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A landmark announcement for CHASS With $8.1 million grant, NCSU to create Lebanese Diaspora Center Ian Grice Correspondent

An $8.1 million donation to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest donation in the college’s history, was made Tuesday by Moise A. Khayrallah and his wife, Vera Khayrallah, to create the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, the first endowed center at NC State.

For the landmark announcement of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, about 200 people, including deans, faculty members and members of the community, were present at the Park Alumni Center on Centennial Campus.

The Khayrallah Center will be the only one in the world outside of Lebanon studying the Lebanese diaspora. The Lebanese diaspora began more than 150 years ago and represents the millions of Lebanese who have settled all over the world.

Akram Khater, the director of Middle East studies program and a professor of history, has been appointed director of the Khayrallah Center.

Khater was previously in charge of the University’s Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies that sought to preserve and publicize the history of the LebaneseAmerican community in North Carolina.

Khater also was involved with the creating a PBS documentary, a K-12 curriculum and the multimedia museum exhibit, Cedar in the Pines.

The Khayrallah Center will also organize conferences and work-

shops as well as host postdoctoral fellows from across the world.

“With this generous gift we will undertake research projects that not only give research opportunities to graduate students in our public history program, but to undergraduates and graduates across the disciplines in the university,” Khater said.

The Khayrallah Center will become a premier institute as well as a think tank that engages policies and debates about immigration, Khater said.

“This will advance and shape the field of migration studies,” Khater said.

Randy Woodson, chancellor of NC State, said it was a historic moment for the university.

“The work of this new center will deepen our understanding of the many contributions Lebanese Americans have made the history and culture of our state, of our nation, and our world,” Woodson said.

Jeffery P. Braden, dean of CHASS, said the Khayrallah Center would enhance the understanding of migration.

“This gift is a testament to the international renown to our faculty and their scholarship and our unequivocal commitment to move that scholarship beyond the ivory tower, beyond the walls of the academy to enhance the lives of the citizens of North Carolina, our country and our world,” Braden said.

The center’s mission makes it a perfect fit for the university, according to Braden in an NC State press release.

“Moise and Vera’s generous gift will establish NC State as the premier research and outreach site

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Jeffery P. Braden, dean of the CHASS, and Akram Khater, professor of history, shake hands at the Park Alumni Center on Centennial Campus Tuesday. “Moise and Vera’s generous gift will establish NC State as the premier research and outreach site for Lebanese diaspora studies,” Braden said. “The center will allow NC State to engage in vibrant national and international debates about immigration and its global impact.”

for Lebanese diaspora studies,” Braden said. “The center will allow NC State to engage in vibrant national and international debates about immigration and its global impact.”

Raleigh is the heart of the Lebanese community in North Carolina, according to Moise Khayrallah.

Lebanese Americans in North Carolina bring in about $4.5 billion in revenue to the state while representing a relatively small population of roughly 16,000, according to an NC State press

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Moise Khayrallah and his wife Vera made the largest donation in the history of CHASS. The grant, worth $8.1 million, will fund a center to study the Lebanese diaspora.

Career key survey matches jobs with personality types Deirdre An Correspondent

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Rides, attractions, food stands, and fun houses light up at the annual State Fair in 2011. The fair opens this Thursday, and the concealed weapons ban will be upheld throughout its duration.

Concealed weapons ban upheld at fair Casey Oldham Correspondent

year’s State Fair, which opens on Thursday.

On Monday, Judge Donald Stevens made the decision to uphold the concealed weapons ban at the North Carolina State Fair, according to the News & Observer. This decision will be in effect for this

Grass Roots North Carolina, a nonprofit and all-volunteer organization that advocates for the protection of the Second Amendment, demanded that the Department of Agriculture obey House Bill 937

and allow persons with concealed handgun permits to carry guns at the North Carolina State Fair, according to Paul Valone, president of Grass Roots NC. The bill states that persons with

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Students looking to match their personality type with careers can take the nationally recognized career key survey developed by Lawrence Jones, professor emeritus at NC State. The career key survey is based on John Holland’s sixpersonality type classification and theory of person-environment fit and can be applied for anyone interested in learning about how to maximize their talent in their strongest field.

“The basis of the survey is the ability to assess individuals on the six personality types and then to relate them to compatible matching occupations or majors,” Jones said. “The value in that idea is that research and numerous studies

show that the degree of match between a person’s personality type and the degree of education they are in is significantly related to success in careers and college majors.”

The survey can be found on the NCSU Career Development website and can be accessed by any member of the student body at NC State.

“The test did a good job of asking questions aimed at figuring out what type of atmosphere I would most like to work in addition to the field of study I would enjoy,” said Rachel Walter, a freshman in environmental science. “Taking the test was a journey of self-discovery in and of itself, and I am hopeful that the results will help me to narrow the focus of my potential career fields.”

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a concealed handgun permit may “carry a handgun into an assembly where an admission fee is charged.”

However, North Carolinians Against Gun Violence was one of the groups that advocated for the ban of guns at the State Fair. The group was happy about the decision to ban firearms because the fair will now remain a familyfriendly event, according to Becky Ceartas, the president of NCGV. “The decision makes sense because you want to keep the fair safe, but at the same time if someone had a permit, I can see why they would be upset,” said Jerry Coleman, a sophomore in industrial engineering.

The NCGV is concerned with protecting families from accidental discharge of guns, the possibility of people sitting down and leaving their guns behind and the potential of weapons falling into the hands of children, Ceartas said.

However, according to Valone, “The kind of guns carried by concealed gun permit holders do not discharge when dropped, not that they even would because the kind of holsters used to carry these

The website also organizes all of the majors and concentrations of NC State into the six personality classifications: Social, Enterprising, Conventional, Artistic, Realistic and Investigative.

“The thing I like about the career key is that it is very well-grounded in terms of the Holland theory,” said Woody Catoe, assistant director of the Career Development Center. “Dr. Jones has been very diligent with testing and retesting, and he has made improvements throughout the years so it is a very fine instrument in that regard.”

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Recently, Jones has also published an article about the connection between personality types and a successful workplace for introverted and extroverted people and how it correlated with his survey.

“There is a lot of emphasis in our culture for people who are extroverted,” Jones said.

“About one-third of people are introverted. In matters of succeeding, it is all about how introverts take advantage of their personality.”

According to Jones, a recent study of the results from the 2013 ACT test reported that only 36 percent of students who took that ACT selected a college major that matched their personality type.

“This is a very alarming statistic because it shows

legacies in North Carolina.

In a world where so many people are quick to point out the differences in people, Moise Khayrallah said he’s glad that the Khayrallah Center shows that people still can see the similarities.

“I look forward to many more years of scholarship and academic contribution to this university and to our great state,” Moise Khayrallah said.

guns keep them secured.”

Grass Roots NC members also cite protecting their families as a reason to advocate for the allowance of guns.

“I can see it as a violation of their Second Amendment rights which are already heavily regulated, but I can see the reason for people not wanting handguns being carried by pedestrians as well,” said Adam Fairbanks, a sophomore in biomedical engineering.

According to Valone, people with concealed weapons permits are “overwhelmingly responsible people with extensive training and certifications.”

“These people are not a hazard, they are a resource,” Valone said.

In cases of mob violence and extreme unruly crowd behavior, trained people carrying guns with concealed weapons permits can be a major asset, Valone said.

“I wouldn’t predict any problems with people who have concealed handgun permits,” said Keith Miller, NC State Rifle Team Coach, prior to the decision. “They are an exceedingly law-abiding and careful group of people. But the way I originally interpreted the legislature surrounding the issue was that concealed weapons permit

holders would not be allowed to bring their hand guns or any gun in.”

According to Ceartas, many people who signed the NCGV petition and were aware of the situation said they wouldn’t attend the fair at all if the gun ban was not enforced.

Valone said people would act exactly the same unless they had extreme anti-gun preferences.

“These people carry their concealed guns next to you in the grocery store responsibly, and you don’t even know it,” Valone said. “At the fair they would be protecting themselves against things like mob violence, stabbings and robberies, all of which have happened at fairs in the past across the country. You have a greater chance of contracting food poisoning than you do being a victim of a misfire from a concealed weapons carrier.”

On North Carolina college and university campuses, concealed weapons permit holders are allowed to carry handguns in their locked cars and locked glove compartments. They are now also permitted to carry handguns in bars and restaurants in North Carolina.

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close to two-thirds of the population who take the ACT are not working within their personality skills,” Jones said.

Personality plays an important role for college students and their majors, according to Jones.

“Based on a student’s major and how it corresponds to their personality, this can effect if students are more or less likely to stay in their major, do well and graduate on time,” Jones said.

The Career Development Center also strongly encourages all students to seek help and use the career counseling services in addition to taking the survey.

“Feedback from students has generally been positive,” Catoe said. “The only caveat

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I have, and this is true with most instruments, is that people tend to overinvest in these instruments by expecting the test to tell them who they are and what they are doing.”

As for the future of the Career Key assessment, Jones hopes to bring the survey into career planning before college admissions.

“We hope to perhaps incorporate this into college admissions later on so incoming students are more aware of their personality types,” Jones said. “I would like to see more students working in fields that truly suit them.”

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Alumni panel offers design students career advice Emily Duckett Correspondent

The Young Alumni Panel, held on Oct. 14, brought together recent graduates of the College of Design back to campus to speak with current students about the job search process and the transition from student to work life.

This was the third Young Alumni Panel coordinated

by Amanda Williams, Director of Career and Academic Advising of the College of Design and graduate intern Allison Van Den Berg.

“The College of Design is a close-knit community,” Williams said. “This is the perfect type of opportunity to be able to invite these young professionals back to campus to interact with our students.”

The goal of the event is for students to get information from recent graduates of the College of Design, according to Williams.

“It’s always nice for students to hear from their peers and their recent colleagues,” Williams said.

The panelists included a representative from each of the five undergraduate design programs at NC State: industrial design, architecture, art and design,

landscape architecture and graphic design.

“We just hope [students] come away with a little bit more confidence in their own job search and understand that there can be challenges but there are also a lot of benefits,” Williams said.

The panelists offered advice and discussed their personal experience searching for jobs after graduation.

“I came mainly because I haven’t really started thinking about job search experience or the job search criteria,” said Austin Chappell, a sophomore in architecture. “I kind of want to just get the ball rolling.”

Kristen Veloza, a panelist and graduate from the architecture program, said she applied to about 30 or 40 architecture firms after graduation, but only heard back from one.

“Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there and reach out to people,” said Paula Besterman, a panelist and graduate from the industrial design program.

Panelists gave students tips to perfect their portfolio, an essential element for searching for jobs in design industries and provided advice for making their work known.

“When you have your portfolio out there it encourages conversation about it,” said

Mack Garrison, a panelist graduating from the art and design program.

Panelists discussed the importance of networking and “getting your foot in the door.”

“Companies are more likely to hire someone they have some kind of connection to,” said Betsy Peters, a panelist graduating from the graphic design program. She advised students to “stay busy in that design mindset.”

The panelists also discussed some of the challenges with transitioning from college to career, such as getting used to eight-hour work days and receiving criticism from bosses.

“I’m a graduating senior in graphic design, and it’s really great that the College of Design gives us these opportunities to talk to alumni,” said Lauren Lu, a senior in graphic design. “They give us the tools to get out there and see what’s in store for us when we graduate.”

Before opening up the event up to questions from students, panelists were asked what their advice would be for design students entering the job market.

“When you love what you do and you’re really into it, it makes things a lot easier,” Garrison said.

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Debunking the biggest rumors at NCSU Talia Rodriguez Correspondent

Students can disregard the hope of getting free tuition if they get hit by a Wolf line bus. The Wolf line rumor is false, according to Catherine Reeves, director of the Department of Transportation.

“There’s nothing that I’ve ever heard that is specifically: ‘You get hit by a bus, you get free tuition,’” Reeves said. “There’s nothing in writing, practice or history that we know of.”

Reeves said she asked around the department and was met with confused reactions and raised eyebrows.

“This is one you can definitely file away under urban myths. I’ve never heard of it h a p p e n i ng ,” R e e ve s said. “It’s morbid to think [about]. There’s no way that would be something that would satisf y that situation.”

Jasmine Kamiab, a freshman in engineering and a Goodnight Scholar, said within two hours of being on campus, a sophomore

G ood n ig ht Schola r i nformed her that if she were to be hit by a bus, she would receive free tuition.

“We were crossing the street, and we almost got hit by a bus,” Kamiab said.

“And so she said, ‘Hey, you know, if you get hit by a bus, you get free tuition.’ I said, ‘That’s cool, maybe I’ll try to get hit by a bus?’”

Drivers of the buses are not employees of NC State, a nd t he Depa r t ment of Tr a n spor t at ion doe sn’t have the ability to give out money, according to Reeves.

“In any kind of litigation, it’s going to go through the proper channel, with the university’s legal staff, and when you sue a state institution, it’s actually called a court claim,” Reeves said.

“It’s not going to be handled at the Department of Transportation alone. We wou ld not have control over it—it’d be up to the legal decision-makers of the university.”

Another common rumor says free tuition can also follow the death of a roommate.

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After a long day of classes, students file into one of State’s many Wolfline buses near the Wolfline Hub between Hillsborough Street and D.H. Hill Library. “It’s completely absurd to think that jumping in front of a bus will cause the university to pay your tuition,” said Courtney Schug, a freshman in animal science. This particular theory started toward the beginning of the semester and has quickly spread throughout campus.

“The rumor from ages ago is that if your roommate dies, you get something from the university.

There’s no truth to it at all,”

said Susan Grant, director of University Housing.

However, many students believe this rumor.

“I don’t know who I heard

it from first, but people really believe it,” said Madeline Robless, a sophomore in international relations.

Grant is unsure of when

and how the rumor was started at NC State.

“I’ve been here 29 years, and I’ve heard that one before,” Grant said.

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The Bechdel test isn’t enough D

uring my freshman year, I took a badminton course. Being nonathletic, I managed a f lat 70 for my overall grade. Fortunately, I took the course Nicky Vaught Pass/Fail.

Opinion Editor Meaning: Despite my resounding lack of skill and comprehension about the sport, I still passed as much as the other guy who took the course Pass/Fail and managed a 93.

Even though the Pass/ Fail system worked for me—and surely for countless others—doesn’t mean it isn’t silly to consider me just as successful, on paper, at learning badminton as my more talented classmate.

In said fashion, it would be ridiculous to consider two movies equally prowoman simply because they both pass the Bechdel test.

For those unfamiliar with this: In 1985, Alison Bechdel published a character in her comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, asserting three basic requirements movies must meet for her to attend.

First, the movie must feature at least two named female characters. Second, those characters must talk to each other. Third, the conversation must be about something other than a man.

Adapted and commonly known as “the Bechdel test,” it is used as an evaluation of gender bias in works of fiction.

It seems easy enough for media to meet these stan-

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Government shouldn’t have to ‘allow’ marriages S

ame-sex couples in North Carolina are now allowed to marry, after a federal judge’s ruling effectively struck down the state’s constitutional amendment banning samesex ma rCR Denning riage. But we Correspondent shouldn’t be legalizing same-sex marriage.

It’s true that same-sex couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples. If the government legally allows straight marriage, then it should also allow same-sex marriage. Equal protection under the law is guaranteed to all citizens by the 14th Amendment.

The problem arises in how we, as a society, approach the concept of matrimony. Why should the government have to “allow” marriages to happen in the first place?

For most of history, people married without the approval of any governmental body.

“The American colonies officially required marriages to be registered, but until the mid-19th century, state supreme courts routinely ruled that public cohabitation was sufficient evidence of a valid marriage,” wrote Stephanie Coontz, a history professor at Evergreen State College. “By the later part of that century, however, the United States began to nullify common-law marriages and exert more control over who was allowed to marry.”

In the early 20th century, states used marriage laws to prohibit whites from marrying minorities. That’s right— state control over marriage was, at least in part, born out of racism.

As courts began to strike down laws barring interracial marriage, licenses became proof of marriage required to transfer benefits or rights.

This became a central argument for legalizing same-sex marriage. Same-sex couples argued that without government recognition of their relationships, they were denied the right to receive medical information on each other, or to have the same hospital visitation rights as straight couples, for example. These privileges, granted by the government through marriage licenses, are precisely the type of “equal protection” the 14th Amendment was meant to protect.

But we don’t need a government-sanctioned legal institution of marriage to solve these problems. In fact, only dispersing benefits and rights to married couples, straight or gay, discriminates against two other groups: single people and couples who choose not to marry. Unmarried couples, no matter how long they’ve been together, lack the same rights samesex couples fought to gain.

And singletons miss out on benefits and tax advantages afforded to married couples.

Though more and more states are legalizing same-sex marriage, true equality would encompass unmarried couples

and singles as well.

Fortunately, there’s an easy solution: Get the government out of the marriage business. Marriage is, essentially, a contract between two people. There is no reason why we should treat it any different from any other contract.

In most contracts, individual parties decide on a set of terms, and the state has the power to enforce those terms. Those individual parties are not required to secure a “license” from the state before they enter a contract. There is no reason why marriage should be treated any different. A private marriage contract would still suffice for the purpose of distributing rights and benefits to the parties involved. This is how marriage was handled for most of history. It makes no sense to retain a system that is inherently flawed (in its discrimination of certain groups) and which was initially devised out of bigotry.

Comedian Doug Stanhope joked, “If marriage didn’t exist, would you invent it? Would you go ‘Baby, this [thing] we got together, it’s so good we gotta get the government in on [it].’”

I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t.

We shouldn’t be fighting to legalize same-sex marriage; we should be fighting for a more rational approach to the concept in the first place.

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dards, but nearly half of the Hollywood movies released in 2013 failed, according to an infographic published by Vocativ. On the flip side, the other half passed.

The list of movies that passed includes the likes of Frozen and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which feature female leads. Movies such as Oz The Great and Powerful and Man of Steel, which do not feature male leads, also made the list.

Meaning: A work of fiction doesn’t necessarily have to include a female lead to avoid the label of anti-woman.

However, it would be pretty easy for producers and writers—especially misogynistic ones—to take advantage of this test and its fairly simple requirements to earn a passing label.

Take, for instance, this su m me r’s blo c k bu s te r, Guardians of the Galaxy.

Karen Gillan, who had a fairly major role in the film, pointed out in one interview that the movie passes the Bechdel test. Yet, the movie still reeks of anti-woman attitudes and male supremacy.

Early on, the film delivers a gag about last night’s forgotten one-night stand still lurking around. It’s meant to lead the audience into viewing the (male) protagonist as a “totally rad hetero dude who bangs alien chicks and then forgets about them because he’s busy with space business,” as Gavia BakerWhitelaw writes in The Daily Dot. Other than the supporting lead female and her enemy sister, the movie’s presentation of women is pretty much that of dumb, quiet bimbos

meant to supplement the male characters.

Family Guy kicked off its 13th season Sept. 28, airing “The Simpsons Guy,” its crossover episode with The Simpsons. The episode found its premise as Peter Griffin, the archetypical family patriarch, was run out of town to Springfield after publishing a series of misogynistic cartoons in his comic strip.

Throughout, the episode featured “women belong in the kitchen” humor and a rape joke. It also mocked those who take offense to these sorts of jokes, effectively shaming people against vocalizing their irritation.

Still, “The Simpsons Guy” passed the Bechdel test with f lying colors, implying the absence of blatant gender bias. This seems to contradict the rest of the script’s strong anti-woman tendencies.

As it is, the Bechdel test does not go far enough to promote gender equality in media. It has, however, spawned a few derivatives: The Russo test, which asserts three requirements for LGBT representation; the Racial Bechdel test, which measures whether two named characters of color talk about something other than a white person; and the Mako Mori test, which measures whether at least one female character has her own narrative that is not about supporting a man’s.

It’s time we use the Bechdel test more widely, after adding more to its three simple criteria, so work is tested to not be anti- any group of people.

If media can achieve this, the rest should fall into place.

“I think it’s weird when parents are friends with their kids on social media. Both the kid and the parent have to censor what they post and it’s no fun for anyone.”

“I don’t have anything against it but it’s still weird to see my mom liking all my stuff on Facebook.”

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Trashing tailgate lots is not acceptable E

very home football game, an army of college students pillages the local liquor and beer establishments and descends on the stadium grounds to cheer on t heir side a nd to part y Gavin Stone w it h t hei r Staff Columnist friends. The other side of this debauchery is the thousands of beer cans, bottles, Bojangles’ boxes, and Solo cups that are left behind; making the fields by Trinity Road look like ISIS bombed a landfill.

But is it just the students?

If one were to take a walk through the lots surrounding the stadium, an interesting trend emerges. As you get

closer to the stadium, things become more and more organized. In the sections reserved for season ticket holders, there are no public trash bins. Each person is trusted to bring his or her own receptacle and clean up after each other. Even closer than that are the bins for the people waiting in line. These tend to be much more uniform in terms of trash being put in the correct bin according to Shawn McLean, part of the clean-up crew working for Sparkle and Shine. “Here and there you see people using the wrong cans, but for the most part people put their trash where it belongs,” McLean said.

McLean was working the gate at Dail Plaza West, which is a non-student entrance for mostly families and alumni.

There were 36 bins at his gate,

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18 for landfill and 18 for recycling, lining either side of the four rows of people. At the gates the people are in very close quarters and there is a significant staff and police presence, which could contribute to people being more careful about their trash.

As you get further away from the stadium, on the twin sides of Trinity where the majority of the student tailgaters are, the trash cans are scattered around about 50 feet apart in pairs of bins for trash and recycling. Even with the recycling bags that are passed out before the party starts, by 1 p.m., twoand-a-half hours before the game starts, beer cans are overflowing the wrong bins and many are left all over the ground with nearby bins left empty.

Ken German, an employee

of McLaurin Parking Co. (one of the contractors hired

by NC State to deal with trash) who was cleaning up Fraternity Row at halftime of the game said, “NC State has a contract with a recycling company which provides the bags and the bins, but as you can see, when the students get drunk, they don’t really care what goes where.”

He also pointed out that kids were carelessly jamming their empty cans into the recycling bag dispenser.

It’s clear that when we feel that familiar warmth of alcohol, “Seven Nation Army” over the loud speakers, and the possibility for glory, little concerns us other than winning or losing. This is a societal trait that hasn’t changed even with all of the social shifts of the recent years. We still take for granted the fact

that someone else is paid to clean up after us, or in the case of the fraternities, that pledges will do it.

But are all sports fans the same? Can some be more socially and environmentally aware than others? Of course we can be, but it’s a matter of personal responsibility toward the image of our university. NC State is going through an overhaul of socially conscious reimaging with programs like “Think and Do” which was advertised during half time of the game, bringing it into the top 100 colleges in the country according to U.S. News & World Report.

Clearly, though, this hasn’t sunk in with the students.

As a generation, we are often maligned for not caring, being lazy, etc., and in this case at least, it is deserved.

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The student conduct at the FSU game I attended was not any worse a showcase for our area in terms of social/environmental awareness than the Flea Market going on next to the fairgrounds, but we are the new generation and part of a university that is seeking to emerge onto the national stage of technology. We have to get over the hangover from the behavior of previous generations.

The Wolfpack football squad represented itself well—if not above expectation in a losing effort—but the students showed that we still have not realized what an impression it can make on a university’s image to clean up after itself no matter how hard we party. Think and do, otherwise it’s just trash talk.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014 • PAGE 5

Peers help peers overcome substance abuse Katherine Waller Staff Writer

Outside of Port City Java, Scott Luetgenau and Chris Campau, the co-founders of the Collegiate Recovery Communit y here at NC State, sit, their voices muffled by the rumble of a nearby train and the generalized gray noise of students enduring a rainy day on campus.

According to Luetgenau and Campau, many of these students who seem as though getting to class is their only problem fighting deeper, unseen battles—an estimated 500 students at NC State that are in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.

Luetgenau and Campau, both seniors majoring in social work and both recovering from drug or alcohol addictions explained proudly that the year-old chapter had just been selected for a $10,000 grant from the Stacie Mathewson Foundation, as seed money to get Collegiate Recovery Community started at NC State.

Ca mpau spoke of his struggle to be accepted into NC State because of poor performance at Western Carolina University and a spotty legal history due to his past addictions.

“After they denied my initial application, I began researching collegiate recovery and ended up with a bunch of opportunities and scholarships from major universities around the country,” Campau said. “I came back to NC State and realized that this was something that we needed to be doing at the largest university in the

state. I just want students with a past like mine to have a second chance.”

Campau further explained his time spent at Western Carolina, where his addiction really took off. He faced many legal and academic consequences because of his addiction.

“My peer group entirely changed,” Campau said. “My friends grew up and made the decision to stop partying and graduate. I began hanging out with freshmen and sophomores who were still interested in partying all the time like I was.”

Luetgenau got involved in the Collegiate Recovery Community at NC State when he began dealing with personal realizations regarding his addictions.

“For me, it was realizing that I needed to use every single day, and that was the thing I looked forward to the most,” Luetgenau said. “So as a college student, if you feel like you can’t function or deal with stress without getting high or drinking and feeling like you can’t have a good time or go out without drinking or using, those are some pretty big red f lags when you should probably begin doing some self-evaluation.”

Luetgenau said he had to realize that he could still have a life without drugs and alcohol.

“When I stopped, it was like ‘what am I going to do?’” Luetgenau said. “It was everything that I did, especially in a college culture.

It is important for people to realize that they can still live their lives while mak-

ing that choice to disengage from drugs and alcohol.”

It is important for college students to understand the warning signs of drug and alcohol addictions. Warning signs are often overlooked in a college environment because overuse of drugs and alcohol is so culturally normalized.

Campau explained that it is important to evaluate behaviors such as, “Do I drink to get drunk?” in order to determine whether or not a student needs to seek help.

Luetgenau and Campau agreed that it is a personal decision to get clean. The Collegiate Recovery Community focuses on the recovery part of addiction, and professional organizations on campus such as AlcoholEdu and the Counseling Center are great with helping students dealing with initial acknowledgment of drug or alcohol problems.

Luetgenau and Campau explained that focusing on recovery is of the utmost importance because there are organizations and help available for people who are making the decision to confront their addictions, but there is not a community for people who have actually made that decision and are in recovery.

“There are certain things that happen on campus to me that only people in recovery would understand,” Luetgenau said.

Luetgenau explained that the same thing can be said about mental health because college is an atmosphere with lots of different stressors.

Luetgenau said one of the goals of the Collegiate

Recovery Community is to provide activities for students, such as retreats and tailgates. They also want to get a logo designed and gain a professional web presence.

Most importantly, they want to build a recovery community and grow closer to other collegiate recovery communities.

The Collegiate Recovery Community caters to people recovering from any sort of drug or alcohol addiction and is also open to people with eating disorders and self-harm. All of these issues can be isolating, and no one really wants to talk about them. The Collegiate Recovery Community wants to create a community so nobody has to feel alone on a campus with more than 34,000 undergraduate students.

“If a student is looking and asking for help, we want to get them help immediately,” Campau said. “That moment of realization that they have a problem and the desire to reach out might be very fleeting. For example, it might be on a Sunday morning hungover.”

The Collegiate Recovery Community offers “All Paths to Recovery” meetings every Tuesday evening from 5–6 p.m. in room 126 in the 1911 building. Luetgenau and Campau explained that there are no rigid standards.

They are not working a program, but just hanging out and sharing experiences.

“We lean on each other when things get a little bit stressful,” Luetgenau said.

Additionally, there are meetings on Wednesdays at

3 p.m. that work toward creating a recovery community at NC State.

Luetgenau and Campau illustrated what it means to have support during recovery. Last weekend, while attending the tailgate before the Boston College football game, they experienced solidarity when facing people who still engaged heavily in substance abuse.

Luetgenau began, “It’s not that we are scared of walking into a tailgate where …”

Campau interrupted, “… everyone is getting wasted.”

They laughed warmly as Campau continued, “I mean where binge drinking is so socially accepted. It’s just nice to have someone there that understands.”

Campau advocated for a better connection between the Collegiate Recover y Community and the admissions board.

“If someone who looks like me on paper shows up at the admission board, I would like for them to not have the same headache that I had,” Campau said. “I want the administration to have more information about recovering students.”

The first step in initiating a better world for people in recovery is talk about it.

They spoke of the suicide prevention vigil that occurred recently on campus, and agreed that they hope to bring awareness similarly to addiction. The Collegiate Recovery Community wants to normalize the conversation around addiction.

“Everyone knows someone dealing with addiction or in recovery,” Luetgenau said.

“We are battling stigmas.

We turn on the TV and see people like Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, and we never get to see people like [Campau] and me who got a second chance at life.”

Campau said he wants recovery success stories to be appealing to the public.

“We want to make the recovery success story just as sexy as the train-wreck addiction story,” Campau said.

Luetgenau said he wants people to know that people do not choose to be alcoholics.

“W hen you norma lize recovery, it makes people realize that it is a neuroscience and medical issue, not a moral failing,” Luetgenau said.

Campau explained that discrimination against people battling addiction and living in recovery is a civil rights issue.

“When I re-entered society, there were a lot of barriers because of how I looked on paper, and this is very destructive,” Campau said.

“We are not who we are on paper. We are just people living a life where drinking and drugs is no longer an option.”

Campau and Luetgenau encouraged students to come out tonight, Oct. 15, to watch the screening of the powerful documentary, Anonymous People, which shows the science behind addiction and gives a face to addiction. The film will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Erahl-Cloyd Auditorium in D.H. Hill Library.

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Elena Durvas Correspondent

Even though it feels like yesterday, the 1990s were more than 20 years ago. Fortunately, the fashion industry is embracing the nostalgia of the ‘90s and making a throwback of its own.

Designers such as Alexander Wang, Marc Jacobs and Donna Karan have helped revive ‘90s-inspired minimalism. Designers have been trading in the bodycon dresses for shapeless shift coats, luscious locks for stringy bedhead, and luxury, leather purses for fanny packs.

Shivani Patel, a sophomore in fashion and textile management, said she began to see ‘90s-inspired looks on the runway and in stores about two years ago.

“I could tell through the little things people started wearing,” Patel said. “Or, of course, fashion weeks, store displays, street-wear blogs, stuff like that.”

Kaitlin Liu, a sophomore in animal science, said the ‘90s fashions are becoming more popular in retail stores.

“It’s much more apparent now,” Liu said. “Urban Outfitters and American Apparel were the first. Then as time went on, more mainstream stores like Forever 21 picked up on the aesthetic.”

Patel said listening to punkrock music inf luences her 1990s-inspired looks.

“I like to listen to the Ramones and Nirvana,” Patel said.

The 1990s celebrated the grunge movement, thrown into the forefront thanks to musical icons such as Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and Chris Cornell.

Current popular music has also jumpstarted the 1990s movement. Ever since Macklemore released his smash song “Thrift Shop” in the summer of 2012, teens across the United States have been f locking to Goodwill stores to find unique vintage threads.

“You can even find ‘90s clothes in your mom’s closet,” Liu said. “The ‘90s are great because everything matches.”

Jenna Calderone, a sophomore in fashion and textile management and creative

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director of PackFashion (NC State’s fashion blog), addressed the most relevant looks of the 1990s.

“There was a f luctuation between things being really baggy and tight,” Calderone said. “Of course the grunge stuff, but also really tight shift dresses with heels.”

Calderone said she thinks the 1990s revival will satisfy lovers of comfort.

“No one walked down the runway this season with heels on,” Calderone said. “It was all sneakers and platforms.”

According to Patel and Liu, the most popular ‘90sinspired items include “plaid button-downs, destroyed denim, big chunky boots and dark colors.”

Every year, Pantone, a renowned color technology house, names its trendiest colors, and this year the list includes the shades Classic Blue and Marsala, a clay-like dark red—two colors that can clearly be attributed to the ‘90s revival.

“Beauty-wise, there was a lot of lip liner, glossy lips and greasy, stringy hair,” Patel said. “DKNY’s models for

their New York Fashion Week show wore a lot of hair gel.”

Calderone said she is starting to participate in the grunge trend too.

“I just bought a pair of Doc Martens, a clear allusion to the grunge movement,” Calderone said. “No one’s wearing those colonial laceup boots from last season anymore.”

Calderone and Patel also credit the ‘90s for exposing a bare midriff and igniting today’s crop top craze.

“Lots of crop top, cami-like deals were around,” Calderone said. “And skinny spaghetti straps.”

Patel described an important staple of the ‘90s trend.

“Crop tops and high-waisted stuff are, of course, huge,” Patel said.

Trends come and go for an array of reasons, but Patel and Calderone credit comfort, accessibility and nostalgia as the main reasons for the revival of ‘90s fashion.

“Our generation is very into nonchalance. Ease of wear, comfort, easy accessibility,” Patel said.

According to Calderone,

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the understated fashion of the ‘90s is easy for people to wear.

“It’s a pretty accessible trend,” Calderone said. “It’s easy for people to pull off, and styles from most other decades become costume-like. I think people like the aesthetic better t ha n t he cheesy ‘80s neon type stuff, for example.”

Although the revival of trends from past decades seems cyclical, Calderone doesn’t predict a new millennium comeback anytime soon.

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“The 2000s were a collection of really weird trends,” Calderone said. “We wore that stuff back in elementary school, so that’s not really appealing to anyone.”

Five years is slowly becoming the new four Page Harris Staff Writer

It is becoming more common for college students to take longer than four years to finish their undergraduate degrees, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) used recent statistics from the U.S. Department of Education that showed averages in determining the time it is taking students to receive bachelor’s degrees. According to these findings, during the 20072008 school year, students who started college within one year of graduating high school took about five years and 10 months to graduate. Students who entered immediately into a four-year college instead of a two-year college took about five years and eight months to receive their degrees.

This trend is occurring across the U.S. However, NC State’s graduation rates have increased in general according to the Thomas Griffin, the director of Undergraduate Admissions at NC State, and the Official New Freshman Graduation Rates report on the Office of Institutional Research and Planning’s website.

“Graduation rates have actually been fairly high in the last few years compared to earlier years,” Griffin said.

According to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning’s website, of the freshmen who came in to NC State in 1994, about 25 percent graduated within four years, while 53 percent graduated in five and 60 percent graduated in six. Of the freshmen who came in 2007, 41 percent were graduating within four years, 68 percent graduated in five and 74 percent obtained their degrees within six years.

There are various reasons why students take more than four years to graduate. Travis Toth, a fifth-year senior majoring creative writing, said he has taken longer than four years to graduate because he came to college undecided about his major.

Toth didn’t come to college expecting he would take longer than four years to graduate, but later found himself juggling between a few majors.

“It kind of just happened,” Toth said. “I started in the First Year College program and then became an accounting major, then switched to economics. Then I was an economics major with a creative writing minor, and now I am a creative writing major with an economics minor.”

According to Toth, his final decision is indeed final, and he plans to graduate in December.

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John Debardeleben, a senior in biomedical engineeing works on his laptop while other students settle down in the class on Monday. John will be taking his fifth year at NC State to complete a second degree in electrical engineering.

“I was just trying to pick which path I actually wanted to follow,” Toth said.

Toth said taking more than four years to graduate has more benefits than disadvantages.

“Finding what pace works best for you is a pro,” Toth said. “I think it is silly to think that there is a specific amount of time that it’s going to take people to finish with school.”

But Toth said he has experienced disadvantages as well.

“I guess the main con would be the expense,” Toth said.

“Other than that, it would be having to take more tests and

having more schoolwork to do in general.”

Toth said he is a strong believer that the college experience should be less restricted and structured.

“I think college should be less standardized,” Toth said.

“I do not think there should be a semester-by-semester type schedule because it’s not necessary. I think education should be a lot more in the hands of students and how they want to take it.”

Ben Thomas, an NC State alumnus, graduated in May 2014, five years after he started. Thomas’s reasons for

graduating later were due to fulfilling two semesters worth of a co-op program.

“The two spring semesters I took the co-op I did not take any classes,” Thomas said. “I received class credit, but I only worked during that time.”

Thomas said there are some cons for most students, but the cons did not apply to him.

“Definitely some of the cons for most are not really applicable to me because I didn’t have to pay extra tuition,” Thomas said. “I had to pay a little more for co-op, but not as much as if I had been a full-time student during those times. Some-

times it was different being older in my classes, and most people I had come into college with had already graduated before I did.”

Thomas said he appreciated the benefits of having a co-op.

“I really enjoyed my college experience and enjoyed having extra time with my classmates I’d met,” Thomas said. “With the co-op I got experience of how the real world would be. I got real work experience outside of class, and I received several internships out of that.”

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and UNC-Wilmington, who were ranked second and third nationally last season, respectively. Despite the tough competition, Ronaldo maintains confidence that the team will perform well.

“This tournament certainly contains some quality competition and the opposing teams will make it very difficult for us,” Ronaldo said. “However, I am confident that we have the players and coaches to put up a fight, perform well, and possibly even win it all. That is the goal.”

Unfortunately, Ronaldo, who is primarily a defensive player, is recovering from a torn ACL and won’t be able to play until January or February. This will be just in time for the end of the regular season and will give him time to

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Scoring another point for the wolfpack, Brett Matzuka, a thengraduate student in biomathematics, ‘skies’ Brooks Taylor, a thensenior in biometrical engineering at the University of Virginia, in the Men’s ACC Ultimate Championships Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009 at UNC-Ch.

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nation are given a five-star rating yearly. Despite the fact that Virgin-

ia has long been a pipeline state for Big Ten schools like Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State, the Cavaliers and Hokies held their own, signing two of the three five-star recruits and five of the ten four-star recruits.

In 2013, nine of the 19 four-star re-

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prepare for the post season. In the meantime, he is confident that they have to personnel to step up in his absence.

“We have plenty of key veterans returning from last season,” Rona ldo said. “Including current captains Kieran A llen and Jake McGoogan, as well as last year’s captain, Mason Gardner. Another guy to look out for will be Danny Schmidt, who has been with the program for a while and improved every year. In addition to that, there are plenty of other guys who have worked hard and have the ability to step up and really contribute this season.”

Things are looking up for this Ultimate Frisbee team that has been consistently good in the past, and now that they seem to have all the right pieces, they look to emerge as a stout contender in the national championship this coming spring.

cruits went to either Virginia or Virginia Tech, and in 2012 the Cavaliers and Hokies kept five of seven in the state of Virginia.

Give head coach Dave Doeren some credit: Under his regime, the Pack has improved upon its ability

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get upset about us getting on him, but it was all out of love because we wanted the best for him. That’s serious, what he did.”

Despite all the hard work and suffering, the weight-loss program ended up paying dividends for Anya, as the sophomore lost “between 50-60 pounds” on his way to a sleeker frame, according to Gottfried.

According to Anya, the biggest improvements in his game are his speed and stamina. Due to the youth of this season’s Wolfpack squad, Anya said it was important to be able to keep up with the amount of running that this team will have to do.

“I’m just able to play for a longer period of time,” Anya said. “I’m more explosive, faster. I’m going to be able to do things that I wasn’t able to

to recruit. Doeren’s 2014 recruiting class, which ranked 38th nationally, was a vast improvement to Tom O’Brien’s last class, which stood at 66th. If NC State wants to become a real contender within the ACC, the team will need to keep improving in

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do last year in terms of playing for longer periods of time and being more effective on the court. I can get up and down now, so if we decide to be a fast-break team, I can get down and run with them as well.”

Gottfried also expressed his happiness with Anya’s success in shedding the weight. However, the Pack coach said the weight loss is only a jumping off point for the post player.

“He’s done a really nice job, and what I have told BeeJay is that it’s only step one,” Gottfried said. “Now he has the chance to become a really good player; at 350 pounds, he had no chance. This gives him a chance to start the process.”

“The fact that he lost weight is great, but that’s not the end-all.”

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Beejay Anya sheds weight, improves game Zack Tanner

Brissett’s stats remain ranked among top passers in ACC

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Even after passing for just 209 yards in two ACC losses, Wolfpack quarterback Jacoby Brissett remains among the most efficient quarterbacks in the ACC. He ranks in the top five in five categories: third in passing yards with 1573, fifth in completion percentage at 61.9 percent, second in touchdowns with 14, tied for first in interceptions with two, and fourth in quarterback rating with a rating of 142.9. The only two categories in which he isn’t ranked in the top five are yards per attempt (ranks sixth with 7.3) and number of times sacked (ranks second to last after being sacked 15 times). In addition to that, he has led the Wolfpack to four victories, which is one more than they had all of last season.

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Johnson comes up big in Monday Night Football debut Former NC State football cornerback Dontae Johnson had a huge night for the San Francisco 49ers on Monday.

The rookie recorded his first NFL interception in his first Monday Night Football game against the St. Louis Rams. Johnson returned the ball for a touchdown to clinch the 49ers 31-17 win. Johnson played four years for the Wolfpack and was the starting left cornerback his senior year. He earned ACC Defensive Back of the Week honors in his junior season for his performance against Wake Forest.

The Pennington, NJ native was drafted in the fourth round by San Francisco in the 2014 NFL Draft.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I’m more explosive, faster. I’m going to be able to do things that I wasn’t able to do last year.”

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Sophomore forward Beejay Anya came into last season weighing 350 pounds, which resulted in him to not receive as much playing time. During the offseason, the Washington, D.C. native lost 60 pounds and is now hopes to move and play better than ever.

NC State’s big man on campus has gotten a little thinner. Looking to improve upon his game, sophomore forward BeeJay Anya underwent dramatic weight loss over the summer.

When Anya came to Raleigh last year, the Washington, D.C., native weighed upwards of 350 pounds, a dramatic increase from the 275-pound player who head coach Mark Gottfried scouted at DeMatha Catholic High School.

Due to the added weight that he packed on during the 2013 offseason, Anya was unable to perform at the level that the State coaching staff had hoped for. Despite playing in 33 of the Pack’s 36 games during the 2014 season, Anya only totaled 388 minutes of court time, approximately half the playing time of fellow freshmen forwards Kyle Washington (718) and Lennard Freeman (811).

“Last year, even when I was playing well, Coach couldn’t keep me in the game for a long time because I would get winded,” Anya said.

“That’s when things would go from good to really bad.”

However, when Anya did see the court, he was a powerful asset for the Wolfpack. Anya recorded the second-highest field goal percent-

age among State players last season with a .587 clip and led the team in blocked shots with 46. Despite standing at 6’9”, Anya boasts an outrageous 7’9” wingspan, bigger than any player to ever play in the NBA. After the 2014 season, Anya and his coaching staff decided to put the forward on a weight loss plan, which included a healthier diet and lots of exercise. In short, the North Carolina newcomer had to cut down on the Cook-Out, no matter how fancy the shakes may be.

Anya said that during his weight loss program, he drew inspiration from his enormous fan base around campus.

“I love Wolfpack Nation,” Anya said. “They’re the best fans in America by far. They’re the reason I want to do my best. I know if I do my best, it’ll make them happy, and I’m just trying to please my fans.”

However, the process was not easy for the big man—no diet ever is. Senior guard Desmond Lee said the State team helped Anya along the way, making the big man stick to his routine, even when he wanted to sneak in those late night snacks.

“I’m really proud of BeeJay and what he’s done with his body,” Lee said. “Eating, it was tough for him.

We had to stay on him, and he’d

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FOOTBALL

FRISBEE

Ultimate team sets NC State, UNC-CH look to attract high standards for higher number of in-state recruits upcoming season Daniel Lacy Correspondent

The club Ultimate Frisbee team looks to capitalize on a strong finish last season under a revamped coaching staff and a dedicated group of aggressive players, who are hungry for more opportunities.

N.C. State’s Ultimate Frisbee program is one of the oldest in the nation. Since being founded in 1993, The team has had a very successful tenure in its 20-year span, having won the national championship in 1999, and being one of the strongest teams in the conference year after year.

Last season, the team was ranked No. 25 nationally

by USA Ultimate, and finished third in the final ACC Tournament of the season that took place in Chapel Hill. Team captain Dan Ronaldo, a third year graduate student in operations research, is confident that the team will continue their success from last season into this year’s.

“We have a lot of key veterans returning,” Ronaldo said. “Along with some of the younger guys starting to step up, dedication is key, and the players are really working hard to improve themselves day in and day out.”

The team also boasts a new coaching staff in A-Team coaches Garrett Dyre and Kris Bass, who each bring championship backgrounds as former players of the team. Each of them has won multiple national and worldwide championships, as the addition of the two has become the biggest help for the team moving forward.

“I’ve heard that having a good coach can be worth about two points per game in terms of advice, support, and everything they give over the course of planning practices and having functionality,” Ronaldo said. “We lost a lot of games within a very small margin last season, and hopefully this will put us ahead.”

There has only been one tournament so far this season, and it acted more as a preseason tryouts type tournament to evaluate their players and make the final cuts.

“We had over 100 players come to our first tournament,” Ronaldo said. “But we ended up cutting that down to about 53. These 53 players were then divided into the A-Team and the Developmental Squad, with the A-Team acting as our primary team and the Developmental Squad filled with mostly younger players who will learn under us and will hopefully grow into big contributors in the future.”

The players have been preparing for their next upcoming home tournament, The Wolfpack Invitational, which takes place on October 25 and 26. This tournament will feature 16 teams, including UNC Chapel Hill

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TECHNICIAN/CAIDE WOOTEN

Redshirt junior safety Hakim Jones and senior linebacker Rodman Noel are left in the dust

by Boston College quarterback Tyler Murphy early in the first quarter Saturday, at CarterFinley Stadium. As North Carolina recruits continually choose to attend out-of-state schools, N.C. State has increased its efforts to attract talented in-state recruits in order to secure a successful future for the Wolfpack football team.

Michael McLamb Correspondent

The state of North Carolina produces some of the best high school football players in the country every year.

Throughout the year, ESPN. com compiles a list of the top 300 recruits in all the United States. Thirteen players from North Carolina were among the ranks of this prestigious company at the conclusion of last year’s signing period for 2014.

Of the 13 recruits on the list, just five of them decided to play college football instate. Defensive end Kentavius Street, who ranked 68th, and offensive lineman William Richardson, who ranked 290th, were the only players who inked with NC State.

In 2013, ESPN.com declared 20 North Carolina high school players as being worthy of the fourstar distinction. Of the 20, just six decided to stay

in-state, and all six signed with UNC-Chapel Hill.

In 2012, even the Tar Heels’ recruiting productivity decreased when a mere two of the 16 four-star recruits attended in-state colleges.

If one continued delving into the past, the trend remains the same. The majority of North Carolina high school players are going out of state to play college ball.

I concur with the critics who say Duke and Wake Forest universities will probably never be able to bring in high-profile recruiting classes because of their limits as smaller, private institutions.

However, for NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill, there is no excuse. As schools with more than enough resources and equitable top-notch facilities in comparison to other football powerhouses, there’s no reason that the Wolfpack and the Tar Heels can’t collectively account for at least half of the

four-star recruits in the state of North Carolina every year.

SEC East Division schools such as South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida have long bullied North Carolina schools by snatching up the state’s best talents.

Even ACC programs such as Clemson, Miami and Florida State are frequently racking up the prospects within the “Old North State.”

Fellow ACC programs in the Virginia Cavaliers and Virginia Tech Hokies have proven that it’s certainly possible to beat out the traditional power schools within state borders. Like North Carolina, the state of Virginia also traditionally produces students with an excellent selection of football pedigree.

Last year, ESPN.com labeled three Virginia prospects as five-star recruits and 10 as four-star recruits, only a handful of players in the

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