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Economic crunch hits Hillsborough street; Resuscitate Hillsborough Street; After the battle, a louder voice; The ultimate routine: Balancing the books and the matsTRANSCRIPT
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Women’s basketball coach continues to fight cancer
Staff ReportWomen’s basketball coach
Kay Yow was admitted into a hospital last week as she fights stage-four breast cancer. The University did not release the hospital’s location.
Yow stepped away from coaching her team last month after fatigue kept her from coaching at the level she thought necessary.
“Stepping away f rom coaching is one of the hard-est decisions I have had to make,” Yow said during the press conference when she stepped down for the rest of the season.
As Yow has continued to fight metastatic breast cancer, her fatigue was getting too much to handle, even after stepping away from coaching, according to Mark Kimmel, assistant director of media
relations in a news conference Wednesday.
Yow was not feeling well in her home, which led to the doctor’s decision. Kimmel said Yow’s oncologist, Dr. Mark Graham, had suggested the coach reside at a hospital for the time being for proper care, WRAL reported.
Associate coach Stephanie Glance has stepped in as the in-terim coach in Yow’s absence. Despite her illness, Yow remains under contract with the Univer-sity until 2012.
Yow has coached the Wolfpack in 34 seasons.
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Plans for improvements and community involvement continue despite economy
Derek MedlinManaging Editor
The major economic downturn that hit the Unit-ed States hard in Oct. 2008 has also had an impact on businesses up and down Hillsborough Street.
Some of the higher-priced restaurants and businesses with higher-end products have felt the brunt of stu-dents and faculty alike spending less money.
Alan Lovette, the owner of Melvin’s Hamburgers, said he has noticed the
slow economy’s impact on Hillsborough Street despite his business not feeling the direct effect of the slow-down.
Lovette said his sales have actually gone up s l ig ht ly since last fall.
“The businesses w i t h i n t he Hillsborough Street par t-nership held a meeting about a week ago to discuss plans for the street,” he said. “A couple of businesses admit-ted that their sales are down. One couple said that their sales are down 14 percent.”
Lovette said the higher priced restaurants have seen the biggest impact.
“I haven’t seen too many prob-lems but then again, I’m sell-i n g a less ex-pensive prod-uct,” he said. “At Mel-vin’s, we sel l a ham-
burger, fries and drink for $3.99 and people are always looking for a deal.”
Lovette said those custom-ers looking for good deals
have helped businesses with lower prices.
“Students and faculty alike are looking for bargains right now,” he said. “The upper end restaurants are actually suffering a little more, most likely.”
Despite the fact people are spending less money in some cases, Lovette said the plans for improvements to the street remain on schedule.
“The project is going to happen starting in May,” he said. “Nothing has been taken out of the budget that I know of.”
Lovette said construction is scheduled to begin May 11.
Another important part of Hillsborough Street im-
LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOHillsborough Street’s renovation begins this year with the addition of two roundabouts. The intersection of Pullen Road and Hillsborough Street is the location for one of the planned roundabouts. The renovation will take place between the intersec-tions of Oberlin Drive and Hillsborough Street as well as Gardner Street and Hillsborough Street.
WILLIAM ALLIGOOD/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOCoach Kay Yow gets her team !red up during a time out at last year’s game against St. John’s. Yow was admitted to a hospital last week for closer monitoring of her condition.
JADE JACK/TECHNICIANJadrien Brown, a junior in industrial engineering and a member Al-pha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., stands at the Bell Tower in preparation for the annual MLK Jr. commemoration march Wednesday. Economic crunch hits
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After the battle, a louder voiceSee page 5.
The ultimate routine: balancing the books and the matsSee page 8.
“A couple of businesses
admitted that their sales are
down. ”Alan Lovette, owner of
Melvin’s
Professors cancel classes due to coldTompkins Hall temperatures prove too cold to hold some classes
Derek MedlinManaging Editor
Professors canceled several classes in Tompkins Hall Wednesday morning due to an apparent problem with the building’s heating system.
While classes did not be-gin Wednesday until 10 a.m. because of the snow Tuesday, the temperatures inside the building were cold enough for some professors to cancel classes.
John Morillo, an associate English professor, said he noticed the cold tempera-tures as soon as he got inside Tompkins.
“When I came in at 9:30 a.m., the temperature on my floor in the secretary’s office
was 47 degrees,” he said. “I’m pretty sure the warmest office was around 55 degrees.”
Morillo said he decided to can-cel his 10:15 a.m. class because he didn’t want students to not focus because of the cold.
“Having sat in my office and being cold, I wouldn’t want to be in a seat as a student worried about how cold it is,” he said. “It made much more sense to send them on their way.”
Garden Freeman, a superin-tendent of maintenance for Uni-versity Facilities, said Wednes-day afternoon he was unaware of any problems with the heating system in Tompkins.
“It hasn’t been reported,” Free-man said. “I am not aware of any problems with the building not being heated.”
Mori l lo said he checked
TOMPKINS continued page 3
Students honor Martin Luther King Jr. in light of the inauguration of President Barack Obama
Samuel T.O. BranchDeputy News Editor
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration March took place Wednesday night, seemingly just like last year. But this com-memoration had a different feel to it — the event was just one day after the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States.
After the parade, which the Eta Omicron chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha organized, the group went to the Witherspoon Student Center. Once there, Demetrius Marlowe, assistant director of the academic support program for student athletes, took the podium to speak about the events that lead to the election on the first black president in American history.
Kadeem Myrick, a junior in business administration and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the inauguration put a different light on this MLK Day.
“It puts a lot of things in perspective. You can look back and com-pare, and it’s amazing how we got to this point,” Myrick said.
Myrick said the movement for equality has been very inspirational.“When you look back on it and see the things [King] stood for, it
is a tremendous jump to now [with a black president],” Myrick said.A black man in the White House is truly a dream come true, Mar-
lowe said.
MLK continued page 3
Yow continues fight with cancer
ECONOMY continued page 3
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POLICE BLOTTERJan. 191:44 A.M. | SHOTS FIREDBragaw HallReport of possible shots fired in the area. Officers canvassed area. No problems were found.
3:12 A.M. | DAMAGE TO PROPERTYHillsborough BuildingReport of graffiti painted on loading dock. No suspects were located.
11:00 A.M. | LARCENYD.H. Hill LibraryStudent reported unattended duffle bag stolen from the area.
3:22 P.M. | BREAKING AND ENTERINGPartners IIReport that office had been entered and property removed. No signs of forced entry.
4:58 P.M. | TRESPASSReynolds ColiseumNonstudent was found attending basketball game after being tres-passed from campus. Subject was arrested.
Jan. 2012:51 A.M. | NOISE DISTURBANCEMetcalf HallReport of subjects shouting because of snow falling. Subjects complied to stop shouting.
2:04 A.M. | DRUG VIOLATIONOwen HallRA discovered and reported mari-juana in hallway.
7:41 A.M. | DAMAGE TO PROPERTYHillsborough BuildingStaff reported graffiti on rear doors of building.
8:42 A.M. | DAMAGE TO PROPERTYD.H. Hill LibraryStaff reported damage to vending machine.
10:54 A.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENTAvent Ferry and Varsity DriveOfficers investigated accident. Prop-erty damage only.
2:18 P.M. | DISORDERLY CONDUCTWitherspoon Student CenterStudent was referred to University for disorderly conduct.
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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
In Wednesday’s page-eight basketball photo accompanying the story “Devils dismantle State late,”, the photo was taken by Dreier Carr.
Technician regrets this error
Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Saja Hindi at [email protected].
IN THE KNOW Seminar still has more than 1,000 tickets
The Millennium Seminar Series still has more than 1,000 tickets left for the 2009 conference, which includes a speech by former President Bill Clinton. The seminar will take place on Jan. 26. The event begins at 10:30 a.m. with Clinton’s speech entitled “The Way Forward.” Clinton will be speaking on the future of America after the historic 2008 election. The conference will be held in Reynolds Coliseum. To claim any of the remaining tickets, go to http://www.ncsu.edu/ millenniumseminars and click on get tickets.
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Hoops4Hope coming up Feb. 15
The annual women’s bas-ketball charity event Hoop-s4Hope will take place on Feb. 15 this year. The team takes on Virginia at 3:30 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum. All the proceeds from the event will go to the Kay Yow WBCA Cancer Fund. This year is unique because Coach Yow will not be on the bench coaching her team. Earlier this month, the renowned coach took the rest of the season off due to fatigue. At halftime of the game, at-tending survivors of breast cancer will be honored in a special ceremony. Also, fans will be given a T-shirt while supplies last so everyone can show their support for Coach Yow and all breast cancer sur-vivors.
SOURCE: NCSU
Two weeks le! to register for KKC
Students have two weeks left to register for the 2009 Krispy Kreme Challenge. The race takes place on Feb. 7. According to the event’s web-site, 1,460 people have already registered for the event. The KKC has also announced that ESPN will be covering this year’s event. All participants will receive a T-shirt. To sign up, go to www.krispykrem-echallenge.com.
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WORLD & NATION9/11 prosecutions at Guantanamo suspended
The presiding judge in the 9/11 cases against five alleged terror-ists granted a delay in all the cases Wednesday after President Barack Obama asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to request the de-lay. The five defendants were all alledgedly involved with the 9/11 terrorist bombings of the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon in one way or another. One, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has confessed to being the mas-termind behind the plot. Obama wanted to suspend the trials for 120 days so the cases against the defendants, and all of the 245 detainees, can be reviewed. The facility has been under fire for some time, and Obama promised in his campaign to close it during his administration.
SOURCE: CNN
Factory undergoes more salmonella tests
North Carolina scientists are testing 51 more samples of peanut butter from a Cary cracker plant. The Kel-logg’s plant receives the peanut but-ter from a plant in Georgia owned by the Peanut Corporation of America. The US FDA traced the outbreak back to the Georgia factory. The outbreak has killed six people so far, including one North Carolinian, and made 485 people ill. So far, none of the tests run on the Cary plant have found any con-taminated peanut butter. The results of this second round of testing should be received Friday.
SOURCE: WRAL
School districts plan make-up days
Wake, Durham, and Carrboro-Chapel Hill districts all announced the school days will be made up. Tues-day and Wednesday’s classes were canceled due to the recent snowfall. The dates are various across districts, but many of the make-up dates are on Saturdays. Students on modified schedules, such as year-round, will all make up the missed time as well. Dur-ham county schools, however, did not close down on Wednesday and will make up the one missed day.
SOURCE: WRAL
Prison inmate in Wayne County assaults o!cer
Christin Ray Godette assaulted a detention officer who was removing a mop bucket from Godette’s cell Wednesday in a Wayne County precinct. Godette beat and strangled the guard till the guard fainted, authorities said. Godette then used the officer’s own handcuffs to restrain him in case he awoke and escaped with the guard’s keys. About a half hour after his escape, Godette was tracked down with dogs and was found in the West Haven area of Goldsboro. Godette will be charged with assault, escape, and probably more, according to authorities. The officer who was injured was treated and released from a hospital.
SOURCE: WRAL
Long hospitalized a"er collapsing
Jim Long, former North Carolina Insurance Commissioner, collapsed in the State Legislative Office Building. Long was in state Rep. Cary Allred’s office when he collapsed. Legisla-tive aides assisted him and called the paramedics. No word has been released regarding his health, but Long was alert as he was waiting for the paramedics, according to officials. Long is being treated in Rex Hospital.
SOURCE: WRAL
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“As I look back at what just
happened, it is a dream realized. With enough perserverance,
anything is possible.”
Demetrius Marlowe on the inauguration of President
Barack Obama
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THROUGH CHRISTIN‘S LENS
Would you like creamer with that?
Originally used to energize East African tribes, coffee now lends its powers to sleepy stu-dents. Nick Morse, a senior in business, pours a cup of coffee at Global Village Organic Coffee, for customers battling the cold. The owner of Global Village Mike Ritchey spent
the Tuesday night in the store so he could open Wednesday morning. “It’s not just the snow that brings people in, basically whenever it gets cold we sell a bunch of hot drinks,” Morse said.
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“As I look back at what just happened, it is a dream realized. With enough perseverance, any-thing is possible,” he said.
Ricci Kearney, a senior in communication and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the in-auguration was a fantastic thing.
“When I was a kid my mom used to tell me, ‘You can be the first black president, but with what happened it’s amazing to actually see it in my lifetime,” Kearney said. “It is remarkable.”
But in the midst of celebration,
Myrick still asked people to con-sider what can still be done.
Marlowe recognized that King was almost prophetic as he saw what this country is capable of.
“I’ve looked over and I’ve seen the promised land,” King once said. “I may not get there with you. But I want you to know to-night, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”
Marlowe recognized that with Obama’s inauguration, that dream of a promised land has been achieved.
But from here, blacks need to continue to push and not give up, according to Kearney.
“The bar has been raised. It is up to us to keep pushing and attain [higher goals],” Kearney said.
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JADE JACK/TECHNICIANThe audience at the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration March prepare to stand and give a pledge for change Wednesday night.
“It’s amazing to actually see it in my lifetime. It is remarkable.”
Ricci Kearney, a senior in communication and a member of Al-pha Phi Alpha, on the inaugration of Barack Obama
Caldwell Hall to see if he no-ticed any difference and to see if Caldwell Hall and Winston Hall were impacted.
“I went next door to Caldwell Hall and there was heat in the lounge,” he said. “I went there to escape my own office.”
Freeman said the heating systems in Winston, Caldwell and Tompkins are all fed from the same place.
“All three are on the ba-sic same principle,” he said. “They are all fed from the same mechanical room. “If you were to have a catastroph-ic event down there, they would all quit working. But I haven’t heard on anything.”
Alavia Yahya, a junior in biological sciences, said her 10:15 a.m. class met as sched-uled and did not get canceled.
Yahya said she could not tell that the temperature in Tompkins was colder than on a normal day.
“It felt kind of normal,” she said. “Everyone in that class was wearing jackets anyway so maybe you didn’t feel it.”
Elizabeth Mayton, a fresh-man in English, said her class
at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday got can-celed by the professor due to the heating problem.
Mayton said her professor can-celed class via e-mail.
“The e-mail said that some-thing was wrong with the heating system,” she said. “The professor said the cold would make it more difficult to focus in class.”
Mayton said she did not hear from other students that there was a problem with the heat.
“Class was canceled before I ever went up to the building,” she said. “I haven’t heard if it was actually that cold or not.”
Morillo said he noticed other classes in session when he left the
building around 11 a.m. “As I was heading out of the
building there were classes go-ing on,” he said. The south side of the building was kind of lucky because it got some reasonable solar heat.”
As of Wednesday evening, the temperature in Tompkins Hall was no colder than Caldwell Hall.
Freeman said any students or faculty should report any prob-lems with heat or other Facilities problems as soon as possible.
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provement, Lovette said, is bringing people to the area through various events.
Will McGuire, president of Legacy Event Planners, a nonprofit entity designed to help manage Hillsborough Street events, said events on Hillsborough Street are an important part of the future of the street.
“The events are a big part of it,” McGuire, a senior in aerospace engineering, said. “If you look at any city or area that is successful, there is interaction between people. These events bring people to-
gether.” McGuire said students and
faculty need to realize that Hillsborough Street is a good place to go even with the econo-my in its current state.
“De spite t he economy, Hillsborough Street has a lot to offer,” he said. “There are more diverse restaurants on Hillsborough Street than any-where in the state.”
With regard to construction, McGuire said students will need to be even more cognisant of the success of the street.
“People need to realize the stores will be the same,” he said. “It’s very important people don’t change their habits. People need to walk the extra 20 feet around the construction to keep sup-porting the local businesses.”
McGuire is one of the lead planners for the Hillsborough Street Renaissance, a street fes-tival scheduled for March 11.
The Renaissance, McGuire said, will be the f irst time Hillsborough Street will be closed for an event of this nature
in its history. The street will be blocked off from Wachovia to Bruegger’s all day.
“It’s the first time Hillsborough Street will be closed down for an entire day,” he said. “It’s the first festival of this nature and this magnitude.”
The festival, which will last from noon to 10 p.m., will in-clude live music, numerous vendors and sponsors lining the street, an iron chef competition and an alternative fuel vehicles showcase, McGuire said.
“This will be an opportunity for the community to come together,” McGuire said. “Our projections for the festival have the crowd at 20,000 plus people.”
Lovette said that construction and events on Hillsborough Street are things which, in the end, will make the area ‘one of the best in North Carolina.’
“This street has so much po-tential,” he said. “If the street looked better and more people were around, in my opinion, this street has more potential than Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.”
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Managing Editor
Derek MedlinDeputy News Editors
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Features EditorTaylor McCune
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The City of Raleigh an-nounced in April that it has put aside $3 million
to tidy up the University’s front door, Hillsborough Street, and make it safer for pedestrians.
Raleigh plans on making roundabouts and the street more aesthetically appealing. But the only way the renovation will be successful is if there are enough businesses that survive these hard economic times.
The plummeting stock market has trickled down into local busi-nesses, as owners of businesses on Hillsborough Street feel the hit of slow sales.
But don’t go to Hillsborough Street because you feel obligated to give these businesses money or pity them. After all, only visiting stores and restaurants that you like will weed out the ones that don’t fit, kind of like Darwinism
for businesses. Go there because of the convenience and because you like those restaurants.
For students who live on cam-pus and don’t have vehicles, Hillsborough Street is almost all they have.
Western Boulevard can be a death trap for pedestrians, and most of Cameron Village’s busi-nesses close around or before 9 p.m., much earlier than college students’ midnight hunger pangs. These places are great if you have transportation to get there, but for others, Hillsborough Street is the best place to get to.
If you’re going to spend mon-ey on food, clothes or what-ever it may be, why not spend it on Hillsborough Street? It’s a
stone’s throw away from main campus, and some restaurants take AllCampus cards, such as Melvin’s Hamburger. Fountain Dining Hall may be a buffet, but the pasta bar and the ice cream machine can’t give you all of the vitamins and minerals you need.
The University should show it’s support of Hillsborough Street businesses by allowing more of them to accept meal plans, board bucks or an AllCampus account. This is a great opportunity for the University to partner up with local businesses and grow a stronger bond. After all, it would reciprocate the generosity they have shown the University in the past, such as donating food for events like Homecoming Week’s
Wear Red, Get Fed. The Hillsborough Hikes have
begun to gain notoriety, and if we want events like this, such as the Hillsborough Street Renaissance, then we must come together and support the businesses you like. If you want to keep a variety of restaurants and businesses near-by campus, we have to show that future businesses can prosper by supporting the ones that are around now.
Also, the University should ex-tend a hand to them and allow them to accept campus-based ac-counts. This will help students venture outside of the dining halls and support Hillsborough Street and its relationship with the University. Students must help out Hillsborough Street, be-cause if it can’t survive through these tough times, it never will, even if it has a face lift.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the
editor-in-chief. THE ISSUE:Businesses on Hillsborough Street are suffering.
OUR OPINION:Hillsborough Street has potential to be the best area in Raleigh, and students and the University should show their support.
THE SOLUTION:Students should visit Hillsborough Street more and the University should connect its student accounts to businesses.
Resuscitate Hillsborough Street !OUR VIEW"
Adam Windsor, junior in art and design
With all of the se-riousness in the View point sec-
tion over the last few weeks, I feel it is my duty to lighten
things up a little bit. I’m st i l l ta l k-ing about important things, they are just a little more basic than the Presi-dential In-
auguration or world conflict. My pet peeves, as it turns out, are really a failure on the part of your mother to teach you basic com-mon cour-tesy. No, that isn’t fair to your mother, as the actual problem lies in you taking society’s di-rection over your moth-er’s learning. Today’s issue is all about iPods.
So, I was studying in D.H. Hill and this girl comes in and sits down two comput-ers away from me. As she walks behind me, I can hear the post-industrial techno blather spilling from her ear buds, and the volume doesn’t get any lower as she logs on to check out the latest LoLCats
postings.I know our library is deceiv-
ing in its intended purpose, for it juxtaposes a coffee shop and a Nintendo Wii with nine sto-ries of books, but those shelves aren’t just for taking up space, kids. There are people buried between them, searching in vain for a semblance of silence on a campus inundated with the con-stant sounds of trains braking, yelling Brickyard Preachers and unwanted musical interludes.
I am trying to study for my French quiz, but the only foreign language in my immediate vicin-ity is seizure-inducing EuroPop. Now, in her defense, I suppose I could have asked her politely
to turn the vol-ume down, but I was a f ra id she wouldn’t be able to hear me because she is obviously al-ready hearing impaired if she has to listen to her music at 165 decibels.
My concern, dear readers, is
not only for my own sanity, but also for your ears. According to Dangerous Decibels, a public health partnership for the pre-vention of noise-induced hearing loss, 5.2 million 6-19-year-olds have hearing loss directly related to noise exposure. Consider-ing that there aren’t very many 6-year-olds at Coheed and Cam-bria concerts, I’d have to wager
that this unhealthy noise pol-lution comes from seemingly more benign sources.
This does turn out to be the case, bearing in mind that lis-tening to music on earphones at a standard volume level 5, generates sound that can reach a level of 100 dB, which is loud enough to cause per-manent damage after just 15 minutes per day. Think about that the next time you are rocking out to Miley Cyrus.
In short, the next time you enter the classroom and slink to the back with your hood up preparing to be invisible for the next 50-75 minutes, please keep in mind that I, the girl two rows up from you, am only planning on being a moderate slacker today.
I am going to doodle quietly and try to concentrate. Maybe do some of the crossword on page seven. If I wanted to only be counted for my presence alone, I would have joined you in the last row with my own iPod.
So, please forgive me if I ask you to keep your music to yourself, as I just hate to see the soul-searching lyrics of Sublime wasted on those non-slackers in the front row, as well as our insightful and intelligent 70-year-old profes-sor. Because yes, they can hear you too.
Let Catie know your thoughts at [email protected].
Catie PikeSta! columnist
Keep your music to yourself
“Probably I Love NY Pizza because I love pizza and the big slices are really good.”
Brittany Scottjunior, agricultural education
“My favorite business on Hillsborough Street is de#nitely I Love New York Pizza because they show the TV while your’re eating, and it’s just really quick to run over there.”
Casey Mitchelljunior, social work
“Golden Dragon, because I really love Chinese food and they’re the best on Hillsborough.”
Whitney Wardfreshman, animal science
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Giving a seat is not an obligationAntoinette Russell’s column ‘Give
up your bus seats, gentlemen’ was whiny and pathetic. I am absolutely all for chivalry, but this column was blatantly ignorant.
First of all, Russell’s little potshot about “lazy males” was unnecessary and completely eliminated any cred-ibility whatsoever that her column sought. Then she goes on to whine about how tired she is of “standing up every morning on the way to class, trying to hold on to a rail, listen to my iPod, text message and hold my books.”
Hey Russell, I have an idea: use BOTH hands to hold onto the rail, stop sending text messages while on the bus and get a backpack for your books (although I’m wondering how you’re able to text message and carry textbooks while using one hand to hold onto the rail). Or you could just walk.
Following that little gem was this one: “Someone should be carrying my books for me, seeing as there are so many men sitting down to choose from.” Would these be the same men that you just insulted earlier in your whinefest, or do you feel that sexism only applies one way?
Your sense of entitlement is exactly why no one probably offers you a seat or carries your book. I often of-fer to give up my seat if I see a girl standing, and I always open doors for ladies. I wish one of them would have been kind enough to return the favor for me when I stood on the Wolfline, countless times, while I was in crutch-es after tearing my ACL.
Chris Fordsophomore, biomedical engineering
Israel wants a purely Jewish state I was truly appalled when I read a
campus forum letter in Wednesday’s Technician that implies the current situation in Gaza is not comparable to genocide. While there may not be gas chambers like those of the Holocaust atrocities, there are thousands of people dying at the hands of Israeli soldiers every day.
Just today, the President of Bolivia declared that what Israel is doing to the Palestinians can be considered genocide, and he has announced plans to take Israel to the Interna-tional “Criminal” Court to address this its current actions in Gaza.
Many people in the United States are not well-informed about the his-tory of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The current situation in Gaza is not simply a terrorist-inspired attack on Israel.
Since its creation, the state of Israel has continued to suppress the Pales-tinian people. In Gaza that has been through violent military oppression and an endless number of checkpoint systems that make it difficult for Palestinians to travel through their designated territories.
What would you do if you were forced to live in conditions that
included lack of food, water and elec-tricity? The Palestinians in Gaza have endured horrible conditions for too long and it is time that the American public wakes up and realizes that this is no longer an issue of who’s on whose side — this is an issue of humanity.
For nearly 61 years, the state of Israel has continued to quarantine the Palestinian people in order to create a purely Jewish state. This is the reason for current Arab violence — it is a last resort to salvage the humanity they have left. And with the number of Palestinian deaths on the rise, the vio-lence in Gaza needs to end NOW.
Although Israel is a well-known ally of the United States, this does not mean that we should support the sav-ageries that Israel is inflicting upon the Palestinian people. It is time that Americans, particularly university students, open their eyes to what the American government is not stop-ping, but actually actively encourag-ing, as evidenced by its recent ship-ment of three tons of ammunition to Israel for its use against residents of Gaza. We are the most powerful na-tion in the world. How can we let this gradual genocide continue?
Nadia Sadowski senior, international studies
I give up my seat when I want toIn response to the article “Give up
your bus seats, gentlemen” I have to say, are you kidding? I honestly can’t even believe the audacity of the article.
Somebody has to stand on the bus, and it can’t always be men. The first issue is that the whole idea of giving up a seat for a “lady” is a courtesy, not an obligation.
Sometimes I stand up for a lady, sometimes I don’t. It’s my right to do as I wish.
Then the article goes on to say that you can’t hold books, hold the rail, lis-ten to an iPod and text on your phone at the same time. If its a problem, stop texting and just stand there. You don’t need constant communication or entertainment for the 20-minute bus ride.
Also, who holds books? Buy a book bag. If you can afford an iPod, surely you can afford a book bag. Like the article said, you want independence, you got it. Don’t expect guys to treat you like a queen because guess what, you’re not!
Yes, chivalry is almost dead and it’s because of women like you. How-ever, I won’t go so far as to group all women as you did most men as lazy and discourteous. You, however, ap-pear to be the lazy one and I would never stand up for you on the bus. You really expect a random guy on the bus to stand up, hold your books and carry them? Seriously, grow up, drop out or go home.
Bryce Holmes,senior, agricultural business management
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Rover team on track after initial delay
TeamSTELLAR has funding, volunteers to compete to the moon, but still needs more of both. Check next Thursday’s Science&Tech section for another update on the team.
Laney TiptonSenior Staff Writer
One team’s project to send a rover to the moon, which was originally halted due to funding problems, has not stopped Team-STELLAR members from con-tinuing their race into outer space. The team’s members have f in-ished the rover’s design a nd a re working against 13 other teams, some of which have yet to complete an initial design.
TeamSTELLAR started in Oct. 2007 after Google announced its Lunar X-Prize competition. Richard Dell, program manager, co-founded the team with others dedicated to the world of space and technology.
Dell, who works mostly with the Advanced Vehicle Research Center, is on loan for this project. He spent more than 22 years with IBM starting as a Field Engineer.
Gordon Jeans, a senior in engi-neering and another co-founder, has more than 10 years experi-ence in all-terrain tracked and wheeled vehicles in harsh en-vironments as well as normal operations. He is the assistant project manager.
“I guess I am a floater,” Jeans said. “My experience allows me to take part in basically every aspect of the project.”
TeamSTELLAR’s core team consists of eight men, but 130 people make up its volunteer team, 40 of whom are “extremely active,” Dell said.
“These aren’t just your normal volunteers,” Dell said. “They know their stuff. We have vol-unteers who are retired from NASA, and other veterans of the aerospace industry.”
These volunteers have been constantly researching to make the project better and more af-fordable.
“It is actually going to cost a lot less than we thought,” Dell said. “Only about one-third of what we first thought.”
The North Carolina State Uni-versity Engineering Foundation gave TeamSTELLAR the funds it needs to get started, awarding it the $10,000 that was needed to enter the competition among 13 other teams.
But that was not enough.“We have come as far as we can
on bootstraps,” Dell said.The project has been on hold
while team members came up with a business plan to help get the funding they needed. The team formed EarthSpace Com-merce as part of its business plan to help raise money and get the private and public funding it so desperately needs.
“We urge people to donate to EarthSpace Commerce,” Dell said.
But lack of funding has not kept the team from being com-petitive with its well-funded counterparts.
“We recently found out that we are actually ahead of some of the bigger teams in the compe-tition, as far as planning goes,” Dell said.
One team received $200,000 from its sponsor school — an amount that team’s members have already spent. That same team also just finished its busi-ness plan, so TeamSTELLAR is right on pace with the rest of the competition.
“We’re actually not in as bad of shape as we thought,” Dell said.
What happened to Anna Patton last Au-gust might seem like some intricate plot written into medical mystery
shows such as House, M.D. or Grey’s Anatomy.
And if it were such a script, the first scene would show Patton, a senior in psychology, arriving at the Rex hospital with such internal bleeding that her doctor told her she would have died had she waited 30 more minutes to go to the Emergency Room.
But her story started in May, when she had a suc-cessful, routine surgery on her knee.
“It went well, I wasn’t really worried,” Patton said of the surgery.
Because Patton was taking birth control pills at the time of her surgery, she developed a blood clot, known medically as deep vein thrombosis. The use of medications containing estrogen within six months of surgery can contribute to DVT’s de-velopment. Other risk factors for DVT include excessive sitting and bed rest after surgery.
“It was kind of a freak convergence of a lot of factors,” Patton said, taking a break from watching a few episodes of a 17-hour House marathon Tuesday night. In the episode she had been watching, one of the doctors misdiagnosed a patient with an ulcer, causing the medical team to find
the cause of the patient’s illness — which was, true to fast-paced television dramas, making her sicker as each minute without treatment passed.
In this particular episode, the scripted doctors revisited the case in an attempt to pinpoint what went wrong. There was no misdiagnosis in Patton’s case. No one predicted the freak events that led up to her arrival at Rex one August night. What caused her to lose about a third of the total amount of blood in her body, what caused her to need about nine blood and plasma transfusions from people to whom she now says she owes her life — no one predicted those events.
Patton’s doctors put her on blood thinners to prevent clots. She routinely went to check-ups and had her blood drawn so doctors could monitor her blood and make sure it didn’t “get too thinned out.”
“We started school on the Wednesday in August, and that was fine. That Sunday morning I woke up and was having some really bad stomach cramps. I didn’t think of it as a big deal, those happen regularly once a month,” she said. “I was feeling weak and tired, but I went on about my day.”
But when she parked her car at her boyfriend Frank’s apartment complex and was walking to his door, she had to sit down.
“I felt like I was going to pass out. It was really strange,” she said. “I got to Frank’s apartment and he said, ‘Anna, you don’t look well.’”
She wasn’t well. After she passed out in his apartment, he took her to Rex, where her grandfather — former as-sociate dean of education — had built up credit in the
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For those who hoped this whole iPhone craze would pass, it may be time to place your bets on a different soon-to-be dying fad. Because the iPhone sure isn’t going anywhere. In Apple’s first fiscal quarter, the company has already sold more than 4,363,000 iPhones. The first quarter started Oct. 1, 2008 and ended Dec. 31, 2008.
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Barack 2.0 is up and running again
After a nearly three-month hiatus from social networking sites like Twitter, Barack Obama (or his team, for that matter) has finally made an appearance. His Twitter account was updated Jan. 19, and asked his followers to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. day. He had a previous update Jan. 15. The net-savvy could also follow his campaign on Tumblr, a microblogging site that allows users to post pictures, audio, video and text, as well as keep up with others by following their feed. The blog, linked from the president’s Inaugural site. Members of his team allowed followers to submit pictures of screenshots from the Inauguration, text reminiscing about the Obama’s election, and pictures of excited supporters.
7.7 million tune in to inauguration online
Those who weren’t in front of a television during the Inauguration weren’t alone. Before the inauguration, news organizations set up live feeds of the Inauguration, touting that it would be the single most-watched online event. And they were right. Almost eight million people simultaneously watched a live stream of President Barack Obama being sworn in, according to Akamai Technologies Inc. Sites like New York Times, CNN, Fox and Hulu all hosted live streams. CNN’s stream was accompanied with a sidebar with constant Facebook updates.
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Court blocks move to restrict porn
The Supreme Court has stopped consideration of a federal law created to keep sexual material, like videos, from underage Web users.
The justices rejected an appeal from the federal government to reinstate the Child Online Protection Act on Wednesday, but declined to comment on the situation. COPA was passed by Congress in 1998. The high court and other federal courtsargued that the law, which has yet to take effect, violated many laws pertaining to free speech.
The Bush administration strongly supported the law and the Justice Department led the fight in court to put it through the system again.
The justices declared their ruling a day after all nine were on hand for President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
The case tested free speech rights of adults against Congress’s power to control Internet commerce. The Supreme Court argues that it represented government censorship rather than lawful regulation of pornography. The law would have prevented private businesses from creating and distributing pornographic images that minors could access.
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Anatomy of campus’ white green houseSolar Center aims to reduce Americans’ im-
pact on global environment
Eleanor Spicer Staff Writer
A nondescript house nestled off to the side of the McKimmon Center goes unnoticed to Gorman Street passers-by.
Those who do catch a glimpse of the white wooden structure may wonder who lives there or why it is on campus.
This house is not an ordinary residence. Recognizable only by inconspicuous solar panels, the Solar House is part of the world-class Solar Center, a renowned facility that promotes green energy across campus, across the state and across the globe.
Created in 1988, the Solar Center started as a partnership between campus, the North
Carolina government and the solar energy industry in an effort to expand and stabilize the use of solar energy.
“The Solar Center has been here for more than 20 years doing research and promot-ing renewable energy when green was still just a color, not a movement,” Solar Center Economic Development Program Manager Wade Fulghum said.
Since then, the Solar Center has mush-roomed to encompass alternative fuels, bio-mass energy, wind energy, energy efficiency and green building design. “If there’s one thing that gets us in trouble, it’s our name,” joked Fulghum, who asserts solar energy is just a small piece of the Solar Center’s mis-sion.
According to the Solar Center’s Web site, the United States comprises less than 5 per-cent of the world’s population but consumes
24 percent of the world’s energy. The Solar Center’s aim is to help change this statistic.
One way of reducing nonrenewable ener-gy consumption is by harnessing renewable energy like biomass, solar and wind energy.
North Carolina can harvest wind en-ergy in the coastal plains, the coast and the mountains.
The center is involved with co-coordi-nating the North Carolina Wind Working Group, which educates the public about North Carolina’s coastal wind potential.
“You can use wind turbines to do any-thing from indirectly pumping water to heating greenhouses or lighting your fa-cility,” Wind Energy Extension Specialist Brian Miles said.
Anna Patton, a senior in psychology, underwent surgery in August to stop internal bleeding that resulted from a “freak convergence of a lot of factors” after she had surgery on her knee in May. By the time surgeons stopped the bleeding, she had lost almost two liters of blood. Here, she shows off a scar from the August surgery.
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hospital’s blood bank by often donating his blood.
Although doctors told her she had lost a liter of blood due to a ruptured ovarian cyst that could not clot because of the blood thinners she was on, she had to wait to have surgery. Just as her blood wouldn’t clot after the cyst burst, it wouldn’t have clotted if surgeons had made any incisions during surgery.
“I don’t know how much time went by,” she said. “To be able to do the surgery, I had to have my first set of transfusions.”
She had about three plasma transfusions before going into surgery to get her blood pres-sure back up. Plasma is a liquid in which blood cells are suspended.
By the time surgeons made the first incision into her abdomen early Monday morning, she had internally lost two liters of blood that had filled and was putting pressure on her abdomen.
“Over the course of the next few days, I had six transfusions — four of blood and two plasma transfusions,” she said. “It wasn’t until after those blood transfu-sions that I was... not necessarily in the clear for sure, but at least safe.”
Situations that cause people to need blood transfusions, Patton said, are common. Such events might not unfurl like Patton’s did — they could be as quick as a car crash or as unexpected as a cooking accident — but blood banks are always in need of blood donations. Despite the need, and despite the number of blood drives student groups hold on campus each week — three were scheduled for this week — she said people are still hesitant to donate blood because of both a fear of needles and an unwilling-ness to wait in line.
“If you can donate blood, you have to get over that fear,” she said. “You have to think about how you are literally giving someone their life back.”
Since June 2008, the campus chapter of American Red Cross has collected 1,211 pints of blood — a number that has affected or saved 3,633 lives, according to Kirsten Kruhm, who works with ARC to coordinate blood drives on campus.
Rex Hospital also hosts blood drives in the Brickyard. The pints Kruhm mentioned do not include those collected from the Rex blood mobiles, but infor-mation from the campus blood drive Web site states that, since 2002, the amount of blood col-lected from such drives has de-creased by 44 percent.
The average amount of blood collected from the 24 drives ARC has hosted since June hovers at about 50 pints, or almost 25 li-ters.
“We set up drives so that, each blood drive, we have a specific target amount based on what we’ve done historically at that particular site,” Kruhm said. “Talley [Student] Center lends itself to having some of the larg-est goals because of space and size. Bragaw has been one of our larger areas.”
The volume of blood collected at any particular drive, she said, ranged from 171 pints to eight pints. In the same time frame last year, Kruhm said 22 blood drives collected a total of 1,054 pints of blood. At an average of 47.9 pints of blood collected at each drive, Kruhm said each of the drives collected 2.55 fewer pints than this year’s drives.
“That means it’s growing, but there’s still room for im-provement,” Kruhm said. “The demand has gone up overall — people are living longer. Our need is still great, but it’s good to see that we’re still growing and
not declining on campus.”Kruhm said each donor usu-
ally gives about a pint of blood at each visit, meaning that — at most — the amount of people who donated blood mirrors ex-actly the pints ARC collected.
That’s 1/25th of the campus’s population. Although the pro-cess of collecting blood hasn’t changed recently — required tools mainly include rubbing alcohol, a needle and a tourni-quet — Kruhm said the state has implemented new rules that allow donors who meet certain requirements to give more blood.
To donate two pints of blood, men must weigh at least 135 pounds and women must weigh at least 150 pounds.
“That certainly has helped our collections at State,” she said.
Patton said although she con-stantly sees blood drives and notices that students do some-times crowd the drive location in attempts to donate, blood dona-tion is “something that has to be sustained if we’re going to make a difference. Regardless of how frequently we do them, the need is going to come back.”
It is routine for people who have blood transfusions to be ineligible to donate blood for a year afterward. The first day Patton will be eligible to donate blood is Aug. 26, 2009.
“The first day that I’m able to go, I’m going in celebration of the day that, because other people did this for me, I’m alive today,” Patton said, her voice breaking slightly. “I’m going to give back what they gave me.”
Green building and solar ini-tiatives taken by the Solar Center are evident in the Center’s Solar House.
Open to the public since 1981, the Solar House is one of the most visited solar buildings in the United States.
“It’s a great example of how green power can be used in a practical home setting,” gradu-ate student David Bednar said.
Simple aspects of energy-sav-ing design — such as having a south-facing roof for maximiz-ing solar collection and strate-gically planting shade trees for summertime heat reduction — meld with modern green technology like a solar hot wa-ter system and thermal storage walls to become an example of an efficient, cost-effective green way to live.
For example, winter heat for the entire 1,700-square-foot house costs an average of $70 a year.
A poll of Raleigh residents with similar-sized houses reveals win-ter heat costs can soar up to $200 per month.
Having the Solar Center right on campus is a perk for students like Bednar.
“I’m proud of the Solar Cen-ter and the University’s green efforts,” Bednar said.
“It’s amazing that this world-class facility is so accessible to students here.”
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to make use of the situation. They swam in heats against each other, giving the women’s team short breaks.
“What’s neat about having a great atmosphere within a team is that they are used to doing this day in and day out — push-ing each other to get better, racing each other,” Teal said. “They are athletes and they thrive on competition. It’s nice
to get a little more of a meet atmosphere even though there wasn’t another team here.”
Looking ahead, the Wolfpack face a very good Clemson team Saturday and hope it will help them to prepare for the ACC Championships.
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIAN”Two breastroke kicks?” yells Dan Forsythe, a backstroker, to Steven Wright, a breastroker, after Wright beat him by three tenths of a second in an exhibition 50-meter breastroke race Wednesday.
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Support Program for Student Athletes.
“We have a tremendous sup-port system with academic skills with Megan Albidrez. She is phenomenal with our kids as far as making sure they are in good classes, getting them to report every week with how they are doing in their world,” coach Stevenson said. “I [also] have a lot of different rules. If you drop below a 2.5 GPA as a total GPA after your freshman season you don’t compete — you’re done. You can come in and work out if I am feeling good. I [also] have study halls and tutors and penalties for not attending class and things like that.”
Former gymnasts Brooke Outland and Mackenzie Payne may have shaped Shepard’s development. Both graduated with valedictorian honors in 2007 and 2008 respectively, and Shepard was roommates with each athlete during their senior year.
She lived with Outland dur-ing her sophomore year and
with Payne her junior year. Ac-cording to Shepard, the tone set by these two athletes was very conducive to academic excel-lence.
“It was just a good environ-ment to be in,” Shepard said. “They both study just as hard as I did and if I had questions they were always willing to help me. It wasn’t like a party sur-rounding and we were all pretty studious.”
The legacy of academic excel-lence on the gymnastics team does not end with Shepard. She is just one of the four athletes carrying a 4.0 GPA on the gym-nastics roster.
Sophomore Brittney Hardi-man is among those with a per-fect GPA. She said the example of Shepard, Payne and Outland is an inspiration.
“They set a very good exam-ple,” Hardiman said. “I don’t know how they do it all the time, I don’t know how they find the time to do that well in school. But they [prove] that it can be done. It is possible. If you put forth the effort and the time it can be done.”
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other.“Any ACC game is a great
game, and any ACC team is a great team,” Strachan said.
Strachan said the team needs to improve the mental side of its game if it hopes to take home an ACC win in Coral Gables.
“We’ve got to focus on elimi-nating mental lapses that happen sometimes, and we always want to improve in each game,” Stra-chan said.
The team is hard at work to tweak any missteps that have occurred in previous games, be-cause with a team that has been as competitive as the Pack, those are the only differences between a two-possession loss and a vic-tory.
“It’s a matter of looking at mistakes and seeing where we could’ve gotten the extra re-bound or made that extra play,” Strachan said.
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ECU cancels due to inclement weather, the men participate in an inter-squad scrimmage
Sean KlemmStaff Writer
Wednesday night’s meet was only partly successful for the Wolfpack as the women’s swimming & diving team easily defeated Campbell 150-99, but the men’s team was left to compete against itself when East Carolina failed to show due to inclem-ent weather in Greenville.
“It’s unfortunate, because competing is real ly one of the great things about swimming,” junior Andrew Keenan said. “At the same time though, stuff happens — things that are completely out of our control. We can’t control the weather. We can’t control the ice on the roads. So we just had to put that be-hind us and focus on the task
at hand and say, ‘Hey guys, we have to get up and race.’”
East Carolina was set to bring both its men’s and women’s team, and in its team’s abs enc e t he women com-peted against Campbell while the men participated in an inter-squad scrimmage. The women opened up with a con-vincing win in the 200-medley relay and didn’t look back. State claimed first, second and third place in almost every event en route to a 150-99 victory.
“The women really got up and raced well. They had a lot of im-pressive times,” coach Brooks Teal said. “They raced well the whole way through and there were some pretty solid swims on a day when a lot of them were out of the water yesterday.”
Members of the women’s team,
although disappointed at being unable to compete with East Carolina, was happy with the way it performed against Fight-
ing Camels.“ We w e r e
re a l l y look-i ng for wa rd to swimming aga inst ECU because they were going to be a really good match, but they didn’t show up because of the snow,” fresh-man Meghan Thompson said.
“So we just swam Campbell, and it was kind of an expected win, but our team did really great. We all pulled it together, tried really hard and swam well. I thought everyone did great.”
Despite having no opposing team to compete against, the men’s team still found a way
Team looks to pick up first ACC win of the season on the road
Lindsey HallStaff Writer
The women’s basketball team has left the snow-cov-ered Triangle for the sunny skies in Coral Gables, Fla. as the Wolfpack will face Miami at 7 p.m. tonight. It is only the ninth meeting between the two teams and the Pack lead the all-time series 8-0.
State is still in search of its first ACC win, following two heartbreaking overtime losses against Duke and Car-olina—both top-10 teams, as well as a hard fought game against Florida State. The Pack has lost the last three games by a combined 18 points.
6-foot-3 sophomore for-ward Brittany Strachan has been a valuable asset to the Pack on the court this season. She is fourth in scoring on the team, as wel l as second in three point buckets. She expects a great effort f rom t he Hurricanes, but nothing less from the Wolfpack.
“We’re go-ing play hard -- they’re go-ing to be great competitors,” Strachan said. “We’re going to play our game and leave it all out on the court, trying to come out on top.”
The Hurricanes are also
winless in conference. Miami enters tonight’s game 10-8 over-all and 0-4 in league play. Both the Pack and the Canes currently rank near the bottom of the ACC in scoring-óthe Wolfpack are last
with 61.6 points per game while Miami is 10th with 66.1 points per game.
T h e H u r -ricanes, with a n a v e r a g e rebounding margin of -2.2, are just one of three teams in the ACC that has been out-rebounded by
its opponents this season. But according to Strachan, statistics and records don’t matter when two league opponents face each
Jonathan B. LaughrunStaff Writer
The rigors of school can be a major challenge by itself. Now imagine adding the stress and time consumption of being a Di-vision I varsity athlete in a ma-jor conference. Senior gymnast Ashley Shepard has done excep-tionally well at managing both of these for all four years she has been at N.C. State.
Shepard has maintained a 4.0 GPA in microbiology and is in line to be the third straight gymnast to graduate with vale-dictorian honors and move on to the graduate school of their choice. She has been accepted to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston where she will study physical therapy.
“It was definitely a weight off my shoulders,” Shepard said. “I’ve had a 4.0, but I still didn’t believe that I was doing what I needed to do to get into grad school. Just getting into grad school was a big relief.”
Shepard walked onto the team her freshman year af-ter arriving from Northwestern High School in Rock Hill, S.C. As a freshman, she competed on the floor for every meet and posted her career high, a 9.900, in the event against Michigan State. In her sophomore season, she com-peted on floor in all 13 meets and was named All-EAGL first team for floor. Shepard earned a schol-arship after this standout season.
She followed up the reception of the scholarship competing on floor in 13 of the 14 meets and earned her third straight EAGL all-academic team. Though the floor is Shepard’s bread and but-ter event, she has also competed on the Vault. Her high score came her sophomore season with a 9.825 against Florida.
Shepard said organization as a major key to balancing her performance on the mat and in the classroom. She also uses her teachers and the athletic academic support for help, especially when the team is on the road for meets.
“I just try to stay really organized. I have a calendar that I write ev-erything dow n on, and when I get done with practice, I do my homework first and whatever time is left is for me,” Shepard said. “We are traveling this sea-son, so I miss a lot of class. I have people that I will get notes from as soon as I get back, I ask the teach-ers a lot more questions, I make sure I am getting my work done and we have tutors that are avail-able to us like all other athletes.”
Coach Mark Stevenson relies on several tools to keep his team in line academically. He uses the university supplied resources for athletes as well as a more specific set of rules for his gymnasts. Ac-cording to Stevenson, his team re-lies on the aid of Megan Albidrez, assistant director of the Academic
Women cruise past Campbell
Wolfpack set to weather the Hurricanes
LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANJunior Maresa Like-Mathews swims the 200 meter butter!y. Like-Mathews won "rst during the meet against Campbell Wednesday. Her "nal time was 2:06.33, putting her almost 2 seconds in front of NCSU freshman Jessica McBroom. Like-Mathews was awarded nine points for the race, helping N.C. State beat the Fighting Camels 150-99.
“The women really got up
and raced well. They had a lot of impressive times.”
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The ultimate routine: Balancing the books and the mats
SWIMMING AND DIVING
GYMNASTICS
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
WOLFFACTS
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“They [prove] that it can
be done. It is possible. If you put forth the effort and the
time quote it can be done.”
Brittney Hardiman
Former Wolfpack safety to compete in Super Bowl
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS, NFL.COM
Freshman Barr named EAGL Rookie of the Week
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SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL @ MIAMICoral Gables, Fla., 7 p.m.
MEN’S TENNIS VS. LOUISVILLEIsenhour Tennis Center, 1:30 p.m.
GYMNASTICS @ MARYLANDCollege Park, Md., 7 p.m.
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD @ UNC CLASSICChapel Hill, N.C., all day
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING @ CLEMSONClemson, S.C., 11 a.m.
WRESTLING VS. MARYLANDReynolds Coliseum, noon
WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. OLD DOMINIONIsenhour Tennis Center, 1 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL @ BOSTON COLLEGEChestnut Hill, Mass., 2 p.m.
WRESTLING VS. NAVYReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
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PHOTO COURTESY N.C. STATE MEDIA RELATIONSSenior Ashley Shepard maintains a 4.0 and competes as a gymnast.
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“Any ACC game is a great game, and any ACC
team is a great team.”
MIAMI IN THE ACCScoring Offense
66.1 Avg/G
10
Scoring Defense
58.4 Avg/G
6
Scoring Margin
+7.7 points
9
3-Point FG PCT
.271 11
Offensive Rebounds
39.5 Avg/G
8
Defensive Rebounds
41.7 Avg/G
10
Assists 15.7 Avg/G
3
Turnover Margin
+6.39 2
Assist/Turnover Ratio
1.0 1
SOURCE: ACC
THE TRIO OF VALEDICTORIANSNAME GRAD DATE GRAD SCHOOL GRAD PROGRAM
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
ASHLEY SHEPARD’S ACHIEVEMENTSCollegiate awards:
Kay Yow Award; 2008All-EAGL !rst-team for "oor; 2007All-EAGL second-team for "oor; 2006EAGL All-Academic team; 2006,2007,2008CoSIDA AllDistrict, second-team; 2008ACC Honor Roll; 2006,2007,2008
Career bests:
Vault: 9.825 @ Florida, 2007Floor: 9.9 vs. Michigan State, 2006
Source: N.C .State Athletics