Technician - March 21, 2014

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Student’s counseling needs not in budget Jess Thomas Staff Writer

Last year, more than 4,000 N.C. State students went to the University’s Counseling Center to receive help with personal issues. Due to budget cuts, understaffing and high demands for counseling, officials at the center said they are unable to serve students as effectively as they’d like. According to Monica Osburn, the director of the Counseling Center, the recommended ratio for counselors serving students on campus is one counselor for every 1,000 students. Osburn said the Counseling Center employs 18 counselors, but for a

student population the size of N.C. State’s, the Counseling Center needs 23 counselors. “The ratio of counselors to students can range from 1:1000 to 1:1500, so at the very minimum there should be one counselor per 1,500 students,” Osburn said. To maximize the amount of students that are seen by the Counseling Center, Osburn said each student seen by the center receives a limited amount of personal time spent with a professional. According to Osburn, not having enough counselors to meet with students has been an obvious problem at the University, and students have commented about their issues with not being able to meet with a counselor as much as they want to.

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“The feedback that we receive from students says that students don’t get to see the counselors as often as they would like,” Osburn said. “Counseling is usually every week because of the high demand at N.C. State, but most of our counselors can only see the students every other week.” Miranda Day, a freshman in the First Year College, said she has experienced problems with the counseling center due to the overbooked schedule. “Sometimes I would have an appointment, and I would go and wait 20 minutes before they would see me,” Day said. “If I originally had an hour-long appointment, I would

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Monica Osburn, director of counselors at the Student Health Center, is one of the few counselors on campus. There is a shortage of counselors at N.C. State in relation to the demand.

Solar research receives criticism Joseph Havey Staff Writer

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N.C. State solar cell research has led to an entirely new theoretical model about how solar cells are manufactured. However, critics caution that real-world benefits are a long way off. Linyou Cao, assistant professor in the department of materials and science engineering, published a paper last month in Scientific Reports detailing a new solar cell manufacturing model that, if developed, could drastically reduce costs and increase efficiency. “In solar-cell creation and manufacturing, a key challenge is that the cost is too high,” Cao said. “To decrease cost, we need to optimize the manufacturing process, which makes up the majority of solar cell

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N.C. State assistant professor, Linyou Cao, researches new methods of reducing the costs of manufacturing new solar cell models.

cost.” The “super-absorbing” design could decrease the thickness of the semiconductor materials used in thin film solar cells by more than

Festival of Colors celebrates ancient tradition Staff Report

Five N.C. State student organizations, MAITRI, EKTAA, UAB, Delta Sigma Iota and Kappa Phi Lamda, will host a Holi celebration today at Harris Field from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. According to Saransh Gupta, a graduate student and president of MAITRI, N.C. State’s Indian Graduate Students Assocation, a symbolic legend explains why Holi is celebrated. The word “Holi” comes from “Holika,” the name of the evil sister of the demon king, Hiranyakashipu. Hiranyakashipu was given special powers that led him to feel superior and demand that everyone worship only him. His son, Prahlada, disagreed with him and remained loyal to Lord Vishnu, which infuriated Hiranyakashipu. Hiranyakashipu

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The Yugoslav ethnic conflict in the 1990s and subsequent international criminal trials may not seem like they apply to the everyday U.S. citizen, but that’s not the case according to a visiting N.C. State professor. Jelena Subotic, the 2014 Visiting Young Scholar for the School of Public and International Affairs, gave a lecture in Park Shops Thursday about the International Criminal Tribunal for the former

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Wellness program to create pilot team Katherine Kehoe Assistant News Editor

families. Because these crimes happened 15 or more years ago on foreign soil, Subotic asked the audience throughout the lecture, “Why should we care?” According to Subotic, the stillongoing ICTY trials have major consequences internationally. One of these consequences is the precedents being set by international political bodies. “The international policy makers—the U.S., the European

The Department of Student Health Promotions will introduce a new leadership program in fall 2014 that will give students the opportunity to advocate for campus wellness and help the University follow guidelines for the American College Health Association’s recent Healthy Campus 2020 initiative. According to Stephanie Sobol, the associate director of health promotion at N.C. State, students who participate in this program will tackle issues on campus relating to the ACHA’s goal to promote quality of life, healthy development and intellegent health behaviors on college campuses. Though the exact name of the position has not been decided yet, Sobol said the position will be called something along the lines of a wellness leadership ambassador. “These people would be ambassadors for comprehensive wellness,” Sobol said. “It would cover all of the dimensions of wellness, so not only physical, but also emotional, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, environmental and social.” The pilot group for the program

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Ashton Lewis,former junior in agriculture business, and Bradon Niles, former junior in German and international studies, duel off and throw paint at each other during the 2011 annual Holi celebration. Lewis heard about the event from his roommate and dueling partner, Niles. Lewis said his favorite part was just coloring other people.

Yugoslav wars still relevant, lecturer says Jake Moser

one order of magnitude without compromising the capability of solar light absorption.

Yugoslavia, which is a body of the United Nations that addresses genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes that occurred during the Yugoslav wars. According to Subotic, who experienced the war firsthand, several military leaders on all sides of the conflict were convicted by the ICTY at the Hague in the Netherlands, but were later acquitted because there wasn’t evidence that they directly ordered the acts of torture, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity of which they were originally convicted.

“This isn’t just about a lack of justice, this is about the hardening of the narrative of what these wars were about,” Subotic said. “Pardoning these leaders because we don’t have evidence that they directly ordered these crimes is a strange standard and not a standard that had been applied before. This is controversial from a legal perspective as well as a political perspective.” These acquittals—some of which occurred as recently as last year— have created a “huge disillusionment” in the human rights community, especially among the victim’s


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