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Endless applications Smart sensor could be used by military, businesses, households and more Sasha Afanasieva Staff Writer

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Emily Meineke, a graduate student in entomology, conducts research concerning human-and-insect interaction in urban environments. She says open-source research is beneficial overall, but could lead to problems.

The drawbacks of data transparency Jake Moser News Editor

The Public Library of Science announced Monday that researchers must be more transparent with their findings.

The nonprofit publisher reversed its data-sharing policy and will now require researchers to provide their data immediately upon publication.

Data, according to the PLOS website, include spreadsheets, sequence reads, verbatim responses from qualitative studies, software code, image files used to create figures and datasets.

Eric Stone, associate professor in the College of Sciences, said the idea of data transparency is beneficial overall, but there are some potentially harmful implications.

Stone, who has published research in PLOS journals and many other publications, said the new datasharing policy isn’t unfamiliar to the field of biology, where he does most of his research.

“We’re just going to have to figure out the best way to do it so that everybody benefits.”

Emily Meineke, graduate student in entomology

“The PLOS issued a pretty strong message, but it’s not that different from how [biology researchers] feel,” Stone said. “Typically, what we’re supposed to do is make data freely available when we publish. If our project is federally funded, it’s a mandate. We’re expected to make data publically available, and there’s nobody forcing us to do it before the fact.”

For publications that aren’t completely open-source, if someone wants specific data from a research article, they will either find them in supplementary material or request

them from the author directly, Stone said. Now, PLOS wants everything to be available immediately.

“Researchers are used to this concept, but not with this degree of stringency and dogma,” Stone said.

However, requiring data transparency can lead to privacy issues when researchers use human medical data, for example.

According to Stone, even if this type of data is summarized, it can still present a problem if made publically available, and the privacy of research participants has been compromised in the past.

“Would you want your own DNA sequence out there and available?

I personally wouldn’t,” Stone said.

“If someone was doing research involving medical records, should they make it publically available?

No one thinks they should.”

“No one” includes the PLOS, which lists personal medical re-

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Researchers at N.C. State recently developed a breakthrough in smart sensor technology by combining vanadium dioxide with an advanced computer chip. The discovery allows the material to have a wide range of applications, some geared toward military use.

Jay Narayan, a professor in material science and a senior author of the paper about the smart sensors, said the researchers’ work will improve upon existing technology.

“The military is already talking to us,” Narayan said. “They have a device that doesn’t work as well, and I think with this device they will have considerable improvement.”

According to Narayan, the smart sensor will help the military develop better infrared sensors because the current models are too bulky.

“A soldier has to carry a computer with a sensor that is hardwired by a physical wire,” Narayan said. “Our discovery has put all of this in one

chip, so the computer and the sensor are together. Sensing, manipulation and responding are all on a single chip.”

In addition to being used as an infrared sensor, the material can also create something called a smart window. When heated, the material becomes highly reflective and blocks incoming sunlight.

“You can set the temperature above which you don’t want the sunlight to come in and, through the optical transmission, it goes from transparent to highly ref lective,” Narayan said.

The smart window technology can be applied for everyday use, not just military use, and can perhaps eliminate the need for window blinds.

“A big problem here at Centennial Campus is that when we get a lot of sunlight, it heats up the room,” Narayan said. “If you had a smart window, you could set it to 70 degrees, and then the sunlight would be reflected back.”

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Comcast-TWC merger could improve service Estefania Castro-Vazquez Assistant News Editor

The proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable has received a lot of critical attention from both customers of both companies as it could potentially alter prices and quality, but not all outcomes may be detrimental to Raleigh residents, according to Michael Walden, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor & Extension Economist at N.C. State.

The merger would make Comcast the largest provider of cable and internet services in the East Coast,

according to an article in The New York Times.

Customers are concerned with the Comcast-Time Warner merger due to fears of limited competition that could potentially lead to higher prices, Walden said.

“If there are no viable competitors, there’s not much motivation to do things better and to innovate,” Walden said.

However, Walden said he has heard that in comparison to Time Warner, Comcast has better technology, faster speeds and more innovation techniques, and if that’s

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Speaker stresses link between technology, financial success Jacob Fulk Staff Writer

“How many of you want to be a geek?” said Victor Fetter, CIO of LPL Financial, to about 25 people during a lecture on Centennial Campus Tuesday night.

Fetter’s presentation was titled “Recognizing the Power of Technology to Unlock Value and Enable Dreams,” and during his speech, Fetter discussed emerging technologies and their applications in the world of finance.

The act of “enabling dreams,” is exactly what LPL Financial strives to do, Fetter said.

As a statement of LPL Financial’s purpose, Fetter said that LPL Financial wants to help millions of Americans through independent financial advice.

Concerning what sets LPL Financial apart from other financial consulting firms, Fetter said his

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Victor Fetter, CIO of LPL Financial, speaks in one of the Fidelity Investments “Leadership in Technology” Speakers Series hosted by the Department of Computer Science in Engineering Building II Tuesday. Fetter’s presentation emphasized applying technology in useful ways that provide value for customers and consumers alike.

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Much of Fetter’s presentation emphasized the adaptation of the financial world to modern technologies.

Fetter challenged those in the audience to question how popular social media applications, such as Facebook and Whatsapp, make money. He said that interesting ideas only have value when they have a practical or problem-solving application.

“Technology for technology’s sake is useless,” Fetter said. “Technology has to have an endgame in mind.”

According to Fetter, if you don’t think about the applications of a technology while creating it, then you’ve missed the mark.

Fetter said that innovation is one

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cords as one of the few exceptions to its open-source policy, along with data about specific endangered species and third-party data the researcher may not have permission to publically publish.

Stone addressed ways researchers protect the identity of their participants by attempting to keep personal information anonymous.

Stone said when you anonymize data you shouldn’t be able to determine someone’s identity, but in certain cases, participants’ identities have been determined this way.

Accord i ng to Em i ly Meineke, a graduate student in entomology, data transparency and open access is a good thing, but she also is concerned about the possibility of researchers “scooping” others’ data.

Meineke, who is currently studying the interaction between humans and insects in urban environments, had her first article published in PLOS. “I have mixed feelings,”

Meineke said. “It’s a good thing for studies to be as transparent as possible and for other researchers to be able to reproduce your results, and it’s a good thing for publically funded research—the data and the article together—to be publically available.”

Meineke said if it’s required to immediately publish the data, others can use the data sets she creates before she has the time to analyze it.

“It’s possible that you provide this data that’s associated with one paper, but you haven’t analyzed it yet, so it’s available to other researchers that could then use that data and scoop you,” Meineke said.

Meineke said the potential problems caused by the new PLOS data-sharing policy are practical problems and not ethical ones.

“We’re just going to have to figure out the best way to do it so that everybody benefits,” Meineke said.

Stone also expressed some other potential problems for graduate researchers who publish using PLOS. According to Stone, if a

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“If the data are made available to everybody, suddenly the other student is at risk of getting scooped,” Stone said.

“Do you make the fifth-year [doctoral student] wait to publish and risk them not getting a job? When it’s sufficient to summarize the data, there is more leeway to be transparent without comprising other projects.”

Overall, Stone said the PLOS policy change wasn’t radical, and it has “flipped the switch” so that full data disclosure must be sought at the time of publication.

“The expectation was always there that authors would supply their data, but there was no, and cannot be, postpublication mechanisms to enforce it,” Stone said.

Meineke published her first article in PLOS and is currently considering publishing more research in another journal that isn’t open access until a year after the study is published.

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Comcast is planning a $45 million merger with Time Warner Cable. If the merger pans out, one company will cover 30 million subscribers.

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the case, customers from both companies will benefit.

“TWC customers can begin looking forward to a better product and Comcast customers will benefit from Comcast’s growth,” Walden said.

Dana Moeller, a senior in biological sciences, said that as long as there isn’t an increase in cost or a decrease in service, she isn’t concerned with the deal because she isn’t familiar with Comcast’s services.

Moeller said she has experienced several issues with Time Warner Cable’s internet and cable, but that overall she is content with the service she is receiving as issues have always been fixed within two days.

Moeller said she hopes customer service in the Raleigharea will not be affected by the merger.

“I have a very high opinion

of the local [customer service staff,]” Moeller said, “but I have a very low opinion on those that are not so local because they have been rude and hung up on me.”

Walden said he believed Comcast chose Time Warner Cable because it’s a successful company with different demographics from its own, leading to a wider customer base.

“They are growing their footprint rather than rearranging their footprint,” Walden said. “It’s not uncommon in the industry.”

Walden said this process is very similar to the one seen in the Duke Energy and Progress Energy merger. In that instance, both companies also had control over different geographic areas.

Currently, the direction of the telecommunication industry is in a state of flux and in this environment, bigger is better because more resources are available to larger companies, and these larger companies are more shielded

from changes in the market, according to Walden.

Walden said he believes Comcast’s purpose in offering Time Warner $45 billion to merge was to become a larger provider of internet and cable. Time Warner dominates sales in the Southeastern U.S. and the purchase makes Comcast a larger company with bigger profits and more control.

“The big motivation Comcast sees is the possibility for more profits and a greater ability to deal with uncertainties,” Walden said.

Walden said the process will have to undergo a federal review due to the large size of the companies.

In the past, the U.S. Department of Justice has prevented companies from merging or has chosen to set conditions to monitor mergers. The Comcast-Time Warner decision will probably be made by next year, according to Walden.

According to Narayan, the smart window doesn’t block the view of the outside and can be compared to being in the shade when the smart window is active.

The multifunctional material can be used for even more applications. It can sense nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, ammonia and several other gasses and can be used as an effective gas sensor. The gas sensor could potentially be used by homeowners, by businesses, the

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of the greatest challenges in his profession. He said that as CIO he implemented innovation days at the office in which workers group together to brainstorm and create ideas.

According to Fetter, his most recent innovation-day resulted in 50 new ideas for LPL Financial. Out of those 50, more than half a dozen have had patents filed, four of which are in production, according to Fetter.

Some of the new technologies Fetter has implemented at LPL Financial include remote deposit capture for investors, e-signatures and document management through cloud technology.

Fetter emphasized that, while the implementation of these technologies might be relatively simple, it has vastly improved the efficiency of

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military and other industries.

Though the military is currently only interested in the infrared sensor application of the multifunctional spintronic smart sensors, the official name of the sensors may change in the future to include the other functions the smart sensors can perform.

The sensor can also function as a magnetic sensor due to the multifunctional nature of the material, according to Narayan.

“We have made the magnetic sensor out of this,” Narayan said. “By using a laser beam and shining it on the

material, we can make the material magnetic. It can act as both a magnetic and an infrared sensor.”

With all the things the multifunctional spintronic smart sensors can do, the material used to make them is cheap. Though there is no official cost yet for the final product, Narayan was optimistic regarding the costs.

“The material is not expensive,” Narayan said. “We can easily fabricate it, so this won’t be expensive. It’s not one of those elements that are running out.”

LPL Financial’s relationship between advisors and investors.

Fetter has a history of encouraging innovation. Prior to joining LPL Financial, Fetter worked as CIO of Dell, working specifically in the areas of E-Commerce.

“When I got to Dell, we made changes to the Dell environment twice a year,” Fetter said. “When I left, we were making the changes four times a week.”

Fetter also spoke about what financial institutions and start-up companies are looking for when they are hiring college students.

According to Fetter, when he looks for talent, he looks for people that can lead through and with others.

Fetter joined LPL Financial in December 2012. Fetter said that his job as CIO of LPL Fianacial includes management of application engineers, data center employees, corporate security, the LPL network and

product management.

According to Fetter, LPL Financial is partnered with more than 13,500 independent financial advisors and about 700 financial institutions. Fetter said the LPL Financial is the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States.

Fetter came to speak as part of the Fidelity Investments “Leadership in Technology” Speaker Series hosted by Department of Computer Science.

According to the N.C. State Computer Science website, Fetter is the 41st speaker in the Fidelity Investments “Leadership in Technology” Speaker Series, which has been taking place since 2007.

Tom Mendoza, Vice Chairman of NetApp, is the next speaker in the speaker series.

Mendoza will speak at 6 p.m. in the Hunt Library Auditorium on March 25 about the topic of “Lessons Learned on the Road.”

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Protect the diverse flavors of olive oil Olive oil is generally regarded as the healthiest oil among all kinds that is backed by numerous food scientists and nutritionists.

Americans consume approximately 80 m i l l ion Ziyi Mai g a l l on s of Staff Columnist olive oil every year, and nearly all of it comes from overseas. But selecting fine olive oil is more complicated than one thinks due to asymmetric information between consumers and producers. Olive oil possesses a more sophisticated classification system than any other oil.

According to a consumer survey from the University of California at Davis’s Olive

Center, 55 percent out of the 2,234 American consumers surveyed believed that they understood the meaning of grades of olive oil but in reality, only 25 percent of the consumers responded correctly to statements about the grades. Lack of sufficient knowledge prevents consumers from choosing the right one for the money, and they rely heavily on the labeling of bottles to get informed.

Another study directed by the Olive Center finds that 73 percent of the imported “extra virgin” oil failed to meet the International Olive Council sensory standards.

To deal with this circumstance, some olive farmers in California want to gain ground on imported oil by lobbying Congress to make

sure imported olive oil is held to the same standard as the American olive oil.

A Tougher testing standard was originally included in the farm bill last year, but that part was taken out and debated recently between congressmen from California representing farmers’ interest and lawmakers from New York speaking for importers.

In the end, the proportion of the bill was defeated. The United States government will not post tougher standard tests for the imported olive oil.

From a free trade perspective, this is encouraging news for American olive oil consumers. The U.S. government has intensively committed in free trade in a way that imposing plenty of explicit

tariffs will not be backed by the legislature. But raising the imported standard to a higher level is one of the norms that replaces tariffs to prevent imported goods. Tariffs, pricing ceilings and other instruments to regulate trade hurt consumers and society as a whole.

Further, the North American Olive Oil Association strongly disagreed w ith farmers’ claim that most of the imported olive oil doesn’t meet the U.S. standard. They said the recent alarm of olive oil quality is overblown, even in a bad faith, and that a solid standard already exists: the current USDA trade standard, which is based on the world’s most widely-used quality regulation, formulated by the International Olive

Council. They imply that domestic growers are actually more interested in raising trade barriers to aid their own business than in defending American consumers.

Last year, more than 97 percent of the olive oil consumed was imported from the European Union. The EU is no less concerned than Americans about the quality of olive oil that they produce and place stricter standards on the grading system. Certainly some of the imported olive oil doesn’t meet the U.S. or international standard. But Americans and Europeans have very different approaches to taste and grade olive oil, making it less possible to place a one-sizefits-all standard across the Atlantic. Perhaps the smart

way to deal with it is not to eliminate the discrepancy but to let consumers decide by giving them enough information about olive oil.

Consumers are not food scientists and nutritionists and most of them do not pay attention to how olive oil is processed but only the tastes. In many stores devoted to olive products in the U.S., consumers are allowed to taste the olive oil before they decide which one to buy.

Tasting it before buying gives them the best information they need to match their preference of flavor and quality. A complex system of regulation and barrier seems redundant in such a case.

Google Fiber to tear apart Internet monopolies On Feb. 19, Google announced its decision to prescreen 34 cities in the United States for its Google Fiber Internet service; one of those cities was Raleigh.

Although it’s all still Tim Gorski up in the air, this new deStaff Columnist velopment could be great for the Triangle for a number of reasons. First, and likely most importantly, it will provide some much-needed competition for the virtual monopoly that Time Warner Cable and Comcast have over the Internet market.

According to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, Comcast, presumably begrudgingly, holds the title of worst consumer satisfaction rating, followed by, you guessed it, TWC. That being said, it’s no wonder that the $45.2 billion dollar acquisition of TWC from Comcast has been described as “the worst consumer satisfaction disaster in history” by popular sources in the media.

According to a report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, about 89 percent of residents in the U.S. are limited to choose between five broadband providers.

The most prominent of those providers are TWC and Comcast. If the top two companies managed to successfully merge together, competition, for all practical purposes of the word, would be next to nonexistent.

Google Fiber offers viable alternatives to both the gross overpricing of Internet and the current sluggish internet speeds consumers have to choose from. According to

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this is the case. For years the dominant Internet providers have systematically ensured that they are the only major competitors in the market, and their recent plans appear as though they intend on making that final.

There are barriers to entry in the internet industry that are too difficult for nearly any company to get into the market. Although some companies such as AT&T and Verizon have had a good swing at it, they do not have the infrastructure to seriously infringe upon the profit margins of the larger providers.

And this seems to be the case anywhere: it is simply too expensive to start an internet-providing company.

This has made the industry remarkably profitable. According to the MIT Technology Review’s David Talbot “cable distribution giants like Time Warner Cable and Comcast are already making a 97 percent margin on their almost comically profitable Internet services.”

This figure can be a bit misleading in that it fails to account for all of the initial investments that it took for TWC or Comcast to be able to provide their services. Nonetheless, those have already been paid off by those large companies so currently the figure is an accurate representation of the profit margin they hold in today’s industry.

Nobody can be certain where Google will decide to install its networks now, but if Google can get a significant market base in a number of major U.S. cities, Internet prices will be forced to drop because consumers will have more internet providers to choose from.

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the State of the Internet Report, the U.S. ranks ninth in the world in terms of Internet speed with average speeds of 8.6 mbps. South Korea has an average speed of 22.1 mbps.

Although TWC and Comcast vehemently deny that their consumers want faster Internet speeds, state governments in Tennessee and Missouri have established gigabyte Internet connections in their cities, while other cities such as Chicago and Seattle are rumored to have network construction of gigabyte fiber on the radar.

Google Fiber’s current model of production offers three different plans: a “free” Internet plan whereby customers pay a one-time fee of $300 and get 5mbps download Internet speed free of charge for at least seven years, which equates to about $3.50 per month. Then there’s a gigabyte Internet speed connection (about 100 times faster than the U.S.’s average) for $70 per month and a gigabyte plus TV plan for $120 per month.

If you buy either of the latter two plans, the construction fee is waived and numerous bonuses are thrown in, including two terabytes of DVR storage, one terabyte of Google Drive storage and a Nexus 7 tablet for the $120-per-month plan.

This is obviously better than anything that TWC, Comcast or the combination of the two have to offer. Neither TWC nor Comcast can come close to competing with the high-speed Internet plans that Google Fiber has to offer.

If you are skeptical that Google Fiber can really make money outdoing the most leaders in broadband internet in the U.S., I don’t blame you, but it is easy to see how

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Spain’s abortion bill is flawed Spain is continuing to move forward with the legislation to drastically limit access to abortions across the country.

The current law under the previously socialist administration allows Sophie Nelson women Guest Columnist to end pregnancy within the first 14 weeks and up to 22 weeks in cases where the mother’s life is at risk or the fetus shows serious deformities.

The new bill that is being pushed by the conservative Popular party only permits abortion in two cases: rape and risk of lasting harm to the health of the Mother. If the bill is passed, Spain will become the first member of the European Union to withdraw from a decadeslong movement toward safe and legal abortion. It proves to be an example of the Spanish government’s patriarchal and hypocritical approach.

One of the exceptions to the law is when a certifiable risk to the health of the Mother exists, which must be verified by two different doctors from two different clinics.

Consequently, this imposes a patriarchal control for a decision that must be made by the woman. The medical profession is predominately male and although there is an emergence of more female doctors in Spain, the gender gap will take years to be suitably addressed. Furthermore, the government will only cover the medical costs for one consultation, which places a financial bur-

den on the woman to obtain the remaining two opinions.

The other exception to the law is similarly illogical. A rape that results in pregnancy is also accepted as a cause for termination but requires that women and girls report the crime to the police before they can access a legal abortion, which subjects them to

“Doctors, not governments, should be the only ones to regulate any kind of medical procedure. ” further stress. The exemption of a pregnancy caused by rape makes the claim to the right of the life of the unborn morally suspicious.

A potentially healthy child is excused from the rule; however, a child that may be born with severe disabilities is not a legitimate cause. This is particularly contradictory when the system in Spain does not sufficiently support parents with children who possess abnormalities.

Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has fully advocated the potential changes claiming they fulfilled an electoral promise. Likewise, the Catholic Church, which is historically associated to the People’s party, is in full support. However, this seems like irrational thinking from the leader of a country that

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provided 118,000 abortions in 2011, according to the National Health Ministry.

The restriction of the availability of abortions results in women seeking alternative options. Similar to women in Ireland who endured a similar ban, they may choose to travel to the United Kingdom for the required procedures. The experience of the Irish confirms the fact that making abortion illegal doesn’t prevent the need for abortion or the women’s determination to access safe procedures— it merely sends the issues overseas. Evidently, this does not come without considerable costs and not everyone can afford the financial and emotional costs of the journey. This results in desperate measures, compelling women to resort to an illegal abortion, which poses a massive threat to their health and well-being.

The passing of this bill will demonstrate a detrimental step backward in the way of women’s rights within Spain.

It would be reminiscent of dictatorship rule, both with regard to civil rights as well as the right to health. It is imperative that politicians accept that abortion is an essential back-up to contraception and that it is a private decision that a woman should make according to what she thinks is best for her and her family. Doctors, not governments, should be the only ones to regulate any kind of medical procedure.

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N.C. State SHPE chapter to host weekend event Paula Gordon Bienvenidos Editor

The N.C. State chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers will be hosting the Region 7 Conference for the first time this weekend, even after budget cuts nearly canceled the annual event.

170 undergraduate students and professionals from as far away as South Florida, Georgia and South Carolina will be attending the conference, which will include workshops, company tours, presentations and a banquet.

Yaseline Muñoz, a sophomore in industrial and systems engineering, is the Regional Conference Chair representing Region 7 in the national SHPE board. Much of her time this semester has been in preparation of the conference.

Despite a budget cut that prevented the SHPE national board from organizing hotel contracts for the conference, Muñoz and the N.C. State chapter rallied to produce hotel contracts, catering and booked locations for their events.

Last May, the N.C. State chapter submitted their proposal to host the annual regional conference, and was selected based on criteria such as location, chapter growth and the University’s reputation.

This year’s conference theme is Servant Leadership: Lift as You Climb, and

PHOTO COURTESY OF ELYSE WATKINS Student and professional leaders network at last year’s conference held at Georgia Tech. The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is one of the oldest Latino organizations at N.C. State .

aims to foster a network of interdependence between the chapter leaders and attending members. It also hopes to inspire mentoring and collaboration between students and professionals.

Thursday evening will be the beginning of the conference, with a welcome by Louis A. Martin-Vega, Dean of the College of Engineering.

There will also be a career fair for students and professionals to network.

Registration was $35 for SHPE members and closed Feb. 14, but students are welcome to stop by the workshops and presentations which will be held on Main Campus on Friday and Saturday.

15 N.C. State students are

registered to attend the conference, but there are others who will volunteer to help the conference function and will work throughout the conference to make sure events go smoothly.

N.C. State’s SHPE was named Medium Chapter of the Year for 2014 for the region and is one of the first Latino organizations to be

founded on campus. Medium chapters are described as having between 40 and 75 members.

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Avi Gómez, estudiante en su cuarto año de administración de los negocios y estudios internacionales, ha empezado una nueva organización en N.C. State: La Asociación de Latinos Profesionales de Finanzas y Contabilidad (ALPFA).

Gómez creó la asociación porque, en sus palabras, “era muy necesario que una organización sea presente en la escuela de administración de Poole.”

Expresó que aunque hay muchas organizaciones profesionales en la escuela, ningunas tratan de atraer a los latinos específicamente.

Aunque ya hay una Sociedad de Profesionales Latinos de Ingeniería, Gómez indicó que su organización tendrá más énfasis en los negocios.

“Con ALPFA, esperamos atraer a todos los estudiantes que tienen interés en los negocios y que quieren aprender del profesionalismo.”

Sin embargo, quiere también crear una relación entre los dos grupos. Los servicios que ALPFA ofrecerá serán útiles para estudiantes de todas concentraciones.

La nueva organización espera ofrecer oportunidades como permitir que los estudiantes aumenten sus habilidades y que las practiquen en la comunidad.

Otra meta del grupo es preparar a los profesionales jóvenes con entrevistas y planeo para que puedan conseguir experiencia de trabajo.

A la vez, la organización tratará de ayudar a los estudiantes en sus vidas académicas. Las habilidades de un profesional - las de planear y organizar también son las de un estudiante exitoso.

Una cosa crítica es el establecimiento de contactos profesionales.“Es súper importante hacer las conexiones y mantenerlas fuertes porque es posible que sirva de ayuda cuando un estudiante empiece a buscar trabajo,” dijo Gómez.

Uno de los problemas en N.C. State con los que quieren ayudar los miembros de ALPFA es la falta de participación en la comunidad latina.

Gómez opinó que una solución de este problema es proveer un lugar u organización en que los latinos pueden sentirse cómodos.

Espera que ALPFA sea ese lugar.

Además, las metas del grupo no se quedan solamente en la comunidad latina. “Espero, con ALPFA, mostrar que hay una presencia latina en la escuela de administración de Poole, y que podemos ser profesionales,” dijo Gómez.

Sin embargo, esto no significa que solamente estudiantes de esa escuela pueden juntarse a la organización.

El grupo tiene una reunión inicial de

interés el 2 de abril, y esperan ver estudiantes que tienen interés en aprender del profesionalismo o de cómo los latinos o estudiantes interesados en la cultura latina pueden beneficiar de ser miembros.

Aunque es una organización latina, y es una gran ventaja ser bilingüe, ese tema no será una idea principal del grupo.

“Hablaremos de ese tema, pero no será una habilidad crucial en que pondremos énfasis porque no es una cosa que es necesario hacer,” dijo Gómez.

A pesar de eso, todavía es posible obtener experiencia con vocabulario de negocios en español.

N.C. State ofrece una clase llamada “Español para Negocios” que permite que estudiantes aprendan el vocabulario específico de esa región.

Gómez ha dicho que es una clase útil aunque sería mejor si el currículo se enfocara más en la lengua de América Central o América del Sur y no en la de España.

Aunque no será un gran punto de ALPFA, Gómez dijo que “será necesario que haya más profesionales latinos para satisfacer la necesidad [para más trabajadores bilingües.]”

Para más información, contacte a Avi Gómez para asistir a la primera reunión de ALPFA el 2 de abril.

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Raleigh band blends music with visual art Dane Hall Correspondent

Success in the ultra-competitive music industry usually means standing out among other artists. How musicians go about this varies, but in the case of the Raleigh band Lilac Shadows, that meant an album release show transformed into an art exhibit.

Lilac Shadows released its first full-length album, No Dark/No Light, Feb. 4. Sam Logan, the creator, vocalist and guitar player for the band, composed and recorded the album.

With the completion of No Dark/No Light, the band members wanted something more memorable than the run-of-the-mill release show. This goal is what prompted them to reach out to artists they knew within the community, Logan said.

“Rather than just doing a regular release show where we have some bands play and that’s it, we contacted as many artists in the area as we knew and asked them if they wanted to design album artwork for us,” Logan said.

The result was 40 unique album covers coming in every style and medium imaginable.

“We gave them the record and said ‘respond in any way you feel,’” Logan said. “We had paintings, ink, charcoal and even a massive, five-by-five foot quilt.”

All 40 pieces were displayed in the Carrack Modern Arts Exhibit in Durham, and alongside each were limited-edition cassette tapes of the album with the artist’s work printed on it. During the two-week exhibit, attendees had the opportunity to purchase the cassettes.

Surrounded by all the artwork inspired by their music, the band played a live show during the release day in the exhibit.

“There isn’t a lot of cross-pollination between music and art, so it was very cool to explicitly combine the two,” Logan said.

The art has since been discontinued and all the cassettes likely sold, but Lilac Shadows is looking ahead. Group members have been writing new material since even before the release of No Dark/No Light.

“We just decided to stop writing songs

when we can’t write any more, and we’re still writing,” Logan said. “We’re getting ready to record an EP in a few weeks, and that will be the first time recording as a group.”

Songs from No Dark/No Light and this new material can also be heard live, as the band is continues to book shows, even in the midst of the song writing process. According to Logan, they plan to perform in mini-tours, lasting about three days each month of the year.

“I started the project, but over the last few years it has evolved from a solo project, in which a lot of my friends played the songs with me, to a point now where we are collectively writing the songs as a band. The project went from mine to ours,” Logan said.

The lineup is now comprised of Nathan Price playing the guitar and keyboard, Brian Corrum on the bass guitar and Reed Benjamin playing the drums.

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day jobs and without the support of a major record label. With the amount of ambition and creativity present, Lilac Shadows shows no signs of slowing in the future.

Caroline, or Change pleases audiences with impactful emotion Dane Hall Correspondent

It’s not often that a play is nominated for six Tony Awards after only three months on Broadway. However, Caroline, or Change, written by Tony Kushner and composed by Jeanine Tesori, did just that in 2004. Now it’s at Raleigh Little Theatre and will run through March 2.

As the name implies, Caroline, or Change is a musical about change, both in the pocketmoney sense and in the transformative sense.

Set in 1963 during the civil rights movement and the assassination of President Kennedy, the play is about Caroline Thibodeaux (Lora Tatum), the black maid of a southern, Jewish family, the Gellmans.

When we meet Caroline, she is in the basement of the Gellmans’ house doing laundry.

This basement will serve as the setting for

much of the play, including the setting for Caroline’s personal purgatory as she struggles to deal with the changes taking place around her.

Even when there are no other humans around, Caroline can count on the company of the radio, the washing machine, the antagonistic dryer and occasionally the moon.

Actors personify all of these objects on stage and serve to add discourse to Caroline’s internal emotions. The moon is soothing, tending to assuage the fears of Caroline and other characters.

Only Caroline communicates directly with the appliances, which act as the different parts of her conscience. The washing machine is optimistic, and urges Caroline to do what she believes is right. The dryer torments Caroline, digging up guilt just as quickly as she is able to forget it.

Noah Gellman is the second character we

meet. He is the son of the detached Stuart Gellman, for whom Caroline works. Prior to the play’s beginning, Noah’s mother dies and, as a result, Noah becomes attached to Caroline, though she never seems to return the sentiment.

Noah is a forgetful child, frequently leaving change in the pockets of his pants, much to the frustration of his stepmother, Rose. In an attempt to teach him a lesson, Stuart and Rose give Noah a sizable allowance of $1.50 per week, and tell Caroline to keep any change she finds in his pants pockets.

All the while, Caroline is struggling at home with four children to feed, the oldest of which is very high strung and in support of the civil rights movement, and a husband away at war in Vietnam.

All this is the catalyst for the change that puts the Gellman and Thibodeaux families to the test in an already stressful period for

the American populace.

Musical numbers complemented the tense atmosphere, which tend to be sweeping, complex and moody – rather than poppy and upbeat like many other Broadway musicals.

The music takes on many forms and incorporates elements of jazz, Motown and traditional Jewish music.

The singing is equally impressive, especially that of Tatum. The voices of all the actors fill the room and then some, often giving the impression that the play is actually an opera.

Caroline, or Change is a remarkable play in every aspect. The technical abilities of the actors and the writing weave themselves together in a way that is emotionally impactful and stands tribute to the strength of the human spirit.

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Rodeo club wrangles its way through spring semester Spencer Ellis Correspondent

The members of the N.C. State club rodeo team are getting in the swing of things as they look to make their mark on the Ozark Region of the National Collegiate Rodeo Association.

The club competes against nine other universities in its region. These include Murray State University, University of West Alabama, University of Arkansas-Monticello, Southern Arkansas University and the University of TennesseeMartin among others. The team travels mostly to Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee where the conference events are held to compete against these clubs. When the club isn’t on the road, it finds events close to home to keep its members sharp.

So far the club is looking strong and hopes to continue its success as it progresses into the thick of its season.

Tyler Harper, a freshman in landscape design, says the club is an enlightening and fun experience.

“The Rodeo Club is a club

where we get together and talk and learn about the sport of rodeo,” Harper said. “We plan rodeos, community service events to go to and just have fun.”

The rodeo club looks to be just as diversified in events in the saddle as out of it, as shown by the multitude of events in which it competes.

The men’s events include Bull Riding, Saddle Bronc Riding, Bareback Riding, Calf Roping, Steer Wrestling and Team Roping. Women’s events consist of Barrel Racing, Goat Tying and Team Roping. These events make for a diverse skill set on the rodeo club team competitive in each rodeo. Desire and determination are key for these events and the Wolfpack looks to have no shortage of either.

“You do not have to have any experience with rodeo to join the rodeo club, just an eager interest in rodeo and a willingness to learn.”

Harper said.

Although Harper was already an accomplished rodeo competitor before he joined, the club requires no prior

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Women’s basketball vs. Notre Dame tip time adjusted The tip-off time for Sunday’s game between No. 13 N.C. State and No. 2 Notre Dame has been pushed back by 30 minutes from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Atlantic Coast Conference office announced on Tuesday. Due to heightened national interest in the game, ESPNU will be providing live “look ins” of the game on its station. The game is still slated to be broadcast live on ESPN3.

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Four Pack athletes earn postgraduate honors Three N.C. State studentathletes have been named Atlantic Coast Conference postgraduate scholarship recipients, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon.

An additional N.C. State student-athlete has been named an honorary recipient of the award. Seniors Kody Burke (women’s basketball), Brie Merriweather (volleyball) and graduate student Meagan Proper (women’s soccer) each earned the ACC’s WeaverJames-Corrigan postgraduate scholarship. Senior Fabian Otte (men’s soccer) was named a recipient of the Weaver-JamesCorrigan Honorary Award as one of six conference studentathletes who plans to enter a professional career in his chosen sport.

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Pack hosts Heels in crucial tilt Luke Nadkarni Assistant Sports Editor

Backed into a corner in which every game is essentially a must-win and coming off a road victory, the N.C. State men’s basketball team’s season continues with its annual rivalry game against No. 19 UNCChapel Hill tonight. Tip-off at PNC Arena is set for 8 p.m. and the game will be televised on the ACC Network.

This will be the second meeting between the teams this season.

On Feb. 1, the Tar Heels defeated the Wolfpack 84-70 at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill. State never led in that game and was outrebounded 52-36.

The Wolfpack is coming off of a 71-64 victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday in Blacksburg, Va. Sophomore forward T.J. Warren, who leads both the Wolfpack and the ACC in scoring with an average of 23.3 points per game, poured in 31 points to lead the Wolfpack.

Freshman forward Kyle Washington added 13 points while sophomore guard Tyler Lewis dished out 11 assists.

Lewis will likely be one of the Wolfpack’s keys to the game. Since re-entering the starting lineup on Feb. 8 at Miami, Lewis has had 31 assists compared to just four turnovers.

“I’m getting more into the flow of the game,” Lewis said. “I’m able to get everybody involved, which helps me not turn the ball over.”

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Junior guard Desmond Lee drives to the basket during the game against North Carolina in the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill Feb. 1, 2014. Lee had 18 points and three assists in the Wolfpack’s 84-70 loss to the rival Tar Heels.

The Tar Heels are currently riding a nine-game winning streak, which has turned them from a bubble team into a lock for the NCAA Tournament. After defeating fellow Tobacco Road rival Duke last Thursday, the Heels pummeled Wake Forest 105-72 in Chapel Hill Saturday.

Sophomore point guard Marcus Paige averages 16.9 points per game, leading a balanced scoring attack which features four double-figure scorers. Junior forward James Michael McAdoo is averag ing 14.4 points per game and is also Carolina’s leading rebounder with 6.9 boards per game.

“We need to

make sure we’re always talking and boxing out because [Carolina] loves to crash the boards,” Washington said. “Take care of the defensive end and everything else will take care of itself.”

McAdoo terrorized the Wolfpack defense in the first meeting, scoring 16 points and getting to the line for 14 free-throw attempts. State’s big men will have to avoid getting into foul trouble if the Pack wants to pull the upset this time around.

Wednesday’s game presents the Wolfpack with a huge opportunity to gain a key win for its currently slim NCAA Tournament hopes.

State’s RPI currently sits at No. 55, while the Pack owns no wins against any teams ranked higher than that.

UNC has an RPI of 22, which would give the Pack its first win over a top-

50 opponent and its fourth against a top-100 team.

“I do think it’s a huge opportunity for us,” head coach Mark Gottfried said. “[Carolina is] playing at a high level. Our players are excited about their opportunity to play the hottest team in the country.”

Since UNC head coach Roy Williams took the job at his alma mater in 2003, the Tar Heels have won 21 of 23 meetings between the teams.

State’s two wins during that time came in Raleigh, including a 91-83 victory on Jan. 26, 2013 in the last meeting at PNC Arena. That was State’s first win over Carolina since 2007.

“We like to run, they like to run,” Gottfried said. “I think it’s going to be a really fun game in that regard.

We have to play at our highest level.”

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Weiman tosses no-hitter to lift Pack in home opener Rob McLamb Assistant Sports Editor

With conference play right around the corner, the N.C. State softball team could not pick a better time to have both its hitting and pitching come into form.

The Wolfpack defeated St. Bonaventure 15-0 in a game shortened by the mercy rule at Dail Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. The defending ACC champions were led by reigning ACC Pitcher of the Year Emily Weiman, who hurled her second career no-hitter. The junior pitched five innings and struck out seven while walking only two. She threw 46 of her 68 total pitches for strikes “One of things I wanted was for [Weiman] to limit her walks.” N.C. State head coach Shawn Rychcik said. “Unfortunately, she had two today, it was not disappointing because she had good command on the day, but we have got to get her going.”

Despite her fantastic performance, Weiman credited a full team effort in the victory. “[A no-hitter] is exciting, it is nice to have,” Weiman said. “I just came out here to do my job. My teammates backed me up and put some runs on the board. It’s much easier pitching with runs on the board.”

After scoring only 10 runs during the first seven games and starting the season 1-6, the Pack has pushed across 26 runs during its current four-game winning streak. Junior shortstop Renada Davis, who belted 27 homers last season, blasted two long balls over the left-field fence on Tuesday. “[Davis is] one of the best,” Rychcik said.

“She is so dangerous. She can leg some hits out and hits for power.”

Davis’ first round-tripper was a solo shot in the second inning, giving the Wolfpack a 4-0

lead. She followed that with a two-run homer in the fourth to make it 7-0.

“I felt really good,” Davis said. “I was more focused on not thinking at the plate, because I had been thinking the past couple of weekends, so I focused on not thinking and reacting to the ball. Today we all just came out and stroked. We did really well connecting with the ball and getting runs going and hits going.”

The loss dropped St. Bonaventure to 1-9 on the season. The Bonnies had defeated Cleveland State on Sunday after losing the first eight games of the season.

“We did what we were supposed to do,” Rychcik said. “I am real happy that we were clean defensively too. A good day all the way around.

On paper, I thought that is what we should do and it was nice to see it happen.”

Eight different Pack players drove in runs on the afternoon. Freshman outfielder Nadia Kemp had a two-RBI triple in the first inning, while sophomore infielder Lana Van Dyken and senior infielder Chelsea Tate each had doubles to make up State’s extra-base hits.

N.C. State begins conference play Saturday with a doubleheader to begin a three-game set with the Virginia Cavaliers at Dail Softball Stadium. Game three of the series will take place Sunday. The Pack will play its next 10 games at home before traveling to Florida State on March 15.

“These past four games were good for us to get our momentum for the weekend and to start off ACC play,” Weiman said. “I think some people got their confidence back today and will be able to all contribute this weekend.

I think we are ready. It is nice to be home. We can get relaxed here and get on a roll. It is always fun to play at home.”