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Senate discusses amendments to original hate bill, votes to pass it; Watching their weight; Psst! Gossip is natural; Include diversity education in existing classesTRANSCRIPT
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RESPONSE TO TUNNEL INCIDENT CONTINUES
Senate discusses amendments to original hate bill, votes to pass it
Four students apologize for Free Expression Tunnel
Annie AlbrightStaff Writer
The Student Senate adopted Reso-lution 36 by a 48-to-one vote at their Special Meeting Wednesday regarding the hate crime bill.
The bill calls for the individuals who wrote the racist remarks on the Free Expression Tunnel after Election Day to aware of and learn from their ac-tions no matter how the University handles the situation, according to Kelli Rogers, Student Senate pro-tem-pore and junior in political science.
The bill went to Rogers’ commit-tee, the Senate Select Committee on Hate Crimes, after the Senate rejected fast-tracking it at the last Senate meet-ing.
“Students will also be affected be-cause I will not let this be put to rest until all of our policies have been seriously criticized and reevaluated — especially the harassment policy,” Rogers said. “It’s so vague now that
it is not that it does not cover these sorts of things, but that students do not understand what it covers and what the outcome of the actions and consequences are.”
The bill the Senate passed was not the original bill filed, but was instead the bill from the committee meet-ing.
“The bill was sent to the commit-tee and it was changed completely,” Sen. Maritza Adonis, the orginal bill’s sponsor and junior in political sci-ence, said. “What we saw tonight was not my bill.”
Although Adonis originally spon-sored the bill, she said she voted against it to represent the 600 signa-
tures and those present who supported the original bill.
The students who signed the peti-tion were not provided with both the original and alternate forms of the bill said both Rogers and Adonis.
After a motion to strike the alternate resolve clause and replace it with the original, Rogers said that the intent of the alternate was to strengthen the original bill.
Senators Rogers and Adonis both reminded the senators to vote not for personal beliefs but for the students and groups they represented.
Although the Student Senate fairs alright, Adonis said she did not think
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANStudent Senate President Greg Doucette looks over an amendment proposal by Sen. Maritza Adonis while former senator James Hankins speaks to the rest of the Senate. Adonis, a junior in political science and author of the bill, spent the whole night trying to amend it to include provisions providing for the expulsion or suspension of the four students who wrote threatening and racially charged messages on the Free Expression Tunnel Nov. 5. The unaltered bill eventually passed 48 to 1, Adonis being the only senator in opposition.
Derek MedlinManaging Editor
The four students responsible for painting the racist remarks in the Free Expression Tunnel the morning after Election Day issued a formal statement Wednesday apologizing for their actions and asking for the forgiveness of the campus.
The statement contained two parts and included an apology from a male student who wrote the offensive messages about President-elect Barack Obama and an apology from the other three students for their involvement in the incident.
In the main portion of the statement, the student responsible for writing the messages said he wrote the messages with “political in-tentions in mind.”
“My intentions were simply to express my views on the outcome of the election but went too far,” the statement said. “I am very sorry for my actions and for the anger and fear brought to N.C. State.”
The student also expressed interest in taking part in community service and said he hoped the campus could heal.
MEETING ON HATE CRIME BILLWednesday: 7:30 p.m.
Resolution 36 addressing the recent Hate Crimes was adopted on a 48 to 1 vote. Kelli Rogers, Senate pro-tempore, said the bill would affect students by ensuring
that those involved would learn their lesson regardless of the University’s decision for punishment.
City accepts bell at downtown ceremony
Derek MedlinManaging Editor
The Withers Bell, which sat atop Withers Hall for the last 70 years, was officially returned to the city of Raleigh Wednesday in a ceremony downtown.
Matt Robbins, a graduate stu-dent in architecture who found the bell on top of Withers Hall two years ago, said he was glad to see the bell returned to the city.
“It was a relief to get the bell back where it belongs — in the hands of the city and the Raleigh Fire Department,” Robbins said. “To have it returned was very gratifying.”
Robbins and the University de-cided to give the bell — which the city originally owned — back after discovering it could not be used in the rennovation of the Bell Tower.
“In the beginning, the idea was to put the bell in the Bell Tower,” Robbins said. “When we discov-ered the bell was untuned and didn’t sound good, we decided to try and give it back to the city.”
Robbins said the bell being
back with the city will allow citi-zens to learn about its historical nature.
“I’m very excited this story cul-minated itself and that it ended in such a passionate ceremony,” Robbins said. “The response
from the city, the public and the community has been overwhemingly positive. A piece of history has been put back in its rightful place and can now be learned from.”
With the Withers Bell not being an option for the Bell Tower rennovation, scheduled to begin in early 2009, options for how to get a real bell in the Bell Tower are underway.
Robbins, who serves as the chair of the Student Govern-ment Traditions Commis-sion, said the commission is continuing work to try and get a real bell or several bells in the Bell Tower.
“I have been assured that if a bell project is approved, the bells will be able to pass through during the rennova-tion of the Bell Tower,” Rob-bins said. “Now, we’re trying to explore the money and fundraising part of things.”
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Watching their weightCollege athletes work every day to monitor their weight, making sure they’re not only healthy but in top condition. See page 8.
Vice provost says students will still get classes they needs
Courtney BolinStaff Writer
The number of students wait-listed this semester has increased, unlike last year, Vice Provost and University RegistrarLouis Hunt said.
Three thou-sand eight hun-dred and seven-ty-one students have waitlisted at least one class for the spring semester. Of these students 1,842 are freshmen, 1,233 are sopho-mores, 955 are juniors and 511 are seniors, Hunt said.
“About 100 people are coming off the waitlist per night,” Hunt said.
The number of students that can be waitlisted for each section is calculated according to the size of the class. This way larger classes will have larger waitlists available to students than the smaller classes.
Hannah LaRoe, a sophomore in textiles, said she has waitlisted a class for the up-coming semester.
“I’m pretty confi-dent that I will get into the class that I have waitlisted,” LaRoe said.
She has already moved up two spots since she waitlisted the class.
LaRoe said she thinks the wait-
Student waitlist numbers increase
Withers Bell back with Raleigh Fire Department
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANChannel 11 News interviews Matt Robbins, a graduate student in ar-chitecture, after the presentation ceremony for the Metropolitan bell to the !re department Wednesday. “This represents the founding of the Raleigh Fire Department in 1914,” Robbins said.
SENATE continued page 3
APOLOGY continued page 3
WAITLIST continued page 3
“The waitlist system is pretty
efficient.”Hannah LaRoe, a
sophomore in textiles
‘FROM THE STUDENT WHO WROTE THE MOST OFFENSIVE WORDS IN THE FREE EXPRESSION TUNNEL:’
This letter is written as an apology to the Free Expression Tunnel incident. Myself and 3 others were responsible for the acts committed in the Tunnel. The statements written in the Tunnel were written with political intentions in mind. I am aware that racial differences were brought into play by my words, but I want to ensure the university that no physical harm was intended. My intentions were simply to express my views on the outcome of the election, but went too far. I am very sorry for my actions and for the anger and fear brought to NC State. I am also ashamed of the bad light spread on this prestigious university. In addition to my apology, I want to assure the campus that there is no threat to anyone’s safety.
I understand that my language was hateful and I am sorry for the distress I created. In order to restore peace to this university, I have decided, under my own initiative, to attend several workshops dealing with race relations and accepting diversity. I have realized that some of my preconceived ideas were prejudicial and wrong but I am trying to overcome these. I have also decided to participate in some community service activities. I hope peace and friendship can be restored on this campus and in the surrounding community.
‘FROM THE OTHER THREE STUDENTS WHO WERE WITH THE STUDENT WHO WROTE THE MOST OFFENSIVE WORDS:’
In addition to the previous statement, the three of us would also like to express our heartfelt remorse for our participation in the Tunnel acts. While we did not paint the controversial material, we still regret taking any part in this incident that has offended and upset this campus and community. Our intentions were not to do anything of the sort, and we understand that our actions were hurtful to many.
In conclusion, the four of us would like to ask for forgiveness from this university and its student body.
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A military pie in the face
Chris Spach, a senior in polymer and color chemistry, and Jared Evans, a senior in mechanical engineering, prepare for pies in the face by Brad Clements, a senior in meteorology, and Tyler Heilig, a senior in electrical engineering, on Miller Field Wednesday as part of their semester change of command ceremony. The temperature high for the day was 42 degrees and
the seniors couldn’t get pie on their uniforms, so they wore their undershirts. And “[the pie] wasn’t thawed out all the way,” Evans said. “That was the first time I’d ever been pied.” Despite the cold, Even said “it was a fun experience and a good morale booster for the cadets.”
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IN THE KNOW Fourth annual Ram Roast today
In honor of the game against North Carolina football Satur-day, the Ram Roast will take place today starting at 7:10 p.m.
Students will come out and stay all night, guarding the Free Expression Tunnel from being painted Carolina blue.
The pep rally will involve trivia, performances from the marching band, varsity cheer-leading and the dance team, as well as speeches by coach Tom O’Brien and some players.
After the pep rally, barbecue will be provided and students can participate in an eating contests and painting of the tunnel.
The Alumni Association, Se-nior Class Council, the Alumni Association Student Ambassador Program, Student Government, University Athletics and the Wolfpack Club are sponsoring the event.
SOURCE: WOLFPACK WIRE
Gym to hold women’s rock climbing workshop
Carmichael Gym is holding a rock climbing workshop for women in conjunction with Outdoor Adventures’ female instructors.
The workshop runs from 5 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 21 and will cover equipment, knots, safety com-mands and climbing technique. Several routes on the Carmichael rock wall will be open for the ses-sion.
For more information, contact Bill James at [email protected].
SOURCE: NCSU CALENDAR
POLICE BLOTTER12:22 A.M. | ASSAULT ON FEMALEStudent Health Lot Dispute between student and nonstudent. No charges were pressed. Assessment was con-ducted and information was made available. Student was re-ferred to University.
6:07 A.M. | SPECIAL EVENTWendell Murphy Football Center Units reported for duty assign-ments during Football Game.
There were 25 ejections, 27 trespass warnings and 14 University referrals. 11:10 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTYarbrough Drive Report of suspicious incident. Of-ficers located subjects and found no problems. 11:20 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTRailroad Tracks Report of subjects on top of train. Officers spoke with nonstudents and contacted CSX. No further action taken by this department. 7:12 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTD.H. Hill Library Report of subject causing distur-
bance. Subject left prior to officer’s arrival. 1:58 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTWolf Village Student advised officer on foot patrol of possible medical situation. Area was checked but no one in need of medical assistance was located. 11:06 A.M. | WELFARE CHECKMetcalf Hall NCSU PD checked on welfare of stu-dent. 11:13 A.M. | SPECIAL EVENTReynolds Coliseum Officers reported to monitor Wom-en’s Basketball Tournament. 12:01 A.M. | DAMAGE TO PROPERTYDan Allen Drive/Fraternity CourtVehicle stopped where barriers were knocked down. Nonstudent had pickup order for license. License was confiscated. No further action at this time. 4:41 A.M. | CHECK PERSONNorth Hall Report of subject wanting to enter building. Officers checked the area but were unable to locate subject. 7:00 A.M. | FIRE ALARMYarbrough Steam Plant Units responded to alarm. Cause unknown.
9:46 A.M. | SPECIAL EVENT Derr Track WCS reported to monitor event at this location.
10:01 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTD.H. Hill Library Report of suspicious subject. Sub-ject left prior to officer’s arrival. 10:15 P.M. | CHECK PERSONDH Hill Library Report of subject trying to enter library after hours. Subject left prior to officer’s arrival. 2:22 P.M. | CHECK PERSONWendell Murphy Football Center Units responded to report of sub-ject in dumpster refusing to leave. Subject left prior to office’s arrival. 2:51 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOrPublic Safety Center Student reported ongoing off campus harassment and simple assault by another student. Re-port filed.
4:56 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOR REPORTOwen Hall Students involved in ongoing dispute. Appropriate personnel notified.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY“My intentions were simply to
express my views on the outcome of the election but went too far. I am very sorry for my actions and for
the anger and fear brought to N.C. State.”
one of the students who painted the racist comments on the Free Expression Tunnel
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list system works well and ben-efits students.
“The waitlist system is pretty efficient,” LaRoe said. “I like be-ing able to see what number I am on MyPack Portal.”
Laroe said being in the Col-lege of Textiles has been helpful to her because the college tries to open seats in classes that are already full to the students that need the class.
Brian Sain, a sophomore in nutrition science, has waitlisted several classes for the spring se-mester as well.
“I’m having trouble getting into the classes that I need, be-cause I’m switching majors,” Sain said. “ Most of my trouble comes from being waitlisted in classes that I should have had as a freshman.”
Sain said he thinks that there needs to be more spaces available in the classes.
“The classes that I’ve been wait-listed for have too many students
trying to get in to the class,” Sain said. “There just aren’t enough spaces to meet the demand.”
Hunt suggested that students that really need a class should talk to the staff. The staff is al-ways willing to help, Hunt said, students need to take the op-portunities they got to talk with them about their classes.
Being on a waitlist doesn’t guarantee students a spot in the class, though.
“Having a backup plan is a excellent idea, just in case the waitlist never clears for a class,” Hunt said.
But, the students on waitlists shouldn’t be discouraged be-cause they have a good chance to get into the classes they have waitlisted, Hunt said.
When students do not pay their tuition, their schedules will be dropped. This opens a lot of seats in classes that are giving to the students on waitlist.
Students can remain on a wait-list for any class until the first day of the semester, but after the first day the waitlists are dropped.
WAITLISTcontinued from page 1
“I have realized that some of my precon-c e ive d ide a s were prejudicial and wrong, but I am trying to overcome these,” the student said. “I have also de-cided to partici-pate in some community ser-vice activities. I hope peace and friendship can be restored on the campus and in the surrounding community.”
The other three students in-volved also expressed remorse
about their involvement in the incident, saying that they regret-ted “taking any part in this inci-dent that has offended and upset this campus and community.”
In Chan-cellor James Oblinger’s upd ate on the incident, also released Wednesday, Oblinger said he believed
the apologies to be sincere.“The four students involved in
leaving these messages volun-tarily came forward and agreed to issue an apology to the cam-pus and community,” the state-ment said.
APOLOGYcontinued from page 1
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANKelli Rogers, Senate president pro-tempore and chair of the Student Senate Select Committee on Hate Crimes, speaks to the media Wednesday following the almost unanimous vote to approve the bill of which she was instrumental in the creation.
that they collectively represent the student population.
One student said in the meet-ing that she appreciated the time the Student Senate gave to modi-fying the bill but that the time was not what they were looking for. She said students were look-ing for stronger action but that the Senate was not to blame.
Sen. Jason Lindsay, a senior in political science, said in the meeting that the issue at the Senate meeting was not a legal debate.
“There is no legal basis for the expulsion of the students,” Lindsay said. “It is not a legal case. If the University oversteps its boundaries by expelling stu-dents, then the University would face a lawsuit.”
Adonis said she believes this experience has proved how much she needs to continue to stay in-volved in the Senate.
“I can go to bed peacefully for the first time in an awfully long time,” Adonis said. “At the time of the incident, I was not affected personally. However, students came up to me asking as a senator what I was going to do about it.”
Chris Coleman, assistant men’s track and field coach and recruit-er for N.C. State, said that the results of the meeting affected more than just the University.
“The entire nation is waiting to see what will happen here to-night,” Coleman said.
He said as a recruiter, the sta-tus of the University’s harass-ment policy would directly af-fect him.
“The first question I get is ‘Is the University safe?’” Coleman said. “I want my students to be able to answer ‘yes’ and know that if a situation like this hap-pens, then something would be done.”
SENATEcontinued from page 1
“I am very sorry for my actions.”
One of the accused in the apology letter
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Student Senate passed a Free Expression Tunnel Response Act Wednesday
night. It condemned the actions of the four students responsi-ble for the incident in the Free Expression Tunnel Nov. 5 and pushed for reform of University regulations regarding threaten-ing speech.
It also called for the University to punish and educate the four students with cross-cultural community service, counseling and diversity education, which ties in with Vice Provost for Di-versity and Inclusion Jose Picart’s plan for required courses in di-versity.
While diversity education is important and may prevent in-cidents like the one in the Free Expression Tunnel on Election Day, adding diversity courses
may not be effective. The incident in the Free Ex-
pression Tunnel demonstrated how far we have to go to deal with prejudice and threatening speech on campus. We cannot ignore these events and hope the problem goes away.
As the University is already cut-ting existing classes due to bud-get cuts and students are already required to take a number of gen-eral education courses, expand-ing existing required courses to include more diversity education and offering optional courses on the subject would make more sense than making them require-ments in students’ general educa-tion requirements.
The final bill did not advo-
cate for suspension or expulsion and only supported punishing the students responsible for the threats they wrote in the Free Expression Tunnel with diversity education and counseling.
This doesn’t solve the problem. The University is right to seek to educate both the students re-sponsible and future students in diversity awareness.
But simply adding classes is impractical. How does the Uni-versity intend to pay for the new diversity classes when it is already in the process of cutting courses? Further, how does it expect the classes to have an impact without student feedback?
Students already view some of the general education require-
ment courses as a hurdle the Uni-versity throws in front of them in order to graduate. And diversity is not something students can learn in the classroom — it is a product of interacting with peo-ple from other backgrounds.
The chancellor’s task force needs to keep this in mind as it debates policy changes — getting student involvement should be a top priority, as they are the ones who will see the biggest changes from any policy changes.
The task force should consider making the diversity programs like the AlcoholEDU online course all incoming students are required to take.
It should also use existing re-sources to provide diversity edu-cation and include more exten-sive diversity programs in current general education classes.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the
editor-in-chief. THE ISSUE:Student Senate passed a bill pushing for the Chancellor’s Task Force on Diversity to reform University policy on threatening speech and pushed for diversity education for at least the four students involved in the incident.
OUR OPINION:Students need to stay involved with the task force’s decisions regarding diversity education classes.
THE SOLUTION:The University should use existing general education requirement classes to teach diversity and add optional diversity courses for those interested in learning more.
Include diversity education in existing classes !OUR VIEW"
Here’s to not taking the Ram Roast too literally.
Phil Hursey, junior in biochemistry
If there’s something I love more than beating UNC-Chapel Hill on a regular
basis, it’s beating them when they’ve got something going for them.
Unfor-tunately, Maryland already stole the big thunder for us this past weekend by nai l ing a last-second field goal at
home and effectively knock-ing the Tar Heels out of the running for the ACC Cham-pionship game. But I’d love to knock them even further down the standings ladder and relegate them to the blue turf in Boise, Idaho for their Christmas break.
Ever since Butch Davis has taken over the helm down the road, the Tar Heels feel they’ve resurrected themselves to some sort of a semblance of a national power. They have a coach with national promi-nence and paid him an effi-cient $425,000 per win last year after coaching Miami to national prominence and then failing miserably in the NFL. They’ve recruited hyped up star power across the board, and this year they’ve managed to trounce nation-al powerhouses like big, bad Notre Dame and the Big East perennial powers Rutgers and University of Connecticut.
They shot up the polls, and
at one point, some sports Web sites were predicting they’d be the ACC’s representative in the Orange Bowl. The UNC football team has even gotten so good that coach Davis has decided that Carolina Blue as a color isn’t good enough for their new national image — he’s changed their uniform colors from light blue to a color that oddly resem-bles Duke blue.
Take that, tradition — Tom O’Brien would be run out of town if he tried to change our uni forms to some sort of maroon color l i ke h is old team’s uniforms up in Boston. But then again, when UNC only has 48,000 in attendance for a game against a top 25 op-ponent when competing for an ACC Divi-sion title in a stadium that seats 60,000, I guess people won’t really notice the difference in uniforms.
We’ve got the best fans in the ACC. Even though we’re last in our division and have been re-building our program for the last few years, we consistently sell out home games and show up in droves at away games, regardless of how badly we were beaten the week before. We’ve got momen-tum on our side, the resources to make it happen and the support to create what could resemble a home game on Saturday much
like it was last weekend at Duke.
A win this weekend is an-other step in the rebuilding process and a sign of how far our team has come since the beginning of the season. A win this Saturday will signal that we are in fact the best team in the state of North Carolina.
Football will always be sec-ond fiddle to basketball in Chapel Hill — some people speculate that’s the reason
Mack Brown i s now a coach with a nat iona l tit le under his belt at Texas and not at the University of North Caro-lina. And as much as the fa ns f rom Chapel Hill wil l whine about how
they don’t care about football or they’re only basketball fans — beating them on Saturday will give N.C. State alumni, students and fans a year-long pass to rub it in their face that the lowly Wolfpack went to Chapel Hill and rained on their parade of star-studded entitlement. Go Pack!
Send Benton your thoughts on what Saturday’s game will mean to [email protected].
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Knock the Tar Heels down a peg
“A win this weekend is
another step in the rebuilding
process and a sign of how far our
team has come.”
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University response entirely appropriate
We live on a new racial frontier. In deep-South Louisiana, I grew up when Jim Crow still lived. All of my early education through high school (1957-1969) was racially segregated from whites. So in my life time, we have gone from segregation-by-law to desegregation-by-law to having an African-American (actually biracial) president-elect. Those dramatic, swift changes are why when the election results came in, some Americans cel-ebrated in joy, and some Americans cringed in fear.
The morning after the election I ran into Tom Stafford, who told me about the racial graffiti that threat-ened the person of president-elect Obama. Stafford was shaken, but went on with handling that business. In that moment, I was thinking about my “interpersonal relationships and race” class the next day. In view of all that was happening, I decided to improvise. I would have my students talk about the interracial event of the election. I would also lead a discus-sion about the racial graffiti.
All semester, you see, I have been introducing my racially-mixed class to social psychological concepts that helped them to understand the forces of racial-transition acting on interracial interactions. My students now understand why it is that people become anxious in interracial en-counters.
It was during my service in the Navy (1972-1976) that I first began to do work on diversity issues. Since joining the N.C. State faculty in 1988, I have been a consultant on diversity to the Department of Defense, and was NCSU’s first vice provost for diversity and African-American affairs. So I watch what the administration does with a careful eye.
By my judgment, the University’s response to the racial slur and threat to president-elect Obama was swift and unambiguous. A strong letter from the chancellor denouncing the behavior; an immediate investiga-tion in cooperation with the Secret Service came quickly. Also coming quickly was a strong editorial from the student newspaper (along with a column on racial prejudice), and a student sponsored rally.
Racism is always institutional — does the institution support and encourage bigotry? Clearly our insti-tution does not.
Yes, what those four students did was reprehensible. But the institution responded appropriately, vigorously, to the full extent of the law. What the institution cannot do is guarantee that there are no students here who harbor racial, religious, or gender, biases in their hearts. No employer
can guarantee that either. There will always be ignorant people.
In fact, the Civil Rights Movement was not about changing the hearts and minds of white America. It was about obtaining “equal protection under the law” for black Americans. So, if racial, gender or religious biases come out in behavior the institution must strike hard and fast at the per-petrators. Still, that must be within the confines of the laws that protect U.S. citizens equally.
We become Nazis when we want people persecuted and prosecuted beyond the law. If the state and federal laws are inadequate, protest those laws. NCSU does not make the laws — the state of North Carolina and Congress do that.
Rupert W. Nacoste, Ph. D.professor, psychology
Racist incidents re#ect poorly on University
In my day, Sen. Jesse Helms and occasionally football coach Tom Reed were cursed in the Free Expression Tunnel. Our worst language was re-served for Duke and Carolina teams and fans.
A coworker showed me an article in the newspaper regarding an increase of racist incidents since Sen. Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. It was not when I saw N.C. State mentioned that I was shocked — it was when I read what thought had been expressed so freely.
Ignorant, naive, insensitive, hateful and dangerous — these four and all who think as they do are a threat to the African-Americans with whom they share the NCSU community.
I am embarrassed, and I am sorry to say the very occurrence of this incident does indeed reflect on the University very poorly. While NCSU’s response will have more meaning on campus, that will likely not get the national attention of the original hateful act.
Suspend these students for the semester and forfeit their tuition and fees. Set up a combination of commu-nity service and diversity awareness training.
Only when successfully completed should they be allowed back into the school, with conduct restrictions. I will return to follow this story and I hope to see that these four receive significant punishment.
I guess I will have to read more news stories to find out why they have not been arrested.
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“I expect them to really think about both sides of the situation and ask for a lot of opinions from the students and faculty.”
Sam Yatesfreshman, agriculture
“I do, in fact, believe that what the students wrote was uncalled for, but I do not believe they should be expelled. In my opinion, the line that divides free expression and hate speech was not crossed. Therefore, no actions of punishment should be enforced.”
Matthew Evansfreshman, First Year College
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SHE SAID WHAT?
Some attribute the loss to swapping plans, carriers for new phones
Alison HarmanFeatures Editor
It could be the iPhone.That’s one theory Jonathan
Stephens said could explain why Sprint-Nextel lost 1.3 million customers in its third quarter, including 1.1 post-paid custom-ers — those who, upon signing up for or renewing their services with Sprint-Nextel, paid fees to drop their plans.
“Lots of people switched to that,” Stephens, a sophomore in graphic design, said.
Stephens said he has had Sprint-Nextel service for about four years.
And he said he’s had few prob-lems with the carrier, with the
exception of reoccurring billing errors.
“There have been quite a few mess ups with our bills,” he said. “Being charged too much for things that we didn’t do or don’t have, or we upgraded and got charged if we had it upgraded.”
When Stephens’ family up-graded his plan to include un-limited text messaging, he said Sprint-Nextel charged him per text message.
Sprint-Nextel’s signal, he said, has been “alright, except for go-ing into certain buildings” that block most cellular signal.
But the company’s loss might be attributed to more than just the iPhone, which was first released on June 29, 2007, fol-lowed by the iPhone 3G on July 11, 2007.
At the end of last year’s third quarter, which would have
reflected the iPhone’s arrival, Sprint-Nextel reported a profit of $64 million. The company lost $326 million — 11 cents a share — at the end of this year’s third quarter.
Emily Konides, a sophomore in political science, attributes this loss to a phone-swapping
trend. A lthough Sprint-Nextel
played up its release of the Samsung Dare, Konides said the phone — like everything else the company released this year — was forgetful.
And people, she said, aren’t willing to swap carriers for a
no-name phone.Other wireless carriers, in-
cluding AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, have released new versions of the BlackBerry and other PDAs, the Sidekick and the Google-accompanied G1.
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Psst! Gossiping is naturalLaney TiptonSenior Staff Writer
When Stuart Sanderson was gossiping to her best friend about the latest scandals Monday night, she didn’t know that, while she was playing she said she was also participating in the human equivalent of “social grooming,” the method primates use to com-municate.
Sanderson, a freshman in communication, isn’t the only one spending her time talking idly about the personal affairs of those she knows — or doesn’t know, in cases like whether Jen-
nifer Aniston really said that to Angelina Jolie or how Spencer Pratt really called Heidi Montag his employee. The act is natu-ral.
We all do it, but why? Some psychologists and sociologists argue that gossiping is not just a past time, its human nature.
Relationships have always been important in every society and culture.
Primates used to groom each other to establish relationships, but according to professor of psychology David Martin, “Our society has gotten too big for that.”
In today’s society, people can-not just go around grooming one another, Martin said. Instead, humans have developed a form of “verbal grooming” they rely upon to form the social networks that operate within societies.
Psychologist Robin Dunbar examined gossip as a human instinct.
“Gossip is part of our social hardwiring,” Dunbar said.
“Language evolved to allow us to gossip [and] replace the physi-cal mutual grooming, because physical grooming became too time-consuming for the larger human social networks.”
Groups of primates usually consist of 50 to 55 primates.
In this relatively intimate envi-ronment, it is easy for primates to groom most of the other pri-mates, Dunbar has said.
In a group of hundreds or thousands of people, it would be impossible to physically groom everyone in a timely manner.
To make up for this loss in com-munication, language evolved.
Now humans use language to talk to and about each other to form the same social bonds that grooming forms.
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New Guns N’ Roses album debuts on MySpace Music
Chinese Democracy, the first Guns N’ Roses album released since 1991, was debuted on MySpace’s Music service for free Wednesday night. The band has released two songs off the album — Chinese Democracy and Better — to radio stations, but Wednesday’s release was the first time the full-length CD was legitimately released online.
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Scientists !nd Furby look-a-like
Scientists working at Lore Lindu National Park on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, caught and released three pygmy tarsiers, an animal that some thought had been extinct for a long period of time.
The animals resemble the Furby, an electronic toy that spoke in its own language and was released in the 1990s.
The creature has wide eyes, large ears and can fit in the palm of a hand.
During a two-month Texas A&M-led expedition, the scientists found two males and one female. They also saw a fourth sitting high in a tree canopy, but were not able to retrieve it.
The species has not been seen alive in more than 80 years — ever since they were collected for a museum in 1921.
Scientists had believed them extinct until eight years ago, when two scientists who were trapping rats in Sulawesi trapped and killed one on accident.
The animal weights about 1.7 ounces, has dense fur and human-like feet. Unlike other primates, the creature has claws — not nails — on its fingers.
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Astrophysicists release !rst pictures of planets outside Milky Way
In two studies, scientists have released the first pictures of planets outside the solar system. NASA astronomers and those at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have used direct-imaging techniques to capture pictures of four newly discovered planets that are located in their own solar systems.
None of the planets is remotely habitable, scientists have said.
Both pictures were published Thursday in Science Express, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Scientists observed the host star, HR89799, and found three new planets orbiting around it.
They estimate HR8799 is roughly 1.5 times the size of the sun, is 130 light years from Earth and its planets are estimated to be seven to 10 times the mass of Jupiter.
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“That theory is a little bizarre, but it makes sense,” Peyton Mc-Daniel, a freshman in agricul-tural business, said. “People do communicate to form bonds, and gossip is definitely a form of communication.”
Not all psychologists see gossip as a form of grooming, but still consider it a human instinct.
According to James Kalat, a professor of psychology, living in a society is all about recipro-cation.
It’s a “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours‚“ deal. People ex-change favors.
“In order for that system to work, people keep track of who is returning favors and who is taking favors without returning them,” Kalat said.
“Gossiping allows us to do that.”
Logan Kaznowski, a fresh-man in chemistry, said gossip-ing is natural because “people are always looking to gain some-thing.”
“Gossiping allows them to figure out who the best source is for personal gain,” Kaznowski said.
Whether it is to get ahead or to form relationships with people, gossip is everywhere.
Everyone is involved with it, whether they are doing the gos-siping or they are the subject of the gossip.
“I didn’t realize that every time I talked about someone I was picking bugs out of their hair in a way,” Sanderson said.
Konides said she has seen peo-ple upgrading their phones each time a new, more attractive one comes out “a lot lately,” but that the action isn’t something new.
“I find it a young, more mod-ern way of keeping up with the Joneses, where the Joneses are your peers,” she said.
“It’s kind of superficial. The iPhone, I could see people do-ing. Not so much the Sprint
thing. Companies that don’t have such big names on their newer phones, people don’t switch carriers for.”
She said although her friend purchased a new Sprint phone two weeks ago, she couldn’t remember its name.
It was the Samsung Dare, her roommate reminded her.
Stephens said he would stay on with Sprint-Nextel for “as long as my parents pay for it.”
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SportsCheerleading
Weight for flyers used to be the most im-portant deciding factor when choosing the co-ed cheerleading squad. However, rules have changed recently for just how much weight can be considered in the sport.
Casey Hinson, a junior on the co-ed cheerleading team, she described the fly-ers to typically weigh between 95 and 125 pounds.
“In the past, weight meant a lot,” Hin-son said “They have rules now where our coaches can’t limit our weight or even really monitor it. You obviously want to look good in the uniform, though, when you’re in front of so many people. It’s ob-viously easier for the guys to stunt with smaller girls.”
Hinson is a “top girl” in their stunts and pyramids. She said it is because of her weight that she gets to be on-top. Even if there are no rules for weighing a certain amount, Hinson said there have been comments made to cheerleaders in the past.
“They weigh us in the very beginning of the year, but that’s just for physicals,” she said. “There have been a few instanc-es when a coach has talked to some girls about their weight because he thought they had gained some.”
The role of sports medicine While pressures to lose, gain or main-
tain weight can be intense in college ath-letics, Charles Rozanski, associate director of sports medicine, said he has not spoken to an athlete who has thought he or she
was doing something unhealthy since he has been at N.C. State.
“[The sports medicine staff] would be in the decision-making process if some-one believed there was a medical issue in-volved or if there was a potential eating disorder or if someone felt very strongly that they were being asked to do some-thing they didn’t think was healthy,” Ro-zanski said.
According to Rozanski, health issues surrounding weight loss, particularly in wrestling, were an issue a decade ago, but NCAA regulations have eliminated the problem.
Rozanski believes there is no magic weight certain athletes should strive for.
“[We] make sure the person is in an op-timum position to maximize their athletic ability and minimize their risk of energy,”
Rozanski said. “That’s different for each team. Your offensive lineman will be very different than a gymnast. But I think the principle is still the same. Can they move themselves efficiently at the activity that they’re trying to be involved in?”
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figure it out, the season is over. It’s a ton of fun, I just wish the season was longer.”
Danielle Read, a senior in in-ternational studies, voiced simi-lar sentiments.
“I think the season should be longer,” Read said. “But it was still a lot of fun.”
Even though the season is short, competition does not suf-fer. The Men’s Open league fea-tured the most players with over 30 teams while the Fraternity League featured seven teams.
The sport has been widely ac-cepted though by those who have played.
“I play softball during the spring so this sport is something fun to throw into the fall semes-ter,” Watkins said. “But not only is it fun, it’s competitive. Me and my teammates are out to win.”
Watkins is glad the new in-tramural sport has been offered and hopes to see wiffleball next year.
“I hope that they let us play again next year,” Watkins said. “It was definitely something dif-ferent and I like that. It’s good to keep things new and fresh.”
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MEREDITH FAGGART/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTODarion Caldwell pins his opponent during the Wolfpack Invitational wrestling match in Reynolds Coliseum Nov. 8. Wrestlers may have to monitor their weight more than any other kind of athlete, as they make sure they make weight for each match.
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SportsPAGE 8 • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008
WOLFFACTS
Men’s golf brings in top Canadian talent
Coach Richard Sykes signed Mitch-ell Sutton, the 2008 Canadian Junior National Champion, to a letter of intent for next season. Sutton won the tournament by three strokes and finished twenty-third at the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championships. Sykes has consistently used Ontario to find talent, already having grabbed two golfers from the area who are cur-rently on the team — sophomore Matt Hill, currently the No. 1 player in the NCAA, and junior Brad Revell.
Volleyball signs another for 2009
Volleyball coach Charita Stubbs an-nounced the signing Wednesday of Kelly Burns, a senior at Jackson Hole High School in Wyoming. Burns is a two-time all-state and three-time all-conference player in Jackson Hole, and is currently a Wendy’s High School Heisman finalist. She will join the Wolfpack next year.
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“I’ve never had that experience at N.C. State,
where someone has thought they were being asked to do something
unhealthy.”Charles Rozanski, associate
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Hill finishes fall season ranked number one nationallyTalented sophomore Matt Hill has high hopes for spring season after an impressive fall showing
Sean KlemmStaff Writer
Matt Hill may not be up for giving les-sons any time soon with his busy sched-ule. But during the fall season, the sopho-more from Brights Grove, Ontario, did some schooling of his own. Hill posted a 69.4 average score, earning himself the NCAA’s no. 1 ranking.
“I had a good fall — our team did pret-ty well at the same time, so I was just really pleased with the way it went,” Hill said. “I was really happy to see that I was number one.”
After finishing last season with the low-est stroke average on the team, Hill had some pretty lofty goals for his sophomore campaign. But even he was taken aback by the national ranking.
“I was a little surprised at the start,” Hill said. “I knew coming in I had some pretty high goals of being first team All-American, but being no. 1 right now is pretty cool.”
Coach Richard Sykes attributed much of Hill’s success to some of the intangible aspects of golf.
“He’s a very mature player,” Sykes said. “He’s very accurate. He does a lot of things that young players don’t do. He hits the ball the right distance, and he’s in pretty good control of his emotions, which are some things that usually take time to develop. So he’s a little more mature than most of the college play-ers starting out, but he’s a very talented player.”
In the offseason, Hill adjusted some minor details in his golf game but cred-ited his success this fall to a new level of confidence in his game and a higher degree of comfort with the program.
“I worked with my coach on some more specific things in my swing,” Hill said.
“Since last year I’ve gotten a lot more confident in my game. I know what I’m doing, and I just know where I am. Last year I didn’t really know what to expect, and this year I do and I know some of the courses a little bit better.”
Although Hill is in the limelight of the golf nation, he is very excited to see what the team is capable of doing this year and hopes to help make the team more com-petitive. He said one of the main focuses for the team is to make match play at the NCAA tournament, something that last year’s team failed to do.
“We work pretty hard,” Hill said. “We have a good time. We have a lot of talent on our team.”
“I really think we can do big things this year and we have another really good re-cruit coming in next year. So, I think our team is going to be really good for the next three or four years from what I’ve seen. It’s really exciting.”
PHOTO COURTESY JEFFREY A. CAMARATIMatt Hill has earned a number-one rank-ing in the NCAA playing for the Pack.
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Wiffleball moves into playoffsNew intramural sport gets rave reviews from participants
A.G. WaltonStaff Writer
Wiff leball, one of Campus Recreation’s newest intramural sports, is set for the playoffs. Played along the same lines as softball, wiffleball employs simi-lar rules but uses a small plastic ball with holes. Now after its in-augural season, the playoffs are in full swing.
Early in the season, there was some confusion about how to play the sport.
“We weren’t really sure how to play or how the game was going to go,” Matt Cross, a senior in so-
ciology, said. “Once we figured out it was like softball, it was a piece of cake.”
The rules are ba-sically the same as softball with a few minor differences. The teams feature five players on the field but can have as many as six bat-ters per team. Also,
teams are allowed to pitch to each other.
“Some of the pitchers during the games are bringing heat,” Cross said. “You can tell they have played baseball before. I pitched during one of our games and was throwing all kinds of stuff like curveballs and knuckleballs. I was also trying to throw gas.”
One of the biggest differences between softball and wiffleball is when and where the games are played. Wiffleball takes place indoors in Carmichael Gymna-sium, which gives the sport a different feel according to Bailey Watkins, a junior in civil engi-neering.
“Because we play inside, the playing field is cut down,” Wat-kins said. “You can absolutely crush balls and even hit home runs. It’s definitely got a differ-ent feel than any other sport I’ve played just because it’s like base-ball but indoors.”
The playoffs got underway this week after a short two-game sea-son. The finals of the Men’s Open is scheduled to play Thursday night while the other leagues finished up earlier in the week.
Cross, who is a member of a Men’s Open team as well as co-rec team said there are a couple things he would change about the format.
“Two games just isn’t enough,” he said. “Right when you start to
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TECHNICIAN
WATCHINGWEIGHT
Here’s a breakdown of how different sports work to monitor their weight and either bulk up or slim down before the next big game.
Football’s offensive linemenIn an already heavy sport, nowhere is
weight more important than along the offensive line. Redshirt junior lineman Julian Williams and the rest of the line work during the season to keep muscle mass up, lifting regularly so that muscles don’t deteriorate.
“We weigh in once a week, every Sun-day, to make sure we keep an eye on it,” Williams said.
After the season, the coaches hand out weight programs for each player to follow. Williams said he’ll weigh him-self every day in the offseason, making sure his weight is in accordance with the
program, and in accordance with other standards.
“Everybody wants to try to look good, get that beach body,” Williams said. “That’s more of a personal thing — try to get right.”
Wrestling
Wrestling is a sport that is all about numbers — number of pins, number of points and number of pounds. The pounds are the most difficult for college students, and for college wrestlers it’s no different.
According to wrestling coach Carter Jordan, wrestling today is healthier than when he wrestled.
“It’s light years from where it was when I was in college,” Jordan said. “These guys are monitored not by the coaching staff, but by the athletic trainers.”
Today, the NCAA sets guidelines and rules and the training staff takes a lean body fat test of each wrestler to determine the minimum weight that each individ-ual can wrestle. To get to that minimum weight, the wrestler can only lose 1.5 per-cent of his body fat per week.
“Some guys do cheat, but it’s really easy to spot,” Jordan said. “After the first min-ute, they’re done, weak.”
According to assistant athletic trainer Scott Armstrong, the wrestlers have help every step of the way.
“We have nutritionists on staff, as well as keep an eye on these guys every day,” Armstrong said. “Especially the fresh-men, we make sure they are on track before their first match, checking their hydration.”
STORY BY TECHNICIAN SPORTS STAFF
>> Whether it’s football players looking to add muscle mass before they hit the gridiron
or a wrestler hoping to make weight as he steps onto the scale before a match, weight is an
important and a consistently monitored part of college athletics.While college students worry about the dreaded “freshmen 15,” the University’s sports medi-
cine staff is working with each athlete, making sure that he or she is sticking with each coach’s
weight program to be in peak shape for competition.
COLLEGE ATHLETES WORK EVERY DAY TO MONITOR THEIR WEIGHT, MAKING SURE THEY’RE NOT ONLY HEALTHY BUT IN TOP CONDITION
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DREIER CARR
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DID YOU KNOW?Running back Andre Brown needs 154 more rushing yards to pass T.A. McLendon for eighth on State’s all-time rushing list.
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• 3 days until UNC football game. • Page 7: Continuation of the story on ath-letes and weight.