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University proposes closing as one possible response to budget problems

Jake GoldbasCorrespondent

The University has identified closing the Natural Resources Library as a possible bud-get reduction strategy, according to Karen Ciccone, the library’s director.

This is a problem for students in the Col-lege of Natural Resources, many of whom use the library regularly. Graham Ford, a junior in forestry, uses the NRL on a daily to weekly basis.

“I think that the library is a great resource for CNR students,” Ford said. “Shutting it down would be a bad idea, because it’s a good place to go do some work, using the school resources. There has got to be other ways to cut costs.”

As a center for specific reserves, the NRL is a resource for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. The single subject library prevents the books from be-ing housed in D.H. Hill where they would be spread out over the course of several floors. Three full-time employees, Ciccone, Pam Crooke, Kevin Atkinson, help users of the NRL find books and articles.

Ciccone, aside from overseeing the two full-time employees and student workers, selects the books and journals that are in the library and works with professors and graduate students to help them find specific information in the books.

Atkinson said that the NRL was placed under review in January by the Personnel Department and the Finance and Business

Departments, which are responsible for budgetary oversight of the NRL.

“Our jobs have not been guaranteed,” Crooke said.

Atkinson, who won the Pride of the Pack award in 2005, said the NRL should not be closed simply because of its size.

“The NRL is the smallest seated library, but the tasks that are performed are just as needed; and we handle the same kind of quantity as the other branches. I’ve bonded with the professors who come here over the

years, and it’s getting harder and harder to think about closing for good,” he said.

Ciccone said the NRL is primarily impor-tant because of its ability to help CNR and Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences majors with the books that it has and the workers that help with access to these ma-terials, but it is open to helping all students.

The reason that it is so convenient for major-specific materials is because it is in

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Big Event bigger than last yearTy JohnsonNews Editor

The ACTION Committee hosted the 12th annual Big Event in the historic Reynolds Coliseum. The event, which featured a big screen viewing of the men’s basketball game vs. UNC-Chapel Hill, with giveaways, raff les and a halftime shooting contest, garnered much student support and may have even topped last year’s attendance totals, according to Jay Dawkins, student body president and the event’s master of ceremonies.

While event plan-ners were unsure about exact atten-d a nce nu mbers , Chris Austin, the assistant director of Health Promotion, said the turnout was slightly better than last year, but noted that students also came in much earlier than in years past.

“People didn’t trickle in,” Austin said. “They came early and were in their seats by tip-off.”

Austin felt the turnout and excitement for the event was likely due to the men’s basketball team’s recent success.

“[Winning] the last few games brought in more people, I think,” Austin said.

But Taylor Muir, a sophomore in me-chanical engineering, said the event’s varied publicity likely led to the high attendance.

“I got an invite on Facebook and saw fly-ers, and heard people talking about it and asking if I was going,” Muir said. “[Word] got around pretty well.”

Muir, who attended last year’s away game against the Tar Heels, said the event was a good uniter of the student body as it “helped bring everyone together,” which is exactly what Austin’s vision for the event has been since its beginning.

“We just provide an alternative to a sports bar,” Austin said. “A majority of undergrads are underage, so we provide an exciting way to view the game.”

And that’s precisely why so many students came out, according to Katelyn Burgee, a

freshman in biology.“It’s such a big

game,” Burgee said. “I wanted to watch it with a bunch of spir-ited people.”

The crowd, esti-mated to be over 2 ,0 0 0, cer t a i n ly showed spirit as fans cheered and yelled at the 16x20 foot screen throughout the broadcast of the game, even booing a commercial intended

to persuade college hopefuls to consider at-tending Carolina.

The game-like experience is what brought Kathryn Kay, a sophomore in microbiol-ogy, back to the Big Event this year for the second time.

“Just to see the game on a big TV with cheerleaders and the band, it’s awesome.” Kay said.

Despite the turnout, ACTION commit-tee student representative Matt Garcia said he’d like to see even more students filling Reynolds.

ANNUAL EVENT INTENDS TO PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE FOR UNDERAGE STUDENTS

PEGGY BOONE/TECHNICIANWorking on a group lab report for their natural resources measurements class, juniors in natural resourses Liz Montgomery, Lee Anna Young and John Atkinson use the Natural Re-sources Library in Jordan Hall. “I’d rather come here than D.H. Hill because all the books and resources we need are in one spot, and it would take forever to !nd them over there,” Mont-gomery said. “We have a lot of group projects, and this library has more space for group work than the main library,” Young said.

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WolfProwl begins tonightNew bus system will take students to and from downtown Raleigh late at night on weekends

Grayson ParksCorrespondent

The Transportation Depart-ment will be introducing the Wolfprowl today, a new bus shut-tling between campus and down-town Thursdays, Fridays and Sat-urdays, from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. The new Wolf-prowl bus will a l so con nec t with the Ra-leigh circulator, giving students new widespread access to the Raleigh down-town nightlife, according to the Wolfline’s Web site.

There are three Wolfprowl bus stops downtown along the circulator route, with all the other stops on campus. Both the Wolfprowl and the circula-

tor bus provide free transporta-tion to students, allowing them to reach downtown safely and for free all a student has to do is show his or her student ID, the Web site states.

The new bus was intended to cater mainly to students seeking out bars and other hotspots in downtown Raleigh, according to Brian O’Sullivan, the assistant director for planning and tran-sit operations for the University.

“[Students h ave a s k e d for] a safe, car f ree opt ion on weekend nights to ac-cess the grow-ing entertain-ment offerings downtown,” O’Sullivan said.

Most s t u-dents living on campus are below the drinking age. but the bus is largely meant to cater to people who want to have a night on the town. Still, some restaurant

“Students have asked for a safe,

car free option on weekend nights.”

Brian O’Sullivan, assistant director for planning and

transit operations

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DAVID MABE/TECHNICIANWatching the UNC-Chapel Hill game, Eric Berte, a senior in history, Cayle Machek, a sopho-more in First Year College, and Adam Rodgers, a freshman in First Year College, react to the game at the Big Event in Reynolds Coliseum. Rodges said the game was going “not so good right now. It was looking good, but we’re down by nine now.”BIG EVENT continued page 3

“A majority of undergrads are

underage, so we provide an

exciting way to view the game.”

Chris Austin, assistant director of Health Promotion

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Working for their physics lab, Marco Hsu and Bennett Casey, freshmen in mechanical engineering, measure the current through a wire by the deflection of a compass in Fox Labs Wednesday. “It’s a good representation of what we learned in lecture,” Casey said. Alex Woods [not pictured], a sophomore in nuclear engineering, said the lab was the best one

he has had in PY 208 because it was interactive.

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CAMPUS CALENDARFebruary 2009

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TodayTHOMAS SAYRE: NEW WORKGregg Museum of Art and Design, noon to 8 p.m.

NORM SCHULMAN: A LIFE IN CLAYGregg Museum of Art and Design, noon to 8 p.m.

PRESENTATION SKILLS FOR CORPORATE CULTURETextiles Convocation Room, noon to 1:30 p.m.

MOVIE: ROLE MODELSWitherspoon Student Cinema, 7 to 8:40 p.m.

EXPRESSIONS JAZZ EVENTTalley Student Center Ballroom, 8 to 10 p.m.

MOVIE: QUANTUM OF SOLACEWitherspoon Student Cinema, 9 to 10:45 p.m.

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

In Tuesday’s page-one feature photo of a kayaking clinic, the cap-tion should have stated Outdoor Adventures, a division of Campus Recreation, held the clinic.

In Wednesday’s page-one story “Recovery package will benefit students,” the amount of money coming to North Carolina was incorrectly stated. The amount should have been $6,089,387,000.

In Wednesday’s page-four editorial “Allow travel paid for out of pocket,” Gov. Bev Perdue’s last name was spelled incorrectly on second reference.

Technician regrets these errors.

In Wednesday’s page-four viewpoint page, the cartoon was not connected to the editorial about the travel ban and unauthorized travel. The cartoon was referencing Chancellor James Oblinger’s salary and how much it is, despite budget cuts.

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

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POLICE BLOTTERFeb. 1512:26 A.M. | VEHICLE STOPMain Campus DriveStudent was issued citation for driv-ing in construction zone and having no registration.

12:57 P.M. | ACTIVITY REPORTReynolds ColiseumOfficers and FP monitored Hoops for Hope.

2:43 P.M. | FIRE ALARMOwen HallUnits responded to alarm. Cause unknown.

4:08 P.M. | CHECK PERSONFraternity CourtNon-student was located in construc-tion site. Subject complied to leavethe area.

8:54 P.M. | DRUG VIOLATIONAvent Ferry ComplexReport of possible drug violation. Of-ficer did not locate any problems.

Feb. 169:32 A.M. | MEDICAL ASSISTNelson HallUnits responded to student in need of medical assistance.

9:36 A.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIORHolladay HallStaff member expressed concern re-garding email. Investigation ongoing.

12:43 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIORCentennial Middle SchoolStaff member expressed concern regarding nonstudent. Subject was arrested by Wake County Sheriff for trespassing. Subject was trespassed from all NCSU property. Investigation ongoing.

IN THE KNOW Polar Plunge charity event coming up

The fourth annual “Polar Plunge” is scheduled for Feb. 28. The event will feature a 5k run and walk followed by a dip in the freezing waters of

Lake Raleigh on Centennial Campus. The run begins at 9 a.m. The event is intended to raise money for Special Olympics athletes in North Carolina.

Registration to run is a $25 minimum donation to the cause, and $50 is required to take the plunge. A festival at Lake Raleigh Park with music, chili, a bake sale and raffles will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE POLAR PLUNGE

Annual address to take place in early March

The annual State of N.C. State address by Chancellor James Oblinger has been slated for March 10. The event will be in Stewart Theatre at 11 a.m.

Oblinger will cover the Univer-sity’s progress towards achieving economic health, both in North Carolina and in the University it-self, and discuss the accomplish-ments the University has made over the past year. Oblinger will also speak on what the future holds for the University.

This will be Oblinger’s fourth State of N.C. State address since he was hired in April of 2005.

SOURCE: NCSU

WORLD & NATIONShip aground near Antartica

A cruise liner has run aground at Marguerite Bay in Antarctica. The bay lies 600 miles south of Argen-tina. The owners of the ship are hoping a high tide will dislodge the vessel. The ship, the M/V Ocean Nova, has 106 passengers on board. Crew from a Spanish na-val ship are expected to check the hull of the Nova for any significant problems. No injuries have been reported so far.

SOURCE: CNN

Remains continue to be discovered near Albuquerque

Authorities say bones of a to-tal of six bodies have now been found in a

New Mexico excavation site, located west of Albuquerque, in the past two weeks. Authorities

have been digging in a home con-struction site since a woman’s dog found a single human bone while walking two weeks ago.

Authorities have used dental records to identify one of the bod-ies as Victoria Chavez, a prostitute. None of the other remains have yet been identified. Authorities have no leads to suggest whether foul play was involved.

SOURCE: CNN

Jury awards drunk man $2.3 million

A Manhattan jury awarded $2.33 million to Dustin Dibble after he lost his leg in a drunken stupor. Dibble had just finished a long night of drinking and watching hockey with his friends when he went down to get on the subway. Dibble stumbled onto the tracks where a train severed his right leg. Dibble’s lawyer said New York City Transit was at fault despite his client’s blood-alcohol content of .18 because he claimed the train had time to stop. The jury ruled Dibble was 35 percent responsible for the accident, and awarded him $2,336,713 instead of the requested $3,594,943.

SOURCE: CNN

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Still, Austin said attendance dwarfed a recent year’s event when scheduling restrictions forced the Big Event to show the Wolfpack’s away game against Wake Forest instead of Duke or Carolina.

“[Planning] has been harder since we lost the home and away with Duke,” Austin said, refer-ring to the ACC’s realignment and rescheduling back in 2005.

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CHASS Dean search coming to a closeExecutive Search Services have narrowed the field to four applicants

Jessica HallStaff Writer

With the candidates narrowed down to four, the search for a new Dean of the College of Hu-manities and Social Sciences is almost complete.

CHASS has been in search of a new dean to fill the gap left by former dean, Toby Parcel since last September. Since Parcel left in May, Jeff Braden, a psychology professor, has served in the posi-tion as an interim dean.

Executive Search Services is re-sponsible for filling high-priority positions. The service contacts, interviews, and covers all gen-eral logistics of the search, Jessica Padgett, a search assistant, said.

“We recruit for [the Universi-ty.] We’ll go and reach out to the [candidates] and say, ‘We have this position here,’” Padgett said.

“We tell them a little bit about it, we’ll send them a job prospectus, and then we’ll see if they are in-terested ... we create everything from scratch.”

The process has been long, with over a thousand e-mails sent to possible candidates. Aside from typical problems, finding available rooms on campus to headquarter the search was one of the biggest challenges Padgett faced.

“There are not too many places near CHASS that can hold this many people and if there are then they are not available,” Padgett said.

These rooms are needed for interview forums between the candidates and faculty as well as between the candidates and students.

At the forum this past Tuesday, Braden, one of the four finalists for the job, was questioned by his peers and students regard-ing various aspects of his role as interim dean, his opinions

on classroom issues, his current goals in light of the economic crises and his future aspirations.

“I hope to keep as many people employed and as many students in classes, and frankly, try and get us through some pre t t y stormy seas,” Braden sa id. “I don’t think there are go-ing to be deci-sions made on the way things were. I think decisions will be made on the way we want them to be, and to me that is go-ing to be really exciting.”

Hard work and organization are required in order to keep the search running smoothly and to be able to provide what Padgett calls “the red carpet treatment.”

“We chauffeur around every-

one, we make all the arrange-ments for flights and hotels and dinner reservations — anything that you can possibly think of that goes on in search we do it

to truly show them the cul-ture of N.C. State and to let them know what we have,” she said.

The four can-d idates t hat remain include Braden, Todd Diacon, v ice provost at the University of Tennessee, Steven Lynn, senior associ-

ate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina, and John Ste-venson, an associate vice chan-cellor and an associate dean at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

“There are not too many places near CHASS that

can hold this many people.”

Jessica Padgett, search assistant in the CHASS dean

search

owners say they are looking forward to the opportunity.

John Hackett, the general manager of Solas, a popular bar, restaurant and lounge off of Glenwood Street, said his restaurant would enjoy the influx of a younger crowd.

O’Sullivan said this isn’t the final version of the Wolf-prowl, either.

“It’s a pilot program and we’ll evaluate Wolfprowl’s fu-ture based on its performance this spring,” O’Sullivan said.

Student Government will be leading a kickoff event for

the Wolfprowl outside of Talley Student Center tonight at 8:30 p.m.

Jordan Hall, the Meteorology building. Likewise, all three CNR buildings are next to Jordan Hall. This location also makes the library a shorter dis-tance than D.H. Hi l l Library for students in t he Avent Ferry Com-plex, Col-lege Inn and Wood Hall.

According to Ciccone, each year the library cir-culates over 5,000 library i t e m s , a s well as hun-dreds of in-terlibrary loan books request-ed by faculty and students to be delivered to the NRL for pickup. It also provides access to over 250 items on reserve for CNR and MEAS courses and was used over 40,000

times last year, or roughly 900 visits per typical week, Ciccone said. If the Natural Resources Li-brary closes, students and faculty will need to go to the D.H. Hill Library to access these materials.

On the technical side of the operation, the NRL provides access to electronic devices for

loan, such as Globa l Posi-tioning System (GPS) receivers, laptop comput-ers, and graph-ing calculators. Through the library’s Trip-saver service, students can re-quest other de-vices from D.H. Hill Library be delivered to the NRL.

The library has three copy machines and

seven computer workstations, in addition to lending laptops.

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WOLFPROWL FACTSOperating hours

Thursday through Saturday

Continuous loop, bus due to

No holiday serviceLast bus going from downtown to campus leaves the stop near

Stopseight stops on campusthree stops downtowntwo stops that connect with Capital Area Transit’s R Line Circulator

THE CANDIDATESTODD DIACONCurrent Information

Operations University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Recent Experience

Tenure, University of Tennessee, 2004-currentNCAA Faculty Athletics Representative, University of Tennessee, 2004-currentHead of History Department, University of Tennessee, 2001-06

Education

at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.A. in Latin American History at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.A. in History at Southwestern College

JOHN STEVENSONCurrent Information

-Associate Vice Chancellor of

School

-University of Colorado, BoulderRecent Experience

-Director of Farrand Academic

Boulder, 2004-05

Writing and Rhetoric, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2001-02-Chair of Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996-04-Director of the Colorado Humanities Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1995-97

Education

University of Virginia-B.A. in History at Duke University

JEFFERY BRADENCurrent Information

-CHASS Interim DeanRecent Experience

-Associate Dean of Research and

08

-Director of Department of

Education

University of California, Berkeley

-MAT in Elementary Education at Beloit College

STEVEN LYNNCurrent Information

Senior Associate Dean of College of Arts and SciencesChair of the Department of Religious StudiesUniversity of South Carolina

Recent ExperienceChair of English Department, University of South Carolina, 2002-07

Carolina, 1994-currentDirector of First Year English

Carolina, 1998-2001Education

of TexasM.A. in English at the University of South CarolinaB.A. in English at University of South Carolina

“Shutting it down would be a bad

idea, because it’s a good place to

go do some work, using the school

resources.”Graham Ford, junior in

forestry

Janet Smith, a freshman in microbi-ology, spins a wheel to win prizes from Nextel before the Big Event in Reynolds Coliseum Feb. 18.

“I want to see us beat UNC,” Smith said. She said she came to support the Wolfpack and because she is on the dance team.

BIG EVENTcontinued from page 1

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS:THE BIG EVENT

BEAKERS ARE BACKFour students in Beaker masks were front row for the Big Event. The students, who appeared at

Chapel Hill as well, shared small talk with Mr. Wuf, who couldn’t !t his head into the mask and instead fashioned it into a hand puppet.

REFEREE BY COMMITTEENearly every time Tar Heel center Tyler Hansbrough touched the ball, the crowd began motion-ing for the referee to call for a traveling violation on the senior. Hansbrough was whistled once for walking, and had no other turnovers in the game.

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TECHNICIAN

The College of Humani-ties and Social Sciences has been without a dean

since April 2008, when Toby Parcel stepped down. Now, the search is on for someone to fill the office.

CHASS is the third-largest college on campus after engi-neering and agricultural and life sciences, and all students, regardless of major, need to take classes in humanities to graduate.

This office is as important to the University’s operation as that of any engineering or general administrator, and he or she should be chosen care-fully. However, the person who is given the job needs to keep a specific list of priorities and

remain open to students for suggestions.

The first order of business for the new dean is the budget. With the state-mandated seven percent budget reduction, the University is cutting costs ev-erywhere. However, the CHASS dean must fight reductions in available classes and sections in the college.

Upperclassmen also need to be given priority if classes must be cut. There is no reason why students should have to stay an extra semester simply because they could not take the one course they needed to graduate. Such measures will improve the

four year graduation rate, a sta-tistic for which the University has drawn some criticism.

If the budget cuts make it absolutely necessary to cut classes or programs, the new CHASS dean must look to cut programs that benefit the few-est people. Yet the new dean must also take care with any cuts. Unlike other departments that need to purchase equip-ment for classes, CHASS uses a good portion of its budget to pay faculty.

Still, the economic downturn will not last forever, and the new dean must also address fu-ture concerns regarding gradu-

ate and undergraduate courses. Neither graduate nor under-graduate students should be given priority instead, CHASS needs to expand these pro-grams with equal vigor, and the new dean should stay commit-ted to expanding educational opportunities for students of all ages and degrees.

These challenges are not for the faint of heart, and the new CHASS dean should be selected with the expectation that he will stay around and work on making these goals into reality. Given the turnover rate, having a dean who stays around for more than a few years would help make changes consistent.

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:The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has started its search for a new dean.

OUR OPINION:Whoever takes the job has a lot to deal with, like budget cuts and planning for future expansion.

THE SOLUTION:The new dean needs to stick around to deal with all these issues without compromising due to present budget issues.

New CHASS dean must !ght for students!OUR VIEW"

In 2007, the last options on the list of modes of transporta-tion were mopeds.

Yet when gas prices reached nearly five dollars per gallon, it strangled my primary options for

the friendly, yet not-so en-vironmentally friendly, gas guzzling car, truck or SUV. And gas pric-es are slowly creeping to two dol lars per gallon.

Availability of parking spaces on campus is very low. The Wolfline is an alternative form of transportation but it is also frequently filled to capacity and often inconvenient.

Though cheap, buses are slow. Commuters not only have to wait for the bus to pick up and drop off people; they also have to wait for the Wolfline on its schedule. The annual cost of a parking permit costs ra nges f rom about $100 to $300, depend-ing on where you park. Some students have a hard time park-ing on campus even w it h a parking permit. By itself, insur-ance can cost about $100 per month.

I did some research I own a car, but I figure “what’s the use?” After being sketched out by hun-dreds of scooters on Craig’s list, I opted to go to Scooterz Inc. on Hillsborough and I purchased a moped.

A brand new moped was $2500. I brought a higher-end moped with a 50cc size engine, which allows it to go up to 50 miles per hour.

With the engine governor in-stalled, my moped goes 30 miles per hour, requires no license, no

tags and no liability or insur-ance. I can park at any bike rack, tree or light post for free. I can ride with another passenger if I so choose.

Yes, it’s true cars and SUVs can carry loads of people and serve other purposes, but there are other things to consider.

According to Johnny Edwards, general manager of Scooterz Inc., the average scooter is about 200 pounds and is 200 to 300 times more fuel efficient. Because mo-peds run on less gas and more efficiency, their environmental footprint is minimal. I have never had enough money to pur-chase a ‘smart car’ but I’d say I am coming close with a moped.

My scooter will go 40 miles with one half of a gallon of gas in its tank.

“[America] is finally realizing what Europe realized years ago,” Edwards said. “Scooters are a vi-able means of transportation...You don’t need a four to six thou-

sand pound car to get one per-son five miles down the road.”

Even when gas was nearly five dollars per gal-lon I was spend-ing two dollars and 50 cents at the pump to fill up my half gal-lon tank. I still have my scooter and I am pretty ps yched be-cause two dol-

lars and 50 cents worth of gas will last for an entire week.

A lot of people talk about ‘the dangers of a motor bike,’ but if you ask me, there are dangers to being broke. After all, I have had a few close encounters with neg-ligent drivers, but who hasn’t?

I would pick a loaded bank ac-count and a moped over a dry bank account and a car or SUV any day.

For nine years, I was a member of the Girl Scouts of America, and

while being involved in the organization I learned a lot

of things. I can start a fire using two sticks, b u i l d a survival shelter and tel l t ime by the sun. But aside

from being a good person to be lost in the woods with, I also learned some lessons which have proved to be as in-tangible as they are valuable. One of these is my respect for our country, and the flag that represents it.

On the week of Jan. 18, North Carolina lost two in-domitable spirits. One was former Governor Bob Scott, who was a conscientious pub-lic servant and a former presi-dent of the state’s community college system. The second, which hit much closer to home, was the death of our

own Kay Yow on that Saturday. Due to the death of Bob Scott, the current governor, Beverly Perdue gave the directive for all North Carolina state flags to be flown at half-staff.

Walking past the Bell Tower at the beginning of the follow-ing week, I noticed that all of the flags that fly there were at half-staff. While I found it a bit odd that the American flag had been lowered, it was not until later that I read the press release which confirmed my suspension that the flag was improperly lowered.

Now I’m sure that some of you are thinking, “Who cares? It’s just a flag.” But the truth lies in the fact that we have a flag code, and it doesn’t sit well with me to have it arbitrarily ignored.

Jill Lucas, director of Public Information for the Department of Administration, said, “The Governor does have the author-ity to lower the U.S. flag, but in the case of the call to honor Gov. Scott she did not.” She went on to say that people sometimes misin-terpret lowering the state flags on state facilities to mean all flags, and that disrespect is generally

not intended. That being said, before

someone writes me an an-gry letter, I am not accusing the University or the ROTC program, which oversees the flag raising and lowering, of intentionally disrespecting our flag. But I am accusing the party responsible of a se-vere oversight, and I feel that protocol should have been followed. Otherwise, why does the protocol even exist?

It is true that the flag is just a piece of cloth. It is a piece of cloth embroidered with 50 stars, and emblazoned with 13 red and white stripes. But this f lag deserves the con-stant respect that we afford the country that it represents. The first lines of the Pledge that we learned as children was not meant to be an empty one, and it is my sincere wish that one day the object of that pledge will be given the respect that it deserves.

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Conrad Plyler, freshman in political science

“I guess just overlook the whole college and make sure everything is going smoothly with the students, student advisers and professors.”

Kim Kernfreshman, undeclared

“Make public appearances at events and run whatever group they’re in charge of well.”

David Searsfreshman, civil engineering

“That’s a good question. I believe he’s supposed to make sure the school runs smoothly, make sure money gets allocated where it’s needed, and make sure everything runs smoothly as a whole.”

Rachel Yonfreshman, transition

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letter published Feb. 3, I would like to apologize for any inconvenience she and her study group experienced due to construction noise in the west wing of the D. H. Hill Library.

As she noted, there is some con-struction work occurring on the first floor of the west wing. A new study lounge will soon be completed, and

work on the Creamery (which will make N.C. State ice cream available in the library) is underway.

Whenever possible, we do sched-ule noisy work during the overnight hours to minimize disruption to li-brary users. Unfortunately, some ven-dors and contractors can work only during regular business hours.

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-Do you love NC State University?-Are you interested in meeting campus visitors and developing public speaking and interpersonal skills?-Are you knowledgeable about NC State (or willing to learn!)?-Are you enthusiastic, well-rounded, outgoing, and willing to give 10-15 hours per month back to NC State University?-Are you a solid academic student with at least a 2.8 GPA?

If you answered “Yes” to the above, the University Ambassador program is for you.

The mission of the North Carolina State University Ambassadors is to enhance the recruiting efforts of the University by accurately representing the institution to prospective students and parents. NC State has a commitment to excellence in a comprehensive range of academic disciplines that foster academic maturation and inclusion of all students and facilitates a learning environment that is conducive for a diverse population of students to succeed. As ambassadors for the University, students seek to present a positive and accurate image of both academic and student life at North Carolina State University.

Key responsibilities of University Ambassadors include:-Conducting daily campus tours. -Serving as representatives for University wide events, including diversity programs, football games, open house, forums, etc. -Working office hours in Athletics and The Joyner Visitor Center.

Please complete the application found here by February 27 to be considered for the Fall 2009-Spring 2010 academic year:

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NANOBYTESYahoo!, Microso! compete over phone name

Both Yahoo! and Microsoft, in an attempt to compete with Apple’s iPhone, have launched campaigns for a “My Phone.” In March, Yahoo changed the headline on its marketing campaign to “From iPhone to ‘my’ phone. On Monday, Microsoft announced its “My Phone” service, which will sync data between a phone and a desktop.

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Mars orbiter "nishes mission, brings back data

In January, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finished its two-year science phase, and Mars geologists must wade through data from the mission.

“Technically and scientifically, it has certainly met our expectations,” Alfred S. McEwen, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona and principal investigator for the orbiter’s high-resolution camera, told the New York Times.

The camera, which is able to see features down to about a yard in size, takes images that reveal details such as wave-like ripples in what had looked like plain dusty regions. Researchers can also count miniscule craters, which makes them able to better estimate the age of terrains.

A sensitive spectrometer discovered carbonate mineral rocks, which may have formed when a young Mars had a more benign environment: wet and possibly warm.

“That’s telling us something about the early history of Mars,” Scott L. Murchie of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and principal investigator for the spectrometer told the New York Times.

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Technology layo#s rise to 300,000

According to TechCrunch’s Layoff Tracker, those working in the technology industry have something to worry about. In three weeks, technology-related layoffs rose to 300,000. In late January, the tracker noted 200,000 people had been laid off. In the past few weeks, Pioneer has laid off 10,000 workers; Cisco has laid off 3,000’ Panasonic has laid off 15,000; NEC has laid off 20,000.

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Medpedia to compete with WebMD as premier health site

The Medpedia Project has released a public version of its technology platform for the worldwide health community. The site is reminiscent of Wikipedia, but is used only for health information, as well as a LinkedIn network for health professionals and a social networking platform in which consumers and experts can chat about treatment and conditions. The project has partnered with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine and Berkley School of Public Health, among others, to bring medical content to the side.

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ga eIn a recession, gaming is one industry that has gained ground

Nirja ParikhStaff Writer

David Crook plans on get-ting into video games once he graduates.

But Crook, a sophomore in computer science, isn’t hoping to spend 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. playing video games.

He wants to spend the hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. de-veloping versions of a product that avid gamers like Rashmi Patel, a senior in engineering, play while eating breakfast, during class breaks and before sleeping.

Patel isn’t alone, either. A poll sponsored by PBS asked students on a college campus how long they would be gam-ers. About 70 percent stated they will be gamers until the day they die.

And unlike many of his peers — some of whom are looking to go into industries that are laying off thousands of work-ers nationally — the gaming industry is growing annually.

Nationally, the gaming in-

dustry is one of the few that is profiting in the recession. Sales of video game hardware and software jumped 13 percent since last January, according to a NPD study. Total video gam-ing industry sales rose to $1.33 billion, the study stated.

Video game software sales hiked up 10 percent to $676.6 million, and hardware sales jumped 17 percent to $445.4 mil-lion. Accesso-ries sales rose 11 percent to $209.8 mil-lion, accord-ing to t he study.

Nintendo’s W i i h e l d steady at the top of the charts, selling nearly 680,000 units, the study stated. The DS hand-held system sold more than 510,000 units.

Microsoft sold about 309,000 Xbox units during January, ac-cording to the study. Sony’s PlayStation 3 sold 203,000 units.

“As of right now, the future of video games is assured to stay successful,” Crook, who

founded the Video Game De-velopment Club, “but what if another invention surpasses the popularity of video games in the near future?”

Crook said the industry is looking toward developing products for a new, younger audience.

“In the future, there will be more use of video games for

various activi-ties like school,” Crook said.

Centennial researchers are working on a project that will weave concepts and ideas from North Carolina’s fifth grade sci-ence curriculum into an adven-ture style video

game called Crystal Island. As the students explore the is-

land inside the game, they will solve a mystery while being ex-posed to science. Crook said the game provides for a more enter-taining learning environment.

“Maybe that is the reason a kid can tell you more about Pokemon than cellular respira-tion,” Crook said.

THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSFor many people, the video game experience starts at

the store and ends on the couch. Few realize that creat-ing a game can be as complex as making a Hollywood blockbuster. Months of planning and preparing, script writing, casting, character development, cutting-edge technology and massive computing power go into mak-ing games. David Crook, president of the Video Game De-velopmental Club, enlightened Technician on the process of making a video game.

Steps:1. Come up with an idea: In this phase, one just starts to think of the plan. Every game begins with a story. Crook said this is the hardest part because you have to keep in mind what really keeps the players engrossed during their play time.

2. Divide up the work: This is where musicians, writers and programmers all come into role. Also, depending on the video game, historians and other special interest professionals play a role. For example, in the video game “America’s Army,” historians and military professionals were asked to help out. Now, if one plays this game and reaches a high level, it is used to recruit people to the “American Army.”

3. Piecing it together: At this point, the programmers bring the characters to life by instructing the computer to move the character. In some games (like “Dungeon Siege II”), the motions of a human actor are captured using a special suit of sensors to represent the control points of the character’s skeleton. Unseen to the user, but making all of the game elements work together is the code. A 3-D code engine is used to generate the incredibly complex code necessary for all of the polygons, shadows and tex-tures the user sees on the screen.

4. Marketing: Games are big business. With so much money at stake, the publishers go to great lengths to hype their games. Companies send their designers and

public relations staff to demonstrate “demos” available for the public to have sneak peaks.

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Terms of Service agreement causes some to shift the way they think about Internet copyright

Alison HarmanScience & Tech Editor

After reeling from the backlash of a public outrage surrounding a few nondescript lines in a revised terms of service agreement, the nation’s social networking site of record has revoked clauses that transfer ownership to Facebook of anything posted to — or deleted from — its users’ profile pages.

The message appeared on users’ homepages Wednesday, citing that the site will revert to its previous ToS agreement until it resolves “the issues people have raised” about clauses added about two weeks ago. These clauses stated that Facebook, in addition to having ownership of all in-formation currently uploaded onto the site, also had the rights to all original property that users had linked, up-loaded or wrote — ever.

Even if users delete their accounts, or re-move links posted via Facebook widgets, the site claimed it had the right to that property.

When news of the clauses broke, more than a hundred thousand Facebook users joined groups against the revised ToS and many users began deleting their accounts in protest.

John Martin, a technical writer for the Office of Information Technology, said he considered deleting his account but decided to first see how the site handled such a large volume of negative reactions.

“It made me nervous,” said Martin, who be-gan deleting in vain all February feeds from his Livejournal account to his Facebook Notes. “I’ve been pulling the feed into Facebook for about a year. I was concerned that they were saying if they had copyright or ownership. It didn’t seem right.”

Martin said he tried to find a way to delete all the daily feeds, but resorted to deleting them one at a time.

“I started to do that got all the way back to the beginning of February and it just started to be too time consuming, so I stopped,” he said. “I decided to see how this was going to play out and not put anything else in there.”

Although Martin began to feed his blog into his profile page once Facebook repealed the new ToS as if the site’s rules would stay less invasive, he said he hopes Facebook’s attempt at defining Internet copyright laws will spur a legislative movement on a subject that has “been fuzzy

for quite some time.”“I haven’t heard this type of thing happen-

ing with any other social networking sites and I think it was such a big deal because so many people are on there. It’s an alarmist headline. It makes you think about ownership and copy-right issues on the Internet,” he said. “It feels like someone’s stealing from you.”

Certainly, he said, other social networks will hesitate before they write similar clauses — at least until Congress passes some law that dif-ferentiates an individual user’s right to informa-tion from the site onto which that information was uploaded.

But Stan North Martin, director of OIT’s Out-reach, Communications and Consulting, is not waiting for such a law to tell students what’s safe — or, more importantly, what’s not safe — to

put on the Internet. “People are posting pic-

tures that they may regret later,” he said. “Anything that is posted to the Inter-net, it’s no longer yours. It’s being indexed, it’s being catalogued.”

The Wayback Machine is an internet archive that intends to create snapshots of the Internet as it was dur-ing a particular moment in time. Even if the original poster deletes an item from a Web site, that item has likely been indexed into a Web history site or has been

copied onto another site by another user, North Martin said.

“One of the trends in high school is to take pictures of themselves in the nude and send them to their boyfriends. The boy starts shar-ing them with all his buddies, and pretty soon it’s posted everywhere,” North Martin said in reference to an incident that happened in Uni-versity Towers about 10 years ago.

“There was a couple in UT, and let’s just say that they shot some videos,” North Martin said. “One of those videos showed up in a public place, and the next time the woman in the video walked in the room, everybody in the dining hall stands up and gives her a standing ovation.”

He said he has always been cautious about what he allows both himself and his elder daughter to put on Facebook, but after the then-new and now-former ToS clauses, he said he is even more cautious about what he puts on the Internet.

“Facebook with this change makes me think twice about what I post on my account,” North Martin said. “This policy makes me think a third time,” North Martin said. “If this is go-ing to be out there forever and ever, I have to ask myself if it is something I want out there.”

Facebook ToS restores old statusCOMPARING TERMS OF SERVICESFacebook’s rightsYou hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

Yahoo!’s rights to Flickr“Yahoo! does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Yahoo! Services. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, you grant Yahoo! the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable [...]:

With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services other than Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Yahoo! Services solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Yahoo! Services and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo! removes such Content from the Yahoo! Services.”

Twitter’s rightsWe claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Twitter service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. You can remove your profile at any time by deleting your account. This will also remove any text and images you have stored in the system.

We encourage users to contribute their creations to the public domain or consider progressive licensing terms.

Google’s rights to PicasaGoogle claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Picasa Web Albums. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through Picasa Web Albums and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Picasa Web Albums, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, distribute and publish such Content through Picasa Web Albums, including RSS or other content feeds offered through Picasa Web Albums, and other Google services. In addition, by submitting, posting or displaying Content which is intended to be available to the general public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, distribute and publish such Content for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services. Google will discontinue this licensed use within a commercially reasonable period after such Content is removed from Picasa Web Albums.

YouTube’s rightsFor clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the YouTube Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service. The above licenses granted by you in User Videos terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your User Videos from the YouTube Website. You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of User Submissions that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in User Comments are perpetual and irrevocable.

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Solution to Wednesday’s puzzleComplete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders)contains everydigit 1 to 9.For strategies on how to solveSudoku, visitwww.sudoku.org.uk.

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Solution to Thursday’s puzzleComplete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders)contains everydigit 1 to 9.For strategies on how to solveSudoku, visitwww.sudoku.org.uk.

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to not sit in front of the TV and watch our names not be on it,” McKenzie said. “That was one of our main goals this year to make it to regionals, and to do whatever it takes to get there.”

With only two seniors on the team, McKenzie and Mackenzie Mangum, the team is predicted to finish fourth in the ACC, however the team feels it can finish much higher, even with such a young team.

“Our expectations are definitely not to finish fourth,” Allbritten said. “We believe we are going to finish top two if not one.”

Allbritten said she believes the team’s home-field advantage will pro-vide a boost when State hosts the event May 8 through 10.

“We also have a big advantage hav-ing ACC’s at home this year,” Allbrit-ten said. “Having all our fans here and knowing our field, I really think in the tournament we will be really good.”

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JEFF BASLADYNSKI/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOLindsay Campana, then a sophomore pitcher, passes a soft-ball to Allison Presnett, then a sophomore !rst baseman, to get the out against UNC-Greensboro last season.

sive,” Henry said. “This year she struggled a little bit early on with the weight of expectations but we have had some talks and these last few meets she has been red hot. She is a great leader.”

Seaman has been a solid per-former all three years that she has been at N.C. State. She has had no problem leading by ex-ample, always doing what she was supposed to do. However, vocal leadership is something

that she has had to transition into this season.

“That is the big transition I am trying to make - going from lead-er by example to a vocal leader,” Seaman said. “I have always been the quiet one, never really spoke out unless there was something really important to say and a lot of times your team already says it, but coming from an upper-classman it might mean more to the younger ones.”

Henry, who specializes coach-ing the vault and floor, said he has delegated some tasks to Sea-man in to catalyze her transition

into a vocal leader.“Floor and vault are my specif-

ic responsibilities,” Henry said. “When it comes to these two events, I ask her opinion about lineup changes, and I let Taylor have a few words with them and I walk away.”

Henry has been impressed with the way Seaman has been handling her new responsibilities and control over the team.

“I don’t know what she says but it seems to be working,” Henry said. “I let her do that to force her to start speaking up and, she has done a great job with it.”

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lucky Wednesday night.“[Fells] had a tough ballgame, it happens,” Lowe

said. “But he came back in later on and did what we asked him to do. He just kept playing. Unfor-tunately, he didn’t get off early.”

The Wolfpack, which shot 54.1 percent from the field, scored at least 80 points for the fourth straight game. Senior Ben McCauley said State must now focus on limiting the opposing team’s offensive chances.

“If we shoot that percent for the rest of our games, we win every game,” McCauley said. “We just need to get stops. That’s the main thing we’re going to focus on the next couple days, defending.”

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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANSimon Harris, Trevor Ferguson, Kaycee Obi-Gwa-cham Kendall Smith and Spencer Greenway look on as the Wolfpack lose to UNC-Chapel Hill 89-80.

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INSIDECOUNTDOWN

Softball team is focused, ready for a tough season starting with Cathedral City Classic this weekend

Taylor BarbourStaff Writer

After being snubbed from the NCCA tournament, the softball team is ready to begin the 2009 season with hopes of making a return to the postseason. The journey to the college softball World Series be-gan last week and will continue this weekend when the team travels to the Cathe-dral City Classic tournament in California. N.C. State will play five games with t hree aga inst ranked teams -California, UCLA and Massachusetts.

“This weekend’s games are a pretty good test to see where we are at, because we are going to play some good teams that are right up there with Oklahoma,” sophomore Alyssa Ishibashi said. “It is going to be a tough, but im-portant weekend for us.”

The Pack enters the tourna-ment with momentum already on its side after winning two out of three games in the Mar-riot Houston Classic a week ago. During the Classic, the team notched a 2-1 win against then

No. 4 Oklahoma University.“We are looking really good

this year especially in the games against Oklahoma and Indiana,” sophomore catcher Alyssa All-britten said. “This weekend can be a really big test for us, we have the hardest schedule we have ever had and itís going to be a big test.”

With the tournament this weekend full of so many highly-ranked teams, the competition should provide a good oppor-

tunity for the team to gauge just how good they are and a lso receive valuable ex-perience lead-ing up to ACC play.

“It’s a big tournament. We play teams like Cal and UCLA,” senior

Mendy McKenzie said. “It will really help us with experience playing good, ranked teams, and [it] will just really help us to get ready for ACC play.”

The team members remain focused on their main goal this year, however, which is to make it into the NCAA regional tour-nament that they just missed the year before.

“I know last year watching re-gionals and watching the selec-tion show, we didn’t make it and it was one of our goals this year

Junior Taylor Seaman transitions into a leadership role for the gymnastics team

Jonathan B. LaughrunDeputy Sports Editor

Entering this season, the gymnastics team ros-ter was without the experience and leadership of multi-event seniors. This resulted in a leadership void for the team that junior Taylor Seaman, along with sophomores Brittney Hardiman and Brittany Vontz, stepped into. As the three oldest teammates that compete in multiple events, it was a natural progression for the team.

“We really have three kids that we look [to] for leadership right now — Taylor [Seaman] an all-around junior who is doing a phenomenal job for us, Brittney Hardiman an all-around sophomore doing a tremendous job for us and Brittany Vontz, [who] will be an all-around sophomore in the next few weeks,” coach Mark Stevenson said.

Stevenson noted that the three gymnasts were thrust into a leadership role that they may not have been comfortable with.

“Last year, [they] were lead by four extremely good seniors, so they really didn’t have a leader-ship role — all they had to do was go out and get it done,” Stevenson said. “Now they are under the gun because they are the people that have to do the job.”

Nonetheless, Stevenson said Seaman, Hardiman, and Vontz transitioned smoothly into their new roles, and that they have become even more effec-tive in recent weeks.

“Taylor and them, over the last couple of weeks, have been phenomenal — they have really stepped up to the job,” he said.

According to assistant coach Todd Henry, Sea-man has progressed every season, not only as an athlete, but as a leader as well.

“Every year Taylor has gotten a little bit better, gotten a little bit vocal, a little bit more aggres-

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING @ ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSCollege Park, Md., All day

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING @ ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSCollege Park, Md., All day

SOFTBALL @ CATHEDRAL CITY CLASSICCathedral City, Calif., All day

MEN’S TRACK & FIELD @ VT CHALLENGEBlacksburg, Va., All day

WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD @ VT CHALLENGEBlacksburg, Va., All day

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING @ ACC CHAMPIONSHIPCollege Park, Md., All day

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING @ ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSCollege Park, Md., All day

BASEBALL VS. RHODE ISLANDRaleigh, N.C., 3 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS @ SOUTHERN METHODISTDallas, Texas, 1 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS @ SOUTH CAROLINAColumbia, S.C., 2 p.m.

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Heels too much for PackDespite shooting 54.1 percent from the field, Carolina runs away with a win

Taylor AutenSports Editor

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The men’s basketball team entered the locker room at halftime down three points to No. 3 North Carolina after going toe to toe with the Tar Heels in a first half that saw nine lead changes and five ties. But UNC went on a 14-2 run to begin the second half and never looked back en route to an 89-80 victory over the Wolfpack.

Sophomore Tracy Smith said the opening five minutes of the second half killed the Pack’s momentum.

“In the first five minutes, we didn’t come out with as much energy,” Smith said. “We let them go on a run, and it was hard to fight back into the game.”

The Wolfpack (14-10, 4-7) snapped a two-game win streak while the Tar Heels (24-2, 10-2) extended their win streak to 10 games and increased their lead at the top of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Coach Sidney Lowe, who is now 1-6 against UNC, said he was happy with his team’s effort despite the final result.

“All in all, it wasn’t bad. I thought our guys gave a pretty good effort,” Lowe said. “[UNC] was an experi-enced team. It’s a team that knows how to win. They know to turn it on, and they did that in the first five minutes [of the second half].”

The Pack’s 15 turnovers did the team in as Carolina notched 26 points off giveaways compared to State’s seven points off Tar Heel mistakes. Four UNC players scored more than 15 points.

It was a record-setting game for se-nior Tyler Hansbrough, who scored at least 25 points for the 35th time in his career and passed Pete Maravich

to become second on the NCAA all-time free throws made list. Wednesday marked the last time the Wolfpack and

coach Sidney Lowe will have to face Hansbrough in the regular season.

“I’d love to watch him in the NBA

one day,” Lowe said. “I don’t mind see-ing him, just with another jersey on.”

Sophomore point guard Javier Gon-zalez went 6-for-6 from the field in the first half as he had a season-high 18 points, including 16 before halftime. Gonzalez, who went 0-for-2 from the field finishing with one point the last time he played in the Smith Center, said he brought more confidence to Wednesday’s game.

“I was a freshman, inexperienced, and I struggled a little bit when I came out here,” Gonzalez said. “[Tonight] I just came with a lot of confidence. I had no doubt I can do what I did.”

Senior Courtney Fells, who scored 22 points in the Jan. 31 game against UNC at the RBC Center, scored his first points with just 5:18 left in regu-lation. Lowe said Fells just didn’t get

BRENT KITCHEN/TECHNICIANNorth Carolina’s Tyler Hansborough goes up for a layup over Tracy Smith, a sophomore forward, in the second half of Wednesday night’s game at the Dean E. Smith Center. Smith had 1 block and 2 defensive rebounds in 31 minutes of play in the Wolfpack’s 89-80 loss to the Tar Heels.

Seaman adapts as a leader

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Softball prepares for season

“It will really help us with experience

playing good, ranked teams.”

LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANJunior Taylor Seaman has won EAGL gymnast of the week two of the six weeks this season.

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