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NC State professor launches website about MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in Rocky Mount

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Faculty holds webinar to deepen diversity discussion

IN BRIEF English professor Jason Miller unveiled a website about Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech that he gave in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a few months before he gave the more famous version of the speech in Washington, D.C. The website, First Dream, includes the restored audio of the speech from Nov. 27, 1962, at a high school gymnasium in Rocky Mount, a brief history of King, photographs, personal letters and an annotated speech transcript. Miller launched the website Friday at the Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences in Rocky Mount. While researching “Origins of the Dream,” his book exploring similarities between King’s speeches and the poetry of Langston Hughes, Miller discovered the recording.

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Saturday afternoon.

Entering the game, the Wolfpack (10-8, 0-5 ACC) looked to right the ship in arguably one of the toughest places to play in all of college basketball. But the Tar Heels (16-2, 5-0 ACC) had other things in mind as they moved to start 5-0 in conference play for the first time under head coach Roy Williams.

“First of all, we’re disappointed,” NC State

Over 60 faculty members from NC State on Friday attended the second in a series of webinars designed to promote conversations about race and diversity within the university administration. This webinar was titled “Racial Climate on Campus: A Rapid Response Webinar” and focused on how the university should respond to racial incidents on campus to create a climate of social justice.

Justine Hollingshead, chair of University Diversity Advisory Committee within the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, said in an email that the town hall last week was evidence that conversations like this need to be had on campus.

“This is definitely an issue that is of importance to many faculty, staff, administrators and students on campus,” Hollingshead said. “This was evidenced by the turnout at the Student Government Town Hall last week and other events on campus.”

The webinar was narrated by the Rev. Jamie Washington, who is considered an expert on furthering diversity on campuses around the country. While the strategies discussed and the problems themselves were not new information to those in attendance, Hollingshead said they “serve as a good refresher” going into a new semester.

“There seems to be a renewed sense of need to engage more in dialogue and be more aware about issues impacting the racial climate on campus,” Hollingshead said.

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Sophomore forward Abdul-Malik Abu goes for a layup Saturday in the Smith Center. Abu shot 100 percent from the free-throw line and scored his 10th double-double of the season. The Wolfpack suffered a 67-55 loss marking its fifth-consecutive conference loss.

NC State drops close game to Tar Heels Drew Nantais & Daniel Lacy Sports Editors

The Technician is looking for designers, writers, copy editors, photographers, videographers and cartoonists to help produce NC State’s student-run newspaper.

No experience is necessary. There will be an interest meeting for students looking to join or learn more about the opportunity tonight at 6:30 p.m. Candy will be provided.

Despite the raucous Tar Heel fans, the air in the Smith Center hung thick with disappointment for those Wolfpack fans brave enough to make the trek from Raleigh to Chapel Hill. A surprising first-half performance proved futile as the Wolfpack dropped its fifth-straight ACC game, falling to the No. 5 North Carolina Tar Heels 67-55

Threat of avian flu over, but caution continues

Clash of Carolinas attracts hundreds of gamers

The ban on public bird shows and sales has been lifted because the threat of the spread of avian flu has decreased. However, the threat of the outbreak will never end, according to state and industry officials. This means that some of the measures adopted within the past few months will become common practice to protect North Carolina’s $5 billion poultry-growing industry.

The deadly strain of the flu has not been seen since June, but government and industry officials are still keeping an eye out for another outbreak. Last month, officials from the poultry industry and universities held an emergency response exercise to walk through the first 72 hours of a potential outbreak.

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This weekend 425 gamers and nearly 1,000 attendees participated in a two-day long Clash of the Carolinas eSports event in Talley Student Union. The event ran on Saturday and Sunday and featured tournaments from 14 different teams in Counter-Strike: Global Offense, Hearthstone, League of Legends and Super Mario Smash Brothers.

The purpose of the event was to raise money for Operation Supply Drop, a charity organization dedicated to providing video games to soldiers abroad and at home. Operation Supply Drop was unable to comment as of press time about how much money was raised from the event, although that information will be available in a week on its website.

“We thought the event was a great way to bring veterans and civilians together to game,” said Ray Whitaker, the chief operating officer from Operation Supply Drop.

Seventeen students represented NC State in the Clash

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Tyler Jania, a freshman studying Exploratory Studies, and Andrew Lamb, a junior studying business administration, participate in the second day Clash of the Carolinas in Talley Ballroom on Sunday. Jania and Lamb are both part of the competitive Wolfpack Counter Strike: Global Offense (CS:GO) team that made it to the final rounds against the team from Appalachian State. The Wolfpack CS:GO team entered the second day of competition undefeated and won the semi-final round, 21-15.

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Roads can wreak havoc on the environment, according to Nick Haddad, professor of applied ecology at NC State. Haddad said people need to consider the costs to the environment, as well as the benefits to people, when planning and designing road paths because of the serious environmental degradation that is correlated with them.

“Roads can be designed or routed better for wildlife and nature,”

Haddad said. “One way to do that is to put roads where there is the lowest diversity of plants and animals. So, the way to do that is to avoid places like tropical forests that are immensely diverse, have huge benefits from those ecosystems to people not just in seeing them, but in cleaner air cleaner water and other ways.”

The land affected by roads and the area that surrounds them around the world nearly doubles the forested area of the Amazon, according to Haddad.

One way that people can make

“Roads can be designed to have lower impacts on plants and animals.”

- Nick Haddad, professor of applied ecology

roads better is to restore the nature that is directly next to the road. Roads can be designed in ways that will have less negative impacts on the environment, Haddad said. Some road place-

ments promote erosion and other natural degrading forces, but there are places where this would happen less.

“Roads can be designed to have lower impacts on plants and animals, and so roads can be designed to promote the populations of plants and animals by restoring along the road, so then animals can move up and down the roads or by creating passes under or over roads,” Haddad said.

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POLICE BLOTTER January 15 12:17 AM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Dan Allen Dr/Thurman Dr A student was issued a citation for a Seatbelt violation.

1:57 AM | MEDICAL ASSIST Bragaw Hall University Police and Wake Co EMS 8 responded to a call for medical assistance needed for a non-student. It was determined that everything was okay.

12:21 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Hunt Library Student reported feeling uncomfortable with conversation with unknown person.

1:05 PM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Spring Hill House Staff member reported graffiti. Facilities was notified for cleanup.

3:02 PM | INFORMATION UNVERSITY Off Campus Student reported camera equipment stolen from vehicle.

6:39 PM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Gorman St/Ligon St Non-student was cited for expired registration and inspection.

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head coach Mark Gottfried said. “But at the same I’m really proud. I thought our kids gave a great effort.”

Gottfried opted to start sophomore Cody Martin over his twin brother Caleb, which looked like much of a head scratcher until tipoff.

The Pack jumped out of the gate firing on all cylinders, grabbing rebounds, shooting efficiently and playing lockdown defense.

“There’s a lot of reasons for us to come in here and not play hard,” Gottfried sa id. “We’ve lost some games, guys can be down, but North Carolina’s a really, really good basketball team.”

Despite the Heels’ lofty ranking and unblemished conference record, the one matchup that favored the Wolfpack heading into Saturday’s game was the guard play. Junior Anthony “Cat” Barber is arguably one of the nation’s top guards, and aside from UNC senior

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Roads are dangerous for animals to cross because of collisions with vehicles.

Roads also isolate animals and cause them to stay far away from the road, reducing diversity, according to Haddad.

“Corridors sever wild nature, and they sever it in the sense that they cut off pathways for wildlife to move across road and in other ways,” Haddad said. “And so all of a sudden they create barriers to animals and plants that were not there before.”

Population will also affect the degradation of the environment, according to Haddad.

“Our population is going to get bigger and bigger in North Carolina, and so we

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7:30 PM | FIRE ALARM Wolf Village Apts Officers responded to alarm caused by cooking.

10:24 PM | DRUG VIOLATION Wolf Village Apts Officer located two students in vehicle. One student was cited for possession of marijuana. Both stucdents were issued referrals.

10:27 PM | DRUG VIOLATION Wood Hall Student was cited and referred for possession of marijuana.

10:28 PM | DRUG VIOLATION Wolf Village Apts Two students were cited and referred for possession of marijuana. Two more students were referred for drug violations.

11:20 PM | ALCOHOL VIOLATION Wood Hall Student was referred for Underage Alcohol violation.

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ash Mathradas, a sophomore studying business management, and Ahmed Said Al Mahrooqi, a sophomore studying computer science, prepare the ingredients for an Omani dish while Mauricio Ivan Carrillo, a sophomore studying accounting, helps them out. Mathradas and Said Al Mahrooqi are Omani International students here at NC State, and Carrillo is an American. Mathradas, Said Al Mahrooqi and Carrillo are part of the Global Village program in Alexander Hall. Alexander Hall predominantly houses a large community of international students along with American students interested in meeting and learning about different cultures and people from all over the world. Alexander Hall has a well-equipped kitchen in its basement where people can easily prepare their native cuisines and share them with others.

Marcus Paige, the Heels could not match up well with the Newport News, Virginia, native. Paige had a rough outing, shooting 1 of 9 from the floor and only scoring three points. “[Paige] has been amazing against us every time we’ve played him,” Gottfried said. “That was a big thing for us, not to let Paige score, and we accomplished that.”

Sophomore Abdul-Malik Abu continued his fantastic play this season as he came out and was aggressive on both ends of the f loor. Grabbing offensive rebounds and scoring in the paint, Abu helped spark the Pack to one of its best halves of basketball in recent memory.

Other key players for the Pack stepped up, such as freshman Maverick Rowan.

Although a talented shooter, Rowan has a tendency be a volume shooter to go along with poor shot selection. So when he scored five quick points on 2-of-3 shooting, the efficiency he displayed from the f loor was a pleasant surprise to say the least.

The Heels attempted 11 free throws before the Pack shot its f irst at the 2 :31 mark of the first half.

Despite several turnovers as a result of lazy play, the Pack entered the half tied with the Tar Heels af ter leading for most of the first half. Barber led all scorers at the break with nine points on 4-of-8 shooting.

T he Pack opened t he second ha lf going rig ht back to what was working in the first half: Abu. But when junior BeeJay Anya, along with Abu, got into foul trouble early in the second half, the Tar Heels took advantage. The Heels put together a 16-4 run to go ahead for good midway through the second half.

North Carolina’s Kennedy Meek s dom i nated the low post in the second half in the absence of Abu and Anya. Eventually, Abu fouled out in the game’s last minute after recording yet another double-double on the season, scoring 12 points and grabbing 14 rebounds.

“We have to f igure out how we can be the most

need to head off the impending devastation that the additional number of people, millions more people, can have on our environment,” Haddad said.

Haddad said we should all be thinking about ways to best preserve our environment.

“A ny st udent s sit t i ng here at NC State University or who grew up in North C a rol i n a c a n s e e how quickly North Carolina cities are spreading across the landscape, how forests are converted to fields or cities, how wetlands are lost,” Haddad said. “And so if we want to maintain that one thing everybody loves about the environment, which is t he beaut if u l mounta in environments, the beautiful coast, then that will be done through having fewer roads or better designed roads,” Haddad said.

Gabby Agnello, a freshman studying animal science, said she thinks roads make humans’ lives easier but pose a long-tern threat to the environment and wildlife.

“I think that, for now, the benefits outweigh the costs, but as we continue building them, that will change,” Agnello said.

Agnello said she believes it is important to design roads in a way that will be less harmful to the environment and wildlife. People need to take the environment into better consideration, especially when the land is prone to erosion, according to Agnello.

“Nature has ex isted a certain way for a very long time, and our thoughtless ex pa nsion may d isr upt nature’s balance,” Agnello said.

successful,” Gottfried said.

“Abu’s starting to emerge.

We’re watching him blossom like a flower right now; I mean he’s had doubledoubles just about every night now.”

The Achilles’ heel and the one aspect State just could not account for was the Tar Heels’ depth. Williams used 11 different players in Saturday’s game compared to the Wolfpack’s seven. The Pack seemed out of breath in the second half as a majorit y of its players had little rest throughout the game. The Heels, on the other hand, were able to rest players and still maintain a competitive edge at the same time.

The Wolfpack committed 18 turnovers compared to the Tar Heels nine. The Heels also had 17 points off those turnovers.

“We’re going to get better,” Gottfried said. “We pl aye d a re a l l y, re a l l y good team today. I’ve been around a long time. I was an assistant coach on a national championship team, and [North Carolina’s] got every ingredient they need

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For John Miller IV, a graduate assistant to DASA, there was a new message in the webinar, that in order to progress on the field of diversity, the university as a whole has to admit that discrimination exists.

“I think that the new aspect of the strategies being discussed in the webinar is that we have to formally admit that discrimination and ignorance lives here,” Miller said in an email. “I think that with the current landscape of social justice in America, NC State is taking the collective opportunity to better ‘reach across the aisle’ and authentically engage in difficult conversations (and actions) around race, gender, sexual orientation, religious identity, ethnicity, physical/ mental ability and any other identity that has been minoritized by society that have been looming within our campus culture to make sure that all members of the Pack are safe

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Sophomore guard Cody Martin drives to the lane past a defender Saturday in the Smith Center. Martin shot 57 percent from the field and scored 10 points. The Wolfpack suffered a 67-55 loss, marking its fifth-consecutive conference lost.

right there, they’re good.”

The Wolfpack heads north to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tuesday to take on the No. 22 Pitt Panthers, hoping

its luck changes. The team then returns to PNC Arena Saturday for a showdown with the No. 9 Duke Blue Devils.

to learn, grow and persist.”

The webinar used examples such as the University of Missouri, which faced widespread student protests when the administration failed to address the rampant racial incidents on campus; Yale, where a campus-wide email advising cultural sensitivity leading up to Halloween generated heated dialogue between students and faculty; UCLA where a fraternity hosted a “Kanye West” themed mixer in which students dressed in black-face and portrayed other racial stereotypes; and the University of Southern California, where the Student Body President was referred to as an “Indian piece of s--- to gauge the discussion.

The Rev. Washington referred to these examples not to say that any one campus is individually “bad” but to show that any campus is subject to this.

“Some of what is up for campuses is, ‘we just don’t want to be in the paper, we don’t want to be the next Twitter [trend], we just don’t want to go viral,’” Washington said. Washington’s

goal was to show how campuses could prepare and how to “engage to minimize these events” to create a better environment.

Each of these incidents has parallels on NC State’s campus, and for administrators it could seem as unpredictable as a natural disaster.

“What I would take from that is that it’s an urgent situation and campuses need to be engaging in dialogue and coming up with ways to respond,” Hollingshead said. “Any campus could end up like Missouri.”

Another webinar is scheduled for Jan. 26 in the Washington Sankofa room of Witherspoon Student Center to focus on specific ways that staff can respond to challenges. This event will be open to student leaders and the student population, in addition to staff members.

“What I hope for NC State is that we can find more ways to change the climate so that everyone feels welcome, safe, and comfortable contributing as a member of this great community,” Hollingshead said.

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Habitat for Humanity CEO visits NC State Thiago De Souza Correspondent

Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, revisited his home state of North Carolina Thursday evening at Hunt Library.

Habitat for Humanity is a Christian housing nonprofit funded by millions of donors and ranked as the No. 1 social services nonprofit brand in the United States by the Harris Poll.

Reckford pointed out his blue and red tie and jokingly opened the speech by saying, “Thank you for welcoming a Tar Heel,” being a Chapel Hill native. He spoke about his encouragement of healthy competition between the Habitat for Humanity chapters of NC State and Chapel Hill. NC State’s chapter was founded in 1991.

Howe ver, t he big ge s t priority of the nonprof it hasn’t been competition, but compa ssionate collaboration. Beyond the Tar Heel / Wol f pack rema rk, Reckford joked that he has seen the organization bring Democrats and Republicans

together to build houses. He noted that they have always been radical about inclusion.

“God is our center, not our border,” Reckford said.

“Decide who you are before what you do.” The “who” for Habitat is a Christian ministry, f irst and foremost, and the “what” is building homes for anyone in need.

Its mission statement is “Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.”

Reckford cleared the air about some common misconceptions people have about Habitat for Humanit y. T he nonprof it wa s not founded nor is run by Jimmy Carter, though the president has been heavily involved in the organization. Secondly, it doesn’t just give houses away to people. Families do have to pay for the house in the end, but Habitat for Humanity makes it a point to ensure the mortgages and loans are affordable.

There are two kinds of problems in this world and

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Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, speaks at Hunt Library in the Duke Energy Hall on Thursday. Reckford’s speech focused on the challenges involved with leading an international nonprofit organization. Reckford grew up in North Carolina, graduating from the UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in political sciences. Reckford also graduated from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with a degree in business administration with a concentration in public and nonprofit management.

two kinds of opportunities, Reckford said. A current problem is one that causes immediate discomfort, and an anticipated problem is one that causes impending discomfort. Missing a current opportunity is losing something that was immediately within our grasp,

and missing an anticipated opportunity is losing something that could have been possible.

With all of these problems and opportunities, Reckford said, “It is unacceptable to stay still. If you’re not unhappy with the status quo, it’s hard to get people

to change.”

Cooperative collaboration and active hard work are good sentiments, but a big criticism that Reckford and the nonprofit constantly deal with is the accusation of not having enough data. His rebuttal was that that isn’t t y pically what

draws in the general public and inspires them to make changes. However, for the evening’s presentation, he did give some numbers and show charts.

Some examples of data he provided included how houses with weatherization drop utility costs anywhere between 25 to 40 percent.

Nearly 90 percent of the work Habitat for Humanity does is outside of the U.S., but it is current ly work ing w it h 270 cities doing neighborhood revitalization. W hen Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992, the only two houses that stood in a Floridian neighborhood were built

by Habitat for Humanity.

“Hearts aren’t changed by data, they’re changed by stories. What’s the issue that grabs your heart?” asked Reckford while retelling heartwarming stories f rom his experiences in Taiwan, Bolivia and Nepal.

“It’s all about making it personal,” Reckford said regarding the nonprofit’s success. “Never doubt the ripples of impact you can make.”

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Clash of the Carolinas drew nearly 1,000 attendees and 500 participants to Talley Student Union this weekend.

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of the Carolinas eSports tournament. NC State came in first in Super Smash Bros. singles and crews. NC State came in second in League of Legends and University of South Carolina came in first.

Appalachian State University came in first for CounterStrike: Global Offense, while NC State came in second. In Hearthstone, UNC-Chapel Hill finished first. NC State finished second.

This was the first time that an eSports event of this scale was held at NC State, and it

likely will not be the last.

“We are definitely having this event again, and it’s going to be a lot bigger and a lot better,” said John Ledford, senior studying materials science and engineering, president of the NC State eSports club, and one of the event organizers. “This was the first eSports event here. There were issues, but it’s only going to get better from here. I haven’t decided if I want to have the next one in August or January.”

The event faced some challenges at the start, with some of the tournaments getting delayed by one hour or two.

Another challenge faced

was setting up a live Twitch stream, which Ledford said took more setup than they had previously realized.

Although the event featured competitive teams, attendees could bring their own computers to the event and play games there. Kyle Graves, a senior studying science education, came to support his friend.

“My friend Evin Clapper is playing in a League of Legends tournament, so I came to support him and play some games and have fun,” Graves said. “I am really glad that these events are more popular and more prevalent around campus.

Connor McKinney, a junior studying biological sciences, and Deborah Mitchell, a sophomore studying biological sciences, hand out business cards and candy to participants on the first day of the Clash of the Carolinas sporting tournament.

“I’m not actually advertising anything except for myself. I’m just trying to find people to play video games with. The hamster has the appeal of, ‘Hey, I’m not creepy, just take the card.’ I’m really hoping to meet a lot of people to play with, and this seems like the best place to meet people who play these types of games.”

I like being around people who enjoy this hobby, and it’s been nice to see it grow over the years.”

Other students, such as Joey Clark, a junior studying aerospace engineering, came to the event to compete and represent NC State. Clark is on NC State’s CounterStrike: Global Offense team.

“It was just very exciting, and for a first-time tournament, it was a great experience,” Clark said. “We made it to the finals and unfortunately lost to App State, but it was a really close game. It was just a great experience overall.”

Clark also talked about

the challenges faced while balancing schoolwork and competing professionally in eSports.

“It can be tough sometimes to balance school work and gaming,” Clark said. “It has been easy so far since it’s early in the semester, so I have been able to play a lot of Counter-Strike to prepare for the tournament. Later in the year when we get more projects or homework in general, we will probably have to skip some practices or practice less often, which is unfortunate. But school is what we came here for.”

Prizes were raff led away during both days of the

event, with some prizes going as high as a $600 gaming chair. Smaller prizes included motherboards and various computer parts.

Attendees of the event also received one of two types of Loot Crates available.

One Loot Crate featured a Fallout 4 bobble-head figurine and smaller Blizzard character themed Cute But Deadly vinyl figurines. The other Loot Crate was Marvel themed, and featured a large mug shaped like one of the Marvel villains. One thousand Loot Crates total were donated for the event.

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Anti-money laundering finally targets real estate market F

or the first time in history, the federal government will require real estate companies to revea l the identification information of buyers who pu rchase luxuZiyi Mai r y properStaff Columnist ties in t he United States. According to The New York Times, the Treasury Department announced last Wednesday that it would begin tracking and identifying secret buyers of high-end real estate.

The new rule is the attempt of the federal government to crack dow n on the increasingly widespread money laundering in the real estate market.

Based on current laws, it is

housing market, creating an artificial boom and attracting more hot money to f low into those areas. However, the real estate market is one of the markets where bubbles easily proliferate and burst. If secret buyers use real estate markets as a way of laundering money, the velocity of money in the market will be high. They could use cash to purchase a luxury property at first, and wait for a couple years then sell it. In this way, t he money immediately becomes clean, and t he economic crime of money laundering will be impossible to track.

A housing market with a bubble growing fast is neither a contributor for a stable macroeconomy, nor a sign of economic justice.

Canada’s economy in recent

“However, the real estate market is one of the markets where bubbles easily proliferate and get burst.” legal in the U.S. to purchase luxury properties without revealing buyers’ names.

Many secret buyers open shell companies first and then use them to purchase high-end properties as a way to cover their real identity. The New York Times initiated an investigation and found that almost half of sales more than $5 million were to shell companies since 2000. They published a map showing locations of the density of luxury properties sales around the nation. New York City and Miami, which are among the largest markets of highend properties, will become the first places where the new federal rule will be enforced.

The new policy may create ripples in the real estate markets that have benefited tremendously from secret buyers around the world who pay cash through shell companies. As the pace of economic expansion gets faster, the real estate markets and construction also experience a fast-growing boom. Many metropolitan areas have at least witnessed strong grow th of new home construction and prices from last year, if not completely recovered from the great recession. Clear Capital, as real estate data provide, shows that the Bay area in California, Washington, D.C., New York City and Florida have the nation’s highest media n of housing sa le prices. The New York Times investigation indicated that those areas are the favorite places for secret buyers to settle enormous amounts of money.

More or less, money from secret foreign buyers nevertheless has pushed up the median prices in the

years is a case in point. According to Financial Times, foreign buyers drove up Canada’s housing market signif icantly in the past couple years, especially in the Vancouver and Toronto areas. The average prices of residential properties in Vancouver rose 11.23 percent from 2014 to 2015.

The price of a detached home reached C$ 1.4 million, thanks to foreign buyers and immigrants from China and Hong Kong. Yet the booming housing market does not help Canada’s economy. Wit h decl i ning prices of oil and other com mod it ie s , C a nad a’s economy experienced modest contraction during the first half of 2015.

T he Ba n k of C a nad a closely monitored the housing market and household debt level. It may intervene with monetary policy in the market if necessary. In a market with too many loopholes, economic policy is not enough. Monetary policy might curb the rising house debt issue, ending easy credit. But if there are too many secret foreign buyers, economic policy will not stop them from investing because foreign buyers are abundant with cash and liquidity.

This is why the U.S. Treasury Department’s new regulation is on the right track with easing the housing market. Under the Patriot Act, the Treasury Department has the authority to scrutinize real estate buyers and require companies to disclose information. But in the past, the Treasury faced strong opposition from lobbying to issues such as regulation. Now it has to take a bold step ahead in fighting economic crime.

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n his 2016 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama posed the question, “... how can we make our politics reflect what’s best in us and not what’s worst?” Thinking about Chase this question has only led McLamb me to the conclusion that Guest Columnist politics cannot bring out the best in us, only the worst.

Consider political conversations you may have had with a friend who disagreed with your positions. In such conversations, disagreements tend to spark conflict and frustration. This is the symptom of hyperpartisanship that plagues politics.

This hyper-partisanship is caused in part by the ability of an opinion to become a law that then must be enforced. For example, minorities in New York are being targeted and arrested on subways for manspreading, the most ridiculous microaggression ever fabricated in my opinion, something that is illegal simply because it makes some people uncomfortable. Somehow, poor subway etiquette is now a legal offense. As a result, predominantly minority men are being assaulted and essentially kidnapped because their knees are too far apart while sitting on New York subways. The name of this microaggression — manspreading — also seems to imply that only men are capable of taking up too much space on the subway, which seems discriminatory as evidenced by the arrests.

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IN YOUR WORDS What should the requirements be for voting?

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“The government should allow people to vote through an electronic system, such as voting online, to ensure that the citizens that are overseas can vote as well.”

“I believe that people should take an unbiased class about politics and the economy to fully develop an educational opinion of the candidates and what the voter wants out of said candidates.”

Joanna Copio freshman, zoology

“I think that everyone should be allowed to vote regardless of party affiliation and such, and there should not be closed primaries. However, I also think that if you are going to vote, it is your duty to be an informed voter. If not, you are almost better off not voting.”

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“I believe that the only requirements to vote is to be a documented citizen and of age. Nothing else should affect one’s ability to voice their opinion. “ Shelsey Hall freshman, political science,

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he continues to speak about the subject after the Supreme Court ruling. Also, when we consider the willingness of all 2016 presidential candidates to control the economy with government power, it can be seen that they think they can dictate how we should spend our money, which is a particular point of contention for many people. Between Donald Trump the corporatist, Bernie Sanders the socialist and Hillary Clinton, who is currently being investigated by the FBI, there are no good options for president if we’re looking for an honest, trustworthy candidate who would work to enhance personal liberties once elected. To be honest, we could never hope to find such a candidate.

So this leaves us with the daunting task of electing the lesser of two evils into the most powerful office in the world. What’s worse is that once you’ve placed this lesser evil in the White House, our entire nation, and even the world, will be subject to its will. This, again, is why politics brings out the worst in us. Not only are there no good choices, but your vote is presumably cast so that the policies you support may be forced upon others who may disagree with you. When you think about it, that’s what a vote is. This is essentially the source of hyper-partisanship. So we’re all at each other’s throats, and I don’t have a solution.

It’s just good to be aware.

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ment in which feelings and opinions are allowed to hold compulsory power over our lives. New ideas don’t just get debated; people on all sides of the issues are often subjected to personal attacks, slander, libel, etc. It gets extremely personal when there’s really no need for any of that.

For instance, once I was making an argument against the welfare state, saying that it was being abused by the government to create a welfare-dependent underclass. My opponent replied by saying I came from a wealthy family and had no right to an opinion on the subject. This is an example of a personal attack in the form of an attempted character assassination with the goal of invalidating my assertion via privilege. It certainly didn’t serve to refute anything nor was it really an argument itself in that context. There’s a lot of money tied up in welfare, so naturally, there’s also a lot of hostility and anger involved in debates on the subject.

This kind of attitude is toxic to societal growth. Instead of having the chance to debate a topic so that people may voluntarily and peacefully change their actions over time, ideas are thrust onto society in the form of compulsory laws with the threat of arrest if people don’t comply. The negative implications of this are compounded by the willingness of elected officials to use laws to dictate social behavior.

Ted Cruz would be content with a ban on gay marriage, though I’m not sure why

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“I believe that the only voting requirement should be that the person is a citizen and that they are 18 years old.”

ost people know Zooey Deschanel, who plays Jess on “New Girl” and Summer in “500 Days of Summer,” as being the queen of quirkiness. Between her swing dresses and signature, mile-long bangs, she pretty much deserves to be her own adjective.

Iman “Is this outfit OK?” “Yes, it’s so ZD.” You Usmani see? She’s an important figure. However, Correspondent come halfway through the current season of “New Girl,” Deschanel will be replaced by … Megan Fox. Yes, it’s true. No, I wouldn’t lie to you about something so serious. The show that was built around the quirkiness of one woman in a loft full of men will be replaced by a robot-fighting, sex symbol like Fox. How does that add up?

Apparently, Jess’ character is taken away from the loft due to jury duty (while Deschanel is on maternity leave) so she sublets her spot in the loft to Fox’s character, Reagan. That’s all well and good, but Fox is not exactly the first actress people think of when they think of comedies.

Even if you think she is the funniest actress in all of the galaxy, how could she “replace” the kind of humor that Deschanel brings to the show? This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night.

The other members of the show put some of my worries at ease. According to the executive producer and creator of the show, Liz Meriwether, Fox is hilarious. “It’s insane to me that such a gorgeous person can be so funny, but I guess we just all have to accept it,” Meriwether said. Cast members, like Max Greenfield, displayed their excitement with tweets about having Fox on the show. Even Deschanel gave her stamp of approval with her tweet: “The lovely and amazing @meganfox will be on #NewGirl season 5!” If that isn’t love in the 21st century, then I don’t know what is.

The show has thrown us a curveball. Even with all the changes, fans can’t be angry. Deschanel just wants some time with her new baby. You go, girl. Godspeed. And who knows? Maybe Fox is funny, has great chemistry with the other cast members and will manage to knock my socks off. I know that’s a tall order, but I believe in her.

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‘From Terror to Triumph’: an alumna’s story Samuel Griffin Correspondent

Tensie J. Taylor is a motivational speaker, an educator, an author and a red carpet host, but before she was any of that, she was a student at NC State, and before she was that, she was just a shy child who was bullied mercilessly because of her big eyes.

Taylor grew up in Louisburg, North Carolina. From elementary school all the way throughout high school, Taylor was bullied.

She had food thrown at her, names called at her and even more extreme examples of bullying such as someone trying to break her arm and someone dangling her from the roof of a two-story building.

Despite the hardships of her early life, Taylor has found several successful careers as an adult and decided in April of 2015 that she wanted to share her journey with others. She wrote a book, “BULLIED, From Terror to Triumph,” that tells her story in 24 chapters.

The book follows Taylor from her early childhood and tells how she overcame bullying, depression and a suicide attempt at 16.

As an adult and graduate, Taylor works for the University of Southern California’s Black Alumni Association. As the association’s assistant director, Taylor runs a program to help students with their public speaking and works toward raising funds for scholarships. In addition to Taylor’s work in education, she has a second job involving a red carpet and a lot of celebrities.

“I am a red carpet host for an online network, Rich Girl Network, where I go and attend award shows in Hollywood and interview celebrities,” Taylor said.

“I’ve attended the Oscars, Grammys, People’s Choice Awards,

NAACP Image Awards, more than 150 events in Hollywood and have interviewed 300 celebrities.”

Before moving to Los Angeles, Taylor attended NC State, receiving her bachelor’s in communication and a minor in psychology in 2009. She also worked at the university’s Office of Equity and Diversity for several years.

Taylor said her experience at NC State was mostly positive, and on her first day as a freshman, she received a compliment for her large eyes, a feature she had been bullied about as a child.

“She was one of the most enthusiastic people I have ever met,” said Ed Funkhouser, a communication professor at NC State who taught Taylor. “Bright, a hard worker and dedicated to high achievement.

You just knew she was headed for success and probably fame.”

In August of 2012, Taylor moved from North Carolina to California to pursue her master’s degree.

“When I left North Carolina, I told myself that I was going to be involved with any and every opportunity I could,” Taylor said.

“Los Angeles is the city of angels, and anything can happen with celebrities and award shows — you never know who you’ll meet. I stayed true to those words. I networked.

“I met people, got their business cards and followed up. From there, I just started to meet people and network. Before I knew it, people started to know me as well.”

In 2013, one of these people offered Taylor a hosting job at Rich Girl Network, and from there, Taylor began to work at award shows and meet celebrities.

“Just by being polite and following up with people,” Taylor said.

“That’s how I went from North Carolina to Holly wood. Now because I’m on the red carpet a lot, celebrities even know me by

name.”

Taylor said some of these celebrities have been really encouraging and supportive of her cause, with actress Jayne Kennedy Overton and actor and director Carl Anthony Payne being two of such celebrities to endorse her book.

“I used to be very shy because of the bullying and because I’m a very small person, but I had a really strong support system,” Taylor said. “No matter what I faced at school, when I got home, I was safe.”

While she grew up, Taylor said her parents shared stories with her of their childhood, dealing with segregation as African-American children. Hearing what her parents went through and seeing their success as adults inspired her in many ways to stay tough in the face of adversity.

“They told me keep going. They said, ‘Tensie, if you really want to make a name for yourself, you can’t be shy. Nobody remembers shy people,’” Taylor said. “That’s how I went from being bullied and being an introvert to being extraverted because my parents brought that out of me.”

“BULLIED, From Terror to Triumph” contains several stories from Taylor’s parents about growing up in segregation and the advice they gave her to get through hard times. These stories and others are found in the Thank You chapter of Taylor’s book, a chapter that thanks all of the people who helped and encouraged Taylor throughout her life.

Taylor said her parents also encouraged her as an adult to write about her experiences because she was not the only one. She said that everywhere she went, she heard or was told about someone’s experience with bullying. This, coupled with hearing tragic stories about the effects of bullying on the news,

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Tensie J. Taylor, a 2009 alumna will publish her new book, “BULLIED, From Terror to Triumph,” on Jan. 26. This book is Taylor’s story of being bullied throughout school, her difficulties with depression and a suicide attempt and how she dealt and overcame it all to become the red carpet host, motivational speaker, educator and author she is today.

gave her inspiration to write her story.

“One day, I was on such a roll that I wrote 75 pages,” Taylor said.

“When it’s your story, you don’t have to think about it.”

Taylor said she was amazed at how much she could remember, even to the point where she could remember the outfits she wore in elementary, middle and high school.

“When people realize what I went through and how I came out triumphant, I think it really will

help a lot of people,” Taylor said.

“I also list statistics and resources to help people who are bullied.”

Taylor a lso work s w it h t he Anti-Defamation League and the Too Dope to Bully program, two programs dedicated to stopping bullying. Her book will be available to purchase from Amazon, Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble Jan. 26.

Fountain Dining Hall spices it up with ‘A Taste of Korea’ Emma Cathell Features Editor and Bienvenidos Editor

Tomorrow evening, Fountain Dining Hall will host the themed dinner, “A Taste of Korea.” The evening’s meal will feature many different dishes with Korean roots and inf luences such as ribs marinated with Korean spices, spicy Doenjang soup and grilled corn with Gochujang mayo.

Universit y Dining has done a series of themed meals in the past, including “A Taste of Brazil, Spain, Latin America,” “Oktoberfest” and more, and “A Taste of Korea” is the next of this series.

Steve Lester, evening chef of Fountain Dining Hall, said these themed meals are important for the campus because it is beneficial for students to get a different dining experience when they are at NC State. “[University Dining] likes to do different types of cuisines for the students,” Lester said. “We’re trying to do different f lavors to get kids to try something different and new.”

Lester described Korean food as spicy, flavorful and beautiful, and he said he is especially excited to serve the meal’s Korean wings.

“I’m looking forward to Korean wings, which are really, really delicious,” Lester said. “Now those are fried, and we make a really delicious sauce for it that’s got a little spice to it. All Korean food is really, really good. I love it personally. Out of all the Asian cuisines, I like Korean best.”

Some of tomorrow’s dishes will be spicier, while others will be

toned down with different flavors, according to Lester.

“Koreans work with their own soy sauces, they deal with Gochujang sauce, which is a spicy, chili paste — very, very delicious. You know Japanese food has Sriracha and Korean has Gochujang. That’s a really spicy Korean chili paste.

It’s very, very f lavorful, really super delicious, very, very hot, but of course you bring it down with a lot of other things.”

Another feature of the Korean dinner is the Bibimbap Bowl Bar, in which Lester said many students should enjoy.

“Bibimbap is a very big Korean dish,” Lester said. “It’s many different types of foods, each one has their own f lavor to it … Each one is sautéed differently and has different ingredients in it.”

Not only are themed dinners an enjoyable experience for students to eat, but Lester said they are also fun for the staff to prepare.

“It breaks up the monotony not only for the students but also for us in what we cook,” Lester said.

“It’s good because we have a lot of students working as cooks with us that go to Wake Tech or The Chef ’s Academy in Morrisville. So these kids get the opportunity also to learn about different cuisines that they wouldn’t be doing normally in their own school.”

Lester said the expectations for “A Taste of Korea” are what the themed dinners normally are: for all to go well and for everyone to leave full and happy.

“We just want everything done nice and smooth and for students to be happy; that’s what it’s all

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Chefs of Fountain Dining Hall prepare the food for the “Taste of Korea” dinner tomorrow evening. Each chef has a different task to complete for the special occasion. The themed meals take extra planning and preparation for the University Dining staff. Customers can have a “taste of Korea” at Fountain Dining Hall from 4:30 p.m. –­ 8:30 p.m.

about,” Lester said. “Our staff here — in the front of the house and the back of the house — work very, very hard making sure that everything goes out properly and correctly. We work very hard on keeping the students happy.”

Lester said the University Dining staff is forecasting about 2,000 customers for “A Taste of Korea,” which is “a lot of food.”

Lester said University Dining enjoys themed dinners because it is something different for the

students to try. He said there will be more themed dinners in the future that staff is already discussing and considering.

“Korean food is a beautiful, beaut if u l food,” Lester sa id.

“Japanese was my favorite Asian cuisine, but now Korean is … It’s going to be really good; folks are going to enjoy it.”

DINNER MENU Entrées: Korean ribs, Korean BBQ wings, pork loin with Korean BBQ sauce, Bibimbap Bowl Bar, Bulgogi (Vegan), Japchae Soup: spicy Doenjang soup Sides: rice, grilled corn with Gochujang mayo, carrot and spinach sauté, rice cake station Salads: cucumber kimchi, radish kimchi, pickled peppers

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Meet Scott Vu: scholar, innovator and dancer Maddy Bonnabeaux Correspondent

Scott Vu has a passion for learning, innovating and dancing. Starting in eighth grade, Vu took advanced mathematics and computer programming classes parttime. At age 15, he enrolled as a full-time student at NC State with a triple major in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering.

“From my perspective, I enjoyed it,” Vu said. “I liked learning and trying new things; it was a good opportunity to advance my knowledge. I had a lot of freedom; I didn’t have to worry about bills, cooking or cleaning.”

Vu decided to take a leave of absence to enroll at NC State full time, after earning the highest possible GPA at Broughton High School.

“People prepare for the SAT years in advance; at the time I had one week,” Vu said. “I took all the practice tests that I could. After taking it once, I got accepted to State at the age of 15.”

A rapid learner, Vu became a lab instructor and teaching assistant for a computer programming course during his first semester.

“It was nerve-wracking the first time, but after three semesters it wasn’t bad,” Vu said. “My whole family would come in during the lab time and watch me teach.”

Vu’s mother and aunt also took courses at NC State while he was a student.

Coincidentally, Vu and his mother shared courses with Donald Bitzer, a distinguished research professor.

“They had a bit of a contest between the two of them, but it was friendly competition,”

Bitzer said. “They weren’t in the same section, so they were always curious how the other was doing.”

Vu didn’t know when he enrolled in the computer programming class that Bitzer would become his mentor and friend.

“Bitzer was an inventor, so I went to his office hours one day and asked, ‘How could we create an invisible cloak? ’” Vu said. “At the time, a lot of people thought I was inspired by ‘Harry Potter,’ but I actually hadn’t seen the movie.”

Vu and Bitzer immediately started contemplating the possibilities. After about four hours, they concluded it was too complicated to implement. The easiest trick would be to conceal objects behind mirrors.

“It’s important in some areas, more than just the myster y mov ies,” Bitzer said. “It’d be good for hiding ships, tanks and airplanes from radars. Even our best airplanes that are pretty stealthy can be detected on a satellite from its shadow. You have to make sure it doesn’t cast a shadow.”

According to Bitzer, an invisible cloak would require metamaterials with a negative refractive index over all optical wavelengths.

“It was an innocent question with a lot of useful applications,” Bitzer said. “I thought to myself, ‘this is a young, interested student; let’s get him started.’”

Consequently, Bitzer invited him to work on a genetics research project. Retrospectively, the research stemmed out to become Vu’s new company, RiboWiz Scientific.

According to Vu, RiboWiz’s mission is to successfully

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After starting college earlier than most and finishing with a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at NC State, alumnus Scott Vu (right) is now co-founder and CEO of RiboWiz Scientific. Here, Vu sits with his former professor, inspiration, mentor and friend Donald Bitzer, a distinguished research professor at NC State.

produce difficult-to-make proteins through novel gene manipulation for treatments of cancer, AIDS and various diseases. The science is unprecedented as is the technology, defying the current understanding of protein synthesis.

“I’m taking a science that will have an impact on humanity and make new treatments for diseases,” Vu said.

“My goal is to lower the cost of biologic drugs.”

It’s expensive to make many cancer treatments because the yield is so small; specific treatments can cost up to $1 million per year, according to Bitzer.

Bitzer, similar to Vu, has always been ahead of his time in his research. Regarded as the Father of PLATO,

Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations, Bitzer co-invented the plasma display panel in 1964.

“I can’t wait to get back to the lab all the time,” Bitzer said. “I’d rather sit down and think over an idea or concept than eat. It all takes time and patience for people to have a need and an industry to be able to cater to that need.

Not everyone wants to be a researcher, but after you get it done, it’s all worth it.”

Bitzer has been teaching for more than 60 years. He first taught as a lab instructor in theoretical and applied mechanics when he was a sophomore at the University of Illinois.

“It’s not work for me,” Bitzer said. “It’s all fun.”

Bitzer is one of Vu’s inspi-

rations, as is Tiffany Barnes, associate professor of computer science. Barnes founded Dancing with Wolves, a ballroom dancing club at NC State, and motivated Vu to join. Vu was so inspired by professional ballroom dancers that he became an elite ballroom dancer himself.

Dancing for 12 years, he rose to some of the highest levels of competition.

“I joined when I was taking her computer science class as an undergraduate, which eventually led me to becoming a championship dancer, winning awards at the national level,” Vu said.

“I specialized in Latin ballroom, including cha-cha, rumba, samba, paso doble and jive, but I also danced waltz, tango, quickstep, fox-

trot, swing, etc.”

Also during grad school, Vu joined the “FastTrac” entrepreneurial training program with the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, which provided him with a foundation in business. After earning his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at NC State, Vu became the co-founder and CEO of RiboWiz Scientific last October.

“NC State’s ‘Think and Do’ ethic has inspired me to become an inventor, innovator and entrepreneur,” Vu said.

“My vision is to make a significant and lasting impact in biotechnology and medicine, and NC State has empowered me to take the first step in this journey.”

NC Chinese Lantern Festival lights up the night

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Left: The Chinese dragon sits over the pond at the Booth Amphitheatre in Cary as one of more than 20 displays at the North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival on Friday. The displays consisted of hundreds of parts and thousands of LED lights.

Above: The North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival starts with a walkway of dozens of lit “trees” before continuing to more than 20 displays at the Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. Patrons entered the exhibit through this lit walkway to the amphitheater, which they walked around and down to the water for the displays.

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Above: Two pandas sit in front of a mushroom as part of the North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival in Cary. The festival started Nov. 28 and was extended to Sunday, held at the Booth Amphitheatre in Cary.

Right: The center of the North Carolina Lantern Festival focuses on the Christmas spirit separating the Chinese towers from the Christmas trees and Santas. The center display was surrounded by various displays of animals and plants.

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Grinnage, who declared for the NFL draft, was underutilized in the offense considering his hulking 6-foot5, 267-pound frame, speed and athleticism. Ultimately, Samuels’ great year makes this grade better than it really should be.

Offensive Line Grade: B+ The offensive line proved

to be one of the Wolfpack’s strengths this season despite several injuries. The big uglies led the way for a successful Wolfpack rushing attack that put up more than 200 yards a game on the ground.

While the group did give up 39 sacks — only a few teams in the country gave up more — many of those can be attributed to having a scrambling quarterback who refuses to give up on a play. Few of those were because of bad protection,

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percent against the Pack, and the Cardinals hit 50.8 percent of their shots. NC State played a very strong transition game, as it got 30 points off turnovers against Duke and 17 against Louisville.

The victory over the Blue Devils was the Wolfpack’s first win at Duke in almost 20 years (including men’s games); its last road victory over the Blue Devils was an 80-74 win at Cameron Indoor Stadium Feb. 2, 1996.

NC State got off to a strong start in its win over Duke. Mathurin

but rather coverage sacks as receivers weren’t open down the field. Senior Joe Thuney was named a firstteam All-American by USA Today, becoming the first NC State offensive lineman since Jim Richter in 1979 to earn All-American honors.

Offensive line coach Mike Uremovich’s work with his players didn’t go unnoticed, as he was recently hired as the offensive coordinator at Northern Illinois University.

hit an early three to give the Pack a 6-4 lead, and the team did not trail for the rest of the half. All of the Pack’s first 16 points of the game were scored by Wilson and Mathurin, the team’s two leading scorers onfthe night.

Duke came out strong to start the third quarter, and the Blue Devils’ 19 third-quarter points compared to 13 for the Wolfpack were enough for a 49-47 Duke lead going into the fourth.

But State did not back down in the final frame, as it outscored Duke 18-13 in the fourth quarter to grab the win. Junior guard Ashley Williams came up clutch for the Pack in the third quarter, as she

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29-4. Eventually, the Wolfpack closed out the Cavs, 35-7. Gantt pointed to the team’s conditioning as a major factor for the victory.

“We just kept working,” Gantt said.

“Virginia, not to talk junk about them, they aren’t the most conditioned team.

I just felt in my match, if I kept working my guy, I could open it up.”

The Wolfpack has a week off to rest before it continues end-of-season sched-

hit a three-pointer to make it 50-49 Wolfpack early in the final quarter.

Williams also gave the Pack its final lead that it did not relinquish, as her three put State up 56-55 with four minutes and change to play and was the third lead change of the quarter. With State up 63-62 with five seconds left, Wilson hit two free throws to make it 65-62.

Duke went for a three at the buzzer to try and win, but it was no good as the Wolfpack grabbed a hardfought win for its fourth in a row.

Against Louisville, the Wolfpack led for more than half the game, including all but three seconds of the second half. It was the Pack’s first loss of the season when leading

ule against UNC-Chapel Hill. Donahue noted that playing an in-state rival will be a major motivator in preparation for the duals.

“It’s another in-state rival and a top20 team,” Donahue said. “We just need to do what we’ve been doing all year.

Honestly, no team can compete with us when we are on our game and dominating.”

The Wolfpack faces the Tar Heels Monday at 7 p.m. on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds at Dorton Arena, with the opportunity to jump into the top ranking in the NWCA top 25 on the line.

at halftime.

The Wolfpack quickly found itself behind the eight ball in this one as it trailed 17-7 a little less than four minutes in, but the team went on a 15-3 run for the rest of the first quarter and led 22-20 after the opening frame. After falling behind by one with about 7:30 left in the second quarter, State finished the half with a 26-11 run for a 50-36 lead at the half.

State led for all but three seconds of the second half. The team looked to be in good shape, up 76-66 with a little more than four minutes to go, but that was news to the Cardinals. After Wilson hit two free throws to put the Wolfpack up 90-

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85 with 25 seconds left, Louisville mounted a furious rally as it scored the game’s final seven points. The Cardinals got a three shortly after Wilson’s free throws to cut the lead to two, and on its next possession, State turned the ball over and sent Louisville to the line, where it tied the game.

The game seemed destined for overtime, but Louisville again went to the line with three seconds left and made both free throws to cap off its stunning comeback and hand NC State its second conference loss.

The Wolfpack heads to Blacksburg, Virginia, to take on Virginia Tech Thursday at 7 p.m.

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Sports PAGE 8 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016

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Grading the 2015 Wolfpack offense David Kehrli Staff Writer

Kai McNeil Correspondent In 2016, the NC State men’s rugby team will enter a new league for its fall season.

Teams such as Clemson, a fivetime Atlantic Coast Rugby League champion, who finished 10th in the nation this past fall, and Wake Forest, a club program that has finished last its past five consecutive seasons in the league, will leave the ACRL along with NC State.

“Clemson wanted to leave because they’re going to go play more competitive teams like Life University,” said Stephen Glass, a senior studying nutrition science and president of the men’s rugby team. “A couple of other teams, like Wake Forest, were really bad, so they wanted to drop down to division two, so they disbanded.”

The NC State men’s club rugby team, will stay in the newly created league that will emerge closer to the end of this month. However, the club has achieved plenty of success in its current league.

In the fall, the men’s rugby team finished ranked 47th in the nation and second in the Atlantic Coast Rugby League after suffering one loss in the regular season to Clemson’s varsity rugby team and tying against Virginia Tech’s club team.

The men’s rugby team has been progressively improving after tying for last in the conference in its fall 2013 season, finishing third in the fall of 2014 and second the fall 2015 season.

Amongst its wins of the fall 2015 season included a triumph against University of Maryland, a long-time foe who defeated NC State five years in a row, and a 69-3 win against UNCChapel Hill.

The new league will be based more on geographics.

“It used to be more competitionbased — the teams that were about the same skill level played with each other, but now it’s going to be more geography-based,” said Nathaniel Monteleone, a sophomore studying math and a captain of the men’s rugby team. “All North Carolina teams will probably play in the same league; Virginia might sneak in.”

The meeting to create the new fall league based upon teams that want to stay and teams that would like to enter will be held Jan. 23 in Richmond, Virginia.

The women’s rugby team looks toward its upcoming spring 7s this next season with optimism, after an even finish in its fall season.

This coming spring season marks the beginning of its Matrix season, which only consists of games that count toward its conference standing.

The women’s team will have to face several teams from the MasonDixon conference such as UNC-CH, who went undefeated in its spring 2015 season and beat NC State last spring 59-19.

“We have skill players, our fitness is getting better, so it should be a good fight,” said Alayne McKnight, senior studying environmental technology and president of the rugby team.

“Chapel Hill and U.Va. are known to be powerhouses, but we are growing fast.”

The women’s team drives itself internally when combating bigger and better teams.

“Everyone knows they are the biggest teams we play,” said Lindsay Jones, a senior studying bioprocessing science and a captain on the women’s team. “It’s all of internal motivation more than anything,” Jones said.

The men’s team plays its first home match against the Cincinnati Feb. 22, and the women’s team plays its Feb. 13 against UNC-CH.

Quarterback Grade: C Jacoby Brissett didn’t exactly take huge steps forward with his play in 2015. In fact, his stats are basically the same as — if not slightly worse than — they were in 2014. He threw for about 50 more yards than a season ago but threw three fewer touchdown passes and one more interception. Brissett’s QB rating dropped from 136.7 in 2014 to 130.3 in 2015, and while he still showed the ability to make big plays out of nothing, they weren’t as common in 2015 as defenses began to figure out how to stop him.

That is evidenced by the fact that he wasn’t nearly as effective of a rusher in 2015 (ran for 159 fewer yards in more attempts) as he was last season.

Running Backs Grade: ANC State running backs began the season on fire as the Wolfpack boasted one of the nation’s top rushing attacks. Senior Shadrach Thornton looked solid in his first two games after suspension, before being dismissed from the team before the first ACC contest. Junior Matt Dayes was exceptional and emerged as one of the top running backs in the

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Junior running back Matt Dayes tiptoes along the sidelines before being pushed out of bounds by a Wake Forest defender. Dayes led the team with 16 carries for 205 yards. The Wolfpack dominated Wake Forest in the 35-17 win at BB&T Field in Winston-Salem Oct. 25.

country, at one point leading the nation in rushing touchdowns, before a foot injury ended his season prematurely. Sophomore Dakwa Nichols and freshmen Reggie Gallaspy II and Nyheim Hines performed admirably in the absence of Thornton and Dayes, but there was an expected drop-off in production. Despite

the loss of its top two rushers, the Pack finished 32nd in the nation in rushing yards per game.

Receivers/Tight Ends Grade: C Other than sophomore Jaylen Samuels, this position group was inconsistent and struggled throughout the season. Samuels led the Wolfpack receiving corps

in receptions (65), yards (597) and touchdowns (7) despite rarely lining up as a wide receiver. No other player reached the 500-yards receiving mark, with junior Jumichael Ramos coming the closest with 457 yards as the Pack’s top wideout. Junior tight end David

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Pack routs reigning ACC champion Cavs Joseph Ochoa Staff Writer

Ethan Caldwell Correspondent

The No. 3 NC State wrestling team f lexed on the competition this Sunday, as it defeated the reigning ACC champion Virginia Cavaliers 35-7 at Dorton Arena.

For redshirt senior Tommy Gantt, the matchup was one he and the team had been anticipating for a while.

“I took a picture of them holding the championship trophy last year and put it on my wall,” Gantt said. “I won’t ever forget that, and we won’t let that happen ever again.”

The meet against the No. 17 Cavaliers was the first in a sevenmatch stretch against opponents ranked among the National Wrestling Collegiate Association’s top25 teams. Head coach Pat Popolizio knew going into the match that the team was capable of starting the stretch strong.

“What we’ve been doing the last couple months has been preparing for this stretch,” Popolizio said. “We knew when we set the schedule that we were going to be up for the challenge.”

The duals began with heavyweight redshirt senior Nick Gwi-

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Sophomore Nicky Hall holds on as his opponent flips over him in the Wolfpack’s meet against No. 17 Virginia Tech. Hall won his bout 17-2 on a technical fall, which helped the Wolfpack to an overall 35-7 win at Dorton Arena.

azdowski taking the mats for the Wolfpack against Virginia’s Patrick Gillen. “Gwiz” made quick work of his opponent, completing a tech-fall at 19-3 just moments into the second round of the bout to put the Wolfpack up 5-0 to start the bout.

NC State continued the dominance when redshirt freshman Sean Fausz earned the win at 125 pounds against Will Mason in a defensive battle 8-4, to extend the lead 8-0 for the Wolfpack.

Jamal Morris took the mats next

against No. 6 George DiCamillo at 133 pounds, with DiCamillo getting the early advantage against Morris, 6-0 in the first. Morris was unable to get any momentum going in the match, falling 17-2, allowing the Cavs to get back in the match 8-5.

At 141, No. 3 Ke v i n Jack squashed any momentum that the Cavs gained from the previous bout, defeating Zack Watson, with a dominating 10-0 win to extend the Wolfpack lead, 12-4.

The match was also NC State’s

alumni day, with many former Wolf pack w rest lers in attendance. During the intermission, the NC State wrestling team honored alumnus and 2009 national cha mpion Da rrion Ca ldwel l.

Caldwell is currently competing in mixed martial arts, posting a career 8-0 record and preparing for his next Bellator fight against Joe Warren.

The two most exciting matches bookended intermission when redshirt sophomore Beau Donahue at 149 and Gantt at 157 had to claw their way through tight matches to defeat their opponents 9-6 and 11-9, respectively, to give the Pack a commanding 18-4 lead.

Donahue felt the support from the crowd may have played a role in pulling off the victory.

“I try not to pay attention to it, so I can get in a zone and focus on the match,” Donahue said. “When you’re at home, and you have all those people cheering for you, it makes you want to perform and show the home crowd what you can do.”

Junior Max Rohskopf got the pin half way through the f irst round of the 165 bout, putting the Wolfpack up 24-4. Sophomore Nicky Hall then followed up with a tech fall to put the Wolfpack up

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NC State upsets Duke, falls to Cards in final seconds Andrew Schnittker Staff Writer

The NC State women’s basketball team continued its strong start to conference play Thursday night, beating No. 22 Duke 65-62 on the road for its fourthstraight win. However, the Pack was unable to continue the winning streak and fell, 92-90, to ACC-leading Louisville at home Sunday — where it held the lead for the majority of the game.

Junior guard Dominique Wilson continues to impress for the Wolfpack (13-6 4-2 ACC), putting

up 19 over the Blue Devils (13-6 2-3 ACC) and a career-high 31 points against the Cardinals (14-5 6-0 ACC). Joining her was junior forward Jennifer Mathurin, who grabbed 15 points against Duke and 19 against Louisville.

The Wolfpack shot the ball well in both games, converting a respectable 38.6 percent against Duke and a ridiculous 52.3 percent against Louisville. The team was not great defensively in either game, as the Blue Devils shot 49

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Junior guard Miah Spencer trips and loses the ball while running through traffic . Spencer had 14 points and four rebounds in the heartbreaking 92-90 loss to Louisville in Broughton High School’s Holliday Gymnasium Sunday.