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Director of user experience at Epic Games to speak in D.H. Hill

Celia Hodent, who has a Ph.D. in psychology, will speak at 4 p.m. today in the auditorium in the West Wing of D.H. Hill about how Epic Games works to improve users’ experience. Hodent is the director of user experience for Epic Games, a Cary-based company responsible for the “Gears of War” franchise. After the talk, Hodent will conduct a workshop in which attendees will play and analyze video games using a user experience framework.

Registration is required for the workshop. To sign up, visit the NCSU Libraries website.

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Founder of Conversation Tees dies Tom Richardson, one of the founders of Conversation Tees, died last week at age 50 in his Raleigh apartment. The cause of death is unknown. Richardson, who had been homeless in Raleigh, founded Conversation Tees with his friend Rob Frohlking, also homeless. The shirts featured a single word, such as “Really,” “Exactly” and “Obviously.” The shirts were meant to make people ask questions and start conversations. More than 100 people attended Richardson’s funeral at Edenton Street United Methodist Church Friday.

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Christina Koch graduated from NC State in 2002.

In 2013 she was chosen as part of NASA’s 21st class of astronauts. She will speak in

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On Thursday, organizers with Scholars for North Carolina’s Future, along with contributions from NCPIRG, Democracy NC and Ignite NC, met with NC State students in Withers Hall to educate them on North Carolina’s new voter ID laws that will take effect this election season.

For the first time, North Carolina voters will be required to present photo ID at the polls, a controversial issue that many are say ing targets minority, lower-income and student voters, as NC State student IDs are not considered a valid form of identification.

Organizers with NCPIRG are focusing their efforts on campus toward educating students on the new laws and petitioning to restore the early voting site to Talley Student Union, which they say processed nearly 13,000 voters in 2012.

“When you do what you love, you’re not only guaranteed to find happiness, but to find fulfillment” —Christina Koch, NC State alumna and NASA astronaut

have thought was possible before.”

During that time, Koch attended space camp and met others who shared her dream of becoming an astronaut. There, she took a class on how to become an astronaut.

“They put up a checklist, and said ‘These are all the things you have to do to become an astronaut,’

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“Many students are uninformed or misinformed on the new laws,” said Maddie Mujeres of NCPIRG. “Many people aren’t really sure which IDs are acceptable or that you can’t use your student ID.” According to a documentary shown at the meeting, the new

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Sophomore forward Abdul-Malik Abu goes up hard to the basket in the Wolfpack’s 85-69 win over Miami on Saturday. The Wolfpack upset the #15 ranked Hurricanes to grab its second conference win of the season. Abu made 7 of 12 field goals, 5 of 5 free throws, and had 19 total points in the upset at PNC Arena.

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Gravity wasn’t the only force pulling things in this weekend: an NC State alumna pulled in crowds of Raleigh residents interested in her story of how she has been reaching for the stars, quite literally.

Christina Koch, a 2002 alumna, was selected to be in NASA’s 21st class of astronauts in 2013. Koch returned to her university town of Raleigh to speak at the Astronomy Days event at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences about her journey from Jacksonville, North Carolina, to NASA. “Most people probably figured out how ridiculous wanting to be an astronaut was by middle school … I never did,” Koch said.

Koch attended the North Carolina School of Math and Science where, she said, “Everyone was really intimidating and smart … but something I’ve tried to hold onto is using intimidation or feeling scared to actually fuel your success … and use that as motivation to achieve what you might not

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Tom Ross, who was forced to step down from his position as UNC System president earlier this month, has been named the first Terry Sanford Distinguished Fellow at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.

The fellowship, which starts today, will last through the end of the spring semester. As part of the fellowship, Ross will work to launch a bipartisan project with the goal of changing how political lines are drawn in the United States. Ross plans to return to the School of Government at UNCChapel Hill, where he is a tenured faculty member, after a one-year sabbatical.

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“This paper is intentionally solo-authored,” reads the first page of a new study suggesting that, in some fields, women may receive less credit for their research than men do. The study specifically refers to papers that are coauthored between men and women and seeks to explain the gender gap between tenure rates in academia.

Heather Sarsons, a Ph.D. candidate studying economics at Harvard University, conducted the study, titled “Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work.”

The study examined the work of economists

“I think gender inequality is a problem throughout academia and throughout society, it just manifests itself in different ways in different departments.”

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and members of other quantitative fields from top universities and calculated the advantage of publishing a study toward being tenured. It concluded that when women work with men on a study, the women gain almost no advantage toward being promoted, whereas the men still gain benefits.

Sarsons explains this phenomenon by saying that there is an implicit bias favoring men and that women are assumed to have contributed less to the work.

“I find that women incur a penalty when they co-author that men do not experience,” Sarsons said in the paper’s abstract.

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ESPN’s 2015 Jimmy V Week for Cancer Research broke the previously held record for fundraising with $3.2 million for the The V Foundation for Cancer Research.

The most recent donation drive’s total surpassed the previous record set in 2014 by $1 million.

Throughout nine years, Jimmy V Week has contributed $13.7

million to cancer research efforts.

Jimmy V Week 2015, which ran Dec. 2–8, saw the introduction of a new awareness campaign called “Your Fight is Our Fight” showing the real experience of cancer patients and their support systems as they deal with cancer diagnosis, the trials of chemotherapy and the relief of remission.

“This campaign was created to tell the powerful stories of

the brave cancer fighters, survivors and supporters,” said Kevin Martinez, ESPN vice president of Corporate Citizenship, in a press release. “It’s these stories that inspire us to keep fighting. We are incredibly thankful to everyone who has joined us in this fight.”

Along with the generosity of individual donors, what helped push the total donations over $3 million was more than $1.2 mil-

lion donated by Corona, Hooters, the Champions League and New York Road Runners with Team V. In a press release, Susan Braun, CEO of The V Foundation, said, “ESPN, sponsors and fans created another extraordinary Jimmy V Week. As this support grows, through ESPN’s leadership and generosity, our ability to fight

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voter ID laws are reminiscent of voter restriction laws in the early 20th century after Reconstruction in North Carolina.

Opponents say requiring photo IDs and restricting the use of student IDs disproportionately affects lower-income voters and students and that voter fraud has never been a major issue in elections.

“If more students knew about this law, they would be mad,” said NC State history professor David Zonderman of Scholars for North Carolina’s Future.

Scholars for North Carolina’s Future has been around for some time, and while it is rather loosely organized, it has shifted its focus recently to these new laws. However, Zonderman explained that real change will only come if students are educated on the issue and speak out against it.

“All universities, whether private or public, should be educating students about election law, and encouraging students to register and vote,” Zonderman said.

In 2012, millennials had the lowest voter turnout of any age group, at just below 45 percent. In 2016, people between ages 18 and 24 will make up the largest age block of voters, which many think is a motivating factor behind the new laws being passed. In 2011 when voter ID laws were first passed through the General Assembly, then-Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the bill.

The bill was signed under current Gov. Pat McCrory, and many see it as a trend throughout Republican-majority states across the country, as North Carolina joins the likes of Texas, Tennessee and Georgia.

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Blake Martin, a graduate student studying sociology who also has an interest in gender inequality issues, said, “I thought [the study] was interesting, but I wasn’t necessarily surprised by the findings.”

However, Melinda Morrill, assistant professor of economics, found the results of the study “interesting and provocative.”

Morrill, who was recently tenured, is critical of the paper’s recent media attention.

The study has recently been the focus of articles in The New York Times, as well as Huffington Post.

“I think [the paper] is not particularly polished, so I think it is somewhat a shame that it is receiving a lot of media attention now because I suspect that the results may really not be what’s going on,” Morrill said. “When I read the

But Zonderman said, “This should be a non-partisan issue,” explaining that good voter turnout and inclusive voting legislation is crucial to a healthy democracy.

“Because our generation doesn’t get out to vote, our elected officials don’t have our best interests at heart,” Mujeres said. “Students need to be more engaged with their elected officials, beyond just knowing who the president is. If millennials turn out to vote in huge numbers every time, politicians will have to change their positions to ref lect younger voters.”

In addition to educating students on the new voter laws, NCPIRG is also playing a role in helping register students to vote.

NCPIRG has been tabling in the Brickyard, as well as reaching out to classrooms, clubs and engaging with students directly to make sure they know how to register to vote.

The organization has been distributing “Voter Pledge Cards” to provide a resource for students looking to get involved with voting on campus. They are also attempting to get 1,500 signatures on a petition to restore the early voting site, which Zonderman claimed was “a wonderful resource for many students who were able to vote for the first time.”

The deadline for registering to vote in the March 15 primary is Feb. 16. An early voting period will take place largely through spring break from March 3 through March 12. This year, the closest early voting site to campus will be the Wake County Board of Elections headquarters in downtown Raleigh. Students are encouraged to research their polling location for the March 15 primary if they do not vote early.

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paper, what I see is a lot of assumptions, a lot of issues with the data, some technical concerns with her approach that I suspect will be resolved as she revises the paper.”

Part of the study contrasts economics with other fields, such as sociology. In economics, the authors of a paper are listed alphabetically, whereas in sociology the author who contributes the most is listed first.

This may seem like a slight distinction, but it may help to explain differences in gender bias. The results that the study found in the field of economics were not present with respect to sociology, thus backing up the idea that women in economics suffer from gender bias.

However, according to Martin, this does not necessarily mean that sociology is without gender inequities.

Martin likened Sarsons’s paper to a study published in 2014 by members of the NC State sociology depart-

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ment. This study, titled “What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teachers,” compared the way students taking online classes rated their teachers when they were told a teacher was male to when they were told the same teacher was female.

The experiment found that students consistently rated t he teachers t hey thought were female lower than they rated the teachers they thought were male.

“I think gender inequality is a problem throughout academia and throughout society, it just manifests itself in different ways in different departments,” Martin said.

One problem that Morrill had with Sarsons’s study is how it doesn’t account for the fact that most economic papers are co-authored, and the decisions of who people work with are not random.

“W henever you t hi n k of gender and economics, you just have to keep in the back of your head that it is

only recently that women are really entering into the economics field at the same rate as men,” Morrill said.

“Often, co-authorship is done w it h more senior people; often more senior people are going to be male.

That’s not current discrimination, that’s an echo from the past.”

Ma r t i n, on t he ot her hand, disagrees. “Reading through [Sarons’s] methods section, I think [her] methods are valid,” Martin said.

“I couldn’t find any methodological issues with it.”

Morrill summed up her opinions on Sarsons’s paper by saying, “I think she raises a very interesting, provocative idea, that group work could have different rewards for men than for women, that women could be getting different credit for what they do in the workplace.

I’m not sure that I believe that she’s proven that.”

In contrast, Martin said, “A lot of our biases are hidden, and I think that [Sar-

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and I didn’t know if I liked that. I didn’t want to live by a checklist just to get myself into space,” Koch said.

From then on, Koch didn’t live by a checklist.

She graduated from NC State in five years with three degrees: a Bachelor of Science in physics and in electrical engineering, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering. While at NC State, Koch interned with NASA, which led to a full-time job after graduation in the Department of High-Energy Astrophysics.

Koch didn’t apply to be an astronaut the first time she heard they were taking applications.

“I decided in the end that I had a little more work to do before I could definitely say that I could contribute to human space flight,” Koch said.

So, she worked in remote locations such as the South Pole in Antarctica, Greenland, American Samoa and Alaska for a few years on scientific research teams and cultivated hobbies such as sailing and rock climbingf (which she first became interested in by taking rock climbing at

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The second time Koch heard applications were out for NASA astronauts, she felt ready.

“I’d been able to learn a lot of adaptability and operational things through my experiences, and I’d done quite a bit of research in remote places, which is exactly what is happening on the space station,” Koch said.

Once Koch was in her interviews, the “checklist” she feared having to live by to achieve her dream became irrelevant.

“During my interviews, [NASA] didn’t ask me much about electrical engineering, they asked me about my research and my experiences,” Koch said.

Even though Koch knows it may be up to 10 years before she has a chance to venture into space, she is currently working with research teams and scientists to prepare for future experiments at the International Space Station.

“When you do what you love, you’re not only guaranteed to find happiness, but to find fulfillment,” Koch said.

Koch will be speaking in Stewart Theatre in Talley Student Union today from 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. as part of the University Scholars Program’s Scholars Forum.

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Kelley Wheeler, junior studying art studies

Online dating: a misogynistic playground T

oward the end of last semester, I joined Tinder. I thought it’d be a good way to meet people from Raleigh who were looking for dates. Unfortunately, I felt like I wasn’t getting much out of Tinder besides Kathleen inappropriate messages and Maxwell the general “hi.” So I decided Correspondent to join other dating sites to see if I’d have any more luck finding a date there.

I joined OKCupid, Plenty of Fish and MeetMe, and I kept the Tinder account that I had.

Over the course of two days, I received more than 50 different misogyny-based or sexually harassing messages from various strangers.

They ranged from 40-year-old men telling me how “sexy” I am to patronizing “sweetie” comments to messages with content that is too sexually graphic to be repeated in this column.

The worst comment I got was on Tinder, from someone who was so upset that I was a feminist that he implied he would rape me. Charming.

Unfortunately, experiences like this are far too common for women who choose to date online. In a 2013 Pew Research study, 42 percent of women reported they have been harassed on an online dating site or other form of social media. Messages have escalated all the way to death threats.

Many of these women have received more than one harassing message online. Several women have made accounts that document their experiences with online dating and the various sexually harassing, misogynistic messages they receive from complete strangers.

Laura Nowak, owner of the “Feminist_Tinder” Instagram account, has documented hundreds of harassing messages she has received from her matches on Tinder.

The reason that many women are subjugated to online harassment is because society often tells men and women that sexual comments are supposed to be taken as compliments. Similar to catcalling, women are often told that a man’s attention is supposed to be seen as complimentary, regardless of how uncomfortable that attention makes them feel. Men are thus told that these kinds of comments are what women

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enjoy or should enjoy hearing, and that makes men more likely to believe it is acceptable to harass women online.

Being “attractive” is a standard that many women are held to, and that trait is praised in contemporary society. Therefore, many see making comments about the sexual attractiveness of women as being complimentary. Unfortunately, oftentimes this focus on how attractive a woman is reduces her to just superficial beauty. This shallow standard of compliment reduces women to objects for male attention and sexual pleasure.

Most of the blunt harassment comes online because many feel the consequences of online harassment are very minimal. There are not a lot of legal repercussions currently against online harassment, and online sites do very little to help protect victims of harassment. The most one can do after being harassed is just to block and report the offender, and that isn’t a guarantee that there will be any actual resolution. Even if banned, on sites like OKCupid you can simply make a new profile.

A way to combat these issues would be through promotion of female empowerment and through greater accountability for harassers. In the past few years, there has been a great push among Western feminists that catcalling and sexual harassment are not compliments.

To further push the idea of female empowerment would help challenge the notion that it is appropriate to sexually harass women. Additionally, online websites like Twitter and OKCupid need to further their harassmentreporting services by making it easier for women to report abuse and harder for abusers to make new profiles and continue the cycle of harassment.

Women are more than just “sexy” or “pretty.” Women are not supposed to be used for solely sexual pleasure. And certainly women deserve more than to be sent threatening, harassing, overly sexual messages on online dating sites. Regardless of woman’s intentions on dating sites, be it casual sex or serious dating, she deserves to feel safe and respected.

The leaders of tomorrow will be well versed in dead philosophers, according to a new database of college syllabi,” wrote Thu-Huong Ha for Quartz. In the wake of The Open Syllabus Project (OSP), a project composed by a team of academics and researchers most notably affiliated with Columbia University, releasKatherine ing its preliminary findings Waller Staff Columnist to the public on Jan. 22, responses to the results have been surprising.

The newly released beta version of the OSP has a function called the “Syllabus Explorer” that hosts over 1 million syllabuses from university and departmental websites. With this, the OSP is attempting to open the “curricular black box,” and with this data, the OSP produces “teaching scores” to evaluate how often certain texts are taught. Not only is the OSP providing interesting statistics regarding the texts taught at universities, but they are also providing course-building tools and are using them as a means to do a historical study of curriculum.

This has, of course, led to the sensational statistically contrived lists of the most popularly assigned texts across college curricula.

Among the top texts assigned are William Strunk and E.B. White’s “The Elements of Style,” Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto.”

Internet-goers and columnists alike are noticeably miffed at the high ranking of controversial texts, especially considering several texts which were left off the list, such as the Bible and the U.S. Constitution. This, of course, is attributed to the “extreme leftist pull in the U.S.” However, the algorithm for the data set does not work for single-word titles without specified authors, so texts such as the Bible and the U.S. Constitution were left out. Regardless, the level of outrage that these omissions created claiming that the state of college education in the U.S. is extraordinarily skewed and ultimately contributes to the downfall of American liberty is wholly unfair.

These responses, while dramatic, show a very powerful stigma that surrounds certain schools of thought. Growing up as an American, I was heavily exposed to the Bible, the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the whole slew of Americancentric philosophies. Communism was a dirty

word, and any religion outside of Christianity was unquestionably sacrilegious to really talk about. Any history that suggested our country’s forefathers could’ve potentially made some mistakes was completely out of the question. Growing up in a public school system in the “Bible belt” of America did not expose me to much diversion from normative American philosophies. For this, I had to wait until my first year of college.

That is the state of education in the U.S. — a state in which you never receive much knowledge of controversial information until you attend a university. A state in which knowledge that has really had a mass effect on the world is taboo.

Controversial or not, when dealing in the business of knowledge and information, these texts, such as “The Communist Manifesto,” remain particularly important. Most of these philosophical works can be used across multiple disciplines, from analyzing rhetoric to a study on regional literature to political science, history and philosophy. People are reading these old works because they are still extraordinarily relevant.

This goes to show that information scares people. Information has power, and I find it ironic that no one is critiquing the heavily assigned book “Elements of Style” when it too is controversial. I have yet to hear one complaint about the popular usage of this book, yet it has been teaching many incorrect grammar rules for decades. I believe Strunk and White’s book ought to be considered more controversial than texts with immense historical, rhetorical and political significance, because learning such a fundamental thing — writing — from a glorified cheat-sheet is not really learning at all.

The Open Syllabus Project produces really interesting data about literature taught in universities, but the responses I’ve seen to the analysis of these one million syllabuses is disheartening. I hate the fact that people are so quick to condemn the whole university system as malicious because professors seek to expand students’ libraries of knowledge.

An education ultimately fails if students only see one perspective and never learn to have discerning minds.

I like the idea of an open syllabus culture, and I like the fact that controversial texts are being taught. This shows that we are trying to make college education more unprejudiced and keeping our pools of knowledge from becoming stagnant.

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Location: SAS 1218 Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. is hosting a discussion about “true beauty” and colorism in the media. During this event, attendees will watch short video clips as well as TED talks that highlight the media and society’s roles in issues of colorism. After the clips, the attendees will participate in icebreakers and a group discussion to converse about the videos.

Event Type: Interactive Activity, Panel/ Discussion Sponsoring Organizations/Departments: Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.

TOURNÉES AT NC STATE FILM FESTIVAL: “TIMBUKTU”

Date & Time: Thursday, Feb. 4, 6:45 – 8:30 p.m.

Location: Witherspoon Student Cinema Film director and producer Abderrahmane Sissako’s film “Timbuktu” was released in 2014.

It portrays Sissako’s take on the jihadist siege of the Malian city in 2012. During this time, a band of Islamic fundamentalists, who originated from France, Saudi Arabia, Libya and other nations, announced its list of prohibitions through a megaphone, which included no music, no sports and no socializing. Their audience was Timbuktu inhabitants, and many of them refused to obey the band’s demands. The film screening is free and open to the public, and it’s also part of the Tournées Film Festival at NC State.

THE ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUIZ BOWL Date & Time: Saturday, Feb. 6, 3 – 6 p.m.

Location: Talley (Room # TBD) This event is a jeopardy-style quiz bowl where teams from different student organizations will compete as well as learn about and celebrate African-American history.

Event Type: Interactive Activity Sponsoring Organizations/Departments: Society for Multicultural Scientists (SMS)

Event Type: Film screening Sponsoring Organizations/Departments: Global Training Initiative, UAB Films, NCSU Libraries

ARTS NC STATE presents a new exhibit, dance class, play and performances in Februrary SOURCE: ARTS NC STATE

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The Crafts Center is exhibiting Charlotte artist Terry Thirion’s “Disappearing Frogs Project.” Thirion is an artist and environmentalist who uses her art as a “vehicle to communicate to the public the importance of the global decline of amphibian populations,” according to the Crafts Center website. The Crafts Center said that Thirion’s goal for the exhibit is to highlight the urgency of public awareness for the decline of the frog species as well as to portray that amphibians are vital to the health of the planet and humankind. In 2013, Thirion started the Disappearing Frogs Project, and the exhibit will be on display from today, Feb. 1, until March 3.

On Wednesday, there will be an opening reception for this exhibit at the Crafts Center from 6:30 – 8 p.m.

The Music Department is hosting a Faculty Recital where professors Peter Askim, Olga Kleainkina and Jonathan Kramer will present a program of chamber music with guest artists.

Crafts Center Monday – March 3

Proceeds from the sale of art as well as donations will be given to the Amphibian Survival Alliance.

DANCE PROGRAM • MODERN DANCE WITH LEAH WILKS Carmichael Gymnasium Tuesday 5:30 – 7 p.m.

Durham-based dancer, teacher and choreographer Leah Wilks will instruct a modern dance class at Carmichael for NC State students to attend. Wilks teaches everything from release technique to experiential anatomy at Carolina Friends School and the American Dance Festival, where she is a faculty dancer. She also is in charge of VECTOR, her own multi-media dance company, with visual artist Jon Haas. Wilks has previously performed with Renay.Aumiller.Dances, Nicola Bullock and the People, Gaspard&Dancers and the Dept. of Improvised Dance.

Stewart Theatre Sunday, 4 – 6 p.m.

NC STATE LIVE • JOHN PIZZARELLI Stewart Theatre Saturday, 8 – 10 p.m.

NC State Live has received more requests for singer and guitarist John Pizzarelli than any other artist who has performed at NC State, according to its website. He is known for his rich and original interpretations of songs from the “Great American Songbook” combined with contemporary classics. This will be his fourth time performing at NC State, and NC State Live said he and his quartet will play a few songs from his new album, “Midnight McCartney,” and a few more from earlier albums.

Before the performance at 7 p.m. there will be a pre-show event that features a conversation with Pizzarelli in Talley Student Union, Room 3285.

UNIVERSITY THEATRE • LEADING LADIES Titmus Theatre Feb. 11 – 20, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 14 & Feb. 20, 2 p.m.

“Leading Ladies” is a comedy about two Shakespearean actors who perform “Scenes form Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge circuit in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. In this comedy, the two characters learn an old lady is about to die in York and will leave her fortune to two long-lost relatives from England. The two characters present themselves as her beloveds to get her fortune, and they soon learn their nephews are actually their nieces in this “hilarious comedy,” according to the University Theatre’s website.

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Program cuts textbook prices, involves students Samuel Griffin Staff Writer

College textbook prices have risen 1,041 percent from January 1977 to June 2015, according to NBC’s review of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A team from NC State is working to reduce textbook prices while also allowing instructors to customize their course textbooks.

“I don’t need to tell you that textbooks are expensive, people are struggling to buy them,” said William Cross, director of the NC State Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center. “About 65 percent of students don’t buy the textbook every year, and about 10 percent of students fail.”

Cross and his team have created a program to lower that 10 percent statistic by providing grants to teachers to create free alternate textbooks. The Alt-Textbook program aims to cut textbook costs to students and give teachers a chance to teach off the book.

“We want to do something to empower our faculty to do the cool teaching they want to do,” Cross said. “If you’re going to bring in really smart people from around the country, don’t have the textbook teach the class, have the faculty member teach the class.”

Cross said the program aims to involve students in the creation of new Alt-Textbooks as well.

With Alt-Textbooks, the material becomes more catered to the student-teacher relationship as opposed to one-size-fits-all textbooks, according to Cross.

“In the textbook industry, they like to use the phrase that the best textbook is ‘teacher proof,’ meaning you don’t even hear the teacher’s voice at all,” Cross said.

“That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. You want the textbooks to ref lect the specific teacher. We don’t want students to just read and regurgitate material.”

Cross said that, while the AltTextbook program is specif ic to NC State, other UNC System

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A team from NC State created the program Alt-Textbook with the goal of lowering textbook prices and allowing instructors to customize their textbooks.

1,041%

rise in college textbook prices since January 1977 universities such as East Carolina University and UNC-Charlotte have begun to adopt similar programs. Cross said he is excited about the possibility of Alt-Textbooks becoming a System-wide program in the future, but doesn’t think that it’s going to happen anytime soon.

“We spent $12,000 and saved students $200,000,” Cross said.

“If all of the System schools got together and had similar results, you could really reach incredible savings for students.”

All of the Alt-Textbooks are open resources, meaning that they are freely available for anyone to access. This allows NCSU Libraries and the teachers involved to spread information about the suc-

cesses and shortcomings of the various different textbook alternatives created. Cross said NCSU Libraries has also been working with the college library community to try to get Alt-Textbook programs not just statewide, but on a national and global level.

“That’s one of t he exciting t hings about open-education sources is that you get people in developing parts of the world that just can’t afford a $200 textbook,” Cross said. “The question we are trying to answer right now is, ‘Do you want to keep making these individual projects that are then federated outward or a more unified effort?’”

Alt-Textbooks began last year with 12 instructors developing

open alternatives across eight different departments. This year, the program is working with 11 instructors across nine different departments. One of the biggest successes of the program came in the form of a chemistry lab at NC State that replaced its textbook with a video library known as Student-Made Audiovisuals Reinforcing Techniques, or S.M.A.R.T for short.

The videos were created using Alt-Textbook grant money through a collaboration between Ma r ia Ga l la rdo -Wi l l ia m s , a teaching associate professor in the NC State Department of Chemistry, and her students.

“Each one of the S.M.A.R.T. videos has been scripted by students, acted by students, voiced by students and it represents the best peer-to-peer sharing opportunity that I can possibly offer,” Gallardo-Williams said. “My role is to organize, produce, coordinate, bring people and resources together, but it is the student com-

ponent that makes this project unique.”

Students involved in the program used social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook to ask their peers what they would want from an educational video.

Students requested that the videos be short, to the point and without annoying jokes or cheesy music.

“The responses from students have been very positive,” Gallardo-Williams said. “The fact that the videos are student-made and very short makes them very easy to watch. I can honestly say that the students are in favor of the change. Plus they are saving a lot of money by not having to buy a textbook.”

In addition to working with major departments such as chemistry, Cross said the Alt-Textbooks program also worked with under-served departments and disciplines that were not supported by the textbook market very well.

An example of this is the Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management who, instead of having to deal with the problem of an expensive textbook, deals with the problem of having no textbook available at all.

“We’re very excited about round two of the A lt-Textbook program,” Cross said. “We’re doing everything from electromagnetic engineering, to yoga, to an intro to writing textbook that we hope the community colleges can pick up as well. Everything from very serious, to fun and lighthearted, to something that we hope will reach beyond the limits of college.”

Currently, the Alt-Textbooks are scattered across a variety of different locations such as YouTube, GitHub and teacher-made WordPress sites for students and other schools to locate and view the different educational resources created. NCSU Libraries is currently in the planning stages of creating a centralized website where all Alt-Textbook resources can be easily located.

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Caleb Martin regained his shooting touch in the second half, once again hitting two 3-pointers in a row, giving State a 56-46 lead with 11:02 remaining.

Miami stormed back with a 7-2 run before Anya was fouled on a dunk attempt. Anya, a notoriously poor free throw shooter, hit both shots causing PNC to erupt into sarcastic cheer, giving the Pack a 60-53 lead with 8:09 left in the game.

Over the next four minutes, both teams struggled shooting and traded points before Abu flushed home a rebound, giving the Pack a 67-59 lead at the under-four minute media timeout.

The Wolfpack was able to hit the majority of its free throws down the stretch and did a solid job on the defensive end, keeping the Hurricanes from gaining ground as State eventually won 85-69.

Barber finished with 30 points, hitting all 10 of his free throw attempts, three rebounds and four assists. Abu added 19 points, hitting all five of his free throw attempts and seven rebounds, while Caleb Martin scored 13 points, going 4 for 6 from behind the 3-point line.

“Today we came out, offense and defense, and played the game how NC State basketball can play,” Barber said. “If we just do that every night, we can win a lot of ball games.”

State returns to action Monday night in Tallahassee, Florida, as it takes on the Florida State Seminoles.

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61-39 lead. The Wolfpack shot an astounding 10 of 15 (66.7 percent) in the third quarter.

With the game all but decided heading into the fourth quarter, the Pack opted to slow the pace down, and it still outscored UNC 17-10 in the quarter to close out the game.

Wilson led all scorers with 21 points on 7 of 13 from the field and 3 of 5 from deep. Spencer did just about everything for the Wolfpack, totaling 20 points, eight rebounds, five assists and a steal. Mathurin registered a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds. Junior guard Ashley Williams joined them in double figures with 13 points. Additionally, the Pack had a positive assist-to-turnover ratio, garnering 15 assists to 13 turnovers.

“We moved the ball well, we did a nice job especially against the zone,” Moore said. “We got four kids in double figures, which gave us some balance and it’s tough just to take away one.”

The Pack looks to keep the momentum going as it takes on Notre Dame on the road Thursday at 7 p.m.

“It’s the first time in four years that we’ve beat [UNC],” Spencer said. “It’s a really good feeling. We’re reaching our peak at a good time. We just got to focus, keep pushing, keep working hard in practice.”

victories from Morris, Jack, Donahue and Gantt to give the Wolfpack a 13-3 lead going into intermission. Gantt’s victory against Dylan Cottrell at 157 pounds was the most thrilling of the four wins before intermission.

While both wrestlers seemed evenly matched, Gantt trailed 6-3 in the final period but managed to claw his way back and get a takedown with 10 seconds left in regulation to force sudden victory in Morgantown. Gantt immediately forced a takedown 33 seconds into the extra period to secure a 10-8 win.

The Wolfpack got two wins from Rohskopf and Boykin, as well as two losses from sophomore Nicky Hall and Renda, before Gwiazdowski hit the

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Gwiazdowski proved to be too much for Vizcarrondo.

The senior from Philadelphia failed to score a single point against the two-time national champion, and Gwiazdowski crushed Vizcarrondo 16-0 to reach 100 career wins and give the Wolfpack the 24-9 victory.

On tap next for the Wolfpack will be three final matchups against top 15 opponents.

First will be a road matchup at No. 11 Nebraska, followed by two home matches against No. 10 Virginia Tech and No. 5 Missouri.

The Pack will meet the Cornhuskers Saturday in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a chance to take the top national ranking.

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The NC State men’s basketball team, coming off a disappointing loss to Georgia Tech, won its second ACC game of the season, defeating the No. 15 Miami Hurricanes 85-69 Saturday afternoon at PNC Arena.

The Wolfpack (12-10, 2-7 ACC) set the tone early, grabbing three offensive rebounds on the game’s first possession before junior Cat Barber finally scored the Pack’s first points of the game. It was the start of a much different approach in comparison to the lackadaisical approach of the first half against Georgia Tech Wednesday night. “[Coach Gottfried] put a big emphasis on enthusiasm and effort (in practice),” junior Lennard Freeman said.

“Today we came out with a lot of enthusiasm. We just turned it around and got a lot of rebounds.”

The game began with the two teams trading baskets, without either team able to gain a significant advantage over the other.

After the Hurricanes (16-4, 5-3 ACC) took a two-point lead with 12:46 remaining in the first half, State answered with a 6-0 run to take an 18-14 lead before a 3-pointer from Miami junior guard Davon Reed pulled the Hurricanes back within one.

Despite Miami getting off

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Junior point guard Cat Barber crosses up a Miami player in the second half of the game. Barber played all 40 minutes while scoring 30 points, shooting 10 for 10 from the free throw line, 10 of 18 on the court and racking up three rebounds and four assists. The Wolfpack beat the Miami Hurricanes 85-69 on Saturday at PNC Arena.

to a hot start, shooting 4 for 5 from the field, the Pack picked up its defense forcing Miami to go on a 2-for-13 shooting slump starting midway through the first half.

“The beginning of the game, we came out with force,” Barber said. “We came out on fire.

We came out with good enthusiasm and energy. We just had that throughout the game.”

When the Hurricanes finally began to find more success offensively, sophomore Caleb Martin nailed two-straight 3-pointers to keep the Pack ahead, 28-24 with 4:05 left in the first half.

State outrebounded Miami 6-0 in the final 2:35 of the half, helping it go on a 6-2 run to extend its lead to 37-32 at

halftime.

After a disappointing effort on the boards against Georgia Tech, the Pack dominated a bigger, more experienced Miami frontline on the glass, taking a 22-14 rebounding advantage to half. State continued its great effort on the glass in the second half, finishing with 41 rebounds to Miami’s 23.

“I just thought our whole team rebounded better,” head coach Mark Gottfried said.

“We got whipped on the glass the other night. Georgia Tech whipped us. Tonight was a lot better.”

Barber, as he has done all year, led the Pack in the first half with 14 points on 5-of-10 shooting. Sophomore AbdulMalik Abu added nine points,

but only grabbed one rebound.

Junior forward BeeJay Anya, who had only three rebounds the entire game against Georgia Tech, pulled down five in the first half.

Led by six points from Barber on 3-of-3 shooting, the Pack opened the second half on an 8-4 scoring run, giving it a nine-point lead — the biggest of the game at that point.

Three Wolfpack turnovers helped the Hurricanes answer with a 6-0 run to bring Miami within three points. State freshman guard Maverick Rowan responded with his first field goal of the game, a 3-pointer, to end the Miami run, making it 48-42.

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Wolfpack throttles Tar Heels, wins 7th ACC game Daniel Lacy Sports Editor

In the highly anticipated game against long-time rival UNC-Chapel Hill, the NC State women’s basketball team dominated the Heels 78-49 Sunday in the Holliday Gymnasium at Broughton High School.

The junior guard duo of Miah Spencer and Dominique Wilson once again proved to be dominant, combining for 41 points. The Wolfpack (16-6, 7-2 ACC) nursed just a five-point lead over the Tar Heels (1211, 2-6 ACC) going into halftime, but a dominant third quarter in which it outscored the opponent 28-11 set the tone and helped the Pack put the game away.

“We came out with a lot of confidence and a lot of energy in the second half,” head coach Wes Moore

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Junior guard Miah Spencer is contested by the UNC defense as she goes up for a jumper. Spencer put in a strong performance with 20 points and eight rebounds in her 29 minutes of play. The Wolfpack dominated the Tar Heels coming out with a 78-49 win in Holliday Gymnasium at Broughton High School Sunday.

said. “To hold the Tar Heels to 21 [second-half] points is impressive.

This team is showing some maturity and handled it well after the game.

I’m proud of the way our kids responded after a close first half.”

Momentum swung back and forth in the early going, as the Pack went on a 7-2 run to take a 10-6 lead, but the Heels quickly followed that up with a 6-0 run to make it a 12-10 game with 5:53 left in the first quarter. The game remained close, as NC State ended the quarter with a 19-17 lead. Each team shot aggressively but inefficiently from behind the arc, with the Pack shooting 4 of 11 and the Tar Heels shooting 3 of 9 in the first quarter alone.

The second quarter wasn’t nearly as high scoring as the first as State opened a 7-2 run in a four-minute span. The Pack maintained the lead,

ending the half with a 33-28 lead. The 3-point shooting did not improve for either team as the Wolfpack was 6 of 20 and the Heels were 4 of 13. Juniors Jennifer Mathurin and Dominique Wilson led all scorers with nine points apiece, although Mathurin finished the half just 2 of 7 from distance after starting hot at 2 of 3.

With the 3-point shot not working, the Pack changed its game plan for the second half, making all six of its two-point shots in the first 5:39 of the third quarter while attempting only two 3-pointers to spark a 15-8 run to start the half. NC State dominated the quarter, outscoring UNC 28-11 behind 11 points from Spencer, who only scored five points in nine minutes in the first half due to foul trouble, to end with a commanding

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Wrestling remains undefeated after pair of victories Joseph Ochoa Staff Writer

The NC State wrestling team continued its historic season this past weekend, defeating the No. 16 Pittsburgh Panthers and the West Virginia Mountaineers 28-6 and 24-9 respectively to secure a school-record 20th win of the season.

With the wins, the wrestling team maintained its undefeated season, secured its sixth win against schools ranked in the NWCA top-25 and extended the Pack’s streak of wins by 10 or more points to 11 matches.

The Pack got its road trip started Saturday night against the Panthers, when freshman Sean Fausz got the Wolfpack on the boar with a 6-3 win over LJ Bentely at the 125-pound weight class. After a loss by red-

shirt freshman Jamal Morris at the 133-pound weight class, sophomore Kevin Jack shut out Mikey Racciato 3-0, giving the Wolfpack a 6-3 lead.

The most thrilling matchup of the meet came when Beau Donahue took the mats against Robert Lee in the 147-pound weight class. Donahue got in an early hole against Lee, falling behind 4-0 after two periods, but clawed his way back and scored the only takedown of the match to secure a 6-5 win, giving the Wolfpack a 9-3 lead.

Redshirt senior No. 4 Tommy Gantt followed up Donahue’s dramatic victory with a dominating techfall victory against Ronnie Garbinsky, 25-8. Gantt scored all 10 takedowns in the win to stay undefeated, and put the Wolfpack up 14-3.

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Pete Renda and sophomore Michael Boykin secured four more wins before redshirt senior Nick Gwiazdowski hit the mats against No. 17 Ryan Solomon.

“Gwiz” dominated Solomon throughout the match, getting a 12-2 major decision, securing the 28-6 win for the Wolfpack. The victory signified Gwiazdowski’s dominance in duals, giving him a perfect 50-0 record in his career.

The Pack made a quick turnaround to travel to Morgantown, West Virginia, for Sunday’s match against the Mountaineers.

The Wolfpack dropped its first match of the day as Fausz fell to Zeke Moisey, but reeled off four-straight

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Junior Max Rohskopf holds his opponent down while the official gets a close look in the Wolfpack’s win over No. 17 Virginia on Jan. 17. Rohskopf won his bout and helped the Wolfpack to a 35-7 win at Dorton Arena.