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Couture for a Cause aims to mobilize volunteers
Committee confronts coming budget storm
Faculty, students don’t want tenure to be a ‘merit badge.’
Elise HeglarStaff Writer
Tenure is meant to ensure academic freedom for professors, to give them opportunities to teach less popular topics and challenge their students in new ways.
While tenure might be a system meant to reward professors, some are questioning the benefits of tenure tracks at the University.
“In a perfect system it is beneficial. Professors have motivation to teach well …. from this, students can re-ceive better teaching,” Robert Walsh, a sophomore in political science, said.
The tenure program gives professors a guarantee that they will not lose their jobs without just cause. But according to Chris Gould, associate dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, tenure is nothing but a merit badge for research in many cases.
Scott Despain, an associate profes-sor in foreign language and literatures, said that the University should award tenure based on more than just a pro-fessor’s research.
“In my experience, the professor earning tenure should focus on qual-ity teaching, service and research,” Despain said.
The whole idea behind the program, according to Despain, is to give sta-bility to the education system for stu-dents and faculty. Tenure, in theory, makes professors more dedicated to the University.
“To make things happen, you need people that are dedicated to the Uni-versity and tenure helps with that,” Despain said.
Professors have to meet certain requirements in order to get tenure, which is typically associated with higher positions in the faculty. A cer-tain amount of research and good aca-demic demonstration are required to be considered for a tenured position.
“It’s that same level of continu-ity and dedication that is expect-ed. Dedicated professors that care about students and their educa-tion care about how they teach,” Despain said.
One concern some students have about tenure, according to Walsh, is that it causes professors to care less about the students and more about research.
It’s a fear that’s been personally un-founded by Walsh.
“I have never had a professor act differently due to tenure, and tenure is something they deserve if they con-tinue to find new ways to present the material and are always challenging themselves to be better at their profes-sion,” Walsh said.
Despite any faculty or student con-cerns, tenure appears to be here to stay. Faculty members who present sufficient evidence to deserve tenure will continue to receive it throughout the current academic year.
As long as the professors who receive tenure aren’t just getting research merit badges, the practice should continue, Walsh said.
Professors: Put tenure to proper use
Friday fashion show to shine light on local charities.
Kali MalloryStaff Writer
Marbles Kids Museum will host the Couture for a Cause Fashion Show on Friday, with its sights set firmly on attracting volunteers for various non profit organizations.
The show, from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., will encourage attendees to perform volunteer work through charity or-ganizations. It is being presented by ME3, a nonprofit organization that connects volunteers with service op-portunities.
Former and current N.C. State stu-dents are on the list of designers par-ticipating in the show. “The designers whose outfits best capture the essence of their organization according to a judges’ panel receives a cash prize,” Amber Smith, a graduate teaching as-sistant and president and co-founder of ME3, which is organizing the event, said.
“We envision a world in which ev-ery individual realizes and exercises his or her potential to make a differ-ence in the community,” Smith said. “Through outreach, education and service, we promote volunteerism and helping others. Our goal is to boost volunteer rates for the benefit of the overall community.”
Smith said the fashion show enables designers to represent a nonprofit or-ganization in a creative way.
“The show will feature the work of local fashion designers who will coor-dinate with ME3 nonprofit partners to create ready-to-wear and couture outfits that embody the mission and spirit of the nonprofit they are paired with,” said Smith.
Dashuna Wiggins, a sophomore in agricultural education, said the fash-ion show is a great way to energize
potential volunteers.“People like fashion and they like to
be in style,” said Wiggins. “It’s a good thing because it catches people’s eye to the charity.”
There are two different contests for designers, said Smith.
“[The categories are] ‘Ready to wear’ and ‘Art to wear.’ Designers show off one outfit in each category and have the chance to win a cash prize for ei-ther, or both,” said Smith. “Designs will be judged based on quality of construction, innovativeness, and most importantly, how well the design captures the spirit and mission of the partnering nonprofit.”
Virginia Huffman, a junior in so-cial work, was happy to learn that so many designers are participating in the fashion show.
“It’s nice that the designers are giv-ing their time and abilities to this cause by using their talents to raise money for a charity,” Huffman said.
Huffman said participation by cur-rent and former students only enhanc-es the University’s reputation.
“It demonstrates how great our pro-grams are. It’s a great cause, so kudos to us,” Huffman said.
Smith said Couture for a Cause educates individuals about nonprofit organizations through art and should move them to advocate for change.
“Couture for a Cause highlights participating nonprofit organizations, helping tell the stories of ME3’s non-profit partners through fashion and art. Audience members will come away from Couture for a Cause know-ing a lot more about the organizations involved, and hopefully, inspired to think about how they can make a dif-ference for a cause they can personally feel passionate about.”
Smith said volunteering is a vital aspect of life and nonprofits are de-pendent on it to provide services to those in need.
“Volunteerism is a marker of the
health of the overall community over-all. It is an important facet of civic and community life, benefiting the thou-sands of nonprofits that provide nec-essary services in our community,” Smith said.
“Additionally, volunteering is good
for the individual doing it: Re-search shows that volunteerism provides personal, physical, emo-tional, and spiritual benefits to participating individuals,” Smith said.
DEMI OLUBANWO/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOModels show off looks from Candace Farrish’s “Rockstar” line at the Cotton Couture Fashion Show. Farrish is a senior in Fashion and Textile Management.
University Budget Advisory Committee starts talking about University’s financial issues.
Chris BoucherDeputy News Editor
The University Budget Advisory Committee met Wednesday today to talk about what’s expected to be a rocky financial patch for the Uni-versity.
Atop the list of priorities for the UBAC was its tuition increase pro-posal. The UBAC also discussed the looming budget cuts everyone is ex-pecting to be substantial.
“We’re facing a time we haven’t faced at this University,” Charles Leff ler, vice chancellor for finance and business, said. “People believed that after the last two years of cuts we would be back where we need to be [financially].
“But we should not at all delude our-selves. There is going to be another dip. How low will that dip be?” Leffler asked at the meeting in the Chancel-lor’s Conference Room of Holladay Hall.
The committee first announced its proposed tuition increase for the next academic year. While an increase is inevitable for all N.C. State students, the UBAC sought to protect in-state undergraduate students from the larg-est proposed increases.
According to interim provost War-wick Arden, Chancellor Randy Wood-son will go to the University Board of Trustees and recommend a cap of 6.2 percent, or about $300, on the tuition increase for in-state undergrads.
The proposal also called for ap-proximately $600 increases for other student populations: in-state gradu-ate students, and out-of-state under-graduate and graduate students. These increases are not subject to the same cap as the undergraduate hikes, Arden said before reminding everyone that
this was a proposal, and nothing was set in stone.
“This [proposal] can be changed; it will likely be modified several times over the coming nine months,” Arden said.
Committee prepping for 10-15 per-cent cut
In addition to the proposed tuition increase, the UBAC also laid bare a stark reality: it is going to have to de-cide how to cut 10 to 15 percent from the next University budget.
There will inevitably be some pro-grams pared down or cut, said Leffler. “Nothing is off the table,” he said.
The UBAC will be more able to pri-oritize budget issues when it finds out the exact numbers on the next budget,
Leffler said.“The question is how far north of
10 percent might [the budget cut] be? We really have to be prepared for a 15-percent scenario,” he said.
When the UBAC refers to “pro-grams,” it is not exclusively referring to academic programs, Arden said.
As the UBAC considers what it could cut, “we will favor the academic core of the university,” said Arden. “We’re at a point with class size and faculty reduction, that if we reduce them any-more it will significantly affect the way we currently do business.”
Arden said students will come first, and their resources will be cut last, as the UBAC considers potential budget reductions.
“Seats in classrooms, sections available for students, faculty po-sitions; students are first and fore-most in the Committee’s minds as they try to trim the budget,” Arden said.
Leffler stressed that this was just the first stage of the discussions surrounding next year’s budget.
“This is a budget reduction planning process, not an imple-mentation, because we have a lot of research to do before we decide where we can reduce,” Leffler said. “There will be several more itera-tions of this [reduction] plan.”
MIKAYLA CRAIG/TECHNICIANAt the budget advisory meeting in Holladay Hall on Nov. 3rd, executive vice chancellor and interim provost Warwick Arden leads the discussion about undergraduate admissions and enrollment growth funding. There is a “concern about students choosing majors based on the cost of degree,” said Arden, “We don’t want students to be limited in their choice about major.” There is a possibility that funding will not only be based on enrollment growth, but on performance growth as well.
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PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.Winslow Hall Conference Room
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N.C. STATE BASKETBALL: 100 YEARS OF INNOVATION-BOOK SIGNING7 p.m.East Wing, D.H. Hill Library
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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSIn Wednesday’s “University: Advising system ‘a major problem’” article, the department of biology also has professional advisors.
Due to an editorial error, the athletics schedule printed in Wednesday’s paper was from the wrong day. The Technician regret these errors.
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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
On Nov. 14, in 1929, Comis-key, a student, wore a dress for 13 days after more than 400 freshmen met and decided to stand in unity with him and burn their freshman caps. Henry Love, class of 1930 and vice president of the Student Council, addressed the fresh-men, telling them that “burn-ing the caps now would only necessitate the buying of new ones, or trouble.” He advised them to try to get rid of the caps through a student body referendum.
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IN THE KNOW Basketball book signing
On Thursday in the East Wing of the D.H. Hill Library, Tim Peeler and Roger Win-stead will discuss their new book, N.C. State Basketball: 100 Years of Innovation. Tim Peeler is managing editor of GoPack.com, N.C. State’s of-f icial athletics department website, and Roger Winstead is director of photography at N.C. State. The event is free and open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. Books will be on site for purchase and signing by the authors.
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GLBT Project Safe training
On Thursday in Talley Stu-dent Center, Project SAFE will be having another training program. Project SAFE is an
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On Monday, Nov. 8, the Psych College Tour will be vis-iting campus. From 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Witherspoon Cinema, there will be free food, free Psych gear and a chance to win an iPad. Bring a valid school ID and a print out the free ticket. This event is open to students
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Applications for Leadership In Action due Friday
CSLEPS is looking for fifty freshman from the class of 2014 for the Leadership in Action program. LIA is a 4-year lead-ership experience sponsored by CSLEPS. Recruits must currently be a first semester freshman.
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UAB laser tag on Harris field
On Thursday, Nov. 11 from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Harris Field will be filled with those looking for fun time with laser tag. Afterwards there will be a movie, either Predators or Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. For more information or to give input on the movie, visit the Facebook invite entitled, “Predator vs. Human.”
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November is Nonprofit Awareness Month
The Institute for Non-profits is reversing misconceptions about the nonprofit sector dur-ing the month of November. One myth is one can’t make a decent salary working for a nonprofit, but the truth is the median nonprofit CEO salary in the Triangle Area is $70,500, according to the N.C. Institute of Non-Profits. For students in-terested in careers that make a difference and “not just a sala-
ry,” but don’t want to worry about a financial problems in the future, have plenty of options for jobs that are rewarding and pay well.
For more information about how to join this quickly expanding field, visit http://nonprofit.chass.ncsu.edu/academic_programs/undergraduate.php for details on the mi-nor.
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Fulfilling a class requirement, Matt Brandsema, a freshman in First Year College, volunteers to pedal in the Caldwell Lounge on Wednesday while participating in the Bike for Light. This event, sponsored by CHASS’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the Transatlantic
Climate and Deutschlclub, NCSU’s German Club, gave students a chance to see how much pedal power one can produce at the display. Pedaling for 10 minutes before heading to class, Brandsema said, “It’s tiring, very tiring. It makes me more aware of how much electricity I use. I never realized how much energy it took for that little amount of power.”
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{ }OUR VIEW
University officials dis-cussed the depressing initial plans for future
tuition increases and budget cuts Wednesday. Although these plans reveal the shock-ing reality the University, stu-dents, faculty and staff have to face, one thing remains a top priority: the importance of maintaining affordability for in-state students. Univer-sity officials’ loyalty to in-state students is important to the fu-ture economic recovery of the state and the maintaining the tradition of N.C. State for state residents.
Everything is still at risk to be cut at this point, however the University trying to cater to the in-state majority will help ease
the student body’s tension. Of the total population of stu-dents at N.C. State, 83.2 per-cent are in-state students, 90.1 percent of undergraduates and 64.2 percent of graduates.
This majority will be the next generation of graduates that goes back out into the state to fill and create jobs by develop-ing new technologies and do-ing research. The University Budget Advisory Committee recognized the importance of looking forward and serving the state. These graduates will bring new skills to the work-force and will help stimulate
the new economy by protect-ing the students that will ulti-mately fulfill this agreement.
The tradition of N.C. State, while important to share with the rest of the world, is integral to the history and the future of North Carolina. Whether it’s sports or extension, the ser-vices the University provides to the state are only as good as those it provides to the stu-dents. By consistently remain-ing conscious of the strain on in-state students, the Universi-ty can build trust and support within the student body and the residents of state.
Budget cuts are inevitable with the economic situation the state is in, and the Budget Advisory Committee is pro-jecting out-of-state tuition to shoulder a lot of the financial burden. Although tuition in-creases are inevitable and the University is forced to tighten its bootstraps, it is striking in-state students still take prece-dence. Since University offi-cials understand the situation, students need to do their part and work towards bettering the state.
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.
Administration protecting in-state students, stateTHE FACTS:The University aims to cap the tuition increase for in-state students at 6.5 percent and has planned for 5 percent, 10 percent and 15 percent budget cuts. The chancellor is set to present the recommendations for future budget cuts to the Board of Trustees.
OUR OPINION:Since everything is at risk at this point in the planning process, it’s great the University is keeping the cost to in-state students, the majority of the student body, as a top priority. This will be important as the state moves through the economic downturn and N.C. State remains active in the state.
New environmental classes important for
the future
The mad dash to sign up for classes is one of the most stressful times as
students embark on planning next semester’s curriculum.
I know from experience the anguish of not ge t t i ng i nto classes, and the
excitement of discovering what new exciting learning oppor-tunities the new semester will bring.
In honor of this particularly exciting time of year, its ap-propriate to bring attention to some new classes offered by the Environmental Science Aca-demic Program for the spring 2011. Students who are looking to increase their knowledge about the environment should look into ES 200 and 300.
There are no prerequi-sites for these classes, and both satisfy the General Education Program re-quirement f o r I n t e r-disciplinary and Globa l Knowledge courses. They focus on environmental sys-tems and earth processes, and take an in-depth look into the impact humans have on the environment. Knowing how scientific knowledge connects to environmental policies is crucial to understanding why our government makes the de-cisions it does, and these classes make an effort to tackle this subject. They also explain the link between energy usage and the environment.
While climate change has ex-isted for centuries, the process itself has shifted drastically since humans began to walk the planet. Entitled Climate Change and Sustainability, ES 200 will examine climate change, environmental sus-tainability and sustainable de-velopment in a way that doesn’t get too science heavy. The class will revolve around five major themes, sustainability at N.C.
State, natural resources, energy, social sciences and a case study. The class will take a comprehensive approach to explore the environmental aspect of sustainability. The class will also focus on how our society can develop in a sus-tainable manner. Develop-ment isn’t going away, but if it’s done sustainably, we can ensure our kids won’t live on a planet that has been destroyed by progress.
While ES 200 focuses on climate change and sustain-ability, ES 300 examines the way we use energy and the way it impacts our environ-ment. Aptly named Energy and Environment, the class teaches students how en-ergy has a part in all fac-
ets of our l ives. By describ-i n g t h e impact of energy usage on our envi-ronment, w e c a n learn how change in energy use can be
beneficial to both the envi-ronment and our economy. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of en-ergy and the environment, the class will focus on en-ergy terms, sources and use, impacts of energy use, en-ergy economics and policies and energy at N.C. State.
These new classes are a great chance for any student to learn about the impact their daily lives have on the environment. Both ES 200 and ES 300 accept all students, and teach lessons that are crucial to the un-derstanding of our world as a whole. Don’t wait to sign up, these classes will fill up quick.
Send Chris your thoughts to [email protected].
“Knowing
how scientific
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policies is crucial”
Chris Cioffi Guest Columnist
BY AYANNA SEALS
“What program is most important to the University, in light of
the looming budget cuts? Why?”
{ }IN YOUR WORDS
“I don’t think any of the social sciences should get cut. I’ve been to a school where they cut social sciences, which is bad because social science helps students develop analytical skills.”
Kayla Turnerjunior, history
Roll up those sleeves guys. Help them get back together so y’all can help us all.Brian Schultz, sophomore in environmental design
“Engineering. There’s so many students in it. We would probably have a big loss of students and they would go to other schools looking for a good engineering program.”
Pau Turner junior, forest management
“I don’t think they should cut anything dealing with the campus’ beautification. It’s what gives the campus character. It gives the campus a better appearance and in the long run, will bring in more students. It makes you proud of where you go to.”
Michael Bissettesophomore, chemical engineering
“Its an engineering school, so engineering should stay intact.”
Jihan Colejunior, mathematics
“Humanities. They’re important to give balance to the University because most people are in math or science, and humanities aren’t that expensive.”
Jeremy Roberts junior, chemical engineering
TECHNICIAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010 • PAGE 5
HONEYBEE FACTS:• The term honeymoon
comes from an ancient Babylonian practice in which the father of a bride would give the newly wed couple enough honey to last a lunar cycle.
• There are a couple of provinces in China that don’t have honeybees because they have sprayed too many pesticides. In some apple orchards in China, they have people manually pollinate the apple blossoms.
• Honey is not a monolith. There are over 300 varieties and the nectar from which the honey comes has a tremendous influence on the flavor and color.
• In her lifetime (in the summer a worker bee lives for 6 weeks as an adult) one honeybee will produce about a 12th of a teaspoon of honey.
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FeaturesSCIENCE & TECH
Due to a new phenomenon known as honeybee colony collapse disorder (CCD), honeybees are disappearing across the nation.
Mark HerringStaff Writer
Along with veterinarian and agriculture programs, bees are also a topic of research interest at the University. Frequently, these insects are overlooked in their significance to agricul-ture and the local economy, yet there are select individuals on campus that have dedicated much of their time to educating students about bees.
John Ambrose first came to the University decades ago and taught entomology up until re-cently, when he bec a me Interim Dean in the Divi-sion of Un-dergraduate Programs. Nevertheless, Ambrose continues to teach a course on his passion, bee-keeping. He has a holistic viewpoint on the importance of bees in our society.
“I didn’t want to develop a course just on beekeeping,” Ambrose said. “What I wanted to do was introduce students to honeybees in several different ways. One is from an agricul-tural standpoint, another fo-cuses on bees in the sense as a research animal, and then ad-ditionally I want to explain the historical interaction between humans and bees.”
“Honey was the first sweet-ener,” Ambrose explained.
“Many ancient cultures made fermented drinks from honey. Beeswax is important too.”
Ambrose said the most im-portant contribution that bees have made to society is pollina-tion. Every third bite of food comes from the product of honeybee pollination.
Despite our reliance on hon-eybees, a new problem with honeybee colony collapse dis-order (CCD) has become a con-cern for beekeepers through-out the nation, Ambrose said. Within the past few years, a fourth of all the colonies in the US have perished, yet the causes vary in several ways.
“In the early 80s, we experi-enced a problem with tracheal mites, which are little mites that attacked the breathing tubes of bees and this prob-
lem k i l led about half of our bees in the US,” Am-brose said.
Following the tracheal mite came the Varroa mite, which did in-f lict damage to honeybee populations in the U.S. In response to
the parasitic outbreak, main-stream beekeepers for the first time started to use pesticides to target the Varroa mites.
Ambrose said, “They were in the situation that all their bees were going to die, so they definitely had to break with tradition.”
American honeybees are gen-erally more vulnerable to these types of epidemics due to the small gene pool of American bees, according to Ambrose. Honeybees are not indigenous to the Americas, so Europeans
introduced the pollinators to the New World mainly for the purpose of honey production. In basic genetics, the smaller the gene pool the more likely the species is not to respond well to adverse conditions. The problem with Africanized bees, or killer bees, is that they have exacerbated the lack of diversity in the honeybee gene pool. Interestingly, Africanized honeybees are of the same spe-cies of European and Ameri-can honeybees, yet express a dominant behavioral trait that is more defensive.
The problem of CCD today is a serious threat to the nation’s agricultural economy, yet the government has not investigat-ed deeply into the issue, accord-ing to Ambrose. The mysteri-ous cause of the loss of a mil-lion of the nation’s bee colonies has spurred much debate and conspiracy theories. Regard-less of the cause of the prob-lem, its exaggerated effects will have tremendous repercussions for American agriculture. U.S. reliance on honeybee pollina-tion has increased so much that agriculture business relies on migratory pollinators to ship bees to the fruit and vegetable-producing capitals.
“Due to this demand, there is a big business that will travel from Florida, to Texas, to Cali-fornia, or up and down the east coast to pollinate crops,” Am-brose said.
Luckily, North Carolina has not been tremendously affect-ed by CCD. Beekeeper Berry Hines comes to the Raleigh Farmers’ Market to sell his va-riety of honeys.
“I’ve been really blessed in the sense that I have not ex-perienced any problems with CCD,” Hines remarked in relief. “The main thing that I have found is that I have to be
more attentive and I have been making sure to keep my hives strong.”
Hines’ beekeeping business, called Bee Blessed Pure Honey, not only produces raw unfil-tered honey, but also works with farmers across North Carolina to pollinate seasonal crops.
“I contract with farmers,” Hines said. “My bees serve a dual purpose. For example, in the White Lake area there are a lot of blueberries. Now some-times my bees will make blue-berry honey. They will bring it in. They’re not going to pass up an opportunity on that nectar, that’s just the way bees are. Bees are great at finding that source, like gallberry or blueberry, and once they find it, they are like planes coming and going from LaGuardia Airport.”
In order to make sure that his colonies stay strong, Hines feeds his bees protein supple-
ments that help the hives survive the winters in larger numbers.
“One of the misconceptions that people have is that bees only eat sweet things,” Hines explained. “However, pollen is a big part. We call it beebread. That’s what they really eat. Pol-len has a lot of vitamins in it, except omega threes.”
Despite the CCD concern, Hines surprisingly produced more honey than expected this season.
“Raw and unfiltered honey is good honey,” Hines said. “That’s how I produce it. On a good honey flow earlier this year, I had a hive produce 90 pounds of honey.” The average is about 30-40 pounds. “This year I think we had an excellent honey flow.”
AARON ANDERSEN/TECHNICIANAn award-winning honey exhibit on display at the North Carolina State Fair. In addition to producing honey, bees are vital to the environment because of their role in pollination.
Honeybee numbers decline at alarming rates
“The problem of
honeybee CCD
is a serious threat
to the nation’s
agricultural
economy.”JohnAmbrose,professor
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Alcoholic energy drinks such as Four Loko have been the subject of some serious debate around the country regarding their affect on the consumer’s health.
Stephen BehanStaff Writer
The alcoholic energy drink Four Loko has gained national attention recently with the hos-pitalization of dozens of college students around the country who had consumed the drink. Most notably, according to an article on msnbc.com, nine freshmen were hospitalized with alcohol poisoning after attending an off-campus party near Central Washington Uni-versity. The symptoms were so severe that authorities first sus-pected that so called “date rape drugs” had been used. While other alcoholic beverages were involved, Four Loko is being considered the main culprit.
The fruity drink, nicknamed “liquid cocaine” and “blackout in a can,” has been banned on two college campuses as a re-sult, and the Food and Drug Association has announced intentions to investigate the safety of the product and oth-ers like it.
These types of beverages, however, are no new phenom-enon. People have been enjoy-ing caffeinated alcoholic drinks for years, something Phusion Projects LLC, the company behind Four Loko, is quick to point out.
In a press release available on their website, the company attested that “consuming rum and cola, an Irish coffee or a
Red Bull and vodka are all pop-ular practices.” The company goes on to mention that mixing caffeine and alcohol has been proven to be safe by an inde-pendent research study.
“An independent panel of sci-entific and food safety experts unanimously concluded that combining caffeine and alco-hol is safe,” the company said.
The FDA ordered manufac-turers of caffeinated alcoholic beverages to provide this proof in 2009. However, the FDA is now conducting its own in-vestigation, in light of recent events.
The “Four” in Four Loko stands for the fou r m a i n ingredients in the bev-erage: alco-hol, caffeine, guarana, and taurine.
Four Loko comes in a 23.5-ounce can with ei-ther 6 per-cent or 12 percent alco-hol by volume, depending on state regulations, according to msnbc.com. Drinking one of those cans is equivalent, in terms of alcohol consumption, to drinking five and a half 4.2 percent ABV 12-ounce cans of light beer, such as Bud Light or Keystone Light.
Anita Flick, M.D., Director of Health Professions Advising and assistant professor of biol-ogy, thinks the main concern with Four Loko should be the sheer volume of alcohol.
“The main thing here is high
alcohol content, low volume,” Flick said. “[Drinkers of Four Loko] are not drinking the quantity, so they don’t equate it with high alcoholic intake.”
Flick further commented on the beverage’s high concentra-tion of alcohol.
“Students can chug [a Four Loko] a lot easier than they can sit down and drink a six pack,” she said.
Sarah Ash, Coordinator of Undergraduate Nutrition Pro-gram in food, bioprocessing, and nutrition sciences, said the addition of caffeine promotes
unsafe drink-ing habits.
“The basic problem with t h i s i na ne conc e pt i s that it not only provides a large dose of alcohol, but it facilitates the consump-tion of even more by also providing a stimulant,” she said.
“I don’t un-derstand why anyone thinks it’s necessary to add caffeine to alcohol,” Ash added.
Caffeine is the active ingre-dient in drinks such as coffee, red bull, and many soft drinks. It is a stimulant, often attrib-uted with the ability to sharpen senses, provide focus, or sim-ply to keep tired people awake. Mixing it with alcohol, which is a depressant, can have negative effects, according to Ash.
Caffeine “counteracts al-cohol’s depressive effects,” Ash said.“Being a wide-awake
drunk can be very dangerous to others as well as to yourself if you think you are alert enough to drive.”
According to Ash, the guara-na is just another source of caf-feine, and the taurine is added as a marketing tool.
“Caffeine also comes from the guarana,” Ash said. “I think the taurine is just win-dow-dressing and makes for a cooler sounding, name--Four
Loko v. Three Loko.” Flick expressed similar senti-
ment. “Guarana actually has much
more caffeine than coffee,” she said. “Taurine is a naturally occurring amino acid that you actually already have in your body.”
Flick expressed relief when informed that the FDA is ex-amining the safety of mixing alcohol and caffeine.
“Finally. How did they get away with it until now?”
But Flick said, “there is a risk with anything.”
“I think [the events at Central Washington] were truly a case of alcohol abuse with inexpe-rienced users.”
“Being a wide-
awake drunk can
be very dangerous
to others if you
think you are alert
enough to drive.”Sarah Ash, Coordinator of Undergraduate Nutrition
Program
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like they did me. I just knew they were behind me the whole way.”
And when Sweezy was finally able to rejoin his teammates on the gridiron, the redshirt ju-nior called his return an un-believably gratifying feeling.
“It feels great to just get back on the field,” Sweezy said. “There for a while I didn’t know if I was going to be able to play football again, much less play in a N.C. State jersey. I was just blessed to be able to do that and actually come out here and start and be a part of this great team that is doing special things around here.”
The defensive tackle from Mooresville, N.C., has done much more than put on a jer-sey again. He has started all seven games he has played in after not playing against West-ern Carolina in the season opener. In that time, Sweezy has recorded one sack and 27 tackles, the most among defen-sive lineman. And defensive coordinator Mike Archer has taken note.
“He has solidified the run-ning game for us. He is a big body and he uses up a lot of blockers and has freed the backers, Nate Irving, Terrell Manning and Audie Cole, and allowed them to make plays,” Archer said. “When he is asked to rush the passer he has done a good job pushing the pocket. He has made improvement and continued to improve and we hope that he continues to get better.”
Redshirt junior defensive end Jeff Rieskamp has also no-ticed Sweezy’s improvement, especially because Sweezy’s strong play has meant more blockers on him and fewer on Rieskamp.
“He is the kind of guy that
works really hard and keeps his eye on the prize. He has come into his own this sea-son,” Rieskamp said. “He has become his own man now. He plays like J.R. Sweezy now and has played really well.”
Some people in football refer to the defensive tackle position as one that lacks glamor, as the position’s main responsibilities are to take up space and fill holes. Sweezy’s ability to take on more than one blocker and free up the linebackers, has helped the defense become one of the most improved in the ACC.
“Our linebackers are so good that if they just want us to take up the gaps and let them run around and make plays, that is fine with me,” Sweezy said. “That is what we have been do-ing all year and it seems to be working well.”
But this was not always the case. After moving over from the defensive end position last season, Sweezy said he wouldn’t able to push the big-ger offensive guards around as much as he has this season had he not have gotten bigger and stronger over the off-season.
“Last year I was kind of light and was getting pushed around a little bit,” Sweezy said. “But to prepare for this season I ate five meals at least a day, drank three protein shakes a day and just worked my butt of running and lifting. I pretty much slept in the weight room and just worked hard as I could.”
“Every other club has events that they’re running, and [Student Government is] try-ing to divvy [money] up between so many different people,” Pluer said. “[Fundrais-ing] has been terribly difficult.”
The tournament will feature 12 teams, including UNC and Duke.
“Getting a whole team to come and or-ganizing other teams to get here is crazy,” Litzenberger said. “This week alone we’ve had two different teams drop and three more teams ask if they want to come.”
The tournament will take place Saturday, with pool play running from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and playoffs running from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. All matches will be played in Carmichael Gym on courts 3-5.
And Musser has some big predictions for
the tournament.“We’re going to for sure make it to
the finals,” Musser said. “We’ve done well in all of our previous tournaments. We’ve finished no lower than third so I think we have a good change of win-ning on our home turf.”
SWEEZY continued from page 8
VBALLcontinued from page 8
Rolesville High School, Lassiter soon found his college setting close to home. In his first year with the Pack, he was one of only three players who started in all 18 games. Including his freshman year, he has started every game that he has ever
played in, a total of 70. This year, he leads the Pack with six goals and five assists and a .300 shot percentage, but is quick to deflect credit to his teammates.
“Every player on the field does a tremendous job,” Las-siter said. “They work hard, they just all support me on and off the field in any way I can possibly imagine, so I just thank them for everything they do for me every day.”
Lassiter’s success and the les-son’s he’s learned at State have given him a confidence in his abilities, regardless of where his future takes him.
“The coaches have done a fantastic job with all of us,” Lassiter said. “We’ve grown together as a team, but also as individuals. It’s a humbling experience to be a part of this team.”
As the regular season draws
to an end, Lassiter and his teammates look forward to their final match, which is scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m. against UVA at Dail Soccer Field.
LASSITERcontinued from page 8
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COUNTDOWN• 16 days until the football team takes on UNC-Chapel
Hill
INSIDE• Page 7: A continuation of the feature on
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Pair of juniors named Academic All-DistrictTwo juniors on the Wolfpack women’s soccer team have been named to ESPN’s Academic All-District women’s soccer teams. Tanya Cain, an accounting major who scored four goals and dished out four assists on the field, boasts a cumulative GPA of 3.97 and is receiving first team honors after being named to the second team as a sophomore. Goalie Kim Kern was a third-team selection with a 3.34 GPA in sports management. Kern started all of her team’s games in net and posted four shutouts. With Cain’s and Kern’s 2010 accolades, coach Steve Springthorpe has now coached three players to four Academic All-District honors.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Women’s basketball receives votes in preseason pollsKellie Harper and the women’s basketball team will not be ranked to start the season, but based on the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today polls released Wednesday, the Pack will be in the nation’s top 25 with any sort of a strong start. State received six votes in the coaches poll a week after collecting 28 in the AP preseason rankings. The six votes in the coaches poll are the 42nd most in the nation and the 28 received in the AP is better than all but 31 other teams. ACC rivals Duke, UNC, Florida State and Maryland are all ranked, with Duke at No. 6 and North Carolina at No. 15.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Volleyball to take on Wake, Duke at homeThe Wolfpack will look to improve its season record of 13-12, 3-10 in the ACC, when it welcomes Wake Forest to Reynolds Coliseum Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. State has a chance to finish one of its best seasons of the past decade, as its 13 wins are the highest total since 1999, and its three wins in conference play also marks the first time it has won that many ACC games since 1999. The Pack is led by Margaret Salata, who has tallied 239 kills, or 2.88 per set. Another strong performer has been Megan Cyr, who has piled up 894 assists, good enough for sixth-best in the conference. State will need its legs regardless of Thursday’s outcome, as Duke comes to town for a showdown Friday night at 7 p.m. Wake (14-9, 7-6 ACC) and Duke (19-4, 11-2 ACC) both dropped the Pack earlier in the season.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
FOOTBALL
After two separate run-ins with the law, junior defensive tackle back on field, better than ever
Taylor BarbourDeputy Sports Editor
To say that defensive tack-le J.R. Sweezy had a tough offseason would be an un-derstatement. The redshirt junior’s name was the talk of Raleigh during the spring and summer months, as he was in trouble with the law on two occasions.
The first incident came on March 20 and involved an altercation with a shut-tle bus driver late at night, leaving Sweezy with al-leged misdemeanor assault and larceny charges. The charges caused coach Tom O’Brien to suspend him from the team indefinitely.
The second set of accusa-tions came in late April and was drug-related, as Sweezy and two other Wolfpack football players, offensive tackle Jake Vermiglio and defensive tackle Markus Kuhn, were charged with possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia and maintaining a dwelling for the purpose of using a controlled substance.
However, a l l charges against Sweezy and his teammates were dropped, the first set on June 3 and the second set on Sept. 20,
allowing Sweezy to rejoin the team and begin to build back his reputation and be able to play football once again. Sweezy said he took away a lot of lessons from those off-season experiences.
“I grew up a lot obviously, re-alizing that people make stupid
decisions,” Sweezy said. “Even though it may not be particu-larly your fault, you can still get caught up in it and be associ-ated with certain things.”
T hroug hout t he su m-mer, when Sweezy was going through his trying time, he knew his teammates were be-
hind him 100 percent and sup-porting him, no matter what happened.
“I had support through ev-erything, phone calls every night, asking how I was doing,” Sweezy said. “I went through a bit of a rough spot where I didn’t know what was going
on because it was out of my hands and I didn’t really have any control over it.
“All these guys were just there for me. We are a family and I would do the same thing for them - call them everyday just
DREIER CARR/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOVirginia Tech’s Tyrod Taylor is brought down by redshirt sophomore defensive tackle J.R. Sweezy during the first quarter at Lane Stadium on Saturday, November 21, 2009. Taylor got the pass off for a first down on another drive to a Hokie touchdown. The Wolfpack fell, 38-10, bringing its record to 4-7 for the season.
Sweezy leaves tumultuous offseason in dust
MEN’S SOCCER CLUB SPORTS
Men’s club volleyball to host its first home tournament in more than a decade Saturday
Brent KitchenAgromeck Sports Editor
Developing club teams strive to meet goals and establish themselves. For the newly founded men’s club volleyball team, one of those goals will be met this weekend when the team hosts its first home tour-nament since the early 1990’s, according to Adison Musser, the club’s vice-president and junior in biochemistry.
“We’re all really excited and real pumped,” Musser said. “It’s the f irst time in like 10 years that we’ve had a tourna-ment for men here.”
The club was re-established two years ago and has met mixed responses because of the sport’s association with wom-en, according to club president and senior in textile engineer-ing Davis Litzenberger.
“Men’s volleyball is kind of unknown in the region,” Litzenberger said. “Everyone generally thinks volleyball is a girl’s sport around here. Not until you get up north to New York and out west to California is men’s volleyball big.”
Despite the sport’s relative lack of exposure among men, the club flourished last season and has continued to improve this season, leading up to the
upcoming Wolfpack Invita-tional.
“We played a similar tourna-ment two weeks ago and lost in the semifinals,” Will Pluer, a senior in environmental engi-neering, said. “We should have won. We actually beat the team that won. So with home court advantage, there’s no excuse for us to lose.”
But the success hasn’t come easy, according to Musser.
“We’ve brought a few people in to run our practice for us,” Musser said. “It’s hard, being a student-run program, to be a student coach. It’s difficult for me to participate in the prac-tice when I have to run it. So the past few of weeks we’ve had some people come in to help
us run it and get the chemistry of our team together for this tourna-ment.”
A n d i n addition to on-court
performance, the club has also had to worry about the organi-zational issues associated with putting on a tournament.
“Going into it, I was thinking I’d just call up a bunch of teams and be like, ‘Hey, let’s meet at Carmichael and play volley-ball,’” Litzenberger said. “But it took an incredible amount of organizational time and effort and energy. We’ve been plan-ning this since mid-May.”
Pluer said the club has also had to earn its funds to put on an event of this kind.
Club volleyball set for first home tourney
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CHRIS ROBBINS/TECHNICIANSenior defender Tyler Lassiter fends off the Louisville attack, clearing the ball safely upfield at the Nike Soccer Classic Sunday, Sept 5. Lassiter played 92 minutes in the Wolfpack’s 2-1 overtime loss.
“We’re going to
for sure make it to
the finals.”club volleyball vice-president
Adison Musser
Lassiter finishing career strong
Focus of senior with 70 career starts has remained team-first throughout tenure
J. Daniel ElyStaff Writer
Throughout his career, senior Tyler Lassiter has shown fans and scouts that he can do just about every-thing. A prime example of his versatility has come early in his senior season. He started the year as a de-fender, but after injuries to senior Lucas Carpenter and junior Craig Sutherland, he has been moved to the mid-field.
“I just want to play wher-ever they want me to play,” Lassiter said. “So whatever the team needs, I’ll play
there. I just keep working hard like I’ve been trying to do for the past four years. I just work hard and try to keep everyone on the same page. It’s really all about the team rather than the individual.”
As a team, the Pack (8-7-2) holds a winning record and the squad’s 7-2 home re-cord has re-warded those f a n s t h a t have stayed through inclement weather. On a number of occasions Lassiter has done his best to entertain the crowd with celebrations like a gun-salute gesture he put on display earlier in the year. But his teammates know what
a modest player he is.“He’s such a humble guy,”
senior Chris Zuerner said. “He just doesn’t want to show off. Every practice, every team outing, every game, he tries to lead by example. That’s how the freshmen learn. Seeing
what to do and seeing the right things. A n d a s a senior, that’s what he provides.”
After numerous accolades including all-confer-
ence and all-state honors his senior year at Wake Forest-
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“Lassiter tries to
lead by example.
And that’s how
the freshmen
learn.”senior Chris Zuerner
QUOTE OF THE DAY“I had support
through
everything, phone
calls every night,
asking how I
was doing. We
are a family and
I would do the
same thing for
any of them ”
redshirt junior defensive tackle J.R. Sweezy on his
difficult offseason