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N.C. State optimistic about IT field despite market fluctuation

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The Fossil Free club held an event in the Brickyard Thursday, February 20th where they encouraged students to show their support of the decision to use 100 percent clean energy on campus. Students were able to paint a banner to show their support.

ASG to vote on renewableenergy resolution Saturday Josue Molina Managing Editor

Members of Fossil Free N.C. State, an environmental activist group, promoted the Association of Student Governments resolution to reach carbon neutrality within the UNC-System on the Brickyard Thursday.

The resolution calls for Duke Energy to provide 100 percent clean energy at no additional costs to the UNCSystem and for the energy company to help the UNCSystem reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

Because student body presidents from around the state will vote Saturday on the resolution on N.C. State’s campus Saturday, members of Fossil Free said they wanted students to sign a petition and support its bill, according to Hannah Frank, a freshman in nutri-

tion science and the media spokesperson for the event.

The ASG meeting will begin Saturday at 9 a.m. at Withers Hall room 140 and will be open to the public.

The event that took place on the Brickyard was part of a state-wide day of action, where more than 30 students across the state with the North Carolina Student Energy Network held similar events at their respective campuses, according to Frank.

“I think we have a lot of buying power as students and that we can really make this happen,” Frank said.

Fossil free members stood directly in front of D.H. Hill Library with seven cans of various colors of paint, so students who signed the petition could place their handprints and signatures on a banner that read:

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Considering the growing prevalence of technology and computers, it might be hard to think of a better degree to have after graduation than computer science.

However, a recent report indicated that job postings in the field of information technology have been steadily decreasing.

Concurrent with a national trend, the number of IT job postings across the state fell 7 percent in January and has been declining since July, according to a report by the North Carolina Technology Association.

The IT job market has fluctuated during the past two years. It peaked in March 2012, declined for eight months, peaked again in June and has been declining ever since.

Though the NCTA’s statistics might sound disheartening to students graduating with a computer science or technology degree in May, the lack of available IT jobs doesn’t necessarily mean there aren’t employment opportunities, according to Director of Communication Technologies Greg Sparks.

In fact, Sparks and other IT specialists at N.C. State aren’t deterred whatsoever by the NCTA’s findings.

Sparks, speaking from personal experience, said the IT job market appears to be declining due to a content workforce.

“Any time the job market picks up, people looking for a better job will jump ship because there are more opportunities,” Sparks said.

Then the companies that lost employees make a job posting and so do the other companies experiencing the turnover, creating a domino effect, Sparks said.

“Once everyone gets settled in with their new job, the market gravitates back to a normal rate of

“ ... those jobs won’t exist anymore because you don’t need someone to teach someone how to use a computer.”

Greg Sparks, director of Communication Technologies

jobs and a small amount of turnover and new jobs,” Sparks said.

According to John Black, director of Infrastructure, Systems and Operations for the Office of Information Technology, the NCTA data might indicate that new technologies, such as cloud computing and big data, are shifting the skill sets required in the job market, but overall, the need for IT talent is increasing.

“While there may be sectors or regions [in IT] periodically exhibiting decline in job postings, the need for IT workers going forward remains strong,” Black said. “I would encourage anyone with the interest and aptitude for a career in IT to pursue it with vigor.”

This decline in job postings shouldn’t deter N.C. State students since new graduates tend to be hired for jobs that might not be listed by the NCTA, according to Assistant Director of the Career Development Center Leslie Rand-Pickett.

“That NCTA data is looking more for experienced jobs,” Rand-Pickett said. “For most students, they’re being hired into a program and recruited a little differently than ‘just-in-time jobs.’ They don’t see as much fluctuation in new-grad hiring as you might see in the job market in general.”

Ken Tate, director of development & external relations for the depart-

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Students create video to promote nonprofit Brittany Bynum Staff Writer

Estefania Castro-Vazquez Assistant News Editor

Robert P. George, a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, spoke for the 2014 Pope Lecture Series about constitutional structures and limited governments, an event funded by a donation from the John W. Pope Foundation.

George, who never explicitly stated his political views, spoke about the importance of limited government to ensure that people reach their maximum potential.

George said that the only way rulers can remain public servants is if they restrain themselves from overreaching into the lives of the general public, and constitutionally, they are only to intervene when non-governmental entities do not suffice.

George also said that in an overreaching government, people and institutions can become completely dependent on government money and thus become ineffective.

According to George, families, religious institutions and other support organizations should be the primary source for public aid.

George briefly spoke about the Affordable Care Act, saying it is unconstitutional to force people to purchase a good or service.

According to George, the common good requires rulers and for these rulers to use their power to make decisions to benefit the common good.

“We don’t wait for customs or traditions to accomplish that,” George said. “We have institutions we’ve created and maintain to do that.”

George said that in order for something to be right and pertain to the common good, it must be “just.”

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Robert P. George, a McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, and the founder and director of the James Madison Program, talks as the 10th anniversary lecturer of the John W. Pope lecture series in SAS Hall, Thursday. He spoke about constitutional structures, limited government, and civic virtue.

“Injustice harms the common good, and a harm to that order is a loss for everyone,” George said. “Even the beneficiaries and perpetrators because we all have a common goal. It’s for their good to live in a just society.”

George said that the reason the public should value

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N.C. State students collaborated with a nonprofit organization that not only contributes to the community, but pulls families out of homelessness.

The students helped Pan Lutheran Ministries Families Together to create a video about the importance of helping homeless families stay together, while other nonprofits split them up.

Zachary Swann, senior in communication, and Cameron McCarty, an N.C. State alumnus who also majored in communication, combined their skills to market the nonprofit organization’s involvement in the lives of homeless families in the Raleigh area.

Swann said PLMFT was in need of a video for an upcoming fundraising event and was having trouble contacting the professional who had done it the past three years.

“Videos in the past for PLMFT had the same sort of feeling to them, a sappy sad story with a black background.” Swann said.

“They wanted something different to get the same sort of message across.”

PLMFT presented the video

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Zachary Swann helped Pan Lutheran Ministries Families Together to create a video that helps homeless families.

at an annual fundraising event in October and proved to be a success for the organization, according to Beth Bordeaux, executive director of PLMFT. Swann met Bordeaux participating in a mission trip with the Appalachian Service Project. During a conversation, Swann said he impressed Bordeaux with his marketing ideas and communication skills and asked him to partner with her organization in making the nonprofit video.

“She saw the personality I had and

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Researchers study effects of genetic mutation Sasha Afanasyeva Staff Writer

Researchers at N.C. State have found a link between the neurodegenerative-disease hereditary ataxia and a gene mutation.

This discovery could eliminate the disease from dog breeds and may lead to further applications to treat the disease in humans, according to Natasha Olby, a professor of neurology and lead researcher on the study.ait Hereditary ataxias are a group of inherited diseases that affect the cerebellum, which is the part of the brain associated with coordination.

The diseases cause the cerebellum to lose neurons, and with time, affected patients become progressively uncoordinated. Ataxia comes from the Greek language and means “lack of order.”

The disease kills neurons due to

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democratic governments is because they allow for just conclusions to be made.

“We no longer need to pull out our guns, we tried that and it didn’t work,” George said. “We can vote and while the issue may not go away, people can live with the outcome because of the fairness.”

George spoke about the importance of government facilitation rather than complete government intervention, saying that the role of government is to be an auxiliary aid that enables people to work toward the common good for themselves.

In not allowing people the liberty to solve problems they could solve on their own or with the help of a non-governmental source, George said rulers cease to be public servants.

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failure in a process called autophagy. Autophagy is the process in which cells get rid of waste products.

When the process fails, proteins and other wastes build up and eventually kill the cell.

“Basically, we started with families of English sheepdogs,” Olby said. “We looked at genetic markers spread all across their DNA, and we looked to see if particular markers associated with the disease.”

Olby and her team mapped the gene to a region of chromosome 4 and sequenced the entire region in six dogs—three affected and three normal—and compared the sequence between dogs to look for affected dogs.

“This left us with six possible mutations,” Olby said. “We then developed tests for these mutations and screened a much larger group of affected and normal dogs, including dogs from many different breeds,

political science who said she identifies as a democrat, said she has attended other lectures and feels that they have been overwhelmingly conservative.

“I can’t remember the last time I witnessed a more liberal speaker,” Sanders said.

“I think they should do a better job to ensure that it is more representative of both sides. Like the dean said, it should be a safe environment to discuss dangerous issues, but you need to be given both sides or you are left defending yourself alone.”

Sam Potter, a freshman in political science who said he identifies as a conservative, said he has attended other political lectures and thinks the University does a decent job in offering lectures that cover both sides of the political spectrum.

to find the mutation that only occurred in affected dogs.”

The research team found that the RAB24 mutation was the only mutation associated with the disease.

After singling the gene out, the research team tested 900 dogs for the disease.

“So far, we have shown that the mutation is highly associated with the disease,” Olby said. “We haven’t shown the causes of it. To do that is complicated.”

However, if the RAB24 mutation is found to cause hereditary ataxia, it could have significant impacts for both dogs and humans.

“In people, many genetic causes have been described, but there are people who have the disease without known genetic causes, and it’s possible they have the RAB24 mutation,” Olby said.

Additionally, this could mean the entire disease could be eliminated

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thought it would match the program,” Swann said.

Swann recruited McCarty, his best friend since freshman year, to storyboard the video, conduct interview questions, interview a family for the video and edit it.

Shooting the video took an entire day, and McCarty and Swann spent many late nights in the editing room for two weeks, McCarty said. According to Swann, they brought the product to PLMFT for feedback and then made changes before submitting their finished project.

McCarty said he enjoyed being a part of the project because PLMFT really helps people and families.

McCarty said he gained valuable media skills and learned about lighting and

through breeding. The genetic test is already available for dogs at the N.C. State College of Veterinary Medicine in the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory for $51.

“The importance for dogs is that because we can test for it, breeders can breed away from it,” Olby said.

“Hopefully we can eliminate [hereditary ataxia] from the dogs we have been studying.”

Unfortunately, there is still no known treatment for the disease.

According to Olby, there is interest in developing treatments, and the RAB24 discovery could play an important role in that.

“Looking to the future, if we can prove this mutation can cause death of nerves, then we made an important finding how this mutation causes death of neurons, and we can use that to highlight a new way of treating neurodegenerative diseases,” Olby said.

on-site set up.

“I have had hardships in my life, so it was only right to lend my expertise as a helping hand,” McCarty said. “What I learned from this particular project surpasses just video and audio editing.”

Though some nonprofits such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army only accept one homeless parent with a child, PLMFT is different because the family can stay together. However, PLMFT keeps the mother, father and children together, according to Swann.

The organization provides short-term housing in apartments and helps move families out of shelter programs or other situations into permanent housing, according to Bordeaux.

James and Jessica Barnes from Raleigh starred in the video, talking about their life before and after PLMFT assistance. James Barnes was an N.C. State student, but had

Currently, Olby is researching similar diseases in the Scottish Terrier and in the West Highland White Terrier.

“Understanding how it causes neuron death is important to understanding how to develop treatments,” Olby said. “The reason it’s an interesting and exciting finding is that RAB24 is thought to be important in autophagy.”

In terms of breeding, both dogs need to have the gene in order for offspring to inherit the disease, and the offspring will likely be affected and show signs of the disease.

“These diseases are an important group of degenerative disease in humans,” Olby said. “I am sure now the hunt will be on to see if this mutation occurs in people with the disease.”

to drop out because of family circumstances, according to Swann.

Swann said Barnes was recommended by PLMFT to be in the video. Barnes said he would love to talk about the program and how it impacted his life, according to Swann.

“Life before PLM was stressful and treacherous,” Jessica Barnes said in the video.

According to Swann, James and Jessica Barnes had applied to PLMFT two-and-ahalf years ago, when he was laid off. They were living with Jessica Barnes’ mother but were kicked out unexpectedly, and they didn’t have a place to go.

Swann said the couple felt blessed about getting into the program as fast as they did.

“We could not have asked for a better person to talk to,” Swann said. “James was very articulate, very passionate and intelligent.”

James Barnes currently

works full time and has his own landscaping business.

Jessica Barnes also works full time.

According to Bordeaux, PLMFT can help 120 families at any given time. PLMFT also provides coaching, education on handling finances and children’s programs.

Bordeaux said the video showed how resilient and dedicated families can be.

“The story of James and Jessica was incredibly inspirational,” Bordeaux said.

“Their story made me feel like that’s the reason why I do this.”

Bordeaux said she has a longstanding connection with N.C. State students because she has worked with Park Scholars and interns from the social work department. She said she’s excited about Swann working as their team leader for their annual campaign taking place on March 2.

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“Duke Energy: We need 100 percent clean.”

The organization also plans to present the banner to ASG members, according to Frank.

Members have also prepared a 15-minute presentation for the ASG meeting Saturday. The meeting will decide the fate of the organization’s bill. The bill also calls for UNCsystem President Tom Ross and the UNC-System board of governors to meet the students’ demand and pressure Duke Energy to provide 100 percent clean energy on the 17 campuses across the state.

Frank said Fossil Free also met with Student Body President Alex Parker and seven other UNC-System student body presidents, and they signed a letter to support the organization’s cause.

Parker made an appearance at the event to talk about the logistics of Saturday’s ASG meeting with Fos-

sil Free members. Though Parker said he isn’t sponsoring the bill because he was not the author, he will be present at the meeting to yield questions to Fossil Free members if anyone at the meeting has questions about the resolution.

Fossil Free has also reached out to Duke Energy in the past. In 2013, members worked with Ross to send a letter to Duke Energy to open a dialogue on the UNC-System and renewable energy.

“They weren’t willing to give us all that we wanted, but we are really willing to work with them because there is no way we can do it without them,” Frank said. “We need the energy, but we want to be funding clean energy as opposed to dirty energy.”

Duke Energy, which is the largest utility company in the world, currently generates 1 percent of its power through renewable means, and it plans to increase that number to 3 percent in the next 20 years, according to Fossil Free.

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ment of computer science, agreed with RandPickett, and said he and his colleagues are concerned with the NCTA data as it “doesn’t seem to match their experience at all.”

“I think [the NCTA data] is focused on external job posting activity involving experienced hires and it fails to take into consideration the explosion in jobs we have experienced over the last few years in new grad hiring,” Tate said.

Tate, who recently participated in a conference call with Marc Montoro, the senior director of Programs and Communications for the NCTA, said he thinks the NCTA used a small group of relatively stable companies across the state and assessed their hiring plans, which may not be the correct “mix” to accurately

bers, such as Amy Thai, a sophomore in international studies, said the energy company will fail to meet the UNC-System’s carbon neutrality goal.

“The UNC-System has committed to carbon neutrality, and with the measly 3 percent they are planning to produce from clean or renewable sources,” Thai said. “We are not going to meet that, so that’s a huge deal politically.”

Recently, Duke Energy announced its plan to double the amount of solar energy in North Carolina within the next two years, according to Randy Wheeless, a spokesperson for Duke Energy.

“There is definitely a push to get more renewable energies,” Wheeless said. “We are definitely looking in that direction. The toughest thing to remember, as of seven years ago, we didn’t have any renewable energy at all.”

The company invested a little more than $3 billion in renewable energy, wind and solar, across the nation, according to Wheeless.

reflect the current market.

Tate said the University has been closely working with the N.C. Department of Commerce to help recruit new companies, such as MetLife, Fidelity Investments, DB Global Technology and LexisNexis, to come to the state.

“The list goes on and on,” Tate said referring to companies recruiting N.C. State graduates with an IT background.

Rand-Pickett said IT has been a “hot field” for prospective companies because most companies need IT workers regardless of their specialty.

“It’s one of the most popular fields because everyone needs IT students, even if it’s not a technology company,” Rand-Pickett said.

“Financial services, insurance and marketing companies, whatever it is, everyone needs IT. The CDC gets a variety of employers looking for the same types of roles because there’s such a strong need.”

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Wheeless said the company has done a lot, but it’s a slow process because every percentage point is going to take a lot of investment and time.

“It’s hard to say we can go from zero to 50 percent in just a few years, but the momentum is there,” Wheeless said in response to the Fossil Free event.

Wheeless also said renewable energy has its limitations and traditional electricity generation, such as nuclear or coal, compliments it.

“There isn’t a way to say we can be 100 percent renewable in any certain time frame in the future,” Wheeless said. “But working with some of the other traditional sources of generation I think we can honestly move ahead.”

Caroline Hansley, the North Carolina Student Energy Network lead organizer and author of the resolution, said it’s “convenient timing” that Duke Energy announced a plan to double its solar energy in North Carolina, especially, two weeks after the coal ash spill in the Dan River.

According to Marc Hoit, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, companies want to integrate IT strategy into their business plan, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they want employees to have a computer science degree.

“As cloud service, for example, increases, organizations will own less of the hardware and software. It will be more about how they will integrate it into their business process,” Hoit said. “They may be looking for a business degree with focus in IT, or a degree in education with a focus in using tech for learning or it may be a data science degree.”

Though the job market for IT seems to be going strong despite the NCTA’s report, Sparks said some areas of the field will eventually become extinct.

Sparks said some people in the workforce aren’t comfortable with technology and don’t know how to use a computer effectively. Conversely, young adults were raised with com-

Hansley also said, in response to Wheeless’ comments, if it’s such a slow process, North Carolina wouldn’t be second in the nation, last year, for its solid solar capacity.

Ha nsley said Du ke Energy is actively seeking to att a c k r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y.

If Duke Energy really supported one of its largest customers, the UNCSystem, and the 220,000 students that are going to be supporting this resolution on Saturday calling for 100 percent clean energy, they would be acting a lot differently than talking about it in a roundabout way, according to Hansley.

“Duke Energy who made $19 billion in profits last year can obsoletely finance this resolution but they are actually actively trying to stop it, and that’s not acceptable for us, “ Hansley said. “And that’s why the resolution is calling for them to act.”

puters and advanced technology, and though they might not have in-depth skills, they are at least comfortable with the concept.

“Some positions in IT—we call them IT generalists—involve people who are there to help others use computers,” Sparks said. “I used to spend 30 minutes just to teach someone about how to use a mouse.”

However, Sparks said these generalists won’t be needed in the future.

“We’re still in the midst of a transition,” Sparks said. “I think over time we’ll see that those jobs won’t exist anymore because you don’t need someone to teach someone how to use a computer for basic functions anymore. On the flip side, security jobs are going to take off. Not having strong cyber security is such a huge risk to everyone, and there are not enough folks to fill those jobs. Overall in terms of the number of IT jobs, it’s hard for me to believe there will be a decrease because technology continues to grow in complexity.”

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What to make of Duke’s porn star T he Chronicle, Duke University’s studentrun newspaper, ran a piece Feb. 14 concerning a freshman student who doubles as a porn star.

For the sake of pr ivac y, t he a r t icle referred to her and her alter ego by pseudonyms Lauren and Nicky Aurora, reVaught Staff Columnist spectively.

Lauren attends Duke University as a first-year student and a member of College Republicans.

She holds a double major in women’s studies and sociology, according to The Chronicle’s article.

According to the article, Lauren said she travels to Los Angeles during breaks, where she films her scenes.

Evidently, her parents don’t know of her secret life.

Though she would not disclose how much she earns, Katie Fernelius, the reporter who wrote the article in The Chronicle, mentioned Lauren had an array of flashy belongings with her at the sit-down interview.

According to Mark Spiegler in an interview with Business Insider, female porn stars earn on average about $800 for a girl-girl scene, $1,000 for a guy-girl scene and up to $4,000 for other scenes.

Lauren said she got involved in the industry to afford Duke’s rising tuition.

Interestingly, she said she felt as though a profession in sex work was far more empowering and dignifying than her previous job waitressing.

{ I am Marshall Anthony, Jr., Chairperson for the Afrikan American Student Advisory Council here at N.C. State.

On Thursday, the “RPD arrests student on charges of statutory rape, sexual offense” made front page (at the very top) of the Technician. Shortly below the main article, in smaller font, was the “Panel talks about race, how to get a job” article. In the bottom right-hand corner, on the front page, in even smaller font, was the “Students lead ‘Blacks in Wax’ for first time” article.

The position of these three articles, intentional or unintentional, portrays a negative depiction of African-Americans at N.C. State. The Technician brings more awareness to an unfortunate current event in our community than the programs provided to uplift and educate the African-American community.

In terms of the unfortunate event, while we understand that the alleged crime is of serious nature and warrants the awareness of the campus, African-American students feel the publication of the student’s address is in-

“To be perfectly honest, I felt more degraded in a minimum-wage, blue-collar, low paying service job than I ever did doing porn,” Lauren said.

As a self-identified feminist, Lauren said there were a few problems with the porn industry, but also said she took up problems with other feminists criticizing her for supporting the industry.

“If the patriarchy is about men making decisions for women and taking away their agency, why do some femi-

“We, as a society, are quick to shame the porn stars, but never the men who rely on them.” nists want to control other women’s decisions?” Lauren asked.

Pornography, as Fernelius writes, essentially refers to female enslavement and perpetuates some of the more grisly and personal acts of sexism.

But if Lauren considers herself empowered from her profession, then it’s no one’s place to take that away from her. It isn’t as though she’s unaware of the industry’s murky history.

Evidently, news of Lauren’s involvement has received mixed feedback. Fellow students hark about how much they want to have sex with her. Response articles criticize and praise her. Comments on other articles about Lauren, according to Jezebel,

LETTER TO THE EDITOR appropriate and irrelevant to the content of the offense. We are interested to know what criteria is used to determine whether or not and where a story is placed on the front page.

In addition, due to the history and legacy of those who have come before us, the African-American community places importance on the names of our organizations. The Technician lacks accuracy and consistency in highlighting the sponsors of the Unwritten Rules: Being Black in Corporate America event that took place on Wednesday. The sponsoring organizations for this event were: the Black Business Students Association (BBSA); the Kappa Omicron Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated; and the National Association of Black Accountants, Incorporated (N.C. State Chapter).

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assert she deserves no privacy or even protection from rape and sexual assault.

What puzzles me most is that no one seems to criticize the male student who initially found one of Lauren’s scenes.

As it goes, a fellow male student, first-year Thomas Bagley, had some downtime to kill. In his private time, he noticed one of the girls, Aurora, he was watching on the Internet bore a striking resemblance to a girl in his class, Lauren.

He decided to confront her about it. She admitted to being in the film, but swore him to secrecy. Shortly thereafter, the secret was out.

Jezebel features a screenshot of an anonymous tweet on @collegefession’s Twitter account posted Feb. 7, reading: “‘I found out a girl in our freshman class is a porn star.

I’ve made it my goal to [have sex with] her before I graduate.’ –Duke University.”

This entire response is highly indicative of something a little off in our society. Far too many people concern themselves with criticizing and stigmatizing sex workers, but never the consumers.

We, as a society, are quick to shame the porn stars, but never the men who rely on them. Always we mock the stripper but never the creeps who watch.

There is nothing wrong with expressing sexuality. I commend Lauren for finding a profession that makes her happy and earns her money.

So, what do we make of Duke’s porn star? Nothing.

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How the media controls our actions

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nless you don’t own a television, radio or computer— or you simply lock yourself inside your house—it’s safe to say that you’re a f fec ted by the media in s o m e w a y.

Most Americ a n s k now t h is, but I feel as though Taylor most of us Quinn are misled as Assistant Features Editor to just how much the media controls us.

Our clothes, our haircuts, things we say, even how we think can be affected by the media.

Think about it. There is always a celebrity haircut that takes over hairdresser’s requests, whether it be “the Farrah Fawcett” or “the Jennifer Aniston,” hairstyles are influenced by the media.

Not to mention the music we listen to directly affects the clothes we wear as well.

Jean jackets with patches: punk. Anything sparkly: pop. Ripped jeans: rock. The list goes on and on regarding the two forms of expression intertwining.

In fact, Youngjoo Na and Tove Agnhage conducted a study that appeared in the International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology in 2013. According to Na and Agnhage, “Fashion styles were initially adopted

{ Hello. My name is Casey Nordcliff, and I am a computer science major here at N.C. State. I was reading the Feb. 20th edition of the Technician, and the headline was a bit shocking, but not for the reasons you might suspect. It reads, “RPD arrests student on charges of statutory rape, sexual offense.” Taken aback, I began reading. It gave the picture, full name, age, address, school year, major and the amount of bond money being held for a Mr. Sharka Holmes, the accused.

Now, here is a man who was accused of a crime, arrested by proper law enforcement, apparently gave no signs of resistance and was booked according to current statutes.

He most likely has not gone to court. He has not been convicted. He hasn’t talked to a judge, or jury, or anyone else, except perhaps his lawyer. In the United States, one is always presumed innocent until proven guilty. It is en-

as a mechanism for expressing the type of music, but soon they became a critical factor in explaining and presenting the particular music.”

They conducted a survey and found the correlation between fashion and music is very strong and, in fact, the two are thought of as a singular concept.

This means the media affects not only what we do, but who we are as people. Listening to the music the media has offered up for us in the mainstream has actually affected what we buy and how we want the rest of society to view us via the clothes that we wear. In this way, the media controls us. Even if we try to be different than the norm, it seems as though the media has already concocted a formula for us to want to feel that way. It is always one step ahead.

For example, the hipster revolution began in the last few years and has quickly become a mainstream trend.

The entire hipster lifestyle stemmed from starving artists without money—which explains the out-of-style (which has now become instyle) clothing from goodwill, thick-rimmed glasses instead of contacts and music sounding like it was created with GarageBand instead of from some expensive recording studio.

Its whole deal is hipsters aren’t mainstream, but if

LETTER TO THE EDITOR tirely possible that this man can go to court and be found not guilty. If that happens to transpire, he will have what little of his reputation is left to go off of, best case scenario. He will most likely be ostracized socially and have his academic career put on hold, at least for a little while. Even IF he is found innocent, all ~35,000 students and however many faculty who have read the article will associate his name with a crime he did not commit.

As free-thinking, openminded and tolerant as I was told N.C. State is, this is a blatant disregard for personal privacy. To publish as much information as the authors of this article did is rude, inconsiderate and, quite frankly, unprofessional. The authors are dragging a potentially innocent man’s name through the mud, based off of what I assume is public record consisting of police transcripts of the events aforementioned.

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there are a bunch of hipsters running around, none of them are different. Even if we try to be different, the media scoops it up and makes it mainstream style. The mainstream media had an eye for the emerging style and now every time we turn around we see mustaches, cats and oversized glasses which seem to signify the so-called “hipsterdom” in mainstream stores such as Claire’s or Forever 21.

With all of this said, we have two choices: Either sit back and let the media dictate what we wear and ultimately how we think, or try to escape this vicious cycle and make our own decisions. But unfortunately, I don’t think the second choice is even an option in our country.

Just as Na and Agnhage said, “The songs inf luence them to seek ways that will effectively portray their taste in music with fashion being the most effective and widely used media for music expression.”

If the songs are being fed to us from the mainstream media, it is almost as if we have no choice but to sit back and let our cookie-cutter preferences arise. This type of media control has been happening ever since music started diversifying because people wanted to represent the music they loved at all times, and what better way to do that than to put it on your body?

} Whether or not this man is guilty is irrelevant; what IS relevant is that his reputation is most likely forever tarnished by a preemptive, sensationalized headline. I hope that whoever this email reaches and /or whoever wrote the article has thought about the seriousness of their actions and will consider outcomes of people named in articles going forward.

Cordially yours, Casey Nordcliff junior, computer science

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Fallon starts strong in talk show JIMMY FALLON BEGAN HIS FIRST WEEK AS THE NEW HOST OF THE TONIGHT SHOW

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For those who enjoy a good laugh before going to bed on weeknights, this is an exciting time in the world of late night television. Monday night marked the premiere of NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in which the former Late Night host is now the successor of the TV icon Jay Leno.

Though regarded as one of the more popular and successful late night programs, The Tonight Show is not without its history. Since it first aired in 1954 with the late Steve Allen as the original host, the show has had four

“Nevertheless, once the show got going, it definitely delivered on every level.” more successors, not including Fallon. Leno even served two terms, after an intermediate one in which Conan O’Brien was the host, which resulted in one of the lowestrated periods in the show’s 60-year existence.

It’s only befitting that one

of Fallon’s first jokes was “I’m Jimmy Fallon and I’ll be your host, for now.” Fallon then proceeded to show his gratitude toward Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, O’Brien and Leno for their roles in preparing him for the job.

Despite his well-established status as a stand-up comedian and late night host, Fallon displayed an obvious anxiety during the premiere’s opening. Though anyone would be nervous filling the shoes of legends such as Carson and Leno, Fallon took things a little too far with a rather unnecessary introduction prior to the opening monologue.

After hundreds of episodes of Late Night, several years on Saturday Night Live and even a few film roles, Fallon is no stranger to the public. That said, telling the audience how The Tonight Show would be structured was kind of pointless.

Nevertheless, once the show got going, it definitely delivered on every level. Following the success of his Late Night Superlatives act in which he made jokes about NFL players, Fallon brought this sketch to The Tonight Show, only this time with Olympic athletes. One that really left audiences rolling was when he gave U.S. Olympic snowboarder Danny Davis the title of “Most Likely to Be Able to Turn Water into Weed,” as a result of the athlete’s “Jesusstyle” beard.

The premiere also featured

Will Smith as Fallon’s first guest and a live performance from U2 of its new song, “Invisible.” “The Evolution of Hip Hop Dancing” was the highlight of Smith’s appearance, in which he wore his Fresh Prince of Bel-Air attire.

In between his opening monologue and interviews with guests, Fallon also incorporated a segment that featured a string of random celebrity cameos ranging from Robert De Niro and Tina Fey to Joan Rivers. This took place after Fallon talked about a friend who bet him $100 that he would never be The Tonight Show host.

As soon as he said this, each celebrity dropped a $100 bill on Fallon’s desk. Though this act was slightly drawn out, Stephen Colbert ended it on a hilarious note by carrying a jar of coins worth $100 and dumping it on Fallon’s head.

The studio itself also enhanced the potential of the show. With this being the first time in more than 40 years that the show is being filmed in New York, Fallon made sure not to underscore that component. Behind his desk lies a wooden sculpture of the New York skyline, elaborately designed and brightly colored to provide a cultural resonance with viewers.

Fans who have been watching Fallon since Late Night will also appreciate the consistency between both series.

Continuing to work with his go-to band, The Roots, and

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sidekick/announcer, Steve Higgins, Fallon once again demonstrates the effectiveness of working together.

This was even more evident on the second night when two members of The Roots did a spoof of ABC’s The Bachelor.

Fallon kept the first week

going strong when he welcomed the iconic comedian Jerry Seinfeld as his first guest Tuesday night. Prior to being interviewed, Seinfeld did a stand up routine in front of the audience, which no doubt evoked a feeling of nostalgia among Seinfeld fans.

Though not without its flaws, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is off to a solid start. In spite of having some tough shoes to fill, Fallon has proven within the first week that he is definitely the right man for the job.

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Irish author shares tales of dystopia Chelsey Winstead Correspondent

New York Times best-selling author and Irish journalist Kevin Barry read from his selection of short stories and his novel, City of Bohane, as part of the N.C. State Literary Readings program. The English Department’s creative writing program hosted the event in Caldwell Lounge on Wednesday.

Author of Lookaway, Lookaway and creative writing professor, Wilton Barnhardt, introduced the accomplished Irish writer, claiming Barry’s dystopian novel City of Bohane is what movies should be like and that it should be one.

Barry started the evening with a few jokes after asking the audience, “On a scale of one to 10, how much filth can you handle?” Receiving an overwhelming response of 10, he pressed on in reading his short story, “The Fjord of Killary.” This tale, laden with sarcasm and blunt thoughts, had the crowd chuckling and hanging on to every word.

“That was just a tender little story to soften you up,” Barry said, with a sly smile.

Set in the near future of 2050s, Bohane is a city on the western seaboard of Ireland.

Barry said he created the setting based on the western Ireland cities of Cork and Limerick, where he spent his childhood. Although it has a futuristic feel, the novel is inf luenced by Barry’s love for classic western novels and

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Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award speaks in Caldwell Lounge Wednesday. Barry read selections from his books and short stories and spoke about Irish literature.

traditional Irish folklore.

The change of tone and character in his voice while reading the dialogue of each character transported the crowd to a shack in Bohane circa 2050s. His reading voice pulled the listener into his future dystopian city, yet Barry came back into his own being and kept the audience smiling and engaged with the Irish native.

Ellen King, graduate in creative writing, said she loved Barry’s reading, and he had a liveliness to reading that invites people into his specific world.

After his reading, Barry took questions from the audience about his writing and his inf luences. His biggest literary influence for Bohane was A Clockwork Orange and references shows such as The Sopranos and The Wire as inspirations for conflict in the novel. Barry said he believes some of the best narrative fiction has moved from novels into television.

Barry offered great advice based on his own experience for aspiring writers.

“The most sure-fire way of getting the words down right away is to write first

“I love the initial spark a writer gets with a story and thinking this is going to be great.”

Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane

thing in the morning so you don’t have an excuse or get distracted,” Barry said.

“Don’t go online or pick up your bloody iPhone. I don’t even drink coffee first thing

because I don’t want to get too awake.”

Barry did not come to this realization early on in his writing career, but said, “In my early twenties, I was a 4-in-the-morning writer after crawling back home.”

The Irish author stressed the importance of feeding your writing style by reading.

“Never feel guilty about spending time reading,” Barry said. “It’s all food — it’s all inspiration.”

The writing process has not always been successful for Barry, as he acknowledges the majority of what he writes

will not be that great. He said his philosophy about writing differs from others because he persists to the finish line.

“Even if I know this is crap, I’m going to finish it,” Barry said. “It’s mostly a professional thing, but I always save it for a month or two and pull it out later to see if anything is worth while in it.”

Although it can be frustrating, Barry said he continues writing because of the joy he gets from the process.

“I love that initial spark a writer gets with a story and thinking this is going to be great,” Barry said. “The most important thing is that you keep having those ideas.”

The accomplished writer also stressed the importance of not giving up in writing.

“You can always write,” Barry said. “No matter what mood, shape or condition you are in. It’s a great place to be when you get there. You go through a lot of wrong avenues trying to find your style and voice. You have to write your way through a lot of influences and stuff to find your own stuff. “ Kevin Barry has penned three collections of short stories, the first titled Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories, the second There are Little Kingdoms: Stories and the most recent Dark Lies the Island: Stories. His novel City of Bohane won The European Union Prize for Literature and is currently being worked into a television or film screenplay by a producer in London.

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Carlos Rodon (0-1, 1.50 ERA) is expected to start Friday and will likely face off with the Mountaineers’ junior right-hander Jamie Nunn (0-1, 24.00 ERA). Rodon was bested by Nunn in the opening game of the 2013 season, with the Mountaineers going deep three times on the southpaw.

“Last year I just left some balls up, and everything just wasn’t there,” Rodon said.

“They just hit me.”

Junior pitcher Logan Jernigan (0-0, 4.50 ERA) is expected to start Saturday against App’s senior right-hander Tyler Moore (0-1, 10.80 ERA), while N.C. State’s sophomore left-hander Brad Stone (1-0, 6.75 ERA) is projected to start Sunday against junior lefty Jeffrey Springs (0-0, 5.40 ERA).

The Wolfpack has an opportunity this weekend to earn three wins against a good Mountaineers team.

Rodon could also bounce back well after his loss on

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on March 1 and a home game with another cellar-dweller, Boston College, on March 9 to close out the season. While conventional wisdom says the Pack should take care of business in those games and pad its conference record, the trade-off is that State’s RPI and strength of schedule will take a hit even if it wins.

Throw in an ungainly loss to No. 126 North Carolina Central back in November

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Junior pitcher Logan Jernigan throws a pitch Monday at Doak Field against Canisius. Jernigan’s pitching helped the Wolfpack defeat the Golden Griffins, 11-4.

opening day. Avent said his team is ready for the series.

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beat us to open the season last year. This will be a continuation of what we never finished.”

“In the second half, we got [the ball out of traps] quick, reversed it, swung it.” Moore said. “We were able to find the open person better in the second half.”

However, Duke didn’t bow down, as the Devils answered State’s hot streak with a 7-0 run of their own to stretch their lead back to double

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and even the most diehard of Pack fans couldn’t make a compelling case for their team to make the NCAA Tournament.

In between the Miami and BC games, the Wolfpack travels to Pittsburgh, a team that handed head coach Mark Gottfried’s bunch its first conference loss on Jan. 4.

T houg h t he Pa nt hers have struggled of late, their computer numbers are still favorable and beating them on the road would no doubt catch the eyes of the selection committee.

Meanwhile, the Wolfpack needs to root for teams it’s already beaten, including Maryland, Florida State and Tennessee, which make up the Pack’s three top-100 wins.

If State wins out, its record would be 21-10 overall, 11-7 in the ACC, and a win or two in the ACC Tournament just might slide the Pack off the bubble and into the field of 68.

But considering the way N.C. State has played of late, that seems like an impossible scenario.

digits. Duke held strong to its lead, finishing the game with a 13-point victory.

In the team’s final run, Burke was the only starter in the game for the Pack. Starting junior guards Len’Nique Brown and Krystal Barrett struggled heavily, combining for zero points, missing all 17 of their shots.

“Our guards struggled tonight shooting the ball,” Moore said. “When you’re having an off shooting night,

it should make you more determined to make up for it with play on defense.”

Moore said he would play anyone who was willing to compete.

“If we’re going to go down, I want to go down competing,” Moore said. “If that means playing the last person on the bench, then I’ll do it. We’re going to make sure that N.C. State is a team that’s known for competing every night.”

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Pack looks for revenge against App this weekend

Burke makes Academic All-American first team Senior forward Kody Burke became the third Wolfpacker to be named a Capital One first-team Academic All-American on Thursday, joining Marisa Kastanek (2013) and Jennifer Howard (1996 and 1997). Burke, a business administration major with a 3.93 GPA, was named to the third team in both 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 and is the ACC’s lone representative on the women’s first or second teams.

The senior is currently averaging 15 points and 6.3 rebounds per game for the No. 14 Wolfpack (22-4 overall, 9-3 ACC).

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

State softball revs up for busy weekend in Florida N.C. State’s softball team will play in the Citrus Classic this weekend in Kissimmee, Fla. at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. Check out the full story on our website, TechnicianOnline.com/Sports.

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Today TRACK AT VIRGINIA TECH CHALLENGE Blacksburg, Va.. , TBA TRACK AT KENT TAYLOR INVITE Chapel Hill, N.C., TBA WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING/MEN’S DIVING AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS Greensboro, N.C., All day SOFTBALL V. GEORGIA Kissimmee, Fla., 1:15 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS V. SYRACUSE Raleigh, N.C. 2:30 p.m.

BASEBALL V. APPALACHIAN STATE Raleigh, N.C., 3:00 p.m.

SOFTBALL V. LEHIGH Kissimmee, Fla., 5:45 p.m.

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS V. PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, Pa., 7:00 p.m.

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Duke wins in spite of Pack’s late comeback Staff Writer

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(22-5 overall, 13-1 ACC) to the brink on Sunday.

The Hokies’ RPI is No. 222 in the country, but no matter how weak the opponent looks on paper, it’s never easy to go on the road in the ACC and pick up a win. The Pack can attest - it fell at 11th-place Wake Forest Jan. 15 and squeaked past 13th-place Miami by one point Feb. 8.

State has a rematch with Miami

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Senior forward Kody Burke shoots the ball during the game at Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium Thursday.

Burke scored 30 points, a career high, but the Wolfpack fell to the Blue Devils, 83-70.

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After three consecutive blowout wins, N.C. State looks to continue its scorching offensive streak as it welcomes Appalachian State to Doak Field for a three-game series this weekend. “[Appalachian State] beat us on opening day last year,” junior second baseman Logan Ratledge said. “We know this is going to be a tough series.”

After being shutout in its first game, a 3-0 loss to Canisius, the Wolfpack responded by winning its next three games in blowout fashion. On Monday, the Pack earned a series split against Canisius with an 11-4 drubbing at home. State followed suit Tuesday night with a 12-7 pounding of Elon and then demolished North Carolina A&T by a score of 15-0 Wednesday afternoon.

During the last three games, the Pack is averaging an astronomical 12.7 runs per game and has gotten strong production from its veteran leaders.

Junior shortstop Trea Turner, who has a .500 (eight-for-sixteen) batting average, is five-for-five on stolen base attempts so far this season, looking everything like the preseason first-team AllAmerican he is.

Junior catcher Brett Austin, another member of State’s preseason All-American trio, is batting .438 (seven-for-sixteen) and is tied for second on the team in RBIs (four).

And after a paltry one-for-12 start, Ratledge has also exploded onto the scene, leading the team in home runs (two) and RBIs (six). “[Logan] hadn’t been playing that well, but he had a great preseason and had two home runs [Wednesday], but home runs are not what we’re looking for,” head coach Elliott Avent said. “We’re looking for him to go back to doing what he’s been doing. A very steady player who does everything in the game correctly.”

But perhaps the best performance of the week came from junior pitchers Patrick and Eric Peterson, a pair of transfers from Temple. The Peterson twins combined to turn in eight scoreless innings Wednesday, giving up only three hits in the Pack’s shutout of A&T. Though Patrick Peterson’s appearance on a Wednesday game suggests that he could be the Pack’s mid-week starter, he could find himself in the weekend rotation with a couple more performances like the one against the Aggies.

“The Peterson twins pitched unbelievable,” Avent said. “That is as efficient as you can pitch, only 84 pitches over eight innings. If we pitch that like that this year, we’re going to have a chance as long as we play defense.”

The Mountaineers (0-4) were swept by the No. 25 Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville, Ar. last weekend and followed that by dropping a midweek game to Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.

The lone bright spot for the Mountaineers in the early going has been the emergence of sophomore infielder Dillon Dobson.

Dobson, an All-Southern Conference freshman team nominee in 2013, is off to a scorching start, driving in five RBIs while hitting for a home run, a triple and a double in the opening week of play.

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Despite a career-high 30-point performance from senior forward Kody Burke, No. 14 N.C. State fell to No. 7 Duke by a score of 83-70.

Thursday’s game marked the 75th meeting between the Wolfpack (22-5 overall, 9-4 ACC) and the Blue Devils (24-3 overall, 11-2 ACC). The all-time series record now stands at 40-35 in State’s favor, although Duke has won 19 of the last 21 meetings.

The Pack has now lost back-toback games after going 9-2 to start ACC play.

Duke’s sophomore guard Alexis Jones made a big contribution to the Devils’ effort, stretching its lead to seven points within the first 11 minutes of the game.

State responded nicely to Duke’s spurts, matching the Devils’ play with runs of its own. Big threepoint shots from freshman guard Miah Spencer kept the Pack within four through the first 12 minutes of the first half.

State had difficulty getting shots off against a stout Duke defense

that totaled seven blocks as a team in the first half. The Pack was held to only eight points in the paint in the first 20 minutes.

The Devils were able to pull out an 8-0 run late in the first half, finding momentum after forcing the Pack into three straight turnovers. Duke extended its lead to 12 with 5:03 remaining in the first half.

Jones came up big for the Devils in the closing seconds of the first half, sinking a buzzer-beating threepointer to give Duke a 13-point heading into halftime. Jones entered the locker room with 12 points.

State was uncharacteristically off in the first half from behind the arc, making only three of its 15 three-point attempts. The 20 percent performance was a far cry from the Pack’s season average from long range: 38.4 percent.

Duke carried its momentum through halftime, breaking off a 19-5 run in the first six minutes of the second half to extend its lead to 24. The Devils kept up their threepoint barrage, knocking down three shots from downtown in that time.

“They came out [of halftime] with more aggression [than us],” N.C. State head coach Wes Moore said.

“That’s what bothered me.”

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ond half, State scored nine straight points, cutting the Devils’ lead to 11 with 9:05 remaining in the game. Senior center Markeisha Gatling, who had been quiet through the first half, got hot at the right time for the Pack, netting two key buckets to spark her team’s run.

With 7:33 remaining in the contest, senior guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman injured her ankle after diving for a loose ball, and had to be carried off the court.

Moore said after the game that he was not sure about the extent of her injury.

Following the injury, an inspired State team drilled four straight three-pointers, three coming from Burke. The shots were part of a 12-3 run by the Pack that shortened the Devils’ lead to four with 4:12 remaining.

“When you’re in a slump,” Burke said, “that inspires you to give more energy.”

The Pack was on fire from long range in the second half, sinking eight of its 15 three-point attempts. Moore said ball movement played a big role in the shooting improvement.

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COMMENTARY

Wolfpack’s NCAA hopes fading fast Luke Nadkarni Assistant Sports Editor

In any sport, the importance of rebounding from a disappointing defeat cannot be overstated. Unfortunately for N.C. State fans, their Wolfpack didn’t get that memo on the plane ride down to Clemson.

State followed up Saturday’s heartbreaking loss at Syracuse in the worst way possible, getting manhandled at Littlejohn Coliseum

by Clemson, 73-56, Tuesday night, putting its already faint NCAA Tournament hopes in even further jeopardy.

The Wolfpack shot decently from the field, going 45.7 percent in the game. But State only got to the line 14 times compared to 26 for Clemson and turned the ball over 14 times as well.

Other than do-everything sophomore forward T.J. Warren, junior guard Ralston Turner was the only State player to score in double figures. That isn’t going to cut it on a team that’s struggled to find a consistent third scoring option all season.

To be fair, State has faced two of the ACC’s best defenses in its past two games. But against both teams, the Pack struggled to get the ball inside, draw fouls and score. Against

Syracuse’s vaunted 2-3 zone, State resorted to f linging up jumpers, which one-by-one clanged off the rim. On Tuesday, Clemson simply increased its defensive pressure in the second half, allowing State to score just 23 points.

In its first season since it graduated former guard Scott Wood, State’s all-time leader in three-point field goals (334), the Wolfpack’s shooting from beyond the arc has been mediocre. Only Turner has proven himself as a reliable threat from deep, while junior guard Desmond Lee, freshman guard Anthony “Cat” Barber and sophomore guard Tyler Lewis are all extremely streaky.

The Pack functions best when Warren and the frontcourt can get in the lane and create from there.

But the problem is State simply can’t stretch defenses with outside shooting enough to efficiently attack them.

And the news only gets worse for the Wolfpack faithful. With a pair of losses this week, State is essentially backed into a scenario where every game is a must-win. Though it’s true that no team is theoretically out of contention until it loses in its conference tournament, there can’t be anyone that actually expects the Pack to make a miracle run after Tuesday’s performance.

State’s RPI currently stands at No.

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Wake Forest sophomore forward Arnaud William Adala Moto makes a layup against freshman forward Lennard Freeman during the game against Wake Forest in the PNC Arena Feb. 11, 2014. The Wolfpack defeated the Demon Deacons, 82-67.

55 in the country, a little too low to reasonably expect an at-large bid.

The Wolfpack’s résumé is also devoid of wins against the nation’s top 50, making next Wednesday’s home tilt with archrival UNC-Chapel Hill a do-or-die faceoff, the same Tar Heels that posted a comeback win over No. 5 Duke Thursday night.

However, the Wolfpack can’t look ahead to that game. On Saturday, it travels to Virginia Tech (9-16 overall, 2-11 ACC), which currently sits at last place in the ACC, yet pushed the white-hot Virginia Cavaliers