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Though College Board recently overhauled the SAT in an effort to help students prepare for college, some faculty members at N.C. State doubt the change’s effectiveness.

College Board announced its changes to the SAT are an effort to help students attain important academic skills needed for college, according to The New York Times.

Changes include scores moving from the current 2,400-based scale to the old point-scale of 1,600.

College Board changes are set to be in effect in spring of 2016. The highest score on the math and reading portion will be 800 points, and the essay will be graded separately.

Thomas Griffin, director of admissions, said the SAT is one data point chosen in the admissions process from various other factors. College Board research has indicated that, when compared to high school, four years of sustained academic work is the single best predictor of college success, according to Griffin.

Griffin said the SAT and ACT add the ability to pick students that have a high likelihood of success, but it’s not the main factor of the application review for N.C. State admissions.

“It will be important to maintain longitudinal data so that we’re able to compare new test scores with test scores in previous years,” Griffin said. “Time will tell whether this new SAT test will be more predictive of college success.”

According to Griffin, the test will be different and more aligned with actual skills that students need to be successful at the university level.

“It’s a change we will adjust to,” Griffin said. “Hopefully, it will not have that big of an impact on our processes, but we will deal with it as it comes along.”

Jim Martin, a professor of chemistry, said that standardized tests don’t help prepare students for college, and the admissions selection will use results to gauge a student’s performance against basic criteria.

“I don’t believe that SAT scores

The 2014 student body president debate will be held tonight from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Talley Governance Chambers.

The candidates, Rusty Mau, a senior in economics and Alanna Propst, a junior in political science will be debating a number of topics, including their platforms.

Tonight’s debate will be hosted by the Technician, which will be taking student submitted questions until 3 p.m. this afternoon.

If you have any questions you’d like the candidates to answer during the debate, please send them to technician-editor@ncsu.edu Mau’s running mate is Devan Riley, a senior in accounting, and Propst’s running mate is Grant Do, a junior in business administration.

The Governance Chambers are located on the fourth floor of Talley Student Union.

The election will take place from noon on April 1 until noon on April 2.

The diversity debate, hosted by the GLBT center, will be at the same location at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.

To see where each candidat currently stands in this week’s Technician online poll, visit technicianonline.com.

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Jason Clay, senior vice president for Market Transformation for the World Wildlife Fund, spoke Tuesday at the University Club as a part of the College of Agricultiure and Life Sciences’ Future of Food Series.

WWF leader discusses impending food crisis Sarah Smith Correspondent

A leader for the World Wildlife Funds came to N.C. State to address problems with food production, which, according to him, is one of the biggest threats to humanity’s future.

About sixty people gathered in the Lutz Ballroom at the University Club Tuesday to hear Jason Clay, WWF’s senior vice president for market transformation, speak about the future of global food

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According to Clay, the biggest danger is the impending shortage of food.

According to the WWF’s research, humans will soon be living beyond Earth’s carrying capacity for food if we continue in our current ways of food production. Subsequently, we won’t be able to produce enough food to support the population by 2050.

“Choose your system,” Clay said.

“It doesn’t matter what system it is,

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The UNC System Board of Governor’s decision to delay a proposal for $74 million in new construction money for 2014-15 shouldn’t affect N.C. State, according to Vice Chancellor for Finance and Business, Charles Leffler.

“I don’t see the Board of Governor’s decision to set aside this proposal and to wait and see how the budget situation looks as having a lot of impact on the University,” Leffler said. “It doesn’t really, at this point, have an immediate impact on the plans and activities that we have underway.”

However, if the BOG’s proposal was in fact granted, Leffler said the money N.C. State could have been garnered toward the designing of a new building on Centennial campus: the Engineering Oval.

“We didn’t really have it in our plans for that money to come to us this summer, so if we got it, that would have been a bonus,” Leffler said.

The BOG’s proposal consisted of two parts, according to Leffler.

The first was a $163 million proposal for repairs and renovations, but because budget director Art Pope said that money probably wouldn’t be available this year, the BOG is currently working with UNC system schools to create a

prioritized list based on the funding that might be available.

The other part included $74 million for capital priorities, which would mostly be used for planning, Leffler said. Because schools would only receive small amounts of money from this proposal, they wanted to use this money to start planning larger construction projects.

“The Engineering Oval is the next building on our priority list, but that project wasn’t in the Board of Governor’s submission because it was pretty minimal planning money that they had included,” Leffler said.

Funding for certain construction projects, such as the Talley Student Union, aren’t appropriated by the state, so they won’t be affected by

the proposal.

Leffler also discussed how stateappropriated budget cuts have affected construction projects at N.C. State.

“The fact that we haven’t gotten any regular, substantial allocations for repair and renovation has been very impactful since 2008,” Leffler said. “We did get some money this year, but it has been a long stretch without significant money coming in. The lack of funding we’ve received has certainly hurt us going forward with our capital plan … what we’re hoping, is to see the availability of one-time funds that we can direct toward new construction projects when the economy recovers.”

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production. He is a globally recognized expert in food production and supply chain management issues.

Clay’s lecture, “Feeding Nine Billion-Maintaining the Planet,” was the third installment of the College of Agriculture and Life Science’s Future of Food seminar series.

“We have got to figure out how to address some of the biggest threats to the planet,” Clay said. “If we don’t get where and how we produce food right by 2050, we can turn out the lights at home. There will not be a planet as we know today.”

Using the Arab Uprising, recent revolts in Turkey and the Syrian civil war as examples, three N.C. State faculty members delved into the world of religion and politics in order to better understand the compatibility of Islam and Democracy.

Tuesday night, the Office of International Affairs invited Bob Moog, an associate professor of public and international affairs, Anna Bigelow, an associate professor of philosophy and religious studies and Khater, a professor of history and director of the Department of Middle East Studies to address an audience of more than a hundred students about Islam and how successfully or unsuccessfully Islamic political systems incorporated democracy.

In succession, Moog, Bigelow and Khater demonstrated respectively how, historically, Islam and

Democracy haven’t been compatible. They subsequently addressed what philosophical differences caused this split and how a peaceful union of Islam and Democracy was stopped in its tracks by oppressive governments.

Many causes of today’s political description of Islamic societies put into question how free information is in a country like the United States as all the professors, especially Khater, showed how oppression from countries such as Egypt was met with the violence seen in the media.

Khater, who’s also an internationally recognized speaker about the subject, painted the picture of middle-eastern struggles as he demonstrated how puppet states quietly shut down any form of Islamic democratic movements.

The most effective repression, that of Algeria, is when a military intervention cut the Islamic affiliated political group short.

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Bob Moog addresses an audience Tuesday at an event entitled “Islamic Awakening.”

“In the second round of [presidential] elections, the military steps in and calls off the elections,” Moog

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Algeria was not the only country to reject Islamic tendencies in politics,

yet it may have been the most peaceful. Egypt, Syria

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and Turkey all have a bloody background of repressing political parties affiliated with Islam.

“The Muslim Brotherhood in the 1930’s and 40’s believed that they should participate in the democratic process,” Khater said.

According to Khater, the Muslim Brotherhood then

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all of them need to double productivity by 2050. So if you believe in fair trade, organic, conventional or even agroforestry it does not matter. They all have to double.

The question is which ones can do that.”

Clay didn’t suggest increasing the general production of food, but rather figuring out how to get more food from less. Clay believes that intensification of food production is key for a sustainable future.

“Especially around food, we have got to stop having the single focus of having to maximize one thing, like productivity,” Clay said. “We need to try to optimize many things. Inevitably, if we are going to produce more from less, we have to intensify. We have to do that sustainably and that is going to be the tough thing.”

According to Clay’s research, there is no possible way the current system of food production can be in-

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“By the 1950’s and 60’s in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood had gone underground, [and] its leadership had been jailed, exiled or killed,” Khater said.

The conclusion for the Brotherhood is that democracy would never work for them. As a result, the Muslim Brotherhood turned to violent resistance, according

creased enough to sustain the future population. He proposes a shift in everything from the production to the consumption of food.

Clay, along with the WWF is working to change the way the supply chain works with major food production companies. The fund members want to move sustainability from a niche in the supply chain to the norm.

They have already had some success getting major corporations, such as General Mills, to commit to using more sustainable, raw materials. They even had the national government of Ireland commit to have an entirely sustainable means of food production by 2016.

“The important thing that all these firsts means is that, once you have a first and a proven working concept, then you get a second and a third,” Clay said. “The more corporations we have involved, the better.”

According to Clay, corporate involvement isn’t the only way to help this sus-

to Khater.

The speakers described the strictest theocracies, such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, that put Fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence, into their civil law codes. Other countries, such as Pakistan, had a constitution that forbade any jurisdiction that contradicted Shari’a law.

They also discussed countries that had strictly secular civil laws, yet recognized Islam as a national religion, such as

pected crisis. Clay looks to scientific innovations in the production of food as well as genetic changes in the nutrition content of food to help with the issue.

“Innovation comes from needing to solve problems and having performance targets that you have to meet,” Clay said. “We do not have many of those set up globally, we need to have more.”

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Although politically affiliated groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, appear united in how to apply Islam to civil law, the Arab world isn’t unified in how religious their law codes are.

“For those who have lived under a different political system—an oppressive one—the answer for what is right is not obvious.”

Clay said he hopes to promote awareness of the global food sustainability crisis.

“We have got to build a consensus and awareness about how to begin to approach these issues; then we can develop a real strategy,” Clay said. “Nobody can do all of these things, but everybody can do something.”

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are good predictors of college success,” Martin said. “An SAT score is just a number, and it doesn’t carry a great deal of weight.”

Martin said SAT changes will not make any significant difference in the college admission process, and that the Board had other reasons for changing the test.

“The change is a market strategy by the College Board to recapture some of the tested market,” Martin said.

Martin said College Board plans to gain a significant financial position by changing the test and the support materials needed. College Board is producing a new market through changes to the SAT test and gaining more of the test market by competing

against the ACT. Martin said the changes will only slightly affect SAT scores, as they test a small portion of what students know.

Courses with a broad, comprehensive study through high school and those with a sufficient level of rigor, creativity, exposure and critical thinking will better prepare students for college, according to Martin.

In the past, students were told to only answer questions they thought they knew the correct answer to, but the guessing penalty has been eliminated, according to The New York Times. Students will no longer be penalized for guessing incorrect answers.

“It is no longer a test of knowledge but a guessing game,” said Deanna La, senior in sociology and women’s and gender studies. “SAT

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prep courses will now focus on techniques that will guess the right answer.”

The vocabulary words on the new SAT will be terms commonly used in college courses, such as “synthesis” and “empirical”, according to The New York Times. The SAT will no longer use obscure or unclear words like “depreciatory” or “membranous” in its vocabulary bank.

Since 2005, essays have been required on the SAT, but they are now optional. Students who choose to write an essay will be asked to read a passage and analyze the author’s use of evidence, reasoning and stylistic elements.

“The writing portion gives more of a genuine response from students even though the grading of said essays is often biased,” said Candace McKoy, senior in middle grades education. “Without

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The essay for the SAT will now be optional, and the maximum score will be 1,600 points.

the essay, the SAT would pretty much be all multiple choice, which is not a good way to measure knowledge.”

SAT math questions will have three sections: linear

equations, complex equations or functions, and ratios, percentages and proportional reasoning, according to The New York Times. Calculators will be permitted on some of

the math section.

The reading and writing sections will have documents from a broad range of disciplines, including science and social studies. For some questions, students will be asked to select a quotation from the text that supports the answer they choose.

The SAT will also include a reading passage from one of the nation’s “founding documents,” such as the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights, according to The New York Times. Questions may also involve discussions of historical texts, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”

In addition, David Coleman, president of College Board, announced programs to help low-income students, who will now receive fee waivers allowing them to apply to four colleges at no charge, according to The New York Times. In partnership with Khan Academy, College Board will also offer free online practice problems and instructional videos showing how to solve them.

“I think that while this may level the playing field for those from lower socioeconomic families, it does lower the rigor of the SAT,” McKoy said.

According to La, the SAT is not a good test because it uses English. Because some minorities do not speak English in their homes, La said this gives them a disadvantage.

“The SAT will not improve scores for socioeconomic families because the upper class will still have an advantage to access better resources to achieve higher scores,” La said.

Brandon Denton, a senior in history, said although changes give more incentive to lower- income families, they will not be effective in the long run.

“It gives lower income families a better chance to get into college,” Denton said.

“But if they’re not equipped, it’s not going to help.”

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Obama’s fight to remain relevant There is always a lot of speculation when politicians take to the internet to connect with the younger generations. President Barack Obama’s latest public relations stunt was no exception.

Obama appeared on a fauxinterview show hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis called Between Two Ferns to promote the Affordable Care Act. Sophie Young adults make Nelson up one of Contributing Columnist t he la rgest g roups of the uninsured in the United States, and to help change that, the ACA accepts adolescents to stay on their parents’ plan until the age of 26.

However, getting those without access to a plan to pay into one is also vital in order to cover the higher costs of health care for older people

and to keep premiums stable.

Between Two Ferns is an Internet comedy series that appears on the video website Funny or Die. The popular series, which has been running since 2008, shows Galifianakis conducting celebrity interviews sitting with his guests between two potted ferns.

The show was heavily criticized by some, especially among older generations, who found it to be disrespectful of the office of the presidency. The judgments were divided along party lines, but Republicans’ negative reactions were stronger than Democrats’ positive ones.

Republicans said they condemned the appearance by a 62 percent to a 7 percent margin, while Democrats were more likely to approve than disapprove with a 47 percent to a 13 percent margin.

However, the opinions of the older generation and even the politicians who work alongside Obama are irrelevant with regard to this pub-

“This is not the first time we have seen the president’s unconventional but successful tactics ... ” licity tactic. He performed brilliantly and did what presidents need to be doing in this day and age, by appearing on a current and edgy popular culture outlet. In a generation when people would rather discuss the events of the Kar-

dashians than the annexation of Crimea, Obama is proving to be exceedingly adaptable.

He is dominating the Internet in an attempt to connect to young Americans and promote initiatives for the benefit of the nation.

Obama’s Between Two Ferns visit conquered Facebook and Twitter feeds, causing it to become one of the most successful pitches to young people so far.

The video has reached a total of 20 million views and the administration reported that in the first 24 hours after airing it was the biggest source of new visits to the healthcare.gov website, causing web traffic to the site jump 40 percent on the first day it aired.

This is not the first time we have seen the president’s unconventional but successful tactics to engage the younger

generation. On Thursday he did an interview with Ellen DeGeneres joking that her selfie at the Academy Awards ‘was a pretty cheap stunt’ while simultaneously addressing the Obamacare deadline. He also took the oppor t u n it y to a ssociate the ACA to his favorite pastime: basketball. In an effort to reach the challenging demographic of young men, Obama announced a “16 Sweetest Reasons to Get Covered” bracket along with his own NCAA tournament bracket. Additionally, LeBron James, the Miami Heat’s star forward, is featured in 30-second ads promoting HealthCare.gov that will be broadcasted during the college basketball games.

The president is certainly backed with the support of the first lady, who has also been busy. Michelle Obama

has been promoting physical exercise and tackling childhood obesity with the help of celebrity friends such as Will Ferrell and Beyoncé.

The couple has gone where no White House couple has gone before.

The collaboration has exploited late-night talk shows, hilarious videos and its famous friends to inform the public about healthcare, childhood obesity and the economy. This is a much more insightful method to gain the attention of the younger generation than an appearance on a Sunday morning show at a time that most of our generation aren’t aware of.

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Religious Freedom, Inc. On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard two cases, as a consolidated argument, dealing with the Affordable Care Act. The ACA mandates that most secular, for-profit corporations have to provide healthcare to their employees and requires that insurance to cover contraception for females. Hobby Lobby and cabinetma ker Wood Specialties Corp. claim that forcing employers to provide birth control is against their religious beliefs, saying Wes Kyatt some forms of birth Contributing control are tantaColumnist mount to abortion.

The question before the court is, according to USA Today, “Can the government require that employers provide 100 percent coverage for 20 types of contraceptives?” The court should not only uphold the mandate, but it should strike down the provision of the ACA that exempts non-profit organizations, too.

This is an extraordinarily delicate question, but the bottom line is that the freedom of religion guaranteed

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as a right to United States citizens in the Constitution applies to the people. Recently a debate has been struck as to whether or not corporations count as people. In the 2009 Citizens United case, the court ruled that corporations should be able to donate unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns on the grounds that corporations have freedom of speech rights. This dangerous precedent threatens to be strengthened further if the court sides with the two corporations involved with the current cases before it.

Letting Hobby Lobby and other corporations opt out of policy because of religious beliefs would no doubt lead to many of the same detrimental side effects as Citizens United. Rulings against the government would essentially free up corporations to claim religious liberty in numerous situations, including everything from hiring and firing practices, to who employees can marry. The scope of the First Amendment religious freedom guarantee is incredibly broad. The Westboro Baptist Church frequently

protests at military funerals of gay veterans claiming free speech and religious protections. The Supreme Court should not extend this kind of constitutional protection to corporations. No one should be forced to endure a religious testimony every time he or she visits a Target, Kohl’s or Exxon gas station. Even if the majority of patrons wouldn’t mind, such a corporate freedom could and probably would be expanded to the point of seriously threatening the constitutional rights of atheists or practitioners of other religions.

Conservatives assert that corporations are made up of people and that forcing them to provide contraceptives violates their individual rights.

This is a red herring. Corporate funds belong to the company, not the company’s individual owners.

By definition, stockholders own corporations, and no one has to cut his or her own paycheck in order to pay for the contraceptives. The source of insurance funding could come from any particular group of funds.

Some conservatives have pointed out that employers can already turn away patrons or potential employ-

ees who are gay without recourse.

This is true—and it’s also a moral and social tragedy. The really meaty claim conservatives have against the mandate is that non-profits are ex-

a well-researched set of facts about genocide and concludes that, since “every person’s life begins at fertilization,” then clearly abortion is genocide. If he were to do a little more research, he might learn that this assertion is far from settled fact.

If a person believes that “life begins at fertilization,” then it doesn’t really matter to him or her whether abortion is genocide. If, on the other hand, a person believes that women have a right to agency over their own bodies, then he or she might also

believe that the systematic denial of that right is one characteristic of a savage and medieval society, rather than a vibrant, compassionate and modern society. That’s how “begging the question” works. I can no more assume everyone agrees that women should have agency over their own bodies than Mr. Hunt can assume everyone agrees that life begins at fertilization. While I would love to be able to convince everyone that women should have agency over their own bodies, I only need

to look at the recent political winds in Texas, Arkansas, Michigan, West Virginia, Alabama and right here in North Carolina to know that many people do not believe that. If Mr. Hunt wants to work up a mob of angry villagers to further roll back women’s rights, he’s going to have to convince people that “life begins at fertilization.” Simply assuming that everyone already agrees on this simply won’t do.

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empted by the ACA. Conservatives are right that this discrimination is arbitrary, but that just means nonprofits that aren’t explicitly religious in nature should have to provide the birth control, too. Instead of striking down the law, equal protection encourages striking the exemption.

Religious freedom is a hallmark of U.S. political tradition, and so

“I do volunteer regularly. I participate in a professional chemistry fraternity called Alpha Chi Sigma, and we do a lot of service events at high schools, middle schools, elementary schools teaching kids science. I do it because I like having stuff to do. I like volunteering. I love teaching chemistry, and I love teaching little kids. it’s just awesome.”

Steven Edwards history and sociology, senior.

Do you volunteer regularly? Why or why not?

“Religious freedom is a hallmark of U.S. political tradition, and so is the capitalist system the country has built up since the Industrial Revolution.”

is the capitalist system the country has built up since the Industrial Revolution. At times the rights of individual people and corporations have come into conflict, with varying outcomes and results. To be clear, no one on either side of the debate about contraceptives wants to denigrate the religious freedoms of individual business owners. This argument isn’t about the religious beliefs of individual people, though; it’s about the religious beliefs of corporations, who, contrary to Mitt Romney’s opinion, are not people.

If corporations are people, then they should be allowed to vote and get married and divorced. Corporations as people should be able to determine their own official religions and in the practice of that religion discriminate against potential employees from a different theology.

It’s fairly clear that that view is not in line with the Constitution— and that’s why the Supreme Court should draw the line when deciding these cases.

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El viernes pasado, 21 de marzo Mi Familia presentó el evento SOMOS en el nuevo Talley Student Center y fue parte de Talley Welcome Week.

Por 11 años, SOMOS ha sido parte de los eventos anuales organizados por Mi Familia, la organización latina más grande en N.C. State.

Con más de 200 personas en atendencia, este evento pudo alcanzar estudiantes y personas de varias culturas y edades, con el propósito de mostrar la cultura latina a través de la música, el baile, y otros modos de arte.

Este año, el tema fue SOMOS: La Nueva Era y este tema estuvo presente en las diferentes presentaciones que incluyeron elementos modernos y tradicionales. El

programa empezó con unas palabras de la presidenta de Mi Familia, Cristal Vivanco, un estudiante de tercer año estudiando negocios y estudios internacionales.

Enseguida, el nuevo director de Hispanos de la oficina de Multicultural Student Affairs, Nelson Santiago, habló sobre su breve experiencia con los estudiantes latinos en N.C. State y lo que él espera lograr en su posición.

Danza Azteca mostró los bailes tradicionales de los indígenas en México. Dances With Wolves, el grupo del baile de salón de N.C. State, bailaron samba, rumba y cha cha que son ritmos escuchados en países latinos. Sube Ritmo, el equipo de baile latino en N.C. State, demostró tipos distintos de bailes latinos incluyendo salsa, merengue y bachata. Su presentación tuvo un inesperado toque moderno cuando bailaron a

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Danza Azteca, un grupo que demuestran bailes tradicionales de México, baila primero en el event anual de Mi Familia, que trajo más que 200 personas al Talley Ballroom el 21 de Marzo.

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Julian Martinez tocó temas de bachata en el piano, Jorge Sntiago tocó y cantó canciones originales en la guitarra. Ayanis Lindo, Angie Rodriguez y Leah Anderson cantaron “Aquí estoy yo” de Luis Fonsi, una cancion en Español.

Herrison Chicas, un graduado de UNC-Chapel Hill y un artista de rap, recitó sus poemas sobre el amor, la vida, la muerte y la experiencia de los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. Los hermanos de Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Incorporated y las hermanas de Lambda Theta

Alpha Latin Sorority Incorporated mostraron las diferentes historias de sus organizaciones en nuestra universidad, a través de una serie de movimientos y palabras.

Comparado con SOMOS el año pasado, este año Vivanco añadió un desfile de moda que fue recibido por

la audiencia con mucho entusiasmo. Ella dice que le dedicó la mayor atención a esta parte del evento y es algo que ella realmente quería hacer. Algunos de los trajes tradicionales del desfile son el traje de china poblana, una guayabera, una bata cubana, un vestido de huasa china y un chamanto chileno.

Sidney Gaston,miembra de Mi Familia desde que empezó en N.C. State, dice “el desfile de moda me impresionó porque nunca lo he visto en SOMOS o en ninguno de los eventos hispanos. También me fije que algunos de los trajes fueron inspirados por países latinoamericanos y que fueron diseñados por estudiantes de N.C. State que no son necesariamente latinos.

Esto me dio la impresión que nuestro alcance supera la comunidad latina y eso es muy emocionante.”

Mi Familia’s annual SOMOS brings diverse performers Ciara del Valle Correspondent

tered the United States illegally. The brothers of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Incorporated and the sisters of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Incorporated performed Greek Salutes, which are a series of movements and words that tell a story about the different histories of the organizations.

Cristal Vivanco, a junior studying international studies and business, made an exciting new addition to the traditional SOMOS lineup: a fashion show featuring

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designs created by a diverse group of N.C. State students.

“I think, personally, I had a lot of fun creating the fashion show, that was my main focus. The rest was the performers and it was something that I really, really wanted to do. I think in the end, everyone enjoyed it and really liked it,” Vivanco said.

Some of the traditional outfits featured in the fashion show include a china poblana dress, Cuban guayabera, Cuban dress, huasa china dress, and a Chilean chamanto.

Sidney Gaston, an involved member of Mi Familia since her freshman year, said “the fashion show stood out to me because I have never seen it in SOMOS or any Hispanic event before. I also noticed some outfits were inspired

by Latin American countries and the fact that they are created by N.C. State students that are not necessarily Hispanic gives me the impression that our reach exceeds the Hispanic community and that is exciting.”

SOMOS La Nueva Era did

an amazing job of demonstrating how diverse the Latino organizations on our campus and our community are. It also shows how many different people can come together to put on a great show and shed light on the rich Latino culture. This event is a reflection of how our generation, which is constantly battling with identity crisis, can blend our traditions with modern elements to create a new culture and way of life that we can all relate to.

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On March 21 Mi Familia hosted SOMOS in the new Talley Student Center as part of Talley Welcome Week. For 11 years, SOMOS has been a part of the annual events organized by Mi Famila, the largest Latino organization at N.C. State. With more than 200 people in attendance, this event was able to reach a diverse audience with the purpose of showcasing the Latino culture through music, dance and other forms of art.

This year the theme was SOMOS La Nueva Era which means We Are the New Era. This theme was prevalent in many of the acts which included both modern and traditional elements. The show started with a few words from the president of Mi Familia, Cristal Vivanco. Nelson Santiago, the new director of Hispanic StudentAffairs for the office of Multicultural Student Affairs, followed with a speech about his experience with the Latino students on campus and what he hopes to achieve as director.

Danza Azteca was the first performance and it was a group of young girls who demonstrated the traditional dances of the natives in Mexico. Dances with Wolves, the N.C. State Ballroom dance team, followed with a spectacu lar performance to samba, rumba and cha cha, which are rhythms heard throughout Latin America.

Sube Ritmo, the Latin dance team on campus danced to common Latin rhythms in-

cluding salsa, merengue and bachata. Their performance had an unexpected modern twist when they danced to a techno beat.

Julian Martinez played two bachata songs on the piano.

Jorge Santiago played original songs on his guitar. Ayanis Lindo, Angie Rodriguez y Leah Anderson sang “Aqui Estoy Yo” by Luis Fonsi.

Herrison Chicas, a graduate from UNC and a spoken word artist, shared his poems of love, life, death and the plight of people who en-

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NCSU 3-D printer creates splint for injured turtle Kevin Demontbrun Correspondent

On the Atlantic Coast, thousands of turtles become stranded due to injuries from harsh waves, boats and other hazards of the sea each year.

Most of these injured turtles are taken to the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Information Commission where they are rehabilitated and released back into the wild.

Dr. Emily Christiansen, a post doctorate resident in the department of clinical sciences who works closely with the N.C. WRC, recently came across one particular case in which a turtle had fractured its front, right leg. According to Christiansen, this injury made it impossible for the sea turtle to swim at the capacity it needs to survive in the water.

According to Christiansen, the turtle came from Beaufort, N.C. A few recreational boaters discovered the creature afloat at the surface of the water. The boaters turned the turtle over to Coast Guard boats that sent the turtle to the NC WRC, and it eventually found its way into the care of Christiansen.

Christiansen knew the current techniques for healing a fractured turtle fin but, according to her, traditional splints and casts can break down and deform due to salt water exposure. They can also cause scratching and other external wounds to

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Dr. Emily Christiansen, a post doctorate resident in the department of clinical sciences, prompted the creation of a splint for an injured turtle’s leg with a 3-D printer. It was developed by putting the turtle’s broken leg through a CT scan and was then finished by the biomedical engineering department of NCSU.

the turtle due to the extensive movement turtles undergo when swimming through the sea.

Christ ia nsen sa id she hoped for a better method and one that could eliminate these f laws and create the optimal cast for this specific turtle’s condition.

By chance, she came across a news article a few weeks before encountering the injured turtle. The article discussed a New Zealand engineering student who created a 3-D printed cast for his injured

wrist. 3-D printing is a relatively new technology that brings a digitally designed form into a tangible product by adding layers of material.

Potentially, any shape can be made through a 3-D printer-even the fin of an injured sea turtle.

“Initially I blew the idea off as impractical because where are we going to get that technology from?” Christiansen said, “In thinking about it more, I figured we have an engineering department. I bet we could get someone to

do that.”

She was right.

According to Christiansen, after putting the turtle’s broken leg through a CT scan to obtain an accurate 3-D rendering, the scan was passed onto the biomedical engineering department at N.C. State. A long and arduous process commenced to construct the cast, but eventually it resulted in a fully functioning splint for the sea turtle.

During the weeks the splint was being created though, the injured animal’s leg had im-

proved. Its wound had been slowly closing and repairing itself during the turtle’s waiting period for its high-tech splint.

“The funny thing about turtles is they will heal in spite of us,” Christiansen said. “He was kind of half healed by the time we put the splint on, but at that point we just wanted to see if it would work.”

So she and some of her colleagues, including Craig Harms, an associate professor of aquatic wildlife and

zoologic medicine at N.C. State, continued to pursue the splint. They attached it to the still healing turtle, and the results were positive.

“It was really pretty amazing,” Harms said. “The first time we put it on, he flipped his f lipper a couple times like he didn’t like it, but then he just started swimming around and the flipper propelled him really well.”

Christiansen agreed with Harms as she observed just how impressive the results were.

“It fits flush on his flipper, so there’s not a whole lot of extra tension in the water,” Christiansen said. “It fit great. It stayed on. The plastic material did not break down in salt water. All in all it was very successful.”

Because of this success, Christiansen said she feels the 3-D printing technique could be the way of the future for splinting. It could aid many turtles, humans and other animals in the healing process of severe fractures and other damages.

But according to Christiansen, there are still a few obstacles to overcome before 3-D printed splints become a common, everyday product.

“I think there will be more challenges as we try to scale it up,” Christiansen said. “We are looking for other cases to try it on. It is very successful as a concept, so I think it has some great potential.”

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Club men’s soccer kicks into high gear Jordan Beck Correspondent

Having already recorded strong wins over UNC-Charlotte and East Carolina this spring, the N.C. State club men’s soccer team is fully committed to returning to the national tournament for the first time since 2012.

Competing in Region II of the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association’s club soccer league, the Wolfpack plays games in the fall against rivals such as Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, the Citadel and Clemson.

“We play league games against those teams,” senior goalkeeper and club president Julian Deutsch said. “The first place team automatically makes regionals with wildcard teams making regionals as well. Win regionals and you’re headed to nationals.”

Deutsch, who also serves as the team’s captain and player-coach, is cautiously optimistic about the team’s chances for making it back to nationals in the fall.

“It’s really hard. It’s a 12 team league but we only play six of them and they’re randomly assigned,” Deutsch said. “Last year we ended up playing three of the hardest teams and didn’t make regionals, which we normally do. However, this is a pretty strong group this year with a good mix of young guys and

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Senior Chris Jordan, senior Julian Deutsch, graduate student Corey Meisenheimer and senior Nich Thaxton move down the field during a game against Eastern Kentucky at a tournament in Clemson, S.C. in April 2013.

veterans.”

Right now, the team is concentrating on the preparatory spring season, which allows the group to practice, play games and bond together as a team. Tournaments are eagerly anticipated as a way of testing the team’s progress against that of other clubs.

“Schools put the tournaments on every semester,” Deutsch said. “Clemson has one every semester that we’ve been going to for the past six years or so. Two weeks from now we’ll be down there

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again. In the spring it’s a lot less structured. I e-mail other presidents and set up games.”

Most players come from extensive soccer backgrounds with experience playing at extremely high club and high school levels, so incorporating skill sets and coordinating players from a host of levels is a challenge.

Sophomore defender Colin O’Dowd, for example, brings semi-professional experience to the group. As a member of Triangle Brigade F.C., O’Dowd is just one of many

club soccer players getting involved in the sport any way he can.

“I love the sport and I like playing in competitive matches,” O’Dowd said.

“I think the team is really strong. We have a young team with a lot of skilled players.”

Now in his third semester with the Wolfpack, O’Dowd believes the club is on the right track and expressed his desire to contribute.

“The future seems bright,” the defender said. “My goals for this season are to win a

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With 35 players on the roster at a given time, the club team is a representation of the thriving soccer community at N.C. State. Typically, dozens attend the two tryout sessions, held in the first few weeks of September for the fall season and February for the spring.

Sophomore midf ielder Richard Palmer is one of seven players in his first semester with the team.

“I’ve really enjoyed my

time on the club team so far,” Palmer said. “The level of competition really honestly surpasses any team that I’ve played on previously, which is cool. I love playing with such a great group of guys who challenge me and help better my play.”

The Wolfpack’s next game is set for Sunday as it travels to Duke for a 3 p.m. kickoff.

The following weekend, State hits the road for the Clemson tournament.

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Wolfpack defies odds despite upset Rob McLamb Assistant Sports Editor

Baseball game at Campbell postponed to April 1 The N.C. State baseball team’s game at Campbell scheduled for Tuesday was postponed until April 1 at 6 p.m. due to rain. The Wolfpack will return to action Wednesday when it travels to UNC-Wilmington for a 6 p.m. contest.

The game will be broadcast on WKNC 88.1 FM. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Gatling named WBCA All-American regional finalist Following one of the great seasons in the 40-year history of the NC State women’s basketball team, senior center Markeisha Gatling has been named among the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s (WBCA) AllRegion nominees for the 2014 Division I Coaches’ All-America Team. Gatling is one of 52 student athletes from across the country receiving regional consideration. The selection committee will then choose the 10-member WBCA Division I Coaches’ All-America Team from these candidates on April 5.

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There was a myriad of emotions and riveting action this season for the N.C. State women’s basketball team. It was a stark contrast to the prognostications prior to the start of the campaign, which predicted the Wolfpack repeating the mediocrity of recent years. In head coach Wes Moore’s first season at the helm, and with a veteran team eager to leave its stamp on the program, the Wolfpack exceeded expectations and finished fourth in the ACC en route to a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament, its first trip to the event since 2010.

But that came crashing down as the Pack fell hard on Saturday in Los Angeles. Brigham Young, the 13th seed, blocked N.C. State from advancing, both literally and figuratively. The Cougars, who rejected 15 Wolfpack shots in the 72-57 victory, had the one type of experience that the Wolfpack did not — postseason experience. BYU was making its third consecutive tourney appearance.

For N.C. State, as wonderful a season it had, there will always be a lingering regret that the team could not finish at full strength. Seniors Myisha Goodwin-Coleman and Lekeesa Daniel suffered season-ending injuries on consecutive days. Both would have been useful against BYU. Goodwin-Coleman, a deadly 3-point shooter, could have helped alleviate the burden of the interior players and Daniel, a forward with a soft touch, could have cleared the

lane by receiving the ball on the exterior.

The silver lining to the loss of the two seniors is that it gave Moore a chance to give significant playing time to freshmen Miah Spencer and Jennifer Mathurin. Spencer moved into the starting lineup for Goodwin-Coleman and averaged 14.3 points per game over the final seven contests of the season.

Mathurin posted a double-double at Pittsburgh immediately after sliding into Daniel’s role and has shown an inclination to step outside. In that regard, outgoing senior forward Kody Burke is the perfect example of someone to emulate, as she expanded her game over her four seasons in Raleigh to become a dual threat who was a lethal shooter from behind the 3-point arc.

The potential growth of the remaining players will go lock-step with the pending renovations of Reynolds Coliseum and Moore’s vision of developing the program.

For all of its heritage and charm, Reynolds is a relic. The investment into the fabled arena should prove attractive to incoming recruits, who will likely have little interest in what has already happened at State and more of a concern as to where the program is headed. N.C. State is three seasons away from playing in one of the better gyms in the ACC, if not the nation.

With the renovations and the loss of six players due to graduation, N.C. State will be at a crossroads entering next season. If there were any doubts whether Moore could coach, he should have definitively

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Senior forward Kody Burke plays defense during N.C. State’s game at Duke Feb. 20 in Durham. The Wolfpack fell to the Blue Devils by a score of 83-70.

erased them this past season with his in-game strategy and overall improvement of the team. He had a slew of Coach of the Year awards prior to coming to Raleigh and it looks as though he will add to that collection at State.

The only burden of proof now

would be if Moore has the ability to recruit and consistently bring in top-tier talent. The Wolfpack have to compete in the Triangle, the ACC and the nation. If the foundation is laid now, over the next few years N.C. State can be a school that wins titles in women’s basketball.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “We cheer so hard that it changes the outcome of the game, gets the team pumped up and gets the crowd into it.”

Meredith Hamlet, senior, small coed cheerleading team

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N.C. State cheerleaders take part in a cheer with the pep band during a time out in the second half of the season opening game between N.C. State and Appalachian State University in PNC Arena Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. The Wolfpack defeated the Mountaineers 98-77.

Leading the voice of the Wolfpack Zack Tanner Assistant Sports Editor

They have the loudest voices in the crowd. They’re at every football and basketball game. Yet the cheerleaders of N.C. State always seem to get overlooked.

The cheerleaders are one of the most vital components of the fanbase, bringing Wolfpack optimism and pride even in times of defeat.

“Our goal is to cheer so hard that it turns the game around for the team,” senior Meredith Hamlet said.

“We cheer so hard that it changes the outcome of the game, gets the team pumped up and gets the crowd into it, because with the crowd’s support, everything is easier.”

Some cheerleaders are not recruited by the school, but are picked up by the team at the program’s annual tryouts in April.

“We do end up scouting, looking for kids who have the certain skill set that we want,” Trammel said.

“But a lot of kids contact us. A lot of guys, especially, will cross over from other sports. They’re athletic,

and they want to be a part of a team, still.”

The State cheerleading program is split into two sections: large and small coed squads. Trammel said that selections for the teams were made off of skill sets of the athletes, not in a sense of varsity versus junior varsity.

The small coed squad, led by Hamlet and junior Tyler Downs, works mostly traditional group stunts, where both men and women act as bases. They perform at all women’s basketball events and occasionally at gymnastics meets.

The large coed team, however, performs partner stunts with one man and one woman. The team, led by senior captains Daniel Kearns and Kyleigh Garrison, cheers at men’s basketball games.

With both the Wolfpack men’s and women’s basketball teams enjoying recent success, both cheerleading teams have been on the move, scrambling from city to city to make the next game.

“This year was a lot more [demanding] than it has been in the

past,” Garrison said. “Especially towards the end [of the men’s basketball season] when we had the ACC Tournament and the NCAA. We had no idea if we would even make the tournament, so having to pack everything up and leave was a little bit of a struggle.”

However, traveling can also be fun for the athletes. Downs said that traveling with his team is one of the most rewarding experiences of cheering for the Pack.

“Traveling with the team is awesome,” Downs said. “Obviously we like being home in Raleigh to support the team, but it’s great to go out and see places while still supporting the team.”

Not only do the cheerleaders attend games and cheer on their school, the team also has practice four days a week in addition to schoolwork and various appearances for events, such as charity walks and fundraisers for the school.

What may be most pressing for the cheer teams is the rapidly-approaching NCAA Collegiate Cheer Competition, which begins April

9. The five-day event, which takes place annually in Daytona Beach, Fla., showcases some of the best competitive cheerleading teams from across the nation.

Trammel said that the team had been preparing for the championship all season by competing in smaller competitions around the Triangle and working on its routines in the limited practice times in between games.

The small coed team has been on the cusp of victory for quite some time, bringing home silver medals after the past two championships.

At the 2013 event, the Pack fell by only one-half of a point. Hamlet said that the team hoped to improve its tumbling, a key skill in national competition.

The large coed team has struggled at nationals in the past few years, posting seventh-place finishes at each of the past two years. This year, however, Kearns said that the large coed team is looking to put the past behind it and arrive at Daytona with clear heads and a clean slate.