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Duke suspends all sorority-related activity after student left in critical condition

Campaign finance report shows McCrory trailing Cooper

Gov. Pat McCrory and Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democrat challenging McCrory in this year’s gubernatorial election, have reported close fundraising numbers for the second half of 2016. Cooper reported having collected $2.9 million in the second half of 2015, which is roughly $300,000 more than McCrory who reported raising $2.6 million in the same time. This report, which was released Wednesday, is the second in a row that revealed Cooper outraising McCrory’s campaign. At the beginning of the year, McCrory reported having $4.1 million total in campaign funds, trailing Cooper’s total by about $800,000.

While McCrory and Cooper are the frontrunners in the race, McCrory still must beat two challengers in the March 15 primary, including former state Rep. Robert Brawley.

Cooper also must face Ken Spaulding, a Durham lawyer and former lawmaker.

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First NCSU student earns prestigious Churchill Scholarship

IN BRIEF Duke University has temporarily suspended all sorority-related activity after a student was hospitalized in critical condition after an incident involving alcohol Tuesday night, the university announced Wednesday. After the incident, the university’s director of Fraternity and Sorority Life and the president of the Panhellenic Council sent an email to the 10 Panhellenic chapter presidents announcing the suspension of all sorority-related activities at the university until further notice.

The university did not release information about the injured student but announced that the student is expected to fully recover.

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Kaja Finkler discusses her personal experience during and after World War II as a part of Holocaust Remembrance Day. “It’s ironic when I say that the epidemic saved us,” Finkler said. The only reason she was smuggled out of Warsaw when she was a child is that the city was struck by typhoid. This emotionally touching event took place Wednesday in SAS Hall.

Holocaust survivor tells her story for the first time Randy Jaouhari

“If you see evil, you have to stand and do something about it.”

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About 200 students gathered in SAS Hall Wednesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, to listen to a survivor’s gripping account of trial, hardship and family during her time in a Nazi-occupied concentration camp in Poland.

Kaja Finkler, the 81-year-old speaker, discussed the trials that her family faced following the invasion of Poland and the

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increased danger of retaining Jewishness during Nazi occupation. She elaborated on the bravery of her mother and the lifeor-death decisions that had to be made.

Finkler was only a baby when the Ger-

Mia de los Reyes, a senior studying physics and mathematics, earned the title of first Churchill Scholar from NC State Tuesday and became one of only 15 students from across the country to earn the prestigious scholarship in 2016.

The scholarship will fully fund de los Reyes’ educational and travel expenses in order for her to pursue a one-year master’s degree in astronomy at the University of Cambridge beginning fall 2016. The scholarship includes university tuition and fees, cost-of-living expenses, travel to-and-from the United Kingdom, as well as a reimbursement of the scholarship’s application fee.

De los Reyes first joined the Wolfpack as a Park Scholar — NC State’s most prestigious merit-based scholarship — in the fall of 2012 after graduating from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. She is also an active participant in the Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Pi Sigma academic honor societies.

For the past two summers, de los Reyes interned at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2013, she studied galaxy evolution and formation at the Space Telescope Science Institute at John Hopkins University and became first author of a paper that was published in The Astronomical Journal, NC State News reported.

After her year in the United Kingdom, de los Reyes plans to continue her education and earn a Ph.D. in astronomy before securing a position at an observatory

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Garbage truck explodes in New Jersey

A garbage truck in Hamilton, New Jersey, fueled by natural gas, exploded Wednesday, damaging four homes but no people with flying debris. One of the truck’s four natural gas tanks blew into a nearby home following the explosion, which authorities described as having gone off “like a missile.” Authorities said the garbage truck’s operator abandoned the vehicle after seeing smoke billowing from the vehicle.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire.

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Ravi Perry, a lecturer from Virginia Commonwealth University, speaks about the intersection of the #BlackLivesMatter and #TransLivesMatter movements at the Social Justice January lecture in Talley Student Union Wednesday.

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Ravi Perry, an activist and scholar from Virginia Commonwealth University, addressed the violence in underrepresented communities that underlines the #BlackLivesMatter and #TransLivesMatter movements in a lecture titled

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“Rise. Resist. Repeat.” Wednesday evening during the second annual Social Justice January.

Black Lives Matter is “an ideological and political intervention in a world where black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of

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Sophomore forward Abdul-Malik Abu dunks during the Wolfpack’s 90-83 loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at PNC Arena Wednesday. Abu had a career-high 22 points and recorded his 10th double-double of the season in the Wolfpack’s loss.

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Greg Scheu gave a talk Wednesday evening in the Nelson Auditorium as part of the Poole College of Managment Wells Fargo Lecture Series. The presentation was the first lecture in the series for the spring semester.

More than 300 people attended the latest Wells Fargo Lecture Series to listen to Greg Scheu, president of the Americas region of ABB, to discuss his company’s role in what he calls “Internet of Things,” or, “Industry 4.0.”

The Internet of Things is a term used to describe the interconnectivity of everything. Vehicles, machines, utilities and other equipment have electronics within that to communicate and exchange data with each other.

Scheu’s talk, which took place in the Nelson Auditorium, heavily emphasized energy efficiency and sustainability.

“Industr y 4.0 is the next big change, and it is here,” Scheu said.

“It is where machines can talk to machines, the use of analytics and the use of the cloud.”

This exchange of data allows people to monitor the live usage and status of a machine, even for equipment in remote areas like oil rigs or cruise ships. The consumer version of the Internet of Things

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POLICE BLOTTER January 26 11:50 AM | FIRE ALARM Cox Hall FP responded to alarm. Cause unknown.

1:24 PM | LARCENY Carmichael Gym Staff member reported rear wheel of bicycle was stolen.

2:49 PM | FRAUD Patterson Hall Staff member reported fraud to University Police.

3:20 PM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Carmichael Gym Staff member reported someone had been defecating in hallway over the span of a month.

4:04 PM | FIRE ALARM Biltmore & Robertson Hall FP responded to alarm caused by contractors working in the area.

Coliseum Deck Report of someone stopping people and yelling at them.

Officers located and arrested non-student after verifying subject had been issued trespass.

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8:13 PM | SAFETY PROGRAM Carroll Hall Officer conducted alcohol awareness program.

9:27 PM | SAFETY PROGRAM Public Safety Center NCSU PD conducted RAD class.

11:10 PM | FIELD INTERVIEW Varsity Lot Officer conducted field interview with non-student in vehicle. Subject was waiting for friend. No action taken.

11:11 PM | WELFARE CHECK Welch Hall Officer conducted welfare check on student. Student spoke with on-call counselor.

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Lazer Team,” the first full-length feature film produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and distributed through

by YouTube Red, was released in cinemas world-wide on Wednesday. “Lazer Team” was featured at Carmike 15 Raleigh — selling out the venue for the premiere. The underdog indie film earned $1 million in presales and set the record crowd-sourcing funding on Indiegogo after collecting $2.4 million . Rooster Teeth is an Austinbased indie producer focusing on live action comedy, animation and comedy gameplay.

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black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression,” according to Perry.

The movement was started by “three queer black women” in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin in 2013.

“We are inherently talking about the matter of life,” Perry said.

He argued the oppression of blacks, transgender people and other minority groups exists today, along with police brutality that has been present in United States for hundreds of years.

“Just ask Jamar Clark of Minneapolis. Oh, t hat’s right. You can’t, because Ja m a r i s d e a d . Ja m a r and countless others are dead,” Perry said. “Dead, as in killed by people in aut hor itat ive posit ions.

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would include using smart thermostats to monitor and control them remotely.

Other developments of the Internet of Things include the smart grid, which uses a network of smart meters and smart appliances to monitor and control the f low of electricity in a more efficient manner.

ABB is a robotics, automation and power technology company headquartered in Switzerland with about 30,000 employees in North America and 140,000 worldwide.

It has recently constructed the Smart Grid Center of Excellence on Centennial Campus in a partnership with NC State, which currently employs 500 employees. ABB has also worked

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by people lauded regularly with parades and pensions and ceremonies for their bravery and commitment to justice.”

Perry also addressed the #TransLivesMatter movement and the violence surrounding it. Almost 6.5 percent of transgender people are black and female with about 45,000 black transgender women in the U.S. The Black Lives Matter movement also serves as a feminist critique of violence against blacks. The founders felt that the only violence recognized was that against heteronormative, cisgender men and anyone that did not fit this criteria would not receive adequate attention.

“We know Tray von, we know Tamir, we know Eric, we k now Michael … we don’t know the names of Islan Nettles, or Renisha McBride all of these people that were unfairly targeted or demised,” Perry said.

Perr y said that it’s not about ridding the police force of a few bad apples. It’s

about those few bad apples being entrenched in a system that is designed to protect them first and give lip service to citizens second.

According to Perry, we are experiencing the rollback of the upward mobility of “queer” and black people while we have a black president in office.

Perry said the president is not offering viable solutions in regards to violence against marginalized groups, and one man cannot single handedly fix the politics of the country.

Perr y then went on to challenge the audience to collectively rise, resist and repeat.

“I simply want to have some reason to rise,” Perry said. “I want to be helped with the righteousness to resist and I would hope that I have some assistance with some resilience to repeat. I call that r-cubed.”

He argued that we must rise like Nikatta Oliver, the walkout organizer at the University of Washington, or Brittany Cooper, an ad-

vocate for transgender and gender non-confor mi ng people.

“I found the presentation to be an eye-opening e x p e r ie nc e t h at re a l l y showed me the challenges in promoting change in the way we deal with race,” said Ryan Levine, a freshman studying fisheries and wildlife science. “It also brought up how important intersectionality is in movements, despite often being ignored.”

Perry holds a doctorate from Brown University in political science, and he is currently an associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The event was hosted by the GLBT Center, Women’s Center, Multicultural Student Affairs and African American Cultural Center.

It was open to faculty, staff, students and community members and had about 100 attendees.

with NC State on developing fast chargers for electric cars.

“We started with NC State in 1991 as the first corporate tenant on Centennial campus,” Scheu said. “We knew the value of the connection with R& D here.

We want to be right in the middle of what’s coming next, with young students thinking of how to change the world.”

Scheu said his company helped start center for clean technology in the Triangle.

The company also works to involve undergraduate and graduate students in training and research programs through the PAL program, and also hires many NC State graduates.

Jack Clay ton, regiona l president of Piedmont East at Wells Fargo and a member of the board of advisors for the Poole College

of Ma nagement, helped put together the Wells Fargo Lecture series featuring Greg Scheu from ABB. According to Clayton, Wells Fargo has been doing the lecture series with NC State for the past seven years.

“We really felt that bringing together more creative ideas from CEOs to students would have a good impact and broaden their p e r s p e c t i ve s ,” C l ay ton said. “It also lets the CEO know about NC State and the quality of its students, allowing them to do more recruiting here.”

Students from all over campus attended the event, including the dean of the Col lege of Engineering, Louis Martin-Vega.

The event was also heavily attended by students from the Poole College of Management, including Graham Baartmans, a sophomore

studying accounting, who said he’d heard of these lectures and wanted to finally check one out.

“I thought the talk was really interesting,” Baartmans said. “Since it was my first time being out I didn’t know what to expect. It was really informative even for someone with no engineering background.”

Af ter the event, Scheu held a brief Q&A session with the audience and then attended a reception with students and staf f f rom Poole.

There are a total of six Wells Fargo Lecture Series a year. The next lecture will take place in the Nelson Auditorium on March 2 and will feature Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, a multinational software company headquartered in Germany.

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mans occupied Warsaw, but she received clarity about her childhood experiences during the Holocaust from her mother following the war through stories.

This was Fin k ler’s f irst t ime speaking publicly about her childhood survival due to the traumatic impact of the experiences. Finkler said she doesn’t know if she will ever be able to speak in public about it again.

“The major themes in her narrative are honor, divinity, humanity, separation, longing and loss. Germans will not rob me of my humanity,” Finkler said. “Most importantly was that, just to survive, it’s not enough. You have to survive with honor.”

Fink ler said that her religion nurtured her mother, giving her strength, protection and meaning.

“In order to save themselves,

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Mia de los Reyes, a senior studying physics and mathamatics, was the first NC State student ever and one of 15 students from across the country to be awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship. De los Reyes will spend a year at Cambridge Univeristy in the United Kingdom studying astronomy. Her Master’s degree and all other expenses will be fully funded.

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or national institute, according to NC State News.

De los Reyes’ prior scholarship achievements include the Goldwater Scholarship and the Astronaut Scholarship, both prominent scholarships awarded to students in STEM fields.

Each year, more than 100 institutions are invited to submit two applicants for the

Churchill Scholarship. NC State’s UK Campus Committee submitted de los Reyes’ application. The committee handles prestigious United Kingdom-based scholarship submissions.

The Churchi l l Schola rship, named after Winston Churchill, gives a small number of recent college graduates the opportunity to study engineering, mathematics or biological sciences at Cambridge University expensefree.

people hid, they looked for places to hide,” Finkler said. “In the area we lived, there was an attic, and we crammed 13 people into this little space.”

While hiding in the attic, the young Finkler began crying, which caused the rest of the group to fear that the child’s noise would lead them to be found. At that point, her cousin attempted to choke Finkler with a pillow. Thankfully, Finkler’s great-grandfather forced him to stop, and the baby miraculously fell silent.

Later on in the story Finkler talked about a despairing time for her when an officer grabbed her mother and threw her into a truck on its way to an ammunition factory with other captured Jewish laborers.

Finkler at this time was a child and was forced to choose between going with her mother, who was asking her to, or remaining with her father, who wanted her to stay.

Finkler said that before she could decide, the truck carrying her mother was pulling away. Later, Finkler

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learned that children taken to the ammunition factory with their parents were immediately slaughtered upon arrival.

Kaitlin Brätt, a freshman studying neurobiology, said there are ways to apply what Finkler said to life at NC State.

“I really liked her point about seeing evil and recognizing it,” Brätt said. “NC State is big on community, and sometimes you see acts that are oppressive.”

Claud ia Conrad, a f resh ma n studying business administration, said she was glad she got to hear Finkler’s first public speech.

“I feel happy that NC State is the place that she came,” Conrad said.

At the end of Finkler’s speech, she took a couple questions from the crowd. When a student asked what the takeaway from her speech should be, Finkler responded with some advice for the crowd.

“If you see evil, you have to stand and do something about it.”

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he appointment of Margaret Spellings as the president for the UNC System Board of Governors has been shrouded in controversy. Tom Ross was forced to resign suddenly last year for no particular reason besides a vague desire for “a new direction.” The selection process was conducted behind closed doors, ironic for a board devoted to greater accountability.

Spellings’ views regarding homosexuality are antiquated and alarming, referring to it as “those lifestyles.” These omens make it abundantly clear that Spellings isn’t the best leader for our universities.

Looking back at her experiences in education policy, there is an obvious lack of any time spent as an actual educator. Her resumé shows an ability to schmooze her

way between bureaucratic positions rather than a firm understanding of how students learn. Her most prominent role was as secretary of education during the second Bush administration. In this capacity, she was the architect of “No Child Left Behind.”

However, this political building was full of foundational cracks. It tested students to death and punished rather than assisted struggling schools. Furthermore, under her supervision, student loan companies ran rampant with corruption while she tied her hands behind her back with an air of legal plausible deniability. Her involvement in

the board of directors for the Apollo Group — the holding company for the University of Phoenix, a for-profit institution — is particularly upsetting. The organization has been known to exploit both federal loopholes and military veterans while delivering students a mediocre education.

To predict the quality of her tenure, we have to look to her ideology, which she has articulated implicitly in the findings of the 2005 “Spellings Commission” and explicitly in a 2014 Wall Street Journal Op-Ed on the future of education. Education aims to develop students’ wisdom, ethics and in-

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Kitchens: a core American value

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orth Carolina is a divisive state in the political battleground. As a swing state, the votes cast and policies enacted here affect the entire country.

So it seems weird, then, that any seat in the North Carolina Logan State Legislature would Graham go uncontested. The Correspondent sheer fact that a seat in this legislature allows the holder to create and refine not only a state’s laws, but indirectly the entire nation’s laws, would make it seem that the 170 seats in our state legislature would be some of hardest seats to sit down in. But this is not the case. Currently, just under a third of the seats in the North Carolina general assembly will be uncontested in the 2016 election. Today, it’s almost harder to sit in a seat in a furniture store than it is to sit in the State Legislature — this is a gross failure in our state.

Today, there are many things making this year’s election one of the most uncontested in our state’s history. Our state is so gerrymandered that, in a skewed district, one party chooses not to run a candidate because it knows there’s no chance the other party can be beaten. The fact that we only pay our state legislatures $13,951 a year is outrageous. But, perhaps the most unmentioned cause of this lack of politicians stems from recently graduated, young adults who simply don’t want to run for public office.

There was a time when serving in public office was seen as a noble affair, a great contribution to the public good and even a moral duty. Today, however, while the job remains largely the same, serving in public office is viewed in a far more negative light.

From partisan politics to negative media coverage and political scandals to government shutdowns, so many things have created this negative image. The question then, is not what has caused politics’ negative public image, but how to reverse it. Perhaps the first place to start is to begin convincing young adults, who will soon be of age to run for public office, that politicians are not the Frank Underwoods of the world, but committed citizens striving to make their constituents’ lives better.

Doing so is no easy task. Giving youth the impression that their vote is actually wanted by placing voting locations on college campuses and allowing youth to use their college IDs to vote is one way to start. Introducing youth to a positive view of politics at a young age fosters a connection and affection for it as they grow older. This change must be made soon since if we don’t, there may come a time in the near future where seats in our state legislature are not just being uncontested, but are sitting empty altogether.

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sight into the workings of the world while along the way there are some economic benefits. Spellings has flipped this core idea on its head and proposed reforms that fetishize education as a commodity. Students are not viewed as humans who learn via experience and ref lection but rather as customers consuming certification. Knowledge and research are not appreciated for their inherent value but instead only looked at as “intellectual capital.” These perverted ideas assume that the ultimate virtue is the uncompromising pursuit of money: capitalism taken to its logical extreme.

Foresight may be blurry, but Spellings’ track record has made her vision for the future of higher education abundantly clear.

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ere in the Quad (Bagwell, Becton, Berry Halls) we have an issue with kitchen usage.

People are consistently leaving dirty dishes in the sinks of the public kitchens. Therefore, other Carter Pape people have to clean up someone else’s slack, thus creating a lot of Correspondent complaints on the community’s Facebook page.

We have finally reached a point in this dilemma where we are beginning to talk about solutions.

Nearby, in the Triad, they use a checkout system to get kitchenware from RAs by signing it out. This solution has been proposed for the Quad: the idea of individual responsibility for dishes. There’s another group who believes all it will take to fix this problem is for people to clean an extra dish while cleaning their own: the idea of collective responsibility for dishes.

Only one year ago, we faced a problem nearly indistinguishable from this one. People consistently weren’t picking up their laundry and often used way too much detergent, thereby breaking the washers. In general, the laundry rooms, a public facility, were in a tragic state of neglect.

The noise of anger about the laundry rooms grew so loud that the RAs of the Quad gathered to address the issue. They decided it was time for an educational campaign on how to use the laundry rooms. They made some Facebook posts explaining the consequences of leaving clothes in the washers and driers. They made some signs pleading residents to use less detergent. They talked about it in hall meetings. And it worked. As soon as they started making people think about how to use the laundry rooms, the problem disappeared.

Clearly, the Quad has faced some issues with the use of common spaces. But there is something

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deeper to the issue. Who is responsible for maintaining social spaces? The individual or the group; whose needs and desires take priority?

The history of the United States is rooted in individualism. The Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution is rooted in protecting individual liberties.

Capitalism is entrenched in the idea that individuals must make themselves competitive to succeed economically. The political ideology of the Republican Party is based around self-reliance and the old “pull yourself by your bootstraps” myth. Many Americans believe in the idea of the big dreamer: an individual driven enough by his or her vision for change that he or she single-handedly changes the world.

Individualism is embedded in our culture and has a strong hold on us. Luckily, a discussion is beginning that compares the merits of valuing the individual and valuing the group. Obamacare drove a discussion about who should be responsible for paying for healthcare. Minimum wage discussions are making people think about how the poor can escape poverty. This dichotomy shows up when discussing food stamps, taxation, what to do about homelessness, etc; it pervades our politics.

The decisions we make about whether the group or individual is more important will affect the livelihood of everyone in the country.

This election season allows us to talk, in depth, about significant matters such as this. We are reaching a point where important decisions on the matter of individualism versus communitarianism must be made. We must all pay attention to this dispute. The outcomes of these discussions will decide whether it’s time for a reinvestment in a core value of our country, or whether, as Bernie Sanders would put it, it’s time for a political revolution.

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Gamers can get ‘Knee Deep’ in virtual world Carolyn Thompson Staff Writer

If you’re into PC gaming, you have probably heard of Steam, a multiplayer platform developed by Valve Corporation where users can purchase and play various games online.

The genres of games available for purchase include everything from action to casual to indie. Colin Dwan, an NC State alumnus, is the owner of a company called Prologue Games that has released the first two acts of its three-act game “Knee Deep” on Steam. Act one was released in July 2015 and Act two was released in November 2015.

“Knee Deep” is a swamp noir, theater-style adventure set in the Florida town of Cypress Knee. During this game, the user makes his or her own choices that inf luence the game’s story.

“Knee Deep” started as an idea from Wes Platt, the writer/designer of the game. Platt k new Dwan prior to Prologue Games from work on a previous post-apocalyptic, massively multiplayer online game called “Fallen Earth,” which launched in 2009.

“I think it was 2014 when [Dwan] came to me with this idea,” Platt said. “He asked if I had any stor y ideas that might be applicable for a game, and I told him that I’ve been kind of noodling around with this thing about a town called ‘Cypress Knee,’ it’s full of corruption and crazy characters, so we put together a pitch deck.”

Dwan founded Prologue Games in fall 2013. He said he had been talking to his friends around that time, notably Platt, about making a game with story-driven content that is heavy on the narrative. “[Dwan] went out to GDC in California, the game developers conference, and got funding,” Platt said. “He came to my son’s first birthday party and he said to me, ‘If I’m able to get funding, do you want to come work with me on this project,’ …

I didn’t really expect any-

thing to come of it, but I was like ‘Yeah Colin, sure, if anything comes of it, let me know,’ and lo and behold he went out and made it happen.”

Publishers and investors were able to clear funding for “Knee Deep” and building began in fall 2014, according to Dwan. He said using Steam as the platform to distribute and market the game has come with its own sets of advantages and disadvantages.

“It’s the largest platform out there,” Dwan said. “The best aspect of it is the sheer volume of customers that they have the possibility of funneling through. Some of the disadvantage is that there’s so much competition.”

Dwan said that gamers noticing “Deep Knee” is

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Alumnus Colin Dwan created a three-act game called “Knee Deep,” and its first two parts were recently released on the multiplayer platform Steam. The third act will be released in March. Players can create their own world and story in this game.

“The best aspect of [Steam] is the sheer volume of customers that they have the possibility of funneling through.”

—Colin Dwan, an NC State almnusv

the biggest challenge of being on Steam because of the large competition.

“Participating in Steam sales helps, but just because we’re on there doesn’t mean anybody comes to our page necessarily,” Dwan said.

“We have to f ig ure out ways of getting people to click through, so building up a good marketing screen is what we’ve been focusing on for the last couple of months.”

Dwan said the team at Prologue Games is small, but the members have various skill sets and experiences to cover the different aspects of the game such as art, design, scripting, animation and programming.

“We have a designer, a couple of artists, environment, a n i m at ion, pro grammers and then a general world builder — she’s probably the most versatile in her skills to help tie in all this content into the engine,” Dwan said.

Platt explained that their company has a few younger

staff members who have just finished college, which has added to the staff diversity. “[We have] young people right out of college, and this is their first gig,” Platt said.

“And they have made really amazing work for us.”

According to Platt communication and collaboration in any team is important, especially when the team members have specialized skills that don’t overlap much with the other members.

“We’re all pretty good at talking about ideas as we go,” Platt said. “It especially improved after Act 1, because with Act 1, we did not know exactly what we were going after visually.”

“Knee Deep” gradually became very cinematic and Telltale-like, but the team wanted the game to have a signature appeara nce.

Greater effort was put into working with a stage and adding in more theatrical elements, according to Platt.

“Once we knew what we

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Dwan and his team’s game “Knee Deep” was created by his company Prologue Games. The game takes place in a town called Cypress Knee in Florida.

wanted it to look like, that informed how I wrote, it informed how the artists approached the things they were designing,” Platt said.

“They would come to me and say ‘well, you’re writing this, can we make that work with this,’ and everybody k ind of works toget her, and the animators get with it, and the programmers get with it.”

Dwan said that because their team is small, imprompt u me e t i ng s a re sometimes initiated, which offers a more dynamic environment for feedback to be recieved immediately.

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“Especia l ly in a sma l l team like this where we all trust each other — we can provide feedback without upset t i ng somebody or stepping on their toes, making them think ‘Oh, this is not done yet,’ you know, you can work together and f ind a way to creatively collaborate on a project,” Dwan said.

The team’s work is ongoing with “Act 3: Boomtown of Knee Deep,” releasing March 8. Adopters of the game will get “Boomtown” as a free update.

The f uture projects of Prologue Games are un-

known, but as things wind down with the release of the final Act 3 of “Knee Deep,” Platt said there are definitely interesting possibilities on the horizons.

“Any project that we’re working on is really expected to be something that we try to make our own,” Platt said. “… So any thing we do in the future I’d expect that to be the same sort of thing where maybe it’s like something you’ve played, but we’ll turn it on its head somehow. We’ll spin it in a new way.”

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Harnesses can improve health of guide dogs Alexandra Goodfred Staff Writer

Guide dogs have a tough job. They’re responsible for helping their owner with t heir day-to-day actives and their overall wellbeing. However, in all of the responsibilities that these canines have, sometimes their own health can go unnoticed due to the attention their owners receive.

Sean Mealin, a graduate student studying computer science who is blind, and David Roberts, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, are developing a harness t hat w i l l help ha nd lers monitor the health of their dogs.

“When dogs communicate, they use visual cues and body language,” Mealin said. “Barking, which is what we most often associate with dogs, is actually the least expressive means of com mu nic at ion. Being blind, you miss a lot of those cues, like the angle of

the head or the tail.”

The particular technology for monitoring the health of guide dogs is a specialized harness that will vibrate to alert handlers of

changes in their dog’s heart rate or respiration. According to Roberts, they experimented with a couple of dif ferent ideas for how to alert its users.

“We experimented with aud io, we experimented with haptic fibrotactile feedback, and the third that we have an interest in experimenting with is force tactile, so basically expansion

and contraction,” Roberts said. “The reason we picked these is, in terms of haptics, those are the two main paradigms [fibrotactile and force tactile.]”

According to Roberts, they expected

that audio would be diff ic u lt be c au s e people already use what he ca lled t he “audio channel” better known as audio cues. There was the concern that it would become overloaded so the two haptic options, which

are not used as much as audio, were more noticeable. “ Pe o p l e h a b i t u a t e more quickly to persistent stimuli, but the heart and respiration are inter-

for a range of eight to 10 years. However some work for less than two and others work for up to 13. Roberts said that though there is no set standard for what hap-

pens when the dogs retire, it is not uncommon for them to be adopted by their handlers. The goal of this new technolog y is to increase the number of years a dog can spend working before it has mitto retire. tent,” So far, the reRoberts searchers have said. been working “The with the nonhaptic profit, Guidsignals ing Eyes for GRAPHIC: DEVAN FEENEY have varithe Blind, and ance built in to avoid being use the technology on puppersistent.” pies who are training to be Accord i ng to Mea l i n, guide dogs. Mealin said guide dogs typically work they hope to branch out

and work with clients, but they aren’t ready for that stage yet.

“The technology that we have can be miniaturized, and it’s our hope that it will be no bigger than a standard harness that the dogs have dealt with for their entire life, so it’s not an additional stress to use that technology for them,” Mealin said.

Accord i ng to Mea l i n, what they are most interested in learning is whether the additional access to information about the dogs’ vitals, heart rate and respiration rate can give hints about how the dogs are doing in their training to become guide dogs.

Mea lin sa id t hat each guide dog is very significant, so it is imperative to f ind early signs of a dog not being suitable for a guide-dog lifestyle, as well as imperative to find signs of health issues. With this new technology, Mealin and Roberts said they hope their new harness will be able to detect those problems.

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going in our favor until that point.”

Despite a valiant effort by NC State in the closing minutes of the game and shooting lights out from three (6 of 9) in the second half, it simply dug itself in too deep a hole to overcome. Gottfried emphasized big men BeeJay Anya and Lennard Freeman’s performances, which saw them grab three rebounds each.

“We gotta rebound the ball better,” Gottfried said. “You gotta go get the ball. There were 78 rebounds to get tonight. BeeJay Anya got three of them. Lennard Freeman got three of them. You gotta go get the thing.”

The Pack looks to bounce back against the Miami Hurricanes Saturday at 3 p.m. in PNC Arena.

“It’s sad,” Barber said. “We can’t dwell on it though. We have to keep fighting.

We’re going to come out and try to win the next one.”

swered with a quick jump shot to bring themselves back within three, continuing to show they would not go quietly. Following an offensive foul called against Virginia, Spencer was fouled and made two free throws to bring the lead back to five, but Virginia again answered with a jumper from just inside the arc to once again cut the lead to three.

Spencer and junior forward Jennifer Mathurin responded with huge back-to-back layups to give the Pack a sevenpoint lead with under three minutes to play, and Wilson then sank two free throws

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to make it a nine-point lead with 2:13 remaining. With 57 seconds to go, Virginia sent Spencer to the line, and she missed the first and made the second to put the Pack up 10 and seal the deal, and the final score ended up at 63-52.

“They made a run at us, and after what happened in our last home game, it would have been easy for us to panic,” Moore said. “I’m really proud of the way our kids just kept grinding, kept working. It’s good to get it in the win column, and hopefully we can get a little momentum built up for this weekend.”

The Wolfpack returns to action Sunday against in-state rival UNC-Chapel Hill at Broughton High School.

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The work ethic and grit that enabled him to persevere in a tougher-than-expected match is also what the NC State wrestling program as a whole is becoming known for. Gantt and fellow senior Nick Gwiazdowski are the forged and battle-tested results of the tenets set by the coaching staff who will enable the team to continue pushing towards loftier goals and a place amongst the historical wrestling elite.

“We have set a standard for being great and not compromise to get there,” Popolizio said. “It’s a process; once one guy buys in and then there are two guys, and that was Nick and Tommy. Then there was four, and then eight; and if someone comes in and they are

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not on the same page, they weed themselves out because we go at such a fast pace and do things at such a high level.”

Gantt has enjoyed his five years in Raleigh, but his favorite memory was a recent trip to Stillwater, Oklahoma when the Wolfpack took down the historically dominant Oklahoma State Cowboys and solidified its standing this year as a championship-caliber team.

“It was great to beat them in their own gym,” Gantt said. “They are the best historical program in the country … and last year when I was redshirting, I could’ve beaten that guy and given the team a ninepoint swing.”

March 17 is the start of the NCAA Championships, with Gantt likely to be poised as one of the favorites to win the 157-pound title and one of the keys to the Wolfpack winning the team championship.

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Despite a combined 58 points from Anthony “Cat” Barber and Abdul-Malik Abu, the NC State men’s basketball team fell to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 90-83 Wednesday night in PNC Arena.

Abu scored a career-high 22 points and registered his 10th double-double of the season, while Barber’s 36-point performance was his fourth game with over 30 points this season, tops in the ACC. However, the rest of the Wolfpack (11-10, 1-7 ACC) combined for just 25 points on 6-of-17 shooting.

“This is the first time all year I didn’t like our energy level, the lack of enthusiasm in the first half,” head coach Mark Gottfried said. “Our team has not done that. [But] we certainly responded in the second half.”

The two teams started off in a power struggle, with neither team able to build a decisive lead. However, Georgia Tech (12-8, 2-5 ACC) knocked down two threes in a row to break off an 11-6 run to go up 25-19 with 10:09 left in the half. It was then the Pack’s turn to strike, as it went on a 6-0 run to tie the game at 25.

The Yellow Jackets then heated up from seemingly

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Anthony “Cat” Barber jukes out a defender in the first half of the game against Georgia Tech Wednesday. Barber had 36 points in the Wolfpack’s 90-83 loss to the Yellow Jackets.

all areas of the court, going on a 16-4 run to end the half with a demanding 47-33 lead.

“We didn’t come out with a good enough effort,” Abu said. “[We needed] more intensity in the first half, and we dug ourselves in a hole.”

Barber led all scorers with 14 points on 5 of 13 from the field. Abu followed right behind with 13 points and five rebounds, but his four turnovers proved to be costly for the Wolfpack. Every other State player combined for just six points. Despite his starting status, Cody Martin saw only nine minutes in the first half after committing three fouls. While the Pack

shot a respectable 44.8 percent from the field, it made no 3-pointers.

GT’s use of the full-court defense proved to be problematic for the Wolfpack, forcing seven turnovers and scoring seven fast break points in the first half. Additionally, the Yellow Jackets did a much better job of moving the ball around, garnering 11 assists to NC State’s three. Adam Smith and Nick Jacobs led Georgia Tech with 12 points apiece at the end of the half, with Smith knocking down 4-of-7 3-point shots.

Just like the first half, the second began with a power

struggle. Then, threes from Caleb Martin and Barber sparked a 14-2 run to cut the lead to 54-53. However, the Yellow Jackets went on a 15-1 run after Anya fouled Marcus Georges-Hunt and Abu was called for a technical foul to extend the lead 67-54 with 7:16 left in the game.

“We got it back to a onepoint game, then I thought the technical foul turned the momentum,” Gottfried said. “We’ve gotta have more poise, it was a costly mistake.

The momentum shifted back in their favor, when I thought a lot of the momentum was

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Wolfpack survives furious rally from Cavaliers Andrew Schnittker Staff Writer

Despite allowing a late surge early in the fourth quarter, the NC State women’s basketball team hung on and defeated Virginia 6352 for its sixth conference win of the season.

Junior guards Dominique Wilson and Miah Spencer both passed 1,000 career points in the Wolfpack’s (14-6 5-2 ACC) win. Wilson had 24 points to lead the way, while Spencer had 18. State shot the ball decently against the Cavaliers (13-8 3-4 ACC), converting on 41.8 of its attempts from the field. The team was not great on the boards, only grabbing 37 rebounds, though it did force 17 turnovers.

“Right now, we’re leaning heavily on those two,” head coach Wes Moore said. “That’s pretty impressive to score over 1,000 points your junior year. You could prob-

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Senior center Carlee Schuhmacher pulls down a defensive rebound against the Cavaliers Wednesday. Schuhmacher had five rebounds and led the team with four blocks. The Wolfpack pulled off a 63-52 win moving to 6-2 in the conference in Holliday Gymnasium in Broughton High School.

ably lock me in a gym by myself for four years with nobody guarding me, and I couldn’t score 1,000

points. That says a lot when you can do that.”

The Wolfpack came out of the

gate strong, starting with an 8-4 run after senior Carly Schuhmacher converted a layup off the opening tipoff. However, Virginia was then able to quickly tie it at eight as the Wolfpack went ice cold for a few minutes.

Schuhmacher stopped the skid with another layup for an 8-10 lead with about 2:40 left in the quarter, the first points for State over a span of three minutes. After Virginia hit a three-pointer to go up 11-10 with just under two minutes remaining, three-straight layups put the Pack up 16-11 heading to the room.

Virginia opened up the second quarter with back-to-back threes to take the lead, but a three and layup by Wilson put the Pack back in front. It was pretty much all State after Wilson’s layup, as that sparked a 9-2 run leading to a timeout at the 5:30 mark.

The Wolfpack played lockdown defense for pretty much the en-

tire quarter, as two Virginia free throws at the 2:17 mark were the first points the team allowed in nearly five minutes of play. The Wolfpack headed to halftime up 30-21, getting 13 first-half points from Wilson to lead the team.

The team roared out on a 13-8 run over the first five minutes of the third quarter, getting seven points f rom Wi lson and t wo apiece from Spencer, Schuhmacher and junior guard Ashley Williams. The rest of the quarter was a little more even, but the Wolfpack headed to the fourth quarter up 48-37.

The Cavaliers awakened to start the final quarter, opening with an 8-0 run and putting NC State on its heels to cut the Wolfpack deficit to three.

Wi lson responded w it h yet another layup to stop the bleeding. However, the Cavaliers an-

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Gantt looking to make his mark on NC State wrestling Ethan Caldwell Correspondent

When a coaching change happens, the transition can be rocky for athletes. Oftentimes, the remaining players will transfer, quit or fail to live up to expectations set by the new regime.

Redshirt senior Tommy Gantt is the perfect example of what can happen if an athlete accepts the challenge, buys in and becomes the leader the new coach is looking for as the program begins to take form.

“He was a freshman at the end of the year when first we met with the team,” NC State wrestling head coach Pat Popolizio said. “He was

the first guy to come up and talk to me, and it made a big impact and impression because he backed up everything he said. We have brought a lot of guys in that think and act like him and it’s made a big difference.”

Gantt was a highly ranked wrestler coming out of Cahokia High School in Illinois, where wrestling tends to be more popular than in the Southeast. Oftentimes, people view top athletes as entitled and selfish, but last year as a senior, Gantt decided to redshirt, which gave him an extra year of eligibility to fine-tune his skills and come back this year to help propel the team to new heights.

The NC State wrestling program is certainly on the upswing with multiple national championship

contenders, an unblemished 18-0 team record and five wins over ranked opponents. Popolizio has instilled a drive for greatness and an understanding of the sacrifices and work required while the leadership on the team is steering the team toward believing they can reach the ultimate goal of a national championship.

“Coach talks about it every day; you hear it, and it sounds crazy,” Gantt said. “But he’s a coach, and that’s what he is supposed to do, and then you go home and dream about it, and it starts to become real. Then you go to practice and work hard and beat all these guys, and you’re undefeated. And then at nationals all you have to do is go 5-0 and

you’re the national champ.”

Gantt is currently ranked No. 4 in the NCAA in the 157-pound weight class and boasts an undefeated 16-0 record so far. Last season, Gantt finished ninth overall and one spot short of an All-American selection.

Needless to say, Gantt is setting his sights even higher as he finishes up his Wolfpack wrestling career.

“Being an All-American means a lot, but I have my eyes set on much higher goals: being a national champion,” Gantt said.

Unlike other sports, it is difficult to use metrics and statistics to rate wrestlers — even more so for someone like Gantt whose best attributes may be his tenacity, mental approach and incredible condition-

ing that allows him to turn the tide of a match in an instant or wear down opponents throughout the long contest.

Against No. 17 Virginia, Gantt put his cardiovascular conditioning to the test in one of the most exciting finishes to a match this season.

Down 6-7 in the third period, Gantt out-worked Andrew Atkinson to a tied score and then finished off the match with a takedown to give him an 11-9 win. It was arguably the decisive match of the dual that enabled the Wolfpack to tighten its grip on the lead and put the Cavaliers away for good.

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