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Correction regarding the Technician ‘Yes Means Yes’ article

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abriella Richard, a sophomore in art studies, throws whipped cream at Alex Gardner, a senior in history at UNC-Chapel Hill during the Pie Carolina event at the Brickyard on Wednesday.

The event was hosted by St. Jude Up ‘til Dawn NCSU, a non-profit organization attempting to raise money for St. Jude’s Research Hospital. “We wanted an event that was fun, but also gets awareness out there so we can spread the word about St. Jude and what we’re doing on campus,” said Ryan Doggett, a senior in business marketing and education and member of St. Jude Up ‘til Dawn.

In a story published in Wednesday’s issue titled “NC State will not adopt ‘Yes Means Yes’ initiative,” the Technician inaccurately stated that NC State will not be changing the sexual assault policy to reflect the “Yes Means Yes” standard of affirmative consent. No such decision has been made. We apologize for the mistake.

Various groups within the university have begun to discuss a change, but formal conversations about changing official policy have not occurred, according to Justine Hollingshead, assistant to the Vice Chancellor and Dean in the Division of Academic and Student Affairs.

Lisa Zapata, the Vice Provost for Student Development, Health and Wellness, said while the university

has not yet decided to adopt the “Yes Means Yes” policy, it has also not yet decided against the policy and is currently looking to have more conversations about the topic in order to fully understand the effect it would have on the campus community.

“I think the most important voices that we want to hear from are the students, because they are so important in this and every policy that we have,” Zapata said.

In order to assure any decision to implement the policy stems from a campus-wide discussion, the university is in the process of having conversations with various groups, such as the Office of Student Conduct, legal affairs, the Counseling Center, the Women’s Center and

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Fifth-inaugural poet shares life experiences Paula Gordan Bienvenidos Editor

About 100 people attended a book reading by Richard Blanco, the first openly gay, Latino and immigrant to speak as an inaugural poet, Tuesday night in Hunt Library.

The event brought the fifth-inaugural poet to Centennial Campus to speak about his experience at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration as well as his memoir, The Prince of Los Cocuyos.

“El Cocuyo was where I learned to be Cuban” Richard Blanco

His memoir takes readers through his adolescence, as he grappled with the idea of “home” and the ways he was able to define his sexuality in the context of his family and Cuban

culture.

The title of the book comes from the word “cocuyo,” the Spanish word for a type of firefly or beetle native to the Caribbean and also the name of his great uncle’s grocery store.

“El Cocuyo was where I learned to be Cuban,” Blanco said, adding that it was also where he began to understand his sexuality.

According to Blanco, the psychological and physical setting of the book resides in two imaginary

worlds: the Cuban Miami that exists and hinges on the memories of his family, eager to remember the Cuba they left behind, and the idealistic America just beyond his reach.

Blanco said the stories are just a vehicle to get at something larger about what it’s like to be human. He considers storytelling to be about making his readers and listeners think about their own families and past and how those experiences are shaped, instead of exclusively recounting his own story.

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Blanco began writing poetry in the middle of his career as a civil engineer after falling in love with the way that language remains malleable and shares meaning even in technical report writing.

According to Blanco, poetry is a great way to get abstract feelings out that he can’t quite pinpoint, but a story is just a way to get at something larger and to share a specific story from his past that character-

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emphasizes the benefits that hemp can have on our society and the struggle to get it legalized in the US on Sunday in the Witherspoon Student Cinema.

About 30 students attended the screening to hear the film’s message that hemp’s benefits are being ignored by American society due to the fundamental mischaracterization that the hemp plant is the same as recreational marijuana.

NC State Board of Trustees member Ronald Prestage received a 30-day suspended sentence Tuesday, three months after U.S. Capitol Police charged him with carrying a handgun into a congressional office building at the U.S. Capitol, The News and Observer reported.

Prestage could have faced up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $5,000.

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The Raleigh Hemp Society sold copies of the documentary, “Bringing It Home”, at the screening on Sunday. The documentary has been shown all over the world and has won numerous international awards. Learn more at bringingithomemovie.com.

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NC State students are advocating for the legalization of hemp, arguing that the misunderstood dichotomy between hemp and marijuana has inhibited the U.S.A. from receiving the benefits from mass-producing hemp.

The Raleigh Hemp Society screened the awardwinning documentary, “Bringing It Home,” which

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“We want to get feedback and input from all facets of campus before we would make a decision,” Zapata said.

Hollingshead said, if the university were ready to formally adopt the new policy, it would need to go through various steps and entities, such as consideration from the General Council, and in the end, the NC State Board of Trustees would have to sign off on any Code of Conduct change.

While approval from the Board of Trustees is necessary to officially change the policy, Paul Cousins, the director of the Office of Student and Community Standards, said that is the last step in the

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ized his family.

“Each chapter is constructed around a relationship and follows Ricky chasing his mythic America,” Blanco said of The Prince of Los Cocuyos.

Rene Martin, the events coordinator at Quail Ridge Books & Music, introduced Blanco and thanked the crowd.

“It’s your support in attending events like these that get publisher’s attention and allow us to have writers like these,” Martin said.

Valerie Nelson, a junior in

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Prestage complied.

“It was just a costly mista ke,” Prestage told t he News and Observer. “And the most painful part of it for me is the embarrassment that it has caused my family

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entire process.

“In these kinds of situations, when you are talking about making both mechanical as well as fundamental philosophical shifts and advertising that publicly, there isn’t any way the Board of Trustees would want to review something that came to them without a broad base of support,” Cousins said.

“Their job is to facilitate what is in the best interest of the whole community, so they are going to want to see the whole community supporting that kind of stuff.”

The “Yes Means Yes” model gained attention in California last month, when the state passed a law requiring campuses that receive state money to define consent as “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement” to sexual activity. The law also specifies that consent must be

continuous throughout sexual activities and excludes silence or incapacitation due to drugs or alcohol as consent.

State legislators in New Jersey and New Hampshire have introduced similar bills that link state funding to the use of affirmative consent, in hopes that the updated policy will reduce the number of sexual assaults on college campuses.

Many other schools around the country have added similar definitions to their sexual misconduct policies, including State University of New York schools and every Ivy League school, except Harvard University. More than 800 universities around the country currently have affirmative consent definitions in their sexual assault policies, according to The National Center for Higher Education Risk Management.

animal science, said she attended the event because it was being offered for credit for the Scholars program, even though she hadn’t heard of Blanco before the event.

“It sounded interesting …

I like how he described his transition, how he didn’t really reject his Cuban culture but kind of combined the two,” Nelson said of Blanco’s experiences growing up in a Cuban household wanting nothing more than to be American.

Blanco chose to end the program with the poem that he wrote for President Obama’s second inauguration. Blanco originally wrote three poems, and the

Inaugural committee chose “One Day” to be read. During his reading, Blanco said in many ways his memoir and his entire life led up to that moment standing before thousands of people on the steps of the Capitol Building.

“It’s there that I embrace America in a way I never had … a real, tangible place that is mine and was mine all along,” Blanco said.

The event was hosted by Quail Ridge Books & Music and Friends of the Library.

and North Carolina State, and the harm I’ve done to friends and family and colleagues because of me making that careless mistake.”

Since 2013, Prestage has ser ved as one of the 13 members of the Board of Trustees.

Prestage is the president of Prestage Farms, which gave

NC State’s Poultry Science Department $10 million in 2012, as well as its name, as the department is now formally named the Prestage Department of Poultr y Science.

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The current NC State policy includes a requirement of consent, however it does not explicitly define consent. It states: “‘Without consent’ means that an act was committed against a person either by force (threat, coercion, or intimidation), or without the person’s agreement or permission to allow another person to commit an act.”

It also states that, “A person who is incapacitated as a result of alcohol or drug consumption (voluntary or involuntary); who is unconscious, unaware, or asleep during the act; or who is under the legal age to provide consent, is incapable of giving consent.”

Though the NC State policy encapsulates many of the ideals behind the “Yes Means Yes” movement, a policy change could result in the university pursuing accused

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McGresham said. “For us, the challenge is creating a community that is less tolerant to sexual violence. We have to make it clear to perpetrators that that behavior is not tolerated.”

Ashley Simons-Rudolph, the director of the Women’s Center, said the Women’s Center already provides large-scale education about consent, including a peer education program, that seeks to have crucial conversations with students about how to talk about consent, and are led by either trained peer educators or by the professional staff of the Women’s Center.

“The best practices in the field are to have explicit conversations about consent,” Simons-Rudolph said. “Students feeling comfortable having those conversations, it’s a skill.”

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sexual predators differently.

That potential shift is why the policy is controversial to some and generating debate around the county. It’s also why university officials say any change deserves careful study and vetting.

“The main thing you have to consider when you start talking about ‘Yes Means Yes’ is that the burden of proof shifts to the respondent to prove that this person said yes, which is contrary to every sort of concept about justice that we currently have in the country,” Cousins said.

Otis McGresham, assistant director for Interpersonal Violence Services at the Women’s Center said most people at NC State understand that consent is a big part of preventing sexual violence.

“When you agree to the student code of conduct here, it is already implicit,”

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 • PAGE 3

CEO of BB&T talks economy, personal values Sasha Afanasyeva Staff Writer

Kelly King, the CEO of BB&T, visited the Poole College of Management Wednesday evening to discuss global problems and personal values in front of a crowd of about 250 attendees, including Elaine Marshall, the North Carolina Secretary of State.

King said geopolitical issues, such as China’s slowing growth and Europe’s recession, are impacting the United States’ economy and ultimately keeping it from reaching its full potential. “[There are] many very wellinformed people who will say U.S. has seen its best days, and it will get worse from here,” King said. “I absolutely reject that.”

In addition to conditions abroad, the political environment in the U.S. is also holding the economy back, King said.

King identified himself as a democrat with fiscally conservative, socially responsible views. However, he said he thinks some social programs are problematic for the future of the U.S. as they create floors for economics.

“It really creates a difficult challenge for people to move forward and work hard to pull themselves up. It causes people to settle down and let government take care of them. That’s not the basis the country was formed,” King said.

King said the country was founded on opportunity.

“If we get to a point where half the people are drawing the source of their economic from the government, they will be disenfranchised,” King said. “They will lose their spirit

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“You can smoke a field of hemp, and you would die of CO2 poisoning before you got high,” said Andrew Klein, a senior in natural resources policy and administration and founder of the Raleigh Hemp Society. “Hemp and marijuana are both cannabis sativa, but the point is that they are completely different. It’s like comparing a house cat to a lion.”

The documentary presented one of the Drug Enforcement Administration’a (DEA), arguments against hemp, stating recreational marijuana can be hidden among hemp stalks because the plants look similar.

Hemp supporters, however, argue this is unlikely due to the special, climatecontrolled conditions needed to produce “smoker’s” marijuana.

Hemp is widely produced in 31 other industrial countries including France, China and the U.K. The THC content of industrial hemp is 0.3 percent or lower, which, according to the documentary, is too low a level to be psychoactive in the body. It is significantly less than the THC content found in recreational cannabis, which stands at about 40 percent.

Historically, this misconception has been a major factor in hemp’s illegal status in the U.S., dating back to 1970 when President Richard Nixon first declared it a Class I drug along with recreational marijuana and heroin, among others.

While interning for the Virginia Hemp Company this past summer, Klein said he spent a significant amount of time lobbying in Washington D.C. where he ran into the problems with this misconception frequently.

“I talked mostly with staff-

of hope and opportunity.”

To change that, King suggested the country change leadership, which comes from people taking action.

“My strong recommendation to you is to recognize long-term results are a function of behaviors,” King said. “Behaviors are a result of beliefs. People behave in a matter that is consistent with their beliefs.”

Maintaining values, such as judgment, honesty and happiness, is critical for aspiring businesspeople who are looking to successfully reach their goals, King said.

“Honesty is absolute, and one should be 100 percent honest to be successful,” King said. “If you start down the road of things that might not seem important but they are dishonest, then you start to think that dishonesty is okay. Dishonesty in life will ultimately catch up with you because it will destroy people’s life with you.”

King said every person should concentrate on making good decisions for his or herself in order to produce the best outcome.

“Making good decisions for yourself is really important if you want to achieve a lot in life. Success is about a sense of individuality,” King said.

“It’s about individually producing all you can produce.”

During the lecture, King addressed the concept of justice from a capitalistic standpoint.

“Those that produce the most, ought to earn the most,” King said.

“That is a capitalistic view of life.

We believe if you work harder, study harder, you get an A.” At the end of the event, a few guests were able to ask questions, including Marshall, who asked what can be done about the lack of finan-

ers, but most agriculture reps said that [the politicians they represent] are anti-marijuana,” Klein said. “This shows that, for many politicians, the fear of politically associating with marijuana keeps them from seeing the benefits of hemp.”

Before it was declared illegal, the U.S. government promoted hemp to help the U.S. win WWII with the “Hemp for Victory” propaganda campaign, which encouraged farmers to produce hemp to make rope, cloth and cordage for military use. Hemp was also the first material ever used to make cloth in 800 B.C. China, according to the documentary.

Klein and his staff members set up a table showing off some of the varied ways that hemp can not only provide a greener alternative to common products but even improve on them. The table had hemp cooking oil, which has more omega-3 than traditional oil, hemp paper, which can be produced four times more efficiently than paper from trees, the different hemp fibers used in clothing, which can be produced with less water than cotton, and raw hemp, which can be made into a concrete substitute.

The use of hemp to make concrete, or “hempcrete,” has particularly interesting prospects for the U.S. as a whole, according to the documentary.

Not only could it provide thousands of new jobs due to building renovations and new building construction, but it can improve quality of life for homeowners.

According to the documentary, hempcrete is a carbon negative material, which means that it actually absorbs CO2 in the air as well as filters out other pollutants. The construction process could also made safer by the use of hempcrete, as it does not require workers to wear masks

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Kelly S. King, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of BB&T Corporation, speaks on the topic “Positive Leadership in Challenging Times” at Poole College Dean’s Executive Series on Wednesday. He enlisted the values that one should follow, including honesty, justice, etc, to be a leader and encouraged the audience to take initiative in the life and passionately work towards achieving it.

cial literacy in the country.

“Financial literacy is one of the reasons our economy is not doing well,” King said. “We need to educate people about the basics financial literacy.”

King talked about how BB&T partnered with a small company, EverFi, to create a game that was designed to teach financial literacy and make large purchases such as a car or a house, which King said will be given freely to 1,300 schools in North Carolina.

“The reason I came to NC State was to try to have a positive impact on the students,” King said. “And I wanted them to know there are

or gloves because it is nontoxic. Power tools would also be unnecessary when using hemp, which would eliminate loud noise and wires on construction sites.

“Hempcrete wall construction is not complicated, but there is a learning curve in working with low temperatures and wet conditions,” Linda Booker said, co-producer, director and editor of “Bringing It Home.”

When Booker and her co-producer Blaire Johnson began filming in November 2010, Booker was new to the history of hemp.

In 2011, Booker and Johnson attended the Hemp Building Sy mposium in Granada, Spain where they were able to meet with global hemp business leaders which

still phenomenal opportunities in our country if they will assume responsibility for their own success and happiness.”

Lewis Stocks, a junior in finance, said he appreciated King’s enthusiasm about young people’s role in the future of the U.S. economy.

“I loved it because of how passionate he was about young people, the future success of our country, and the values he wants to instill in our country,” Stocks said.

Stocks said he saw the significance in the political portion of the speech.

“I think he is a strong believer in the way the country was found-

changed her perspective on this issue.

“I was skeptical like a lot of people,” Booker said. “I realized that we need a good film to educate people about this.”

President Barack Obama signed the Farm Bill in February, which made hemp legal for research and academic uses, which is a step towards legalization. However, hemp is still illegal to grow without a DEA issued permit.

The DEA has only issued three of these permits since 1970, according to the documentary released in 2013.

“Until we take hemp out of the substance one narcotic classification, the DEA will still have jurisdiction over seed imports for research,” Booker said.

Booker said DEA pressure

ed, and he believes the country is moving in a different direction in terms of Washington and its leadership,” Stocks said. “What I mean

by Washington and its leadership, I don’t believe he was talking about the president.”

King has served as the chairman of BB&T since 2010, and president and CEO of BB&T Corporation and the Branch Banking & Trust Company since 2009. He was ranked No. 3 Best CEO in a 2011 study by Institutional Investor magazine.

The lecture in Nelson Auditorium was part of the Dean’s Executive Series sponsored by Wells Fargo.

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Andrew Klein (left), senior in natural resource policy and founder of the Raleigh Hemp Society, and Linda Booker, co-producer and co-director of the documentary,”Bringing It Home,” posed behind a display of the many applications of hemp. Raleigh Hemp Society organized the screening in Witherspoon Student CInema on Sunday.

forces higher prices for legal hemp products because they have to be imported.

Andrew Klein said he is working to inform people about hemp close to home.

“The future is working with businesses, farmers and po-

litical leaders to formulate policy to help legalize hemp in NC,” Klein said. “The long-term future of the hemp society is to get passionate, intelligent students jobs in the hemp markets.”

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We must own up to our presidential votes T

he Republicans’ main strategy this election is to associate Democrats as closely as they can with President Barack Obama. It’s a smart move politically, since t he president has “nea r h istoric lows” in ratings for his adminisJacqueline Lee tration, as Assistant TIME reOpinion Editor ported.

Of course, I understand why North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and many other Republicans use this strategy. The president isn’t popular with voters, so if they say their Democrat opponent is a supporter of the president and his policies, they’ll get more votes.

However, it angers me when Democrats resort to deflecting questions about whether they even voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012. This cowardice makes me lose respect for some Democrats.

Alison Lundergan Grimes, in her Senate race in Kentucky, exemplified this when she was asked during a debate if she voted for the president.

She maintained her vote is private and she doesn’t have to answer.

Although Grimes should not have been asked for whom she voted in the first place, she should have confidently said she voted for Obama, granted that she did, before going on to discuss the points with which she agrees or disagrees with the president.

It’s disappointing that a member of the party I associate myself with could give such a weak answer. I know it’s difficult this election—due to our Democrat president’s low approval rat-

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w it h Republica ns a nd Democrats. Besides, Bush obviously liked her if she was made a CEO of the program, so he shouldn’t be complaining that she’s promoting bipartisanship, which we need more of.

I want to see more ads like this.

Also, I want Democrats to defend why they voted for President Obama if asked— assuming most did.

I remember the 2008 election. I may have been in eighth grade, but he inspired me and is a huge reason I’m so passionate about politics today. If I’d been able to vote for him as president, I’d never deny that I did. I expect the same from Democrats in office or who are running for office.

The New York Times recently pointed out that Democ rat s cou ld u se Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill, which jumpstarted the economy, as a way to fire back at Republicans. The article also stated that “the Affordable Care Act, one of the most far-reaching and beneficial laws to have been passed by Congress in years, gets little respect even among the Democratic candidates who voted for it.”

In part, Democrats such as Grimes have fueled the Republicans’ strategy this election season by shying away from saying they’ve ever agreed with or supported the president.

If you voted for him, say why you did and after that, if you don’t agree with him now, explain that too. It’s that simple, and it will keep your level of respect and integrity with your voters instead of turning your Democrat supporters, such as me, away.

“Yes I think there should be a voting site on campus to make it more accessible to students.”

Jennifer Roth freshman, textile management

“I think there should be a voting site to encourage more students to participate in elections.”

Shannon Warchol graduate student, transportation engineering

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Davis Leonard, senior in technology, engineering and design education

Foreign aid is expensive, but we can help A

s worry about the Ebola outbreak has spread faster than the disease itself, attention has shifted to the developing world. We’re reminded once again of how the other half lives and collectively muster a coordinated plan of responses. Governments and organizations alike respond to the call and do their best to control the damage before it’s too late. Or at least Erik that’s how it seems.

Vosburgh Guest Columnist If the above paragraph came off as self-important and condescending to you, I’d have to agree. But if your only connection with life elsewhere comes from headlines, the illusion is a hard one to shake.

In reality, foreign aid is a round-the-clock gig. In 2012, the U.S. government spent about 50 billion dollars on non-domestic aid, according to The Heritage Foundation.

Additionally, tens of billions are spent annually by non-governmental organizations under this same category. Before getting carried away, I should state that a good deal of Uncle Sam’s portion has been military assistance, but then there is still the rest of the pie.

So why do we do this? Some argue that if more than a third of the world does not have access to adequate sanitation, we have a moral obligation to use our own access to resources to level the playing field. But other arguments are more utilitarian: If two-thirds of the world has no Internet access, humanity may be missing out on nearly 5 billion minds. That’s Google’s stance at least. And myriad alternate rationales exist, all falling somewhere on the spectrum between altruism and utilitarianism.

No matter the rationale, it certainly says something good about humanity that this kind of consensus has developed. Still, all aid is not created equal. A simple thought experiment might show why: Imagine you’re a farmer in a country that the rest of the world considers to be short on food. All of

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ing—but that’s no reason to shy away from saying whether or not you voted for President Obama.

I watched an ad this week for Michelle Nunn of the Georgia Senate race, and it’s one of my favorite political ads I’ve seen this election.

Her opponent, Republican Senate candidate David Perdue, ran an ad showing a picture of Nunn with President Obama, saying she’d “fit right in” in Washington and supported all of Obama’s policies.

Nunn’s ad, in response to Perdue’s, was perfect. She shows the picture Perdue had in his ad where she’s with the president. Then she goes on to say it was actually taken at an event honoring President George H.W. Bush, who Nunn worked with as CEO of his Points of Light Foundation.

Bush founded Points of Light to promote volunteerism, according to the foundation’s website. When Bush signed the National and Community Service Act of 1990, the foundation began.

Nunn talks about how she worked with President George Bush, Sr. in his foundation and strives to be bipartisan and works with both Democrats and Republicans.

The ad demonstrates her integrity and seems to be working for her. The Washington Post reported this week she’s performing better in the polls than Perdue. It was a smart move because it shows she intends to be bipartisan, since she associated herself with both Obama and Bush.

George H. W. Bush apparently isn’t happy he’s featured in her ads, The Post reported.

But I like how Nunn shows voters she has respect for both presidents’ administrations and is willing to work

a sudden, far away populations of people you have never met are sending tons of free food to your community. While that’s all well and good, as a farmer, your main contribution to society plummets in value. The local economy is disrupted by an influx of free food, and you can no longer barter for the things you need.

This half-baked form of compassion is well meaning, but ultimately it is a subsidy that stunts the capacity for the sustainable, longterm development that some communities really need.

Some organizations have been able to strike a balance and develop strategies that may really work. One of those organizations includes members located right here on campus: Engineers Without Borders. I’ve personally been a member for almost a year now, and the projects that some of my peers have been involved in represent a shift in awareness about effective international aid.

Currently, the NCSU chapter of Engineers Without Borders has projects in Sierra Leone and Bolivia. Some have gone on for years, but they all seek to provide their communities with one of two very important things: sustainable sources of electricity or clean water.

Over the course of these projects, genuine relationships have been established with individuals in the communities and help in the form of infrastructure is provided without undermining their autonomy. After all, it is the right of any group of humans to exist and grow on their own terms, and I really admire what the group has done so far.

Why am I saying all of this? As stated before, aid requires financial support. And Engineers Without Borders must fundraise at least once a year, and their biggest event is fast approaching. A banquet will be held at the McKimmon Center on campus Nov. 7. A lot of organizations will ask for your money to help others, but far fewer are made up of people who you may very well walk past on your way to class.

Civil forfeiture perverts justice: Our money is under arrest T

he setting is familiar to anyone who’s watched an episode of Law & Order: a windowless room, save for a large twoway mirror next to the door. A single overhead light illuminates the metal table in the center of the room. A deChris tective enters and Denning Correspondent begins the interrogation. “Rough night,” he says. “Well, it’s about to get a lot rougher.”

His suspect, however, isn’t a person. It’s a stack of cash.

“What’s $2,500 in cash doing hanging out in somebody’s glove box, huh?” asks the detective. “Answer me!”

Despite starring Jeff Goldblum and other actors from Law & Order: Criminal Intent, this isn’t an episode

of the show. It’s a parody bit from HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, closing out an exposé on civil asset forfeiture.

The idea of arresting money or other inanimate objects might seem ridiculous, but that’s essentially what happens under current civil forfeiture laws. Unlike criminal forfeiture, under which police can seize property from those convicted of a crime, civil forfeiture does not require you be convicted or even charged. Instead, a civil case is brought against the property itself, giving way to case names such as State of Texas vs. One Gold Crucifix and South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats.

The practice was ramped up in the 1970s to help law enforcement fight the drug war, allowing police to seize vehicles and money used in the drug trade. While preventing nar-

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cotrafficking remains the justification used by police in many seizures, the concentration has shifted from going after drug kingpins’ stashes to taking assets from average citizens.

In State of Texas vs. One Gold Crucifix, “police had confiscated a simple gold cross that a woman wore around her neck after pulling her over for a minor traffic violation,” according to an August 2013 piece in The New Yorker. “No contraband was reported, no criminal charges were filed and no traffic ticket was issued. That’s how it went in dozens more cases involving cash, cars, and jewelry.”

This type of abuse of forfeiture laws has become prolific. In part, this is because police departments get to keep a hefty portion of what they confiscate. Departments can use the money to purchase “toys,” as Columbia, Missouri Police Chief

Ken Burton put it in his testimony, or “stuff that would be nice to have.”

The financial incentive leads to aggressive forfeiture tactics, and innocent people end up the victims of police departments more interested in filling their coffers than stopping crime.

It’s easy money for police departments and district attorneys’ offices.

Civil litigation doesn’t require the same burden of proof as criminal proceedings—beyond a reasonable doubt—instead, only requiring a preponderance of the evidence.

Because the defendant is property and not a person, the rights of the property’s owner have no bearing.

Many people choose not to fight to get their property back, because the process is so complicated and expensive.

Though civil asset forfeiture has proved its usefulness in fighting

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dangerous drug traffickers, the profit incentive and disregard for people’s rights have perverted the practice.

To combat what is essentially corruption, states could divert all seized assets to areas of government other than the police—education, for example. Take away the profit motive, and we’d be well on our way to less police abuse of forfeiture laws.

Preferably, though, states should do away with the practice altogether.

North Carolina is the only state in the country that prohibits civil forfeiture—for property to be seized, its owner must be convicted of a crime, giving property owners the protection of due process. If states and their police departments and prosecutors are truly concerned with justice, they should follow North Carolina’s lead and get rid of civil forfeiture.

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The pros and cons of developing your own major Harrison Allen Correspondent

Rebecca Agocs is a senior at NC State obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Middle Eastern Culture and Conflict.

However, that major can’t be found on any pages of NC State’s website, as Agocs is a part of the Self-Design Degree program.

“I didn’t like the major that I had, and there was no Middle Eastern studies or Arabic major, so I looked into the Self-Design program because of a teacher’s suggestion,” Agocs said.

However, the Self-Design program isn’t just for people who can’t find a major that they like at NC State.

“This is the perfect degree for students who realize that problems

and solutions are multifaceted,” said Sandy Stallings, the director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Self-Design Program.

Stallings said that adding the degree is different from any other major in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, because prospective students have to submit an application to the Interdisciplinary Studies Self-Design Advisory Board rather than submitting a CODA request.

According to Stallings, students also have to write a description of their intended degree, formulate learning objectives and identify courses that will be able to help them achieve their degree.

“The Self-Design major is best approached by students who have taken advanced level courses in one of the subject areas they want to bring in,” Stallings said.

Agocs said the program offers

many benefits that typical majors at NC State may not.

“You can be a lot more invested in your schoolwork because you’re doing the things that you really want to do,” Agocs said.

According to Agocs, students in the self-design degree program have the opportunity to narrow their focus on specific aspects of their degree.

“My focus is smaller than it would be if I had a general concentration in Psychology,” Agocs said.

Stallings said students in the selfdesign major program are able to develop themselves as people in accordance with their concentration.

“Who you are and what you understand have an opportunity for definition in this degree,” Stallings said.

Additionally, students get to take a variety of courses.

“You’re in classes that utilize many different interdisciplinary approaches,” Agocs said.

According to Agocs, exposure to many different disciplines help students plan for their careers.

“These classes have given me a better idea of what I want to do after [graduation],” Agocs said.

Stallings said the program offers students a way to view problems, as well as potential solutions from many different perspectives.

With the advantages also come some drawbacks to participating in such a unique degree program.

“You’re not in one certain department,” Agocs said.

In addition, Agocs said she may never have two classes with the same person, due to the fact that her courses are spread out through so many departments.

In regards to getting a job after

college, a degree in the Self-Design program fares like any other degree.

“Your degree and your major by themselves rarely get you the job,” said Dr. Woody Catoe, Associate Director of the Career Development Center.

Throughout college, students should work toward developing their major through elective courses and even minors.

“During your college experience, you are building value and credibility around your major,” Catoe said.

As with any other major, Catoe emphasized the importance of essential skills that employers seek out such as communication, teamwork and decision-making.

Stallings said students in the SelfDesign Major program see that a problem exists and want to be a part of finding a solution using different ideas from many different paths.

New club promotes diversity in environmental sciences Mary Anna Rice Correspondent

A newly formed organization provides students with the opportunity to explore ecological sciences and diversity. Though it was only a faculty member’s dream, it has become a reality at NC State.

Strategies for Ecolog y, Education, Diversity and Sustainibility (SEEDS) is a new program at NC State that strives to promote diversity in ecology-related majors. SEEDS is a program of the Ecological Society of America and wields the slogan, “Diverse People for a Diverse Science.”

Sakshi Handa, a senior in biological and agricultural engineering and the student representative of SEEDS at NC State, described the club’s origin as being largely a product of their advisor’s efforts.

“Our advisor, Dr. Warren Sconiers, really brought SEEDS here,” Handa said.

“Throughout his undergraduate and graduate experiences at other universities, he had been a part of SEEDS. The program had been extremely beneficial for him and he wanted to start it here at NC State. So he did. He loved the program and wanted to be a part of it, even now.”

Accord i ng to Ha nd a, SEEDS has been around for about 20 years, with its beginnings rooted in historically black colleges.

“It’s a national program that has been coming to a lot of universities around the country under the Ecological Society of America,” Handa said. “It’s great. SEEDS is about helping to increase diversity in ecology-related fields. This is a program that aims specifically to get students interested in such

majors and help them gain more experience before entering the workforce.”

Handa emphasized the program concentrates intently on reaching people who are taking ecology-related classes, but haven’t yet had opportunities to participate in research or to gain work experience. SEEDS provides a way for students to gain applicable experience in their respective majors.

“Increasing diversity in ecology-related fields and helping students gain realworld experience are the main goals of the program,” Handa said. “It’s important that programs like SEEDS have these objectives because many science fields are severely lacking in diversity.

There’s often a shortage of women and racial minorities. That’s how it is, that’s what’s accepted.”

Accord i ng to Ha nd a, SEEDS aims to support those

Creating alternative fuel Alexandra Goodfred Staff Report

The Raleigh Convention Center will be hosting the Inaugural Southeast Alternative Fuels Conference and Expo from Wednesday, Oct. 22 to Friday afternoon, Oct. 24. This is the first conference and expo to concentrate on the entire Southeast region, as opposed to just North Carolina, according to Anne Tazewell, the clean transportation manager at the NC Clean Energy Technology Center.

Tazewell said there are partners from North Carolina as well as from five other states. To put on the expo, Tazewell obtained a grant from the United States Department of Energy for the proposal to bring together partners across the region for an information exchange.

According to her, there are 30 sponsors for the conference and more than 60 vendors attending, as well as three keynote speakers. The speakers include US Department of Energy Deputy Assistant Secretary Reuben Sarkar,

former USAF General Duncan J. McNabb and journalist Jim Motavalli.

The talks from the keynote speakers will take place when everyone is together, but there are 90 speakers in three different tracks, according to Tazewell.

She said it is difficult to quantify how much the conference affects alternative fuel use.

However, they can do general surveys for the vendors to follow up with them.

“Because of [the conference] more connections have been made, so more people have the right information. It’s a ripple effect,” Tazewell said.

To make the conference more eco-friendly, the NC Clean Energy Technology Center that organized the event contracted with Shift Equity Carbon Advantage Program, a company from Charlotte.

Tazewell said she and her colleagues calculated the carbon emissions created through travel distances of participants and the energy consumed during the conference.

who feel as though they don’t represent the majority. The program stresses inclusiveness so that students can obtain support as they need it.

“At meetings, you can find people that are like you,” Handa said. “You can find support in your major that way. One of the big things we want to do is connect students to each other – we want to promote networking so that people can meet others who share the same interests.”

In addition to fostering a diverse environment, the SEEDS program is currently planning several field trips for its representatives, which they have said will be “super awesome.”

According to Handa, the group intends to visit places in North Carolina that are related to the environment and the life sciences in general. She said they’ll soon be going to the Center for Envi-

ronmental Farming Systems in Goldsboro as a day trip, where they will see what’s going on there and observe how it relates to environmental agriculture.

Because the club is just starting up, Handa said it has a lot of freedom regarding what it may become in the future.

“Everyone who comes to us with new ideas is totally welcome to contribute,” Handa said. “We take feedback from our audience so that it’s tailored to what’s happening currently and what people are interested in.”

Darius Williams, a sophomore in biology, said organizations such as SEEDS are important for the minority groups on campus.

“Speaking as a minority student, it’s important that NC State promotes diversity in the life sciences so that people can learn to work better with others in an

environment that is representative of the real world,” Williams said. “Hopefully SEEDS will help give people opportunities along these lines.”

Williams a lso emphasized the impact of diversity driven organizations on a person’s future.

“Typically when people leave school, they’ll be surrounded by a lot of people that aren’t exactly like them,” Williams said. “In becoming familiar with diversity earlier on, they are able get used to it. In this way, they’ll be more tolerant of other cultures and people.”

Being a program based in diversity, Handa said anyone is welcome to join SEEDS. “It’s not any kind of exclusive,” Handa said. “We encourage anyone interested in the program’s goals to come to meetings, regardless of what they may be.”

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Can We Afford an Israeli-Palestinian Peace?

Reaching a peace accord in the midst of today’s Middle East turmoil could hand a victory to global jihad and a horror to the rest of the world.

Hamas, as well as terror groups ISIS, al Qaeda and Hizbollah, are waging a global jihad—seeking to conquer Arab lands, attack the West and establish an Islamist caliphate. Their numbers and conquests are growing.

Though Israel recently repulsed Hamas militarily, the jihadi group’s popularity among Palestinians has skyrocketed. Indeed, Hamas threatens to soon seize the Palestinian West Bank, as it did Gaza in 2007. Is this the time for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement?

What are the facts?

Israel, backed by the U.S., has made bold, groundbreaking land-for-peace offers to the Palestinians: In 2000 and in 2007 Israel offered about 95% of the land captured by Israel in 1967 and a Palestinian capital in Jerusalem. In 2005, Israel also unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, leaving it under Palestinian control.

Despite these Israeli overtures, so-called “moderate” Palestinians have rejected all offers and walked out of subsequent peace negotiations.

Of course, the Palestinian terror group, Hamas flatly rejects even the idea of peace with Israel. Though Hamas won a majority in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2005, it violently conquered Gaza in 2007 and has since ruled the territory with an Islamist iron fist.

Hamas jihadis have fired more than 14,000 rockets at Israeli civilians and started outright wars in 2008, 2012 and 2014. Hamas’s charter implacably commits the group to “obliterate” the state of Israel, “fight Jews and kill them” and “raise the banner of Allah” over every inch of Muslim lands. Hamas’s charter also specifically rejects “so-called peaceful solutions.”

Today, the situation in the Middle East has deteriorated dramatically, with the burgeoning strength and brutality of Islamist terrorists from Hamas, ISIS, al Qaeda and Hizbollah. But the greatest obstacle to peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the continued belligerence of Hamas. Israel soundly defeated Hamas in the latest Gaza war, eliminating dozens of the group’s terror tunnels, hundreds of its fighters and thousands of its rockets. Ironically, Hamas is viewed by the Palestinian people as heroic, and its support has soared to 87%, according to recent polls. Polls also indicate that Ismail Haniya, the Islamist group’s former prime minister, would handily defeat all opponents, including 79-year-old Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, were elections to be held. What’s more, Hamas brags that even after its devastating loss during the most recent war with Israel, it is already producing more rockets for future attacks on Israel.

There is also no question that Abbas—now serving the tenth year of a four-year term as president—is losing power over the corrupt Palestinian Authority.

Under an agreement Abbas struck with Hamas in April 2014 to form a unity government, general elections are to be held in October 2014. While it’s doubtful these elections will be held, it’s highly likely that Hamas, if unchecked, will again resort to violence to take control of the West Bank. Indeed most analysts agree that the only thing preventing Hamas’s takeover of the West Bank is the security assistance Israel provides to the Palestinian Authority.

No nation on earth is more threatened by the Islamist jihad than Israel, which is now almost completely encircled by terrorists—ISIS and al Qaeda on Israel’s Syria border, Hizbollah on its Lebanon border, and Hamas on its border with Gaza. Now Hamas threatens to seize the Palestinian West Bank, which would complete Israel’s encirclement, as well as create a nightmare for Jordan and Egypt.

While recent U.S. and Israeli efforts to fashion a peace agreement with “moderate” Palestinian factions have been well intentioned, it’s clear that Mahmoud Abbas has neither the authority nor a sincere wish to make a deal. Above all, Abbas refuses to acknowledge the right of Jews to have a state in Israel. Clearly, with Hamas on the threshold of taking control of the West Bank, any attempts to forge a peace with Abbas seem futile and frightening—for Israel, the U.S. and most Middle East nations. We know that Hamas can wreak havoc on Israel from Gaza even with relatively primitive missiles, but we can only imagine with horror the damage Hamas could cause if it were in control of territory on the edge of Israel’s entire eastern flank, just yards from the holy city of Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, and a few miles from Ben Gurion International Airport.

What’s more, a peace deal with the Palestinians would be worthless were Hamas to take over. Rather this would represent a major new victory for global jihad.

Hamas threatens to soon seize the Palestinian West Bank, as it did Gaza in 2007.

New U.S. military actions against ISIS will be helpful in degrading that terror group’s murderous capability.

But the U.S. and Israel, as well as European and moderate Arab nations, must also support efforts of West Bank Palestinians to gain political integrity, develop economically and defeat Hamas. In any case, with the region’s unprecedented instability and Hamas’s ascendancy, this is not the time to press for a potentially disastrous Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.

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Fashion show sparks curiosity in Talley Elana Durvas Correspondent

Sara Awad Assistant Features Editor

It seemed like a typical evening at Talley Student Center yesterday – students chattering away and grabbing a bite to eat – until seven pledges of Sigma Nu fraternity began strutting down the ramp dividing the eating area.

Russell Grevera, a freshman in First Year College and pledge of Sigma Nu, carried a boom box blasting “Pump Up the Jam”.

Follow ing him were si x more pledges, who made sure to stop and pose along the ramp so students could get a better look at their Polo Ralph Lauren outfits.

Although they had no prior experience in modeling, the students showed aboveand-beyond enthusiasm for the opportunity, helping each other with poses and pumping each other up before their big debut. Their services also raised $300 for St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Sigma Nu’s philanthropy charity.

Members of Sigma Nu said they were just hoping for a reaction.

“I’m going for at least 20 phone numbers,” Grevera said, jokingly.

After Grevera began the show, students’ expressions went from being confused to amused as the pledges began posing in the middle of the room. Friends of the pledges cheered for them, and most students giggled nervously waiting for an explanation.

“We wanted to get the audience that was kind of like a passive audience, like people in Talley will be enjoying their dinner, or just hanging out with friends,” Erin Quant, a Belk Brand Ambassador and senior in fashion textile management, said.

“They won’t be studying, so

we wouldn’t be interrupting anything. We want them to be there for another reason but also have the pleasure to watch the fashion show and engage with the models afterward.”

After the runway show, the pledges gave out Belk cups filled with coupons and information about the College Fashion Night at Crabtree Valley Mall.

Ac c ord i ng to Au s t i n Clark, a sophomore in communication, witnessing the impromptu runway show was unexpected but effective.

“It definitely worked, because it caught my attention,” Clark said. “I like fashion myself and am a professional photographer, so when I saw people taking pictures, I was interested. It definitely spiced up my dinner.”

Gr a h a m F l i nc hu m, a freshman in engineering, also said the event took him by surprise.

“We thought [the models] were doing a pledge challenge or something,” Flinchum said.

A f ter t he f i rst wa l kthrough, the pledges expressed their satisfaction with the crowd’s reaction.

“The first pose [on the runway] was intimidating for me, but by the second, I owned the room,” said David McCallum, freshman in FYC and Sigma Nu pledge.

Grevera said he strived to make the event appeal to students as much as he could.

“I just tried to relate to them,” Grevera said. “I said, ‘I’m just like you, except right now I’m dressed a little better, but tomorrow night if you come to Belk we can both look better together.’”

Clark said the look reflects a large demographic of men’s fashion at NC State.

According to the models, they would consider wearing parts of their outfits off the

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Models (left to right) Hunter Oliver, William Saunders Jr., Zach Smith, Russel Grevera, David McCallum, Taylor Crowell, and Patrick Flynn, get together for a group photo before putting on a fashion show within Talley Student Center on October 22nd, 2014. After the show, the models mingled with the students handing out freebies in order to promote the Belk brand. Belk will be offering discounts, free food, and a raffle in order to bring in a younger generation of consumers.

runway, but some looks were somewhat unrealistic.

“Some of the combinations are a little exaggerated, but that’s because the brand needs to show off all their pieces,” said Taylor Crowell, a freshman in mechanical engineering and Sigma Nu pledge.

Other students expressed similar reactions.

“I love the shirt I’m wearing. I would love to buy this shirt,” said Zach Smith, a freshman in meteorology and SIgma Nu pledge. “But I don’t know if I would ever see these camouflage pants on campus.”

Tonight’s College Fashion Night event is at the Belk in the Crabtree Valley Mall in the apparel section from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and students with a university ID receive a 20 percent discount.

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Mumma makes splash upon returning to competition Justine Turley Correspondent

After sitting out the 2013-2014 season, redshirt junior diver Rachel Mumma has returned to competition with the NC State women’s swimming and diving team without missing a step.

Her contributions, even this early in the season, have been a huge part for the women’s success.

Mumma started diving when she was 8 years old and has thrived in the sport ever since, first accumulating accolades in high school at Cedar Cliff in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

Not only did she earn four varsity letters in swimming and diving, but she also excelled in field hockey where she received three more varsity letters. Starting with her sophomore year, she placed third in the PIAA Class AAA state championships and only went up from there, placing second her junior year and winning first her senior year.

W hen g raduat ion c a me around, Mumma said she chose to continue to use her diving skills in college and enter NC State.

“I always knew I wanted to dive in college,” Mumma said.

“And NC State’s campus was beautiful; the team was great, and I just felt like it was a good fit for me personally.”

As a freshman, Mumma quali-

fied for the NCAA Zone B diving Championships on the onemeter and three-meter diving boards and posted the team’s second-best mark on the onemeter board. She also recorded 11 top-five finishes to sum up her first year competing for the Wolfpack.

The 2012-13 season only brought Mumma more triumph in the diving scene. She led the team in several one-meter dives, including a total of 308.02 with 6 dives, and an 11-dive total of 319.85.

Mumma also posted a team second best score in the threemeter (6 dives) and second best from three-meters (11 dives), and she also scored second highest on the team platform in both the eleven and five dive.

After competing for so many years and exceeding in the sport, Mumma had to adjust during her redshirt season last year.

“It was weird at first not competing,” Mumma said. “I wanted to focus more on academics and to also improve and learn more dives.”

Despite taking a year off, the sabbatical in no way slowed down Mumma’s success.

“I’m glad to be back in competition,” the redshirt junior said.

“I’ve been ready.”

In her first meet of the season at the All North Carolina Invitational, she earned ACC Female Diver of the Week honors after

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finishing first overall in the one and three-meter competition and recorded two NCAA Zone scores, contributing to the women’s team’s first-place finish in the meet.

Last weekend, Mumma traveled with a small group of swimmers from the women’s team to Dallas for the Morning Dallas Classic. Mumma again contributed, placing third in the women’s one-meter with a score of 292.9 and fourth in the three-meter with a total of 276.7.

“For just the beginning of the season, my last few dives have felt pretty good, and I’m just getting back into things,” Mumma said. “But I want to return to NCAA again this year and place top-three at ACC’s.”

The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania native understands the importance of hard work in and out of the pool. Mumma is majoring in Parks and Recreation Tourism Management and noted that finding a balance between diving and schoolwork is a challenge.

“It’s a lot of time management,” Mumma said. “We have set practice time, so you know when you have to get your work done.”

Next, Rachel will be competing with the Wolfpack in Atlanta, Georgia in the meet against Georgia Tech and Florida State Oct. 25.

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NC State sailors David Rogers and James Stonecypher in boat 5 lead UVA downwind during races on Sunday.

State sailors win Jefferson cup Jordan Beck Associate Sports Editor

The NC State sailing team won the Jefferson Cup Trophy last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, putting a dominant showing over the course of the two-day regatta.

The A-fleet team of senior skipper David Rogers and freshman crew James Stonecypher posted four first-place finishes over the course of the weekend for the Sailpack.

Additionally, freshman skipper Mark Thompson and sophomore crew April Lamb dominated their events. The two led their fleet wire-to-wire and finished with a nearly two-to-one lead over the nearest opponent. Thompson and Lamb went on a six-race win streak and totaled ten first-place finishes in the twelve races in which they were involved.

The Jefferson Cup Trophy was introduced in 2014 as a showcase invitational college regatta and is hosted by the University of Virginia.

The event celebrates president and UVA founder Thomas Jefferson and featured teams from both the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association

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Teams competing in this inter-conference invitational included Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Salisbury (Md.) University, American University, Catholic University of America, SUNY Stony Brook, NC State and hosts Virginia.

By the third race Saturday, Wolfpack sailors had secured first position in the competitive field. Despite facing strong challenges from the Virginia and Salisbury teams, NC State completed the 12 set regatta with a 26-point advantage over its closest competitor without dropping the lead.

“Trophy competitions are such an important part of college sailing, and this is NC State’s first trophy win,” NC State Head Coach Dana Magliola said. “It’s great to be able to bring some hardware back to Raleigh, and this was an especially strong showing from our young squad, too, so we’ll surely look to build on this win.”

Next, Sailpack heads to the SAISA Match Race Conference Championships in St. Petersburg, Florida, hosted by the University of South Florida on Oct. 25.

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SOFTBALL

Wolfpack undefeated in first four games NC State swimming and diving name new diving coach

Preston Ellis Staff Writer

The NC State softball team has started its fall season off on a roll with hot bats and dynamic pitching to go along with a 4-0 record at the halfway mark.

The team’s two star-pitchers, senior righty Emily Weiman and Florida native sophomore Courtney Mirabella, have been on their A-game to start off the season, not allowing a single run yet in any of the team’s first four games.

Weiman has 16 strikeouts in her 11 innings pitched. She also teamed up with freshman Harli Hubbard to throw a combined nohitter. If those numbers aren’t impressive enough, Weiman has only given up two hits in her time on the mound this year. After being considered the team’s ace pitcher last year, Weiman has shown that she is still in top form and will be a force to be reckoned with as the season wears on.

“Emily was right back in the form,” Head Coach Shawn Rychcik said. “I was really pleased with that.”

Mirabella has also posted some impressive numbers. The talented sophomore has had the almighty strikeout working for her as well, as she has tallied 22 in 14 innings pitched. She also has only walked three hitters, showing that she is in command when on the mound.

“I was really impressed with Courtney Mirabella,” Rychcik said. “She’s had a great fall and to go out and throw a four hitter and a one hitter and strikeout 22 batters in two games is a big step from last year.”

NC State Swimming and Diving Head Coach Braden Holloway named Yahya Radman as the team’s new diving coach. Radman served as the head diving coach at the University of Wyoming for two seasons, where he led the team to various successes. He coached a total of 6 All-Conference divers in the WAC (Western Athletic Conference). He also sent 5 divers to the 2014 NCAA Zone “E” Diving Championships.

Radman served as an assistant diving coach before both of these at FSU. SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS

Women’s soccer hosts senior night tonight against Miami

Tonight, the NC State women’s soccer team honors its seniors in advance of its Atlantic Coast Conference clash with Miami. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Dail Soccer Field with the senior ceremony set to begin at 6:45. The match marks the 11th meeting between the two team, as Miami holds a 5-3-2 edge in its meetings with the Pack. The Hurricanes have come up short this season, as the team holds a 2-12-1 record, and is 0-6-1 in the conference. Miami has scored 11 goals this season and allowed 33.

SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS

ATHLETIC SCHEDULE Today WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. MIAMI Raleigh, NC, 7 p.m.

Friday WOMEN’S GOLF AT LANDFALL TRADITION Wilmington, NC, All day.

Jordan Beck Associate Sports Editor

The NC State men’s soccer team defeated South Carolina in overtime by a score of 2-1 Tuesday night in Columbia and returns to Raleigh to face No. 5 Syracuse on Saturday.

Freshman attacking midfielder Zach Knudson opened the scoring in the 21st minute of play, latching onto a perfectly weighted throughball played by sophomore right midfielder Travis Wannemuehler and poking home past the keeper to give State (6-5-3, 1-3-2 ACC) a 1-0 lead.

The goal was Knudson’s fourth of the season and Wannemuehler’s fourth assist.

The Gamecocks (7-7) would level the scoreline at one apiece shortly before halftime in the 40th minute.

Pack junior goalkeeper Alex McCauley made an excellent kick save from short range, but the ball fell to a South Carolina player at the top of the box who drilled a shot into the side netting.

A scoreless second half that saw both sides get chances to win the game would force the match into overtime.

The Wolfpack avoided two close calls in the period, as twice South Carolina saw shots ping off the woodwork.

However, State would pull through in the end, and it was

WOMEN’S GOLF AT LANDFALL TRADITION Wilmington, NC, All day.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “We battled for one key moment, and the guys got the win they deserved. It’s a great result for the group.”

Kelly Findley, men’s soccer head coach

Georgia Tech at Pittsburgh Boston College at Wake Forest Syracuse at No. 21 Clemson

power to the Pack’s offense.

“With Meredith Burroughs and Alyssa Compton, freshmen who have had good starts with the bat, I’m real pleased with how they started and how they’re getting comfortable,” Rychcik said. “There is just a lot of potential in our lineup.”

NC State will have four more games in their fall schedule against the Elon Phoenix and the Pitt Community College Bulldogs. The Pack will look to finish up their fall season undefeated before they move on to stiffer competition during the team’s spring schedule.

Resilient Pack scores overtime win against USC

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Davis has also returned to form as she has recorded some timely hits as well for the Pack.

NC State has also been receiving a boost from some talented freshmen such as California native Alyssa Compton and talented first baseman Meredith Burroughs, who have each brought their hot-hitting with them to NC State. Compton went three-for-three with three runs batted in during the team’s game against Longwood. She followed that performance with a two-fortwo outing against Campbell. Burroughs also had a great performance against Campbell, going three-forthree with a two run homerun.

These two freshmen have provided batting threats and tons of offensive

This dynamic duo has led the Pack to its impressive 4-0 start, having impressed their head coach with a top-of-the-line start to the season.

“I was really pleased with where our pitchers were,” Rychcik said.

“To have four shutouts, and to limit under ten hits for the weekend, four games, was a really good start for our pitching staff.”

Pitching hasn’t been the only thing to talk about for the Pack, as the bats have been on fire as well.

Sophomore outfielder Tyler Ross has brought some power from the left side of the plate for the team, as she has three runs batted in, a triple and a go ahead home run against Campbell Camels to start off her season.

Senior shortstop standout Renada

SOCCER

SOFTBALL VS. ELON Raleigh, NC, 5 p.m.

UNC-Chapel Hill at Virginia

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Junior third baseman Lana Van Dyken dives for second base during the first game against Campbell Sunday. The Wolfpack won both games in its double-header against the Camels.

freshman Conor Donovan who rose to the occasion. In the 100th minute of play, sophomore Michael Bajza whipped in a free kick, which Donovan met with a leaping header to grab the golden goal victory.

“The guys worked hard and stuck to the game plan,” NC State Head Coach Kelly Findley said post-match in an interview with NC State athletics. “We battled for one key moment, and the guys got the win they deserved. It’s a great result for the group. We’re excited for the opportunity to face Syracuse on Saturday night in a big conference game.”

With the win, the Wolfpack keeps its hopes for an NCAA tournament alive and gains confidence for a massive ACC clash this weekend. NC State returns to Raleigh to take on the No. 5 ranked Syracuse Orange Saturday night at the Dail Soccer Stadium.

The last time a No. 5 ranked team came to Raleigh was Oct. 3. NC State earned its biggest win to date that night, defeating the Louisville Cardinals 2-1 off goals from Wannemuehler and junior forward Reed Norton.

The Pack will face a tough test scoring on the Orange, as Syracuse goalkeeper Alex Bono leads the ACC with 10 shutouts in the season. Additionally, Bono is ranked the No. 2 player in the country in Top Drawer Soccer’s midseason rankings.

The game kicks off at 7 p.m.

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Sophomore midfielder Michael Bajza jumps for a header during the game against UNC-Chapel Hill on Dail Soccer Stadium Friday. The Wolfpack lost to the Tar Heels, 1-0.

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