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IN BRIEF HB2 protesters call for LGBT rights Quail Ridge Books founder passes away

Founder of Quail Ridge Books, Nancy Olson, died Sunday morning after suffering from kidney disease for three years, according to the store’s current owner. Olson’s memorial service will be announced later this week. “Her love for literature and music, combined with her warm and expansive personality, inspired and influenced a literary Renaissance in the Raleigh community and was felt well beyond it,” the current owner said.

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LEAD Awards nominations due today at 5 p.m.

Today is the final day to submit nominations for the 2016 LEAD awards. LEAD, which stands for Leadership, Engagement and Development, awards NC State students and organizations that are found to have “outstanding service and co-curricular excellence.” Any NC State students, faculty or staff can nominate other members of NC State. The awards are broken up into three categories: Deborah S. Moore Service Awards, Wolfpack Leadership Challenge Awards and Student Organization Outstanding Achievement Awards. Nomination forms and information about the specific awards can be found at https://studentinvolvement.dasa. ncsu.edu.

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Kat Kirby Staff Writer

Chanting protesters gathered outside the heavily patrolled Executive Mansion of North Carolina to protest Gov. Pat McCrory’s approval of House Bill 2, which prohibits anti-discrimination policies that account for gender identity, expression and sexual orientation.

Eva Panjwani, a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Qasima Wideman, a sophomore studying Africana studies, read a statement featuring a list of objections several signatories had concerning the passage of the bill.

“This bill rolls back decades of hard-won progress and will harm our whole state. It undermines municipal democratic control,

advancements in anti-discrimination policy, and further prohibits wage increases,” Wideman read as the crowd echoed the words.

Among those in the crowd were five people who chained themselves together in protest of the bill. They were eventually arrested after refusing police orders to move out of the street.

“It’s [the bill] not just about peeing,” said Loan Tran, one of the protesters chained in the center of the street.

“We are fighting for freedom of movement,” Tran said. “We want to live. We have to live.”

Protesters were encouraged to wear all black to represent the lives of trans people of color, a

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Scientists study how bears and humans coexist in Asheville Laurie Howard Correspondent

State to fix glass at NC Science Museum This week, a protective film will begin to be applied to glass inside the Museum of Natural Science’s Nature Research Center, as well as the headquarters of the Department of Environmental Quality. The film will protect the glass from breaking, a problem that emerged in 2012 when panes of glass began to fracture.

In 2014, the scaffolding was erect to protect from potentially falling glass. While the repairs will prevent safety concerns, they come with a price tag. The Department of Administration estimates that applying the film will cost $214,000, which comes in addition to the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on the scaffolding.

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OPINION Why it’s time to say goodbye to NC See page 4.

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Lennard Freeman, Maverick Rowan and twins Caleb and Cody Martin regroup after a free throw attempt. NC State lost to Wake Forest Saturday, Feb. 13, 99 – 88.

Basketball loses players to draft, transfers Staff Report

Junior Cat Barber and sophomore Abdul-Malik Abu of the NC State men’s basketball team will declare for the 2016 NBA Draft, according to NBC Sports and ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, respectively.

Likewise, sophomores Cody and Caleb Martin have decided to transfer from the program, NC State Athletics announced on Thursday.

“Caleb and Cody have informed me of their desire to explore options that they believe are in both of their best interests,” NC State head coach Mark Gottfried said in a statement released by NC State Athletics.

“While I don’t share all of their views, I have certainly come to understand and respect the unique dynamic and special bond that exists between identical twins. I enjoyed coaching

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FEATURES Students learn more than music at SXSW 2016 See page 5.

FEATURES Alumna showcases work at Charleston Fashion Week See page 6.

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Protesters of House Bill 2 stand with various signs and chant on the sidewalk across the street from Gov. Pat McCrory’s mansion in downtown Raleigh on Thursday.

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them over the past two years.”

NC State has confirmed Abu will enter the draft, although he has not hired an agent, which means he may still return to the NC State basketball program.

In January, the NCAA altered its rules about the deadline for men’s basketball student athletes to declare for the draft. This change allows players to declare for the draft and “test the waters” by attending the NBA Draft Combine and private workouts without forgoing their amateur status. Now, players can hear feedback about their draft stock from NBA scouts before making a final decision about their future.

Players have to make a decision within 10 days after the Draft Combine, making this year’s deadline

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WORKSHOP April 4, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

(Henderson County), April 6 (Durham County), April 7 (Rowan County) Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems based at NC State, NC Growing Together Project and NC Cooperative Extension

Bear tracks have gone digital in a joint project between NC State and the North Carolina Wildlife Research Commission. In 2014, the f ive-year North Carolina Urban/Suburban Bear Study began research in Asheville.

Being the first of its kind in the Southeast, the study focuses on bear activity in and around Asheville, monitoring and tracking black bear activity though GPS collars. The data gives insight to the lives of the bears, encourages positive perception and enables coexistence between bears and people.

“We have learned that bears are all over Asheville,” said Nicolas Gould, field study coordinator and graduate research associate in fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology. “We have seen bears choose den sites very close to houses, roads and neighborhoods … By examining the movements and habitat use of bears in an urban/suburban environment, the NCWRC can identify and conserve important travel corridors.”

For t he st udy, bea rs a re trapped, sedated and f itted with a collar if they are large enough to wear one comfort-

ably. To date, 122 bears have been tagged in the study, the majority of which are tagged within city limits and on private residential property.

The collar is designed with three mechanisms for removal so that in case it is not manually removed, it is outgrown or another problem arises, the bear will not be stuck with the collar for the rest of its life. First,

“Bears have adapted to people now living in bear country, so we hope people can adapt to living with their bear neighbors.”

— Nicolas Gould, a field study coordinator

the same GPS that tracks it can implement a collar release. Second, the collar is held by a degrading link, which is designed to dissolve in about a year and a half. If neither of those works, a three-year timer releases the collar.

The process lends itself to tagging familial groups, allowing

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EARTH MONTH TUNNEL PAINTING April 5, 7:30 pm, Free Expression Tunnel Students will paint the free expression tunnel green to honor Earth month.

Supplies will be provided.

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The NC State men’s swimming team celebrates the NCAA Title its 400 relay team won at the NCAA Championships in Atlanta, Georgia. The national championship-winning relay team included sophomore Ryan Held, senior Simonas Bilis and juniors Soren Dahl and Andreas Schiellerup. The Wolfpack finished fourth overall at the NCAAs, its best finish since 1955.

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POLICE BLOTTER March 23 1:34 AM | TRESPASSING DH Hill Library Officer conducted field interview with non-student sleeping in the area. Subject was issued trespass and escorted from the building.

1:49 AM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Lake Raleigh Staff member reported hearing screams in the area. Officers were unable to locate anyone in distress.

2:04 AM | LARCENY DH Hill Library During earlier event CFS#16580, non-student reported thumb drive had been stolen one month ago.

7:48 AM | MEDICAL ASSIST Broughton Hall Units responded and transported student in need of medical assistance.

8:08 AM | FIRE ALARM Sigma Phi Epsilon FP responded to alarm caused by cooking.

9:48 AM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Brickhaven Drive Staff member reported weather stripping on university owned vehicle had been damaged while parked at this location.

12:04 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Venture Deck Vehicles belonging to student and non-student were involved in traffic accident.

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12:18 PM | SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE Feed Mill Education Unit Staff member reported vehicle with suspicious subjects.

Officers located vehicle and determined subjects were waiting for friend to finish class.

No action taken.

12:56 PM | WELFARE CHECK Off Campus Officers conducted welfare check on student. It was determined student had been involved in fatal crash off campus. Appropriate notifications were made.

2:54 PM | FIRE DH Hill Library FP responded to report fire extinguisher had been sued to extinguish a trash can fire. No injuries reported.

2:55 PM | FIRE ALARM Cates Steam Plant FP responded to alarm caused by hydrant flush.

3:04 PM | SPECIAL EVENT Off Campus NCSU PD worked with RPD on Crosswalk Operation at Ridge Rd and Wade Ave. 4:17 PM | SAFETY PROGRAM SAS Hall Officers conducted program at this location.

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arolina Hurricanes defenseman Noah Hanifin skates by during the third period. Hanifin had a total of 20:56 minutes on the ice during Saturday’s game. The New York Islanders defeated the Carolina Hurricanes in overtime, 4-3, in PNC Arena. The Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils in Sunday’s game, 3-2, at PNC Arena. The Canes face the Islanders again Tuesday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

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Nick Gould, a field study coordinator and Ph.D student, holds four black bear cubs. Each of the cubs is fitted with a collar that monitors reproductive patterns and den locations.

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tion on the yearlings when they leave mom in late spring,” Gould said. Additionally, the collars help researchers monitor reproductive patterns and den locations, creating further understanding of the urban factors that influence these patterns.

In Asheville, the bears’ locations are reported every 15 minutes, building a map of the most heavily used “travel corridors.”

Though the bears are not inherently aggressive toward humans, this information can be used to reduce contact and conflict between humans and bears by diminishing the proximity between the two.

Population pressures — from

humans and bears alike — are sure to make more precautions necessary. The increasing human population encroaches on bear territory, and simultaneously, bears are lured to urban and suburban areas by the promise of full garbage cans and birdfeeders.

Unsurprisingly, well-fed bears have higher fertility rates, leading to the expansion of an urban/ suburban bear population.

“There are pretty much bears everywhere,” said Mike Carraway, wildlife biologist with NCWRC and the bear study.

The presence of an active black bear population in Asheville has been relatively well known, Gould said, “But [it’s] really nice to have some data behind it.”

A better understanding of the habits of black bears in a metropolitan setting is crucial to encouraging positive relations.

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James Fowler, assistant furbearer biologist for the North Carolina WIldlife Resources Commission, gently retrains a black bear cub in order to tag it with a tracking collar.

“The residents show a lot of support for the project and living with bears,” Gould said. “Their involvement has enabled us to incorporate citizen science into our project. It would not be the success it has been so far without their help.”

The study will be followed by continued tracking and data analysis in 2017-2018. Though current data is preliminary, the study has already provided information concerning human proximity, movement patterns and mortality vulnerability in the urban and suburban bear populations.

“Bears have adapted to people now living in bear country, so we hope people can adapt to living with their bear neighbors,” Gould said.

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Two black bear cubs climb a tree in Asheville, where bears and humans are learning to coexist with the help of a joint project between NC State and the North Carolina Widlife Research Commission.

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Roughly 1,000 people gathered in front of the Governor’s Mansion to protest the passage of the House Bill 2 on Thursday. Passing the House Bill 2 prevents local governments from passing antidiscrimination laws for those who identify as transgender and non-binary. Three hours passed before the protest was shut down by Raleigh police.

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main concern of protesters as the limited anti-discrimination policies put in place to protect them have now been eliminated.

However, in a statement, McCrory said that he is keeping the families of North Carolina safe with the passage of the bill.

“I feel very strongly that we — as governor, I — need to protect the basic expectations of privacy that all individuals should be allowed to have, especially in the sanctity of a restroom,” McCrory stated.

Protesters were enraged that McCrory used trans women and trans panic as a scapegoat to avoid conversations about consent.

“The bill uses trans panic and the scapegoating of trans women to derail real conversations about safety and consent,” Panjwani and Wideman read from the statement. “Trans and queer people are survivors of sexual assault, too. Our safety matters, and we don’t make our community safer by threatening others with the brute force of the murderous police or incarceration.”

The protesters were unified in their chants of “gender comes in more than two, we are more than pink and blue,” “tell the NCGA don’t discriminate”

and “trans lives matter” could be heard from several blocks down the street.

“We’re here because our local state government doesn’t acknowledge every human’s basic rights … and the fact that we should be able to use bathrooms depending on what gender you decide you are,” said Alex Caouette, a protester.

The statement voiced concern over the amount of time given to the legislation to read the bill and vote on it, as well as the absence of any voices of trans people of color during the session.

“Lawmakers were given only five minutes to review the bill, and it passed within a 12-hour period without a single trans person of color being allowed to speak,” read Panjwani and Wideman.

The organizers, #BlackLivesMatter Queer and Trans People of Color Coalition, along with about 20 other groups, called the three-hour long protest a “special session of the people outside of the Governor’s Mansion.”

“It is our duty to demand freedom, to demand a living wage, to demand education, to demand comprehensive healthcare that is accessible and free of charge,” they read.

Many companies are also rallying against the bill and many have released statements opposing it including the NBA,

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The crowd of protesters spills off the sidewalk and into the street in front of the Governor’s Mansion, blocking all traffic.

Bank of America, Lowe’s and PayPal. The NBA Twitter stated it is “concerned that this discriminatory law runs counter to our guiding principles of equality and mutual respect and do not know what impact it will have on our ability to successfully host the 2017 All-Star game in Charlotte.”

Other companies argue that diversity makes their companies’ environments richer.

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Micky Bee, the regional organizer for Transgender Law Center (TLC) at Southerners on New Ground (SONG), and Holden Cession embrace after Cession delivered the census of the People’s Special Session while protesting Gov. Pat McCrory’s passage of House Bill 2 in front of the Governor’s Mansion on Thursday.

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May 25.

As of now, the Pack will return with freshmen Maverick Rowan and Shaun Kirk, and juniors BeeJay Anya and Lennard Freeman for the

start of next season.

NC State will also welcome highly-touted recruit Dennis Smith Jr., a UNC-Charlotte transfer, and 2014 – 2015 Conference USA Freshman of the Year Torin Dorn and West Virginia transfer Terry Henderson as he returns from injury. Needless to say, NC State will have a different

The North Carolina-based company, Lowe’s, released a statement regarding the bill Thursday. “Lowe’s recognizes and values the rich diversity of our employees, the customers we serve and the communities where we do business each day. We welcome all people to our stores. Lowe’s opposes any measure in any state that would encourage or allow discrimination.”

Chancellor Randy Woodson

also issued a statement addressing concerns about the bill and its impact on the university.

“I want to reiterate our deep commitment to welcoming and supporting all people at NC State, regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status,” Woodson wrote.

He went on to say that the diversity of NC State is one of

its greatest strengths.

“NC State is a diverse place,” Woodson said. “We all come from different backgrounds.

We all have and share different ideas. And we all do that in respectful, supportive ways … We will continue, as a community, working hard to ensure that this is a place where all students, faculty and staff feel safe, are supported and can be successful.”

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Two protesters hold the transgender flag among a crowd of other protesters outside the Governor’s Mansion in downtown Raleigh on Thursday. The protest was organized in response to House Bill 2 that was introduced and signed within 10 hours on Wednesday. The bill revokes and bans any new LGBT protection measures in the state.

look when it takes the court for its season opener in the fall.

“We wanted to say thank you to [Wolfpack Nation] and all of the great memories that will be with us forever,” Caleb Martin said in a statement released by NC State Athletics. “But we think it is best for us to move on.”

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House Bill 2: legislative discrimination I

t’s really a testament to how hypocritical North Carolina’s Republican legislature has become, that only a month after Charlotte passed a ban on LGBT discrimination, Gov. Pat McCrory and his fellow promoters of vigilante morality passed a law that bars certain minority citizens from using t he correct bat hrooms. It appears that the party was able to put aside their intense hatred of big government policy for just long enough to overrule a policy that doesn’t coincide with their own personal beliefs.

In an emergency legislative session on Wednesday, the North Carolina legislature overturned decades of hard-won progress. Eleven Democrats in the Senate

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This meeting cost taxpayers $42,000 — a cost you wou ld t h i n k leg islators would oppose, given their “hard” stance on inessential government spending. Well, again, spending that doesn’t align with the views of the party that are most loudly expressed.

Thanks to McCrory and House and Senate Republicans, it is now illegal in North Carolina for transgender people to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identities.

The specifics of the bill demonstrate an elementary — and distinctly wrong

— understanding of what sex and gender are. In fact, House Bill 2 includes no mention of the words “gender” or “identity.” To this end, the bill considers sex and gender to be the same thing, grossly conf lating, respectively, biological assignment with a complex construction of social and personal elements.

“Ordinance defied common sense, allowing men to use women’s bathroom/ locker room for instance.

That’s why I signed bipartisan bill to stop it,” McCrory said in a tweet.

Tra ns women a re not men, sexual reassignment or not, despite what our legislation might insist.

Trans women are women and trans men are men, and that this would be — and has been, on a governmental level — contested by authorities who have made no effort to understand or even acknowledge the innate legitimacy of a person’s identity is ridiculous.

Perhaps, as it is rumored, McCror y should join up with Donald Trump as his running mate ; they both represent the worst of the Republican Par t y, ma ke attempts to gain votes by fea r-monger i ng, appea r highly desperate to build walls where they have no business being and seem particularly fond of calling minority peoples — people who they refuse to seriously acknowledge or understand — rapists without grounds

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these narrow-minded political decisions. The New York Times wrote an editorial this week titled, “Transgender Law Makes North Carolina Pioneer in Bigotry,” in response to Wednesday’s law that seems unprecedented and is more conservative and extreme than other states. This law has been compared to Jim Crow laws of the past by many critics and obviously represents a step backward instead of forward toward the social progress that our state so desperately needs.

Not only have I witnessed an alarming amount of discriminatory actions by my state government, but also a shameful trend that seems to ignore the needs of public education.

This issue, which is close to my heart as a pre-service teacher, has caused a mass “education exodus” from the state.

In North Carolina, teachers often have to work second jobs to make ends meet. Of course, teachers have never boasted high salaries, but at least North Carolina’s teacher salaries used to compete with the rest of the country. According to a 2015 Huffington Post article, the number of teachers who have left the profession altogether is 16 times higher than in 2010. Teacher turnover is at a point of crisis — teachers are leaving in droves to states that pay bet-

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ter, such as Virginia and even South Carolina. I personally don’t want the dissatisfaction that my state is offering me right now. Until North Carolinian politicians decide that the education of its citizens is worth paying teachers at least the national average, then why would I invest my life and career into a system that does not care for me?

This special session on Wednesday, used to pass a discriminatory law, cost $42,000, about $7,000 more than the starting salary of a teacher in this state. This is clearly a state that puts a precedent on bigotry over education, a state that discriminates against its citizens and a state that wants me to make the decision to leave my home, family and friends.

These are just a few issues that I have chosen to focus on, and overall, I just don’t appreciate fear-mongering, constantly overlooking public education and the bigotry that exists in our state government. Decisions that hurt North Carolinians that are made just to earn a vote are truly despicable acts. North Carolina needs to make drastic changes in its government, and as students with an investment in this state, we need to advocate for these changes and get out and vote in gubernatorial elections in the fall.

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in being treated as people, these recent events prove the importance of paying attention to local politics.

The presidential election ecl ipsed t he loca l elections, and the passing of House Bill 2 demonstrates to us why it is so essential to know who we are electing to represent us — a minimum requirement being that they care about the people they’re governing.

Join us and gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper in shaming McCrory for his archaic decisions by signing the petition at shameonmccrory.com Vote McCrory out of office in November.

I am ashamed to be a North Carolinian

Why it’s time to say goodbye to NC have lived in North Carolina my whole life, and I come from a long line of people who have also lived in North Carolina their whole lives.

This goes back for many generations, and it’s safe to say that I consider myself North Carolina to the core. However, due to serious reserKatherine vations I have about Waller my home state, I plan Staff Columnist on breaking the longlasting family tradition by moving out of the state post-graduation.

North Carolina is the battlefield of a bleak and bitter political war fueled by a political agenda at the sake of the citizens and old-fashioned, disappointing and discriminatory attitudes. When Roy Cooper, the attorney general of North Carolina, wrote in 2014 that in the first 10 months of Gov. Pat McCrory’s governorship, he and his Republican legislative supermajority have “deliberately and systematically undo[ne] 50 years of progress,” he revealed the political reality that frightens many North Carolinians. This is not about party politics — the problem is unchecked power and grievous decisions made to please a certain group of voters.

It’s hard to ignore an environment plagued with dissatisfaction and the discontent I feel myself. North Carolina has been severely wounded by the politics of the last couple years, and I am done claiming state pride or ownership in this. I wish to distance myself from the state I was born and raised in, and at one point loved.

I was extremely disappointed in my state when we voted to pass a state constitutional amendment in 2013 that prohibited same-sex marriage.

I was shocked when in November, McCrory fear-mongered and asked the federal government to stop the flow of Syrian immigrants who were escaping ISIL into our state. Last week, I was just angry when McCrory signed a discriminatory law that bars transgender individuals from using the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity on the ground of a detrimental ideology that believes that transgender women are inherently dangerous.

Of course, these aren’t just the concern of North Carolinians — we are getting national recognition for

or evidence.

McCrory and Trump both also wear masks of business acuity while also promoting policies that actually hurt business. Many companies, including Red Hat, Google, Bank of America and Twitter, have made statements about the importance of diversit y a nd inclusion, so why would they want to improve their business connections to a state that makes a point to stand for the opposite of that? San Francisco’s mayor has already banned city employees from traveling to North Carolina.

In addition to highlighting the antiquated views still popular w ithin the Republican Party and the struggle transgender people continue to confront

n Wednesday, Gov. Pat McCror y signed and passed North Carolina House Bill 2, described in the bill itself as, “an Act to provide for singlesex multiple Aditi occupancy Dholakia bathrooms Correspondent and changing faci l it ies i n schools and public agencies and to create statewide consistency in regulation of employment and public accommodations.”

Essentially, House Bill 2 is enacting pro-discrimination policies targeting a person’s gender identity and expression and sexual orientation.

Unlike the SCOTUS decision on same-sex marriage in June 2015 or the passing of North Carolina Amendment 1 in 2012, House Bill 2 was passed without any fanfare; for all intents and purposes, it was just another paper signed and passed along.

You may be wondering, then, why House Bill 2 is so important. With the passing of this law, North Carolina citizens can now only use bathrooms based on their biological sex. Transgender men must use women’s bathrooms, and transgender women must use men’s bathrooms, whether or not they have transitioned. Business owners and operators also have the freedom under the protection of this law to turn away customers or potential employees based on gender identity and expression or sexual orientation.

McCrory and his colleagues who are in favor of this law claim that House Bill 2 is for the general protection of the citizens of North Carolina.

According to he and his colleagues, allowing people to use the bathroom that makes them most comfortable both mentally and physically also allows for the possibility of sexual predators to commit crimes under the pretense of “freedom in gender identity and expression.”

The fact of the matter is, though, that when I Googled how many cases of false trans identity leading to sexual assault there have been, I only got one result in Toronto. Furthermore, there have been ab-

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solutely no cases that I can find of everyday bathroom-goers being attacked or assaulted by trans-identifying people. My genuine question is where McCrory got his information on the supposed numerous cases of assault in bathrooms that led to the passing of this law.

It’s not just bathrooms that have been deemed pro-discriminatory in this ruling. Under House Bill 2, any business or company in North Carolina has the prerogative to turn away

“... House Bill 2 is enacting prodiscrimination policies targeting a person’s gender identity and expression and sexual orientation.” any patrons, customers or employees based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.

Following in the footsteps of North Carolina and the passage of House Bill 2, a number of other states are rumored to have started discussions surrounding the proposal and passage of similar discriminatory bills.

In the days since the legalization of House Bill 2, hundreds of people have rallied together in protest of this blatant human rights violation. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples can now get married and receive federal benefits, there has been no case or ruling for the protection of the rights of transgender or gender non-binary individuals.

The effect of House Bill 2 is not only massively consequential in North Carolina, where I worry for my friends and peers being constantly victimized in public places, but also nationwide as other states deliberate on their own prejudicial laws.

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Students learn more than music at SXSW 2016

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First Lady Michelle Obama spoke on a panel alongside Queen Latifah, rapper Missy Elliot, song writer Diane Warren and actress Sophia Bush, highlighting their experience as women. The panel spoke as the keynote to kickoff the South by Southwest music week.

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A sea of 50,000 people crowded into a convention center and spilled out into the street. Music performed on over 100 different stages blasts in every direction.

Among the chaos are some of the biggest names in entertainment: Sony and Spotify, Drake and George Strait. Next door, companies you’ve never heard of show off technolog y you didn’t know existed while J.J. Abrams promotes a new video-editing software and President Barack Obama spea k s about A mer ica n technology and innovation.

This is South by Southwest, a f i l m, tech nolog y a nd music convention held in Austin, Texas. Amongst all these powerful names and organizations, the biggest brands and the hottest new tech, were two members of the Wolfpack.

Students Charles Morse, a senior studying communication, and John Foley, a junior studying communication, both attended SXSW 2016, which lasted from March 11 to March 20. Despite being one of the largest music festivals in the world, the event is much more than one big concert, according to Morse and Foley.

“Last year, I got to go to SXSW to cover it for W KNC,” Morse said. “I saw not only the fun in it, which is obvious, but the

“SXSW is ‘think and do’ materialized.”

—Charles Morse, senior studying communication

academic value. They have sessions during the day that focus on the business side of the music industry in all sorts of ways — in PR, entrepreneurship, finance and management.”

Morse, the underground hip-hop/urban music director at NC State’s radio station, WKNC, said that he met other students from all across the country in his first year at the conference, including students from the University of Miami, Ohio State and Syracuse. Morse said his first trip to SXSW is also when he found out about the Student Initiative Program, a program which allows participants to get college credit for attending the conference as long as they participate in a certain number of educational seminars.

“I knew this was something I wanted to get NC State involved with,” Morse said. “That is one of the reasons t hat we formed WolfTrax, to have an entity to help us get into the Student Initiative Program.”

Wolf Trax Music Group is an organization at NC State centered on helping promote and develop student music artists. Morse is the operations director at Wolf Trax, and Foley is

the organization’s secretary. The club attempted to organize a larger group of people from both WolfTrax and WKNC to attend this year’s conference, but due to scheduling issues, only Foley and Morse were able to attend.

Foley said he wants to find a career in promoting artists. Morse said he plans to go to law school after he graduates and study entertainment law. Both Foley and Morse said attending SXSW this year taught them a lot about the industries they are interested in, and they were able to meet professionals in their respective fields of interest.

“I went to a lot of forums on promotion, and they were the most helpful ones,” Foley said. “Probably the most useful one was ‘How to Get Heard W hen No One Has Heard About You,’ which was all about how to contact press, mainly blogger writers, with your music and get them to feature you.”

Foley said that he attended many more seminars with topics such as creating a strong YouTube presence, 2016 music technology and promotion through social media, which he said taught the values of using social

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Nas preforms at South by Southwest. Students Charles Morse, a senior studying communication, and John Foley, a junior studying communication, both attended SXSW 2016, which lasted from March 11 to March 20.

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Tiger Town plays a set for the music festival portion of South by Southwest.

media outlets like Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram effectively to promote one’s image.

Mors e s a id he wa nt s Wolf Trax to help students interested in going to SXSW connect with the Student Initiative Program but that a student does not need to be a member of the program or of WKNC to apply, as long as his or her majors in some way relate to the event. Foley and Morse said that their majors don’t have to directly relate to music or business because a large

section of SXSW is focused entirely on emerging technology and technology entrepreneurship.

Morse a nd Fole y d id not attend the conference through the Student Initiative Program because NC State has not officially accepted the program at this time, and at least four students are required to attend in the first year.

“We’re in the process of finding out if NC State will allow students to get college credit for attending,” Morse said. “We need to go.

SXSW is ‘think and do’ materialized. There is such a focus on entrepreneurship.

There’s absolutely no reason for NC State not to get us in on this.”

Morse and Foley recommend students interested in the Student Initiative Program research the program for themselves, and if they like the program, they should ask their department heads about it. Morse’s coverage of the event can be found on WKNC’s blog.

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Alumna showcases work at Charleston Fashion Week

Q&A

with Jessica Fulks

Maddy Bonnabeaux Staff Writer

After a petrifying lab encounter with snakes, the then-Zoology student Jessica Fulks took the next bus to the College of Design. En route, a friend recommended that she look into degrees at the College of Textiles.

“I made a joke in the class and said no one would see me again,” Fulks said. “On the ride over [to the College of Design], my friend told me about textiles, and that same day I changed my major.”

The emerging designer learned the textile trade from scratch, spending countless nights sewing in the Textile Design Lab. “As soon as I switched my major, I started a clothing line,” Fulks said. “But at first, I didn’t know how to sew or anything, so I started off by painting T-shirts.”

Recently, Fulks was a semifinalist in Charleston Fashion Week’s Emerging Designer Competition.

NC State’s presence was strong with alumni Jamie Morrison and Jon Milner and students Lisa Hoang and Lauren Stillwell showcasing their designs.

Fulks talked with the Technician about what it took to prepare for fashion week, undertaking an unexpected teaching position and reinventing vintage.

Q: What was your Charleston Fashion Week experience like?

“Over 150 people applied and 16 [semifinalists] were chosen. It was a weeklong competition where four designers showed their collection each night. I showed on Thursday night and I won the Emerging Designer Competition’s People’s Choice for my night. I moved on to Saturday and got to show a full collection of 12 looks.”

Q: How did you prepare for it?

“We had fittings in the middle of January and we didn’t get to fit again until the week of the show.

You got eight minutes per model.

It was a competition, so everyone had to have the same amount of time. I started with my ideas in November with my sketches, but I didn’t start sewing until the first week of January. I was completely finished about two weeks before the show. After that, I started editing and making sure everything was perfect. I didn’t want have to sew whole garments after I already had the fitting.”

Q: What was the most

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Jessica Fulks graduated from NC State with a degree in Textiles in 2009. For her current line, she says she drew inspiration from the 1982 film “Tron”.

difficult part of the preparation?

“The hardest part is doing the fittings for men. With women, if you make mistakes with the clothing you can pull it off, because it’s easier to be tailored. You really can’t make mistakes with fittings for men. Their clothes need to be tailored, and if it looks sloppy, you can tell way more than with women’s.”

Q: Talk a little about your clothing line.

“After I finished at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Atlanta, I moved here [Charleston]. My clothing line goes wherever I go; I don’t have a brick and mortar. It started out as J. Fulks Original, but now it’s Laché Supply & Company, LLC. I went from doing women’s and men’s to just men’s, but it’s always had a vintage inspiration. I might choose a different inspiration every season. The season before this one I did it on Tibetan culture and American workwear. This season, I did it on ‘Tron,’ the 1982 film, not the Disney re-make.”

Q: Where do you get your inspirations?

“My line is vintage-inspired, usually taken from a past refer-

ence, like an old movie. I don’t try to copy the clothes from that era; I use them strictly as a historical inspiration for my textile designs. I like taking vintage ideas and turning them into something new; that’s why my tagline for my clothing is “future of vintage.”

But, if I have a ‘70s inspiration, for example, I don’t look at clothing from that time. I look at how people acted, what they liked to do or use and music and movies from that era.”

Q: Why do you focus on menswear?

“Last year at SCAD, I decided to focus more on it because I get more shine with my menswear and I enjoy doing it more. My menswear has been featured in Neiman Marcus; I won a competition in Atlanta with the National Black Art Festival, two years in a row.”

Q: As a designer, have you considered moving to New York for the fashion industry?

“I want to stay in the South and start my company here so I can open up jobs. Not everybody wants to go to NYC, but a lot of people want to design and do something creative, so why not have something here? I went to SCAD, and there are a lot of people who moved up there after

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Jessica Fulks takes inspiration from vintage styles, often drawing from classic films. The tagline for her clothing line is “future of vintage”.

they finished, and a lot of them are still interning. I didn’t go to SCAD to get a master’s and pay all of this money to still be someone’s intern.”

Q: You said you have some experience in teaching?

“I used one of my credits to be a TA and a tutor. One of my professors unfortunately got sick and I was the only person in the school, not even the other professors knew how, to teach the electronic patternmaking using the Gerber AccuMark V9 program.

The fashion dean asked me to teach the class while she was sick.

I went to SCAD to get an M.F.A to have the option of teaching if I wanted to, so it was more practice.

I like helping students. I’ll probably start volunteering at the high school, Charleston County School of the Arts. It’s pretty cool; they have hammocks in the classroom and a fashion department.”

Q: Do you have upcoming plans?

“In a few weeks, I’ll be judging the AATS [African American Textile Society] competition at NC State. It was the organization I used to be president of. When I was president of the AATS, I was the one who got the fashion show to be part of the Pan-Afrikan

Festival. It should be fun judging the students’ work and seeing how developed the organization has become over the years.”

Q: Did you enjoy your time at NC State?

“My favorite part about NCSU was having 24-hour access to the [textile] building there. That’s the way I got better. Once you take the safety test, you got a key fob to the building. It was cool, because I think what helped me develop my skills was bugging the teachers and bugging the seniors sewing in the lab. I used to stay in there as late as them just to learn from them. I also liked joining the sorority there, Delta Sigma Theta.”

Q: Do you have any advice for students?

“Take it seriously. I know sometimes when you’re an undergrad; you don’t really take college as serious as you should. You need to learn all you can, especially if you’re in fashion. Listen to what the teachers are showing you, because it’ll help you in the long run, if you were to start your own business.”

Creative recipes for your excess Easter candy Staff Report Many students have now returned from break with a bounty of Easter candy in tow. Even if you don’t celebrate Easter, everyone can take advantage of the Easter candy on clearance. Instead of just inhaling your sweets by the handful, you can incorporate the leftover candy into your favorite desserts. Here’s a recipe and a few easy ideas.

Bunny Chow In this spring version of puppy chow, the dessert mix is lighter than the original, using white chocolate. It’s a fairly easy recipe and can be made with only a microwave.

5 cups rice Chex cereal 4 cups kettle corn 2 cups plain M&M’s 12 ounces white melting chocolate Directions: Mix the kettle corn and Chex cereal together in a bowl. Melt the white chocolate and pour onto the kettle corn and Chex. Add the M&M’s to the bowl and stir carefully. Spread mixture on a large nonstick surface and allow to cool for about

15 minutes. Cut into serving pieces and enjoy!

Peeps s’mores You either love or hate Peeps. Regardless of your stance, consider using Peeps in your s’mores. If you do not have access to a campfire, a microwave can work as a stand-in.

Cadbury egg milkshake This is not for the faint of heart. Cadbury eggs are the heavy hitters of the Easter basket. Combining them with a milkshake is a lot of sugar at once. The cream blends well with ice cream if you like sugary sweet treats.

Seven-layer bars: Easter edition Jazz up your seven-layer bars with some pastels. Substituting the chocolate with M&M’s and robin eggs is a great use of the Easter candy. If you’re really feeling festive, you can melt peeps on top for a marshmallow layer.

Easter surplus brownies Despite popular belief, the best special brownies on campus are filled with leftover Easter candy. After mixing up a batch of brownie batter, add any chocolate-based candy for a more colorful and crunchy treat.

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Even if you don’t celebrate Easter, you can take advantage of the clearance candy lining the store shelves.

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Cunningham led the way in the men’s race with a mark of 10.38 seconds, finishing .05 seconds ahead of Wolfpack alumnus and NFL wide receiver TJ Graham. Addison also took fourth in the same final with a mark of 10.58 seconds.

Cunningham went on to earn his second first-place finish of the meet in the men’s 200-meter.

The Charlotte native dashed his way to a season-best time of 20.94 seconds. Sophomore Shannon Patterson also had a breakthrough in the same event recording a fourthplace finish and personal-best time of 21.17 seconds. Patterson’s mark is a .35-second improvement from his previous best.

In the women’s 200-meter, Simmons took fourth with a time of 24.00 seconds, finishing .57 seconds off of her personal best in the event.

The Pack’s success in the short sprints trickled over to the middle distance as well. Redshirt junior Megan Moye had a breakout race in the 800-meter. Moye finished second by less than .20 seconds and registered a personal-best time of 2:07.67.

The Pack concluded the meet garnering two more top field-event finishes in the women’s triple jump and the men’s hammer throw.

Sophomore Javonne Antoine took third in the women’s triple jump achieving a mark of 40-4.

This is the third-consecutive competition Antoine has broken the 40foot barrier.

Meanwhile, redshirt sophomore Josh Davis finished fifth in the hammer throw with a toss of 197- 9.

After a successful weekend at home, the Wolfpack will split up next weekend, sending competitors to three different events around the country: the High Point Vertklasse, the Stanford Relays and the Florida Relays.

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and the bases loaded in the bottom of the third with the Wolfpack trailing 5-2.

After battling through a long at-bat, Palmeiro smashed a bases-clearing double to centerfield to tie the game. The play swung the momentum in State’s favor and was the catalyst for the team’s 16-6 beat down of the Irish.

Palmeiro finished with six RBIs for the series, including four during the series’ final game. Avent praised his clutch hitting following the game.

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In the 100 freestyle, Bilis captured his third top-three finish this week, placing second with a time of 41.18 seconds to break the school and conference record and get a first team All-America honors.

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“He just came up with two outs and two strikes, and battled through the atbat,” Avent said. “He had a very good at-bat and got that hit that tied the game up after we battled back in that inning.”

Palmeiro is currently in the sports management program at NC State.

While most athletes have mentioned managing the balance between school and athletics can be a little challenging, Palmeiro has done an effective job of maintaining the balance.

“It does get a little challenging at times,” Palmeiro said. “But on days where you don’t have games and don’t have practice, you just have to find the balance, and the team has done a very

good job of making sure that I stay on top of it.”

As a junior, Palmeiro does have the option to enter the MLB draft and the chance to get drafted by a team. As for where he wanted to play, Palmeiro remained humble for any opportunity that could arise from the next level of competition.

“To me personally, it doesn’t really matter to me,” Palmeiro said. “I have generally rooted for the teams that my father has played for. As long as I get an opportunity to play at the next level, that’s all that really matters.”

This performance also marks Bilis as the fifth-fastest all-time 100 free swimmer in history.

Held finished fourth in the 100 free with a time of 41.77 seconds to earn his seventh All-America honor of the meet and 11th of his career.

In the 200 backstroke, Stuart gained his second first-team All-America honor with a time of 1:38.56 to finish third in

the event. His performance stands as a school and ACC record.

In the 200 butterfly, McCurdy collected his third first-team All-America honor of his career when he finished fifth in the event with a time of 1:41.06.

As the 2016 season wraps up, the team will return to Raleigh to prepare for the Olympic Trials which will start in April for select swimmers.

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Pack shines at Raleigh Relays Garrison Rountree Staff Writer

This past weekend, NC State track and field hosted its annual Raleigh Relays meet.

Both collegiate and professional athletes from across the nation participated in the twoday affair held on the historic Paul Derr track.

Though team scoring was not recorded, the Wolfpack took advantage of competing at home and turned in an abundance of impressive early-season performances.

Nineteen events featured at least one Wolfpack studentathlete in the top eight.

On the first day of competition, the Pack dominated the field events and distance races.

Redshirt freshman Lauren Evans launched the shot put 49-2 1/4. Her effort was good enough to earn fifth place in her first-ever Raleigh Relays appearance.

This early success was continued by senior Jonathan Addison. Addison won the men’s invitational long jump with a distance of 25-8 3/4. Addison’s mark was nearly an entire foot farther than the next best competitor. The recent NCAA indoor runner-up currently holds a personal best of 26-9

3/4 in the event.

This positive trend in the jumps was sustained when senior Alexis Perry finished second in the women’s invitational long jump with a mark of 19-11 3/4.

True freshman Christopher Garrick took second in the invitational high jump clearing a height of 6-10 3/4.

In the discus ring, redshirt senior and weight throw school record holder Nicole Chavis won with a throw of 161-9.

Meanwhile, on the track, redshirt senior Graham Crawford placed third in the 1,500-meter with a time of 3 minutes, 45.78 seconds. The Burlington native was named second-team outdoor All-American in the event last season.

Redshirt junior Sam Parsons closed out the first day of competition, successfully completing his 10,000-meter debut.

The Newark, Delaware native placed fifth in the event with a time of 29:11.87.

Wolfpack performances on the second day of competition were equally as consistent as the first. The Pack showcased its talent in the sprints, hurdles and field events.

Perry kicked off Day Two with a first-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles, achieving a swift time of 13.23 seconds.

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Sophomore sprinter Quashawn Cunningham edges by his competitors to take the win in the 100-meter dash during the 2016 Raleigh Relays at Derr Track on Saturday. Cunningham won the event with a final time of 10.38 seconds, .05 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.

Half an hour later, the Wolfpack had two more first-place finishes under its belt. Junior Paisley Simmons and sophomore Quashawn Cunningham swept the women’s and men’s 100-meter respectively.

Simmons won the women’s race with a time of 11.76 seconds, edging out 400-meter Olympian Francena McCorory by .01 seconds.

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Palmeiro makes a name for himself with Wolfpack Joseph Ochoa Staff Writer

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Junior first baseman Preston Palmeiro makes a hit during the 6-1 win over Wright State Feb. 27 on Doak Field at Dail Park.

Growing up in someone’s shadow is always difficult. When you grow up in the shadow of one of the greatest first basemen in baseball’s modern era, it’s that much more challenging.

Junior first baseman Preston Palmeiro is the youngest son of Rafael Palmeiro, former first baseman for the Texas Rangers and the Baltimore Orioles. His brother, Patrick Palmeiro, is a minor league player and alumnus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For Palmeiro, it was very competitive amongst his family growing up.

“It was extremely competitive,” Palmeiro said. “It’s competitive to this day with my brother and I. When I was younger, he used to beat me, and he never let me win. I think that’s what helped me get my competitive edge.”

Palmeiro’s father likes to remind him from time to time that he can still outplay him, despite having retired from the majors 10 years ago. For Palmeiro, the toughest thing about growing up was having to live in the shadow of a man that is one-of-five players to have both 3,000 hits and 500 RBIs in his

major league career.

Palmerio hails from Colleyville, Texas, which is only a 40-minute drive from Dallas. Palmeiro was recruited by some of the biggest powerhouses in college baseball like Louisiana State, Florida State and Texas.

One of the more notable offers that Palmeiro received during his recruitment was from Mississippi State, the college team his father played for. Despite spurning his father’s alma mater, Palmeiro was happy for the opportunity to play for the Wolfpack.

“I was never worried about playing at Mississippi State,” Palmeiro said. “I thought that it would be incredible. But NC State was the best fit for me, and I felt like if I came here that we’d have a good chance to win.”

Palmeiro came in to replace Tarran Senay and Grant Clyde, who were both lost after the 2013 season when they graduated from NC State. Palmeiro got a good introduction to the city and the team through former Wolfpack and current Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner, as well as former catcher Brett Austin.

“Brett and Trea kind of took me under their wing a little bit during my freshman year,” Palmeiro said. “They

were a major influence on me. To see the way they carried themselves and how they prepared, I think it was a good example to see when I first got here.”

One of the most noticeable traits of Palmeiro is his natural swing motion, which some have described as being very similar to his father’s. With sophomore shortstop Joe Dunand on the roster as well, head coach Elliott Avent is happy to have another player who grew up around a major league ballpark on the team.

“You’ve got two guys that have been around major league clubs, and have seen the ups and downs that a season can have,” Avent said. “It’s people like Palmeiro that help get the concept of team done.”

In his first three seasons, Palmeiro has gone from a guy who can come off the bench to pinch-hit into an indispensable starter for the baseball team.

His aforementioned development was on display during the team’s threegame series against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish earlier this season.

In the third game of the series, Palmeiro came up to bat with two outs

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Wolfpack finishes 4th at NCAAs, wins title in 400 relay Rachel Clark Correspondent

This past week in Atlanta, the NC State men’s swimming and diving team made history, finishing fourth overall,tying the highest finish in program history. In 1955, the Pack won the ACC Championships and finished fourth in the NCAAs. Over the span of four days, 11 swimmers nabbed 38 All-America honors and broke 17 school, conference and pool records.

On Day One of the competition, the Pack came out strong with a secondplace finish in the 800-meter freestyle relay with a team consisting of senior Simonas Bilis, sophomore Ryan Held, freshman Justin Ress and junior Soren Dahl. The relay team posted a time of 6 minutes, 9.58 seconds, which set a new school record, a new ACC-record and earned them first team All-America

honors.

Bilis’ leadoff split of 1:32.02 stands as both a school and conference record.

This is the second-straight year that NC State has taken the runner-up spot in this event. The Pack ended Day One in second place overall.

On Day Two, the 200 freestyle relay team of Bilis, junior Joe Bonk, junior Andreas Schiellerup and Held took home the Wolfpack’s second runnerup finish of the championship with a time of 1:15.09. This time earned them All-America honors, a new school and an ACC record.

“The 200 free relay was a great start for us,” said head coach Braden Holloway. “It was a great battle with Texas.

Our guys went really fast, and it was a great relay for us.”

In the 400 medley relay, the team of sophomore Hennessey Stuart, junior Derek Hren, freshman Jon Burkett and Bonk took eighth with a time of

3:08.12.

In the 500 freestyle, sophomore Anton Ipsen took home seventh and first-team All-America honors with a time of 4:14.04. This marks his second top-16 finish in this event. Also in this event, junior Adam Linker touched the wall at 4:18.22 to get him 15th place and an honorable mention All-America honors.

In the 50 freestyle, Bilis took second with a time of 18.84 seconds and earned his third All-America honors of his career in this event. Held finished the event in seventh place with a time of 19.20 seconds, earning his second career All-America honors in this event. Schiellerup took 15th place in the event with a time of 19.51, gaining an honorable mention All-America honors.

In the 200 individual medley, senior Christian McCurdy placed 15th with a time of 1:46.08, earning him an hon-

orable mention All-America honors, which is the first honor in this event of his career.

“We’re walking away with a lot of school records, a few ACC records, individual and relay, so it was a good day for us,” Holloway said.

The Pack ended Day Two in fourth place overall.

On Day Three, the 200 medley relay team of Stuart, Hren, Bilis and Held finished 10th with a time of 1:24.28, gaining each of them an honorable mention All-America honors.

In the 200 freestyle, Bilis took third place to get a first team All-America honors with a time of 1:32.10, marking his first honor in the event and the 17th of his career.

In the 100 backstroke, Stuart got seventh place with a time of 45.73, gaining him a first-team All-America honors, the third of his career. Schiellerup took 15th in the event with

a time of 46.12 seconds, getting him an honorable mention All-America honors. The Pack ended the day in fourth place.

On the final day of competition, the 400 relay team of Held, Bilis, Schiellerup and Dahl made history, taking home the NCAA title in the event with a time of 2:46.41, which marked a new school, conference and pool record.

This victory also marked the first relay championship title the Wolfpack had captured at the national meet.

In the 1,650 freestyle, Ipsen took home his second-consecutive fifthplace finish with a time of 14:35.35, which broke his old school record and earned him a first team All-America honors. Linker also competed in this event, finishing 16th with a time of 14:52.78 to earn his second honorable mention All-America honor this week.

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