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House eyes cuts that would shave scholarships
In 2005 the General Assembly included a provision to permit campuses within the UNC System to charge in-state tuition to out-of-state students who came to North Caro-lina on scholarships. This provision, which allowed scholarship money at the state’s in-stitutions to go further and bring in more out-of-state students, has been challenged by the House as the legislature seeks ways to balance the state’s budget.
The elimination of the subsidization would affect all merit scholarships available to out-of-state students, including the Parks and athletic scholarships.
Chancellor Jim Woodward said this bud-getary cut would impact the University’s academics and athletics.
“Were athletes to be excluded from this coverage then our athletic program would have to raise more money—the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition—for all of the out-of-state athletes,” Wood-ward said. “The Park Scholarship program
would have to raise more money in order to pay the tuition of out-of-state students.”
Woodward said the programs wouldn’t be able to afford to pay more, and would instead just cut scholarships.
“In reality what would happen is that we would have fewer Park scholars because we would have es-sentially the same amount of money,” Woodward said. “But we would be using it to pay some out-of-state tu-ition rather than all in-state tuition.”
Woodward said smaller universities within the system would be af-fected more directly from the lack of subsi-dization as they benefit more from its imple-mentation.
“The smaller institutions benefit especially because of the ability to attract merit schol-arship students and pay in-state tuition,”
Woodward said, though he said the state is simply looking for the best way to erase its deficit. “The legislature is confronted with hunting money to cut everywhere.”
Woodward said the measures the state is exploring don’t come as a surprise to administrators, since they’ve known the
cuts would come for some time.
“We have known all along that there is no easy way,” Woodward said. “If you only had to choose bad and inef-ficient programs to cut, that would be easy, but the budget deficit is too large for that to happen.
This is an understandable step in their process at arriving at a final budget.”
Woodward said while the House is con-sidering removing the provision, Senators aren’t yet convinced it’s not important to
REDUCTION WOULD FORCE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS TO PAY MORE
Easley to contest firing
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Hungry like the wolf See page 5.
BRENT KITCHEN/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOFormer !rst lady Mary Easley stands at a press conference concerning the investigation into the circumstances around her hiring May 21.
“The legislature is confronted with
hunting money to cut everywhere.”
Chancellor Jim Woodward
Campus Police hosts terrorist response drill
Hillsborough construction continues to create hazards
Lawyer sends letter to University about appeal
Saja HindiSenior Staff Writer
The controversy surround-ing former chancellor James Oblinger, former provost Lar-ry Nielsen, former Board of Trustees Chairman McQueen Campbell and former first lady Mary Easley has not yet subsid-ed despite the resignations of Obl inger, Nielsen, and Campbell and the termina-tion of Easley’s contract.
Easley’s lawyer, Marvin Schil-ler, announced in a letter to the University Monday that she plans to appeal her termination.
“Please accept this letter as a notice that Ms. Easley is ap-pealing her dismissal both with respect to the termination of her contract and with respect to any severance, notice or hear-ing which she may be due under NCSU’s policies, regulations and rules,” the letter read.
The letter also detailed some questions Schiller had about the appeal process and can be see on the NCSU homepage.
Schiller could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Oblinger e-mails missingLast week, University lawyers
alerted federal prosecutors in a letter that e-mails from January 2005 to June 11, 2005, the period when Oblinger helped create Ea-sley’s job at the University, were
deleted. The e-mail account was use for high-prior-ity e-mails, a nd on l y Oblinger
had access to account, The Uni-versity’s IT staff worked to re-trieve the e-mails but some could not be recovered.
Oblinger and Nielsen testified before a federal grand jury two weeks ago.
Keep checking technicianonline.com for continued updates on these and other developing stories..
Project considered ‘worthwhile’ as students and community work around cranes, cones and barrels
Emory RobinsonStaff Writer
It has been more than a month since the groundbreaking of the Hillsborough Street recon-struction project, which aims to improve the condition of the street, make it more pedestrian-friendly and place a roundabout at Pullen Road.
So far the street is not only or-ange with cones, but full of the noise and bustle of construction and traffic. Fewer pedestrians walk the Hillsborough Street and while vehicular traffic has
fallen low, the thoroughfare has maintained its congestion as the 18-month, $9.9 million project affects the surrounding commu-nity, including students.
“The intersection that they’re putting the roundabout in, that could be worthwhile.” Mike Gurl, a graduate student in con-struction engineering, said.
Gurl said he thinks the in-tersection becomes cramped at times but remains optimistic about the pedestrian benefits of the project.
“They’re turning it into a bit of a walking area,” Gurl said, “Which could be nice.”
John Kuhn, a senior in ac-counting, had a different view of the construction project.
“I believe the construction, for now, makes Hillsborough
OPEN BUDGET FORUMWhen: Thurs., July 9, 2009Where: Stewart Theatre
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Last week, Campus Police took part in a drill in cooperation with other law en-forcement agencies to gauge the state’s
ability to react to a terrorist threat in the Triangle. The exercise was funded by a grant from the Department of Homeland Security and featured the blowing up of a car in the Carter-Finley parking lot.
PHOTOS BY AMANDA KARST
STORY BY TY JOHNSON
As one of the !nal steps in handling the reported car bomb and restoring safety, the suspicious vehicle in Carter Finley Lot is blown up.
Members of the State Bureau of Investigation help an employee out of a bomb suit after he returned from walking out to the suspicious vehicle and back.
A sign near the edge of the Red Wolf ter-rorism drill alerts people, such as ath-letic camp attend-ees, that the event is an exercise and not an emergency.
A robot approaches a car armed with a bomb to assess the situation.
As the state prepares its final budget, the House is consider-ing a cost-cutting measure that could save North Carolina $13.9 million, but would also impact scholarship programs
at each campus of the UNC System.
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IN THE KNOW Researchers host health focus group
Sociology researchers are conducting a focus group for participants to learn about HIV/AIDS in the African-American community Satur-day, July 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. African-American males and females 18 years and old-er who attend the workshop will receive $20.
To attend the event, which will be held in room 129 of the 1911 Building, or for ques-tions, contact the project of-fice at (919) 515-9023 or [email protected].
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University !eatre announces new season
WIth the completion of Thompson Hall’s renova-tions, University Theatre has confirmed dates and shows for its 2009-10 season, which will kick off with a ribbon cutting and opening cer-emony Aug. 17. Tours of the newly renovated facility will follow the event.
The first University The-atre performance in the new Thompson will be Amadeus, beginning Sept. 18. The rest of the season lineup features Blue, It’s a Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play, Into the Woods, and Macbeth.
Season tickets are available for $56 for faculty and staff and $20 for students. Indi-vidual ticket sales begin July 15. Call Ticket Central at 515-1100 or visit ncsu.edu/theatre for more information.
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Newly renovated C-store open
The Bragaw C-store in Bragaw Residence Hall on West Campus is now open. Renovations of the store’s cashier area and tile f loors kept it closed during the first summer session, but the store reopened Monday. The store’s hours of operation are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
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University closed for Independence Day
The University will be closed July 3 in observance of Independence Day. When July 4 is on a Saturday, the holiday is celebrated Friday. Class will not be in session and most campus facilities will be closed.
SOURCE: REGISTRATION AND RECORDS
Administrators will speak at budget forum
The University will host an open budget forum July 9 in Stewart Theatre. The forum will feature members of the University’s administration answering questions and lis-tening to ideas about budget cut propositions. All students, faculty and staff are encour-aged to attend.
SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PROVOST
WORLD & NATIONSupermarket multimillionaire is Panama’s new president
Self-made multimillionaire supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli was inaugurated as Pan-ama’s president on Wednesday. Martinelli, a pro-business conser-vative and a US-educated son of Italian immigrants, was elected by citizens of Panama who reported-ly “wanted things to be done dif-ferently.” In his inaugural speech, Martinelli vowed he would create a smaller government budget but
better recompense for public work-ers. He promised prison reform and announced he would work to combat the drug trafficking that plagues the region.
U.S. troops begin strike on Afghanistan
Approximately 4,000 American troops, mostly Marines, and several hundred Afghan troops launched an operation against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan Thursday. The troops will attempt to quell fighting in the Helmand Province, which has recently become a Taliban military hotbed. Operation Khanjar - which translates to “strike of the sword” - is the largest push since the Pentagon began relocating more troops into the area earlier this year.
FDA panel recommends ban on Vicodin, Percocet
On Tuesday a Food and Drug Administration panel recom-mended banning the popular ac-etaminophen based prescription medicines Vicodin and Percocet.
The panel also recommended that the strongest doses of acet-aminophen in the over-the-coun-ter market, Tylenol and Excedrin, be weakened.
The impetus for the move is the drugs tendency to wreak havoc on patient’s livers when used in excess. The panel noted that over 400 people each year are killed from acetaminophen related overdoses SOURCE: THE WASHING!
POLICE BLOTTERJune 2512:53 AM | TRAFFIC STOPDan Allen Dr/Thurman Dr Non-student was stopped for stop light violation. Investigation revealed subject was intoxicated and was ar-rested for DWI.
5:06 AM | FIRE ALARMPartners III Units responded to alarm. Cause unknown. 7:18 AM | SPECIAL EVENTMcKimmon Center Officers responded to special assign-ment at this location. 7:19 AM | CHECK PERSONBowen Hall Officers responded to report of sus-picious subject. Non-student was assisted to shelter. No further action taken. 11:02 PM | CHECK PERSONLonnie Poole Golf Course Officers located non-students in the area. Subjects complied to leave. No problems noted. 3:09 PM | MEDICAL ASSISTCollege of Textiles Units responded to staff member in need of medical assistance.
June 264:20 PM | LARCENYWestern Manor Apts Student reported theft of plants from porch. 4:40 PM | TRAFFIC STOPPullen Rd/Baver Dr Student was issued citation for driv-ing wrong way on one way road. Citation
June 272:57 PM | FIRE ALARMCentennial Electrical Station Units responded to alarm. Cause un-known. System reset. 6:10 PM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYWolf Village Student reported keys and credit card taken by subject they had met online. RPD investigating and Housing noti-fied.
June 281:24 PM | FIRE ALARMRed Hat Units responded to alarm caused by contractors working in the area. Sys-tem reset. 2:15 PM | LARCENYTurlington Hall Student reported bicycle stolen. 2:56 PM | TRAFFIC STOPDan Allen Dr Student was issued citation for stop sign violation. 3:05 PM | CONCERNED BEHAVIORMetcalf Hall Student reported concern regarding another student’s temper. 7:41 PM | ILLEGAL PARKINGHillsborough Bldg Lot Tickets were issued to five vehicles parked illegally.
June 291:37 AM | ASSAULT ON FEMALEES King Village Student was arrested for assault on a female. 10:11 AM | SAFETY PROGRAMTalley Student Center Officer conducted safety program for new student orientation. 11:56 AM | DRUG VIOLATIONVarsity Drive Lot Officers investigated non-student discovered to be in simple possession of marijuana. Subject was cited, tres-passed, and released. 11:59 AM | SAFETY PROGRAMTalley Student Center Officer conducted safety program for new student orientation.
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trying to close a big budget gap”
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Students hold vigil in support of Iranian crisis
Ali Marjani, a doctoral student in civil engineering, lights a candle at a vigil in support of Iran’s fallen innocents. Marjani said the organization of the event, held on the Brickyard Tuesday night, was done through Facebook and E-mail mailing lists.
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Street look pretty bad,” Kuhn said, adding he’s concerned the roundabout will become another navigational hurdle in the streets of Raleigh.
Kuhn also said was concerned at the pace with which the work-ers are working as well, as he said he hasn’t seen many people working on the project on a daily basis.
“Why don’t we make it 9 months and actually see people working sometime?” Kuhn said.
Bennett Welch, a mechanical and aerospace engineering labo-ratory technician, said his arrival time has not been impacted by congestion on Hillsborough Street.
“I take the Carter-Finley park and ride,” Welch said, “and the bus still makes it on time.”
Welch also said he hasn’t seen any true inconvenience to pe-destrians since the beginning of
construction. “I eat lunch here everyday.”
Welch said, but said he could see how businesses could be af-fected by the limited amount of parking accessible to drivers on Hillsborough Street.
Jay Long, owner of Buddah’s Belly, said he hopes the end re-sult will allow more customers to park near his store, which is lo-cated across from the Bell Tower.
“Hopefully it will be great when they are done,” Long said.
Long said he has noticed an exceptional decline in business, adding that the cluster involved in the construction along the en-tire street outweighs its necessity.
“My guess is if it’s like anything else that’s put together by the government, it’ll last much lon-ger than that.” Long said of the 18 months of planned construc-tion, adding he is concerned the cost of the project will be more than first thought as well.
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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTORosemary Downing, senior in biological sciences, looks both ways before crossing the street at the corner of Hillsborough and Pogue Street. While taking summer classes she crosses the street daily. “It’s not too terrible,” Downing said about the construction.
the UNC System for it to remain in the budget.
“Fortunately we have leadership in the Senate and House that understands what the scholarship program is about,” Woodward said.
“We certainly hope they’re successful on our behalf and on behalf of all the campuses.”
Woodward said the legislature was seeking to involve all citizens in helping the state recover during the economic crisis, but said the yoke placed on stu-dents may be too heavy.
“There is no single cause for the bud-get deficit. I wish there was one group
we could blame it on and then go after them to fix it.” Woodward said.
“Every constituent group will partici-pate or have to partici-pate in dealing with it. They’re talking about increasing taxes so cit-izens across the state will have to participate, so yes the students will have to pick up a piece. Is it a fair piece? Well I could probably argue with them.”
Woodward said the job of the state should be to keep college costs low.
“My view is that we need to and we’re obligated to keep the cost of going to college as low as possible for our stu-dents,” he said. “The long term ben-
eficiaries are all the people of North Carolina if we do that.”
Woodward said he didn’t think the Universities were be-ing expected to take too much of the bur-den in the budgetary recovery, but said he wished it didn’t come with such bad side ef-fects for students.
“I wish we weren’t going to have tuition increases. I wish we
weren’t going to have the possibility of cuts that impact our scholarships,” Woodward said.
“But I think it’s just a natural part of trying to close a big budget gap.”
Vice Chancellor for Business and Fi-
nance Charlie Leffler said while cuts and hikes were impacting the Univer-sity, NCSU would continue to be a great value in education.
“N.C. State has always been a good buy and will continue to be a good buy,” Lef-fler said.
Leffler and Woodward said there will be more opportunities for students and faculty to speak out on proposed budget cuts in the future.
Former chancellor James Oblinger scheduled a budget forum where he and Leffler would answer questions and entertain ideas about budget cuts, but Oblinger’s resignation took priority over the proposed 18-percent cuts that day, according to Leffler.
“There was a lot going on that day,” Leffler said.
“At that very moment in time we didn’t have a chancellor here on cam-pus to speak.”
Woodward reaffirmed that the ad-ministration would continue to seek out the opinions of staff, faculty and students as the budget process goes on.
“We have committed to the faculty and the students that there will be op-portunities to talk about the budget and how we propose what the alternatives are for budget cuts,” he said.
The Provost Office announced this week there will be an open budget fo-rum July 9 in Stewart Theatre.
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“We’re obligated to keep the cost of going to college as
low as possible”Chancellor Jim Woodward
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The General Assembly is debating legislation that would severely impact the
number of scholarships offered to N.C. State students.
The bill, as it stands now, would prohibit out-of-state students from receiving in-state tuition rates on full scholarships.
This change would cause detri-mental effects to many of NCSU’s scholarship-granting bodies in addition to the University’s merit and need-based scholarships.
Athletic programs, foundations and universities throughout the UNC System would instantly lose their ability to offer the sorts of scholarships that make the sys-tem capable of attracting the best talent in the world.
Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand, a Democrat who oppos-es the change, said that the bill
would put a lot of pressure on athletics departments at smaller schools and on foundations such as the Rams Club at Chapel Hill and the Wolfpack Club at NCSU.
The Wolfpack Club alone would be burdened with a stag-gering $1.4 million a year in additional scholarship funding requirements if the legislation passes.
Rand took the bill to task on athletic scholarships, asking, “How much was Mia Hamm worth to Chapel Hill?”
The legislation would greatly detract from some of the state’s schools ability to provide com-petitive scholarships that attract the best athletic talent.
The budget provision, intend-
ed to save the state an estimated $13.9 million, is severely off-tar-get. Instead of saving the state a little money it will only serve to limit the talent that comes into its universities.
The foundation funding into prestigious state scholarships such as the Morehead-Cain and Park Scholarships will be severely thinned.
Eva Maria Holcomb, director of the Park Scholarship program, indicated that her program could see a 20-percent – or greater – de-crease in scholarships offered as a direct result of the legislation.
NCSU will definitely feel the shockwaves from this legislation, but smaller universities within the UNC system will be hit even
more dramatically. Many of those schools will no longer be financially able to support out-of-state students.
The planned budget cuts of 9 to 14 percent will already impact the number and magnitude of scholarships the universities of the UNC system can offer. To further hinder their efforts in providing affordable education to all students would be regretta-ble and indicate extreme narrow-mindedness in the budget reduc-tion efforts by state lawmakers.
Higher education is one of the most proven pathways to success for the future of the country and this state – hopefully the General Assembly will act prudently and show that North Carolina is a beacon of this future.
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 FACTS:North Carolina allows full scholarships of out-of-state students to be paid at in-state rates. This allows organizations that sponsor these scholarships to help the maximum number of students and reach the nation’s best talent. A bill under consideration in the legislature would overturn this policy.
OUR OPINION:The current law enables the maximum number of talented students to attend the University while making it economically viable for the institutions that support those students. Overturning the policy would cause undue pressure on the already stressed scholarship programs in the state.
Leave our scholarships alone!OUR VIEW"
We won’t get fooled again.
Kirsten Southwell, sophomore in graphic design
The recent turmoil in Iran and some of the responses it has garnered from the
American media and politicians has led me to reflect on the im-
portance of knowing your country and other coun-tries’ recent history.
In most high school history classes and beyond, it is
extremely rare to reach the end of the textbook. Despite the mag-nificent efforts of instructors, these sections are often – albeit wrongly – ignored.
Even so, the best books usually end at about 1992. If Americans, especially college students, were made more aware of recent events, pundits and politicians would not get away with idi-otic views.
In response to the apparently crooked elec-tion in Iran and its aftermath, a prominent conservative New York Times columnist, Wil-liam Kristol, said on Fox News Sunday that Mr. Obama should “support the demonstrators. He should say that stealing elections is unacceptable ...He could work with the Europeans to say, ‘let’s bring in international observers to review whether this was a fair election. If it wasn’t, let’s think about having another election.”
Crooked elections, rigged polls, and voting irregularities are frightening and shame-ful. But wait a second, this situ-ation sounds rather familiar. Do you remember 2000?
While most current N.C. State students were expanding their social adaptability at middle school and jamming to Limp Bizkit, there was a presidential election with highly questionable results in our own country. Nice one Kristol, perhaps you should leave your talents for “The Daily Show.”
Good thing it was settled by the Supreme Court and riots in the streets were avoided. If there were a protest movement of this magnitude in 2000, the same conservatives who today constantly shriek their support for the Iranian people would
have branded their American counterparts un-American and traitorous.
Those who call for Obama to specifically condemn the Iranian government are only making such claims for short-term po-litical gain by saying the oppo-site of the President. If they un-derstood the modern history of Iran and its relationship with the United States, they would praise Obama as several conservative figures — Peggy Noonan, a Rea-gan speech writer, and Henry Kissinger — have.
History lesson: in the early 1950’s Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Moham-med Mossaddeq was overthrown by the CIA through Operation Ajax. The main reason the U.S. government did this was be-cause Mossaddeq nationalized
all of Iranian oil, a move that deeply fright-ened the U.S. who saw this as a step towards communism and anti-Amer-ican business.
Mossaddeq was driven out of the country and the Shah was installed as
leader with the backing of the U.S. government. The goal of the action was that the U.S. would have a more favorable relation-ship with the region.
The Shah oppressed the Ira-nian people and angered the population, especially the cler-ics who orchestrated a revolution in 1979. The revolution ran the Shah, and U.S. influence out of the country.
The Iranians are very familiar with this and many resent us deeply for our role in the Shah’s reign. Showing our support as citizens for the Iranian protes-tors is a positive thing. But there is no need for a perception that the American government is meddling with their country, especially considering our tenu-ous history.
The perception of U.S. govern-ment backing would probably help the corrupt government and would only undermine the grassroots display of democracy in Iran.
Send your thoughts on the U.S. response to the Iranian elections to [email protected].
Zakk WhiteSta! Columnist
History and its repercussions
There’s a movie out right now that features an N.C. State alumnus
(sort of).Zach Galif ianakis, who
stars in the movie “The Hangover” a n d i s known for h is work on the Ab-solut Vod-k a c om-mercials and Kanye West’s
“Can’t Tell me Nothing” mu-sic video (both on Youtube), was recently profiled in the New York Times Magazine.
I think Zach Galifianakis should come back to NCSU. Not just be-cause he’s a great co-median, but more impor-tantly for us at State, he never f in-i s he d h i s deg ree i n Commu-nications. As the great comedian that he is, he even made this failure funny, missing graduation by a mere three credit hours.
In the NYT Magazine, Gali-fianakis explained his experi-ence at State, “I didn’t make
any friends at NCSU. NCSU is an agriculture school.”
In a gesture of goodwill, we should invite him down and show him some (more) south-ern hospitality by giving him an honorary degree and hosting one of his comedy shows, which are definitely funny.
Meanwhile, Galifianakis can show us a thing or two about ag-riculture, seeing as he’s from the country — Wilkesboro in fact. The Kanye West video has him goofing off at his farm there and it is hilarious.
I say we start a petition to get him here. We should also see what kind of money we could en-tice him with from our Univer-sity activities board (that Easley money is looking sweet now).
There i s a coolness factor going on here as well, we can claim a famous comedian as one of our own because he went here. Beyond that, I think it’s important to be supportive of someone who went here.
There’s also an ethical problem warranting his visit: Zach didn’t think he made any friends when he was at school here. Most of us know that the agriculture school at State is bar none — all of those
students throw awesome par-ties.
Aside from that, we could rally here, at this side com-ment: I am a fan of Zach Gali-fianakis, and you should be one too. If everyone at school saw his videos, I think they would love them just as much as me and the other people who have seen them. Any-one who sees these videos is a friend of his.
Galifianakis, who has built a comedic career over the course of two decades, seems to be making his move from the B list to the A list. Any sort of support he can get is cru-cial to ensure his success, and any success for Galifianakis is success for State.
The point about all of this is to right a perceived wrong. The solution is simple: we should invite him to come back home and entertain all the friends he never had.
In the Kanye West video Galifianakis says, “Wait till I get my money right. Then you can’t tell me nothin’, right?” So lastly, I want to address Mr.
Galif ianakis’ New York Times comment: wait ‘till we get our money right. Then you can’t tell us nothin’, right?
Send your thoughts on Zach Galifianakis’ NCSU experience to [email protected].
Jake GoldbasSta! Columnist
Bring back Zach
“I think everyone should pay the same.”
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One macaroon does not a meal make
Sarah EwaldStaff Writer
Traditional French macaroons are made up of two thin cookies with a cream or fruit spread between them. Eaten as snacks or des-sert, they’re light as air and not filling.
“Cheri” is the film equivalent of a maca-roon. It’s pretty to look at, pleasant to digest, but doesn’t stick to your ribs.
“Cheri” originated as a novel written by Colette, a French music-hall dancer turned famed writer. The film melds the book and its counterpart “The End of Cheri” to com-pose the film’s plot.
It begins with the introduction of Lea Lon-val (Michelle Pfeiffer), a celebrated courte-san on the brink of retirement. On a visit to the house of her former rival and now friend Madame Peloux (Kathy Bates), she encounters Fred, nicknamed Cheri (Rupert Friend). Cheri soon becomes attracted to Lea and they begin an affair spanning six years, ending only with Cheri’s marriage to the much younger Edmee (Felicity Jones).
The second half of the film takes a more serious turn, as Cheri seemingly cannot de-cide whether to be with Lea or Edmee and vacillates between the two. During this time, Lea grows conscious of her own ageing, on which Cheri eventually picks up.
Pfeiffer plays the elder courtesan with aplomb, complete with lively eyes and a
knowing smirk, having seen it all before. As Cheri, Friend conveys the right mixture of youthful confidence and tortured anguish. Their scenes together are liberally sprinkled with wit and crackling with chemistry.
Visually, the film is stunning. Costumes reflect trends of the time period, inspired by Japanese and Oriental influences of the day. The Art Nouveau movement is well-represented, showing up on painted walls
and in furniture. Filmed in Paris, Biar-ritz and Germany, the outdoor scenes are breathtaking. Setting the scene accurately evokes the Belle Époque time period in France.
It also explores some dichotomies of the time that ring true today. Cheri’s inability to choose the inexperienced wife or the worldly-wise courtesan points to the still-prevalent Madonna-whore fallacy.
The film also reflects the cougar trend in moviemaking, romantically pairing an older woman with a younger man. Culturally, the French have been ahead of this curve, revering older women such as storied actress Catherine Deneuve. In an autobiographical aside, Colette had an affair with her stepson, resembling the Lea/Cheri pairing, some time after “Cheri” was published.
Try as it might, “Cheri” cannot resist falling into the “Oscar bait” trap. It has a very good chance with production de-sign, but wants to qualify on all fronts. A scene involving Pfeiffer emoting would only be less blatant if the words “for the Academy’s consideration” appeared at the bottom of the screen. In the Kate Winslet grand tradition of take-it-off-and-win-the-Oscar, Friend does the former in hopes of gaining the latter (surely causing feminine squeals of glee in the process).
It’s not a fulfilling meal, but “Cheri” makes for a delightful diversion between summer blockbusters.
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Rich Gurnsey WKNC Chainsaw Rock Director
The Dutch death-metal band God Dethroned has been pro-ducing dark, heavy music since their formation in the early 1990s. Traditionally, most of their lyrical content revolved around anti-Christian senti-ment, but recently they have found new inspiration for their music: a war-torn Belgian village called Passendale.
God Dethroned’s eighth studio album, Passiondale, is a ferocious concept album that plunges the listener deep into the mud-filled trenches of one of World War I’s bloodiest battles. The album be-gins with the foreboding intro track, “The Cross of Sacrifice,” complete with ominous guitars and the muted sounds of march-
ing soldiers and distant artillery fire. The relative calm is soon broken by the explosive, black-ened death metal blockbuster “Under a Darkening Sky,” which definitely gets the adrenaline pumping. This is one of the best songs on Passiondale, and the perfect track to set the tone for rest of this intense and emotional album.
“No Man’s Land” keeps up the furious pace with help from re-turning drummer Roel Sanders, who played on the band’s Grand Grimoire and Bloody Blasphemy albums. Sanders’ mad machine-gun-blast beats are the perfect complement to guitarist and singer Henri Sattler’s enunciated growls, which detail the atroci-ties of combat via ghastly lyrics such as “Only the rats grew fat on attrition, glutted with the flesh of dead soldiers.”
The highlight of the album is “Poison Fog,” a harrowing ac-count of comrades being exposed to deadly mustard gas, told from the perspective of a surviving soldier. The bombastic music and vocals create an atmosphere of deep fear and panic. Likewise, the addition of clean singing
God Dethroned recounts WWI trench warfare
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North Carolina’s red wolf population booms
Sarah EwaldStaff Writer
Everyone knows that N.C. State’s mascot is the wolf. But what type of wolf is it? With its history tied to North Carolina, it could very well be the red wolf.
The last few years have seen the red wolf population begin to in-crease , w it h predictions that it will continue to do so.
According to the Red Wolf Recovery Proj-ect, “the red wolf used to be a predator in the south-eastern United States.”
There are 40 captive facilities in the U.S. within North Carolina. Red wolves are found in the northeastern part of the state, mostly in Dare, Tyrell, Hyde, Beaufort and Washington counties.
According to the Red Wolf Recov-ery Project, “it is the world’s only wild population of red wolves.”
Part of the U.S Fish and Wildlife Services, the Red Wolf Recovery program is responsible for monitor-ing and managing the red wolf wild population in northeastern North Carolina. This includes tracking numbers via aerial and ground methods, pup counts, dealing with mortality and disease issues and coyote interaction.
Diane Hendry, outreach coordi-nator for the Red Wolf Recovery program, said three to five pups is considered to be a normal litter. 41
pups were born in 2009.“As the population would con-
tinue to increase, it would probably follow that pups would increase as well,” Hendry said.
She noted that although this has predominantly been the case, there were only 31 pups born in 2007.
In order to keep a handle on the pups, they are tracked beginning when they are young. Each one is outfitted with a radio collar, each getting a different identifying fre-quency.
As they trans-mit G.P.S. co-ordinates , the pups are then tracked via the dual methods of aerial and grand telemetry.
“Twice a week, members of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fly over territory, either to look for
a particular animal or to see where the population is moving,” Kim Wheeler, executive director of the Red Wolf Coalition, said.
The wolves are also tracked on the ground using hand-held antennas.
“The wolves are tracked to see if they stay or move out of the recov-ery area, keeping up with the fe-males and locating dens and pups,” Wheeler said.
The newer satellite collars are expensive and advanced, offering more extensive range distribution data than the traditional VHS col-lars. With the satellite collars, it is possible to go back and review a specific wolf ’s movements over a given period of time.
Another goal is to keep hybridiza-tion from occurring between red wolves and coyotes, in order to keep the red wolf population pure.
According to Wheeler, red wolf packs do this on their own, but it can become a problem when red wolves are killed and coyotes invade camp looking for a mate.
The increase in population has many implications for both now and in the future.
In the short-term, there are more red wolves to keep track of. This would lead to greater potential for more breeding pairs, possible dis-placement of coyotes and expansion of the red wolf population.
“Biologists hope that 50 percent of pups survive each year to displace those lost to age,” Hendry said.
The life span of a red wolf is gen-erally seven to eight years. In cap-tivity, they can live up to 15 years.
PHOTO COURTESY/RED WOLF RECOVERY PROGRAM.Diane Hendry records data as biologist Michael Marse holds the male pup heading to the Rich pack.
PHOTO COURTESY/RED WOLF RECOVERY PROGRAM.A litter of red wolfpups sleeping.
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Students re!ect on tragic week in pop culture
It was a tragic time in the world of pop culture with Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Billy Mays passing away within the same week. Fans across the world are still mourning the deaths of their icons. The reactions extend to the campus as the students reflect on the deaths of the celebrities.
“Somebody called me and told me Michael Jackson died. I’m not a big fan but I know a lot of people who really liked him and Thriller. He died in California and that’s where I’m going for grad school. I know Michael Jackson’s life was messed up but I didn’t know he would die that soon.
Teresa ZhangR.E.U. student, applied math
“I guess I was surprised. The most surprising would be Billy Mays because you hear his voice on TV all the time.”
Kerrie Hayessenior, !lm studies
“My reaction was ‘wow, that’s a lot in one week.’ Michael Jackson was the most surprising because he’s someone so big. He was only 50 and one of the most known people in the world. Farrah Fawcett’s death was still sad because she had a very rare cancer and publicly hoped for a miracle. And also Ed McMann because a lot of stars got their start on his show.”
Laura Pricesenior, public and interpersonal communications
“I would say the one that surprised me the most was Billy Mays because he seemed like the most healthy out of the four. With Farrah Fawcett it was unfortunately kind of expected. When Michael Jackson died I remember where I was and I was in a restaurant. It’s just shocking because he was this larger-than-life !gure and now he’s gone.”
Will Cousinsgraduate student, mathematics
“It was kind of all at once which was surprising. One died one day and two the next so you wonder, ‘when is it going to end?’ The most surprising death would be Michael Jackson, de!nitely, but also Billy Mays - because of the type of !gures they were, still relatively young. And they were such powerful !gures.”
Dallas Poulksenior, technology education
and melodic breaks with swell-ing keyboards and melancholy guitar solos add to the music an element of sympathy that is rarely seen in the death-metal genre. These thoughtful mo-ments contribute to the overall sophistication of the album.
By contrast, “Drowning in Mud” is a fast, brutal auditory depiction of trench warfare that has singer Sattler cautioning, “Don’t stick your head out. The sniper never sleeps.” Things slow
down a bit for the mid-tempo title track, which is haunting and melodic, but the speed is immediately regained with “No Survivors,” which features more blast beats and blistering guitar solos.
The album nears its end with two fine examples of melodic death metal: “Behind Enemy Lines” and “Fallen Empires,” both of which showcase God De-throned’s expert musicianship. Ultimately, the 38-minute album comes to a close with a mourn-ful instrumental, “Artifacts of the Great War.” This moment of sensitivity nicely bookends
this hard, bullet-riddled album.Although Passiondale doesn’t
serve as a history lesson, God De-throned seems to have come aw-fully close to capturing the raw emotions of combat. The band has also come awfully close to recapturing the level of quality songwriting that was attained with its Bloody Blasphemy al-bum. Fans of God Dethroned should be pleased because,with Passiondale, the band has reached yet another peak.
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OVERHEARDBY AMANDA KARST
What was your reaction to the numerous deaths of celebrities? Which one surpise you more?
“Well you know what they say, ‘celebrities die in threes.’ The most surprising was Michael Jackson. I thought he should have died about 10 to 20 years earlier because most celebrities from that time period lean toward abusive tendencies.”
Brandon Oxendinejunior, architecture landscape and design
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Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek had scheduled a memorial service on Friday, July, 3, 2009, but due to the fact that nothing had been finalized come the event organizer’s announcement, the event had to be cancelled.
Funeral arrangements for Michael Jackson:
There were rumors that a public funeral may be held at the Neverland Ranch, but unfortunately that seems that it will not go through. The funeral will more than likely be held in Los Angeles but the location is not known yet. As for his inheritance, Jackson name his mother and his children as heirs. Should his mother fail to, Diana Ross would gain custody of his children.
PHOTO COURTESY/PHILA. INTERNA"TIONAL RECORDSThe Jacksons sign with Gam-ble & Hu" in 1976.
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CheriStudio: Miramax FilmsSynopsis: A romantic drama set in 1920s Paris, where the son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy a after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
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PEGGY BOONE/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOLinebacker Nate Irving grabs Clemson running back C.J Spiller in a game at Carter-Finley Stadium September 22, 2007. Irving was in an auto-mobile accident this weekend that could sideline the star this season.
utilize different styles of play.“I think we are going to be
better and more versatile in a couple positions,” Lowe said. “And we will have an oppor-tunity to play a little different style at times.”
The six-man class also in-cludes seven-foot center Jor-dan Vandenberg of Australia. Vandenberg, who could pro-vide match-up problems with his combination of height and mid-range jump shot, was considered one of Australia’s top big men while playing at
the same school that produced NBA players Andrew Bogut and Luc Longley.
Local product Josh Davis of nearby Athens Drive rounds out the class.
The expected production from the incoming recruits will com-bine with that of players such as Mays and Smith, who showed flashes of potential last season, to make this young team one that Julius Mays says is capable of putting together a strong 2009-2010 basketball season.
“As long as they do the little things that we need to win, I think we’ll be alright,” Mays said.
State’s leading rusher. Last year, Owen Spencer (minus the drops) and Jarvis Wil-liams more than compen-sated for the loss of Donald Bowens and George Bryan excelled while Anthony Hill recovered from his second stint on the injured list.
Yes, Irving’s injury is huge and will certainly have an immediate impact on the lineup and effectiveness of the defense, but his health certainly does not make or break the entire season. One way Irving’s injury may even help — yes, help — the team is by allowing younger play-ers to step up and play. Terrell
Manning, coming off an injury of his own last season, Sterling Lucas, Dwayne Maddox and William Beasley will all have an opportunity to try an fill Irving’s rather large shoes on the strong-side of the defense.
So to all those Wolfpack fans who on Sunday had the “you have got to be kidding me” feel-ing, relax. This isn’t our first go-around with injuries and it most certainly won’t be the last. Just realize that the glass is still half full. It’s probably more like three-fourths full really.
And to the healthy members of the football team, you have 63 days. Don’t play basketball, drive, overextend your arm while reaching for the remote or do anything which could even vaguely present the opportunity for injury. I can’t take any more.
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Hill to compete in Tiger’s tournament
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Softball team brings Gunther aboard
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QUOTE OF THE DAY“I think we
are going to be better and more
versatile in a couple positions.”
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Lowe hopes recruiting class will provide much-needed depth, security
Pack’s star linebackerinjured in car accident
The curse continues?
Junior linebacker suffered collapsed lung, broken leg in collision early Sunday morning
Kate ShefteSports Editor
Wolfpack linebacker and redshirt ju-nior Nate Irving was involved in a one-car accident early Sunday morning that landed him in the hospital with a col-lapsed lung and a broken leg.
“Our thoughts and prayers are certainly with Nate and his family,” head coach Tom O’Brien said in a statement. “All of his teammates and coaches will be there to support him as he recovers and goes through the process of rehabilitation.”
Irving underwent surgery at WakeMed Trauma Center Sunday. The procedure went well, according to reports.
Through the N.C. State media relations department, O’Brien said Irving was aware he was “lucky to be alive” after the accident. O’Brien said his staff will not talk to him about returning to training camp for several weeks.
Irving was traveling to Raleigh from his hometown of Wallace, N.C. on I-40 West in Johnston County. According to Johnston County highway patrol, at 4:40 a.m. the left side wheel of Irving’s 1999 Chevrolet went off the road into the grass median, then he swerved off the road to the right. The car struck two trees and came to rest in a ditch.
State troopers reportedly suspect Irving might have fallen asleep at the wheel be-fore the crash. Irving has been charged with reckless driving.
Though he missed almost a third of the season with injuries, Irving was an honorable mention All-ACC performer in 2008. He tied for third on the team with 84 tackles and was starting to show signs of the dominant player he was before a series of injuries hampered his career.
The football season begins Sept. 6 at home against South Carolina.
As an avid football fan who cries himself to sleep following the end of the college and NFL
football sea-s o n s , t h e buildup pe-riod for the s ta r t of a new season is excruci-at ing. The NFL Draft, ot her of f-season news and message boards (yes,
message boards) keep me going, but not by much. By the begin-ning of July, I’m usually aware of the days, hours and minutes until kickoff. For those wonder-ing, the South Carolina game is — gasp — 63 days away. And this year, perhaps more than any year since the Philip Rivers era, I’ve been aware of the ever-intensifying media hype. Sev-eral media outlets have picked the Wolfpack to finish near or even at the top of the ACC’s At-lantic Division this season and I’ve heard many Wolfpack fans utter the words “we’re going to win nine games.”
Being a natural pessimist, I’ve never really let myself get too wrapped up in the hype because in the end, preseason rankings don’t mean jack. But this year, I let myself slip. A little at first, and then more and more as the season got closer. After watching the brilliance of Russell Wilson and the solid play from the rest of the team the last half of 2008, I let myself start to believe the hype.
And the injury bug that had followed the Wolfpack like a low cloud in Tom O’Brien’s first two seasons seemed to be gone for good. As of last week I was a charter member of the “we’re going to win at least eight games club.”
And then I woke up this past Sunday to hear the news of Nate Irving’s car accident on his way back to Raleigh from his home-town of Wallace, N.C. I think I actually heard an audible sigh from Wolfpack fans through-out the area Sunday. It’s that “you have got to be kidding me” sigh followed by the shaking of the head. It’s what Wolfpack fans have grown accustomed to here lately.
Remember these names? An-thony Hill (twice), Toney Baker, Andre Brown, Donald Bowens, Russell Wilson, Jamelle Eugene and even Nate Irving. All of these players have missed at least some playing time during the last two years. Bowens missed all of last year and Baker hasn’t made a big contribution to the team since 2006.
Irving’s injury this week fell right into line with all the inju-ries before. J.P. Giglio, a sports writer for the News & Observer, even wrote a column in Sunday’s paper discussing the health of the Pack and how fortunate Tom O’Brien must feel to have a heal-ty team. According to the N&O Web site, the story was pub-lished at 4:44 a.m. Sunday, just four minutes after police said Irving crashed his car outside of Raleigh on Interstate 40. The story wasn’t even published be-fore somebody was hurt. (By the way, thanks a lot, J.P.)
Needless to say, my feelings about the upcoming season changed on Sunday afternoon. I cancelled my membership in the “we’re going win at least eight games club” and started reining in my runaway expectations.
But the more I’ve thought about it this week, the more I’ve started to believe the Pack will get past this injury. It’s not like the team hasn’t done it be-fore. In 2007, Jamelle Eugene stepped in for Baker and Brown and finished the season as N.C.
Highly-touted six-man recruiting class has coaches and players alike excited and eager for the team’s first action of 2009
Tyler EverettDeputy Sports Editor
Thanks to what is easily the highest-rated recruiting class of his short career with the N.C. State, coach Sidney Lowe and his staff are optimistic about their team’s chances of improving on its finish at the bottom of the ACC in Lowe’s first three seasons.
“I’m excited about the play-ers we have coming back and the players we have coming in,” Lowe said. “I think we’re going to be better.”
The class, which features three recruits ranked in the top 65 of ESPN’s national top 100, has been hailed as one of the country’s best by multiple recruiting services, as ESPN.com has the Pack’s 2009 class ranked No. 11 in the country while scout.com has it No. 13 nationally.
In addition to receiving high praise from the recruit-ing analysts, the incoming talent also has sophomore Julius Mays excited about the prospect of playing with such a talented and well-rounded recruiting class.
“As a team, we are real ex-cited about all of them,” Mays said. “I think we got all the pieces that we needed.”
One of the headliners of the class is shooting guard Loren-
zo Brown of Georgia, ranked by ESPN as the #9 shooting guard in the nation and the #29 player in the nation. Brown comes to Ra-leigh with a reputation as some-one capable of producing both off the dribble with athleticism and from the perimeter with his outside shot. Joining him on the perimeter will be Scott Wood of Indiana, who played high school basketball with Mays.
Lowe said he looks forward to seeing what each of his recruits will bring to the table. He spe-cifically cited the combination of Brown’s ball-handling and Wood’s accuracy from long-distance.
“They all have a certain thing right now that they do well,” Lowe said. “From Lorenzo’s abil-ity to handle the ball at the two-guard position to Scott Wood’s ability to shoot the ball, I feel comfortable with them.”
As welcome as the perimeter help will be, the arrival of a pair of promising power forwards, DeShawn Painter of Virginia and Richard Howell of Georgia—the 19th and 20th ranked high school power forwards in the country according to ESPN—could prove even more valuable. Their progress and development will likely prove vital in light of the loss of last season’s top two
scorers and rebounders, Ben McCauley and Brandon Cost-ner.
Painter and Howell could further their impacts if one or both can draw attention of opposing team’s interior defenders away from bur-geoning low-post scorer Tracy Smith, the rising junior who scored 10 or more points in each of last season’s final nine games.
Lowe said he expects the infusion of young talent to improve the team by provid-ing the versatility necessary to
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOHead basketball coach Sidney Lowe inspects his o!ense during the second half of the game against High Point at Reynolds Coliseum Saturday Nov. 22, 2008. N.C. State won 69 to 56.
RANDY BARLOW/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTORedshirt junior linebacker Nate Irving celebrates a Pack win by acknowledging the crowd after a victory over Virginia Saturday, October 27, 2007.
Derek MedlinManaging Editor Emeritus
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