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Wednesday’s Raleigh pollen level, 3,524 grains per cubic meter set an area record

Arth PandyaStaff Writer

Likeadustingof snow, treepollen has covered much ofNorthCarolinathisweekafteraquicktransitionfromwinterintoawarmspring.

PollenlevelsinNorthCarolinareachedrecordhighsthisweek,with the N.C. Department ofEnvironmentandNaturalRe-sources’ Air Quality Divisionrecordingthehighestconcentra-tionssinceairqualityagenciesstartedmeasuringpolleninthelate1990s.

Theagencymeasuredasample

thathad3,524pollengrainspercubicmeteratitsRaleighofficeWednesdayandanevenhighersampleinWinston-Salem,whereTuesday’scountreached9,632grainspercubicmeter.

According toapress releasefromtheDENR,Wednesday’spollen count was the highestever recorded inRaleigh.ThepreviousrecordwassetMarch27, 2007, when pollen levelsreached2,925.

AccordingtoJohnKing,as-sociateprofessoroftreephysi-ology,pollenusuallyreachesitspeakduringlateMarchandearlyApril.

AccordingtotheDENR,peakpollenlevelshistoricallyfallbe-tween1,000and1,500grainspercubicmeterintheRaleigharea.

Kingaddedthatthecauseof

recordpollenlevelshasbeenthesuddenchangeinweather.

However,becauseofthefrigidwinter,Kingsaidsomespeciesoftreesweren’tabletoflower,resulting inmore tree speciesfloweringatthesametime.

“There has been an abrupttransitionfromacoolwetwin-tertoawarm,dryspring,”Kingsaid.

DustinFranklin,seniorinme-chanicalengineering,saidtheamountofpollen in theair iscomparableto“alightsnowfall.”

“It’smuchmoreintensethanIexpected.It’snotfriendlyoutthere,”hesaid.

Jerry Sharp, a freshman incomputer science, saidhehasneverseenanythinglikethis.

“I’veneverseenanythingliketheyellowbrickroadwehave

everywhere,”hesaid.However,Kingsaidhebelieves

thepollenlevelshavehittheirhighestpointforthisseason.

“Thepinepollenhaspeaked.Itshouldstartdecliningfromhereonout,”hesaid.

Rainshouldlowerthepollenlevelstonormallevels,accord-ingtoKing.

AccordingtotheDENR,peo-plewhoarebotheredbyallergiesshouldstayindoors,especiallyduringearlymorninghoursandwindyweather,untilpollenlev-elssubside.

Thoughrainsmaywashawaymostoftheaccumulatedpollen—especiallywithheavythun-derstormsexpectedinRaleighthroughoutThursdaynight,ac-cordingtoNOAA—Kingsaidhehasawordofadviceforthose

wantingtowashtheircarsthisweekend.

“Wait another week,” Kingsaid.

Overhaul carries changes for college students

Arth PandyaStaff Writer

Thenewhealthinsurancelegisla-tion,whichwassigned into lawbyPresidentBarackObamaonMarch23,willallowcollegestudentstostayontheirparents’healthinsuranceplansuntiltheyare26yearsold.

Withunemploymentratesatnearly15percentinsomeareasandaweakjobmarket,theplanwillhelpcollegegraduateswhocan’tfindemploymentandcannotaffordexpensivehealthcarepremiums, according to JerryBarker,directorofStudentHealthServices.

“Atthemoment,alotofinsurancecompaniesremovestudentsoncetheygraduate,”hesaid.

AccordingtoBarker,inroughlysixmonths,studentsuptotheageof26will be eligible for coverage undertheirparents’insuranceiftheinsur-anceprovidesdependentcoverage.

BrittanyVliek,sophomoreincrimi-nology,saidshewasrelievedwhenshefoundoutaboutthenewprovision.

“Ithinkit’sgreatbecauseIwasdefi-

nitelyconcernedwithbeingcoveredbymyparents’plan,”shesaid.“It’sgreatthatitextendsthatfar,”shesaid.

JohnHarper, juniorinbiologicalsciences,agreed.

“ItprovidesasenseofsecurityonceIgraduate,”shesaid.“Especiallywithtroublesrightnowingettingajob.”

Though it does benefit students,Harpersaiditdoesn’tmakethebillidealforeveryone.

“TherearestillaspectsofthebillIdisagreewith,”hesaid.

Inadditiontotheageadjustment

Health care bill to reform student coverage

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david mabe/TechnicianMembers of the Army ROTC unload from Blackhawk helicopters after landing in a field off of Western Boulevard during an aviation lab Thursday. The cadets were flown from Wake Tech Community College for a simulated mission. The exercise was meant to present cadets with leadership situations and to develop teamwork while also exposing them to helicopter operations.

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Recently established fraternity will sponsor a kickball tournament to raise money for cancer

Joanna BanegasStaff Writer

SigmaNuwillhostitsfirstan-nualKickBall-CancertournamenttoraisemoneyfortheLanceArm-strongFoundationthisSaturdayattheMillerIMFields.

AndreasAntono,juniorinbio-logicalsciencesandamemberofSigmaNu,saidalloftheproceedswillbedonatedtotheLanceArm-strongFoundation.

“His foundationraisesmoneyforcancerresearchandalsohelpsoutcancerpatientsthathavebeentreatedorstilllivewithit,”Antonosaid.

Theteamsparticipatinginthekickball tournament consist ofstudentsfromtheGreekcommu-nity,campusorganizationsandtheUniversity.

KellenOsburn, junior incivil

engineeringandcommunityservicechairmanofSigmaNu,saidthefra-ternitywantstoraisemoreawarenessaboutcancerresearchandpatientsbygettingpeopleinvolvedinakickballtournament.

“Our goal isto incorporateGreeksandnon-Greekstopartici-pateinthetour-nament,”Osburnsaid.

Osburn sa idthe Greek com-munity and therest of the stu-dent body tendtobemoresegre-gatedfromeachother.

“Most of thet i m e G r e e k sdon’tgetthebestreputation,”Osburnsaid.“ThekickballtournamentwillbeagreatwaytoputthetwogroupstogetherandshowagoodimageoftheGreekcommunity.”

Antonoalsosaidtheyhopetoestab-lishaneventthatinvolvesthewhole

campusandgetthewordoutaboutwhattheGreekcommunityisdoing.

“AlotofpeoplehavethisnegativeimageofGreeks,”Antonosaid.“Youtellsomebodyyou’repartofafrater-

nityandtheyau-tomaticallyjudgeyouaboutsome-thing.Wejustre-allywantpeopletoseethatwe’renot just aboutparties.TherearealotofaspectstoGreek life andthis isawaywecangetthewordout.”

Osburnsaidinorder to createtheevent,SigmaNu was spon-soredbyCampus

Recreation,aswellasbyotherlocalbusinesses.

“Theyendedupsupplyinguswiththefieldsandgaveustheequipment,”

Sigma Nu to host first annual philanthropy event

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pollen levels:Average Raleigh peak: 1,000 to 1,500 grains per cubic meterPrevious Raleigh record: 2,925 grains per cubic meter (March 27, 2007)Wednesday’s Raleigh reading: 3,524 grains per cubic meter Tuesday’s Winston-Salem reading: 9,632 grains per cubic meter

Source: n.c. deparTmenT of environmenT and naTural

reSourceS’ air QualiTy diviSion

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“The kickball

tournament will be a

great way to put the

two groups together

and show a good

image of the Greek

community.”Kellen Osburn, junior in civil

engineering

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• Ageadjustmentfordependentcoverage

• Bansinsurancecompaniesfromdenyingcoveragetopatientswithpre-existingconditions

• Providessubsidiestothosewhomakelessthan400percentofthefederalpovertylevel

• MandatesalmostallAmericansmustpurchasehealthinsurance

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THROUGH MARISA’S LENS

Gallons down, then right back up

Patrick Madigan, a senior in environmental design in architecture, vomits in the grass while friends Patrick Angle, a junior in business administration, and Reece Chapman, a senior in zoology, stand by. The three were participating in a “gallon challenge,” trying to drink a full gallon of 2 percent milk in an hour. “We decided to do it last night

at 1 a.m.,” Madigan said. “We just need to laugh,” said Angle.

PHOTO BY MARISA AKERS

CAMPUS CALENDAR

TodaySPANISH SOCIOLINGUISTICS: FIFTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPTBA, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

FACES AND MAZES (LIA COOK)GREGG MUSEUM OF ART & DESIGNTalley Student CenterNoon to 8 p.m.

FIRST YEAR COLLEGE ACCEPTED STUDENT VISITATION PROGRAMFYC Commons 104, 106, 1:30 to 3 p.m.

“SPANISH VOICES” PREMIERETalley Student Center, Room 3118, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

CORNHOLETOATOPALOOZAMiller Fields, 4:30 to 9 p.m.

PAMS DEPARTMENTAL REUNIONSCarter-Finley Stadium, 6 to 9 p.m.

COMEDY IN THE MIDDLE EASTTBA, 7 to 9 p.m.

POLICE BLOTTERApril 41:02 P.M. | LARCENYMotor Pool Report that unknown persons stole several pallets of red paving bricks.

12:22 P.M. | MEDICAL ASSISTWood Hall Lot Report of subject lying in entrance of lot. Officers responded but did not locate anyone in need of assistance.

3:13 P.M. | SKATEBOARD VIOLATIONCentennial Middle School Report of juveniles skateboarding in roadway. Officers located middle school students in parking lot and determined they were not in violation of University Policies.

3:33 P.M. | HAZMAT INCIDENTDabney Hall Staff notified FP that a small amount of mercury had spilled. Appropriate personnel responded and cleaned spill.

April 5 11:27 A.M. | DAMAGE TO PROPERTYBragaw Hall Staff reported broken window. It is unknown how damage occurred. 11:48 P.M. | DISTURBANCENorth Hall Report of two subjects arguing in parking lot. Officer located intoxicated non-student. Subject was trespassed from NCSU property the other subject left prior to officer’s arrival.

April 610:57 A.M. | LARCENYPage Hall Report of phone missing. Student was referred for possession of stolen property and providing false information to Police. Second student was referred for providing false information.

4:01 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIORPublic Safety Building Student reported being harassed by other students. Five students were referred to the university for harassment.Judicial Referral

6:46 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTMid Pines Road Report of subjects fishing in pond. Officer located two students who stated they had permission from staff. Investigation revealed students did not have permission and were trespassed from the area.

10:02 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTCarmichael Gym Staff reported streaker on indoor track. Officers did not locate subject.

WORLD & NATIONPact signed, Obama advances on arms-control agenda

PRAGUE - On Thursday, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new arms-control treaty designed to open a new era of harmony between the former superpower rivals while launching an arms agenda extending far into the future. The two leaders met in a medieval castle in Prague, once a city at the epicenter of Cold War tension, and formally agreed the pact would meet demands.

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IN THE KNOW Centennial Campus Events

Centennial Campus will host the 2010 American Institute of Chemical En-gineers competition begin-ning with a BBQ on April 9 in the grassy area between

Engineering Building I & En-gineering Building II. On Saturday, a team competition will take place in the paylot portion of the Partners Way Deck. Representatives from 23 universities and approximately 500 students are anticipated to attend, mainly Friday evening and Saturday.

Easter Seals “Walk With Me,”

takes place Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; the walk starts at Monteith Research Center (MRC). The Campus Rec 5K takes place Sunday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.; it starts at MRC plaza.

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for dependent coverage, the bill also bans insurance companies from denying coverage to pa-tients with pre-existing con-ditions, provides subsidies to those who make less than 400 percent of the federal poverty level, $43,320, and mandates that a lmost a l l A mer i-cans purchase health insur-ance.

Next fa l l, students at UNC-system schools will be required to either buy t h e U NC -mandated health plan or show proof of coverage.

A signif i-cant percent-age of college students lack health coverage. In 2006, 20 percent of college-aged young adults were uninsured, ac-cording to the Government Accountability Office.

According to Barker, about 90 percent of N.C. State stu-dents have insurance coverage.

“That 90 percent who have coverage will have to go on-line and provide proof with their policy name and number. The 10 percent who don’t will have to buy insurance under the plan,” he said.

Joseph Mangum, senior in criminology, said he doesn’t like the new UNC System-wide student health insurance requirement.

“I have one more semester to go. Right now, I don’t have coverage, and it puts an unnec-essary burden on me,” he said.

Mangum said he made a cal-

culated risk in not getting health coverage, due to other financial obligations.

According to Barker, this change will especially benefit graduate students, as many earn less than $42,000 per year.

“Graduate students who make less than $42,000 should be able to qualify for tax credits to purchase

insurance. I t d e f i -nitely will help older students ,” he said.

Howev-er, Barker sa id t he changes a re s t i l l not set in stone, and the bil l ’s f u l l im-pact can-not be de-termined

until its full implementa-tion in 2014.

“This st i l l has to go through a reconciliation process. If Congress turns over in November, some of this could be repealed or changed again,” he said.

There will be a student health insurance require-ment information session at noon Friday, in the Student Health Center classroom 2301.

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said Antono. “They let us use their list serve to access more people and ended up setting up the tournament schedule

for us. They were a big help.”Chris Boemermann, a junior

in business administration and philanthropy chairman & Web site chairman of Sigma Nu, said there are currently eight female teams with seven of them being part of the Panhellenic sorori-ties and other student organi-zations. He also said two fra-ternities have recently signed up, and he hopes more students will register before the event.

“We’re trying to get more people out there,” Boemer-mann said. “It’s kind of hard for Greek organizations be-cause we do a lot of events for Greek which makes it hard to get other student organizations to come out and participate with us.”

Sigma Nu-Beta Tau earned its charter back last October after losing it a few years ago. It was the first fraternity founded

at the University in 1895.Antono said the kickball

tournament is the first philan-thropy event which it is host-ing since the fraternity was reestablished.

“A lot of these things are just learning experiences for us because we’re still new on campus,” Antono said. “We’re still a new fraternity and we’re still learning.”

He also said that an event like this can take a couple of years to become fully established on campus.

“If it ends up going well, people that participate this year will know to come back next year and maybe tell their friends about it,” Antono said. “It’s an ongoing process that we want to build on for the follow-ing years.”

Each team will be guaranteed to play at least two games. The

top four teams in each bracket will play for the championship and the top three finalists of each bracket will win a trophy.

Antono said the fraternity just wants to have fun with the tournament.

“I don’t remember playing kickball since the sixth grade. It’s about going back to some-thing that you did as a kid,” Antono said. “It can be kind of reliving with all the stress from school work and stuff. We want people to be present there to help us raise money for the foundation.”

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Christi Ogu/teChniCianMaria Pacheo, who is 22 years old, takes a brief moment to recapture her past experience and then shared the impact the DREAM Act has upon society with students at the African American Cultural Center in Witherspoon Student Center Tuesday. The DREAM Act, or The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, is a proposed bill that would allow certain undocumented students to gain a path towards citizenship, which is an issue that widely affects the Hispanic community. Pacheo, along with many others in support of the DREAM Act decided to begin their journey by walking from Miami, Fla. on January 1 until they arrived in Washington, D.C. about May. Pacheo said many people like herself have “fought so hard to make it right in this country” and that many undocumented students are “rising [their status] because the [situation] is unbearable.”

RECAPTuRing THE PAST

“I think it’s

great because I

was definitely

concerned with

being covered by

my parents’ plan.”Brittany Vliek,

sophomore in criminology

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When the rain comes, they’ll run away and hide — at least for a bit.

Mark McLawhorn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

First of all, why didn’t you i m med iate ly report this to your

bank? I’ve lost my debit card before and within 24

hours my c a rd wa s frozen. If you report your card as stolen, most banks will reim-burse you for you r losses after investigat-

ing that the miscellaneous charges were not made by you. Many companies have toll-free numbers and 24-hour service to deal with such emergencies. It’s a good idea to follow up your phone calls with a letter. In-clude your account number, when you noticed your card was missing and the date you first reported the loss.

As much as I want to sym-pathize with your dilemma, this should have been taken care of much earlier. If you would have immediately called the bank or walked into a branch and talked to

a representative, the problem would have been tackled before it reached such a horrible level. I did a little bit of research and every single bank that I looked into stressed the same thing: “Report your card immedi-ately.” The phone call liter-ally takes five minutes. I don’t understand how the problem could have gotten so out of hand, and as unfortunate as your cir-cumstances are, you are partial ly to blame for not taking care of it sooner.

Lucky for you, banks a r e v e r y much con-cerned about their image, especially in this economy. More than likely, the bank will write off your losses for good PR after conducting a fraud in-vestigation. Also, if your debit card was a Visa, you are covered by it’s “Zero Liability” policy, which basically states that you won’t be held responsible for fraudulent charges made with

your card or account in-formation. Even if it wasn’t a Visa, most major banks have a way of reimbursing you, partially if not fully. You are very lucky that the money is leaving your ac-count through transactions and miscellaneous charges and not through ATM with-drawal, in which case reim-

bursing is far more compli-cated and often not available.

For fu-ture refer-ence, try not to lose your card in the first place; and if it does get los t ,

report it to your bank im-mediately. The longer you wait, the bigger the problem becomes. For now, call your bank as soon as you finish reading this and take care of this mess before you’re completely penniless.

Avani PatelStaff Columnist

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Dear Avani,The other day while I was out, I lost my debit card on campus,

but I didn’t find out until it was too late. The next thing I know, there are $700 worth of miscellaneous charges on my account. I’ve tried calling the bank to cancel the charges, but in the mean time my account continues to go negative as new charges hit my account. Now, I can’t even pay my rent. I’m not quite sure how to move for-ward, and I’m afraid that whoever has stolen my credit card infor-mation will continue to charge things to my account. Any advice?

-Anonymous

Legalize it

A few weeks ago, my fel-low columnist Sam Daug ht r y w rote a

piece,“Medical Marijuana: a personal decision,” describing

some of the is-sues surround-ing medica l marijuana use. While it is still i l legal under federa l law, 14 states have passed legisla-t ion legaliz-ing medicinal marijuana,

and North Carolina may be set to be the next.

There are currently bills in the N.C. House of Representa-tives, House Bill 1380 and 1383, introduced in the House by Rep. Earl Jones (D-Guilford), which would legalize medicinal use of the herb, license farm-ing of it and tax it as a source of revenue. WRAL reported March 5, that “supporters say legalizing marijuana for health-related reasons would generate more than $60 million in state taxes in the first year alone.” The bill passed a vote last year and is now waiting in the Health Committee; state lawmakers could be voting on the bill this spring.

While many in North Car-olina favor its legalization, some argue that this will lead to its increased use in society. I would counter this argument by pointing out that some stud-ies actually counter this claim. A 2008 article in Time maga-zine, “An American Pastime: Smoking Pot,” said “a survey published … in PLoS Medi-cine, a journal of the Public Library of Science, suggests that … despite tougher drug polices in the U.S., Ameri-cans [are] twice as likely to have tried marijuana than the Dutch,” whose laws regarding marijuana consumption are far more liberal than those of the U.S.

Currently, anyone who uses marijuana in North Carolina is obtaining it through the black market, which can lead to it be-ing exorbitantly overpriced and of potentially dubious qual-ity. Legalizing its medicinal use would control traffic and regulate its quality. Also, pro-viding a safe, licensed source would allow those considering its medicinal benefits to avoid association with the more criminal elements of society.

Opponents of the bill also claim people will abuse me-dicinal marijuana’s status as a prescription drug. However, if this argument were to be seen

through to its final conclusion, then nearly all prescription sedatives and pain medications would have to be banned from medicinal use as well. There are many people who already fake symptoms to procure these le-gally prescribed medications. It is up to the prescribing physi-cian to determine whether or not a patient is faking symp-toms to get drugs.

Many of these existing medi-cations are far more dangerous and potentially addictive than marijuana, including drugs derived from opiates as well as antidepressants, etc. These drugs are responsible for thou-sands of deaths in America every year; yet since its use began more than 50,000 years ago, marijuana has not been directly attributed to a single death worldwide. Even drugs like aspirin and caffeine cause the deaths of thousands of Americans, let alone alcohol and tobacco -- which are both legal for recreational use, as well as being extremely dan-gerous.

Surveys and studies have in-dicated that marijuana is effec-tive in treating ailments such as multiple sclerosis, glaucoma and anorexia, among others. It has also been used to treat cancer patients going through chemotherapy. Considering the array of substances that are le-gally available for medicinal use and are far more danger-ous, there seems to be no suf-ficient argument for outlawing the use of marijuana as an al-ternative treatment.

Support for its legalization for medicinal use is growing in North Carolina. A march on the capitol building in Raleigh is scheduled for noon, May 1. Information about the march can be found on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108084525883384&ref=mf.

I propose that those of you who are state residents and are in favor of this bill write your local state house representa-tive and let them know your thoughts. A list of house repre-sentatives can be found at this address: http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=House.

For general information about the bill, there are sev-eral Facebook groups about it: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=74395252962 &ref=mf.

Send Nick your thoughts on medicinal marijuana to letters@technicianonline.com.

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Raleigh’s pollen count hit the highest level in recorded history

Wednesday with 3,524 pollen grains per cubic meter. The trees released their wrath on the campus — it was anything but good. Students and faculty alike have walked about sneez-ing, with running noses and blood-shot eyes this week, due to nature’s version of a hot and fast, reproductive romance.

There’s not much students can do about pollen, though Thursday night’s thunder-storms may help a little in that department. But, we can clean up the rest of campus.

When the tree pollen finally

clears in a couple weeks, the campus will return to its nor-mal self; its normal litter and cigarette-butt covered self.

The University consistently ranks well in sustainability competitions and recyclable collecting with programs like WE Recycle, but we still strug-gle with some basic littering issues. A walk around campus — or worse, its fringes — easi-ly exemplifies this problem and shows the necessity for some basic campus renewal.

Service Raleigh and other

programs like it during the year are great steps to keep these problems down, but they shouldn’t have to be solutions. Students and the University administration must make a better effort to facilitate the cleanliness of campus in its most basic sense.

It you’re smoking a cigarette — 25 feet from the nearest building, of course — make an effort to put the butt in one of the receptacles; if one isn’t readily available, request one be put there.

If you see trash lying on the ground, don’t just walk over it as if you hadn’t seen it. Pick it up and make an effort to do something good for your com-munity.

Large campus beautification projects are long and complex processes, which often require years to flesh out. Cleaning up the campus doesn’t take nearly the same amount of time.

The awful yellow sheet on the ground will be gone soon, but the litter in students’ midst won’t unless they make an ef-fort to be the change.

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility

of the Executive Editors.

The pollen is just the coverTHE FACTS:The campus has been covered by record amounts of pollen this week; Wednesday’s level was 3,524 pollen grains per cubic meter.

OUR OPINION:As bad as the pollen is, it will soon be swept away by spring showers. The litter and other campus pollutants, like cigarette butts, will remain unless students and the entire University community make a real effort to eliminate them.

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It has been quite the journey for The Whigs over the past five years and their latest release, “In the Dark” chronicles that journey beautifully.

In just the past five years, The Whigs have gone from record-ing their first album “Give ‘Em All a Big Fat Lip” in an Athens frat house — with equipment they originally bought off of eBay and then sold back — to being named the hottest un-signed band in America by Rolling Stone to playing along-side Kings of Leon.

Before the recording of “In the Dark,” some shuffling oc-curred within the band. Hank Sullivant, the original bass-ist, moved on to touring with MGMT, and Tim Deaux fills his role more than adequately in “In the Dark.”

The interesting thing about “In the Dark” isn’t so much that it’s a completely different sound for The Whigs — like Yeah

Yeah Yeahs jump from “Show Your Bones” to “It’s Blitz” — but rather a road marker for their sound. Songs that resem-ble their college-band days are prevalent in songs like “I Don’t Even Care About the One I Love” and “Automatic.”

These vocal driven songs resonate the more playful na-ture of the sounds that were widespread in “Give ‘Em All a Big Fat Lip.”

Songs that sound similar to their sophomore album are present too. The traditional rock roots that have really

made The Whigs who they are today echo in songs like “So Lonely” and “I Am For Real.”

One thing that becomes apparent throughout “In the Dark” is the influence of bands that The Whigs have been tour-ing and working with over the past two years.

Another thing that becomes clear — and that they them-selves have even admitted to — is that the band produces tracks that clearly play to larger crowds. Much like their cohorts in Kings of Leon, songs like “Kill Me Carolyne” orches-

trate choruses that patronize much larger venues, unlike any other songs the band has ever released.

The Whigs also pick up a much heavier rock sound on many of their newest tracks. Songs like “Hundred/Million” and “Somebody’s Daughter” ref lect much more visceral musical experiences from The Whigs.

By far the biggest of these musical influences comes from producer Ben Allen. Allen, af-ter producing Animal Collec-tive’s smash hit “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” helps respond to one of the biggest complaints of The Whigs last two albums, a lack of overall diversity.

“Black Lotus” has lead singer Parker Gispert belt distorted lyrics that Whigs fans have yet to experience. “Dying” exem-plifies the extent of the psyche-delic influence of Ben Allen.

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Researchers at N.C. State developed a new high strength metal foam that could save energy and lives due to its extraordinarily high energy absorption capability and light weight

Arth PandyaStaff Writer

A metal foam, developed by University researchers, can reduce or eliminate injuries from collisions, while reduc-ing mass without sacrificing strength and impact protection as a result.

It can also absorb 70 to 80 times more energy than steel, and it’s much lighter. The foam is estimated to offer more than 80 times greater energy abor-tion than the bulk material from which the foam is made, according to Afsaneh Rabiei, an associate professor of mechani-cal and aerospace engineering and an associate faculty mem-ber of biomedical engineering.

To illustrate the foam’s high-energy absorption ability, Ra-biei said that if a simple four-passenger car uses the new ma-terial behind the bumper and had an accident going 28 miles per hour, it would feel as if it was an accident happening at five miles per hour to the pas-sengers inside.

In addition, the “modulus of elasticity” of the foam is very similar to that of bone.

Modulus of elasticity, which

is measured in gigapascals (GPa), measures a material’s ability to deform when pressure is applied and then return to its original shape when pres-sure is removed. The foam can compress up to 80 percent of its original size under loading and still retain its original shape.

“The modulus of elasticity of a bone is something around 10 to 30 GPa; and depending on age of the patient, the density

of the bone,” Rabiei said. “For years and years, scientists were trying to find materials with lower modulus of elasticity to match the modulus of elasticity of bone.”

According to Rabiei, if the modulus of elasticity of an im-plant in a bone is too much big-ger than the bone, the implant will take over the load bearing, and the surrounding bone will start to die, which will cause

the loosening of the implant and eventually failure of the implant — known as stress shielding.

When this happens, the patient will need to undergo another surgery to replace the implant. This composite foam prevents stress shielding from occurring.

Experiments showed an elas-tic modulus of 10 to 12 GPa for aluminum–steel composite foams.

“Originally, the implants were made of steel. Then people started using titanium because steel has a modulus of elasticity around 200 GPa and titanium has a modulus of elasticity around 100,” Rabiei said. “But it is still not ideal because it’s over three times higher than the most dense bone.”

In addition to having a mod-ulus of elasticity closer to that of bone, the rough surface of the foam would also stimulate bone growth into the implant, improving the strength of the implant. The implant will bond well with the new bone formed around it and let the body build inside its surface porosities.

This will increase the me-chanical stability and strength of the implant inside the body. Rabiei said her team did not have biomedical applications in mind when they started the research. “It’s something that we did not expect to happen. We were not thinking about biomedical applications,” Ra-biei said.

“Although our mission was to find light materials, mostly for structural applications, when we studied the modulus of elas-ticity of this material, we dis-covered that this was the closest possible modulus elasticity to bone, so it would be revolution-ary if we used it for implants,” Rabiei said.

According to Rabiei, the goal was to make something that can save energy, money and lives.

“But down the road, we fig-ured out that the properties are great for biomedical applica-tions,” she said.

The foam could mean a new generation of biomedical im-plants.

Rabiei said there are endless possibilities for her metal foam, including airplanes, boats and structures that need impact protection while maintaining low weight.

Additional research is still being done with the metal foam.

“We are now looking into the high speed impact properties,” Rabiei said.

The research, “Evaluation of modulus of elasticity of composite metal foams by experimental and numerical techniques,” was funded by the National Science Foundation and is published in the March issue of Materials Science and Engineering: A.

david mabe/TechnicianAfsaneh Rabiei, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, helped develop a new type of high strength metal foam.

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The choice of whether or not to purchase a meal plan is something most students have to think about

Stephen Behan Staff Writer

Before the beginning of each school year, students are faced with a number of decisions, from course selection to hous-ing decisions. Among these choices is also the decision of whether or not to purchase a meal plan.

For freshmen living in resi-dence halls, there is no choice. Uni-versity policy s t ate s t hat t h e y mu s t purchase a mea l pla n. However, for other students — l ike the upperclass-men and the students who do not live on campus — there is the undy-ing question revolving around the decision to purchase a meal plan or not to, and whether one option is better than the other.

As some students may say, on-campus dining presents a number of advantages. For ex-ample, there’s the convenience factor of not having to actually cook. Then there’s the idea of not having to commit to gro-cery shopping.

But what about those who don’t dine on campus? Is it more difficult for them to get by? Commuter students — like campus residents — seem to believe that each option comes with its own set of advantages

and disadvantages. When attempting to weigh

the benefits, there are four fac-tors to take into account: cost, health, taste and convenience.

Last semester, I had the Freedom Plan. However, I lived off-campus. Therefore, I didn’t use my meal plan very often. I would use it two or three times a week, sometimes more, meanwhile still paying for groceries for my apartment. The cost of my meal plan was not worth the amount of food I was getting from it. Plus there was the hassle of getting to the Atrium before 10:30 a.m., so

I could eat breakfast without us-ing my lunch credit. Ad-mit ted ly, I cou ld a l so eat at t he dining halls, Fountain and Clark, but the food was not something I could handle eating for an

extended period of time. Pizza and burgers are good and all, but there is only so much grease a body can take.

For me, the choice of drop-ping my plan was not hard. I figured I would save $1,215 and cook for myself. For the most part, I’m happy with my deci-sion, though I do miss the ease and convenience of the dining hall. I still go to Chick-Fil-A and Taco Bell, just not as often.

However, mine is not the only opinion. Some students prefer the dining halls, Port City Java and the other eater-ies campus offers. One example is my roommate who said she eats less now that she doesn’t

have a meal plan. To put it in her words: “I don’t eat as much now, and I eat worse food,” she said.

Opposite of her are people like Tiadra Simpson, sopho-more in environmental design in architecture, who said she does not miss eating in the campus dining halls as a part of her dietary preferences.

“It was OK when I lived on-campus,” she said, “but they never really had a good veg-etarian selection.”

From the cost aspect, there is no clear winner, I suppose. On average, I spend about $50 a week on groceries. Some people spend more — some spend less. This averages out to roughly $1,000 a semester, not much different from the cost of a meal plan. The qual-ity of the food is roughly the same as well. I eat a good meal on occasion, ramen noodles on others, but the variety is part of the pleasure of doing my own shopping.

In the end — as horrible as it may seem — there is no clear winner. Whether a student should get a meal plan or not really depends on each indi-vidual student.

In my experience, there is no significant difference in the cost between the two vastly dif-ferent options. The choice must be made based on preferences in taste and convenience. For some students, the grocery store is just around the corner, thus making it a more prefer-able option. For others, the dining hall is a short walk away. The decision may ultimately depend on whether a student spends most of his or her time on campus or off.

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to qualify for the NCAA Na-tional Championships held later this month in Gaines-ville, Fla. The Pack will face off against some talented and tough competitors such as No. 6 Stanford University, who is coming into this meet having most recently earned second place in the Pac-10 champion-ships. Another team to watch out for is No.6 Michigan, who earned first place in the Big Ten Championships meet. Other teams competing against the Pack include No. 18 Southern Utah, No. 29 Kent State and No.31 West Virginia.

“The whole team is excited for regionals because if we have a good meet, we believe that we can make the National Cham-pionships and we aren’t intimi-dated by the other top teams we are competing against,” Seaman said.

With top scoring perfor-mances shown by many mem-bers of the team during the reg-ular season, having a couple of individuals representing N.C. State University at Nationals is a major possibility given the talent level of the current team, as well as some outstanding in-dividual performances noted by many first place honors. Consistently high performers, such as sophomores Brooke Barr and Panza and senior Sea-man, have a chance at quali-fying for an individual event should the Pack not make it forward as a team.

“We had our ups and our

downs this season, but the at-mosphere in the gym has been excellent which makes practice easier,” Seaman said. “We have so much potential and have a lot more to show this season.”

The key for the Wolfpack to be successful this weekend is the same thing it has been for most of the season, and that is for the team members to go out and hit their routines to the best of their ability. One

struggling point for the team, which has cost them first place in a couple of meets, has been their execution on the balance beam.

“The most important thing for us is to hit our routines, and we know we can do the job at the right time,” Head Coach Mark Stevenson said. “We feel the other teams we are com-peting against are going to be a good match up for us.”

everything won’t be grown in and it won’t be completely perfect,” Sykes said. “But I would like for [the other teams] to leave here saying that we put on a nice event, that they enjoyed it and that they can see it will be a really nice course.”

Sykes and his team hope their home tournament will give the team the boost it needs to finish strong. The Pack’s best finish of the year came at the Mardi Gras Intercollegiate Tournament

Feb.22-23, where it finished second of a field of 15. However, the team hasn’t placed higher than sixth since then. In its latest tournament, Hootie at Bulls Bay in Awendaw, S.C., March 28-30, the Pack finished tied for eighth out of 15 teams.

McMillen said consistency has been an issue for the men’s team as a whole this season, but the players have the potential to correct the problem.

“We’ve had a pretty good season. We haven’t just been able to put three good rounds together,” McMillen said. “When that happens, it’s going to be scary.”

To win this tournament, the Pack will rely heavily on

the play of defending NCAA individual champion Matt Hill, a junior. He is currently leading the team with an average of 72.8 strokes per 18 holes for the spring. As an individual, he finished first overall at the Hootie at Bulls Bay, shooting nine under par. Hill also won the ACC Golfer of the Month award for the month of March.

“He’s had a great year,” McMillen said. “He had a lot of expectations coming into the year and got a win last week at the Hootie. It seems like he’s got a lot of confidence going into the rest of the year.”

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Senior Taylor Seaman swings on the bars for her routine during the teams first meet against Rutgers Friday, Jan. 15. N.C. State had the leading scores in all four events, with Seaman leading in three of them. The Pack beat Rutgers 193.825 to 188.100.

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2010 season is quickly ap-proaching.

“Defense will be a major factor this weekend,” Poulk said. “We’re going to have to make some plays out in the field. We’ll try and see if our bats come alive and hopefully get some clutch hits as well.”

Wolfpack bats will have to stay hot in order to over-come the strong pitching duo of the Heels. Preseason all-American right-handers Colin Bates and Matt Har-vey lead UNC’s pitching staff. Harvey has struck out 11 batters on three separate

occasions this year.State will need solid contri-

butions from the likes of Poulk and senior centerfielder Kyle Wilson who have been noth-ing but spectacular for the Pack this season.

Poulk has started all 30 games at second base for the Pack and is currently batting .371 with seven home runs and 40 RBI. Equally as impressive, Wilson has hit safely in all 27 games he has started and is hit-ting .414 with five home runs and 11 stolen bases to help pace the Wolfpack offense.

Enthusiasm and excitement fill the air outside the team’s locker room as the players prepare for a series that means more than simply wins and losses but also pride.

“I have been here 14 years and it’s been a great series ev-ery year,” coach Elliott Avent said. “I don’t remember a series where it wasn’t just outstand-ing. It is always a lot of fun for the guys who grew up around here; they understand the ri-valry right away and as for the guys who are not from around here, well, it doesn’t take them long to figure out what this se-ries means.”

The first game of the series is slated to begin today at 7 p.m. at the newly renovated Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill. Saturday’s game starts at 6 p.m. and has already been sold out. The Wolfpack will finish up the series at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

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N.C. SKATE to hold competition on SaturdayThe club skateboarding team will hold its biannual skateboarding competition, N.C. SKATE, Saturday at noon. The event will take place at the “Flatspot” which is located in the plaza by the free expression tunnel and the wolf statues are. It cost $5 to enter and all proceeds go towards a scholarship award. There will be prizes for winners as well as those in attendance. For more information go to: http://ncsk8.blogspot.com.

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Baseball in Big ACC series against UNCThe baseball team will travel to Chapel-Hill this weekend for the Big ACC series against traditional rival UNC-Chapel-Hill. State, 20-10 overall and 5-7 in the ACC, is coming off of last weekend’s series win of Virginia. The games will be played on Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m., and Sunday at 1 p.m.

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Women’s tennis takes on Virginia schools this weekendThe No. 32 women’s tennis team, coming off of a four game losing streak, will take on No. 40 Virginia on Saturday at noon and No. 69 Virginia Tech on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both matches will be played at home at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center. The Pack is currently 9-8 overall, 1-6 in the ACC.

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Pack pumped for Regional competition

Golf gears up for Wolfpack Invitational, starts today

Wolfpack primed for rival Heels

The gymnastics team travels to West Virginia this weekend with hopes of qualifying for Nationals

Chadwick O’ConnellStaff Writer

The gymnastics team will head to Morganton, West Virginia Saturday to compete in the NCAA Southeast Regional Cham-pionships hosted by West Virginia University. The meet, scheduled for 6 p.m. at West Virginia Coliseum, will feature a pair of highly ranked teams in Stanford University and Michigan who are both ranked 6th in the country based upon overall team scores for the season.

The Pack is used to going up against top-ranked competitors as its regular s e a s on s che du le s aw competition against top ten teams such as Florida, Oklahoma and Georgia. In all of these meets the Pack managed to hang tough with the higher ranked opponents, usually only trailing by a point or less at the conclusion of the meet. However, the Wolfpack did defeat a top ten team in Nebraska during the regular season, which shou ld give confidence to a team comfortable with competing

against top ranked squads. “Competing against top

teams motivates us and I think our chances of winning the meet are as good as anyone else’s,” sophomore Jess Panza said. “We will surprise people.”

In last weekend’s EAGL conference championships, the Wolfpack fell just short of earning its fifth EAGL champi-onship title since the creation of the conference in 1996. The Pack earned a 195.700 and came in second place behind the University of North Caro-lina-Chapel Hill, who won the event by scoring three tenths of a point higher than the Wolfpack.

According to senior Taylor Seaman, the Pack will come to the regional competition excited and motivated to build upon its meet last weekend in New Hampshire. The team, led by Seaman, will try and build excitement off of her most recent outing at EAGL’s. Seaman performed extremely well and earned first place in the all-round competition with a score of 49.325.

“We gave it our all during EAGL’s and fought hard on beam knowing that floor and vault have been our strongest events all season,” Panza said

The Southeast regional com-petition will feature six teams, all of whom will be vying for a top two finish at the meet

The men’s golf team is preparing to host it’s first ever golf tournament at Lonnie Poole Golf Course this weekend.

Jeniece JamisonSenior Staff Writer

For once, fans won’t have to travel far in order to see a State golf team in action. They need only head over to Centennial Campus Friday and Saturday for the all day Wolfpack Invitational, the first tournament the men’s team has hosted at Lonnie Poole Golf Course. The layout for the course, which spans approximately

200 acres, was the brainchild of PGA tour legend Arnold Palmer and his design team.

Af ter years of wait ing, Pack will finally get its turn to show off its home course. According to sophomore Mark McMillen, there will clearly be an advantage for the Pack due to familiarity and the fact that many opponents haven’t previewed the course.

“We play the golf course probably four or five times a week. We really didn’t have a home field advantage [last year] because we didn’t play a course that much,” McMillen said. “I think we’re going to have a good home court advantage this weekend.”

Nine of the eleven ACC

teams will be in attendance, including No. 12 Florida State, No. 13 Georgia Tech and No. 15 Virginia.

According to f reshman Mitch Sutton, the team hopes playing on Centennial Campus will give them the advantage.

“I think having this golf course here will help,” Sutton said. “Hopefully we can do well.”

Every inaugural collegiate golf tournament does have its down sides. It’s still a new course and conditions aren’t quite ideal yet, coach Richard Sykes said told GoPack.com.

“We know this first year that

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State looks to continue offensive outburst against struggling Heels

Tucker FrazierStaff Writer

After winning last sea-son’s series, two games to one against rival UNC-Cha-pel Hill, the No. 28 base-ball team will be looking to repeat that success as it travels along Tobacco Road this weekend to square off against the Tar Heels in a three game series in Cha-pel Hill.

State is fresh off two mid-week games against Coppin State where the Pack scored 29 runs in two blowout wins. The series against UNC will undoubtedly pose a greater challenge for the team however, as the Heels lead the all-time series 149-121-1.

“We always love to play [UNC] no matter if it’s home or away,” senior sec-ond baseman Dallas Poulk said. “It’s a big rivalry; there are a lot of fans, and there is a lot of bad blood between us. We’ll try to just focus on staying within our game plan and play as hard as we can and hopefully come out of the series with a couple of W’s.”

In contrast to its strug-gling in-state neighbor, who has lost seven of its last 13 games, the Wolfpack is rid-ing a three-game win streak and has won five of its last

six contests. Relief pitching has been a

key ingredient in helping the Pack stay competitive during close games this season. State’s strong bullpen gives the team the ability to make late rallies just as it did in thrilling extra-inning wins against Campbell, UC Irvine, Miami and Virginia earlier this year.

“Pitching has been huge for us lately, especially the reliev-ers coming out of the bullpen,” sophomore Pratt Maynard said. “They’ve been able to get ahead in the counts and have been throwing good pitches when needed.”

Redshirt junior Rob Chamra, junior Grant Sasser and fresh-man Anthony Tzamtzis have all provided quality innings of relief work this season and have anchored the Wolfpack bullpen.

Perhaps no victory has been more significant for State this season than the win over pre-viously No. 1-ranked Virginia this past Sunday, which gave the Pack the series 2-1. Sopho-more third baseman Andrew Ciencin supplied the heroics, belting a grand slam home run in the seventh inning to propel the Pack past the Cavaliers 7-6.

Currently, State’s record stands at 20-10 overall and 5-7 in the ACC, which is good for third place in the Atlantic Di-vision. Both UNC (20-11, 4-8 ACC) and State will be look-ing to battle for position in the conference standings this weekend as the midpoint of the

luiS Zapata /techNiciaNa view from the fairway on Lonnie Poole Golf course on centennial campus. the men’s golf team will host its first Wolfpack invitational, starting today and continuing through saturday.

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aMaNDa KarSt/techNiciaNsophomore infielder Harold Riggins catches a pitch to stop a coppin state player from stealing second base on Wednesday. n.c. state won 18-1 against coppin state.

TodayTrack and field @ sea ray relaysKnoxville, Tenn. all day.

Men’s golf aT wolfpack inviTaTionalLonnie Poole Golf Course, all day.

BaseBall @ Unc-chapel-hill Chapel-Hill, 7 p.m.

SaturdaywoMen’s Tennis vs. virginia J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, noon

sofTBall vs. florida sTaTeTallahassee, Fla., 1 p.m.

SundaywoMen’s Tennis vs virginia Tech Raleigh, 1 p.m.

BaseBall @ Unc-chapel-hillChapel-Hill, 1 p.m.

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Quote of the day

“It’s a big rivalry; there

are a lot of fans, and there is a

lot of bad blood between us.”

second baseman Dallas Poulk