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IN BRIEF Four Wesleyan students killed in car crash

Four students from North Carolina Wesleyan College were killed in a car crash after colliding with another vehicle Monday evening in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

The students, all freshmen at Wesleyan College, were identified as Donesha Scott, 19, of Raleigh, Robyne Barnes, 20, of Conway, Kandis McBride-Jones, 20, of Littleton and Quedeshia Brown, 20, of Henderson. The four students were all in the same vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle, who sustained non-life threatening injuries, was taken to UNC Nash Hospital for treatment.

The school’s vice president of Student Affairs said the students were coming back from dinner when the crash occurred. North Carolina Wesleyan College canceled its classes on Tuesday to give students a chance to mourn.

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Sarah Palin snags spot on courtroom TV show

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will star in a courtroom show produced by Larry Lyttle, the producer of “Judge Judy” and “Judge Joe Brown.” At this time, the former governor of Alaska has only signed a production deal and still needs to shoot the pilot episode. After that, the producers will try to sell the show to a network. Unlike the stars of “Judge Judy” and “Judge Joe Brown,” Palin does not have a law degree, but producers think her personality and fan base make her perfect for the job regardless of her legal credentials.

Warm Springs, a Montana-based production company, will make the show. Palin has recently made headlines for endorsing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and joining him on the campaign trail.

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ASG elects a new president Hessa Al Maghlouth Correspondent

Madeline Finnegan, a sophomore studying economics at NC State, was elected president of the North Carolina Association of Student Governments on Saturday, which represents more than 220,000 students on all 17 campuses in the UNC System.

As part of her role as president of ASG, Finnegan will have a non-voting seat on the UNC Board of Governors.

Finnegan currently serves as the vice president for budget and finance for ASG and she served as the associate vice president of budget and finance during her freshman year.

Before coming to NC State, Finnegan attended the North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham for her last two years of high school.

She began attending ASG meetings as a delegate her senior year of high school.

“I am really excited about the win,” Finnegan said. “I am so grateful to have been able to serve ASG for three years, and I’m really looking forward to this year. I’ve built up an understanding of how ASG works as an organization and among campuses, but now I get to use that experience to bring that the board of governors.”

She ran against East Carolina University’s Alex Prunka and his VP, Fayetteville State University’s Elliot Jackson. The last three presidents of ASG were NC State students.

Zack King, a senior studying political science and current president of ASG, described the ASG as the voice of student body presidents to the Board of Governors. King said he believes diplomacy is one of the most important characteristics an ASG president could have.

“Being able to be an effective diplomat, and rep-

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An illustration shows the differences in abdomen size between a non-gravid and gravid female Tyrannosaurus rex. Paleontologists at NC State and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have recently discovered a sex-linked trait which can help determine the sex of the dinosaur.

Pregnant dinosaur helps scientists study evolution Laurie Howard Correspondent

Scientists from NC State and t he Nor t h Carolina Museum of Natural History have found the first test for identifying a sex-linked trait in dinosaurs.

The research developed a new test that identifies a tissue found in only pregnant dinosaurs, opening the doors for more research opportunities surrounding the evolutionary patterns of a wide range of vertebrae.

Medullary bone tissue can be found in the bones of

birds and was thought to be present in the bones of pregnant dinosaurs. This tissue is the only known indicator of a dinosaur’s sex, with its primary function storing the calcium needed to form eg g shel l s . Unde tec t able post-birth, until recently it was impossible to identify in fossils.

“It’s very hard to find, very transient, very ephemeral tissue,” said Lindsay Zanno, assistant research professor in biological sciences at NC State and director of the Paleontology Research Laboratory at the North Carolina

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Museum of Natural Sciences. “It’s not there for most of their life.”

About a decade ago, the lead author of the research, Mar y Schweitzer, a molecular pa leontologist at NC State, found what was thought to be medullar y bone in a 68 million year old Tyrannosaurus rex femur.

The resulting research described the methods used to determine what this medullary bone tissue looked like.

“There’s other things that can mimic medullary bone,”

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Tom Ross to join pharmaceutical company board

Rob Ford, controversial Toronto mayor, dies at 46

Rob Ford, the controversial former Toronto mayor who has made international headlines for his admitting to crack cocaine use and fits of public drunkenness, died Tuesday at the age of 46. His office announced his death Tuesday, but it has not yet confirmed a cause of death. Prior to his death, Ford had been receiving treatment for malignant liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer, since 2014. Ford was largely popular with suburban conservatives in Toronto. In 2013, Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine in one of his “drunken stupors.”

SOURCE: The New York Times

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Jamie Madigan, a senior studying animal science and a member of Alpha Zeta, mans one of the animal exhibits during Ag Awareness Week, hosted by Alpha Zeta in the Brickyard.

Members of Alpha Zeta are required to take shifts manning the exhibit. “I am out here even when I am not signed up,” Madigan said.

Former UNC System President Tom Ross, who was controversially forced to leave his position and replaced with former secretary of education for the Bush administration Margaret Spellings, will soon be on the board of Canadian drug company, Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

“While Valeant has great opportunity before it, it still faces significant headwinds,” Ross said in a statement.

Valeant has come under intense scrutiny due to its strategy of acquiring and raising the price of drugs.

The company is looking to use Ross for his wealth of public policy knowledge.

The company is also searching for a new chief executive officer. The current CEO, J. Michael Pearson,

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T he Nor t h C a rol i na leg islature w i l l hold a special session to discuss Charlotte’s LGBT-inclusive public accommodations ordinance, which includes allowing transgender people to use public restrooms that match their gender identity not their sexual orientation at birth.

“We aim to repeal this ordinance before it goes into effect to provide for the privacy and protection of the women and children of our state,” said Lt. Gov. Dan Forest and House Speaker Tim Moore in a joint statement, The News

& Observer reported.

T h e o rd i n a n c e w a s passed in February by the Charlotte City Council and will take effect on April 1. Sexual orientation and gender identity will be added to the city’s antidiscrimination law, but it will not affect employment, only public accommodations.

This ordinance applies to shops, restaurants, taxi and limousine ser vices and other businesses. Any business that refuses to serve same-sex weddings or LGBT events would be in violation.

According to The News and Obser ver, t he cit y would not be able to re-

voke a business license if a business violated the ordinance; however, it could seek an injunction that would effectively require the business to comply with the law.

It is unknown whether legislators will try to repeal the entire ordinance or only the restroom provision. Gov. Pat McCrory would not call the special session to order because he believed law ma kers wou ld go beyond t hat provision.

The session, which is taking place outside of the usually scheduled session dates, will cost North Carolinians $42,000 a day.

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will not be released to the public.

This special session will be the second time legislators have returned to Raleigh unexpectedly this

year. The General Assembly has not held two special sessions in the same year since 2003.

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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS In Monday’s article titled, “Moove it to the Brickyard for Ag Awareness Week” the Technician incorrectly reported that the funds raised by Alpha Zeta would be donated to the WNB Foundation. The funds will be donated to the Jimmy V Foundation.

Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-inChief Kaitlin Montgomery at technician-editor@ncsu.edu

POLICE BLOTTER March 21 1:27 AM | DOOR ALARM HELD Timber Hall Security responded to alarm.

Door was secure upon arrival.

9:58 AM | MEDICAL ASSIST Student Health Center Units responded and transported student in need of medical assistance.

10:04 AM | ALARM - OTHER Centennial Utility Plant FP responded to trouble alarm.

Cause unknown.

10:38 AM | DOOR ALARM HELD Mackenzie Hall Officer responded to alarm.

Door was secure upon arrival.

11:02 AM | WELFARE CHECK Owen Hall Officers conducted welfare check on student. Student was issued welfare referral.

11:09 AM | LARCENY 1911 Building Non-student reported theft of Sunkist bottle. Officer located bottle in different section of cooler.

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12:07 PM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Valley Hall Student reported vehicle wrapped in plastic bags. No damage to vehicle.

12:23 PM | SEXUAL ASSAULT Public Safety Center NCSU PD received online Clery report of sexual assault at unknown location.

1:22 PM | SKATEBOARD COMPLAINT Williams Hall Report of six skateboarders.

Subjects left the area prior to officer arrival.

3:10 PM | DOOR ALARM HELD Mackenzie Hall Officer responded to alarm.

Door was secure upon arrival.

3:25 PM | IDENTITY THEFT Public Safety Center Student reported social security number being used by another individual. Student elected to file report in jurisdiction she lives in.

7:35 PM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Sullivan Hall Student reported bicycle had been vandalized and had been made inoperable.

11:51 PM | DOOR ALARM HELD Mackenzie Hall Security responded to alarm.

Door was secured.

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rayndon Stafford, student body vice president-elect and senior studying environmental science, and Hakeem King, sophomore studying computer science, perform “strolling,” an art form of expression done to songs, at Wolf Plaza Tuesday. Stafford and King were with a group of students with the NC State chapter of the National Pan-Hellenic Council promoting the Pan-Afrikan Step Show, a competition to showcase the talents of the nine historically black fraternities and sororities on campus through dancing step routines, selling tickets to the show for $10 and giving out free pizza. The show will take place on April 9 and tickets are now $15 and can be purchased at panafrikanstepshow.eventbrite.com. “We are trying to publicize the NPHC Step Show,” Stafford said. “We want to try to bring unity on campus.”

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Madeline Finnegan (right), a sophomore studying economics at NC State, was elected president of the North Carolina Association of Student Governments on Saturday, which represents more than 220,000 students in the UNC System. Finnegan will replace Zack King (left), a senior studying political science. Finnegan will have a non-voting seat on the UNC Board of Governors.

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resenting students not from a biased personality — you can’t put your own politics into that role on the board or in representing students because you’re not there to represent yourself or your own personal beliefs, you’re there to represent what students want as a majority,” King said.

Finnegan’s platform focuses on several issues pertinent to students, including voting, mental health, sexual assault prevention and diversity and inclusion.

Mental health is on the top Finnegan’s list of initiatives.

“As student leaders we feel that we have real power to make actual tangible cha nge w it h rega rds to mental health,” Finnegan said. “W hat we’re going to do is use our resources from around the system to compile information, crosscampus information, about counseling services, about mental health resources on

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each campus of the system, compare and speak about it and see where our campus needs some improvements.”

One of the issues Finnegan hopes to champion as president this year is allowing the president of ASG to have a vote on the UNC Board of Governors. Currently, the president attends all meetings but is not allowed to vote on issues.

Each UNC campus has the opportunit y to send four delegates to represent the school in ASG meetings. Finnegan encourages students who are interested in becoming more involved with association to pursue these opportunities and become their campus’ ASG liaison.

“This is a role where your one job is to come to ASG and work on behalf of your school,” Fi nnega n sa id.

“I totally recommend for people on campuses to try and pursue that role, and if they’re interested in more of an executive side, I would recommend applying to be an executive officer for the following year.”

Some of the positions students can apply for include vice president of budget and finance, vice president of media outreach, vice president of campus outreach, vice president of government outreach and chief of staff.

“As one of the best public university systems in the country, I think that we owe it to ourselves to advocate — to keep this system as best as it can be,” Finnegan said. “Next year, I would like to emphasize the role that ASG can touch individual students, and that people can use ASG as a platform to benefit all of the students on the system.”

Finnegan and her senior vice president, Ezzard Pickett, a sophomore studying political science at North Carolina Central University, will be sworn into office on April 15 at the ASG business meeting at UNCCharlotte.

Zanno said.

The key, she said, was detecting the distinct chemical pattern the tissue leaves behind. “[The tests] are the only rigorous way we’ve found in the history of dinosaur paleontology to tell what’s male and what’s female,” Zanno said. “Now we can use those tests to determine [the presence of medullary bone] in other dinosaurs, and how and why it evolved.”

Sex plays a vital role in an animal’s biology. Reproduction — and the factors that inf luence it — is at the base of all life, controlling a population’s entire genetic makeup.

“To imagine that all of the research we do on dinosaurs was missing that critical information … you can see how the test opens up a whole new window of research for us,” Zanno said.

Understanding dinosaurs more comprehensively offers more than just new dinosaur facts about appearance and mating habits. Paleontological research

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is facing medical issues and will serve until a replacement is found.

Fred Eshelman, founder of the Wilmington-based compa ny Pha r mac eut ical Product Development, and Ross will be the independent directors of its 14-member board, which has been expanded from 12 seats. Valeant hopes that Eshelman’s expertise in the pharmaceutical industr y will strengthen its corpo-

“They help us understand a world that was not really that long ago, but was still very different from ours.”

— Terry Gates, professor of biology

adds collective insight into evolution as a whole.

“Dinosaurs reached some of the extremes of evolution,” said Terry Gates, a professor of biolog y and a research scientist at NC State. “It shows us what’s possible in an evolutionary framework.”

Di nosaurs pushed t he boundaries of what animals can do. In terms of size, they were the largest vertebrae to live on land. They i ndependent ly ach ieved f light. In appearance, they developed some of the most unusual characteristics scientists have ever seen. They evolved adaptive traits that mirror the environments in which they lived.

“They help us understand a world that was not really that long ago, but was still very different from ours,” Gates said.

Fossil records are much of what scientists have to learn about the results of

e x t reme env i ron ment s , a n d d i n o s au r s r e f l e c t those extremes. By looking at how dinosaurs lived and evolved, especially in relation to climate change, scientists learn more about what caused the evolution of some species and the demise of others. This research provides insight into how climate change will affect organisms today.

While an individual dinosaur discovery may not have extensive inf luence on human life, the collective knowledge learned from their study gives perspective to Earth’s past.

Un d e r s t a n d i n g m o r e about dinosaurs’ gender is just one of these discoveries, shedding light on the complicated lives of some of Earth’s most interesting inhabitants.

rate practices.

“We are pleased that these three experienced and capable leaders have agreed to join our Board,” said Robert A. Ingram in a Valeant press release, according to The News & Observer. “As Valeant grows, it is essential that our directors have the appropriate mix of skills and experience necessary to support management.”

The company is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A Raleighbased company, Salix Pharmaceuticals, which was recently acquired by Valeant,

is also under investigation.

Valeant acquired two new pharmaceutical companies last year, one of which produced Addyi, the first drug approved by the FDA to boost women’s sex drive.

Tom Ross is eager to work with the company.

“I look forward to working w it h t he board and management, addressing open issues and restoring investor and public confidence in Valeant,” Ross said to the Daily Tar Heel.

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Alex Monaco, a sophomore studying philosophy, Andrea Cooper, a sophomore studying communication, and Hui Sung, a junior studying chemical engineering, take pictures of Smooth the alpaca on Tuesday during Ag Awareness Week, hosted by Alpha Zeta. The students saw the alpacas when walking through the Brickyard.

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Smooth and Hercules, alpacas, eat hay in their pen Tuesday in the Brickyard during Ag Awareness Week, hosted by Alpha Zeta.

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Notorious P.I.G., Missy Elliot and Foxy Brown lie asleep in their pen between bales of hay on Tuesday in the Brickyard. The pigs are a part of an exhibit during Ag Awareness Week, hosted

by Alpha Zeta.

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Holi crap: a response to NC State’s Holi

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Amanda Reza, freshman studying industrial design

Design assignments are not simple art projects F

or many individuals, a traditional college assignment may consist of late nights studying and bingeing on fancy latte orders. For many design majors, this time is instead spent working on creative projects. To many Amanda people, building towers out of Reza straws or pages of drawings Correspondent may sound relatively simple, but what people may not realize is the deliberate approaches to reach a solution that must be intentional and effective.

People may have an ingenious idea pop into their heads at times; however, designers are trained to be creative all the time. While students can agree these projects are fun, hence, one of the many reasons for pursuing a design major, it requires a lot of hard work.

A common misconception is that design work is as simple as coloring. Hanna Mortensen, a freshman studying industrial design, said, “Many people do not exactly know what design is. They associated it with art, but it is a lot more than that. It is creative problem-solving that meets needs while creating a personal experience for the user.”

It takes a lot of time to develop and create ideas.

Sometimes it can take hours after experimenting through possibilities of sketching, prototyping and other techniques. Building a model or creating an illustration on a computer program may sound like a sufficient assignment. Students often realize that the ideas in their heads may be difficult to translate into products. There is careful thought in each decision from cutting pieces of wood, gluing materials together, choosing a certain font or any simple task which adds up to create a final product.

Contrary to what some people think, the simplest ideas may be the most difficult to create.

Minimalism in design is a sophisticated approach that may take lots of time to refine into an effective solution. While this idea utilizes the least resources or space possible, it needs to convey all the information or serve the full function of what it is intended for.

From the lack of late time spent studying, some people may think that design students are lucky not to take tests for their disciplines. But when studying for a test, there is only a certain amount of criteria the student needs to know. For design projects, there is no set amount of information to memorize and apply; designers must search for the answers instead. It takes practice to come up with ideas, and even more to distinguish what constitutes a good, better or bad design.

Instead of tests, critiques are used as a measure of a design student’s knowledge and skill. Unlike tests, work presented in critiques does not fit the mold of right or wrong answers. Kayla Watson, a freshman studying graphic design, clarifies this, saying, “grades are based on growth and not necessarily knowing the right answer to everything. There is always an aspect that could be improved upon.”

Professors constantly reinforce this idea that there will always be a way to improve upon a design. For this reason, assignments tend to be subjective because there is no simple measure or formula to determine a grade.

Every product, space or system has been the result of a creative project. The world would be a very different place without the hours designers spend developing creative designs.

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t’s human nature to want to win. When’s the last time you heard a pep talk to get out there on the field and lose?

In any usual circumstances, probably never. Sure, there are valuable lessons learned from Missy losi ng, a nd Furman it’s bound to Staff Columnist, happen every Student Scoop so often. But that’s hardly ever the intention or motivation to compete.

This mindset was no exception for the beginning games of the Residence Hall World Cup tournament. Having played since I was 5 years old, I was excited to have the opportunity to lace up my cleats again after putting them toward the back of my closet since I came to college. I was raised on the soccer field. Nothing is more heartwarming to a nostalgic soccer player than joining the Wolfpack community on Miller Fields to play the sport you love with new teammates who miss the high school games and practices just as much you do.

With passion often comes pressure — pressure to be the best, and pressure to win.

While a healthy pressure is usually installed among teammates, hostile feelings are formed quickly toward the

ultimate decider of the way the game goes: the referee.

Refs don’t get the respect they should. It’s a tough job, and like any other event in life, you can’t please everyone.

Especially here at NC State, sometimes the refs are students of the same age without much experience in the sport. That’s not their fault, and the players should be lucky that there is a ref at all for intramural games.

Throughout my 13 years of soccer, I was always surprised at how quickly the players talked back, how much the coaches criticized and even the extent to which the parents judged from the sidelines.

In the moment of an intense, heated tackle, it can be difficult not to place the blame on the easiest target on the field. You made a bad pass? The ref was probably in the way. The other team scored? The ref probably didn’t call the player off-sides.

But more often than not, the ref really isn’t out to get you or your team. A simple glance down at the stopwatch could easily result in missing an elbow to the stomach or the cleat that kicked the ball out of bounds. Meanwhile, chances are that the ref only looked at his watch in the first place because someone asked him how much time was left.

Of course, there is most definitely that category of refs who flat out don’t care if they give

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penalty kicks for players tripping over their own two feet, who forget they even have cards to give or who watched “She’s the Man” once and think they know everything there is to know about the sport of soccer. It’s fair to give refs the benefit of the doubt, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere.

That “somewhere” is when safety comes into question. A lack of calls gets players’ blood boiling and only causes even more fouls to be committed. Sooner than later, a push becomes a slide tackle, and suddenly a friendly match becomes anything but that.

It’s the ref’s job to make sure that the rules are followed to the best of his or her ability so that all the players can walk off the field at the end of the game without dizzying concussions or torn ACLs. Refs may miss their fair share of calls, but without them, the games would not be possible.

And most athletes can agree that a subpar ref is better than no game at all. Although winning can become more important than it needs to be, at the end of the day, athletes just want to play the sport they love, whatever that may be. So no matter what the scoreboard says, you should always respect the ref.

’m going to preface this column by saying that one of the most beautiful, wholesome aspects of the Hindu Holi Festival is how it brings people together, reAditi gardless of gender, age, race Dholakia or socioeconomic (caste) staCorrespondent tus. For a blessed few hours, people come together to celebrate the Festival of Colors, commemorating the arrival of spring and various Hindu legends, wishing each other wealth and prosperity in the new season. It is, essentially, a time when all prejudice is suspended, and all actions and words are exchanged in good nature.

Earlier this week, the Technician ran an article in the news section giving a general summation of the Holi Festival at NC State.

Readers were given a fairly all-encompassing, if rather vague and disjointed, account of the festival; there were even a scant few lines — however, short and poorly explained — about the religious and cultural significance of Holi.

Granted, the NC State festival organizers did a poor job of explaining the true Hindu origins as well. More to the point, they didn’t explain it at all.

To quote the earlier article, “Shikhar Arora, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering who is from India, appreciated the event’s authenticity … However, Arora felt the event came up short in teaching attendees why Holi is celebrated.” Out of all the Hindu religious festivals, Holi is one of the least religiously affiliated, simply by virtue of the passage of time.

Much like Christmas, over the centuries, the true religious origins of Holi have become less important, making Holi almost exclusively a cultural tradition celebrated all around India. The result is that Holi becomes a much more accessible festival to people all around the globe, similar to how Christmas is often

{ Lisa Eberhart There are many NC State employees who do not get the credit they deserve for their hard work, but there is one individual in particular who not only does not get enough credit for her hard work but also holds a position many students and faculty do not even know exists.

Lisa Eberhart is NC State’s campus dietitian, and while this may not seem like the most important job on campus she does a great deal of good for us. Since most people do not know of her services, I contacted her and got an in-depth outline of all of her duties.

Eberhart and her graduate student interns are available for free one-on-one nutrition consultations or you can submit a question through University Dining’s “Ask the Dietitian.”

She has everything on campus analyzed down to the ingredient level so we all know what is in our food. You can check this by going to the campus dining hall website or by using one of the on-site iPads. The campus mobile app also provides nutrition and allergen information.

still celebrated by non-Christians.

What really gets me, though, is that there is always a certain element of education that has to be accounted for in the spread of different cultural traditions from one country to another. Even though the true religious origins of Christmas have been lost to some, pretty much everyone and their brother knows the cultural significance of Christmas, whether or not they actively celebrate it.

Indian culture and history is so rarely addressed that any mention of anything remotely Indian in American culture is like a drop of water during a severe drought. If those tidbits of information were accurate, and beneficial to the societal understanding and acceptance of Indians, I’d be pleased as punch. The problem, though, is that much of Indian culture is being painted in an extremely inaccurate and appropriative light — a problem that is perpetuated by the lack of education or explanation of the importance of festivals such as Holi.

I mentioned earlier, my favorite part of Holi is the way it allows people to set aside their differences in the most playful and innocuous way. This relative camaraderie loses its charm, though, when the umpteenth uneducated non-Indian approaches me and tells me in great detail how the idea of Holi is so great, because it’s just like the Color Run, without the actual running.

This is not a chicken and egg situation — Holi came first, thousands of years ago, and has since been taken and misconstrued in so many ways by well-intentioned, yet culturally unaware people who just want to throw some color around. The crux of the issue is that this brand of appropriation is not exclusive to Holi but is also present in many other non-Western cultural and religious traditions around the world.

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Her office offers free health tours of the dining halls, C-stores and food services operations. Classes on simple dorm-room cooking are also available.

Part of her job is to make sure we have healthier options at all the dining locations. She is at the meetings when the menu is decided and also makes sure that there is a “Dietitian’s Dish” which is a healthier option at every meal every day.

Eberhart also informed me that this past fall NC State was named the first school in the country to meet all the criteria for the Partnership for a Healthier America Healthier Colleges Program. This is a program was started by first lady Michelle Obama.

NC State had to meet many requirements in order to achieve this, and to her knowledge, NC State is still the only school to do that.

With better promotion of her services NC State has a chance to become a much healthier school.

Scott Flocco sophomore studying sports management

Solar power

Obama took the Southeast Atlantic coast off of the drilling plan. We need to use this victory for the environment as momentum to encourage other sources of energy in North Carolina, specifically solar. Solar energy is great for North Carolina for many reasons, and we should harness that power. Obviously the representatives from North Carolina did not do well in representing what the people really wanted — our representation in D.C. was in support of offshore drilling off of our coast, but the overwhelming opposition we showed the president caused him to understand that we did not support our lawmakers’ decisions about this issue.

In North Carolina, lawmakers are making it extremely difficult for solar energy to reach its full potential in our state. As we saw from offshore drilling issue, lawmakers aren’t listening to what the people truly want. We need to tell our representatives what we want by calling them, writing letters, doing anything it takes to let them know that we want solar power in North Carolina.

Meghan Ingram sophomore studying environmental sciences

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Linguistics team reveals the blind bias of dialect Carolyn Thompson Staff Writer

The linguistics program “Educating the Educated: A University-Wide Language Diversity Initiative,” holds events and workshops to expose issues of languagebased inequality and create an inclusive campus environment for students.

The program was awarded the grand gold medal for excellence from the National A s soc iat ion of St udent Pe r s on ne l Ad m i n i s t r ators, which was the highest award of the category.

There are several different categories of awards, such as diversity programming and financial support awards listed on the NASPA awards page. Each of the gold winners is asked to present at NASPA’s annual conference.

“When people hear about t he prog ra m, e ver yone resonates, right? Everyone speaks something, everyone, even though some folks don’t think they speak with a dialect, everyone does,” said Audrey Jaeger, one of the co-directors of Educating the Educated and professor of higher education and alumni distinguished

“Even though some folks don’t think they speak with a dialect, everyone does.”

—Audrey Jaeger, co-director of Educating the Educated

graduate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership.

A lot of internal collaborat ion bet ween depa r tments in NC State happens in support of Educating the Educated, with partners at the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service, the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity and connections in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, according to Stephany Dunstan, one of the co-directors of Educating the Educated and associate director of the Office of Assessment.

“The first time I spoke up in a faculty meeting, someone made fun of how I talked, or someone was jokingly talking about my accent, and then I stopped speaking up,” Jaeger said.

“So we want to better understand that process not just as an undergraduate

student but how that affects your general engagement and your sense of comfortability throughout the experience.”

Dunstan presented the idea of having a student ambassador program so that students on campus can have a peer-to-peer experience, and students may be more receptive to other students, according to Jaeger.

“It’s not just from linguistics, so we have student ambassadors from education and some student ambassadors from CHASS and other places — but they serve as a means to increase our breadth in terms of where we can go across campus and who we can connect to in terms of our depth, so they can relate to students’ concerns more so than we can,” Jaeger said.

The student ambassadors for Educating the Educated have now become a student organization known as the

Language Diversity Ambassadors at NC State. The ambassadors receive trainings for the language diversity workshops they facilitate and trainings to learn what kinds of questions the audience may ask, according to Jaeger.

“Right now it’s mostly graduate and undergraduate students who have some kind of background in linguistics, either they’re minoring or majoring, but now that we’re a student organization, we really want to emphasize that we’re open to anyone who’s interested in learning more about issues of language and social justice,” Dunstan said.

The program has a lso been reaching out on Alternative Spring Break trips to teach language diversity curriculum to high school and middle school students in social studies classes in North Carolina, according to Dunstan.

“We also talk about issues of language and social justice, so language ideologies and how it can impact how we view other people and interact with others, so it’s a really fun trip to get to interact with high school students,” Dunstan said.

A similar trip has been going on for about 20 years where Walt Wolfram, one of the co-directors of Educating the Educated and a distinguished professor of English, takes students out to Ocracoke to teach also teach about these topics.

Students also had the opportunity to visit a Cherokee immersion school in North Carolina.

These Alternative Spring Break experiences help the ambassadors and members of the program learn more about the importance and value of language in its diverse forms.

“Everything is taught in Cherokee,” Dunstan said.

“They learn from birth to sixth grade right now — the students there do math, science, history, everything in Cherokee. Cherokee is a dying language, and this is a really strong, important revitalization effort. So our students got to go and do observations in the school there to, one, learn more about what an immersion school environment looks like, and two, to see this really unique moment in time and this rea lly incredible kind of grassroots movement that is really suc-

cessful so far, and it kind of drives home the powerful connection between language and culture and identity.”

Dunstan and Jaeger are work i ng on t he second phase of the program that is based on Dunstan’s dissertation research focused on students and how they are feeling and their sense of belonging, according to Jaeger. Focus on faculty is now also increasing in the program.

Other colleges are adopting similar programs and are free to use materials from Educating the Educated.

“We wou ld love to be in a place where there are discussions of diversity of language, and it is automatically built in, that it’s not a novelty or kind of a one-off, ‘Oh, isn’t that interesting to think about,’” Dunstan said. “That it’s really woven into all of the discussions about diversity because it ref lects and is so inexplicably tied into other parts of who we are and how we relate with each other.”

Campus dietitian keeps students and menu healthy Emily Boyette Correspondent

When looking around at different fo o d c hoic e s i n eateries on campus such as Talley or t he Atrium, ma ny students tend to m a ke unhealthy food choices and go straight for the pizza and burgers. But Universit y Di n i ng ha s worke d t he pa s t couple of years to offer healthier options around all of campus.

Lisa Eberhart serves as campus dietitian for Universit y Dining, and she is available to help students’ diets as well as create healthy campus dining halls. In her career, Eberhart was the first dietitian in North Carolina to receive the Governor’s Award for Excellence.

Eberhart studied nutrition at Iowa State University, and she was brought to North Carolina by a job in Cary where she consulted w it h at hletes. About 15 years ago she began work-

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ing with Student Health as the athletic dietitian, student health dietitian and the dining dietitian. Six years ago she decided to work solely for dining because she wanted to focus on elevating the dining program to be one of the healthiest college food services in the nation. In 2014, University Dining was named to FoodService Director Magazine’s

list of the 15 he a lt h ie s t food service operations in the country.

According to Eberhart, students and people are much more adventurous with food today. There are so many different ideas being thrown around, along with such creativity, that incorporating that into the dining halls has become more important than ever.

“About 15 years ago, a lot of students who c a me to col lege never tasted sush i or ot her unusual foods that now every student is familiar w ith,” Eberhart said.

Eberhart works with Executive Chef Bill Brizzolara to try to accommodate for students’ needs on the table while still aiming to offer an innovative and healthy menu. Food changes so much over time, and just like fashion has trends, so does food.

“I t hin k t he food has mor phed f rom a meatand-potato-casserolestyle menu to a modern, on-trend, f resh-cookedto-order and display-style cooking,” Brizzolara said.

“I cannot tell you how many times former students from 10 or 15 years ago stop and tell me how good the food is now and how they wish they could go back to school

“I cannot tell you how many times former students from 10 or 15 years ago stop and tell me how good the food is now and how they wish they could go back to school for it.”

— Executive Chef Bill Brizzolara

for it.”

A lt hough it may seem easy to be able to pick out what is healthy and what is not at different dining locations, some students struggle without even knowing that visiting a campus dietitian is completely free and to their benefit. A dietitian can give students tips on how to stay on track, which can be anything from logging your food and calorie counting to what types of plates of food you should be eating.

“Everything on campus is linked to MyFitnessPal, so people can go online and find nutritional facts on every single food place on campus,” Eberhart said.

You can also link your Fitbit to MyFitnessPal as well.

It’ll give you a better view of the types of foods you are eating, because the app

divides everything up to tell you whether you need more protein, carbohydrates or fats.”

One healthy strategy that Eberhart suggests is asking yourself before you eat a meal, “Does my plate look colorful? ” or, “Do I have any vegetables on my plate? ” If you see mostly brown, she said, it probably isn’t a meal you should be eating.

University Dining holds several events, but one in particular that stands out is Dietitian’s Dish. Every Monday, it provides a sample plate with the food being served that day to give students an idea of what a healthy plate looks like.

“It’s more about passive learning to show that there are healthy, fresh, colorful things in the dining hall,” Eberhart said.

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NCSU’s first Churchill Scholar shoots for the stars Anna Bringle Correspondent

Mia de los Reyes, a senior studying physics and math, recently became the first NC State student to win the prestigious Churchill Scholarship and the opportunity to pursue a year of graduate research at the University of Cambridge based at Churchill College.

The Churchill Scholarship allows American students to travel to the United Kingdom for one year to earn a master’s degree in science, mathematics, physics or engineering at Cambridge University. This year, it was awarded to only 15 students nationwide.

To become one of these select few, de los Reyes worked on her application with Tiffany Kershner, coordinator for distinguished scholarships and fellowships.

“She stood out immediately,” Kershner said. “She has that passion and that drive that is necessary to be competitive in these kinds of competitions.”

The process began with a research plan. Alongside Robert Kennicutt, head of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge and co-author of the Kennicutt-Schmidt Law, de los Reyes will study populations of galaxies and trends in star formations.

Specifically, they will work redo the original analysis of the Kennicutt-Schmidt Law, which discusses the relationship between the amount of cold gas in a galaxy and how quickly it forms stars. With more data available since the original analysis in 1998, they hope to obtain more accurate results and explanations for inconsistencies in their previous findings.

De los Reyes said she is excited to study in England; however, this will not be

“I’m really hoping to become more independent as a scientist and as a thinker and be able to start asking the kinds of questions that astronomers need to ask.”

—Mia de los Reyes, Churchill Scholar and senior studying physics and math

her first experience traveling for academic purposes.

Internships, research opportunities and volunteer work have ta ken her to CERN in Switzerland, Hawaii, El Salvador and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she earned a first-author title on a publication in the Astronomical Journal when she was only a sophomore in college. She has also visited the Philippines where her family is from.

“I like to think traveling has made me a more passionate and empathetic person,” de los Reyes said. “It’s definitely made me aware of cultural differences.”

De los Reyes believes this experience will be unlike any of her previous travels. Despite being nervous about adapting to the English lifestyle and not having the proximity of her family to lean on, she is excited to broaden her scientific horizons.

“I’ve done research before, and I’ve published before, but I didn’t really feel like that was all my work since I had a lot of help from advisers and professors,” de los Reyes said. “I’m really hoping to become more independent as a scientist and as a thinker and be able to start asking the kinds of questions that astronomers need to ask.”

De los Reyes’ love for science, as well as her road to success, began at home at a young age. Her father,

Francis de los Reyes, an engineering professor at NC State, always encouraged her to find the answers to her questions by critical thinking.

“My parents raised me to believe that education is super important. They sort of trained me in science,” de los Reyes said. “My father made me think about things deeply, and my mother basically taught me how to do research.”

In middle school, de los Reyes participated in Science Olympiad, an academic tournament for students in grades K-12. She was randomly placed in the astronomy event and has loved the topic ever since. She went to high school at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, or NCSSM, where she became interested in physics, which led her to study physics at NC State after winning the Park Scholarship.

“M I T wa s my d re a m school, but then I came the NC State, and I realized there are a lot of awesome people here,” de los Reyes said. “Honestly, if I had to do it again I would pick NC State every single time.”

During her time at NC State, de los Reyes founded the Serious About Science and Math Club after she noticed some of her younger brother’s friends were not able to attend NCSSM. As this was the place that allowed her passion for science to grow, de los Reyes

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Mia de los Reyes, a senior studying physics and mathematics, was the first NC State student to be awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship. She is one of only 15 students from across the country to win the scholarship.

wanted to bring that opportunity to other high schools.

The club teaches workshops on nontraditional science topics at local high schools so that students can learn about subjec ts t hat a re not normally taught at the high-school level. So far, the club has taught workshops on particle physics, astrophysics, computer science and artificial intelligence.

“You t a ke phy sic s i n high school, and it’s a just a bunch of balls on ramps, and it’s super boring and everyone hates it,” de los Reyes said. “But physics is more than that. It’s a way of thinking, and once you realize that, then a lot of fields are open to you.”

With all of her accomplishments, de los Reyes i ntend s to f u r t her her

education and her passion for physics and astronomy when she travels to England in the fall.

“Cambridge is an amazing place, a wonderful experience, and we are very proud of her,” Kershner said. “She worked very hard, and it was a well-deserved award.”

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“If I had to describe him in one word, it would be eccentric,” Palmeiro said. “He’s out there, but he means well and he brings out the best in us.”

Avent also talked about the call during his Around the Bases program, hosted by Backyard Bistro, Monday.

“You never forget bad calls, because they cost you,” Avent said.

“We’ve gone to four off icials,

“He’s probably one of the best coaches, if not hte best in the country, in terms of caring about his players off the field.”

— Preston Palmeiro, junior first baseman

which has made it easier.”

While he was displeased with the call on the f ield, Avent is known for being against the implementation of instant replay.

“Despite some bad calls in the

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Sunday game, I still don’t like instant replay,” Avent said. “I think it takes too much time. They’ll go up to the booth for three months when even my dog knows it was a bad call, and they come back and

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say it’s wrong. It’s terrible.”

Avent is very well-engaged with other sports outside of his own, whether it be watching the NCAA tournament or keeping tabs on the success of the NC State wrestling team.

“We have a school here that’s really embraced wrestling,” Avent said. “It was just heartbreaking to see the way [Nick] Gwiazdowski lost. I was at Dail Park, hoping for some retribution.”

The Wolfpack hosted the ACC Championship wrestling team during a Saturday game against the Boston College Eagles.

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“We had them out for a Saturday game against Boston College,” Avent said. “We were going to have Pat and Gwiz throw out the first pitch, but Gwiz backed out. Tommy Gantt threw out the first pitch, and Pat lobbed it from home plate. Those are a great group of guys.”

With Avent giving no indication of leaving any time soon, the baseball team looks to have at least 20 more consistent years in a world that is constantly in f lux.

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Avent: a leader on and off the field Joseph Ochoa

Pack alumnus wins silver at World Indoors Former NC State distance runner Ryan Hill won the silver medal in the 3,000-meter event at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon Sunday. The Hickory, North Carolina native recorded a time of 7:57.39 in the event. Hill finished 10th in the same event back in 2013. A runner for the Pack from 2008-11, Hill was a 10-time All-American and holds the school record in five different events. A seven-time ACC Champion on the track, Hill helped the Pack to ACC cross country titles in 2009 and 2011.

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O’Donnell named ACC Pitcher of the Week NC State’s Joe O’Donnell was named the ACC Pitcher of the Week after pitching a complete game against Notre Dame Friday. The junior from Wilmington propelled the Pack to a 9-1 victory over the Fighting Irish. This marks O’Donnell’s first career ACC weekly award and the third time this season a member of the Wolfpack has won one. Senior Chance Shepard won back-to-back ACC Player of the Week awards earlier this season.

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Addison named ACC Field Performer of the Year Senior Jonathan Addison of the NC State track and field team was named ACC Men’s Field Performer of the Year, the league announced Friday. Addison was given the award after a vote was held consisting of ACC head coaches. This is Addison’s second time winning the award.

He previously won the same award during the 2015 outdoor season.

The Raleigh native won the ACC Championship in the long jump and finished a a runner-up at the NCAA Championships in the same event.

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There have been a lot of things that have changed during the last 20 years. “Toy Story” was in theaters, the Grateful Dead broke up and the first generation PlayStation was released. However, for NC State baseball, one man has been the model of consistency.

Head coach Elliott Avent came to NC State in 1997 after being the head coach at New Mexico State from 1989 until 1996, where he amassed a 225 wins with the Aggies.

Since coming to NC State, Avent has registered 733 wins as the head baseball coach for the Wolfpack, a mark which helped him pass legendary NC State baseball coach Sam Esposito for most wins in school history in 2010. But for Avent, not much has changed during the last 20 years.

“It feels great entering my 20th season; I feel great,” Avent said. “When I first got here, I was really excited and really charged up. I just feel like every year gets better.”

Avent always looks for moments in his past that can be teaching lessons for the team.

One of those moments presented itself at the end of last season in the Pack’s NCAA regional elimination game versus the TCU Horned Frogs.

“I think the way things ended last year makes you smarter, it makes you appreciate things more,” Avent said. “When you get to certain places, it makes you learn from the past.”

One thing Avent is known for is his impact on the lives of his players off the field. Junior first baseman Preston Palmeiro hopes that Avent will be someone he can go to after his collegiate career is finished.

“He’s probably one of the best coaches, if not the best in the country, in terms of caring about his players off the field,” said Palmeiro, a Colleyville, Texas native said. “He’s just helped me become a more well-rounded person and a complete student-athlete.”

Avent is very passionate about the game of baseball, and in some cases he reciprocates that passion to umpires during the game.

During Sunday’s game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, sophomore left fielder Shane Shepard made an incredible diving catch, but the second plate umpire for the game ruled it as a double. After the coach

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Head coach Elliot Avent discusses a play with the umpire. The NC State baseball team lost to Indiana State 11-7 at Doak field at Dail park March 16.

saw the call on the field, he went out to have “chat” with the ump.

Many thought that Avent was so animated during the argument that he was going to get an ejection, but Avent returned to the NC

State bench following the incident. Palmeiro described him as a guy who cares a lot about the game and his players.

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It’s the ACC’s world and eveyone else is living in it The Atlantic Coast Conference set a March Madness record with six teams advancing to the Sweet 16 after its member teams won 12 of 13 games in the first week of tournament play.

Tyler Horner Of t he conference’s seven teams Correspondent to be selected to the field, only Pittsburgh failed to advance, losing 47-43 to Wisconsin in the first round. By comparison, only one of the Pac 12’s seven tournament teams survived to the Sweet 16, despite all receiving seeds of eight or higher.

The strength of the ACC had been questioned for much of the season, as most of its teams played weak nonconference schedules and could therefore only be compared against one another. The conference has not only bucked its doubters but has danced its way into historical territory and may continue to break records when tournament play resumes.

Top seeds UNC-Chapel Hill and

Virginia took care of business as expected, but other teams had to fight and claw their ways to the Sweet 16 and received some help from upsets elsewhere in the bracket.

In the Midwest, 10-seed Syracuse appeared destined for a tough matchup with powerhouse Michigan State, but Middle Tennessee State pulled off one of the most improbable upsets in NCAA tournament history — beating the Spartans in the first round — giving the Orange an easy pass onto the Sweet 16.

Elsewhere in the second round, Notre Dame was fortunate to face 14-seed Stephen F. Austin, who was coming off of an upset win over three-seed West Virginia.

The Fighting Irish didn’t make it look easy, but a basket in the final seconds gave them a one-point victory (76-75).

Duke also struggled to get by despite its favorable matchups. The four-seeded Blue Devils trailed UNC-Wilmington by seven points in the first half and appeared to be in trouble before putting together

a 14-0 run early in the second half.

In the second round, they benefitted from the first-round upset 12-seed Yale staged over five-seed Baylor and put down the Bulldogs by a modest seven-point margin of victory (71-64).

The other ACC team to reach the Sweet 16, Miami (FL), won its second-round game in an extremely back-and-forth affair over Wichita State. The Hurricanes jumped out to a 27-6 to start the game before eventually surrendering the lead midway through the second half. The Hurricanes had enough steam to shrug off the Shockers’ 22-4 scoring run and win 65-57.

If four of these six ACC teams win their Sweet 16 matchups, the conference will break the record for teams placed in the Elite Eight.

According to FiveThirtyEight, UNC and Virginia are the only clear favorites to defeat their upcoming opponents — Indiana and Iowa State, respectively — but the others all have a fair shot, with an average win likelihood of 45 percent. The mean result of the website’s simulations would put three

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“The ACC has not only bucked its doubters, but danced its way into historical territory.”

teams into the Elite Eight, which would tie the all-time record.

Miami (FL) has the toughest matchup, facing off against twoseed Villanova, who demolished seven-seed Iowa by 19 points in the second round. The Hurricanes will ride the hot hand of senior guard Angel Rodriguez, who is averaging 26 points over two tournament games thus far.

FiveT hir t yEig ht g ives U NC the best chance of advancing (73 percent) as forward Brice Johnson attempts to solidify his resume for National Player of the

Year. Virginia’s Malcolm Brogdon currently appears to be his main competition for the honor.

The cumulative probability of any of the conference’s teams winning the championship is 41 percent, so there’s a good chance that the national champion comes from the ACC for the second consecutive season. While UNC and Virginia account for the majority of that probability, don’t count out any of the dark horse candidates who have already beaten the odds to get to the Sweet 16.

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