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MATT MOORE/TECHNICIANIn the common room in the Honors Village, Daniel Farrell, a sophomore in biomedical engineering, shaves a balloon covered in shaving cream with a tree saw Sunday night. Other contestants’ balloons popped but Farrell’s did not. “It was a lot more challenging than I thought it would be, as I saw the saw I was intimidated,” he said.
Admissions sees increased applicants6.6 percent more students applied than by Nov. 2007
James CoxStaff Writer
The Office of Admissions is gearing up to send out its first batch of acceptance letters on Dec. 15 after receiving 6.6 per-cent more than at this time last year.
“So far, we’ve had 12,008 fresh-man applications submitted,” Thomas Griffin, director of Ad-missions, said.
Last year, 17,685 students ap-plied, a record for freshman ap-plications, Griffin said.
Laura McLean, a se-nior associate director of Ad-missions, said N.C. State has different notifi-cation dates for applicants.
“We have four notification dates, Dec. 15, Jan. 30, March 15 and March 30,” she said.
Grif f in said Admissions tries not to delay on their notifica-tions.
“If we’ve made our decisions, we’re not going to sit on them and we’ll send them out earlier than the notifi-cation date but not later,” Griffin said.
Griffin also said having noti-fication dates makes it easier on students and the staff of the ad-missions office.
“The student doesn’t have to check the mailbox every day, just around the
time of the dates,” he said.For the admissions staff, Grif-
fin said, “it helps to spread out the applications more efficiently for processing and overview.”
There are no disadvantages to notification dates, he said.
If a student has his or her ap-plication submitted in time for the Dec. 15 notification date, the student will get to know how competitive his or her applica-tion is, according to Griffin.
“If we could fill up the fresh-man class with all straight ‘A’ students, we would do that,” Griffin said.
What ends up happening, he said, is the University will admit a student with borderline grades later in the application process to fill up with higher quality students.
“If a student is not accepted
for one of the earlier notifica-tion dates, then two things can happen,” McLean said. “The student can either be denied or deferred.”
If the student is deferred, then they have to wait until the March 30 date for review, she said.
While there weren’t any chang-es to the application process this year, Griffin said, the Office of Admission is constantly looking to improve.
“We’re always assessing and trying to improve the [admis-sions] process if we find prob-lems with these [notification] dates,” he said.
Griffin said the University sent out 2,200 to 2,300 accep-tance letters on the Dec. 15
notification date.
“This year, we plan of sending out 2,300 to 2,400 accep-tance letters,” he said.
However, NCSU isn’t the only public uni-versity in the nation to see a rise in applica-tions.
“Early infor-mation from other state uni-versities across
the nation is that everyone is seeing an increase in early ap-plications,” Griffin said.
And Griffin said a few theories exist as to why that is the case.
“One theory is that some stu-dents that would normally go to a private university are now looking at a public university for financial aid,” he said.
But he warned that it is way too early to determine what exactly is going on.
“All we can do is observe the trends,” Griffin said.
However, NCSU doesn’t have an early decision admissions pro-cess like some other schools.
“Before we switched to no-tification dates, we did rolling admission and early action,” McLean said.
Griffin said early decision doesn’t advantage the student at all and that it only helps the school out not the student.
“We’ve been more interested in letting the student make an in-formed decision,” Griffin said.
Most schools that have early decision are moving away from it, he said.
Task Force to recommend changes to campus climate, student conduct and free expression tunnel policies
Derek MedlinManaging Editor
Members of the Campus Culture Task Fork Commit-tee met for the first time last Tuesday, and the three sub-committees formed in the meeting will meet during the coming weeks.
Chancellor James Oblinger formed the committee to be-gin the preliminary discus-sions about what changes need to be made in order to make the culture on campus better, and the subcommit-tees will discuss recommen-dations for changes in the campus climate, Student Conduct practices and Free Expression Tunnel and Brick-yard procedures.
The committee’s formation was one of the measures the University took following the Free Expression Tunnel graf-fiti Nov. 5 which made refer-
ences to shooting President-elect Barack Obama.
Tom Stafford, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said the first committee served as an organi-zational period where members
could discuss plans for subcom-mittee meetings.
“I thought it went very well,” Stafford said of the first meeting. “It was an organizational meet-ing and that was our primary
purpose. We wanted to review the different incidents that have happened and assign people to the subcommittees.”
Culture task force studies campus climate, diversity
“Early information
from other state universities
across the nation is that everyone
is seeing an increase in early
applications.”Thomas Griffin, director of
Admissions
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOStudents and student senators came together Nov. 19 to discuss Resolution 36 regarding hate speech and the consequences for those who painted the racial slurs on the Free Expression Tunnel Nov. 5. The sena-tors voted in favor of the bill, which recommended changes to the University’s hate crime policy.
Preparing for the worst during Dead WeekReading days planned
Staff Report
Dead Week and what’s to comeDead Week comes and goes
every year with the same com-plaints from students — this year is no different.
During this f inal week of classes, University regulations mandate that professors should not assign anything that has not already been in the syllabus to be due during Dead Week, includ-ing projects and tests. This has been in place since Dec. 2004.
As a result, students end up
spending this week working on final projects and papers, rather than preparing for final exams.
Although the Student Senate has called for revisions of this policy in 2007 and in 2008, ad-vocating for all projects and re-search papers to be due no later than the Friday preceding Dead Week, no changes have been made to the policy.
However, students who will still be around in fall 2009 have something else to look forward to — if they see it as a good thing, anyway.
The Student Senate passed a resolution last semester pushing
for the University to implement reading days, which the Univer-sity has approved.
So, after Thanksgiving Break, students will go through the Dead Week rituals, and then have two days of the following week as “reading days,” where no classes or exams are taking place Monday and Tuesday. Exams will then begin that Wednesday and continue through the following Thursday.
Until then, here are some study-ing tips to get students through Dead Week:
Study in chunks: 20 to 50 min-
ute time periods followed by a brief break (5 to 10 minutes) is the most effective way to study.
Use daylight hours: an hour of
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UNIVERSITY POLICY ON DEAD WEEK :Lab tests and semester project reports and presentations are permissible during the final week of classes. Papers and homework may have a due date during the final week of classes only if scheduled in the syllabus. However, in order for students to prepare for final examinations, faculty members may not assign other tests, quizzes or additional papers during the final week of classes. Assignments should not have a due date dur-ing the final exam period unless the assignment constitutes a part of the final exam. Exceptions to this policy must be approved in advance by the department head and the dean of the college involved. Students should contact the appropriate instructor or department head if they believe an assignment is not in compliance with this regulation.
SOURCE: REG 02.20.14 SECTION 2 , STUDENT GOVERNMENT WEB SITE
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Eric Ross, a freshman in chemical engineering, and Colin Cannon, a freshman in electrical engineering, work with their group to measure the weight that their concrete canoe held on engineering design day at the McKimmon Center Tuesday Nov. 25, 2008. “We made it out of concrete and rock aggregate,” Cannon said. “Ours was a little rough but it was good,” Ross said.
PHOTO BY TIM O’BRIEN
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Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Saja Hindi at [email protected].
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TodayDEAD WEEK BEGINS
2008 HUMAN RIGHTS DAYAfrican American Cultural Center, 1 p.m.
UNIVERSITY COPYRIGHT COMMITTEE MEETINGD.H. Hill, East Wing, 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
VOICES OF INNOVATION SPEAKER SERIESThe Friday Institute, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
FITNESS WORKSHOP-MENTAL FOCUS/CONCENTRATIONCarmichael Recreation Center, 4 to 4:45 p.m.
NEVER THE SINNER AUDITIONSStewart Theatre, 7 to 10 p.m.
Tuesday2008 HUMAN RIGHTS DAYAfrican American Cultural Center, all day
GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP CAMPUS DEADLINEDue in FANG (fao.ncsu.edu) by noon
NEVER THE SINNER AUDITIONSStewart Theatre, 7 to 10 p.m.
Wednesday2008 HUMAN RIGHTS DAYAfrican American Cultural Center, all day
EXPLORING OPPRESSIONTalley Student Center, Brown Room, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
SOIL SCIENCE SEMINARWilliams Hall, 3:40 to 4:40 p.m.
WIND ENSEMBLE/JAZZ ENSEMBLE HOLIDAY CONCERTStewart Theatre, 7 to 9 p.m.
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IN THE KNOW Department of History to hold teach-in
The Department of History will be holding an event this Wednesday in Withers 232 to inform students about the incidents in the Free Expression Tunnel in a historic context.
The event is scheduled to begin and 6 p.m. and run until 7:30.
The teach-in, entitled “The Gun, the Flag and the Noose,” will attempt to help students deal with the recent events on campus.
History professors Judy Kertesz, Susanna Lee, Katherine Charron and Blair Kelley will host the event and lead discussion.
The event will focus on how the history of racially charged events and how that history still resonates with people today.
For more information students should contact Professor Kelley at [email protected].
SOURCE: BLAIR KELLEY, PROFESSOR OF
HISTORY
Workshop to teach concentration techniques
A workshop today on the first floor of Carmichael Recreation Center will teach students how to have better workouts by teaching concentration
techniques.The workshop is designed to give
students a workout while also teach-ing the importance of mental focus and concentration while working out.
The workshop will review correct form for working out as well as what muscles are being utilized.
Attendees will also learn differ-ent exercises designed to maximize workouts.
The workshop is scheduled to be-gin at 4 p.m. and last 45 minutes.
For more information students can contact Natalie O’Farrell at [email protected]
SOURCE: NCSU CALENDAR
Drama auditions begin today
Auditions for Never the Sinner begin tonight in Stewart Theatre at 7 p.m.
The auditions are open to all stu-dents and will last three hours.
Never the Sinner is a story about two men who kill a 14-year old boy and how their defense attorney ar-gues for against the death penalty.
Those who audition should be prepared to read the script during auditions.
The production will begin Feb. 18 and run until Feb. 22.
Show times for the first four perfor-mances are all 8 p.m. while the final show, Feb. 22, is scheduled for 3 p.m.
For more information students can contact the University Theatre at 919-515-3927.
SOURCE: NCSU CALENDAR
Ensembles to perform Holiday Concert Wednesday
Both the wind and jazz ensemble will present a holiday concert this Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. in Stew-art Theatre.
The two groups will combine to perform a collection of holiday clas-sics.
The Wind Ensemble will be directed by Paul Garcia and the Jazz Ensemble by Wes Parker.
Admission for the public is $10. Se-nior citizens, faculty and staff will pay $8 and students can attend for $5.
For more ticket information, con-tact Ticket Central at 919-515-1100 and for general event information, contact Lindsey Graham at [email protected].
SOURCE: NCSU CALENDAR
Grains of Time to perform Friday
Grains of Time, the University’s male a cappella group since 1968, will present its fall concert this Friday at 8 p.m. in Stewart Theatre.
Admission for the public will be $10. Senior citizens and NCSU Faculty and staff can attend for $8 and NCSU students can attend for $5.
Grains of Time will be selling its latest album and will debut several new songs.
For information about Grains of Time, visit http://thegrains.org/.
For ticketing information, contact Ticket Central at 919-515-1100 and for general event questions contact Lind-sey Graham at [email protected]: NCSU CALENDAR, THEGRAINS.ORG
POLICE BLOTTERNov. 2411:03 A.M. | INFORMATION POLICEWinston Hall Staff member reported company using bulletin boards has been verbally trespassed from N.C. State property. 6:57 A.M. | INFORMATION POLICEPoe Hall Staff member reported subject sleeping in the building. Officers did not locate anyone suspicious. 2:22 P.M. | FRAUDGardner Hall Staff member reported possible fraud situation. Investigation ongoing. 5:42 P.M. | MEDICAL ASSISTTalley Student Center Fire Protection responded to student in need of medical as-sistance. 9:08 P.M. | TRAFFIC STOPDan Allen Drive Student was issued citation for speeding.
Nov. 25 10:01 A.M. | B/E VEHICLELee Lot Student reported vehicle broken into and stereo stolen. 11:23 A.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENTFraternity Court Officer responded to traffic acci-dent. No injuries reported. 12:12 A.M. | FIRE ALARMVenture Center Units responded to alarm. Cause unknown. 10:22 P.M. | INFORMATION POLICEFree Expression Tunnel Report of offensive graffiti in tunnel. Appropriate personnel notified. 11:06 P.M. | CHECK PERSOND.H. Hill Library
Report of trespassed subject in the area. Subject was arrested for second Degree Trespass. 11:28 P.M. | WELFARE CHECKLee Hall Campus Police checked on wel-fare of student. Everything OK. 12:08 P.M. | LARCENYBecton Hall Student reported bicycle stolen. 2:21 P.M. | DISTURBANCE - OTHERADMIN SERVICES I Student causing a disturbance at Transportation. Subject was referred to the University. 2:56 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTHarris Bank Staff member reported receiving counterfeit bill. 4:55 P.M. | CHECK PERSONWest Lot Officers located non-students set-ting ramp and camera for skate-boarding activity. Subjects were advised of policy and complied to leave the area.
5:22 P.M. | WELFARE CHECKCarroll Hall Officers checked on welfare of student. Everything OK. 6:41 P.M. | DRUG VIOLATIONAFC Complex Report of drug violation. Officer did not locate any problems. 8:18 P.M. | TRAFFIC STOPDan Allen Drive Student was issued citation for speeding. 8:54 P.M. | TRAFFIC STOPDan Allen Drive Student was issued citation for speeding.
November 261:46 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS VEHICLED.H. Hill Library Officers responded to report of suspicious vehicle at the loading dock. Everything OK. 3:34 A.M. | CHECK PERSONHarris Hall Lot Report of suspicious subject in the area. Officers spoke with sub-ject. Everything OK.
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NCSU Center StageThe Crafts CenterDance ProgramGregg Museum of Art & DesignMusic @ NC StateUniversity Theatre
Ticket Central: 515.1100 www.ncsu.edu/arts2nd Floor, Talley Student Center
Wednesday, December 3 at 7pm • Stewart TheatreWind Ensemble & Jazz Ensembles Holiday ConcertThe NCSU Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensembles join to perform a selection of your favorite classic songs, just in time for the holidays!
Thursday, December 4 at 7pm • Gregg Museum of Art & DesignArtists & Objects Lecture Series:Dr. Kathleen BerkeleyCalling all Rosies: Women, Work and War, 1939-1946. Dr. Kathleen Berkeley, professor of history at UNC Wilmington, will speak in conjunction with Let Me Call You Sweetheart: One Collector’s Vision. FREE!
Thursday, December 4 at 7:30pm • Stewart TheatreLadies in RedNC State’s premiere female a cappella ensemble presents their fall 2008 performance, performing songs by Sara Bareilles, Lauryn Hill, Doobie Brothers, Ingrid Michaelson, and more!
Friday, December 5 at 8pm • Stewart TheatreGrains of TimeAs one of the oldest a cappella groups in North Carolina, the Grains of Time celebrate their 40th anniversary this year. They continue a rich tradition of singing many different genres of music and provide great entertainment for all ages.
SEE THEM BEFORE THE SEMESTER ENDS!Two exhibitions at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design:
Frozen Music: Frank Gehry and the Walt Disney Concert HallLet Me Call You Sweetheart: One Collector’s Vision
TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANEthan Grimmer, a freshman in mechanical engineering, and Tyler Stone, a freshman in civil engineering, work on their bubble-blowing replica of the Bell Tower during engineering design day at the McKimmon Center Nov. 25 “I wanted something that represents State,” Stone, who built the model out of plywood and molding, said. “I’m a perfectionist — it couldn’t be out of scale.”
Jose Picart, vice provost for Di-versity and Inclusion, is chairing the Campus Climate subcom-mittee. Student Body President Jay Dawkins will chair the Free Expression Tunnel and Brick-yard practices subcommittee and Stafford will chair the Student Conduct Practices subcommit-tee.
“I’m not at all sure how the code of conduct committee will come out,” Stafford said. “But I’m very excited about what could be some productive recommenda-tions from the climate subcom-mittee. We want to promote free speech but with civility and re-spect for other people.”
Dawkins agreed that the f irst meeting went well.
“T he f i r s t meeting went very well,” he said. “We heard what people hope to ac-complish with the meetings. A big part of it was getting a historical con-text.”
Blair Kelley, a history pro-fessor, gave a presentation on the history of how racial slurs impact the African American community and produce a fearful mindset at the meeting.
“She definitely gave us some knowledge about the context of the Free Expression Tunnel incident,” Dawkins said. “The presentation helped frame the discussion.”
The Department of History is also sponsoring a teach-in on the Free Expression Tunnel incident for students Dec. 3, titled “The
Gun, the Flag and the Noose.”While Dawkins said the first
meeting was a success, he said he was surprised to not see more students not on the committee in attendance.
“I invited a few students who had voiced in-terest in being on the commit-tee,” Dawkins said. But with it being so close to the break, not a whole lot of people were around to show up.”
Stafford said t he turnout from the twen-ty-five member committee it-self was higher than he ex-pected with the holiday break being only one day away.
“A l l seven students were there and there
were only four people out of the whole list absent,” Stafford said. “That’s very encouraging. That’s extremely positive to have that many people there.”
Dawkins said the subcommit-tees will meet and discuss the more specific charges of the com-mittee during the next few weeks before coming back together and eventually making recommen-dations to the chancellor.
Geoffrey Hunter, a senior in political science and vice-chair
of the Student Diversity Coun-cil, said he is glad to see the task force underway.
“I thought it would be what happened last year,” Hunter said of the formation of the commit-tee. “It was a good step.”
Hunter said he hopes to see rules set so students know what is and what isn’t allowed on cam-pus.
“There definitely needs to be rules set and a policy for things like this,” he said. “N.C. State is really diverse, and you have to have a policy to account for that and account for anything that may happen while people are on campus.”
UNC system President Erskine Bowles announced his inten-tion to form a state commission to determine if there needs to be a code defining hate speech throughout the entire UNC sys-tem.
Stafford said changes to policies regarding hate speech should not be limited only to N.C. State.
“It seems to me that if there is a need for change, then it ought to be throughout the system,” Stafford said. “If we need some sort of new code, it should apply not only to N.C. State but all of North Carolina.”
Hunter said it would have been beneficial if a policy had been in place before the Free Expression Tunnel incident had occurred.
“In a situation like this, it would have been good to have something in place to counter this,” he said. “It’s a good thing they are finally moving toward changes with the task force.”
COMITTEEcontinued from page 1
SUBCOMMITTEE FOCUS AREAS :Campus Climate:
The Task Force will attempt to assess the ways the University encourages and supports personal responsibility.
Student Conduct Practices:This subcommittee will look at the student conduct code and determine
if it needs to be changed with regard to threatening behavior, including hate speech. The subcommittee will also determine if the student conduct code accurately portrays the values of the University.
Free Expression Tunnel/Brickyard Practices:This subcommittee will be responsible for determining if boundaries
should be set for the Free Expression Tunnel and the Brickyard.
SOURCE: CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE
studying during the day is worth two at night. Do the work that requires the most concentration (typically reading) earliest in the day.
Rank your three classes and be sure to spend time on your most challenging class everyday and early in the day.
Study actively: ask yourself questions, review your notes reg-ularly, discuss key concepts with peers and course professor.
Why students forget
1. Negative self-concept
Students think of themselves forgetting things.
2. They have not learned the material well.
If something is to be retained, it must be correctly, clearly and forcibly impressed on the mind. Students must give it necessary attention and interest. Self-ques-tioning and spaced or periodic reviews are essential.
3. Psychological reasons : defensive forgetting
Generally, unpleasant things are remembered better than pleasant things (especially by pessimists) and both pleasant and unpleasant things are re-membered better than materials we are indifferent to.
Freudian theory holds that un-pleasant things are often barred from consciousness. This is often referred to as active forgetting.
4. Disuse
Memories fade away rapidly when not reviewed or used. The curve of forgetting is like a playground slide; we forget
most immediately after we learn, mostly within the first 24 hours.
Then it proceeds slowly. Mo-tor learning seems to be better retained than verbal learning because a motor act has to be completely done to be done at all and so requires a higher degree of organization and competency which involves over-learning.
But “ forgot ten” mate-rial can be relearned in less time than is required for the original learning, even after many years’ disuse. Forget-ting through disuse is normal and unavoidable. The mind is a marvelous instrument, but not a perfect instrument.
SOURCE: DARTMOUTH.EDU
DEAD WEEKcontinued from page 1
DREIER CARR/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTOChris Burton, a senior in civil engineering, and Jessica Evans, a sophomore from UNC-W, study in the Learning Commons in the East Wing of D.H. Hill Library Nov. 24. “I am working on a !nal exam project. It is a project for a geology lab,” Burton said. “I am in Mann Hall most of the time — this is just a good meeting spot for people outside of my major.”
“I’m very excited about what could be some produc-
tive recommenda-tions... We want to promote free speech but with
civility and respect for other people.”
Tom Stafford, vice chancellor for Student Affairs
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Viewpoint
Let students rush the !eldI suppose it was good our game
against UNC-Chapel Hill was not at Carter-Finley Saturday because the N.C. State students might have actually tried to rush the field, and who knows what chaos would have followed.
In my four seasons of attending Pack football games, I have never been able to join my team on the field after one of our big wins. My heart fills with jealousy every time I see a replay of another college’s huge upset and the avalanche of excited students that follows.
I remember attending my first college football game at my brother’s college. As the clock was counting down, a voice came on loudspeaker saying, “Do not to rush the field.” The students laughed and before I knew what was going on, I was standing on the 50 yard line.
If all these other schools can
rush the field without destruction and chaos, why can’t we? Perhaps it’s the 50 officers encircling the field. But maybe it’s more. Maybe the students need to get really excited, and I think the game on Saturday would have been the one.
Regrettably, the Miami game on Saturday will be my last. It seems that I will never have the chance to join my classmates on the field even when we win.
Daniel Donnellysenior, English
Chalk messages on UNC campus tastefully build rivalry
I want to sincerely congratulate the N.C. State students who chalked “41 - 10” messages on sidewalks through-out the UNC-Chapel Hill campus Mon-
day morning (Nov. 24, 2008). Why congratulate? The “rub it
in” message was clear, but done without vandalizing or defac-ing campus property. The chalk messages were EVERYWHERE but washed away in Monday evening’s rain. I congratulate the message writers — it must have taken HOURS to chalk all these messages — for their industrious-ness, well-deserved pride and choice of ephemeral chalk. I just hope that I have the chance to chalk such messages on the NCSU campus when the Lady Tarheel Basketball team beats the Wolf-pack on Jan. 11 and Feb. 23!
Carol Ann McCormickAssistant CuratorUniversity of North Carolina
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Dead Week is here, and with it comes knowledge that exams are loom-
ing.The University and other on-
campus organizations have done some good work in making Dead Week a decent experience for students. In the fall of 2009, the University will introduce reading days after the last day of Dead Week, giving students more time to study.
But the University should do more. It should enforce the rules regarding final projects and tests during Dead Week and create more programs to help make the week less stressful for students.
The University’s regulations re-garding tests and examinations (02.20.14) states:
“Lab tests and semester proj-ect reports and presentations are permissible during the fi-nal week of classes. Papers and homework may have a due date during the final week of classes only if scheduled in the syllabus. However, in order for students to prepare for final examinations, faculty members may not assign other tests, quizzes or additional papers during the final week of classes. Assignments should not have a due date during the final exam period unless the assign-ment constitutes a part of the final exam.”
Student Senate has passed at
least three bills regarding Dead Week, all criticizing the Univer-sity for not enforcing regulations designed to give students an op-portunity to use this week for review of the materials.
Reading days are supposed to ease this burden by giving stu-dents two additional days to study for final exams. The University should give students more time to study and less stress before ex-ams by enforcing this rule.
The University should also do more to make Dead Week an enjoyable experience. Programs like the late hours for dining halls and reduced-price coffee at the
convenience stores on campus are good ideas.
Other organizations like Stu-dents Today, Alumni Tomorrow and the Union Activities Board also hold events to help students keep stress to a minimum. These and other organizations should look to keep up the good work and consider creating more pro-grams.
But for this Dead Week, stu-dents should take advantage of the programs and perks the Uni-versity and other organizations are offering.
You may wish you were dead at the end of Dead Week, but the end of the semester is only a little more than two weeks away.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the
editor-in-chief.
THE ISSUE:Dead Week is here, yet instructors are still using class time for projects and other assignments.
OUR OPINION:The University is making an effort to make Dead Week less stressful for students, but it needs to do more to ensure the week is used to review for exams.
THE SOLUTION:In addition to reading days for fall 2009, the University should enforce rules regarding projects and assignments during Dead Week.
Make Dead Week a low stress time to review{OUR VIEW}
Did you know that our economy is in sham-bles? Did you know that
North Carolina faces a $3 billion budget shortfall? Did you know
t h a t m a n y North Caro-linians were greeted to the holiday season with lost jobs and homes? I’m sure you did. So, are you like me?
Do you think it is rather insane to talk about increasing tuition during a looming economic de-pression? I think it is insane, but apparently I’m alone. Universi-ties across the state, including N.C. State, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. Central, are doing just that — they are jacking up their tuition rates.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The definition of insanity is do-ing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” According to that definition, the struggle to keep North Carolina’s public university system afford-able and acces-sible is insane. The same result occurs — tu-ition rises, debt loads increase and more quali-fied students are shut out of our state’s higher education sys-tem.
Is anyone lis-tening? Does anyone care ? Does no one else see that the connection be-tween the worsening economy and the health of our nation’s student body? Because the facts (according to the Project on Stu-dent Debt) are astonishing:
In the past five years, tuition and fees at public universities have risen by 57 percent.
Over the past decade, debt lev-els for graduating seniors with student loans more than doubled from $9,250 to $19,200 — a 108 percent increase. At public uni-versities, debt levels for gradu-ating seniors with student loans more than doubled from $8,014 to $17,250 over the past decade — a 116 percent increase.
By the time they graduate, nearly two-thirds of students at four-year colleges and uni-versities have student loan debt
(66.4 percent in 2004). In 1993, less than one-half of four-year graduates had student loans.
Cost factors prevent 48 percent of college-qualified high school graduates from attending a 4-year institution and 22 percent from attending any college at all. In a single year this amounts to 400,000 college-qualified stu-dents who will be unable to at-tend a 4-year college and nearly 170,000 will not attend college at all.
More than 20 percent of low-income, college-qualified high school graduates do not enroll in college.
Yet despite these disturbing trends, universities continue to raise tuition. The absurdity doesn’t stop there. On a national level, college administrators’ pay rose four percent for this aca-demic year, outpacing inflation for the tenth consecutive year, according to the College and University Professional Associa-tion for Human Resources.
The insanity is not limited to university administrators or trustees. The sickness is even
more prevalent in the halls of state govern-ment. Each year the state invests m o r e t h a n $8,000 per stu-dent enrolled in a UNC sys-tem institution. Compare that to the $25,000 to $32,000 a year it takes to imprison an inmate. In the
earlier part of the decade, state appropriations for higher edu-cation remained unchanged at $2.4 billion; though the state appropriated money for three new prisons. During the same period state need based finan-cial aid increased 4 percent from $146 million to $152 million, but not because of a policy decision by elected officials. Need-based financial aid only increased be-cause of proceeds from tuition increases.
The facts are the facts and the insanity continues to grow. Maybe Santa Clause will deliver us a holiday miracle.
Let Andrew know your thoughts on the tuition raises at [email protected].
Andrew PayneSenior Sta! Columnist
Tuition raises do not solve budget problems
“The facts are the facts and the
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N.C. State defeated Miami 38-28 Saturday.
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Hibernation: what Thanksgiving Break is supposed to be.
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Do you have big plans for Thanksgiving?
“Free co$ee, that’s my answer. We pay enough tuition, they can just do a week of free co$ee. They can a$ord it.”
Jacqueline Holdersenior, African studies
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A TERRORIST ATTACK ON MUMBAI STIRS FEAR IN NATIVE INDIANS, MANY OF WHOM CLOSELY FOLLOWED NEWS OF THE ATTACK
FOR THREE DAYS
Lad, a graduate student in engineering, was more than 8,000 miles away from Mum-bai when a group of terrorists seized the city’s center and killed more than 150 people, but he witnessed the events through televised news briefs and Internet media.
In Raleigh, Indians closely followed the news through online news Web sites and microblogging sites like Twit-ter. They called family and friends to make sure those who were still living in their native city were safe. For three days — from Nov. 26 to Nov. 29 — they searched for up-to-the-minute updates on the situation, waiting for news of its culmination.
Checking in at homeLad moved to Raleigh from
Mumbai in 2007, when he started his master’s degree in engineering. His immediate family — parents, grandpar-ents, aunts and uncles — still reside in the city, which sits on India’s west coast.
They are all safe, he said.“They live some distance
from the scene where all the things happened,” Lad said. “But the entire city of Mum-bai is really unsafe when these types of things happen. It can happen anywhere.”
Lad said the city has seen its share of terrorist attacks, the most recent of which oc-curred in July 2006, when a series of blasts throughout the city killed 187 people.
This attack was different. Terrorists targeted the city’s center — not just marketplac-es or areas where populations, though large, are not as dense — and attacked multiple prominent city landmarks,
including a Jewish center, two hotels and a train station.
“Mumbai is a big city, but it is a crowded one,” Lad said. “My parents travel through where these things happened. The Cha-trapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station, they frequently travel in that area. That place is actually a business area. My father does business and has many clients over there. Most of the people do travel in that part of Mumbai.”
Lad’s day was normal until he got a call from a colleague in the early afternoon of Nov. 26. The colleague, who is also from Mumbai, gave him a report of what was happening in the city when the attacks first started. As soon as he heard, Lad said he checked online news sites to get more information and then called his parents and friends.
“It was very shocking to see. I’ve lived there since my child-hood, so it’s very shocking and really sad to see that happen in the place I grew up. It’s always going to be my favorite city,” Lad said. “As soon as I saw the things happen over there, I called my family and my friends to see if they were safe. The same thing happened with all my friends who lived in Mumbai. They all called their parents to make sure they were all safe.”
Sameer Tendulkar, a graduate student in mechanical engineer-ing whose hometown is Mumbai, went through a similar process when a friend informed him of the attacks.
“I was just calling up a few of my friends around here. One was a friend who also lives in Mum-bai. He asked me to go online. Since Wednesday afternoon, I have just been watching live
PHOTO COURTESY SAMEER TENDULKAR Sameer Tendulkar (far left), a graduate student in engineering, sits at a table with his Mumbai-native friends at Inorbit Mall, a shopping center in Mumbai, India. A group of terrorists attacked the city on Nov. 25. The siege lasted for three days before commandos ended it.
Ankit Lad heard the gunshots echoing through the halls of buildings in his hometown of Mumbai, India. He saw the flames usurping the Taj Mahal hotel.
He saw flashes of terror on the faces of natives and tourists who were caught in the middle of the worst terrorism attack in India’s past.
PHOTO COURTESY ANKIT LADMumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel, as viewed from a ferry. The hotel was set on !re during the terrorist attacks on Nov. 25.
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150died during the attacks. Although most of the dead were Indian citizens, at least 22 were foreigners.
13.6terrorists were killed during a battle between Indian anti-terrorism commandos.
3terrorists were killed during a battle between Indian anti-terrorism commandos in the city’s center, bringing the siege to an end.
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SUBMITTHE WORLD’S LARGEST CITY PROPER Mumbai, with a population of more than 13 million, sits on India’s west coast. The city is the financial capital of India, and is the actual capital of the state of Maharashtra.
“All of us believed in each other and believed that we were going to do it,” Pierson said. “Deep down inside we were all kind of expecting it.”
The defense, led by seniors Robbie Leonard, J.C. Neal, Jer-emy Gray and Keith Willis Jr. set the tone right away with a three and out on Miami’s first offen-sive series.
Brown, who had 93 rushing yards on the day, started the game with carries of 15 and 12 yards on State’s first two of-fensive plays. Fittingly, it was Brown who also finished the State’s opening drive, getting himself open for the two-yard touchdown pass from redshirt freshman quarterback Russell Wilson, who had escaped the pocket and was being pressured by three Hurricane defenders.
Brown’s early success opened up running lanes for his back-field counterparts, redshirt ju-nior Jamelle Eugene and quar-terback Russell Wilson, who combined with Brown to give the Pack its best rushing game of the year with 219 yards on 44 carries for an average of 5.0 yards per carry.
Eugene said the se-niors were a critical part of the team’s victory.
“Andre in t he back-field and a lot of other seniors played their best,” Eugene said.
The success of the running game was possible largely be-cause of an outstanding per-formance from senior offensive linemen Meares Green and John Bedics, who also provided Wil-son with time to run and throw all over Miami, particularly in
the first half.State’s seniors also made their
presence felt on the defensive side of the ball. Leonard and Neal teamed up on a big third down stop early to create a second consecutive three-and-out on the defense’s second possession. Gray’s interception with less than
a minute to play extin-guished the final Miami threat and ef-fectively end-ed the game, leaving State only a few
harmless kneel downs away from a fourth consecutive win and 4-4 finish in conference play.
Graduate student Daniel Evans was granted the opportunity to kneel the ball, in the final seconds of a Senior Day performance that made the Wolfpack bowl-eligible for the first time since 2005.
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TV and checking what’s hap-pening,” Tendulkar, whose par-ents, grandparents and younger brother live in Mumbai.
“I called my kid brother to see if all the stuff was fine. I was very concerned because, obviously, my family is there,” he said. “A lot of my friends from under-graduate live in that area.”
Tendulkar said one of his friends was “very near to the region where it was happening,” but no one was in the city’s center during the attacks.
Live updates, tweet by tweet from Twitter
“Alexcouey has learned that his relative was rescued from the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India... phew close one..!!!”
“Rajthackrey war...War...WAR....this should be the cry of every Indian #mumbai.”
“Gregggallagher @beelinebill If I had a friend in Mumbai (Lisa was 4 days from goi ng t here , BTW) I would see Twitter as a more valu-able/pertinent source.”
These are only a sample of posts from Twitter, a microblogging site in which users frequent-ly update their statuses to share with friends, or “followers” (imagine a site composed only of Facebook sta-tuses). The site rose from among other blogging sites to become
both a forum for citizen journal-ism and eyewitness accounts of the attacks, as well as a place for discussion about what the Indian government should do about the attacks.
And as people updated their statuses — or “tweeted,” in the site’s lingo — Yogasudha Veturi, a graduate student in statistics, followed the news closely.
“I don’t have immediate family, but I have a lot of friends, really a lot of friends, in Mumbai,” she said. “I was browsing through all the sites that were available. CNN, BBC. I logged on to Twit-ter. There were a lot of tweets out there. They gave minute-to-min-ute updates.”
Veturi said she didn’t post any tweets herself, but followed a search thread under the city’s name.
“I was following everything that was happening, getting updates from them,” she said. “They weren’t my friends, but people from all over the world. You could read their posts about
Mumbai, all the posts that have been there re-garding the ter-rorist attacks on Mumbai. There were scores of people from all over the world. It was an ef-fective way of keeping your-self abreast of the situation.”
She also used Flickr, a photo
sharing site, to search for up-dated images of the city and its people.
Indians used Orkut.com, a site Lad said functioned like Face-
book, to keep up with politi-cal opinion surrounding the attacks.
“There are blogs over there that were like ‘What should we do?’ discussion forums,” Lad said. “What should be done to stop these kinds of things? What stand should leaders in India take? These are questions that show what kind of situation we are fac-ing.”
Honoring the fallenMembers of Maitri, an on-
campus Indian club, plan to meet with the Student Re-source Center in Talley to seek permission to hold a candlelight vigil in the Brick-yard sometime this week to celebrate the lives of those who died in the terrorist at-tacks.
Mehul Thakkar, a graduate student in electrical engineer-ing, said the group will meet in the morning to attempt to get a permit.
“If they give us permission, then we will hold a vigil,” he said. “But I don’t know when that will be right now.”
Tendulkar said the attacks have instilled a sense of fear in Indians, especially those living in Mumbai.
“That train station is the busiest area in Mumbai. It has tons of people moving around every minute,” he said. “Peo-ple must be afraid, to have an attack on something like that. Normal people — students like me — go there.”
MIAMIcontinued from page 8
LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANAndre Brown, senior halfback, rejoices with his team at the end of the alma mater. He had 117 total yards during Saturday’s game against the University of Miami. Brown also scored two of the four touchdowns.
“Deep down inside, we were all kind of
expecting it.”Senior punter Bradley Pierson
MUMBAIcontinued from page 5
“I was following everything that was happening, getting updates
from them.”Yogasudha Veturi, a graduate
student in statistics
Farnold Degand remained on the bench for Sunday’s game with an injury, and sophomore Javi Gonzalez, who had seven as-sists, started at point. Coach Sid-ney Lowe said Degand is healthy to play, but he wanted to give him additional time to recover since he had not yet returned to practice.
“I thought about putting him in the game, just to get him some contact prior to going down to Davidson,” Lowe said. “I didn’t want to put him in there and then [he gets injured].”
Ten players saw more than 11 minutes of playing time, and the Pack got a big boost from sopho-
more forward Tracy Smith off the bench. Smith recorded 14 points and four rebounds in just 15 minutes of playing time. Smith s a i d h e was confi-d e n t h e can score against any opponent.
“Wel l I don’t think nobody can guard me in the post. Ben, h e ’s a n excellent passer, but me, I just score,” Smith said. “I think I can do it against any-body. I’ll score or foul, one or the other.”
Lowe said it is a luxury to have more than one go-to forwards in the post.
“[Smith] certainly capable of scoring t he b a l l in there,” Lowe said. “He’s been ready to play. Yeah, it is nice t o h a v e another player to continue w it h , to play t he way you
want to play.”
Lowe said he was particularly happy about one statistic after
the game — 22 assists compared to the Spartan’s eight.
“We’re moving the ball. We’re playing unselfish. Early, we took a couple of quick threes, quick shots, but I think we settled in
and started to move the ball around.”
State’s next game will be against Davidson College in Bobcat Arena next Saturday at noon.
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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS:BASKETBALL VS. UNCG“What did you do?”Senior Simon Harris asked junior Dennis Horner this question after Horner was whistled for a foul in the "rst half.
“Don’t ever be a ref.”One of Sunday’s o#cials was overheard advising the ball boys and girls not to enter the o#ciating profession. “They will always boo and yell at you,” the o#cial told the children.
Sidney StompCoach Sidney Lowe stomped in a circle in distress after a pass from Julius Mays to Ben McCauley was intercepted in the second half.
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ing the first two tournaments will be back by the start of next semester.
Come January, senior 197-pounder Ryan Goodman will return to wrestling after com-pleting the football season. Se-nior Mark Jahad will be down to 184, where Jordan said he thinks he will the most successful. Isola, Burge and senior 141-pounder Joe Caramanica will also all be back to full strength.
With this in mind, Jordan seemed confident in what the team will be able to do over the remainder of the season.
“We’ll be ready to rock here in about another month.”
WRESTLINGcontinued from page 8
“Well I don’t think nobody can guard me in the post. Ben, he’s
an excellent passer, but me, I just score.”
Sophomore forward Tracy Smith
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Pack stays undefeated against SpartansMcCauley records a double-double and Fells adds 22 points in win over UNC Greensboro
Taylor AutenSports Editor
The men’s basketball team improved to 4-0 with a 79-52 win over UNC Greensboro Sunday in the RBC Center. Senior small forward Court-ney Fells led all scorers with 22 points and senior forward Ben McCauley added 17 points and 15 rebounds as the Wolfpack trailed only once in the game. State allowed just 11 offensive rebounds to the Spartans, a team that was averaging 17 entering the game.
“We want to limit our op-ponents to only one shot. All the big men are really taking the initiative to getting af-ter it—make sure the ball is ours on the defensive end,” McCauley said. “When we can hold our opponents to only one shot and get those defensive rebounds, we can get out and run and get some easy baskets like we did.”
Junior Mikko Koivisto, a guard from Finland, led the Spartans with 18 points a game coming into Sunday. But the pack held Koivisto and UNC-G to just 2-15 from the three-point line.
“We knew they were a good
three-point shooting team, so we just wanted to just come out and limit their totals from outside and make them be more creative
with the dribble,” Fells said. Redshirt junior point guard
WOLFFACTS
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Florida trip fruitless for Pack
Seniors critical in victory
FOOTBALL
LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANAndre Brown, senior halfback, pulls away from University of Miami’s defense for a run of nine yards. Brown had a total of 93 rushing yards during the game. N.C. State won against Miami, 38-28.
Halfback Andre Brown, seniors play key role in State’s 38-28 win over Miami
Tyler EverettStaff Writer
Since stepping onto cam-pus four or five years ago, the 16 seniors who played their final game in Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday have seen their share of adversity. Following the 2005 season, State experienced consecu-tive losing seasons, a coaching change and injury problems. After the Oct. 25 loss to Mary-land dropped the Pack to 2-6 going into its bye week, many
believed a third consecutive los-ing season to be inevitable.
Senior Andre Brown and oth-ers resolved to step up as leaders to bring the Pack out of the ACC cellar.
“We started taking practice more se-riously a n d i t shows,” senior running back Andre Brown said after-wards. “We took a look at our-selves during the bye week and the rest was history.”
O’Brien said he was happy with how his team responded to ad-versity.
“I’m so proud to be around these kids — they refused to quit and they refused to give in,” coach Tom O’Brien said follow-
ing the win.
“They kept play-ing and kept getting better and bet-ter — to
finish the way we did, it’s every-body in this building, everybody hung in there.”
State’s resurgence culmi-nated in the 38-28 victory Saturday. Seniors impacted the game from a variety of positions, as punter/kicker Bradley Pierson started the game with a solo tackle on his own kickoff to stop Miami re-turn man Brandon Harris shy of the 30-yard-line. Pierson said he had no doubt the team would pull out the victory.
Women’s basketball suffer pair of losses over Thanksgiving break
Staff Report
The women’s basketball team (4-3) endured a pair of tough losses this past weekend falling to both No. 15 Auburn and tourna-ment host Florida International. N.C. State was one of three teams taking part in the three-day FIU Thanksgiving Classic.
Shayla Fields led all Wolfpack scorers in both games, posting 23 points in each contest. In Friday’s game, Fields accounted for more than half of the team’s points in their 42-58 loss to Flor-ida International.
The pack posted anemic shoot-ing percentage numbers in FIU’s upset win. Aside from Fields, no player scored more than 4 points as State shot a mere 28.1 percent from the field. The win was Florida International’s first of the season.
The team’s loss to Auburn was the first time the Pack competed against a ranked opponent all season. The Tigers, led by senior Sherell Hobbs, readily defeated the red and white 66-51.
Fields again led all scorers in the loss. Sophomore Brittany Strachan hit a trio of three-pointers in the game to total 11 points for the Pack.
The closest State ever came to overtaking Auburn was in the second half when Fields nailed a three-pointer off an assist from junior guard Nikitta Gartrell to bring them within seven.
The Pack will travel to take on Michigan (4-2) next Friday at 6 p.m. in the ACC/Big Ten Chal-lenge.MIAMI continued page 6
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Pack battles injuries, tough opponents in Newberry, S.C.Wrestling team defeats Seton Hill and falls to Newberry over the weekend
Tyler EverettStaff Writer
The wrestling team trav-elled to Newberry, S.C this weekend looking to bounce back from a disappointing 0-3 showing in the ACC/Big Ten Clash. They squared off with Seton Hill and Division II powerhouse and host New-berry.
Despite a rash of injuries and other circumstances that caused the team to be without four of its starters, the team wrestled well and pulled off a 33-12 victory over Seton Hill.
According to coach Carter Jordan, one of the most im-pressive efforts of the Seton Hill match was that of sopho-more heavyweight Bobby Iso-la, who wrestled injured but pinned his opponent, Stephen Zubach, at 1:00.
“I don’t know many athletes that would have competed un-der the same circumstances, and he competed and actu-ally got a win,” Jordan said. “[He showed] a tremendous amount of guts.”
Isola was not the only wres-tler who competed despite
not being at full strength. Fresh-man 174-pounder Jacob Burge fought through strep throat and wrestled hard against his oppo-nent, Dan Matthews of Seton Hill, but could not quite come up with the victory, falling in a 10-4 decision.
The team was unable to du-plicate its success against a very strong Newberry team that en-tered the match ranked No. 7 in national Division II polls.
Unlike its match against Seton Hill, State’s injuries proved to be more than it could overcome against host Newberry.
Coach Jordan talked after the match about just how profound the impact of the teams injuries were.
“If we’re healthy, it’s a dif-ferent situation,” Jordan said. “Missing four starters, it’s hard to beat anybody. You put those four guys in the lineup and it’s a whole different team.”
Despite the tremendous obsta-cles they faced and the absence of several of its best wrestlers, the team wrestled hard and made Jordan proud.
“I was very pleased with our intensity and the way in which we wrestled,” Jordan said. “I was really proud of them, they were outgunned a little bit, but their effort was terrific.”
According to Jordan, all the starters that missed action dur-
WRESTLING
CHRIS SANCHEZ/TECHNICIANSenior forward Ben McCauley tries for a layup while surrounded by UNC Greensboro defenders in the RBC center Sunday. McCauley is second in scoring for the Pack with an average of 15.3 points per game. The Wolfpack won the game 79-52.
Volleyball ends season with loss to UNC
The women’s volleyball team (9-26, 3-17 ACC) ended its 2008 season with a loss Friday night to the Tar Heels (21-10, 15-5 ACC). The nine wins are the most State has had since 2004 when they notched 10 victories. State dropped all three sets, losing 25-15, 25-14 and 25-16 respectively. The Wolfpack was led by Arlee Tamietti with 10 kills. The Pack’s lone senior, Aiwane Iboaya had seven kills and four errors. Iboaya led the team this year with 120 blocks and ranks 10th in school history with 316 total blocks.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Birthday boy protects the ball
On his 20th birthday, redshirt freshman Russell Wilson led the Wolfpack football team to victory over the Hurricanes, earning the Pack bowl eligibility for the first time since 2005. Wilson also extended his school record for most pass attempts without an interception to a total of 226 attempts. The NCAA record is held by Andre Woodson of Kentucky. Woodson attempted 325 passes with out throwing an interception over the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS, NCAA
VOLLEYBALLSTANDINGS
SCHOOL CONFERENCE OVERALL
Duke 15-5 24-8
North Carolina
15-5 21-10
Miami 14-6 26-6
Clemson 14-6 22-9
Florida State
13-7 21-9
Georgia Tech
12-8 20-10
Virginia Tech
11-9 20-11
Wake Forest
10-10 19-13
Virginia 9-11 17-15
N.C. State 3-17 9-26
Boston College
2-18 8-24
Maryland 2-18 6-26
SOURCE: ACC
QUOTE OF THE DAY“All of us be-
lieved in each other and be-lieved that we
were going to do it.”
Redshirt senior punter Brad-ley Pierson on the team’s 38-
28 victory over Miami
DID YOU KNOW?The women’s basketball team has
been in the AP Top 25 a total of 326 weeks. The Pack ranks 7th nationally and leads the ACC with the number of appearances in this poll. The Wolfpack have finished in the AP poll 20 of the 31 years since it started in the 1976-77 season.
COMING SOONTuesday: A feature on the contro-
versy surrounding the use of dogs while deer hunting.
SCOREBOARD38 N.C.State
28 Miami
WRESTLING continued page 7
“I’m so proud to be around these kids—they refused to quit and they
refused to give in.”Coach Tom O’Brien
• 21 days until the men’s basketball team’s game against Marquette
• Page 7: Continuation of the stories on men’s basketball and wrestling
• Page 6: Continuation of the story on football