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Hillsborough Street planners work to prepare for day-long street festival

Derek MedlinManaging Editor

Organizers for the first annual Hillsborough Street Renaissance, a green arts and music festival designed to bring the commu-nity together, have started final-izing plans for the event.

Will McGuire, a senior in aero-space engineering and one of the event organizers, said plans for the March 14 event have contin-ued to grow and change during the last month or so.

“Plans have been moving along,” he said. “We’re starting to finalize our plans for the fes-tival. Right now we’re focusing on sponsorship.”

The street festival, scheduled to begin at noon and last until 10 p.m., will kick off the construc-tion scheduled to take place on Hillsborough Street and the sur-rounding area during the next two years.

The festival, McGuire said, is designed to bring the commu-nity of students, residents and local professionals together.

The event will also help three local charities—Engineers With-out Borders, MorLove and Soles-4Souls.

Since the planning started in late 2008, McGuire said the event has done nothing but grow.

“Initially, it was challenging because we had to meet with so many people and convince them the event was safe,” he said. “Af-ter that, more and more people started to get involved.”

McGuire said planners are still

expecting up to 20,000 people to attend the event.

Attendees will have numer-ous attractions to choose from throughout the festival on March 14.

McGuire said there will be a pig and pie contest, an alterna-tive fuels vehicle showcase, a fashion show, an iron chef con-test and more.

The pig and pie cook off con-test, sponsored by Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.

There will also be bands on hand to play throughout the day.

Joseph Heil, an event coor-

Biannual event features prospective employers looking for graduating students

Sonya DeulinaCorrespondent

The College of Engineering held the first day of its biannual career fair Wednesday at the Jane S. McKimmon Center. The fair continues today from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Despite America’s current economic crisis, students packed the McKimmon center eager to get noticed by and impress top potential employers.

However, Brian Koehler, director of the engineering career fair, said company reg-istration for this year’s fair is down.

“Over the two days we’ll have about

246 [companies] registered,” he said. “That is about 20 percent down from previous se-mesters.”

Despite the slight decrease in numbers, Koehler said the 2009 fair has had one of the largest student turnouts in its history.

“It still ranks as the third largest in N.C. State history,” he said.

Companies were eager to seek out new em-ployees, some were definitely impacted by the economic crises.

Representatives from Duke Energy and Exxon-Mobil both said the economy has hurt their ability to offer graduating students jobs.

Representatives from White Oak Technolo-gies and IBM both refused to comment, cit-ing directions from their corporate offices.

Some companies, however, were not set back at all by the economy. Students flocked around the National Security Agency infor-mation table.

Tonya Stankowitz, chief of the office of recruitment for the NSA, said the NSA is looking for skilled graduates.

“We are looking for technical students,” she said. “We are primarily interested in electrical engineers, computer engineers, we are hiring some power engineers. We are the largest employer of mathematicians in the United States. We are lucky in that [the economy] isn’t limiting us, we are a federal government so it’s not a profit organization. The NSA is planning to hire 1,500 people this year with one third in the technical skill fields.”

Student reactions to the fair were mixed.Daniel Piephoff, a junior in chemical en-

gineering, said he was surprised some com-panies didn’t show up.

“I was disappointed that Exxon-Mobil

Students are pleased with the results of changes implemented in the fall

Samuel T.O. BranchDeputy News Editor

The men’s basketball ticket-ing process, which underwent significant changes last semes-ter, is working well so far, accord-ing to Matt Garcia, chair of the Student Government Athletics Commission.

Before this season, Student Government worked with the Athletics Department to change the ticketing system to a loyalty point system.

“The main thing is that [the new system] rewards attendance rather than penalizes absences,” Garcia said.

According to the Athletics De-partment ticket policy, each stu-dent started the beginning of this season with an amount of loyalty points that corresponded to their respective class. For every event they attended, a point was added, and for every event a student re-ceived a ticket but did not attend, a point will be deducted.

All of the changes were based off of research conducted on other universities’ ticketing sys-tems and interviews done with students, Garcia said.

One of the primary goals—fill-ing the stands every game—has been realized this season.

“If you look at last year, I haven’t been to a game where there has been big gaps in the

stands,” Garcia said. “That was a big concern, providing the players with a home court ad-vantage.”

The only issues that have come from the new system is a few er-rors in the loyalty points scans.

“There’s been some cases where students reported their tickets had been scanned and no points were added,” Garcia said. “But its just about notifying us at that point [and we get it fixed.]”

Despite the drastic improve-ments, Garcia said more could

still be done.“The target is perfection. We

are almost there, but not quite,” he said.

One thing Student Govern-ment explored was the idea of general admission, Garcia said. However, there was no way gen-eral admission seating could work in the RBC Center.

“When you are in Reynolds that’s one thing, but the RBC is a different animal. At this point, it’s not possible,” Garcia said.

Garcia even went as far to say

with the way the stands and aisles are set up, it would pose a safety hazard to have gen-eral admission.

“It seemed like a good idea, but I think we can get the same benefits in other ways,” Garcia said.

One of those ways is a timed-entry system.

“[We’re] looking at a timed-entry system,” Garcia said. “It gives all the benefits of gen-

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Organizers open registration, gear up for new and improved marathon

Saja HindiEditor-in-Chief

This year’s Pack-a-Thon, for-merly known as dance-a-thon, will take place March 21 but with some changes, including a shift of focus from dancing to making it more of a game night.

The marathon will take place in Carmichael Complex from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The group had its first informational meeting Tuesday.

Proceeds will go to fund the North Carolina Children’s Hos-pital like last year, but also to the newly-opened special clinic at Rex Hospital.

The goal is to raise $35,000. And although the marathon only raised $7,000 last year, there is still some money left over that can be donated this year, ac-cording to corporate fundraiser Joseph Davis.

Davis, a senior in business administration, said organizers talk to the hospital every year to see exactly where it needs the money most.

The money goes into a fund called Dollars for a Difference. Pack-a-Thon organizers save money in the fund so they can donate it to the hospital’s general fund, the North Carolina Chil-dren’s Promise, when it is need-

ed. The fund now has $55,000.“This is such a great cause, just

from visiting the hospital and seeing the families that came out for the concert, and the fami-lies that come every year for the marathon,” he said.

The concert Davis was refer-ring to was the Rock for Life benefit concert Pack-a-Thon organizers hosted in November 2008 at Stewart Theatre. Five bands played at the concert, and each band gave one dedication to a child at the hospital and told that child’s story.

Jenna Tie, overall commit-tee chair, said this was the first time the group had hosted such a large-scale fundraiser, but she said it was very successful.

“Usually, in the past, we would do lots of small fundraisers in the fall and raise very little money for the effort we put in,” Tie, a senior in communication, said.

This year’s marathon was cut to eight hours because Davis said it’s been hard for people to com-mit to such a long period of time, especially on a Saturday, and it would be impossible to hold it on a weekday.

Tie agreed.“We want it to be a standing

tradition, and we can’t get it to be a standing tradition if people don’t come consistently every year,” Tie said.

But Davis said he’s excited

Pack-a-Thon preparation going into full swing

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Assistant director for the University Honors Program Tresa Barlage talks with Bobby San Miguel, a freshman in zoology, plant biology, and english, while Christine Nguyen, a sophomore in civil engineering, writes cards for the carnations Miguel bought. “Sales have been okay,” Barlage said. 90 carnations have already been sold.

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CAMPUS CALENDARFebruary 2009

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TodayCOLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CAREER FAIRMcKimmon Center, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

THOMAS SAYRE: NEW WORKGregg Museum of Art and Design, noon to 8 p.m.

NORM SCHULMAN: A LIFE IN CLAYGregg Museum of Art and Design, noon to 8 p.m.

COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT DEAN’S EXECUTIVE LECTURE - SCOTT CUSTER, CEO OF RBC BANK Nelson Hall Auditorium, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

POETRY READING: ALAN SHAPIRO Tompkins Hall Room 123, 7:30 p.m.

POLICE BLOTTERFeb. 310:28 A.M. | BREAKING AND ENTERING/LARCENYWeaver LabsStaff member reported attempted vehicle break-in.

10:57 A.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENTLibraries S.S.Units responded to traffic accident.

2:10 P.M. | FIREDan Allen DeckUnits responded in reference to small brush fire. Fire was extinguished and no damage reported.

2:22 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTPublic Safety CenterPolice are investigating possible so-licitation of minor from computer at unknown campus location.

3:06 P.M. | LARCENYWatauga Hall Student reported bicycle stolen.

4:35 P.M. | TRAFFIC STOPJackson Street Student was issued citation for speeding.

7:00 P.M. | DRUG VIOLATIONTucker HallStudent was arrested on the follow-ing charges: maintaining dwelling to sell control substances, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of schedule II control substances with intent to sell and deliver, resist, delay/obstruct and manufacturing marijuana.

9:45 P.M. | LARCENYSyme Hall Student reported bicycle stolen.

Feb. 41:43 A.M. | MEDICAL ASSISTMetcalf HallUnits responded to student in need of medical assistance.

12:17 A.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYOff Campus RPD requested University Officer to meet in reference to possible hazing by Omega Psi Phi. No hazing was noticed by officers. No further action taken. 12:22 A.M. | TRESPASSINGBragaw Hall Nonstudent was arrested for 2nd De-gree Trespass.

12:42 A.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENTDunn Avenue Student reported suspicious incident. Officers checked area but did not locate any problems.

IN THE KNOW 38th Henry M. Shaw lecture tonight

The 38th installment of the Henry M. Shaw Lecture Series is going on tonight. Franz-Josef Ulm, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology, will be speaking on the topic “What’s the Matter with Con-crete? A multi-scale approach to the development of Sus-tainable Materials and Struc-tures.” Ulm’s lecture, as part of the Henry M. Shaw series,

touches on engineering subjects. The event itself is hosting by the Department of Civil, Construc-tion, and Environmental Engi-neering. The event will begin at 1:30 p.m. in room 216 of Mann Hall Thursday.

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Mt. Rogers trip this Friday

The next Campus Recre-ation Outdoor Adventure trip is coming up this weekend. On this particular trip, participants will travel up to Mount Rogers, Va. Mount Rogers has numerous trails going around it, including a

segment of the Appalachian trail. Also, various forms of wildlife exist in the area, including sev-eral herds of wild ponies. Those who wish to go on the trip can register at Outdoor Adventures in the Carmichael Recreation Center building. The cost is $80 per person. The trip begins at noon on Friday when partici-pants meet at the Carmichael Recreation Center to drive up to Mount Rogers. Participants will hike some Friday, all day Satur-day, and back to the vehicles on Sunday to drive back to campus. Estimated time of arrival back on campus is 6 p.m. on Sunday. The cost of registration includes equipment and food for the trail, but not meals eaten on the road.

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James Bond movie arrives Feb. 19

The new James Bond mov-ie “Quantum of Solace” is coming to the Witherspoon Student Cinema. The first showing of the movie is from 9 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. on Feb. 19. The latest 007 flick made over $160 million in its first 10 weeks in theaters internation-ally. The movie is rated PG-13 and lasts 106 minutes. Tickets are $1.50 with a valid student ID, and $2.50 for the general public.

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WORLD & NATIONObama says he was wrong with Daschle

President Barack Obama has admit-ted he made a mistake in nominating Tom Daschle as his health and human services secretary.

“I think I screwed up, and I take re-sponsibility for it, and we’re going to make sure we fix it so it doesn’t hap-pen again,” Obama said during an in-terview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Daschle’s nomination had been under fire because of reports that Daschle failed to pay some taxes.

Daschle withdrew his name from the nomination, even though he claims the errors were honest mis-takes. There has been no word on who will take Daschle’s place.

SOURCE: CNN

Unemployment numbers released for December

The Labor Department reported unemployment has risen in 98 per-cent of all cities across the nation for December as compared to the December of 2007. 168 areas have unemployment rates that climbed over 7 percent, and 40 cities had job-less rates of more than 10 percent. Just 33 cities had reported being over 7 percent in 2007. Only 22 cities still have a healthy unemployment rate of less than 4 percent, compared to 112 a year earlier. El Centro, Ca. held its infamous title of city with the highest unemployment rate at 22.6 percent. Detroit was the worst major city, with all of the automobile manufacturers layoffs contributing to a jobless rate of more than 10 percent.

SOURCE: CNN

Obama puts cap on salaries for executives

President Barack Obama has put a cap of $500,000 on high execu-tive jobs in companies receiving federal bailout money. Obama used the $18 billion payouts ex-ecutives on Wall Street received last year as an example for what needs to change, even calling the bonuses “shameful.”

“For top executives to award themselves these kinds of com-pensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn’t just bad taste — it’s a bad strategy — and I will not tolerate it. We’re going to be demanding some restraint in exchange for federal aid — so that when firms seek new federal dollars, we won’t find them up to the same old tricks,” Obama said.

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In the Jan. 31 page-five story “Exploring black holes,” Edwin Taylor’s job description was incorrect. He is a physicist. Also, one part should have read “advancing at the speed of 1g.”

In Wednesday’s page-one story “Appropriations to go through Student Affairs,” the time period was incorrect. The appropriations request period ended Jan. 31.

In Tuesday’s page-o story “Krispy Kreme Challenge registration up from 2008,” the map of the race was incorrect.

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But for right now, students are

happy with the way things have worked so far.

“It makes sense. It’s a logical system,” Dillon Howard, a fresh-man in aerospace engineering, said. “I haven’t had a problem with it.

Chris Denton, a freshman in environmental science, also said

the system is great as is.“I think the pregame system

works well,” he said. “People who want to go to games can get tick-ets, and it prevents people from applying and then not going.”

didn’t show up. A couple of places I was hoping to apply as a chemical engineer said they weren’t hiring,” he said.

But some students were pleased with the turnout.

Stephane Henrion, a senior in electrical engineering, said he was happy with the fair.

“It was a pretty hectic fair,” he said. “Tennessee Valley Authority was here and they are new to the fair so I’m definiteley excited to talk to them.”

Henrion said he is current-ly doing an internship but is

trying to keep good contacts for future employment.

Other students were equally excited about the event.

Christopher Freeze, a fresh-man in material science and en-gineering, said he came to the fair not looking for full-time employment.

“I’m looking for a co-op right now and possibly an internship,” he said.

Christian Estes, a senior in chemical engineering with a biomolecular interest, said he had a slightly different opinion on the fair.

“I had to skip classes to come here,” he said. “Last year there were a lot more openings in summer internships especially.

I think [the economy] limits the ability to get summer intern-ships, full time jobs they don’t seem to be lacking here. [The companies] are more interested in not paying [full-time] people that aren’t going to be actually working for them constantly.”

After a long day of interviews and making their best first im-pressions on future employers, the students made their way out of the center at about 4 p.m.

For Koehler, the first day of the career fair went well.

“It’s been a huge success,” Koe-hler said. “We had over 1,450 stu-dents come through.”

Deputy Sports Editor Ty Johnson contributed to this report.

about this year’s marathon.“There’s going to be Nickel-

odeon-style games, and we’re trying to push teams to sign up,” he said.

Davis said he hopes that hav-ing it be less dance-oriented will attract more males to the event as well. Over the past few years, 150 to 200 people registered to participate, not including orga-

nizers and performers.This year, to encourage more

participation, if a person signs up with a minimum of a five-person team, each person will pay $25 as opposed to $30 for individuals registering alone.

Tie said the group used to vol-unteer at the hospital bi-monthly but now, with the Rex Hospital branch opening, they would vol-unteer weekly and sometimes, several times a week. Tie said the children’s parents can’t always be there with them and having

people around to keep them company and help them out is always a good thing.

“There’s more in life than what’s going on on a college campus ... seeing those children, when you actually see them in the intensive care unit ... it touches your hear and it makes you want to do something that makes a difference,” she said.

Tie said although college stu-dents may not necessarily be at the hospital finding cures, con-tributing time is also important.

dinator for the festival, said most of the bands scheduled to play will be from the area.

“I think most of them are from either Raleigh or Chapel Hill,” he said. “They are all from North Carolina at least.”

To a c c o m o d a t e t h e large crowds expected, Hillsborough Street will be closed the day of the festival from Wachovia to Bruegger’s Bagels.

McGuire said the closing of Hillsborough Street will al-low the renaissance to have

the feel of a true street festival. Raleigh police officers will as-sist in closing down the street to make things safe.

“It will be mainly Raleigh po-lice,” McGuire said. “They have a special operations division that will be helping us out.”

Joseph Heil, a senior in textile engineering, said getting the street closed took some work.

“The street closure was defi-nitely a challenge,” Heil said. “We talked to a couple of city council members and wrote a proposal to the Raleigh police department to close the street. That request had to be approved by the City Council.”

The section of Hillsborough Street between Pogue Street and Logan Court will close at 7 a.m.

March 14 and remain blocked off until 5 a.m. March 15.

McGuire said once plans are finalized, Legacy Event Plan-ners, the nonprofit group re-sponsible for planning events for Hillsborough Street, will begin advertising the event.

“Our publicity and marketing will start Feb. 14,” he said. “Most people won’t remember an event if you advertise it more than a month in advance.”

McGuire said there will be representatives from a parking company on hand the day of the festival to help with parking and accommodating crowds.

“All the University is open on the weekends,” she said. “Also, all the neighborhood parking will be open.”

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The statements that were painted in the Free Ex-pression Tunnel Saturday

night about the late coach Kay Yow shocked the Wolfpack com-munity. They were disgusting, classless, rude, outrageous, but most of all they were legal.

These comments bring up the question of whether the Free Ex-pression Tunnel should be moni-tored and restricted.

Even though the comments were distasteful and uncalled for, the University needs to real-ize the tunnel is open to all com-ments, with the exception of per-sonal threats, and should remain this way. Student Body President Jay Dawkins said the University is not considering censoring the tunnel, and we commend them.

It is difficult to say these com-

ments should be allowed, but every village has an idiot. There will always be someone who is going to tempt the University to have restrictions on what goes in the Free Expression Tunnel, but denying the right of free speech is a violation of the First Amend-ment, even for morons.

We said this after the Univer-sity met with the NAACP to con-sider a hate speech policy after four students wrote racist and threatening messages in the Free Expression Tunnel in November, and we’ll say it again. The Uni-versity should not restrict a per-son’s rights.

Also, if you are offended by anything in the Tunnel, paint

over it. The University should not have to cover these types of messages. Facilities should not have to use its money and labor to paint over it. To use money from its budget to do something students should be responsible for is unreasonable, especially with recent budget cuts.

The Free Expression Tunnel and Brickyard Subcommittee suggests the C-stores and book stores carry spray paint. This would help students who have no other way of buying paint, so they can express themselves.

Some may think that C-stores carrying spray-paint is a recipe for disaster. But there’s also the potential of a student placing a

plastic bag from the C-store over his/her head and suffocating. In other words, the potential for abuse will always be there, but the University should trust its students’ judgement.

The tunnel should be moni-tored by students, and if some-thing illegal is found on the wall, then students should be the ones to report it to the proper authori-ties.

We don’t agree with what people wrote in the tunnel on Saturday, but just because their opinion was unpopular and disrespect-ful doesn’t mean it should be banned. If the University starts censoring people’s opinions in the Free Expression Tunnel, it may turn into a slippery slope.

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:People have written insensitive comments in the Free Expression Tunnel.

OUR OPINION:Comments in the tunnel should not be censored with the exception of credible personal threats.

THE SOLUTION:The Free Expression Tunnel should remain open for all opinions and C-stores and book stores should supply spray paint.

Don’t censor free expression in tunnel!OUR VIEW"

Coke verses Pepsi. It is a long-standing, hotly-contested battle which,

for North Carolina, hits close to home. As you are most like-ly well aware, N.C. State has a

contract with Coca-Cola giving them exclusive bev-erage rights to University dining estab-lishments and conve-nience stores. Not that you

care, but I am a pretty vehe-ment Pepsi fan despite the fact that the corporation recently changed their color motif from a more patriotic theme to a rather ostentatious Duke blue. Due to my Pepsi-Cola prej-udices, I am here to lobby against Coke despite the fact its logo is designed with a much better color choice. Pepsi is a North Carolina product, born and bred, be-ing invented in New Bern in the 1890s by a phar-macist named Caleb Bradham. And while its headquarters are no longer lo-cated there, its ties to our state are still substan-tial. It’s the only soft drink sold i n Boja ng le s , for go o d ne s s sake. And if that doesn’t mean something, I don’t know what does. From a taste standpoint, Pepsi is far superior to Coca-Cola. It doesn’t taste as sweet as Coke or leave that weird sugary film on your teeth, and it finishes crisp and clean without an aftertaste. This is very important when considering the food options offered on campus, for sugary teeth film and waffle fries are not such a delicious combination. Despite the fact that the Uni-versity will most likely continue to stock Coca-Cola at least in

the near future, us Pepsi diehards do have one sav-ing grace on campus. And that saving grace can be found in the 1911 building. Inside the main lobby, a snack bar can be found which stocks Coke as well as their arch-rival, Pepsi. Unlike any other area of campus, here competition and Adam Smith’s invisible hand are free to determine the real winner — at least as far as the soda market is concerned. And the reason, you may ask? While the 1911 building was recently under renovations, the snack bar was noticeably absent from North Campus. Without risking death by crossing the treacher-ous river of cars known as Hillsborough Street, the only place close by for North Cam-pus snacks were the machines in the Caldwell Lounge. No worries, though, as after a seemingly infinite wait, the snack bar has returned and

is open for business.

This snack bar is funded by a feder-al program to provide jobs for the visually impaired through the Divi-s i o n o f Services for the Blind,

and not by the University. Thus, it is conveniently ex-

empt from the totalitarian choke, or should I say Coke, hold that the University has placed us under via contract.

Oh, and when you tell the cashier, Eva, that you are getting a Pepsi, say it with all the joy your caffeine starved heart can muster, and be sure to mention that you’d stop by even more often if she started stocking Sun Drop.

Catie PikeSta! Columnist

Pepsi is better than Coke

“I am here to lobby against

Coke, despite the fact its logo is

designed with a much better color

choice.”

When students become ill, it is important that they know where and

how to seek treatment - most commonly at the student Health Center.

Many students are not aware of how the health center oper-

ates . Of ten t h i s mea ns that severely ill students are under-treated because they do not seek c a re . T h i s type of frus-tration - stu-dents trying

to decide whether or not to visit the clinic or worries about long waits - can be alleviated with some basic education about how our Health Center works.

Jerry Barker, associate vice chancellor of Student Affairs, made it clear: if you are ill, abso-lutely visit the clinic. Try to make an online appointment, he said, but if one isn’t available, come in and talk to one of the nurses.

Often, the online schedule is booked for a day, and this deters students from seeking treatment. But according to Barker, the stu-dents who are the most sick will

be given treatment. The nurses at the clinic evaluate patients, and if someone’s illness is severe, they will be given a priority for care.

This system makes sense. Someone bleeding profusely would need speedier assistance than a sore throat. Students sit-ting in the waiting room often don’t see when these kinds of cases come about.

In that sense, the clinic has several systems for scheduling patients. Usually, patients are seen when they make appoint-ments, but if there are many people who are ill, they move to a triaging system. As Barker puts it, going out to see a doctor is not like seeing a movie. There is a schedule, but that schedule can vary depending on how ill people are. If you are feeling par-ticularly bad, it is possible that you will be treated sooner than you expected - so it is important to seek treatment.

Barker said the best times to come to the clinic are in the morning and right after lunch. Lunchtime and late afternoon are the most congested times to visit. Students should realize the other services that are offered by the Health Center. Prescriptions are usually much less expensive

at the campus pharmacy than they would be elsewhere. The cost of labs and X-Rays is usually marked-up at doc-tors’ offices, but at N.C. State, the cost is heavily subsidized by student fees. Students can get some medications for free. Not only that, but the Health Center offers counseling ser-vices, which are paid for by student fees.

The physicians at the Health Center enjoy their work—they get to work with a relatively young and active population, they work regular hours and they are not bur-dened with the stresses of corporation-driven health care. All of them are board certified. The clinic has done everything it can in order to provide for students, so stu-dents should not be shy about making use of those services.

It is important to stay healthy, because that is req-uisite for success in and out of the classroom. By keeping these things in mind, stu-dents should make informed decisions about seeking care when they are ill and not hesi-tate to come to the facilities when they need it.

Jay GoelSta! Columnist

Use Student Health services

North Carolina’s weathermen forecast the right weather 40 percent of the time, all the time.

Boon Jin, freshman in graphic design

“Free expression is free expression. As college students we don’t have power enough to make our voices heard so free expression is important.”

Michael Jaworskijunior, computer science

“Yes. The Free Expression Tunnel should have limitations on content because sometimes it goes to an extent that a#ects the personal sentiments of people. People should realize it on their own– have self discipline.

Chandrasekharan Kunjithapathamgraduate student, industrial engineering

“No, because I believe in free expression. If we limit it then where will we draw the line– it’s a slippery slope. When you start putting limitations from one aspect there will end up being limits that should not be there. ”

Viola Glennsenior, economics

BY TIM O’BRIEN

Should the Free Expression Tunnel have limitations on

what can be painted?

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Being the bigger person when it comes to little people

My friend called me on Sunday morning to tell me what had hap-pened to Kay Yow’s memorial at the Free Expression Tunnel. He was un-derstandably very upset. He did not understand how someone could do

something so tasteless and hateful. The truth is there is nothing to un-

derstand. I remember after the shoot-ing at Virginia Tech some students at Penn State thought it would be “cool” and “funny” to dress up as the shooting victims at Virginia Tech and parade around the street.

This is not the same as the defac-ing of Kay Yow’s memorial, but it is very similar. Both acts were tasteless and cruel. I was upset when that hap-pened and I was upset when I heard

about what happened at the Free Expression Tunnel as well.

We cannot let people like this get to us though. They make up such a small minority in this world. Whoever did this immature act does not speak for the UNC community just as those who imitated Virginia Tech did not speak for Penn State.

We have to be bigger people who love, cherish and forgive one another. That is truly what life is all about and what makes it beautiful. The most

important advice I can give, and it is advice that I give myself, is this: never take a day off from loving one anoth-er and cherishing one another, that is the best way to defeat hatred and remember those who are no longer with us. Those who commit evil and hateful acts don’t take a day off, so never take a day off from loving and cherishing one another. I know I will try my best not to.

Drew Wallsenior, history education

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Edwin Taylor spoke on campus Monday, Tuesday to explain spacetime, to ask for help (Part 2 of 2)

Alison HarmanScience&Tech Editor

After spending a majority of his years studying and perfect-ing the theories of general and special relativity and work-ing through calculus problems whose answers only prompt more questions, Edwin Taylor has gone back to the basics.

Taylor, a physicist whose work with John Wheeler prompted an undergraduate-level course on spacetime physics at N.C. State, is

relearning equations that, when the right numbers are plugged in, reveal the distance from Point A to Point B in curved space. He’s reviewing, again, how to bet-ter define a black hole. And on Monday afternoon in Riddick Hall, he questioned whether he should add or subtract numbers in a calculus equation.

“It’s a minus sign, right?” he asked the audience. “Or is it plus?”

He erased the minus sign and changed it so that one half the equation was being added to the other half.

He looked at it again.“It’s minus,” he said, erasing

the plus sign.Taylor is relearning the basic

elements of physics, he said, so

that he can better explain them to undergraduate students, in-cluding one N.C. State class of about 40.

“No one who knows a subject should be able to write a text-book in that subject, and for an elementary reason: they have lost the ability to teach the subject fresh for the first time,” he said. “They have no idea what’s dif-ficult about the subject because they have spent most of their lives getting over it.”

He urged those listening to his lecture to read and review the second edition of the un-dergraduate textbook, Exploring Black Holes .

“Who in the world can help you with a fresh view? Well, it is students. And so what you

do is, you pay them in credit,” Taylor said. “It’s like, if you’ll excuse me, Confederate money. You pay them in credit, which costs you nothing, and you pay them to send in their responses and their difficulties with each chapter, each unit, as they need it. You give them no less credit if they’re critical — you want them to be critical.”

One person Taylor sought out to help was Chris Gould, associ-ate dean of the College of Physi-cal and Mathematical Sciences, who said he has also taught the spacetime physics class on and off for about 20 years.

Gould has a binder that holds copies of the manuscript, and he said in an interview last Wednes-day that he was planning on

passing copies out to his class as flimsy textbooks this week.

Taylor said he hopes the stu-dents will send in reading mem-os, pointing out discrepancies in equations or definitions that cannot be found in an under-graduate’s physics vocabulary.

“I get feedback from people who have never met this mate-rial before, and that’s absolutely golden,” Taylor said. “And it is embarrassing how terrible your text is. But if you’re will-ing to take the ego hit, then you change it, and the next time a few more get it, and a few others find things you haven’t even thought of before.”

Taylor said when he started working on completing the sec-ond edition of the textbook, it became difficult for him — a physicist who has been working in the subject since college — to understand how the informa-tion was supposed to relate to students.

“I’ve written the dang book already once and it’s still too hard for me. Why is that? And the reason, I’ve finally figured out, is that we’re reinventing big chunks of general relativity,” he said. “No one’s ever thought of it this way before.”

He said he and Wheeler “fi-nally settled down on two tools,” which include the metric and the principle of maximal aging.

Metrics are solutions to Ein-stein’s field equations. Tensors, Taylor said in a base-ment office of Riddick Hall before his lecture, “are a little advanced w h e n i t c om e s t o mathemat-ics, but that’s the way Ein-stein set up h i s equ a-tions.”

And that way can be difficult for under-graduate students, Taylor said, who have less experience with physics. So Taylor and Wheeler decided to break general relativ-ity down.

“Instead of starting with the original equation that Einstein developed, you start with the so-lution to the equation. Then you use calculus — that’s what every physics major has to know,” Tay-lor said. “So by starting with the solution to Einstein’s equation, you can go from having these tensors, which are complicated, to using calculus, which is the standard tool of every physics major.”

The other factor in under-standing spacetime physics has to do with time, Taylor said, moving to the right side of the whiteboard on which he had been writing and erasing and writing again various equations.

“Metrics tell you what spa-cetime is like. It doesn’t tell you

how things move in spacetime,” Taylor said in the office, moving his hands outward before him and seemingly attempting to grasp what can only be observed through equations. “How things move in spacetime is spelled out in special relativity. The thing that Einstein discovered in spe-cial relativity, one of the greatest discoveries in science, was that time depends on the observer.”

In front of the whiteboard, Taylor held up a rock with a wristwatch latched around it.

“If I throw this stone, it will move in such a way that its wristwatch will read the maxi-mum time between launch and impact,” Taylor said. “These two things are what you need as tools to understand curved spacetime.”

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, clocks move at different speeds depending on from what altitudes they are hung as well as how quickly they are moving. Clocks at higher altitudes run faster, the theory states, and wristwatches on constantly moving people run slower.

“There’s time such as clocks in a building, which are all set to the same time. The second kind of time is what’s in your wrist-watch, and if you move around, your wristwatch does not move at the same rate as the clocks in the building,” Taylor said. “This is very hard to understand, it’s

very weird, but it’s the basis of spe-cial relativ-ity.”

It took a w h i le for both physi-c i s t s a nd t hose not in the field to ac c e pt the theory, Taylor said, c it ing t he first global positioning satellite.

“When they put the

first global positioning satellite up, they had a general relativ-ity on/off switch because they didn’t believe general relativity worked,” Taylor said. “It went up in the off position and the sat-ellite became totally useless for the purpose of positioning after a day. We use that all the time, every day, and it’s something in which general relativity is just part of the theory.”

Another consequence of gen-eral relativity, Taylor said, is the twin paradox, a theory that has not been tested with humans as part of the equation.

“One twin goes out to a distant star, and when he comes back he has aged by 20 years, but every-body he knew on Earth is long since dead,” Taylor said.

“That’s real, and it happens all the time in high-speed particles.”

To create error-free textbook, physicist seeks student input

“It is embarrassing how terrible your text

is. But if you’re willing to take the ego hit, then you change it, and the

next time a few more get it.”

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He hasn’t even eaten a glazed doughnut since that morning.

“That’s a once in a lifetime thing,” Keene said.

It’s not too surprising that Keene doesn’t want to go through the process of run-ning 2 miles, shoving 2,400 calories worth of glazed doughnuts into his mouth and running 2 miles back.

The amount of calories con-sumed is more than the aver-age person burns — or eats — in a day, nutrition profes-sor Sarah Ash said. A person engaging in light physical ac-tivity will, on average, burn about 2,200 calories a day “just going about their life,” she said.

Those who run from the Bell Tower to the Krispy Kreme on Peace Street, she said, will likely burn just a few hundred more calories.

But the imbalance result-ing from the amount of calo-

ries consumed and the amount burned off — or, rather, not burned — is not what made Keene so physically nauseous that he was “very close to letting it fly.”

It was the fat content from the doughnuts, Ash said, which “tends to hang around in the stomach longer.”

“There are all kinds of hor-mones and receptors in your GI tract that can be sensitive to large quantities of food that aren’t going anywhere soon,” Ash said, adding that pressure recep-tors in the stomach can respond uncomfortably to its expansion due to large quantities of food. “It wouldn’t matter if you ate a big bowl of beef stew. Large quantities of food landing in your stomach is just unnatural.”

The body tends to want to maximize the digestive process, she said, and engaging in high-intensity physical activity after a large meal can reduce the tract’s ability to quickly digest food.

During exercise, Ash said part of the blood supply is directed toward working muscles so they can get the oxygen they need to keep going. But to properly digest food, the gastrointestinal tract needs an extra supply of blood to absorb nutrients from the small intestine and send waste on its way out of the body.

So a race like KKC, she said, can prolong the time food sits in the small intestine by as much as an hour. Food usually makes its way out of the small intestine in about an hour, and this effect could explain why many com-petitors get sick on their way to the finish line.

“The reality is, in this partic-ular situation when somebody eats a dozen doughnuts and then tries to run pretty quickly afterward, the principle issue for those people is likely to be the fact that they’ve got a stomach full of dough. Most people do not find that comfortable,” Ash said. “You’ve got a dozen dough-nuts in your stomach and it can make you kind of nauseated. If it makes you nauseated, you’ll throw it right back up.”

Keene said he tried two dif-ferent techniques while eating the dozen doughnuts: rolling two doughnuts together like a hot dog and “smushing them

together like a hamburger.”Neither technique helped

much.“It’s just a lot of sugar. That’s

a lot of sugar in 10 minutes. When you’re darting away to run another two miles, the nau-sea seems to be amplified when you run,” he said. “Luckily, I was ahead of a good amount of peo-ple so I didn’t see too many peo-ple puking. That definitely would have triggered something.”

Ash said no technique — even dipping the doughnuts in water to dissolve the glaze — exists to minimize the amount of fat from the dough that enters con-testants’ stomachs.

“Water isn’t going to take the fat away. Water and fat are not soluble, so it’s probably really not going to help you much in that regard,” Ash said. “The bottom line is you can either tolerate it or you can’t. A lot of that is just personal preferences.”

People like Allison Robbins, a junior in psychology and politi-cal science, are hesitant to find out if they fit in the group that can’t tolerate a dozen glazed doughnuts.

“My goal is to eat six dough-nuts. I have no idea if I’ll actu-ally be able to do that,” Robbins said. “For this, just to make sure I was healthy, I went to the gym

more oftento make sure my heart rate is

good and I am healthy enough to be able to do it. I’m eating what I can and then jogging and run-ning and walking as needed.”

Robbins, a member of Tri-Del-ta who organized a “group of 30 girls within Tri-Delta to com-pete,” is running casually with 15 other members of the sorority.

Brittany Hansen, one of the students Robbins recruited, is going to support her friends who are competing.

She did the same thing last year, choosing to stand at the Krispy Kreme.

“I saw a lot of people vomiting last year, so I’m a little bit more prepared for it,” said Hansen, a senior in textile technology and fashion and textiles manage-ment. “Hopefully my stomach’s prepared for it.”

She said the amiable and ex-cited atmosphere on the sidewalk was interesting to watch.

“From what I saw, it was when they got there and they were on their fourth or fifth doughnut, and they were gulping down milk and then throwing up,” Hansen said. “As soon as they finished, they would come back and eat more doughnuts, I guess so they had more room in their stomachs.”

NANOBYTESGoogle premiers voluntary stalking feature

Google, the monolith Internet/phone/outer space company, launched a software Wednesday called Latitude. The program lets mobile phone users voluntarily share their location with close contacts. Google representatives said they hope it will help people find each other and keep track of family members.

“What Google Latitude does is allow you to share that location with friends and family members, and likewise be able to see friends and family members’ locations,” Steve Lee, product manager for Google Latitude, told CNN. For example, a girlfriend could use the program to see if her boyfriend has arrived at a restaurant and, if he hasn’t, how far away he is.

To protect privacy, Google requires people to sign up for the service. Once they sign up, people can share either their precise location, the city they’re in or choose to remain off the map.

“What we found in testing is that the most common scenario is a symmetrical arrangement, where both people are sharing with each other,” Lee told CNN.

The software is another example of Google’s fixation with mapping and location technology.

Company representatives have also said they hope its mapping technology will lead to location-based advertising revenue.

SOURCE: CNN.COM

Google Earth, now featuring scuba diving

Google has taken the hassle out of exploring worlds previously unknown. For those who have been waiting — and waiting and waiting — to dive into the depths of the ocean without actually having to step foot in water, here’s your chance.

Two and a half years ago, software engineers who developed Google Earth — a navigable two-dimensional replica of the planet — had envisioned a way to scour, online, the parts of the world that cannot be readily seen.

Until Feb. 2, those who used Google Earth to visit the pyramids in Egypt and the Eiffel Tower in France we looking at a world with an elevation of zero up.

“We had this arbitrary distinction that if it was below sea level it didn’t count,” John Hanke, who co-created the first edition Google Earth, called Keyhole, said to the New York Times.

For the first time since Google Earth premiered, images of simulated oceans will be navigable from the computer.

Additionally, a feature called Historical Imagery allows users to scroll back through decades of satellite images to watch cities grow and coasts erode.

SOURCE: NYTIMES.COM

Facebook turns 5The social networking site, used

by more than 150 million people worldwide, celebrated its fifth-year anniversary Wednesday.

Mark Zuckerberg, the site’s founder, was 19 when he launched the site from his Harvard residence hall room in 2004. Less than a day after it premiered, 1,000 Harvard classmates had made profiles. A month later, half the students on campus had signed up.

The site has made Zuckerberg, 24, the youngest billionaire on the planet, according to Forbes magazine.

SOURCE: CNN.COM

FBI investigates Tylenol murders

The FBI announced Wednesday that it is working with the state of Illinois and its local police to review evidence related to the 1982 Tylenol murders.

The deaths occurred after people consumed Extra-Strength Tylenol pills that had been laced with potassium cyanide.

“This review was prompted, in part, by the recent 25th anniversary of this crime and the resulting publicity,” the FBI said in a written statement. “Further, given the many recent advances in forensic technology, it was only natural that a second look be taken at the case and recovered evidence.”

The anniversary coincided with a number of tips to law enforcement agencies related to the crimes, the FBI said.

Agents on Wednesday searched the Cambridge, Mass., house of James W. Lewis, who was convicted of sending an extortion note to Johnson & Johnson. Lewis denied having anything to do with the poisonings.

SOURCE: CNN.COM

To hurl or not to hurlSUCCESS OF KKC CONTESTANTS DEPENDS ON TOLERANCE, NOT TECHNIQUE

STORY BY ALISON HARMAN | ILLUSTRATION BY GINA VACCARO

When Jeremy Keene crossed the Krispy Kreme Challenge finish line three years ago, he swore he would never

compete in the race again.And he hasn’t, nor does the senior in civil

engineering plan to run in this Saturday’s race.

TO HURL

NOT TO HURL

A dozen doughnuts go to the stomach but back up through the esophagus.

A dozen doughnuts pass safely thorugh the throat, stomach and small intestine.

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a method that the rifle team calls the “bear hug.” She scrunched my arms together like a stuffed animal until she got me into ex-actly the right pose.

“Rifle is very much how it feels, so if you can get someone to get you into the right position, it’s easier to fire the second time,” Siegert assured me.

The trigger was so sensitive that the slightest touch would send the gun kicking back into your shoulder. Miller and his team told me several cautionary tales about the horrors that occur when one doesn’t keep their fin-ger far away until the last second.

After I tried out my own trig-ger finger on a slab of bulletproof glass, it was finally time to try and hit a target. I missed by a wide margin.

“You haven’t done this before,” Siegert told me cheerfully. “No one picks up a rifle the first time hits the center target every time. It’s impossible.”

Most newer facilities have elec-tronic scoring, but the N.C. State rifling team kicks it old school. A “plug,” which looks like a little green Monopoly piece, is insert-ed into the hole produced by the

pellet to determine your score. “You have a lot of 9.9’s,” Keck

said. “It’s so close to a ten you can’t even see the difference, but it still counts as a point less.”

Miller said they often allow new shooters to try out, but for one reason or another, it doesn’t work out. The gender ratio tends to shift more toward the pink because, as Miller puts it, girls have the tendency to be more of a “tabula rosa,” or a clean slate.

“The easiest person for us to teach to shoot quickly is a teen-aged woman, especially if she hasn’t shot before,” Miller said.

“These guys come in here with a certain level of testos-terone, even if they don’t have a clue. Women are more likely to say ‘okay, I’ll try that.’”

Even after my crash course, the team assured me kindly that I was not quite ready to represent N.C. State in the Collegiate Sectional on Feb. 14. I gave up after two shots and took off the painful gear, a process that took a total of three people to complete.

“Our gear is goofy, and it ain’t sexy, but it works,” Miller said.

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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANKatie Siegert, a junior in business, shows Kate Shefte, Technician sports writer, the motion of picking up the gun and aiming. Sieg-ert has been part of the ri"e team since her freshman year. “I love shooting, it’s very calming. You have to focus so hard,” Siegert said.

ago, there’s a lot of guys in this class that we targeted from the start that we thought would be a great fit for our program,” O’Brien said. “It’ a step in the right direction for our football team.”

Concerning recruits that didn’t sign, O’Brien said only two in-state visitors declined to join the Wolfpack, adding that players that go elsewhere are no longer a concern for his staff.

“You can’t worry about the guys you don’t get,” O’Brien said. “That’s the first lesson I learned in recruiting back in 1975.”

After 34 years of recruiting, O’Brien said his outlook on the strength of his class could be summed up the same way he’s discussed all of his players.

“We don’t care what they come in as,” O’Brien said. “but they better leave as five-star guys.”

SIGNING DAY COMMITMENTS * Players are already enrolled.

NAME HT WT POS. SCOUT RATING

RIVALSRATING

Morgan Alexander 5-11 180 ATH

Brandan Bishop 6-2 200 S

Jarvis Byrd 5-11 180 CB

Darryl Cato-Bishop 6-4 250 DE

Tyson Chandler 6-6 340 OL

Ryan Cheek 6-1 230 LB

Duran Christophe 6-6 285 OL

Donald Coleman* 6-0 210 S

Sylvester Crawford 6-4 225 DE

Rickey Dowdy 6-2 225 LB

A.J. Ferguson 6-3 250 DL

Denzelle Good 6-6 325 OL

Dean Haynes 5-11 178 CB

Sam Jones* 6-7 295 OL

Nathan Mageo* 6-3 285 DT

Quintin Payton 6-4 190 WR

Everett Proctor 6-2 200 QB

Raynard Randolph 6-2 320 DT

Hans Rice 6-2 205 LB

Deion Roberson 6-3 275 DT

Brian Slay 6-3 290 DT

Rashard Smith 5-11 175 CB

Anthony Talbert 6-4 230 TE

Bryan Underwood 5-11 170 WR

Chris Ward 6-1 175 P

James Washington* 6-3 285 DT

Asa Watson 6-4 225 TE

Camden Wentz 6-3 290 OL

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS, SCOUT.COM, RIVALS.COM

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Badminton and softball registration open

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Limited seats available for Hoops 4 Hope game

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL @ MARYLANDCollege Park, Md. 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. UNC-CHAPEL HILLIsenhour Tennis Complex, 3 p.m.

WRESTLING @ UNC-CHAPEL HILLChapel Hill, 7 p.m.

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD @ VT ELITE MEETBlacksburg, Va., all day

February

Su M T W Th F Sa

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS

TEAM

Duke 6-1 18-2

Florida State 6-1

Maryland

Boston College

North Carolina

Virginia

Georgia Tech 16-6

Wake Forest

Clemson 12-11

N.C. State

Miami 1-6

Virginia Tech 1-6 11-11

SOURCE: ACC

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“We don’t care what they come in as, but they better leave as five-star guys.”

DID YOU KNOW?

COMING SOONFriday:

O’Brien signs ‘a football team’

Senior staff writer Kate Shefte spent an afternoon learning to shoot with the rifle team

Kate Shefte

Senior Staff Writer

So there I was, standing there with a huge rifle tucked under my arm, in an outfit so constraining I could barely breathe. Think of the most padded red Burton snowboard pants in existence cinched up to your ribcage, paired with a jacket so tight they had to use a spe-cial tool just to get the buttons closed. I couldn’t even bend my elbows.

“The position we have you in is the easiest one to stand in,” coach Keith Miller said. “It’s less constraining.”

He had to be joking, right? It turns out he wasn’t. There are two

other positions in rifling, kneeling and prone, and both are harder to teach.

“As far as getting into the routine of

how it feels, after a week you’re very used to how it feels,” veteran shooter Noel Keck, a senior in criminology, said as she watched bemusedly and ate a sandwich. “After a year, if you do the exact same thing in practice, you’ve got it down.”

I gave it a try, this thing they practice every day in the basement of Reynolds Coliseum or at a shooting range in Holly Springs. I naively expected a slightly more difficult version of a video game, but that guess was way off. First off, my borrowed gun was extremely heavy, and the smallest shift will send your shot awry. Sneezing and scratching your nose are apparently big no-no’s.

“Lift the gun up, over, and down,” Katie Siegert, a junior in business ad-ministration and my very patient in-structor, told me over and over again. After I failed to put my elbow down on my hip in the right manner for what felt like the billionth time, Siegert employed

CHRIS SANCHEZ/TECHNICIANJunior in business administration Katie Siegert uses her arm to demonstrate to sports writer Kate Shefte how to properly shoulder her ri!e Tuesday at the practice range in the basement of Reynolds Coliseum. “I love shooting, it’s very calming,” Siegert said. “You have to focus so hard.”

Sure-shot Shefte shoots not so sharply RIFLE COMMENTARY

FOOTBALL

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“Once again, it’s a great day for Wolfpack football,” O’Brien said in his opening statement. “We welcome what we think is an excellent class, one that this coaching staff is really looking forward to coaching.”

The class, ranked No. 39 in the nation by Scout.com, features 24 athletes from 11 states. Five of the players at-tended high school in North Carolina, as O’Brien has continued to deliver on his promise to focus on in-state recruiting, though he admit-ted that he wouldn’t sign just

anyone because they are in-state.“We made the commitment to

work within the state of North Carolina to find the guys that fit our need,” O’Brien said. “But where they don’t, we have to go north or south.”

Seven of the team’s signees were from the state of Georgia, a state O’Brien said he learned was important for recruiting during his time at Virginia.

“Coach [George] Welsh always wanted to get into the Atlanta area and into Georgia because of the preponderance of a lot of good football players in that area,” O’Brien said. “We were

able to go there to find a lot of good players.”

But O’Brien and his staff also drew recruits from coaches and players from the north as he be-

gins preparations for his third season since leaving Boston College.

“We were too strong in too many areas north of us to not

go back to those areas,” O’Brien said. “We’ve got to go north or south — we can’t go east.”

Beyond geography, O’Brien was pleased that his class in-cluded players from nearly every position.

“We tried to sign a football team,” O’Brien said. “There’s players at every position.”

O’Brien did lament that his class was heavy on lineman, but said that was due to issues in sea-sons past with injuries.

“We had depth issues that we were concerned about,” O’Brien said. “We haven’t had enough linemen.”

O’Brien was also happy that the players his staff focused on in the early stages of recruiting represented the bulk of his sign-ing class.

“If we look back on it a year

CHRIS SANCHEZ/TECHNICIANFootball coach Tom O’Brien speaks at a press conference on National Signing Day Wednesday. This year, 24 student-athletes from 11 di"er-ent states signed letters of intent. to play for the Wolfpack.

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PLAYERS FROM MOST POSITIONS HIGHLIGHT THE NATION’S 39TH BEST SIGNING CLASS

Football signing day for the Wolfpack culminated with a press conference at the Wendell H. Murphy Center as coach Tom

O’Brien took questions and commented on his 2009 signing class.

TY JOHNSON SUSANNAH BRINKLEY

ALABAMA

FLORIDA

GEORGIA

SOUTH CAROLINA

MARYLAND

NORTH CAROLINA

WHO IS STATE LOSING?Players that are graduating or have run out of eligibility:

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

VIRGINIA

*Player has already enrolled at N.C. State

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

MASSACHUSETTS

NEW JERSEY

NEW MEXICO

OHIO

HOW DOES STATE RANK AGAINST THE REST OF THE ACC?

1

2

3 Miami Miami

4

5

6 N.C. State

7

8

9

10 N.C. State

11

12

SOURCE: SCOUT.COM, RIVALS.COM