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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina
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Jessica HatcherStaff Writer
Cow moos throughout the Brickyard Monday signif ied the beginning of Agricultural Awareness Week, put on annu-ally by the Alpha Zeta fraternity.
The purpose of the event is to expose and educate students about agriculture’s role in the world, according to Tommy Batts, senior in horticultural science and head chair of Agri-cultural Awareness Week.
“There are a lot of people who have never seen a cow,” Batts said. “We want to show people that there is more to food than a grocery store.”
Cory Robbins, senior in animal science, said he agrees agricul-ture is often out of sight and out of mind for students.
“There are a lot of misconcep-tions about agriculture,” Rob-bins said. “Very few people know where their food comes from.”
Sheep, goats, cows, chickens and pigs are on display for view-ing, along with a tractor and crop sprayer. There is also a roping dummy for students and curi-ous passers-by to try their hand at the rodeo event.
“Roping dummies are used as tools to improve roping skills or for practicing roping skills when a real horse or steer isn’t avail-able,” April Boggs, sophomore in fisheries and wildlife sciences and treasurer of the Rodeo Club, said.
Inside the information tent, students can speak with repre-sentatives from clubs like Future Farmers of America, Poultry Sci-
ence Club, Rodeo Club and Horti-culture Club. Each club will have a display featuring information about their organizations during the week.
Events will be held throughout the week as well. On Monday, Alpha Zeta held an “ag. olympics” where two faculty members, Lynn Worley-Davis and Lori Snyder, participated in competitions like a peddle tractor race and an egg-on-a-spoon race.
Tuesday, there will a milking con-test at 11 a.m. between Elizabeth Gardner of WRAL and Joe Reardon, the consumer protection assistant commissioner of the North Caro-lina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Wednesday, an Agricultural Fo-rum will be held in 341 Riddick Hall at 5:00 p.m. The forum will discuss food security and safety and will feature a panel of experts, like Reardon.
The “Kiss the Pig” contest will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. Up to that point, students can vote for who they want to kiss the pig by placing a donation in that person’s container. Among the contestants are Andy Walsh, student body presi-dent; Dave Doeren, football coach; Richard Linton, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; and Nancy Thai, president of the CALS Agri-Life Council.
In addition to educating people about agriculture, the event “gives people an opportunity to ask ques-tions to people who have agricul-ture-related experience,” Lauren Mabry, graduate student in animal science and chancellor of Alpha Zeta, said
Kathleen Wood, senior in animal science, agrees.
“It’s especially important for peo-ple who are not agriculture-related majors to visit our exhibits. A lot of people hear about it, but they don’t know what we really do.”
All exhibits will remain in the Brickyard until Thursday at 3:00 p.m.
Taylor O’QuinnStaff Writer
Stephen Kelly visited N.C. State Monday to discuss the logistics of the Keystone XL Pipeline and possible security threats from China because of Canadian oil.
Kelly, a professor at the Duke Sanford School for Public Policy, said most Americans would be shocked to know the United States imports most of its oil from Canada.
Canada accounts for a quarter of the oil the U.S. has to import, with Saudi Arabia being our sec-ond highest supplier, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
“We are the only country that buys Canadian oil,” Kelly said. “Mostly because we have the industry to refine their heavy, crude oil.”
Kelly said Canada currently has 98 percent of its oil reserves in the Oil Sands region of Al-berta. All of the oil the U.S. im-ports from Canada comes from underground pipelines.
Five years ago, Canada pro-posed a plan to build the Key-stone XL Pipeline that would run from the Oil Sands through Montana, South Dakota and Ne-braska to the Gulf Coast, Kelly said.
Kelly said the pipeline has not been fully built yet, due to dis-cussions concerning environ-mental issues around the Ogal-lala Aquifer in Nebraska.
“If Keystone isn’t built, the
current pipelines will reach capac-ity by 2014,” Kelly said.
Nebraska recently proposed a new route that would go around the aquifer instead of through it. The proposal is currently under review by the State Department, according to Kelly.
Kelly said the United States’ deci-sion to build the Keystone XL pipe-line could help improve gas prices, especially on the West Coast where gas prices are currently higher than anywhere else in the U.S.
He added that since national oil companies are controlling 80 per-cent of the world’s oil, Canada is a special case because its oil compa-nies are open to the private sector.
Canada currently owns 64 percent of its oil companies, the U.S. 12 per-cent and China 7 percent, according to the Environmental Information Administration.
“Our energy security position is getting stronger and stronger,” Kelly said.
China, as a current world power, could pose a threat to the oil in-dustry if it continues to buy small shares in Canada’s oil companies, Kelly said. In 2004, China didn’t own any percentage of Canada’s oil companies, and now it owns seven.
“I’m not sure if we need to be wor-ried,” Kelly said. “It’s up to each individual, but this stuff is damn interesting.”
Kelly said China completed its first purchase of an entire Cana-dian oil company in the Oil Sands region Feb. 25. This investment cost $1.4 billion — the largest offshore
Alden EarlyStaff Writer
Get ready for banjo music!Raleigh will play host to the an-
nual International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass festival for the next three years.
Previously held in Nashville, Tenn., the IBMA is planning a five-day format for the festival and the 24th Annual International Blue-grass Music Awards Sept. 24-28 at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts.
Katherine Coe, an administrative and media assistant with the Inter-national Bluegrass Music Associa-tion and a former Raleigh resident, said the IBMA was attracted to the city because of the close proximity of conference venues like the Ra-leigh Convention Center and the Duke Energy Center for Perform-ing Arts.
“The prices are very good in Ra-leigh,” Coe said.
Coe said the IBMA estimated 13,000 people attended the event over a seven-day span during the 2012 festival. Nashville experienced a $3.7 million boost to its economy from the people who had visited the city during the 2012 event, accord-ing to Coe.
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Iraq: 10 years laterTim Gorski & Mark HerringStaff Writer & Editor-in-Chief
Today marks the 10-year anniver-sary of the invasion of Iraq by the coalition of armed forces led by the United States.
The war left a definitive mark on the lives and experiences of stu-dents across the globe and here at N.C. State.
The war began in a time when global terrorism, for the first time, hit the U.S. at home and allegations of weapons of mass destruction were as genuine as they were ominous to the George W. Bush Administra-tion.
Faced with the perceived threat of Saddam Hussein’s prolonged tyran-nical rule, the militaries of the U.S., Great Britain, Australia, Poland and Peshmerga Kurdish militia invaded Iraq to, in the words of George Bush in his radio address to the U.S. peo-
ple, “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people.”
Polls conducted by The Gallup Poll, CNN, and USA Today in 2003 indicated that most Americans were in favor of the war in Iraq under the condition that the United Nations would have approved of the inva-sion. This, however, was not the case: The U.N. Security Council found there was not enough evi-dence of weapons of mass destruc-tion to authorize the use of force.
March 19, 2003, the U.S. made the decision to invade Hussein’s Iraq. A decision a majority of Americans — 53 percent, Gallup Poll — today view as a mistake.
Justified or not, those who were involved or directly affected by the war have insights unmatched by the general population.
Russell Snyder, a graduate of N.C.
State, veteran of the Iraq War and author of his accounts of psycho-logical warfare in Iraq, Hearts and Mines, was permanently changed by the war.
“[The war] transformed me in ways I still don’t understand. The sort of sensory experiences and emotions that one struggles with in such an environment have a ten-dency to be intense and long-lasting. They infect my dreams and waking thoughts. I don’t really count years. Iraq is always with me, and probably always will be in some form,” Snyder said in an email.
Mohammad Hamoudi, a sopho-more in textile engineering who has family Iraq, has been person-ally affected by the war. His uncle, an Iraqi native, was killed in Syria by vengeful Iraqis. Hamoudi’s uncle was a pilot in Saddam’s military, and
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Raleigh hosts bluegrass festival
Duke Professor lectures on Keystone pipeline and security issues
Cows and pigs and goats – oh my
CAIDE WOOTEN/TECHNICIANLisa Angermeier, junior in animal science, (right) and Taylor Jones, junior in microbiology, check out the poultry science club’s live exhibit in the Brickyard March 18, 2013. The exhibit, as a part of Agriculture Awareness Week, illustrates the genetic improvements made in meat-producing chickens over the past sixty years through selective breeding techniques alone.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF U.S. ARMYIraqi children gather around as U.S. Army Pfc. Shane Bordonado patrols the streets of Al Asiriyah, Iraq, on Aug. 4, 2008.
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Emily HatcherStaff Writer
The word “manufacturing” does not traditionally bring the arts, design and humani-ties to mind.
Manufacturing is often characterized by large fac-tories with technologies that incorporate science, technol-ogy, engineering and math-ematics.
But that may be changing.Brooks Raiford, CEO of the
North Carolina Technology Association and alumnus of the College of Humani-ties and Social Sciences, said the misconception could be attributed to the idea that outside of STEM, studies are non-technical.
This perception is often untrue in the social scienc-es, according to Doug Gillan, head of the Department of Psychology.
“Some disciplines within psychology are focused on life sciences, like cognitive neural science and biology,” Gillan said. “Any science that deals with living creatures is going to be interested in be-havior and that is where psy-chology comes in.”
CHASS Dean Jeff Braden said humanities are also rel-evant in the manufacturing world because they connect cultural implications to the technical aspects of manu-facturing.
“All commerce and social interaction takes place in a social and cultural context and those contexts are what we explore in the humani-ties,” Braden said. “You can’t be successful in the absence
of that understanding of the social and cultural contexts.”
Many have revised STEM to STEAMD, adding arts and design because of their importance to the manufac-turing sector.
“Engineers are designing things for humans to use. Understanding anthropol-ogy, culture, sociology, etc. is pretty critical [for manu-facturing],” Gillan said.
The humanities answer the question, “How do we do manufacturing well?” by ex-ploring the possible societal and environmental repercus-sions, according to Braden.
Design plays a crucial role in manufacturing as well, according to Dean Marvin Malecha of the College of Design.
“We are not just creating new technology, we are pro-ducing products that serve and improve people’s lives,” Malecha said.
Malecha wants to rearrange STEM and STEAM and make them more than just an ac-ronym.
“I want to stop talking about ‘STEM’ and ‘STEAM’ and start ta lking about ‘TEAMS.’ We all need each other to produce great prod-ucts. We can’t do it alone,” Malecha said.
Braden said that arts, hu-manities and design each bring creativity into the manufacturing world.
“Creativity will drive the economy of the future and arts are one way [to] stimu-late the economy,” Braden said.
“Design inquiry is the cre-ative portion of manufactur-
ing. Designers make products that you don’t know you can’t live without. They have the ability to see what does not yet exist,” Malecha said.
The humanities, arts and design already have estab-lished a role in manufactur-ing, although some people may not realize it, according to Raiford.
“It exists and happens in real life. It doesn’t matter where you’re working. Mili-tary, law firm, bank or retail, there is always going to be a hierarchy of leadership,” Raiford said. “You can’t be a leader just by having the tech-nical skills to do the job, you also have to have the ability to lead and inspire others. The humanities teach us those skills.”
Gillan acknowledged the importance of liberal arts skills and said he used them in manufacturing with Loki Engineering and Science. He said daily communication, conferences and writing were all crucial skills in the workplace.
Gillan said he also worked with General Foods in taste perception to identify the psychological underpinnings and discover how and why people react to certain tastes.
A background in the liberal arts also provides career and leadership opportunities, ac-cording to Raiford.
“Just look at the governor and CEOs of top companies,” Raiford said.
Governor Pat McCrory has a political science degree. Sam Palmisano, CEO and former-president of IBM, and Dan Hesse, CEO for Sprint, both have liberal arts degrees.
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THROUGH NATALIE’S LENS
Break it down
Filming a Harlem Shake video, Rebecca Goldston, junior in animal science, Brandi Cole, freshman in en-gineering, Alan Capps, freshman in agricultural business, Saba Khan, freshman in electrical engineering
ignore Nathaniel Finney, dressed as ironman as he dances at the beginning of the song by Baauer. “It seemed like it would be good for student morale around exam time,” Finney said. Vicky Wright, a senior in zoology and organizer of the event, said it was a stress reliever for everyone after a long week back at school after spring break.
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Jacob FulkStaff Writer
If you were to wander across Centennial Campus, on the far side of Lake Ra-leigh, you would find a large house nestled in the woods at the end of a long driveway.
That house is N.C. State’s Chancellor’s Residence and contains the kitchen named “best new room in America.”
The kitchen was named the 2012 Room of the Year by the National Association of Home Builders, as part of
the Best in American Living Awards.
The award-winning kitch-en was designed, along with the rest of the chancellor’s residence, by Marvin Male-cha, Dean of the College of Design.
As described by Malecha, the room exists with an fa-milial aesthetic that is both inviting and distinguished.
Vaulted ceilings create a great openness in the room, while bookshelves remain lower, allowing one to see outside and natural light to
penetrate inside.Malecha noted a key
principle of the room’s design was the inclusion of as much natural light as possible.
Natural light disperses throughout the room from all four cardinal di-rections; so much, that at any time of day, you can experience fresh sun-light.
A white ceiling, compli-mented by white walls,
GREG WILSON/TECHNICIANNew kitchen in the Chancellor’s Mansion on Centennial Campus
Chancellor’s kitchen makes its mark
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Cru makes a case for ChristKevin SchaeferStaff Writer
Proving the Bible’s valid-ity isn’t an unusual topic for a Sunday sermon, but for Cross Examined — an organization geared to-ward the “75 percent” of
Christian-raised students who leave the church during college — it is all in a day’s work.
N.C. State Cru presented “Jesus’ Resurrection: Myth, Hoax or Ultimate Answer” in association with Cross Examined as an attempt to prove their faith, not just to Christians, but to skeptics.
Frank Turek, founder and president of Cross Examined, said he conducts seminars like the one Monday to ad-d re s s t he concerns and ques-t i o n s o f non-Chris-tians.
“This k i n d o f thing isn’t typically d o n e o n college cam-puses. We’re here looking objectively to find answers,” Turek said. “Seventy-f ive percent of students who are raised in church leave it upon enter-ing college, and we’re here to address those issues.”
Turk is a Christian apolo-gist — a person who seeks to provide rational evidence of biblical validity — who
travels to numerous college campuses to answer skeptics’ questions about Christianity.
“My job is to give rigorous logical, scientific, historical and evidential reasons for truth, the existence of God, the historical reliability of the Bible, the resurrection of Jesus Christ and other critical Christian beliefs,” Turek said.
While the primary subject of his lecture was on the res-urrection, Turek discussed everything from evolution-
ary concepts to a nc ient h i s tor y a s a means of formulat-ing a concise and effective argument.
Turek last s p o k e o n campus with Cross Exam-ined in 2008 in Reynolds Coliseum. He
said he tours the country not only to curb skeptics, but also to teach faithful Christians to defend themselves.
“Doing these lectures provides me with the op-portunity to train students to effectively defend their faith, as well as entice non-Christians to give the Bible a
closer look,” Turek said.Cross Examined travels
along Turek’s “apologetic” train of thought.
Turek and several students said Christians do not blindly accept things, insisting sub-stantial evidence toward the resurrection of Christ and biblical truth exists.
“One of the purposes of this seminar is to demolish the lie that faith and reason are separate by showing that faith is grounded in reason,” Turek said.
In addition to his involve-ment with Cross Examined, Turek authored three books that focus on apologetics, titled I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, Legis-lating Morality, and Correct, NOT Politically Correct.
Upon concluding his main talk, Turek opened the floor for questions.
“Society tells us faith and science are at odds, but we believe they are complemen-tary,” Jordan Penley, intern with N.C. State Cru, said. “We believe the gospel is extremely credible and the claims of Jesus Christ are worthy of consideration.”
investment China has ever made, according to Kelly.
Jonathan Ocko, head of the history department, said China imports 60 percent of the oil it con-sumes and is projected to increase that to 75 percent next year. This growth contrasts the U.S. since it’s beginning to import less foreign oil and pro-duce more domestically, Kelly said.
“Energy security should be our goal,” Kelly said.
According to Kelly, there are predictions that the U.S. will be the world’s largest oil producer by 2020. According to the EIA, the U.S. is projected to rise from producing 7.3 million barrels a day in 2014 to 7.9 million, and the numbers will keep growing.
He said China has been patient by only buying small shares of Canadian oil companies at a time so they do not trigger Ameri-
can public concern. Ocko said China is currently the largest world lender.
“The oil in the Oil Sands re-gion is going to be developed
whether we buy it or not,” Kelly said.
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Open Bluegrass street festi-val, is estimated to draw more 16,000 to Raleigh with an im-pact of $9.9 million.
The IBMA is committed to a network of people that is “working together for high standards of professionalism, a greater appreciation for our music, and the success of the world wide bluegrass com-munity.”
North Carolina and blue-grass music have a long-standing relationship that dates back to when early settlers first sprawled out across the southern Appalachian Mountains.
According to the IBMA website, “The inven-tion of the phonograph and the on-set of the radio in the early 1900s brought this old-time music out of the rural South-ern mountains to people all over the United States.”
Two North Carolinians, Earl Scruggs and Carlton Haney helped elevate the status and relevance of blue-grass music across the United States.
Scruggs helped develop a unique style of banjo-playing when he joined Bill Mon-roe’s bluegrass band from Kentucky in 1945. His three-finger picking style became his trademark.
Haney, who is from Reids-ville, is credited with creat-ing and organizing the first bluegrass music festival, held
at Fincastle, Va. in 1965.Sometimes called “moun-
tain music” or “country music,” bluegrass songs originally reflected the rural lifestyle of the early settlers of Appalachia, according to the IBMA website.
African American gospel music and dance music and ballads from Ireland, Scot-land and England have had a great influence on bluegrass.
The banjo, fiddle and gui-tar are musical instruments brought together by bluegrass country music, according to the IBMA website.
The IBMA has members in 50 states and 30 countries, according to the website.
In add i-tion to the classic style born in 1945 that is still performed widely, blue-grass bands today reflect influences from a vari-
ety of sources including jazz, contemporary country mu-sic, Celtic music, rock & roll, old-time music and Southern gospel music in addition to lyrics translated to various languages, according to the IBMA website.
The soundtracks from movies such as Deliverance and Oh Brother Where Art Thou showcased this unique subset of country music to a wider audience.
Those interested in attend-ing the International Blue-grass Music Awards festival should consult the associa-tion’s website. As of March 1 non-members can begin re-questing tickets to this year’s festival.
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JOHN HUNTING/TECHNICIANSteve Kelly, a visiting profesor from Duke, presents oil relations to United States national security on Monday. Kelly discussed the U.S.’s oil imports, and how that impacted relations. Canada is the leading supplier to U.S. in oil.
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together for high
standards of
professionalism,
a greater
appreciation for
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“Society tells
us faith and
science are at
odds, but we
believe they are
complementary.”Jordan Penley, intern with N.C.
State Cru
Raiford said there is a cor-relation.
The idea of STEAMD serves as a personifica-tion of the idea of inter-disciplinary collaboration as well.
“It’s a big mistake to view [the humanities and sciences] as being in con-f lict and it’s important that there’s a blend,” said Raiford.
This is where STEAMD comes in.
“Just in the field of psy-chology, we are working with people in engineer-ing, computer science, management, agriculture and food science,” Gillan said. “We can’t do our jobs without making contact with people in other dis-ciplines.” Don’t miss Technician and the Institute for Emerging Issues’ student forum on manufacturing.
ManufacturingWorks@NCState will present business leaders and will allow students to network and learn more about North Carolina’s largest business sector.
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“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He chose for His inheritance.” —Psalm 33:12
The first time I read this, I doubted its truth,
but now I a m 100-per-cent sure a cu rse will come to a nation whose
god is a human being or other material. As a child growing up in commu-nist China, I was taught to praise Chair Mao as a god, my brain filled with Marxist and atheist doc-trines.
It wasn’t until I came to the United States in 2009 that I heard about God. Many Americans who grow up here get used to the way of life surrounded by religious ideas — churches, prayers and ministries. Even non-believers can’t deny their behaviors are more or less influenced by the ideas of Christianity. But in my home country, it’s a totally different picture. Shortly after I came to the new land, I started paying attention to how Ameri-cans act differently than the Chinese. About love
One striking thing is that Americans, regard-less of their beliefs, al-ways love to say “I love you” to their families and friends, sometimes with warm bear hugs. One time I was hanging out with my best friend, Tim, as he was talking to his mom on the phone. I was shocked when I heard “I love you” and “I miss you” several times.
Shamefully, I never said “I love you” to my parents and sister before I came here, nor did I give them a hug. In China, these kinds of actions are considered weird — especially for guys. You may subscribe to the stereotype that Asians express their love elusively. But for me, the lesson I learned is that if I didn’t even have the guts to spell out my love for my family, I didn’t know how
to love at all. I was curious as to how this
social norm came into being. I started studying the Bible and found that the Scripture is full of commands to love people — even people you are not familiar with.
In East Asia, love only re-volves around family and friends. Love is less likely go beyond the circle of your own kinship. People show their compassion to others’ sufferings, but few of them reach out to help. In con-trast, American people are more willing to help the weak and get involved in volunteer work in various communities.
About equality N.C. State students who
commute by Wolfline every day may not be surprised to see a handicapped student hop on a bus. The driver helps by pulling up a row of seats, and students already on the bus leave their spots. This scene, regular to Americans, stuck in my head for a long time.
In China, the disabled are not granted the same rights as able-bodied people. If this happened in China, people on the bus would complain that the bus was consuming too much of their time and that the handicapped student was a burden. In a hierarchi-cal society, your fate is deter-mined by the social status of your family.
Why do Americans treat the handicapped in such a friendly way? It’s because the Founding Fathers’ idea that “all men are created equal” has been deeply planted in every American man and woman’s heart. Where does this idea come from? Obvi-ously it comes from the belief that God gave life to humans —making everyone equal before God.
After witnessing numer-ous stunning and wonderful stories full of love, grace, for-giveness and thankfulness, I am convinced the Scripture at the beginning of this col-umn tells the truth. Through faith, I have learned the most important lessons of the rest of my life: how to care for and love people, how to re-spect each one as a human, and how to be a man with integrity. I would have never learned these things if I had continued to stay blind to God.
Matthew Clark, senior in arts application
My religion: It’s a long story
I cannot tell you how many times I have been to church with
my family. Not because I’ve been too many times to count, but because I was
so young t h a t I don’t re-member.
My par-ents were raised Catholic. Catholic churches i n t h e
United States have lost 5 percent of their members in the last decade, ac-cording to the National Journal. The church has lost many members due to its anti-abortion, anti-divorce and anti-homo-sexuality stances, just to name a few.
Although they have nev-er completely explained to me why we stopped going to church, my parents have told me many hor-ror stories of the nuns at their Catholic schools and the terrible cafeteria food. I assume their time in Catholic school, paired with their rigorous work schedules, left little desire or time to take my siblings and me to church.
I have no problem with people who are religious. Indeed, religiosity is con-sidered desirable here in North Carolina, the eighth most religious state according to a 2012 Pew Research Center study. It gives the impres-sion of self lessness and commitment. Not only is Christianity accepted, it is
praised in the South. Growing up, I often felt
uncomfortable when my peers and teachers talked about religion. Although my family celebrated Easter and Christmas, I didn’t belong to a church. In elementary and middle school, my peers de-scribed church as “this place that makes me wake up early on Sundays so I can listen to old people talk and sing.”
But in high school, sud-denly everyone around me started liking church. In fact, some students elected to at-tend youth group services throughout the week because one morning a week wasn’t enough for them. But these youth groups, not coinciden-tally, were hubs for popular kids — kids whose values I questioned. I began to realize that a person’s religion does not guarantee that person has certain morals preached by that denomination.
Because I was not raised to be a member of a certain reli-gion, I’ve had a few flings with different faiths. Whenever I slept over at my best friend’s house on a Saturday, her parents took us to their Lu-theran church the following morning. They let me wear jeans and sometimes there was free grape juice, so, as a middle school-aged girl, I was OK with it.
In another instance, while eating lunch at the Atrium last week, my roommate and I were approached by two girls from Texas A&M Uni-versity who came here on their spring break to spread the word of God. The girls were perfectly nice, but rather aggressive — they shared my roommate’s phone number,
without permission, with an N.C. State student so she could recruit her to join a church group on campus. I appreciate commitment, but we expressed no interest in learning more about the group.
And then there’s my most memorable fling: Scientology. When I went to New York City for spring break this year, a stranger pulled me into the Scientology building to watch a film about dianetics. The rather dramatic film did not explain dianetics all too well, but I got the impression that it was anti-medicine. If it was a word in the dictionary, I could give you the real defini-tion, but it’s not. I don’t trust words that Merriam-Webster doesn’t recognize. Nor do I trust Tom Cruise.
Of these very few flings, I have found no true match. Whenever I went to church, I didn’t disagree with anything that was being said, but I just didn’t feel like I was missing anything by not going. Al-though at times I may have felt uncomfortable about my lack of religious identity, it has never felt like I was lack-ing motivation or morals or a purpose. My parents raised me in such a way that I don’t feel like I need a religion to tell me what is right or wrong — I know the difference. I still don’t know if I believe there is a higher being. I can see how people who were raised in poor conditions or by less-than-great parents would find refuge in religion, but I have felt no such desire so far in my life. Some might say I’m confused, but a lighter term might be “agnostic.”
A former Atheist’s confession
Lessons learned in the Iraq WarTen years ago today, the United States
invaded Saddam Hussein-controlled Iraq. Eight and a half years, 4,400 U.S.
deaths, more than 100,000 Iraqi deaths and almost $1 trillion later, the Iraq War officially ended Dec. 15. This war defined foreign policy for our generation. We grew up with this war, and as we reflect on its impact today, we can only hope that it never happens again.
You’d be hard-pressed to find an N.C. State undergraduate student out of middle school 10 years ago. Save for the true political prodi-gies, none of us even knew what foreign policy meant. War encompassed the British red coats and those guys that fought over slavery. It was the stuff of history books, and unless we had a family member actively deployed, it initially remained that way.
But we grew up. As we graduated from the
ranks of middle school, the actions of our country began to matter. We paid attention in the 2008 election and took note of foreign policy’s prominent role in the campaigns — at least until the economy took center stage. Some of us began to express opinions against our Iraqi presence before quickly being labeled “unpatriotic.”
Looking back, it’s clear that was one of the great problems of the Iraq War. From journal-ists to the ordinary citizen, the Bush adminis-tration had everyone convinced that opposi-tion to its efforts was on par with American disloyalty. But after years of the weapon of
mass destruction absenteeism, we realized we’d been duped.
Before we go any further, we’d like to pause and say this did not — in any way — dimin-ish our respect for members of our military. It may appear as if we’re communicating two different messages here, but that’s because these are two different issues. The reasons for the Iraq War may have been misguided, but that doesn’t downplay a person’s decision to risk his or her life for our country. This is true patriotism, and it stands in stark contrast to blindly supporting the decision to go to war in the first place.
So did we go to Iraq for the oil? Did we in-vade to clean up former President George H. W. Bush’s mess? We could argue endlessly, but that’s not really the point. In the end, we just hope we’ve learned our lesson. An eight-and-a-half-year lesson is a hard one to learn, but it’s a lesson no less.
We hope we’ve learned to think more criti-cally about the actions of our government — and to not fear labels such as “unpatriotic” amid our pursuit of the truth. We hope we’ve learned that U.S. involvement in foreign af-fairs is a good thing, but not in the form of an unfounded military invasion.
We don’t have to make sense of what hap-pened 10 years ago. What matters now is that we don’t ever blindly answer to an ambiguous war call again.
Ziyi MaiStaff Columnist
Megan EllisorDeputy Viewpoint Editor
BY GEORGIA HOBBS
In retrospect, what do you think of the United States’ involvement in
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“ I think it was a terrible idea.“
Arthur Juliani senior, psychology
“Honestly, I don’t know much about the war, but I wish there wasn’t a war.”
Delja Adamsjunior, criminology
“I feel like we were there longer than we should have been. “
Jaimie Rachelsfreshman, mechanical engineering
“I feel like it’s [been] prolonged. At first it was necessary, but now I feel like we just need to get out of there. “
Zery Harris, sophomore, English, language, writing & rhetoric.
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Holden BroyhillStaff Writer
Raleigh’s Contemporary Art Museum has new lead-ers after the Contemporary Art Foundation Board of Directors and its N.C. State partners decided to pursue new goals.
A March 8 press release stated the Board, along with Marvin Malecha, dean of the College of Design, “decided to move into new areas of development requiring new leadership.” Elysia Borowy-Reeder has left the position of executive director of the mu-seum after nearly two years of service since the museum opened in the spring of 2011.
CAM is a joint effort be-tween N.C. State’s College
of Design and the Contem-porary Art Foundation. The partners’ mission is to cre-atively display contemporary pieces of art from a variety of artists to reflect the ever changing world that inspired the pieces.
“The Contemporary Art Museum Project for the Col-lege of Design is very impor-tant … in terms of the way it allows us to extend the activi-ties of this college out into the community,” Malecha said in a video on the museum website.
During this period of transition, Kate Shafer has stepped in to serve as interim director. Shafer has experi-ence in leadership with CAM, serving as gallery and exhi-bitions manager and curat-
ing 16 exhibitions since 2011 with nationally recognized artists. She also managed the renovations that transformed a warehouse into CAM Ra-leigh’s current facility.
The museum also an-nounced two new develop-ment team members. Mar-jorie Hodges was named the new director of the Contem-porary Art Foundation of CAM Raleigh. Hodges’ work will be centered on fundrais-ing and donor relations.
In addition, Gab Smith has been named the new director of advancement and mem-bership engagement. Smith is a NCSU graduate who has worked in the museum world for more than a decade. She aims to use new programs to acquire grants and grow a re-
lationship between CAM and the Raleigh community.
CAM Raleigh has many education programs de-signed for a wide range of age groups. After school,
weekend and summer work-shops are offered to middle and high school students to develop their creative poten-tial. Throughout each month, CAM Raleigh has events open
to the community to display its latest pieces and encourage a growing relationship with the contemporary art world.
Lindsey SchaeferStaff Writer
Many students have no-ticed sounds of construc-tion and renovation coming from beyond the vicinity of the Talley Student Center. For many city planners, the noise is a welcome sign of the city’s growth.
In January, Forbes Maga-zine ranked Raleigh fourth fastest growing city in the country in terms of the rate of job growth, economic growth, population growth, unemployment rate and me-dian salary. With such met-rics increasing in relation to many other cities, it may not be surprising that many investors are building more residential units and expand-ing businesses.
The United States Census stated that in April 2010, Raleigh’s estimated popula-tion was 403,892 people — a 46.3 percent growth since 2000. The City of Raleigh Planning and Development department also stated that investors added 55,425 new residential units to the city over the past decade — a 45.9 percent growth.
City planners have seen areas such as downtown Ra-leigh, West Raleigh, North
Raleigh and midtown Raleigh grow in particular due to ex-panded interest and invest-ment. All of these major hubs support Wake County’s eco-nomic success and prosperity.
Russell Allen, hired in 2001 as city manager, has been re-sponsible for managing much of this growth.
“In 2001, the downtown was desperately underval-ued and underutilized,” Al-len said.
Allen’s “5 and 5 plan” he created in 2001 outlined the ways he approached Raleigh’s weak areas in an attempt to change them. In the plan, he marked five major changes, including the opening of the Fayetteville Street mall to traffic, the construction of a convention center and hotel, reorganization of the build-ing code, and increases in public sector and corporate investment.
Allen said he has already accomplished many of these goals.
“The residential, retail, restaurant, art and tourist scenes are all thriving now — all things you need for a vital downtown,” Allen said.
Allen said he believes the city has grown through the parks system in Raleigh, such as the greenways, aquatic fa-
cilities and gymnasiums. He also said he believes some major businesses like Red Hat and most recently, Citrix, will add value and population to the city.
“If you do first-class pub-lic sector investment — if you upgrade the infrastruc-ture, putting in streetscape, under-grounding utilities, making it safer and more walkable, and deal with parking — these things can really leverage huge amounts of private sector investment and make it a better place for students and citizens,” Allen said.
Matt Tomasulo, an alum-nus who received his master’s degree in landscape archi-tecture in 2012, is an urban planner and active commu-nity member of Raleigh. He created CityFabric, a com-pany that uses city-skeleton maps in everyday fashion and household items to encourage social and civic engagement.
Tomasulo also engaged the Raleigh community through his Walk Raleigh project. He hopes to spread his program through his Walk [Your City] initiative, a guerilla way-finding project that directs pedestrians to popular loca-tions around Raleigh based on walking time.
Raleigh recently spent $1.3 million on a traditional way-finding system downtown that included 146 signs and took about three years to plan. The signs are big, tall and inaccessible to pedestri-ans due to the fact that they are made for automobiles coming into and leaving town, Tomasulo said.“The city is going to be forced to grow differently than it has in the past. … We have to re-strain ourselves from grow-ing out and start growing up. … It is simply going to be too
costly to serve people on the periphery if we keep growing out,” Tomasulo said.
Tomasulo believes that Walk [Your City] is about en-couraging healthier commu-nities in transitioning cities by simply changing the per-ception. In theory, the more people on the sidewalks, the safer and pedestrian-friendly urban landscapes become. Tomasulo said he saw an opportunity to complement these city resources and pro-vide an enriched experience for pedestrians in cities for a
fraction of the cost and time. “When I first moved here
in 2007, there was no life on the streets,” Tomasulo said. “Now you can ride through downtown and you can see life. You can see people in-teracting and engaging. That only spurs and attracts other people to do the same thing. That is the whole idea of life on the street and creating vi-brant communities.”
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In the spotlight and one on one, Ian Pe-terson made people stop, watch, listen and remember. The college senior, who
was 6 feet 2 inches tall with untamed curly hair, stood out as a performer — singing was his forte and dancing was his hobby. Cindy Peterson, his mother, described him as an invincible 21-year-old, with a bright future ahead of him — even though he had cancer.
“He was not the kid to just sit around and let things just happen,” Cindy said. “And so, there was every expectation from the diagnosis that he’d get well.”
While working multiple jobs at the same time, singing in N.C. State’s premier men’s a cappella group and shag dancing in his free time, Cindy said Ian was unstoppable. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, Ian tried to keep up his fast pace when he had the strength.
But after a five-month struggle against ad-vanced Burkitt’s lymphoma, a cancer of B-lymphocyte white-blood cells of the immune system, Ian died Feb. 27 while f ighting off an acute strep infection for nearly a month.
Cindy said Ian took his same spirit for life toward his fight against cancer. A boy his moth-er describes as “easy on the eyes,” Ian charmed people even when he was sick — a young nurse slipped him her phone number once.
When doctors told Ian he had cancer Oct. 3, Cindy said he didn’t know immediately how to react. Within that same visit, the doctor had to pump Ian with two liters of saline to prevent his kidneys from failing. Cindy said it all happened too fast.
But to fight a war, Ian had to pick an enemy, and when Ian returned to his family’s Cary home from his first visit to the hospital, he and Cindy got their battle plan together.
“I said, ‘I think we should name the cancer,’” Cindy suggested. “We can have this tangible thing to hate.”
A few minutes later, Ian came up with a name.
“I’m going to name her Bessie,” Ian pro-posed.
Looking at her son in the eyes, Cindy re-sponded, “Well we’re going to kick Bessie’s a**.”
Big man on campusMany students knew Ian as the guy who
could sing, the person who dominated solos during a cappella concerts. He walked around campus with a skip to his step, and he would hum melodies on his way to class.
Ian became involved in singing while he was
in high school drama — he had the lead roll in Oklahoma as a ninth-grade student — and when he decided to come to the University to study public relations, wanted to shift his focus to music.
“He was born to perform, but he didn’t want to study drama in college,” Cindy said. “He was a schmoozer. He could just walk into a room of random people and start a conver-sation.”
During his freshman year of college, Ian au-ditioned for the Grains of Time, N.C. State’s most visible a cappella group, and got a spot on the squad. The charisma he had in person shined on stage, and he became president of the Grains of Time his junior year.
While in college, Ian took up dancing as a hobby, and partnered with his friend, Sarah Craven.
“We would always go dancing together,” Craven said. “He would come over to my place and vice versa. We went salsa dancing, we’d do swing, we’d do shag. We’d do everything.”
Ian’s showy style and prowess on the dance f loor — he frequented North Hills Mall and T.J.’s Shag Club — caught the attention of many, and Cindy recalls random people in public asking him if he were a dancer.
“H i s d r i v e , h i s schmoozer personality and him being kind of cute — the girls were coming out of the wood-
work — led to his popularity,” Cindy said. “He never wanted to be famous, though. He was sociable, but he was humble, too.”
Even when Ian was sick, he’d make time for friends and tried to keep up with dancing.
“I wasn’t going to treat him differently just because he had cancer,” Craven said. “He wouldn’t have wanted that anyway. He and I would still make plans to hang out. We went dancing several times when he was feeling well. All be it we had to cancel a lot plans because he didn’t have the energy or he fell asleep from the medicine he was on.”
Bessie and chemoTo treat Burkitt’s lymphoma, doctors place
patients on eight rounds of chemotherapy spaced 21 days apart. Ian’s doctors don’t know how his cancer came about, and the diagnosis was at first mistaken to be Philadelphia acute leukemia.
Doctors placed Ian on chemotherapy right away after his diagnosis, and after treating him at UNC Hospitals’ oncology ward, doc-tors transferred Ian to Rex Hospital. For the next five months, Ian was in and out of the hospital with round after round of chemo-
therapy. “When he got out of chemotherapy rounds,
he looked like a prison-camp victim — he lost a lot of weight,” Cindy said. “The time be-tween rounds was 21 days, but as his immune system got weak, it would take him longer and longer to get ready for the next round.”
As Ian was immunosuppressed after che-motherapy, he was forced to spend time in isolation, away from friends, to ward off in-fections.
“His body was betraying him, and he asked me one night, ‘What did I do wrong?’” Cindy said. “He was 21, but he was asking bigger questions. He had to. And we left him alone twice in the five months he was sick — we had a lot of alone time with him. Every pa-tient needs and advocate, and we were there to help him fight.”
The Peterson family embraces its faith overtly, and Ian’s parents work for the reli-gious group Cru. As a child, Ian grew up in the Ukraine and Hungary as the son of mis-sionary parents.
“When you’re 21, you’re invincible, but in his case he was faced with his mortality. The last five months of his life, there was a lot of soul searching and returning to his Christian-faith experience.”
While Ian was in the hospital, Cindy said Ian’s friends made an effort to visit him, but at times she had to limit his exposure.
“My first thought was ‘I gotta go there, I gotta visit him,’ but I knew that I couldn’t because he was sick,” Craven said. “I knew that especially working in an ambulance — I’m an EMT — I could have stuff on me that could make him more sick.”
After six chemo treatments, Ian seemed to be on track to complete his eight rounds of therapy — until he spiked a fever Feb. 5. Cindy was advised to take Ian to the hospital if his temperature got above 100.4 degrees. His temperature that night was 103 degrees, and Cindy and Ian went straight to the oncology ward, bypassing the unsanitary environment of the emergency room. He had to be rushed in to his room in a wheel chair.
The next day, doctors placed Ian in the in-tensive care unit and kept him heavily sedated to conserve his energy to fight his infection. Though he was medicated, he was still con-scious and had daily contact with his care-givers.
For the 22 days Ian was in the ICU, a parent was with him. Cindy or his father John bent hospital visitation rules and slept in a chair by his side at night.
The Grains of Time came to the hospital while Ian was in the ICU to lift his spirits. Brennan Clark, a sophomore in mathematics and math education and member of the group, remembers singing for Ian as one of his last memories of his friend who he considered a role model.
“We sang ‘Lean on Me,’ and during that song I think we all felt his energy with us, like he was singing with us,” Clark said. “We were all crying by the end of that song, and it was just a beautiful moment. We sang a few more songs and we said our goodbyes to him.”
On Feb. 27, Ian’s family was present in his hospital room for his final breath.
“From the time he was a litt le boy, he knew he was loved, and we didn’t leave his side,” Cindy said. “We were his advocates up until the very end.”
His resonant memoryFor the Peterson family, the dust is still set-
tling. The month of February took a severe toll on the family, and the Petersons are still trying to find normalcy.
“We went back and forth from the hospital so many times, I have mismatched shoes. I have pairs I cannot even find,” Cindy said.
Ian’s oldest sister, Ashley, was to be mar-ried three days after Ian’s death. Respecting his wishes, the family went forward with the wedding.
March 10, the Petersons held a celebration of Ian’s life after his memorial service at the Summit Church in Durham, which attracted more than 800 of his friends, family and hos-pital workers.
“Losing a child has got to be the most hell-ish thing on earth. I can’t imagine anything worse,” Cindy said. “But I’m not grieving with no hope. There is an expectation that I will see him one day again. Dying at 21 rocks a community — it rocked our world. It’s just so early in the unpacking process.
“Again, I’m just trying to find my shoes.”
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A full life lived, but still too short
ALEX SANCHEZ/TECHNICIANGrains of Time sings the national anthem in Reynolds Coliseum before President Barack Obama’s speech Sept. 14, 2011. Ian Peterson, to the far right, was a lead performer for the group.
JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANCindy Peterson holds a photo of her son Ian during a memorial reunion on the Brickyard on Wednesday. Peterson died Feb. 27, 2013 after battling with cancer for five months.
AFTER THE DEATH OF IAN PETERSON, HIS MEMORY RINGS ON
STORY BY MARK HERRING & JOANNAH IRVIN
“We sang ‘Lean on Me,’ and during that song I think we all felt his energy with us, like he was singing with
us. We were all crying by the end of that song, and it was just a beautiful moment. We sang a few more songs
and we said our goodbyes to him.”Brennan Clark, sophomore in mathematics and math education
“When you’re 21,
you’re invincible, but
in his case he was faced
with his mortality. The
last five months of his
life, there was a lot of
soul searching...”Cindy Peterson, Ian’s mother
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evokes a sense of spacious-ness, as the kitchen extends into a family room large enough to accommodate as many as 125 patrons, accord-ing to Malecha.
Another distinguishing feature of the room is a gran-ite countertop island, suitable for hosting buffets for large receptions or smaller family functions.
Malecha recanted remarks by Chancellor Randy Wood-son, who found the island to be great for hosting a family or just having dinner with his wife Susan, noting that some-times the best conversations take place in the kitchen.
The $3.5 million house was
built and funded through private contributions of money and building materi-als by N.C. State alumni and supporters.
Malecha spoke highly of the contributors who were able to finance the project, despite a building industry that he considered to be “one of the worst in the past 50 years.”
He elaborated further on the significance of such do-nations.
“It was an honor to work on this project,” Malecha said. “I felt a real sense of love for the University through the con-tributions of funds and sup-plies made by the Wolfpack community.”
The construction of the house was a collaborative effort with local interior de-signer Judy Picket and con-
struction company Rufty Homes Inc.
Ntchwaidumela Thomas and Ryan Whitley, juniors in architecture, spoke of the value of collaboration taught within N.C. State’s design program, and how it made the chancellor’s residence project possible.
“Design isn’t a field of isolation. You don’t want to have your idea con-fined, you want to be able to share it,” Thomas said.
Whitley expanded upon Thomas’ thoughts.
“You learn to feed off other people’s ideas and input. You have the feedback of teachers and peers, and meshing those ideas together makes your whole project a lot better,” Whitley said.
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RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANSenior forward Richard Howell tries to block a shot during the ACC Tournament first round game Thursday. Howell had 22 points and 12 rebounds in the Wolfpack’s win against the Hokies.
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his uncle’s involvement in the military was not because he was anti-American or pro-Saddam, but rather because he was a pilot.
However, the effects of the death on his family was not the end of the war’s influence on Hamoudi’s life. Hamoudi was forced to bear the brunt of stereotypes at the hands of his peers at school in Raeford, a small town outside of Fay-etteville.
“No one really cared why we were going into Iraq.
Where I was from, it was just about getting the enemy. Now I am the enemy,” Hamoudi said. “It was so different from before the war. People called me names or terrorist. I just went along with it, I just tried brushing it off. It just became the new normal.”
Despite these unjustifiable insults, Hamoudi said he remains proud of his Iraqi heritage.
Students in the Army ROTC program at N.C. State grew up in the midst of this war, and many recognize the possibility of deploying into combat zones as an inevitable part of their military careers.
“I understand the risks, I know that going into the Army this is what I signed up for,” Matt Williamitis, a corporal in ROTC and sophomore in aerospace engineering, said.
Ma ny members of ROTC were motivated to join the military after the September 11th attacks. Charles Sessoms, a junior in ROTC, expressed that although he would have joined the armed services anyway, 9/11 influenced his decision to become an infantry officer.
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Howell, Brown and Leslie named Coaches All-ACCMen’s basketball senior forward Richard Howell, junior guard Lorenzo Brown and junior forward C.J. Leslie were named to the Atlantic Coast Conference’s inaugural Coaches All-ACC Basketball team. Howell and Brown were named to the first team and Leslie earned third team honors.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Burke finalist for Ashe Sports Scholar AwardWomen’s basketball junior forward Kody Burke was named a finalist for the 2013 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine. Burke is a two-time Academic All-America third-team selection and has a 3.92 grade-point average. She led the Pack in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots in the 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Pack gets WNIT bidN.C. State women’s basketball will continue its postseason in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament. The Wolfpack received an at-large bid to the tournament. The NIT is familiar territory for the Pack. State faced off against two local opponents in last year’s tournament in High Point and Appalachian State. The Pack’s season was ended with a loss in the second round of the tournament with its matchup against the Mountaineers, 66-62.
SOURCE: WOMENSNIT.COM
Perseverance pays off for Wells
Power conferences losing influence and bidsJeniece JamisonSports Editor
For the first time since seed-ing began in the NCAA tourna-ment, the outright Atlantic Coast Conference regular season and tournament champion has not received a No. 1 seed in the big dance. The ACC champion Mi-ami Hurricanes garnered the No. 2 seed in the East region.
Wolfpack men’s basketball coach Mark Gottfried called the decision from the tournament’s selection committee a “bit of a slap in the face to our league.”
Gottfried went on to say the league is perceived as being weaker than its RPI ranking of fourth in the country. The Mountain West Conference is ranked first in the country going into the tournament. The Gon-zaga Bulldogs of the West Coast Conference received a No. 1 seed in the tournament, despite hav-ing the all-time lowest strength of schedule among No. 1 seeds. The lowest-ranked “power six” conference in the RPI rankings is the Southeastern Conference at No. 8.
But, rather than a slap in the
face, it could be a sign of the times. The 2013 tournament has mid-majors splashed throughout the bracket that could possibly have a large impact on its outcome. Af-ter the Zags, the St. Louis Billikens of the Atlantic 10 have received the next highest seed among the mid-majors at No.3. T he a foremen-tioned MWC and A-10 conferences received five bids in this year’s tournament, one more than the ACC.
Our generation remembers the runs Butler made to the national championship, falling short on a last-second heave against Duke and losing to Connecticut in 2012, and Virginia Commonwealth’s run to the Final Four. Memphis did make a run to the national championship game, but the program was consid-ered a powerhouse by then.
It’s time to stop dismissing these teams as Cinderella stories and recognize that great basketball pro-grams do lie outside of the power six conferences.
If there’s a time for a mid-major to make a run at the national title, it’s
now. The top seeds in each region – Gonzaga, Indiana, Kansas and Lou-isville – have already shown they’re very vulnerable in comparison to the top-seeded teams in the past.
Also, some mid-majors are already on their way to be-coming members of the power six con-ferences. The Big East as we know it is done and four of its notable programs –
Notre Dame, Louisville, Syracuse and Pittsburgh – are making their way to the ACC. I’m still mourning the loss of the greatest conference tournament in the nation.
Did Gottfried have a point on the ACC being downplayed? I think he does. The league has shown throughout the year that anyone can lose on any given night. Mi-ami’s streak of an unblemished conference record was stopped by Wake Forest, a team that finished third-to-last in the league.
Duke also fell to two non-tourna-ment teams in the ACC. The Wolf-pack also proved that no team is an easy win in the league after it went to overtime against Virginia Tech and lost to four non-tournament
teams. Seven of the ACC’s 12 mem-bers finished with an overall record of more than .500. Virginia, which was considered a “bubble team” by ESPN, did finish with an 11-7 record in a tough ACC.
The ACC should have been given the respect it deserved in the form of a No. 1 seed for Miami, but it is time to understand that the landscape of college basketball is changing and mid-major programs will soon mesh completely with those of the power six leagues.
Jonathan StoutSenior Staff Writer
Knee surgeries in any sport are difficult to recover from. Many lose faith and shut down their careers after the second or third occurrence. Coming back from five is almost unheard of.
But senior outfielder Bethaney Wells, plagued with injuries in her collegiate career, is the ex-ception.
During her time with the softball program, Wells has un-dergone five knee surgeries, in-cluding two the summer of her redshirt junior year to remove cartilage the size of a fingernail from her hamstring.
Wells suffered her initial inju-ry — a dislocated kneecap — at the end of her freshman season, when she caught her cleats in the lining of the fence at Dail Soft-ball Stadium during practice.
The ligaments were stretched and the cartilage was torn, she said, but there was never a complete tear of any ligaments.
“Some people would call me stu-pid,” Wells said. “We have prob-ably bought four yachts for our surgeons.”
In her sophomore season, Wells was forced to redshirt to recover from her two offseason surgeries. Wells, who refers to herself as a “computer geek,” was originally a computer engineering major, which prompted former head coach Lisa Navas to ask her to tape the team while she was recovering.
“I used to do the whole computer thing — I’m kind of a nerd,” Wells said. “When most kids redshirt they just hang out. They come to prac-tice, do what they can, and during games they just hang out.”
Wells used to program and build computers, she said.
Chipper Jones, former third base-
man for the Atlanta Braves and Wells’ favorite ball player, sparked her interest and inspired her toward competitive softball. According to Wells, she decided she would “be like Chipper Jones” when she played recreational softball as a kid.
Wells is coming off her most pro-ductive season with the team, start-ing 53 of the team’s 54 games and finishing with a .293 batting aver-age. She led the team with 11 home runs and 39 RBIs.
The team’s overall record in Wells’ first four seasons was 100-106, a mark that influenced Navas’ dis-missal following the 2012 season.
“If we’ve had a winning season while I’ve been here, it’s been by one or two games over .500 but nothing spectacular,” Wells said. “We’ve had some cool wins, but we’ve had some ugly losses too.
“I’ve had individual success, but we’ve never had team success.”
The Wolfpack started the 2013
season strong under new head coach Shawn Rychcik. But eight straight losses have left the Pack at 11-13-1.
Wells said that following her red-shirt senior season, she plans on looking into the volunteer assistant position available on the team.
“I don’t want to leave,” she said. “I know how awesome it is here now and it’s just something special to be a part of.”
Despite the trials and tribula-tions of her time with the softball program, Wells believes it could all be worth it — she just wants to win, and believes this team has the ability.
“We know what our expectations are and just get after it,” Wells said. “I think we have the team to go to regionals, and I definitely think we have the team to compete for an ACC title.
“That would mean the world to me. It would make it all worth it.”
ARCHIVE/TECHNICIANJunior outfielder Bethaney Wells prepares to swing at a pitch during the second game of a double header against UNC-Greensboro at Curtis and Jacqueline Dail field March 23, 2011. State won the game 9-0 in five innings.
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Jake Fincher @JFincher2Wish all NC state sports had the
drive and attitude of the ‘83 team
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“...bit of a slap in
the face to our
league.”Mark Gottfried
men’s basketball head coach
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