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New roundabouts coming to Hillsborough St.

Astronaut to speak at Museum of Natural Sciences

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Eastern North Carolina native Christina Koch will speak at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Astronomy Days Saturday and Sunday. Koch recently completed astronaut training at NASA and has also spent several seasons working at Antarctic research stations.

Koch attended the North Carolina School of Science and Math. In her time at NC State, she earned three degrees in five years.

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Baby lemur born at the Duke Lemur Center during winter storm During the winter storm weekend, a baby lemur was born at the Duke Lemur Center. The newborn lemur is the grandson of Zoboomafoo, the late lemur and star of the PBS children’s show of the same name. The baby lemur is son of a sifaka lemur named Gisela. The lemur was born during the storm on Saturday, and the staff stayed overnight at the center to care for the lemurs during the storm. As of Monday, the new lemur has not been named, according to a Duke spokesperson.

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Coleen Kinen-Ferguson Three roundabouts will be added to Hillsborough Street at the intersection of Rosemary and Shepherd Street, and Dixie Trail and Brooks Avenue, as part of Phase II of the Hillsborough Revitalization Project, which aims to make the area more accessible for pedestrians and cyclists. The entire project will cost about $12 million.

Construction on the project is scheduled to begin May 9 and should be completed by late summer 2017.

“A large part of the rationale for this project is that, left without any action, the traffic on Hillsborough would increase and keep building to the point where it would start coming to a crawl,” said Richard Dickie, project engineer for the Public Works Department for the City of Raleigh. “This is also one of the highest pedestrian corridors, with more pedestrian activity than any other part of the city.”

Four traffic signals on the street will be removed and replaced with roundabouts. The traffic signal at the intersection of Dan Allen Drive and Hillsborough Street will also be removed.

Construction will begin on the South side of the street, which is projected for completion in January 2017, and then begin again on the North side, projected for completion late summer of 2017.

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A red car drives through the traffic circle at the intersection of Pullen Road and Hillsborough Street Wednesday. City planners have expressed interest in converting two more intersections on Hillsborough Street into roundabouts; however, some local residents are opposed to doing so.

“It will be a visual distraction, and there will be a lot going on,” Dickie said. “People will have to drive a little bit slower. We’ll be maintaining traffic signals throughout the project, and it’ll be as close to normal as we can make it.”

According to Dickie, roundabouts are a safer alternative to traffic lights because they reduce

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Fraternity Life’s Spring Rush ended last Friday and brought in a new crop

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Wolfpack steamrolls Tar Heels See page 8.

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Spring rush brings in new fraternity pledges Inez Nicholson

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of fraternity members to each of the 21 chapters on NC State’s campus.

Spring Rush gives potential members the opportunity to meet various fraternities and sororities. The fraternities plan out different activities and events in an effort to get to know

Remember The Brick tradition book you received at orientation as a freshman? Starting at this year’s orientation, the incoming freshmen will instead download an app that will replace the paper Brick.

Students will be able to upload pictures and videos into The Brick app to prove NC State traditions were completed. The app will include other features like notifying students of Tradition landmarks around campus like the Bell Tower and Free Expression Tunnel.

“So say you are within 100 feet of the Belltower and have the notifications enabled, then the app will send you a notification essentially saying, ‘Hey, complete the Legend in Stone Tradition today’ and will provide a description of the tradition and how to complete it in the app,” said Adam Armstrong, a senior studying mechanical engineering and co-director of Traditions.

The app will also add upcoming events, like Homecoming or Ram Roast, directly to a personal calendar. The Traditions Department is also looking to include live active boards to see the most popular traditions that are completed, unlocking different levels so that the more traditions you complete, the more access you gain to exclusive features of the app.

“The collective decision to transition The Brick from a paper version to app form was to increase participation in the Tradition Keeper Program through a more convenient medium and to make Traditions an everyday part of an NC State student’s journey

Shannon Robbins and Caleb Ocampo, sophomores studying engineering, Alberto Berrizbeitia, sophomore studying international studies, Anne Carrol, a junior studying political science, and David Lovato, a sophomore studying chemical engineering, hang out and get to know each other at the fellowship event held by Alpha Phi Omega as part of its spring rush at The Alley Monday.

“It’s so fun meeting all the new potential pledges,” Ocampo said. “Simply great seeing so many people interested in providing service and making friends with others from all sorts of backgrounds,” Berrizbeitia said.

Ashleigh Polisky

Cat Tracker project: how cats live their (nine) lives

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The Brick tradition book to switch from paper to electronic

Company is chosen for NC State Fair sky ride NC State Fair officials chose the Sanford company American Sky Lifts to build a sky ride. American Sky Lifts was one of the three companies that made a proposal before the State Fair in October.

The ride will run about 1,400 feet from near Gate 8 and the Village of Yesteryear to just east of Restaurant Row. Fair officials said this location is to give attendees a nice view of the fair as well as carry them from one end of the midway to the other. Fair officials said American Sky Lift will give the state 32 percent of gross ticket revenue from the sky ride, which was the most generous offer from the proposals. Fair officials are seeking approval from the Council of State for a 10-year ground lease when the council meets today.

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the stop-and-go nature of traffic. In this way, they make traffic slower but steadier. Oftentimes on Hillsborough Street, drivers will accelerate to beat the yellow light, which can then cause high-speed collisions.

“That traffic f low benefits pedestrians and

Last week, NC State released its top statistics of the campus’ strengths. The highlights of the report are as follows: Basic facts and figures • 34,015 students and 2,323 faculty members, with a studentfaculty ratio of 16:1 • $1.48 billion budget projected for 2016 • $308 million in sponsored re-

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search awards in 2015 • $984 million endowment Ranking up top • No. 1 best value among North Carolina universities • No. 3 veterinary medicine program in the country

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• NC State graduates rank among top 20 most desirable by job recruiters Ma k ing economic advancements • NC State research created more than 100 Startups and Spinoffs

• NC State students, alumni and associated startups created $6.5 billion of North Carolina income in 2013 • Over 850 U.S. patents and more

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POLICE BLOTTER January 23 12:56 AM | MEDICAL ASSIST Western Manor Units responded to non-student in need of medical assistance.

Transport refused.

1:17 AM | FIRE ALARM Western Manor Units responded to waterflow alarm. Fire Marshal notified.

8:55 AM | HIT & RUN Ocracoke Hall Student reported parked vehicle had been struck and damaged.

8:14 AM | WELFARE CHECK Tucker Hall Officers conducted welfare check on student. Student was issued welfare referral and concerned behavior investigation was initiated.

9:11 AM | WELFARE CHECK Aurora Hall Officers conducted welfare check at request of parent. It was determined all was fine.

9:55 AM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Kappa Alpha Staff member reported unknown vehicle(s) had damaged turf in grassy areas around building.

10:12 AM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Bayview Hall Student reported tree limb had

fallen on vehicle while parked near this location.

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2:41 PM | MEDICAL ASSIST ALCOHOL Owen Hall Units responded and transported student in need of medical assistance. Student will be referred at a later time.

4:44 PM | FIELD INTERVIEW DH Hill Library Officer conducted field interview with recent NCSU graduate who was sleeping on couch. No action taken.

5:07 PM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Kappa Alpha NCSU PD and RPD assisted with stabilizing wire hanging from pole.

8:06 PM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Valentine Commons NCSU PD referred student for Underage Possession of student was cited by RPD for same.

8:59 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Timber Hall Report of suspicious subject.

Officers located staff member wanting to charge phone.

Subject complied to leave the area.

Don’t go breakin’ my heart PHOTO BY KAI F. MCNEIL

11:36 PM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Dan Allen Dr/Sullivan Dr Student was cited for stop sign violation and careless & reckless driving.

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ebastian Soria Yerena, a junior studying zoology, talks to Amanda Nobles, a sophomore studying genetics, and Kelsey Downs, a sophomore studying psychology, during a speed dating event hosted by the Beta Delta Chapter of Phi Sigma Pi Monday in Mann Hall. Phi Sigma Pi, National Honor Fraternity, used the event as a way for potential members to meet brothers. This speed dating event is one the five events that will take place this week as Phi Sigma Pi kicks off its spring rush.

CAMPUS CALENDAR Today FIDELITY INVESTMENTS SPEAKERS SERIES: WIKIPEDIA EXPERT PETE FORSYTH Engineering Building II, Rm. 1231 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

GLOBAL ISSUES SEMINAR Withers 232A 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday WELLS FARGO EXECUTIVE SERIES - ABB EXECUTIVE GREG SCHEU Nelson Auditorium, 3400 Nelson Hall 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY LECTURE: LIVES LIVED AND LOST SAS - SAS Hall Room: 2203 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Auditorium (Hill) 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Thursday NC STATE VOTING RIGHTS TEACH-IN Withers Hall, Room 232A 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 3 THE GLOBAL ERADICATION OF MALARIA - DEB DERRICK 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

THE RISE AND FALL OF “JEWISH CHRISTIANITY” Bostian Hall 3712 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

TOURNÉES FILM FESTIVAL DIPLOMATIE Campus Cinema - Witherspoon Student Center 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 4 TOURNÉES FILM FESTIVAL TIMBUKTU Campus Cinema - Witherspoon Student Center 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 2 VIDEO GAMES, PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE USER EXPERIENCE WITH DR. CELIA HODENT (EPIC GAMES)

MOHO REALTY ARCHITECTURE MOVIE SERIES DOUBLE FEATURE Auditorium (Hunt) 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

one in the chapter really enjoys being around,” Nash said. “We’ve always been a small chapter based around having a really tight-knit group of guys, so numbers has never really been a large priority in our book as much as getting the right guys for our chapter. That being said however, it was very hard this semester to get names of guys to come out to events because most of the guys interested in rushing end up joining a chapter in the fall due to formal rush.”

Derek Bingham, a sophomore studying supply chain ma nagement a nd Spa nish and recruitment chair for Lambda Chi was also pleased with the 12 new members they gained.

“Because we have grown in size, we can be more exclusive with who we extend bids to,” Bingham said.

Burns said that he finds that guys who join during the spring tend to be more “intentional” and not just “going through the motions” of joining because they waited so long and they know they actually want to do it. He explained that it “filters guys who actually want to rush.”

Nash spoke of the nationally negative light Greek Life has received as of late.

“It’s a lot harder to convince parents on why joining Greek Life is a positive nowadays because of all the negative light fraternities have recently received due to the media,” Nash said.

Spring Rush is less formal than Fall Rush by which it gives the chapters more freedom and creativity to plan activities and events during the week. According to Burns Spring Rush brings in anywhere from five to 15 guys. For Spring Rush, fraternities get to self-schedule its own events and activities.

Burns said that Sigma Phi Epsilon held dinners at the house to let the potential brothers get to know the members. It also had alumni come in and talk about their personal experience in Sigma Phi Epsilon and discuss the values they took away from it. Burns described the alumni talk as the “most successful rush event.”

Kappa Sigma also focused its events around football and cookouts.

“A lot of chapters will host large events almost to put on a false face of who they are and what they enjoy doing,” Nash said. “We liked having guys come over just to hang out because we really felt that each potential member should see what just hanging out with us is like.”

Fraternities not included in the Interfraternity Council, like Delta Sigma Iota, which is in the Multicultural Greek Council are not subject to the strict rush dates. Their rush events do not begin until Monday Feb. 15.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY VICTORIA CROCKER

NC State’s tradition book, The Brick, is going to be an electronic app instead of its paperback form. If a student completes 40 of the traditions, then he or she receives a tradition keeper medal.

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around campus and throughout their undergraduate experience,” Armstrong said.

However, some students are scared that the electronic version of The Brick takes away from its memorability.

“You won’t be able to look back 50 years from now and see all of the memories you made at NC State with the app,” said Sabrina Baker, a sophomore studying fashion textile management and a member of Student Government. “Even two years after

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than 1,500 worldwide • At Centennial, more than 60 corporate, government and nonprofit partners work alongside more than 70 NC State research and academic units Raising funds

you graduate, you’re bound to delete it. The whole purpose of The Brick is to be a keepsake of your memories at State.”

The NC State Alumni Association and Student Government wanted to increase school spirit and affinity toward NC State and hence created The Brick in 2008.

“Over the years we have identified the need to keep up with the technology curve, so this year one of the major goals of the Traditions Department was to implement a mobile Brick app that students can conveniently be able to complete traditions within the app via photos or videos,” Armstrong said.

• Top-25 fundraiser among public colleges and universities • 133 percent growth in gifts and pledges since 2010 • 2015 gifts and pledges totaled $208.5 million, a university record • NC State’s first endowed center, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, recently received an $8 million gift

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those interested in joining.

“Spring Rush is important because it opens the window to guys who weren’t ready to rush in the fall,” said Brandon Burns, vice president of recruitment of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Bu r ns ex pla i ned t hat guys might not be ready in the fall because sometimes they are not yet sure if they want to join a fraternity, or they simply want to spend the semester getting settled into the college lifestyle.

Spring Rush gives those who weren’t ready to rush in the fall the opportunity to join in the spring. This way they don’t have to wait until the next fall to join.

However, William Nash, a sophomore studying sociolog y and recruitment chair of Kappa Sigma, said Fall Rush drains a majority of the prospects for Spring Rush.

“Our lists in the spring are a fraction of what they are in t he fa l l, because nearly everyone joins somewhere in the fall,” Nash said. “Spring Rush is a completely different ball game.”

Despite the cha llenegs Spring Rush ca n bring, Nash said he is happy with the prospect of new recruits.

“I feel like our rush went really well because above numbers we have a really solid group of guys every-

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cyclists, who will now have a dedicated bike lane on the corridor,” Dickie said. “There will also be an additional two feet of buffering to protect cyclists from opening car doors.”

In addition to the new roundabouts, Phase II of the Hillsborough Revitalization Project will increase sidewalk lengths to eight to 10 feet, bury power lines underground to clear up space, and install bike lanes.

“I think it’ll be great for pack pride,” said Jeff Murrison, executive director of Live It Up and the Hillsborough Street Community Service Corporation. “It’s really upgrading both the appearance and function of the street.”

City planners are referring to the proposed construction as a streetscape renovation and aim to make the area more aesthetically pleasing.

In order to make room for the new construction, the current three lanes of traffic on the Western side of Hillsborough Street will be reduced to two-lane traffic, eliminating the left turn lane.

A median strip will be put in the middle of the road to direct traffic.

“If you can’t make left turns, you have to let people turn themselves around, hence the roundabouts,” Dickie said. “It’s a certain benefit, so instead of making a left turn you can just drive down, use the roundabout to turn around, and go that way.”

However, NC State Architecture Department Head Robin Abrams doubts if adding roundabouts will actually improve pedestrian conditions.

“I understand why they’re doing it because the data shows that it’s safer, but I think that it makes the route longer and is only safer

Location of new roundabout GRAPHIC BY DEVAN FEENEY

because pedestrians and cyclists avoid the roundabouts,” Abrams said. “They take up too much space and make pedestrians second to traffic f low.”

Abrams has more than 30 years experience in city planning and urban design, and her department has partnered with the Raleigh Urban Design Center in the past.

“They’re also so new in this area that a lot of drivers don’t know they’re supposed to signal when they’re exiting a roundabout,” Abrams said. “And that can lead to accidents.”

According to Abrams, the placement of pedestrian signs is so that pedestrians are crossing at the point in the roundabout where drivers are more likely to accelerate.

“With Phase I, and the promise of what’s to come with Phase II, there’s been something of a land rush of property values,” Dickie said. “Property values along Hillsborough Street have gone up 69

percent in the past year since we’ve come out of the recession. That’s higher than the rest of Raleigh by a significant number, and it’s having a beneficial effect on the area.”

According to Dickie, those increases in property values will revitalize the area and make it more appealing for both current and new businesses.

“I would say that after Phase I we’ve seen an increase in economic development,” Murrison said.

“You see more energy going to the redevelopment of the street, which will lead to private sector growth and the expansion of new businesses. I think Phase II is likely to continue that trend.”

With so much planned construction for this part of Hillsborough Street, residents of the area have voiced concerns over what the project will do to businesses in that area.

“One of my mandated missions for this is to manage the construction in a way that allows existing

small businesses to remain in business, hopefully not suffer, and then once the construction is complete be in a position to thrive because there will be increased foot and bicycle traffic,” Dickie said. “It’ll transform this part of Hillsborough Street into a destination.”

However, Soto’s International Auto Repair, an auto repair shop located at the corner of Shepherd and Rosemary Street, will be forced to close and move locations due to the construction.

“We’ve done interviews with the media, which have done not hing. People have been complaining about this for the last two years,” said Tony Parker, an employee of Soto’s Auto Repair. “The city planners, they’re going to do whatever they want to do.”

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HILLSBOROUGH REVITALIZATION PROJECT: • INCREASE SIDEWALK LENGTHS TO 8 TO 10 FEET • INSTALL BIKE LANES • BURY POWERLINES UNDERGROUND TO CLEAR UP SPACE • THREE ROUNDABOUTS WILL BE ADDED TO HILLSBOROUGH ST. • REMOVED OF TRAFFIC LIGHT AT INTERSECTION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND DAN ALLEN

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Chronicles of Lara in College

Zeenat Aasim Nadvi, freshman studying engineering

Misconceptions about the gender pay gap N

o doubt, most of you will begin reading this article expecting to be confirmed in your beliefs on the gender pay gap or possibly angered by some remarkable, sexist arrogance. I trust that you’ll take a moment to open yourself to what may be a personally new perspective on the gender pay gap. Most of you have probChase McLamb ably already heard about the Guest Columnist real gender pay gap but may have dismissed it. I’ll attempt to explain what it is and where it comes from in order to offer a better understanding.

The gap that could be relevant to discrimination is not the $0.22 per dollar difference as cited by Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and many others. This statistic is known as the “raw wage gap” that only compares the average yearly income of all men to all women without considering things like age, education, experience, marital status, if the worker has children, race, region, occupation, industry, percent female/ male, union interference, full vs. part time or firm size. In 2009, the Department of Labor hired CONSAD Research Corporation to study the wage gap. It was found that the wage gap, when considering said variables, is between $0.048 and $0.071 per dollar and may be caused by “socially acceptable” differences as opposed to “overt discrimination against women.” To read this report, titled “An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women,” google “Gender Gap DoL Report.”

Skip to Section 4 for a summary. Despite having the CONSAD report on record, the Department of Labor under the Obama Administration still insists that the wage gap is $0.22 per dollar and blames it mostly on discrimination, citing questionable reports that do not consider all variables affecting the pay of an individual.

I consider this practice to be misleading and divisive.

If you still are not convinced, another report published in October 2012 by the American Association of University Women titled “Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation” corroborates the CONSAD conclusion with a pay gap of $0.066 per dollar in favor of men.

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This report even addresses the problems of pay secrecy and debt, but ultimately highlights cultural issues, which lead to individual choices based on gender, which cause some pay disparity. For example, female mechanics are rare just as male primary educators are rare. This is caused in part by the personal career choices of people, individuals conforming to gender roles and other complex social variables. However, this report implies that strengthening laws that have already existed for decades can eliminate the pay gap. Of this I am extremely skeptical.

The problem is that the remaining gap that still exists even after compensating for as many variables as can be reasonably measured is unexplained. There are many theories, such as overt discrimination, lack of skill in wage negotiations, income secrecy distorting worker value, et cetera, but until this gap can be identified, quantified and verified, no intellectually responsible person can assert one mechanism over the other. Furthermore, it could be caused by a complex combination of governmental policies and personal choices.

Addressing the change from the 22 percent difference in the raw average of annual pay between men and women to the 4.8–7.1 percent difference in annual wages between men and women, it is important to realize that this large jump was caused simply by examining the socially acceptable variables that contribute to annual earnings. This means that we know now that 69–79 percent of the raw wage gap is due to reasonable conditions that determine an employee’s value in the workplace. In other words, it’s up to women to make career choices that will remedy this measured difference, thus increasing female average annual pay by 20.6– 23.6 percent. The remaining 4.8–7.1 percent difference in annual wages that has not been irrefutably verified for causation, is still a mystery.

It could be caused by any number of combinations of things. While discrimination surely plays some part in this, neither the extent nor the methods have been measured. I urge you all to remain objective. Do not demand legislation to fix problems we cannot verify. Such efforts would only waste time and further divide our country. Search for truth; don’t act on impulse.

udge Learned Hand, one of the greatest judges and judicial philosophers in America’s history, spoke about the “spirit of liberty” in a speech he delivered in 1944 in Central Park in New York City. “The spirit of liberty,” he said, “is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind Ziyi Mai Staff Columnist of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weights their interests alongside its own without bias.” More than 70 years after that famous speech, we still need that echoing of “spirit of liberty” in our society, particularly on university campuses.

Universities in the United States have become battlefields of “cultural wars,” in which different ideologies compete and attract the attention of students. In fact, most of the ideological differences can be attributed to discrepancy in political philosophy and religious beliefs. Conservatives describe college campuses as dominated by progressive ideas and liberalism. Ted Cruz of Texas dubbed colleges as havens for “leftist, coddled kids.”

As the battles deepen, colleges have become less tolerant to ideas that might be far from mainstream, and students are getting more sensitive to issues and languages that they are not comfortable with. Even President Barack Obama asked college students not to be “coddled from different points of views” in a town hall meeting in Iowa last September.

In an op-ed article appearing in The News & Observer, Professor Molly Worthen of UNC-Chapel Hill pointed out that many schools’ nondiscrimination policies have made life more difficult for Christian ministries that require student leaders to assent to a state of faith, making sure that all students, regardless of their beliefs, are able to attend those students’ groups. Christian groups in many universities, both public and private, have lost access to campus space, student fees and activity fairs. But Worthen also discovered that evangelical Christians have created a network of organizations and journals that thrive and reach out to more students.

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What should be the requirements for being provided health insurance by the federal government?

BY KAI F. MCNEIL

“I think that it should be circumstantial if you were to get health care from the government. If you have lung cancer from smoking, you shouldn’t get health care if it’s self-inflicted; it has put you in a situation that you don’t deserve health care.”

“The requirement would be you can’t pay for the whole thing by yourself or other ways you get money.”

Kyle Booker junior, history

“I think people who need health insurance should be able to get affordable health insurance. ” Nidha Williams freshman, chemistry

It is ironic that modern-day colleges have been submerged in secular ideas, especially in those private colleges that were founded

by Christians and grounded in their values, such as Harvard, Yale, Duke, etc. Thanks to the principle of “separation of church and state,” only private colleges are able to have divinity schools that usually indicate those colleges have long histories and excellent quality of education.

Colleges that accept modern liberalism have a reason. As the spirit of higher education encourages students to seek truths, “truth” might not conform to only one form. On the way of seeking truth, or doing scientific experiments, it is not uncommon that thoughts outside the conventional wisdom appear and attract people’s attention.

Moreover, as being young, innocent and passionate, college students particularly have sympathy to the weak, the poor and the oppressed in a society, and the bravery with which they speak out for them indeed is much sharper than grown adults whose actions are intertwined with a web of selfinterest and calculation.

But students should not deny that what they demand is actually embedded in Christian values, such as “confront the lazy, help the weak and encourage the timid.” Most importantly, Christian values are what have made universities of America the greatest in the world. Not one of the characters of the higher education system in this country is contradictory to Christian values, such as honesty, integrity, respect and freedom.

Without these core values, universities certainly would become a corrupt place.

The conflicts of ideologies on campuses arise because both sides strongly cling to “legalism,” or rules. On one hand, religious groups usually emphasize “rules” at the first step, and it is hard for non-believers to understand. On the other hand, secular groups are too persistent in the perception that they are the minority and the oppressed ones. If both sides are able to soften their stances and change their ways of communication, Hand’s idea of “understand[ing] the mind of men and women” will be restored in college campuses.

Re: Graduate students lose seats in Student Senate to CALS I

f you took this article for face value, you would think that the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences stole Student Senate seats from the Graduate delegation. This couldn’t be any further from accurate. If the author of the article had taken the time to tell the Jonathan whole story, that would have Riggs been apparent. I will provide Guest Columnist three pieces of information that dispute the misrepresentation from the Technician article. All of this information was provided in the debate in Student Senate, but for some reason the author of the article failed to include that. I know this information was given at the meeting because I personally delivered it.

First off, the two seats that CALS gained were not taken from the Graduate delegation. For the last three years, the CALS delegation has been assigned too few seats and has been vastly underrepresented because of it. CALS had four seats when it actually deserved more. The article failed to mention this very pertinent fact. The two seats that the Grad students lost were lost to other very active colleges in an attempt to assure that they did not lose seats: the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Sciences. The net change in seats was plus two for CALS and minus two for Grad, but that’s not how the reapportionment actually happened.

Secondly, the Graduate students have two official representative bodies that they can represent themselves in — the Graduate Student Association and the Student Senate. Undergraduate students can only represent themselves in the Student Senate. Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable and fair that the graduate delegation size in the Senate is somewhat limited. Technically, if

the delegation sizes were solely based on enrollment numbers, the graduated school delegation would have 18 seats, or 28 percent of the entire student senate. Not only is this unfair because of the special status of graduate student representation (having two places to have their voices heard) but this negatively impacts the diversity of the student senate. Also, the graduate delegation has not been able to fill all of their seats for 15 years. Allowing them to occupy over a quarter of the Student Senate and then leave those seats empty is unacceptable; they can’t even occupy 10. The current graduate delegation has made little to no effort to fill the currently empty seats.

Finally, as I pointed out in the debate at Senate, the next session of student government will have a chance to raise the number of graduate students in the fall. This spring, the student body will be asked to vote on a referendum to raise the maximum number of seats in the Student Senate. If that is passed, the new limit will be 72 (it is currently 64). The next senate could very easily add more graduate seats if they deem it a good idea.

This article is the most recent in a string of examples of poor journalism on the part of the Technician. Where I come from, folks are taught to do a job right, never halfway; I think it’s high time the Technician adopted that policy. Responsible journalism isn’t that hard — you just have to tell the whole story! I’m disgusted by the way this article attempts to portray CALS in such a negative fashion. Anyone in the CALS Student Senate delegation or the Apportionment Committee would have been happy to discuss this matter with the reporter and explain the fact, you just have to do your job and ask.

Kasey Sagraves sophomore, biology

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t is Oscar season, folks! Get excited.

The Oscars have never really been t he most squea k y-clean awa rd show, a s it has had its fair Iman share of controUsmani versy in terms of Correspondent who is nominated, and, of course, who wins. The Oscars are repeatedly criticized for being “white-washed” due to their lack of diversity in nominations. But, let’s not forget the main problem with the show: Leonardo DiCaprio has still not won. Is your blood boiling? Good. You’re just like everyone else who cares about movies or simply thinks that DiCaprio is a pretty dang good actor.

But why are people hung up on the fact that he hasn’t won?

There are plenty of other actors and actresses who have had plenty of complicated roles who haven’t won any either. Spread the wealth, Meryl Streep.

Leonardo has been nominated for Oscars since one of his first roles, “W hat’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” in 1994. That’s a long time ago, and since then, he has been nominated three more times, but never came out with a win. I know.

Boo the Academy. In 2014, he lost to Matthew McConaughey for best actor since McConaughey gave a career-changing performance in “The Dallas Buyers Club,” for which he lost 38 pounds. Quite the transformation.

But if you want to talk about when actors change dramatically for roles, you can’t fail to mention the king of alteration, Johnny Depp. Through the years, we have seen him as everything from a heartless pirate to a creepy tycoon who invites kids to his factory by luring them with candy.

He changes so much for each of his roles that I barely know what he really looks like. Depp, like DiCaprio, has never won an

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Academy Award, despite being nominated three times. A lso, since Hollywood is a small, small world, Depp was actually the “Gilbert Grape” part of “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.” Craziness.

Aside from Johnny Depp and

our main squeeze Leo, Will Smith, Michelle Pfeiffer and Edward Norton have not had the honor of receiving an Academy Award yet. Pfeiffer is so popular that she was even mentioned in Vance Joy’s “Riptide.” It is nearly inaudible

since Vance Joy hardly enunciates, but he mentioned her, I swear.

Glenn Close, another Oscar loser, has been nominated six times (two more times than DiCaprio) and never went home with one of those gold statues. Now, that’s really just sad. What can these poor actors do to finally get that gold?

Probably nothing. The Academy probably just hates them.

But, the numbers don’t lie.

It is strange that DiCaprio has never won an Oscar but neither has Amy Adams, who is clearly good at what she does, since she has been nominated five times.

So why does everyone focus on the fact that Leo has never won?

My guess is that we are still torn up about the whole leaving-himto-freeze-in-the-North-Atlantic when there was clearly space for both him and Rose. Maybe this year he will finally win so that we can pity someone else on the list of frequent Oscar losers.

Snowpocalypse 2016: yet another white problem “

L et’s ta l k about t he weather,” enthusiastic Mary Anna Tumblr user and business Rice major Snow Opinion Editor Blanca said as an introduction to her lecture series relating weather patterns to systematic racism.

Blanca, who is technically white but identifies as 1/12 Cherokee and 1/4 ethnically ambiguous, began her informal series in response to the weekend’s “lily-white discriminatory” snow storm.

And to what does Blanca take the most offense?

“Just look at the coverage,” she enunciates, pounding her fist on the unassuming dining hall table that surely wasn’t built to take such abuse, “White, white, white. White reporters talking about white storm clouds spewing out more white stuff, falling on white students and white cars. White workers rushing to their white stores at white o’clock in the evening to pick up

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white bread and white milk to prepare for the white blankets of white snow and white ice. It’s disgusting.”

The lecture series, which Blanca insists will take off as soon as minority students recognize the attention that needs to be brought to the “ blatant, almost Stalin-

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Can you tell the difference?” attracted an unanticipated crowd of eight.

“You should have seen it,” Blanca boasts after taking a

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hardy swig of her brandy-infused opium green tea. “People of every color were sitting together with one another. It was as though race had disappeared. Not that I see it anyway. But that’s the power of bringing people together under one roof. Or should I say, one storm cloud.” She

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Blanca describes her talks as being almost “TED Talky,” structured as brief forays into identity and respectability politics that branch into a broad plethora of hot topics, which include the gender of hurricane names, the roads that get iced over versus those that do not, the increased likelihood of storms attacking less developed economic regions and something called cumulosexuality.

Terry Bradford, club lacrosse team extraordinaire and one of the attendees at Blanca’s first lecture, as well as her first step toward an insufferable career, says of the event, “I’ve never felt more touched by an event in my life. Like, in a negative way.

I think it’s almost as hard, if not harder, to change the color of storm than it is to change the color of your skin. I mean, what, should white storms be shamed for

how they happened to condense, because their water happened to be purer and good-er — better — than the other dirtier storms that probably propagated over lower income regions?

I know it isn’t PC or whatever to bring up reverse discrimination, but it is a thing. Wait, that came out wrong. Can I say something else, or could you scratch that out, or …?”

Blanca’s solution to our “all-white storm problem” is simple and radical: targeted, concentrated pollution. “The only reasonable thing to do,” she says, “is to properly bring representation to the skies.”

Blanca plans to coordinate with the NC State’s environmental science department to draw up some possible cloud-darkening experiments. Well, as soon as they return her calls. She’s left several voicemails, she assures. “I have, I’ve left several,” she says. “Several.”

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Cat Tracker project: how cats live their (nine) lives Mark Turner Correspondent

How far does your cat travel from home? That was the question the Cat Tracker project set out to answer.

Roland Kays, research associate professor at NC State, believes this project is an example of the power of citizen science.

“We wanted to do a really big study, so we went w ith the citizen science approach, where we had volunteers track their cats and share their data with us,” Kays said.

Since May 2014, the research team on the project has been affixing GPS units to cats to track movement around the neighborhood.

Collars can sometimes be loaned to the participants and are also available for purchase at approximately $50. Currently, the project tracks cats everywhere from Australia to Connecticut.

House cats are k now n predators of birds, reptiles and small mammals, but where that predation occurs is important. Cats killing common birds right around the house is probably less of an issue than cats killing rarer birds in more natural areas farther from home. If cats travel long distances from home into natura l areas, it stands to reason they might be killing wildlife there as well. So far, the researchers found that most cats have not ventured far from home.

This project a lso tests whether cats avoid coyotes. Coyotes have spread

across much of the country and are often seen close to dwellings.

“We know coyotes somet imes k i l l cats, a nd we know coyotes are usually in the woods, so if the cats are avoiding coyotes, they might also be avoiding the woods,” Kays said.

The team has partnered with homeowners in Long Island, New York, an area without coyotes, to test this hypothesis. They want to know if cats in Long Island move farther than cats in other areas with coyotes. If so, this might be evidence that housecat ranges are limited by the presence of coyotes.

Regard less of whet her cats move into natural areas when hunting, pet owners need to keep their cats inside, according to Chris DePerno, associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources.

“I am a cat fan, as long as they are inside,” DePerno said. “Remember, they are a nonnative species to the U.S. They have no business being outdoors.”

DePerno said he believes cats have a very important impact on native species but that responsible cat owners can very easily stop predation by keeping them indoors. They a re born with the instinctual desire to hunt and kill and are estimated to kill between 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion birds annually, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.

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On the collar of this cat is the GPS unit the research team uses to track its cats. With this GPS, the researchers can observe how far cats travel when they are outdoors.

Beyond looking at issues with cat predation on native species, this ongoing project has revealed some interesting aspects of individual cat behav ior. It seemed that each cat had individual quirks, as some would roam far and wide, while others would stay closer to home.

Among the 150 cats that have been tracked so far, most cats lived on around five acres, but some covered as much as 116 acres of ground.

“Some of our cats ‘cheat’ on their owners,” said Troi Perkins, a senior studying zoolog y who is work ing with Kays on the project.

“They would have specific

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This map shows the path traveled by a cat named Spencer traveled in Massachusetts, who covered about 47 hectares, or a metric unite equal to 100 acres, while he was being tracked.

movements between certain houses, and when we contacted the homeowners, it turns out they were being

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showing off his athleticism on an alley-oop or simply airing for a rebound.

It’s likely that the Wolfpack’s short rotation is the cause of Abu’s absent shotblocking, for two reasons.

With little depth behind him, Abu and head coach Mark Gottfried know the importance of keeping him out of foul trouble, which is tough to do if you’re regularly whacking at and around your opponent’s hands and arms.

This is part of the reason that Anya leads the team in foul rate.

Abu is also one of the Wolfpack’s go-to guys on offense.

He takes shots at the secondhighest rate on the team and, as previously mentioned, he works incredibly hard on the offensive glass. It’s possible

that he simply doesn’t have enough energy at the other side of the court to continue on leaping about and expending his limited energy.

The solution is to run a deeper rotation in the frontcourt, something that Gottfried has been working hard to accomplish by his efforts on the recruiting trail.

However, the Wolfpack has routinely struggled to bring in blue-chip big men (the transfer of Kyle Washington didn’t help either) and until it does, this is going to be a recurring issue.

All in all, the team is certainly getting a lot of production out of its three bigs in terms of offensive rebounding, but the stats don’t tell the whole story, as there are clearly trade-offs being made elsewhere.

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about by fixing his earlier issues. He has used his height to his advantage, standing taller in his crease and playing much more aggressively. Lack does not give shooters nearly as much to shoot at by standing tall, and not playing so deep in the net helps too. Lack regularly plays from the top of the crease, coming out further to challenge shooters and take away angles. He has also shown much better rebound control, using his glove and pads to seal off shots and deny second opportunities. Speaking of opportunities, Lack has a big one in front of him now.

So far this season, Lack and Ward have mostly split net-minding duties.

However, a recent concussion for Ward has completely given Lack the reigns.

This is an opportunity for Lack to really show Francis and head coach Bill Peters he can be the team’s starter full time.

So far he has played well, winning two of three starts since Ward went down, including the aforementioned shutout.

Lack’s success in earning the fulltime starting role will be key for the team. The Canes currently sit three points out of an Eastern Conference wild-card spot and will need continued

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stellar goaltending from Lack to push for the playoffs. However, his influence extends well beyond the rest of this season. With Ward’s gargantuan contract set to expire at the end of the year, Lack and his modest salary is all the team has on the books for next season.

The team will have quite a bit of money freed up this summer, as its projected payroll next year is only about $36 million, well below the roughly $60 million budget the Hurricanes have operated on the past few years. If Lack can show he is capable of being the team’s long-term starter, then it will not need to spend much of that money on either retaining Ward or adding another goalie, and can simply add a cheap backup for Lack.

This would leave room to spend that money in other areas, such as some much needed offensive upgrades.

Lack’s rebound from a poor start to his first season as a Hurricane has been a key factor for the team and will continue to be. Lack needs to continue to play well to keep the team in the playoff race, and show he can be the starting goalie at his modest salary long term to allow Francis to make further upgrades this summer. The Swedish net-minder’s play will be a key factor in determining the team’s long-term plans.

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confidence that he could pull it out the defensive bout.

“I know when it comes to close matches, I’m going to gut it out,” Rohskopf said.

“I’m one of the best in the country when it comes to close matches. At that point, it’s just a matter of who’s tougher.”

Sophomore Nicky Hall took on Ethan Ramos at 174 pounds, falling 14-2, but junior No. 15 Pete Renda suffocated the breath of momentum from the Tar Heels, defeating No. 17 Alex Utley to preserve 20-8 lead for the Wolfpack.

Following a win by sophomore No. 17 Michael Boykin against No. 23 Chip Ness, 11-6, redshirt senior Nick Gwiazdowski would take the mats in the heavyweight bout of the evening against the Tar Heels Cory Daniel with the lead 23-8 in favor of the Wolfpack.

“Gwiz” made quick work of the redshirt freshman, getting two take-downs and two near-falls in the first to grab a 12-1 lead, and eventually getting a tech-fall win 19-2, to secure the Wolfpack victory, 28-8.

Following this match, the Pack has three straight road matches, starting with an ACC tilt against No. 18 Pittsburgh Panthers in Pittsburgh Saturday.

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Tyler Horner Correspondent Five former NC State football players made appearances in the NFL playoffs this season. Here are the alumni who made notable contributions to their team’s efforts.

Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks The Seahawks signal-caller and Offensive Player of the Year candidate Wilson returned to the playoffs this year with the hopes of wiping out the memory of last season’s Super Bowl-losing interception at the hands of the Patriots.

Seattle took on the Vikings in the Wild Card round, and though Wilson and the rest of the offense struggled for most of the game, they came through when it mattered most, rallying for 10 fourthquarter points to squeak by Minnesota 10-9.

Wilson completed just half of his 26 passes for 142 yards, one touchdown and an interception. However, he was undoubtedly the key to the Seahawks lone touchdown drive, turning a seemingly broken play into a 35-yard pass before capitalizing two plays later.

The story in the Divisional Round in Carolina was less magical, but Wilson’s stats were significantly more impressive: 366 yards, 64.6 completion percentage, three touchdowns and two interceptions.

The Panthers rolled to a 31-0 lead by halftime, and it appeared the Seahawks were defeated both on the scoreboard and mentally. However, behind Wilson’s leadership, they rallied off 24 unanswered points to come within striking distance, though a failed onside kick finally did them in.

Jerricho Cotchery, Carolina Panthers In two postseason games for the Panthers, Cotchery caught just five passes for 39 yards, but did come up with first downs on three of the five receptions, and quarterback Cam Newton threw just one incompletion when targeting the receiver. Also, the Panthers scored on all but one drive where he caught a pass.

Following Carolina’s 49-15 dismantling of the Arizona Cardinals, Cotchery now heads to the Super Bowl for the first time in his 12-year career. He may not be as dynamic of a playmaker as fellow wideouts Philly Brown or Ted Ginn Jr., but he is sure-handed and may just come up with the key third-down catch the offense needs to overcome arguably the best defense in the league in the Denver Broncos.

Steven Hauschka, Seattle Seahawks The Seahawks kicker made two of three postseason field-goal attempts, with his lone miss coming from 55 yards out. Though the score was 31-0 in the Panthers favor at the time, this miss may have been the difference as Seattle came up seven points short in the end after settling for a field goal on its final drive.

J.R. Sweezy, Seattle Seahawks Sweezy started two playoff games for the Hawks at right guard. Though the offensive line generally stood up to the Vikings in the Wild Card Round, the Panthers took advantage of it the following week to the tune of five sacks, including two by interior defensive linemen.

Ted Larsen, Arizona Cardinals Larsen and the Cardinals offensive line allowed three sacks in both of their postseason games. However, this number doesn’t illustrate the extent to which quarterback Carson Palmer was under duress against the Panthers, as he was stripped of the ball twice and threw four interceptions.

The No. 3 NC State men’s wrestling team continued its historically dominant season as it defeated the No. 14 UNC-Chapel Hill Tar Heels 28-8 Monday night at Dorton Arena.

The win marked the seventh straight match in which the Wolfpack defeated its opponent by 20 points or more. Head coach Pat Popolizio recognized it didn’t matter who it was on the f loor, the team could win.

“You wanna win everything you can, that was the goal and it didn’t matter who it was on the mats,” Popolizio said. “Our goal is to go out and compete at our best and control what we can control, and we did that tonight.”

Prior to the meet against the in-state rivals, the Wolfpack crushed t he reig ning ACCchampion Virginia Cavaliers 35-7 at Dorton Arena, in what could only be described as pure dominance from almost the entire team. Sophomore No. 3 Kevin Jack stated the home crowd has been a huge factor for the matches.

“This is a great atmosphere,” Jack said. “I think this is the most that NC State has had cheering for us. Being able to win that last period and have everyone cheer for you, it’s awesome in here.”

The Pack got things started at the 125-pound and 133-pound weight classes, when fellow redshirt freshman No. 24 Sean Fausz and No. 28 Jamal Morris took the mat against Anthony Bosco and

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No. 1 Nick Gwiazdowski takes down his opponent during his match against rival school UNC-Chapel Hill. He won his match by a 19-2 technical fall in Dorton Arena Monday. The No. 3 Wolfpack won the dual meet 28-8, allowing the team to continue its unbeaten streak.

James Szymanski. Both Pack wrestlers handily beat their opponents 11-3 and 13-3, respectively, to put the Pack up 8-0, with Jack coming up at 143.

Jack didn’t get through his matchup as easily as his earlier teammates, trailing 2-1 after one round to Joey Ward. After starting Round 2 with two cautions, Jack tied it and sent the match to sudden victory and then double overtime. He then scored three points at the end of double OT to get the win, 5-3, and put up NC State 11-0. Jack credited his preparation before the match to the win.

“My workout partners and who I get to wrestle against in practice prepares me for stuff like that,” Jack said. “I could feel that he was wearing out while I was feeling good.”

Redshirt sophomore Beau Donahue gave the Tar Heels their first points of the night after being defeated by Evan Henderson 11-2 at 149, but the Wolfpack was still on top, 11-4.

Redshirt senior No. 4 Tommy Gantt took the mats next at 157 against Christian Barber. Gantt began his domination early with two monster takedown slams, to get an early 4-0 lead. Gantt

scored six more points to secure the win 10-4, and put the Wolfpack up 14-4 at intermission.

Junior No. 7 Max Rohskopf took the f loor following intermission against No. 10 John Staudenmayer in a matchup of two top-10 wrestlers at 165 pounds. Both wrestlers showed that they were evenly matched, as they were scoreless after two rounds. Rohskopf would win after getting an escape early in the third and holding off Staudenmayer, 1-0, giving NC State a 17-4 lead. Rohskopf had

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Offensive boards keeping Pack afloat Despite its struggles, there is indeed something that the NC State men’s basketball team is doing better than any of its conference foes — and it’s not missing shots, though they are third best by this metric.

Se ven ga me s into conference Tyler Horner play, the WolfCorrespondent pack is hitting the offensive glass more efficiently than any other ACC team. Its offensive rebounding rate of 41.2 percent indicates

that rebounds are a near 50-50 proposition when the Pack is on offense — the national average is 30.1 percent while the ACC does a bit better at 32.5 percent.

This area has been the only in which the Wolfpack has improved during conference play. Before getting hot from the field in the team’s most recent two games, the postscorers and three-point shooters alike had struggled to find their rhythms.

NC State is doing this in spite of rotating just three players at power forward and center. Sophomore Abdul-Malik Abu is leading the

team in offensive rebounding rate and ranks 72nd nationally while junior Lennard Freeman ranks closed behind at 83rd.

Surprisingly, guard Cody Martin has contributed as much on the offensive glass as the Wolfpack’s third big man, BeeJay Anya. Both players average 2.0 offensive rebounds per game on the season and this is less a slight to Anya than it is an endorsement to Martin’s scrappy style of play.

A far more passive shooter than his brother Caleb, Cody has provided a big boost to the team with his efficient shot selection and

hard-nosed defense, leading the team with 1.1 steals per game.

It’s no surprise then that the energetic sophomore ranks as the top shot-blocking guard in the ACC, but it’s curious that he outdoes both Abu and Freeman in this category. You’d usually expect post-players to far exceed the team’s guards in blocking shots, so what’s the source of this oddity?

Freeman isn’t known for his impressive vertical, but anyone that has watched Abu play knows how explosive he can be, whether he’s

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Lack’s improvement vital for Canes’ success The 2015 offseason was a fairly quiet one for the Carolina Hurricanes. General manager Ron Francis made a few under the radar trades to improve the team.

Andrew Schnittker One of these was trading a third and Staff Writer seventh round pick to the Vancouver Canucks for Eddie Lack in an effort the improve the team’s goaltending.

The Swedish netminder was expected to give the team a strong duo with Cam Ward and even compete for the starting job. The team thought so highly of him that it gave him a two-year contract extension

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before the season starts that will pay him $2.5 million next season and $3 million the year after.

Early returns on Lack were not inspiring. The newly acquired goalie struggled in the beginning.

He ranked near the bottom of the league in most goalie stats early and simply was not able to keep the puck out of the net. Two of Lack’s biggest struggles in doing so as he adjusted to his new team were rebound controls and playing too deep in his net.

Watching Lack play early, it was clear he was not using his 6-foot-4 height to his advantage. He was playing too deep in the net and dropping

down too low, struggling to take shooters’ angles away and giving up too much open net, allowing easier shots.

Lack also really struggled in sealing off shots and controlling his rebounds. He would make an initial save, but would spit out second and third opportunities rather than being able to corral loose pucks and keep teams from getting those second chances. Lack also had trouble sealing pucks, as many goals he gave up early were the result of what looked like an easy save leaking through his pads, leading to easy tap-in goals beside or behind him.

However, as with any new player, adjusting to a new team can be difficult. This can be especially true for a goalie, as how one team’s coach expects a goalie to play can be much different than another’s. Once the calendar flipped to December this season, Lack seemed to settle in and is now playing excellent hockey.

Since then, Lack has only given up more than two goals six times and recently earned his first shutout as a Hurricane in a 1-0 overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.

His improvement was brought

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