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Underground explosion shuts down McDowell Street
Police blocked off part of McDowell Street Wednesday after an underground explosion caused by an electrical problem went off near its intersection with Martin Street at about 2 p.m. Duke Energy workers were working on a project in the area when a loud noise went off underneath the manhole at the intersection, followed by a thick cloud of smoke. No injuries were reported. A spokeswoman for Duke Energy told the News & Observer that there were signs of an electrical fire underground, but it is still unclear what specifically caused the explosion. The intersection will remain blocked off until the area is fully repaired. SOURCE: The News & Observer
Officers reprimanded following Trump rally
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department punished five deputies in connection with the Donald Trump rally in Fayetteville March 9 that resulted in the assault of Rakeem Jones, a protester at the rally who was being escorted out by officers when he was punched repeatedly in the face by a rally attendee. Cumberland County Sheriff Earl “Moose” Butler told ABC 11 that three deputies were demoted in rank and suspended for five days without pay. The other two deputies were suspended for three days without pay. All of the deputies were reprimanded on the account of “unsatisfactory performance” and “failure to discharge their duties.” SOURCE: ABC 11
B.good, a fast-casual restaurant that prides itself in serving locallysourced ingredients, will open its second location in Raleigh today at 11 a.m. downtown on Fayetteville Street. The restaurant, located on the ground floor of the Charter Square Building, has 35 locations in the United States and Canada, including one in North Hills. B.good will serve ingredients sourced from several vendors near the Triangle, including milk and ice cream from Maple View Farms in Hillsborough and beef from Harris-Robinette Beef in Pinetops and craft beers from only North Carolina breweries. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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NC State students watch volunteers act out a scene during the Tunnel of Oppression on Tuesday in the Talley Coastal Ballroom. The Tunnel of Oppression, which is hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs, is an interactive experience that examines contemporary issues of race, class, domestic violence, religion, body image, gender identification and discriminatory forms and processes.
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Students confronted the reality of privilege in mainstream society at Wednesday’s Tunnel of Oppression event in Talley Ballroom as part of this year’s Diversity Education Week: Revisited. A collaboration between many departments and student groups on campus, including the Counseling Center, the GLBT Center, the Women’s Center, the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, University Housing and Fraternity and Sorority Life, the event aimed to present an accurate representation of what marginalized groups experience on a day-to-day basis. The ballroom was sectioned off into a series of rooms set up as scenes where these issues often play out in a campus environment. The first room, a professor’s office, showed a transgender student who is in the process of transitioning and going through hormone therapy letting her professor know that she is struggling with depression and wants to get back on track in their course. However, instead of focusing on how to help the student with her studies, the professor initially attributes the student’s slumping grades and depression to her “disorder,” to which the student responds by saying that being transgender is not a disorder and that
her depression comes from many other factors than just her transition. Angie Mullowney, who played the role of the transgender student and is transgender herself, said that the tunnel is a way to expose those who have not had to deal with discrimination or oppression to the experiences of those who have to deal with it every day. “I’m not an actor but this is my first time doing something like this, stepping outside my comfort zone, but I feel very comfortable with the people working here and it’s definitely a fun experience,” said Mullowney, a sophomore studying women and gender studies. The tunnel has been updated since last year to make the skits more relevant to the conversations that students are having day to day, as well as the issues that are affecting society at large, according to Renee Wells, director of the GLBT Center. “We really wanted to gear it towards what we wanted [students] to leave with an understanding of,” Wells said. “We have found based on the conversations and the feedback that we’ve gotten from students that they’ve really appreciated the opportunity to articulate what they’ve learned and what they got out of the experience.” This year’s tunnel addressed the issue of persecution of undocumented students for the first time in a skit. In the skit, two roommates meet the first time, and in getting to know one another, it is revealed that one of
Students use card game to help teach about diversity Hessa Al Maghlouth Correspondent
As part of Diversity Education Week: Revisited, the Union Activities Board hosted “It’s in the Cards,” a game night featuring a new card game invented solely for this event. The event in Talley Student Union aimed to examine the effects stereotypes have on African Americans in an engaging way. “It’s in the Cards” was originally planned as a part of Black History Month, but was rescheduled from Feb. 24 to Wednesday due to inclement weather and tornado warnings. Imani Starling-Brown, a freshman studying fashion and textile management, said she went to the event in order to show people what an Afri-
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can-American woman is like, in case they needed a better representation. “I want to actively participate in Diversity Week because I feel like I can’t expect for cultural and racial climate here to be impacted if I am not an active participant in the activities that will enhance it,” Starling-Brown said. Starling-Brown said she often finds herself to be one of the only black students in her textiles classes of up to 60 people. “There are definitely times where if I say something people look at as if I’m a know-itall,” Starling-Brown said. “I feel like that’s only because I standout already just because I’m a black person in a classroom full of white people, and in addition to that, I do speak a lot, and I speak very well, so I feel like that is something that
people are intimidated by. So, when you are intimidated by something you’re usually kind of like negative towards it.” The card game is modeled after Cards Against Humanity, a multiplayer card game. In the event, the UAB encouraged students to interact with each other away from the usual panel discussions and informational events. “All of the cards are based off of things that students have said, or interactions or things that happened on NC State’s campus,” said Kamrie Risku, UAB Diversity Activities Board chair. “Everything that is on the cards or discussed at the event is based off of reallife NC State instances that affected African-Americans or other racial minorities.” The event had a lower-than-
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Americans and Germans view climate change differently, according to a study by University of Vienna student Dorothea Born, who visited NC State Wednesday to discuss how cultural differences can be seen in images of popular science magazines. The lecture, titled “Imag(in) ing Nature In Climate Change,” was a collection of Born’s qualitative findings about how climate change is communicated in pictures included in popular science magazines, particularly in the American publication National Geographic and Germany’s GEO Magazine. Her study, “Imag(in)ing Polar Bears – The Creation of an Icon for Climate Change Communication,” focused mainly on the different ways the issue of climate change is addressed in each publication and how pictures are used to convey these points. Born explained that popular science magazines are the most common medium for disseminating scientific information to the general public. “Modern models assume very different opinions between the scientific community and the general public,” Born said. “But more knowledge about science does not necessarily lead to more acceptance.” Throughout the course of the lecture, Born displayed images taken from National Geographic and GEO magazines meant to interest the reader in climate change. “Defining nature in a specific way creates imaginations of how nature and culture should relate,” Born said. The relationship of culture to nature is a cornerstone of Born’s study, who used the differences in imagery in the German and American magazines to explain
general cultural trends. For example, climate change was a front page issue on GEO as early as 1989, while it took National Geographic until 1998 to do the same. This difference, Born explained, is evidence of a difference of opinion among the countries. Born used examples of seal photography from each magazine to show how National Geographic, and presumably American culture, seems to believe that culture and people should interfere with nature when it is necessary, while GEO and ostensibly German culture believe the two should be keep to themselves. To Tyler Rohrbach, a junior studying environmental science and marine science, the presentation was interesting but not without its flaws. “She made the case that National Geographic shows less controversial images, and I don’t necessarily agree with that,” Rohrbach said. Born also discussed what she considers the iconization of polar bears as symbols for the fight against climate change. Citing images from National Geographic publications as far back as 1995, Born showed the progression of polar bears as the subject of a picture into a new visual language where the use of polar bears is seen as a testament to climate change. Born said that America’s individualistic culture, which oftentimes values the individual over the community, tends to sympathize more with a singular struggling polar bear than a graph showing the decline of sea ice in polar bear territory. Born went on to explain how polar bears have been used by groups in the United States as an indirect way to lobby for climate action, while in Ger-
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The Panoramic Dance Project PHOTO BY NICK FAULKNER A female crew from the Panoramic Dance Project questioned the stereotypical roles of women in today’s society as part of the dance performance, “Tension.” Matthew Wright, a sophomore studying graphic design and a second-year member of the Panoramic Dance Project, also joined in the dance and conversation, questioning the stereotypical opinion of the gender roles of a male, asking, “Why am I the only guy up here?” The Panoramic Dance Project, a subsidiary of NC State’s Dance Program, performed a variety of dance pieces at Stewart Theatre in Talley Student Union on Wednesday, many of which featured a unique view on modern opinions. The final showing of the concert is today at 8 p.m. in Stewart Theatre.
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