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Protesters arrested at BoG meeting IN BRIEF Conor Kennedy

Panthers apparel flying off shelves After all of the Panthers’ success this season, which has now culminated in the team’s ascension to the Super Bowl, sporting goods stores in the Triangle are struggling to keep team merchandise on the shelves.

Dick’s Sporting Goods, which usually opens at 9 a.m., opened at 6 a.m. Monday at Triangle Town Center in anticipation of Panthers fans wanting to get their hands on new gear. “I don’t think you can ever have too much Panthers gear,” said Harrison Stickel, a Panthers fan. “When you’re supporting your team you need to go all out.”

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M.C. Escher exhibit draws record attendance The North Carolina Museum of Art announced Tuesday that the recent exhibit of works by Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher drew 116,565 total visitors in its 14week run, which is more than any special exhibit held by NCMA since it hosted “Rembrandt in America” in 2011. NCMA director Lawrence J. Wheeler said that the exhibit, which was extended for an extra week due to high demand, exceeded its attendance goals.

The Escher exhibit was displayed along with pages from a 500-yearold notebook of Leonardo da Vinci’s.

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Cary leaders plan new ‘innovation center’ Town planners and council met Tuesday night to discuss the redevelopment of the area around Cary Towne Center, which will be called the Eastern Cary Gateway. Officials are calling it an “innovation district,” similar to North Hills in Raleigh. The Gateway is an 800-acre area that includes the mall, Wake Med Soccer Park, Triangle Aquatic Center and about 100-acres of vacant land. “It’s an opportunity to have the core of this area have a lot of office space, high-tech research, lots of employment and then to support that with commercial and residential uses that are wellconnected and walkable,” said Town of Cary Planning Director Jeff Ulma.

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Four protesters were arrested and removed from Tuesday’s UNC Board of Governors meeting in Chapel Hill after ignoring several requests from officers to stop chanting and disrupting the meeting.

What started as a standard meeting quickly became a scene of chaos as police were forced to intervene when demonstrators interrupted the meeting to protest the hiring of UNC System President Margaret Spellings, who was hired in late October. Spellings is set to take office March 1. Her hiring came amid controversy over the unexpected removal of former president Tom Ross, and the board in general for

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UNC-Chapel Hill student Madeleine Scanlon is forcibly removed from the Board of Governors meeting chamber during a protest. The protesters chanted, “When our system is under attack, stand up and fight back!”

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The IUPAC announced in December that they had discovered four new elements to the Periodic Table, which completed the third row, or period, of the table.

Periodically, the table is updated: What’s new?

Adam Davis Staff Writer

At the end of last month, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that four new elements would officially be added to the periodic table. This means that the seventh period, or row, of the table is finally complete.

Element 113 was created by the RIKEN research institution in Japan, while the other three elements were created by collaborative efforts between Russian and American scientists.

All four of the new elements are synthetic, meaning that they were created in labs and do not exist naturally.

However, according to Richard Longland, an assistant professor in the NC State Department of Physics, “It’s likely that merging neutron stars produced similar high-mass elements in our own solar system’s ancestral past.”

In describing the significance of the discoveries, Longland said, “These groups [of scientists] are at the forefront of discovery. Their findings affect our

Until last year, the Union Activities Board had hosted an annual TEDx talk on campus as a way to allow students to hear from a variety of speakers on a broad range of topics. The event scheduled for last March was “temporarily postponed for a later date” according to the UAB website.

This hiatus proved to be permanent however when the Union Activities Board announced that TUFFtalks would be taking its place.

“It’s a lot more sustainable for us to keep it in house,” explained Cassie Brinkman, event organizer and chair of the UAB Issues and Ideas Committee.

The TEDx events come with several restrictions on naming presentations, cooperative events, branding, programming and funding. While according to Brinkman, no particular restriction was a primary cause for the decision to drop TEDx, it was felt that more freedom was required.

“We wanted it to be more student and faculty focused,” Brinkman said.

This new focus is initially difficult to discern. Students who enjoyed the TEDx talks previously will certainly get a similar experience in this new event, with even cosmetic details like the name creating obvious parallels.

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Dean and student trade places for the day Ashleigh Polisky Correspondent

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SPORTS Pack seeks opportunity against GT

Seven years ago, Jeff Braden, Dean of College of Humanities and Social Sciences had the idea to start a new tradition at NC State where the dean would trade places with a student so they could each have a taste of what a typical day is on the other side of the age and administrative gap that divides students and faculty.

“W hen I became dean and stopped teaching, I lost contact with the students, and so I thought I really want to have that

opportunity because even though I was an undergraduate, that was over 40 years ago at a very different institution,” Braden said.

“I want to get to know what they do, and I want for them to know what I do.”

On Tuesday, Braden switched places with Courtney Ross, a senior studying political science and communication and member of Kappa Alpha Theta.

Ross got to meet with department heads, attend a THINK Initiative meeting and sit in on

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College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Jeff Braden takes notes on zines and how they are related to modern communication technologies on a tablet while sitting next to Taylor Bunten, a junior studying communication, during a Communication and Technology class in Daniels Hall Tuesday.

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fundamental understanding of how nature’s building blocks, protons and neutrons, were arranged to produce the solar system as we know it today.”

The newly recognized elements, with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118, are still yet to be named.

According to Chemical and Engineering News Magazine, the IUPAC hopes to have the names finalized within the next five to six months.

“Elements are typically named

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a faculty senate meeting. Meanwhile, Braden went to a Kappa Alpha Theta meeting, a nonprofit class and a communication class.

“It’s the best day of the year for me,” Braden said. “I love it because I get to be an undergraduate all over again. I get to take classes I’ve never had before from

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hruvin Dholakia, a sophomore studying biochemistry, and Jesse Grady, a part-time student splitting his time between NC State and UNC-Wilmington, discuss logistics after a morning of reaching out to NC State students in Talley Student Union Tuesday. Though Turning Point USA has a focus on promoted free market and talking down the idea of big government, the focus of its presence in Talley at this time was getting NC State students registered to vote for the upcoming presidential election. By being in a location students come through most every day, Turning Point USA was able to reach many students who may not know how to register to vote otherwise.

after who discovered them or synthesized them, something about the place of their discovery, or something about the element,” said Alton Banks, a chemistry professor at NC State.

The right to name the elements is left to the discoverers, or in this case, the creators. The task of creating elements is a daunting one and requires smashing atoms together to create larger atoms. “[The new elements] were discovered by smashing two lower mass atoms together,” Longland said. “The probability of them fusing is tiny; the probability of them fusing without boiling off

stray protons and neutrons is tinier still.”

Banks explained the process using baseball as an example.

“It’s just a group of people tossing high energy particles at much larger atoms,” Banks said. “It’s very much like trying to pitch a baseball at a catcher’s mitt so fast that the baseball and the catcher’s mitt merge. And when they do, they form a new element.”

Although the elements are being recognized now, it is likely that their significance will not be felt until much later. This is because the elements are difficult to produce, and many of their properties

are not yet known.

“The researchers only make one or two atoms at a time, and the atoms only live a second or less before decaying,” Christopher Gould, a professor in the physics department at NC State, said. “It will be a long time before anyone does any chemistry with them.”

CEN Magazine quoted Dawn Shaughnessy, the principal investigator for the Heavy Element Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as saying, “The periodic table says that [element] 118 is a noble gas. How could we determine that based on a single atom?”

Despite the elements’ lack of current uses, chemists and physicists may find use for them in the future. After all, Americium, an element that was discovered in 1945, is today used in smoke detectors to detect fires.

“For me to sit here and say that the four new elements aren’t going to be of any use is ignoring history, and I try not to do that,” Gould said. “I think that the discovery of these four new elements points to the fact that there is a need for continuing research.”

instructors I know in one way as a dean, but man when I see what our people do — they love what they do. It’s inspiring. I love it.”

Braden also said that while he isn’t really surprised, he is always amazed at how passionate his faculty is about what they do. He said he learns so much during the day but also finds out new things that he has yet to learn.

Ross said there were two major reasons for her wanting to be the

dean for a day: She wanted to see the administrative side of college and for her dean to see what her life as a student is like.

Ross said she was surprised by how many faculty members it takes to run the college.

She also wanted him to spend time with Kappa Alpha Theta because she considers it an important part of her life, and without it she would not be the person and leader she is today.

“Greek organizations tend to have a bad reputation,” Ross said.

“When something goes wrong, it blows up in the media, and that is all they focus on. And organizations like Theta, we do a lot of good for the community, but that’s never highlighted. So I wanted Dean Braden to experience that and see how much we put into our organization and how much we get out of it.”

Braden said he was very im-

pressed when he attended the Kappa Alpha Theta scholarship meeting. He said this meeting was about how the sorority wanted to improve and motivate the sisters to have higher GPAs. “The biggest thing that stood out for me was the meeting at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority,” Braden said. “It really kind of blew up some of the stereotypes I’d heard about Greek life.”

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what they considered harmful practices that have continued for years.

The meeting began with formal message from the protesters to the board demanding the removal of Spellings as well as an open and transparent democratic re-appointment process.

The meeting proceeded in typical fashion until a vote calling for the discontinuation of two programs at East Carolina University: a Bachelor of Arts in art history and appreciation and a Bachelor of Science in school health education.

The present members of the board gave their affirmative yeas only to be drowned out by the protesters’ emphatic and unsolicited nays. The vote itself was of little interest to the protesters, but served as an opportunity to voice their frustrations over Spellings and general Board of Governors activities.

The students further disrupted the meeting by grabbing board members’ microphones and knocking their name placards to the ground.

They ignored requests to be seated and continued to chant against the board with slogans such as “No jus-

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The primary change appears to be an increased freedom in selecting speakers, with a specific focus on NC State and Raleigh.

The list of speakers includes Maggie Kane, who will speak about her new restaurant, A Place at the Table which offers “pay what you want” options, as well

tice, no peace” “When our system is under attack, stand up and fight back” and “F--- the BoG.” Several protesters were then removed from the chambers by police officers who had trouble restraining some of the students. Screams of frustration and police misconduct were heard as students were led out into the hallway.

According to the vice president of communications for UNC, Joni Worthington, the following actions were taken against those arrested by the Orange County Magistrate: Madeleine Scanlon, charged with resisting and obstructing officer, disorderly conduct and assault inflicting serious injury of law enforcement officer; Irving David Allen, charged with resisting and obstructing an officer and disorderly conduct; Olufemi Shittu, charged with disorderly conduct and Jennifer Myers, who was detained but then was only issued a warning for trespassing.

The bookings reports were not available online at press time.

Zack King, president of the Association of Student Governments, which is the student-led organization that represents the students of the UNC System to the board, condemned the adversarial ap-

as Kalysha Clark who will speak on Poverty in College, and Kari Lewis, with a talk on the relationship between Physical and Mental Health.

The previous TEDx guidelines may have prevented some of these speakers, as well as potential for greater student focus. The new program appears to weigh heavily in favor of advice for students, which may disappoint those who prefer hearing about science and

proach to enacting change used by the protestors.

“I think having protesters there is good — for students to have their voices heard — but when they’re behaving like this … I don’t think it’s effective at all,” King said. “The concerns of the protestors are shared by members privately, so I do think that there is a lot of room for understanding and getting protesters more informed.”

King said that he was caught offguard by many of the claims made by the protesters, which gave him the impression that they put their passions before the facts. One example was their claim that students pay the board’s salary, when in fact the board is made up by volunteers who receive no stipend or salary.

Faculty Forward activist and former faculty member at East Carolina University, John Steen, said that the hiring of Margaret Spellings would increase the influence of corporate interests on UNC System policy.

“We are calling for Spellings’ resignation, but the broader platform should be more diverse — more progress and representation is needed,” Steen said. “[Historically black colleges and universities] are really under threat here.”

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Steen then referred to an interview Spellings gave to The Daily Tar Heel in which Spellings defended her experience in the private sector, calling it valid experience for a position in higher education. Steen said he did not agree with this.

Also among the protesters was Millie Rosen, a Durham Public Schools teacher, who saw Spellings’ appointment in political terms, calling it a “symptom of the Republican takeover” of North Carolina.

“She was also a major supporter of No Child Left Behind, which sets unrealistic expectations for students like mine that are mostly black and brown with different backgrounds than the children of those in legislature,” Rosen said System constituents like those who protested the meeting fear Spellings’ association with for-profit universities such as the University of Phoenix as well as her corporatized approach to higher education.

In a survey conducted by Faculty Forward NC, 70 percent of UNC System faculty reported feeling that higher education in North Carolina is going the wrong direction.

“We have absolutely no confidence that Spellings will turn that around,” said Zach Robinson, a professor of mathematics at ECU and

member of the Faculty Forward Network.

Spellings has been on the receiving end of several attacks questioning her support of higher tuition as well as her history of anti-LGBT statements.

“Margaret Spellings is going to turn the UNC System into a joke,” said Scanlon, a senior at UNCChapel Hill studying women and gender studies.

With 40 police officers stationed at the meeting, the Durham chief of police stated that such a large protective force was not standard.

The unusually large police presence in addition to the surprising behavior of the protesters raised questions about the board’s expectations for the meeting. The board had known about the protests but hoped that they wouldn’t turn violent. Students claimed that the police officers acted excessively in the removal of Scanlon.

“All the actions of my officers were the result of the actions of the protesters,” said Larry Smith, interim chief of police of the Durham Police Department.

Ryan Will contributed to the reporting of this article.

technology, though this emphasis was already apparent in previous years.

“We’re hoping this will be our new annual speaker event and we’re really excited about that,” Brinkman said.

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pening that Safety Notice email about adverse weather conditions is always easily the highlight of any day. How could it not be? You plan for a typical day f i l led w it h cla sses Missy and tests and assignFurman Staff Columnist ments, and with the power of one email, suddenly the only thing that matters is how pretty the snow looks in your Instagram post and how many episodes you can finish on Netflix before it all melts. The excitement that snow days bring is the spoonful of sugar that helps college students smile a little extra in the midst of an inevitably stressful week. Everyone loves a day off, but poor weather conditions need to be handled more efficiently.

Having grown up in New Jersey, I’m used to salt being on the ground before the storm starts and the roads being plowed before the storm even stops. If you had to, you could travel while it’s still snowing and be able to get around for the most part. So far after being in North Carolina for two winters, it seems like a few snowf lakes alone can make driving conditions nearly impossible and dangerous. Due to lack of plows and methods to clean up the snow, it’s more difficult for Southern states to handle winter storms. We still need to invest in them, despite their seasonal use. Of course, it is smart to prepare before a storm and gather everything you may need so that you don’t have to venture outside, but in case of an emergency, there should be more of an initiative to make the campus, community and city safer.

Safety aside, dealing with snowstorms in an efficient and timely manner is especially important for college students. Unlike my Jersey high school, snow days aren’t made up at the end of the semester in college. In other words, that’s a really expensive day that you just paid for and got nothing out of. Time is mon-

{ Tunnel of Oppression The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity is bringing back the Tunnel of Oppression for another year. The Tunnel of Oppression is an interactive experience that examines contemporary issues of race, class, domestic violence, religion, body image, gender identification and discriminatory forms and

Teach-In about Student Voting Rights Dear Editor, President Barack Obama, in his final State of the Union Address to the nation, called for policymakers to “make voting easier, not harder, and modernize it for the way we live now.”

Our state has historically been a leader in the South in electoral reforms that

ey, and no one likes to waste money.

At the college level, it’s expected that students can learn the missed lesson on their own and still be held accountable for that material. But let’s face it, students are in college to learn because they aren’t experts yet. The professors at NC State have so much knowledge and many educational experiences that all factor into the student’s greater potential of understanding that would be impossible to obtain by reading the textbook on its own. It’s a shame that the Wolfpack has to miss out on an opportunity to learn from NC State’s very best faculty members, even if it only would have been an hour or so. As the spring semester goes on, those hours add up as snow days accumulate along with delays and early closings.

After getting only an inch, more or less, of snow and ice this past weekend, we had a closing on Friday and still had a delay on Monday.

Three whole days later, conditions still weren’t safe enough to open for classes. Parts of campus were covered in sheets of ice all weekend, and with more salt and other precautions, the slipper y sidewalks and icy roads could have been cleared up sooner.

Sometimes I honest ly wonder if people even own shovels here in the South. If so, it doesn’t show.

There’s nothing we can do to stop snowf lakes from falling but there’s a lot that can be done in order to make sure that it is handled in the best way possible. With more equipment and efficiency, each snowstorm won’t have such a prolonged impact.

A snow day here and there seems perfect to me, but there should be an effort taken to prevent lasting consequences from the same one inch of snow. It’s always awesome to get that “classes are canceled” email, but let’s hope that this semester there aren’t too many so that we can get the most out of our education.

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processes. Participants are guided through a series of scenes that aim to educate and challenge them to think more deeply about these issues. At the end of the tour, there is a brief facilitated discussion, which allows the opportunity to process the experience.

The entire experience lasts approximately 60 minutes per group and is a great opportunity for students to think critically about issues that impact the NC State

community. It will be held on Tuesday, March 15 and Wednesday, March 16.

protect and encourage voting. However, in 2016 significant changes come into place that impact voting: a photo ID requirement — that does not include our student ID — and the end of sameday registration during the early voting period.

not harder, just as Obama said. There’s a lot we can do to increase voter turnout, including supporting an early voting location back on NC State’s campus. Join us for a Teach-In about Student Voting Rights this week, Thursday at 7 p.m. in Withers 232A. Pizza and drinks will be included!

Sincerely,

These changes serve to make voting more difficult, and with voter turnout already so low, we should be doing everything we can to make voting easier,

The Tunnel of Oppression is also seeking volunteers: tour guides and actors.

Please contact the OIED immediately if you want to participate in this annual event.

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tacey Dash is clearly just as “Clueless” as the role she played in the popular 1995 film as Dionne, the best friend of Cher (Alicia Silverstone). On Jan. 20, Dash sat down with Steve Doocy, host of “Fox and Friends,” to discuss her interesting views on racism, Black History Month and the television network, Black Entertainment Television. Dash, who is a Fox News contributor, was invited onto the show to discuss the boycott several black Chauncey actors, including Spike Lee and Jada Bowden Pinkett Smith, have proposed as a Staff Columnist response to the lack of diversity for

sic videos created by black artists. Ironically, Dash’s career has personally benefitted from BET. She has starred in several music videos and even a BET original series, “The Game.” This weekend the television network threw an immense amount of shade at the actress, asking that she give them their check back for the show and including hashtags that read “#NeverForget” and “#YoureOneOfUs,” “#EvenIfYouDontWantToBe.” Now to address the importance of Black History Month. The fact that it is now the year 2016 and I find myself having to argue for its relevance is very

“Imagine two children. The children have a cookie each.

One of the children snatches the cookie away from the other. The second child, not to be easily defeated, rejoices over the crumbs and celebrates the little. The first child becomes angry, ‘How dare they be happy,’ and snatches the crumbs. This is what it is like to be black in America. ” Oscar nominations.

When asked how she felt about the boycott, she said the idea was ludicrous. When Doocy asked why she felt that way Dash said, “We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration. And if we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the [NAACP] Image Awards where you’re only awarded if you’re black. If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It’s a double standard.” Dash not only attacked the BET and the Image Awards, but she also said that Black History month should not exist because there is no “White History Month.”

Dash’s remarks are so ridiculous that the interview almost seems like a very successful “Saturday Night Live” parody, and I am convinced that based on her remarks, she must suffer from either amnesia or a general disregard for not doing her research before making such wild accusations on television.

Firstly, whites are not excluded from winning BET Awards. In fact, last year singer Sam Smith won an Award. The BET Awards were created in response to the very thing that Lee and Pinkett Smith are boycotting — lack of inclusion.

Created in 1967, the NAACP Image Awards seek to showcase “outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts, as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors,” according to the NAACP. Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Steven Spielberg, Al Gore and many more have won Image Awards. So Dash’s statements that these awards exclude whites are just plain false.

But even if the BET Awards were limited to only blacks, that would not be a problem. Janell Ross of The Washington Post points out that a large part of BET’s existence is attributed to the fact that popular

disheartening. Do not be fooled, Dash is not the only one who harbors such simpleminded opinions about this topic. In fact, I have seen several NC State students make similar remarks about Black History Month.

First of all, to the people saying that we should have a ”White History Month,” literally every other month besides February is White History Month. We were stingily handed the shortest month of the year and told to be happy about it. Not only that, but we have had to endure haphazard and vague lessons about slavery, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks all throughout our K-12 schooling.

If the BET and Black History Month make you uncomfortable as a white individual, then good, you now know how it feels to be black and underrepresented in America. Dash stated that we are all Americans.

That’s fine and dandy, Ms. Dash, but until we are all treated as equal citizens in this country, we have every right to be angry and boycott. Also, since when does being American mean that we don’t learn about American history? Schools do a phenomenal job of erasing the portions of history that make whites look bad. We learn about slavery and abolition, but we don’t learn about the creation of projects and housing discrimination. We are taught about racism as if it were a thing of the past, and not an ever-present force.

If I had not yet convinced you, I’d like to present you with an analogy. Imagine two children. The children have a cookie each. One of the children snatches the cookie away from the other. The second child, not to be easily defeated, rejoices over the crumbs and celebrates the little. The first child becomes angry, “How dare they be happy,” and snatches the crumbs.

This is what it is like to be black in America.

We are often given the scraps and then berated for celebrating the little that we do have. Remember, inclusion is never important until you are the one being left out.

Wil Mulligan, junior studying communication NCPIRG advocate

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Beyond plastic: 3-D printing liquid metal Sooyoung Sohn Correspondent

3-D printing is well known as a method for producing plastic objects. However, an NC State research team, Dickey’s Group, has expanded 3-D printing to metallic objects.

Dickey’s Group, led by associate professor Michael Dickey, is the first to pioneer 3-D printing using liquid metal. The breakthrough was achieved by researching new methods to manipulate the liquid metal.

A lt hough liquid meta l may sound unfamiliar, the material is found everywhere. Liquid metal is a phase of metal where the melting point is at or near the room temperature. Mercury is the best example of such material, as it is widely known and has many useful applications, from barometer to thermometer, according to Collin Eaker, a graduate student studying chemical engineering and a graduate researcher in Dickey’s Group.

“Liquid metal in general is not a name of specific material,” Eaker said. “It’s a phase of a metal. The difference is that the metals we work with are liquid at or near room temperature.”

Dickey’s Group isn’t the first to scientifically research the liquid metal, according to Dickey. Eaker said research on liquid metal has been going on for decades, with the oldest being from the ‘60s.

“We did not discover this metal, but we have pioneered new ways to study and use it by taking advan-

tage of the fascinating properties,” Dickey said.

However, Dickey’s Group was the first to pioneer a new method of manipulating eutectic gallium indium, or EGaIn for short, to be used for 3-D printing. “[EGaIn] is a mixture of two alloys, gallium and indium,” Eaker said. According to him, eutectic compositions have the lowest melting point of all possible alloy ratios.

The Dickey Group manipulated EGaIn by utilizing the surface oxide skin that forms when in contact with oxygen. The surface oxide skin is similar to rust. Unlike the rust, the EGaIn’s surface oxide skin forms a shell around the liquid metal, allowing it to be patterned for different applications.

“Our major contribution has been to utilize the surface oxide skin that forms on the metal as a new way to shape and manipulate the metal,” Eaker said. “The surface oxide skin is the solid layer that forms when the metal reacts with air.”

One application for 3-D printing metal is stretchable electronics. Eaker said stretchable electronics are electronics that can be stretched and strained beyond their normal limits. One possibility for a stretchable electronic is a biosensor for monitoring a user’s health, according to Eaker.

“These electronics have many possibilities,” Eaker said. “Imagine having biosensor that can conform to your body and measure things like glucose levels if you’re

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The 3-D printer prototype is capable of printing liquid metal. The printer can produce a malleable metal material that can stretch past the breaking point of commonly used metals.

diabetic.”

During the eight years of research, Dickey said his group faced many obstacles, as there was no research done in the subject before the group started working.

“Dickey’s Group started researching around 2008-09,” Eaker said. “Finding a new technique to measure some of the basic properties and manipulating the material was challenging because people never worked in this manner before. Cleaning was quite difficult as I had to scoop up individual droplets.”

Despite the obstacles, Eaker said Dickey’s Group was overjoyed upon making the breakthrough.

In addition, Eaker said the team’s research was made possible by an undergraduate researcher, Collin Ladd, who played a large role in its work.

Ladd said he was surprised about the discovery. “I had kind of been quietly working away at what had been ‘just an undergrad project’ until then,” Ladd said.

Ladd is an NC State chemistry graduate who filled the gaps in setup fabrication and prototype

drafting for what turned out to be a very multidisciplinary project.

Ladd currently has returned to NC State to work with Dickey.

As for 2016, Dickey’s Group hopes for another breakthrough by being the first to utilize its work to produce practical items, such as electronics, through 3-D printing.

“We hope to show that it can be utilized for 3-D printing of practical objects that include electronics,” Dickey said. “That would be an important breakthrough.”

‘Monstress’ brings new themes to comic books Kevin Schaefer Contributor

Monstress Image Comics

 Between its intricate and complex mythology, eye-popping artwork and strong-minded female protagonist, “Monstress” is a true testament to the potential of comics as a medium.

Despite a superhero-saturated market in the world of entertainment, this book offers something fresh and original for a more mature audience.

Published by Image Comics, a company that is experiencing a golden age with books like “Saga” and “East of West,” “Monstress” is a new dark fantasy comic book series from writer Marjorie Liu and artist Sana Takeda. Set in the aftermath of a war between humans and a race of supernatural creatures, the oversized first issue introduces us to one of these beings as she is captured and enslaved by a human Federation. Maika Halfwolf is a revengeseeking warrior whose rage cannot be contained.

Burdened by seemingly uncontrollable magical powers as well as a terrible hunger, Maika is on a quest

for vengeance and answers, as she believes her condition is linked to her mother’s murder.

Though gorgeous to look at, “Monstress” may isolate some readers with its somewhat obtuse narrative. Like countless fantasy novels, the book introduces us right away to a multitude of civilizations and characters, each of which are infused with their own elaborately constructed mythologies. If you’re looking for an easy-to-follow good-and-evil story, you won’t find it here.

That said, the book’s complexity is what makes it stand out. Liu wastes no time in providing readers with detailed explanations and backstories at the beginning in favor of revealing things as the story progresses. This is a book designed for older readers, and the fact that it’s not at all watered down makes it all the more intriguing.

“Monstress” also holds nothing back in terms of its graphic violence and examination of themes like slavery and cannibalism. Liu and Takeda are one of the many writerartist pairs in the industry today who take full advantage of the freedom and lack of censorship they have as independent creators. A particularly gruesome scene in issue two involving Maika’s starvation demonstrates

the unrestrained attitude which they’ve taken toward this book.

Genre-wise, Liu blends together elements of various Asian mythos with the explosive action of a Tarantinostyle revenge thriller. Think along the lines of “Legend of Korra” meets “Kill Bill.” It’s got violence, bizarre creatures, incredible world-building, strong characterization and enough imagination to truly transport readers to another world.

In conjunction with Liu’s crisp and sharply executed writing, Takeda’s art is a true wonder to behold.

Whether it’s the interior designs of the prison in issue one, the elaborate costumes, the brutal and bloody fight sequences or the skillfully crafted facial expressions of each character, Takeda continually mesmerizes with each panel, much in the same fashion as the criticality-acclaimed “Saga” artist Fiona Staples.

While no doubt dense and relentlessly gritty, “Monstress” is an indescribable display of talent from two of the top creators in the comics industry. With issue three coming out this week, now is a good time to jump on this series if you’re looking for a story that will engage, often terrify and stick with you long after you’ve reached the last page.

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The first issue cover of “Monstress,” a dark fantasy comic book series.

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Southern biscuits find a home in Portland Maddy Bonnabeaux Correspondent

When Walt Alexander moved to Portland from North Carolina, something was missing from his breakfasts: the biscuit. His seemingly insatiable biscuit craving evolved into Pine State Biscuits, co-owned by friends Brian Snyder and Kevin Atchley.

“I was homesick at the time, visiting North Carolina a lot more than usual; I wondered if I was going to move back,” Alexander said. “I was longing for bacon, egg and cheese biscuits and a sweet tea. I missed Bojangles’, Biscuitville, Sunrise and Biscuit Station.

They were my go-tos in college, and there just wasn’t anything like that out here.”

A mid cou nt less cof fee a nd breakfast shops, the backbone of Southern breakfast foods wasn’t to be found. Snyder was the first to move to Portland in 2001, with Alexander following in 2002 after graduating in 1997. After visiting, Atchley decided to move from Arizona. Living together, the friends considered the business venture.

“We thought opening up a res-

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Pictured above, The Reggie is topped with bacon, cheese, gravy and an egg. The restaurant has become an ambassador of biscuits to the Pacific Northwest.

“We’ve been told by Southerners it’s the best they’ve had — better than that of Bojangles’” —Walt Alexander, owner of Pine State Biscuits

taurant with food unique to our region would stick,” Alexander said.

While at NC State, Alexander had studied industrial design.

Although Alexander had never started a restaurant before, he was no stranger to cooking. He first started out at Tripps in Raleigh.

Before he made his cross-country drive to Portland, he worked with Atchley in a restaurant in the old Pine State Creamery building.

“We phoned around ideas and tried to harken back to North Carolina and what it meant to us in a classic sense,” Alexander said. “Kevin and I both worked in the former Pine State Creamery building, and since the company was no longer in existence, we chose the name — it rang a bell.”

Getting into the farmer’s market in Portland was the first major hurdle. However, the lines continued to grow.

“The hardcore fans encouraged us to open up a restaurant, so we figured we’d have a biscuit shack,” Alexander said. “We took a leap of faith. I took a leave of absence from my job as a carpenter and cabinetmaker, built the first restaurant myself on Belmont Street, under about six months. It was only 600 square feet. It was my first time working with plumbers, electricians, etc. I learned a lot.”

Af ter doing taste tests w ith

friends, the trio assembled its menu.

“None of us really had a recipe; we just did research, bringing in a few family recipes and ideas that we had found, narrowing it down,” Alexander said. “We did taste tests with friends. We didn’t really know what we were doing at the time. We had no idea that it would get to where it is now.”

With his friends rallying him, Alexander and Pine State Biscuits had a wildly successful opening.

Clamoring to get their hands on the classic breakfast food, people had to eat on the curb and were forced to get their food to go. Initially, the restaurant had 15 seats and a small bench outdoors for seating.

“We wore out our welcome; it brought notoriety to the spot, but the tenant wasn’t happy dealing with massive lines on the weekend,” Alexander said.

To buffer its crowd, Pine State opened a new location in Portland to buffer its crowd, which has since become its flagship location.

The menu has expanded quite a bit since the early days. At first, Pine State Biscuits focused on a biscuit sandwich. New offerings include desserts, alcoholic drinks and other Southern staples.

Shrimp and grits, blueberry cornmeal pancakes and corndogs are a few.

The most popular choice of

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Pine State Biscuits started out in a building with seating for 15. After consistent lines out the door, the restaurant relocated to accomodate demand.

dssandwich is The Reggie.

“The Reggie, our first biscuit sandwich that we named, our partner, Brian, was having his first child,” Alexander said. “He was throwing around name ideas, one of which was Reggie. His wife didn’t like it at all. We figured, if you can’t use it on your kid, we can use it on our sandwich.”

However, Alexander’s favorite is The Chatfield, which features buttermilk fried chicken, bacon and cheese topped with apple butter.

The ingredients, piled high, pack a f lavorful punch.

A former employee and North Carolinian named The Chatfield.

“A pregnant lady would always come in and sub gravy for apple butter, and the ex-employee would

always make her sandwich,” Alexander said. “He’d say, ‘you all should put this on the menu and call it the pregnant lady sandwich,’ we couldn’t call it that, but we have somewhat immortalized the menu item.”

Another bestseller, The McIsley, was named after friend Mark Isely from Asheboro, North Carolina.

The sandwich holds fried chicken with pickles, mustard and honey.

However, one’s choice of entrée would be remiss without the proper beverage pairing.

“We’ve been told by Southerners it’s the best they’ve had — better than that of Bojangles’,” Alexander said.

Currently, Pine State Biscuits is focusing on perfecting its business

model. When starting a business, Alexander recommends starting out small, being open to new ideas and removing oneself from the business if necessary in order to see the bigger picture.

“We’ve ridden the wave ; we started an idea and built upon it,” Alexander said. “Get a system in place. If you’re an owner and try to do it all by yourself, you’ll burn out quickly.”

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injury of junior Terry Henderson.

Opting to go with a seven-man rotation, rest has been hard to come by for the Pack, specifically for Barber, who’s averaging 38.5 minutes per game on the season. The Yellow Jackets are able to roll out nine different guys, and in some cases 10, giving them the ability to constantly bring in fresh legs whenever necessary.

Wit h severa l missed opportunities already this season, the Pack cannot fail to capitalize on

opportunities like the one it has Wednesday. The team has shown f lashes of greatness throughout the season, mainly in a win over Pittsburgh earlier this season. But for now, State needs to figure out how to get by until Henderson can return to play. However, a Georgia Tech team that’s seen better days might just be a golden opportunity for State to gain some momentum heading into February.

Following Wednesday’s game against Georgia Tech, the Wolfpack hosts No. 15 Miami (FL) Saturday before road games at Florida State and No. 24 Duke.

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a bit of an off-the-mark pass from Versteeg, Liles corralled the puck and found a way to beat Crawford once again.

“We had really good energy to start, and the building was fun to play in,” Liles said.

“Anytime you can jump out to a lead against a team like that, it’s a big first step, and we had a nice first period.”

Chicago head coach Joel Quenneville, hoping to jumpstart his team, made a goalie switch between periods, pull-

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ing Crawford and replacing him w ith Scott Darling. It didn’t work out as planned, as Darling didn’t fare much better than Crawford.

Carolina for ward Joa k im Nordstrom, with a defender draped all over him in the slot, out-muscled the opposition to eventually fire a shot past Darling. It was Nordstrom’s third goal in as many games and his first against his former team.

Just a minute and a half later, Nash scored his second goal of the game to give the Canes a commanding 5-0 lead. Nash one-timed a feed from Skinner, beating Darling shortside.

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With such a big lead, the Canes were content to play a more defensive game in the t h i rd per iod, keepi ng t he Hawks off the scoreboard, securing a 5-0 victory.

Carolina goaltender Eddie Lack turned away all 26 shots he faced, earning his second shutout of the season.

The Canes will have a week off for the NHL All-Star break before returning to action Feb. 3, where they will continue their pursuit of a playoff spot in the final two months of the season.

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Mitchell Davis Correspondent The NC State men’s club lacrosse team enjoyed a successful fall season with wins over rivals UNC-Chapel Hill, 8-7, and Duke, 10-4.

Fall ball is a short selection of games and tournaments that are used to prepare the team for the spring regular season. The Wolfpack hopes to start off the season right using the momentum of last regular season’s 7-4 record. Playing in the SouthEastern Lacrosse Conference, the Pack finished 2-2 in divisional play with wins over East Carolina and Wake Forest.

“Fall ball gives us time for the team to gel,” assistant lacrosse coach Chris Demarest said. “We have guys coming in from several different programs, states and experience levels. It also allows for the freshmen to show what they’ve got. Every job is up for grabs.”

Additionally, Demarest has high expectations for the team this upcoming season.

“We’ve made the conference playoffs for the last two years [a program first] and we expect to head back,” Demarest said. “Advancing in the playoffs is priority number one. It will be harder this year, but we have great depth with 45 guys and quite a bit of returning talent.”

Some of this talent includes third-year starting goalie Brady Edwards, as well as fourth-year starters faceoff Cole Deaver and defender John Hughey. Deaver hustles in order to provide his team with extra possessions, and Hughey is of great importance on a team that prides itself on its defense.

“We have always been a team that has relied on defense to get use through, but this year we have some real firepower in our attack,” Demarest said.

The team returns Jeff Williams, the team’s most balanced offensive player, and Miller Barbour, who are poised to lead the powerful Pack offense.

The team will begin its 2016 spring season, which starts on Feb. 6, with an away game against the Georgia Bulldogs.

The Pack will host Buffalo March 14 at Method Road field for its first home game of the season.

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Swim & Dive at North Carolina 5:00 PM

Men’s basketball vs Miami 3:00 PM

Woman’s basketball vs.

Virginia 7:30 PM

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Drew Nantais Sports Editor

Following a disappointing outing against in-state rival Duke, the Wolfpack hopes its recent luck will change as it hosts the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at PNC Arena Wednesday night.

The Wolfpack (11-9, 1-6 ACC) has been all over the place since ACC play began at the beginning of the month. The Yellow Jackets (11-8, 1-5 ACC), much like State, have struggled mightily in ACC play. However, their one conference win this season was a big one, as they defeated No. 4 Virginia 68-64 in Atlanta.

State failed to capitalize in key games against a reeling Duke team and a North Carolina team that wasn’t its best at the time.

It has also failed to take advantage of winnable games at home against Louisville and on the road against Virginia Tech. Wednesday’s game is a must-win for the Pack if it wants any shot at an atlarge bid to the NCAA Tournament. The 0-5 start to ACC play put the Pack in a hole it may not be able to dig itself out of. And with the ACC’s level of competition this season, wins will be far and few between as the Pack faces several teams ranked in the AP Top 25 this season.

The Yellow Jackets are led by senior guard Marcus Georges-

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Abdul-Malik Abu drives and looks to pass into the paint in the second half of the game versus Duke. Abu finished the game with 14 points, five rebounds, two assists, one block and one steal. NC State lost to the Duke Blue Devils 88-78 at PNC Arena Saturday.

Hunt and graduate student Adam Smith, who played integral parts in nonconference wins over quality teams Virginia Commonwealth, Arkansas and Tennessee. The veteran backcourt duo averages 29.9 combined points per game for Georgia Tech, who also boasts one of the nation’s top frontcourt performers in senior Charles Mitchell. Mitchell averages 11.7 points per game and

10.9 rebounds per game and has posted 11 double-doubles in 19 games this season, tied for ninth in the country.

Junior Anthony “Cat” Barber had a terrific game against the Blue Devils Saturday, scoring 19 points before injuring his knee during a collision with a Duke player. Barber is averaging 22.1 points per game along with 4.7 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game

on the season. Sophomore AbdulMalik Abu will have his hands full down in the low post when he matches up with Mitchell. Abu scored 14 points and grabbed five rebounds against the Blue Devils, but Duke’s frontcourt presence is almost nonexistent.

One issue State’s faced this season is depth, especially with the

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Canes dominate Blackhawks in upset David Kehrli Staff Writer

The Ca rolina Hurrica nes ea rned a muchneeded two points in the standings to help in their playoff push by defeating the Chicago Blackhawks 5-0 Tuesday night at PNC Arena.

Carolina came into the game knowing it had to show up on time, and at the very least match the work ethic of Chicago — the top team in the Western Conference and one with more talent than any other team in the NHL. It did exactly that and more in the first period, completely dominating the Hawks, outshooting them 16-6 and taking a 3-0 lead into the first intermission.

“We’ve been a good team

here for a while now,” Carolina head coach Bill Peters said. “What we like is it’s going in the right direction.”

The Hurricanes jumped ahead of the defending Stanley Cup Champions just two minutes into the game on a goal from forward Jeff Skinner, who banged a rebound past Black hawks netminder Corey Crawford.

Ca nes for wa rd R i ley Nash deflected a shot from rookie defenseman Jaccob Slavin that found its way past Crawford, extending Carolina’s lead to two goals with seven minutes left in the opening frame.

“We got the lead, and stayed with the lead, and built on it,” Hurricanes captain and forward Eric Staal said. “It’s a tough league — I don’t care who

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Hurricanes left wing Joakim Nordstrom pumps his arms to the fans after scoring a goal in the second period. Nordstrom had one goal with three shots on goal. The Carolina Hurricanes pummeled the Chicago Blackhawks, who have the best record in the NHL, 5-0 at PNC Arena on Tuesday.

you are — to come back, especia l ly when you’re down by a few. I liked the way that we played, fully, through 60 minutes.”

The Canes weren’t done

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Pack football unveils formidable nonconference slate W

ith the offseason in flux after an up-and-down 2015 season, the NC State football team released its schedule for the 2016 season Tuesday.

Unlike in years past, the Wolfpack (7-6, 3-5 ACC) has a somewhat-hefty nonconference slate that includes Daniel Lacy William & Mary, Sports Editor East Carolina, Old Dominion and No. 4 Notre Dame, with the latter being by far the most formidable among the four.

This offers an obvious upgrade in competition over last year’s weak schedule.

In 2015, the Pack faced nonconference teams Troy, Eastern Kentucky, Old Dominion and South Alabama in its first four games of the season. NC State won these games handily by a combined score of 185-48. This utter domination led to fans having unrealistic ex-

pectations for NC State, as it ended the season as an average ACC team.

Looking further into last year’s schedule, it is clear as to why the Wolfpack had the sudden drop-off when it entered ACC competition.

None of the teams were in a Power 5 conference, as Troy and South Alabama are in the Sun Belt, ODU is in Conference-USA and EKU is in the Ohio Valley. Additionally, EKU was the only team that finished with a winning record (65, 5-3 OVC), but that was largely due to the fact that the majority of its opponents were fellow FCS schools. That being said, let’s look at the non-conference teams for the 2016 season.

While William & Mary is also part of the FCS, hailing from the Colonial Athletic Association, it finished second in its conference with a record of 9-4 (6-2 CAA).

Additionally, it held its own against Virginia, losing by less than a score, 35-29. Just like it did for the

men’s basketball team this season, it could pose a surprisingly tough challenge for the Wolfpack, who opens its season against the Tribe Sept. 3 on Wolfpack Club Day. Next up will be on the road against East Carolina, who beat NC State handily in their last matchup, 42-28 in 2013 at Carter-Finley Stadium. While the Pirates’ play has dropped off in the last couple seasons, as its 5-7 record last season led to the firing of head coach Ruffin McNeill, the road contest in Greenville, North Carolina, will be no cakewalk for the Wolfpack.

ECU is a team that has plenty of talent and a young but experienced head coach Scottie Montgomery, who worked with Duke and the Pittsburgh Steelers in the past.

NC State returns home Sept.

17, as it faces ODU for the third year in a row in the Hall of Fame/ All-Sports Reunion. While the Pack endured a close 46-34 fight against the Monarchs in 2014, it

took care of business with little issue last year, winning 38-14. This is the only thing that remains the same from last year’s nonconference portion of the schedule.

Lastly is Notre Dame Oct. 8, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Carter-Finley Stadium.

This is undoubtedly the biggest nonconference game in recent memory. While Notre Dame isn’t technically in a Power 5 conference, its only three losses came to Ohio State, Clemson and Stanford, who all finished the season in the top 10. Additionally, the Fighting Irish’s biggest victories came against Temple, Pittsburgh and Navy, who all finished the season with five losses or fewer, despite losing starting quarterback Malik Zaire at the beginning of the season.

While some might be intimidated by the tougher schedule, I think it will be better for the team and fans alike. For the team, it will

be better prepared as it faces ACC foes, most notably powerhouses Clemson and Florida State and rising rival UNC-Chapel Hill. For the fans, it will bring them down to reality and likely prevent the unrealistic expectations many had for the Wolfpack in 2015.

The biggest downside is, rather than having four “gimme” wins last season, the Pack has maybe two. While this won’t necessarily affect its record in the ACC or its spot in the standings, it will make it more difficult to earn bowl eligibility.

Teams need at least six wins to become bowl eligible. While NC State only needed three wins in the ACC in each of the past two years to earn a spot in a bowl game, the Wolfpack will likely have to fare better against in-conference opponents if it wants to participate in a bowl game for the third year in a row.