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Oakwood Cemetery asks for donations to clean up vandalism

North Carolina Museum of Art extends Escher exhibit Because of strong demand, the M.C. Escher exhibit will be extended another week. “The Worlds of M.C. Escher: Nature, Science and Imagination” opened Oct. 17 and was scheduled to run through Jan. 17. It will now go until Jan. 24, with extended hours. The exhibit has attracted about 81,000 visitors, who were from all 50 states, according to director Lawrence J. Wheeler. The Escher exhibit runs concurrently with Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester exhibit, which features pages from his 500-year-old notebook.

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UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University ban hoverboards in residence halls

The use, storage and any charging of hoverboards inside on-campus residence halls at UNC-CH and NCCU are banned as of Tuesday.

Officials at UNC-CH are working to ban them across campus, according to its spokesperson.

Officials stated they were concerned for the safety of their students. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating the fires caused by explosive batteries and said hoverboards are responsible for dozens of injuries.

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IN BRIEF Nine monuments at Oakwood Cemetery, including former North Carolina Gov. Charles Aycock’s grave were spray-painted with anti-racist comments like “white supremacist,” “slavery,” “KKK” and “Not Heroes.” Other high-ranking officers had their graves defaced as well. The cemetery is asking for $23,000 in donations to offset the damage. The cemetery hasn’t been vandalized since the 1980s, according to Oakwood cemetery’s executive director.

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Industrial hemp has taken a big step forward on the long road back from being named a Schedule 1 drug in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

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NCSU Dance Company members perform “Had Not That Accident Befallen Her,” choreographed

by Robin Harris, director of the NC State Dance Program.

Dancers delight — NC State now offers dance minor Ashleigh Polisky Correspondent

NC State students who have a passion for dance and want to improve their knowledge and skills can now apply for the dance minor, beginning fall 2016. Styles included in the program range from clogging, to African dance, to ballet and modern dance.

Elizabeth Fath, a health and exercise studies professor, said that she is excited for the new

dance minor as an NC State alumna because the school hasn’t added anything new to the dance program since she graduated.

“There are many many students involved in dance here at NC State,” Fath said. “There are the two academic dance companies, but then there are also probably 18 other student clubs with all different types of dance; things that aren’t always being addressed on the academic

“If we got this money today, we are so prepared to help out that we could potentially get seeds in the ground as a secondary crop this year.” ­—Warren Williams, director of operations for the NCIHA

From being considered a narcotic along with the likes of heroin, LSD and ecstasy, the non-psychoactive member of the Cannabis family became legal to grow in North Carolina when Gov. Pat McCrory allowed Senate Bill 313 to go un-vetoed in late October.

Senate Bill 313 authorizes an industrial hemp pilot program, a trial-run for a larger scale program, and establishes the structure and powers of a regulatory commission which will be responsible for overseeing the future

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Libraries get grant to diversify Makerspace Staff Report

NCSU Libraries will host a series of hands-on workshops and public talks by guest lecturers intended to increase and sustain gender diversity in the Libraries Makerspace. This was made possible when NCSU Libraries received a $2,500 University Diversity Mini-Grant from the NC State Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity.

The “Making Space” series aims to target women in STEM fields and is a collaborative initiative between NCSU Libraries Makerspaces, NC State’s Women in Science and Engineering Village, College of Textiles faculty and the College of Engi-

neering’s Women in Engineering Program.

Organizers for the “Making Space” series hope that it will close the gender gap in STEM fields by raising awareness among women about how to access tools and technology. They also hope the events will serve as a networking opportunity for women in the NC State community and create a more comfortable atmosphere for first-time users.

Makerspace is an area at D.H. Hill and Hunt libraries that includes services that offer access to tools including 3-D printers, laser cutters, electronics prototyping platforms, and workstations and sewing machines.

The calendar of events is to the right:

Tuesday, Feb. 2 VIDEO GAMES, PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE USER EXPERIENCE WITH DR. CELIA HODENT (EPIC GAMES) D.H. Hill Library Auditorium 4p.m.-5p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 2 USER EXPERIENCE IN VIDEO GAME DESIGN D.H. Hill Library Auditorium 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 31 TEKNIKIO FOUNDER DEREN GULER: ENGINEERING AN ENGINEERING TOOLSET FOR GIRLS — AND BOYS TOO D.H. Hill Library Technology Sandbox 3 p.m.-4p.m.

Thursday, March 31 FUTURE WEARABLES D.H. Hill Library Technology Sandbox 6p.m.-9p.m.

Hog waste causes environmental, socioeconomic disasters Conor Kennedy Staff Writer

The odor outside of industrial swine operations is worst at 6 a.m. and p.m. Still, some residents have experienced a stench so potent it kept them up at night. Children whose homes are too close to these Concentrated Animal Feed Operations are mocked in school for smelling like hog waste. These accounts were collected by Steve Wing, an epidemiologist who investigated the major swine production industry in North Carolina in 2013. Since then, major swine operations continue to grow in size and concentration.

These CAFOs are concentrated in the coastal plains region of North Carolina, east of the Neuse River. The area’s high concentration of farms makes it inevitable that residential communities overlap with big agriculture.

The level of pollution in these communities can sometimes be so bad that people can’t spend long periods of time outside without ill effects. People in Duplin County communities have complained that long periods of exposure resulted in coughing, gagging and feelings of nausea. An environmental factor with this level of impact, imposed by pork producers, limits people’s abilities to operate normally on a day-to-day basis.

According to a study conducted by Wing, the excess of hog operations is greatest in areas

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with both high poverty and high percentage of non-whites. The imbalance created by this concentration of major factory farms is not even a necessary evil. Before swine production was dominated by major CAFOs, hog operations were more evenly distributed and reasonable in size, according to the North Carolina Waterkeeper Alliance’s CAFO campaign manager, Rick Dove.

The Pure Water Campaign strives for a solution that holds swine producers accountable for the increase in harmful environmental impact with no increase in the number of swine produced. A century ago there were about 60 million swine being bred for the meat industry. Today, that number remains accurate, with only minor fluctuations during the years. Despite this consistency in pig population, reports continue to emerge that document the environmental catastrophes associated with swine production, according to Dove.

North Carolina remains the second-largest producer of swine in the U.S., behind Iowa.

In Iowa, there are more than 40,000 people operating more than 6,000 swine farms that produce as many as 20 million pigs at any given time, according to the Iowa Pork Producers Association. In North Carolina, there are about 10 million factory-farmed hogs being raised on more than 8,000 different operations. Yet, with only half the number of

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A lagoon for storing hog waste at Vanguard Farms in Beaufort County, North Carolina.

swine, North Carolina faces more and bigger ecological issues. These issues are the result of a disproportionate concentration of farms in the eastern portion of North Carolina.

A myriad studies produced by various agencies have documented the development of waste problems related to swine farming in North Carolina. A 1995 study of the odors produced by major swine operations showed that people living in close proximity experienced more feelings of tension, depression, anger, fatigue and confusion. In 2005, a study of hog farms in Duplin and Sampson counties

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showed that residents were prone to increased instances of respiratory, sinus and nausea problems. A 2014 study called for further attention to be paid to the ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, gases that could be produced in harmful quantities depending on the size of the operation.

These studies come after years of reported catastrophes. In 1969, a cholera epidemic affected a moderate farm owned by Wendell Murphy in North Carolina. The cholera out-

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POLICE BLOTTER

2:32 PM | UNSECURED BUILDING Student Health Center While on patrol, officers located exterior of building to be unsecured.

ECO’s made contact with SAT to have building secured.

January 1 12:39 AM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Main Campus Dr/CCMS Student was cited for speeding.

12:45 AM | TRESPASSING Sigma Nu Officers responded to this location in reference to unknown students inside the building. First student was issued a citation for Possession of Marijuana and Underage Possession of Alcohol. Tow additional students were issued a citations for Underage Possession of Alcohol. Juvenile was issued a citation for Underage Possession of Alcohol. All three students were referred to the University.

1:25 AM | WELFARE CHECK Innovation Hall Officers conducted welfare check on student. Student was located sleeping and had not heard earlier attempts to contact him by family.

6:34 PM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Public Safety Center Student reported being sexually assaulted at off campus location.

Victim was provided with university resources and RPD was notified regarding investigation. Appropriate notifications were made.

January 2 4:16 AM | WELFARE CHECK Faircloth St/Wade Ave While on patrol, officer heard yelling coming from vehicle. Vehicle was stopped and student stated he was stressed. On call counselor was notified and notified student was not a danger to himself. Welfare referral was issued.

6:28 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON North Hall Report of suspicious subject yelling at cars. Officers located non-student walking down the street singing loudly. No further action taken.

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pilot program participants. This commission will also be responsible for implementing university research programs.

The North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association, the lobbying group that was the driving force behind this legislation, and other long-time activists are celebrating this as a victory, but now the real work begins: creating an industry from scratch.

According to Warren Williams, director of operations for the NCIHA, the infrastructure and interest from farmers is there to get started, as are the prospects for the future of North Carolina, but there are still obstacles to having seeds in the ground.

In order for any moves to be made toward growing hemp, the NCIHA must raise $200,000 from private funds in order to cover the operations of the regulatory commission that would oversee hemp production. This is because the most recent budget did not allocate enough funds to cover this commission, forcing the writers of the SB 313 to include a section stating that the commission “shall not meet or undertake any of its powers and duties … until it has obtained funding from sources other than State funds of at least two hundred thousand dollars” to support its operations.

“The public funds were not available,” Williams said. “Nothing could happen until the budget was passed because [the legislators] didn’t

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side. Then there are even more students who dance professionally in regional companies and who produce their own work. We’re trying to find a home or find a community for all of those people, integrating all the great academics we have here at NC State.”

The minor is designed to encourage balance while still allowing stu-

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break seemed to have been a result of a drastic increase in the number of swine being raised on the farm. After the government quarantined the farm and ordered the culling of infected animals, Murphy used the opportunity to diversify his business and called for others to raise his swine while he provided the necessary equipment.

By 1986, Murphy Family Farms had become the major producer of swine in the state, and in 1988, Wendell Murphy was elected to the State Senate. In the 30 years after the cholera outbreak that affected Murphy’s farms, there were 46 reported instances of waste spillage in farms owned

by Murphy. Throughout its

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esse Turner, landscape architecture professor of practice and instructor of the design/build studio course offered to seniors and graduate students studying landscape architecture, tries to pull out inland sea oats, an invasive species, in the Artists’ Backyard between Owen and Turlington Hall Wednesday. Turner was pulling it out because the plant species was taking over the area. “We’ve built all these landscapes, and we don’t want it to take over everything,” Turner said.

know if [the state government] would have the $200,000 or not, so in order to form the commission, we needed $200,000. If the public funds were available, great, but in order to get the law passed, we had to place into the law that private funds would be used.”

Once this money is raised, the commission will name five members: the commissioner of agriculture, a chief of police, a sheriff, a professor from a state university (either from NC State or NC A&T) who teaches agricultural science and a full-time farmer with more than 10 years of experience.

“If we got this money today, we are so prepared to help out that we could potentially get seeds in the ground as a secondary crop this year,” Williams said. “There’s still a lot of work to be done, but if we got the money by the end of January we could potentially have the seeds in the ground this year.”

Steve Lommel, associate dean for research, said that NC State is “in a holding pattern” until this money gets raised. Raising this money is the challenge now for Williams and the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association.

Raising this money is the challenge now for Williams and the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association.

The stigmatization of hemp as a psychoactive drug in the same class as “blue dream” and “OG Kush” has kept it out of major industrial production for decades, leaving a product that can be used to produce eco-friendly concrete, fabrics, paper, car parts and treat epilepsy, largely untapped. Williams said that even though the 2014

dents to take courses they are interested in. Students seeking a dance minor are required to take courses from each category so that they become well-rounded. Dance theory classes will also be required, such as Dance and Society and Current Trends in Dance. Creative courses include Dance Composition and Independent Study in Dance. Practice courses, which include both performance- and technique-based courses, range from social dance to modern dance.

explosive expansion, Murphy Family Farms has been the target of several ecological lawsuits. One particular operation owned by Murphy was sued twice in 1999 and 2000 and experienced a spill mid-lawsuit both times.

While Murphy is one of the worst examples of big business negatively impacting the environment, any producer might create these circumstances if they have a major concentration of animals combined with outdated waste management systems.

Proponents of major CAFOs would argue that their management systems present no increase in harmful aftereffects. The harmful effects purported by environmental lobbyists, including the contamination of groundwater and the degradation of air quality, seem to have been

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The lobbying group The North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association was the driving force behind Senate Bill 313.

Farm Bill legalized hemp for research purposes nationally, the communities of people that stand to benefit from producing hemp are still held back by this misconception.

“We’ve reached out to the larger farming community and anyone who would potentially be able to profit business-wise from this,” Williams said. “Unfortunately, even under the 2014 Farm Bill they are still a little bit concerned about the [Controlled Substances Act]. North Carolina has passed the law, and we believe that if everyone is following the law, no one should have any prob-

The minor is designed to drive students forward in their careers, services and artistry. The program helps those who are preparing for graduate study, as well as those who wish to pursue careers as performers, choreographers, educators or dance therapists. The minor can also help in other fields such as arts entrepreneurs or administrators, physical therapists, physicians, or in disciplines such as Africana studies, design, film and engineering.

“One thing [the minor] does for

carefully accounted for resulting in no cause for alarm.

According to the swine experts at NC State, a CAFO is any facility that houses more than 1,000 animals, any facility that houses more than 300 animals and discharges waste directly into accessible waterways or any facility that the permitting body designates on a case-by-case basis. This is true, and there are some small family-held operations that have these low numbers, but the vast majority of disaster inducing CAFOs have swine populations in the thousands.

The narrative proponents of the pork industry currently face is that the waste from these hundreds of animals is collected and stored in manmade, open-air, lagoons that are treated with chemicals and used as fertilizer spray.

lems. The business community is still concerned on a federal level.”

Andrew Klein, NC State alumnus and founder of the NC State chapter of the Raleigh Hemp Society, said that he feels that North Carolina is on the right track but won’t be satisfied until the program is in action.

“The goal of legalizing hemp in North Carolina was absolutely reached, but I won’t be happy until North Carolina farmers begin to plant the seed and grow hemp,” Klein said.

students who have already been in perhaps already dancing their entire lives or just interested in dance, this is going to give them the academic component,” Fath said. “Often times when students are growing up, and they’re dancing in a dance studio for example, they only have the physical practice. They don’t know anything about the history, they don’t know anything about the analysis, they don’t often get improvisational work or choreography instruction. So this is going

Environmental lobbyists claim that these practices are irresponsible. An NC State expert disagrees.

“It is very difficult not to be environmentally conscious in North Carolina given the regulations that govern these CAFOs,” said Mark Knauer, assistant professor of animal science and extension swine specialist.

Several government agencies regulate the waste management of major swine CAFOs, including the Department of Environmental Quality, which has three divisions dedicated to waste management, water and air quality. However, the degree of cleanliness varies among the many farms. These agencies are supposed to inspect the integrity of waste cesspools which are required to be built within a certain regulated

to bring you to a more well-rounded understanding of dance and how it functions in society.”

Fath also described how a dance minor will help students who are just interested in dancing, even if they don’t make a career out of it.

She said that dance teaches students lessons that can be applied to any discipline and qualities that employers look for such as discipline, creative thinking and group work.

spec, but a certain margin of error must be accounted for when dealing with more than 8,000 farms. This results in some farms with waste management systems that aren’t entirely environmentally sound.

“They are designed as anaerobic treatment systems,” said Mark Rice, extension specialist and member of the Animal Waste Management team.

While these treatment systems do serve some sort of purpose, they incur obvious risks. Open-air treatment systems are exposed and vulnerable to wind and rain that can result in disastrous spills of toxic materials. The top water layer of waste treatment lagoons, sometimes used to fertilize fields, can result in groundwater contamination.

This supposedly safe materi-

al, when poured on unlined ground and in indiscriminate amounts, has been linked with the contamination of underground wells.

Examinations of NC State swine facilities were extremely clean, but this is not the typical state of the major industrial operations according to Dove. The lack of transparency in big agriculture contributes to the obfuscation of a multi-billion-dollar industry that affects millions of people. These people are being marginalized when more could possibly be done to alleviate the injustices brought against them while still maintaining production levels.

“They are taking all our freedoms away,” said Elsie Herring of the impact on her life in an interview with Wing.

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recent article in the Technician talked about the university distancing itself from the Chaplains’ Cooperative Ministry.

The article claims that it James was the CCM’s failure to Twiddy promote religious diversity Correspondent that led to this change, stating that there was only one non-Christian group within the CCM. While it is clear that this is a reasonable concern and that the CCM failed to live up to the diversity the university required from it, the CCM should not have been allowed to operate with the support of the university in the first place, but especially since it seemed to support one religion in particular.

Because NC State is a public university, run by the state, there should be no religious groups that are given support by the university. Individual groups should have the right to meet on campus as students of the university, but when those groups are given special support and privileges from the university, a line is crossed. The CCM was given easier access to parking passes, NC State buildings and an office in Talley Student Union, according to the Technician. This means that this religious group was given direct support from the university.

While it is wrong for a religious group to

be given special benefits from a public university, the situation is made worse when the group supports one religion. The vast majority of the group members in the CCM were Christian groups, which is the dominant religion within the United States and North Carolina. A group that professes religious diversity but ends up supporting the dominant faith comes at no surprise. More students subscribe to that religion than any other, and so it would make sense that more students of a Christian faith would want to get involved with something like that, on a proportional basis.

At the end of the day, the CCM was supported by the university. Even though it intended to seek religious diversity, it ended up specifically backing the dominant religion in our culture. So indirectly, the university ended up giving special benefits to that religion.

I am not trying to suggest that the people in charge of the CCM intended for this to be the outcome. I have no doubt that leaders of the CCM genuinely wanted to promote religious diversity on campus and give students spiritual guidance; this is a noble cause and one that is worthy of an effort on campus. But, you know the proverb about good intentions.

I don’t know what to do,” our guide muttered as we walked down a winding trail to a road far below.

Logan I was traveling with my Graham brother in rural Myanmar, Correspondent a country that has faced continuous civil unrest ever since it gained its independence in 1948. For years, ethnic rebel groups have been fighting against the governing military and when we were there last summer, unrest in the country was killing well over a person a week.

Throughout our three-day trek through the rebelling Shan State of Myanmar, we had seen numerous rebel soldiers stalking through the wooded hills with AK-47’s in tow. A military checkpoint now waited ahead of us on the road below causing our guide so much stress.

“I don’t know what to do,” our guide, Johnny, said again.

Confused, my brother and I asked Johnny what the problem was. As we zig-zagged down the hillside ever closer to the military checkpoint, Johnny explained.

“Below us is a checkpoint,” he said. “And when we reach it, the officers there will ask me for the location of any rebel soldiers we’ve seen on our trek. I can either give up the rebel soldier’s locations, making the rebels hate me, or I cannot give up their location, making the military hate me. I don’t know what to do.”

Not fully understanding the consequences of the decision that Johnny faced, he went on to tell us a story of one of his friends who had been asked the same question. Confronted by two military soldiers brandishing guns, Johnny’s friend was threatened into giving up a rebel soldier’s location.

Then, three days later, Johnny’s friend received a knock at his door. He opened it to a pair of rebel soldiers. The rebels took him, beat him up, threatened to kill him and threw him back on his doorstep a day later — dirtied, bloodied and terrified. A horrific abduction was the consequence of betraying the rebels, and the consequence for betraying the military would be just as catastrophic.

This was Myanmar just five months ago, a war-torn nation that saw the terrors Johnny described daily. Overseeing it all was a military government with complete control but no popular support. Today, however, Myanmar is remarkably more upbeat.

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free time, chances are that it’ll be these next few days. Use this extra time to start the semester off on the right foot.

Get organized. When the f irst tests do roll around, it’s much easier to study from chronological notes in a binder, for instance, than a pile of loose-leaf papers. Gear up with the supplies you need to keep all your assignments accounted for. Notebooks and folders are your friends.

Sleep. There’s no point in taking notes if you can’t even read them because you’re too tired in class to write something legible as you doze off. No excuses for all nighters yet — we just started. Try to establish a reasonable sleeping schedule while you can. Although college can throw some unpredictable situations your way more often than not, it never hurts to aim for a healthy bedtime.

Yes, your parents aren’t here, and no, you’re not 6 years old. That doesn’t mean you can’t reward yourself with some time to recharge. It’s not hard to close your eyes 15, 30, 45 minutes earlier. Your body will thank you for it.

Schedule time to do all the things you want to while you have the time to do them. Go to the gym — being physically active with get your mind working too. Meet up with old friends — once the semester re-

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ally kicks in, it’s tough to find even an hour or two that’s free in both schedules. Even start making time for homework. It’s nearly impossible to get ahead in classes when you start off being behind. If you have your books, go ahead and f lip through the first chapter or two so you know what to expect before you even walk into class.

It also helps to do a test run. Find all your classrooms beforehand. Notice that the G before the number means ground level and that WI means Withers and not Witherspoon, Winston or Williams. Scope out your classrooms and think about the seat you want, so you won’t have to play musical chairs on the first day. Figure out where you’ll be most comfortable because, chances are, you’ll learn best there.

There are plenty of ways to prepare for the semester before it takes off.

Do yourself a favor and take advantage of those opportunities to make this semester your best one yet. Because before you know it, you’ll be back on break this spring, perusing through the kitchen fridge again, wondering how you got so sleepy and why all your notes are a mess. Start this semester the way you want to f inish it: prepared.

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“The rebels took him, beat him up, threatened to kill him and threw him back on his doorstep a day later — dirtied, bloodied and terrified.” were thrown out.

Many believed the military would again throw out the election results, yet just three days after the election, the military acknowledged the victory of the NLD and conceded defeat. Years of citizens fighting for a better Myanmar finally achieved a dramatic change.

Today, two months following the election, the military is still honoring the election results, and Myanmar is readying for the country’s first nationally elected politicians to be sworn in come February. Myanmar, a country which just a few months ago was in the throngs of a civil war, now has legitimate hope for a peaceful future.

In light of all the terrible atrocities occurring around the world today, we can often forget that people fighting for good eventually prevail. It took more than half a century in Myanmar, but the country’s national elections stand out as proof of this: They show us why we stand up against what’s wrong in this world. Only by fighting for what’s right can a country be ruled by those it wants, can people have a say in their government and can a Burmese guide approach a military checkpoint without feeling afraid for his life.

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Starting off fresh verything always seems more difficult after a vacation. The logic is simple: The longer the break, the harder it is to get Missy back in the swing Furman of things. Af ter a Staff Columnist three-week w inter break, starting up that whole school thing again is something I’d personally rather keep on the back burner so I could continue to enjoy being in my hometown, eating my favorite meals and not setting my alarm.

Let’s face it, probably any option in your kitchen fridge or pantry is preferable to what you usually grab from the dining hall or C-store.

Of course it’s always exciting to get back to campus and catch up with friends and roommates. With laughter from funny holiday stories and a great morale from all your lifechanging, earth-shattering New Year’s resolutions, who’s worried about classes and homework? Bam, then the new semester hits. Any chance Target and Wal-Mart will take it back along with all the other holiday returns? Maybe I’ll add that to my wish list for next year.

Fortunately, most professors introduce the syllabus on the first day and give the traditional “this is what this class is all about” speech.

If there’s one week of the semester where you’re going to have some

hosted their third national election in the country’s history and only the second election in which the National Lesage for Democracy, the major opposition party to the military, was able to participate.

The NLD, a party led by Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won the election in a landslide, gaining just less than 80 percent of contested seats. However, nearly the same result occurred in 1990 when the Myanmar military refused to give up its seat in Parliament, and the results of the national election

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Center for Science fights for clinic name change Alexandra Goodfred Staff Writer

All day long, children are marketed to buy junk foods — it’s on TV, inside vending machines in schools and the sponsor of afterschool sports. A new inadvertent advertisement for junk food has sprouted close to home according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest: the recently renamed Krispy Kreme Challenge Children’s Specialty Clinic.

Since 2006, the Krispy Kreme Challenge, a 5-mile race, has been a supporter of the North Carolina Children’s Hospital and the sick and injured children it caters to. The hospital’s goal is to provide the best care possible to patients from all over North Carolina, regardless of the families’ ability to pay, according to the Krispy Kreme Challenge website.

The money donated by the NC State Park Scholars who facilitate the Krispy Kreme Challenge not only funds the medical equipment and programs for treatment and care, but also the care for the emotional well-being of the children by providing play equipment and onsite activities for patients.

NC Chi ldren’s Hospita l also has a fully accredited UNC Hospital School to ensure its patients do not experience an educational disadvantage in addition to being ill.

Despite t he good t he money raised by the Krispy K reme Cha l lenge does, the use of the brand inadvertently markets Krispy Kreme’s donuts to children.

Jessica A lmy, the senior nutrition policy counsel for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said she believes that kids are advertised to buy junk food from companies too much

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Many students dress up to participate in the annual Krispy Kreme Challenge, a 5-mile race with proceeds benefitting the North Carolina Children’s Hospital.

Here, these participants brought their own “Lord of the Rings”-theme music along with costumes to run with.

and encourages companies to do better in advertising. She says this can be done by only advertising the healthiest food on kids’ televisions.

“We are living in a culture where there’s so much marketing — kids will eat doughnuts anyway,” Almy said. “Changing the advertising for food to children is one piece of a bigger vision for kids’ health. We want more balance, to have health promoted, and this hospital name change is one more example of going in the wrong direction.”

Pa rk Schola r Rebeka h Millsaps, the race director for the Krispy Kreme Challenge and a senior studying business administration, stated that things are not finalized yet and could not give an official comment.

“ We a r e s t i l l g o i n g through stuf f about the naming with the Children’s Hospital, and we are not at liberty to discuss anything about it at this point,” Millsaps said.

Almy and the Center for Science in the Public Interest are disappointed in the rename, believing that it sends the wrong message to both kids and parents.

“It’s great that the students raised the money, and we’d be fine with any name that doesn’t have Krispy Kreme in it,” Almy said.

“We’d be happy to have it named after the Park Scholars themselves.”

Almy said she believes it is important to recognize the gift made by the Park Scholars in its donation of $2 million. The concern of the Center is that the name

change will not make people think about the run, but rather the corporation the run is named after.

“The main problem is it is free advertising for Krispy Kreme, and naming the hospital after the Krispy Kreme Challenge is inadvertently advertising for a junk food brand,” Almy said.

The petition to prevent the renaming of the Children’s Specialty Clinic was not successful before the renaming occurred, but the Center is not giving up.

Almy said that it is planning to continue pushing the petition and would welcome the opportunity to meet with UNC hospitals to discuss good opportunities to affirm kids’ health.

“Our supporters are surprised K rispy K reme is

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One of Krispy Kreme’s signature doughnuts is the heartshaped one, which is available with a variety of different fillings.

not paying for the name change,” Almy said. “It’s fantastic that students are taking an interest in the Children’s Health Clinic,

but calling the clinic the Krispy Kreme Challenge Clinic undermines doctors’ credibility and sends conf licting messages.”

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Hillsborough St. transformation: then and now Sam Roberson Features Editor

The buildings that make up the streetscape of Hillsborough, like many college streets, are in a perpetual state of demolition and construction efforts. Students at NC State have witnessed the rise of an array of apartment complexes and the fall of several bars and businesses. Too many for most to keep up with. This time last year, Aloft Raleigh and the Stanhope apartments were still in relatively early construction phases.

Even though Hillsborough Street is constantly changing, after a while, buildings can blend in, and it feels as if they’ve always been there. Soon, it may be hard for future students to imagine that across from the Bell Tower, there was no modern hotel with upscale storefronts, but an old strip mall with a record store and convenience mart.

During winter break, the Hillsborough Street and NC State community lost McDaids Irish Restaurant & Pub, known for its crowded Wednesday night dance parties. Although it was packed to capacity late Wednesday nights, the restaurant and bar was often sparsely populated during the day. McDaids took the place of Porter’s City Tavern, an upscale restaurant that many professors regarded as the nicest restaurant to take visitors in walking distance of campus, but which ultimately had to close its doors as well.

This time last year, Hillsborough Street had two fewer buildings of more than five stories. Many bemoan the additions of high-rise buildings to Hillsborough Street. Still, the street will continue to grow with more developers who are willing to provide for a student body and growing city. It’s already hard to imagine what Hillsborough Street will look like at the onset of 2017.

A view from the lounge balcony of the newly constructed Aloft Raleigh on Hillsborough Street.

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Stanhope is a new student apartment and retail complex that houses 300 student apartments, a retail center that includes a CVS Pharmacy and a parking deck. The complex is built on the lot that had parking and vacant storefronts on the 3000 block of Hillsborough Street, between Concord Street and Friendly Drive.

McDaids Irish Restaurant and Pub, which opened in the fall of 2013, is closed for business as of Jan. 1. McDaids was known for its Wednesday night dance parties, but was less populated during the day.

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Tech over the weekend, so a home win over a Louisville team it can beat would be a huge momentum builder.

And with a brutal slate of ACC games still to come, the last the thing the Pack wants to do is lose its first two conference games.

After Thursday’s game against the Cardinals, the Wolfpack hits the road Sunday and travels to Winston-Salem to take on the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest. The Pack then returns home Jan. 13 for a matchup with the Florida State Seminoles.

says what he wants to say, but he actually preps for hours and hours, day and night, going to games, reading articles and formulating his own opinion.”

Glasgow compared Ovies and his role in the show to that of other well-known, nationally syndicated sports talk radio hosts.

“All the great sports host like Jim Rome, Colin Cowherd, even the news guys like Rush Lim-

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baugh, Sean Hannity or Howard Stern, they’re all prep monsters,” Glasgow said. “They’re talented cats, but unless you prep for a four/five-hour show you’re not going to be able to execute it daily.”

A big challenge for Ovies is trying to keep evolving as the landscape of the business is always changing, never staying put for longer than just a couple years. He even noticed how much it has changed since his days at State listening to sports talk.

“It used to be one host, one

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voice, one topic for an hour trying to elicit phone calls,” Ovies said. “It was also kind of like guy-talk radio. So in 15 years, it’s gotten away from that because the way ratings are taken and the way people listen to the show.”

Despite t he ever-evolv ing business, Ovies is always up for the challenge as he continues to try and keep listeners tuned in to hear his takes on the day’s top sports stories.

“Sports talk radio has evolved into more like TV,” Ovies said.

“You only have people’s atten-

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But when it boils down to the best part of his job, well, that is an easy question for Ovies to answer.

“I’m pretty lucky to just shoot the shit about sports for four hours a day,” Ovies said. “I mean it’s still work, but it’s not like work, work; it’s much more enjoyable than that, and I’d take that over a desk job any day of the week.”

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The No. 16 Louisville Cardinals pay a visit to PNC Arena Thursday night as the Wolfpack hosts its first regular season conference home game of 2016.

The Wolfpack (10-4, 0-1 ACC) plays host to Louisville (12-2, 1-0 ACC) after falling to the Virginia Tech Hokies in overtime Saturday. The Pack held a 16-point lead during the first half in Blacksburg, Virginia, but it did not prove insurmountable as the Hokies rallied to force overtime and eventually came out on top.

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Sophomore Abdul-Malik Abu pushes past the High Point defense during the 76-73 buzzerbeating thriller over High Point University in PNC Arena Dec. 16

Wake Forest, the Cards have racked up 11 wins against teams that should be considered less than spectacular. With wins over Samford and North Florida, many sub-par teams have crossed paths with Louisville, providing little to no challenge for head coach Rick Pitino and company.

Although integral players Montrezl Harrell and Terry Rozier from last season’s Louisville team are gone, the Cards still boast plenty of experience. The Wolfpack will need to f igure out a way to contain Louisville’s veteran backcourt as senior guards Damion Lee and Trey Lewis average 17.6

and 14.3 PPG respectively.

Sophomore center Chinanu Onuaku’s presence down low could prove troublesome to a n u ndersi z ed Wolfpack frontcourt.

Louisville’s defense will also be dif f icult to deal with, as it ranks second in the country allowing 57.4 PPG to opposing teams. The Cardinals also rank 25th in to country in scoring, averaging 83.6 PPG. Junior g uard A nt hony “Cat” Barber will need play lights out in order to put the Pack in a position to win.

Major contributions from sophomore guard Ca leb Martin and freshman guard Maverick Rowan will help

keep t he Pack ’s scoring evenly distributed. Sophomore forward Abdul-Malik Abu, along with junior forwards Lennard Freeman and BeeJay Anya, will have to hold his own down in the post against Onuaku as both the Wolfpack and Cardinals are evenly matched when it comes to rebounding.

Thursday’s game is a perfect opportunity for the Pack to get a pivotal ACC win early in the season and a résumé-building win for the NCAA Tournament as well. The Wolfpack lost a winnable game to Virginia

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Former WKNC GM now has Triangle-sized voice Drew Nantais Sports Editor

Studio E is no bigger than a dorm room, yet has the distinct atmosphere of one. Papers lay scattered about the desks, multiple basketball and football schedules line the walls of the studio and several used mugs congregate in the center of the desks producing that all too familiar aroma of freshly brewed coffee grinds.

Two men work fervently around t hree ex tended microphones, moving back and forth from responding to tweets, to writing what seems to be shorthand that seldom people could understand in a notebook. Two televisions hang on the wall: one tuned into a broadcast of ESPN’s “College Football Live” while the other shows a press conference airing on the Golf Channel.

A large digital clock sits behind a large window displaying the time in hours, minutes and seconds in red numbers, slowly keeping track as the two men worked. A lone spotlight in the ceiling served as the lone source of illumination as it hung over the center of the room.

The large “On Air” light clicks on at 3 p.m., both men put their headphones on and approach the microphones and the daily broadcasting of the “Adam & Joe Show” begins.

Joe Ovies, along with his co-host

Adam Gold, has been in charge of the aforementioned show for the last six years, but in order to find where his career in radio began, you have to look back just under two decades or so.

About 17 years ago, in the winter of 1998, Ovies signed up to be a DJ at 88.1 WKNC, the student-run radio station at NC State, during his freshman year.

“I’ve always had a fascination with radio,” Ovies said. “So I figured I’m at State, my freshman year, I’ll DJ. I like making mix tapes and playing music, so I’ll give it a shot.”

Ovies began doing news readings before moving on to operations director during his sophomore year. Then at the start of his junior year, an opportunity presented itself, and Ovies could not pass it up.

“The [general manager] at the time left school,” Ovies said. “So they needed a new GM and I applied for it, and I was the GM of WKNC from late ’99 through graduation in ’01.”

When reflecting on his tenure at WKNC, Ovies recalled fond memories he made at the student radio station in Raleigh. Highlighting former coworkers who’ve gone on to bigger and better things, Ovies said WKNC is “like any other club at State” as far as the networking benefits and experiences you come across.

“I got the opportunity to attend

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[the Collegiate Music Journalists] conference in New York,” Ovies said. “It was probably the first time, when I was in school, that I had to do something adult. You had to plan the trip, you had to get the registration and you had to manage a group of kids. Then you had to go to New York, go to those conferences, networking. It was

“It used to be one host, one voice, one topic for an hour, but that’s changed.” ­— Joe Ovies, Sports Talk radio host

like the first kind of ‘real-world adult stuff ’ I did while at school.”

But the best part of working at WKNC was not the networking, or the trips or hosting the radio shows, but rather something many would have taken from granted.

“Just generally hanging out, you know?” Ovies said. “It was cool to hang out with like-minded kids, and listen to music, and talk about music, and do production and DJ and those types of things. We had a lot of fun.”

Ovies continued in the radio business after college for reasons that may seem unorthodox.

“I got into radio because it was a job,” Ovies said. “Seriously, part of radio and part of journalism

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is getting your foot in the door, I mean that’s that way with most jobs in this field.”

In college, Ovies started out as a computer science major, but then found himself changing to business management with a concentration in information technologies.

“When it was my senior year, I didn’t pursue any of the stuff I was in school for,” Ovies said. “I didn’t do any internships because I was so into the radio stuff I was doing.”

Eventually, Ovies decided to look for a job in the radio business, so he applied to the sports talk radio station that he was listening to at the time called 850 The Buzz.

He started out working Saturdays and Sundays running the boards at the station, screening calls, doing updates and picking up shifts where he could. He gained enough experience to the point when the next full-time job opened up in 2002, Ovies was hired full-time as the producer of his soon-to-be co-host Adam Gold’s show.

“I already kind of new the environment and knew what to do,” Ovies said. “And they said ‘All right, let’s make you full-time,’ and then other things come like new shows and opportunities.”

In 2005, the station needed a new morning show, and Ovies put himself in a position to host as he

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had been doing just that for a Saturday morning show. Eventually, Ovies was teamed up with Adam Gold, and they moved to ESPN 99.9 The Fan at Capital Broadcasting in 2009, and he’s been there ever since.

“It’s a challenge in the best possible way,” Gold said when asked what it’s like working with Ovies.

“I’m serious, 10 years ago I was predictable, and I don’t think I’m predictable anymore. Working with Joe has kept me younger and the best possible thing for what we do. It’s a much fresher sounding show that’s ours.”

Gold did not stop there. He kept attributing the show’s success to Ovies and his incorporation of social media into their broadcasts.

“He’s the reason I’m active in social media,” Gold said. “Would I have gotten there eventually?

Yeah, but I got there quicker because Joe got me into it to keep me up to date.”

The praise for Ovies goes far beyond the confines of the broadcasting booth. Their program director, Dennis Glasgow, has nothing but respect for Ovies and what he contributes to the station on a daily basis.

“He’s very fun to work with,” Glasgow said. “He’s professional, he works very hard on his craft, I think a lot of listeners think he f lips on the mic at 2:59 and

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