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Supplemental InstructionProgram designed to teach students about difficult subjects
Annie AlbrightStaff Writer
The Supplemental Instruction (SI) Program, which is designed to assist students with difficult classes, began again on Monday morning.
Megan Early, the coordinator of the program, said the goal of SI is to help students succeed.
“The Supplemental Instruction Program is a voluntary academic support program,” Early said. “SI sessions are basically group study sessions facilitated by a trained student who has taken and done well in the course before. The SI leader attends class on a regular basis and completes all the as-signments that the students do.”
Early said the program allows students to work together.
“The two biggest components of the SI program are to get stu-dents to work together to get the work done and to learn how to study for that class specifically,” Early said.
The program has statistically proven to improve the grades of students, Early said.
“At the end of the semester, we use a multiple regression analysis which gives us a model that pre-
dicts the grade of a student,” Ear-ly said. “There has been a definite positive correlation between the number of times attended SI and the students course grade.”
David Tyndall, a freshman in Secondary Science education, said he feels the SI program has improved his overall test scores.
“I feel that SI benefited my grade because of the extra help that the program provided,” he said.
Gary Jurado, a freshman in secondary math education, said he thought the SI program was one more addition to the oppor-tunities the University provides.
“I look forward to attending SI sessions this semester because I want to do the best I can in all my classes,” he said. “I want to take advantage of all the oppor-tunities provided by N.C. State to succeed.”
According to Early, the differ-
Student fee-funded trip fails to meet goals
Alison HarmanScience & Tech Editor
Student Government members from various universities signed up for an advocacy and educa-tion trip using thousands of dol-lars from student fee money but neglected to the advocacy part of the trip, Student Senator Court-ney Parnell said.
Student Government officials organized the trip that took place Jan. 3 to 6 in Washington, D.C., but the trip was open, for the first time, to other student govern-ments in the UNC school system, said Greg Doucette, president of the Association of Student Gov-ernments and Student Senate president. North Carolina’s ASG encompasses 16 universities and the School of Science and Math.
Thirty-seven students and ad-visers traveled to Washington, Parnell, a senior in biology who went on this year’s and last year’s trips, said. This group included students from eight other uni-versities in the UNC system, Doucette, a senior in computer science, said.
Students across the UNC sys-tem, regardless of part- or full-time status, give $1 in student fee money to ASG annually, Senior Class President Adam Compton
said. The University allocates an additional $8.85 to Student Government from each student’s fees, Compton said.
“The main mission in the past was to talk to congressmen and anybody who would really meet with us regarding issues at N.C. State,” Parnell said, adding that students lobbied with these cer-tain members of Congress about topics, like textbook prices and tuition caps, that directly affect students.
“This year’s trip just didn’t re-ally seem very planned or orga-nized,” she said. “Many students made the comment that they didn’t know what to talk about when they met with them. And not everybody met with con-gressmen this year.”
As the largest public univer-sity in North Carolina, N.C. State gives $30,000 to ASG an-nually, according to ASG’s 2009 budget. The association picked up a $6,000 tab that covered the group’s transportation from campus to Washington, the bus driver’s board and a common meeting room, Doucette, a se-nior in computer science, said.
Students who went on the trip paid $215 up front to cover hotel expenses and paid for their own meals and metro cards, Doucette said.
“If people paid to go and said,
Firms, including engineering company Caterpillar, cutting internships as well as jobs
Preston BoylesDeputy News Editor
In a time of economic trouble and rising unemployment rates, students are having difficulty f inding jobs and in-ternships. As stu-dents begin plan-ning their career, obstacles continue to arise in different occupations. Accord-ing to the Wall Street Journal, North Caro-l ina is among the states suffering the most. 1.1% of jobs were lost from Oct. to Nov. 2008, more than any other state.
Luke Domermuth, a senior in mechanical engineering, didn’t
see hiring issues coming his way. Due to the constant need for en-gineers and reports showing that engineering is still a strong field, Domermuth looked forward to a job with Caterpillar, the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and in-dus trial gas turbines.
Af ter interning with the company in the summer of 2008, he said Caterpillar made him a
job of-fer shortly there-
after. He continued to research other jobs and received varying job offers, but thought Caterpillar would be the best fit for his fu-ture.
Domermuth said he became
skeptical when he began read-ing press releases in December regarding pay cuts for executives, manage-ment and support staff as Caterpillar introduced a hiring freeze. Less than a month later, Do-mermuth received a call stating that his job offer and all 2009 job of-fers and internships had been rescinded.
“Obviously I was disappointed, but Caterpillar is trying to take
steps to prevent an economic crisis simi-lar to Ford, Chrysler and General Motors,” he said. “They are just trying to be proactive in their approach.”
Although Domer-muth could no longer
begin work with Caterpillar in
the summer of 2009, he re-ceived a follow-up e-mail stat-ing if conditions improved,
his job offer would be reinstated.
“T he y d id provide us with
a small stipend to offset any fi-
nancial problems and told us we were
welcome to reapply if the job reopened,” he
said. “The bosses I had dur-ing my internship were just as disappointed and said if they do start hiring, we will have precedent.”
Domermuth said after this experience he has started to look into graduate school, which is more appealing as it provides time for the econo-my to turn around while also
Phase I construction to be completed in 2010
James CoxStaff Writer
The first of five phases rebuild-ing Greek Village will be com-plete by June 2010, John Mountz the director of Greek Life said.
“Later this spring, the four groups that signed on for phase one can begin construction on their new houses,” Mountz said.
The four groups are Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Chi Psi and Kappa Sigma.
However, Mountz said that all four fraternities are still com-pleting fundraising and aren’t sure the exact date construction will begin on the houses.
“Several years ago, we exam-ined if groups could, through their national organization or
local alumni, lease a piece of ground to own and operate their own house,” he said.
He then said that the current houses were built here in the 1960s and the groups have been renting them ever since.
One of the goa ls of the project is to have the organi-zations owning their houses by leasing land to the groups.
Shel ly Do-bek, the associ-ate director of Greek Life, said that the leases are held with the national organizations and alumni groups.
According to Mountz, the houses there now were state of
the art 1960’s architecture and they look like office buildings.
Mountz said that the project was started because fraternities and sororities would rather own their house than rent it.
“The houses were undersized and not re-ally designed well for what is needed,” he said
T h e n e w p r o j e c t i s modeled af-ter Univer-sity of South Carolina’s Greek Village, containing 23 houses.
“There will be 20 houses when the project is done and the idea is to create a neighborhood,” Mountz said.
Construction started last summer with phase one, when workers demolished two houses which then opened up space for the cre-ation of two new roadways and four building lots.
“This project will allow us to completely reorganize the area,” Mountz said.
Mountz also said the total cost of the project is about $110 million with about $25-30 million coming from the University.
He said that the project won’t be hindered by the Uni-versity’s budget cuts.
“The funds for the project come from a different fund source,” Mountz said.
He said he is concerned about what happens in the future and how the economy
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TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANPainting a Palestinian !ag, Sameer Abdel-Khalek, a sophomore in zoology and biological sciences, works on a free expression tunnel mural saying “Free Gaza” Tuesday night, Jan. 13, 2008. “This is to get the message out about the history of the con!ict,” Abdel-Khalek said. “I want to show the history of the creation of Israel and the atrocities that came from the creation of that state.”
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Lack of advocacy makes ASG trip ‘disappointing’
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needed.”John Mountz, director of
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CAMPUS CALENDAR
TodayLITRE EXPO 2009, PROJECT PRESENTATIOND.H. Hill, 2nd floor, 9 to 10:30 a.m.
LITRE EXPO 2009D.H. Hill, 2nd floor, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
LEGENDARY CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST MORRIS DEES PRESENTS “A PASSION FOR JUSTICEStewart Theatre, noon
BLUES ‘N CLUES BILLIARDS TOURNAMENTTalley Student Center, 6 to 9 p.m.
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POLICE BLOTTERJan. 1210:43 P.M. | LARCENYWilliams Hall Student reported bicycle stolen. 12:56 P.M. | ASSISTANCEAdmin Services III Officers provided security during ter-mination of employee. Subject was trespassed from NCSU property. 3:21 P.M. | CHECK PERSONFox Courtyard Report of subject asking for money. Officer located non-student. All file checks came back negative. Subject complied to leave campus. 7:03 P.M. | HARASSMENTPi Kappa Phi Student reported harassment by another student. After further investi-gation both students were referred to the University for harassment. Con-cerned Behavior Report was filed. 9:39 P.M. | INVESTIGATION - FOLLOW UPAvent Ferry Complex Student was referred to the Universi-ty for theft that occurred off campus. RPD served warrant for arrest.
IN THE KNOW Egyptian silent protest, Hillel meeting today
The Egyptian Student Asso-ciation will be holding a silent protest today from noon to 1 p.m. “condemning violence per-petuated against the Palestinian people.”
Hillel will also be holding a meeting at Global Village on Hillsborough street today from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. All students are welcome to the event to “come discuss in peaceful and respect-ful environment.”
SOURCES: EGYPTIAN STUDENT ASSOCIA!TION, HILLEL
Registration for racquetball begins Jan. 26.
After intramural basketball registration ended Monday, the next available intramural sport is raquetball. Registration for raquetball begins Jan. 26.
When registration opens, stu-dents can either register online at www.ncsu.edu/campus_rec or at the Carmichael Recreation Center on the first floor.
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WORLD & NATIONObama threatens to veto bill
President-elect Barack Obama attempted to convince Demo-crats in the Senate to support the $700 billion economic stimulus package on Tuesday by stating he would veto the disapproval resolution opposing Democrats threatened to make. Obama told Democrats of his intended veto of the proposed resolution dur-ing a meeting with Senators and also explained his spending plans should the bill pass. Senators who attended the meeting said Obama told them he did not want a veto to mark the beginning of his administration, but said if the dissaproval resolution gets to his desk he would have no choice.
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Mandel released from hospital
Howie Mandel, a popular game show host and comedian, was released from a Toronto hospital Tuesday after being admitted with an irregular heartbeat. His publicist confirmed that Mandel had not suffered a heart attack. Mandel, already the host of NBC’s “Deal or No Deal,” was in Toronto shooting for his new show “Howie Do It.” The first episode of the new NBC show aired Friday. According to his publicist, Mandel should be back to work soon.
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Oklahoma authorities said they are searching for Joshua Steven Durcho in connection to the murders of five people. Durcho is 25 years old and is believed to be driving one of his alleged victim’s vehicles. Durcho had been living with Summer Rust and Rust’s four children, but they apparently had a falling out. Rust and her children were found dead in their apart-ment Monday. Earlier, authorities visited the family’s home due to reports of a fight between Rust and Durcho.
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F*** it, I don’t want to meet with congressmen, they could do that,” Doucette said. “Every-one that wanted to was given the option to meet with somebody.”
But student fees still covered $6,000 of the total trip’s cost, which Doucette said almost bal-anced at $15,020.99. N.C. State’s Student Government allotted
$1,000 to cover advisers’ expens-es. Not only do some members of Student Government say they feel student fee money was mis-used on the trip, Compton said the lack of advocacy “destroys credibility that we worked so hard to build into this trip.”
“The students who have told me that only a handful of the stu-dents who went actually met with a member of Congress, that’s re-ally disappointing,” Compton, a senior in agricultural business
management, said. “In a lot of ways, it undermines what this trip is really meant to be.”
Compton helped plan Student Government’s advocacy trip for the three years prior to this trip but said he was ousted from the planning committee for this year’s trip when another com-mittee began planning the trip.
Doucette wrote in an e-mail that Compton was replaced be-cause plans were being made too slowly, and said in an earlier in-
terview that although ASG will have to work out kinks from this trip, it was more successful than last year’s trip.
He said ASG’s involvement in the trip, which he said he first proposed as a way to polish the tarnish off ASG’s shaky reputa-tion, came at a time when Stu-dent Government needed some polish itself.
“N.C. State was at the risk of being tarnished by the conduct at last year’s trip,” Doucette said,
adding that many people who went on the trip did not pay once they got back because of imme-diate confusion with two officers stepping down from their jobs. “The tour of the White House that was allegedly scheduled was cancelled, so there was a free day on top of the free day.”
But Compton said last year’s trip, as well as the two before it, was a success in that every stu-dent who went met with a mem-ber of Congress and was briefed
on what topics they would lobby for at the meetings.
“This is primarily an advocacy trip to lobby on behalf of N.C. State students to Congress. The second goal of the trip was as an educational opportunity for stu-dents interested in politics who have never been to the nation’s capitol,” Compton said. “There have always been a lot of skeptics about this trip. In a lot of ways, this trip has justified what those skeptics have said.”
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will affect the organizations abil-ity to raise money.
“If an organization fails to get the funds necessary to compete their end, could end up having to forfeit their lot,” Mountz said.
That has already happened.“We initially had Pi Kappa
Alpha in Lot number three but they withdrew due to monetary concerns and now Chi Psi is go-ing to be building in Lot number three,” Mountz said.
The size of the project forces it to be done in phases instead of being done all at once.
“We can’t afford to knock down all the houses and rebuild them all at the same time, not all the frats and sororities are ready to build now, and all the houses are occupied and we wouldn’t have a spot for them,” Mountz said.
The University is building townhouses for organizations that don’t have need for a full 40 bed house can have a home.
“The money for the townhous-es would come out of housing
funds,” Mountz said.The University will be building
a community center as well.“Greek Village is going to look
dramatically different from what it does now,” Mountz said.
The students had a lot of say in the initial master plan.
“We can get such a better proj-ect with student input,” Mountz said.
By working through their alumni, the students will con-trol what their houses look like.
“The organizations are solely responsible for the construction of their house,” Mountz said.
Zachary Henderson, a senior in business, and the president of Kappa Sigma said he doesn’t mind that the University isn’t footing the total bill.
“The University has been really supportive, the way it was split up is perfect, I mean we want to own our own home,” he said.
Phase two, which will take place from July 2010 until its scheduled completion in June 2012 is starting to come together.
“This spring we’re going to go out and start getting commit-ments for phases two and three,” Mountz said.
allowing him to acquire an additional degree.
Brittney Eustache, a senior in sport management, agrees that graduate school seems like the best option because of the difficulty of entering the job market.
“I haven’t even begun the job search,” she said. “Gradu-ate school is most appealing to me right now.”
However, Eustache said she doesn’t think the economy impacts her field.
“Sport management is a little different because sports are always going to exist and people are going to continue to watch sports,” Eustache said. “However, entry level positions in the sport man-agement field probably don’t pay nearly as much as entry level positions in the compa-nies that are struggling finan-cially and having to rescind job offers.”
While she doesn’t feel she will be affected if she tried
to enter the sport management field, Eustache said she will suf-fer from competition going into graduate school.
“I am more affected because a larger number of people are applying to grad school due to the harsh economic conditions, which makes it more competitive for me,” Eustache said.
Regardless of whether they de-cide to enter the job market or apply for graduate school, most students will face a wide range of competitors and Eustache said it’s important for students to stand out to potential employers.
“[Provide] good essays on your applications, strong recommen-dations and make sure your re-sume is well put together,” Eu-stache said.
Domermuth agreed that mak-ing a resume stand out is impor-tant, but said work experience is critical for employment as well.
“Grades are important but more so extracurricular in-volvement and job experience,” he said.
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ence between SI and other tutor-ing programs is the leader.
“The biggest difference is the SI leader is the one who plans what will go on in the session,” she said. “They plan the session unlike other tutoring services where the student simply comes and asks questions.”
The SI leaders must go through
a training process before the se-mester begins and throughout their time as a leader, Early said.
“A new SI leader attends train-ing for about ten hours. Most of it is learning how to facilitate large groups of students and going over policies and proce-dures,” Early said. “They must also attend biweekly staff meet-ings for about an hour each week, observe other SI sessions being conducted twice a semester and video themselves teaching once
a semester.”Early said SI sessions will only
be available for Chemistry this semester but that they have other similar opportunities for other courses.
“We offer group tutoring for those courses SI is not offered for,” Early said. “They are like a hybrid between our individual tutoring sessions and the SI pro-gram.”
However, not all courses work well with the SI program, Early
said. “Over the past few years we
have really tried to figure out what courses SI works well in,” Early said. “We try to target what we call historically diffi-cult courses. We have found that they work well in large lecture hall classes because it makes the class feel smaller.”
Students in large lecture hall classes would benefit from the SI program, Early said.
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The state of the economy is dismal and its future doesn’t seem to offer a
glimmer of hope. Some some fields remain hot, however, such as engineering and telecommu-nications — two fields students are likely to populate.
This is a good time to re-eval-uate your major.
If you have lost interest in your major, don’t feel obligated to stay put, even if you are an upper-classman..
Carol Schroeder, director of the Career Center, said liking your major is very important because it’s the backbone of what you do.
Finding your backbone isn’t always an easy road ahead. The University often requires stu-
dents to take free electives, which is a great opportunity to try out almost any class you want. These classes don’t need to be relevant to your major, such as beekeep-ing or horseback riding and can help you discover a new inter-est and potentially change your plans. Being in college is a time of discovery and self-understand-ing, and being stuck in a major you can’t stand can hinder you from being satisfied. Being well-rounded and having different ex-periences can help you find your passion.
Being prepared and enthusias-tic is an integral part of finding
employment. This doesn’t mean scheduling interviews years in advance. It means keeping your-self educated about the industry and its future. Not knowing trends of your job market can hinder your opportunities on a futon in your parents‚ basement and penniless.
Preparation also includes using every outlet you can plug yourself into. Jobs don’t always come in mass quantities. Making con-nections and personal contacts is sometimes necessary to find that dream job.
Utilizing the resources at the Career Center is always an op-
tion for finding potential jobs and preparing for interviews. And for recent alumni, the Ca-reer Center works with graduates the semester after you graduate, so don’t despair if you’re a fall 2008 graduate without a job yet.
The only way you will find a job that is satisfying is if you put yourself out there and dedicate your all to finding it.
And even if it is really tempt-ing, do not pick a job solely for the money. Doing what you like and earning money for doing something you truly enjoy will be priceless and worth much more than any amount of George Washingtons.
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:The economy is floundering and job openings are shrinking in numbers
OUR OPINION:Students need to be prepared for obstacles in the job market that lie ahead
THE SOLUTION:Students need to use the sources the University provides to get ahead
Be prepared for job market!OUR VIEW"
Try making a New Year’s resolution realistic.
Phil Hursey, junior in biochemistry
Mitch’s Tavern respects U.S. flags
A prankster recently inverted some of the flags displayed on top of Mitch’s Tavern.
Mitch’s has flown these flags for 18 years solely to demonstrate our respect for the United States of America. Mitch’s apologizes for any distress this may have caused.
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Thanks for different views in Gaza strip coverage Thank you for the multiple views and opinions expressed in this week’s fea-ture about the conflict in Gaza.
The ‘excessive force’ implemented by the Israelis militarily and economically, is mirrored by the over-the-top propa-ganda campaign of the Palestinians.
Words like ‘apartheid’ and ‘genocide’ foment future violence just as much as air strikes and blockades. For there to be peace all three excesses need to be scaled back.
Aaron Foxgraduate student, crop science
Stop spreading hateIt infuriates me every time I hear Pal-
estinian sympathizers use the terms “genocide,” “holocaust,” and “apart-heid” when talking about the actions of Israel.
A genocide is the extermination of an entire group. If this was the goal of Israel, they could have easily done it already.
You want to know the difference be-tween the Holocaust and the current situations? There weren’t groups of Jews firing 30 missiles and rockets per day into German civilian settlements, and today there are not lines of Palestin-ians awaiting the gas chambers.
And apartheid? How can you say you want your own independent country if you are demanding constant access into neighboring territory? Apartheid is the separation of people according to race or ethnicity, but what is happening here is an actual separation of Palestine from Israel. Isn’t that what is wanted, a separate state?
The U.S. fence on the Mexican border is no different.
These words are used to make Israel look worse than actually improving the situation of the Palestinian people. Also, the constant reminder of the death numbers is only a distraction from what is really going on. Just because so few Israelis have died in comparison to the other side doesn’t mean that their people are suffering any less.
The Israelis are not after the Palestin-ian people, only the few bad eggs who decide to ruin it for everyone else.
Hamas being the cowards that they
are decide to hide themselves in highly populated civilian areas. This asymmet-rical warfare of hiding missiles inside of mosques and firing off mortar next to school buildings makes these places targets.
Why isn’t Israel stopping the air strikes to let in humanitarian aid? Be-cause when they agreed to a 24-hour cease-fire for exactly that cause, Hamas continued to launch missiles into cities 30 miles away. All Hamas needs to do is stop the attacks and work out a diplo-matic solution with Israel, but all they care about is death and destruction. If you really care about Palestine and its people, then stop spreading hate to-wards Israel and demand that Hamas takes responsibility and stops putting innocent people in danger.
Ben Mazursenior, religious studies
[Editor’s Note: The word maximum was waived for this letter.]
Israelis live in constant fearLife here in Israel goes on. Everyone is
watching the news. Everyone is talking about it. Everyone is a bit more on edge. I teach 2nd to 6th graders in English.
They were talking about their fear of war. Every TV in the gym was turned on to the news.
It’s important to understand, no one here is celebrating this war. We aren’t the kind of people who cheer and give candy when innocent lives are being lost.
But we understand. We understand that Hamas only understands strength. Negotiation is impossible with a people hell-bent on your own destruction.
Sarah FisherIsrael
I ’m an Israeli l iving in North Carolina
I am constantly on Facebook check-ing the status of my friends in Sderot just so I can be reassured by messages like “I’m still here” and “Don’t worry, I’m safe.” All the time I am hearing about another 30 rockets this day, 12 children hospitalized another. Everyday my fear grows worse that I won’t have a home to go back to. I don’t hate or blame the Palestinians, only Hamas and their lead-ers, and I hurt every time I hear about more Palestinian civilians dying. But just because fewer Israelis have died does not mean we are suffering any less. Hamas struck first, they ended the cease-fire the Israeli government was trying to extend, and if Israel did not retaliate then it would have opened the door for Iran and other countries whose leaders want us to no longer exist.
Efrat Rubenstein Greensboro
Although economic woes and falling state revenue will prob-
ably dominate Gov. Beverly Perdue’s initial agenda, our state’s increase in cr ime and gang violence needs to b e p u t
back in the forefront with new data coming out showing the severity of the rise, specifi-cally in the Raleigh area and in relation to gangs.
After last year’s highly publicized murder of UNC-Cha-pel Hill Stu-dent Body President Eve Carson, our state’s probation system came un-der fire after it was learned the two accused murderers were both on probation and then were later accused of murdering a student at Duke earlier last year.
The failure of the probation system is in the numbers and not just in the front-page ar-ticles as statistics show North Carolina probationers have
committed 580 murders since 2000. It goes on further to say that system administrators dis-couraged officers from sending convicted criminals on proba-tion back to prison after they had violated terms of their sentence.
Raleigh itself has seen a dra-matic increase in homicides in 2008. In 2007, there were 23 homicides in the Raleigh city limits and by the close of 2008 there were 34 – a 48% increase from 2007.
In that same time frame Dur-ham, a city with a reputation for crime and gangs, actually saw a decrease in homicides from 30
in 2007 to 24 in 2008.
Locally, N.C. State students were reminded of the reality of crime on a 30,000-student campus with the closure of an incident last year where a
gang member shot a student near Wolf Village apartments to try and prevent testimony against a fellow gang member in a rob-bery trial.
Even more recently there was a shooting across from our cam-pus on Hillsborough Street last week that thankfully resulted in no serious harm. Students need to be aware gang violence isn’t just relegated to poorer areas of
the city, but it’s spreading to college campuses as well.
The increase in crimes and gang violence is concerning and should be addressed. The solution isn’t simple, because the police can’t prevent all crimes at all times.
There has to be a funda-mental change in the culture that breeds an acceptance of violence in response to issues. Gang task forces need to be created and take proactive steps in schools and proba-tion officers need to take a more probing stake in a pro-bationer’s day to day routine to try and head off potential problems.
Unfortunately, this is going to cost money that isn’t read-ily available right now with-out cutting other programs – a hard sell in an incremental government mindset. The question then becomes how to prioritize our state’s spend-ing?
Is it worth the cuts to foster an anti-violence mindset that will hopefully create safer cit-ies and campuses across the state? Is it even possible to counter pop culture that pro-motes violence as a lifestyle? I hope so.
Let Benton know your thoughts at [email protected].
Benton SawreySta! Columnist
Students, be wary of violence in Raleigh
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Citigroup announced Tuesday that it will sell a majority stake in its Smith Barney brokerage unit to Morgan Stanley. Citigroup stock rose 5 percent Tuesday after a 17 percent fall Monday, when speculation about the merger began. The sale is intended to raise money for Citigroup just months after Citigroup attempted to buy Charlotte-based Wachovia Corp. for $1 per share.
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For students graduating this year, the news is even worse than that. Accord-
ing to the National Association of Col-leges and Employers, employers plan to
“decrease their hiring numbers for the class of 2009.”But there is good news too. For students with a few years of study left, the economy has ample time to re-bound. And for those who are planning on searching for a job this year, there are plenty of on-campus resources that
students can use to make the process easier. So for those students who are about to jump head-first into the job market, here are some tips for how to plan a job search, bounce back from a firing or failed search and how to keep a job when one is offered.
The bad news is that 2.6 million Americans lost jobs in 2008 — the highest since 1945. More bad news is the economy isn’t much stronger than it was in the fall.
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8. GHOSTWRITERWhat it’s likeA ghostwriter authors books with other people listed as the author — usually those people are celebrity types with no writing skills of their own. Ghostwriters are usually paid well, but must be OK writing about others’ ideas. The life of a successful ghostwriter is a good one. Projects abound and scheduling is flexible.A typical project begins with a lot of interviewing and observing. Once the writer has enough content, he or she begins to write, sending each chapter to the subject for approval. Once the book is complete, the subject will ask for final changes. After that, the book (hopefully) gets published!
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8 a.m.: Arrive at the office and discuss the day’s appointments9 a.m.: Begin seeing patients10 a.m.: Order some blood tests11 a.m.: Minor emergency! Suture a patient with a cut elbownoon: take a 15 minute break for lunch12:30 p.m.: A patient with heart trouble comes in, evaluate him
12:40 p.m.: Arrange for patient to be transported to hospital1 p.m.: Go to hospital to check supervising doctors’ post-operative patients3 p.m.: Back at the office, finish the day’s appointments5 p.m.: Wrap up paperwork
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1,223,993 amount of jobs cut in 2008
348,019 amount of jobs cut in November and December alone
260,110 amount of workers the finance sector announced it will cut
127,281 amount of workers the automotive industry announced it will cut
275 percentage of rise of layoffs in 2008
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1. Housewares and Accessories2. Manufactured Housing3. Residential Property Management4. Office Property Managemnt5. Long Distance Carriers6. Banks7. Recreational Vehicles
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CIO.com reports that Gen Y may be able to weather the recession better because of five qualities they share:1. They have weaker ties to corporate
America, and will be more likely to look out for themselves.
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of Boomers and Gen X.4. They’ve been multitasking since they
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ADVICE FROM MIKE WALDENCommunication technology will continue to be a strong field. For many people, devices like smart phones are a necessity, especially because of the business applications they can be used for.
CAROL SCHROEDER SAYS:Look into other industries: “Understand that large companies are in the business of doing something specific, but have human resources, marketing, auditing, communication and finance people too.”
“Be more creative and be more flexible with what you want to do and where you want to live.”
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SportsOne substantial obstacle that
will make it all the more impor-tant that the team wrestles well is the fact that they will be for-feiting at the 197-pound weight class.
“In our sport it’s hard to beat anybody if you’re going to forfeit a weight,” said Jordan. “When you’re still missing a guy out of your lineup, everybody else has got to step up.”
Despite the disappointment against Hofstra and the difficulty of wrestling down a man, the team appears very confident that if they wrestle to their potential, they will have a good chance of winning.
Although some of the wres-tlers have struggled in the past, Coach Jordan seems to believe that success Wednesday night and throughout the ACC season is well within reach.
“Hopefully, we’ll wrestle in-credibly intense on Wednesday and keep that up the rest of the year,” Jordan said. “If that hap-pens, we’ll be good to go and we’ll win the dual going away.”
Caramanica said that it is a matter of confidence, not a lack of ability, and that the younger
guys are more than capable of having success against anyone.
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change.” Julius Mays and
Courtney Fells led N.C. State on offense with 13
and 12 points, respectively. “We turned the ball over and they capital-
ized,” Mays said. “We need to take care of the ball a lot better and eliminate the turnovers. It’s progress from last game, but it’s still not good enough.”
The Wolfpack fell to 0-2 in ACC play and 9-5 overall in its third straight loss. State takes on Georgia Tech (9-6, 0-2 ACC) this Saturday at
noon at the RBC Center.“We just want to win so bad. We just have to build
on that frustration and learn how to win games,” Dennis Horner said. “Saturday is a big game — we have to win that game. After that, we go on the road to Duke and we’d love to get one there too.”
working on a lot of technical stuff in my game,” Weinacker said. “But now I’m a
senior— there isn’t much else I need to work on technical ly. Now we’re just focusing on constructing points in my matches.”
Welte, ranked No. 125 in the preseason stand-ings, said the fall really helped him move for-ward in his game.
“I played in four tour-naments this fall,” Welte said. “I gained a lot of confidence and I really felt myself progressing.”
Welte said he will look to continue that prog-ress in the spring for himself and the team.
“Our team is really young in the back of the line-up,” Welte said. “But if we really put in the work, the sky is the limit for us.”
Weinacker, who feels like the team has NCAA tournament possibilities, expects to improve from last year.
“We need to make the NCAA tournament, and I think we can this year,” Weinacker said. “Also there are a few schools in the ACC that I’ve never beaten and I want to do that this year, since it’s my last chance.”
Overall, Choboy said he is excited for the season to get underway.
“We’ve got a pretty solid team and I just want to see what these guys can do with it the season,” he said.
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WRESTLINGcontinued from page 8
“We’ve worked a lot on more mental toughness and the physicality of
the sport.”coach Jon Choboy
BY THE NUMBERS13 POINTS FOR JULIUS MAYS16 TURNOVERS FOR N.C. STTE11 WOLFPACK PLAYERS WITH PLAYING TIME
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The men’s tennis team kicks-off their season tonight at home
Jen HankinStaff Writer
The No. 49 men’s tennis team begins its spring season this afternoon against UNC- Wilmington at 5 p.m. at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center.
Coach Jon Choboy said the team is solid and ready for the season to begin.
“We had a long practice on Saturday to prepare for UNCW,” he said. “These guys are really looking forward to it.”
UNCW’s head coach, Mait DuBois, used to be assistant coach at N.C. State, mak-ing the match an interesting match-up, according to senior Jay Weinacker.
“UNCW is a really good team,” Weinacker said. “Mait knows a lot about our team and Jon knows a lot about Mait so it will be a really good match-up for us to get the season underway.”
Weinacker and senior Chris Welte are the No. 4 ranked doubles team in the mid-east. Both are seniors and leaders on the team, according to Choboy.
Looking back on the fall season, Weinacker was pleased with his efforts.
“During the Penn State tournament I got two ranked wins, one of which I had lost to twice before,” Weinacker
said. “That was good step for me and shows that I have improved from last year.”
Improvements across the board are the focus for the team this season, Choboy said.
“We’ve worked a lot on more mental toughness and the physi-cality of the sport,” Choboy said.
“Let me just say the guys ran lots of football stadiums this fall.”
Besides conditioning, Wein-acker said he has been work-ing on creating points.
“In past falls I have been
Team prepares to host Duke in ACC conference opener
Tyler EverettStaff Writer
After a letdown against Hofs-tra Sunday afternoon, the team is looking to bounce back and start off conference play on a winning note when Duke visits Reynolds Coliseum tonight at 7:30 p.m.
It is extremely important that the team recovers from the Hof-stra match and wrestle to the best of their ability, according to coach Jordan Carter
“Unfortunately you don’t get to have bad days in our sport because you get your fanny whooped if you have a bad day,” Jordan said. “You cannot win at this level w i t h t he lack of in-tensity and purpose t hat t hey went out there with [against Hofstra.]”
The m atch i s a l s o i m-portant for the team because it is the first conference match of the season against a strong Duke team. Junior Darrion Caldwell, who remains undefeated in 23 out-ings this season, talked about the strength of conference competi-tion and the significance of early success.
“It’s not going to be an easy
match because Duke is a great competitor,” the 149-pound Caldwell said. “These [confer-ence opponents] are the guys that we’re looking forward to wrestling, because they are the guys that we’re going to have to beat to make it to the big show.”
Another source of intrigue in this match will be the contin-ued resurgence of 12th-ranked
141-pound-er Joe Car-amanica, w ho h a s not lost any of his eight matches since h is return from a knee injur y in December. Caldwell described
how much the senior’s return to the lineup means to the team.
“He’s really big for the team,” Caldwell said. “He’s a great wrestler. He’s a good guy to be around. With his leadership and his encouragement, we should definitely get an ACC title.”
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
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Brown and Hill to play in Senior Bowl
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IM basketball meeting today in Playzone
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Panza named EAGL Rookie of the Week
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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
MEN’S TENNIS VS. UNC-WILMINGTONIsenhour Tennis Complex, 5 p.m.
WRESTLING VS. DUKEReynolds Coliseum, 7:30 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. FLORIDA STATEReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. ELONIsenhour Tennis Complex, 5 p.m.
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Turnovers and poor shooting down the stretch lead to State’s second straight ACC loss
Sean KlemmStaff Writer
It was business as usual for the men’s basketball team Tuesday night in the RBC Center — Brandon Costner dominated early, but the team fell apart again late to lose its third straight game 78-65 and remain winless in ACC com-petition.
After State jumped out to an early 12-4 lead, it seemed the Wolfpack would roll over Florida State as redshirt ju-nior Brandon Costner scored seven of the team’s first 12 points, but Florida State re-sponded with a 22-4 run thanks to numerous turn-overs and poor shooting by the Pack.
“It was important we played hard at the end of the first half and not get down on ourselves,” Julius Mays said. “We made some stops and we didn’t let them get second chances. We made a couple substitutions and everyone came off the bench ready to play.”
N.C. State struggled to move the ball and get in a rhythm offensively with the top three scorers on the bench. The lack
of offensive production led to Florida State’s success.
State didn’t go into the locker room without answering, how-ever, as the Pack responded with a 17-7 run to close the first half and draw within three points of the Seminoles at the break.
Immediately after the break,
the Pack picked up right where it left off with a 7-2 run to begin the second half, but Florida State again had an answer.
During a back and forth second half, the Wolfpack got a spark from players off the bench, in-cluding key contributions from freshman Julius Mays and red-
shirt freshman Johnny Thomas. The Pack limited its turnovers in the second half but less mistakes proved to not be enough for State to take down the Seminoles.
With the score tied 63-63, State’s starters returned to the game, but appeared cold and out of rhythm as Florida State
finished the game with a 15-2 run to clinch the 78-65 victory.
“We were looking for our veter-an guys to come back in and fin-ish the game, as most teams do,” coach Sidney Lowe said. “I didn’t like what I saw when I made the
Pack falls to Seminoles at homeLATE COLLAPSE ALLOWS FLORIDA STATE TO SURGE PAST THE WOLFPACK 78!65
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CRAIG YATES/TECHNICIANCourtney Fells, senior guard/forward, makes a strong e"ort to take ball possession from Uche Echefu of Florida State University.
JOHN COSGROVE/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOJay Weinacker, a junior in business marketing, volleys at the net during a men’s tennis practice.
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“It’s not going to be an easy match because Duke is a great com-
petitor.”