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Workshops teach fraternity brothers etiquette and business know-how

John ClineStaff Writer

 The Interfraternity Council held its New Member Institute at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon in Riddick Hall with programming aimed toward developing young fraternity members into upstanding young gentleman.

“Today is a workshop for all new members from the spring in IFC fraternities to give them the tools to succeed overall with their fraternity experience,” Peter Barnes, a junior in natural resources and the President of IFC, said.

Workshops throughout the day included topics such as academic success, safety do’s and don’ts taught by Campus Police, résumé building, dressing for success, safe sex and stu-dents’ legal rights. The day conclud-ed with a buffet-style dinner during which the young men were instructed in proper etiquette by Lu Ann Ely-Randolph, a professional etiquette and protocol consultant.

“They’re going to learn both Amer-ican and Continental dining styles, as well as basic table manners and how to interact with wait staff,” Ely-Randolph said. “Also, they’re going

to learn about proper conversation and interview do’s and don’t, such as what to do when offered alcohol at a job interview (politely decline) or how to address a prospective employer.”

The Institute, which is required for all new members, has grown in size and scope in its second year of exis-tence.

“We’ve done it before but it hasn’t been this structured and well orga-nized,” Michael Curran Sullivan, a ju-nior in civil engineering and the Vice President of Finance for IFC, said. “We’ve never had the dining tutorial or this many different workshops. We really wanted to step it up to enrich the experience for everyone.”

According to IFC Advisor James Byars, the New Member Institute helps to broaden the benefits young men gain from being involved in a fraternity.

“When we looked at doing this, we saw a need to provide training and op-portunities for success and to fill in the gaps in what members can learn from their experience in Greek Life,” Byars said. “It’s hard to do a program like this for undergraduate men since they may have other priorities in mind, but [the institute] puts the resources in place for them and makes them readily available to anyone interested.”

Annual banquet features distribution of Mathews, Watauga medals

Kate ShefteExecutive Editor

The McKimmon Center played host to the annual N.C. State Founder’s Day dinner Monday night as hundreds of alumni and current students gathered to celebrate the University’s opening, which took place 123 years ago Sunday.

While nearly 400 guests finished their chocolate cake, Jay Dawkins, a senior in civil engineering, Shanna Rose, a senior in political science, walked on stage to receive the 2010 Mathews Medals, the highest non-scholastic award an N.C. State student can receive.

The award, based on the prestigious Watau-ga Medal and named after one of State’s first students, honors graduating seniors who have built a legacy based on leadership and signifi-cant contributions to the University.

Rose, whose lengthy resume includes the titles of former student senator, chair of the Student Government Leadership Develop-ment Committee, president of the Alumni Association Student Ambassadors and cur-rent co-chair of Service Raleigh, N.C.’s largest student-run service organization, said she and Dawkins were “humbled” by the expe-rience.

“[Dawkins] and I will tell anyone who asks that some of the most important things we’ve learned in college have not been academic related,” Rose said. “It’s cool that they’re able to point that out and recognize the contribu-tions we’ve made.”

Perhaps because most undergraduates were scared away by the $75 price tag of

dining with the Alumni Association, many of the few students that attended the event were Dawkins’ and Rose’s friends. Rose said bridging the gap between alumni and cur-rent students is crucial and that, in time, she hopes the Founder’s Day banquet will include

a wider range of age and experience.“These events are great. I wish there are

more students here to provide that connec-tion, but in the future, if there’s student rec-ognition of what the award is, there might be more student and alum participation,”

Rose said.After speeches from current chancel-

lor James Woodward and Chancellor-elect Randy Woodson, who will take office later

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DaviD Mabe/TechnicianInterim Chancellor Woodward presents former Student Body President, Jay Dawkins, with the Mathews Medal at the Founders’ Day Dinner in the McKimmon Center Monday, March 8, 2010. The Mathews Medal recognizes outstanding N.C. State seniors who have given service to the University.

Agriculture Awareness Week stakes claim on the BrickyardAlpha Zeta hosts opportunity to see beyond the steak on the dinner plate

Laura WilkinsonLife & Style Editor

Loud moos and other barnyard nois-es will continue to fill the Brickyard this week through Thursday as part of Alpha Zeta’s Agriculture Aware-ness Week, which features tents with information booths and live animals such as baby chicks, cattle and pigs.

“We’re out here to educate the stu-dents and public about where their food comes from,” Amanda Noble, a junior in plant and soil science, said. “It doesn’t just come from the grocery store.”

Included in the week’s activities are opportunities to pet animals, eat lunch and watch contests.

“[Monday] we had the administra-tive agriculture Olympics. We had three administrators from CALS par-ticipate in an Egg Toss, Watermelon Crawl, Tractor Race and a Sunflower Seed Spittin’ contest,” Noble said. “Tomorrow we’re having a milking contest. Lunch will be served every day at 12:30.”

According to Jamie Jordan, a senior in animal science, Alpha Zeta, an ag-ricultural fraternity, also invites other agriculture related clubs to come out and do fundraisers and whatever else they wish to do.

Lauren Mabry, a junior in animal science and poultry science, said the Poultry Science Club has a booth set up with informational pamphlets and an area for people to hold baby chicks.

“The Poultry Science Club has set up a chick booth where people can hold the baby chicks. We’ve got a tri-fold board that shows the activities we’re doing or we’ve done,” Mabry said. “We’re trying to educate people about

the industry.”Ryan Amos, a freshman in chemical

engineering, said the tents and animal exhibits looked cool.

“It made me think of home,” Amos said. “I live on a farm at home.”

Jordan said Alpha Zeta wants to

present agriculture in a different way. One of those ways is through Hoover, a large steer with a hole in his stomach.

IFC looks to inform, mold new members into gentleman

JorDan Moore/TechnicianTossing her lasso high in the air, Caitlin Purcell, a sophomore in history, readies herself to ring a fake cow Monday Mar. 8, 2010. “I’ve never tried something like this before,” said Purcell, “they make it look a lot easier.” The lasso event was held in the brickyard as part of Agriculture Awareness week, which is taking place all week in the brickyard.

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“We’re here to show people, to explain to them the differ-ence between dairy cattle and beef cattle. We tell them the background story of why he has a hole in his stomach,” Jordan said. “He stays at our metabo-lism unit, which N.C. State owns. This particular hole goes into his rumen. It’s the reason all cattle can eat grass and hu-mans can’t.”

Jordan said many people hold the misconception that cattle

have four separate stomachs, but the reality is they simply have four parts to one stomach.

“You can actually stick your hand into the hole and touch his fistula. It’s used for re-search purposes; you can take samples from it to see how well he is digesting certain grasses or feeds.”

Jordan said most of the ani-mals come from N.C. State-owned properties, like the swine unit, beef unit, dairy unit and small ruminate like goats and sheep.

Paul O’Leary, a freshman in management, said the experi-

ence was different from what he expected.

“I’m from the North and it was kind of strange to have a cow moo at me,” O’Leary said.

Jordan said she has a lot of people ask her if Hoover is mad because he moos a lot, but the reality is the steer is just a social animal.

“I tell them if he was mad, they would know it,” Jordan said. She said Hoover would be in the Brickyard 24 hours a day until Thursday afternoon when the booths pack up for the week.

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Many young men were in attendance and most saw it as a valuable experience with lots of useful knowl-edge for personal and pro-fessional use.

“I came today for the leadership training and to build valuable life and study skills,” Emmanuel Acquaah, a junior in psy-chology and a new member

of Alpha Tau Omega, said. “For example, I just got out of a class where we learned workplace skills such as how to dress, how to interview and other just gen-erally useful things.”

Acquaah said he joined Greek Life to increase his involvement on campus and learning life skills is just a bonus.

“I had never really been in-volved on campus, and my roommates were in [a frater-nity] and I hung out with them a lot anyway,” he said. “It’s good to know that aside from

the social aspect, I’m learning how to interact in a profession-al environment other things that will come in handy after graduation.”

Sullivan agreed that it’s good for people to see more charac-ter building, a beneficial side of Greek Life.

“A lot of people think fra-ternities are just drinking and social clubs,” he said. “But in reality they do a lot to build you as a person and to prepare for success in the real world.”

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DaviD Mabe/TechnicianStudent Centers President, Marycobb Randall, converses at her table during the Founders’ Day Dinner in the McKimmon Center Monday, March 8, 2010.

this spring, Woodward and S. Law-rence Davenport, chair of the Board of Trustees, draped medals around the necks of Kenneth M. Bryant, Hou-Min Chang and H. Frank Grainger.

The Watauga Medal, first awarded in 1975, is given to a select group of men and women who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the University.

Chang, professor emeritus in the College of Natural Resources, where he began teaching in 1970, spoke of how welcome and honored he felt in the presence of former co-workers.

“To this moment, I have a hard time believing I’m being awarded this med-al,” Chang said. “When I look at the past participants, it’s incredible. N.C. State may not be where my root began, but this is where my heart is.”

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history of the watauga Medal

The Watauga Medal was established in 1975 by the Board of Trustees to honor people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the university.

The selection process is a rigorous one conducted by the Watauga Medal Selection Committee, with recommendations going to the Chancellor who reviews them and, finally, to the Board of Trustees. Since 1975, the Watauga Medal has been awarded to 93 men and women, distinguished by their dedication and devotion to the advancement of North Carolina State University.

The name derives from the Watauga Club, a group founded in 1884 by young men all under the age of 30. “Watauga” is a Native-American word meaning “the land beyond.”

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During the last five years the number of non-faculty University staff

members has grown by 9.8 percent. N.C. State now em-ploys nearly 5,400 technical, clerical and other professional staff, making it one of the larg-est employers in the area.

Without many of these dedi-cated servants the University would shut down completely. The Campus Police keeps stu-dents, staff and faculty safe; the systems administrators main-tain the computer systems; and the thousands of other staff members service the institu-tions’ many needs.

Whether or not students be-lieve every staff position is es-sential and provides a benefit to the University is a side de-bate. That question aside, these ranks have an enormous effect

on the institution and students’ college experience.

Almost every campus issue, from tuition and fees, to class-room sizes and the Wolfline has a direct administrative cause.

With so much riding on the work of the Office of the Pro-vost, University Transporta-tion, Dining, Campus Recre-ation and other staff-driven organizations, it’s essential that students are given input into these offices’ work.

The input can’t only be from students’ appointed represen-tatives in Student Government, though. Often, the senators and executive officials only have a cursory understanding of the underlying issues affecting stu-

dents. How many of students’ elected officials actually eat at the dining halls or ride the Wolfline on a daily basis? The answer would be disappoint-ing to students who want to think of Student Government as a body they can relate to.

Therefore, the burden must reside with the every-student, who has not been tainted by the University bureaucracy and the palm greasing of its brass.

A recent group formed to provide input to the Office of Information Technology, the Information Technology Stu-dent Advisory Group, is a great model for this process and has the potential to show that by interacting with concerned

students, the University ad-ministrative units can better understand students’ needs, and vice-versa.

Simply having an e-mail comments-and-concerns ad-dress isn’t enough. Adminis-trative divisions must engage students face-to-face on the important issues, collaborating to find common ground and enact real change.

The University will never gain any momentum toward progress if University leaders and average students don’t sit down and have frank discus-sions about the issues affecting campus. Only through group communication and collabo-ration, as OIT is attempting to implement, will students’ grievances reach the ears of the people who have the power to make changes happen.

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility

of the Executive Editors.

Communication as a fixThe FacTs:The Office of Information Technology recently started a collaboration effort with a group of students to solve some of the University’s technology issues.

Our OpiniOn:Communication and collaboration between everyday students and University officials is an essential way to foster understanding between students and administrators.

Fling or fail?

The cold, dark days of winter are coming to a close. For college stu-

dents that means two things: spring break and summer

vacation! Stu-dents get ex-c ited about breaks during this t ime of year because it’s warm and i t ’s a n e x-cuse to wear less clothing. (Hopefully, the big dinners

from Christmas and Thanks-giving haven’t completely ru-ined you beach bod!)

When vacationing, I found that a good number of people wouldn’t be opposed to having a romantic rendezvous, com-monly know as a fling. But is a fling really all it’s cracked up to be?

Wherever you are vaca-tioning, there is bound to be someone that is going to catch your eye. Maybe it’s the sexy bellhop that helps you take your bags to your room? Or maybe it’s the gorgeous-eyed Jet Ski instructor that gets your gears grind-ing. If you are like me and feel quite comfortable and content admiring f r o m a f a r and subconsciously making up delusional romantic fanta-sies in your head without any intention of following through with them, you should be fine. If you are a “take charge” kind of person, you may need to keep reading.

Flings are f lings and they happen all the time. This does not mean that you should not take extra precaution for your own safety. The point is that on vacation you are in a com-pletely new environment and everyone knows this. People are around to accomplish one thing and that is to have fun. You do not have anyone to look out for you while on va-cation so you have to take the responsibility of looking out for yourself.

I want to stress the point that one should never judge a book by its cover. Just because the

person you meet looks nice and they have a great smile doesn’t mean they do not have a hidden agenda. People who specialize in abduction of any sort know that this is the time of year that everyone is out and about. They are definitely going to take ad-vantage of a young person’s naivety and adventurous spirit.

We have all heard the stories of Elizabeth Smart and Nata-lie Holloway. One minute they were here and the next they were gone. It can happen just that fast and it can happen to anyone. If you do meet some-one you want to spend time with while on vacation, go out with them the smart way. Consider group dates or invite your travelling companions out on the town with you and your new squeeze. If anything remotely out of the ordinary goes down you have a group that will protect you and you can all leave the scene together; traveling in numbers is always safer than traveling alone.

Also, always carry your cell phone. I rare-ly see anyone without a cell phone these days, but it is quite pos-sible to forget it at the hotel. If something does happen and you have no form of communica-tion, it is less likely that you will be able to get help in a

timely fashion. Make sure it is charged and always on. Watch your drinks at the bar and al-ways look over your shoulder!

Vacations are about having a good time so don’t let the fear of the unknown ruin your fun. Be smart about where you go and who you talk to. Flings are exciting and make for a good story, but make sure you are able to come home and tell that story. The sad truth is that not everyone has good inten-tions. A six-pack of abs or a nice bum can easily sway someone from looking at the big pic-ture. Have fun on your vaca-tions and, above all, be safe! Send Marlena your thoughts on spring break and its associated perils to letters@technicianon-line.com.

Marlena WilsonStaff Columnist

Time to tone down the PC

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Na-politano recently

became the first member from the Obama adminis-tration to publicly describe the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas as “Violent Islamic

Terrorism.” This is a major de-velopment in the way

the administration has been describing and classifying terrorism — extremist acts. It certainly hasn’t been its modus operandi up to this point.

Senator Joe Lieberman went so far as to say the “reluctance” to use the phrases “Islamic extrem-ist” or “Muslim terrorist” is a “pet peeve” of his.

I am not trying to say that all Muslims are terrorists, or that even most of them are; but it is very important to classify threats correctly without fear of repudiation for not being politically cor-rect. The threat we face is from Islamic extremists and we should not hinder ourselves by failing to call things what they are and hiding behind political cor-rectness.

For students who are im-mersed in a collegiate at-mosphere, not being afraid to classify or label things what they are should be a top priority. We must not be

afraid of offending people just for the sake of being politically correct. We, as a whole, must realize threats that are posed to us as a people. And the first step to combating these threats is to correctly classify them without fear of not being politically cor-rect.

We see examples of this ev-ery day, ranging from the mi-nor to the extreme. Just a few weeks ago, the SECU on Hill-sborough Street was robbed. The University sent out an alert describing the suspect as a “dark complexioned male wearing a black hooded Nike sweatshirt, armed with a hand-gun.”

That’s not very helpful at all. Dark-complexioned male? What does that even mean? Was he a black man? A Mexi-can? Or was he a frat guy who got stuck in the tanning bed too long? While most of us know what “dark complexioned” means, the phrase still leaves room for ambiguity, especially when the only other informa-tion provided was that he was wearing a black sweatshirt. So does about 95 percent of cam-pus, at some point or another. This information is not very helpful for students when try-ing to keep an eye out for the suspect, especially when he is armed with a handgun and students are concerned about their safety.

So why did the University describe the suspect in such an obscure manner when all

other news outlets and po-lice statements at the time described the suspect as a black male? The University used vague and easily mis-understood terms, possibly placing students in danger, possibly for the sake of be-ing too politically correct. If this was indeed the case, it means our leaders con-sciously made a decision that being politically cor-rect was more important to them than the safety of the students, faculty and staff. Or, possibly, political cor-rectness is so embedded in their brains that they put us in danger without even re-alizing it. When leaders fail to place the safety of those they are lead above being politically correct so as to not offend anyone, they place those people they are supposed to protect in grave danger.

College is a place where people can share ideas and learn from each other. Maybe it’s time to realize that sometimes labels can be a good thing, not just in extreme cases, but in learn-ing about someone’s life. Who you are is who you are; there’s no need to hide be-hind political correctness. Send Andrew your thoughts on political correctness to letters@technicianonline.com.

Andrew DworznickiStaff Columnist

and we thought the groundhog was bad enough.

Christian O’Neal, freshman in mechanical engineering

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Do you feel that administrators are

in touch with students? Why or why not?

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“No. They seem like they don’t even care.”

Andre Eastersophomore, animal science

“Sometimes they can be, and sometimes they don’t listen, like the whole Talley Center renovation.”

Brianna McDanielssophomore, engineering

“To a certain extent, I think they do a pretty good job of anticipating needs. But, when we tell them exactly what we need, they don’t follow through.”

kelley Taylorfreshman, fisheries and wildlife science

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Some departments embrace mobile tech, others investigate options

Jessica Neville Science & Tech Editor

Every other person on the street has an iPhone or a Black-berry -- or so it seems. But how common is Smartphone usage on a university campus? And how worthwhile is it for departments to invest in the future of mobile phone tech-nology? These are the questions departments across campus are asking themselves in light of an explosion of mobile im-provements worldwide coupled with their own budgetary con-straints within the University.

Jason Austin, Senior Solu-tions Implementation Engineer of the Office of Information Technology, said universities nation-wide are responding to a changing communications industry.

“When I was a student at State, I don’t remember seeing anyone bring laptops to class,” Austin said. “Now some stu-dents have moved past laptops to being able to check their e-mails and facebooks anytime on their mobile phones.”

Although Austin said Smart-phones are not the norm for most students yet, they are be-coming more popular as they become cheaper and easier to obtain. He thinks handheld de-vices will be the tools of the fu-ture as people find them more convenient to use.

Other departments on cam-pus have not found the rise of mobile phone usage to be prevalent enough to justify implementing their own pro-grams. Alan Schueler, Director of Academic & Administrative Technology for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, started a Mobile Initiative within CALS several years ago

to see how much CALS stu-dents use mobile technology.

“We didn’t see enough evi-dence to continue putting a lot of money, time and effort into developing mobile technology programs,” Schueler said. “We have been more focused on making wireless access avail-able everywhere on campus, whether students have laptops or Smartphones.”

Schueler said based on a pilot survey conducted with the Uni-versity IT committee in 2007, less than 50 percent of Univer-sity students use Smartphones,

although he acknowledges that this estimate could be con-stantly changing.

“We are always behind the curve in evaluating the use of technology because it is con-stantly changing,” Schueler

said. “We know where mobile technology is heading but we don’t know how many people will have access to this tech-nology and what they will use it for.”

The bottom line, according

to Schueler, is that right now, with the University being un-der serious budget constraints, his department is not spending any money unless they abso-lutely see a need.

“It’s an evaluative, ongoing process,” Schueler said of his department’s incorporation of mobile technology.

The University library has chosen to embrace mobile tech-nology with a mobile campus library site they launched this past November. The site can be reached from a mobile device at the Web address lib.ncsu.edu/m. David Woodbury, a Li-brary Fellow, said the site gives students access to a variety of library services on their mobile phone.

“If we look at trends for adop-tion rates of smart phones, we can expect the majority of peo-ple to be using them in a matter of a few years,” Woodbury said.

The library mobile site allows students to access locations and hours, computer availability, the search catalog, reference desk services and instant mes-saging all from their mobile phones. Students can also look at webcams set up in the Hill of Beans to see how long the line is and look up library news and events.

OIT also launched a mobile Web site this year, m.ncsu.edu, which Austin said is meant to give the University another way to connect to students. The site allows students to connect to other popular Web sites such as the Wolfline, University news, the library and people search.

“We’ve had a lot of good response from this Web site,” Austin said. “People see us as pushing the model for the in-corporation of education and technology.”

Austin said the next goal for OIT is to make an iPhone ap-plication for the University.

“We are constantly looking for ways to improve the mobile Web site and we appreciate stu-dent feedback,” Austin said.

Students who do not have access to mobile technology should not be at a disadvantage as of now, although that may change in the future.

“Having constant access to information changes the way I work,” Austin said. “I think as the price catches up with what students see as value, mobile technology will become more popular. Ironically, the tech-nology is invented to help stu-dents get things done quicker, although they also present stu-dents with a lot of ways to waste their time.”

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Demi OlubanwO/TechnicianKadeem Myrick, a senior in business administration, checks his Twitter status on his Blackberry. “I got a Blackberry because of the norm and culture of the professional field I aspire to join,” Myrick said. “When I go into interviews and professional meetings, I see Blackberries everywhere and now that I have one, I know why.”

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in evaluating the use of technology

because it is constantly changing.”said Alan Schueler, Director of Academic & Administrative

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Oindree BanerjeeStaff Writer

What do you get when you mix politics and government with the iPhone? Charles Crossingham, an alumnus and owner of EQV Music Group, recently discovered the answer to this question w h e n h e developed his newest iPhone app, iGovern-ment.

According to Crossing-ha m, t h i s application brings over 50 feeds of news, pho-t o s , a n d videos from departments a n d o f -fices across a l l t h r e e branches of the federal government “right into the palm of your hand.”

This is not the first app that Crossingham has developed, however. In fact, EQV Music Group, the company Cross-ingham owns and operates with his business partner, Ian Meyer, specializes in iPhone app development.

“Ian and I began making apps when the software devel-oper’s kit was first released by Apple for the iPhone,” Cross-ingham said. “We were both long time employees of the Apple Store so we naturally gravitated towards develop-ing for this new piece of hard-ware.”

The programming language used by Meyer and Crossing-ham’s business is called Co-

coa Touch. This is based on the Cocoa API toolset which is used to develop programs on the Mac OS X.

According to Crossingham, the principal idea behind iGov-ernment is to provide citizens with an unparalleled access to government information and news.

“We feel that there is a lot of pollution in the air when it comes to the way political news is delivered,” Crossing-ham said.

Christopher Schneider, a freshman in physics, sa id he’s a bit skeptical, however.

“What’s in a n i Phone app that’s not online?” Sch-neider said.

Some stu-dents echo Schneider’s sentiments – at least to some extent. Others said that they can find out what is going on in

the government the old-fash-ioned way: simply by tuning in to one of the various news mediums on television..

Anthony Allen, junior in physics, is such a person.

“I know people who would like to have iGovernment, but I wouldn’t buy it,” Allen said. “I mean, I watch news but I wouldn’t buy an iPhone app that tells me all about the gov-ernment.”

Another student who wishes to remain anonymous does not trust news feeds by an iPhone application.

“The information is most likely biased and in no way different from any other news-cast.”

Crossingham said he feels that the government has al-

ways provided great content that could be harnessed more effectively and delivered to a wider audience through a mo-bile application.

“iGovernment eliminates any middle man and allows you to receive information directly from the source,” Crossingham said.

And reportedly, the sourc-es are the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Federal Courts, NASA, the Department of Defense, Army Navy, the Marines, the Air Force, Coast Guard, State Department, Homeland Secu-rity, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, the Department of Energy, the Treasury, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

“iGovernment also allows direct support and integration with your e-mail client and Twitter so that you can share your favorite articles instantly,” Crossingham said.

The application was released on Feb. 17 and has since consis-tently stayed in the top 1% of all “News” applications.

According to Crossingham, the iTunes application store is the ideal environment for sell-ing mobile applications.

“Apple controls 99.4% of the mobile market share,” Cross-ingham said. “This means that we are part of a market-place that has sold over 3 bil-lion applications and has over 125 million active iTunes ac-counts.”

Crossingham said he be-lieves that this has the poten-tial to translate into many great things.

“This has been a great achievement for us and we are really looking forward to see-ing what the future holds. Last week we were highlighted on NBC-17 about new start-ups in the Triangle and their successes on the App Store,” Crossing-ham said.

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After leaving his home-town of Evans City, Penn-sylvania last year, Mazzoni arrived at State in the fall and pitched extremely well before struggling early in the 2009 season.

“He had a fantastic fall last year and at some point dur-ing the first part of the sea-son, he wasn’t pitching the way he did during the fall,” Avent said. “We knew it was there and knew it was going to come. It finally came to-ward the end of the season and he just took off and has been sensational ever since then.”

While the Wolfpack of-fense has stolen the head-

lines so far this season, the old baseball adage “pitching wins championships” still holds true and Mazzoni will play an im-portant role if the Pack want to contend in the ACC.

State squares off against North Carolina A&T today at 3 p.m., followed by a three-game series at No. 13 Clemson this weekend. The series against the Tigers will mark the begin-ning of the conference schedule for the Pack, as it looks to con-tinue its stellar play.

“We’ve had a different at-titude this year and we‚Äôre having fun,” Mazzoni said. “Right now I think we’re a re-ally good team and going to be a real threat in the ACC this season.”

BASEBALLcontinued from page 8

wards Coach talked to us and we started wrestling to our abilities.”

Ward, seeded No. 1, came into the championship with a 23-7 overall record, and lost to No. 4 Shawn Harris of Virginia by a late takedown, 4-2. In the consolation round, Ward defeated John Burns, 5-4, after suffering an injury and continued to dominate Jon Kohler of Maryland, 10-4, to secure third place at 149.

“I was hoping to win it but I had a tough loss first match and then I had two good wins after,” Ward said. “But I took it one match at a time after my first match and just kept wrestling tough.”

Palma was the closest Pack wrestler to make the NCAA Championship with an auto-matic bid. Yet, after losing to No. 2 Pat Gilmore of Mary-land by a 3-1 decision and wrestling back to the conso-l a t ion f i n a l match, Palma lost the match by a question-able official’s call, not count-ing a takedown late in the third period to No. 4 Jack Danilkow-icz, 3-2.

“That was really disap-pointing,” Jordan said of Palma’s loss. “You hate to see a kid’s trip to NCAAs come

down to an official’s call. He got the first takedown, and I thought he outworked him,

out hus-tled him.”

B o t h Palma and Ward have a chance to an at-large bid t o t h e NCAA Tourna-ment an-nounced later this

week. According to Palma, his loss was difficult but he said he is pleased with his standout freshman perfor-mance this year.

“It’s tough, but I look at it like it shouldn’t have been that close. It’s my fault for not making the match a lit-tle more spread out,” Palma said. “It is what it is.”

The Pack finished its regu-lar season with an 8-13 (1-4 ACC) record. According to Jordan, the players are ready to put this season behind them and are excited for a full line-up of experienced wrestlers.

“These guys really worked hard all spring and are com-mitted, great kids,” Jordan said. “It’s all about a stepping stone. We’ve got lots of kids with a lot of experience and next year cant get here soon enough.”

points or edges. In order to score in the foil, a fencer must strike his opponent within a strike zone that spans, within shoulders, along the midsection and down the torso. In the sa-bre the fencer may touch from the waist up, includ-ing the arms and helmet. In the epee fencers may strike anywhere on the opponent.

The club, namely club public relations officer Kyle Barja, in cooperation with

the director of club sports, Mary Yemma, were responsible for receiving the approval and space for the tournament.

The efforts of the club greatly impressed Jeff Kallio, the chair-man of the North Carolina Fencing Association.

“The N.C. State fencing club has been a huge help in coor-dinating this event and had a strong presence during this event, and we are very appre-ciative of that,” Kallio said.

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2 wrestlers waiting for at-large bids to the NCAA tournament

3rd place and top finish for the Pack for junior 149-pounder Bobby Ward

3 fourth place finishers, including junior 141-pounder Scott Norris, freshman

6th place in the ACC Championship with 15.5 points

“You hate to see

a kid’s trip to

NCAAs come

down to an

official’s call.”Coach Carter Jordan

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Barr recieves honorsGymnast Brooke Barr was named EAGL Specialist of the week Monday. This is the second time she has received the award this season. In her team’s last meet against William and Mary, Barr won the vault with a score of 9.8.

 SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Smith named to All-ACC team Tracy Smith was named to the men’s basketball All-ACC Second Team. He is the first player to be named to the squad since 2005. Smith led the ACC in field goal percentage at 53.9 percent and is seventh in scoring at 17.0 points per game.

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Sophomore pitcher finding success as State’s No. 2 starter

Tucker FrazierStaff Writer

Life as a collegiate pitcher can certainly have its ups and downs. Just ask N.C. State sophomore Cory Maz-zoni. After a rocky start to his freshman season, Maz-zoni’s began his sophomore season playing a vital role in helping the Wolfpack (10-1) to its best start to the season since 2006, when it started 13-1.

“A lot has changed be-tween last year and this year, both as a team and me personally,” Mazzoni said. “I have definitely got-ten off to a better start this season and I feel much more confident out there on the mound.”

In three starts this season, Mazzoni is sporting a 2-0 record with a 2.16 ERA and leads the team in strikeouts with 18.

Perhaps his most impres-sive outing in his college ca-reer thus far came against previously No. 3-ranked UC Irvine in the Baseball at the Beach tournament this season, where he allowed a mere two hits and no

runs in six innings of work. “Obviously he has been a big

part of our [pitching] staff this year,” head coach Elliott Avent said. “You can tell he has ma-tured. We all get better as we get older. This is a difficult con-ference to come in right away

and ultimately be successful.” Mazzoni hopes he can build

off the success he has had so far this season and continue to be one of the Pack as most reliable starters on a team filled with young hurlers.

“We have a young pitching

staff this year,” Mazzoni said. “Every game we’re getting a little bit better and maturing.”

In his last start on March 4 against Xavier, Mazzoni pitched five and two-thirds in-nings and retired an impressive thirteen of the first fifteen bat-

ters he faced while striking out seven Musketeers.

However, everything has not always gone as fluidly as it has this season for Mazzoni.

Mazzoni, Pack off to red-hot startsBASEBALL

MEGAN MYERS/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOCory Mazzoni, then a freshman, pitches during a game against UNC-Wilmington last spring. N.C. State won the game, 10-2.

Team took last place at the ACC Championships Saturday and looks forward to a better season next year

Jen HankinDeputy Sports Editor

The wrestling season came to a much-needed finale Saturday as the Wolfpack finished in last place at the ACC Championships at Reynolds Coliseum.

“I know this is a bit of a letdown, but everyone should be proud of them-selves and have more fuel for next year,” freshman heav y weight Eloheim Palma said of the Cham-pionships.

This season the team suffered from inexperi-

ence and injuries. The high point was a third place finish for junior Bobby Ward in the 149-weight class, the highest for the Pack at the ACC Cham-pionships.

“This is the first time in the 14 years I’ve been at N.C. State that we haven’t had a finalist,” coach Carter Jordan said. “That’s disappointing.”

Going into the ACC Cham-pionships, three wrestlers were seeded: No. 1 Bobby Ward at 149-weight class, No. 4 Ray Ward at 165-weight class, and No. 4 Quinton God-ley at 174-weight class. Yet, after the first round, only freshman Dale Shull, Ward and Palma remained in the main draw and lost in the next round.

During the consolation semifinals and the fight for third place, the entire lineup was on the bracket. Accord-

ing to Jordan, he was dis-couraged by the first two rounds and expected a different outcome for the consolations.

“This round was very important for our over-all mental health,” Jordan said. “ I [looked] for a lot of hustle, a lot of grit and a lot of determination. Actually, I demanded it from them.”

Jordan’s words of wis-dom for the team prior to the consolations worked as the ratio of wins to losses shifted favorably.

“I think coming into the ACC’s we knew where we were compared to other teams in the ACC,” Ward said. “In the first round we didn’t wrestle as good as we should have. But after-

WRESTLING

Wrestling finishes season with ‘disappointing’ ACC Championship

State plays host to fencing tournament, sends two to nationals

Jon GoodmanCorrespondent

This weekend, Carmichael Gymnasium played host to the North Carolina Division of the United States Fencing Association for a tournament that spanned several days. The competitors battled to qualify to compete in the Na-tional Fenc-ing Tourna-ment this summer in Atlanta, Ga. Placing in the tourna-ment marks the winners as the best fencers in the state.

Five members of the State’s own fencing club competed in the tournament and two members advanced to the na-tional competition. Fencing club president and senior in aerospace engineering John Nance will compete in Na-tionals in addition to Chris-tian Crevar, a freshman in first year college.

Crevar not only advanced to the national competition but won the gold medal in the foil competition, making him the greatest foil fencer, rated C or under, in the entire state. Grevar made his performance even more memorable by win-ning every bout, in which each competitor tries to get to 15 points in order to win, by a margin of 11 or more points.

“I was fencing well,” Crevar said. “I’m 6’7 and can outreach my opponent.”

Jon Nance competed in the Epee competition and fin-

ished in seventh on his way to nationals. He won his first divisional elimination bout by scoring a winning touch within the last ten seconds of the bout.

“My per formance was good,” Nance said. “In that bout I had a tactic that was working against him and then he got frustrated. I capitalized on it.”

The sport of fencing reaches far back into the history of

many cultures and has been a staple in ev-ery Olympic Games since its inception. Fenc i ng i s div ided be-t ween men and women and into age groups. Some of these age g roups a re Y12 (Youth 12 or younger), Y14, Cadet (16

or younger) and Junior (20 or younger).

A rating system, similar to the colored belts of other mar-tial arts, measures the experi-ence and skill of every fencer. The system consists of classes A, B, C, D, E and U. U stands for “unrated,” or a novice fencer.

The foil, sabre, and epee are the names of the three weap-ons used in fencing and each are a separate event having its own rules. In the foil and epee, the fencer must strike, or touch, the opponent with the point of the weapon, while any area of the sabre may touch the opposing fencer in order to gain a point.

The fencers wear protective gear from head to toe and the weapons do not have sharp

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En Garde‚ Ready...Fence

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TodayBASEBALL VS. NORTH CAROLINA A&TDoak Field at Dail Park 3 p.m..

WednesdaySOFTBALL V. CAMPBELLBuies Creek, N.C., 3 p.m., 6 p.m.

ThursdayMEN’S BASKETBALL ACC TOURNAMENT V. CLEMSONGreensboro, N.C., 9 p.m. FridayMEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING, DIVING ZONESAtlanta, Ga, All Day

MEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPSFayetville, Ark., All Day

RIFLE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPSFort Worth, Tx., All Day

WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPSFayetville, Ark., All Day

BASEBALL V. CLEMSONClemson, S.C., 4 p.m. SOFTBALL V. EASTERN KENTUCKYRock Hill, S.C., 6 p.m.

GYMNASTICS V. NEW HAMPSHIREDurham, N.H., 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S GOLF AT THE LSU TIGER/WAVE CLASSICNew Orleans, La., TBA

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“...I had a tactic

that was working

against him,

and then he got

frustrated and I

capitalized on it.”John Nance, fencing club

president

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MICHAEL STRIVER/TECHNICIANBobby Ward, wrestling 149 lbs., grabs a drink and listens to his coaches while his opponent takes injury time in the ACC Championship tournament at Reynolds Coliseum Saturday, March 6. Ward, the No. 1 seed in his weight class, lost this match but went on to beat Jon Kohler from the University of Maryland to finish third overall.