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ASG passes cleanenergy resolution Steven Denny Correspondent

Gabe DeCaro Correspondent

Delegates of the Association of Student Governments voted to pass the 100 percent Clean Energy Act Saturday in Withers 140.

The bill stated that if the UNCSystem is to reach its goal of “Carbon Neutrality” by 2050, UNC-System President Tom Ross and the UNC Board of Governors must establish a comprehensive plan that “addresses the capital planning, engineering, contracting and infrastructure necessary to achieve carbon neutrality and 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.”

The bill also calls on Duke Ener-

“The 220,000 students across the UNC-System have spoken.”

Caroline Hansley, senior in interdisciplinary studies

gy, the UNC-System’s main utility provider, “to immediately decrease its reliance on fossil fuels, and to partner with the UNC-System in its system-wide sustainable energy procurement plan, sourcing 100 percent of the UNC-System’s total electricity from renewable energy and storage by 2050.”

Fossil Free, a student-activist group promoting the increased use of renewable means, has been one of the bill’s most vocal supporters, and has met with both representatives of Duke Energy and Ross to discuss increasing the UNC-System’s reliance on renewable-fuel sources.

Prior to the ASG meeting, Student Body President Alex Parker, along with seven other UNCSystem student body presidents, signed a letter to support Fossil Free’s initiative to meet with Ross to open a dialogue about obtaining a higher percentage of the System’s power via renewable means.

“I’m always really excited when students get together to coordinate

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Carrie Althoff(left), a senior in business,and Emory Bellamy(right), a sophomore in political science, dances at the N.C. State Dance Marathon fundraiser Friday in Carmichael Gym. The event consists of students raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals by standing up for an entire night. More than $40,000 was raised at this year’s event.

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program, targets pizza boxes Katherine Kehoe Assistant News Editor

N.C. State will soon become one of the few universities in the country to have on-campus pizza-box composting facilities available for all students to use.

N.C. State Waste Reduction and Recycling implemented the Pizza Box Composting Project. The project seeks to decrease compostable waste on campus and encourages students to pay more attention to the importance of composting.

University Housing alone purchased 2,588 pizzas for

its programs in the 2013-2014 school year, according to Lauren McKinnis, outreach coordinator for Waste Reduction and Recycling. These boxes, plus additional boxes from other campus organizations and personal purchases, will be turned into nutrient-rich soil through composting.

Created from spare dumpsters decorated with the project logo, the new composting centers will be located behind Bragaw and Metcalf/Bowen Residence Halls and are set to begin operation the first week of

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Katherine Kehoe Staff Writer

Students danced for 16 hours in Carmichael Gym beginning at 7 p.m. for Dance Marathon Friday to raise a total of $41,022.59 for children suffering from chronic illnesses.

Proceeds from the second Dance Marathon were donated to Duke Children’s Hospitals, one of 120 hospitals within the Children’s Miracle Network.

According to Alanna Propst, a junior in political science and

president of Dance Marathon, the organization has raised more than $100,000 in two years for Duke Children’s Hospital, and next year’s event is predicted to be one of the biggest Dance Marathons in the state.

According to Propst, 400 people registered for the event, but about 200 students attended.

“It is normal for every Dance Marathon across the country to see about half of people registered show up,” Propst said. “We were right on

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Polar Plunge makes splash for Special Olympics Ravi Chittilla Assistant News Editor

About 30 people participated in the 7th-annual Polar Plunge on Centennial Campus Saturday.

The event, which is held by Campus Police, raises money to support the Special Olympics of North Carolina.

The name “Polar” might have been a misnomer this year; however, as the air temperature broke 60 degrees Fahrenheit , and the water temperature of Lake Raleigh was estimated to have been in the high 40s, much higher than years past, according to Campus Police Chief Jack Moorman.

Participants paid a minimum of $50 to “plunge” into the cool water of Lake Raleigh. Plungers included members of Campus Police, groups of students from different University clubs, as well as families of athletes participating in SONC. According to Moorman, the event significantly exceeded fundraising expectations of $5,000. Moorman said the event generated an estimated $7,000.

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Representatives of NCSU Club sports teams react to the cool chill of Lake Raleigh at the 2014 N.C. State Polar Plunge Saturday. The annual event is hosted by Campus Police to raise money for the North Carolina Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.

Moorman said the donations will allow athletes participating in SONC to obtain transportation to Raleigh, and will also go toward purchasing gear and equipment as well as paying for the costs of facilities.

Steven Brown, who has now participated in the Polar Plunge for six years, said the reason he contributes his time is for his daughter, who participates in the Paralympics.

“My daughter is a Paralympics special needs child, and we always

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get a big team together, and this is the sixth year we’ve done it,” Brown said.

Brown and his team, “Katy’s Polar Bears,” won the awards for the Top Individual Fundraiser and the Top Team Fundraiser, respectively.

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Brown raised $1,425 individually, and the team raised a total of $3,245.

“A lot of us know people or have family members that are some way impacted by different disabilities,” Moorman said. “It’s something you can feel very good about, because you know what you’re doing goes toward a very good cause. At the Special Olympic events we attend, you see the excitement and expression on the faces of the athletes who are participating, you realize how worthwhile it really is.”

Moorman said police departments all over the country, as well as the world, have bridged a significant relationship with Special Olympics.

“It’s become the adopted charity for law enforcement,” Moorman said. “It’s something that’s very important to us and to our profession, and it fits in well with what we as law enforcement officers really stand up for and believe in.”

Moorman said law enforcement agencies in North Carolina annually raise about $1 million for Special Olympics.

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After the pizza boxes make it to the dumpsters, they will be taken to the same place as all dining hall food waste: Brooks Contractor, a composting facility about 40 miles away from the University, McKinnis said.

McKinnis said the idea came about because of student feedback from focus groups to begin composting on campus.

“We do composting on campus,” McKinnis said. “It’s just behind the

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scenes in the dining halls so a lot of students don’t get to do the composting themselves.”

Aside from being able to compost their personal-pizza boxes on campus, McKinnis said students are also involved with this project by assisting with design and raising awareness for the program.

“We’re having a couple students from the Eco-Village help us paint, and then after these get implemented there will be different student groups helping us with programming,” McKinnis said.

McKinnis said an example of student involvement with programming may include organizing infor-

mational pizza parties to teach other students where these dumpsters are and what can be composted.

“The students are really going to be in charge of getting the word out and making sure that people know this is now available to them,” McKinnis said.

According to McKinnis, there are only one or two other universities in the country that have tried composting programs such as this.

“The ones that did try this only did it for a few weeks span,” McKinnis said. “It wasn’t something ongoing.”

McKinnis said she definitely sees composting at N.C. State going fur-

ther than this project.

“This is a good test to see if we can start small with the pizza boxes,” McKinnis said. “We really want to take a look to see what contaminants end up in the dumpsters and see if this can grow larger.”

Contaminants in the compost come from putting improper items in the bins, such as anything made of plastic, McKinnis said.

Mohamed Selim, a first-year engineering student, said he believes the program is necessary.

“We shouldn’t throw them away, but reuse them if we can somehow for the sake of the environment,” Selim said.

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Selim said he doesn’t want to see composting on campus stop here.

“In order to push forward you always have to be thinking about what to do next,” Selim said.

Graham Roper, a first-year engineering student, said he is excited about potentially seeing more composting happen at N.C. State.

“This is a good starting point,” Roper said. “I don’t really know exactly what direction to take it in next. Hopefully we can eventually see composting bins with all of the recycling and trash bins on campus.”

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target for that.”

According to Propst, once a participant signs up for Dance Marathon, he or she then takes on the task of raising a donation of $100 or more before dancing in the event.

Alan Sheridan, an N.C. State alumnus, began Dance Marathon at the University last year after he saw the event held at UNC-Chapel Hill and thought N.C. State could do it better.

To keep dancers awake and entertained, various entertainers performed every hour throughout the night, Propst said. Performers included Grains of Time, Fusion Dance Crew, Ladies in

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their efforts on something they’re passionate about,” Parker said.

The bill was presented to ASG’s committee of Safety, Sustainability and Services, which contained four voting members, none of whom were from N.C. State.

Members of the committee initially decided that the bill lacked clarity and specificity despite its merits in defining the problem and laying out a course of action.

Jack Stewart, SSS committee delegate from Western Carolina University, said the resolution would put a lot of pressure on Duke Energy rather than the Universities themselves.

The bill was originally set aside in committee for ASG’s next meeting in March so it could be edited, redrafted, and re-presented, before Caroline Hansley, lead organizer

Red, Dances With Wolves and NCSU Nazaare, among others.

“Basically any singing or dance group on campus was there,” Propst said.

Accord i ng to Propst, Chancellor Randy Woodson and Mike Mullen, associate provost for the Division of Undergraduate Education, and various student leaders attended to support the cause. Miss North Carolina also attended and sang for participants, Propst said.

Jessica Tiger, a junior in psychology, said hearing the family’s testimonies about how the Children’s Miracle Network helped them was one of the most rewarding parts of the event.

“You don’t get to hear about that every day,” Tiger said. “I think it’s great that we get to

actually hear personally from the families about what our money is helping.”

Propst said she initially became involved with Dance Marathon because she wanted to do something different from other events on campus, and increased her own involvement after making a personal connection with the cause.

“I started to meet the kids and get to know them, and I was so excited to see all the new faces grow and develop a friendship with the kids and families,” Propst said. “It really melts your heart.”

Propst said she thinks Dance Marathon is the only event on campus that could bring a person from every facet of N.C. State together to support one goal.

“Dance Marathon is not for

of North Carolina Student Energy Network, and a senior in interdisciplinary studies, presented the bill to committee and took questions.

Following Hansley’s presentation, delegates voted to pass the bill.

“From our standpoint, we see clean energy as renewable sources, namely solar and wind,” Hansley said. “Hydro, we are open to the possibility, but the point we’re trying to push with the vagueness of this bill is that dirty energy, what we [NCSEN] define as dirty energy, is coal, nuclear, and natural gas.”

Hansley also said that because the energy sector accounts for one third of all carbon emissions, it is necessary to address it as fast as possible to begin solving climate change.

“We are still going to be using energy and paying $200 million [to Duke Energy] every single year for this dirty energy that pollutes our air and water,” Hansley said.

The revenue generated from the UNC-System represented 0.8 percent of the company’s 2013 revenue of $24.6 billion, according to a report Duke Energy released Feb.18.

Hansley said the bill was important “because it addresses that fact that we have to work together to be able achieve this goal. There is no Duke [Energy] without the UNC-System, basically.”

“The 220,000 students across the UNC system have spoken,” Hansley said. “Duke Energy is poisoning our planet and communities, and students have had enough.”

“This action proves that now is the time for UNCsystem administrators to be clean energy champions and bring 100 percent clean energy to the UNC-system for current and future students,” Hansley stated in a public media release.

A concluding plan to achieve the tenets set in the bill will be set forth July 2015.

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Greeks, University Housing, UAB or IRC alone, but it can bring people from all of those groups into one location,” Propst said. “Everyone can get together to be a part of Dance Marathon.”

Tiger, who stayed all 16 hours, said supporting the cause was definitely worth

the time she spent awake.

Heather Griffin, a junior in animal science, said she enjoyed the community aspect of Dance Marathon in addition to the charitable aspect.

“I feel like we all bonded as a community here tonight,” Griffin said. “I think we’ve all become a lot closer.”

Tiger said she was interested in trying Dance Marathon after hearing good things from friends about last year and because the proceeds support a great organization.

“I wanted to give something back to an organization that deserves it,” Tiger said.

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Immorality of minimum wage

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eeking desperately for a popular policy that can help him recover from the disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act, the president has now turned his sights to raising the national minimum wage. And as has often been the case with this president, he yet again demonstrates how little he Michael Helms understands Guest Columnist business and economics.

The argument about minimum wage often digresses into two separate arguments: one about whether the minimum wage is a “living wage” and another about the wage obligations that companies have to their employees.

What neither of these arguments deals with is a more fundamental and underlying question: what business the federal government has in determining a minimum wage in the first place.

Like many economic variables, wages are highly regional. Even in a geographic area as small as a county, the buying power of a dollar can vary widely as one moves from an urban center to the suburbs, and then out to into a rural area. Establishing a “one wage fits all” minimum wage will underserve the areas in which the cost of living is higher, and may create an economic barrier for businesses operating in areas with a lower cost of living.

Whether a minimum wage at the state level makes sense is a decision best left to each individual state; some may choose to defer to more regional definitions of minimum wage, or some may choose to have none at all.

The Founding Fathers understood the benefits of a limited federal government and strong federalism; the president would do well to look to this principle for guidance as

he blindly entrenches the federal government into more of the country’s affairs.

The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.

Whether or not this is a livable wage depends on who is trying to live off of it. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately half of the 3.6 million minimum wage workers are younger than the age of 25 years old.

These are people who likely have the lowest cost of living, and the people with the least marketable experience.

They’re also the people who have the most working years ahead of them and the most motivation to (re)train themselves toward more marketable vocations. There may be no better motivation to increase one’s skills than a job that barely pays one’s basic living expenses, but those who choose not to make themselves more marketable are entirely free to continue generating minimal value for a minimum wage. That’s their choice, and it’s nobody else’s responsibility to coddle them economically.

Raising the federal minimum wage will hurt the countr y’s most v u lnerable wage earners. Like the president, businesses cannot simply raise wages by fiat; labor costs are a substantial component of most businesses’ expenses, and an increase in salaries means a cut somewhere else (or a net rise in the cost of products).

Raising the cost of society’s least valuable workers will provide additional incentive to companies to seek automation (to replace these workers entirely), to consolidate job responsibilities in more expensive employees (whose net output is higher than that of minimum wage workers), or to simply eliminate some of these positions. Either way, the net result is a shrinking labor pool.

The president has cleverly positioned the Affordable

Care Act as a tool to “prevent” people from being bound to low-wage jobs, further shifting the responsibility to pay for healthcare from the individual person to the wage-earning members of society. By raising the minimum wage, even more workers will leave the labor pool (voluntarily or involuntarily)—representing a further drain on the economy.

Not only will these workers not be earning wages, but the companies that once employed them (or could have employed them) will suffer from a smaller and more expensive labor pool.

It’s not just fast-food companies that will suffer from this. A myriad of healthcare industries such as assistedliving facilities and nonprofit organizations struggle to pay their employees minimum wage. If there are people willing to work in these jobs for less, why should the government disallow these companies from entering into an employment contract with willing employees?

The freedom to succeed comes with the freedom to fail and the freedom to barely get by. Freedom also means that people are free to seek better opportunities if they feel underpaid or undervalued in their current employment circumstances.

As much as Barack Obama would love to rewrite the rules of economics and freedom, he can’t, and raising the federal minimum wage will (as it has long been) remain fiscally irresponsible of the federal government.

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s is the case with most topics debated by the United States government, the argument about minimum wage rests primarily in the hands of legislators who will not be directly affected by the bill.

In the wake of a string of seemingly endless hang-ups regarding the rollout of the Justine Schnitzler Affordable Staff Columnist Care Act, the administration of President Barack Obama has turned its sights on increasing the minimum wage throughout the country. Obama can’t run for re-election after his current term expires, politically freeing him to make increasingly bolder policy statements as his term runs out.

Here is the basic rundown of what’s happening in Washington, D.C. in regards to the debate: In this week’s address from the White House, Obama took the opportunity to ask Congress to “give America a raise,” according to The New York Times.

Currently, the federal minimum wage sits at a precocious $7.25 per hour, with some states having lower or higher figures assigned for hourly positions. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s website, in states with laws differing from the $7.25 standard, employees “are entitled to the higher of the two minimum wages.”

Various exceptions and footnotes apply to this b l a n k e t i n g s t a t e m e nt regarding wage in the U.S. For example, those who are tipped, such as waiters and waitresses, make a little more than $2 per hour with the expectation that tips will supplement that wage and become, in a word, “livable.”

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prominent sector of those who study economics, fear that raising the minimum wage w ill cut jobs and increase unemployment.

Meanwhile, Obama and most of the political left argue that raising the federal minimum wage will bring close to a million Americans out of poverty.

There are more than a few questions that should be addressed regarding the feasibility of raising the federal minimum wage. First and foremost, more often than not, minimum wage is discussed in the context of being a “living wage.” What does that mean?

Essentially, minimum wage was established (as the name suggests) to ensure that even those working entry-level jobs would be able to remain af loat and out of complete p o v e r t y. D e t e r m i n i n g whether that number remains livable when fluctuations of market and prices are taken into account is tricky.

Economics isn’t fixed in time. Prices f luctuate and change. Strictly speaking, the cost of items considered to be luxurious in nature—such as televisions and cellphones— has become much more affordable, while big things in life have increased, such as housing and insurance.

To boot, the United States has some of the most expensive healthcare costs in the entire world.

There is the time-honored a r g u m e nt o f w h e t h e r something such as setting a minimum wage belongs within the powers of the federal government or the states’ governments. It is simply foolish to argue that t he federa l government s hou l d b e c ompl e t e l y removed from the occasion.

If the government is unable to establish a minimum wage—or, even worse, if there is no requirement for a minimum wage at all, American citizens will be swept away by profit interest. It’s the same logic

behind allowing insurance companies to run rampant in the name of unregulated capitalism.

To further complicate the matter, there is a lack of consensus among economists of ever y politica l sway regarding what will actually happen if the minimum wage is raised, in regards to the unemployment levels in the job market.

For example, according the Los Angeles Times, when polled, “A 2013 survey of [economists] asked whether raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour ‘would make it noticeably harder for low-skilled workers to find employment.’ Thirty-four percent said yes, 32 percent said no and 24 percent said they were not sure.”

I don’t believe raising the minimum wage fixes everything—far from it. Only so many people will be lifted from poverty if this happens.

That being said, something needs to be done for those who work minimum-wage jobs for a livelihood who are unable to achieve upward mobility and maintain a standard of living.

A mer ic a n suppor t i s decidedly in favor of raising the federal base wage at least by some degree—regardless of the approval of the current sitting president.

A recent Gallup poll found that a whopping 76 percent of A me r ic a n s supp or t increasing the minimum wage to $9 per hour. The only thing standing in the way of this happening is the Republican majority in Congress.

Ultimately, neither solution is completely v iable or without flaw. Understanding the morality behind raising the minimum wage, however, cannot be completely swept from the table. Politicians too often forget that the statistics they use to bolster their claims represent real c it i z e n s — re a l c it i z e n s working to survive.

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Donkey Kong Country smashes expectations Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Retro Studios Nintendo

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Nintendo has a knack for the platformer genre, which is evident in the original Donkey Kong Country in 1994, the Mario Bros. games and the 2010’s Donkey Kong Country Returns. Now, Nintendo works its magic once again with Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze, which continues to pay homage to the genre, including hints to the 1994 game but also reinvigorating the genre and the franchise.

Tropical Freeze could have easily been a rehash of the popular Donkey Kong Country Returns and would have been just as successful.

However, the

game breathes life into the series and shows the same kind of innovation that its predecessors are known for.

Tropical Freeze adds the ability to attach characters, such as Diddie Kong, Cranky Kong or Dixie Kong, to the lead character, Donkey Kong.

Each character adds a special ability to Donkey Kong’s gameplay.

Diddie wears a jetpack, adding height and length to jumps, Cranky has a pogostick, which allows for a double jump, and Dixie allows the player to hover.

The players find secret locations or items through these character perks. Each level in Tropical Freeze is full of collectables in secret areas or hard-to-reach spots. It becomes fun and addicting to replay levels to acquire these items, which may also pro-

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Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze features the ability to attatch differenet characters to the lead character, Donkey Kong.

vide access to secret levels.

In one level, the player is in the savannah dodging tornadoes, and in the next he or she could be underwater or even in the middle of a wild mine cart ride.

Though the game is in 2-D, Tropical Freeze features incredibly vibrant colors and very detailed environments.

Nintendo also used the Wii U’s power to add a great layer of detail to the characters.

Though collecting items and traversing through the levels is incredibly fun and engaging, the game does have pacing issues.

Like most platformers,

Tropical Freeze provides a high level of difficulty. This is refreshing in many spots, and the difficulty adds to the fun, but it can also spike at random times and sometimes make the game feel unfair.

Death is inevitable in Tropical Freeze, and often progress can be measured in inches, not miles.

Each death teaches the player about a new portion of the level with many deaths come from going too fast and not seeing an obstacle soon enough, or not being able to react to an obstacle in time.

Some deaths feel a little over the top and can hinder the

gameplay, making the player wonder how fair or feasible

“Each character adds a special ability to Donkey Kong’s gameplay.” the obstacle is.

Tropical Freeze’s music is definitely a highlight. Each level has a distinct feel not just from how it looks, but

how it sounds. Being stuck on a certain part of a level is not so bad when the soundtrack is catchy and unique for every part of it.

Tropical Freeze does an incredible job of not only keeping what makes Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country Returns such great games in the spotlight, but also in bringing in new ideas and revitalizing old ones. It becomes the perfect mix of what the series is known for and what the player is used to, and what the player wouldn’t expect.

Professor teaches across the Atlantic Ocean Katie Liguori Correspondent

It is a widely known fact that living in North Carolina means having to constantly adjust to the whims of Mother Nature. Residents of this state become pros at preparing for the constant change in weather. This is a trait that will serve N.C. State Film Professor Tom Wallis well, as he transitions from living in North Carolina to his new home in Ireland.

Wallis began teaching at State in 1994, making him invaluable to the film studies program. The move, which was prompted by his wife taking a job at the University of Ireland in Maynooth, took place in mid-January. However, this is not Professor Wallis’ first time in Ireland, and he said he feels he is adjusting well.

“I have traveled to Ireland pretty extensively in the past…so I kind of know the lay of the land”, Wallis said.

In addition to the many adjustments that come with moving to a new country, Wallis is continuing to teach Writing about Film online through N.C. State’s distance education program. Fortu-

nately, Wallis said he is experienced with online course work and that has made the transition to complete distance education easier to manage.

About two years ago, Wallis acquired a grant that changed the way he taught his regular classes. It was a grant to use new technologies to do what is called “course flipping.”

“Course flipping allows for some of the class lectures to be put online, which frees up more time to do interactive work with students,” Wallis said.

With this grant, Wallis acquired iPads, which he said made group work more effective and allowed for better discussions in class. Wallis used his grant for one semester before moving to Ireland.

“One of the reasons I wanted to explore the possibilities of teaching online is to take advantage of what I have learned through the grant and also allow the University to take advantage of what they have invested in me,” Wallis said.

Wallis also said his experience with distance education this semester has enabled him to improve the emphasis of the course.

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“I’ve successfully been able to focus on making the course more writing intensive rather than content intensive...which is how it should be,” Wallis said.

Wallis said one of the things he cherishes most about teaching is being exposed to various perspectives from his students.

“I’ve already been wowed by my students’ forum discussions,” Wallis said.

Wallis said the most difficult adjustment he encountered is the lack of face-toface interaction with his students.

“I do believe intellectual exchange is possible online,” Wallis said. “However, I do miss seeing my students laugh at my corny jokes.

That is one component of the traditional classroom that simply can’t be replicated via online learning.”

Wallis will return to the classroom at the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic school year when he starts at University College Dublin as a visiting instructor. He said that even though the move to Ireland is quite long term, he is still hoping to teach for State as long as possible.

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The LEGO Movie is an adventure tale based on a children’s toy. As such, it is filled with outlandish characters, a chaotic series of plot events and wayward cultural references. This may seem to be an unfavorable feature of the film, but it is surprisingly intentional. Despite being geared toward younger audiences, The LEGO Movie is both funny and intelligent enough to be appreciated by those of all ages.

In a world of LEGO buildings and people ruled by a villainous LEGO figure by the name of Lord Business (Will Ferrell), following the instructions is the key to success. Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt), an average LEGO minifigure who is used to following the instructions, is suddenly taken on an adventure when a prophecy made by the Wizard Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman) deems him the “Special.”

With the help of other “Masterbuilders,” such as Lucy (Elizabeth Banks) and Batman (Will Arnett), he or she can use creativity to build any LEGO object.

Chris Miller and Phil Lord directed the film. Both Miller and Lord have produced and

written well-known movies such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and 21 Jump Street (2012).

Like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie is an animated adventure tale geared toward a childhood audience.

Even though The LEGO Movie seems similar to its animated counterpart, the humor of the film is actually more similar to that of 21 Jump Street, whose targeted audience is much older. Each has a pungent, satirical twist.

One movie is a spoof of the game of LEGO bricks, and the other is of Hollywood portrayals of high school. In this way, the two films share an underlying intelligence behind their comedy that is easy for an adult viewer to appreciate.

What first strikes the eye during The LEGO Movie is its unique animation style.

Though it was made to look like the classic stop-motion films popular in the 1960s, much of the film was made using CGI animation techniques. The stop-motion look of the film brings the LEGOs to life. It genuinely appears as if the viewer is zooming in on a LEGO structure filled with moving characters.

This tangible imagery adds a whimsical and nostalgic feel to the film’s spectacle.

The off beat storyline of The LEGO Movie is meant to express the bizarre things a real child might create when stuck with a pile of LEGO

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The LEGO Movie’s Emmet Brickowski (Will Ferrell), Batman (Will Arnett) and Lucy (Elizabeth Banks) take on the “Special’s” adventure.

bricks in a basement.

This is especially apparent toward the end of the film, when it suddenly shifts from CGI animation to real people.

In this change, audiences explore the topic of parent-child dynamics and how becoming overly entangled in structure and organization can lead to a lack of creativity and understanding.

This might go straight over the heads of many of the children who will be seeing this

film, but for adults, it is a compelling and thoughtful theme that honestly strikes a chord.

On a broader level, the purpose of the film is to show the potential we all have to be creative. Even an average minifigure named Emmet, whose ideas are consistently unhelpful throughout much of the film, becomes creative and significant through a new found belief in himself.

Unexpectedly, these moral

intentions turn the game of LEGO bricks into a profound symbol of imagination and inventiveness.

Besides its surprisingly philosophical themes, The LEGO Movie is actually quite hilarious for any viewer, young and old. The film is filled with subtle gags made by many of its corky characters that will have children and adults laughing long after.

Also, what is perhaps most

appealing of the film is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Like 21 Jump Street, it is quick to make fun of its own storyline and characters because, after all, it is quite a ridiculous and fantastical plot.

With a combination of a serious, overarching purpose and laugh-a-minute humor, The LEGO Movie may be this year’s top competition for other animation companies.

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plate, going two for four and recording two doubles and two RBIs. But the Mountaineers answered quickly, capitalizing on errors by the Wolfpack’s defense. An error by junior infielder Trea Turner allowed Mountaineer senior third baseman William Head to get on base in the top of the third. Davis then laced a single to score Head and senior outfielder Preston Troutman.

Davis was responsible for all of App State’s runs scored on Friday, totaling five RBIs on the afternoon.

But the Wolfpack held on to its lead after Davis’ home run in the eighth inning, with senior pitchers Andrew Woeck and D.J. Thomas closing out App on Friday.

Saturday’s game saw a much-improved performance from the Wolfpack, as it shut out the Mountaineers, 7-0.

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Junior pitcher Logan Jernigan (1-0 overall, 1.80 ERA) led his team to a dominating win. The junior righthander put in a commanding performance, allowing two hits and recording seven strikeouts in six innings of work.

Junior center fielder Jake Fincher led the Wolfpack offensively, going two for four with three RBIs on Saturday.

App State’s performance was characterized by a mediocre defensive effort, accruing five errors in the blowout, which the Wolfpack’s offense made sure to capitalize on.

Jernigan was relieved in the seventh inning by sophomore pitcher John Olczak, who eased the Wolfpack throughout the final three innings. Olczak did not allow a single hit and recorded four strikeouts to close out Saturday’s contest.

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[but] he just finds a way.”

Lewis played 36 minutes and finished with eight points

“We take [Warren] for granted sometimes ...

He’s a tough player to defend.”

Mark Gottfried, head men’s basketball coach

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and a career-best 11 assists while not committing a single turnover.

“I feel like I am in shape to get 36 minutes day-in, dayout,” Lewis said, “And it felt really good to go out there and control the team and play my game.”

Lewis’ recent play has

drawn praise from both his teammates and his coaches.

“Tyler orchestrated the offensive really well,” Warren said. “He was finding the open man, kicking it back and attacking the basket too. We have to take care of the ball.”

Freshman forward Kyle Washington tallied 13 points in the game, and is averaging 11.3 points per game during the last three contests. N.C. State committed seven turnovers against the Hokies and took 24 more shots than Virginia Tech.

“Tyler was the main reason for that,” Gottfried said. “[He had] 11 assists and no turnovers. Not a lot of guys in America could get that.” “[Washing ton] played great. He made some big shots and, for a f reshma n, d id a n ice job.”

N.C. State returns to action Wednesday when the Pack hosts rival North Carolina at PNC Arena, with tipoff set for 8 p.m.

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Goodwin-Coleman, Daniel suffer careerending injuries Senior guard Myisha GoodwinColeman tore her left ACL against Duke Thursday while diving for a loose ball, while senior forward Lakeesa Daniel went down the next day in a non-contact drill in practice, also tearing her ACL. “I feel so terrible for Myisha and for [Lakeesa],” Wolfpack head coach Wes Moore said. “They’ve been through so much and [to suffer an injury] right here at the cusp of being able to enjoy all that they’ve worked for; it’s so sad.”

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Wolfpack women’s swimming & diving team finishes fourth at ACC Championships The No. 22 N.C. State women’s swimming & diving team earned a fourth-place finish at ACC championships with a total score of 950, only 22 points out of the top three. The Wolfpack broke 15 school records during the four-day competition, including the previous bests in each of its five relay events.

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N.C. State sweeps Mountaineers Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

Jake Lange Correspondent

The N.C. State baseball team swept Appalachian State in its three-game series, which started on Friday at Doak Field in Raleigh. The Wolfpack’s victories came thanks to gritty pitching performances, clutch hitting and a porous defense by the Mountaineers.

The Wolfpack completed its sweep of the Mountaineers with a 3-1 victory on Sunday afternoon. The win was accentuated by strong pitching by sophomore Brad Stone (six IP, two hits, 0 ER) and junior Eric Peterson (three IP, two hits, one ER). Junior first baseman Jake Armstrong also played a massive role in the win, coming up clutch in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Armstrong’s go-ahead, tworun homerun put the Pack in the lead for good against App on Sunday.

Both pitchers dominated the early innings of Sunday’s game, as Stone and Mountaineer junior Jeffrey Springs

(5.2 IP, four hits, one ER) traded scoreless inning for scoreless inning. “[Stone] was fabulous,” head coach Elliott Avent said.

“He battled and just made his pitches even though he probably didn’t have his best stuff.”

In the sixth inning, the Wolf pack f ina l ly broke through against Springs.

The southpaw hit freshman third baseman Andrew Knizner with a pitch. Then, on a 3-2 count, Armstrong laced a double into the gap in left center field, hitting in Knizner from first base.

The Mountaineers answered in the top of the seventh with two singles to begin the inning against Peterson, who relieved Stone after only 70 pitches. But Peterson would rebound and retire the next two hitters. However, a wild pitch allowed App’s sophomore centerfielder Jaylin Davis to bolt home and tie the game at 1-1.

The Wolfpack dealt the fatal blow to the Mountaineers in the eighth inning. Junior outfielder Bubby Riley drew a walk and proceeded to steal second base. That’s when

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Junior pitcher Carlos Rodon goes through his windup during the first game of State’s three-game series against Appalachian State University Friday. The No. 6 Wolfpack defeated the Mountaineers, 6-5.

Armstrong struck, blasting his two-run homer over the left-field wall to give N.C. State a 3-1 lead. “[Armstrong] had a really

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good day for us,” Avent said.

“We need Jake to be good. We had a talk before the game, and he knows that, but the toughness he showed today

was a good sign for us.”

Peterson locked dow n App’s batters in the ninth inning, earning the save and shutting the door on any possibility of the Mountaineers taking a game in Raleigh.

“That’s a real good baseball team,” Avent said. “I don’t know who made their schedule but they are going to win a lot of games this year.

Our pitching is going to set the table for us this year. I still don’t think we are going 55-1.”

On Friday, the Wolfpack slipped past the Mountaineers with a 6-5 win, as junior pitcher Carlos Rodon (1-1 overall, 2.86 ERA) earned his first victory of the season. The Holly Springs native had an exceptional day at the mound, despite hanging a slider in the eighth inning, allowing Davis to knock a three-run homer out of Doak Field.

N.C. State’s batting order found its groove early on Friday, with junior catcher Brett Austin scoring two runs by the third inning. Riley also had a big day at the

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Warren, Lewis pace Wolfpack in win over Virginia Tech Rob McLamb Assistant Sports Editor

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Senior forward Kody Burke and head coach Wes Moore celebrate after No. 14 N.C. State’s win over Virginia in Reynolds Coliseum Sunday. Burke scored the go-ahead 3-pointer for the Wolfpack with 11 seconds left in the contest.

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Colin Phibbs Correspondent

Senior forward Kody Burke buried a 3-pointer with 11 seconds left to lift No. 14 N.C. State over Virginia, 6866, on Sunday afternoon at Reynolds Coliseum. Burke’s shot came during a dismal shooting day for the senior, who had made only one field goal prior to hitting the winning three.

With the win, the Pack improves its record to 23-5 overall and 10-4 in ACC play.

“As a senior, I need to play with confidence and show the younger players an example, and sure enough it worked out,” Burke said. “[Junior guard Krystal Barrett] did a good job of penetrating and attacking and had the confidence to kick it out to me.”

Senior center Markeisha Gatling led the Wolfpack with a game-high 22 points and 11 rebounds. Her presence in the paint helped State dominate the boards, as the Pack had 37 rebounds on the day compared to just 25 for the Cavaliers.

After being down by as

many as nine points late in the second half, the Pack mounted a comeback. Trailing by a score of 61-52 with fewer than seven minutes remaining, State held Virginia scoreless for the next fiveand-a-half minutes.

“Our defense down the stretch was great,” head coach Wes Moore said. “We have got to try and keep games in the sixties.”

Junior guard Miah Spencer tied the game at 61 points apiece with a 3-pointer at the 1:28 mark, and the lead changed hands five times until Burke’s shot in the closing seconds. Spencer started in place of senior guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman, who tore her ACL against Duke on Thursday and is out for the remainder of the season.

Moore also had to replace senior forward Lakeesa Daniel, who tore her ACL less than 24 hours after Goodwin-Coleman in Friday’s practice during non-contact drills.

“I knew I was going to have to come in and step up and show [Coach Moore] I was ready,” Spencer said. “I tried to bring urgency to the team to show my teammates I have their backs.”

At the half, State led 35-29 thanks to a 10-point, sixrebound performance from Gatling. The Wolfpack led for nearly the entire half, and the lead got as high as 10 points following a 3-pointer by freshman forward Jennifer Mathurin midway through the half. Virginia stayed in it by sinking six treys of its own. Redshirt senior guard Lexie Gerson led the Cavs in scoring with nine points at the half.

Defense dominated the first half—State forced 11 turnovers, and UVa forced 10. The Pack turned that defense into offense, scoring 19 of its 35 points off takeaways compared to just one for the Cavaliers.

In the first half, Virginia shot 50 percent from the field and 46 percent from behind the 3-point arc. Virginia’s bench scored 10 of its 29 points, eight of them coming from sophomore guard Faith Randolph.

The Pack came out hot in the first five minutes after halftime, taking an early nine-point lead. However, Virginia responded by outscoring State 13-9 to bring the game closer. The Cavaliers took the lead with 9:38

left in the game after sinking three 3-point shots in a row.

Virginia built its secondhalf lead by employing a three-quarter-court zone press, forcing State’s guards into a myriad of turnovers. The Cavs also shot well throughout the entire game, going 25-for-49 from the field and 10-for-20 from beyond the arc.

By comparison, State was less successful from the field, going 22-for-55 and seven-for-24 from 3-point land. However, the Pack used the free-throw line to great effect, sinking 17 of its 20 foul shot attempts compared to just six-of-nine for the Cavs.

“We were settling for threes, and they just weren’t going,” Moore said. “I kept stressing to get the ball into [Gatling], and I thought the kids did a good job of that.”

The Wolfpack will travel to Pittsburgh on Thursday to take on Pitt in its penultimate game of the season. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

State will close out its regular season next Sunday, hosting No. 2 Notre Dame in a 2 p.m. contest at Reynolds.

A f ter d isappoi nt i ng back-to-back losses, N.C. State needed to make a stand in Blacksburg, Va. Saturday if it was to earn a third consecutive berth to the NCAA Tournament.

Luckily for the Wolfpack, a trio of underclassmen came through for State when the Pack needed it the most.

A duo of State sophomores, forward T.J. Warren and guard Tyler Lewis helped lead the Pack to victory as N.C. State held off the Virginia Tech Hokies, 71-64, at Cassell Coliseum.

The Wolfpack improved to 17-10 overall and 7-7 in the ACC after the win.

State entered the game looking to avoid a threegame losing streak after dropping a heartbreaker at No. 1 Syracuse and being routed by Clemson in its next game.

N.C. State head coach Mark Gottfried, who has guided the Wolfpack to the NCAA Tournament in both of his two previous seasons in Raleigh, was pleased with his squad’s response against Virginia Tech.

“We have had two really good practices after a really bad game at Clemson,” Gottfried said. “We had a lot of energy the last two days, and it carried over into today. I thought our energy level was really high.”

“We were aggressive, and I thought that was important to start the way that we

did. [This] is a very important win for our team. I’m really proud of our guys to come on the road [and get the win], and Virginia Tech had been playing really well the last three games.”

N.C. State never trailed in the contest. The Pack jumped out to an early sixpoint lead when Warren connected on back-to-back 3 -pointers. The sophomore from Durham, the ACC’s leading scorer entering the contest, finished with 31 points on 12-for-21 shooting from the floor.

“From the start, I felt good,” Warren said. “I just wanted to be aggressive from the start. Everything is important right now.”

It marked the seventh time in his career that Warren finished with more than 30 points in a game, moving him into a tie for 4th place all-time in N.C. State history with former Wolfpack All-American guard Sammy Ranzino. Only David Thompson, Rodney Monroe and Kenny Carr have tallied at least 30 points in a game more times for the Pack. “[Warren] was aggressive and did a terrific job,” Gottfried said. “We got off to a great start. T.J. hit the two threes to start the game. I thought that gave us a lift. He just does so much to help our team. We take for granted sometimes the fact that he can pick it up out of there and get a steal, get a defensive rebound or offensive rebound. He’s a tough player to defend. You can try all kinds of stuff,

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