students, faculty arrested at 'moral mondays
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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina
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Joseph HaveyDeputy News Editor
About 200 people gathered at the N.C. State Bell Tower on May 1 to march through downtown Raleigh in protest of various conservative policies, including the Governor’s proposed $139 million in cuts to the UNC System.
Organized by the N.C. Student Power Union, most protesters at the May Day protest were N.C. State students and professors. Stu-dents from other universities across North Carolina also joined, but all had the same mission--make their voices heard.
“This [turnout] is great,” N.C. State alumnus Andrew Payne said. “It’s how students effect change, by turning out and showing up.”
In 2001, Payne, a former N.C. State student body president, orga-nized a similar protest in which ap-
proximately 5,000 people marched against a proposed $125 million in cuts to the UNC System. Payne trav-eled from New York City, where he currently attends Columbia Univer-sity, to attend the May Day protest in Raleigh.
“Sometimes the only way to effect change is to show up on [our poli-ticians’] doorstep and bang on the door,” Payne said.
Molly McDonough, a freshman studying women’s and gender stud-ies, said she was frustrated with the governor, who she said thinks her major is “useless.” She also disagrees with a proposed combination of the African American studies depart-ment with the women’s and gender studies department at N.C. State.
“I think it’s a reflection of the fact that our administration sees every-one who’s not a straight, white male as the same,” McDonough said. “But they’re not.”
On April 29, McDonough was ar-rested along with 17 other people in protest of voter ID bills in front of the N.C. General Assembly along with the NAACP. Back again two days later, McDonough said that given the weather, she was very happy with Wednesday’s turnout.
“I like that we’ve got students from all over the state,” McDonough said. “That’s what I’m most happy about.”
One such student was Dhruv Pa-tak, a freshman at UNC-Greens-boro, majoring in African Ameri-can studies. Patak also spoke to the group at the Bell Tower. He said the protest represented students fight-ing for their rights.
“We are the ones who make up the universities,” Patak said. “But we are the ones who have no say.”
The audience cheered.
Jake MoserNews Editor
Protesters left a collection of baby pine trees in front of Chancellor Randy Woodson’s house May 6 in objection to the planned sale of N.C. State’s larg-est forest.
However, the protest could be a futile attempt to stop Univer-sity executives from turning a valuable asset into a quick pay-check.
The 80,000-acre Hofmann Forest, owned by the N.C. State Natural Resources Foundation, generates $2 million annually from logging companies and donates the total profit to the N.C. State College of Natural Resources.
Hofmann, which also serves as an outdoor forestry lab, is a testament to sustainability—for every acre that is cut down an-other acre must be planted.
Mary Watzin, dean of the Col-lege of Natural Resources along with the NRF want to sell Hof-mann Forest and invest returns in a stock portfolio, despite dis-approval from faculty, students and foresters.
The buyer or the price hasn’t been identified, but Watzin and others expect over $100 million.
Ron Sutherland, an N.C. State graduate and conservation sci-entist for Wildlands Network, led the protesters with the help of four others.
Joe Roise, professor of forestry and environmental resources at N.C. State, participated in the protest as well. He said the event was about sustainability in gen-eral, not just the Hofmann sale.
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Students, faculty arrested at ‘Moral Mondays’
Will E. BrooksFeatures Editor
One-hundred-fifty-eight non-vio-lent protesters have been arrested in the past month—each for proteset-ing the great number of conservative legislation introduced in the North Carolina General assembly recently.
Moral Monday is a weekly pro-test of right-wing legislation. The demonstrations are spearheaded by the North Carolina chapter of the NAAC.
Protests began the week leading up to the first Moral Monday on May 6, and the number in atten-dance—and arrested—is increas-ing.
Bryan Perlmutter, a recent gradu-ate in business administration at N.C. State was arrested on April 29 for protesting in the General As-sembly. Since then, he has contin-ued to protest, carefully, on Moral Mondays.
“I think we were using a constitu-tional right to go down and talk to legislatures,” Perlmutter said.
Perlmutter was charged with a
building code violation, second degree trespassing and failure to disperse. He refused to comment on whether he expected to get arrested, but said the protesters all knew there was a chance they would get arrested in protest at the general assembly.
“We were prepared to get arrested if the legislature did not come down and listen to folks, but we were in our constitutional right to be down there,” Perlmutter said.
Perlmutter said he thinks the new policies put forth by state legislators are “regressive,” “extreme” and to some extent, “racist.”
“What we’re trying to do is get legislators to listen to people and to realize that the their policies re-ally only benefit a few people at the expense of the majority,” Perlmut-ter said.
A legal team that thinks the arrest of non-violent protest violates their
first amendment rights will repre-sent the protesters and most of those arrested had unsecured bonds that allowed them to make bail.
So far, the NAACP has led Moral Mondays, according to Perlmutter, but several smaller groups across the state included the NC Student Power Union are in coalition with
PHOTO COURTESY OF VIDYA SANKARMoral Monday protestors rallying in downtown Raleigh walk toward the legislative building, led by Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP.
GRAPHIC BY EMILY PRINS
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May Day protestors demand representation
Crime wave hits campus
Protestors
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Tim GorskiDeputy News Editor
Within the past three months, numerous occasions of robbery and sexual assault have spiked on N.C. State’s campus.
Campus police have utilized additional provisions to respond to the crime increase and inves-tigate the crimes that are still unsolved.
From April 25 to May 5 there were four reported instances of crimes—robbery, sexual assault and an assault on a female.
Marlon Miller, the suspect in the sexual assault case that oc-curred near the Free Expression Tunnel that occurred on April 25, turned himself in to Wake County officials to face charges of communicating threats, sexual assault and kidnapping this past Sunday.
During the incident, it is al-leged that Miller approached a female student on the North side of the Free Expression Tunnel at 4 a.m., pushed the female into the bushes, and sexually assaulted her. Miller allegedly threatened to kill the victim if she screamed.
Miller, 21, lives in Garner less than ten miles away from the lo-cation of the incident.
According to Lieutenant Frank Brinkley of the criminal investi-gation division of the N.C. State Police Department, campus po-lice took extra measures to inves-tigate and help solve the unsolved crimes following that attack.
During that time they in-creased patrol frequency and the number of private security officers in order to get more eyes
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANOrganizers protest in downtown Raleigh before marching to the North Carolina General Assembly on May 1. The NC Student Power Union led the protestors who were speaking out against Gov. Pat McCrory’s proposed budget, which recommends $139 million in cuts to the UNC System among other measures.
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and ears on the ground to stop crime, Brinkley said.
Police distributed pictures of the alleged sexual offend-er, Miller, and administered checkpoints to gather infor-mation about who may have committed this crime. Lo-cals subsequently identified Miller to investigators as the person at the Free Expression Tunnel the night when the as-sault took place.
“We are grateful that the community responded the way that they did,” said Brinkley when discussing the civilian involvement in the investigation.
Of the other three crimes reported, police are continu-ing to investigate leads al-though the majority of people who may have information regarding those crimes have
left campus for the summer. Despite this fact, investiga-
tors are still “making signifi-cant progress,” according to Brinkley.
One of the crimes was later found to be in the jurisdiction of city police officials, who said the incident did not occur on campus.
Despite the recent crime surge, crime on campus has been on the decline this past semester according to the police department. When comparing Spring 2012 to Spring 2013 instances of lar-ceny, motor vehicle theft and burglaries, have decreased by 27 percent, 28 percent and 27 percent respectively.
Instances of larceny, the most prevalent crime on campus, decreased from 180 to 131 from Spring 2012 to Spring 2013.
N.C. State is not the only university afflicted by a sex-ual assault case.
Lieutenant David Kelly of
the campus police depart-ment visited Elizabeth City University this Tuesday to help the department recu-perate from a recent scandal that caused the chancellor and approximately half of the campus police department to resign, according to sergeant William Davis of the NCSU campus police.
According to local news sources in the area, Sam Butler, a residence security officer who worked for Eliz-abeth City University has been taken into custody for allegedly using his position of power to sexually assault student Katherine Lowe.
This altercation prompted an investigation by the Eliza-beth City Police who discov-ered over one hundred and twenty crimes, including eighteen sexual assaults, that took place since 2007 but were never investigated by campus police.
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the protest movement. “I think people who are
from all different issues have come together to see how their struggles are intercon-nected,” Perlmutter said.
Barbara Zelter, a clinical assistant professor in the department of social work at N.C. State was also arrested April 29. Zelter said she was arrested once before in a dif-ferent protest but does not agree with the legality of the arrests.
Those arrested April 29 will go to court on June 24. On that day lawyers will chal-lenge the legitimacy of laws
that allowed police to arrest the 158 non-violent protesters within the past month.
Zelter and Perlmutter both said the policies not only harm the majority of North Carolinians, but that they are racially charged.
“The voting laws they are proposing are racist laws,” Perlmutter said. “They are specifically targeting people of color that tend to vote against the people who are in office.”
Perlmutter said the major-ity of North Carolinians who vote on Sunday are African American, and legislators attempted to pass a bill ban-ning votes on that day. Zelter said these voting laws and a legislative attempt to repeal the Racial Justice Act “dis-
proportionately affect people of color”
Perlmutter said he thinks a similar sentiment went into gerrymandering North Caro-lina districts.
“It’s just the totality of things that are unrolling 40 years of progress,” Zelter said.
Zelter said most republican legislators in the General As-sembly are part of the Amer-ican Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that promotes “fundamental principles of free-market en-terprise, limited government, and federalism at the state level through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators.”
“This is part of a national extremist agenda and now leaders of our state are push-
ing that agenda,” Zelter said. Zelter said getting arrested
in protest is more of a conse-quence than a goal.
Barbara Parramore, a re-tired professor of education at N.C. State from 1969 to 1996 was arrested on Mon-day, along with 57 others.
Parramore, 80, said her de-cision to protest came after seeing one of her students get arrested in one of the Moral Monday protests. She disagrees with a lot of recent legislation, but most fervently disagrees with education re-forms.
“I was there because I want-ed my presence to indicate to the members of the legisla-ture that I wanted to object to the nature of the laws affect-ing public education in North
Carolina,” Parramore said. Parramore said she felt
strongly enough about bills expanding charter schools to protest, with the risk of arrest. A proposed second board of education for char-ter schools would make for a less-inclusive school system, according to Parramore.
She also said legislation to appoint the state superin-tendant, rather than vote, is unnecessary and takes voting power away from citizens.
Parramore said she had no problem with the arrest process, and has respect for the policemen. However, she said the grounds for arrest are questionable—Parramore said she stood in protest in-side the rotunda but did not speak a word.
“It’s the right of the people to assemble in a peaceful way to express concern about an issue that affects the whole state,” Parramore said.
Next Monday is a bye week for those on Moral Monday, but Perlmutter said the first Monday of June is expected to be the largest Monday so far, with an expected 500 people in attendance.
Perlmutter said beyond anything, he just wants his and others’ voices to be heard.
“We went down to the leg-islature to raise our voices, to demand they listen to us,” Perlmutter said. “Instead of listening to us they decided to arrest us.”
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Patak said he wanted to see more N.C. State students at the march.
“They’re missing out on a lot,” Patak said. “This is their education that’s being cut.”
After the speeches, the march began. The group car-ried cardboard signs, drums, megaphones and a few Guy Fawkes masks and migrated down Raleigh sidewalks, chanting against Art Pope, voter ID laws, tuition hikes and immigration policies.
Chants included “Hey, hey, ho, ho. Budget cuts have got to go,” and “Pope says cut-back. We say fight back.”
Hundreds of onlookers stood on sidewalks, some cheering, and others just star-ing. Occasionally, a car drove by and honked, prompting cheers from the crowd.
After approximately 45 minutes of marching and chanting, the protesters—along with police who es-corted them through Raleigh — arrived at the Civitas In-stitute, a think tank that re-nowned as “North Carolina’s conservative voice.”
The institute is owned by Art Pope, and regularly pub-lishes statements opposing big government and liberal ideology.
Students chanted in front of the building, before Bryan Perlmutter, a senior in busi-ness administration and member of the N.C. Student Power Union, rallied the group together.
“We will continue to raise these issues and continue to raise Art Pope until he gets out of education,” Perlmutter, who was also arrested Mon-
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“We wanted to address con-servation and ethics,” Roise said.
“Our college used to be about conservation and sustainability, and by sell-ing something that’s truly a conservation effort, and we’re stepping away from that.”
Roise said the University selling Hofmann isn’t a new idea, and has been discussed for decades. However, there was never enough support in the past.
According to Roise, a major reason for N.C. State main-taining control of the forest is because foresters formerly
controlled the NRF. Foresters in general want to
keep the forest for as long as possible and generate money at a consistent rate while sus-taining the land for future use, Roise said.
“The whole profession of forestry was founded on and still revolves around sustain-ability,” Roise said. “Conser-vation is not about preserv-ing everything for the sake of preservation, it is to use the resources wisely.”
In 2008, the NRF was merged and the foresters lost control of Hofmann Forest.
“The [NRF] board is now a group of industrial-type-people and non-foresters,” Roise said. “Their perspective isn’t conservation, it’s about money.”
Selling Hofmann Forest will support the University in the short run, Roise said, but the sale’s profit will even-tually run out, as opposed to guaranteed income in the
future.However, Roise said Hof-
mann’s value cannot just be measured monetarily.
The forest is used for edu-cation and research and has been a major conservation ef-fort for more than 70 years, according to Roise, and the University abandoned that idea “for the highest cash flow.”
“There’s conflict between people that want to have short term cash versus people who want a long term sus-tainable system and to treat to land with respect,” Roise said. “We’re all about the fu-ture. We love the college and we want to protect it for as long as possible.”
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PHOTO COURTESY OF RON SUTHERLANDProtestors left dozens of pine trees in front of the Chancellor’s house May 6.
day with McDonough, shouted into his mega-phone.
A f t e r P e r l m u t -ter’s speech, the group marched to Moore Square.
Several men in suits and ties stared disapprovingly at the shouting students as they made their way through the banking sec-tion of downtown.
In addition to the strong student presence, several professors came out to voice their opposition to the proposed conserva-tive legislation. Among
them was David Zonderman, the chairman-elect for N.C. State’s faculty senate.
Zonderman said he was happy with the turnout and reiterated that it was very im-portant for students to speak up.
Dick Reavis, an associate English professor at N.C. State, had only one comment about the protest.
“It’s about time.”
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Viewpoint
I hope this finds you well.The Hofmann Forest, located
in Jones and Onslow counties, has served the Department of Forestry, the College of Forest Resources, and now the College of Natural Resources, since Doc Hofmann procured the property for the University in the 1930s. The Hofmann Forest has served as a teaching, demonstration and research forest for students and returns a significant income to the University. The N.C. State Natural Resources Foundation Board of Directors
oversees the operation of the Forest, and last month it decided to sell the forest.
I write to praise the work of the outstanding members of the faculty that opposed the sale and did so in a professional manner. Specifically, Fred Cubbage, Joseph Roise and Robert Abt all of whom put together an economic justification for keeping the Hofmann Forest and did their best to present their case to the board of directors of the foundation (other people also participated; however, these people deserve the praise). I praise their efforts and their professional spirit to try to protect one of the last-remaining, large tracts of Forest on the Eastern Sea Board.
To the students in the Forestry curriculum, I urge you to get to know these professionals and ask them about their experience in building the case to keep the Hofmann Forest. If you choose the Natural Resources profession, these professionals’ insight and experience may help you to make a case to save a working forest from sale at some point in your future.
Gentlemen, thank you for your efforts!
Best regards,
Joe CoxCollege Forest Manager
Though many people greet Mondays with resentment and an
overall lack of enthusiasm, not everyone shares this sen-timent.
In response to the nearly 2,000 bills the state Repub-lican supermajority has proposed since the end of January, the North Carolina chapter of the National Asso-ciation for the Advancement of Colored People and its co-alition partners have called for acts of civil disobedience every Monday in the N.C. State Legislature. Since the first Moral Monday on April 29, 153 people have gotten arrested for entering and refusing to leave the legisla-tive building or “the people’s house.” 17 people, including two N.C. State students, one N.C. State professor and NC NAACP head Rev. William Barber were arrested on the first demonstration. The next two followed with 30 and 49 arrests respectively, which
included one N.C. State pro-fessor on May 13.
The most recent demon-stration this Monday brought in 57 people willing to get ar-rested. More than 500 people gathered outside the legis-lature for this protest, and hundreds also entered the legislature, standing in the rotunda outside the senate chamber in solidarity with those getting arrested. Each time, many N.C. State stu-dents and faculty, apart from the arrestees, have shown up. The NAACP expects that the next Moral Monday, on June 3 after Memorial Day, will be a “super-Moral Monday.”
Among the new policies that are being considered or have already been imple-mented by the N.C. govern-ment are: Voter suppression hurting minorities, low-income voters and students; cutbacks on environmental
regulation; reductions in Medicaid and women’s ability to access reproductive health-care; cuts to public education; elimination of public financ-ing for judicial elections; and finally, a topsy-turvy tax plan that would slash personal and corporate income tax, while increasing sales tax and tax-ing vital consumption.
Technician believes that things are going in the wrong direction with the govern-ment, but in the right direc-tion with how people are responding to it. A report by Public Policy Polling showed that only 10 percent of North Carolinians are in support of the Senate’s tax plan, which would ensure that lower in-come people would have to pay a larger share of what they earn for basic necessities than already-financially-secure higher income people. Still, it’s the people not getting
arrested in the legislature who have the final word, and right now, the state of affairs in North Carolina is tilted against ordinary people more than in any conservative state in the country.
The News & Observer, af-ter the third string of arrests, wrote: “The people getting arrested in waves at the Gen-eral Assembly are carrying a message from many thou-sands of North Carolinians. They represent not only those who need government ser-vices, but those who believe the legislature is breaking the traditions and reversing the gains of a great and enlight-ened state.”
We as well salute those who have been engaging in peace-ful civil disobedience against the state government, and encourage more N.C. State people to participate in the rising tide of demonstrations.
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Because of the pollution that fracking causes, many landowners in Pennsylva-nia, where some of the larg-est natural gas reserves in the world are, have experienced illness, sick livestock, and yes, flammable water. These cases have been attributed to the contamination of aquifers by fracking operations. Yet,
fracking is exempt from the Clean Water Act.
But it should be acknowl-edged that to some, fracking is seen as a golden opportu-nity. Pennsylvania, West Vir-ginia, and other states with fracking have seen an influx of money and jobs. And in the past decade, the price of natural gas has dropped significantly because of the operational efficiency of hy-draulic fracturing. But some of the largest drivers in the pro-fracking push are politi-cal. Representatives who are seeking re-election can prom-ise employment to their con-stituents by allowing fracking companies to access reserves, and natural gas is upheld as the key to an energy-secure future for America.
I should point out that in North Carolina, the debate has been settled: It’s prob-ably going to happen. Back in 2012, both the Senate and the House approved the “Clean Energy and Economic Secu-rity Act,” which would legal-ize fracking in our state. The bill flopped for a brief mo-ment when Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the legislation, but her maneuver was overridden the very next day by legislators. Since then, natural gas com-panies have made moves to buy up land, and some prop-erty owners have cashed in. Even so, many North Caro-linians aren’t yet ready to accept fracking into their backyards. You could count David Schlobohm as one of these people.
Mr. Schlobohm, a U.S. Depar tment of Energ y qualified specialist, gave a talk on campus recently on the ramifications of fracking in our state. He brought up a study that was conducted by the Department of En-ergy and Natural Resources (D.E.N.R.), evaluating the feasibility and safety of frac-turing operations in North Carolina.
The typical fracking well is ten thousand feet under-ground, and water is located at around 600 feet below ground. But here, water is one thousand feet underground, and the study concluded that companies would likely be drilling at just four thousand feet. This means that the hundreds of chemicals used in fracking f luids are that much closer to entering the water cycle. And while most states do not require full dis-closure of these ingredients, they often include mercury, lead, formaldehyde, benzyl chloride and other known carcinogens. Mr. Schlobohm strongly warned that the risk of contamination is high, as less than half of injected fracking fluids are actually recoverable.
Sadly, words can only go so far to stop fracking, and there aren’t enough groups like Earth First! unwaver-ingly committed to fighting fracking. Water’s supposed to beat fire, but in North Caro-lina, like in other states, we seem to be defying nature.
In one ear — out the other.Staff cartoon
The dangerous merger of politics and glitz
A President’s job is to do political things, in case people are starting to forget. But if a remind-er needs to go anywhere,
it ’s t he White House itself, re-garding perhaps the most (self-)glamor-
ized president of all time. After the 2008 elections,
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas had prescient words about President-elect Obama. “There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all this … He’s clearly managing his own spec-tacle,” he said. Since then, Obama has maintained an image of coolness and virtue, or been given one by America’s institutions. Of course, he isn’t the only president who has gone out of his way to paint a favorable picture for him-self. But no president has cultivated a personality cult like Obama.
Schoolchildren have sung praises to Obama to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. MSNBC has hosted an entire debate on whether Obama’s face should be etched on Mt. Rushmore. The New York Times has “ leaked” material be-fore elections to prop up Obama’s image as a strong, swashbuckling leader. The First Lady, who can’t be detached from Obamania, exemplified the blending of politics with glitter when she presented the Academy Award for Best
Picture this year. Most recently, nine-year
“Kid President” Robby No-vak, who became famous in the lead-up to the 2012 elections with his viral vid-eos, was finally adopted by the White House for April Fool’s Day, appearing be-hind the podium for “A Special Message From the President” when people ex-pected Obama. He also co-announced, with Obama, the White House’s Easter Egg Roll, and was a special guest at the event. With that, the White House had success-fully co-opted a pop cultural icon that could be associated with goodness and fun tran-scending partisan politics.
“Sexy” and “hip” aren’t words that we should be bothered about associat-ing with political figures, but that’s the spectacle The Obama Phenomenon at-tempts to create, and that’s how our societal tendency of mixing everything with en-tertainment is manifesting itself in the political realm. We’re accepting personas being manufactured for po-litical figures that judge them based on their integration into the cultural cool and their association with glam-or — not how it should be. The effort on the part of the USA to believe in Obama as a Great Leader-cum-Mr. Cool is evocative of personality cults created in dictatorships.
Such glitterization of poli-tics is unhealthy for democ-racy. Enmeshing political fig-ures with entertainment and glamor — especially a politi-cal figure whose actions af-fect billions of people, who is responsible for making direct decisions about the lives and
deaths of civilians — renders politics frivolous. It fosters a setting in which the biggest things the country takes from the presidential debates are binders full of women and Big Bird. It turns anything the President does into a hol-low spectacle, meant only to either contribute to or detract from his personality cult.
It also settles notions about political leaders that lead us to electing student body pres-idents who run on a platform of bringing more parties and concerts to campus. While, of course, we shouldn’t be alright with having perpetu-ally lame-duck SBP’s who are little more than red-suited mascots for the administra-tion, grinning and making wolf-gestures in front of the Bell Tower and making stu-dents feel represented.
Politics, whether here or in Washington, is becoming little more than a show. Ev-erything isn’t in our hands, but some things are. Such as the power to turn off the tube when it becomes little more than an unconscious ad ho-minem propaganda vehicle for (or against) presidential awesomeness. And the power to take a stand against people immediately around us who don’t take a strong stance for student interests when it is their job to do so.
Politicians are not celebri-ties — be they in the White House or on our campus — and if we care about the ways in which, and whether at all, they act with regard to our lives, we shouldn’t regard them as celebrities.
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Young LeeCorrespondent
From a number of the top beers brought forth for judg-ing at the 2012 North Caro-lina’s Brewer’s Cup, three brews originated at N.C. State. These beers were cre-ated by researchers in the brewery cradled within the lower level of Schaub Hall.
John Sheppard, a profes-sor of food, bioprocess-ing and nutrition sciences, spearheaded the creation of the N.C. State brewery to re-search the brewing process in 2006. Since then, Sheppard has seen it grow in scale and recognition. The brewery produced 50 to 60 barrels—more than 1,550 gallons—of beer last year as part Shep-pard and three graduate stu-dents’ research.
During that time Shep-pard and his team shared their brews at more than two dozen University func-tions, including events hosted by the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Engineering and the Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences Department.
“The craft brewing in-dustry in North Carolina is a grow-ing part o f t h e food
and beverage industry,” Shep-pard said. “What we’re trying to do is provide a facility and expertise that helps to facili-tate high-quality products in North Carolina. By spreading the science behind brewing to the people that are involved in the local craft brewing in-dustry we’re hoping to really make North Carolina a craft-brewing center in the U.S.”
For Blake Layfield, a Ph.D candidate in food, biopro-cessing and nutrition sciences studying under Sheppard, this means many hours spent trying to better manage the brewing process and sharing his knowledge of beer.
“In my research, I’m look-ing at yeast aging, and we’re also looking to reduce this variability in fermentation,” Layfield said. “It’s about maintaining a yeast manage-ment strategy and making a better brew.”
However, in the process of researching ways to make better brews, Layfield and his peers amassed a full catalog of brews. With much of their research being active year-round, the N.C. State brewery has also taken some charac-teristics of a commercial brewery including an offering of beers that changes based on the season and the move-ments of the beer market.
Since the team started brewing on a more regular basis two years ago, different parts of the University have been able to offer funds to get a chance to taste some of the brewing researchers’ results. Although the brewery doesn’t
sell its products to the public, the money generated from the distribution of its beers to different
parts of campus has helped to grow the means for brewing stu-dents to learn how to manu-facture beer.
This spring the brewery offered four beers on tap, an India Pale
Ale that won first place in its category in the 2012 N.C. Brewer’s Cup, an amber ale, a pilsner and a kolsch. How-ever, every researcher has their favorite.
“I think [the pilsner is] most sophisticated beer we make,” Sheppard said. “It takes the longest to make and it has a very complex taste but it’s also nice and refreshing so it’s not a heavy beer — but it’s not Bud Light. And because of that, you can have maybe more than one glass.”
In addition to research goals and furtherance of fermentation science, the research team at the brewery conducted outreach that in-cluded lab analysis work for a handful of Triangle-based cra f t brewer ies —Nat t y Greene’s and Raleigh Brew-ing Company among them.
Sheppard and his stu-dents also traveled around the world to talk about their research at the World Brew-ing Congress, the American Society of Brewing Chemists and the European Brewing Convention.
“It’s been great,” Layfield
said. “We’ve gotten some awards in the form of schol-arships for our research and we’ve also gotten some great accolades for quality in terms of the taste perspective of our beer.”
The N.C. State brewery is not open to any undergradu-ate courses, but Sheppard and his team have conducted a few tours for campus groups.
“Right now it’s only for my graduate research program so there are no actual courses in brewing science,” Sheppard said. “We are considering the possibility of offering some short courses, but that’s in the works.”
“Brewing is a neat science for many reasons but also because it has many “feet” in different areas of food sci-
ence,” Layfield said. “ The entire brewing process is a fun vehicle for teaching food science in general ... You’re learning a little about every-thing without even thinking about it and that’s really the best way to learn.”
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Who better to breathe life back into electronic music than two robots from outer space? At least, that’s what Daft Punk seems to believe. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Chris-to—collectively Daft Punk—are heralded as robotic icons in the musical world who have transcended norms for the last two decades.
From the duo’s pumping French-house of the early 90s with Homework to an animated film that followed the duo’s quest to be Human After All, the group has al-ways shoved expectations aside and made art that stirs up the cultural pot. The ro-bots continue this theme in a manner that no one expected on Random Access Memo-ries, the duos latest release.
Random Access Memo-ries has been one of the most heavily hyped albums in recent memory, and un-til Kanye pulled his “New Slaves” debacle—an uncen-sored Saturday Night Live
performance—last week, it was the most creatively hyped as well. Gone were the countless tracks leaking day-by-day; instead the group turned to an older form of promotion with television spots and 60 second clips that left crowds salivating and begging for more. Random Access Memories chronicles Daft Punk’s self-described goal to “ bring life back to music,” as it reignites the disco f lame that originally kicked off the Electronic Dance Music craze so long ago.
The musical landscape to-day isn’t that different from 1997, really, as EDM has snowballed into an uncon-tainable entity that bleeds into Top-40s and indepen-dent music alike. Daft Punk recognizes its place within this genre and instead of embracing its role as the ro-botic overlord of this glitchy, computer-based genre, the
group instead seeks to bring the groove back to dance mu-sic through a new-aged Don-na Summers tinged blend of blissful disco, house and soft-prog. Enlisting equally iconic musicians such as Nile Rodgers, Pharrell Williams, Panda Bear and electronica’s godfather Giorgio Moroder, Daft Punk explores massive electronic soundscapes via analog instrumentation.
Random Access Memories is aptly titled too—the lyri-
cism evokes hazy memories filled with the vague nostalgia of instant crushes and places long forgotten, ranging from the vocoded soft-rock ballad, “Within,” to tight-grooving, “Fragments of Time” that reminisces on days of youth played back through a faded lens.
But just because Daft Punk gets all sad and introspec-tive doesn’t mean it can’t get equally funky. The lead-sin-gle, “Get Lucky” is one of the
most bombastic dance tracks in recent memory. Infectious disco-inspired guitar riffs serve as the foundation for Pharrell’s falsetto croon that glides along with finesse and precision, but slowly bleeds into the vocoded robotic vo-cals we’ve come to know and love from Daft Punk.
Tracks like “Lose Yourself To Dance” are equally tanta-lizing and lean towards the slower, groove based rhythms of the disco realm. Pharrell beckons listeners to wipe your sweat off with shirts and lose yourself to dance, which isn’t hard to do with these deliciously funky songs.
While Daft Punk shined a light upon the genre that made EDM possible, it went above and beyond what many could have expected from a nu-disco album. Plenty of musicians combine house music with the 80s dance craze, but few do it with the amount of innovation of Daft Punk.
Rather than sample the musicians who’ve inspired them, Daft Punk opted to bring them to the studio
and f lesh out their eclectic tastes to suit their robo-disco needs. All of the collabora-tions feel f luid— “Instant Crush” feels like a perfectly synthetic Strokes song with Casblancas’ vocoded vocals that stand tall alongside the electronic duo, while Panda Bear brings a more organic approach to the sleek dance track, “Doin’ It Right.”
But it all comes back to their album-opening mantra of “letting the music of your life bring life back to music.” Has Daft Punk revolution-ized the EDM genre once again? Probably not. How-ever, Random Access Memo-ries does serve some grander purpose—it provides the world with yet another self-contained piece of dance mu-sic mastery from two of the finest in the genre.
Daft Punk have returned with an invigorating piece of music that is far-reaching enough to feel like a bold leap forward for the band while maintaining enough of their pulsing electro-jams to not feel completely foreign to fans of their older style.
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Garrett Boulware, which brought in the tying run. It was the only at-bat Boulware did not reach safely on for the evening, going 3-for-4 with a home run.
“Easley came in with very electric stuff to-night,” Avent said. “He was really good.”
“He (Easley) bounces back pretty quick,” Avent added. “We would not be able to pitch him tomor-row but I would be very shocked if he was not available on Friday.”
“We have a very loaded bullpen, so we do not have to force that issue.”
The Pack appeared buoyed by the Tigers in-ability to produce with runners in scoring posi-tion and in the bottom of the seventh inning took over the game.
The inning started with a sharply hit single from senior leftfielder Bryan Adametz. Gossett then plunked Armstrong with a pitch and Ratledge failed at a sacrifice attempt. Gos-sett however, uncorked a wild pitch and both remaining runners ad-
vanced. After sophomore shortstop
Trea Turner walked to load the bases, sophomore right-fielder Jake Fincher singled to leftfield driving in Arm-strong. The throw to the in-field was muffed and Ratledge also crossed home plate, giv-ing the Pack a lead it would not relinquish. Brett Austin then doubled to centerfield, driving in two runs to put the contest out of reach.
“I thought we played really good tonight,” Avent said. “For us, Brad Stone kept them at bay, but we also played re-ally good defense.”
With the win, N.C. State is better placed to advance from pool play into the knockout phase of a tournament that featured upsets on opening day. The Pack was the only higher-seeded team to win on Wednesday.
The Pack will return to action in ACC Tournament pool play on Friday at 11 a.m. against the eighth-seeded Mi-ami Hurricanes in Durham.
BASEBALLcontinued from page 8
Luke NadkarniStaff Writer
As a student at N.C. State, you’ve likely heard of Mike Glennon, C.J. Leslie, Trea Turner and other athletes who have recently made their mark on the Wolfpack ath-letic program. Go back a few years and you’ll encounter names such as Julius Hodge and Philip Rivers.
But until now, you may not have heard of Albin Choi.
Choi, a junior studying sport management, is mak-ing a name for himself as one of the best golfers to ever set foot in Raleigh. The Toronto, Ontario, native has won eight tournaments since he started his career at State, including four this season, and he is currently ranked eighth in the nation among amateur golfers. This year alone, he has failed to finish in the top six in just one of his 10 events.
He was named the 2013 ACC Golfer of the Year and named one of 10 semifinalists for the prestigious Ben Hogan Award, which honors the na-tion’s top collegiate golfer.
Choi’s honors have not been limited to his collegiate career. In 2012, he finished with the top amateur score at the PGA Tour’s RBC Ca-nadian Open, advanced to the final 16 at the U.S. Ama-teur Championships and was
named the top amateur golfer in his native Canada.
Choi first picked up a golf club at age 4 and, like many young golfers who grew up in this era, idolized Tiger Woods as a youngster. He said he tries to watch professional tournaments “whenever I can” in between his own tournaments and practice rounds at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course.
So how did he end up at N.C. State? Choi said it wasn’t a very hard decision.
“I didn’t really get recruited by a lot of schools,” Choi said. “But I really liked the area, nice weather. I just really loved the atmosphere here, and I really wanted to go to a big school.”
One of the perks of being on the golf team is travel-
ing around the country and playing various courses with all their quirks. Choi’s fa-vorite course is Old North State Club in London, N.C., where the ACC Champion-ships were held the weekend of April 26.
Choi’s career with the Wolfpack began in 2010, and in his first semester of competition he won two titles within a week of each other, first at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate and then at the Rod Myers Invitational. He ended up being voted ACC Freshman of the Year for that season. The next year, he won two more events and earned All-ACC honors for a second consecutive season.
From the looks of things, that streak will likely be ex-tended to three years.
When his time at State is over, Choi has no intention of slowing down. Like many college golfers, he has dreams of making it big profession-ally, something he has had his sights on for a long time.
“I really love the game,” Choi said. “I’ve always want-ed to take my golf to a profes-sional level. [College] is kind of like a stepping stone.”
It is not uncommon for a professional golfer to have a successful college career. Tiger Woods played two seasons at Stanford before turning professional.
Choi and the rest of the team’s season ended after finishing ninth in the NCAA Tallahassee Regional. He finished tied for 54th, 7-over par, at regionals.
Choi goes pro after prestigious career
SOURCE: AGROMECKJunior Albin Choi was named 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Golfer of the Year and finished as a semifinalist for the Ben Hogan Award, hnoring the nation’s top collegiate golfer.
Rob McLambStaff Writer
The N.C. State softball team was eliminated by the Tennessee Volunteers 7-0 at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium in Knoxville, whilce participating in its first NCAA Tournament since 2007.
State entered the tournament riding high. The Pack came to Knoxville with a 12-game win-ning streak and having won 19 of its last 21 contests, including its second ACC Championship in school history the previ-ous weekend in Tallahassee. The Pack extended that streak on Friday with a hard-fought 2-0 victory over the James Madison Dukes, the first-ever win for the Pack in a first-round regional game. The difference came in the bottom of the sixth inning when senior left fielder Bethaney Wells bashed a two-run homer over the right-field wall that actually hit the James Madison team bus.
“She left one out in my sweet spot, and I did with it what I am supposed to do,” Wells said. “It was what we needed at the time.”
With the win over the Dukes, N.C. State advanced to the win-ners’ bracket for a highly antici-pated matchup against Tennessee. The Pack was eager to battle the Volunteers, having lost twice ear-lier in the season to Tennessee in the South Florida Tournament in Tampa.
I n S at u rd ay ’s c onte s t , t he a nt ic ipat ion showed. Tennessee has appeared in two of the past three Col-lege World Series, but N.C.
State matched the Volunteers pitch-for-pitch for the afternoon in a highlyentertaining affair. With two competitive pitchers at the top of their game, the contest was scoreless until the bottom of the 11th inning, when freshman desig-nated player Rainey Gaffin laced a game-winning triple to center field, scoring sophomore infielder Cheyanne Tarango for the only r u n o f t h e g a m e . N.C. State sophomore pitcher Em-ily Weiman, the ACC Pitcher of the Year and ACC Tournament MVP, went 10.2 innings in the contest, the lone run on eight hits with six strike-outs, two walks and two hit batters. Wei ma n t h re w 162 pi tch-e s o n t h e e v e n i n g . Unfortunately for the Pack, Tennessee senior pitcher Iv y Renfroe was sl ight ly bet ter. Renfroe went the entire 11 in-nings for the Vols, giving up only four hits while striking out 13 and issuing four walks in her extra-inning shutout win. “I’ve been in fastpitch softball since I was 15 years old and played in some big games on the nation-al and international level,” head coach Shawn Rychcik said. “That’s one of the best softball games I’ve ever been involved with.” With the loss, the Pack faced a Saturday rematch against James Madison, which defeated Long-wood 5-0 af ter the nail-biter between State and Tennessee. The game was tied at four when it was postponed until Sunday due to heavy rain. After it re-sumed, N.C. State scored two runs in the final three innings to advance to the regional champi-
onship game with a 6-4 victory. Weiman ultimately pitched 28.1 in-nings and threw 423 pitches.
The heavy workload took its toll and Tennessee scored seven runs off Weiman in 3.2 innings to advance.
With the loss , N.C. State f inished the season 35-20-1. Senior outfielder Caitlin Dent, who drove in the winning run in the ACC Championship game against Florida State, along with outfielder Bethaney Wells and infielder Katie Mansilla finished their careers at
N.C. State as contributors to the best team in the program’s 10-year history. “I am so happy for all three of them,” Rychcik said. “I told them afterward that they put a great mark on their time in the program by winning an ACC Championship and going to a regional championship game. They have helped set the standard for where the program goes from here.”
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Rodon, Senay and Turner make All-ACC teamN.C. State sophomore pitcher Carlos Rodon, senior outfielder Tarran Senay and sophomore shortstop Trea Turner earned mentions on the 2013 All-ACC Baseball team Monday by the Atlantic Coast Conference.
For the second year in a row the Wolfpack has multiple first teamers and three or more total mentions. In 2012, N.C. State sent three players to the first team and one to the second.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Kissell’s season ends in first round matchN.C. State junior Joelle Kissell saw her season come to an end after suffering a first-round defeat in the 2013 NCAA Women’s Tennis Singles Championships on Wednesday.
Kissell, the 53rd-ranked player in the nation, finished the 2012-13 season with an 18-13 overall record. The 2013 All-ACC selection became just the second player in program history to earn a bid to the singles championship in consecutive years.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Kingston named to Academic All-District TeamSwimmer Brandon Kingston was named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-District At-Large Team. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Kingston carried a 3.8 GPA his final year and graduated from N.C. State this past Saturday with a degree in biological science.
Kingston garnered All-America honors at the 2013 NCAA Championships as a member of the 800 freestyle relay team. He swam the fourth-best time in school history in the 500 freestyle, seventh-best in the 200 freestyle, eighth-best in the 1650 freestyle and ninth-best in the 100 freestyle as well. He is also a member of the school-record 800 freestyle.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANStarting freshman pitcher Brad Stone pitches to the Clemson Tigers at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C., during the first round of the ACC Tournament Wednesday, May 22 2013.
CAIDE WOOTEN/TECHNICIANSenior outfielder Caitlin Dent reacts after hitting into a double play during the second game of a double-header against UNC Charlotte April 3, 2013. The Wolfpack defeated the 49’s 2-0 in game one and 10-3 in game two taking them to 17-16-1 on the season.
Rob McLambStaff Writer
N.C. State defeated the Clem-son Tigers, 6-3, on Wednes-day evening in the Wolfpack’s opening game of the 2013 ACC Tournament at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
The winning pitcher for the Pack was freshman Brad Stone (3-2). The lefthander, who did not make it out of the first in-ning in the final game of N.C. State’s crucial series in Raleigh against Florida State, pitched five innings in his first postseason appearance. Stone yielded two runs, one earned, on six hits while fanning three batters and walking one.
Senior reliever Josh Easley pitched four solid innings of two-hit ball, al-lowing only one late run, to earn his second save of the campaign.
The losing pitch-er for Clemson was freshman starter Daniel Gossett (9-4). The righthand-er was outstanding for six innings but faded in the sev-enth to take the loss.
Clemson opened the scoring in the top of the second inning. Junior third baseman Shane Kennedy reached base on a fielder’s choice. Kennedy promptly stole sec-ond base on a failed pickoff attempt
and then stole third base later dur-ing the same at-bat. Kennedy then scored on a passed ball.
The Wolfpack responded imme-diately.
In the bottom of the second, sen ior t h i rd baseman Grant Clyde smashed a Gossett of-fering over the “Blue Monster” in leftfield to tie the score at one. It was Clyde’s fourth homer
of the season. In the next frame, N.C. State took
its first lead of the game. Designated hitter Jake Arm-
strong rapped a single to leftfield. The sophomore then advanced to second base on a sacrifice from sophomore second baseman Logan Ratledge. After a walk and a strike-out, sophomore catcher Brett Austin hit a sharp grounder and Clemson second baseman Steve Wilkerson booted the ball, allowing Armstrong to score the Pack’s second run of the evening.
Clemson leveled the game a sec-ond time in the top of the sixth, but was left to rue a lost opportunity.
After Stone loaded the bases with no outs, N.C. State manager Elliott Avent summoned Easley. The na-tive of Weatherford, Texas induced a double play from Clemson catcher
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Vols eliminate Pack in KnoxvilleATHLETIC SCHEDULE
TodayTRACK AND FIELD NCAA EAST REGIONALGreensboro, All day
NCAA DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIPSUrbana, Ill., TBA
FridayBASEBALL VS. MIAMI @ ACC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIPDurham, 11 a.m.
TRACK AND FIELD NCAA EAST REGIONALGreensboro, All day
SaturdayBASEBALL VS. UNC CHAPEL HILL @ ACC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIPDurham, 7 p.m.
TRACK AND FIELD NCAA EAST REGIONALGreensboro, All day
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posed to do.”Senior left fielder Bethany Wells