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Redshirt Junior Quarterback Jacoby Brissett throws an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jonathan Alston during the game against No. 1 Florida State in Carter-Finley Stadium Saturday. Despite a strong start, the Wolfpack fell to the Seminoles, 56-41.

This is our America, too See page 4.

FEATURES From feeding U.S. presidents to feeding the Wolfpack See page 5.

SPORTS Pack falls to defending champs See page 8.

SPORTS State comes up short in tight losses to Duke, UNC-CH See page 8.

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Thursday evening marked the beginning of University Theatre’s 2014-2015 season with the opening of You Can’t Take it With You, a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart performed by a cast of NC State students.

The play is set in New York City in 1936, where the audience peers into the home of the Sycamore family. The Sycamores are all quite eccentric, but it is evident that they dearly love each other.

Problems begin to arise, however,

when one of the daughters of the family, Alice Sycamore, becomes engaged to Tony Kirby, the son of the owner of the company she works for. She is convinced the batty Sycamores and the “normal” Kirbys can’t mix, and through a series of interesting events she learns that being happy is truly all that matters.

Teal Lepley, a sophomore in English and the actress who plays Alice Sycamore in the production, said the cast and crew had a little less than a month to put the show

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Professor wins 10th-annual Bikefest draws 100,000 to downtown Raleigh IEEE award for achievements in engineering

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More than 100,000 visitors from North Carolina and beyond witnessed fire performers, motorcycle giveaways, patriot rides, thrill shows and record-breaking stunts at Raleigh’s 10th-annual Ray Price Harley-Davidson Bikefest this weekend.

This free, three-day event featured concerts, conventions, stunt shows and vendors from all over the state. Bikefest brought crowds to Fayetteville Street, the Raleigh Convention Center and the Ray Price Harley-Davidson dealership located on South Saunders Street.

“You just can’t beat this,” said Warren Marks, a visitor from West Jefferson, North Carolina. “Not only is the ride down here fun, but once you get here, there is always something to do and something to see.”

Introduced in 2003, the Ray Price Capital City Bikefest was created to bring more attention and attendance to the Time Warner Cable Pavilion at Walnut Creek. With its success at this location, Ray Price Harley-Davidson and the City of Raleigh formed a partnership to bring the first motorcycle rally into the city in 2005.

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Custom motorcycles from around North Carolina are lined up in the Raleigh Convention Center. Harleys, Suzukis and everything in between could be seen at Bikefest this weekend.

owner of a bright green Kawasaki Ninja sport motorcycle, said some of his favorite events were the street performances.

“The stunt riders who were burning rubber up and down [Fayetteville Street], were both

exciting and nerve-racking,” Marks said. “It’s not every day that you get to see world-record holders risk their livelihood and

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Pizza box composting a success on campus Jakob Hjelmquist Correspondent

Since its implementation this spring, the Pizza Box Composting Project created by NC State Waste Reduction and Recycling has composted about 3,789 pizza boxes to date and shows no signs of slowing down, according to Lauren McKinnis, the outreach coordinator for NC State Waste Reduction and Recycling.

Because of this new program, NC State now composts an average of 370 tons per year.

In 2010, University Dining found that 70 percent of the waste produced by Fountain Dining Hall was compostable, so University Dining began a composting initiative in the dining halls. Although the composting initiative has contributed to the sustainability pro-

gram at NC State, it was mostly done without students’ knowledge.

The Pizza Box Composting Project was created not only as a way for NC State to divert waste from landfills and compost more, but also to get more students directly involved in composting.

“When we first began researching the idea for the Pizza Box Composting Project, we found that many colleges have similar composting centers and programs, but there were few colleges with specific sites for composting pizza boxes,” McKinnis said.

The composting centers, which are green dumpsters with the image of a pizza painted on the side, were originally placed only behind the Bragaw and Metcalf residence halls. The project has since expanded to include com-

posting sites at the Avent Ferry complex, Wolf Village, Wolf Ridge and in Greek Village to bring the total number of composting sites to six.

“The project has been very successful,” McKinnis said.

Currently the program sends the pizza boxes to a private composter due to the difficulty in running an effective composting site. At this location the boxes are converted into usable compost.

Contaminants such as plastic utensils and cups cannot be composted. These items still often end up in the compost bins. For this reason, the bins and the University Housing

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Jayant Baliga, a professor of engineering at NC State, recently earned the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honor, which is considered by some to be the “Nobel Prize” of electrical engineering and is the highest honor awarded in this field.

“The IEEE has recognized great achievements and great contributors,” Baliga said. “From my point of view, these are the people that in high school and in college, I grew up looking to them as great heroes in this field, and they’re inspiring to me. Now to be joining that company is quite a special event.”

Baliga’s teaching pursuits at NC State’s engineering department and his award from the IEEE are still just the latest in his long list of acomplishments. Baliga is responsible for the creation of revolutionary electrical technologies that are found in regularly used devices today.

Baliga has received a multitude of awards for his expertise and inventions in semiconductor technology. He has received awards ranging from the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, which was awarded by President Barack Obama, to recognition by the Power Electronic Society, even though he is not a member of the organization.

Baliga has been recognized so widely because of the success of two of his important inventions, the insulated-gate bipolar transistor and wide-bandgap semiconductor technology. Though the wide-bandgap took years to develop, the IGBT went into immediate production.

“What’s funny is that both echnologies were made around the same time in about 1980,” Baliga said. “It was a very good year for me.”

The IGBT combines two semiconductor technologies to increase device performance and power efficiency.

Many thought the combination would simply average the performance of the two technologies, but Baliga predicted a quantum boost in performance. He proved to be correct, and the technology went into mass production a year later, now found in household objects such as refrigerators, CFL light bulbs and vehicles.

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attempt crazy new stunts.”

One of the world-record holders in attendance was Juli Moody, who is also known as The Female Human Link.

An Olympic gold medalist in the sport of power lifting and a five-time world record holder, Moody set yet another world record Saturday after she held back four Harley-Davidson motorcycles for one minute and 3.76 seconds using only her sheer strength and a couple of nylon straps.

“She left the crowd in a state of amazement and a cloud of smoke,” Marks said. “It was cool to see such a unique act in Raleigh.”

Also this weekend, Raleigh’s first Tattoo Festival was held downtown in the Sheraton Hotel, and many guests who attended Bikefest also visited the additional nearby festival. This event featured worst tattoo contests, live human suspension shows, live concerts and

much more. The Tattoo Festival highlighted the growing popularity of tattooing in North Carolina.

Although Bikefest aimed to be family-friendly, it brought mixed emotions to many including Alice Davis, a Raleigh native and mother of two young girls.

“The noise is more than excessive, and the crowd that Bikefest attracts isn’t known for being the most welcoming,” Davis said. “It’s almost worrisome.”

During its early years, Bikefest drew fewer visitors to the event, and other festivals such as Hopscotch, SparkCon and BugFest did not fill up the weekends prior to Bikefest. However, as the attendance of festivals such as these continues to grow, so do the feelings Raleigh residents have toward them.

“It’s great to see Raleigh getting so much attention, but it’s also annoying when residents have a hard time going about their normal weekend activities due to the extra traffic and large crowds,” Davis said. “It would make more sense to

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website list what can and cannot be composted.

“Composting properly is not an easy task,” McKinnis said.

According to McKinnis, the future of the program seems bright.

There has been a call for more composting sites to be placed around campus so even more students can begin composting their pizza boxes.

In addition to the Pizza Box Composting Project, the NC State dining halls have numerous programs that attempt to reduce waste and make the university more sustainable, such as the Pack & Go take-out program that allows students to utilize reusable plastic containers to take food from dining halls.

Since 2010, NC State has diverted 45 percent of its waste from landfills by recycling, reusing and composting. The Pizza Box Composting Project has helped increase this

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“It was very fruitful to see it take off,” Baliga said. “Now it is used for practically everything. It is an embedded technology that the public doesn’t see. Even my neighbors don’t know that they’re using

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together.

“A month after the night of auditions is opening night. We had rehearsal every day, 7:30 to 10 :30 ; it’s about three hours every day,” Lepley said. “We get Saturdays off, except for Tech Week.”

The show was directed by John C. McIlwee, the director of University Theatre.

Lepley said rehearsals are fast-paced, with blocking (a term in theater for adding movement to the scene) beginning the second day of rehearsal.

“In the days after auditions af ter t he cast list comes out, you have to go to the theater and pick up your script,” Lepley said.

“The first rehearsal, we all sit down, the director and the stage manager and everybody, and we kind of introduce ourselves and

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Domingo “Tazz” Torres checks out a custom motorcycle at Bikefest. Torres rode in from Jacksonville, North Carolina to attend Bikefest and represent his organization, Veteran Enforcers Motorcycle Association Sunday in the Raleigh Convention Center.

me if these festivals were held just outside the city, instead of in the heart of downtown,

percentage of diverted waste.

McKinnis said there are many ways for students to get involved in the program, but the easiest way is to use the compost sites, rather than the dumpster, when throwing away pizza boxes, paper plates or napkins.

Austin Bowman, a sophomore in chemistry who lives in the EcoVillage located in Bragaw Residence Hall, said he helped with painting and placing the composting sites at the beginning of the project.

“Composting is something easy to do,” Bowman said. “You can’t recycle pizza boxes due to the leftover food often left inside, so the Pizza Box Composting Project was an easy way to see these boxes get used in a sustainable way.”

The Pizza Box Composting Project has given students the opportunity to take part in the composting that occurs at NC State.

McKinnis said the program shows no signs of slowing down and should continue to be successful in the future

my invention every day. I have to explain that I do more than teaching.”

Use of the device increases fuel efficiency, most notably in cars, saving massive amounts of energy while proving to be economically and environmentally adequate.

The wide-bandgap semiconductor, though it has taken longer to develop due to cost, boosts per-

then we all read through the script, just sitting there in a circle to get an idea of what we are working with, and the next day we start blocking.”

Lepley said some actors got to work with acting coaches on their accents and portrayal of relationships. Lepley was coached with Randy Cain, a junior in business administration.

Cain plays Tony Kirby in his third University Theatre production.

Cain said performing in the show is much better with an audience because of the energy it brings to the table. “[The audience] makes you react differently, makes your cues pick up better, you get a better feel of the scene and you just have a better time,” Cain said. “I know when we were getting towards the end of rehearsals, it felt like we were missing something, and then we had our first preview, something

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especially when the city of Raleigh has such a packed festival schedule this time

of year.”

Nevertheless, Bikefest has a lready announced that

it will be returning to the streets of downtown Raleigh next year from Sept. 25 – 27.

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NC State’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Office collaborated with University Housing has collaborated to form The Pizza Box Composting Project. These dumpsters can be found outside of the dorms and apartments on campus.

formance of electronic devices even more than the IGBT. During Obama’s visit to NC State in January, one of the ideas he promoted was the increase in manufacturing this technology.

Since its creation, the widebandgap technology has become internationally recognized, and other countries are competing economically with the United

just clicked. It just gets better and better every night.

The cast of the play was larger than usual. You Can’t Take it With You uses 18 actors, which is a very large cast for University Theatre, according to Lepley.

“The last few shows besides the musical have been casts of four to eight,” Lepley said. “It’s always a bit more complicated because you have to figure out, ‘OK, how do I relate to this person?’ or ‘how do I relate to that person?’ But the cast, a lot of them are University Theatre veterans. So that made things a lot easier.”

The wigs were designed by Adrienne McKenzie, who was in charge of costume and hair design for the production, Laura J. Parker, the costume shop manager, and McIlwee.

“It’s a fun show, and we would love to have lots of students in the audience, and just having a good time, and letting them see what

States by producing this technology large-scale and at a much faster rate. This demtonstrates how much of an effect this technology has had on the world since 1980 and the effect it will continue to have on future innovations.

“If you want to be successful, you have to have innovative ideas,” Baliga said. “That’s what people want to hear. You need to make

them practical as well. It is easy to make an invention that is hard to build and unrealistic.”

“Think about what has already been done,” Bailga said. “If you don’t research, you will probably invent something that has already been done. Believe in yourself.

There will be a lot of skeptics, so you have to be passionate about your idea.”

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University Theatre is about, because we are open to students,” Cain said. “It’s a nice home for everyone. We are all supportive of each other, and we’d love for people to see what University Theatre is about and the show is a really great example of what it is and a lot of the scenes embody University Theatre.”

Lepley said working with

in the play was an amazing experience.

“New or old, we just become one huge family.”

Lepley said. “We’ve been through this together for we ek s a nd we ek s , a nd through crazy costumes and fumbling with lines, and we become one big family.”

Lepley said the phrase “you can’t take it with you”

means not worrying about the f leeting tangible things like money or success and achieving true happiness.

“You can’t take it with you—most people go about their lives trying to be successful, but in the end, isn’t it all about being happy?”

Lepley said.

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he University of Chicago issued a statement on Thursday informing the public that it has decided to “suspend negotiation for the renewal of the agreement for a second term of the Confucius Institute at the Universit y of Chicago.”

Ziyi Mai In July, trustStaff Columnist ees at Canada’s largest high school board sought to end the partnership with the institute in response to mounting objections from teachers.

These suspensions are the result of an ongoing protest among faculty in North American colleges and universities that house the Chinese organization of language and cultural learning. In June, the American Association of University Professors urged colleges that operate Confucius Institutes financed by the Chinese government to either scrap their partnership or renegotiate terms to promote transparency and academic integrity.

As a self-proclaimed nonprofit organization, why has the Confucius Institute faced tremendous opposition only 10 years after its first campus was established in North America?

In the AAUP’s statement, it accused the Confucius Institutes in about 90 North America colleges of functioning as “an arm of the Chinese state … allowed to ignore academic freedom,” due to the terms of the institutes demanding North American colleges to avoid criticism of the political aims and practices of the Chinese government.

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ew assertions are more aggravating than, “This is America; we speak English here.”

One summer afternoon, as we ate at a pizzeria, my mom mentioned occasionally feeling uncomfortable speaking in Spanish because she thought Estefania it attracted Castroattention.

Vasquez At restauStaff ra nts, my Columnist parents and I tend to speak Spanish to one another at the table.

When the waitress or waiter comes near, we order in English, say please and thank you. Back in our own conversation, we revert to Spanish.

Perhaps due to my oblivious nature, I had never felt uncomfortable speaking Spanish in public, but as she said that, I looked up and noticed for the first time the faces of those surrounding us.

For the most part, they looked uninterested, conditioned to ignore the conversations of those a rou nd t hem. Some smiled politely. A small fraction looked back at me with a sort of quiet resignation.

I understand that at times it’s uncomfortable to hear people speak in another language. It’s not out of the question that we may be plotting your extinction and are speak-

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ing in another language to conceal our plans.

Plus, why should you be the only one who has to whisper to have a private conversation in public?

Valid points. I get it, I really do. It’s irritating to have something unfamiliar in the place you call home and have it become normal without you having a say. I guess you could say that because we chose to be here, we have the option to leave if things aren’t the way we like them.

Though it’s only superficially true that most immigrants decided to come to the United State of their own free will, it’s hardly true that we did so because we wished to forget our native cultures.

It’s even less true that we want to cause you discomfort where you feel at home.

This isn’t an argument about immigration or assimilation or anything of the sort. It is a plea for all of us to grant others space and consideration to keep a part of themselves— whether it be their language, gender-identification, music taste, sexual orientation, whatever— intact, regardless of how we personally feel about it. That is the only way we’ll coexist happily. My plea is about recognizing that “they” are only “they” because we have chosen to separate ourselves from “them.”

I had the chance to hear

Dr. Ophelia GarmonBrown tell a story of how she became the first North Carolinian African-American female to graduate from medical school. I was touched by a simple piece of advice she offered us minority students: Stand tall only because you stand on the shoulders of those before you.

When I speak Spanish to my parents at Angelo’s Pizzeria, it’s not to leave you out. It’s to retain some sense of my culture, to stand more proudly on the shoulders of those before me, so that we can all stand together.

Not something terribly complex, it’s a piece of advice that can really change the way one regards oneself in relation to others. If you do not allow others to stand tall too, you stand alone.

Consider that in asking us to abandon part of our identities: We become less of a “we,” and more of two opposing forces pulling at each other. “You” and “I” both attempt to drag the other to the opposite side, when it would be more pleasant to just agree that “we” can share in being different.

So yes, this is America.

But to claim that “we” speak any language only makes sense if we start thinking and acting as a communal and united “we.”

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Jameis Winston’s behavior I am a die-hard Wolfpack fan, but I also pray for Jameis Winston’s behavior and Florida State’s football program. I really enjoyed seeing Winston play football last season as he led the Seminoles to a perfect season while winning the ACC championship, the BCS title and earning the Heisman Trophy. However, it is a

shame to hear about the path Winston has chosen to take after working hard for his achievements last football season. I would be very disappointed if he is convicted of his alleged actions and ends up throwing away what he has worked for. It is especially disappointing since he is the leader of the Seminoles’ football team. He needs to be a good example for others since he is a leader to others, not just on the team, but everyone else too. He

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he growing popularity of the social media application, Yik Yak, highlights how the Internet can foster social isolation in its frequenters.

Yik Yak allows u s e r s to sub mit anonymous messages to an interactive message board that d i s pl ay s p os t s Mary Anna specific to their geographic locaRice Correspondent tions. In doing so, it creates the toxicity of YouTube comments sections in a regionalized area.

This tendency is evident when reading some of the more popular posts, or “yaks.” Some of them are genuinely funny, while others are genuinely awful. The worst yaks rely on petty insults concerning specific people or groups. This behavior emphasizes a group mentality of hostility that tends to surface under the protection of anonymity.

Accompanying the rise of the Internet and social networking is a sort of tribalism, an unrestrained means of communication—people can say what would usually go unsaid and be sure others will support them, no matter what the topic or claim.

Online communities such as Reddit’s Red Pill and YouTube comments sections demonstrate the reckless abandon people enjoy in their sense of individual anonymity. When your identity

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government has been promoting something it has always despised and abandoned.

History shows that China’s communists had repeatedly denounced Confucianism as a tool that ancient emperors used to fool the public and thus consolidate their rules.

The nature of Confucianism is more about obeying the rulers without complaint than sound practice, in contrast to how the public views it. The communist leaders once urged the Chinese public to destroy thousands of valuable architectures related to Confucianism.

If all the accusations against the Confucius Institute were true, ousting it from American colleges or renegotiating terms should be the right thing to do.

Academic integrity and freedom are the core values and interests of academic institutions. They should not be controlled, compromised or manipulated by any person or organization.

Similar entities such as British Council and Alliance Francaise, also funded by the British and French governments, have many partnerships with colleges around the world. But unlike Confucius Institutes, they have their own campuses and do not place restrictive clauses interfering with the academic hiring of colleges. Perhaps the Confucius Institutes should learn something from the British and French, promoting its own culture genuinely by adopting the rules of the host country. Only then could they reach more audiences and avoid stirring up as many controversies as they do now.

How Yik Yak and anonymity give life to harmful attitudes

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professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, pointed out in a letter to The Chronicle of Higher Education that the nondisclosure clause of the institute clouds information that faculty members should know before they get into research and teaching. In fact, faculty members knew little of the establishment of the Confucius Institutes in their universities during the first part of their careers.

Without knowledge or consent from faculty, some higher administrators of universities signed the agreements, which affect curriculums, faculty hiring and research scopes. AAUP accused some colleges of permitting the Confucius Institute to advance the Chinese government’s agenda at the cost of compromising academic integrity.

According to last week’s issue of The Economist, the Confucius Institute at NC State indicated in 2009 that the Dalai Lama visit to the university would cause problems with the Chinese government. NC State later canceled the exiled Tibetan leader’s visit.

In this case, the institute acted on behalf of China in an effort to prevent the American public from knowing information not in China’s favor.

All these conf licts between North American colleges and the Confucius Institutes reveal that the Chinese government’s ambitious move to expand soft powers overseas has faced strong criticism and resistance. As China becomes the second-largest economy, the state tries to promote its image in the world by exporting traditional culture and language. But ironically, the

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is hidden, you often think you can say anything. Unfortunately, these things, uncensored and impromptu, frequently end up being crass and demeaning to people who can’t necessarily defend themselves.

With the ever-increasing permeation of social media into our daily lives, it is nearly impossible at this point to avoid using sites such as Facebook or Twitter for simple interactions. Yik Yak is one of the first to utilize the removal of personal accountability as its selling point.

When sites introduce anonymity to a population, we see a notable increase in hateful content. A lack of moderation combined with the complete anonymity on Yik Yak allows us to see the true thoughts and opinions of the people who surround us. Though the content of Yik Yak may be eye opening, it also allows the perpetuation of venomous ideas in our immediate surroundings.

Like most other social media applications, a minority of its users exploits Yik Yak for vindictive purposes. Although a lot of the messages are funny or harmless, a significant amount is anything but. These comments promote to the collective consciousness ideas of misogyny, racism and the safety accompanying groupthink.

In anonymity, people find it exceptionally easier to post malicious content because any consequences they may face will

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not be associated with their social identities. Those who abuse the application in this manner sustain no repercussions aside from their yak being deleted.

This is not acceptable.

It is voyeuristic to an extent that users of Yik Yak can infiltrate nearly any situation in secret if they own a smartphone.

The application encourages passive engagement in our environments; we believe we are truly free while hiding behind a computer screen.

Yik Yak is dangerous because it allows users to openly target people in a public forum without being held responsible for the damages they may cause.

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From feeding U.S. presidents to feeding the Wolfpack Sara Awad Assistant Features Editor

When Eddie Wilson chose to follow the culinary path of his parents, he had no idea that one day he would serve presidents.

The Talley Student Union Executive chef began his career as a Marine Corps chef, where he was first exposed to large scale catering.

After cooking with several catering companies for about 300 to 500 people, his big break came after catering at a PGA golf tournament.

He made connections there, which he said inspired him to form a company for on-site management. Contracting for six companies across the United States, Wilson and his culinary team catered Indy car races, tournaments and political events for 2,000 to 20,000 attendees.

“When you are doing large events, you find out immediately whether you’ve done a good job or a bad job,” Wilson said. “You can literally affect people’s lives for a very small moment, and it’s fun. It’s a lot of hard work, though.”

Wilson later took on more responsibility as head chef for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions for ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN in Philadelphia.

“We were doing the news,

so we were open 24 hours, so we were doing about 4,000 meals a day,” Wilson said.

He also catered for the Indy 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which led to his promotion to team chef in 2000 for Kelley Racing, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to Wilson.

“When I was with Kelley Racing and the Indy Racing League, in the 12 years that I was in racing, I never repeated a menu because I was feeding the same people every week, and those people were not from whatever region we were racing in,” Wilson said.

“I tried to cook regional food and tried to present it so they would have something good to eat. It allowed me to expand my culinary career and get an opportunity to try some new things.”

His job with Kelley Racing allowed him to meet former President George H.W. Bush who was a guest of the owner of the team for the 2001 Indy 500. Wilson has also served former presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton and former premier of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.

“We did catering in President Ford’s house, so that one was a little difficult,” Wilson said. “He had a home in Beaver Creek, Colorado, and it’s a little more work because you have to deal with Secret Service and different things

like that, but at the end of the day, they’re no different than you are. They want to just eat.

They want it to be nice. They don’t want to have to worry about anything, and so if you just treat whoever it is exactly the same way you treat your dishwasher, let’s say, then there’s no issues, and that’s every famous person I’ve served, I’ve treated exactly the same.”

When he became executive chef of the IRL, he traveled across the globe helping to promote and sell products for two of the IRL’s companies.

“And so when I was over there I would get in the kitchen and learn specialty dishes from chefs in that area, and so I would bring it back to the racing,” Wilson said.

The recipes he brought with him also inspired the menu of One Earth in Talley Student Union, which was collaboration between him and Julie Staples, University Dining’s recipe development chef.

Wilson began working for the university after his time ended at The Chef ’s Academy, a culinary school he opened in Morrisville four years ago.

“He was just head and shoulders above all other candidates,” said Food Service Director Kenny Hemmer.

According to Hemmer, Wilson is a humble but as-

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Chef Eddie Wilson is the executive chef at Talley Student Union. He has served notable people such as President George H.W. Bush in the past and now works for University Dining.

sertive chef who listens to others and tweaks recipes based on their feedback, but also knows when to say, “This is how it’s done.”

“Overall, Eddie is a character with a great sense of humor,” Hemmer said. “No matter how hectic things get … he does a great job when it comes to working with his staff.”

For example, Wilson will hold his staff accountable when it does something wrong, but also keeps the mood light by complimenting it on a job well done, according to Hemmer.

“He’s so cool, but he’s a stickler,” said Trese Crowder, an employee at Tuffy’s Diner

who works with Wilson.

Overall, Wilson said one of the best parts about working as a chef is the challenges and the frenetic energy in the industry.

“There’s a tradition at the Indy 500 that when the track opens, there’s a howitzer cannon that goes off at 7 a.m.,” Wilson said. “Well, we would have breakfast served for 200 to 300 people ready to serve that morning, and so there is a calm just before that cannon goes off … and it’s just like an explosion of events, and there’s a sort of magic to it, to knowing that’s getting ready to happen.”

His next proudest moment occurred when he graduated

his first class of aspiring chefs from his culinary school.

“Graduating our first class from the school was an emotional, exciting feeling knowing that you got to affect, and come full circle,” Wilson said. “Chefs affected my life as I was growing up, and now I did the same thing.”

With the high turnover rate in the industry, Hemmer said Wilson’s ability to teach serves University Dining well.

“If I did not have someone like him I could trust with his expertise and his talent, I would be dead in the water right now,” Hemmer said.

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Mary Anna Rice Graduate student in linguistics Eric Wilbanks points to the right side of the screen showing where the tip of the tongue is.

He stands in a black soundproof box inside a room in Cox Hall along with Jeff Mielke, head of the phonology lab, Amy Hemmeter a graduate student in English and Nicholas MembrezWeiler a graduate student in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. They watch Mielke’s tongue, through an ultrasound, slide around in his mouth. This all serves to demonstrate how they would observe the way a person physically makes words and how the tongue moves to make sounds, which wiggles more than you might expect.

Mielke, along with five graduate students and one postdoctoral researcher, observe and record physical movements that the human mouth makes to produce language.

The project records volunteers speaking with a camera to observe how the lips move, an ultrasound to record the movement of the tongue, an electroglottograph to measure how much the vocal chords move and an airflow mask to record nasal airflow as the person spoke. A frame holds volunteers’ heads still as they speak to provide a more accurate look at how they form their words.

“English has a large number of different vowels,” Mielke said.

“We think it has five but it’s more like 12 or 14 and different versions of English have slightly different versions.”

According to Mielke, he and his team collect data for a laboratory in Paris called the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique which is collecting data from different parts of the English-speaking world. Their interests lie in how language works, how people per-

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Nicholas Membrez-Weiler, a Ph. D. Student in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology who has specialization in sociolinguistics, poses in the phonetics lab in Cox 515.

ceive it, and how people produce it.

“One aspect of the program is the language attitudes, looking at language attitudes toward the South and language attitudes toward features of Southern speech,” Wilbanks said.

Mielke said people naturally converge to speech they are directly exposed to if exposed to someone of like-speech or diverge their aspects of speech when talking to people who speak different, and he hopes to do an experiment later this semester to observe how much people converge or diverge their speech. According to Mielke, converging speech into something similar to another person’s is an implicit measure of people’s language attitudes.

“We are taking advantage of the fact that North Carolina has a mixture of different dialects,” Mielke said.

According to Mielke, North Carolina is one of the top destinations for people from the North to move to because of the Research Triangle Park.

North Carolina is an excellent place to research speech production and language attitudes because of the great number of dialects present, including the Outer Banks dialect, East North Carolina dialect, Appalachian

dialect, Cherokee dialect, Lumbee dialect, general southern and Virginia dialects, African American English and Northern dialects.

“The more we know about specific examples about how people use language in specific situations, the more we can generalize about cognitive processes, how the brain works, and how we process language,” Wilbanks said. “An important focus of the [linguistics] department is the social aspect of it, how do people use language in social situations for social purposes—or just language for language purposes—and how social things affect that.”

According to Mielke, NC State has recently added a doctorate program in sociolinguistics.

One of the program’s researchers, Nicholas Membrez-Weiler, is not part of the linguistics program in the English Department at State but the Department of Sociology & Anthropology.

Though the data collection for the French Laboratory is ending, linguists will always be trying to collect data on speech patterns and formations.

“The study of language will go on forever,” Mielke said.

The Boxtrolls visually captivates viewers with its quick pace, but loses them through its lack of progressive storytelling.

The Boxtrolls is the newest movie from Laika, the studio that brought similarly morbid and charming films such as Coraline and ParaNorman. Although the recent addition to the studio’s repertoire doesn’t quite reach the levels of greatness as the former two, it’s still a joy to watch on screen.

Although other animation studios these days opt to utilize computer programs more often than not to mold their characters, Laika stands out in its persistent and remarkably f lawless development of stop-motion animation. A mid-credit cut scene demonstrates tongue-in-cheek how the images are painstakingly put together, and anyone would be hardpressed to say all that work isn’t worth it.

The Boxtrolls stuns viewers in a way that cannot be conveyed through any other means—the characters inhabit their environments with a sense of entitlement and life that can only be attained through their actual occupation of space.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright (otherwise known as one of the still-living characters on Game of Thrones) voices the protagonist, Eggs, a boy who thinks he’s a boxtroll. Even still, Eggs maintains more character in his careful design than through his voice actor.

Aimless until his boxtroll

parents are endangered, Eggs unfortunately lacks the prominence of other Laika protagonists.

However, the supporting cast more than makes up for Eggs’ blandness, what with Winnie “token girl” Portley-Rind (Elle Fanning), who delights in the macabre, and Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley), the obsequious antagonist and most complex character of the lot. Kingsley’s voice acting stands out from the rest, as he takes a particular relish in doling out threats to those who he perceives are beneath him.

Additionally, the boxtrolls cannot be ignored.

As genderless, grumbling beings that adopt Eggs as one of their own, they serve as amiable familial substitutes who happen to have a knack for tinkering with objects that aren’t nailed down.

The Boxtrolls seeks to subver t monster mythology by making the monsters under the bed extremely sympathetic characters. The boxtrolls themselves often code as “Other” within the confines of the world, surviving beneath the city while being wrongly shunned by the society literally and figuratively above them.

Citizens marginalize the boxtrolls, punishing them for having the audacity to take merely the scraps of the privileged culture that oppresses them.

The Exterminators, led

by Snatcher, hunt the boxtrolls, apparently seeking to rid the town of its infestation of “dangerous” pests. Snatcher has an ulterior motive: he hopes to escape his own low position in society by taking advantage of the boxtrolls.

The story eventually veers away from this angle

in a manner that doesn’t sit right, because the resolution the film seemed to be working towards doesn’t quite come. Rather than upsetting the systemic relegation of not only the boxtrolls but also people such as Snatcher who aspire to change their societal roles, the people who indulge in rare privileges are allowed to retain their rosy positions.

The almost complete lack of women in The Boxtrolls may also distract the audience. The only female character with a substantial speaking role is Winnie, and although she is fantastic, the overall dominance of male characters poses some problems.

Another theme of the movie is family, and although there are multiple lines governing the importance of fatherhood, mothers are not mentioned at all. An additional fault of the film lies in the casual transphobia that presents itself in sporadic doses throughout the film.

Ordinarily in a movie, this would not stand out.

However, because Laika has in the past upheld such a progressive and socially-aware persona, it is off-putting that the studio has taken such a step back.

Faults aside, The Boxtrolls is worth watching to at least appreciate the incredible animation. It is tightly plotted, never boring and has multiple scenes in which Moss from The IT Crowd contemplates implications of his own supporting character’s storyline.

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The Tar Heels defeated the Wolfpack, 2-1.

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handling Carolina’s pressure superbly.

Sophomore Alyson Brown made many good stops, and led from the center back position. This was especially important when freshman defender Cailyn Boch went down with a leg injury.

She was able to hobble off on her own, but did not come back into the match.

Brown’s play, along with efforts of Loyas and junior Dayna Tomayko, were able to help freshman midfielder Franziska Jaser fill the center back role.

“I wasn’t used to playing with her in the back, but it was an easy transition,” Brown said.

As Carolina’s Paige Nielsen scored the second Tar Heel goal in the 78th, the Pack’s future seemed bleak. However, the Pack would not be denied.

Led by junior Brittany Stanko, the Wolfpack offense drove up the field late, and Stanko was able to score a one-on-one goal after a great pass from Loyas. Unable to convert a second goal

with only two minutes remaining, the Pack failed to grab points.

Throughout the match, a few players found themselves in unfamiliar positions. Jaser playing at center back, freshman Mackenzie Graybill playing up top late and Gentry at attacking mid were among the team’s unorthodox positional shifts.

Head Coach Tim Santoro blames these changes on injuries.

“We were very shorthanded today,” Santoro said. “That is not good when playing a very regular Carolina side.

They play 20 players, keep fresh bodies in the game, but the girls played to the best of their abilities today.”

Despite the loss, Santoro feels fine about the rest of the season.

“We are going to be competitive in games,” Santoro said. “We’ve shown that. But being competitive and winning matches are two very different things.”

The Pack will stay home one last game to play Pittsburgh on Oct. 4 before traveling to Louisville five days later.

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freshman cornerback Malcolm Means, giving the Pack position on the 20.

A 17-yard sweep by freshman tight end Jaylen Samuels and a 10-yard touchdown run up the middle by Thornton gave the Pack a 38-28 lead.

The Noles pushed back yet again. Florida State’s drive was marked by a quick throw to freshman receiver Travis Rudolph, who proceeded to run 40 yards and break three Wolfpack diving tacklers. Winston finished the drive with a 15-yard pass to Wilson.

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Brown played significant minutes in all three sets Friday night, recording seven digs and a career-high three service aces.

“She’s playing more like she did last year,” Bunn said. “Last year, she was our starting defensive specialist for the opposite. She struggled a little bit this year, but [she has] picked it up and got her serve back. She’s passing the ball well and playing good defense.”

Kearney led the team with five kills after one set, while recording no errors. The freshman ended the match with a .450 kill percentage, a game-high for players with at least three attempts.

Syracuse responded at the start of the second, as the team marched out to a 5-2 lead.

Though the Pack battled back to take a two-point lead midway through the set, the Orange con-

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work on is open field tackling,” said junior safety Hakim Jones.

“We missed a lot of tackles again this week and they are an elusive team.”

On the third play of the Wolfpack’s next drive, Brissett was sacked and fumbled the ball, putting FSU 5 yards from the end zone. Winston tossed the ball 5 yards to Greene to take the lead, 42-38.

On a rallying drive for the Pack that advanced the ball inside the red zone, Brissett was sacked and fumbled again 20 yards from the end zone, which was neutralized after Fernandez caught his second pick on Winston, and returned the ball inside the 20.

State settled for a field goal, tightening the score to 41-49.

The Wolfpack defense had a

chance to stop the Florida State offense on a third-and-11 opportunity, but failed to pressure Winston, who showed off his speed when rushing for 20 yards.

The Noles put the nail in the coffin with a touchdown from Williams with a final score of 56-41.

“There is a bunch of guys in there [locker room] that are spent,” said Head Coach Dave Doeren. “We played our hearts out.

I’m thankful to our students and fans. They created an unbelievable environment out there tonight.”

Brissett was 32-48, and threw for 359 yards for three touchdowns, while rushing for 90. Thornton ran for 90 yards in 18 attempts, while Hines caught eight passes for 103 yards and a touchdown.

tinued to keep pace with the State squad.

The Pack finished strong again, closing out the second set on a 7-2 run to take a two-set lead heading into the intermission.

Ramsey was absolutely dominant in the second, recording seven of her 14 kills in just eight attempts.

“The defense was awesome and [sophomore setter] Maggie [Speaks] did a great job of getting me the ball,” Ramsey said. “Coach Bunn is always talking about being loud and aggressive, so I’ve been working on calling it loud and letting Maggie know when I’m ready to hit.”

The beginning of the third set was closely contested, including four tie scores. However, the Pack broke off a 6-1 run to take a 16-11 lead midway through the third, eventually taking the set, 25-21.

During the 6-1 run, the Pack recorded two more of the team’s eight service aces, which tied for third-most this season. Bunn

said that the strong service game helped shut down the Orange attack.

“We took them out of their offense,” Bunn said. “We served so tough that they couldn’t run an offense. We’ll take eight errors if we get eight aces.”

Syracuse was unable to get anything Friday night, hitting under .100 in two sets and .105 for the match as a whole.

“Everyone was really communicating,” Brown said. “We knew from film that they were going to hit a lot of back-row attacks, so we were prepared for that.”

With the win, the Pack is now tied for the second-best winning streak in program history at 12.

Bunn said that despite there being history on the line Friday when the team travels to take on Wake Forest, the team will prepare like it was any other game.

“Like it said in Bull Durham, ‘you take it one game at a time,’” Bunn said.

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Glennon comes up clutch for the Buccaneers Former NC State quarterback Mike Glennon returned to the starting position with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. The Buccaneers have been abysmal so far, posting three straight losses to open the season, which includes a 56-17 pummeling from the Atlanta Falcons.

However, with Glennon at the helm for the first time in the season, the Bucs reversed the script. Late in Sunday’s fourth quarter, Tampa Bay was down 24-20 with 40 seconds left and zero timeouts. Glennon took over at the Pittsburgh 46-yard line.

The second-year quarterback threw incomplete on his first pass but on his second, found a streaking Louis Murphy for 41 yards. The Bucs quickly ran down the field to spike the ball with 35 seconds remaining. On third down from the Pittsburgh 5-yard line, Glennon found Vincent Jackson in the back of the end zone to cap the game winning drive, which gave the Buccaneers a 26-24 lead with seven seconds remaining. Glennon finished with 302 yards and two touchdowns on the day.

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Purvis candidate for Campbell Trophy

NC State graduate student fullback Tyler Purvis has been named as a semifinalist for the 2014 WIlliam V. Campbell Trophy, an award which is given annually to a college football player with the best combination of academics, community service, and on-field performance. The honor is considered by many as the ‘Academic Heisman’. Purvis boasts a 3.556 GPA as an undergraduate in business administration and has made the Dean’s List in seven of his eight semesters at State. The Reinholds, Pennsylvania native was a member of the 2013 Academic All-ACC football team and graduated magna cum laude. Purvis has played in 36 career games for the Pack and is also the winner of the team’s Earle Edwards Award from last season.

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Junior running back Shadrach Thornton strikes through Florida State’s defense in a 10-yard touchdown run to secure the Wolfpack’s second score of the first quarter in Saturday’s matchup.

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The NC State football team pushed the No. 1 Florida State Seminoles against the ropes on Saturday in a potential upset that came up short for the Pack, who lost 56-41. The teams faced off at Carter-Finley Stadium, a venue that has hosted a history of upsets against the Florida State team.

The Wolfpack struck first blood on the second play of the game, as redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett threw over the top to freshman receiver Bo Hines on a 54-yard touchdown pass thanks to blown coverage by the Seminoles’ backfield.

The Noles countered with a seven-play, 55-yard touchdown drive commanded by Florida State sophomore signal caller Jameis Winston. On NC State’s 32-yard line,

the 2013 Heisman trophy winner completed to sophomore receiver Jesus Wilson in the end zone.

Junior running back Shadrach Thornton ran like a battering ram in the Pack’s ensuing drive. Thornton accrued 41 yards in five carries, the majority of which shoved down the throat of the Florida State defensive front. Thornton capped off the drive with a 3-yard push into the end zone.

“Having a great offensive line like I did to [enabled me to]open up the gaps and basically just hitting the hole,” Thornton said. “Then it was just about my will against their will, and I knew I could win.”

Senior tackle T.Y. McGill sacked Winston in the first play of the following FSU drive and forced a fumble, which was recovered by NC State. The Pack went three and out, and settled for a 37-yard field goal booted by senior place kicker Niklas Sade.

Following a three-and-out by FSU, Brissett punished the Semi-

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noles’ flawed coverage again with 45-yard pass to redshirt sophomore tight end David Grinnage.

The Pack concluded its drive on third-and-six on the FSU 8-yard line. Brissett escaped two tackling defenders in the backfield and completed a near-impossible touchdown pass to sophomore receiver Johnathan Alston.

The Pack outscored FSU 24-7 in the first quarter, the most firstquarter points that the school has allowed in the history of its program.

The Noles were offended by its 17-point deficit, and a 39-yard pass to Wilson and a 4-yard run into the end zone by sophomore running back Karlos Williams gave Florida State a needed breath of life.

The former national champs were able to score consecutively, after Winston connected on a 22yard pass to senior receiver Rashad Greene, who tiptoed in to tighten the score, 24-21.

The third quarter opened with

an agile interception by Fernandez, giving Brissett the opportunity to f launt his dynamic playmaking ability.

Brissett accomplished a spectacular string of plays, which included a sidearm pass to Thornton while being taken down by multiple defenders, a first-down rush once escaping a defender in the backfield, and a 10-yard gain down the middle, juking two tacklers in the process. The South Palm Beach native capped off the drive with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Dayes.

Florida State kept pace, as Winston and the Seminoles offense picked apart the Wolfpack defense with sharp outside passes and efficient rushing. Freshman running back Dalvin Cook darted right through the middle for FSU’s next touchdown.

A bobbled punt return by FSU’s Greene was recovered by redshirt

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VOLLEYBALL

State comes up short in tight losses to Duke, UNC-CH Garrett Melia Correspondent

The NC State women’s soccer team was unable to pick up points this weekend, losing to both Duke and Carolina in tough 1-0 and 2-1 losses, respectively.

Having started ACC play not a week ago, State’s schedule was an uphill battle. Duke is now 3-0-0 in conference and Carolina is now 4-0-0 in conference, so State’s close losses to both teams is something to be proud of.

The Duke match saw stellar play from sophomore keeper Karly Gustafson, who only conceded a goal.

Gustafson had six saves and saw 24 shots through the entirety of the match.

Although under heavy pressure for the majority of the game, State saw a flurry of offense that almost brought them level in the dying minutes of the match. Most notably, freshman forward Kayla Saager made a shot that hit the crossbar and junior forward Caroline Gentry made a follow-up shot that was saved at the near post.

Coming into Sunday’s game, the Pack was looking to snag its first ACC points against its second Triangle rival, UNC-Chapel Hill. Sophomore goalkeeper Mackenzie Stelljes was back in the lineup after having to serve her one-game suspension against Duke, along with sophomore forward Gladys Loyas, who came off the bench Thursday night.

Just like Thursday’s game, State sat in and was put under a lot of pressure, most often having just one or two players out of defense at a time. UNCCH was able to put a lot of shots up quickly, while Stelljes only had to make four saves in the first half.

However, she was called on multiple times to come off her line or collect balls.

Apart from the goal, the NC State back line was

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Sophomore Maggie Speaks sets the ball for a spike. The Wolfpack swept Syracuse 3-0 on Friday evening.

Pack’s streak continues after win over Syracuse Zack Tanner Senior Staff Writer

The NC State volleyball team extended its winning streak to 12 with a 3-0 sweep of Syracuse (7-6 overall, 0-1 ACC) Friday night at Reynolds Coliseum. With the victory, the Wolfpack (12-1 overall, 1-0 ACC) finishes the month of September with a perfect 10-0 record.

On a team filled with veterans who have faced ACC competition many times before, two freshmen shone for the Pack on Friday: outside hitter Perry Ramsey and mid-

dle blocker Kaitlyn Kearney.

In the first conference game of their careers, the duo combined for 26 kills with a .432 kill percentage.

“They were very poised for freshmen,” said State head coach Bryan Bunn. “They would make a mistake and bounce right back. But they’ve played in every match for us this year, so they’re not really freshmen anymore.”

Ramsey got off to a quick start for the Pack, claiming three of the team’s first four kills during an 8-2 run to start the match. Though she said she was nervous heading

into the match, Ramsey said the early kills gave her muchneeded confidence.

“It definitely took some of the stress off,” Ramsey said.

“I came out a little shaky, but I knew I had to keep swinging, and they went down.”

State ended the first set with authority, finishing on an 11-1 run to take a 25-11 victory in the first. The stretch featured two service aces from sophomore defensive specialist Maddie Brown.

After seeing limited court time in pre-conference play,

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