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DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES SECURE VICTORY IN N.C.; OBAMA WINS ELECTORAL LANDSLIDE IN NATIONAL ELECTION

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Chris Allred & Josh Harrell News Editor and Deputy Sports Editor

Democrat Barack Obama will be the first black president after a large electoral victory, shifting America’s political landscape away from the Republican party. “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,�

Obama said to a crowd about 125,000 in Chicago.

North Carolina was one of the most contentious states, with tight races staying close well after polls closed. But Democrats Bev Perdue and Kay Hagan defeated Republicans Pat McCrory and Elizabeth Dole for governor and U.S. senator positions, respectively.

As of 2 a.m., CNN estimated Obama would have 338 electoral votes to Republican candidate John McCain’s 159 nationwide, and with 99 percent of precincts reporting, Obama was ahead in North Carolina, but by fewer than 15,000 votes. North Carolina hasn’t voted for a Democratic president since 1976.

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44% ELIZABETH DOLE SOURCE: N.C. BOE, 3 A.M.

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47% PAT MCCRORY SOURCE: N.C. BOE 3 A.M.

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Several hundred students celebrate in front of the Bell Tower around 11 p.m. after most major media outlets announced that Sen. Barack Obama won the presidential election Tuesday. The impromptu festivities crossed into and over Hillsborough Street. “I’m excited that Obama won,� said Kyle Alston, a senior in engineering, after watching the election coverage on CNN at Witherspoon Student Center.

Campus reactions mixed following historic election Students respond differently to Democratic sweep Derek Medlin Managing Editor

Following hours of political analysis and election projections on several networks, the news of victories by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bev Perdue brought about extremely mixed reactions from students Tuesday night.

Voters fought bad weather and long lines to turn out in record numbers to elect new leaders.

In the state’s presidential race — which will be remembered as one of the tightest in North Carolina history — Democratic candidate Barack Obama secured victory by fewer than 50,000 votes. Nationally, Obama won a landslide of electoral college votes and secured the election by 11 p.m.

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Ches McDowell, freshman in political science and chair of College Republicans, said he was disappointed with the result of all the major elections. “If Hillary Clinton was president, I would be concerned. If John Edwards was president, I would be disturbed. But with Barack Obama as president, I’m petrified,� McDowell said. “It’s scary that somebody with no experience is going to run this country for the next four years.�

Obama’s potential victory in North Carolina would be the first time the Tar Heel state voted for a Democratic candidate for president since 1976.

Derek Gatlin, a senior in sociology and member of Students for Obama, said he was relieved

by Obama’s victory. “It was a sigh of relief,� Gatlin said of the Obama victory. “I don’t even know how to describe my initial reaction. EvREACTION continued page 3

Democrats rejoice Tuesday night marked a huge night for the state’s Democrats, with Walter Dalton, David Price, Bob Etheridge and a cast of other Democrats winning their positions, joining Perdue and Hagan.

Many of the winners were on hand Tuesday at Raleigh’s downtown Marriott to acknowledge their victory and to speak with volunteers working for the Demo-

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Justin Brooks and Stephen White, both freshmen in engineering, watch news updates at the Republican Victory party election night. “I’m here partially because my roommate was coming. I’m hoping the race will end favorably for the Republicans,� White said.

cratic campaigns.

One of those volunteers, Lee Sartain, a graduate student in public administration, came out to celebrate the state’s Democratic victories. “One of the things that’s been the hallmark of the party this year is getting out the youth vote,� Sartain said. “And the amount of people that voted before election day is unheard of.�

The crowd interrupted some of the night’s speakers, like Attorney General Roy Cooper, as Obama’s big wins piled in and chants of “Yes we can� filled the room.

Gubernatorial candidate Bev Perdue capped the night off, after her opponent, Pat McCrory, conceded in Charlotte. But volunteers on hand were just as excited with Kay Hagan’s U.S. senatorial win.

Tan Ngo, a senior in international relaOBAMA continued page 3

BREAKING DOWN THE STATE BY COUNTY

34 counties voted in the majority for Obama (blue) 66 counties voted in the majority for McCain (red) The state remained yellow as of 2:30 a.m. with a 12,000 vote difference.

SEE PAGE 3 FOR U.S. MAP SOURCE: NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, GRAPHIC BY SUSANNAH BRINKLEY

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In the page-eight features story “51 reasons to vote,� reason 16 was incorrect. It has been 15 years since North Carolina has had a Republican governor.

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Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Saja Hindi at editor@ technicianonline.com.

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n line in the rain at 6:45 a.m., Tyler Mitchell, a junior in science education and biology, waits for his chance to vote at the Pullen Arts Center Tuesday. “It’s not too bad of a line,� Keeshan Ganatra, a sophomore in engineering, said. “We’ve been here since 6:30 a.m.,� she said. Mitchell said he did not wake up especially to vote. “I just didn’t go to sleep,� he said.

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BREAKING DOWN THE NATION BY STATE

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tions and Spanish, had volunteered for the Hagan campaign and said Tuesday night’s big wins and celebrations were the perfect cap off to all the hard work she and other volunteers had done.

“We went to and held rallies, set up conferences, talked to so many people — just to get the vote out,” Ngo said. “It’s great to see the whole staff here tonight and this shows all the work really paid off.”

The hotel’s conference room nearly exploded as news stations announced Obama’s victory just seconds before Perdue took the stage as the state’s first female governor right before 11 p.m.

“Tonight, we are going to make a fresh start in North Carolina,” Perdue said.

Republicans concede, look to regroup At the North Raleigh Hilton Hotel, after the results came in, the North Carolina Republicans’ victory party couldn’t live up to its name, and its attendees showed their disappointment.

As the night wore on and news broke of losses

by Dole and McCrory, the crowd of a few hundred stared at the televisions in the hotel’s ballroom, shaking their heads and avoiding the victory speeches of the Democratic winners.

Linda Daves, chairman of the state party, spoke to keep spirits up.

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Exit polls show Obama wins 73% of young vote pres

Voters age 18 to 27 account for 17 percent of total vote Daniel Ellis Deputy News Editor

According to CNN.com exit polls, North Carolina’s young voters accounted for 17 percent of the state’s vote. Voters ages 18 to 27 overwhelmingly selected Barack Obama as their candidate of choice by a margin of 73 to 27 percent over John McCain.

“I’m pleased with the turnout, and am glad that the younger population realized the magnitude of this election, and chose to educate themselves enough to make a well-informed decision,” Brent Kitchen, a sophomore in engineering, said.

The exit polls surveyed 2,814 respondents from around the state.

“I don’t think that this is an accurate representation,” Graham Groseclose, a freshman in sport management, said. “That number is a very tiny number in rela-

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principles that have shaped our party since the days of Abraham Lincoln,” Daves said.

The Republicans celebrated smaller victories, as she announced some contentious races for State Senate seats, and party-goers expressed concerns over the Democrats that will now be in power.

Aaron Dancy, a sophomore in chemical engineering and vice chair of the College Republicans, said he thought Obama would be weak on national security and issues of the economy.

But while Obama is in power, the GOP needs to reconfigure, he said.

“They need to get back to basic conservative values,” Dancy said.

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Morgan Heath, a junior in applied anthropology, and Salena Wright, a junior in biochemistry, rejoice in Witherspoon Student Center after hearing news that Barack Obama was elected president Tuesday.

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eryone started screaming. It was insane.”

When Sen. Obama spoke in front of more than 70,000 supporters in Chicago at midnight, he praised the American people for being a part of the Democratic process.

“Americans sent a message to

tion to the actual population.”

With young voters, 71 percent of those ages 18 to 24 chose Obama while 73 percent of those ages 25 to 29 voted for the Democratic presidential candidate.

“It’s because a lot of the core values that Obama represents are what we as younger voters can identify with,” Adam Compton, a senior in agricultural business management, said.

54 percent of N.C. voters were female, of which 55 percent voted for Obama. 54 percent of male voters selected McCain.

“My view is that men view a country’s strength as military and foreign policy might, whereas women view it as based on domestic matters,” Joshua Poteat, an undeclared sophomore, said.

Poteat also believes that the division among gender vote in the state can partially be attributed to what the parties have come to represent.

“In recent years, the Republi-

the world ... we are and always will be the United States of America,” Obama said. “Change has come to America.”

The North Carolina U.S. Senate race, between incumbent Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole and state Sen. Kay Hagan, saw Hagan win by more than eight percent.

In the contest for governor, North Carolina did what it has done more often than not since

can party has become the party of brute strength, whereas the Democratic party has shown more of a dainty caring about the working order of our country,” he said.

Many students, including Poteat, believe that these results indicate a new trend in election turnout.

“This shows that the youth will show up if you give them equal attention as we have given our senior citizens,” he said. “If candidates appeal to what we like then the youth will show up to vote.”

Jannov Rusli, a senior in paper science and engineering, said he believes the future remains promising.

“It’s great that there was such a high turnout of young voters,” Rusli said. “This could mean that the new generations are more aware of the situations.”

Deputy Sports Editor Ty Johnson contributed to this report.

the 1960s by electing Democratic candidate Bev Perdue. Perdue is the first female governor in the state’s history.

Gatlin said the 2008 election was special for many reasons.

“The historic part of this election is that this many people [were] involved in the Democratic process,” Gatlin said.

“Blue, red or independent, people should be celebrating the fact so many people were involved.”

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{OUR VIEW}

THE ISSUE:

It is time for the newly elected officials to live up to their talk of change.

OUR OPINION:

The interest of students must remain a top priority.

THE SOLUTION:

Newly elected officials must continue to fight to lower college costs and ensure a stable future for students.

Students must also remain involved in politics so their voices can be heard.

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he c a nd id ate s have preached change, and change is here. Sen. Barack Obama is the new president, Lt. Governor Bev Perdue is North Carolina’s new governor and state Sen. Kay Hagan has dethroned Sen. Elizabeth Dole to become North Carolina’s newest U.S. Senator.

We congratulate the newly elected officials, but with their new power comes a load of new responsibilities. For our new officials to represent us and to seek what is in our best interests, they must keep issues, such as education and the economy, at the forefront.

At N.C. State, Chancellor James Oblinger proposed a 2 percent budget cut Oct. 1, cutting jobs and making larger classes. This proposal comes

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Republican defense filled with fallacy Mr. McDowell, sir, I am thoroughly amazed with your unequivocal logic, so, let’s use it. The “Democratic Congress” means nothing, so after the 2004 “change,” the downward trend cannot be attributed to the Democratic Congress. Basically you are saying that before, when everything was “good,” Congress being controlled

by Republicans meant nothing, but when things turned sour, all of a sudden it’s because of the Democrats controlling Congress. Do you see the paradox?

As far as the newspaper being biased, Mr. Bunting wrote that the columns should be more balanced, not the newspaper. It is critical that you, sir, understand the difference between these, so that you may also comprehend his argument. In the past week, there were two column viewpoints, one reading “Don’t Trust Bev Perdue” (Oct. 27) and “Is America really ready for Obama?”(Oct. 29). If these columns were entitled “Don’t trust Pat McCrory” and “Is America really ready for McCain?” would you still

nancial aid for college students, and she must continue to advocate for low college loan rates and an increase of Pell grants.

Perdue’s College Promise Plan would give students whose families cannot afford the cost of higher education an opportunity to earn a college degree without the risk of debt. It is imperative she continue to develop this plan, which will provide education to lower income people who deserve college credit.

Some college students work to help pay for their education, and Perdue should continue to fight for a rise in the minimum wage as she said she would.

Also, the frail state of the economy has made college students

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I am embarrassed for the Technician as a news source for students after it distributed the “You Decide. You Vote.” handout sponsored by Rock the Vote.

This is a very biased portrayal of the candidates. Everything in the McCain column is worded in such a way as to paint him in a negative light, and everything in Obama’s column practically portrays him as a saint.

For example, the issue of Iraq is completely distorted. McCain, along with 76 other Senators, including Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden supported the Iraq Resolution in 2003.

Obama wasn’t even in the Senate yet to either support or not support the resolution. Also, the “quote” by McCain on Iraq is completely taken out of context. His comment was to promote finishing the job in Iraq, not staying there indefinitely. Also, the death toll numbers from Iraq noted in the column for McCain only serve as an emotional hook.

My point is that this handout blatantly served to sway voters toward Obama over McCain, and I do not believe it is the job of the Technician or Rock the Vote to manipulate voters’ opinions.

I would suggest going to both candidates’ Web sites to look at their platforms as well as their Senatorial record, which is made public online.

I am disappointed in the Technician for disbursing this slanted handout the day before the election and attempting to persuade student voters rather than simply encouraging voter turnout.

Amy Crowe senior, political science

after a $9 million budget cut earlier this semester. N.C. State and other public universities are suffering and lowering their standards. We expect the elected officials to hear our complaints and advocate for more funding for public universities.

These new elected officials must keep young people in mind and remember that college students are the future. Obama must fight for the $4,000 tuition tax credit for college students that his campaign has advertised.

Also, if Obama is going to be a president of the people, he must keep his promise to college students by increasing funding for college financial aid. Hagan also supported providing more fi-

wary about stepping out into the real world. Elected officials must keep the middle class and their bank accounts in mind when making financial decisions.

The responsibility for change does not rest with our elected officials alone.

Students have shown enthusiasm this election year, and they should not stop. Students should remain active and knowledgeable about the issues after the election. Although it may be difficult to think about politics so soon after the election it is important to remain just as involved, if not even more, in our government so we can ensure our voices continue to be heard and officials continue to look out for our interests.

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What changes would you like to see from the new president?

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say it is fair and balanced?

What does Palin’s security clearance have to do with experience?

Also, address the issue of her having more executive experience than John McCain, not just Barack Obama. Which, again, is why I say, why not Palin for president?

If you want to talk about the time it takes for Congress’ policies to actually affect the economy, I would love to. However, do not belittle people with references to School House Rock — if you are going to attack one’s comments on a clearly ignorant and biased article, please keep them to yourself.

Andrew Hewitt sophomore, physics

Some may say Election 2008 is a competition. Others might say it’s merely practice.

Conrad Plyler, freshman political science

Recently, when reading the Technician I and fellow students have thought, “Thank you for informing the student body about sustainable events and ideas.”

These articles have included, but are not limited to, the renewable energy Renaissance Event, live energy meters in D.H Hill and an on-campus farmers’ market.

In regards to the farmers’ market, the majority of students have shown tremendous support. In fact the most typical response when describing the project is, “Wow, that’s awesome. Why haven’t we done this before?”

Actually, a farmers’ market was held several years ago during summer session. This closed due to changes in an internship program, not lack of student interest. The new plan is to utilize the growers in this very area. But would growers be willing to work at an on campus farmers’ market?

The answer is yes. The Sustainability Commission has been working closely with the local farmers to insure the market would benefit their business and student interests alike. The Technician said it best when stating “An on-campus farmers’ market would give students a convenient place to buy healthy food and support local agriculture.”

The students want it, the faculty wants it and the local community at large expresses support. This is a great opportunity to start a tradition which could carry on at N.C. State for many years to come.

Erin Duea, junior, textile management

““I’d like to see some changes in our health care system like making it affordable and available for all. I’d like to see stability in gas prices because they keep going up and down. I’d like to see an ending to the war in Iraq or at least a timeline.”

Catherine Brewer freshman, psychology

A look back at 2008’s election commercials

Farmers’ market is an excellent idea

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ith the end of the election comes the end of those pesky advertisements North Carolina has been deluged with since the Obama campaign decided North Carolina was a viable state.

It was nearly impossible to get through Monday Night Benton Sawrey Football, the Staff Columnist World Series or any local news broadcast without seeing continuous political ads for races you probably didn’t even realize existed. Through the clutter, there were some pretty good ones. There were also some fairly terrible ones and some pretty funny ones.

Most Effective Ad of 2008 — DSCC’s Dole 92/93 The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sensed blood in the water and poured millions of dollars into Kay Hagan’s campaign against Elizabeth Dole accusing her of something unheard of six years ago in Dole’s initial campaign — inexperience.

The ad featured two older gentlemen in a rocking chair debating whether Dole was 92 or 93, a potentially underhanded play

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on her age perhaps, but really the percentage of time she voted with President Bush and her “effectiveness rating” in her first term as a U.S. Senator. The ad was folksy enough to stand out to voters and hammered home two numbers, 92 and 93 — which ref lected poorly in an election when President Bush is unpopular with the electorate and Congress isn’t held in any higher esteem.

Throwback Ad of 2008 — RNC’s Storm Ad In 1984 the Reagan campaign ran an ad featuring a bear wandering in the wild with an ominous narrator using the bear as a symbol representing the USSR and questioning whether the American public wanted to elect an inexperienced candidate in contrast to Ronald Reagan.

This go round, the RNC used an image of stormy seas with a narrator questioning whether or not Obama is experienced enough to lead our country during the tough economic times and through two wars.

“Through the clutter, there were some pretty good ones.”

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Most Controversial Ad of 2008 — Dole’s Godless Ad Dole caught on to Hagan’s appearance at a fundraiser at the home of a member of the Godless America PAC in Boston, Mass., and used it in an ad to question if Hagan will truly represent North Carolina — a state that might as well be the buckle of the Bible Belt.

Hagan took offense to the ad that suggested she supported the Godless America PAC’s agenda and launched a tremendous counter-attack and even filed a defamation lawsuit against the Dole campaign. The ad received national attention in the New York Times and on cable news channels and put the finishing touches on an election that featured sharp attacks by both sides and millions of dollars of money from outside North Carolina.

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A housing market crash. Gargantuan banks crashing, some failing. A lending freeze. An unusually volatile stock market.

These are the issues facing president-elect Barack Obama. Here’s how he plans on handling them.

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“ ”“ ” “ “The last thing we should do in this economy is raise taxes on the middle class,” Obama said. “It will not happen under my administration.”

[I will] put a cap-andtrade system in place that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody’s out there.”

“We need a small business rescue plan — so that we’re extending our hand to the shops and restaurants; the startups, the small firms that create jobs and make our economy grow. Main Street needs relief and you need it now,”

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Obama’s platforms, to take effect in 2009

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Provide a tax cut for working families President-elect Barack Obama and vice president-elect Joe Biden plan to provide 95 percent of working Americans with tax relief. They plan to create a new “Making Work Pay” tax credit that grants up to $500 person or $1,000 per working family. This proposal will eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans.

Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to provide a $1,000 emergency energy rebate to American families to help them pay rising bills.

Provide $50 billionto jumpstart the economy. This proposal includes a $25 billion State Growth Fund to prevent state and local cuts in health, education, housing and heating assistance. Another $25 billion is included in a Jobs and Growth Fund to prevent cutbacks in road and bridge maintenance and fund school repair.

Provide tax relief for small businesses and startups President-elect Obama will eliminate all capital gains taxes on startup and small businesses to encourage new jobs and innovation.

Eliminate taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This proposal will eliminate income taxes for 7 million seniors and provide them with an average of $1,400 in savings per year. This plan will save 27 million seniors from filing an income tax return.

Simplify tax filings. Ensure the IRS uses the information it already has from banks and employers to give taxpayers the option of a pre-filled tax form. This could save Americans up to 200 million hours of work and up to $2 billion in tax preparer fees.

Fair trade A trade policy that opens up to foreign markets to support American jobs.

Trade agreements will be used to spread good labor and better environmental standards around the world.

Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement. The president and vice president plan to work with Canada and Mexico to rework the NAFTA so that it works for American Workers.

Improve transition assistance. Updates to the existing system of Trade Adjustment Assistance by extending it to service industries, creating flexible education accounts and providing retraining assistance.

End tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas. The new president plans to ensure that public contracts are awarded to those that are committed to American workers rather than giving tax deductions to companies moving their operations overseas.

Reward companies that support American workers. President Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to reward companies that create good jobs and good benefits for American workers. The legislation would provide a tax credit to companies that maintained or increased the number of full-time workers in the United States, keep their corporate headquarters in the U.S., pay decent wages, prepare for retirement, provide health insurance and support military employees.

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The markets surged on election day with the DOW jumping 305 points to close at 9625 while Nasdaq leapt 54 points to 1780.

AMR Corporation close: 11.05 change: -0.24 (-2.13%) volume: 19,793,849 market cap: 3.1B Bank of America Corp. close: 24.53 change: +0.92 (+3.90%) volume: 90,295,348 market cap: 111.9B BB&T Corporation close: 36.15 change: +0.65 (+1.83%) volume: 4,866,661 market cap: 19.9 Capital Bank Corp close: 8.30 change: +0.05 (+0.61%) volume: 1,067 market cap: 93.2M Culp, Inc. close: 3.14 change: +0.25 (+8.65%) volume: 5,522 market cap: 39.7M IBM close: 93.40 change: +0.72 (+0.78%) volume: 10,174,199 market cap: 125.5B INGLES MRKT CL-Aclose: 18.71 change: +0.00 (-) volume: 97,506 market cap: 234.0M Investors Title Co close: 37.00 change: -1.00 (-2.63%) volume: 529 market cap: 99.5M Laboratory Corp. of Amer. close: 63.23 change: +1.80 (+2.93%) volume: 2,038,315 market cap: 7.0B Lowes Companies, Inc. close: 21.62 change: +0.93 (+4.49%) volume: 15,242,453 market cap: 31.7B Martin Marietta Materials close: 85.48 change: +3.90 (+4.78%) volume: 695,415 market cap: 3.5B Sapiens International Corp. N.V. close: 2.08 change: +0.08 (+4.00%) volume: 12,860 market cap: 22.9M Speedway Motorsports, Inc. close: 15.47 change: +0.10 (+0.65%) volume: 91,016 market cap: 671.9M

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Shirking an uncertainty, the market rose Tuesday Alison Harman Features Editor TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIAN

Sarah Enloe, a sophomore in management, and Ashton Harris, a sophomore in anthropology, get free donuts from Krispy Kreme after voting earlier in the day Tuesday. “We got up just to vote at 7:30 in the morning,” Enloe said. “The line was too long for early voting but today we were right in and out.”

Local businesses promote Election Day, illegally Businesses changed their plans when they found out giveaways against federal voting law Cheyenne Autry Deputy Features Editor

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Business travel to drop in 2009

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Tuesday’s market, from open to close. The Dow rose 330 points, a total of more than 3 percent.

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U.S. sales for General Motors plummeted 45 percent in October while Ford and Chrysler’s numbers weren’t far behind. In October, automakers sold 838,156 which is 32 percent lower than last October’s and the worst since January 1991.

Chrysler’s sales dropped 35 percent while Honda trailed at 33 percent.

Ford’s fell 30 percent and sales for Toyota fell 23 percent. GM’s total sales of 168,719 vehicles, however, was enough to keep it in the No. 1 sales spot, ahead of Toyota. Toyota sold 152,101 vehicles in October and promoted 0 percent financing as an incentive. Light truck sales still fell 34 percent and car sales were down 15 percent.

The Travel Industry Association predicts the U.S. hospitality industry will take a hit next year. In 2009, TIA predicts that leisure travel will fall 1.3 percent nationally while business travel will decline 2.7 percent. In a survey conducted by TIA found that travelers intend to cut spending on food and beverages, entertainment and souvenirs. The length of stays will also be shortened to help cut the amount of money spent. Overseas travel, which excludes Canada and Mexico, is also expected to drop 3 percent according to TIA. International traffic, however, is expected to finish up 9.1 percent from 2007. Domestic travel on the other hand will finish down one percent.

TIA is also expecting a 1.7 percent decline in domestic travel in 2009.

Leisure travel still remains stable, only sliding .2 percent. The TIA surveyed 2,291 American adults during the week of Oct. 13.

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Tuesday’s election buzz generated several election celebrations and promotions across the country — even before news organizations released preliminary results.

Several big-name businesses such as Ben & Jerry’s, Starbucks and Krispy Kreme held promotions Tuesday that rewarded those who voted, or those who happened to stop by on Election Day. These businesses gave away free scoops of ice cream, cups of coffee or doughnuts.

But one company, Starbucks, gave them away in violation of a federal law that states: “Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate,” and “whoever solicits, accepts or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote,” will be fined or imprisoned.

So the business had a change of plan.

Starbucks Coffee officials decided to give a tall cup of coffee to anyone who requested one, instead of just voters, according to an MSNBC re-

port. The shop in Cameron Village offered coffee to those who said they had voted either during the early voting process or on Election Day. The shift supervisor working during the promotion, who asked her name not be printed, said employees used a “just say yes” approach to handing out their coffee, meaning that a customer was given a free coffee if they said they had voted.

“There was a much higher turnout than expected,” the shift supervisor said. “Thousands came out today.”

The supervisor said it was the most chaotic day she has seen in her two years at Starbucks, adding that anyone who walked in could feel the energy in the air and the excitement about the election.

“There was a lot of conversation from people waiting in line about the election,” the shift supervisor said.

Ben & Jerry’s offered a free scoop of ice cream to anyone who came in between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Hillsborough Street store manager Betty Adorno said employees gave scoops out to about a thousand people in just those three hours, a number that he said made it a successful day.

Adorno also said that there was a lot of excitement and buzz about the upcoming election as it was the topic of many conversations.

“There were some debates going on among the customers,” Adorno said. “A lot of people came in wearing voting stickers.”

Features Editor Alison Harman contributed to this report.

Counseling Center will see those feeling blue Strong attachment to election may cause more to seek out counselors Alison Harman Features Editor

Amid cheers of “Obama!” and “Change” rising from Tuesday night’s march to the Bell Tower, Kevin Eads was trying to get his own voice heard.

“It’s ridiculous that all these people are running around crazy. Everything I worked for up to these 18 years has meant nothing,” Eads, a freshman in engineering, said, alluding to Obama’s economic platform of lowering taxes for the middle class and raising them for upper-class citizens. “We’re all going to make to same amount of money no matter what we’re doing. Why don’t I become a janitor?”

And motioning to those around him, many of whom were shouting the presumptive president-elect’s name and rushing toward the Free Expression Tunnel on their way to the Bell Tower, he said he thought their choice was a mistake.

“We’ll see what happens,” Eads said.

He is not alone in his opinions.

Other students walked through the Brickyard as well, voicing their opinions in dissent of the nation’s choice and, on occasion, countering cheers with “Palin 2012” and “Socialist!”

Their reactions are expected. Youth voters have attached themselves — along with their hearts and their emotional states — to presidential and vice presidential candidates, Andrew Taylor, professor

“The level of enthusiasm and level of attachment to this race is higher than we’ve seen in a very long time” Andrew Taylor, professor and chair of the political science department and chair of the political science department, said.

“The level of enthusiasm and level of attachment to this race is higher than we’ve seen in a very long time,” Taylor said.

This effect happens during every election, Lee Salter, director of the Counseling Center, said. Students following the election experience “some of the same feelings as if they’re big basketball fans and lose a major tournament game.”

And a candidate’s lost chances at election can have a “stressor” effect on students, he said.

He said it usually takes students who are in a crisis state — one in which stressors build upon themselves to the point where talking to family and friends is not enough.

Major stressors are usually handled with friends or those surrounding them, he said.

“People do talk it out, there’s a lot of discussion,” he said. “But for it to reach a level where they say, OK, I need to see a counselor,’ that’s very rare for just an election result or the loss of a major ball game.”

But the counseling center will take any people who “are walking in if they are feeling down or distressed about their candidate losing.”

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“There’s not been a lot of counselor activity needed around elections. It’s a very busy time of year. The amount of people who come in is not above what we see,” Salter said, adding that there could be a few people who come in each election cycle in response to their candidate’s loss. “Anybody that really needs to be seen will be seen during the day.”

He said he has never experienced a crisis situation in which a student has called after hours to talk to a counselor about the elections.

“I don’t want to say people won’t be affected emotionally,” Salter said. “Stressors may add up where overall stress levels are high enough, but usually it’s a crisis or it’s an intense stress for people to walk in.

Otherwise they tend to make appointments.”

While some of today’s news headlines will focus on how much voter turnout went up in this year’s election, there was something else, which may be just as important, going up on Tuesday.

It was something more ominous. It was something that has, for the past two months, been “unusually volatile,” according to Greg Hicks, a certified financial planner of Financial Resource Management, Inc. That something is the Dow, which, over the course of Election Day, jumped 330 points and more than 3 percent.

“There’s a lot of really traumatic things that have happened in the last few months. October was one of the worst months in years,” Hicks, an alumnus in chemical engineering, said. “One of the uncertainties of last month was the election. Now, it doesn’t matter who’s going to win necessarily, but at least we’ll know who’s won. That alone takes out one of the uncertainties of the marketplace.”

Any elation the markers experience, Hicks said, is nonpartisan. As of Tuesday afternoon, he said the election was “too close to call, and I don’t think Wall Street or the investment world are predicting who’s going to win.”

Investors have had a chance to breathe a sigh of long-awaited relief, he said, and “are now going, “OK, let’s move on to other things. We won’t have to think about [the election] anymore.”

Shirking this particular uncertainty from an oversized bucket of worries — lending freezes, a housing market crash and struggling (and failing) gargantuan banks — encouraged investors to buy and sell stocks.

The jump also coincides with the beginning of November, a month that Hicks said usually signifies better market values.

Hicks said higher market prices tend to continue through December and, on occasion, into January.

“There’s a term in the investment world called the ‘January effect.’ If January’s up, the year tends to be up. If January’s down, the year tends to be down,” Hicks said. “The trends, that’s what people look for. This year January was down and so this year has been down.”

Hicks said neither he nor anyone else in the investment business — without the aid of a crystal ball — can predict how either the market will fare this January or the upcoming year because these past few months have been so unlike any other months.

They don’t follow trends, and therefore he can’t make a prediction based on cyclical events.

“There’s no one up there technically saying, OK, this stock’s going up today.’ It’s so impossible to figure out on a daily basis what’s going to happen. You see trends over time, but the market is really, really down big time this year,” Hicks said. “Those are really unique events. This year, especially the last two to three months, you’re looking at unique things that aren’t normal. When there’s fear and lack of confidence, then investors f lee for safety and the market drops.”

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008 • PAGE 7

WOMEN’S SOCCER

“[We’re preparing] for them like any other team you would prepare for.�

Lindsay Vera given ACC honors Staff Report

The ACC honored senior Lindsay Vera with second team All-ACC honors for the third consecutive season following Vera’s final game Sunday against Florida State.

The only year Vera did not make the All-ACC second team was in her first year with the Wolfpack. The ACC named Vera to it’s All-ACC freshman team that year.

sophomore forward Brittany Strachan

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ers defeated the Pack 61-49 with 13 buckets from beyond the arc. It was the Premier Players’ eighth game in eight nights. The team also beat then No. 9 Georgia during its exhibition rounds last year. “You never look down on an opponent at all. Everyone is talented in their own special way,� Strachan said. “[We’re preparing] for them just like any other team you would prepare for.�

This season, coach Kay Yow and senior guard Shayla Fields should reach some very prestigious milestones. State needs only seven more wins to get 700 in program history, while Yow needs to coach in 10 more games to reach 1,000 games coached. This will be Yow’s 38th year as a head coach and the 34th with the Pack. Senior guard Shayla Fields is also within reach of the 1000 point milestone, with 187 points to go before she becomes the 25th player in program history to reach that mark. “Those things are just added motivation to go out there and do your best, work hard every day, [and] be prepared physically and emotionally,� Strachan said.

The team is motivated to have a good season and confident they can produce despite whatever is thrown its way this year, according to Strachan. “We’re all going to come together and it’s going to be fun,� she said. “We’re going to do our best.� * Wolfpack Invitational (Raleigh, N.C.) # Subway Classic (Minneapolis, Minn.) & FIU Thanksgiving Tournament (Miami, Fla.) ^ ACC/Big Ten Challenge

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During the final half of Wolfpack’s second ACC win Jan. 27 against Wake Forest, senior point guard Shayla Fields drives past a defender. Fields is the Pack’s only senior this season.

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Miami and competed for the United States in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. Davies said she is excited to learn from someone with such a wealth of knowledge. “It’s nice to have someone who’s been there before,� she said.

Davies has not disappointed early in the season, earning a new personal best in the 3-meter with a score of 306.15 on Oct. 25 at Virginia Tech and West Virginia. The following week against Duke and Maryland, she set a new personal best and achieved an NCAA diving zone standard with a 274.85 in the 1-meter dive, good for fourth place in the meet. Along with junior Chelsea Ale and senior Alex Dambly, Davies is helping Wolfpack diving move into the national spotlight. “She had a great year last year,�

Johansen said. “As far as this year, as long as I’ve been working with

Always a vocal leader on the team, the Wolfpack named Vera a team captain in her junior year and she kept that title for the rest of her career.

The forward led State in goals with nine and points with 24 in her final season with the team.

She led the Pack in points in three out of her four seasons, and was second in points in her sophomore year behind Jessica O’Rourke.

her, she’s been really adaptive to the changes in technique and coaching style. She’s had a great couple of springboard meets, and she’s on the right track.� “She’s continuing on the same path, and I could see her doing well again.�

Davies said she is starting to look toward life after college.

Davies, a Winnipeg, Manitoba native, said her performance in this year’s NCAA Championships will help determine whether she continues to pursue diving. “If I do well in nationals, and if I make a grand prix team and am able to travel for Canada, I’ll stick around a little longer,�

Davies said. “That’s pretty much my goal.�

However, if diving with a professional organization is not in the cards, Davies said she will be able to let it go. “If things go well, I’m not opposed to keeping going, but I’ve been doing competitive sports since I was eight,� Davies said. “It’ll be a nice break.�

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• Page 7: Continuation of the stories on women’s basketball and Kristin Davies • A brief on women’s soccer player Lindsay Vera

• 25 days until the football game at UNC-Chapel Hill

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Pack set for exhibition, season

Wolfpack players make impact in week 9 Jerricho Cotchery, New York Jets The fifth year starting wide receiver caught six passes for 62 yards from Brett Farve to help his Jets over the Buffalo Bills. Cotchery is closing in on 3,000 receiving yards for his career.

He has 2,894 in just his fifth season with the Jets. Cotchery played for the Pack from 2000-2003.

Women’s basketball faces Premier Players tonight at Reynolds Coliseum

Koren Robinson, Seattle Seahawks Robinson, a starting wide receiver for the Seahawks, broke his own team record for the longest touchdown catch in franchise history, hauling in a 90-yard touchdown reception. The touchdown was the only time the Seahawks would score in a 26-7 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Robinson played for the Pack from 1999-2000.

Pat Thomas, Kansas City Chiefs Thomas, a linebacker, posted 10 tackles in the Chiefs 30-27 loss to Tampa Bay. He now has 47 tackles in his first year as a starter. Thomas played for the Pack from 2001-2004.

Brian Williams, Jacksonville Jaguars Williams recorded four tackles, intercepted a pass and had two break-ups in Sunday’s 21-19 loss to Cincinnati.

Williams played for the Pack from 1998-2001.

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Laura Kerrigan stepped down on Tuesday after serving for 11 years as the head coach of the women’s soccer program.

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Today WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. PREMIER PLAYERS Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

WIFFLEBALL CAPTAIN’S MEETING Playzone, 6 p.m.

Thursday MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. FORT VALLEY STATE Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

Friday VOLLEYBALL @ VIRGINIA TECH Blacksburg, VA., 7 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER @ DUKE Durham, N.C., 7 p.m.

Women’s soccer head coach Laura Kerrigan resigned Monday, a day after completing the 2008 season with a 5-2 loss to Florida State, finishing 8-12 on the year.

“I appreciate the opportunity I was given to work with such tremendous studentathletes, coaches, administrators and staff here at N.C. State. This University and the people here hold many special memories for me, and it has been a pleasure to serve the N.C. State athletics community,” Kerrigan said in an official statement.

Kerrigan, who played for the Wolfpack in the 1980s, was the third coach in the women’s soccer program’s

“She recruited some outstanding young women to N.C. State and her teams always performed with class, integrity and sportsmanship.”

Athletics Director Lee Fowler history. She had a 87-107-16 overall record since she was hired Dec. 8, 1997.

In her tenure, Kerrigan emphasized academics as well as athletics and, as a result, her teams have earned the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Team Academic Award for seven consecutive seasons.

Athletics Director Lee Fowler thanked Kerrigan in an official statement.

“We are very thankful to Laura Kerrigan for her 11 years of loyal service and dedication to

N.C. State. She recruited some outstanding young women to N.C. State and her teams always performed with class, integrity and sportsmanship,” Fowler said. “She instilled the same dedication in her players that she showed during her time as an alltime great Wolfpack athlete and more importantly an all-time great student-athlete.”

According to Fowler, the Athletics Department will conduct a national search for her replacement immediately.

LAURA KERRIGAN CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Kerrigan was a 4.0 student and a All-American soccer player for the Wolfpack from 1985-89. She captained the 1988 team to the ACC Championship and a spot in the NCAA national championship game.

• Kerrigan completed her Juris Doctorate degree from William & Mary’s Marshall Wyth School of Law in May 1993.

She spent one year as a judicial clerk to the Supreme Court of Alaska.

• Kerrigan took over the Wolfpack in 1998. In 11 years coaching, she has compiled an overall record of 87-107-16.

• Kerrigan has gone just 13-678 against ACC competition.

• In 2002, Kerrigan led the Wolfpack to a 2-1 victory over No. 1 North Carolina. State went 10-8-1 that season.

Fans will get their first glance at the women’s basketball team tonight in Reynolds Coliseum.

The game against the Premier Players will be the only exhibition for the Wolfpack before opening its season Nov. 15 with the Wolfpack Invitational.

N.C. State returns four out of five starters from the 21-13 team last season. But the one loss was a big one, as Khadijah Whittington, the team’s leader in points, rebounds, blocks and steals, graduated and the Indiana Fever of the WNBA drafted her.

But the team is confident it can step up in her absence. “[Whittington] is a big loss, but we’re all really talented,” sophomore forward Brittany Strachan said.

Junior guard Nikitta Gartrell agreed with Strachan about losing Whittington.

“We lost a big key to the game,” Gartrell said. “We are talented enough to pull it off without [Whittington], but that’s a big loss — we just got to play our hardest, and I think we can pull it off.”

Although it is just an exhibition game, Premier Players is a team made up of former Division I athletes from schools such as Florida, Tennessee, Georgia Tech and others that travel to test top teams before every season.

“No matter who we play, we always want to come out and play hard,” Gartrell said. “We take every game, and try to pull it out.

We play hard and do our job, and don’t look down at anyone.”

Last season, the Premier Play-

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BBALL continued page 7

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WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I had one really big miss, and that’s what kept me out of the finals.”

Senior Kristin Davies on her experience at the NCAA Championships last spring

WHO TO WATCH FOR Point guard Shayla Fields will be the only senior on the women’s basketball team this season. Look for coach Yow to depend on Fields’ scoring ability tonight against Premier Players.

DID YOU KNOW? 67 of the last 69 opponents of the women’s basketball team have shot less than 50 percent from the field.

COMING SOON

Thursday: Coverage of the women’s basketball team’s exhibition game against Premier Players

Davies looking to repeat NCAA success having a really bad warm-up,” Davies said. “I remember going over to Ted [Hautau], our coach at the time, afterwards and freaking out, saying ‘my body feels so Kate Shefte heavy — I can’t spin,’ and he Senior Staff Writer said ‘calm down — it’s going to In addition to the nerves be great, I feel it.’” and anxiety that always acDavies earned All-ACC and company a big competition, honorable mention All-America diver Kristin Davies also had honors and set a new school reto deal with loneliness. cord in the platform dive with Davies, a fifth-year senior, is a score of 309.95 at the NCAA the most experienced of N.C. diving zones, and finished No. 13 State’s divers after being the overall in the platform dive at the only member of the Wolfpack NCAA Championships, just out swimming and diving team to of contention for the finals. compete at “I had one the NCAA really big miss, Champiand that’s what onships last kept me out of season. t he f i na l s ,” “It would Dav ies said. have been “That’s somea little bit thing I want nicer if to go back and head coach there were change for next Jenny Keim Johansen some other year. But it was swimmers still a really or a diver to come along with good experience.” me, but unfortunately I was One person that is focused on alone,” Davies said. helping Davies return to NationAccording to Davies, her als in her final year with N.C. NCAA coming-out party State is new diving head coach almost took a turn for the Jenny Keim Johansen. Johansen, worst. who was hired during the sum“At NCAAs, I remember mer, is the diving team’s fourth

Senior thriving under new coach, heightened expectations

“She’s continuing on the same path, and I could see her doing well again.”

RECENT AND UPCOMING MEETS DATE

OPPONENT

RESULT

Oct. 11

Miami

144-99 (W)

Oct. 11

UMBC

187-50 (W)

Oct. 25

West Virginia

187-118 (W)

Oct. 25

Virginia Tech

107-202 (L)

Nov. 1

Duke

137-216 (L)

Nov. 1

Maryland

162-189 (L)

Nov. 20-22

Maryland Invitational

Jan. 9

Michigan State

Jan. 17

Georgia Tech

Jan. 21

East Carolina

Jan. 21

Campbell

Jan. 24

@ Clemson

Feb. 3

North Carolina SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

coach in three years.

“These guys have been through a lot of changes, so they’re used to having to adapt,” Johansen said.

During her collegiate career, Johansen was a three-time AllAmerican for the University of DAVIES continued page 7

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