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Woodward will move forward with 6.5-percent cap Though this year’s suggestion hasn’t been determined, chancellor won’t approve a fee package any less than the BOG’s proposal last year Ty Johnson Editor-in-Chief

Chancellor Jim Woodward said the decision to keep all fee increases–including the $83 Talley Student Center fee proposal which isn’t included among student fees but is an indebtedness fee–below the 6.5-percent suggested cap put in place by the Board of Governors last year is his decision as the leader of the University.

Woodward said even if the BOG, which meets today and Friday, suggested a lower percentage cap, he would stick with the 6.5 percent suggestion that the university system’s governing body passed down to chancellors last year.

Woodward said he felt the 6.5 per-

cent cap was adequate, but said he would not move forward with a fee increase proposal of much more than that unless the student-led fee review committee made a very strong case for a slightly larger fee.

“At this time and given the sensitivity [of the budget situation],” Woodward said. “I feel this is the best opportunity for getting this approved.”

Woodward said to keep the fees under the 6.5% cap he has allocated some administrative salary sources from student fees to state appropriations.

The move was made to free up some cap space for fees.

“The limit I put into place,” Woodward said of his 6.5-percent cap decision, which had no student input.

“Reflects my judgment of what position we’re in right now.”

Woodward said the decision of the fee committee will weigh into his final decision, but said he’ll view the committee’s decision as a recommendation, and will revisit with the committee if he can’t reach an accord with

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View a .pdf of Chancellor James Woodward’s memo to the fee committee with his fee recommendations.

the group.

“Under no circumstances would decisions be made in this office without significant student interaction,” he said.

Co-chair of the fee committee Kelli Rogers said over the weekend that the Talley fee would not rob other fee increase proposals of their chances at being implemented. A concern raised among organizations with fee increase proposals has been that the propositions would be “knocked off the table” because of the Talley project.

The Talley fee, which would account for 81 percent of the 6.5-percent increase, is not typically included within the student fee cap. Woodward said it would be difficult to get the BOG to accept an increase package that in-

cluded a 6.5 percent increase on top of a large indebtedness fee.

Woodward said his unilateral decision to limit all increases to 6.5-percent was intended to aid the fee committee.

“I think it would be unfair to the fee committee if I didn’t give them my recommendation,” Woodward said, adding he wouldn’t want the committee to go through so much work to propose a plan that wouldn’t be approved.

Woodward said if the package wasn’t approved the committee would then have a few days to put together a new fee proposal package, but he doesn’t want to take a chance on a package that wouldn’t be approved by the Board of Trustees, UNC President Erskine Bowles and the BOG. “I won’t put a proposal out there that won’t be approved,” he said.

Chancellor’s fee recommendations quick facts: Woodward recommended the $83 Student Center indebtedness fee be implemented, and has asked the committee to keep the fee, which isn’t a part of the general student activities fees cap, to be counted into the 6.5 percent cap the Board of Governors released last year.

The BOG meets today and tomorrow and will likely release new suggestions for fee increases.

Woodward said Wednesday he will maintain the 6.5-percent cap even if the BOG asks for a smaller cap and has said that only a “strong case” by the fee committee will result in his moving forward with a package in excess of 6.5 percent.

Source: Jim Woodward

University responds to continuing flu outbreak

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Dining and Housing help sick students stay nourished

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Rob Rager, a sophomore in engineering, waits at the pharmacy in the Student Health Center. He had to miss classes to come in and see a doctor because he woke up with flu-like symptoms. Rager, however is not scared by the recent outbreak of H1N1. “I didn’t really expect to get sick because I don’t know anybody that’s sick,” Rager said.

University gets positive feedback regarding Get-Well Meal Kits

H1N1 vaccine approved The FDA and US Department of Health and Human Services prepare to mobilize flu vaccine, University remains uninformed Nick Tran Staff Writer

Flu season arrived early this year in the form of H1N1. In an effort to stem what has been declared pandemic, yesterday the Food and Drug Administration cleared the H1N1

vaccine for nationwide distribution.

Less than a week ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services scheduled the distribution of the flu vaccines for early October, earlier than the previous October to early November date.

This comes as good news to students like Mac Scott, sophomore in mechanical engineering “Preparedness is good,” Scott said.

“We just need to keep ourselves healthy and once it gets here we’ll

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be fine. It is good the government is taking precautions to combat H1N1 and the flu season in general.”

The University, however, has no information on when the vaccine will arrive or how distribution will be conducted. Medical Director of Student Health Services Dr. Mary Bengtson said, “Specifics on campus distribu-

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The number of students being diagnosed with H1N1, or f lu-like symptoms, is doubling every day, says Dr. Jerry Barker, director of Student Health Services. With the number of cases on the rise, Student Health representative Dr. Mary Bengtson approached University Dining and University Housing to create a plan that ensures sick students are getting proper nutrients through Get-Well Meal Kits, Barker said.

The Get-Well Meal Kits feature

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A relatively new addition to N.C. State’s virtual world is the CampusLIVE Web site. Launched only about three weeks ago, the site intends to provide a “one-stop shop” for students, according to Boris Revsin, the co-founder of the CampusLIVE Web site.

This Web site, which is meant to be set as a homepage, includes several links to popular pages like Twitter, Rate My Professor, Pandora Radio, Facebook, and many major e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail.

It provides links to N.C. State specific sites as well, like MyPack Portal, GoPack.com and Vista. When set as a homepage, Revsin says this will save students the hassle of checking several different Web page every morning.

Other things which are included are restaurant reviews for students to find a place to eat, local television listings, local weather forecasts and movie timings for nearby theaters.

The Web site is a project that was created by college students from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in an attempt to simplify student life and currently spans 87 campuses across the country.

According to Revsin, before this site is launched at any campus, a team is

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soups, Powerade, Sprite, crackers, applesauce and oatmeal, said Jennifer Gilmore, a representative from University Dining.

Gilmore explained the system as an easy tool for students to use. Selfquarantined students can go to the University Dining Web page and fill out a short form, then students must have it signed by their RA and send a friend to pick up the kit. For students with a meal plan, the kit is free, for all other students the kit is $15, she said.

“We feel it is our job to make sure these students are getting fed,” Gilmore said. “Many of these students have meal plans, so whether they are sick or healthy, we feed them.”

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Just 25.2 percent of black patients who suffered cardiac arrest while they were hospitalized left the hospital alive, according to a study published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association. That compares with 37.4 percent of white patients who survived.

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running smoothly, there has been one oversight when kicking off the new program, she said. “We did not plan ahead for off-campus students to use the program,” Gilmore said. “But we have worked through that, and it is now open to on and off-campus students.”

John Steeb, a freshman in engineering, thinks highly of the program. “[Get-Well Meal Kits] are a good idea because they help everyone,” he said.

“It prevents the person who is sick from spreading the sickness, and it also lets the sick person relax and have food that will aid in their recovery.”

Both students and parents have been appreciative of the program, Gilmore said. “Having a sick child creates a certain angst for parents, but knowing that their child is taken care of creates

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a sense of relief, and the students are getting proper sustenance,” she said.

“The program has been appreciated by students,” Barker said. “It serves a double-purpose of keeping campus that much healthier.”

Barker, who supports the program, still urges all students to take as many health precautions as possible. “Practice all the good health habits you can, because the flu has a serious side,” he said.

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from other students, and be self-isolated for at least 24 hours after the fever breaks, Barker said.

“The vaccine for H1N1 is set to arrive in October,” he said. “I urge all students to get the vaccine.”

Even when the vaccine comes to campus, University Dining has intentions to keep the Get-Well Meal Kits an on-going project. “Students are sick all the time, not just when there is an outbreak,” Gilmore said.

“If students are too sick to get out of

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bed, they should still be taken care of.”

“I think it would be beneficial to continue [the program] to help prevent other major outbreaks on campus,” Steeb said.

pusLIVE are 21-23 years old,” Revsin said, “so this isn’t some big corporation giant. We’re all student entrepreneurs working continued from page 1 on a budget.”

After about one semester, the sent down and surveys the area and finds out where the entrepreneur group begins to students are eating and where hire interns at each of the camthey enjoy going. This is all puses. The interns help keep up done in coordination with the with the office side of the site, student campus representative. and are paid.

None of the links that are This information is then used to create a site for students to featured on the Web site pay use that contains pertinent in- CampusLIVE, Revsin said, but certain sites such as Fandango formation. and TvGuide However, have created when the site partnerships was created w it h Ca mfor N.C. State, pusLIVE. there weren’t Revsin any students s a id about on the team.

500 students Students can submitted now enter input for miss- Boris Revsin on the CampusLIVE their e-mail addresses ing links or employees during New apply to be a Student oriCampus Repentation and resentative.

There are “dozens of repre- received e-mail notifications sentatives” across the country, about the site.

The site now averages about according to Boris Revsin, cofounder and Chief Operations 3,000 hits daily and has almost Officer of CampusLIVE, and 1,000 registered users.

Erin Kamm, a freshman in “currently looking to hire N.C. State students in representative animal science, received notification through e-mail. positions.”

“I find this site useful, only According to Jeannene Lang, a freshman in English, “the fact because it really does shorten that N.C. State students have the time that I’m on the Interbeen given input doesn’t bother net. Everything is just in one me,” she said, “only because it’s place,” she said.

According to Revsin, 3,000 all stuff that I already used, just hits in three weeks is a good in one place.”

Restaurant reviews and hours number due to the size of the of operation are also available campus. He said, “Our goal is on the site. The listing is pro- to have 10,000 hits daily by the vided free but the site generates end of October.” profit through advertising.

The advertising revenue covers the site’s operating costs.

“All the employees at Cam-

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Manager of Industrial Hytion have not yet been released.

There are no dates on when gine for Environmental Health the vaccine will arrive or the and Safety Ken Kretchman said amount which will be pro- the distribution procedure is not in the university’s hands. vided.”

“It is an ongoing, changing Bengtson said the University would be a distribution site procedure dictated by the Cenand the vaccine would be pro- ter for Disease Control, who vided to priority groups first. delegates to county adminisThese traditionally consist of tration, who then directs the pregnant women, followed by university.” Kretchman said.

Kretchman said regardcaregivers for children under six months, and then people less of the university’s estimated needs, six months to t he cou nt y twenty-years decides t he of age – the amount disra nge contributed by cerning most the Univeron campus. sity,.

More i nNathan formation Combs, would come sophomore in only once the mathematics, vaccine actusaid a univerally arrived, sity shortage Bengston Dr. Mary Bengston on the access is not a major said. of the H1N1 vaccine on campus concern; with Some stua city like Rad e nt s e xleigh, there pressed doubt towards the availability of the are bound to be other distrivaccine to the general populus. bution centers.

“Student Health Services is “There definitely won’t be enough vaccine to go around not the only source for the vacgiven the size of the student cine,” Combs said. “It won’t be body,” Lily Huynh, sopho- as bad as people think. The flu more in business administra- has just been overhyped.”

Roseanne Thomas, a junior tion, said. “The vaccine is not guaranteed anyway. We can in history echoed Combs’ senonly rely on ourselves to stay timents.

“By now many people know hygienic and make sure we someone who has had H1N1 don’t catch the flu.”

The FDA conducted trials for and has seen them recover in a months preceding yesterday’s day or so.” Thomas said. “The authorization to distribute. news just hypes up the situation The vaccine has been show ef- and causes people to panic.” fective in protecting against H1N1 with no considerable side-effects. Additionally, the

“There are no dates on when the vaccine will arrive or the amount which will be provided.”

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& author september 17, 2009 stewart theatre 7 o’clock p.m. disabilities Persons with disabilities who desire any assistive devices, services, or other accommodations to participate in this program should contact Rick Gardner, Associate Director of Campus Activities, at (919) 515-5161, Monday-Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to discuss accommodations prior to the event.

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The Facts:

Take a rain check on Rally4Talley U

University administrators are pushing an $83 fee to pay for renovating and expanding Talley Student Center, which is to be included within the estimated maximum increase of $102.30 for student fees.

Our Opinion:

The political and economic environment is not conducive to implementing this fee, and the administration should look to push the issue on this fee when the situation improves.

niversity officials are looking to implement an $83 fee to help finance the renovation and expansion of Talley Student Center.

Talley is a poorly lit eyesore on campus, and building a student center for future generations that is aesthetically pleasing and conducive to creating a good environment for students is a worthy cause. But given the hard economic times, the difficulties on campus with academics as classes decrease in number and increase in size and the scandals, now is not the best time to be building a new student center.

According to Chancellor Jim Woodward, the UNC Board of Governors has unofficially capped increases on student

improving Talley. The economy is still recovering from the recession, and the University is fees to 6.5 percent. Further, these organizations. Improving not in a position to try to make Woodward said indebtedness Talley is important, but Uni- a stand on a fee increase when fees like the one proposed to versity administrators should it has already been plagued by help finance the Talley expan- not jeopardize the health of scandal and budget cuts.

This is not to say renovating sion do not have to be included other student fee-funded proand expanding Talley should within the 6.5 percent fee in- grams and focus solely on fixbe put on the back burner and ing up the student center. crease.

Ideally, the chancellor should ignored for several years. But However, Woodward has imposed the 6.5 percent cap on try to keep the indebtedness the University would do best to all student fees, including the fee separate from the student build up a modest stock of revproposed $83 indebtedness fee. fees, thus funding both cur- enue and hit the market when As a 6.5 percent fee increase rent programs and servicing the economic and political enamounts to about $102.30, this the debt for Talley. But unless vironment supports it.

Until then, students may just leaves only $19.30 in increases the political atmosphere in the rally themselves into the brick UNC System changes or stufor all other student fees.

This does little to address the dents overwhelmingly support wall of economic and political immediate concerns for other making the indebtedness fee a reality. programs funded by student separate item to include with fees and may have negative other fee increases, now is not long-term consequences for the time to force the issue on The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief.

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here has been a lot of talk recently about renovating Talley Student Cen-

ter.

A complete overhaul might be a more appropriate term for what the modernist-ugly piece of junk needs, but we’ll go with renovation for the fun of its absurdity.

When I think of renovation, I envision inRussell stalling a couple Witham flat screen teleViewpoint Editor visions, throwing on a new coat of paint and replacing some wires here and there.

The Talley proposition is a brand-new architectural unit, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

There might be a few 1970s era concrete pillars in the plan, but this building will definitely cost just as much as new construction. Students should understa nd f rom the start that t h is bu i lding will cost somewhere in the vicinity of $100 million.

This is not an issue of reallocating some campus f unds a nd raising student fees for a couple years. The University will be issuing bonds — essentially taking a mortgage out — on the backs of current and future students.

I’m not trying to mischaracterize the program, the goal is to provide students with additional food options, group meeting spaces and other facilities to bring the relic into the 21st century.

Nonetheless, we are talking about an $83 Talley fee, a $200 tuition increase, another $19 give or take in run of the mill student fees and the potential for $400 in state mandated health care.

That’s an additional $700 a lot of students will have to pay next year. If that weren’t bad enough by itself, financial aid is going to be hit harder than Kanye’s reputation by the additional scholarship burden.

A college education that was already unaffordable in this economic climate will become impossible for many students.

By itself, $83 is not an egregious sum. If we look at this through the appropriate lens, though, it becomes clear that

the fee for next year would be nothing more than a down payment on a long-term mortgage. Generations of students will be paying for this building.

To argue that Talley meets the needs of this campus would be comical. The building is a leftover of a bygone era, and must be replaced sooner or later.

That’s the key though: this project could be put off a few years.

During these dire economic times, the University should focus our fees toward programs that directly aid students to go out into the work force and make their degrees more valuable.

Classroom sizes, faculty layoffs and building maintenance should, and must, be addressed before a new student center enters the University’s conversations.

I’m not even sure the Talley plans in place are the right ones. Where’s the bar in the new design?

The original Talley had a pub in it, a place where students could gather after a rough day of school to refresh and recoup.

There is a distinct possibility prohibition will end sometime in the next decade and bring an enormous new revenue source to the University’s student centers. We could actually pay for this thing.

Why isn’t the new center being built on Centennial Campus? Talley may be an ugly mess (think of the party you had last weekend), but it’s still a functional building. Instead of gutting it and rebuilding, why don’t we build the new building on the campus of the future?

If the need is to build office space and meeting areas, Centennial Campus is just as good a place as any.

N.C. State deserves a new student center. But that fact doesn’t outmaneuver the political and economic reality the University has experienced during the past year.

Let’s Rally — later.

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University should prioritize needs of current students I have noticed a trend with the construction on campus in that the projects seem to take an awful long time to complete.

As a freshman this did not bother me as it does now — maybe I was blind to the fact that the money we pay as students goes to these projects.

We are in quite the economic downturn and many people, companies and universities are under a lot of staffing and financial straits.

This is why I am so baffled that we, as a university, continue to pay for these projects to go unfinished for so long. Wouldn’t the University want to get the work done in the least amount of time to minimize cost and labor pay?

I have observed the construction on the stairs beside Williams Halls and progress is slow and completion does not seem urgent.

Why are these projects taking so long to complete?

Why does the University allow this to continue to be aesthetically and financially

“No, I don’t think so because we already pay a lot. We already pay for everything else.”

Shane Swick freshman, mechanical engineering

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burdening?

The administration at N.C. State seems to have fallen in love with the new Talley Student Center in order to upgrade the campus like Beyoncé, perhaps to attract future students. They seem to have forgotten about today’s students.

Could we be allocating money from future projects to the completion of the smaller current projects to improve the look of our campus?

While future students will have the new Talley Airport Terminal, today’s students are blessed with unfinished projects, detours and fenced-off stairs and walkways.

Ian Dudley junior, fisheries and wildlife science

White takes the wrong stance on death penalty There are two points I want to make about this ridiculous column.

First, White proposes a hypothetical situation that reverts back to barbaric abrahamic “justice” used by religious tribes of killing a criminal along with a member or members of his/her family.

How can anyone be willing to allow an innocent person to be punished for another’s crime?

What if the defendant had no parents? What if he/she only had a child? Kill the child? It is unethical

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Secondly, before one can consider the ethics of capital punishment, one must first look at the unfair representation of defendants.

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A human skull found by Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick is examined by students in his research lab in Park Labs. Human skulls aren’t uncommon to find while excavating however, generate lots of excitement when compared to something like a clay pot.

Caribbean not just for pirates Archaeological research gives students chance to time travel to early island cultures Story By Heidi Klumpe | photos By Christin Hardy

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r. Scott Fitzpatrick, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has visited the Caribbean and Western Pacific Islands countless times, all during his field work as an archaeologist in anthropology.

Though his job is not quite like trying to understand how people the idea romanticized in the Indi- were doing things in the past and ana Jones movies, Fitzpatrick said how that affects us today,” Fitzhe does have friends who have patrick said, which brought him been chased by looters or fired to a paradoxical realization.

“Even though there are so many upon. Fitzpatrick said he enjoys traveling and getting to meet new differences, one of the things we people everywhere you go and see is that [ancient peoples] really work. In particular, a discovery are no different than us,” Fitzpathe made on the island of Palau in rick said.

His study also focuses on how 2007, where The Discovery Channel show “Bone Detectives” was humans impact the environments, particularly on previously filming while he excavated.

“We found this skull,” Fitzpat- uninhabited islands.

“People bring things they need rick said.

With the cameras still rolling, to survive,” Fitzpatrick said. he removed the sand to find a “This inevitably leads to impactpart of a two-year-old’s skull in- ing the environment. Wherever side the first skull, which he said humans step foot, we tend to not had clearly been placed there on do things in a sustainable way.”

This largely alters the view of purpose.

According to Fitzpatrick, bury- damage done to the environing the remains this way was a ment. The earth’s current state mark of loving memory, some- is, most accurately, the endpoint of millennia thing most of i mpac t s , people forget to according to look for amidst Fitzpatrick. the dust and In a l l h is artifacts. studies, Palau “It’s easy to rema i ns his sor t of lose favorite place contex t, to to visit. forget the fact “ I t ’s an that these are Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick, an assistant amazing place, real people,” professor in the Department of w it h dif ferhe said.

Sociology and Anthropology, ent endemic Fitzpatrick species, divsaid emotional discoveries such as this one show ing, kayaking and archaeology,” that ancient peoples were con- Fitzpatrick said.

Palau houses one of the oldest cerned about the same things we are, such as survival and family burial sites in the Pacific, dating back nearly 3,000 years. Fitzpathealth.

Research in the field has char- rick said the different layers of aracterized his work during his 13 tifacts cover an impressively large sequence of occupation. years in college.

Many of these artifacts from the “Anthropology is one of the longest; it takes a lot of field work,” burial site at Chelechol ra Orrak found their way to the archaeolFitzgerald said.

His research includes study- ogy laboratory in Park Shops, ing in the Caribbean, England, which holds skeletal remains to Washington, Barbados, Okinawa, be analyzed by the bioarchaeolPanamanian Islands and the West ogy graduate program.

Undergraduates also work in Pacific.

“Island archaeology is kind of the lab, particularly studying shells from the burial site. my specialty,” he said.

From 2002 to the opening of Fitzpatrick said questions about colonization and new sea-faring Park Shops, these artifacts retechnology are answered through mained in storage, according to Meagan Clark, a senior in bioarthe study of islands.

“It’s important from an archae- chaeology and human biology, ological and historical standpoint who works in the archaeology to have a better understanding laboratory and hopes to spend of why people went out to these next summer at one of the field places and how they evolved cul- schools in Fitzpatrick’s study abroad program. turally over time,” he said. “[Fitzpatrick] hadn’t been able According to Fitzpatrick, islands are a great place to do that. to do anything,” said Mira Abed, Each is a microcosm of how peo- a junior in international studies ple develop culturally, not having and polymer and color chemistry, who also works in the laboratory. contact with other groups.

Both Abed and Clark work to “In a real general sense, [we are]

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Michael Vaeth, a junior in arts application and bioarchaeology, sorts through piles of shells in Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick’s research lab. This is an ongoing process and students contribute when they have time. “I took Fitzpatrick’s Intro to World Archeology and became really interested, so here I am. Also I want to go to one of his field schools next summer,” Vaeth said.

“Wherever humans step foot, we tend to not do things in a sustainable way.”

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Mira Abed, a double major in international studies and polymer, color chemistry, measures the length and width of shells to see if size changes over time. In theory, if the shells get smaller over time then it is possible that they were over harvested as adults. “With my job I want to be able to always travel, and this is definitely a good major for that,” Abed said.

analyze Strombidae strombus gibberulus, a mollusk which served as a source of food for Palau’s inhabitants. By examining shells from different layers at the burial site, they hope to learn about the practices of the indigenous peoples over time.

“If [the shells] are smaller, then it might be because they were overharvesting them [at that time],” Abed said.

Abed enjoys the work in the laboratory, and she said particularly finding out something about people who lived in the past that

we don’t really know anything about. “It’s like looking into the past,” Abed said.

However, the lack of certainty in the work can be frustrating.

“We can only make educated guesses,” Abed said. In terms of the shell project, the overharvesting could be a result of a sudden population flux or irresponsible handling of resources, she said.

Archaeological research offers unique deterrents and rewards.

“You have to have a lot of patience,” Clark said. “You’re never going to get quick answers, but in

the end, it’s really rewarding. It kind of feels like you’ve discovered something, figured out a mystery. It’s amazing to look through what other cultures have left us and analyze how our culture reacts to that.”

Also, Fitzpatrick’s involvement makes working in the lab even easier.

“He’s extremely intelligent,” said Clark. “It’s an honor to work with him.”

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Bugfest invades downtown Raleigh Story and photos By Christin Hardy

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very year something creeps and crawls its way into Raleigh: Bugfest. Bugfest is the annual festival held downtown at the N.C. Museum of Science and celebrates all things insect. There are booths for face painting, making antennae out of pipe cleaners, and even a bug buffet to which the likes of Timon and Pumbaa would love. The event is always very fun as well as educational teaching the public of the importance of insects.  Bryan Lessard, a doctoral student in entomology, participated in Bugfest 2009, which was held downtown at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science. Lessard spent his day informing the public about the importance of flies. “Flies don’t just go squish, they actually help pollinate many species of plant,” Lessard said.

 Madagascar hissing cockroaches sit tamely in a volunteer’s hand at Bugfest.

Unlike other roaches, they are wingless and are the only known insect to make their hissing noise by forcing air out through breathing pores located on the abdomen. Other insects do so by rubbing together their legs or wings.

 Amy Lockwood, a graduate student in entomology, participates in Bugfest and celebrates the festival with temporary red lady bug tattoos.

Other types of festive wear included pipe-cleaner bug antennae, face paints and Bugfest T-shirts. “This is one of the best public ways to talk about what [entomologists] study,” Lockwood said.

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Crew team celebrates 20th season Team prepares for Million Meter Row event this Friday Chadwick O’Connell Staff Writer

As the scorching heat of summer begins to fade into the fall, NCSU Club Crew takes to the water for its fall season in hopes of building upon last year’s accomplishments.

Those accomplishments include winning the gold medal in the men’s four category at the Head of the Hooch Tournament and earning the most overall points in the Augusta Invitational last spring.

The crew club welcomes one of the largest recruiting classes in recent memory and looks to maintain the success of last year’s rowing squad, according to member Rebecca Wood, a sophomore in First Year College.

“This will be my very first time competing in 5K races and all the new novice rowers are going to be a great addition to the team,” Wood said. “Hopefully this will be one of the best seasons of Wolfpack rowing.”

The official start of the club’s season will be this Friday when the team participates in the annual Million Meter Row event.

Since its inception in 2004, the event has been used as a fundraiser for the Jimmy V Foundation and has also been raising money for the club.

The event requires members to row a million meters collec-

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Errikos Anagnostopoulos, a freshman in engineering, and other members of the men’s rowing team work on their form and technique Monday, Sept. 10 2007.

tively over two days. Members of the crew will take thirtyminute shifts on the rowing machine and row six different shifts.

The event will take place in the Brickyard starting this Friday at 7 a.m. and will end at the flea market at the N.C. State Fairgrounds on Saturday.

The club begins its rowing season by hosting an exhibition match on Sept. 26 at Falls Lake and will be competing against other crews from around the state.

The team then heads to Boston to compete in the Head of the Charles, the largest boat race in the world with over 300,000 spectators on hand.

Other key competitions include the Head of the Hooch in Chattanooga, Tenn., and a regatta at Davidson. The Pack ends its fall season at the Head of the South regatta in Atlanta, Ga. on Nov. 14.

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Club President Errikos Anagnostopoulos said he would like to see more of the same from the team this year.

“In general, I would like to see the team continue to grow and to have success at the regattas,” Anagnostopoulos said.

Anagnostopoulos said it is satisfying it is for him to see new members earning gold medals at the competitions and allowing the club to grow each and every year.

The club is celebrating its 20th anniversary and continues to focus on competing at a high level at regattas, gaining new membership through events such as the Million Meter Row, and developing the skills of novice rowers.

“Seeing Crew doing better year by year is the most important thing of all,” Anagnostopoulos said.

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funding,” Tariq, said. “We have one lined up for October 11th at Pfeiffer University, which now has a varsity men’s volleyball team. We’ll get to play against NCAA athletes instead of just club teams.”

Beach volleyball player and returner Addison Musser, a sophomore in biochemistry, said he is looking forward to playing with a more experienced, organized team this year.

“We’ve got a lot of experienced players, and a lot of freshmen who played in high school,” Musser said. “I’m very excited [that] it’s going to be more organized this year with more tournaments.”

Last year’s team was entirely selfcoached and had successes with this

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and our setter is doing her job, as hitters we just have to be able to finish.”

The team will also have to shake off a plethora of mistakes committed at home last weekend, including 109 attack errors and 31 service errors.

“We’ve been talking about how it’s mental, and how we push through mistakes,” Burns said. “I think that if we just keep attacking, keep going at teams and attacking teams, keep on playing our game, then we’ll do fine.”

In addition to overcoming the mental aspect of coming back from a 1-3 weekend, the team will also need to step up play in the middle, according to Stubbs.

“We have to have the players in the middle ready to score every single time and to stop the opponent’s middle in order to put ourselves in a good position to be able to win,” Stubbs said. “We’re

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method; the team came in fourth at a Tennessee tournament and beat UNC on its home court.

However, this year, Litzenberger and Tariq are trying to implement more outside help to further the squad’s progress.

“There’s potential for outside coaching by someone who is a certified coach with USA Volleyball,” Litzenberger said. “Any help he can give us would be great.”

The club team, which began as ten guys playing pick-up, has become a competitive team that is finding its niche at the University.

Litzenberger stated that the main goal of the team is to make the sport itself more widespread among all age groups.

“That’s what we’re trying to do -- push the sport,” Litzenberger said. “Not just at N.C. State, but everywhere.”

playing against a few teams that really set the middle a lot.”

The players also recognize the importance of winning matches quickly after playing three of four matches last weekend to five sets. “[The matches last weekend] make us realize that we have to try to get it done in three [sets],” Kretchman said. “Going five [sets] is hard and we are able to finish it in three.”

The Pack plays Friday at noon and 5 p.m. and Saturday at noon and 7 p.m.

All matches will be played at the Fleming Gymnasium in Greensboro, N.C.

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Washington making his mark

Gender requirements for Co-Rec changed In order to prevent a situation in which a team loses a player due to injury or ejection and does not have an available substitute of the same gender to replace him or her, Campus Recreation has instituted a new rule for CoRec intramural teams, stating teams may not have more than three or less than one player of either gender on the field. In the past, this team would have been forced to bench a player of the opposite gender and play with five in order to meet gender ratio requirements, which will no longer be a necessity.

Goaltenders may be either male or female. The rule applies in Co-Rec play only - graduate, faculty and staff leagues are exempt from any gender ratio requirements.

Freshman thriving in place of injured starter Jamelle Eugene Tyler Everett & Taylor Barbour Deputy Sports Editor & Senior Staff Writer

Before last Saturday’s game, which pitted N.C. State against Murray State, redshirt freshman James Washington boasted an unimpressive resume.

The 6 foot, 180-pound true freshman from Orlando, FL was not aggressively scouted and came in with little fanfare. According to Scout.com, the only other Division I football program to offer him a scholorship after he ran for 17 touchdowns and nearly 1600 yards during his senior season was Memphis.

However, he had a solid showing in his new team’s opener against South Carolina, when he accounted for 16 yards — more than a fourth of the team’s total rushing yards. His 5.3 yards per carry average, in a game in which State averaged less than two yards per carry

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Head coach Tom O’Brien said he was impressed with Washington’s performance and glad he was able to benefit from the snaps he received against Murray State.

“It’s something where he now can go back and has some things to look and be graded on what he needs to get better

at, and he is the type of individual that will look at it and hopefully get better next week,” O’Brien said after the game.

Washing ton was visibly thrilled after his first collegiate scoring play and afterward, saying contributing to the final tally was something he needed.

“It was really important to come out and score,” Wash-

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Volleyball heads to Greensboro After a 1-3 performance last weekend, the Pack looks to improve in Greensboro

Volleyball vs. High Point UNC Greensboro Tournament Greensboro, N.C., noon Volleyball vs. LaSalle UNC Greensboro Tournament Greensboro, N.C., 5 p.m.

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Men’s Cross Country in Wolfpack Invite Wake Med Soccer Park, Cary, N.C., TBA

After a disappointing weekend at home, the women’s volleyball team will head to Greensboro, N.C., this weekend for its final regular season tournament.

The Pack will face High Point (7-5), LaSalle (2-11), Georgetown (5-5) and the host team UNC-Greensboro (4-6).

The team has battled through injuries to major players and has scrapped to match its tournament win total of six matches from last year. The team could surpass that total with just one win this weekend.

Sophomore outside hitter Kelly Wood switched to outside hitter this season after playing all of last season at libero.

“We’re just trying different things this year,” Wood said. “Anybody could be called to the table to do something different.”

Wood was named to the All-Tournament Team last weekend, recording 35 kills in three games at outside hitter, including 16 in the final match against Dartmouth.

“I just do what people need of me,” Wood said. “As a team we had the mindset that we are going to win this game [against Dartmouth] and I think it proved a little bit.”

New players have also stepped up their play with freshman outside hitter Sarah Griggs leading the Pack in kills in two of four matches last weekend, and freshman setter Kelly Burns

Women’s Cross Country in Wolfpack Invite Wake Med Soccer Park, Cary, N.C., TBA

Quote of the day “Anyone could be called to the table to do something different.”

Sophomore Kelly Wood

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O. Max Gardner, one of the namesakes of Gardner-Webb University — which the N.C. State football team will face at home this Saturday — played football for the future N.C. State in the early 1900’s and is the only known player to captain both N.C. State and UNC’s football teams.

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against the Gamecocks, led to his increased role and a subsequent breakout performance against Murray State. Now, Washington is securely the team’s second running back.

Washington rushed for 35 yards against Murray State and finished with three touchdowns, one receiving and two rushing - all in his second game

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James Washington, a freshman halfback for the Wolfpack, catches a pass right at the endzone for a touchdown early on in N.C. State’s game against Murray State on Sept. 12. Washington posted 12 rushes and three receptions for a total of 63 yards and three touchdowns in the Wolfpack’s 65-7 win.

ington said.

He described his role on the team as multi-purpose.

“I would say I am explosive and block when the team needs me to and [I can] also make the first guy miss,” Washington said. “I try to hit the hole before the defender can get there.

“I see it as if I hesitate, it gives them a better chance to catch me and as long as I hit the hole with 110% it gives me an advantage.”

Senior Toney Baker, who a lso f inished w it h t hree touchdowns, said Washington is an important piece of a prom isi ng of fense.

“He’s def initely going to be good before it’s over,” Baker said. “[That game] wa s fa nt a st ic for h i m.”

O’Brien said the tandem of Washington and Baker will continue to improve put up points for State, at least while Eugene is absent.

“I think that the receivers made a concentrated effort that they had to get better [against Murray State].” O’Brien said. “They practiced hard and spent a lot of time catching balls, and its just a matter of concentration.

Once they got going, there was a good feel down there.”

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Karl Redelfs, a senior in mathematics education, receives a serve during open volleyball practice in Carmichael gym on Wednesday. “More volleyball, live long and prosper,” said Redelfs, who played on the club team last year. Wednesday’s practice was the last practice before the club holds try outs for this year.

Club shows volleyball isn’t just for girls Men’s club volleyball team still looking to spark interest in students and the public alike Kate Barnes Staff Writer

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Junior setter Alex Smith sets the ball for senior middle blocker Lisa Kretchman during the Saturday match against George Mason. Smith had 28 set assist during the four set match. N.C. State lost to George Mason 3 - 1.

notching 58 assists in the team’s win against Dartmouth last weekend.

“It’s definitely a big confidence booster,” Burns said of her performance against Dartmouth. “I’m really proud of how we went five games, fought to the end and managed to pull it off.”

Coach Charita Stubbs recognized how important a five set win at home is as the team looks towards matches in Greensboro.

“Anytime you can win a five set match after losing puts you in a good place mentally,” Stubbs said. “It allows the girls to know that they are capable of fighting and coming back in

any given match.”

T h e Pa c k w i l l h a ve to remember how to overcome the mental aspect of the game like it did in the Dartmouth game in order to come away with wins.

Senior middle blocker Lisa Kretchman had 14 kills in the Dartmouth match, but admits that in the other matches, she wasn’t able to step up her game like she needed to.

“In the rest of the games, my offense was not up to where I think it should have been, but [against Dartmouth] I think it just clicked,” Kretchman said. “Our defense can pass

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Junior Davis Litzenberger and senior Murs Tariq share a passion for a sport that has not yet been admitted into the mainstream.

At a university that offers a wide range of club sports including, but not limited to, water polo, social ballroom dance and cricket, there has not been as much publicity for the sport of men’s volleyball -- until now.

In the 2005-2006 school year, a men’s club volleyball team was started. However, the team’s existence was short-lived. Now Litzenberger, who played on the only competitive men’s volleyball team in the state, and Tariq are aiming to spark interest for the team that began with amateur pick-up games.

Litzenberger and Tariq, the president and vice president, are expecting a turnout of 30-

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40 men at the tryouts, which are being held next Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Carmichael on court nine. This turnout would nearly double the amount that tried out last year.

Though this poses more stress for the president and vice president, Davis said he sees this more as an asset than a hindrance.

“Already, there’s a larger interest for the team,” Litzenberger, a junior in textile engineering, said. “Depending on how competitive the turnout is, there are probably going to be some good players cut.”

Since all of the players from last year are returning and there are many freshmen with raw talent looking to join the team, Litzenberger and Tariq are expecting great things in the season to come.

Tariq believes the campus’ involvement will greatly improve their results for this season.

“We know of a ton of tournaments [we’d like to compete in], but it all comes down to

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