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Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks at NCSU Jake Moser News Editor

Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, author and host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, used his wit and charisma to humor a soldout crowd at James B. Hunt Library while also explaining how anti-science attitudes could be detrimental to the culture and economy of the United States.

Tyson’s lecture, Adventures in Science Literacy, took place Wednesday for N.C. State’s State of Sciences signature event and explored the implications of scientific ignorance and a lack of interest in the sciences.

Tyson described science literacy as not only being knowledgeable about a scientific subject but also the capacity to ask questions and to question a lack of evidence in general.

“Science literacy isn’t knowing about a DNA molecule or the big bang or how a combustion engine works—that’s an aspect of it—but for me, science literacy is ‘what is your capacity to ask questions?’”

Tyson said. Questions are kind of an inoculation against people telling you stuff and having you believe whatever they say.”

In regard to the importance of

evidence and asking questions, he asked, “where is the United States?” in terms of promoting and accepting scientific data. He then showed an international survey where countries were ranked based on how many of its citizens believed humans evolved from other species.

The U.S. ranked toward the bottom.

“We live in a free country, so there’s no law against believing whatever you want; it just has consequences,” Tyson said. “You can’t just say ‘this is cool and everything’s fine with [the survey results]’, and then complain that our economy is failing. So if you want to think whatever you want, and say it’s science, and let that be the world you want to live in, recognize the cost of that.”

One of those consequences is a lack of appreciation for science compared to other developed nations. For example, Tyson showed European and Asian currencies that featured scientific figures such as Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein. However, the only scientist featured on a U.S. bank note is Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill, which has no other scientific references.

To explain this point, Tyson showed a world map that compared

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium and noted astrophysicist, delivers a talk about the state of the sciences in the United States during his “Adventures in Science” presentation. Tyson spoke about the importance of scientific literacy and funding Thursday in the Hunt Library Auditorium.

the size of countries based on how much scientific research was conducted; the U.S., Europe and Japan were by far the largest.

“But it turns out, this is not the map you should be looking at,” Tyson said.

He then projected a map showing

Composting program faces challenges Brittany Bynum Staff Writer

The Pizza Box Composting Project is off to a steady start, having been implemented during the first week of March. However, confusion regarding what materials to place in the bins may deter the project from becoming long-term.

The Pizza Box Composting Project is a partnership between N.C. State’s Waste Reduction and Recycling and University Housing. The project has step-up bins around the University for students to place used pizza boxes in, said Lauren McKinnis, outreach coordinator for Waste Reduction and Recycling.

More than 750 pizza boxes were

collected in the first four weeks of March, according to McKinnis.

However, Meghan Lobsinger, the director of the EcoVillage said the Pizza Box Composting Project is a pilot. It is currently still in the testing phase in order to determine whether or not it will be successful long-term.

“The pilot project will fail if the compost becomes too contaminated by the plastic items left in the pizza boxes,” Lobsinger said. “The plastic items are the make or break it of this project, and it’s important to educate students about them.”

McKinnis said the pizza boxes

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Students and faculty members from eight different departments gathered in the 1911 building to meet the next director of the science, technology and society program and discuss the program’s change of direction.

Kathleen M. Vogel, former member of the department of science and technology studies at Cornell University, was the main speaker for the event, which about 40 people attended, taking every single available seat in the presentation room.

Vogel will be the official director of the STS program at N.C. State starting fall semester and will work for the department of political science.

“I think STS can help students become informed citizens about the complexity of these issues of science and technology,” Vogel said. “I think this is something that will be central to education in the University in the future years.”

Vogel talked about the strengths of the current STS program at N.C. State, including the rich and diverse faculty that come from departments all over campus and the fact that N.C. State has such a program.

“This is the only STS program in North Carolina, which creates a unique opportunity to cre-

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Pizza boxes can be composted in containers like this one located behind Bowen Residence Hall. Students can dump their waste from pizza boxes, including uneaten slices, into the dumpster.

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how much research countries conducted compared to 10 years ago,

ate a special footprint here at N.C. State,” Vogel said. “It would be interesting to see STS here be the flagship for STS in the Triangle area and in North Carolina.”

Vogel then discussed areas in which the STS program could grow and expand at N.C. State, such as introducing First Year College engineering students to STS courses and getting more Jefferson Scholars to select STS as their major.

The location of the Research Triangle Park also provides a unique opportunity for internships, according to Vogel.

“Stanford had unique internship partnerships with Silicon Valley companies like Google or Apple that recognize the need to understand users,” Vogel said. “I would love to see this with the RTP being a natural opportunity right here for internships.”

“One of the really optimistic ideas would be to develop internship opportunities with RTP companies,” said William Kimler, director of the Jefferson Scholars program and associate JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIAN professor in history. “This is in the land grant Kathleen Vogal, the incoming director for the tradition of applying our knowledge and good department of science and technologies studies, for our students.” talks about her up coming plans to increase Vogel discussed the possibility of a minor in student interest and research opportunities for graduate and faculty. Vogal is commune from Cornell University and will begin in July.

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Student Leadership & Engagement held two meetings with students and administrators to address concerns about the cancelation of today’s Pan-Afrikan concert and to decide how to move forward.

Administrators decided to cancel the event per the recommendation of Campus Police and safety officials following a reported shooting incident involving headlining act, Migos, last week.

Administrators stressed that the decision was not in any way blaming Migos. However, Mike Giancola, associate vice provost of Student Leadership & Engagement, said safety is the University’s first priority.

During the discussion, proposals were made to continue the event with Pusha-T, but it was not “logistically” feasibly, according to a press release from Student Leadership & Engagement.

Migos, an Atlanta-based hip hop group, was originally scheduled to headline the Pan-Afrikan week concert in the Talley Student Union Ballroom today along with Pusha-T. “We listened to student event planners, understood their concerns and conveyed our primary goal of ensuring campus safety,” Giancola said in the press release.

“We also expressed the University’s commitment to engage in an ongoing dialogue about any issues of concern, and look forward to those discussions.”

However, The Union Activities Board will be hosting a rally at Talley Student Union called, “We do NOT have a voice: Rally at Talley.” The rally will be at 6 p.m. today and students will be able to “voice concerns and questions” about the University’s decision to cancel the concert, according to a UAB e-mail.

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illiam McKinnley, a volunteer for the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an anti-abortion group, stands on the Brickyard as a part of a demonstration “How Can You Compare Abortion to Genocide?” The demonstration displayed graphic images of genocides throughout history next to images of aborted fetuses.

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Lecturer talks about evolution of pharmaceuticals Sasha Afanasyeva Staff Title

More than 200 people nearly filled Nelson auditorium Wednesday to hear Tom Pike, CEO of Quintiles, discuss recent trends in the pharmaceutical industry as well as a potential partnership between the company and N.C. State.

Quinti les, a compa ny founded in 1982 by Dennis Gillings, a professor from UNC-Chapel Hill, has 28,000 employees worldwide in over 100 countries.

“We were started by a professor from UNC, who has gone from being a statistics professor to a billionaire,” Pike said.

Currently, Quintiles recruits more students from N.C. State than any other university, according to Pike.

“We have a few projects we are thinking of doing between N.C. State and Quintiles and I think that will be fun for both parties,” Pike said.

Pike began the lecture by discussing some of the recent progress in medicine and present problems.

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which showed a significantly smaller version of the U.S. “We’re fading and we’re fading fast,” Tyson said. “Europe is even bigger, Japan is even bigger, China is even bigger. You want the three economies of tomorrow? It’s Europe, China and Japan.”

Tyson said a lack of scientific understanding leads to an unwillingness to solve difficult problems. For example, he showed the audience an article where people were asked to describe what they would do if a giant asteroid hit earth. Most of the responses involved getting

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thrown into the compost dumpsters have been clean so far, but making sure contaminants in the box such as plastic-pizza stands, plasticsauce containers and plastic utensils do not get thrown into the bins remains one of the project’s challenges.

As of now, pizza boxes are the only things that can be placed into the compost bins.

“Pizza boxes are the most common items that students try to recycle, but they couldn’t before the composts,” Lobsinger said. “Students consume a lot of pizza, and that’s a lot of waste.”

If the pilot project succeeds, the Waste Reduction and Recycling Center can add more compost bins around campus. The additional bins will not be a costly addition, but they will

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STS as a gateway to the major.

“It’s less of a commitment to be a minor and some students have transitioned to the major that their minor was, over time,” Vogel said.

“That can be another way to

“Over the last few decades in medicine, we have made a lot of progress,” Pike said.

“We have dropped the risk of death followed by a heart attack by 50 to 60 percent.”

Outside the United States, however, many ailments still have high fatality rates, such as in Russia where 750,000 fatalities from cardiovascular disease occurred last year, Pike said.

“We have 67 trials going associated with reducing cardiovascular disease, just [Quintiles] alone,” Pike said.

Quintiles is a large pharmaceutical company that mainly works to research and develop drugs, and it has helped develop all of the top-50 bestselling drugs currently on the market.

“One of the trends good for our business is that you see more time spent on research and development, and you see more drug development outsourcing to companies like Quintiles,” Pike said.

“There are not many growing markets in which you can compete, and this is one of those growing markets.”

Pike also discussed how

testing drugs has become increasingly complex over time.

“When I was in college, I had a roommate who made his money by going to clinical trials during the weekend,” Pike said. “What is starting to happen is that now we are starting to get more sophisticated in that we need a much more select group of patients.”

Additionally, testing techniques themselves have become increasingly difficult to conduct over time, according to Pike.

“You have to get an image of the brain just to see if you are getting progression in treatment for Alzheimer’s,” Pike said. “Procedures associated with clinical trials for drugs are becoming more complex.”

While testing is becoming increasingly difficult, technology has played a big part in helping overcome those challenges, Pike said.

“We at Quintiles have a Facebook pages for diseases like Lupus, and we connect people together and help them find trials where it makes sense,” Pike said.

drunk and enjoying their last days on Earth.

“My concern is not that people feel this way—being honest and a little playful— but that no one said ‘I’d try and find a way to deflect it,’” Tyson said. What world is this that we run away from challenges that we have the intellectual capacity to solve?”

Tyson also used historical examples to explain how cultures that were once at the apex of scientific and mathematical discovery, aren’t as significant today.

According to Tyson, the Arab world was a thriving center for medicine, engineering, math and science during a time when “Europe was disemboweling heretics.”

However, that enlightened period came to an end when certain philosophies “went unchallenged and unchecked.”

“Anything that happened was interpreted as the will of God,” Tyson said. “All natural phenomenon were interpreted in that phrasing. If that’s your account of that natural world, you’ve stopped asking questions about why.”

Because of this way of thinking, Tyson said only two Muslims, out of the 1.4 billion in the world today, have won the Nobel Prize for science, while Jews, who have a world population of less than 20 million, have accounted for almost a quarter of Nobel Prizes.

lead to the opportunity of composting more than just pizza boxes at N.C. State, according to Lobsinger.

Lobsinger said more student support will be needed to ensure the success of the pilot, and the project will expand if the composts can be managed with little difficulty.

Dyon Vega, a member of the EcoVillage and sophomore in environmental engineering, said he has heard different opinions from students about the project.

“Some students like the pizza box composts but they are confused about composting and knowing where to place their pizza boxes,” Vega said.

Currently, pizza box composts are located outside of Bowen and Metcalf Halls on central campus. On west campus, they are located on the south side of Bragaw and outside of Lee and Sullivan Hall.

“We hope t his is a gateway opportunity to talk about more composting opportunities on campus for students.” McKinnis said.

McKinnis said other college campuses are involved with composting projects, but that N.C. State is unique because of the student involvement in designing the dumpsters by hand and in taking the lead in marketing for the project.

“I think it’s great that we have the first say about everything that happens for this project.” Vega said.

McKinnis said the EcoVillage recently hosted a pizza party for Saint Patrick’s Day and is currently in the process of producing a promotional video for the project to educate students about what goes in and comes out of the composting bins.

Lobsinger said the video will have information to teach students how to properly use the compost bins.

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Tom Pike, CEO and member of the board at Quintiles, a bio-pharmaceutical company speaks to students as a part of the Wells Fargo Executive Series Wednesday in Nelson Auditorium.

Pike spoke about the changing face of the pharmaceutical industry.

“Technology is fundamentally changing how we recruit patients.”

A lot of the research conducted by Quintiles takes place outside the United

States due to localized genetics and different diets, Pike said.

“Over 60 percent of our revenues are outside of the United States, and that really represents where the drug de-

velopment takes place,” Pike said. “Out of our 28,000 employees, only about 9,800 are in the U.S., with a very similar number in Europe and the rest in Asia. It is truly a global phenomenon.”

“Had Islam continued from what they were doing a thousand years ago, they’d have all the Nobel Prizes,” Tyson said. “Whenever I go to sleep at night, I think about how many more discoveries would be around us had that period of discovery continued to this day.”

Tyson also explained how

people “who don’t like the science” replace scientific explanations for natural phenomenon with religion.

For example, a picture of a bumper sticker that read, “Big Band Theory: God spoke and “bang,” it happened.

“People are voting for what they want to be true in the world,” Tyson said. “But of

course science doesn’t work that way. What is true with science is true whether or not you believe in it. At some point people have to recognize that, if you want sensible, rational governance.”

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Vogel talked about some ways to expand the graduate program in Science and Technology Studies.

“I think another area that will be useful to look at is building concentrations to existing graduate programs that look at social, ethical and legal issues,” Vogel said. “You

can have an STS-infused set of courses related to this.

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couple of years ago the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission paved the way for cor poration and u n ion spend i ng unlimited amounts of money on campaign finance. On Wednesday the SuZiyi Mai preme Court moved Staff Columnist further to strike down the overall limit on how much citizens can give political candidates or parties in the case McCutcheon v. FEC. The current limit on how much one person may contribute to all federal candidates, parties and PACs is $123,200. Without this limit, one wealthy donor would be permitted to donate more than $3.5 million to a single party’s candidates and party committees (plus a virtually unlimited amount to supportive PACs), according to a report by Demos, a

left-wing public policy organization in Washington, D.C. Monetary contributions to political campaigns are protected by the First Amendment. But elections are not charities. People donate money to candidates’ campaigns not purely because they want to help candidates, but because they demand certain regulation, policy or legislation in their favor once their candidates are elected. Furthermore, the amount of money a person or an organization donates to a candidate is telling of the candidate’s intent, but this information is not always public The more money one donates, the more likely that the donor has higher incentive to influence politics through the candidates he or she supports.

In response to the changes, disclosure of donors’ information may help curb the power of money playing in elections. Though money has an influential role in election cycle,

candidates still have to attract voters to cast their votes for them. Once the information of donors is accessible to the general public, people are able to see who pours unusual amounts of money into a single candidate.

This monetary connection between donors and candidates might imply certain political schemes if a candidate is elected. Thus a mandatory law that requires candidates to reveal donors’ information should be up to the agenda in Capitol Hill.

According to The Washington Post, the ruling could bring very limited transparency to the role of big donors, whose contributions giving to many outside groups are kept secret but whose checks to candidate and party committees must be reported to the FEC and publicly disclosed. However, there is no law to mandate that candidates disclose information for all sources of campaign finance and donors’ names.

Following the ruling, conservatives and liberals have been ex-

tremely divided on the subsequent impact on the upcoming decade election cycle. Conser vatives championed that it was a victory for freedom of speech. As Chief Justice Roberts pointed out in the ruling, the overall donation ceiling is an unconstitutional infringement on free speech because the government can regulate political giving only in order to prevent “quid pro quo corruption,” which is something like direct bribery. Justice Roberts’ argument is partially right in a sense that ceiling on contribution is an infringement on a person’s right to be involved in politics. But if donating money is seen as a way of freedom of speech, why should donors’ information be kept secret? Ask the analogous questions to journalists—should their names be kept anonymous when their articles are published? When people exercise the right to free speech, they are also held responsible for what they say.

Major media outlets such as The

New York Times and The Washington Post have published editorials to call Congress to place tougher rules to prevent cash from flowing in politics. But one doubts that progress would be achieved. Congressmen are indeed in a conflict of interest acting against unlimited campaign finance because they are the ones who have received millions of dollars from wealthy donors and thus got elected. How do the media expect them to act against their own interests? Now the floodgate is open, and they might do even more in favor of their donors.

Congress is still the only hope to narrow or close the floodgate but not in the hope of Congressmen. Media outlets should raise the awareness of the issue to the general public and ask voters to pressure to their representatives to change the rules.

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American Apparel is squeaky clean

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merican Apparel has done it again.

The Los Angeles-based clothing company released a risqué, sexist mini-skirt ad a few days ago that may trump its racy predecessors.

I understand that sex sells, but this new ad is simply not sexy. It’s trashy. It features a close up of a girl’s bent over behind, exposing her undergarments and a good amount Taylor Quinn of skin back there. I can’t even Staff Columnist see what the skirt looks like or how it would fit, unless I planned on walking around on all fours.

But, you know what? It’s a business, and if people don’t want to look at the ad or buy clothes from American Apparel, they certainly don’t have to.

I get it, CEO Dov Charney approaches advertising by providing a fair amount of shock value, but it works—people are talking about it. Unfortunately in our society, any press is good press.

And aside from the ads, American Apparel is a fair, socially conscious company. According to its website, an American Apparel garment worker can earn more than $30,000 a year and receive healthcare as well. If you compare that to earning $600 per year as a garment worker in Bangladesh, that’s a pretty good deal. The company proudly says the employees who make the clothes don’t just have jobs, they have careers.

In addition to that, American Apparel seems to take pride in its fair practices. Here is a statement from its website: “But at American Apparel we passionately leverage art, design and technology to advance our business process and we are confident we’ll prove that vertical integration is a viable business model that can work even better than

the status quo model of continuous outsourcing. It’s not just about made in the USA. More importantly, it is about designing a business that does not, at its fundamental core, rely on the relentless pursuit of low-cost labor to survive. As wages and transportation costs increase worldwide, we believe our business model of vertical integration to be the path of least resistance. For the record, American Apparel supports free and fair trade, and almost half of the company’s 250 stores are outside the USA, allowing the company to export hundreds of millions of dollars of US-made apparel annually.”

The company also concentrates on its carbon footprint and shows support for the GLBT community. If you have seen those “Legalize Gay” T-shirts, which you probably have because they are everywhere, those are a product of American Apparel. The company even released a statement that said, “American Apparel believes that sexuality should be celebrated, not condemned.”

Honestly, if American Apparel’s ads weren’t shocking, I would have never been interested in researching this company further, and I never would have found out about the good things it does that truly deserve praise.

So, its ads may make people feel uncomfortable and can be trashy and sexist, but that is only one part of the company, and just so happens to be the most prevalent one. But the inside of the company, which is most companies’ ugliest part, is squeaky clean. As a society, we are so obsessed with the appearance of things rather than how they really are, but maybe we should give American Apparel a break—it is doing good things, just behind the scenes.

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he brickyard was alive this week with images of the unborn. Sponsored by N.C. State’s Students for Life, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform erected an enormous circle of graphic posters meant to spur debates about abortion.

The posters depicted images of fetuses in hands and next to pocket change, abused children, a black person being Nicky Vaught lynched, and photos of hisStaff Columnist toric and current genocides.

“Abortion is genocide!” seemed to be the main takeaway of the demonstration.

Fortunately, many pro-abortion rights advocates dedicated their time to forming as best they could a human wall in counter-protest against the disturbing images displayed on the public campus.

For the most part, people wanted to protest the unnecessary use of such graphic images. Protestors cited the images as triggering, meaning they were likely to induce severe anxiety. For instance, if someone had ever terminated a pregnancy and saw these images, they would trigger memories of the experience.

Others protested the vile spread of misinformation. The anti-abortion demonstrators preached from an out-of-date textbook copyrighted in 1998. The photos were either fake, manipulated or taken out of context, according to protestors.

Most if not all of the photos presented fetuses that were terminated late into the pregnancy, though 88 percent of abortions occur within the first trimester, which lasts 12 weeks.

Among this misinformation is the idea that abortion causes breast cancer. This is simply untrue, as will attest anyone with a basic knowledge of the female body.

Some may wonder why I, a man, am writing this column. Shouldn’t it be a woman?

Yes, it should. But when dealing with antiabortion rights, it’s not uncommon that a woman’s point of view might go dismissed.

This was exemplified Wednesday when one of the demonstrators walked away from my female friend mid-conversation, saying to a female demonstrator, “You deal with her.” So take this as my utilizing my privileged voice as a white male for the greater good.

Let me clarify right now: pro-abortion rights is not pro-abortion. No one wants an abortion. Pro-abortion rights advocates recognize bodily autonomy and that a woman is capable of making her own decisions concerning her body.

Further, many protested the comparing abortion to genocide, and for good cause.

Many may believe life starts at conception, as that outdated textbook states, “…human development begins when a sperm fertilizes an egg.” However, that is only human devel-

opment. It does not mean the fetus is a full human. The zygote is alive, sure, but so is the sperm. Life—even the life of human cells— does not necessitate humanity.

If the fetus can’t survive without parasitically taking from its mother, then the precedence has to go to her. That’s how bodily autonomy works.

On top of that, comparing a medical procedure such as abortion to genocide is extremely insulting to those who have lived through genocide.

The fact is abortion needs to be legalized.

Criminalizing a medical procedure will not stop the practice; it will only make it unsafe.

About 21.6 million unsafe abortions take place each year, resulting in the hospitalization of about 5 million women and the deaths of about 47,000, according to Ipas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the safety of women who require abortions.

A whole host of reasons contributes to why people seek abortion. Pregnancy may threaten the mother’s life. The family or community, such as one that cuts welfare, won’t support her. The fetus may have an abnormality. Sexual violence may have resulted in an unwanted pregnancy.

Availability is not one of these reasons. Legalizing abortion will not lead to a rise in unprotected sex. An incomplete or abstinenceonly sexual education—as many pro-lifers

“This is a war on women. We must all make sure to pick the right side.

Apathy is not allowed.” support—might, but legalizing abortion will not.

Pro-lifers, you are fighting a losing battle.

Though our state assembly has passed a law practically restricting all abortions, it is clear you are grasping for straws. You use false information and exploit the supposedly sacred lives you claim to work to protect. You may think you are winning now, but you will lose.

Everything you work for will be for naught.

Pro-abortion rights advocates, especially in North Carolina, where 37 counties have no OB/GYN, it is important we understand what’s really at stake here. It’s not the life of a fetus, but the choice of a woman.

This is a war on women. We must all make sure to pick the right side. Apathy is not allowed.

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HQ Raleigh creates a space for creativity Ricky Hopper Staff Writer

HQ Raleigh, a shared workspace for entrepreneurs, recently opened a new location in downtown Raleigh.

While many entrepreneurial resources cater to a specific industry—technology more often than not—HQ Raleigh houses many different kinds of startups in various industries, including fashion, education, medical devices and sanitation. In fact, technology-based companies only make up about 30 percent of HQ Raleigh’s membership.

HQ Raleigh was established with two main goals, according to community manager Liz Tracy. These goals are to provide flexible, affordable space for entrepreneurs and to build community. Tracy described how events and resources are created to foster a sense of community and to give the entrepreneurs in HQ Raleigh opportunities for both professional and personal growth.

“We’re trying to focus on growing the community and also giving them the professional connections and resources they need to grow their business,” Tracy said.

“We also try to make sure the resources are differentiated enough so that we’re not saturating one area.”

This differentiation is reflected in the various types

of events HQ Raleigh holds for its members. Among these events are office hours during which people such as Chief Marketing Officer, Search Engine Optimization or Human Resources personnel can set up in a conference room and meet with certain businesses to provide expertise. Some of these meetings are restricted to businesses that sign up ahead of time.

Other office-hours sessions, however, are open to anybody who wants advice.

HQ Raleigh also hosts more personal events. These events include happy hours, cooking classes and tech breakfasts.

“When you’re working that many hours, like everybody in this space is, sometimes you need an excuse to take a break,” Tracy said.

In addition to the sense of community and the breakfast, members are able to work with people who share similar stresses.

“It can be really tiring,” Tracy said, concerning the entrepreneurial lifestyle of HQ Raleigh’s membership.

“It can have really high highs and really low lows. To be in an environment where everyone is going through that, and they can give each other advice and work through it together is really nice.”

HQ Raleigh’s space itself also serves as a differentiator for many startups. Many of the fledgling businesses don’t

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have access to a professional working environment and are forced instead to work out of their homes.

“As a startup, it’s nice to have class-A office space,” Tracy said. “That way, when you’re bringing in a client or an investor, you’re not bringing them into your living room. There’s a level of professionalism that goes along with that.”

HQ Raleigh also offers internships for students.

“You have 15 hours per week you’re dedicated dur-

ing the semester,” Tracy said. “Ten of those hours go to HQ and five of those go to an outside project. It’s a really great way for interns in our space to try out different industries, and it’s a nice benefit for members in our space as well.”

Another opportunity for N.C. State students to get involved is to attend Triangle Makers Startup Weekend, an event centered on helping makers create businesses during the span of a weekend that starts today.

“The startup weekend that we’re hosting is one of the first on the east coast that’s maker, or physical productfocused,” said Lance Cassidy founder of DXLabs and an organizer of the event. “We’re getting all sorts of makers: engineers, hackers, designers, just anyone that’s concerned with the physical world.”

Cassidy said he encourages anyone with an interest in entrepreneurship to come.

“Anybody can sign up for the maker weekend,” Cassidy said. “The whole point is: If

you have an idea, or even if you don’t have an idea, Triangle Maker Startup Weekend is meant to connect people with the resources to make their ideas happen.”

Students interested in attending Triangle Maker Startup Weekend can still sign up at the event’s website. Tracy also encourages anybody who would like to check out HQ Raleigh to come by and visit.

New suprises in store for Walking Dead fans Walking Dead Season 4

Kevin Schaefer Assistant Features Editor

*Spoiler alert If there’s anything The Walking Dead has proven during the course of its four seasons, it’s that the show finds its strength in building its characters. As the season four finale aired Sunday night, fans saw something that hasn’t happened since the conclusion of season two: an episode with a truly memorable cliffhanger.

Unlike the season three finale, which features a bus load full of new people to join the prison community with a rather optimistic tone to it, this episode leaves fans on the edge of their seats upon see-

ing Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and company trapped inside an 18-wheeler at the mercy of their sadistic captors. This scene is made all the more chilling as Rick delivers the closing line, “They’re screwing with the wrong people.”

The finale also shows us a different side to Rick than fans are used to. While the season opens with him seeking to live a more simple life as a farmer, this episode reveals the monster within him and every other character. As he crosses paths with a gang he had made enemies with in season two, this encounter leads to an ugly display of vengeance with the gang doing unspeakable things to Carl (Chandler Riggs) and Michonne (Danai Gurira).

Upon seeing his son at the mercy of these animals, the protagonist we all know and love is shown attacking the

gang leader by biting into his neck and killing him in the same manner as a walker.

This is followed by him stabbing the man who assaults Carl several times. While graphic, it’s this kind of relentlessness the writers have been displaying, which is a major highlight of the series.

Another strength of this season is show-runner Scott M. Gimple’s decision to separate the group midway through. Following the hiatus brought on by the return of The Governor (David Morrissey), the survivors of the prison were scattered into smaller groups. This dynamic opened doors for secondary character and story arcs, which culminated nicely in the finale.

Although seasons two and three tended to get boring as a result of being driven by one overarching concept,

this point in the series has benefitted from having several angles and character perspectives. In particular, Gimple and his writing staff have been building up to this idea of Terminus, which Rick and the other survivors were told would be a place of refuge and safety.

Though it’s no surprise that Terminus actually turns out to be run by a group of psychopaths, the manner in which this revelation plays out makes it no less captivating. Whether it was Carol (Melissa McBride) being forced to kill her surrogate daughter as a result of the child’s insanity, or simply the introduction of Sgt. Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz), this season has had tremendous success in shocking, surprising and delighting devoted fans.

It’s no secret either that

Gimple proved to be more faithful to the source material than previous showrunner Glen Mazzara. While Mazzara tended to drift far away from the stories laid out in Robert Kirkman’s comic books, Gimple has pulled many of his ideas for this season straight from them.

Furthermore, the matter of who will make it out of Terminus alive is not the only question lingering among fans. Though most of the survivors have been reunited, Carol and Tyrese (Chad L. Coleman) are still somewhere in the woods trying to care for Rick’s baby daughter Judith. Nor have we seen Beth (Emily Kinney) because she fled from a massive walker attack against her and Daryl (Norman Reedus).

Probably the most significant factor of this season is the mission of Abraham and

his team to go to D.C. in order to attempt to return things to the way they were before the zombie outbreak. The idea of a restored world after so much time in the apocalypse is not only intriguing, but it provides the series with a more substantial direction.

Time will tell how this story arc plays out.

By also incorporating more hopeful elements, such as the love between Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan), the show makes sure to avoid being simply an eerie bloodbath every episode.

Now with new territory to explore in season five, I’m eager to see the Scott M. Gimple era of The Walking Dead continue in the fall.

Skylight Gallery exhibits alumna’s artwork Kevin deMontburn Correspondent

She was not a lways a painter. Her career began as a mathematics major. As a student, Tiffney Marley had always had a fascination with the world and its diversity of people and cultures. It was during her time at N.C. State where she began her expeditions around the world which would later serve as potent inspirations for her artwork.

On March 28, the Skylight Gallery in Hillsborough opened up to a night of hors d’oeuvres, chats and a variety of artwork from its resident studio. The exhibit featured the work of Marley, an N.C. State alumna, with talent for acrylic painting and photography as a means for expression.

Even though Marley went

on her first international journey in 1992, it was not until 2007, after her graduation, that she began to interpret and divulge these personal adventures. She did this through her artwork. She had never taken an art class, but she picked up a palette knife and paint and began to illustrate the concepts she had discovered during her time abroad.

According to Marley, her artwork communicates her experiences traveling to culturally vibrant areas of the world, including parts of Africa and Latin America. Marley said she found much of the inspiration for her paintings in these places.

“It was an interesting thing, travelling,” Marley said, “You go to all these different places that are completely different from your reality, and when

you come back, people ask how it was. It is indescribable.

That’s what it is.”

Even though she believes her experiences cannot be described in words, Marley said she found a way to express them through her artwork. She noticed that the saturated colors of East African art exhibited qualities of their bright, tropical surroundings. Her “My People” series seeks to show the connection we all have as human beings, Marley said.

“There are more things that unify us as the human family than divide us,” Marley said, “My work is very much about that.”

In this series of work, Marley uses the color palette of East African art to portray figures resembling the Kenyan Maasai people. However, according to her, the

colors are also inspired by her own surroundings.

“I’m a native North Carolinian,” Marley said, “I get the most inspiration in the fall, when all those vibrant colors are on the leaves in the trees. That has been the predominant interrelation for me. I was giving tribute to those places in Africa or Latin America, but I was also telling my own story as well.”

The clothing of the Kenyan Maasai drew her in. Though their attire is much different than the clothes we wear, the people who saw the artwork found their own familiarity in it. For example, Marley remembers a time when a woman of Jewish origin found the vibrant cloaks in resemblance to Jewish Rabbis.

Marley is also an ordained minister who studied at Duke. Not only is her work

culturally and humanitarian based, but it is also based on her faith. Her original intent was to use her artwork to convey her experiences around the world. Now it is to show how connected humans to one another and how necessary it is to take action against injustices of the world.

Marley works for a nonprofit group called North Carolina Community Ac-

tion Association. They serve as advocates for low-income and elderly citizens of North Carolina. Marley shows her advocacy for those suffering from poverty in her artwork and uses it as a way to spread awareness.

“I hope to use my artwork to show that creative expression has a place in the work of advocacy,” Marley said.

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Fashion Expose doubles attendance Page Harris Correspondent

N.C. State has yet again doubled participation in the African American Textile Society’s Fashion Expose Tuesday night in the Talley Student Union Ballroom from 7 to 9 p.m.

Nearly 300 people attended the event.

The show was split into two sections according to the experience of the 26 designers.

Fourteen designers participated in the “Novice” division, which was for designers with fewer than two years of experience, and 12 designers participated in the “Intermediate and Beyond” division.

Emily Law, a senior in fashion and textile management, said she has become familiar with the fashion industry since arriving at N.C. State.

“My first event was Fashion Week last year, but I have been designing for a while,” Law said.

Law’s line, titled “Dystopian Dreams,” embodied a sci-fi theme.

“It sort of has this apocalyptic, dark fantasy idea that I went off of,” Law said. “It sort of embodies huntresses and powerful, strong women in this apocalyptic future so I just went from there and de-

signed all these looks based off of it. It’s kind of like characters in a story.”

Law said the show required a significant amount of preparation.

“I’ve been preparing for a while,” Law said. “There have been many nights until four in the morning spent in the sewing lab.”

Law said the designers have the freedom of choos-

“It sort of has this apocalyptic, dark fantasy idea that I went off of.”

Emily Law, a senior in fasion and textile management

ing their own models, which do not have to be N.C. State students. Once designers choose their models, they also decide on how their hair and makeup will be done for each of the outfits.

Amelia Sechrest, a freshman in fashion and textile management, modeled for Law’s line.

“I met Emily in the library one day,” Sechrest said. “She and her friend, Marie, who’s

another designer in this came up to me and they asked me if I wanted to be a model for another show from before and then Emily asked me if I wanted to be a model for her for this one.”

According to Sechrest, this year’s theme, “Back to Black,” featured twice as many designers as the year before.

In the “Novice” category, there was a first, second and third place winner and in the “Intermediate and Beyond” section there was a first and second place winner.

For the “Novice” designers the third place winner was Sharae Hines, a freshman also in fashion and textile management. Hines worked with Catherine Blazer and Grace Rakauskas, freshmen and sophomore in fashion and textile management, respectively, for their line titled “Out of the Woods.” The second place winner was Lauren Stilwell, with her “Reamality” line.

Lisa Hoang, a sophomore in fashion and textile management, was awarded first place in her division for her line “Skyfall.”

Unava Doran won first place in the “Intermediate and Beyond” division for her line “Retro Chic: Yin Yang.”

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Alexia Lipscomb, junior in paper science and engineering, walks the runway at the 17thannual African-American Textile Society Fashion Expose Saturday in Talley Student Union.

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Pack’s defensive line should be a strength this season Colin Phibbs Correspondent

The N.C. State defensive line hopes to wreak havoc in opposing backfields, and it has worked hard to build the necessary muscle mass to do so. State has an experienced core, returning five players who started at least one game in the 2013 regular season.

Defensive line coach Ryan Nielsen is entering into his second year with the Pack, and he has challenged the team to become bigger and stronger, which he said he believes will be the keys to a successful season.

“The guys have done a really good job at gaining size and strength,” Nielson said.

“But they’ve also kept the quickness and speed that they need to redirect players and rush the passer.”

Redshirt senior defensive end Art Norman brings a lot of leadership experience to the defensive line after being named captain for three games last season (Clemson, Wake Forest and Boston College).

Last season, Norman was

named ACC Player of the Week after recording a sack and three assisted tackles.

Norman played the most snaps among State’s defensive linemen and started all 13 games in 2013. He led the team in sacks, 4.5, and had nine tackles for a loss, which was third on the team.

Another impact player is senior defensive tackle Thomas Teal. Teal started 10 games in the 2013 season and was second on the team for tackles for loss (11). Teal also showed his versatility, seeing time at defensive tackle and at defensive end and finishing the year with three sacks.

Redshirt junior defensive end Mike Rose saw a good bit of playing time after a standout performance against Clemson, where he recorded six total tackles (one sack, five assisted tackles). Rose played well against Wake Forest too, recording four unassisted tackles.

The Pack also has five incoming impact freshmen.

Freshman defensive tackle B.J. Hill is one of the nine f reshmen t hat enrol led early at N.C. State, and he has caught the attention of

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “We have a lot of great individual players that are willing to sacrifice for everyone else to be successful.”

Nick Surkamp, senior forward

Junior catcher Brett Austin and junior centerfielder Jake Fincher said they still remember the celebrations after a walk-off win in the biggest game of their career to date.

But this game wasn’t the final of the 2013 NCAA Baseball Tournament’s Raleigh Regional; it was played two and a half hours from the capital city, in Charlotte.

Fincher scored the winning run after Austin’s game-tying home run, giving Providence High School a dramatic late victory over crosstown rival Ardrey Kell.

The Wolfpack’s junior second baseman Logan Ratledge and sophomore pitcher Brad Stone were there too, but they were in the opposite dugout, watching their opponents celebrate.

Little did they know two years later, they would all be dog-piling together as teammates, after clinching a trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., the pinnacle of college baseball. But in that moment three years ago, there was nothing more important than the rivalry between the Charlotte-area schools.

“The atmosphere was crazy,” Austin said. “It’s one of the biggest rivalries. I still think that it’s a bigger rivalry than State has with Carolina.

It’s definitely on a bigger scale here, but we didn’t know any better back then.”

Providence and Ardrey Kell are perennial powerhouses in North Carolina class 4A baseball. The rivalry produced intense games and large buzz around Charlotte, sometimes bringing out thousands of people to watch. It has also given its players lasting memories, along with plenty of bragging rights.

“We beat them every year in conference, but they always got us in the

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Junior second baseman Logan Ratledge runs to first base during N.C. State’s 3-2 victory over East Carolina Wednesday afternoon at Doak Field in Raleigh.

playoffs when it mattered,” Fincher said. “It was kind of a bummer. We look back at those games now and realize how good we had it. We’d always have at least 2,000 people there at high school games. It was pretty crazy.”

The two schools seemingly went tit for tat every year. Each side produced its own share of stars, and when the two teams met you could expect fireworks.

“We played them twice every year, and it was always a memorable game,” Ratledge said. “Sometimes they’d win and sometimes we would, but it always seemed that between the four of us [future State players], someone would do something to change the game and make an impact. It was always a lot

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Junior right fielder Brett Austin tries to steal third base during N.C. State’s 16-1 win over Youngstown State March 3 at Doak Field in Raleigh.

of fun battling back and forth.”

Austin was named a high school All-American by Collegiate Baseball magazine, second-team high school All-American by Baseball America and a four-time all-conference selection. Coming to N.C. State, Austin was ranked the No. 4 freshman in the nation.

By comparison, Fincher flew under the radar… sort of. The outfielder was named an honorable-mention high school All-American by Collegiate Baseball magazine and a three time all-conference selection.

But less than nine miles away, there was another dynamic duo thriving at Ardrey Kell. Ratledge, a high school All-American his senior year as well, astonishingly broke 11 school records over his career for the

Knights. While Ratledge provided the offense, Stone dominated on the mound. The southpaw blossomed as a senior, going 6-2 with a 1.19 ERA, helping the Knights to a share of the conference championship.

“Having that kind of talent on one team in high school is really a blessing,” Stone said, “And to have [Ratledge] come here is one of the reasons that I chose State. I knew him so well and knew what kind of a player he is. Also having guys like Austin and Fincher come from the same area really drove me to the Wolfpack.

“Those games set the tone for where we are now. Coming from such great programs and playing in those big games prepared us for what we face now in the ACC.”

MEN’S SOCCER

State, Surkamp set for breakout year Jordan Beck Correspondent

Despite suffering a knee injury that kept him out his sophomore year, Wolfpack striker Nick Surkamp emerged as the team’s leading goalscorer in the 2013 season, recording eight goals in 16 games.

Now entering his senior year, the star center forward is ready to help State break into the national spotlight in 2014, tallying his first goal of the spring season on Saturday against the Carolina Railhawks. The Technician caught up with Surkamp to check in on his preparation for the regular season in the fall.

The Technician: How do you feel physically? Are you 100 percent recovered?

Surkamp: I would say I’m a lot closer to 100 percent. I think I’ve still got a ways to go with fitness and technical ability that I hope to have back in August. It’s always a work in progress, and I work every day, but I do feel a lot closer to 100 percent than I did at the end of last season.

Q: What do you feel is your biggest asset as a player?

A: Probably my pace and knack for getting to the goal no matter what. I try to be in the right place at the right time to score crucial goals in big moments.

Q: Any professional players you model yourself after?

A: While he doesn’t play anymore, definitely the Brazilian Ronaldo. He had unbelievable ability, and would use his pace and instincts to get in front of goal and put the ball away in all kinds of situations. He was

the guy I watched since I was 11 years old and I still watch his games from the 2002 World Cup. He went through some knee injuries like I did, so to watch his comeback games and to study how he developed as a player from before his injuries to after is something I’ve tried to bring into my game.

Q: What’s the biggest change in the team since last year and in your preseason preparation routine?

A: The biggest change from the fall is that now there’s a lot more structure in the team. More guys understand their role and fit into the role that [head] coach [Kelly] Findley wants them to. We have a lot of great individual players that are willing to sacrifice for everyone else to be successful. We had a lot of players with individual flair last year, but perhaps not necessarily as many guys who bought in 100 percent for the team to perform as well as it could have.

Q: Who do you think you have the best on-field relationship with?

A: I click pretty well with [senior defender] Clement [Simonin]. Even though he’s a center back, he does a good job of picking his head up and finding me. I always know where he’s going to go with the ball. He’s also one of my roommates, so I’m with him more than some of the other guys. He’s able to play the ball over the top, and I always know exactly where it’s going to be. Even though he’s a defender, it’s a relationship that’s certainly flourished in our system.

Q: What’s your major, and do you plan to pursue the game beyond college?

A: I’m a philosophy major, but

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Senior striker Nick Surkamp (left) tries to fight off a challenge from UNCWilmington’s junior midfielder Michael Mecham (right) in a scrimmage Aug. 24, 2013 at Dail Soccer Field in Raleigh.

I really love the game and want to pursue it for as long as I can.

Whether playing or coaching, soccer is most of my life. I study the game as much as a coach as I do as a player. So between playing and coaching it’s definitely something I plan to stick with.

Q: What’s the best thing about playing for N.C. State?

A: The best thing was coming into a program that was trying to prove itself and seeing a team flourish, really start to develop and play in front of an excited crowd for a new coach.

It’s something bigger than myself, and I want to help develop a new tradition for Wolfpack soccer.

Q: What are your goals for the fall season?

A: I want us to make it to the Final Four [of the NCAA tournament]. I want us to go as far as we can and try to win a championship along the way. If I do well it’s great, but like I said earlier, I’ve bought-in to the team concept, and I want to help us win trophies.

Q: What are you up to when not playing soccer?

A: I feel like my life is all soccer [laughs]. I’m reading up on blogs, forums, everything. I love every aspect of the game. Otherwise, I love to read – fiction mostly – and play Call of Duty in my spare time.