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NCSU Libraries alters proposed cuts in hours Ravi K. Chittilla Editor-in-Chief

In response to continued budget cuts, NCSU Libraries has altered its proposal to reduce library hours for the Hunt Library and D.H. Hill Library.

Although an earlier proposal called for Hunt to maintain one 24hour day on Sunday and for D.H. Hill to maintain four 24-hour days Monday through Thursday, the new proposal instead calls for Hunt to maintain two 24-hour days, Sunday and Monday, and for Hill to maintain three 24-hour days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to David Goldsmith, associate director of materials management.

Hunt and Hill currently maintain five 24-hour work days each, Sunday through Thursday.

NCSU Libraries first announced the change on its website Monday.

Goldsmith said he and members of the NCSU Libraries Student Advisory Board decided to alter the

proposal after they received significant feedback following NCSU Libraries’ first proposal to close Hunt Library from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. Monday through Thursday, while keeping D.H. Hill open 24 hours those days.

One of the major concerns for cutting hours to Hunt in the first proposal was the cuts would disproportionately harm graduate students, Goldsmith said.

“When analyzing the data we saw that both libraries had almost equal traffic,” Goldsmith said.

However, there were certain resources kept on hold at D.H. Hill, that were accessed more frequently by more students.

“Obviously, we would like to keep both libraries open as they are now, but we just can’t afford to,” Goldsmith said.

David Fiala, a graduate student in computer science who started a petition that garnered about 5,900

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Total number of volumes lent through Triangle Research Library Network in 2013-14

NCSU 5,804

Duke 9,112

NCCU 682

UNC-Chapel Hill 14,948

SOURCE: TRLM.ORG GRAPHIC BY: AUSTIN BRYAN

NCSU, Triangle colleges share wealth of libraries Jake Moser Staff Writer

NCSU Libraries has been collaborating with library systems in the Triangle and around the world to save millions of dollars and give the N.C. State students and faculty members more access to academic resources.

Overall, these partnerships have increased N.C. State’s total collection from about 4 million volumes to 16 million because library systems can share journal subscriptions and collectively bargain for lower prices, according to Greg Raschke, Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication Administration.

Among these collaborations is the Triangle Research Libraries Network, which is a collection of shared

academic materials started by Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. N.C. State joined in the 1950s, followed by North Carolina Central University.

Today, the TRLN gives students and faculty members access to thousands of journals at a fraction of the cost, according to Raschke.

“When we negotiate with the TRLN, we get a better price, and we save several hundred thousand dollars a year,” Raschke said. “It provides a larger array of resources that we otherwise couldn’t provide.”

Though N.C. State partnered with other libraries for decades, these collaborations have been especially useful in the wake of recent budget cuts.

“It certainly helps all the way around with lessening

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Nobel Laureate speaks about career, scientific discoveries Susan Johnston Correspondent

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Senior in graphic design Brooke Odom poses at the end of the runway at Art2Wear in the Court of North Carolina April 25, 2013.

Art2Wear show Friday Staff Report

The 13th-annual Art2Wear fashion show will take place Friday on the Stafford Commons, the lawn in front of Talley Student Union.

The show will begin at dark, approximately 8 p.m.

Art2Wear is a student-organized runway show that features the fashion designs, costumes and wearable sculpture designs created by students in the College of Design and the College of Textiles.

This year’s theme, Accelerated Evolution: Speed, invited designers to explore the conceptions and connotations surrounding speed.

The show will also include five subthemes: Questioning Speed, Speed of Humanity, Speed of Time, Speed of Success and Speed of Luxury, according to the press release.

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The goal of the show is to inspire and challenge the audience and designers to think about clothing in a different way, the press release stated.

Art2Wear generally attracts about 4,000 attendees. The show is currently trying to evolve from a highly anticipated N.C. State event into a focal point for fashion on the east coast, according to its press release.

The Art2Wear website defines fashion as “A product or sculptural piece that interacts with the body and serves as either a cultural artifact, an artistic expression, a reflector of society, outward illustration of a person’s identity, starter of revolutions, economic building block, basic human need, or body covering.”

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Oliver Smithies, the 2007 Nobel Laureate in physiology and medicine, spoke to an audience of about 100 people as part of the Thomas Jefferson Scholars Distinguished Lecture Series Tuesday in the Talley Student Union.

Smithies, who is currently the Witherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, addressed the audience about his 60-year career in science from his undergraduate years to the present.

Smithies discussed the importance of sharing personal research with other scientists in order to collaborate and make progress in one’s own work.

“If you share your work, you have so much more enjoyment with what you’re doing,” Smithies said.

Another topic Smithies talked

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Oliver Smithies, recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, speaks Tuesday afternoon in the Talley Governance Chambers.

about how science education can be progressed by today’s young scientists.

“I think the best way to increase science education is to get young people interested in who and how

the major discoveries were made,” Smithies said.

Smithies began his research career in his undergraduate at Oxford

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About 9,400 graduate students are currently enrolled at N.C. State.

“We’re trying to step up and make students more aware of what’s going on beyond our website,” Goldsmith said. “We’re going to put up table tents in the Brickyard to really make sure students understand what’s going to happen in the fall.”

To meet the system’s budget cut of more than $1.3 million, Goldsmith said NCSU Libraries has eliminated 27

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the effect of budget cuts,” Raschke said. “Whether we have a budget increase or decrease, it helps because you have access to these resources either way. These collaborations are well established, so it certainly makes it better for anyone in any type of budget environment.”

The dues for each school in the TRLN are relatively equal, Raschke said, but because NCSU Libraries has a smaller budget than libraries at Duke or UNC-CH, N.C. State gets a particularly good deal.

“Duke has the largest collections budget, Chapel Hill has second largest, we have third largest, then Central has the lowest,” Raschke said.

“In that sense, it’s definitely a benefit. We bring in more and send less out.”

Another important collaboration, NC LIVE, is an online library system started by representatives from the UNC-System, the NC Public Library Directors As-

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positions and will unsubscribe from about 625 academic journals.

Even with cutting hours to the Branch libraries, which include the Harry B. Lyons Design Library, the Natural Resources Library and the Veterinary Medicine Library, Goldsmith said there was still not enough funding available to keep both Hunt and Hill open five days a week for 24 hours.

NCSU Libraries has already sustained a 5 percent budget cut in the current fiscal year and could face more cuts in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, Goldsmith said.

When NCSU Libraries pro-

posed cutting hours in 2001, 500 students participated in a sit-in at the D.H. Hill Library and then marched to the Chancellor’s residence at midnight to demand that the library stay open all night.

That same spring, more than 5,000 students marched to the state capitol to protest a $125 million cut to the UNCSystem.

That year, NCSU Libraries did not cut any hours, and the state legislature declined to pass what would have been a significant cut to the UNCSystem.

sociation, the State Library of North Carolina and the N.C. Community College System 15 years ago.

“Librarians could see what was coming, and we saw a real opportunity that if we worked together with all libraries in the state, we could acquire materials together and make them available to everyone,” said Susan Nutter, vice provost and director of NCSU Libraries.

Supplemented by funding from private universities and three state appropriations, NC LIVE was able to acquire about $30 million worth of resources for about $5 million, Nutter said.

Most public libraries and community colleges in the state could rarely afford enough for an extensive general collection before, Nutter said.

“NC LIVE really extended our buying power and brought more resources to faculty and students across the state,” Nutter said.

Though budget reductions caused N.C. State to cut its NC LIVE budget by $23,000 this year, Nutter said the

state-wide collaboration has softened the impact of budget cuts.

“NC LIVE has certainly helped us,” Nutter said. “If we lost it, we could really be in difficult situation.”

Similar to the TRLN, the collective nature of NC LIVE helps keep costs low.

“If we had three different vendors to choose from [when buying materials], they normally get one sale in for the whole state because NC LIVE covers everybody,” Nutter said. “They very much want to have that sale, and that really helps us in negotiating.”

N.C. State is also involved with HathiTrust, a digital library based at the University of Michigan that includes about 100 other institutions, Raschke said.

Raschke and Nutter said the success of these collaborations will most likely result in a growing number of partnerships.

“Libraries have been working together a lot since late 1990s, and I think we’ll see these partnerships expanding,” Raschke said.

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Interdisciplinary clusters bring big changes, new tensions Katherine Kehoe News Editor

N.C. State’s cluster system is expanding research opportunities, but not without changes to fundamental University practices Clusters, or groups of interdisciplinary faculty working together to achieve similar goals, have the potential to make large impacts in challenging societal problems.

However, they have to adjust areas such as faculty hiring, departmental autonomy and tenure to meet the needs of a new, integrated system.

Randy Avent, Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Development for the Office of Research, Innovation & Economic Development, said federally funded research was not as interdisciplinary 20 years ago as it is today.

“More funding agencies these days are going after grand challenge problems,

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In his graduate years, Smithies worked mainly on a thesis for osmotic pressures of protein mixtures. Smithies said this research was not very useful to his future career in science, but through researching, he learned how to do good science.

“In order to be successful with one’s research, one must enjoy what he or she is doing, and this is what will make the work worthwhile,” Smithies said.

When Smithies first started

such as the environment, energy, clean water, climate, national security,” Avent said.

“These are really large complex problems that are multidimensional, and that’s driving a very multidisciplinary approach to try and solve them.”

The emphasis on interdisciplinary perspectives is changing the way cluster faculty members function at the University, beginning before they are even hired.

Avent said a traditional hire begins with the department putting together a search committee, and it identifies candidates the department likes and hires them. But with the cluster hires, there’s an external committee, sometimes outside the department but often with departmental representation, that finds the candidates, and both the cluster and the department vote on whether they want to hire him or her.

“Normally, the candidates come in through the departments, and now they are coming in through a cluster,” Avent said. “There isn’t necessarily a departmental committee that is overseeing it.”

For some departmental faculty members, this system has taken some getting used to. Original faculty members sometimes feel as if the new candidates are being “thrust” upon the department for a departmental vote, according to Avent.

“Many faculty don’t like the fact that they didn’t have a say in the original choice, and we’ve seen that translate into no votes,” Avent said.

Terri Lomax, Vice Chancellor for Research in ORIED, said in some cases, it’--s abnormal for the people in the departments to let go of control and let other people get involved with searching for candidates that are going to

be in their departments.

“It’s new for some of them,” Lomax said.

Unlike when traditional faculty members from one department are being hired, cluster faculty members are being judged on their diverse skill set instead of only their departmental track record, Avent said.

Clusters are looking to bring in faculty members who have entrepreneurial qualities, which would help them be aggressive going after grants. Educational experience, teamwork and strong leadership skills are also necessary qualities that are looked for during the hiring process, according to Avent.

“I don’t think anyone expects that the cluster will be a closed group of faculty,” Avent said. “It’s meant to be a catalyst for incorporating a larger number of faculty to do something big.”

Clusters aren’t only start-

ing to change University hiring processes and faculty skill sets. The tenure system is also beginning to shift to meet the needs of a new breed of faculty.

Lomax said cluster faculty will now be allowed to have an interdisciplinary tenure committee during the evaluation process, instead of the single department being the one that does the first evaluation of tenure.

Adjusting the tenure process will allow cluster hires to fully participate in cluster activities without having to worry about impressing the department for tenure purposes.

“There’s always a tendency within a department to ask ‘What have you done for me today?’ and so if the cluster is off working on cluster activities, they may not be getting credit within the department,” Avent said.

Although cluster systems

are altering familiar practices and introducing new ones, the benefits outweigh the initial tensions that come with change, Avent said.

“Anytime you try to do something a little bit different, which is a good thing, by the way, you are trying to bring in people that are not necessarily like the people in the department, so you are going to be met with frictions and challenges,” Avent said.

“It’s healthy to have a little bit of tension.”

Avent said he noticed when people talk about clusters, they seem to concentrate on the problems with them, but in reality, the cluster system is a huge opportunity for the University.

“It is something that we really need to do or we are going to find ourselves in trouble,”Avent said.

looking for work in Toronto after his graduate years, a friend of his, David Scott, informed him about the benefits of beginning research with insulin, according to Smithies.

Smit hies star ted w it h this research for a few years and eventually drifted into working with molecular sieving electrophoresis. This work landed him the Canadian Gairdner International Award in 1990.

“The electrophoresis time was a very exciting time for me,” Smithies said. “You found new things almost every day.”

Smithies then started doing genetic research and made

discoveries working with haptoglobin types along with Norma Ford Walker in 1995.

After figuring out that starch gel could be used as a tool for electrophoresis, Smithies and Walker could then determine how people could be classified into three different haptoglobin types.

Smithies made the starch gel discovery after remembering how starch turned to gel while watching his mother do laundry.

“You never know where your inspiration will come from,” Smithies said. “You have to use your imagination.”

Smithies then went on to work with homologous re-

combination. He researched the insertion of DNA sequences into human chromosomal β-globin locus. This type of gene targeting allowed Smithies to create diseases, such as cystic fibrosis in lab animals such as mice, in order to test for drugs and cures for such diseases. Smithies earned the Nobel Prize for his work.

Smithies is currently working on research with citrate gold.

Smithies said he enjoys

participating in his hobby, f lying airplanes, as well as being a flying instructor. He wrote and published a work called “Overcoming Fear with Knowledge,” which is about how he believes one can overcome fear by being knowledgeable.

“I think it went incredibly well,” Dana Moeller, the president of the Thomas Jefferson Scholars. “I think people enjoyed listening to him and thought he was funny and entertaining. I think we learned

a lot from him and his advice from being a scientist for 60 years.”

The Thomas Jef ferson Scholars received an endowment to fund events such as this, and to have distinguished lecture series where we invited influential guests to come and talk to the N.C. State community, Moeller said.

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Distance education is that of the future

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xaminations have been an instrument of evaluation for centuries now. Yet, few things have changed in the concept of examination. That disturbs me as we move into the digital age. I fear this stagnancy will result in inefficient, even stupid, ways of examining a candidate.

An examination, Naman in most cases, ends Muley Staff Columnist up abusing the scale of time. Learning that happens over a period of months or even years is difficult to reproduce in a span of hours, irrespective of one’s actual skill level.

However, it does take a great deal away from the examination. Laboratory examinations become difficult to normalize for every student, paper examinations bring logistic

delays and corruption and cheating become factors to be circumvented.

Mind you: My argument is not against the contents of an examination or the skills it attempts to evaluate. Each subject shall have its caveats and limitations. That is a much more complicated debate. I merely remark on the transition of evaluation methodology as we move into the digital age, the changes remote examinations have ushered in, and its socioeconomic effects.

Widespread acceptance of distance-education classes begets the era of remote proctoring. At N.C. State, Delta assists a lot of departments in setting up distance-education courses. Delta also has two offices where it conducts exams for distance-education students who cannot make it on the normal exam schedule.

For remote students, Delta has a list of proctoring centers spread

across the nation, with higher density on the East Coast. These consist of public universities and libraries, mostly. A remote student is asked to choose his or her proctor. A couple of forms later, on a predetermined date and time, the student takes the examination in the proctor’s presence. Seems like a smooth system, except a lot of loopholes remain unplugged.

Having a student choose his or her own proctor leaves doors open for corruption. A widespread network of proctors is far from reality. The cost of proctoring is to be undertaken by students, which leads to students choosing cheap proctors who might not uphold the policies of an examination. Ideally, the cost of evaluation should be included in planning a course.

Khan Academy and Coursera are web portals that offer similar courses and successful evaluations. There

are a limited number of resources due to the shortage of technology and surrounding subjects. Oral examinations, such as dissertation defenses, are also operated via Skype in a lot of universities, including N.C. State.

The Graduate Records Examination and Scholastic Assessment Tests, otherwise known as the GRE and the SAT, are two very successful examinations carried out by private entities. Perhaps there is space for more of such private entities that can conduct regular examinations for university classes. Customized examination policies can be worked out with universities. Minimizing exam centers owned by these companies will keep costs low and accommodate more students.

Distance education allows universities to reach a larger audience using the same amount of teaching resources. This leads to extra profit

that can be channeled into paying for privatized institutions that help with quality examinations.

Online technologies such as Skype allow for robust, live video feeds. Using Skype on a wider basis to proctor a vast number of remote students poses interesting technological challenges, but these are the challenges that will allow for fair remote examinations.

Examinations in rural areas pose a completely different challenge that technology will find difficult to penetrate. Lack of infrastructure, psychological blocks and so on, are only a few of the obstacles. Like all fragile ideas, remote examinations will require manual catalysts in these places. These solutions require an assortment of infrastructure and manual efforts. Privatizing this exercise may be a solution that needs to be looked into now.

With legislators like these, who needs enemies?

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he General Assembly is preparing to convene for a short session this summer, which w i l l probably last si x week s .

The stunted length of the legislative session typiWes Kyatt ca l ly ru les Contributing out ac t ion Columnist on big issues, but this short session is anything but typical.

For starters, in January 2015, N.C. Speaker of the House Thom Tillis might find himself being sworn in as Sen. Thom Tillis, assuming these six weeks in the summer don’t get in the way.

Then there are the many issues making serious political waves in the state and drawing an increasing amount of the national media’s attention to North Carolina. Whether or not Tillis decides to run for the Senate will determine the General Assembly’s response to these issues.

Despite promises from Lt. Gov. Dan Forest and other Republicans, the state continues to rank 46th in the nation for teacher pay. Yet the GOP, not Democrats, has cut teacher pay and ended tenure for public school teachers.

The party continues to fight for publicly funded vouchers for private and home schools.

Universities, research and every economic development program imaginable won’t make a difference if public schools aren’t producing students that can fill these positions.

Even universities are feeling the General Assembly tighten the fiscal strings. Gov. Pat

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McCrory famously derided humanities, even though he holds a political science degree from a liberal-arts college. Those same college professors have seen year after year of stagnant pay. Some have even seen their salaries diminished. Speaker Tillis should lead on this issue now.

Then there’s the economy, another topic of national focus. The General Assembly went out of its way to slash unemployment benefits more than any other state. As a result, the unemployment rate dropped but took the workforce with it. The bottom line is that reductions in unemployment are tied to the participation rate, and people are giving up on the North Carolina economy.

Unemployment benefits were put in place to help those who lose work stay on their feet long enough to find new work. When those funds run out, they are at risk of giving up. Of course, people could pursue a secondary degree or certificate from a community college, assuming there are any left after this General Assembly adjourns.

Chronic or untreated medical conditions also factor into why people lose or leave their jobs. It’s hard to put 40 hours into a week and turn in toprate performances with untreated diabetes. But usually people who work at jobs that don’t offer healthcare don’t, spoiler alert, have insurance.

So, even though study after study states a Medicaid expansion in North Carolina would generate millions in extra tax revenue and gross state product, the GOP-led General Assembly refused to do so. As a result, the health

and prosperity of 500,000 North Carolinians are at risk.

To top it all off, citizens are paying higher taxes under the Affordable Care Act to subsidize Medicaid expansion nationally. North Carolina taxpayers are paying for other states’ programs. Speaker Tillis should lead on this issue now.

The list goes on and on. It seems like many of the issues facing the General Assembly should be bipartisan in nature, since Republicans have voiced support for fixing teacher pay and potentially expanding the Medicaid program through private insurers. All the same, it’s unlikely that any substantive action will be taken until next January, when a new General Assembly convenes, presumably with a new speaker.

Tillis will continue to let North Carolina stagnate so he can beef up his conservative credentials in a three-way primary fight before drawing a stark contrast between himself and Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan. Tillis will be enjoying millions in campaign funding from outside sources like the Koch brothers and Karl Rove, while the legislature deliberately avoids tackling the big issues in the state. Experts in the state and all around the country have studied teacher pay, Medicaid expansion, the economy and voting rights at length.

Elected officials know which policy paths will lead to the best results. But with legislators like Tillis, who would put D.C. politics before North Carolina’s prosperity, the worst results are the best voters can hope for.

“Yes, because it gives them a better understanding of who they are because you can’t tell certain things from their resume.”

“Yes because it’s where people put true stuff about them that they’re trying to hide from an employer and can help the employer decide if they’re a good fit for a company.”

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s graduation approaches, graduates are occupied with finishing their theses, their internships and applying for jobs. Other than qualifications, people’s use of social media may be one of the biggest factors that plays into hiring managers’ decisions.

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Donald Kluemper, professor of Management at UIC, said this practice puts students in a tough situation. They are concerned they might not get the job if they decline the request, but they also feel compelled to disclose their profile before officially being hired.

Anti-discrimination laws prohibit employers from asking questions regarding sexual orientation, race, religion and marital status.

But employers still find informal ways to learn this information about potential employees.

According to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, 77 percent of organizations use social networking sites for recruiting, primarily as a way to attract passive job candidates. About one-third of employers explicitly said they currently use social media websites or online search engines to screen job candidates, the SHRM reported.

Despite all the laws and regulations regarding employment, employers still find ways to navigate the system to select employees they think are best for their organizations. This has two-fold implications.

For one, some organizations, in essence, pay more attention than others to private information such as religious beliefs and race that others don’t think should affect employment decisions.

These organizations might have particular requirements regarding such factors as race or sexual orientation. For example, religiousbased organizations might never consider candidates of a homosexual orientation. This type of preference should be kept separate from the employment process to prevent

discrimination.

The second implication of this online screening is that employers tend to discriminate against people of particular ethnic groups or sexual orientation with irrational reasons such as stereotypes or fears.

Alessandro Acquisti, professor of information technology and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, recently conducted an experiment by setting up fake resumes for ostensibly qualified candidates. To test their employers’ preferences, the candidates revealed their religions only on their socialmedia profiles. The results suggested those who identified as Muslim averaged 17 percent fewer callbacks nationally than those who didn’t.

Implicit discriminations such as these are difficult to find and even harder to combat through legal processes. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has not issued specific regulations regarding online screening. Even if it does, the Commission will still have a hard time enforcing the rules.

When dispute of such cases go to court, it’s hard for plaintiffs to prove that an employer performed a Google search on employees’ private information and even harder to prove the employer rejected them largely due to any prejudices.

That does not mean this problem is unsolvable. It is those rules and restrictions in the employment process that cloud the smooth communication between employers and candidates. If employers are free to ask any questions they want and candidates are happy to explain, employers’ concerns will be cleaned away. This freedom can pave way for a clearer communication and increase mutual understanding between both sides. Candidates should also have the right to question why employers concerned factors that are irrelevant to qualifications.

In a world with asymmetric information, “discrimination” exists regardless of any law prohibiting it. When it comes to employment, reducing mandatory restrictions might help bring down the transaction cost and make communication more efficient. Though not realistic to remove all, a deeper understanding is still the right way to lessen the degree of bigotry and bias.

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Leveling the professional field Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer

With a gaping hole in the entrepreneurial playing field for women, a Durham-based team is working toward winning the game and leveling the field once and for all.

Adam Klein, American Underground chief strategist, is working alongside Lauren Whitehurst, founder of the consulting firm Side*, John Austin, director of Groundworks Labs and Kimberly Jenkins, a former employee of Microsoft, in an effort to

combat this entrepreneurial gender gap.

“The goal here is to provide an important mentoring opportunity with access to capital networks that may not have been open to these [female-led] teams before,” Klein said. “We’re trying to level the playing field and have these quality teams have great opportunity and access.

We don’t want them to have a barrier to become a great company.”

The American Underground is a campus located in Durham for entrepreneurs all

over the Triangle. According to Klein, in October of 2013, the American Underground was designated a Google-tech hub for entrepreneurs: one of just seven in North America.

“That partnership has given us the opportunity to work very closely with Google on some key initiatives to bolster Durham and the Triangle as a technology hub,” Klein said.

“In January of this year we submitted an application to Google for an initiative called ‘SOAR’ to boost the number of quality female-led teams in the Triangle.”

Klein said research across the country shows that female-led companies, traditionally, have a more difficult time accessing capital than male-led companies. Klein said it’s their goal to find some of the most promising female-led teams in the Triangle, connect them to expert mentors and then, be able to open up capital networks that were previously untapped.

“If you look nationally at the number of female entrepreneurs, speaking in just the technology business space, it is not reflective of the overall demographic of society,” Klein said. “The numbers tend to be somewhere around 10 to 15 percent of technology companies that are female-led. At the same time, we know from research that female-led teams which receive venture funding actually outperform male-led teams.”

According to Klein, it’s research such as this that sparks the interest of the SOAR pioneers. Klein said he thinks SOAR is one of the solutions to this conundrum and that if female-led teams were given better access to capital, there would be an opportunity for the region to grow more companies and have the Triangle become a destination for female-led companies.

“One of the things that we’re excited about regarding our launch of this whole initiative is learning more

about the issue,” Klein said.

“Some of what we’ve read has pointed to the fact that many female-led teams are usually in business industries that tend not to be as highly scalable. They’re companies like retail or brick-and-mortar businesses that are entrepreneurial nonetheless but do not have scalability as technology companies.”

If a female entrepreneur is interested in starting a company, Klein said one of the

“There are plenty of very talented female leaders that graduate from universities every year in the Triangle” Adam Klein, American Underground chief strategist

first things she should do is connect with a number of resources and networks as quickly as possible.

“I think one of the mistakes we see entrepreneurs making is working in isolation on an idea rather than sharing that idea with other people,” Klein said. “You want to get input, get help and have access to those resources that can really help your company grow.”

As for whether the battle for

gender equality in the entrepreneurial space will be won quickly, Klein said it’s too early to tell.

“I think it’s certainly doable but how quickly it will happen is hard to say,” Klein said. “There are plenty of very talented female leaders that graduate from universities every year in the Triangle.

The question is: How do we take and create an ecosystem that helps female leaders that want to start a company connect to the right resources and build and grow a company from there?”

SOAR’s first event is launching May 1 at the Full Frame Theater at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham.

The event starts at 10 a.m. and will bring together venture capitalists from around the region to talk about the issue of lacking capital for female entrepreneurs as well as the gender gap within the field.

“I just had a daughter,” Klein said. “Just thinking about her future and what kind of community the Triangle is becoming is exciting.

I think it’s going to be really important that the people who are involved in the entrepreneurial system continue to try to pay attention to the initiative and think about the structural issues that might be in place. Then we can take a run at fixing or at least better understanding them.”

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Announcer to leave the classroom Taylor Quinn Assistant Features Editor

“Did you see this?” Edward Funkhouser, associate professor of communication said.

He pulled a sheet of paper taped to the side of his filing cabinet off and held it out. It was dated August of 1977 and said “Welcome to N.C. State!” in big bold letters at the top.

It was an invitation to a dinner welcoming new faculty members.

It was signed by Joab Thomas who was chancellor at the time.

Funkhouser chuckled and proudly stuck it back on the filing cabinet to be displayed.

Funkhouser, 68, has been a professor at N.C. State since he was 31.

After this school year, he will enter phased retirement, meaning he will be retired except for teaching three classes once a week for three years.

Funkhouser will leave a place where he accomplished too much to mention, but nonetheless, he said he will still be leaving a “happy fellow” and repeatedly thanked the University for the opportunities given him.

Disc Jockey Days Funkhouser’s spark for communication started at a young age. He said his dad would take him to a restaurant in his small hometown in Virginia at an age when he was “about as tall as the table.” His dad would talk with his friends, one of them being a disc jockey at the new radio station in their town. After listening to this man speak, he said he knew he wanted to be a disc jockey.

According to Funkhouser, he’s never had another goal.

By the age of 16, he was on the radio and continued throughout his college days, including his time in graduate school. He describes public speaking as “exciting, challenging and tension- building” and carried this love into his years at N.C. State, being the voice of the Wolfpack. He

is the Public Address announcer for the football team and Woman’s basketball team.

“I think if you are going to be in that line of work, anytime you sit down behind the microphone you should feel butterflies in your stomach because if you don’t then you shouldn’t do it anymore,” Funkhouser said. “You have to be a little afraid of failure and feel a challenge to do a good job, and I’ve always felt that has kept me going and helped me do a better job.”

But how did this disc jockey become Edward Funkhouser, the professor and advisor?

Edward Funkhouser, PhD After he graduated college in 1968, he was in the military for three years where he served as an Intelligence Special Agent. When he came home, he went back to work in radio and a bit in television, even though he had never studied it.

He was a business major in undergraduate studies, so he went back to James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. to take some newly added communication courses. One of his professors advised him to go to graduate school, and according to Funkhouser, he did—at the University of Memphis.

At the University of Memphis, Mike McGee, a ‘legend’ in the communication world according to Funkhouser, gave him advise that he never forgot. Funkhouser also said that it influenced him to work on his doctorate after finishing his masters.

“I gave him an answer that I’ve never forgotten, and I knew it was totally stupid,” Funkhouser said. “I said something back immediately, what I said to him was ‘I don’t know enough to do that.’”

Funkhouser said McGee’s jaw dropped and said, “You kidding me? Let me see if I understand this, we have all of these gradu-

ate students who want to work on doctorate degrees who think they know everything, and here we have a student who thinks he doesn’t know enough?” McGee continued, “You’d be wonderful; I would love to have you in my class, if you think you do not know enough, that is a good reason to do this.”

With that, Funkhouser attended Ohio University in Athens, got his doctorate and came to N.C. State in 1977.

Part of the Pack According to Funkhouser, he has always gotten along well with students even though their age difference increases each year.

“I have a daughter who recently graduated from N.C. State, and she has sort of kept me in the loop about what is going on with young people so you know young people really can’t push anything past me; I mean, I know what’s going on,” Funkhouser joked, “But I think I still have a good relationship with young students and I am proud of that.”

According to Funkhouser, he has centered his work on teaching students and enjoys it greatly.

“I think that it is, in our society, a privilege, to walk into a classroom full of 18-year-old young people and tell them about the world that they are going to enter professionally and help them make decisions about what they want to do and so forth,” Funkhouser said. “That is a privilege, and I have learned to respect that and the fact that I am part of doing something like that, I am very proud of that.”

Funkhouser said he enjoys getting to know the students and would like to stay in touch with them after he fully retires. According to Funkhouser, he would miss talking with students if he left the university community completely.

“That is why I chose to go to

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Edward Funkhouser, an associate professor of communication and an announcer for NCSU football games, will begin his retirement this fall.

phased retirement because if I simply quit all at once, I would miss dealing with the students and talking with them because it is very enjoyable to me,” Funkhouser said.

As for post-retirement, Funkhouser said plans to lay low but nothing is concrete, except planning to work on his house. He said he also plans to continue to be the football and woman’s basketball public address announcer “as long as I’m asked to.”

“I had no idea that I would do this in my life, if you talked to me when I was 20 years old and told me I was going to be a college professor, I would have said, ‘hmm really,’” Funkhouser said. “I had no idea that I would do something like this, but it’s something that I think

I’ve done well and that I’m proud of, and I think I had a positive impact on our students and the University, and that’s all you can hope for.”

Whether students know him as the voice of the Wolfpack at the football and woman’s basketball games, as their professor or as their advisor, there is no doubt that however he is known, he will be missed on the N.C. State campus.

“So as I go to retirement, I’m happy. I’m a happy fellow, and I didn’t know that I would be when I got ready for retirement, but as it happens, I’m a happy fellow, yes, I’m pleased,” Funkhouser said. “And I’m thankful to the University for giving me this opportunity, and I’ve had a good time.”

A day in the life of a Wolfline bus driver Sara Awad Staff Writer

An alarm clock blares at 4:30 a.m.

After hitting the snooze button one more time, Wolfline Operator Daniel Young begins his day.

Young said buses have fascinated him since he was a child riding with his father in a segregated bus from Maryland to West Virginia, but he said he never imagined bus operating would become his profession.

Before driving the Varsity, South East Loop, Avent Ferry and West Grove routes for the Wolf line, Young had a variety of careers. He was stationed in Italy as a member of the U.S. Air Force, worked as a courtroom clerk and assistant assignment commissioner for Chief Judge Harold Greene in Washington D.C. while taking law courses, founded the National Tennis Teacher’s College and ran for Raleigh City Council, as well as the House of Representatives Seat 35, among his other life accomplishments.

In 2005, First Transit hired Young, who decided to start working again after completing a bucket list which included buying a motorcycle and driving across the country and back, due to his then recent diagnosis of prostate cancer, according to Young.

On top of driving the bus, Young said he writes songs and letters to the editor, plays the guitar, volunteers at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and maintains membership with the HendersonVance Recreation Commission and Rolling Thunder, a non-profit organization that raises awareness of soldiers missing in action and prisoners of war.

Young’s bus rides contain many surprises as well where riders can listen to Young read the headlines from that day’s paper during layovers at D.H. Hill library among

his other notable sayings.

“I pretend I’ve got a radio station and my bus number is the call letters, Young said. ‘You’re listening to W-O-L-F Radio on the campus of N.C. State at 1509 on the dial. Don’t look for us on your AM or FM dial, because we only play to captured audiences.’”

Young said he got the idea when he worked at Hertz in the early 1990s.

He has experience in broadcasting, radio, television and theatre and even held a small role in the 1989 film The Heist.

“I try to lighten [students’] day and make it entertaining for them because I know it’s a boring thing, and I know sometimes they have to get up early to go to class, and sometimes things just don’t go their way,” Young said. “I try to influence them by telling them to think of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. They didn’t graduate from college, but look what they’ve done, and if these kids, hopefully if they finish college, imagine what they might be able to do, so I’d like to try and inspire them as much as I can.”

Young speaks from experience because he said he attended the University part-time from 1992 to 1998 in order to pursue a communication degree but fell short of graduation by 12 credit hours.

According to Young, he receives a variety of reactions from students.

“The freshman have told me I act like a hall monitor. In fact, one or two complaints [First Transit] has gotten have said students can’t get any studying done on the bus. My thought is, ‘Well, it’s awfully late to start doing your studying on the bus,’” Young said. “For the most part, the majority of the youngsters chuckle at it and stuff like that. You know, those who have a sense of humor. The majority of them always thank me and say, ‘That was a fun

ride,’ or ‘Thanks again,’ and they’ll wave at me when they get off my bus and stuff.”

After Young finishes his bus radio program, he gives them a tour of Raleigh, just like when he worked for the Washington D.C. Tour Mobile in 1989.

“What I said I’ll do is look at the different buildings I see and just read out the names because there may be somebody on my bus that’s never been to Raleigh before,” Young said. “I like to inform people where things are, so next time they’re in town, they can stop by there. For example, I like to let people know where Snoopy’s is… and I don’t know whether I’m responsible or not, but there’s a long line at Snoopy’s now.”

The best part about driving the bus lies in the “responsibility” of the job, Young said.

Young said he drives an hour and a half from the town of Henderson to Chapel Hill Road in order to get there at about 6:21 a.m. to “pre-trip” the bus, the process of making sure the horn, lights and everything else on the bus run smoothly before he starts his route.

The routes change daily, so Young said he and other drivers must make sure they do not “mix up the routes.”

To communicate with each other, drivers must use a set of codes, which range from a 10:29 (ready to go) to 10:7 (going to the bathroom), Young said.

Once his shift ends, Young said he must either wait for another bus driver to relieve him or take the bus back to base.

“A job is what you make it,” Young said. “I try to be as professional as I can. I think that’s the impression you want to give off to students, that you take your job seriously and have their safety at heart.”

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Wolfline operator Daniel Young poses with the Carter-Finley bus on Founders Drive April 16, 2014.

WORDS OF WISDOM FROM DAN YOUNG • “Students should not run for the bus or run alongside the bus because they might slip and fall under the bus.”

• “Once the bus is on the way, there’s no stopping the bus.”

• “I don’t know where you want to go, but I can tell if you ring the bell.”

• “When you want to go, let me know. Pull the cord, and I’ll open the door.”

• “If you brought it on the bus, don’t leave it with us, unless you want to give it to us.”

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I’ll be the first to admit I’m not very good at these types of things.

But when Andrew Schuett, sports editor of the Technician, asked me last week if I wanted to do a farewell column, I couldn’t say no. I like the spotlight more than I dislike sentimental speeches.

Here we are, less than three weeks from graduation, something I thought Luke would never come Nadkarni when I moved into Staff Writer Carroll Hall in August 2010. With graduation comes the end of my time at the Technician, an experience unlike any other during my college career.

I remember a lot of firsts from my time at State. I remember my first party – well, walking into it at least.

I remember my first class: FLS 201 in Poe Hall. I remember my first crush and my first upset stomach after a trip to the famous Fountain Dining Hall.

But no first from college sticks out like my first article for the Technician. It was a preview of N.C. State’s football game against Tennessee in

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the 2012 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic.

As I went through my day, I kept looking ahead to my scheduled phone interview later that afternoon with a player whose identity I wouldn’t know until I picked up the phone. Almost the second I got back from class, my phone rang. On the other end was Annabelle Myers from the Office of Athletic Communication.

“Hello?”

“Hello, Luke,” Myers said. “We have [rising senior running back] Tony Creecy here for your interview.”

Wow, I thought. Tony Creecy. I’ve seen him score touchdowns at Carter-Finley Stadium before. And now I’m interviewing him for an article.

This is cool.

As you might expect, I was jumpy and nervous. How often do you get a chance to interview a Division I football player? Even though I had all my questions written down, I stumbled all over myself. But somehow I managed to get all the quotes I needed and wrote a story. Maybe this wasn’t so difficult after all.

As time went on, I became desensitized and wasn’t so nervous when

interviewing players and coaches.

They’re people just like me. Articles became easier to write and the quality improved. It began to feel routine.

I confess: It even sometimes felt like a nuisance. We had meetings on Sundays, and during the fall, that meant missing out on some of the action of my beloved Washington Redskins. Anyone who knows me personally knows that I’m not just a Redskins fan; it’s more of a religious thing.

But it was worth it in the end. I’ve had the privilege of interviewing many current and former Wolfpack players and coaches during my two years at the Technician. I remember doing a feature on former State baseball player Ryan Mathews, who was a pleasure to interview, during my junior year. I’ve had many chances to talk to women’s head tennis coach Hans Olsen, a man who would talk about tennis all day long if circumstances allowed. And sitting in on a Mark Gottfried press conference after a men’s basketball victory is an experience second to none.

Of course, I’m not perfect—nobody is. There have been instances

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when I missed deadline, or had to contact a sports information director at the last minute to try and reschedule an interview because of my own stupidity. And of course, some of my columns have not been well-received, like a certain one back in February after State lost to UNCChapel Hill in men’s basketball.

But that’s all part of the job. You take the bad with the good, and frankly, if people don’t disagree with you, you’re not doing your job as a columnist. Mac McDonald, former director of broadcasting at the University of Virginia and Wake Forest University, told me something that has stuck with me ever since I was fortunate enough to intern for him as a senior in high school.

“Not everyone likes my style, but there are people out there who think Bob Costas sucks,” McDonald said.

I don’t know what the future holds for me going forward. While being a sportswriter will always be my number one dream, I don’t know if that’s what will end up happening.

But I’m glad I got a little taste of it as a member of the Technician staff.

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Sports PAGE 10 • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014

COUNTDOWN

• Two days until the Wolfpack baseball team takes on Georgia Tech in the first of a crucial three-game series

INSIDE

• Page 7: A farewell column from assistant sports editor Luke Nadkarni

TECHNICIAN

Making the Grade ASSIGNING GRADES TO N.C. STATE’S WINTER AND SPRING SPORTS PROGRAMS

Baseball blanked by Camels

The 2014 spring semester was a fun time for N.C. State sports fans. Many teams overcame adversity to crush expectations while others continued to build on the success of past years. As a part of the biannual Exam Issue, the sports staff of the Technician came together to assign grades to the various winter and spring sports teams at N.C. State. We determined the grades based on each team’s performance versus the preseason expectations that were placed upon them. We took many factors into account, such as injuries, individual performances and postseason achievement. In the end, we voted on each selection as a staff, resulting in the grades posted below.

Softball splits pair with Notre Dame The N.C. State softball team split a doubleheader with ACC foe Notre Dame Tuesday night at Dail Stadium, dropping the first game, 3-2, before rebounding to win game two by a score of 6-2. Junior pitcher Emily Weiman went the distance in the win, striking out nine batters, and senior infielder Renada Davis belted her 13th homer of the season. With the split, the Wolfpack improves its record to 30-14 with a 14-7 mark in conference play.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Men’s Basketball 2015 and 2016 ACC Schedule Announced

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

S O F T B A L L

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During the 2014 season, there has been no place like home for the N.C. State softball team. As of Sunday, the Wolfpack boasts a 22-3 record at Dail Softball Stadium, which is second-best in the ACC. Junior starting pitcher Emily Weiman has continued her dominance on the mound, ranking in the top three of the ACC in wins (24), earned run average (2.25), strikeouts (205) and innings pitched (208.2). With five games remaining before the ACC Tournament, the State team sits at fourth in the conference standings and still has a good shot to repeat as ACC Champions if it can pull together at the right time.

A+ Redshirt sophomore Nick Gwiazdowski earned the singlemost impressive athletic feat of the season in March, as he defeated two-time NCAA Champion Tony Nelson of Minnesota to capture his first NCAA title. The heavyweight also set a new single-season record for w i ns and was named ACC Wrestler of the Year.

Though Gwiazdowski’s triumph was impressive, the Wolfpack team also managed to send four other competitors to Nationals, including junior Tommy Gantt (157), who finished tied for ninth. Despite starting six freshmen throughout most of the season, State finished the year with a 14-7 record and will have nine of its 10 starters returning.

S W I M M I N G & D I V I N G

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The N.C. State swimming and diving team blew expectations out of the water in 2014, as the men and women finished 13th and 17th in the NCAA Championships in March. Both finishes were the best by a Wolfpack squad in over 30 years. The program continues to improve under head coach Braden Holloway, who has taken the State team from a consistently middle-of-the-line team to a top contender in the ACC. The Pack’s relay teams have become some of the best in the NCAA, as the men’s 400-yard and 800-yard freestyle relay teams and the women’s 200-yard relay squad earned first-team All-American honors.

A The Wolfpack women shattered expectations in their first season under head coach Wes Moore, finishing fourth in the ACC despite a preseason prediction of 10th and earning a No. 4 seed the NCAA Tournament. Despite falling in the first round to Brigham Young University, there is no doubt the Pack’s season should be deemed a success. Forwards Markeisha Gatling and Kody Burke were selected in the WNBA D r a f t , a nd Mo ore earned ESPNW’s ACC Coach of the Year honors. The Pack came in ranked No. 21 in the final USA Today poll with an overall record of 25-8.

D The N.C. State baseball team started off the 2014 season with high expectations and dreams of a repeat run to Omaha. Instead, the Wolfpack now finds itself with a 7-14 record in the ACC, and the team will almost surely miss the ACC Tournament in May. The team has an atrocious road record and recently lost a home series to ACC cel lar-dwel ler Boston College. Junior pitcher Carlos Rodon is only 3-6 on the season, and preseason weekend starters junior Logan Jernigan and sophomore Brad Stone both had disappointing seasons.

Freshman third baseman Andrew Knizner, who leads the team with a .355 batting average, has been the lone bright spot for this struggling team.

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OTHER SPORTS GRADES INCLUDE: • • • • •

Gymnastics Men’s and Women’s Tennis Track & Field Men’s and Women’s Golf Rifle

B A S E B A L L

Predicted by the ACC coaches to finish tenth in the ACC, the N.C. State basketball squad, led by All-American sophomore forward T.J. Warren, exceeded expectations, finishing tied for seventh in the conference. Warren almost single-handedly vaulted the young team into a surprise birth in the NCAA tournament. The Pack mustered a tough win over Xavier in the opening round before ultimately losing a heartbreaker to St. Louis. Despite the early exit from the tournament, the Wolfpack team crushed expectations, resulting in a more favorable grade. With one more year of experience, State will be looking for a fourth-straight appearance in the Big Dance in 2015.

W R E S T L I N G

On Wednesday, the ACC announced its conference schedule for the 2015 and 2016 men’s basketball season.

N.C. State will have a tough home schedule in the 2015 season, facing perennial powerhouses, such as Duke, Pittsburgh and Syracuse at PNC Arena.

The Wolfpack will face four ACC teams both home and away in the upcoming season: Clemson, Wake Forest, Virginia and rival UNC-Chapel Hill. The Pack will face ACC-newcomer Louisville on the road in the KFC Yum! Center in the first conference matchup between the two teams.

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W O M E N ’ S B A S K E T B A L L

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

M E N ’ S B A S K E T B A L L

The N.C. State baseball team was shut out, 9-0, Tuesday in its second game of the season against Campbell. The Wolfpack faced the Camels earlier in the season, winning by a margin of 9-2 in 12 innings. The shutout loss marks the first time since 1976 that a State team has been shut out at home.

Though the Pack was 14-2 on March 11 with national title aspirations, the club now finds itself at 21-18 and at risk of not making the ACC Tournament for the first time since 2009.