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OIED holds open forums for vice provost finalists

Today, the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity is holding its first open forum to meet finalists for the OIED vice provost. The four finalists will each have a separate forum during the next two weeks.

Today’s forum is with Pablo Mendoza from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The next forums will be held March 17, March 21 and March 23, and all of the forums will be in Talley Student Union room 4101 at 11 a.m.

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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to a crowd of people in downtown Raleigh Friday for a campaign rally in an effort to gather support before North Carolina’s upcoming primary election Tuesday.

The rally was held at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts with over 5,000 supporters in attendance, many of whom arrived hours before the doors opened.

“I’ve never been interested in politics until now, and his policies really spoke to me because I believe that healthcare is a right,” said Charleston Coryea, an 18-year-old from

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Sanderson High School in Raleigh. “People should have healthcare, and I think it is bad that all the new wealth is going to the top 1 percent while the middle class is disappearing. People are getting more and more college debt when they’re getting out of college, and it is dis-motivating teens from going to college, and I don’t think that’s the way it should be.”

Coryea arrived to the rally at 6 a.m.

First to take the stage was Noah Cartagena, an 18-year-old North Carolinian who spoke

The Muslim Students’ Association held its 2016 film festival at Stewart Theatre in Talley March 4 with the theme “Be Part of the Story.”

The event featured short films by students, rap, spoken word and a cappella performances, speeches and a stand-up comedy act. About 400 people, students from other schools and families, were in attendance.

At the end of the night, the movie with the most votes was awarded $500. “[MSA Night is] a night of entertainment and affection catered toward Muslims because a lot of stuff we don’t partake in,” said Haniyyah Chapman, a junior studying environmental engineering and member of the MSA. “People may see it as we have a lot of restrictions, but that’s not the case. We just like to partake in the good that life has to offer.”

Karina Gomez, a senior studying English and a member of the MSA Board, explained the goal of the event and welcomed people of all faiths to attend MSA events. “[The purpose of the event was] Muslims taking back, reclaiming our narrative, especially American Muslims, because I think it particularly hard on the West for people to see Muslim and American together; they think of it very separately,” Gomez said. “I think this showed Muslim talent, Muslim ideas, Muslim thoughts. It showed that we’re also just American, we’re people, we’re human beings, just like a lot of people said in their films or their stories and the comedy act.”

Some of crowd’s favorite films were “A Walkabout in the Woods” by Mohamad Haidar, a senior studying biochemistry; “Black and Muslim” by Doha Medani, a sophomore studying nutrition science, and Shazha Elnoush, a senior studying psychology; “Signs in Nature,” which was filmed in Thailand, by Tarek Aziz, an assistant professor of engineering; and “Hunger” by Hammad Abbasi, a graduate student studying textile technology management, a heartbreaking story of a

Senator Bernie Sanders spoke before thousands of rambunctious followers in the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium on Friday.

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This week, UAB is hosting “Diversity Education Week: Revisited” to promote awareness and understanding of different cultures, religions, races, sexualities and gender identities at NC State. UAB will hold several related events throughout the week, including “Model Minority Myth Busters” today, “Tunnel of Oppression” Tuesday and Wednesday and “Dear Wolfpack” Friday. Visit uab.ncsu.edu for the full list of events.

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Today is Pi Day, which celebrates the mathematical constant representative of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The number is celebrated today because it rounds it 3.14, which is the numerical representation of March 14. To celebrate, the electrical and computer engineering department is hosting an event on the Oval Lawn from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring Pi trivia games, a pie-eating contest and corn hole.

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Paul Nolan and Brayndon Stafford won the runoff election March 3 with 55.97 percent of the votes, beating out Cody Long and Mitchell Moravec for the positions of student body president and vice president for the 20162017 academic year.

Jamie Plummer won student senate president with 50.05 percent of the vote. Nute Thompson came in a close second with 49.94 percent of the vote.

Because no candidate running for student body president and

vice president or student senate president received at least 40 percent of the vote during the first election, Student Government conducted a runoff to determine the winners.

Long and Moravec received the most votes in the initial election, with 13 votes more than Nolan and Stafford. However, Nolan and Stafford pulled a win during the runoff election. Long and Moravec lost with 44.02 percent of the votes.

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Larry McDowell, resident of Raleigh, runs with his Australian Shepherd named Chipper as he nears the finish line while Mallorie Hartmann, resident of Raleigh and Vet School student follows behind at the Dog Days Fun Run 5K at the NC State Faculty Club near the Vet School on Hillsborough Street Saturday, March 5, 2016.

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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, promptly at noon, racers took their marks on the starting line, with their game faces on and leashes in hand. With a total of 150 participants, runners were from as close as the local Triangle area to as far as San Francisco and Newark, Delaware. The NC State College of Veterinary Medicine hosted the Dog Days Fun Run and Walk race, which took place at the NC State University Club.

Participants in the race could either run a 5K cross-country mara-

thon, with or without a dog, or walk a two-mile route with a dog.

Sixty participants chose to run the 5K, and 90 participants chose the walk. People of all ages, NC State students and non-NC State students, came out to the Dog Days Fun Run and Walk. The age of participants ranged from 9 to 68.

NC State veterinar y students who are members of the NC State SCAVMA, or Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine Association, as well as volunteers with the animal rescue organization Saving Grace NC, organized the race.

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POLICE BLOTTER March 7 1:27 AM | ASSIST PERSON Varsity Research Building NCSU PD responded to this location to meet Uber driver in reference to an intoxicated person who had fallen asleep in vehicle. The passenger was non-student who had fallen asleep after drinking. Uber driver transported subject to residence.

7:59 AM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Lee Hall Staff member struck and damaged non-student vehicle.

8:13 AM | DOOR ALARM HELD Red Hall Officer responded to door alarm. Door was secure upon arrival.

9:52 AM | DOOR ALARM HELD Caspian Hall Officer responded to alarm.

Door was secure upon arrival.

10:35 AM | WELFARE CHECK Off Campus NCSU PD conducted welfare check on student with RPD. Student was located and it was determined there were no problems.

1:02 PM | LARCENY Vet School Research Bldg.

Staff member reported copper

wire stolen from this location.

1:44 PM | DOOR ALARM HELD Baffin Hall Officer responded to alarm.

Door was secure upon arrival.

8:31 PM | FIRE ALARM Wolf Ridge Apts.

Officer responded to alarm caused by cooking.

10:02 PM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Gorman St/Sullivan Dr Non-student was cited for speeding.

10:32 PM | FIRE ALARM Williams Hall Units responded to alarm.

Cause unknown.

10:43 PM | BURGLAR ALARM DH Hill Library Officer responded to alarm at loading dock. Officers check area but did not locate any problems.

11:47 PM | WELFARE CHECK Coliseum Deck Officers conducted welfare check on student pacing in deck. Student spoke with oncall counselor. Welfare referral was issued.

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father providing for his children in a poverty-stricken country.

The audience also heard from the Muslim Youth and Community Center, North Raleigh Masjid and North Carolina Muslim Outreach about reclaiming the narrative.

Wasif Qureshi, the president of the Islamic Center in Greensboro, the fourth-largest mosque in North Carolina, spoke about an initiative he is leading to encourage young Muslims to speak for

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Nolan and Stafford expressed their thanks to all of those who helped them along the way.

“I want to thank most importantly every student of NC State that actually came out and voted,” Nolan said. “I’m excited for NC State.”

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All the proceeds of the race benefit Saving Grace NC. C h r i s t o p h e r B r a d s h a w, a 40-year-old resident from Clayton, North Carolina, f inished first place in the 5K in 21 minutes and 21 seconds. In second place was McCaide Wooten, a first-year graduate student attending the Vet School who finished 30 seconds behind Bradshaw. Then, in third place and the first contestant with a dog to cross the finish line was Paul McDowell, a 26-year-old resident of Charlotte, with his Jack Russell mix named Piper, four seconds after Wooten.

After the race, prizes were given out to the first- and second-place winners of the 5K, Bradshaw and Wooten; the top male and female vet students, Wooten and Annie Chavent; first female overall, Maddison Haller, 24 from Durham; and the top male and female under the age of 18, Jack D’Alonzo, 9 from Greenville, North Carolina and Savannah Hazle, 9 from Holly Springs, North Carolina.

Bradshaw won a $50 gift certificate to The Pit Authentic Barbecue and other prizes, including a coupon for the Defy Gravity trampoline park. Snacks, such as granola bars and tangerines, as well as

PHOTO BY VICTORIA CROCKER Keith Jones, a trustee and the head of security at Mother Emanuel AME Church, answers a question for Gloria Schoeberle’s, resident director of Avent Ferry, about how the church and its members try to move on from the Charleston shooting that happened June 17. Schoeberle and other University Housing employees from East Campus took 10 students who lived in East Campus to Charleston, South Carolina, as part of a diversity and culture trip from March 4 to March 7. Most of the group visited the church on March 6 for its morning service and then were joined by the remainder of the group to talk to members of the church where the shooting occurred. Jones, who was “born and raised in this church,” explained the events of that evening and how the church family came together afterward and received an outpouring of support.

themselves. Qureshi is starting an organization called NC Outreach with a goal of connecting mosques in North Carolina to their larger communities.

“When you go to state officials, people are telling us that you guys don’t have a unified voice,” Qureshi said. “I heard that from our Congressman, I heard it from our senator from North Carolina.

We’re attempting to build a unified voice insha’Allah.”

After intermission, comedian Azhar Usman took the stage and gave advice to young Muslims reclaiming their narrative.

Stafford, student body vice president-elect and a junior studying environmental sciences, expressed how grateful he was for this opportunity and how much he owes the student body.

“I want to thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ and God for granting me this opportunity,” Stafford said.

“Honestly, it’s just such a blessing to have been able to run and even more of a bless-

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“Either you’re a passive consumer or you’re an active producer, and it’s about time that all of us recognized the importance of that,” Usman said. “Those who feel the calling to get involved in the media or entertainment and pop culture, please follow that calling. Consult your family, your parents, your advisers, religious advisers, the Ulama’a [...] Be in integrity with your own heart, but recognize that work is important, culture-ma k ing is important.

Muslims were always great culture makers, and nowadays we just have a bunch of people who

ing to have won. Thank you.”

Neither Long nor Moravec were able to attend the reveal.

Long was traveling to Morocco with the University Scholars Program while Moravec was awaiting a flight to Alaska for an Alternative Service Break program.

O’licia Parker-Smith, a sophomore studying communication and a staffer for the Long/Moravec campaign, said their campaign was well

biscuits and other treats for dogs, were given out as refreshments after completion of the race.

Zoie Randall, a doctorate student studying veterinary medicine, ran with her two dogs, Oaklie and Camden, a beagle and Jack Russell mix, respectively. Randall said she participated in the race to support SCAVMA, the organization of which she is a member.

Morgan Greene, a 15-year-old resident from Raleigh, said she wanted to participate in the run to support the animal shelter. Greene said what she liked about the organization was the fact that Saving Grace is a no-kill adoption center.

“I heard about Saving Grace, and I really like the organization,” Greene said. “So I came out to support them.”

Mickey Lackey, a Raleigh resident and participant in the dog walk, walked with his Chow-Chow named Ms. Mavis in his first time participating in the event. Lackey said they came out to support Ms. Mavis’ “big brother” Toby, a Newfoundland-Border Collie mix who ran with 5K participant and Raleigh resident Kari Richardson.

In addition to the race, attendees of the event got a chance to play with their dogs as well as a litter of currently unnamed Boxer mix puppies that will be available for adoption from Saving Grace this week.

Participants also had the oppor-

want to be doctors and lawyers and engineers so they can make more money, which is not even real while we’re f loating on a ball in the middle of space.”

Musica l group Not hing but Treble captured the crowd with its a cappella performances of Michael Buble’s “Home” and the Arabic song “Ah Ya Zina.” Chapman gave the closing remarks and announced the winner of the 2016 MSA Film Festival: “5 before 5” by Raleigh’s Very Own. “For the most part, it went very well,” said Mohammad Omari, a sophomore study ing chemical

fought and well executed.

“We ran a really good campaign, and there was a lot of passion behind it,” ParkerSmith said. “We did what we could, and we did our best.”

Parker-Smith said she was thankful to have been able to work with Long and Moravec.

“I want to thank Cody and Mitchell for allowing me to work with them,” she said.

“I’d also like to congratulate Nolan and Stafford on their

engineering and one of the organizers. “We kind of went over time for a little bit, but the performances were great. People seem to enjoy it. It’s almost 11:30, and people are still out here having fun, they’re socializing, they’re getting together, and I think that’s the biggest reason why we hold events like this — to get people together, because everybody is so busy doing their own thing, and when you give them an event like this, people come together, see each other.”

well-fought campaign.”

Jamie Plummer, the Student Senate president-elect and a junior studying polymer and color chemistry, also expressed her thanks and said she is looking forward to her tenure.

“People were very receptive of what I had to say, and I am very thankful and appreciative of that,” Plummer said.

Nolan and Stafford said they are thankful to Long and

Moravec for all that they do for the community.

“I’d love to thank Cody and Mitchell for a great campaign, and we are very much looking forward to working with them next year,” Stafford said.

“This is not a victory for Paul Nolan or Brayndon Stafford — this is a victory for NC State,” Nolan said.

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Paul McDowell, from Charlotte, stands next to his Jack Russell mix Piper while talking with Christopher Bradshaw, from Clayton, after finishing the Dog Days 5K Fun Run race held at the NC State Faculty Club near the Vet School on Hillsborough Street Saturday, March 5. McDowell and Piper finished third place in the race overall and was the first to finish with a dog while Bradshaw, who ran solitary, won the entire race. The event, in which participants could choose to either run the 5K or 2-mile dog walk with or without their dog was organized by SCAVNA, the Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine Association at NC State who partnered with Saving Grace Rescue and Dog Adoption to help raise money for the animal shelter.

tunity to adopt other dogs to race with and keep for the day. One example was a Shepherd mix named Logan, who Bernie Lorichon, attendee from Wake Forest, described as a “hugger” because the dog gave his daughter hugs during the event.

Nikesh Patel, a doctorate student studying veterinary medicine and event volunteer, said the organization SCAVMA was pleased with how the event turned out and with the amount of participants.

“The SCAVMA organization at the NCSU College of Veterinary

Medicine is grateful for all the support from our 5K runners and walkers in our effort to help raise funds for Saving Grace animal rescue,” Patel said. “It has been a privilege to make a contribution to the animal community beyond the walls of the veterinary school.”

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Supporters line up outside the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium before the Bernie Sanders rally on Friday. The enthusiastic crowd started lining up as early as 7a.m. to hear the senator speak in Raleigh.

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about his upbringing as a member of the LGBT community and why he chose to vote for Sanders.

“I voted for Bernie Sanders because he believes in this radical idea of we should educate our children instead of imprisoning them, we should heal our children and put them in hospitals when they need to be, we should provide them the mental health if they need,” Cartagena said to the crowd.

In his speech, Sanders told the crowd his ideas about unifying the American people.

“We will win this election because the American people understand that bringing us together, working together, triumphs dividing us up,” Sanders said. “The American people understand that community — helping each other — triumphs selfishness. And most importantly, the American people understand that every major religion —Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism — all the religions have taught us

that at the end of the day love triumphs hatred.”

Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who endorsed Sanders after resigning from the Democratic National Committee, then spoke about her time serving in Iraq and why she chose to support the Sanders campaign.

“I’ve endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders to be our next commander-in-chief because he has that intelligence, that foresight, that good judgment and, yes, that military mindset, to make the right decision when it comes to that all-important question of war or peace,” Gabbard said. Continuing, she talked about Bernie’s foreign policy, encouraged the crowd to vote for him and welcomed him to stage.

Sanders discussed warfare in the Middle East, campaign financing, trade policies, college tuition, Wall Street, racism, immigration, free healthcare and more. He also highlighted the differences between where he and Hillary Clinton stood on some of these key issues.

Sanders said, “I think if we can generate a large voter turnout — if many, many people stand up, fight

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Hilary Clinton, Democratic presidential canidate, speaks during a rally on Thursday at Durham Hillside High School. Cars began to roll into the parking lot of Hillside as early as 1:30 p.m in preperation for the influx of people at Hillside. Clinton, the leading contender for the democratic nomination, spoke later that afternoon on several issues including to climate change, raising minimum wage, combating pharmecitucal companies and used education as the major platform for this rally. “I am not a one-issue candidate because this is not a one-issue country,” Clinton said.

back and tell us that our government belongs to all of us and not just a handful of campaign contributors, if that happens, we’re going to win here in North Carolina and in the other states.”

So far, the Sanders campaign has reportedly received over 5 million individual campaign contributions, averaging $27 each, setting the record for number of campaign contributions received by a presidential candidate in American history.

“When we began this campaign, we had to make a choice; what are we going to do, how are we going to raise the money — we decided on day one, that we would not have a super PAC,” Sanders said. “We do not represent Wall Street, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry.

We don’t represent the billionaire class; we do not want their money.”

At the rally, Sanders expressed his

views on the minimum wage, calling the current minimum wage of $7.25 a “starvation wage.”

“We cannot continue to have a government where day after day, legislation is supported to represent the interest of the rich and powerful while avoiding the needs of working families,” Sanders said.

Emilie Mathura, a junior studying human biology at NC State, supports Sanders because of his position on healthcare.

“Healthcare is my biggest passion, and I definitely want everything he’s saying about healthcare to come true, that would be the dream, to have universal healthcare,” Mathura. “I liked how he talked about Obama and about the Affordable Care Act and how it’s taking good steps but it’s not enough.”

So far in the Democratic presidential primaries, Sanders has won

576 delegates, while Clinton has won 1,231 delegates, making her the leading Democratic nominee.

Even though his rallies attract huge numbers of attendees, the Sanders campaign is struggling with low voter turnout.

“As of right now, if everyone that came to this rally were to go out and vote we would already have more voters than we accumulated in the entirety of Nevada,” Cartagena said. “If everyone who came out today brought five people to their polling locations in the next three days, we wouldn’t have any problem winning this election … It’s now in the hands of the voters. The future of this country is in the hands of the voters.”

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Pass the bond, push for more The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief.

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uesday, March 15, polls will open and North Carolina citizens will be able to vote for or against the Connect NC bond proposed by Gov. Pat McCrory this past August. The referendum would provide $2 billion for investments throughout the state pertaining to “higher education, safety, parks, recreation and water and sewer infrastructure improvements,” according to the UNC System website. $980 million will go to the 17-campus UNC System. Of this, $160 million would go to NC State, primarily to fund the Engineering Oval Project on Centennial Campus and the Plant Sciences Project that would aim to improve agricultural research on NC State’s campus.

We hope you will vote in favor of the bond.

However, we do not think the Connect NC bond should be conflated with adequate educational development. As it sits now, the bond

does a lot to increase the quantity of educational facilities but not enough to stimulate a change in the quality of education.

The bond focuses on advancing statewide infrastructure, and this is incredibly important.

It has been 15 years since North Carolina voters passed a general obligation bond to improve state infrastructure, according to the Connect NC website. The bond aims essentially to bring the public institutions of North Carolina up to speed. In addition to the money going to the UNC System, $350 million will go toward giving community colleges the revitalization they need and deserve.

Given the awful state of North Carolina’s

transportation system, it is disappointing that one of McCrory’s initial objectives — improving state transportation — was cut from the referendum. It is hard to be excited about new buildings when it is difficult to get to them in the first place, when it takes 30 minutes to navigate Hillsborough Street.

Opponents of the bond object primarily to the presumed strain it would put on North Carolina financially. However, McCrory has promised that no tax increases are necessary to finance the bond, and according to North Carolina Fiscal Research Division estimates, our General Fund Ceiling should more than allow for the Connect NC bonds. The Connect NC website says this

is in part because North Carolina is paying off its debt rapidly and will be able to sustain the financial burden of the bond.

This bond should not pass as “enough,” and seeing as it has been supported by the North Carolina Board of Governors, it would benefit us to remember that the financial support promised for new buildings will not in itself promote the growth and development of our educational standards. New buildings do not compensate for continually low teacher pay, the closed-door hiring of Margaret Spellings and the millions of dollars that have been cut from the UNC System’s budget.

We urge you to vote for the Connect NC bond tomorrow, but realize that this bipartisan effort does not absolve North Carolina of its ongoing educational failures.

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am white, and I grew up in the South. Like it or not, these attributes cause certain people to confide in me with things they wouldn’t if I were not white and of a perceived cultural group. Slurs about race, Katherine religion and Waller Staff Columnist homosexua lit y lit ter conversations, unfortunately, on a daily basis even though I don’t want to hear them.

I can’t count the times that people have confessed to me ideas or thoughts that are super discriminatory.

It is Diversity Education Week “revisited ” at NC State, and these common exchanges that I encounter highlight why diversity education is so important on our campus. Talking about many of the diversity issues is hard on a campus that is 73 percent white, 56 percent male, 87 percent from North Carolina and only 22 percent low-income. For the majority of the student body, many diversity issues just aren’t their stories to tell.

I do have a story to tell — it’s a story that happens at

brunch on Sunday morning, at parties, in my kitchen or while studying for a test.

During these times, people tell me racist, homophobic and just generally discriminatory nonsense because of my perceived cultural group.

This gives me a clear look into how a lot of NC State’s diversity education efforts have failed with a lot of our student body.

It’s not enough for us to be satisfied as long as there aren’t many overtly discriminatory things happening on campus.

There are many insidious, “kind of racist” people who are plaguing our campus, who often go unnoticed because their opinions are not offensive enough to gain attention.

You probably are familiar with the type, and Huffington Post writer, Zeba Blay, chronicled the diverse and subtle nature of different brands of racism. Blay lays out 11 different types of racism that many overlook because they are not of the blatant, crossburning, stereotypical type.

Instead, Blay discusses the “I have a black friend” racist, the “color blind” racist, the “not all white people” racist, the “voyeuristic” racist, the “I did a semester in Africa”

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1. Capitalism respects my right to live — not for the sake of the group, the nation, the tribe, the race, the proletariat or for any of you — but for my own sake.

2. Capitalism recognizes that my mind is my basic tool of survival and that in order to think, I must be free to use it.

3. Capitalism treats me as the sole proprietor of my own life.

Under capitalism, my time and energy, my triumphs and failures, my burdens and my

ideology is laced with bigotry and intolerance. Donald Trump’s rallies have become increasingly violent, and he is increasingly subjecting the rest of our country to a climate in which diversity issues are not acceptable to talk about.

It has become harder to talk about diversity. People who were once tolerant to diversity have become tired of hearing about it. Some hold the belief that talking about diversity issues creates them — that giving a certain group respect or even a leg up when they need it is an infringement to equality everywhere.

However, this just isn’t true.

Because of my perceived cultural group, I notice how people with these attitudes crave solidarity. Many find it very easy to ignore serious social issues when they have the consensus of their church congregation, their fraternity or their political party to do their thinking for them.

Change is easily lost in the anonymity of the powerful pull from an organization. It is a reality that many people still rely on stereotypes to do all of their thinking for them.

Diversity is a tough topic because I personally know people who understand what

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institutionalized racism, sexism and discrimination is and still deny its validity. People believe what is easy, and no one wants to believe something that will force him or her to make a dramatic lifestyle change or change how they view themselves. However, college needs to be a time that you question your beliefs. If you get offended or bothered by people telling you that you might be wrong, you are perhaps missing out on the most valuable thing that an education can offer.

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4. Capitalism treats me as the rightful sovereign of my soul, respecting my authority to chart my own course in the one, precious life I have on this earth.

5. Because capitalism does not chain me to any of you — because it does not demand that I serve you or that you serve me — I’m free to respect and value you.

My goal with this short note is to stimulate a respectful, constructive dialogue between socialist and capitalist students.

Socialist students are making their voices heard, so I’m calling on my fellow capitalists to let your classmates know if you’re #capitalistandproud. *By “capitalism,” I mean a laissez-faire social system that protects each individual’s right to life, liberty and property

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people who have confided with me that they are not interested in dating people of other races, the people who, behind closed doors, lower their voices to say that systemic discrimination does not exist and even the women I know who have successfully become emotional messes because for so long they have been told that they are supposed to be like that.

Diversity Education Week is much needed because discrimination has never been one-size-fits-all.

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Support for “democratic socialism” is on the rise here at NC State. With so many students #feelingthebern, this seems like an appropriate time to bring some diversity to the conversation — some intellectual diversity. Due to word count limitations, I’ll keep this short and sweet. Below are five reasons that I’m a proud capitalist.*

racist and the “Twitter racists who will attack me for this article” racist. All of these types of racism are why it is difficult to talk about diversity. We can’t generalize problems because it manifests in so many different ways that very few actually identify as having racist attitudes.

These diverse and hardto-pinpoint ideologies transcend racism and spread to homophobia and religious intolerance. For example, the “I don’t mind gay people, but I’m positive all of them want to sleep with me” homophobia, or the “I will not watch a movie or TV show depicting people of the gay community because it makes me too uncomfortable” homophobia, the “I can’t be friends with atheists and in fact think they are all horrible people” religious discrimination and the “I still think President Barack Obama is a Muslim and think he should be kicked out of office because of that” religious discrimination, are all prevalent attitudes.

What makes this even more alarming is that we have a man running for president, and leading in the polls, who has successfully created a constituency of “political correctness” bashers whose

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Created under pressure to monitor shower pressure Samuel Griffin Staff Writer

Make a device that seriously improves resource sustainability on campus that is easy to use, makes a significant difference and is cheap.

You only have 45 hours to do so.

This was the task given to 11 teams and 45 students at NC State’s firstever Make-a-thon, a competition where students were tasked with designing and testing a product under seemingly impossible time constraints with the goal of improving either water, waste or energy sustainability on campus.

One team not only won, but also built a working prototype of its device, KnowURShower.

Four students, Brian Iezzi, Michael Meli, Bryan Murphy and Derek Whatley, all entered the Make-a-thon under the water category and worked together to create KnowURShower, an easy-to-use shower add-on that measures the water output of a shower, allows the users to set a water budget goal for themselves and adjust the shower f low to meet their goals.

The device conveys the information collected using LED lights as opposed to gages and numbered readings.

“As you adjust your f low, the device changes colors,” said Iezzi, a senior studying textile and material science engineering. “If the lights are red, you’re using water very quickly, and if the lights are green, you’re using water slowly.”

Iezzi said the device can be installed easily between the showerhead and the water source pipe and allows for flow control without the need of a special showerhead.

“It’s really just a matter of unscrewing your showerhead, screwing the device on and screwing your showerhead back on,” said Murphy, a senior studying electrical engineering. “We wanted to make it as accessible to everybody as we could, making it simple and easy to install with any showerheads out there.”

Meli, a senior studying computer and electrical engineering, said one way to power the device is to use the water f low from the shower. The f low of the water turns a small turbine in the device that would generate the energy need-

ed to power the KnowURShower, eliminating the need for electricity and avoiding the device wasting power when not in use “Water and electronics don’t really mix well, so we had to make the device airtight,” Murphy said.

“A user doesn’t necessarily know how much water they are using, so we tried to quantify that using color coding.”

“You can come up with any idea easily, but if it’s not feasible, then there’s no value to it.”

Michael Meli, KnowURShower team member

Meli said Make-a-thon was more multidisciplinary than a Hack-athon because it involved more than just software and electronics and the actual creation of a physical product.

“Sustainability is something I have been exploring the past year or so, but I think the cool thing about Make-a-thon was that it gave me a reason to start tinkering around with electronics,” Murphy said. “I got to start to work together with a team to put to use the different concepts and ideas I’m learning in class.”

The team had to work together and allocate work similar to in the workforce, splitting up the work effectively to make the contest’s deadline. Murphy and Iezzi were in charge of 3-D design, creating the product’s physical structure, while Meli and Whatley created an electrical demo of the product for demonstration purposes. They even created an app for the product that recorded all of the water usage data collected from the device via Bluetooth.

The teams at Make-a-thon were given access to water usage data from residence halls and other buildings around campus, showcasing areas where improvements could be made. The KnowURShower team did a case study on Wolf Ridge Apartments, due to the team’s ability to record daily water

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The KnowURShower device is a shower add-on that measures the water output of the shower, with the aim to allow the users to set a water budget goal for themselves and adjust their shower flows to meet their goals.

usage data across the apartments.

The team figured out how many showers were in the location and how much water was being used.

Iezzi said the KnowURShower team used this data to calculate how much water the devices were capable of saving and the return on investment of the KnowURShower based on the costs saved in water and the price of the device itself, calculated based on the cost of the materials needed to build the product. The team compared its product’s cost to the cost and

price of other real products on the market and found its product to be cheaper to make and to sell.

“We wanted to prove that installing the device in all the dorms at Wolf Ridge would be cost effective, which isn’t easy considering water is realistically cheap,” Murphy said. “If you want to have a return on investment, you have to have a cheap product.”

Murphy said the data made it clear to the team that the residence halls around campus were where the most water is used and that a

large portion of water usage comes from the showers, making them the obvious target area to improve.

“The other teams did not really have a prototype, they just had the idea, but we actually engineered our idea into a solution,” Meli said.

“You can come up with any idea easily, but if it’s not feasible, then there’s no value to it.”

The team members said they could realistically see their product being made for commercial use and that they hope to continue working on it.

Netflix’s ‘Love’ is addicting and highly bingeable Kevin Schaefer Contributor

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While its characters are easy to hate, “Love” is an easy show to fall in love with. Between its indiestyle comedy and dramatic elements as it explores the nua nces of modern-day relationships, this Netf lix original makes for an excellent binge-watch. In the span of one 10-episode season, “Love” makes viewers laugh, cry, get angry, sad and repeatedly feel uncomfortable. Now that’s good television.

Co-created by “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “This is 40” writer-director, Judd Apatow, the series focuses on a pair of single adults in their late 20s/early 30s who each just got out of failed relationships and come together. Gus (Paul Rust) initially comes across as the lovable nerd trying to do good by everyone while dreaming of becoming a writer, and Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) is the cigarette-smoking, relentlessly sarcastic rebel-without-a-

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cause f igure whom he is weirdly attracted to.

As the story progresses, we realize that both characters have their own f laws, anxieties and self-esteem issues weighing them down.

When Gus, who works as an on-set tutor for a cable-TV vampire show, manages to get inside the writers room after the showrunner buys

his spec script, he immediately blows his chances at a meeting because he argues about his script being rewritten. Likewise, Mickey struggles with various addictions and can’t stand to be alone, yet is overtly a f ra id of com m it ment .

With each episode, Apatow and co-creators Rust and Lesley Arfin explore these

characters as they try to find both themselves and each other, and figure out all the problems in between.

Like “Master of None,” “Love” stands out as a result of its episodic storytelling. While there’s the overarching narrative, each episode tackles a different topic related to modern dating: waiting for that text, a

house party in which several exes show up, meeting each other’s friends, etc. All the writers do a fantastic job of putting the characters first and allowing the story to play out naturally, and after reading Apatow’s pa r t ly autobiog raphic a l book “Sick in the Head : Conversations About Life and Comedy,” it’s easy to see a lot of him in Gus. Yet, while much of the show delves into rather depressing material and zeroes in on its unorthodox leads, the saving grace for viewers looking for a bit of feel-good f lare is Mickey’s relentlessly charming roommate Bertie (Claudia O’Doher t y). A n insta nt scene-stealer, Bertie balances the show’s predominant cynicism with her carefree spirit and a string of great one-liners. One of the best episodes comes early on when Mickey sets up her and Gus on a date. As each of their idiosyncrasies culminate with one another, the result is a hilarious display of situational comedy.

In many ways, “Love” is also a return to form for Apatow. Owing much of his success to the 1999 cult sitcom “Frea ks and Geeks,” in which he was a

writer-producer, the veteran filmmaker is right at home working in TV. While his movies have been criticized in the past for being a little too long, here he has the opportunity to spend as much time developing these characters as he needs, much like his earlier work.

On that note, “Freaks and Geeks” alumni Dave Allen and Steve Bannos make welcome appearances here as well.

Along with the writing, one of the show’s best aspects is the f lawless chemistry between Jacobs and Rust. Despite their characters being so intentionally unlikable, both actors play off one another and are able to effectively balance the laugh-out-loud humor with the scenes of dramatic tension. Rarely does a romcom feel so real.

It may not be for everyone, but for viewers looking for a different kind of sitcomdrama hybrid designed to upset mainstream audience expectations, “Love” will undoubtedly serve that purpose.

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In the men’s weight throw, redshirt sophomore Josh Davis earned his first-ever All-American honors.

Davis heaved the weight a distance of 62-05. His distance was enough to clinch 16th place and second-team All-America honors Davis was also the only underclassman competing in the men’s weight throw event.

In t he women’s weig ht t hrow, school-record holder Chavis culminated her weight throw career with her best ever NCAA national meet placing. Her distance of 69-08.75 earned her fifth place and first-team All-America honors.

On the last day of competition, the distance squad wrapped up an impressive showing by the Wolfpack.

Redshirt junior Megan Moye earned

her second All-American honors.

Moye placed seventh in the one-mile in a quick time of 4:38.99.

The Pack continued this momentum throughout the remainder of the meet.

Kemp brought home her second All-American honor in the women’s 3,000-meter run. Her time of 9:19.88 earned her 11th place and secondteam All-America honors.

Meanwhile, Vargas gathered his second first-team All-American performance of the meet in the men’s 3,000-meter run. Vargas crossed the finish line in seventh place with a time of 8:02.43.

This year’s placing exceeded the 17th and 20th USTFCCA ranking prior to the meet.

This weekend, the Pack ventures to Chapel Hill to compete in the Dennis Craddock Relays for its first outdoor meet of the season.

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conference win of the season.

Despite looking like an offensive-dominated game, the pitching settled down after the third inning with sophomore Brian Brown registering his second win of the season and DeJuneas acquiring his fifth save of the season.

Chance Shepard rebounded in a big way during the game Saturday. He registered two RBIs and two hits and only had one strikeout for the game. Junior catcher Andrew Knizner had a solid performance as well, registering two hits and a home run in the first inning.

The Wolfpack failed to

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claim the series against the Eagles, losing the rubber game of the series 1-0 on Sunday at Doak Field in a defensive contest. The loss was redshirt junior Johnny Piedmonte’s first start since the opening game of the season against Old Dominion.

The deciding run was brought in when NC State walked Eagles catcher Nick Sciortino with the bases loaded in the top of the sixth. The Wolfpack loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth inning but failed to bring any of them home.

The Wolfpack will be back in action Tuesday when it opens a two-game series against the Indiana State Sycamores before a weekend series with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

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Rohskopf the No. 5 seed at 165 pounds, Boykin the No. 12 seed at 197 pounds and Renda the No. 13 seed at 184 pounds.

The NCAA tournament will be held at Madison Square Garden from Thursday until Saturday.

All matches will be streamed on ESPN3, and ESPN will cover the semifinals and finals. The Wolfpack will attempt to bring home the national championship and cap off its historic season with the perfect ending.

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2016 ACC STANDINGS Pack wins ACC Championship 1 Matthew Simpson

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NC State’s wrestling team added to its historic season during spring break by winning the ACC Championship March 6 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This marks the first time since 2007 that the Wolfpack has won a conference championship and the 15 conference title in school history. The Wolfpack came into the tournament ranked No. 2 in the final coaches’ poll, with a 23-1 regular season (4-1 ACC) record, the best in school history. It avenged its only loss of the season to Virginia Tech by topping the Hokies 90-81.5 in the tournament.

The Wolfpack had four No. 1 seeds and two No. 2 seeds coming into the tournament. All four No. 1 seeds, including sophomore Kevin Jack at 141 pounds, junior Max Rohskopf at 165 pounds and redshirt seniors Tommy Gantt and Nick Gwiazdowski at 157 and 285 pounds, respectively, took first-place honors at the podium. Rohskopf repeated as back-to-back ACC champion and Gwiazdowski earned his third-straight ACC heavyweight title.

The two No. 2 seeds, redshirt freshman Sean Fausz at 125 pounds and junior Pete Renda at 184 pounds, both finished as the runners-up in their respective weight classes.

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Redshirt senior heavyweight Nick Gwiazdowski competes at the ACC Tournament. Gwiazdowski earned a 6-2 win in the final match to earn his third-straight ACC title and help the Wolfpack win the ACC Championship by finishing ahead of Virginia Tech, 90-81.5.

Add it iona l ly, red sh i r t f reshma n Ja ma l Mor r is at 133 pounds and sophomore Michael Boykin at 197 pounds each brought home third-place honors. All eight of the aforementioned wrestlers earned automatic bids to the NCAA tournament, tying the school record.

The team’s success can certainly be at least partly attributed to the head coach. Since Pat Popolizio became head coach in 2012, the team has continued to improve and be successful. Last season it finished 16-6 (3-2 ACC), which was

then the third-best record in school history, and finished 16th in the nation, which was the highest team finish since 1993.

Gw ia zdowsk i has a lso been a major factor in the team’s success while setting records of his own in the process. In addition to his three ACC individual titles, he won back-to-back national heavyweight titles in 2014 and 2015. He is the first wrestler in school history to win multiple NCAA titles and only the third to do so in the history of the ACC.

Gwiazdowski enters the NCAAs with an unbeaten record and a No. 1 seed for the second year in a row and looks to win his thirdstraight national title. If he is successful, he will be only the second wrestler in ACC history to do so and only the third heavyweight in NCAA history to do so.

In total, six of the eight Wolfpack wrestlers will enter the tournament seeded.

Gantt will enter as the No. 2 seed at 157 pounds, Jack the No. 3 seed at 141 pounds,

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Wolfpack performs admirably at Indoor Nationals Garrison Rountree Correspondent

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Senior Jonathan Addison leaps across the field at the Indoor Nationals.

Addison placed second in the long jump, earning eight points for his team and helping the men’s track and field team finish 14th at the NCAAs.

The NC State track and field team sent six competitors to the 2016 NCA A Indoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend in Birmingham, Alabama, with the men’s team finishing 14th and the women’s team finishing 17th.

All six student athletes achieved All-American status, including five first-team All-American performers.

According to the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Association, first team AllAmerica members must f inish top-eig ht i n t heir respec t ive events, while second-team mem-

bers occupy spaces nine through 16.

On Friday, the Wolfpack showcased its distance, depth and field event strength.

On the oval, redshirt sophomore Erika Kemp and redshirt senior Luis Vargas competed in the women’s and men’s 5,000-meter run, respectively.

Kemp placed fifth with a time of 15:58.00. Her impressive showing helped her garner her first-ever indoor All-American achievement.

Meanwhile, Vargas’ swift time of 13:52.75 earned him fifth place in a tight race that saw the first five runners separated by fewer than five seconds.

The Elon transfer’s efforts were also enough to earn his first in-

door first-team All-America honors.

In the field, senior Jonathan Addison, redshirt sophomore Josh Davis and redshirt senior Nicole Chavis competed in the men’s long jump, men’s weight throw and women’s weight throw, respectively.

In long jump, Addison leapt a distance of 26.25. The Raleigh native’s efforts earned him a national runner-up finish and secured eight points for the men’s side.

His performance is a 12-place improvement from his indoor nationals placing last year and also marks his second time earning first-team All-America honors.

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NC State sweeps Fairfield, drops two vs Boston College Joseph Ochoa Staff Writer

The NC State baseball team took three of five games during spring break as it swept the Fairfield University Stags but lost two of three games against the Boston College Eagles to open conference play.

Going into the break, the Wolfpack (13-4, 1-2 ACC) was on a tear, defeating seven-straight opponents, including a 2-1 win over the No. 23 Alabama Crimson Tide during the Irish Classic Tournament. In three of the Wolfpack’s four losses this year, including the two against Boston College, NC State was shut out against its opponents.

The Wolf pack got started against the Stags (1-7) with a

4-2 win on Tuesday for the team’s eighth-straight win.

The game was highlighted by solo home runs from sophomore Shane Shepard and junior Preston Palmeiro, as well as a solid pitching performance from redshirt senior pitcher Chris Williams. Sophomore closer Tommy DeJuneas held off a late rally from the Stags to get the save and seal the win for NC State.

The Wolfpack followed up the solid performance by sweeping the Stags on Wednesday with a 4-0 win to move its winning streak to nine.

The scoring didn’t get started until the bottom of the fi fth inning when sophomore Brock Deatherage tripled to bring DeJuneas home. The Wolfpack added three more runs between

the fi fth and the eighth to blank the Stags and got the Wolfpack’s 12th win going into conference play.

The Eagles (12-3, 2-1 ACC) halted the Wolfpack’s momentum on Friday with a 7-0 drubbing of the Wolfpack, ending NC State’s nine-game winning streak.

Despite having eight hits in the game, the Wolfpack failed to score any runs and registered four errors on the day. Reigning ACC Player of the Week and senior Chance Shepard recorded three strikeouts during the loss to the Eagles.

The Wolfpack rebounded on Saturday with a 3-2 win over the Eagles, giving NC State its fi rst

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Sophomore infielder Stephen Pitarra swings for a single. The NC State baseball team beat UNC-Greensboro 8-4 at Doak Field in Dail Park March 1.