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Public hearing draws Packapalooza protestors to campus to return to NC State Saturday

Katherine Kehoe News Editor

Opponents and supporters of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, voiced their stances about new rules proposed by the North Carolina Mining and Energy Commission in front of a spirited crowd during a Raleigh public hearing Wednesday at the McKimmon Center.

About 500 people attended the hearing and listened to more than 80 North Carolina residents speak out for up to 3 minutes apiece both for and against the NC Mining Commissions proposed set of rules governing the extraction of shale gas in North Carolina.

These rules would regulate the construction of well shafts, chemical disclosure, water testing, site reclamation, the issuance of permits and other environmental and legal aspects related to shale gas extraction. The Republican-controled legislature is planning to lift the State’s ban on fracking next year which will open the door for fracking production to begin in the state.

Estefania Castro-Vasquez Staff Writer

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A group against fracking rallies before a public hearing on proposed fracking rules held at the McKimmon Center on the N.C. State campus in Raleigh Wednesday.

The majority of attendees were in opposition to the proposed rules as well as all hydraulic fracturing activity in North Carolina, visually demonstrating their position with posters, t-shirts, sashes and a short protest before the hearing that followed.

Groups represented at the protest included Greenpeace, Frack Free NC, Raging Grannies, Food and Water Watch, as well as members

of the general public.

The vocal opposition expressed concerns about the environmental impact of allowing fracking to take place in North Carolina, arguing the proposed fracking environmental regulations would not adequately protect people’s health or the environment from the dangers of extracting shale gas from

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The largest and most anticipated of NC State’s Wolfpack Welcome Week events, Packapalooza, will return to Hillsborough Street Saturday from 2 to 10 p.m. About 45,000 people attended last year’s festival, and similar numbers are expected to return this year, according to the event website.

Justine Hollingshead, co-chair director of Packapalooza, said she is ready to continue the annual tradition as organizers hope to appeal not only to students, but to the entire Raleigh and NC State community with both new and expanded-upon attractions.

“There’s something for everyone,” Hollingshead said. “Whether you like turkey legs and the sports zone, or listening to music or shopping down Hillsborough, there should be something for everyone. It’s going to be a great day.”

Jeff Murison, producer of Live

It Up! On Hillsborough, said that because of the success of previous years, new developments have been added to the showcase.

Three new zones have been added to the event, a Service Zone, a Senior Zone and a Young Alumni zone, according to Hollingshead.

The Service Zone will feature several organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, Kay Yow Cancer Fund and Feed the Pack, said Hollingshead.

She said the new Senior Zone will be hosted at McDaids and will offer students who are in their senior year a place to network and learn more about the Alumni Association.

Last year, more seniors signed up for the Alumni Association during Packapalooza than the entire previous year, according to Hollingshead.

Hollingshead said the Young Alumni Zone will be at La Rancherita and will hopefully attract

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SAS partnership enhances research possibilites Jess Thomas Staff Writer

A recent partnership between SAS and NC State geared toward expanding research in cyber security, analytics and big data analysis is aiming to promote collaboration between the institutions and provide new opportunities for student researchers.

Terri Lomax, vice chancellor of the Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development, said the new agreement would be able to provide an easier collaboration between researchers at NC State and SAS. “It makes it so much easier to do business together, when our faculty and their researchers have an idea they want to work on together, they don’t have to negotiate a separate contract, the agreement allows them to just add a task order and get

to work,” Lomax said.

Lomax said the new partnership will also provide opportunities for students to work at SAS due to the company’s large need for students in STEM disciplines within the company.

“The more students that we can interest in this agreement, and that we can interest in doing internships with SAS will lead to an increase in the STEM talent,” Lomax said.

The new agreement should also generate a lot of attention from various companies that want to collaborate with NC State in the future, which would be very beneficial to the university’s research programs, according to Lomax.

“We’ve had around 60 master research agreements with companies, but this is a very significant one due to our long history with SAS and the close alignment between our interests,” Lomax said.

Tim Wilson, senior Intellectual Property counsel for SAS, said before the research agreement was created, it was difficult to organize a set of conditions between the two employers due to various time constraints.

“It was difficult to get the terms and conditions ironed out between SAS and NC State given the time constraints and having classes beginning or ending, being able to get the contracts off the ground was difficult,” Wilson said.

The collaboration agreement outlines a set of pre-existing conditions for research projects, which will eliminate the time consumption of creating a set of separate conditions for each project.

“What this agreement will allow us to do is have a set of fundamental terms and conditions ironed out between SAS and NC State in advance, and now all we have to do now is

Jim Goodnight, CEO and founder of SAS, is an NC State alumnus.

identify a project and a cost and get it approved,” Wilson said.

In addition to eliminating the

Back to School Jam welcomes students, celebrates culture

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time consumption involved with writing a set of conditions for each product, the research agreement

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Casey Oldham Correspondent

Despite the sporadic rain, students ate, danced and celebrated the beginning of a new semester at UABBSB’s Back to School Jam Wednesday evening, an event geared toward bringing together new members and welcoming the black community back to NC State for another year.

The event hosted several blackstudent groups, both non-Greek affiliated and Greek affiliated, that either performed or hosted a booth for students participating in the event.

Performers included Dance Visions and United Praise Gospel Choir. Several student groups also performed musical acts.

The director of this UAB-BSB event, Amira Alexander, said she hoped the new members of the black

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community at NC State felt welcomed and apart of the culture here at NC State.

Others, such as Mariah Parker, said they enjoyed the performances and thought this was a good way to end

the first day of classes.

A n o t h e r p e r f o r m e r, theDeepEnd, performed a few songs in the style of conscious hip-hop, highlighted by his new track “Stronger Than You’ll Ever Know.”

Showing his Alumni pride, Malcolm Brown, who graduated from the university this past spring, performed at this event to show support for the community.

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The Kappa Xi chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated here at NCSU performed a combination of a step and a stroll exhibition as well. It’s a standing tradition that all active African American Greek life organizations perform at this annual event.

“It’s always an honor to be able to come out every year and perform,” said Kelly Darden, a senior in com-

munication and president of Kappa Alpha Psi. “This event is especially catered to the freshmen so that they can be involved.”

Rizio Lewis-Streit, a senior in communication and a member of the group A.B.R. performed as well. Lewis-Streit said he wanted to perform as a student group, because he wanted to help others feel like a part of the student body.

“My favorite part of the event is seeing all the Greeks together hoppin’ steppin’ together in all the student unit,” Lewis-Streit said.

The group is also performing and closing Packapalooza this coming Saturday at 7 p.m.

Paige Hardy, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, also

performed with her sisters to several songs and steps. She said her two favorite parts of this event were meeting and involving new students and running the booth in general. Something specifically she enjoys about this event is that she can showcase the sorority’s talents. They are reining Pan-Afrikan Step Show champions.

One booth, The Movement Merchandising, is a clothing company owned and run by two NC State students. Arlan Wallace, a junior majoring in Business Marketing, and Zack Fasica, a senior in chemistry, started the company by printing t-shirts at a local shop on Hillsborough Street and selling them until they had saved up enough money to buy their own press.

The business partners said they were previously friends before they started their clothing company due to their mutual desire to sell clothing college students would like and afford.

Wallace and Fasica have also opened their store as a consignment shop where students can buy and sell lightly used clothing they think someone else can use to complete their own sense of style.

Today at the event, The Movement Merchandising signed into a partnership with another clothing company named cherryDOTdork.

They said they hope to grow and reach even more young adults in the area with their style-on-a-budget clothing company.

going to do at the University based upon the projects that we have mutually agreed to do,” Wilson said.

According to Wilson, though the new agreement has no distinction in the type of research funded, there will be a preference for the analytics, software programming and data visualization fields.

“We have many grads from

NC State who are great employees, and I expect that trend to continue and be supplemented by people who work on research in this agreement,” Wilson said.

Graduates from NC State have historica lly found working opportunities with SAS, and this new agreement will help that trend continue and grow, Lomax said.

Hundreds of innocents have died in Gaza.

Who is really to blame for this tragedy?

Israel left Gaza completely in 2005, freeing the Palestinians to build an autonomous state there. Yet since then, the Hamas terror regime has instead chosen to use its resources to wage an unrelenting war against the Jewish state from military installations located in the midst of densely populated Arab residential areas.

What are the facts?

Thanks to Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system and the Palestinians’ poor targeting When Israel evacuated its citizens and military capabilities, these attacks have yet to kill large from Gaza in 2005, Israelis hoped this would be the numbers of Israelis. But it’s not for lack of trying: beginning of a win-win, land-for-peace exchange with Hamas aims to kill as many Jews as possible. the Palestinians. American Jewish donors even paid What Is to Be Done? In 1945, during World War II, $14 million to purchase 3,000 greenhouses left by the United States bombed Dresden, Germany, and, a Israeli settlers and transferred them to the few months later, Hiroshima Palestinian Authority. and Nagasaki, Japan, killing But instead of creating a By basing its military operations in 220,000 people, most of thriving agricultural enterprise, the greenhouses urban centers, Hamas’ intention seems them civilians. Who was to were vandalized and precisely to allow its citizens to be killed blame for these tragic deaths? Was it the United destroyed. Gaza’s golden and injured for propaganda purposes. States, which was Mediterranean beaches responding defensively to could have made it a Middle two deadly enemies, or was it the leaders of Germany East tourist mecca. But instead of the vibrant state and Japan, who had sworn themselves to the that both Israel and many Palestinians envisioned, enslavement and destruction of many nations, today under Hamas Gaza’s poverty is worse than ever, including our own? The U.S. believed it needed to its cities are ravaged by self-inflicted warfare and its demonstrate to Germany and Japan that unless they people suffer under an Islamist dictatorship. What a surrendered, their military, their infrastructure and, if shame that is. necessary, their people would be decimated.

What’s worse, since Hamas strong-armed the Israel’s situation today is even more dire than that Palestinian Authority out of power in Gaza in 2007, of the U.S. in 1945. Israelis are being attacked daily the terror group began attacking Israel with a nearly by a Palestinian terrorist group sworn to the Jewish continuous barrage of unsophisticated, but still state’s destruction and launching military offensives deadly short-range rockets. Avowedly committed to on Israeli civilians. This is an existential threat that destroying Israel, Hamas and other Gaza-based no nation would or should tolerate. An implacable jihadis have since 2001 fired more than 15,000 enemy like this must not merely be temporarily rockets at Israeli cities and kibbutzim. deterred, it must be defeated.

Israel responded in 2009 with a ground offensive We pray that few Arab civilians are harmed in in Gaza and in 2012 with intense shelling of Hamas Hamas’ deadly adventure, but demands by the military positions, most of them purposely located in international community that the group move its Gaza’s heavily populated urban areas. Israeli military military operations out of populated areas have been responses did untold damage to Gaza’s ignored for more than a decade. Indeed, by basing its infrastructure, and led to short-term ceasefires by military operations in urban centers, Hamas’ Hamas. Unfortunately, Israel’s defensive responses intention seems precisely to allow its citizens to be also resulted in approximately fifteen hundred killed and injured for propaganda purposes. Such use deaths, many of them Arab civilians living near of human shields is, of course, a war crime.

Hamas military positions. What a shame that is.

Above all, we pray that Hamas and other radical Recently Hamas has acquired longer-range, SyrianArab groups give up their blood vendetta against produced missiles via Iran that are capable of Israel. One thing is clear: If tomorrow Hamas were to reaching Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion International Airport lay down its arms and declare peace with Israel, we and Jerusalem. In the first seven months of 2014, would have peace immediately. But another thing is Hamas militants launched more than 3,500 such also clear: If tomorrow Israel were to lay down its high-powered rockets, threatening 80% of Israel’s arms and declare peace with Hamas, there would population—and sending many of those six million soon be no Israel. This is the ultimate shame. people fleeing in terror to bomb shelters.

Contrary to some media reports, the conflict between Hamas and Israel is not a “cycle of violence,” nor does it require “mutual restraint.” Rather, Israel, a nation smaller than tiny El Salvador, surrounded by a sea of hostile Arab and Muslim nations, is responding logically to protect its citizens from an enemy directly on its border. What nation would not respond to such existential threats with definitive force meant to defeat this enemy?

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would increase the availability of research for students and faculty to become involved with at NC State.

“What it’s going to mean to the various professors and students is that the projects will be sponsored, there will be some funding that SAS is

Sept. 3 last day to drop a class, policy now effective Staff Report

Effective this semester, students will only have until Sept. 3 to drop a class without penalty. Students who withdraw from a class after Sept. 3 will receive a “W” on their transcript. Students are limited to a maximum of 16 hours of course withdrawals for their undergraduate careers. Courses dropped prior to fall 2014 do not count toward this 16-hour limit.

This period of 10 class

days is significantly shorter than the previous drop period. Last fall, students had until Oct. 18 to drop classes without penalty.

This regulation applies to students at all 17 UNCSystem schools, but mostly affects students at N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill, as these two universities had much longer drop periods than the other 15 universities.

Despite opposition from Chancellor Randy Woodson and UNC-CH’s then-Chan-

cellor Holden Thorp, the UNC General Administration adopted policy 400.1.5[R], Fostering Undergraduate Student Success, in spring 2013.

According to the policy, the drop and add periods must be concluded by the census date, which is the 10th day of class.

The number of students enrolled in classes on the census day will be used in the Satisfactory Academic Progress calculation for financial aid recipients.

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a lu m n i who g raduated about five to 10 years ago.

In addition to these three new zones, other popular areas have been expanded a nd f ur t her developed.

“The development of the Wolfpack Zone as a center of

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the ground.

Specifically, speakers expressed concerns regarding trade secret exemption to chemical disclosures, storing chemically contaminated water in pits exposed to open air and setting wells too close to homes and waterways.

Vicki Ryder, a member of the Raging Grannies, said the proposed setback distances for fracking sites would not be enough to keep toxic chemicals away from people they could harm. Ryder said leaking pipes, accidental spills, worker error or any other inevitable possibility is an opportunity to put peoples’ health at risk.

Ryder cited a study conducted in Colorado that found the babies born to mothers living within 10 miles of a fracking well had significantly more health problems and defects than children born to mothers who did not live within 10 miles of a well.

The proposed legislation requires a setback distance of 650 feet from occupied dwell-

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school spirit was highly successful, so that will be expanded this year,” Murison said.

Hol l i ng s he a d s a id attendees should expect to see more vendors, a new stage for performances, student groups, academic departments and a number of start-up companies.

The new stage will host two Art2Wear shows, and attendees can expect to see Justin

LeBlanc, an assistant professor at NC State and a contestant of the reality TV show, Project Runway, according to Hollingshead.

The festival will also feature 10 musical guests including the headlining artist, Scotty McCreery, and various university a cappella groups, such as the Grains of Time and the Ladies in Red. “For first-year students in

particular, it’s a great way to be exposed to all the things the University has to offer,” Hollingshead said. “It’s a great way for faculty and staff to share a celebratory experience and to kick off the year right.”

Students who are returning to Packapalooza say it is an opportunity to explore groups and activities they may be interested in joining.

“It’s a good way to find out about clubs and different groups on campus and get really cool cups,” said Cliff Johnson, a sophomore in engineering.

Johnson said that as a Scotty McCreery fanatic, he is most excited about the concert.

“I’ve never seen [McCreery] play live,” said Wanlin Zheng, a senior in statistics.

“I saw him at Bojangles once, but that’s it. This will be my first time seeing him actually perform.”

Regardless of varying interests, Hollingshead said there should be something to entertain all attendees.

Students who wish to stay upto-date with Packapalooza can download the NC State Guide for Packapalooza app.

ings and high-occupancy buildings and 200 feet from a stream, river, lake or other water source.

“This is criminal,” Ryder said.

Glenna Benjamin of Chapel Hill used her time the podium to engage all of the opponents of fracking in the room to speak together, chanting “You sold your soul for a poisonous hole!” with members of the audience.

Supporters of the legislation acknowledged the NC Mining and Energy Commission’s proposed environmental regulations stated the requirements are some of the most advanced in the country.

Speakers also boasted about the possibly of increased economic activity and job opportunities that lifting the moratorium on fracking would bring to the state.

Algenon Cash, the state chairmen for North Carolina Energy Forum said the oil and gas industry currently supports 146,000 jobs in the state, which add more than $12.4 billion in gross state product.

“We’re already enjoying the effect of the oil and natural gas revolution that is hap-

pening in other states, as increased energy production leads to lower energy prices right here for North Carolina citizens, and millions in savings for our states both public

and private enterprises,” Cash said.

Cash said, during the initial seven year development period, North Carolina will generate $80 million in new

capital investment and economic growth every year for seven years, in addition to almost 500 new jobs and $4.9 million in state and public revenue over those seven

years.

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New drop date prompts extra preparation What students can do about the new drop date E

ffective this semester, due to a decision from the UNC Board of Governors in spring 2013, is a 10day drop policy, meaning students will have until September 3 to decide whether to drop any dubious courses.

An easy criticism arises that students cannot always accurately gauge how challenging a class or a certain number of credit hours will be in such a short amount of time.

The criticism goes hand-in-hand with the fear that grades will drop, which reflects poorly on both students and teachers.

“I feel that the 10-day drop date is much too short, and will, in all like-

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Other professors, such as Chad feedback, but students who attend Wanda Ramm, professor of Eng- Ludington, associate professor of office hours and take the time to lish, said in an email that she modi- history, have adopted a wait-andbecome more familiar with the fied her course slightly as to better see attitude, considering the newcourse material and syllabi ahead help students determine whether ness of the policy. of time are more likely to be aware her class is an appropriate fit for True, it is difficult to gauge what if they are prepared for the class them. the new policy will mean for stuand will be able to make more in“Since I will have graded only dents, but there are actions that we formed decisions.

Though this policy will have significant drawbacks for all students who may have bitten off more than they can chew, it may be especially detrimental for firstyear students, who are not used to the rigor of an academic environment on a collegiate level and will not have the experience to make prudent decisions until they are knee-deep in the semester.

There isn’t much we as students can do right now, but we hope the Board of Governors will take student considerations more heavily into account for future decisions.

Policing the police: Stop excessive brutality T

he last two months have seen the death of Michael Brown, 18, killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri; Ezell Ford, 25, who was killed by a police officer in Los Angeles; Frank Alvarado, 39, killed by a Salinas police officer;Eric Garner, 43, killed by a New York police officer.

Marlene Pennock, 51, was brutally beaten by a California Highway Patrol officer.

These incidents all have two t hings in Sophie common: Nelson all of these Staff Columnist victims were unarmed and of color.

Of course, the majority of police officers has honorable intentions and earned the utmost respect for carrying out their duties as justly as possible. However, recurring headlines in recent years suggest there is a growing problem of abuse of enforcement power.

USA Today carried out an analysis of FBI data from the last seven years, which concluded that approximately a quarter of the 400 annual deaths delivered to federal authorities by local police departments were white-onblack shootings. Compare this to almost two black suspects killed a week by white police officers, averaging 96 accounts per year. Undoubtedly, this is an alarmingly high statistic, and real change needs to be put in place or the protests in Missouri will only continue to escalate.

One option that has the potential to be implemented nationwide is the use of video cameras for police officers to wear on duty. This has already been successful in Rialto, California, where they conducted a controlled study requiring officers to wear a small camera that filmed all their interactions with the public on a daily basis. After one year of recording, complaints against the Rialto police decreased by 88 percent.

Additionally, the use of force by officers on duty fell by almost 60 percent.

Although the results are indisputable, it may be too expensive to supply entire forces with devices. The excessive costs come from the storage and management of the data they generate.

An alternative solution that perhaps does not involve as many resources is the expansion of the legal definition of reasonable use of force. The U.S. Supreme Court defined reasonable use of force in 1989 as force “judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, and its calculus must embody an allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second decisions.”

The problem arises when law enforcement agencies narrowly interpret that definition to mean the rationality of the force is restricted to an assessment of only the amount of force used in the moment. This means that

the behavior of the officers in question immediately beforehand is never taken into account, and, therefore, the behavior of officers who provoke their victims is excused.

There have already been instances of broadening this definition as to hold officers more accountable for their actions. Earlier this year, the Seattle Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department did just that.

The updated law in Seattle now prohibits officers from engaging in physical force “against individuals who only verbally confront them unless the vocalization impedes a legitimate law enforcement function or contains specific threats to harm the officers or others.”

Similarly in Los Angeles, the practice of deadly force now requires “consideration of not only the use of deadly force itself, but also an officer’s tactical conduct and decisions leading up to the use of force when determining its reasonableness.”

Both of these measures are necessary to prevent more senseless acts of violence against unarmed black people. It certainly seems like the time to be policing the police, lest the protests carried out in Missouri are a taste of bigger things to come.

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Police in Ferguson, Missouri, line up in riot gear Monday, Aug. 11, in reaction to protesters.

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rotesters have been on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson August 9. Brown was unarmed, and the shooting was entirely uncalled for, as he was struck by six bullets, including two to the head. But after some unruly protesting following the incident, a police force with militarygrade weapons met the situation with undue force, leading to an increased indignation regarding police.

Protesters h ave routinely faced tear gas, the National Guard was ca lled in Ishan Raval and journalists were Staff Columnist harassed, threatened and even arrested by the police. Given the severity of the police response, for the first time in history, Amnesty International has sent human rights observers to the U.S. The rationale behind the outcry in Ferguson has been the excessively iron-fisted response of the police who violated the legal, proper way of dealing with protest that was on occasion violent and destructive of property, and great concern has been raised about the militarization of the police. But the dynamics of this situation, of the police responding with more force than the protesters have exhibited, should be considered more closely.

What other courses could the situation wherein some angry people took to rioting and looting have taken? For

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Clare Morganelli, sophomore, sustainable materials and technology “I disagree with it because I feel like 10 days is not enough time to determine if you can keep up with your class work.”

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one, the protesters could have been met with no force from the police. Some say that if there were no police presence to begin with, there would have been no looting and rioting, which is debatable.

Protesters, looters and rioters could have been met with equivalent force, which would likely have taken the form of there not being, say, the National Guard, and press freedom not having been suppressed.

Finally, the police could have met the protesters with much more brutal force, the kind of force, say, that protesters received in Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Arab Spring.

The last scenario raises an interesting matter that I won’t pursue here: at what point is it self-important to feel that we in the US have it really bad, given that much worse police atrocities occur regularly in much of the world? What is the appropriate disposition toward such abuses happening in our country that ensures our not thinking we are entitled to better than the world?

The first two scenarios, though, beg the following question: What is the point of protest, whatever forms it may take? The answer is: to threaten power.

As power is naturally comfortable with existing conditions, if it is not threatened, it will not change. If a protest does not actually threaten power, then power wouldn’t respond with undue force.

Corollary being, if power is reacting excessively, it is threatened.

This doesn’t mean that we should desire power to react excessively. Rather, we should realize that a legacy of racism is going to work its way out

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conf lictingly, and the oppressed will act in ways that, if threatening to power, will engender immoderate reaction from power. The notion that power should meet violence with equivalent violence, thus neutralizing just that violence and causing no other harm, is liberal mythology, meant to keep the status quo intact, including its oppressive aspects.

But if the status quo is being destabilized, as the collective will has dictated, immoderate reaction will naturally follow, and it makes little sense to vilify causality.

But what we could desire is that the threatening spirit that power picked up on and tried to subjugate persists, not in the form of riots, but through socio-economic transformation in and of the communities. If the communities of Ferguson evolve the current destabilization into such liberatory organization, then that will have been an overall change for the better.

In Ferguson, the signs of this are visible. Even The New Yorker is picking up on that, reporting that the social organization looks “like a movement,” existing from its epicenter of a QuikTrip gas station that had been looted and burned, but has now been converted to a social center called “QT People’s Park.”

But only if these portents culminate in the empowerment and reclamation of dignity by communities sidelined to a second-rate existence, in Ferguson and beyond, will this saga have been for the better. If there is no such starry culmination, we will have but to keep on reciting our laments: Michael Brown’s death was a horrible, horrible, thing.

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Student visits Israel during border war Sara Awad Staff Writer

When First Year College Freshman Jeremy Mason applied to go on an all-expense paid trip to Israel, he did not know he would arrive during the height of a political struggle between Israel and Palestine.

The trip lasted from July 28 to Aug. 8 and included sightseeing, lectures and religious activities, Mason said.

Birthright Israel funded Mason’s 10 day trip in addition to the more than 400,000 other trips the organization paid for since 1999. According to its website, the organization aims to “strengthen Jewish identity, Jewish communities and solidarity with Israel” for non-Israeli Jews.

Mason said he heard about the trip from his cousin, who went on the trip previously, and saw it as an opportunity to see Israel firsthand.

“I just really wanted to experience it and go see a lot of the sites there, and it was a great deal for a free trip,” Mason said.

On one of his excursions, he visited historic Mount Masada where, in Jewish history, several Jews committed suicide after a Roman siege, Mason said. Whether the event actually took place remains questionable, according to Mason, though he did see the remnants of a catapult while there.

He also prayed at the Western Wall to observe Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, which takes place from Friday to Saturday night and leaves no cars in the streets of Israel.

Other activities included a stroll through the old city of

Jerusalem, a visit to the Holocaust Museum, camping with Bedouins in the desert and swimming in the Dead Sea. However in the midst of his cultural experience, Mason witnessed a political movement too, as part of his itinerary included guest lectures from Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and former Assistant Advisor to the Prime Minister on counter terrorism, Sheldon Shulman.

According to Mason, Shulman spoke of his discontent with how Western media portrayed the conflict in Gaza.

“He was thinking that a lot of the media makes it seem like Israel is the bad guy killing a lot of civilians in Gaza and Palestine’s children and families,” Mason said. “He was telling us Hamas usually sets up a lot of their rockets in sites like schools and hospitals and whatnot, so Israel doesn’t have much of a choice.”

Hamas and others in Gaza deny these claims, but even if they did hold true, the Geneva Conventions state they still must avoid bombing civilian areas, according to The Guardian.

Not all Jews share Shulman’s political viewpoint either, leaving some questioning Birthright Israel’s educational approach.

“We are non-Israeli Jews who oppose the program because it promotes and supports Israel’s ongoing colonialism and apartheid policies and marginalizes Jewish experiences in the diaspora,” stated Aviva Stahl, Sarah Woolf and Sam Elliot Bick in the opinion column As Jews we say “Birthright” trips must end.

Eighteen to 26-year-olds may apply multiple times to the program, meaning almost all eligible Jews who continue to apply tend to eventually receive the free trip, according to Mason. In 2011, the Israeli government said it would give 100 million to the organization so more Jews could participate, according to the organization’s website.

Before the trip, Mason said he did not know much about the politics of the region and did not imagine the amount of soldiers he would see on the streets.

“The only thing that really surprised me was a lot of soldiers walking around with M16s on their necks, which is kind of a weird thing to get used to,” Mason said. “I didn’t realize it was to that extent.”

In Israel, all citizens must join the army after age 18. “….A lot of people here view that as not really fair, but all five guy and girl [soldiers] said that’s something that they wanted to do, but they didn’t necessarily want to, but now that they’re in it they’re definitely proud of it.”

Mason said.

According to Mason, dead soldiers at the National Cemetery also moved him. “…We got to the new section and there were just piles of sand because of the new soldiers who died in Gaza and they didn’t have time to actually bury them yet, so they were just kind of covered in sand and that was definitely wild to see even if you didn’t know the people,” Mason said.

As of Wednesday, 67 Israelis have died in the fighting compared to the more than 2000

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Jeremy Mason, a freshman in First Year College, went on a free trip to Israel, but did not know that he would be arriving during the hight of the political struggle between Israel and Palestine.

Gazans killed since the start of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge July 8, according to CNN. Aside from the soldiers, though, Mason said he did not see the “danger” of Israel he so often saw on the news. “[The media] always mentions how many rockets are going into Israel, but the amount that have actually hit Israel is, I think, less than 10,” Mason said. “They shoot a couple hundred, but only a few of them have actually

landed, and I feel like the news always says more rockets and more rockets and more rockets, but it’s really not that many. I was there for 10 days and I never heard a siren.”

Still, the organization prohibited participants from traveling to Tel Aviv and Gaza as a safety precaution, and about a third of would-be participants abstained from the trip altogether, according to Mason.

“I was skeptical of whether

to go to Israel or not, because they always made it seem like Israel was a dangerous place, but I can say from when I was there it wasn’t that bad and the people who live there, you could tell weren’t even worried about living there,” Mason said. “They felt pretty comfortable.”

Overall, Mason said the trip opened his eyes and made him want to continue to inform himself about politics and other areas of the world.

Innovation Hall binds entrepreneurial community Katherine Waller Staff Writer

NC State solidified support of its entrepreneurial community with the grand opening of the Innovation Hall on Centennial Campus, which will take place September 2. Innovation Hall is in Wolf Ridge apartments and contains the Albright Entrepreneurs Village and the new EI Garage.

Andy Albright and his wife were the donors and the namesake behind Innovation Hall. Albright said he is an entrepreneur and an NC State graduate. Megan Greer, the director of Communications and Outreach, said Albright backs the student entrepreneurial community so much because he has always had an interest for entrepreneurship.

Albright Entrepreneurs Village is both the first village on Centennial Campus and the first named village at NC State.

The grand opening of Innovation Hall will be open to the entire campus and community. It will include remarks from the chancellor, a ribbon cutting, showcases from entrepreneurs and apartments that are opened for viewing.

Geoff Milburn, the Technical Garage Assistant and a junior in business administration, called the growing wave of entrepreneurs a “fad.”

According to Greer, it is important to teach students about entrepreneurship.

“We are beginning to realize the importance of teaching students to have an entrepreneurial mindset and how to apply this to whatever ca-

reer path they choose,” Greer said.

Greer also said students need to learn they have a “third-pathway,” meaning that there are options other than simply a degree and then finding a job—students have the option to become job creators.

Greer attributed the recent rise in entrepreneurship to the current state of the economy. She recognized that people are realizing the importance of being job creators rather than relying on the whims of a hiring manager or working at the same company for 30 years.

Greer explained that it is important to be “nimble, f lexible and a ‘jack-of-alltrades’” in the modern workforce. According to Greer, students need to learn what she calls the “entrepreneurial spirit”, and skills that they can apply to whatever career students choose.

“The entrepreneurial spirit is really pervasive in our culture right now,” Greer said.

“People are realizing that they have the power to cre-

ate their own luck and their own destiny through entrepreneurship.”

According to Greer, Innovation Hall further solidifies NC State’s engagement for being a place for entrepreneurship and innovation.

“Innovation Hall represents NC State’s commitment to being a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation and now we have a facility that is dedicated to being a living and learning place where student entrepreneurs can work together and create,” Greer said. “This is really exciting to us.”

The Raleigh area is proving to be a hub for entrepreneurs as well. The Entrepreneurial Initiative, Innovate Raleigh, has encouraged community leaders to fill the need of the new emergent entrepreneurial startup scene. Greer added that community leaders have stepped up to fill this need with new organizations such as HQ Raleigh, a workspace for real-world entrepreneurs, and Think House, a living community structured to cater to post-

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“Programs like this really help bridge the gap between graduating and going out in the real world and pursuing entrepreneurship” said Greer.

The EI garage at Innovation Hall will more than double in size with the new opening.

Greer said students can expect more room to work and more small-group workspace that students can use as an office to meet with potential clients and investors.

Additionally, in the new workspace, village members will have free access to 3-D printers, a ShopBot, a laser cutter and prototyping tools. Students will have the resource of constant collaboration with students across all disciplines and community

office hours where patent attorneys are available as an additional resource for students. There will also be a lot of programming for village and garage members that will provide a multitude exposure to the entrepreneurial mindset, including a speaker series.

Milburn said the student network available at the EI Garage is particularly appealing as well as the 24 hour, 7 days a week access.

“Students will be eating, sleeping and breathing entrepreneurship,” said Greer.

“They will be constantly presented with opportunities to make their ideas a reality.”

Students across all majors and disciplines are welcome to become members of the Albright Entrepreneurship

Village and the EI Garage.

“Everything we do is interdisciplinary; the resources we offer are for students across all academic disciplines,” Greer said. “We are really a melting pot, students that are working together and melding together different sets of skills, are making something much stronger than the isolation of working with students of the same discipline. That is really important to us.”

Village members must fill out housing applications as well as a supplemental application that asks several questions about prior involvement with entrepreneurship.

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Student production company highlights diversity Kevin deMontburn Staff Writer

Raleigh is the fourth fastest growing city in the United States, according to Forbes magazine. James Huang, a junior in communication, has recently created a video production company called Made New in hopes of capturing the diversity of artists affiliated with street culture in Raleigh and its surrounding areas.

“I hope to help build Raleigh,” Huang said. “I think Raleigh is one of the few budding cities in America that has the potential to become a new Los Angeles or New York.”

Huang said he began his videography career in high school. After creating a few comedic videos that gained popularity and approval, he realized the potential videography has to send an impactful message. According to Huang, he found his niche in that form of art.

Earlier in his college career, Huang partnered with a friend named Bill Collette in his company called Bill Co. There, Huang went on to film mainstream hip-hop and rap artists in concert who were stopping in the Raleigh area on tour.

“I really enjoyed filming with Bill, but I felt like I had different visions than what he had,” Huang said.

Huang said he was inspired to begin his own video production company when he realized the potential of the local artists. Rather than filming videos for popular artists who have already established themselves in the music industry like he had done in Bill Co., Huang said he wanted to spotlight the artists of the Raleigh and RDU areas to put them in the public eye.

“I want to give the public a stronger and more personal connection to these artists and show that they are just as skilled and thoughtful as artists that we hear every day,” Huang said.

Huang also said he found support and inspiration for

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James Huang, junior in communication and founder of the video production company Made New, poses for a photo outside of the Free Expression Tunnel Wednesday. Huang aims to produce footage of the diverse street culture of Raleigh and other cities in the Triangle area.

his new company through the participants of NC State Cypher. Cypher is an event on Mondays at 11 p.m. in the free expression tunnel where hip-hop artists and rap lyricists meet to hone their skills.

As a participant himself, he maintained a strong connection to the other participants and, has received nothing but positivity and excitement from them in the creation of his company.

“The Cypher is family,” said Huang. “They look out for you. Almost everyone at the Cypher has not only liked the idea, but has been asking me to do a video for them.”

Huang does some of these artist profile videos for free because he knows that those he does it for would return the favor if he ever needed help. The forms of artistry most profiled and displayed through Huang’s videos are rap and hip-hop because of his roots in street culture.

However, he is open to portraying all art forms that embrace street culture.

Besides these artist profiles, Made New has worked on a few other projects in the first few months of its conception.

Huang is currently collaborating with the DURM HipHop Summit, by creating a recap highlight video of the annual music festival.

Huang said he is also working on a mini-series called “HeART of the City.” The goal of the project is to exhibit personal, one-on-one interviews with local artists.

He said he hopes to reveal the inner workings and ideas of Raleigh’s artists and discover what drives them. Questions featured in his videos their thoughts on the culture of Raleigh, what inspires them, where they come from and where they hope to go in their careers. The interviews take place where the artist has a connection, perhaps a favor-

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“My favorite part of it is getting to know the artist while in the process of making the video,” Huang said, “Just being around the local artists and hearing about what they do inspires me.”

Huang feels “HeART of the City” will gain more traction

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Made New is open to collaboration and hopes to get more involved, especially students from NC State with any interests surrounding art, videography or communications.

In the future, Huang said he envisions Made New as a local powerhouse and

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State women’s soccer team begins fall season Friday Garrett Melia Correspondent

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The NC State women’s soccer team kicks off its season this Friday with a home opener against UNC-Wilmington at the Dail Soccer Stadium.

Following a season that had a less than satisfactory ending, head coach Tim Santoro’s Wolfpack will look to come out strong against the Seahawks.

After a promising 4-0 start to its 2013 campaign, the Pack struggled to find its footing once conference play started up. As a young team in one

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However, he was more than impressed with the depth and

of the premiere women’s soccer conferences in the nation, State dropped 12 of its next 14 games, which included a 10-game skid.

Although the team’s 2013 record (7-12-0 overall, 2-110 ACC) may not ref lect it, the Pack showed promise in its first season under Santoro.

The young State team played some of the nation’s top competition in close fashion, falling to No. 3 Florida State by a single point. The team showed true resolve in its final game of the season, upsetting No. 23 Wake Forest on Senior Night by a score of 2-1.

Now, the Pack looks to a new season with sophomore

forward Jackie Stengel at the helm. Last season, Stengel led the team in scoring (nine), points (19) and had a team high two game-winning goals.

Stengel, along with her strong sophomore class and experienced upperclassmen, will now be aided by a top-20 freshman draft class.

The class of seven freshman — two midfielders, one forward and four defenders — were ranked as the No. 13 and No. 19 draft classes of 2014

by BigSoccer and All White Kit’s, respectively.

Friday night, Santoro’s Pack will look to take its season opener for the second straight season, as well as secure the

programs 320th win and fifth with over the Seahawks.

With UNC-W coming off of a 9-10-0 campaign in 2013, the Pack’s season opener will be no walk in the park.

With the Pack holding a 4-0 edge in the series, the ‘Hawks will have something to prove and the ability to prove it. The team lost two hard-fought battles to UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke, 1-0 apiece, and should prove to be a good first test for State.

Two days after the team’s showdown with UNC-W, the Pack will face its first nationally ranked program when No. 11 Portland comes to town. The Pilots finished its 2013 campaign with a 17-

2-1 record and advance to the second round of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship.

However, Portland will be flying straight from a match-

up with No. 2 Florida State in Tallahassee. Fatigue may be a factor in the game, and the upstart Wolfpack could look for a statement upset in only its second game of the season.

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around the whole time. I felt like I could play two games with that kind of crowd. The fans were amazing.”

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Student ticketing sees major improvements Zack Tanner Senior Staff Writer

NC State releases nonconference women’s basketball schedule for 2014-2015 On Monday, NC State released the non-conference schedule for the women’s basketball team, which will feature opponents from the Big 10, Big East, Conference USA, Big South, Southern Conference, Atlantic 10, Ohio Valley Conference, MEAC and Northeast Conference. The schedule includes five in-state schools: LenoirRhyne, UNC-Charlotte, High Point, Elon and Davidson. According to the schedule, the Pack will host eight non-conference opponents at Reynolds Coliseum and attend the ACC/Big Ten Challenge matchup against Minnesota as part of the team’s trip to Grand Bahama Island for the 2014 Junkaroo Jam. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Rodon makes pitching debut for Charlotte Knights Former NC State left-hander and new addition to the Charlotte Knights, Carlos Rodon made his Triple-A debut on Tuesday when facing the Gwinnett Braves. In his three innings pitched, the Holly Springs native struck out three batters while allowing one run, one hit and three walks. Rodon threw 55 pitches in the game and the Chicago White Sox have not yet indicated whether the third overall pick will make their roster, as they are eager to see his progression in his next few starts. Rodon is the only player from the draft to reach Triple-A. SOURCE: MILB.COM

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with paper tickets,” Hart said.

The options to print tickets will still be available, as well. No matter which option students select, seating assignments and Student ID policy will remain unchanged. Every student will still be required to present a valid student ID at the gate, and students will have a choice of seats on a first come, first serve basis.

Another large concern of the students was the difficulty that came with acquiring parking passes for these sporting events. During previous seasons, the only way to obtain a parking pass was by standing in line in front of Reynolds Coliseum for extended periods of time. Sometimes the long wait would interfere with class schedules, causing students to miss class or have to abandon their place in line.

To alleviate the inconvenience of waiting in line, three new pass distribution locations was added for the 2014-15 season. On the first

day of distribution, in the tradition of requesting passes, students can receive their passes in front of Reynolds from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Later that day, students that missed the opportunity at Reynolds can stop by Harrelson Hall or Wolf Ridge Commons from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m to get a pass.

On the second day, parking passes will be available at Talley Student Union from noon to 1 p.m.

Specific dates for parking pass availability will be available on gopack.com. When purchasing a pass, students will need to present a valid student ID and game ticket. The passes are limited and will operate on a first come, first serve basis and each of the four locations will have an equal number of passes.

Tristan McGregor, a sophomore in engineering, said he is pleased with the addition of parking pass distribution locations, as he had bad experiences with long lines in the past.

“Now I won’t have to wait in a huge line for parking passes,” McGregor said. “Once I waited in line for over an hour and ended up having to lose my spot to go to class.”

The final change to the ticketing process deals specifically with men’s basketball ticketing. In the past, Phase 1 ticket holders could enter PNC Arena between 2.5 and two hours before tip-off and claim sideline seats. After that 30-minute window, all seats would be on a first come, first serve basis, regardless whether the ticketholder holds a Phase 1 or Phase 2 ticket.

The half-hour window has now been pushed back to begin two hours prior to tip-off and will stay open until 90 minutes prior. The change was designed to give students more time to get in line once they arrive at the arena.

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Change is coming to the way that NC State students will be requesting tickets, and in this instance, change is a good thing.

The lottery system that the Athletics Department used in the past years will still be in effect, but with slight enhancements. To request tickets to football and men’s basketball games, students will sign into their student accounts on the school’s athletics website, gopack. com. A week prior to each football or men’s basketball contest, students will be able to enter the weighted lottery, which takes into account a student’s year and attendance to past Wolfpack sporting events.

However, for the upcoming season, changes have been made to help students have as enjoyable game-day experience as possible.

The most notable improvement to the ticketing system is the introduction of “mobile ticket delivery.” Before, the only way that students could receive their tickets was via email. The students would then have to print their tickets before heading off to the game.

This season, however, students will now have the option to receive emails containing tickets optimized for mobile devices.

With these new tickets, students can present the tickets on their smartphones when entering the sporting event.

With these new virtual tickets, students will no longer have to worry about misplacing or forgetting their tickets at home. Patrick Hart, a freshman in human biology, said he will most likely use the new mobile system in favor of the physical tickets.

“I’ve used mobile ticketing at concerts and other events before, and it’s way easier than dealing

The NC State men’s soccer team notched a second win in preseason play, downing an energetic Campbell side by a score of 2-0, Wednesday night in Raleigh.

Despite a prolonged lightning delay, the game kicked off under near-flawless conditions and was a highly contested match through the 90 minutes.

NC State head coach Kelly Findley used the match to test a variety of tactical ideas and to challenge his starting group with up-tempo pressing and riskier attacking.

“I think we did a good job pressing as a group,” Findley said.

“Against UNC-Wilmington, we tried to drop our line and sit in so we’re comfortable defending deep.

So I thought we did a good job tonight being on the front foot and defending in [Campbell’s] half.”

Throughout the first half, Findley’s team tactics were noticeable and worked as intended. Campbell struggled to build out from the back under the energetic defending of Wolfpack outside midfielders Travis Wannemuehler and Zach Knudson.

Offensively, the Wolfpack targeted the flanks and pinpoint long balls from sophomore midfielder Michael Bajza, junior midfielder Holden Fender and senior defender Clement Simonin routinely found teammates in space.

Over the first 45 minutes, State peppered the Camels’ goal. Starting strikers Nick Surkamp and Ade Taiwo consistently dragged defenders out of position while crosses were whipped in from both flanks.

The addition of a second striker, a new wrinkle in Findley’s team,

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After scoring NC State’s first goal of the game, sophomore midfielder Michael Bajza celebrates with some of his fellow soccer and basketball players. The Wolfpack defeated the Campbell Camels 2-0 at Dail Soccer Field Wednesday.

adds greater danger to the Pack’s attack.

“We’re playing with two forwards because we have the quality up there to do it,” Findley said. “It pins one extra defensive player back and as a pair the forwards can work together.

We also have quite a bit of pace with players like Ade, Phil Carmon and Nick Surkamp, so that adds danger.”

Additionally, the double threat of junior Reed Norton at left back and Knudson at left midfield continually caused the Campbell defense problems. Both players were able to attack off the dribble, confidently taking on defenders to create chances.

It was one such dribble from Knudson which earned the Pack its first goal of the game in the 33rd minute. The former Players Development Academy standout spun his defender a few yards inside his own half and exploded into space, drib-

bling past two Campbell players before getting hauled down in the box.

The referee had no doubts and pointed to the penalty spot, where Bajza stepped up and cooly dispatched the penalty kick into the lower corner.

With the lead, Findley made big changes to the side, removing most of his starters to test his second string.

Campbell grew in strength at this point, as the deficit fueled the players’ desire to find the back of the Wolfpack net.

Although a few bobbled shots from sophomore goalkeeper Jonathan Davis forced the defense into a few saving clearances, the Pack back four kept the clean sheet intact.

In the second half, Findley primarily tested his depth and experimented with younger players. While Campbell produced a fine spell of

play through the second period and tested freshman goalkeeper Marius Heislitz, the team remained resolute.

The game seemed to be heading for a narrow 1-0 victory for the Pack until the 80th minute, when a State free kick rebounded to senior Matt Ingram, who smashed the ball into the far corner via a small deflection to secure a 2-0 victory.

Post-game, Findley was quick to recognize the few mistakes his side made.

“There were a few moments when we lost our shape and got penetrated,” Findley said. “I think we can improve that part of play a little bit and we were a little sloppy at the end but I think the guys did a really good job overall.”

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