assists while turning the ball over on just 6.9 percent of personal possessions, while

the average for a point guard usually lies much closer to 20 or 25 percent.

The drivers of the Tar Heels offense are truly the post-players, however. Forwards Brice Johnson and Isaiah Hicks both excel at crashing the offensive glass and shoot 64 and 70 percent from the field, respectively. Putting these bigs at the free throw line does little to slow them down, as both shoot 80 percent from the stripe.

Johnson has been equally dominant at the other end, where he grabs rebounds at the seventh highest rate in the nation and totals a respectable 1.1 blocks per game. The junior

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Hurricanes win overtime thriller over Penguins Andrew Schnittker Correspondent

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Jay McClement and goalie Cam Ward stop a great attempted shot by a Penguin center Malkin.

Ward had 23 saves and gave up two goals. The Carolina Hurricanes squeezed out a narrow victory in overtime 3-2 against the Pittsburgh Penguins at PNC Arena on Jan. 12.

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The Carolina Hurricanes have picked up where they left off in December. After forward Jeff Skinner’s overtime power play goal gave them a 3-2 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins at PNC Arena Tuesday night, the team has compiled a 3-1-2 record to start January, winning three straight games and giving them points in five out of the six.

While the Canes would have liked to finish off the game in regulation after having a 2-0 lead in the second period, they grabbed a big win, moving to 19-18-7 on the season to hold a winning record for the first time since the end of the 2013-14 season and move within two points of a wildcard spot in the Eastern Conference.

“We’ve scraped and clawed to get to .500,” team captain and forward Eric Staal said.

“Now, you’ve got to [continue to] climb, and

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After former Penguin and forward Jordan Staal drew a hooking penalty in his own zone in overtime, the Canes struck quickly on the ensuing power play. Forward Elias Lindholm took a pass down low from defenseman Justin Faulk, then zipped a cross crease feed to Skinner, which he buried past Penguins goalkeeper Marc-Andre Fleury to lift Carolina over Pittsburgh (20-16-7). “[Faulk] did a good job up top creating space for us down low,” Skinner said. “[Lindholm] made a great play, a lot of patience; he made a nice pass backdoor. I just put it in there.”

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