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Introductory classes spark controversy

GoPasses bring backstage bus changesBriant RobeyCorrespondent

Local transit authorities, working in conjunction with Transportation, have implemented changes that affect the way students and employees ride their bus lines.

The GoPass program, formerly known as U-Pass, allows students and employees of the University to ride buses in the Capital Area Transit and Triangle Transit systems without paying fare. Previously, under U-Pass, a rider would show his NCSU ID card to the bus operator.

However, with GoPass, this is no longer the case. As of Aug. 26, stu-dents and employees must swipe a separate GoPass permit to use these bus systems.

“[The GoPass] swipe card is the industry standard,” Christine Klein, information and communications specialist with Transportation, said. “It’s convenient. It just makes sense.”

The new system allows Transporta-tion and the bus authorities to track the fl ow of bus riders from the Univer-sity and ensure rider association with the University.

“We have no idea what the demo-graphic is,” Klein said. “We’d get the bills and the reports, but nothing concrete.”

John Tallmadge, director of com-muter resources for Triangle Transit, said verifying commuter status was one of the key reasons for the switch.

“The number of people we had boarding buses that weren’t [current students or employees] was approxi-mately one-third of all NCSU traffi c,” Tallmadge said. “GoPass reduces the possibility of this happening.”

Brian O’Sullivan, assistant direc-tor of planning and operations for Transportation, said GoPass holders will have to request new passes on a yearly basis because riders were taking advantage of the old system.

“We do not ever anticipate peo-

ple getting their passes online,” O’Sullivan said. “We need to do the transaction in such a way that the pass is matched with an active student or employee.”

Klein said she understands the in-convenience of issuing passes in per-son but supports the change.

“Next year we hope to have a better, more proactive process,” Klein said. “It does require a bit of effort from students and employees to come pick up the passes from the [Transporta-tion] offi ce, but [the passes are] free.”

The implementation of GoPass pro-vides the bus administrations with more housekeeping tools, but for bus riders, the service remains mostly the same.

“[The system change] was fine,” Forrest Stagner, a senior in political science, said. “I’m a senior, so I’ve had my student ID a while, and the bus drivers occasionally question my pic-ture. Now, there’s no question about your ID, you just slide your card into

the slot.”Tallmadge said that students

shouldn’t worry about the overall changes.

“The goal is to streamline ser-vices and the way people can use these services,” Tallmadge said. “GoPass and U-Pass are just two different approaches to the same GoPass is free to all students, fac-ulty and staff and must be renewed annually.

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WHERE TO FIND A GOPASS:Students can pick up their free GoPass by visiting Transportation at 2721 Sullivan Drive.

SOURCE: NCSU TRANSPORTATION

DAVID MABE/TECHNICIANDancing at the pep rally, Brooke Brown, a senior in elementary education, performs with the Dance Team on Harris Field Wednesday. Students Today Alumni Tomorrow provided food before the event, and the rally included a pep talk from Tom O’Brien and the football team captains.

GETTING HYPED ON HARRIS

Students don’t see the benefi ts of introductory college classes.

Hannah TurnerCorrespondent

Almost every college in the Univer-sity has an introduction class that new and transfer students are required to take. Classes like ALS 103 or E 101 are designed to familiarize students with all of the resources that are available at the University.

“It’s one thing to bring students here, we need to make sure they graduate in a timely fashion,” Gerry Luginbuhl, assistant director of the College of Ag-riculture and Life Science, said.

Hunter Sampson, a freshman in animal science, said the concept was noble, but didn’t see it’s practical ne-cessity.

“It’s a good idea but it’s too time consuming,” Sampson said. “It would be easier to find campus resources through a reference Web site.”

Emily Haggard, a freshman in man-agement, echoed his sentiments.

“Sometimes we talk about topics that pertain to my college, but a lot of time is spent on outside topics like diversity.”

Luginbuhl said the classes are in-tended to help students acclimate to college.

“We make sure that you get some basic skills under your belt,” Lugin-buhl said. ”We want everyone to make the most of their four years here so they can be successful students and alumni.”

Luginbuhl hopes students will view the class not only as an educational experience, but also as a resource.

“CALS has the class because we be-lieve it contributes to student success; making sure the students have basic knowledge. If nothing else, the stu-dents know someone they can come to if they have a problem or a question.”

The class also offers new students to explore opportunities they might not have otherwise considered.

“For the most part, students come to this university with a declared major, but we know some students change their major, and we want to help stu-dents make sure that their major is right for them,” Luginbuhl said. “As the instructor, I have my own biases but I hope that it is truly helpful to

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UNCENSO[ ]2009 Football Preview

I can’t really describe how ex-cited to get back into the col-lege game. I’ve been working

hard all camp, and it’s great to get back into the groove of playing ball. Over the past few weeks, I’ve

really been focus-ing, watching all the film I can and doing everything in the last detail in practice to get myself ready to play. I wasn’t sure where I’d be on the depth chart – we have two great

running backs in Jamelle Eugene and myself, and we’ll probably split time, which will be great for us in the long run. But as for South Carolina? I’ve been gone a while–after two knee surgeries in back-to-back years knocked me out of the line-up, I don’t think anyone knew how it would turn out.

I just have one class on Monday and after that all I’m doing is resting my body or watch-ing film. I have to do six hours of study hall a week so I try and split those up, but my schedule this semester has re-ally allowed me to focus on foot-ball, which is great. I don’t have to rush to get to class so I can get my full lift in. I’ve been playing some Playstation 3 – NCAA 2010, some Madden – to help me relax. That’s about it.

Last week, coach O’Brien an-nounced I was going to get the start against South Carolina. He said I, like everyone else, earned the spot in spring training and

summer camp. It was great to hear him say that, and great to hear that I’m coming back where I left off two years ago. It’s like I just took a very long break, but now I’m ready to go.

The locker room has been buzzing these last few days. As an offense, I don’t think I’ve seen us this focused. It’s great to see us all on the same page, and that’s what will lead us to suc-cess. Personally, I’m very ready for South Carolina – definitely tired of running into our guys. We’re all ready to see some dif-ferent colored jerseys. It’s going to be a big relief stepping out onto that field on Thursday. We’ve got a lot on the line and the eyes of the country on us. We’ve got to show up Thursday night and attack early.

As for the coaches, believe me – they haven’t let up. They want to make sure that we’re focused completely and we have a great staff. They’re going to do their

job.I remem-

b e r b a c k to last year when I was watching my team get beaten up by South Caro-lina in the season open-er. I wanted

to be there so badly, but I was stuck watching it on TV. It was really difficult, not being able to contribute. But that was last year. This year is a totally differ-ent year, and we’re on a mission this year to show the world what we have to offer.

Tonight, 7 p.m. We’ll see you at the game.

Toney BakerPack Halfback

09.03.09

TONEY’S TAKE: WEEK 1

Following a summer of field renovations, fans will see changes Thursday night under the lights

Brent KitchenStaff Writer

Over the summer, the playing field at Carter-Finley Stadium un-derwent a $750,000 renovation to replace the familiar crowned field with a modern flat field.

Casey Reynolds, a doctoral stu-dent in crop science, followed the renovations from the beginning and visited the completed field during Meet the Pack Day over the weekend.

“The biggest thing people are going to notice is that it’s flat,” Reynolds said.

Fans will also notice the addi-tion of a synthetic sideline.

“The synthetic turf perimeter is going to jump out to everybody,” Reynolds said. “A lot of colleges now have synthetic turf as their entire field. I don’t think the play-ers will have any real objections to it because it’s nothing they haven’t been on before.”

Assistant Athletics Director for Outdoor Facilities Ray Brincefield also noted a staple of past fields that will be missing during the upcoming season.

“There will not be a block ‘S’ in the middle of the field,” Brince-

field said. “The best thing for our student athletes is to make the area where all the play is as good as it possibly can be, and the only way to do that is not painting anything between those hashes.”

The new field will drain differ-ently due to the inclusion of a sand layer underneath the turf through which the water drains out.

“When you build a sand-based field, you can have a tendency for the paint to leach down into the sand, and, essentially, what that would do is it would slow down the drainage in that area,” Brince-field said.

The block “S” logo will appear in the corners of the field opposite the ACC logo.

Spectators may be wary of these aesthetic changes, but the renova-tions to the field will improve the quality of play during the season.

Over the summer, Coach Tom O’Brien discussed the changes with Technician.

“The biggest change will be for our quarterbacks,” O’Brien said. “One of the things we wanted to do is make sure the game field re-flected the same gradient that our practice field has so that everytime we throw a ball on the practice field it’s going to be the same when we step into the stadium to throw a pass.”

So when fans watch the Pack take on South Carolina, though the field will look different, it will

perform better.“If we didn’t know how it was

going to react, then we would have some anxiety there,” Brincefield said. “But we know exactly what it does, we know how it plays, so we’re just excited to get the ball kicked off.”

Luis Zapata/technicianCarter-Finley Stadium lays in wait for today’s season opener against South Carolina, when it will be filled with sudents and national media. A central “S” logo was replaced with two smaller logos in the corners of the field because it is better for the turf, according to Assistant Athletics Director for Outdoor Facilities Ray Brincefield.

Carter-Finley ready for action

It’s good to be home

“...We’re on a

mission this year

to show the world

what we have to

offer.”

Willie Young’sguide to fandom

Carter Finley FaCts:Original Construction: 1966Total Capacity: 55,571Construction of Murphy Football Center: 2003

source: ncsu.edu

“I can’t wait to see them in the stands for the eight home games this year.”

“I want to see some fan posters out there.”

“I don’t want to see anybody sitting down.”

“I’ve got to see the wave. To do the wave, everyone’s got to work as a team.”

“I want the fans to be so loud, we can’t hear nothing. I don’t want to hear no whistles, I don’t even want to hear the cadence when the quar-terback snaps the ball.”

“I don’t know how to put it–I just don’t want to hear nothing but ‘aaaaaah.’ I just want to look over there and see them screaming to the top of their lungs.”

“I know they already going to be scream-ing, but from the time we kick off the ball to the time we walk out of the stadium, I want to be able to say this was the loudest game I ever played in, and then the next home game, louder, and louder, and louder than the last one.”

“I haven’t heard anyone come up with a Willie Young chant yet, so I’m looking to hear something real soon. Maybe not

the first game because I don’t know how much time I’m giving y’all

to prepare for it; I think it’s kind of hard to get 60,000 people on the same page if you don’t rehearse it. I

don’t know what it would sound like–you’ll

have to make it up. That’s

something I’m going to leave up to you.”

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Veteran defensive end Young on what he’d like to see and hear this season at Carter-Finley

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2009 RED Football previewSee insert.

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First day of Farmers Market a ‘success’

James CoxSenior Staff Writer

The fi rst day of the Campus Farm-ers Market was a success according to the market’s manager Ariel Fugate, though the sophomore in fi sheries and wildlife said a minor hiccup early in the day had her concerned.

“The meat vendor [Mae Farm] was late,” Fugate said.

Suzanne Jones, one of the owners of Mae Farm, said she was running late and didn’t have time to pack the goat meat, but many vendors said they met or exceeded their initial goals.

She described the traffi c at her booth as steady and said she brought in more money than she expected.

“People are defi nitely interested,” Jones said.

Jones said she sold out of her milk, butter and heat-and-serve barbeque.

Mae Farm is located in Louisburg and is owned and operated by Jones, her husband Mike and their three children.

She said the family’s goal is to have the best tasting meat that is the most

VENDORS WERE ALWAYS BUSY WITH CUSTOMERS, SOME ITEMS SOLD OUT

SARAH TUDOR/TECHNICIANHeidi Garrett, a junior in human biology, picks out some vegetables at the Campus Farmers Market on her way back from classes. “It’s really convenient being on campus, I can just stop by and pick up some fresh stu� .” Wise Farms will be on campus in the Brickyard every Wednesday until Sept. 24.

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Ashley Hawkins, a senior in microbiology, hands Joel Joslin, a senior in computer science and history, a sample of ice cream at the C-Store in Talley Student Center Wednesday. Hawkins has been working with University Dining for three years, and she said she likes it because the hours are good and flexible. Hawkins said that when the Howling

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that has support across a range of faiths.While Gop Chairman Michael Steele said the book “encourages veterans to commit suicide,” chaplains within the VA and experts from legal and medical associations say it merely attempts to help veterans deal with issues related to impending death.

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Pfizer to pay billion dollar finethe Justice Department on Wednesday announced the largest health-care fraud settlement in its history, in which

American pharmaceutical giant pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay $2.3 billion for fraudulent marketing and a wide array of other potentially illegal acts.the settlement ends years of investigation by federal prosecutors in several states into pfizer and its subsidiary, pharmacia & Upjohn Co. Inc., according to Justice Department documents and officials. primarily, it resolves criminal and civil liability arising from pfizer’s illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products, including the anti-inflammatory drug Bextra.

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Diane Sawyer to anchor ‘World News’Gibson dropped the bombshell that he intends to step down as anchor of ABC’s “World News” at the end of the year.ABC immediately named Diane Sawyer, Gibson’s former “Good Morning America” partner and first runner-up for the anchor position when Gibson got the job in May 2006, to succeed him. Sawyer becomes the second woman frontline solo anchor at a broadcast network, following Katie Couric at CBS.

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The John William Pope Civitas Institute is offering a campaign management course for college students as part of the Civitas Insti-tute Academy of Practical Politics. The class is held on Wednesdays from 3 to 6 p.m. beginning Sept. 9 and ending Dec. 2. The CIAOPP course is held each semes-ter and includes real life scenarios that experienced campaign professionals face on a daily basis. The class is free, held in Research Triangle Park and dinner is served with each class. For more information and to sign up e-mail Jeff Mixon at jeff.mixon@nccivitas.org.

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Gary Merrill of the GlaxoS-mithKline Semantic Technol-ogies Group will teach a phi-losophy seminar today at 4:30 p.m. “Oncology, Ontologies and Science,” will be taught in Withers 344.

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Workshop teaches time management

A time management and syllabus review is planned for Sept. 8 in the Talley Stu-dent Center Blue Room. The workshop “will outline steps for syllabus review and under-standing as well as calendar strategies for managing aca-demic and personal schedules as a college student.” The work-shop aims to help students set goals, avoid procrastination and stay on task. The event is

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Parts one and two of the workshop “Building Bridges: Strengthening Leadership for Diverse Communities” will be conducted in the Brown

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“[The GoPass is] convenient.

It just makes sense.”

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Jason Stegall of Southport Seafood Company reported selling about 25 pounds of sea-food, and sold out of shrimp completely.

“I would call today a success, I met all of my goals,” Stegall said.

Southport Seafood Company is based in Raleigh and imports fish from all over North Caro-lina, with the majority of the fish coming from Southport, N.C., according to Stegall.

“We deal with the fisher-men directly so we know who caught the fish,” he said.

Stegall admitted that his pric-es are a little higher than what you will find in the grocery store, but his fish has far supe-rior quality as all the fishermen return to land at the end of the day as opposed to fishermen who catch for grocery stores and stay out for weeks at a time.

Helen Wise of Wise farms said she sold all 100 pounds of grapes she and her son brought with them.

“We didn’t really know what to bring,” Wise said. “We had a good turnout; a lot of people want us to come here every day.”

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Wayne County.According to Wise, the farm

consists of 100 acres.Fugate said she had very posi-

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seeing students meeting and interacting with the vendors.

“Most students haven’t ever talked to the people who grow their food, so it’s really cool to watch the students as they interact with the farmers,” she said.

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AmAndA Wilkins/TechniciAnLane Daley, a junior in chemical engineering, juggles a slice of watermelon at the Campus Farmers Market in the Brickyard Wednesday. “It is an awesome idea. This brings the local produce to the students.”

sample food prices:Southport Seafood Company

Shrimp: $12/lbGrouper: $17/lbSummer flounder: $14/lbSwordfish: $15/lbYellow fin Tuna: $16/lbAtlantic salmon: $15/lbTriggerfish: $16/lbBluefish fillet: $16/lb10 ct sea scallops: $16.50Littleneck Clams: $5/doz

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Wise Farms

Squash and zucchini: $1.50/lbSliced Watermelon: $11/2 watermelon: $3Whole watermelon: $5Pepper relish: $7/pintTomatoes: $2/lbCucumbers: $1.50/lbPeppers: $1.75 each 2 for $3Onions: $1.50/lb

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students. We do want to make sure that we are not wasting your time by providing valu-able experiences every class,” Luginbuhl said.

Many students like Elizabeth Wayne, a freshman in engi-neering, don’t see it this way.

“I think that these classes are okay in some ways, but I really think that they are just way too much for one credit hour. I’d much rather be spending my time focusing on classes like calculus and chemistry,” said Wayne.

Students like Joann Craw-ford, a junior in animal sci-ence, have come out of this course without seeing many benefits.

“It’s not really beneficial. The only thing I found to be somewhat beneficial was learn-ing to navigate MyPack Portal,” Crawford said, “But it basically wasted my time.”

In the current economy, the importance of every class is Luginbuhl said “If it comes down to having to eliminate something, this would be open to consideration,” Luginbuhl said. “Certainly, you have to have classes like biology to fulfill requirements, but we feel that this course does con-tribute to a student’s success.”

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ESPN, Carter-Finley will serve as premiere venues for next ad in University’s branding campaign

Ty JohnsonEditor-in-Chief

Students and members of the staff and faculty with roles in the University’s newest commercial got a special preview of the spot Wednesday afternoon in the Creative Services Building.

The advertisement will air tonight on ESPN during the football team’s season opening game against South Carolina and will be shown at Carter-Finley Sta-dium during half time.

Creative Services Director Stephanie Hlavin said this year is part two of a three-year branding campaign, and that while last year’s spot was more concep-tual, this year’s is more about tangible contributions the University has made to research.

“Last year we were assertive with the voice of the brand,” Hlavin said. “This year we give concrete examples of what’s being done at N.C. State.”

Hlavin said those who viewed the commercial were happy with the fin-ished product, and that the advertise-ment’s success had much to do with the way different entities worked together.

“Based on where we came in with the budget and timing and cooperation, it was a really good experience.” Hlavin said.

Dave Pond of web communications said the advertisement will be played as soon as the marching band finishes its half time routine at the nine minute mark.

Pond, who plays an astronaut in the commercial, said the ad is very deliber-ate and successful at showing the Uni-versity’s strengths.

“It gets the message across that N.C. State is a place of action,” Pond, who

is in a spacesuit during his screen time said.

Pond said his friends compared his character to Chewbacca from Star Wars since the video doesn’t show his face. He said the replica suit, which had a backpack on it that weighed 35 pounds, made it very hot and uncomfortable.

“It seems like they could have cut a piece of styrofoam,” Pond said in refer-ence to the load he had to carry.

Despite the hot conditions, Pond said he put on 10 pounds during production because the crew was trying to keep him so hydrated with fluids.

Tensie Taylor, an alumnae, said she enjoyed her experience filming the spot which she’ll watch on ESPN tonight since she won’t be at the game.

“I got a chance to learn a lot about the filming of the commercial,” Taylor, who carries a five-pound styrofoam aster-oid in the ad, said. “Even though [the commercial is] only 30 seconds [long] it took us eight hours to film it.”

Taylor said she also learned much about her alma mater and the contri-butions its made to science.

“It helped me see N.C. State in a new perspective,” Taylor said.

lAurA cArroll/TechniciAnP.J. King, an actor from Los Angeles, returns as the University’s spokesperson tonight in the premiere airing of Creative Services’ commercial on ESPN and at Carter-Finley Stadium. The spot was filmed Aug. 19 on Centennial Campus.

Where To WaTch:The University’s new commercial will air tonight on ESPN during the football team’s match-up against South Carolina.

It will also be shown on the Jumbotron during half time at the 9-minute mark.

The commercial should also be viewable on the University’s home page by noon.

sources: dAve Pond, luis chAcon

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Chancellor Jim Wood-ward and his adminis-tration came up with

many innovative ways to try and reduce the impact of this year’s budget reductions on students.

Two of these solutions were to not fill vacant faculty posi-tions or renew the contracts of many of the University’s adjunct faculty.

This may have been a neces-sary, and hopefully temporary, solution to the University’s issues, but it brings up a very disturbing long-term problem.

The University is going to have a serious shortage of teaching faculty for its bur-geoning student body. One of the ways to remedy this is to address the necessity of tying students up in often-ineffec-

tive 100-level classes.Many of these classes are at

such a remedial level that it’s not prudent to expend a valu-able faculty member on their instruction.

The criteria for these classes value cannot be addressed universally, many students and instructors would argue that there are effectual 100-level classes.

Instead, the classes should be addressed on the basis of relativity to their respective majors. Students should be challenged in these classes and forced to decide if the major is right for them, a cursory overview of the subject that

is completely irrelevant to students’ future studies must be ignored.

As an example, many stu-dents find the 100-level engi-neering classes to be wasteful, boring and overly simple. Lib-erating the faculty members who teach these classes for other work would be logical. Instead of wasting their time, and the students’ time, on pointless classes they could in-dividually advise students (not a feature in some engineering majors); teach higher-level or graduate classes; or perform additional research.

Just because some 100-level classes are ineffective, does not

mean they are all inadequate. Many students in design have said that 100-level design classes are useful and an im-portant weed-out tool.

This serves as an example that when 100-level classes are designed properly, they can serve as effective educational tools. When these classes help to focus and improve students grasp of the curriculum, they provide an important purpose.

Still, many 100-level classes across the University must be analyzed for the value they add to the student educational experience. If they aren’t ef-fective, those faculty resources must be freed up to facilitate some of the University’s other functions.

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.

Put instructors to better useThe FacTs:The University’s instructors are currently stretched thin by budget cuts and ballooning class sizes. Many instructors, who could do other labor for the University, are engaged with 100-level classes.

Our OpiniOn:The University must address the value its 100-level classes contribute to students’ education. If the classes are deemed ineffective, the instructors could be put to use for other, more constructive work.

Mr. McCauley should keep to himself Why we allow a young man’s opinion to be posted in the Technician and offend so many people is beyond me. His opinions should be just that, his. I voted for George Bush and blaming our former president on today’s problems is not the solution. His opinion on the military is also shameful. How dare he even begin to down ground the military. Those men and women are away from their families and home life to protect our rights. If Mr. McCauley does not like our ways in American, then go back to his country. I would be ashamed if I was him. You have offended a great deal of people today. Angie Barefootstudent services assistant V

McCauley does not understand the worldWednesday morning started off as usual. I woke up, got a bite to eat, and made my way to class -- making sure to pick up a copy of the Technician as I did. I immediately opened it up to the sports page as usual, but I can never resist a look at the opinions so the next one was the Viewpoint page. What I read was very interesting, at least the article by Mr. White was, and I have many compliments for him. Mr. McCauley’s article, “We’re not the center of the world”, was something entirely different,

though. It’s shameful to read something that starts off with a sentence describing the phrase “proud to be an American” as “arrogant, offensive, excessive”, and my favorite “divisive”. In it I read about how our country plays unfairly in a free market, which by definition has no rules. I read about how our last president George W. Bush lied to our country in order to act against a potential threat after the largest attack America has ever seen in the homeland, and also how he destroyed the economy. I can’t describe to you my feelings at the time of reading this article, especially when I read of the military. Mr. McCauley clearly does not understand the world, and is not in any position to throw disrespectful remarks to people who hold something that he lacks, patriotism. True patriotism lies in the knowledge that our primary titles are not republicans, democrats, conservatives, or liberals; our primary title is American. We are fast approaching a day of remembrance for all those who were killed eight years ago for having that title. It’s a day for remembering all those who have passed since in a fight to get the ones responsible, and to prevent future attacks, which can and will happen if we don’t continue to protect ourselves. It’s a day to remember what it felt like to say, “I’m proud to be an American” on

Sept. 12, 2001. I remember that day and the day before like it was yesterday, and I can assure you I had many emotions when I said it. None of them, however, were arrogance or submission, and definitely not excessiveness. Semper Fi.

Sam Warnocksenior, biological engineering

We need a fair ticketing systemI am currently a junior, and was not awarded a ticket for the University of South Carolina game on Thursday. Now, in a fair lottery system I would accept this as simply being “not my day”, but when I began to ask around my friends and see who did get tickets, the problem with our system became apparent. The new group size has been raised this year, to 99 people; this is absurd. The problem is that as long as the group leader is awarded a ticket, everyone in the group also receives one regardless of class or attendance history. Therefore freshmen and sophomores, who happen to have entered an older student’s unity ID, have received a ticket while thousands of juniors and seniors were left out in the cold. This is simply unacceptable. Smaller group sizes are a bit more rational as they require more leaders to be approved for a ticket, but when one ticket awards 98 additional tickets, it throws off our entire system. Most universities provide student football tickets for every eligible student, the least we can do is provide a fair lottery system.

David Williamsjunior, history

Fed up with the Atrium

The businesses that com-prise the Atrium are a sore subject for the

administration and campus dining. They don’t want us to talk about the condition of the Atrium. They certainly don’t ask our opinion.

Whereas dining halls have evaluations, t he At r iu m does not . I have classes in the Court of Carol ina for most of my Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I don’t have time to

get from Central Campus to the dining halls. The food options within the Atrium are something like choosing between an electric chair and drowning very slowly.

In the morning the Atrium looks desolate. At lunchtime it is packed like a Tokyo subway. By the time the clerks get to us, they seem to feel like they’ve been working a four-hour shif t in the last 30 min-utes.

On ly one entrance of the back of the Atr ium h a s t u r n -stiles. Hurry up and wait to get French fries. Don’t want French fries? Hurry up and wait anyway. It’s even hard to determine what line you’re in. The Chick-fil-a line mixes with the pizza line and the Little Dino’s line. We all end up apologizing to each other for the intermingling.

Every time I think of bring-ing a girlfriend or a parent to the Atrium my stomach turns over. Professors who agree to meet with me outside of their offices always choose Global Village. The professors them-selves bring their lunches, and they would not be caught dead in the Atrium.

The Atrium is a Happy Meal for what’s supposed to be an adult school. At its very best, the Atrium is a façade and a warehouse, a chicken sandwich made up of just chicken and bread. “How could anyone be angry at that?” Everyone seems to think.

We can do better than a cramped warehouse with terrible food. The business-es on Hillsborough Street compete with the Atrium as does Hill of Beans in the Library. But Hill of Beans is not a restaurant -- it’s a cof-fee shop. Its brownies and cold bagels are no substitute for real food, not that what the vendors in the Atrium serve is.

The Atrium is not as good as any equivalent facilities on the Duke or Carolina campus. Nor is it good enough compared to any of the other places to eat on our campus. We can do better than this.

Bring your friends to the Atrium during the lunch rush. While you are cramped and jumbled in line, realize that you are cramped and jumbled in line. When you sit down to eat, realize what you are eat-ing and talk to your friends about it. After you’re done,

look at ev-eryone else in the Atrium. Listen to the noise level.

Finally, I challenge the absent admin-istrators s u c h a s

Chancellor James Wood-ward and student leaders including Student Body President Jim Ceresnak to sit down with me for lunch at the Atrium during the rush and get this dialogue going. We might have to shout over the lunch noise, but it would be a start. Per-haps the best argument for changing the Atrium is that things can’t get any worse.

Because, unfortunately, the lackluster punch line to all of this is that regard-less of what we say or what we do, someone is going to eat it.

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Colony collapse disorder devastates bees

Kathleen HebertCorrespondent

Honeybees are dying. This may not seem like such a big deal, but beekeepers and farm-ers across the country have been majorly af-fected by the phenomena known as Colony Collapse Disorder, the name attributed to the so far unknown cause of recent massive bee deaths. What many of us don’t realize is that bees play a major part in our food production industry.

According to the USDA, $15 billion of crop value can be attributed to bee pollination. Specialty crops, especially almonds, depend on bee pollination so heavily that the sharp decline in bee populations has begun to af-fect harvests.

While the USDA argues that overall hon-eybee health has been declining in the past 30 years with the advent of more pesticides and invasive species introduced into the en-vironment, CCD has hit the beekeeping com-munity hard. Entire hives can disappear in a very short time. Researchers are scrambing to find the answer to the puzzle.

The N.C. State University’s Department of Entomology is working to find the answer.

Current theories being researched include new strains of bacterial or viral infections, pesticide poisoning or invasive pests. Stress is also thought to contribute to colony collapse, like when bees continuously pollinate crops with low nutritional value.

With fewer bees to go around, entire hives are being trucked farther and farther, placing more stress on those adult worker bees that escape contamination.

David Tarpy, associate professor and exten-sion apiculturist for N.C. State, described the group’s experimental process. “We looked at 200 possible factors, narrowing it down to 61 factors that had logical bearing and no single factor emerged as strongly associated with the disorder. There were trends in the data. For example, colonies aff licted with CCD had more parasites, but we don’t know that was a cause or ef-fect of CCD.”

Part of the reason CCD is so hard to di-agnose is because it is so hard to spot in the first place. The earli-est reports of CCD came in 2006, but it is predicted that CCD may have begun at least three years ear-lier. Tarpy said, “The phenomenon of CCD may have been going on prior to it being described. Part of the reason is honeybee colonies have been dying in similar and dif-ferent ways for a very long time now. Large scale losses of honeybees were not out of the norm.”

Fortunately, North Carolina has managed to escape the contaminant thus far.

When asked of the damage done in North Carolina, Tarpy said, “It’s hard to say the magnitude that North Carolina bees have been impacted. We don’t even have a very good data collection of honeybees nation wide. There have been reports of CCD in North Carolina, but technically our de-

partment has not verified any case of it. It’s hard to verify something that’s so fast acting.”

For North Caroli-na Beekeeper Berry Hines Sr., owner of Bee Blessed Pure Honey, it is business as usual.

“I have not been affected by the CCD problem, but I loose about two percent of my bees each winter.

This is normal, or what we call winter loss.” Hines has bigger problems than disease

among his hives, including big business com-petition, pesticides and an indifferent public. “I see a lot of people that are not educated about bees, so they sprinkle around a lot of Seven Dust that kills a lot of bees, while land

developers and others are tearing away the habitats of these creatures.”

Both Tarpy and Hines believe everyone can help the beekeeping community while scien-tists continue to search for answers.

“There are several things students can do,” says Tarpy. “Become aware of the great op-portunities on campus; there are great courses taught every year.” Some of those classes include Introduction to the Honeybee and Beekeeping and Advanced Beekeeping.

“Become beekeepers and get involved with the local beekeepers throughout the state. We have the highest number of beekeepers in the nation, so they are very well organized and embracing of new beekeepers.”

The North Carolina State Beekeepers As-sociation, a non-profit organization that has been in existence since 1917, holds statewide conferences twice every year and invites everyone to join, beekeepers and ordinary citizens alike.

As consumers, students must educate themselves and take responsibility for their purchases. Hines laments that much of the honey found on shelves in the United States comes from overseas, driving small and local keepers out of business. “There’s so much boiled and foreign honey in the commercial market that a small business like mine can-not even compete. So a lot of other keepers and I have decided to sell our honey at local farmers markets, eat it ourselves or feed it back to the bees.”

He also said, “I find on average that a lot of people know nothing about honey. Most people think that USDA Grade A is the qual-ity of honey. They do not know that it is in

reference to color only. I try to talk to schools and anyone interested about how valuable bees are and how good honey is for the body.”

The fact that CCD has been out of the news for the past few years has not helped. Fresh-man Laura Guderian, a fashion and textile management major, was surprised she had not heard of it in the news at all, especially given its importance to our food supply.

Kayla Shivar, a senior in agriculture edu-cation said, “I love almonds and I’m really upset to think that people aren’t covering this issue adequately.” Shivar said she predicts that when she graduates and starts teach-ing that there will be a lot more books and classes on the topic. “By then, the effect on our food chain will be evident and education will have to happen in order to make a larger and lasting change.”

Tarpy commented that CCD probably has not been spoken of lately because of the slow pace of research. “Unfortunately, science doesn’t move as fast as media coverage. But there will be more to come.”

Christin hardy/teChniCianHoney bees cover a frame at the off-campus bee lab on Lake Wheeler rd.

Christin hardy/teChniCianHoney bees collect pollen and transport it back to the hive for eating and feeding young larve. These bees are located at the J.C Arboretum.

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Climate-control facility allows scientists to look for ways to treat malaria, save crops from drought, combat global warming

Heidi KlumpeStaff Writer

If students wanted to grow corn in the winter or simulate a drought in Mexico, they could do it all without leaving Gard-ner Hall. Gardner houses what is called the Phytotron, one of only a few such facilities of equal size scattered across the country.Basic set-up

The Phytotron bills itself as a “place for all seasons,” which is the most basic way to sum up its abilities. The building contains growth chambers in three sizes, each of which has a controlled and recorded tem-perature, day length, humidity, and light intensity, according to Director of the pytotron, Car-ole Saravitz.

The Phytotron’s growth chambers, which are on the ground floor, are different from its greenhouse, which ideally is located the top floor with a glass roof for the best sun expo-sure. A greenhouse, built out of translucent plastic, relies on sunlight pouring in through its ceiling and walls to grow its plants. A growth chamber is more like a refrigerator, or tightly sealed closet and can replicate any outdoor condi-tion in the world.

Whereas the greenhouse uses sunlight, the chambers use artificial light, which is provided by long rows of fluo-rescent bulbs, supplemented by scattered incandescent bulbs. One of the most important fea-tures of the lighting system is that researchers can adjust how long they stay on simulating the photoperiod, or day length, of any latitude on the planet.

Mirrors line the walls of each chamber to ref lect the light back in. Some chambers con-tain humidifiers or dehumidi-fiers, depending on whether the research calls for a more wet or dry environment.

For temperature regulation, vents close to the ceiling bring in air, which circulates through to the f loor, where it exits. Much like the heat regulation, this motion keeps the environ-ment as uniform as possible.

According to Saraitz its cli-mate control abilities are the most fantastic. “We can take the same plant starting from a seed and grow it in two differ-ent environments, and it will look completely different,” she said. “The way we can manip-ulate plants to study them [is amazing].”Research

Field conditions for plant scientists are often varied and hard to record, whereas in the Phytotron, the environment is carefully controlled to main-tain consistency.

“We can replicate different controlled environments and seasons,” said Saravitz. “We tailor the environment side to whatever the researcher needs.”

Those researchers include scientists from Poland, Japan, Costa Rica and Argentina, as well as graduate students from all over. Within the University alone, students from the Col-lege of Agriculture and Life Sciences as well as the depart-ments of forestry, pathology, crop science, biology, genetics and plant biology converge at the Phytotron to conduct valu-able research. Saravitz, also on the proposal reviewing com-mittee, said, “We just try to fit in all the projects.”

The research is as varied as the Phytotron’s patronage. “Not everything we have here is pretty,” Saravitz said.

In the growth chambers, everything from cucumber plants, rice, corn, turf grass, peanuts, cotton, to cabbage f lourishes at any time of the year.

The more unusual plants include Artemisia, an Asian plant, which could never grow in Carolinian soil. With the growth chambers and the care-ful work of researchers to fine tune temperature, photoperiod and growth conditions, this plant is thriving with predict-ability, Saravitz said.

This project is particularly revolutionary as Artemisia’s leaves may hold the secret of making an inexpensive tea that is said to fight malaria.

In another chamber, soy-beans, an essentia l crop worldwide, grow. Drought has a more negative affect on this plant’s yield than both disease and pests. The most expensive way to approach this problem is through complex irrigation

systems. Thomas Seversike, a gradu-

ate student in crop science, is looking at the soybean’s wild ancestor, which adapted to the dry conditions of China near the Gobi desert. By going back to the plant’s point of origin, Seversike can look for genetic material that would enable soybeans to be more drought-tolerant, a comparatively eco-nomical solution to irrigation.

“Drought is so complicated [that] to show a difference in two genotypes, to show that genetic difference, we need all the other variables to be the same,” he said. “The environ-mental variables can mess up your [gene] expression.”

Because of the Phytotron’s unique ability to carefully con-trol the growth environment, researchers like Seversike get more reliable results.

“In the Phytoron, we have control of the temperature, so we can kind of narrow it down to the response we need,” he said.

Also for graduate student Emily White, narrowing down gene expression is also important. White is working with quick-growth tree hy-brids from the poplar family: Populus tremula and Populus alba. White is wanting to im-

prove the tree’s root structure and architecture which will make the tree’s useful proper-ties available to more terrain types, she said. The poplar’s

quick growth makes it perfect for sequestering carbon from the atmosphere or becoming a source of bioenergy.

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SCUBA, more than a P.E. class

Phytotron: a place for all seasons and plants

Christin HardyStaff Writer

For some, running is their thing. For others, it may be Frisbee, soccer, golf or dance. For one particular instruc-tor, Matt Rever, SCUBA is what makes him happy.

Rever teaches scuba diving I and II and is NAUI certified, which stands for National Association of Underwa-ter instructors.

Learning how to scuba dive is some-thing that takes behavior modification and time. Skills learned early on in the first few weeks of class, such as how to do different kicks like the scissor, the modified breast stroke and the dol-phin, aid the divers in learning how to handle their bodies correctly.

A scissor kick is the most destruc-tive way for a diver to move through the water because when diving the goal is to remain neutrally buoyant, or parallel to the bottom, and not disturb visibility. When scissor kicking, the vertical up and down motion disrupts sediment on the bottom, and creates a huge cloud of sand that remains for days after as it takes time to resettle.

This is bad for two reasons, one be-ing like a house guest, a diver should be respectful of things not her own. Disrupting or spoiling the space by kicking up sediment, plants, inverte-brates and microorganisms, violates respect, especially in sensitive areas like coral reefs. Reason number two, is it leaves the site tainted for future divers to come, as visibility will be decreased.

The dolphin kick is like a body roll starting at the head and going through the back to the toes and is extremely efficient in covering distance, not un-like the animal itself.

The modified breast stroke, which is similar to drawing figure eights with your toes, is less efficient than both the scissor and dolphin in terms of cover-ing distance. However, in scuba div-ing it is all about slow and controlled movement, which is what the modified breast stroke provides. It is minimal in sediment disturbance, keeping the ecosystem intact and visibility high.

For Erin Morten, a junior in biologi-cal archeology, visibility is extremely important as she will be using her

SCUBA certification to dive at ship-wrecks. “A lot of shipwrecks contain cargo and from that I can study what that country’s or civilization’s culture was like,” Morten said.

Tom Nelson, a junior in mechani-cal engineering said that he is taking scuba diving is so that he can dive for either hobby or profession. “Both of my parents do it so this is a good place for me to learn all the basics,” Nelson said. With his major, Nelson expects that SCUBA will come in

handy. “Hopefully I can do some site surveys for things like tunnels or for parts that I need go and do a ship sal-vage,” Nelson said.

Harrison Smith, a sophomore in business management, is taking scuba diving to open up his family experi-ence, as well as to help drive his ca-reer. “My brother is in the Navy and he wanted a diving buddy, so he paid for my gear and I signed up,” Smith said. “Not to mention,” he said, “I want to be a [Navy] Seal.”

As earlier mentioned, the skills learned early on build the founda-tion for more difficult skills such as remaining neutrally buoyant. In being neutrally buoyant a diver must under-stand Boyle’s Law, body posture, and controlled breathing.

Boyle’s Law states that as pressure increases, volume decreases meaning that the lower a diver goes and pres-sure increases, the more compressed air inside the buoyancy control be-comes making the diver sink faster. The natural option would be to in-flate the BC more. But if the depth gets shallow suddenly the air inside the BC will expand and send the diver shooting towards the surface because the faster it rises the faster the gas in-creases in volume, meaning buoyancy.

The condition occurring to div-ers who surface to fast is called “the bends” or decompression sickness.

Neutral buoyancy is a delicate bal-ance between air in the BC, posture and breathing.

However hard and dangerous SCU-BA may seem, it would be amiss to say that its negatives out weigh its posi-tives for it is true that with genuine effort and hard work comes a great re-ward, like swimming with fishes, see-ing ancient ship wrecks, hanging out with family or spear fishing, like Rever does in his spare time. Rever also has been said to have found pre-historic megalodon teeth, an extinct shark, in rivers that he refuses to disclose

“What I enjoy most is seeing some-one with little or no experience in div-ing learn something so efficiently that they can do it alone…teaching folks something that I love gives me those warm fuzzies,” Rever said.

Jordan Moore/TechnicianCarole Saravitz, the director of the Phytotron at N.C. State, opens up a growth chamber Monday afternoon. The growth chambers con-tain numerous flora projects from departments all over N.C. State.

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chrisTin hardy/TechnicianTom Nelson, a junior in mechanical engineering, and Erin Morten, a junior in biological archeology, wait and watch dur-ing scuba diving class in which they will become certified divers at the end of the semester. “I’m planning on diving at shipwrecks,” Morten said. In wrecks, artifacts such as pottery and jewlery can be found and are telling of the culture the came from.

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Women’s soccer to face Rebels before kickoffPack looks to contiune winning streak with or without fan base

Kate ShefteSports Editor

The Wolfpack will put its 3-0 record on the line tonight dur-ing a 5 p.m. match-up against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rebels at home.

State comes off a 4-1 perfor-mance that included a hat trick from sophomore forward Tan-ya Cain, who was later named an ACC Women’s Soccer Player of the Week for her efforts.

The undefeated Pack, which outscored its opponents 9-1 in its first three regular season wins, will likely have to defend its record without its growing fan base of over a thousand fans cheering from the stands at Dail Soccer Field. Even Fri-day night, when a steady, cold drizzle fell throughout the game, the stands were reason-ably full, but senior Meredith Parrilla said she doesn’t expect this match-up to draw fans away from Carter-Finley.

Parrilla said, according to what she’s heard, “a lot of peo-ple” are going out to tailgate instead.

“I don’t know who schedules it, and of course you can’t miss every other sport, but it does kind of stink,” Parrilla said. “It’s a Thursday night game on ESPN against South Carolina, but it is what it is. Do I expect there to still be 1,500 fans out there tomorrow night? No. But a lot of people have been hon-est and told me they’re going to

come for the first half.”However, Parrilla said it

won’t matter.“I don’t care if there’s no one

in the stands or it’s a packed house,” Parrilla said. “We’re going to go out there and do our thing.”

Junior midf ielder Nadia Aboulhosn said the team doesn’t know much about UNLV, as the West Coast team doesn’t often visit Raleigh.

“Just from scouting reports, we know what formation

they’re playing,” Aboulhosn said. “We’ve been scrimmag-ing each other, with one team sort of playing in UNLV’s style, and we try and figure out what we can do to get around them.”

Parrilla said the styles of play – and mentalities – differ from coast to coast.

“We don’t really know much about them,” Parrilla said. “They’re a West Coast team. West Coast hates East Coast and East Coast hates West Coast. They think they’re the

best, and it’s the same with us.”Before game time, there

was time for fun. According to Parrilla, the upper class-men teamed up against the lower classmen during prac-tice drills. However, the losers didn’t perform an simple set of push-ups under the watch-ful eye of the winners – the punishment was much more inventive.

“We played upper classmen against lower classmen, and of course, the upper class-

men came out on top,” Par-rilla joked. “So we put them in the goal and we took a shot at them.”

The “drill,” called “butts up,” saw the lower classmen facing the goal, bent at the waist. The upperclassmen, stationed out-side the box, were allowed to pick their shot.

“I think that’s the most ac-curate we’ve been all season,” Parrilla said.

Aboulhosn said games help her teammates wind down af-

ter a hard workout.“I think it kind of helps to set

the tone for the game, to get our minds off it a little bit,” Aboul-hosn said. “We’re really serious throughout the practice, then we add a little laughter toward the end to help us relax.”

Freshman defenseman Ra-chel Wells had the misfor-tune of being on the receiving end of a hard shot, which hit her squarely on the behind and knocked her over. With her teammates howling with laughter good-naturedly, she brushed herself up and re-sumed her spot.

“It’s so good to see us all laughing. We were missing that in previous years, but now we’re all having fun,” Parrilla said. “Now we’re playing hard, we’re playing well and we’re all just laughing and enjoying our-selves. That’s really important.”

Women’s soccer

DaviD mabe/Technician File PhoTon.c.shooting a goal during the seventh minute of the game, forward Tanya cain kicks the ball past the campbell defense in Buies creek, n.c. monday, Aug. 24. The Wolfpack won 2-0.

By the NumBers3 wins

0 losses

9 total goals

4 goals by Tanya Cain

All-Time Series:First meeting between the two schools

What’s Next:N.C. State will host Stony Brook on Sunday at the Dail Soccer Field at 1 p.m.

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SOuTh caROlina?What happened the last time State played

When the Wolfpack opened the season in Columbia last year, on August 28, 2008, the team lost by a wide margin. After Russell

Wilson was knocked out of the game before halftime, the Gamecocks sailed to a 34-0 win. This match-up ended State’s five-game winning streak over South Carolina that dated back to 1989. The all-time series record now reminds tied at 26-26-4, making tonight’s game more important than ever.

Players to watch for:N.C. State

Russell Wilson, quarterback: First team All-ACC starting quarterback, Russell Wilson, who threw 17 touchdowns to one interception will lead the offensive backs. When healthy he is regarded as a top quarterback by most analysis.

Willie Young, defensive end: As the most experienced player on the team, Young was selected as 2009 preseason second-team All-ACC choice and ranks 11th in school history with 31.5 career tackles for loss. He has started 12 of the Pack’s 13 games and been on the field for 1,667 snaps.

South CaroliNaJarriel King, offensive lineman: Entering into his second season with the Gamecocks, King could be an All-SEC quality player at the position of left tackle. He has started 11 games in this key position last season.

Chris Culliver, free safety: As an all-conference candidate in 2009, junior Culliver also succeeds on kick returns. He has racked up 1,630 yards on 68 kick returns — on his way to surpassing the schools record.

compiled by Jen hankin

Location: Columbia, S.C.totaL EnroLLmEnt: 28,042EstabLishEd: 1801confErEncE: SECstadium: Williams-Brice Stadium (80,250)

injury reportN.C. State: TE Mario Carter (knee), OL Denzelle Good (shoulder), LB Nate Irving (leg), FB Colby Jackson (knee) and QB Everett Proctor (shoulder) are out.

South Carolina: WR Dion LeCorn (leg) and CB Jay Spearman (shoulder) are out; WR DeMario Bennett (shoulder) is probable.

Source: gogamecockS.com

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Villanova @ Temple Temple Temple Temple Temple Villanova Temple Villanova Temple Temple Temple

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Miami @ No. 18 Florida State Miami Florida State Miami Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Flordia State Florida State

dreier carr/Technician archive phoToredshirt freshman quarterback russell Wilson beats boston College’s roderick rollins into the north end-zone to tie the game 31-31 with 3:33 left in the fourth quarter Saturday, october 4, 2008. Wilson returned after missing the South florida game due to injury and threw for 218 yards. Despite Wilson’s return, a late score lifted the boston College eagles 38-31 at Carter-finley Stadium.

Opening night: A historyN.C. State haS poSteD a reCorD of 7-3 iN SeaSoN-opeNiNg gameS SiNCe 1999, lookS to aveNge laSt year’S loSS

The Wolfpack went on a 6-0 winning streak before losing to Virginia Tech in 2005 but would re-bound with a win against Appalachian State at home in 2006. Six of the seven wins came under the tutelage of former head coach Chuck Amato. Amato went 6-1 in season openers before he

was fired in 2006. The Pack has yet to win an opener in the Tom O’Brien era, with a loss against Central Florida in 2007 and last year’s loss at South Carolina.

Opening night RecORdsYEAR TEAM RESULTS

1999 Texas 23-20 (W)

2000 Arkansas State 38-31, 2OT (W)

2001 Indiana 34-14 (W)

2002 New Mexico 34-14 (W)

2003 Western Carolina 59-20 (W)

2004 Richmond 42-0 (W)

2005 Virginia Tech 16-20 (L)

2006 Appalachian State 23-10 (W)

2007 Central Florida 23-25 (L)

2008 South Carolina 0-34 (L)

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luiS zapaTa/Technician archive phoToredshirt juniors alan-michael Cash and Willie young, as well as defensive line senior antoine holmes, try to block the last field goal attempt against florida State university during the game

on oct. 16, 2008. N.C. State lost to fSu 17-26.

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UNCENSO[ ]2009 Football Preview

I can’t really describe how ex-cited to get back into the col-lege game. I’ve been working

hard all camp, and it’s great to get back into the groove of playing ball. Over the past few weeks, I’ve

really been focus-ing, watching all the film I can and doing everything in the last detail in practice to get myself ready to play. I wasn’t sure where I’d be on the depth chart – we have two great

running backs in Jamelle Eugene and myself, and we’ll probably split time, which will be great for us in the long run. But as for South Carolina? I’ve been gone a while–after two knee surgeries in back-to-back years knocked me out of the line-up, I don’t think anyone knew how it would turn out.

I just have one class on Monday and after that all I’m doing is resting my body or watch-ing film. I have to do six hours of study hall a week so I try and split those up, but my schedule this semester has re-ally allowed me to focus on foot-ball, which is great. I don’t have to rush to get to class so I can get my full lift in. I’ve been playing some Playstation 3 – NCAA 2010, some Madden – to help me relax. That’s about it.

Last week, coach O’Brien an-nounced I was going to get the start against South Carolina. He said I, like everyone else, earned the spot in spring training and

summer camp. It was great to hear him say that, and great to hear that I’m coming back where I left off two years ago. It’s like I just took a very long break, but now I’m ready to go.

The locker room has been buzzing these last few days. As an offense, I don’t think I’ve seen us this focused. It’s great to see us all on the same page, and that’s what will lead us to suc-cess. Personally, I’m very ready for South Carolina – definitely tired of running into our guys. We’re all ready to see some dif-ferent colored jerseys. It’s going to be a big relief stepping out onto that field on Thursday. We’ve got a lot on the line and the eyes of the country on us. We’ve got to show up Thursday night and attack early.

As for the coaches, believe me – they haven’t let up. They want to make sure that we’re focused completely and we have a great staff. They’re going to do their

job.I remem-

b e r b a c k to last year when I was watching my team get beaten up by South Caro-lina in the season open-er. I wanted

to be there so badly, but I was stuck watching it on TV. It was really difficult, not being able to contribute. But that was last year. This year is a totally differ-ent year, and we’re on a mission this year to show the world what we have to offer.

Tonight, 7 p.m. We’ll see you at the game.

Toney BakerPack Halfback

09.03.09

TONEY’S TAKE: WEEK 1

Following a summer of field renovations, fans will see changes Thursday night under the lights

Brent KitchenStaff Writer

Over the summer, the playing field at Carter-Finley Stadium un-derwent a $750,000 renovation to replace the familiar crowned field with a modern flat field.

Casey Reynolds, a doctoral stu-dent in crop science, followed the renovations from the beginning and visited the completed field during Meet the Pack Day over the weekend.

“The biggest thing people are going to notice is that it’s flat,” Reynolds said.

Fans will also notice the addi-tion of a synthetic sideline.

“The synthetic turf perimeter is going to jump out to everybody,” Reynolds said. “A lot of colleges now have synthetic turf as their entire field. I don’t think the play-ers will have any real objections to it because it’s nothing they haven’t been on before.”

Assistant Athletics Director for Outdoor Facilities Ray Brincefield also noted a staple of past fields that will be missing during the upcoming season.

“There will not be a block ‘S’ in the middle of the field,” Brince-

field said. “The best thing for our student athletes is to make the area where all the play is as good as it possibly can be, and the only way to do that is not painting anything between those hashes.”

The new field will drain differ-ently due to the inclusion of a sand layer underneath the turf through which the water drains out.

“When you build a sand-based field, you can have a tendency for the paint to leach down into the sand, and, essentially, what that would do is it would slow down the drainage in that area,” Brince-field said.

The block “S” logo will appear in the corners of the field opposite the ACC logo.

Spectators may be wary of these aesthetic changes, but the renova-tions to the field will improve the quality of play during the season.

Over the summer, Coach Tom O’Brien discussed the changes with Technician.

“The biggest change will be for our quarterbacks,” O’Brien said. “One of the things we wanted to do is make sure the game field re-flected the same gradient that our practice field has so that everytime we throw a ball on the practice field it’s going to be the same when we step into the stadium to throw a pass.”

So when fans watch the Pack take on South Carolina, though the field will look different, it will

perform better.“If we didn’t know how it was

going to react, then we would have some anxiety there,” Brincefield said. “But we know exactly what it does, we know how it plays, so we’re just excited to get the ball kicked off.”

Luis Zapata/technicianCarter-Finley Stadium lays in wait for today’s season opener against South Carolina, when it will be filled with sudents and national media. A central “S” logo was replaced with two smaller logos in the corners of the field because it is better for the turf, according to Assistant Athletics Director for Outdoor Facilities Ray Brincefield.

Carter-Finley ready for action

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“...We’re on a

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Willie Young’sguide to fandom

Carter Finley FaCts:Original Construction: 1966Total Capacity: 55,571Construction of Murphy Football Center: 2003

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“I can’t wait to see them in the stands for the eight home games this year.”

“I want to see some fan posters out there.”

“I don’t want to see anybody sitting down.”

“I’ve got to see the wave. To do the wave, everyone’s got to work as a team.”

“I want the fans to be so loud, we can’t hear nothing. I don’t want to hear no whistles, I don’t even want to hear the cadence when the quar-terback snaps the ball.”

“I don’t know how to put it–I just don’t want to hear nothing but ‘aaaaaah.’ I just want to look over there and see them screaming to the top of their lungs.”

“I know they already going to be scream-ing, but from the time we kick off the ball to the time we walk out of the stadium, I want to be able to say this was the loudest game I ever played in, and then the next home game, louder, and louder, and louder than the last one.”

“I haven’t heard anyone come up with a Willie Young chant yet, so I’m looking to hear something real soon. Maybe not

the first game because I don’t know how much time I’m giving y’all

to prepare for it; I think it’s kind of hard to get 60,000 people on the same page if you don’t rehearse it. I

don’t know what it would sound like–you’ll

have to make it up. That’s

something I’m going to leave up to you.”

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2009 ReDSean Klemm breaks down this year’s schedule

Sept. 3 vs. South Carolina – After suffering a disap-pointing 34-0 loss at the hands of the Gamecocks in Columbia in last year’s opener, the Pack will have revenge on its mind. State will look to continue its late success from last season, while the Cocks lost a lot of talented players, especially in the defensive secondary. It should be a great opener for both college football and the Wolfpack.

Sept. 12 vs. Murray State – Few students could prob-ably point to Murray State on a map, but these two teams will face for each one’s second game of the season. Not necessarily a “cupcake” game, but on paper, the Pack should have no trouble with the Racers.

Sept. 19 vs. Gardner-Webb – State will face its second straight FCS division oppo-nent after scheduling only one last season. The Run-nin’ Bulldogs are anchored defensively by a pair of All-American linebackers, Mario Brown and Jeffery Williams.

Sept. 26 vs. Pittsburgh – Picked by many to win the Big East, Pitt will be a very competitive match up for the Pack. Pitt returns 14 starters and has a menac-ing defense. However, after losing the majority of its offense in LeSean McCoy, it will be tough for the Pan-thers to come away with a win at Carter-Finley.

Oct. 3 at Wake Forest – The Wolfpack open up conference play with a short road trip to Winston-Salem to take on the Demon Deacons. It will be a battle between two of the ACC’s top quarterbacks. Wake will have a tough time replac-ing Aaron Curry and Alphonso Smith on defense.

Oct. 10 vs. Duke – Duke foot-ball is no longer a joke around the ACC. With second-team All-ACC quarterback Thad-deus Lewis and head coach David Cutcliffe leading the Blue Devils in the right direc-tion, the Blue Devils may turn some heads in the conference. However, Duke has not won an ACC road game since Novem-ber 22, 2003.

Oct. 17 at Boston College – Tom O’Brien returns to Chest-nut Hill for for round two to coach against the program he turned around just before coming to Raleigh+. O’Brien may be the winningest coach in Boston College history, but he hopes his second return will be better than the first.

Oct. 31 at Florida State – Bob-by Bowden and the Seminoles are ranked No. 18 in the pre-season poll and are a favorite to win the Atlantic Division. Florida State is led by quar-

terback Christian Ponder who threw for more than 2,000 yards last year. Though playing in Tallahassee is always tough, State usually plays well against the Seminoles. Who knows? Maybe Chuck Amato will cry again this year.

Nov. 7 vs. Maryland – The Terps return first-team All-ACC running back Da’Rel Scott, second-team All-ACC linebacker Alex Wujciak and quarterback Chris Turner, who possesses a striking re-semblance to Screech from Saved by the Bell. All joking aside, Maryland is a talented team and will be a very formi-dable opponent. State should have success if it can shut down Scott and force Turner to throw the ball.

Nov. 14 vs. Clemson – The Ti-gers are a heavy favorite to win the ACC and entered the season ranked in the top ten. Clem-son returns honorable mention freshman all-American defen-sive end Da’Quan Bowers and speedy Heisman Trophy candi-date C.J. Spiller, who needs just 921 yards to become the ACC’s career all-purpose leader. De-spite uncertainty at the quar-terback position, don’t be sur-prised if Dabo Swinny and the Tigers are one of the top teams in the ACC. The “Textile Bowl”

will be one to look forward to this year.

Nov. 21 at Virginia Tech- Last year’s ACC champions and winners of the Orange Bowl enter its 2009 campaign ranked No. 7 with high expectations. The Hokies lost star running back Darren Evans to injury, but still have Tyrod Taylor who is an explosive, dual-threat quarterback. VaTech also has one of the best defenses in the ACC and is renown for its spe-cial teams play which has been deemed “Beamerball” after the team’s head coach Frank Beam-er. This is probably the tough-est team on State’s schedule, es-pecially since it’s in Blacksburg.

Nov. 28 vs. North Carolina – Carolina enters the sea-son ranked No. 20, an unjust ranking according to many. After losing Hakeem Nicks and Brandon Tate, UNC-Cha-pel Hill will likely not have enough offensive firepower to stay in the top 25 for long. The Heels struggled last year in Chapel Hill losing 41-10 in a completely one-sided contest. Expect something similar in Rough Raleigh this year.

Wolfpack’s season at a glance2009 Football Schedule

Thu, sep 03 South Carolina

Home 7:00 pm

sat, sep 12   Murray State Home 6:00 pm

sat, sep 19   Gardner Webb Home 6:00 pm

sat, sep 26   Pittsburgh Home 3:30 pm

sat, Oct 03   Wake Forest * Winston-Salem, N.C.  

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sat, Oct 10   Duke *   Home Tba

sat, Oct 17   Boston College * Chestnut Hill, Mass. Tba

sat, Oct 31 Florida State * Tallahassee, Fla. Tba

sat, Nov 07   Maryland * Home Tba

sat, Nov 14 Clemson * Home Tba

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Experienced Young back for final seasonsee page 6.

Positional breakdownsee page 4.

Tailgate checklistsee page 8.

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After freshman year, sophomore fullback earned his place on the team

Taylor BarbourSenior Staff Writer

Less than two years ago, sophomore Taylor Gentry was finishing up his senior season of football at Leesville High School. Gentry played both linebacker and wide receiver in high school and had a success-ful year statistically, gaining 1,183 receiving yards, scoring 21 touchdowns, and racking up 125 tackles on the defen-sive side.

Everything seemed to on track for Gentry to be able to play football at the collegiate

level. However, by the end of the season, Gentry’s recruit-ment was not going as planned and he had a choice to make at the end of that year regarding his football future.

“I had no full rides to any Division 1 schools,” Gentry. “I had full rides at smaller schools, so it came down to coming to N.C. State as a walk-on or going somewhere smaller and having a full ride.”

Gentry settled on his first option and came to State as a preferred walk-on last year. Trying to do whatever he could to make the team, Gentry origi-nally tried to play as a tight end, but after coaches watched him practice during his freshman year they saw his rough side

and decided a switch to full-back would be the best for him and the team.

“I played a lot of defense in high school, and when I came in I told them I wanted to play tight end,” Gentry said. “But once practices started, coaches saw I enjoyed playing physically so they moved me to fullback, so I had to get used to that po-sition.”

Even though Gentry was only a walk-on, he made his presence felt, playing on special teams throughout the season. Gentry played in 184 special team’s snaps, fourth most on the team, and halfway through the season he began to see regu-lar playing time at fullback. By the end of the season, Gentry

had became the Pack’s starting fullback and ended the year with seven catches.

To reward Gentry’s play throughout the season last year, he was offered a schol-arship, giving him the honor he was overlooked for by so many teams just a year earlier.

“Well he got this spot be-cause he played well last year,” Coach Tom O’Brien said. “He earned his scholarship, which we gave to him.”

Gentry admits having the scholarship does not affect his mentality, but he said there is still that something about being overlooked by so many teams during high school, and finally knowing he is able to play at the collegiate level, that is rewarding to him.

“Coming in, you feel over-looked and you second guess yourself at whether you can compete at this level or not, you wonder if you can play with D-1 athletes,” Gentry said. “When you get here and you finally prove yourself, it feels good because guys look at you as one of them and you are now a part of a team of scholarship athletes.”

The fullback position is not a very flashy job like the quarterback, running back or wide receiver, due to the lack of touches, whether it is carry-ing the ball or catching it. But, it is instead focused on blocking people and opening up holes for a running back or blocking for the quar-terback, and according to redshirt se-nior running back Toney Baker, there is no one better than Taylor at opening holes.

“He is a monster,” Baker said. “Pass protection run protection, I have all my faith in Taylor and he is going to be my lead guy.”

Fellow redshirt senior run-ning back Jamelle Eugene also stressed how important it is to have someone like Taylor, who is able to set the tone for the running game and help open up running lanes in the de-fense.

“He is a smash mouth guy,” Eugene said. “It is very impor-tant to have a smash mouth guy, especially with a team that wants to establish a running game. Fullbacks are some of the

best blockers on the team and they go out there and do the dirty work.”

Like every player on the team, Gentry cannot wait for the sea-son opener against Uni-v e r s i t y o f

South Carolina, and is hoping things go a bit different for the team than they did last year.

“I remember last year - my first game - was in South Caro-lina, and it was a bit intimidat-ing,” Gentry said. “But this year they are coming to our house and it’s our fans, our people and its going to be a sellout crowd, ESPN sky camera overhead, I just can’t wait. With that first kickoff I know the stadium is going to be rocking.”

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1020304040302010 50Positional breakdownA look At the depth of this yeAr’s roster

secondary:The secondary will be looking to make major improvements this season. Even though it does not encompass the entire defense, N.C. State allowed 248.7 passing yards per game, bottoming out the ACC last season in that statistic. However, the team returns redshirt junior cornerback DeAndre Morgan, who was seventh in passes defended in the ACC last year. Morgan is out for the South

Carolina game with an ankle injury. Redshirt sophomore safety Justin Byers, who was eighth on the team in total tackles last year with 44 and tied for third on the team with two interceptions, could emerge as the leader of the secondary.

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defensive Line:The defensive line may be the team’s strongest and deepest position on the whole field. The team is returning four starters who had a substantial impact last year, including Alan-Michael Cash, Leroy Burgess, Shea McKeen and Willie Young. The line is also loaded with depth behind the starting four, with all four backups very capable of coming in and making an immediate impact. One player

to watch for is Young, who has already been named on the Bednarik Trophy watch list, is one of the top two of three defensive ends in the ACC, and is well on his way to being another great defensive lineman to come out of N.C. State over the past few years.

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Linebackers:There is only one senior in the entire line-backing core in Ray Michel, who led the team in tackles in 2008 with 102, so a largely untested linebacker squad should have plenty to look forward to, if not this year, then in years to come. As a team, N.C. State was seventh in rushing defense last year, allowing 139.4 yards per game. Junior linebacker Nate Irving, a former all-ACC honorable mention performer,

is out for the season, leaving sophomore Dwayne Maddox and redshirt freshman Terrell Manning to pick up the load at his weak side linebacker position. Redshirt sophomore Audie Cole will start at strong side linebacker.

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speciaL Teams:The experience of place kicker Josh Czajkowski could win the Pack some close ACC games this season. Czajkowski was clutch in the game winner against ECU and, with the third best accuracy rating in the ACC last year, has proven his accuracy. Kick returner/wide reciever T.J. Graham showed off his speed and agility on his 100 yard return against Boston College last year; look for opposing teams to

kick away in fear of his return abilities.

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TighT ends:With redshirt sophomore Mario Carter out for the season nursing a knee injury and Anthony Hill now playing professionally, the offense will expect big things out of redshirt sophomore George Bryan, who started six games last year and finished with 18 catches for 201 yards and four TD receptions. Bryan was recently named a 2009 preseason second-team All-ACC choice by Phil Steele’s College

Football Preview. With Bryan, who played more than any other tight end last season, and his backup, 6’4, 285 pound redshirt senior Matt Kushner, the Pack will have a formidable combination of size, experience, and pass-catching ability at the tight end position.

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Backfield:First Team All-ACC Quarterback Russell Wilson, who threw for 17 Touchdowns and only one interception in his first season, leads the offensive backs. When healthy, he is listed in the upper tier of ACC quarterbacks by almost every major analyst. Backup quarterback Mike Glennon could potentially make an impact to the offense this season, as coach Tom O’Brien said he will see significant playing time

and is ready to go should the injury bug hit Wilson again this season. Toney Baker, the Pack’s leading rusher back in 2006, will lead the rushing attack. He has been sidelined the past two seasons due to knee injuries, but look for him to bounce back and have a productive season. The keys for the offensive backs this season are quality depth and consistency.

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Wide ReceiveRs:Owen Spencer, a junior, is the Pack’s leading returning receiver. He hauled in 31 catches for 691 yards and 5 touchdowns during his sophomore campaign. He also set an ACC and a Wolfpack single season record, averaging 22.3 yards per catch. Redshirt junior Jarvis Williams, who played in 597 snaps from scrimmage last year, more than any other wide out, will join Spencer in the starting lineup.

Sophomore speedster T.J. Graham, who was an honorable mention All-ACC performer as a kick return specialist and set the single-season school record for kickoff return yards, will accompany the tandem of Spencer and Williams. As we all know, dropped balls plagued the receiving core last year. This year, however, should be a different story. With loads of talent, another year of experience, and an efficient quarterback, the Pack should be a serious threat through the air.

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offensive line:McCuller, a 6’7, 335-pound mammoth who has been elected as one of three team captains, will lead the veteran offensive line. With three of five starting linemen being seniors, the offensive line boasts only slightly less experience than their counterparts on the defensive line. The other starters on the O-line are junior left tackle Jake Vermiglio, redshirt senior left guard Julian Williams,

redshirt senior center Ted Larsen, and redshirt freshman right guard R.J. Mattes. With the exception of Mattes, who recently beat out redshirt senior Andy Barbee for the right guard position, all the starting linemen started at least five games last season.

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Former N.C. State quarterback Philip Rivers recently signed

a six-year contract worth over $90 million with the

San Diego Chargers. The news about Riv-ers brought back mem-ories of his playing days here, and it did not t a k e

much time reminiscing about Rivers’ time in Ra-leigh for me to realize that for the first time since 2003, his senior season, there is le-gitimate reason to be excit-ed about Wolfpack football.

I am as optimistic and easily excited as they come. I have been looking for-ward to September 3 since last December. But that’s just it, isn’t it? What ev-ery Wolfpack fan does ev-ery year – talk about how stacked we will be next year, the strength of our recruiting classes, or the greatness next season will surely bring. However, this year, we can finally live in the present.

The buildup surround-ing the 2009 campaign has been, hands down, the most excitement accompanying the start of a season since Phillip Rivers’ senior season in 2003. The Pack returns 13 starters, similar to the 2003 team which returned 12 including a trio of stars at the glamour positions in Rivers, running back T.A. McLendon and receiver Jer-rico Cotchery. Notably for State this year, the entire receiving core returns, plus Donald Bowens should be healthy at some point this season, adding even more depth. State also welcomes

back Toney Baker to a back-field that will include Jamelle Eugene, Taylor Gentry, not to mention ACC Rookie of the Year and first-team All-ACC selection Russell Wilson, making the offensive backs a force to be reckoned with in the ACC.

The trenches, where foot-ball games are won and lost according to almost every coach, look very solid this year. Three out of four start-ers on the defensive line have starting experience, and all four of them are playing their final season for the Pack. Alan-Mi-chael Cash and Willie Young have the oppor-tunity to be two of the best defen-sive l i ne-men in the league, and are poten-tially high NFL draf t picks. The offensive line also returns three starters.

Since taking over the head coaching position in 2007, O’Brien has cleaned up a program that was notorious for lack of discipline. O’Brien demands excellence in every aspect, and takes the term “student-athlete” seriously. The cumulative GPA of the football team has steadily risen, and the team has vol-unteered at the Raleigh Res-cue Mission and with the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots campaign.

Experience, depth and a responsible head coach lead me to believe that unlike Riv-ers’ senior season, the Pack not only has the capacity to perform up to expectations, but it will. These athletes have weathered the storm.

They have been through in-juries; they turned around a season that, to many, seemed doomed after starting 2-6 and did it with class both on and off the field.

Rivers’ senior squad en-tered the season ranked No. 16 after a huge win over no. 11 Notre Dame in the 2002 Gator Bowl. That team fin-ished the season a disap-pointing 8-5 with a triple overtime loss to no. 3 Ohio State and a double overtime loss to no. 13 Florida State. I am convinced there is some-thing special about this years

team that the 2003 team didn’t have. This team i s p l a y-ing w it h a s m a l l chip on its shoulder, with some-t h i ng to prove and w i t h a n insatiable

hunger to win. Tom O’Brien went 4-7 in his first two sea-sons at Boston College before going 8-4. If history is any indication, O’Brien and the Wolfpack are due for a season to remember.

In short, when I think of the 2009 Wolfpack football season, the only thing that comes to mind that can ad-equately capture my excite-ment is Kevin Garnett after the Celtics beat the Lakers in Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals in Beantown. The im-age is one of Garnett telling ESPN analyst Michelle Ta-foya how hyped he is right now, beating his chest and screaming “anything is pos-sible” at the top of his lungs. For the Pack this season, I agree with Garnett — any-thing is possible.

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But he decided to play one more season in Raleigh, and after play-ing 1,667 career snaps for State, Young returns for his fifth season as the team’s most experienced player.

Coach Tom O’Brien said he is thrilled with Young’s decision to come back for a final season.

“It’s a great thing for us. He was our best recruit when he decided to come back,” O’Brien said. “He’s an impor-tant leader on our defense and I think he has prepared better than he has pre-pared [during] our prev ious two camps since I’ve been here.”

Young said he is not the only player sticking around because of high expectations for this veter-an-laden squad, which features 22 starters–11 of them seniors.

“We have a lot of guys that could have made that step,” Young said. “But deep down inside, a lot of guys also know that this is a great year for us.”

With redshirt junior linebacker Nate Irving out for the season and

the team having elected Young as one of three captains, Young, who ESPN.com rated the 9th best player in the ACC, said his focus is on leading the team and defense with his actions on the field.

“It’s a role that you have to take and it’s not a role that you

can prepare for or practice for,” Young said. “It is something that happens and I just want to do the best I can to try and lead by example.”

The preseason media attention Young has re-ceived has been

second only to the hype sur-rounding redshirt sophomore quarterback Russell Wilson, and has only intensified in the wake of Irving’s season-ending car wreck. Young’s accolades from this preseason include his place on pre-season watch lists for four different awards, including the Chuck Bednarik Award for national defensive player of the year and the Lombardi Award for

lineman of the year.The most experienced

team of O’Brien’s three-year tenure features no position group more grizzled than the defensive line, where Young, redshirt senior tackle Alan-Michael Cash, senior tackle Leroy Burgess, and senior end Shea McKeen form one of the most tenured defensive fronts in the nation.

Young said the team has too many veterans for inex-perience in the secondary and line-backing core to give the team an excuse to repeat the mistakes that plagued the Wolfpack at times last season.

“We feel that the mistakes that were made last year can easily be fixed,” Young said. “Although we do have a few young guys, those young guys have a lot of veterans around them, so there is no excuse for us not to come out and per-form to our best every Satur-day, starting this Thursday.”

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TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTODefensive end Willie Young speaks with Defensive Line Coach Keith Willis during a game against East Carolina Sept. 20, 2008. State won the game 30-24.

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As a six-foot-four de-fensive end playing at a school with a

reputation for producing NFL defensive linemen, redshirt senior defensive end Willie Young had ev-ery reason to forego his fi-nal year of eligibility with the Pack and enter the NFL Draft, especially consid-ering he graduated from N.C. State last May.

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Tailgating lots open up five hours before kickoff. Entrance before 2 p.m tonight is a no-no, according to school rules. Arrival any time after 4 p.m. is a foolish move, but if it’s due to class, it’s allowed.

Entertainment. Music always helps the tailgating atmosphere. It doesn’t matter what you listen to as long as it isn’t so loud it’s out of control, because your neighbors will complain. Playing game day anthems such as “Don’t Stop Believin’” and “Apache” will draw smiles from random passers-by and possibly lead to spontaneous dance parties. Games are essential to a successful tailgate. Corn-hole, ladder toss, horse shoes, and pong are just a few Wolfpack favorites.

Check out the Walk of Champions. Where will you be today at 4:30 p.m.? If your answer is not “in front of the Murphy Center,” it’s wrong. Two and a half hours prior to kick-off, the Wolfpack players parade from Trinity Road into the locker room accompanied by the band, fans and cheerleaders.

Visit multiple tailgate parties. One of the best parts about arriving to the game early is to celebrate with all Pack fans. We suggest walking around and catching up with friends and alumni. Hint: The Alumni tailgates always have the best food. Also, be sure to remind Gamecock fans they’re in Raleigh.

Show your Wolfpack Spirit. Feel free to go all out. From face paint to red hair, it’s important to show your Pack pride. Thursday’s game is a white-out. So for once, leave your red shirt at home and get ready to white-wash the student section. White T-shirts will be given to students, so don’t forget to arrive 45 minutes before kick-off to get your shirt as well as get an extra loyalty point.

Always remember plenty of food. As in any sports regimen, it is important to get a well-rounded meal. Supporting the Wolfpack is no different. A pig pickin’ is a sure-fire way to attract a gathering at your tailgate and can be grilled right in the parking lot. If you’re not a whiz in the kitchen, Red Hot and Blue also makes a mean barbecue. If pig isn’t your style, Bojangles’ tailgate special is the way to go. For proof, check out the drive-through line on game days. Also, don’t hold out on the sides. Tailgating is hard work, and you will need your energy to cheer on the Pack.

Cool drinks. Stay hydrated. Regardless of your beverage of choice, it is important to bring enough to share. But don’t get too excited; kegs are not allowed. Also remember to recycle. The WITH program gives out koozies for every five cans recycled — a great way to keep your beverage cool and go green at the same time.

Here are a few key points to keep in mind for a successful tailgate.  follow correctly, and your tailgate will be one carter-finley patrons will remember for years to come — or at least until tHe next game.

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