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PayPal CEO cancels Charlotte project due to HB2

Fully paid parental leave approved in San Francisco

San Francisco lawmakers approved a new measure Tuesday that will make it the first city in the United States to offer six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents.

The law passed unanimously by the city’s Board of Supervisors and will go into effect on Jan. 1.

New York City also expanded its parental leave policy last Thursday.

However, San Francisco’s new policy is more inclusive. Only three states in the U.S. mandate paid parental leave — California, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

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Obama speaks on Panama Papers leak and tax avoidance

President Barack Obama told reporters that the U.S. Treasury and Internal Revenue Service are working to stop large companies from moving their headquarters overseas to avoid tax. Obama said many companies are taking advantage of loopholes in the system resulting in the diversion of trillions of dollars away from important causes. According to Obama, only the Congress can end this problem by closing the legal loopholes. The Panama Papers leak includes 11 million documents from a Panama law firm, and has exposed tax avoidance by former and current heads of state, such as the Prime Minister of Iceland, who resigned as result.

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IN BRIEF Dan Schulman, PayPal CEO, announced Tuesday he is going to cancel the plans of constructing a global operations center in Charlotte that would employ more than 400 people. Schulman said he has been deliberating these plans for almost a week, but HB2 ultimately goes against his beliefs.

When PayPal initially announced its decision to unveil the project, it hosted an announcement party, which McCrory attended. Other large operating companies such as American Airlines and Bank of America have also expressed their disdain of the law. The governor of Vermont has reached out to PayPal and offered the state as the new location of the operations center.

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Duke University, hit Shelvia Underwood, a parking attendant, with his car. Underwood also says that Trask called her “dumb, dumb stupid n-----” as he drove away.

The next day, The Chronicle followed up with an article exploring what former employees from Parking and Transportation Services called a “hostile” environment and “a culture of racism, harassment, retaliation and bullying.” Renne Adkins, former special events manager for PTS, told The Chronicle that there were “innumerable incidents” in which she and PTS staff were called various racial slurs, which administrators “swept under the

Fountain and Clark Dining Halls took nearly 2,500 students’ taste buds on a Hawaiian island getaway with their luau-inspired menu, decor and music Tuesday night for University Dining’s Luau Dinner.

The menu included baked mahi-mahi, kalua pork, potato and macaroni salad, Polynesian coleslaw, Hawaiian sweet potatoes, spam fried rice, coconut cake, pineapple upside-down cake and a variety of other dishes.

A favorite among the students was the Hawaiian sweet rolls.

“I left Fountain with six Hawaiian rolls in my purse,” said Madison Hoell, a sophomore studying animal science. “They were that good.”

Both dining halls featured a variety of decorations including: leis, palm-tree leaves and other colorful decor.

“Fountain did a great job of decorating the dining hall, and the variety of fresh fruit was great,” said Emily Moore, a freshman studying exploratory studies. “It was a nice change from average dining hall food and definitely more colorful.”

Themed dinners like Luau Night take the dedication and planning of all of the chefs, management and other employees. “[University Dining] likes to do different types of cuisines for the students,” said Steven Lester, evening chef at Fountain Dining Hall. “We’re trying to do different flavors to get kids to try something different and new.”

The chefs said it is important for students to try the food at these themed nights because they experience a taste of different cultures.

“My favorite part of the Hawaiian night was the fresh fruit and spam fried rice,” said Meredith Courtney, a freshman in exploratory studies.

Many students aren’t comfortable branching outside of their comfort zones when it comes to food. While stu-

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Protesters stand on the balcony of Duke’s Allen Building, which they have been occupying since Friday in response to systemic racism on campus. Protesters are calling for the resignation of Tallman Trask, who hit a parking attendant on Aug. 30, 2014, and allegedly used a racial slur as he drove away.

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For the past five days, nine Duke students have occupied administrative offices on Duke’s campus to protest the systemic racism within the university and demand seven provisions, namely the resignation of three top administrators and expansion of workers’ rights.

These events were set into motion Feb. 29 when Duke’s student newspaper, The Chronicle, released an investigative piece revealing that in August 2014, Tallman Trask, the executive vice president of

Undergrad research journal, INK, to return

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INK, NC State’s undergraduate research journal, is making a comeback of sorts with a new team of student editors.

When the journal began publishing in 2004, it was the first undergraduate research journal in North Carolina. After going strong for several years, it went out of print in 2012 after the previous year’s editors graduated and there were low numbers of content submissions. But this past February, the former directors were contacted by a student interested in reviving the journal.

That student, David Nacouzi, a senior studying physics and applied math, saw a need for undergrads to have a place to share their hard work with the broader NC State and Triangle community.

Under Nacouzi and the rest of the student editorial board, INK will publish both STEM research and humanities content.

The Technician sat down with Nacouzi to talk about how he came to be at the helm of INK, as well as his plans for the future of the journal.

volved with INK? A: I was interested in submitting my research, and they were holding off because they were understaffed, but after a bit I saw that it wasn’t there anymore.

I tried to see if I could become editor or at least see how I could get involved in trying to start it back up. They said, ‘If you want to become editor-in-chief, you can do that,’ and so along with Ashle Page, my co-editor, we’re going to start it up again with the help of Dr. [Chris] Ashwell and Judy Day and Heather King, who’ve been providing everything to help us out.

Q: What is the status of INK now?

A: We’re taking submissions right now, and I think we’re going to stop taking submissions for a little bit because we have older submissions that have been sitting there, and we still want to get that out because those students worked hard. We’re going to have peer and faculty reviewers to make sure, obviously, anything that gets published is accurate and that there’s no fatal f laws in whatever’s being submitted.

So if that goes as planned then we’ll try and publish by the end of the semester. After that it’ll be

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WomenNC fellows Olivia Horton, Laura Douglass, Maya Krishnan, Leah Ford and Madelaine Katz pose for a photo at a WomenNC event in February.

As WomenNC fellows for the 2015-16 school year, the five women from universities in the Triangle attended the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Krishnan is a senior at NC State studying business administration and international studies. The WomenNC fellows will reflect on their fellowship at a symposium at Duke University Thursday evening.

Student talks women in power at UN panel Megan Ellisor Managing Editor

Maya Krishnan believes women have a place in the house — the House of Representatives, that is.

Krishnan, a senior studying business administration and international studies, presented her research about the role of women in political leadership in March at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. She was one of five students selected by WomenNC as a fellow for the 2015–16 school year.

“It’s so frustrating that gender is used as a construct to tell people what they can’t do,” Krishnan said. “At this point, I’m 23 now, I feel like I’m trying to un-learn all of the things that I’ve been taught and fed by society in general about gender my whole life.”

Krishnan and the four other fellows spent a week in New York at the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, attending sessions on topics ranging from female genital mutilation to human trafficking and

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POLICE BLOTTER April 2 12:36 AM | DOOR ALARM HELD Arctic Hall Security responded to alarm.

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8:11 AM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Centennial Campus Middle School Report of intoxicated subject approaching vehicles. Officers located non-student who was looking for ride home. Subject was issued trespass due to criminal history and complied to leave the area.

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“It breaks up the monotony not only for the students

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Student activists began to meet with campus staff members forming a group ca lled Du ke Students & Workers in Solidarity, according to Danielle Purifoy, a doctoral candidate studying environmental politics a nd A f r ic a n-A me r ic a n studies, and a media liaison for DSWS. “From t here, we escalated,” Purifoy said. “We started with an op-ed and a day of call-ins and letterwriting campaigns, and the nine students decided that they were going to go ahead and occupy.”

On Friday, the activists took a “historically significant” turn as nine Duke

2:05 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Bragaw Hall Non-student reported parked vehicle had been struck and damaged.

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2:37 PM | SPECIAL EVENT ES King Village NCSU PD Mounted Unit participated in International Festival.

5:41 PM | SPECIAL EVENT Oval Drive Officers provided law enforcement support for 5K Run. 7:44 PM | WELFARE CHECK Sigma Phi Epsilon Officers conducted welfare check on student. Student was not in crisis.

8:12 PM | SPECIAL EVENT Oval Drive Officer provided law enforcement services for concert.

8:15 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Carmichael Gym Report of suspicious subjects near tennis courts. Officers did not locate anyone.

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athaniel Rohrbaugh, a graduate student studying materials science and engineering, works in the woodshop at the Crafts Center Monday afternoon. Rohrbaugh comes to the Crafts Center about four to five times a week. “It’s just a hobby, I just finished a desk that’s about 7 feet long,” Rohrbaugh said. “The Crafts Center is great, people should come here more often.”

but also for us in what we cook,” Lester said. “It’s good because we have a lot of students working as cooks with us that go to Wake Tech or The Chef’s Academy in Morrisville. So these kids get the opportunity to learn about different cuisines that they

wouldn’t be doing normally in their own school.”

According to Lester, University Dining staff are going to be having more themed dinners throughout the semester and are already discussing ideas for next year.

Students are excited for

other themed nights in the dining hall.

“The themed nights at Fountain are a great way to mix it up from the regular food,” Courtney said. “The staff plays up the theme and does a great job of decorating. The music also adds to

the atmosphere.”

University Dining has had many other themed meals this year, including “A Taste of Brazil,” “A Taste of Spain,” “A Taste of Latin America” and “Oktoberfest.”

“I went to ‘A Taste of Brazil,’ and the food was very spicy,”

said Christina Hemphill, a sophomore studying business administration. “I was pleasantly surprised that the food served was not spicy but still full of flavor.”

students began an ongoing occupation of the upper f loors of Duke’s Allen Building until the university meets their demands, according to Zack Fowler, a Duke senior and supporter of DSWS. A group of over 60 students have gathered in a tent city called “Abele-ville” — named after the black architect of Duke’s campus — on the quad in front of the building to support the occupiers by holding demonstrations. According to Fowler, about 15–20 faculty members have also expressed their support and many have held teach-ins in the camp.

Purifoy ex pla i ned t he escalation of student protesters as a response to the administration’s silence on the matter.

“We believe it was a mis-

step on their part to not respond,” Purifoy said. “The action escalated to force a response. These are broader institutional issues. PTS is not the only department that has had a history of hostility and racism and discrimination, but it’s an example of the broader institutional issue, so we really wanted to bring that to the attention of folks.”

Accord i ng to Pur ifoy, there is a disconnect between some students and the occupiers. The university has closed off the Allen Building, causing classes to be canceled or moved.

However, Purifoy said, “We maintain that it’s completely unnecessary to cancel classes in the Allen Building given that the occupation is only in the upper part of the building,” Purifoy said. “[The university could] just

have security in the upper part of that space, which was closed off from the rest of the building anyway.”

In addition to closing off the entire building, the university administration threatened protesters with arrest, expulsion, suspension and other forms of discipline, according to Stanley Yuan, a senior and member of DSWS. Despite threats, the nine students occupying the Allen Building have remained inside.

The initia l negotiations were fruitful and resulted in unconditional amnesty from disciplinary action for the protesters on Sunday night and a public apology from Trask on Monday afternoon.

However, on Monday evening, the administration announced that it would cease negotiations until

the protesters vacated the bui lding. Sue Wasiolek, dean of students at Duke University, said, “We had started the negotiations late yesterday morning and had made some progress, but, in light of the speed at which things were progressing and given the clear complexity of the issues that we were addressing, we found that this whole process was going to take a very, very long time.”

Regarding the protesters’ demands, Wasiolek said, “They are ver y nuanced and complex. They’re going to take a great deal of time to fully f lesh out, to fully understand and fully determine what can and cannot be done.”

Wasiolek said that she and other administrators felt that the only way negotiations could take place

would be for the students to vacate the building and find common ground to “develop a forward-looking plan.”

However, the protesters are committed.

Fowler called the university’s decision a “smoke-out tactic,” insisting that “no one’s moving.”

Pu r i foy sa id t hat she thinks that “it’s an attempt to have a killing effect on this movement, and I think it’s really clear, and the occupiers have been clear that it’s not over. Whatever comes next, this is not over.

We’re not just walking away.

I can’t tell you what comes next, I don’t know, but we can say this matter will not die until the demands are met.”

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a semester-by-semester publication.

Q : What was the subject of your research and how did you get involved in that?

A: I’ve actually had two research tracks. Freshman year I started doing solid state physics research with Jack Rowe. I worked with a lot of XPS and AFM machines — it’s X-ray photoelectric spectroscopy, a fancy name for using the photoelectric effect and analyzing samples. It’s pretty cool stuff. And then I realized I wanted to take a look at doing more biophysics because I’ve been interested in medicine for a while.

Right now I’m doing single-cell epigenetic research. So essentially the goal of the group that I’m working with right now, Dr. [Robert] Riehn, is we’re trying to find a precise manner in which we can map a cell’s genome so you can identify quite quickly the traits that would suggest a cancerous gene or a mutation or things of that sort.

Q: Is that related to the Human Genome Project?

A: It’s similar in the sense that we’re trying to map a gene to iden-

tify traits that could identify an illness down the road for someone.

We’re essentially trying to map a gene and find out any information that could really help them either by prevention or treatment.

Q: What disciplines will INK focus on?

A: This is pretty cool because instead of just doing STEM, we’re going to include arts and humanities.

Just because it’s done in a lab doesn’t mean that’s the only way you can get into our journal. People who spend hours doing their work inside and outside of a studio or wherever, that work should be showcased too.

Q: Does that include social science research such as studies relating to gender?

A: Absolutely. Literally anything that’s original work by the students we’re going to try and publish.

Something I never knew about NC State, and this was my own fault because I just didn’t have any exposure to it, is just how cool the things are that students are doing behind the scenes. And when I say behind the scenes, I mean all the time that they dedicate to their own projects and passions — that’s what we want to showcase. These kids are you know, 17, 18 and they’re contributing to

life-changing research. That’s why I got into it. Then I realized also that there are students who spend hours on their projects in the humanities, and I’m just not an artistic person so I don’t understand those sorts of things but these students work brutally hard to come up with great ideas, great projects, and people need to see that.

Q: Do students get class credit in addition to being published?

A: There are classes that give you credit for independent research, both in STEM and humanities, but the reason I really wanted to do this was because for students in STEM, it’s so competitive that you really want to try to get published as an undergrad and the hard part of that is that your professor is putting their name with you on a paper and that speaks to their credibility too so it has to be perfectly accurate information as far as you can help it. That’s kind of intimidating, so I wanted to try to introduce a stepping stone to give students the confidence that, if they can pass our requirements for review, then that’s a great thing, and you should be lauded for.

Q: Do students have any other outlets for that kind of

research here?

A: Yeah. One thing I’ve been really active with, and I absolutely love are the research symposiums.

You do your research, you compile your data, you make analyses and you combine that into a poster. It’s a huge part of the undergrad research community. There’s talks that you can go give also, but everything needs to be on paper, it needs to be organized and it needs to be clear and that’s where we come in. People need to know that they can publish eventually in a professional paper and they should have some sort of progression towards that.

Q: Coming from a STEM background, are you going to have an editor whose background is in humanities to manage that side of the journal?

A: Absolutely. We’re going to be working with the Undergraduate Research Council, but I actually missed a meeting with them because I was in the lab. We’re going to try and have an editor of sorts for each field because even though I may be “specialized” in physics just because I study it that in no way means I’m suitable to critique someone who does general relativity research. We’re going to try to get as specialized as we can and that’s

also why we’re going to have faculty mentors too.

Q: Who will make up your staff?

A: The staff that we would have is the directors, Heather King, Judy Day and Chris Ashwell. In terms of review board, graphic design and those sorts of things we’ll just have to recruit. We’ve already had interest; I know a bunch of people in STEM that I would trust to be on that board. We want that peer review aspect, we want students reading each other’s work. That’s integral. Worse comes to worst, if we find a paper that’s really interesting but it’s completely out of our reach then we’ll try to contact someone here who’s a specialist in that field.

Q: What would you say to future readers of INK? A: Feel free to send us your work, and we’ll take a look at it. I’m just excited that this is going to be around again because, I hate to say it, but there is a stigma that undergrads are lesser than grad students which in terms of experience in school, that’s true, but there’s people who are brilliant. And you don’t even have to be brilliant, you just work hard and have a goal.

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Designing for Community The Cultural, Civic, and Collegiate Work of Phil Freelon

AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER / Main exhibit / April 7, 2016 – June 30, 2016 TALLEY STUDENT UNION / Additional 14 projects on display / April 7, 2016 – May 12, 2016 Visitors to the exhibit will see the design process that defines Freelon’s work and its evolution over many years.

There is no signature style – rather, a unique approach to each program and site contexts. The goal of this work, most of which is architecture for public buildings, is to bring design excellence to everyday people and public places. Whether the venue is an academic classroom, a museum, a bus terminal or a library, the central notion is that great design can be transformational when experienced in everyday places.

Phil Freelon is an NC State College of Design Alumnus (BEDA 1975) and has served as an adjunct faculty member.

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Why a Republican will miss Barack Obama J

an. 20, 2017. A simple Friday afternoon that will be forever engraved in our history textbooks, as a new commander in chief will be sworn into ofLuke Perrin f ice amid much cheering Guest Columnist and enthusiasm for the future. It happens with every election, but something doesn’t feel right this time. The traditional aura of prosperity for America’s future has become overshadowed by fascist interests, violent campaign protests and an utter disrespect for humanity in the political spectra. The 2016 election season has turned into a runaway train, hurtling toward whatever lies at the end of the tracks, and the American people have not a clue what does lie at the end of those tracks. All of this culminates in my mind as I have finally come to a realization, and that is the notion that I will sincerely miss President Barack Obama.

I am a registered Republican. My entire family back home in Alexander County is all Republican. There is a history of local conservative politics in my blood, which I am immensely proud of. Ask any of my friends, and they will attest to my contest criticism of big government and bureaucracy.

Through all of this, I will still be disgruntled on the day when the Obama family leaves the White House and returns to doing whatever it is it will do. I don’t agree with almost any of Obama’s policy decisions. I think that government-mandated healthcare is outrageous and that individuals have the right to decide if they even would like to take the risk of not spending money on insurance. I think that allowing the Mubarak regime in Egypt to collapse in 2011 will affect our foreign policy in the Middle East for decades to come. I could continue on, but that isn’t the point.

While I may disagree with him in policy, his charisma and optimistic attitude have won me over as we inch closer to the inevitable day that Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Ted Cruz will reside in 1400 Pennsylvania Ave. There is just something about Obama’s persona when he is repre-

senting America to the rest of the world.

The man is a brilliant debater and a fantastic public speaker and could arguably be recognized as the most charismatic president since John F. Kennedy.

Obama inspired hope and change back in 2008, and whether or not this was accomplished, his attitude has not shifted whatsoever since the day he swore into office. He genuinely seems to be a good person, and not the anti-Christ that many Republicans come to believe. The level of humanity that he exhibits publically is sorely lacking in this campaign season. Giving his speech on his background check executive order, Obama openly sobbed over the victims of gun violence while being projected on TVs across the globe. Meanwhile, Cruz posted a picture of Obama on his website as a foreign dictator, proclaiming that the liberal president wanted to “Take Your Guns.”

There is an utmost lack of civility in the 2016 campaign, and that rings true for most of the candidates. Just this week, Cruz and Trump have been at war over each other’s wives, while Bernie Sanders and Clinton have gotten much more direct in their confrontations as the campaign has continued.

Yes, it’s politics. I know it’s supposed to dirty and cynical, but there is a level of respect of outright moral human behavior that has been absent for the past six months.

It’s disappointing. I’m watching my GOP fall apart before my eyes, and inching toward what I see as an inevitable Clinton presidency, and through all of this, I will miss Obama, Michelle, Sasha, Malia, and even ole’ Joe Biden. Through whatever blunders have happened in terms of policy, their representation of America on a public scale has been sensational, and that will sorely be absent when Americans have to choose between Clinton, Trump and Cruz.

So cheers to you, Mr. President. You will be missed in January, and let’s hope that whoever eventually is sworn into office can at least carry him or herself to half of the extent that you have in the eyes of the public.

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his past week at NC State was COM Week, an event hosted by the Department of Communication “showcasing faculty and students who make it their business to relay life - changing information in effective, Aditi concise and meaning f u l Dholakia ways.” This year’s theme, Correspondent Health and Relationships, was the focus of a number of different panels and educational talks. On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to attend one of these panels — the inclusive language panel — that got me thinking about diversity and inclusivity on this campus as a whole.

In talking about diversity with peers, friends and even family, the conversation often centers on the idea of achieving diversity as though diversity is something that can be achieved once and for all and then be disregarded. In terms of college campuses, the argument surrounding the practice and categorization of diversity seems to have narrowed down solely to the visible aspects — outward physical identifiers of diversity, such as race, physical ability, gender identity and expression and even perhaps perceived sexual orientation. The reduction of the concept and implementation of diversity to mere statistics is extremely telling of where society’s priorities lie.

There is a misconception — one that stems from privilege and leads dangerously to complacency — that one individual represents all individuals. That is, one person of color, or one physically or mentally disabled person or even so much as one woman in a male-dominated environment is a milestone in the fight for diversity — a

one-and-done ideal.

That is not to say, however, that it’s not a big deal when previously monotonous spaces are diversified in the slightest way, but the fact of the matter is that one blue M&M in a bag full of red ones isn’t diversity, but rather more likely a factory error.

True diversity, in its purest form, is a bag full of M&Ms with an equal representation of colors. When applied to our world, of course, this model has its own problems, but the root of the idea is that diversity means equal representation and equal opportunity.

NC State does a good job of creating welcoming spaces for all students around campus. There are all sorts of different clubs, organizations and centers that are available as resources to any students feeling uncomfortable or confused. Of course, one has to know where to look for the niches, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Having these organizations and resources doesn’t change the fact that public visibility for the benefit of the outsiders looking in is what the concept of diversity has boiled down to. Rather than worrying about keeping up appearances, the focus of the movement to diversify should center on the needs and wants of the students, especially at an academic institution.

Diversity is not something that can ever truly be achieved. Society and culture are ever-changing entities, inf luenced constantly by external as well as internal forces.

As a result, the necessity and practice of diversity is ever-changing as well. NC State is definitely on the right path, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.

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rior to coming to NC State, the only time I’d ever seen an inchworm was on “Sesame Street.” They seemed so cute on TV, inching around and eating holes in leaves. I would soon enough find out that they were not all that cute.

No one prepared me for tiny green worms suspended from silky threads, looming in the Chauncey trees above.

Bowden I remember quite vividly Staff Columnist my first encounter with the dreaded inchworm species. It was my freshman year, and I had just survived my first semester. I was feeling confident and starting to really feel at home on campus. I was walking down Hillsborough Street when I saw something dangling from the tree above.

I remember looking at it with a tilted head, but I didn’t think about it for too long. As the days went on, I began to run into them more frequently. They were everywhere. On the buses, in my hair and in my bed — I couldn’t seem to get away from them. I will never forget the evening when I finally laid down to go to sleep, and I found not one, but three inchworms in my bed.

I remember calling my mom and telling her about them. She laughed and told me I was crazy. Growing up in Elizabeth City, inchworms were not a thing, or at least they weren’t in abundance. It wasn’t until I sent her a video of one crawling across my desk did she finally believe me. I remember her exact words: “Do you want to transfer schools?”

Each spring I remember that sinking feeling I’d get when I heard chatter about inchworms around campus. The inchworms were

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University Dining Luau On Tuesday, University Dining hosted a Luau-themed dinner at Fountain and Clark Dining Halls, but although the baked mahi and tropical fruit salad were delicious, the meal left a sour taste in my mouth.

When University Dining previously hosted its Taste of Korea and Taste of Brazil dinners, they hung posters with interesting facts about Korean and Brazilian culture, history and food. In fact, accompanying every dish was a description of what it was and why it was culturally significant. Expecting

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not enough to ruin my love affair with NC State, but they were enough to put a damper on it — that is, until recently.

This will be my last spring at State, and I want it to be as positive and fulfilling as possible. This year, I wanted to make peace with the inchworms. Step one was finding out exactly what they are. According to Encyclopedia.com, there are over 1,200 species that are indigenous to North America.

Stephen Bambara, an NC State extension entomologist, stated that the cankerworm has four stages of life: egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult. The inchworms that we have come to know and love refer to two species, the fall cankerworm and the spring cankerworm. Fall cankerworms emerge in late February, while spring cankerworms emerge closer to the spring. Once the caterpillars have completed their feast on the leaves, they string themselves down to the ground. Once on the ground, the cankerworm burrows itself into the ground, forming a new cocoon. When it emerges, it will be a moth.

For the most part, there is really no reason to be afraid of inchworms, that is, unless you’re superstitious. According to animals.mom. me, an old Kentucky legend states that if an inchworm crawls on you, he is measuring you for your coffin. But according to science, he’s either looking for leaves to nibble on or the soil to take a nice nap in.

I won’t lie, I am still never excited when I find one in my hair or on my clothes. But I don’t scream when I see them anymore, and I even helped one onto the ground that had been climbing along my car. Four years later, and I can finally say that I have made peace with the inchworms.

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the Luau to follow this tradition, I arrived at the dining hall eager to eat and learn — but to my dismay, I only found pictures of beaches, surfboards and palm trees. The food labels were covered in floral patterns, but they told me nothing about the food on my plate.

Earlier this semester a residence hall’s planned Luau was canceled due to concerns over cultural sensitivity. In light of this, I had hoped University Dining would use this opportunity to educate students about native Hawaiian culture, but all they did was throw a beach party.

If NC State truly embraces

cultural diversity, events like this must not be allowed to continue. What message does it send our students and our community if on Sunday there is the annual Native American Pow-Wow, and two days later, native Hawaiian culture is reduced to fish, fruit and fake leis?

By all means, University Dining, have another luau — in fact, why not celebrate the many indigenous cultures of our entire country? — but next time, do it with respect.

Darren Lipman Graduate Student, Mathematics

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Mindy Sopher will be ‘Dancing like the Stars’ Anna Bringle Correspondent

Mindy Sopher has always valued community service, and this spring she will bring that passion to the dance floor at the Southern Women’s Show during Dancing Like the Stars, a dance competition benefitting the National Inclusion Project.

The National Inclusion project works with afterschool programs like YMCA, Girl Scouts and children’s museums to bridge the gap between children with and without disabilities. They strive to give all children the opportunity to participate, succeed and make friends.

Sopher, a communication professor and academic adviser, was especially interested in this organization because she had not worked with children with disabilities before and saw this as an opportunity for personal growth.

“It’s not been in my greatest comfort zone, so I intentionally looked for opportunities to work with individuals with disabilities,” Sopher said. “I’m trying to build my awareness, knowledge and skills. It makes me more human when I know more about people who are different than me.”

After battling breast cancer for 12 years and volunteering with the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure, American Cancer Society and Boys and Girls Clubs, Sopher was acknowledged by Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker when he proclaimed Nov. 20 “Mindy Sopher Day.” She was also awarded Order of the Long Leaf Pine for her service in March of 2010.

Along with being an academic adviser for students in Exploratory

Studies, Sopher teaches a class called Nonprofit Leadership & Development, a service-learning course in which students work with local nonprofit organizations throughout the semester in order to build communication and leadership skills as well as get involved in community service. The class has partnered with many organizations around the Triangle area including Susan G. Komen for the Cure, STOP Hunger Now, Triangle LGBT Center and more.

Sopher reached out to the National Inclusion Project at the Southern Women’s Show while she was participating in a fashion show for breast cancer survivors put on

by Pretty in Pink, a breast cancer support organization. She realized that her class had not yet worked with any organizations that dealt with children or disabilities and took this opportunity to do so. A year later, the National Inclusion Project agreed to become a partner and asked Sopher to participate in Dancing Like the Stars.

Local celebrities, or stars, like Sopher work with professional dancers from Arthur Murray Studios in Cary to prepare a dance and perform at the Southern Women’s Show. The winner is chosen not by who dances the best, but by who raises the most donations. This year, there are eight contestants including one special needs contestant, 10-year-old Kaden Phares.

“It’s a fabulous event,” said Katie Cronin, show manager for the Southern Women’s Show. “Each year lots of people are interested to see the great outfits and costumes they’re wearing and if their favorite contestant will win.”

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Mindy Sopher, academic adviser and lecturer, stands beside the sign in front of University College Commons in her dancing shoes March 30. Sopher will be participating in the “Dancing Like the Stars” competition at the Southern Women’s Show being held at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh on April 23. The competition will benefit the National Inclusion Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inclusion of children with disabilities.

This will not be Sopher’s first experience on the dance floor. She went to dancing school as a young girl and began ballroom dancing in the sixth grade. She fell in love with it and continued as a junior instructor throughout middle school. She also has fond memories of her parents dancing together.

“I loved watching my mother in my father’s arms and their joy and happiness dancing,” Sopher said. “I loved to dance with my dad, and I remember teaching my little brother how to cha-cha in the living room.”

Sopher and her dance partner from Arthur Murray Studios will

be performing to the song “Dancing Queen” by ABBA. Her routine incorporates jitterbug, shag and rumba. She is excited to raise awareness and act as an example for her students to align the mission of the agency with their methods and resources.

“It’s always important to me that I live my values and that students can see what my beliefs are,” Sopher said. “Doing this is a way to model my mission and the class mission. I hope to prove that it’s not all work, fun is part of what we do.”

Last year, Dancing Like the Stars raised $18,000 for the National In-

clusion Project. Sopher hopes to raise at least $3,000 to help meet or exceed this goal.

The Southern Women’s Show will be held on the NC State Fairgrounds and expects 25,000–29,000 attendees this year. The Dancing Like the Stars performance will take place April 23 at 4 p.m. on the Fashion & Entertainment stage. Donations will be accepted online on the National Inclusion Project website until April 23 at noon. Each vote for a contestant counts as $1 toward the National Inclusion Project.

Composing musical portraits through a computer Caroline Martin Correspondent

W hen most think of a portrait, a visual medium like painting or photography comes to mind. Rodney Waschka, a professor of arts studies at NC State and the program director of arts studies and the Arts NOW Series, turns that idea on its head by creating musical portraits using computer technology and software.

The process of creating computer music is not simple. According to Waschka, it consists of two main things : digital synthesis, where sounds are created or modified, and algorithmic composition, which is

where either a person or a machine determines what is going to be utilized in the piece.

Along with his experience with the International Computer Music Conference, Wa sch k a wa s i nspired by Virgil Thomson, a 20th century composer and music critic. Thomson conducted musical portraits as well, but he had a person sit in front of him in real life, and he created music by looking at them. He made many portraits including one of Pablo Picasso and Aaron Copland. Waschka updated Thomson’s idea of musical portraits and incorporated t he use of computer music, he takes

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also presenting their own research.

WomenNC uses a “local to global to local” format in which the fellows research and write a policy paper about a local issue impacting their community, present their findings on the global stage at the UN and return to the local community with ideas for how to implement policies or solutions based on what was learned at the CSW. Krishnan’s research focused on the lack of women in political leadership, particularly women of color.

Krishnan said despite the diversity of countries represented at the CSW, women face similar problems around the world.

“Honestly, it’s painful, but so many of these things transcend geographic boundaries,” Krishnan said. “And that’s very frustrating, but also gives people, I think, a lot of drive to go forward and tackle them together and in a collaborative way.”

The United Nations General Assembly released its Agenda for Sustainable Development in September,

input and pixels from pictures, book covers, audio and many other sources to make a portrait of a person in a different way.

“The mapping of images to sound using a computer program is not new, but the use of this technique to create this type of portrait piece is a new extension of Thomson’s idea,” Waschka said. He has used this idea to create computer music portraits of a variety of different people.

Waschka has composed many pieces including portraits of Stephanie Spencer and Jonathan C. Kramer.

Spencer is an art history professor at NC State who used to ride horses as a

which includes 17 goals to be accomplished by 2030. The goals include wiping out poverty and hunger, promoting responsible consumption and production and providing quality education. The fifth goal is to achieve gender equality — a goal that the UN said is essential to progressing in all 17 areas.

The UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development states, “The achievement of full human potential and of sustainable development is not possible if one half of humanity continues to be denied its full human rights and opportunities.”

WomenNC ref lects the same belief, promoting the advocacy of women’s rights as human rights.

“WomenNC’s big, underlying mission is that when you support women, you’re supporting communities, and you’re supporting nations at a time,” said Katie Starr, public relations chair for WomenNC. “We see women really as kind of the backbone to any household and to any community and beyond.”

Krishnan began her fellowship in September and worked with Lillian’s List, an organization that provides training and resources for

hobby and a form of exercise. Kramer is a professor of music and arts studies at NC State, an ethnomusicologist and an avid cellist.

Waschka was hired as part of the Arts Studies Program at NC State in 1990 and has become good friends with both Spencer and Kramer during his years in the department, which is a prevalent reason that he chose to conduct portraits on them.

“In Dr. Spencer’s case, I used the cover of her book to represent her research,” Waschka said. “With Dr. Kramer, I asked him to play his cello but I also used a photo of him with his cello that I used as input.”

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pro-choice progressive women running for office in North Carolina.

However, Krishnan emphasized that it is important to promote women’s leadership regardless of party affiliation.

“I think getting more women involved in the political process isn’t just a Democratic thing or a Republican thing, it’s something that has to be looked at from a bipartisan standpoint because in general, in political leadership, there needs to be more diversity of voice,” Krishnan said.

In researching data for her policy paper as part of the fellowship, Krishnan found that since 2004, only 2.3 percent of candidates for elected office in North Carolina have been women of color, according to a 2015 report by David McLennan, a visiting professor of political science at Meredith College.

“It’s hard because some of these issues with race and ethnicity are systemic in nature, and so finding like a policy solution that’s going to target that is really difficult,” Krishnan said. “But I think that what I found is that there are partnerships you can develop, and this is where the power of NGOs comes in, the

style that can range from jarring to ethereal with abstract sounds reverberating through an imagined scape.

Spencer said she had a positive experience with having a musical portrait made of her.

“That’s one of the nice things about Waschka is that he thinks in a way that most people don’t,” Spencer said. “So something like trying to match sound and vision is the kind of thing t hat he wou ld t hin k of and most people probably wouldn’t.”

The portraits aim to ref lect who both Spencer and Kramer are as individuals, educators and artists.

“I was especially inter-

power of organizations.”

According to Krishnan, much of the reason for gender discrimination is how gender norms and stereotypes are programmed into society. This discrimination, she said, takes form in both big and small ways.

“Big ways like the pay gap, big ways like a lack of women in leadership roles, and then small ways of discrimination and stereotypical ways that people think about femininity, and gender and women and what their roles are,” Krishnan said.

Discrimination also presents itself in everyday language, such as how the nickname “boss” is primarily reserved for men, according to Krishnan.

“People will say, ‘oh, you’re being too nitpicky,’ but this is literally a way that gender has been scripted into our daily interactions,” Krishnan said. “It just affirms over and over again these very stereotypical roles, so it’s very hard to break out of the cycle.”

WomenNC is a nonprofit organization that started in 2009 and has trained 30 fellows. In addition to Krishnan, this year’s fellowship was also awarded to Madelaine Katz

ested in and sort of amused by the horse beat/type of rhythm that was absolutely me when I had that horse,” Spencer said. “My friends even told me that it sounded like me.”

Wasch ka cont inues to make music and teach others about composing music on NC State’s campus. He also shares his talent at NC State through teaching classes like Music Composition with Computers where students regularly w rite their own computer music and programs.

from Duke University, Laura Douglass from Meredith College, and Leah Ford and Olivia Horton, both from UNC-Chapel Hill. The fellowship is funded by community partners, who in the past have included NC State, Meredith College, UNC Global and Duke University.

“It’s a really great opportunity for students to receive the fellowship and interact with a global audience and then share their expertise on the issue they’re interested in locally in North Carolina,” Starr said.

All five WomenNC fellows will reflect on their fellowship experience and their time at the CSW at a symposium on Thursday at 7 p.m. The annual symposium, titled “Global-to-Local: Reflections on the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women,” takes place in the Freeman Center for Jewish Life at Duke University. The event is free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP to the event, visit womennc.org.

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Changing stoves can change lives in Malawi Sooyoung Sohn Correspondent

Many parts of the world do not have access to stable electric or gas stoves to cook, instead relying on wood-burning stoves. The woodburning stoves can cause respiratory diseases from soot produced as well as ecological damages. An NC State research team traveled to Malawi to study how harmful these wood-burning stoves were.

Andrew Grieshop is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environment Engineering. He set out to Malawi, along with his graduate student, Roshan Wathore, to conduct a one-month experiment on how the wood-burning stoves were affecting the people of Malawi.

“I was motivated to join this project because it was in line with my current research in India,” Wathore said. “Also, who could pass the opportunity to live and experience Africa for a month?”

The project was funded by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstove. The organization is a public-private partnership hosted by the UN Foundation with a goal to improve lives, empower women and protect the local environment by providing households with cleaner stoves.

Although replacing stoves may seem like an odd approach to improving the lives of women, it can have a surprisingly huge impact. In many countries that use wood-burning stoves, women spend hours chopping wood to use for fuel. By replacing these wood-burning stoves with clean gasifier stoves, women are freed from their everyday wood-chopping chores, freeing up that time to be spent getting an education or finding opportunities to empower them. In addition, the cleaner gasifier stoves free women from the risk of getting harmful respiratory diseases.

“The wood-burning stoves produce black particles called soot,” Grieshop said. “These particles build up over time in the respiratory system, causing lung cancers and even strokes.”

Also, the wood-burning stoves destroy local environments. In many developing nations, the wood-burning stoves are the leading cause in local deforestation, which is resulting from chopping wood for fuel. With an estimated 3 billion people still using the wood-burning stoves, the soot produced has a significant effect on global warming.

In September of 2015, Grieshop left Raleigh with Wathore, for Chikwawa, Malawi, the first town to conduct their project. After a 45-minute drive from the airport in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, they arrived at Chikwawa. There, they saw the damage caused by locals’ use of wood-burning stoves, which left miles of a once lush tropical forest, barren with just stumps reminding people of what used to be there before.

“Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world with high rates of deforestation as 90 percent of the population rely on woods from the local forest for fuels,” Wathore said. “Only 5 percent of the population has access to electricity.”

In Chikwawa, Grieshop contact-

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The gasifier stoves brought to Malawi have the benefit of not producing soot. Many households in Malawi use wood-fueled stoves to cook and have to spend hours gathering wood.

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Andrew Grieshop, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, provided households of a village in Malawi with gas-powered stoves to replace the wood-fueled stoves.

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Andrew Grieshop studied the health effects of wood burning stoves in Malawi. The traditional stoves produce soot which can affect the lungs of those using them for extended periods.

“I remember locals greeting me with their welcome dance in the first night along with a big feast.”

— Andrew Grieshop, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

ed field staffs from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, who helped him with translation and building rapport with locals. The field staff then took Grieshop to village chief to get a permission to conduct his research.

“The locals greeted me with so

much hospitality,” Grieshop said.

“I remember locals greeting me with their welcome dance in the first night along with a big feast.”

With the v illage chief ’s approval, Grieshop quickly worked to collect the needed data with the help of Roshan. They use an

equipment that can pick up soot particles with its filters to collect how much the stoves were producing them. The stoves were producing so much soot that Grieshop needed to do minor adjustments to the filters so they could last throughout the study. Although the equipment was undamaged on their way to Malawi, the team encountered setbacks with the gasifier stoves when utilized in the locals’ homes.

“The problem with the gasifier stoves were that they were only tested for water boiling test as that was the standard lab test,” Grieshop said. “Out in the field,

people were using them for not just boiling waters, but cooking and heating too.”

After some quick in-the-field fixes, the stoves were able to handle the local cooking methods.

Af ter the month-long project, Grieshop and Roshan exchanged gifts with the locals. Grieshop gave villagers solar-powered lanterns. In return, the villagers gave Grieshop a Chitetezo Mbaula, a traditional Malawi adobe stove, now resting in Grieshop’s office in Mann Hall.

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5. Duke (25-11, 11-7): The Blue Devils were the ACC’s biggest disappointment, coming into the season as title contenders but never truly putting together all of their talent. If leading scorer Grayson Allen spurns the NBA Draft, they’ll likely come into the season as the No. 1 team given their loaded recruiting class.

6. Notre Dame (24-12, 11-7): The Fighting Irish is another team that loses its top two scorers, one to graduation and the other, Demetrius Jackson, to early NBA Draft entry. There is little for fans to complain about, though, after consecutive Elite Eight appearances.

7. Clemson (17-14, 10-8): The Tigers started off ACC play strong, but lost momentum toward the end of the season and fell just short of a tournament bid. If forward Jaron Blossomgame leaves for the NBA,

they could take a big step back given their relatively absent recruiting class.

8. Virginia Tech (20-15, 108): The Hokies were overlooked for much of the season, but gained attention after they won their final five ACC games. They lose virtually no contributors, so despite their poor recruiting class, they project to compete for a national tournament bid next season.

9. Syracuse (23-14, 9-9): The Orange had an up-and-down season that ended in a surprise Final Four appearance. They lose leading-scorer Michael Gbinije, but have lots of rising young talent and a solid incoming recruiting class.

10. Pittsburgh (21-12, 9-9): A first-round national tournament exit casts a sour spell on this season for the Panthers, but they return most of their talent and should return to the Big Dance next season.

11. Georgia Tech (21-15, 8-10): Slated to lose their topfour scorers to graduation, the

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outlook in 2017 does not look great for the Yellow Jackets.

12. Florida State (20-14, 8-10): The Seminoles fell short of expectations in 2016 but return with freshman sensation Dwayne Bacon and have a top10 recruiting class on the way in.

13. NC State (16-17, 5-13): The Wolfpack loses All-ACC point guard Cat Barber to the NBA, but have two impact transfers and the nation’s top point guard recruit on the way. After a down season, the program should be back in the top half of the conference in 2017.

14. Wake Forest (11-20, 2-16): Losing four-year starter and leader Devin Thomas will hurt, but the Demon Deacons have a young, deep bench and return one of the league’s top freshman, point guard Bryant Crawford.

15. Boston College (7-25, 0-18): After going winless in the conference, the Eagles lose their top scorer, Eli Carter, and should remain in the ACC cellar next season.

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room because classes were a struggle for him when he was in college.

“When I was in college, I always struggled with my studies and class,” Popolizio said. “I always make sure the team is always working hard in the classroom because that aspect is very important to me.”

Since his arrival to NC State, Popolizio has taken the program from a group that can occasionally compete for a title, to a team that can compete for a championship year after year. It’s a change in which most of the other sports on campus are beginning to take notice.

Elliott Avent, head coach of the NC State baseball team, hosted the wrestling team at Doak Field during a weekend series against the Boston College Eagles.

“We had them out for a Saturday game against Boston College,” Avent told Around the Bases. “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.”

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“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.”

For “Skipper Pat,” it’s always a great feeling to have the other athletics’ departments interested in the team.

“We had [Mark] Gottfried and [Dave] Doeren come out to some of our matches,” Popolizio said. “It’s been a great experience to have those teams come out and support us.”

The trademark of Popolizio is his ability to get results. During his time at Binghamton, Popolizio took the program from a subpar program to a team that could compete with some of the best teams in the country. As for where he sees the Wolfpack during the next few seasons, Popolizio indicated there is a lot of potential.

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Popolizio leads wrestling to stardom Addison earns ACC Performer of the Week honors Senior Jonathan Addison was named the ACC Men’s Field Performer of the Week for the second-straight week. At the Florida Relays, Addison recorded a 25-feet-11-inch long jump, good for second in the nation. He improved on his 25-8 3/4 mark at the Raleigh Relays from the previous week, which ranked fourth in the nation. He also recorded his fastest wind-legal 100-meter dash at the Florida Relays, with a time of 10.53 seconds.

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Williamson named ACC Pitcher of the Week Junior Ryan Williamson earned ACC Pitcher of the Week honors after throwing 10 strikeouts against the defending national champion, Virginia, which tied his career-high. This is the most strikeouts an NC State player has pitched against the Cavaliers since 2014. Carlos Rodon was the last player to record more than 10, as he had 12 in 2012.

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Blanc qualifies for Olympic Trials Volunteer assistant wrestling coach Obe Blanc qualified for the Olympic Trials after winning the U.S. Senior Last Chance Qualifier Saturday in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Blanc is a former Oklahoma State wrestler who joined NC State’s coaching staff in 2014. He was a U.S. World Team Trials champion and U.S. Open champion in 2013.

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The NC State wrestling team finished with its best season in over two decades, placing 11th overall at the NCAAs this season and having redshirt senior Nick Gwiazdowski finish as heavyweight runner-up.

Over the last four years, one man has been a huge influence in the team’s rise to the top.

Head coach Pat Popolizio arrived at NC State in 2013 following a successful tenure as head coach of Binghamton. Coming into the job, Popolizio knew of some of the history behind individual Wolfpack champions such as Darrion Caldwell in 2009 and Sylvester Terkay in 1993.

“When people talk about NC State, they talk about [Bob] Guzzo,” Popolizio said. “Right now, I hope to build onto that legacy and leave my mark on this program and this school.”

During his career, Popolizio wrestled for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, one of the most storied programs in college wrestling.

Popolizio even spent time during his senior year ranked as the best wrestler in his weight class. For Popolizio, the coaching staff was a major part of his success there.

“Oklahoma State is where I learned the most philosophy-wise,” Popolizio said. “Everybody thinks that the transition from player to coach is easy, but it’s not. Luckily for me, I had a lot of great coaches and people around me to help me.”

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Head coach Pat Popolizio watches his team wrestling against Chapel Hill on Jan. 25. His team went on the beat the Tar Heels by a score of 28-8 in Dorton Arena.

In addition to having a solid foundation at Oklahoma State, Popolizio’s brother, Frank, runs the Journeymen Wrestling program for the northeast region of the country. The program is designed to get wrestlers from the East Coast and northern region of the United States the training they need to compete with wrestlers from the Midwest.

While both are very involved in coaching wrestling, as far as any sibling rivalry in the house, Popolizio made it clear who was better.

“There was no rivalry between us,” Popolizio said. “I was always bigger and stronger, so I never had to worry about him beating me.”

Popolizio also had one of his most rewarding moments as a head coach when the Wolfpack traveled to Stillwater, Oklahoma to take on the Cowboys this season. The Wolfpack won its last four matches of the night to escape with a victory over the then third-ranked Cowboys. For the head coach, it was a very special moment, not just for himself, but for the team as well.

“That was extremely rewarding, not just because I wrestled there, but to see these guys’ faces when they got that historic win,” Popolizio said. “That was the most rewarding part of it for me.”

One thing that Popolizio preaches to his players very much is to hit the books just as hard as they hit the mats. Before coming to NC State, Popolizio had numerous Academic All-Americans on his rosters. He preaches to work hard in the class-

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Breaking down the 2015-16 performance of ACC teams The 2016 college basketball season concluded with the ACC’s UNC-Chapel Hill falling just short of giving the conference its first repeat championship since 2009– 2010.

By no means does this make the season a disappointment for the ACC, however. The conference sent a record six teams to the Sweet 16 and is Tyler Horner clearly on the upswing. ConCorrespondent ference play was particularly competitive this season, with only two true bottom-dwelling teams that were regularly knocked around.

Several National Player of the Year candidates also hailed from the ACC, and Duke’s Bran-

don Ingram appears slated to be a top pick in the upcoming NBA Draft. With much talent moving on, let’s take a look at how each team lived up to expectations this season and how they project to fare in the next.

1. North Carolina (33-7, 14-4 ACC): The Tar Heels won both the conference’s regular season championships, posting an impressive 14-4 record, and the more-important tournament championship. This success catapulted them to a one-seed despite their slow start to the season.

They reached the title game largely on the shoulders of seniors Brice Johnson and Marcus Paige, who leave behind huge gaps to fill.

That being said, UNC has a deep roster, rich with talent, as well as a decent incoming recruiting class, so they’ll be near the top of the

conference again next season, but without the firepower to make another championship run.

2. Virginia (29-8, 13-5): Any less than an Elite Eight appearance would have been a disappointment for this loaded Cavaliers team.

They managed to get that far, but losing to conference-mate Syracuse has to sting.

They lose two National Player of the Year candidates, guard Malcolm Brogdon and forward Anthony Gill, to graduation, and the only returner who averaged more than five points per game is rising senior London Perrantes.

2017 will be a rebuilding season, but a deep recruiting class will have the Cavaliers back in ACC-title contention within two or three seasons.

3. Miami FL (27-8, 13-5): The Hurricanes

earned a spot in the national tournament for the first time since 2013, reaching the Sweet 16 where they lost to eventual-champion Villanova.

Head coach Jim Larranaga built off this success with a strong recruiting class, but they do lose their top-two scorers, Sheldon McClellan and Angel Rodriguez, as well as their top rimprotector Tonye Jekiri.

4. Louisville (23-8, 12-6): The Cardinals missed out on the postseason due to a selfimposed ban, but had a very successful season and likely would have earned a two-seed if not for the ban. They lose their top-two scorers, but have lots of developing young talent to step in.

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Villanova wins championship, proves doubters wrong B

oth blood pressure and tension were high as the last few seconds of the NCAA Tournament Finals were played. Wildcat senior Ryan Arcidiacono ran the ball down the court, passing it to junior Kris Jenkins with one s ec ond rema i ning on the clock.

Kelly McNeil The ba l l soa red out of Jen k i n s’ Copy Desk Manager hands and straight through the net as the buzzer sounded and hearts of UNC-Chapel Hill players and fans dropped — the Villanova Wildcats won their second-ever NCAA Tournament.

I’ve been a Villanova fan for about seven years, and other than its Final Four appearance in 2009, not much could be said about the team’s success in the NCAA Tournament since then. Af ter multiple first- and second-round losses, the team’s performance

started to speak for itself, and I had difficulty convincing people the team was one worth cheering for — until now.

The Wildcats proved this season they are more than the team that gets knocked out in the Round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament. After losing to the Wolfpack in the second round of the 2015 tournament, 71-68, and the prior year to Connecticut, 77-65, Villanova has the reputation for getting knocked out early.

“We failed here in this NCAA Tournament, and we just got to accept it, and we’ve got to own it and live with it,” head coach Jay Wright told The Associated Press after the loss to NC State. “But it won’t define us.”

But it did define them. Villanova hadn’t made it past the Round of 32 since 2009, the year the team made it to the Final Four. And people noticed, which is why when it came time to fill out March Madness brackets, more people

had Villanova losing in the first round of the tournament than winning the whole thing.

However, the No. 2 Wildcats took the tournament by storm, beating No. 7 seed Iowa in the second round, No. 3 seed Miami in the Sweet 16, No. 1 seed Kansas in the Elite Eight, No. 2 seed Oklahoma in the Final Four and No. 1 seed UNC-Chapel Hill in the championship.

In their Final Four matchup against Oklahoma, the Wildcats clawed their way to success, defeating the Sooners with the largest margin of victory a Final Four has ever seen, 95-51. The top-scorers of the night were junior guard Josh Hart with 23 points, Jenkins with 18 and Arcidiacono with 15, with four others reaching double figures.

Arcidiacono played 144 games in his Wildcat jersey, more than any other player in the history of Villanova basketball. He was made a team captain January of

his freshman year and helped the team bounce back from its 13-19 season in 2011-12. Monday night against the Tar Heels marked his final game wearing his Wildcat uniform. Though he may not be Villanova’s top scorer, Arcidiacono’s leadership and quality decision making on the court carried the team deep into the tournament.

Wr ig ht, t he 2016 Na ismit h Coach of the Year, said Arcidiacono thinks similarly to how Wright himself does. In a post-championship game interview, Wright said it was Arcidiacono’s decision in the final seconds to pass the ball to Jenkins, which resulted in the game-winning 3-pointer.

Arcidiacono’s and Jenkins’ performances, in addition to top performances from sophomore Phil Booth, who scored a career-high 20 points on the night, Hart, who had 12 points and senior Daniel Ochefu’s interior presence, helped the team come out on top, despite

UNC senior Marcus Paige’s and sophomore Joel Berry II’s 21 and 20 points, respectively.

It’s safe to say most people did not expect the Wildcats to make it past the second round of the tournament, let alone leave Houston with a national championship win under their belts, but the team proved time and time again throughout the tournament that it deserved to be there.

Villanova defeated Oklahoma with the biggest margin of victory against any Final Four team at 44 points. Additionally, it had a 71.4 shooting percentage against the Sooners, second only to itself in the 1985 National Championship Game. And, it had the first buzzer-beating shot to win the national title since NC State in 1983.

So, like we have in the past, let the team’s performance in the tournament speak for itself and give the team the credit it deserves for one of the best overall performances in tournament history.