Technician - 06/28/2012

David Price of N.C. State’s district advocates keeping college loan interest rates low.

Mark HerringEditor-in-Chief

Rep. David Price spoke in favor of legislation to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling during a press event on campus, Monday, June 25. Congress’ deadline to extend the current interest rates for students is July 1. If they take no action, rates will double.

North Carolina is ranked 10th in the nation on FAFSA loan dependency, and more than 160,000 students from the state receive federal aid to fund their education.

Price represents North Caro-lina’s Fourth Congressional Dis-trict in the U.S. House. His dis-trict includes parts of Raleigh and comes to the boundary of N.C. State. Price said many of his constituents will be effected if congress doesn’t act.

“At a time when Americans owe more on their student loans than on their credit cards — and t hat ’s saying something—it means an additional $1,000 every year on the average of interest costs, about $127 million per year in total for those North Carolina students,” Price said.

Price said the money could be

used in other, better ways, including personal investments for students on loans.

Candace Johnson, an educat ion stu-dent at Wake Tech Community College, and Lisa Fristoe, the mother of Anne Ma-rie Fristoe, a junior in political science, ac-companied Price.

“I have four chil-dren, and Anne Marie is the oldest,” Fristoe said. “I have one grad-uating this year, and

another graduating the year after that, so it’s very tough. Anne Ma-rie does not take out loans, at this

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Supreme Court will rule on ‘Obamacare’ later today, potentially changing healthcare for students.

Arth PandyaSenior Staff Writer

The U.S. Supreme Court is ex-pected to hand down a ruling on the Affordable Care Act, also known as ‘Obamacare,’ Thursday–a ruling which could have profound effects on healthcare for many current and former students.

The federal law allows young adults up to age 26 to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans–even if they are out of school, married or living on their own–if they cannot obtain health insur-ance through an employer. Prior to passage of the ACA, many insur-ers denied coverage for children 19 and older unless they were full-time students.

After exiting a soup kitchen, temporary University Dining employee was attacked by a homeless man.

Jessie HalpernNews Editor

All Charles Lark was after when he went to a soup kitchen on June 7 was a meal he could afford. It ended up being one of the worst days of his life after a homeless man attacked him.

According to Lark, who has worked for N.C. State University Dining as a temporary employee for three years, he was scheduled to go back to work at Fountain Dining Hall next week, but the injuries he suffered in the attack may keep him from returning to a job he loves.

“I’ve been a cook here for three years,” Lark said. “I work baseball

games, I’ve done weddings and banquets. They send me on all the special little events. I do a lot of overtime too, if they’re short a staff member.”

This past school year, Lark most-ly worked at the omelet station in Fountain.

“The line never ends, but I love it,” Lark said.

Lark was walking out of the soup kitchen around 5 p.m. when police say 26-year-old Jonathan Wayne Meadows attacked him. The police reports lists Meadows’ address as “Anywhere Raleigh, N.C.”

Lark, who is African American, said he believes Meadows, who is Caucasian, attacked him because of his race.

“The guy was muttering all kinds

Raleigh native Jonathan Wall claims a downtown bar kicked him out because of his race.

Laura WilkinsonDeputy News Editor

A Raleigh man said he was refused entrance and then as-saulted by employees of The Downtown Sports Bar, located at 410 Glenwood Ave., the morn-ing of Sunday, June 30 because of his race.

Raleigh native and recent More-house College graduate Jonathan Wall said he was enjoying a night downtown with a friend when he was initially refused entrance to the bar because he was not a member. After eventually gaining entrance, he said the bartender approached him and told him to buy a drink or get out of the bar. Wall said he refused to buy a drink and was wait-ing for a friend to come back from the restroom before leaving the es-tablishment when a bartender got physical, roughly escorting him out.

Wall and Alicia Vick, his attorney, said the bar employees’ behavior was clearly discriminatory, as other pa-trons were allowed entrance with-out presenting member IDs, and employees did not confront white patrons without drinks.

“As I’ve talked to my friends and others about this incident, I’ve real-ized I’m the not the first to speak out about this treatment; I’m just the first person who has been listened to,” Wall said at a June 22 press

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After a shady email was sent to female students, Raleigh PD took notice before Campus Police.

Jessie Halpern News Editor

When a server in the IT depart-ment was hacked on Saturday, sev-eral female students received a sus-picious email, and Campus Police couldn’t assist.

At 2:32 p.m. on June 23, an email signed by N.C. State University Human Resources went out to an unknown number of female stu-dents. The message heading read, “NANNY NEEDED FOR RETTA,” and came from [email protected], a common email address for admin-istrative mass mails. The email con-tinued to say that the recipient had been recommended for a nannying position of a family’s newborn baby girl.

“They would prefer applicant to be able to take care of her at their rented suite to ensure that her safe-ty and comfort is guaranteed,” the message read. “They would give a high preference to candidate who has a high sense of humor and would be able to make their little daughter laugh always.”

According to the Wolfpack Stu-dents page on Facebook, not many replied to the email, suspicious of the location of the job. Those who

did reply gave access to their per-sonal information, and Campus Police was contacted.

Officer Sutton, public safety su-pervisor, said his hands were tied. “Because there was no money ex-change, there’s nothing we can do,” Sutton said.

While Sutton admitted the email was “sketchy,” he said Campus Po-lice couldn’t do anything about the email because it was not technically a crime. The Raleigh Police Depart-

ment had a different opinion.Officer Adrienne Brooks Elsenity

said she was surprised Campus Po-lice were unwilling to file a report. “This is really a campus issue–I would encourage someone to speak to a supervisor,” Elsenity said.

Raleigh P.D. filed a report detail-ing the wording of the email as well as the name of the personal account all replies went to.

Campus police unresponsive to threatening spam

CHARLIE HARLESS/TECHNICIANCharles Lark stands next to the dining hall where he once served omelets. Lark may not be able to return after an assaulter beat him downtown.

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According to the U.S. De-partment of Health and Hu-man Services, more than 3.1 million young adults–includ-ing an estimated 95,000 in North Carolina alone–cur-rently have health insurance because of the health care law, which took effect on Sept. 23, 2010.

As a result, HHS said the percentage of adults ages 19 to 25 with health insurance increased from 64.4 percent to 74.8 percent from Septem-ber of 2010 to December of 2011.

Prior to the law, young adults were the least likely

demographic to have health insurance, according to HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

“This policy doesn’t just give young adults and their families peace of mind, it also gives them freedom,” Sebe-lius said. “It means that as they begin their careers, they will be free to make choices based on what they want to do, not on where they can get health insurance.”

Prior to passage of the ACA, millions of young adults lost coverage as they graduated from school or changed jobs–and many of them avoided needed medical treatment be-cause they couldn’t afford to pay for it without insurance,

conference held June 22 at the Capitol building. “I want what we have right now–a dialog about racial discrimi-nation in the 21st century and what we can do to solve it both here and throughout the nation and world.”

The Downtown Sports Bar has issued a written statement saying Wall was asked to leave because he was not a member or guest.

“Mr. Wall was not roughed up or improperly treated. Mr. Wall was not the subject of racial discrimination,” the statement said.

Vick said there was no

evidence that the bar was, in fact, a private club until shortly before Wall’s press conference. At that time, Downtown Sports Bar owner Tom Murphy said the estab-lishment has roughly 7,500 members, which includes all the bar’s Facebook and email contacts.

According to the city of Ra-leigh’s business licensing of-fice, the city does not certify clubs as private or public.

“In Raleigh, businesses do not have to deal with the city to designate themselves as a private or public club,” James Brown, senior account receiv-able specialist for Raleigh’s business license office, said. “We did not know of the is-sue until we saw the WRAL

report.”Vick remains convinced the

incident was inspired out of racial hate.

“The facts as we know them show that some members of our community have crossed the line from making minori-ties simply feel unwanted to clearly and unequivocally showing that certain individ-uals are not wanted or valued because of the color of their skin,” Vick said during the press conference.

While Vick said a lawsuit is “not out of the realm of pos-sibility,” Wall and others are organizing a rally Saturday to protest the bar.

Wall thanked his support-ers on Facebook June 30.

“You all have no idea how

impactfu l your k ind words of encouragement have been,” Walls said. “It means a lot to know that I have such great and widespread support mov-ing forward.”

Wall’s message was first posted online as a let-ter last week and gained momentum through so-cial media sites. The case has since gained national attention after Wall ap-peared in a CNN segment Monday morning.

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Newsaccording to a Common-wealth Fund survey.

According to the survey, 36 percent of young adults ages 19 to 29 said they had trouble with medical bills or debt in the past year.

of racial slurs under his breath, saying he was going to kill all the foreigners and just anybody he can get a hold of. He’s just an evil man,” Lark said.

The homeless man struck Lark repeatedly with a steel pipe before Lark was able to fend the man off and chase him down Fayetteville Street. A policeman eventually in-

tervened, and Lark, who was bleeding from his wounds, went to WakeMed for medi-cal treatment.

Lark said it took eight staples to close a wound to his head and six more for a wound to his ear. Lark’s el-bow was also fractured in the attack.

Lark, who has no health insurance, said he has visited WakeMed three times since that original visit to have the staples removed and get treat-ment for lingering complica-tions.

Becca Cook, sophomore in elementary education, was a recipient of the email. “It’s scary how something so innocent that sounds so in-teresting could actually be a scam,” Cook said. “It’s even scarier to think how many other emails we respond to that may not be legitimate.”

Joe Matise, technology sup-port analyst, confirmed the message did not come from Human Resources. “It was spam mail–someone hacked into a server in IT and got a

hold of email addresses,” Matise said. “They’re al-ready on it.” Officer Sutton said the only thing he could do, was document that the email was sent.” “Once it’s reported to Raleigh, we’re not going to step on their toes,” Sutton said. Sutton advised recipients to ignore the message. For those who replied and were contacted by the spammer again, he had specific instructions. “You need to respond back and say ‘I haven’t asked to be contacted over anything. My name is not with any service. You must have the wrong per-son,’” Sutton said.

He said if anyone is con-

tacted after having sent that message, they need to call Campus Police and alert them because that could fall under harassment. “It’s shady, yes, but it’s not against the law for someone to lie and say they work for someone,” Sutton said. “It’s when they try to use that to gain some kind of advantage that it be-comes a crime.”

As of Wednesday after-noon, Sutton said more complaints were received about the incident and the department will be posting a safety alert on its Facebook page and the investigations division is doing some follow up with Human Resources.

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When college students look 20 years into the future and describe where they see themselves, the picture is often viewed through rose-colored glasses. Twenty years from now, current college se-niors should be at the height of their careers, earning the most they’ll ever earn. It seems logical since students enter college under the im-pression that it will not only broaden their horizons, but give them a safe path to a lu-crative career. Unfortunately, education comes at a price. Many students will be pay-ing for their education well into their 50s and 60s. And the amount of money it takes to pay off student loan debt could drastically change if Congress does not take action to pass legislation preventing the doubling of student loan interest rates by July 1.

It seems strange that our elected officials would be in favor of increasing the cost of education, but whether or not students incur extra loa n cost s has nothing to do with education. Rather, the student loan crisis is con-tingent upon a transpor-tat ion bi l l wh ich i n-cludes t he construction of a crude oil pipeline.

According to Reuters, the student loan interest rate bill has been piggybacked onto a transportation bill that provides federal funding of major road, bridge and rail projects. The bill that initially established the federal fund-ing of these transportation projects created about three million construction jobs, and now with those funds close to expiration, those jobs are at stake.

House republicans also called for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline as part of the transportation bill. The crude oil pipeline would ex-

tend from Canada to Texas and would ideally lower gas prices. Until recently, the Keystone XL pipeline was a major block for the transpor-tation and interest rate bills; President Obama approved the pipeline on June 26.

Congress now claims they are confident reaching an agreement on the remaining issues will be relatively pain-less since the real issue was the transportation bill.

Nevertheless, voters must ask themselves: In whose interests are our elected of-ficials operating? Earmarks and pork barrel projects are

a clear indi-cation that our repre-sentatives on ly c a re about one thing: being re-elected.

I t ’s n o t fair to stu-dents that the t rans-portation and pipeline bi l l s were ever grouped

with the interest rate bill. Had Congress refused to come to an agreement on the trans-portation issues, the dead-line to keep student loan interest rates down would have passed—meaning some students would be paying off loans well into retirement ages.

Congressmen and women need a reminder from those who elected them that oper-ating ethically and transpar-ently is imperative.

Send your thoughts on stu-dent loans to [email protected].

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THE FACTS:Congress voted to keep student loan interest rates down.

OUR OPINION:The student loan issue should have never been grouped with the transportation earmarks.

Student Loans

BY CHARLIE HARLESS

Are you taking out student loans?

{ }IN YOUR WORDS

“It won’t really affect me because I don’t have any student loans. But it makes me realize how lucky I am not to have to need any.”

Andrew Dixonsenior, accounting

“I am working my way through school, so I will graduate debt free. But its still unfortunate because it seems that both sides [of Congress] realize it needs to change, but neither side can agree on how to do it.”

Ian Petersonsenior, communication

Welcome to freshmen orientationNoah Rouse, Correspondent

Not racist, just racist-ishI’m sure many of you have been hearing

about the allegations of racism at Downtown Sports Bar lately. And like you, I too was out-raged. Reading Jonathan Wall’s story about

how he was thrown out of the bar because he’s black made me sick. Kicking Jona-than Wall out for being black doesn’t make Todd Chriscoe racist. Let’s just say it makes him…racist-ish.

And who isn’t racist-ish nowadays? Let’s be honest. I

may be Arab, but I still wouldn’t feel safe next to me on an airplane. That’s why, as a cour-tesy to all of the other passengers, I commit to clearing airport security and boarding the flight completely naked. It’s also makes using the restrooms in the airplane much easier.

Mr. Wall claims that the first racist-ish inci-dent of the night was when he and his friend, who is also black, met the bouncer at the door to the bar. They were stopped and told that to enter that night, they needed a member-ship. As the bouncer was trying to explain the membership-only policy, a policeman ap-proached him to discuss something unrelated.

At that moment Wall says the bouncer then told them, “Never mind, y’all go ahead.”

If you’ve ever been to Downtown Sports Bar, you’ll know that it’s the epitome of class. Any place that has Free Pong Tuesdays with one-dollar pizza slices and all you can eat wings with DJ Randy B is worthy of requiring membership status. And folks, like all elite soci-eties, Downtown Sports Bar is incredibly selective about who it admits.

It’s hard to believe Wall’s at-torney when she says that the club had no characteristics of a private club. Tom Murphy, the sports bar’s co-owner says the club has roughly 7,500 members, which includes all of the bar’s Facebook and email contacts.

So if you want to gain membership to this fine establishment, then you have to go through the grueling application process of opening your Internet browser, logging into Facebook, typing “Downtown Sports Bar” in the search bar, clicking on their page, and

hitting the ‘like’ button; then, depending on your Internet connection, you have to wait anywhere between one-half to one full second to receive confirmation of your membership’s acceptance. Your other option is to be white and show your ID at the door, like the group

that entered before Wall and his friend on June 17. See? It’s pretty much a country club, if country clubs discriminated based on race rather than wealth.

In their report on the issue, WRAL posted a link to Lazy-day.com which takes photos for the bar. The news source says that the pictures show a “diverse crowd.” Ladies and gentlemen, I couldn’t agree more after seeing these pic-tures. I can say that out of the

332 pictures posted, 13 of them have at least one black person. Some of you might say that’s a small number of black people, but I assume that’s only because the bar is trying to promote racial equality through a new, more diverse version of ‘Where’s Waldo?’ called ‘Where Are

All of the Black People?’In the pictures you’ll also see a diverse mix

of white people ranging from pasty white to overly tan orange.

When asked about his actions by WRAL, Chriscoe said that it had nothing to do with race, and that he was just trying to create an upscale environment where patrons of the club could feel comfortable. Clearly Wall, who will be going to Harvard for his master’s degree, just didn’t fit the criteria. C’mon, Harvard! Really? There’s nothing upscale about going to a university with a 7 percent acceptance rate. Philip Christman, a former professor and friend of Wall, says the Harvard-bound stu-dent is “one of the most intimidatingly accom-plished and polished undergrads” he’s ever met. How are Downtown Sports Bar patrons supposed to feel comfortable around someone who is described as being intimidating?

These will be undoubtedly trying times for Chriscoe as he fights these allegations in the courtroom. That’s why I’m asking you to relieve Chriscoe of the stress of running a business. In the meantime, eat at my other favorite place in downtown Raleigh, Tobacco Road Sports Café on Glenwood Avenue.

Ahmed AmerViewpoint Editor

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{ }OUR VIEWA recourse for the hungry

Earlier this summer, Charles Lark, a temporary employee for University Dining, was attacked af-ter visiting a soup kitchen downtown.

Every summer, with far fewer students on campus, Dining must let go some of its workers due to lack of demand. So, like many employees at Fountain Dining Hall, Lark was out of work once the semester ended, and with no in-come he turned to a soup kitchen.

Why couldn’t he have come to campus for a meal instead?

Lark would have avoided his life-changing attack if he had had the option of a hot, free meal from the institution he serves dur-ing the semester. With-out a proper home, and with his ability to return to work uncertain, a few bites of food out of the sizable waste any dining hall inevitably generates wouldn’t be an overgen-erous perk for people in Lark’s position, would it? Could this be an opportu-

nity for the University to go above and beyond the bare essentials and do something to ensure that one of its own people doesn’t go hungry?

If Lark has any complaints about University Dining, we’ve never heard them. In our several interviews with him, he only had good things to say about his job and co-workers at Fountain.

Lark has spent his entire working life in kitchens serv-ing people who have, in the vast majority of cases, never been truly hungry a day in their lives–from our state leg-islators at the General Assem-bly, to the wealthy at country clubs in Raleigh, and now the fortunate few able to pursue an education at N.C. State.

Yet he still goes hungry.Lark must not be alone. For

the numerous employees in Dining, Housing and Facili-ties who are discharged from the University every summer, finding summer employment must be difficult for most–and no doubt impossible for far too many, especially in this economic climate.

We hope some good may come of a story that is so

tragic on so many levels. We hope the University takes Lark’s misfortune as an opportunity to se-cure its reputation as an institution of service, gen-erosity and dignity. How hard could it be to give our temporary employ-ees–especially those who feed us–a ration of meals over the summer to help them get by?

With no benefits, insur-ance or real job security, a hot meal is the least we could offer our temporary employees. If such a pro-posal were presented to our students, we feel our students would be more than happy to support such an initiative.

N.C. State is a place for students to receive a top-notch education, explore their nascent adulthood and prepare to enter the workforce. It should also be a place where students learn the significance a hot meal–especially for those who toil daily in our dining halls.

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a country club,

if country clubs

discriminated

based on race

rather than

wealth.”

“It’s not fair to

students that the

transportation

and pipeline

bills were ever

grouped with the

interest rate bill.”

Features

After May poisonings, Tuffy and his relatives continue to fight for the breed–and the Pack.

Young LeeAssociate Features Editor

Everyone deserves the right to feel safe in their own home–including Tuffy, N.C. State’s live mascot, and his family members. But after someone poisoned several members of Tuffy’s family

in May, no one close to the dogs has felt safe.

On the morning of May 4, at John and Christina Ban-now’s residence in Elizabeth City, N.C., where many of Tuffy’s relatives live, someone placed fish laced with anti-freeze in the Bannows’ back yard to poison the dogs living there. All five of the Bannows’ dogs were poisoned and, as a result, John and Christina–who have spent the past five years promoting the wolf-like

tamaskan breed–had to euth-anize two of their own tamas-kans, Blaze and Nusia. Blaze, Tuffy’s father, was a 4-year-old stud dog. Nusia, Tuffy’s cousin, was just a puppy.

This was not the first time someone had targeted the dogs. And while the Bannow family has tried to carry on normally with their lives, they know things will never be the same.

Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes may be the best Lego game ever.

Jordan AlsaqaAssociate Features Editor

Traveler’s Tales has been releasing their unique brand of license-based Lego games for seven years now, lead-ing to an impressive 10 dif-ferent games in that time. Since 2005’s Lego Star Wars, though, the games have been met with less enthusiasm, with many gamers feeling that the series has fallen into a rut.

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Computer science and design students work together to create a game for the Hunt library.

Jennifer JungStaff Writer

Imagine you’re skating through a long pathway with three friends, all of you trying to catch a thief on the run. And as you chase the thief, you’re assailed by numer-ous obstacles–all of them ideas from books which will soon be housed in the Hunt Library. This concept is now (virtual) reality courtesy of students enrolled in the ad-vanced game development class offered at N.C. State.

Computer science students teamed up with students from the College of Design to

develop a motion-based in-put video game named for the James B. Hunt library. The game, called NOL, is large enough to run the length of a 21-foot wall.

R. Michael Young, Associ-ate Professor of Computer Science and executive direc-tor of the N.C. State Digital Games Research Initiative, said this collaboration is dif-ferent from joint projects un-dertaken by the two depart-ments in the past. “Normally what we do in this class is we make smaller-scale proj-ects,” Young said. “So usu-ally we’ll have three to four different games developed, so there would be teams of four or five computer sci-ence students and one or two designers. This time we have one single large-scale project,

so the scope of this proj-ect is much larger than what we historically have done.” The objective of NOL–which is shorthand for the word “knowl-edge”–is to have up to four team members run along a ribbon-like path through space in pursuit of a character who has stolen some knowledge from the library. The chal-lenges of the game include navigating along the rib-bon using body motion to control the playable characters. The designers accomplished this by join-ing two Microsoft Kinect units together. Accord-ing to Yuxin Ma, a senior in computer science, the

Dark victory in Lego worldA game in the pursuit of “NOL” edge

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The original Lego Batman benefited from an original story as opposed to an adap-tion of a film, a tradition that Lego Batman 2 continues. When the Joker interrupts a Man of the Year award cer-emony in Gotham City, he comes to the attention of the villainous Lex Luthor. Luthor decides that the Joker is just the partner he needs to defeat Batman and Superman.

Though the plot is simple, the story nevertheless pro-vides a compelling reason to keep playing. The comedic cutscenes that come up dur-ing levels maintain the same level of humor fans of the se-ries would expect, while also remaining true to the Batman canon.

The story is given a boost

by the addition of voice act-ing, a first for the Lego series. Troy Baker does a wonderful job as Batman, bringing a lighter take on the character into the . Clancy Brown also reprises his role from Super-man: The Animated Series as Lex Luthor.

Of course, the story isn’t the only area getting a make-over. The gameplay in Lego Batman 2 will be familiar to fans, but a large number of new powers and characters makes the whole experience feel fresh.

Magnetism, super strength, freeze rays and heat vision are just a few of the powers at the player’s disposal, and the way these different powers combine make for some fun puzzles throughout the levels.

In fact, while the puzzles are never too taxing, their sheer variety makes each level of the campaign a joy to play. Combined with the

simple combat system and a plethora of things for players to discover, the story mode in Lego Batman 2 provides plenty to do.

There’s even more to do outside of story missions, with hundreds of hidden gold bricks to be found through-out Gotham. Carnival games, new puzzles and unlockable vehicles and characters all add to the experience, mean-ing plenty of post-game con-tent for those looking to do everything in the game.

There’s so much to like in Lego Batman 2 that its flaws come down to trifling prob-lems with the game’s struc-ture.

The first is that for a game subtitled DC Superheroes, there’s not a lot of the Justice League to be found in the plot. Outside of Robin, most

use of Microsoft’s Kinect system was a challenge for the team. Having been on

the Kinect team, Ma was in charge of the “gesture mod-el,” where the Kinect outputs the computer’s understand-ing of what the player’s body is doing during the game. This includes moves to the left and right, jumping, and

other body gestures players use to overcome obstacles in the game. Not only does the game utilize players’ body movements, it also incorpo-rates the library’s circulation

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“It’s hard to describe how one feels when they lose a loved one,” John Bannow said. “Of course you’re sad. You wish could have done something beforehand to prevent things from happen-ing. You want to blame your-self for this, and you wish that it never happened. It’s hard to get over something like that. Just like everyone’s chil-dren, [our dogs] all have their unique personalities.”

John Bannow said Nusia was a particularly sweet and gentle puppy that was just starting to develop her own personality. He said Blaze was one of the most intelligent dogs he’d ever worked with; Bannow said Blaze had even learned to open the doors to the Bannows’ house.

“[Blaze] could think ana-lytically,” Bannow said. “A lot of times, we found we were keeping doors locked to keep the dogs in–and not always in order to keep people out.”

The Bannow family is tak-ing steps to make their prop-erty more secure, but the pro-cess has taken an emotional toll on the family.

“Imagine having two or three young kids in the house, and you want them to go out on the sundeck and play on the swing set,” Ban-now said. “You want to say, ‘Go out, kids. Go out and have a good time but don’t

hurt yourselves.’ But in my situation, I have to go out and make sure that there isn’t anyone that’s trying to ... kill what I consider to be family members.”

N.C. State reached out to the Bannows to broker the purchase of Tuffy because of the family’s legendary love

for tamaskans, Bannow said.

Tamaskan dogs are bred to have the ap-pearance–but not t he ag-gression–of wolves. It is a rare breed, and because of that, the University

had to make some important decisions when they looked for a proper live mascot.

“A couple years ago, N.C. State was running a trial on a dog that was billed as a tamaskan dog by a com-mercial breeder,” Bannow said. “This person was not well received in the tamas-kan community due to [al-legations of] poor breeding practices.”

Bannow said animal rights advocates contacted the Uni-versity with concerns that their partnership with an irresponsible breeder would taint the image of N.C. State. In the end, the University dropped its contract with the first breeder and contacted the Bannow family.

After the poisonings in May, Tuffy and his owners have had to change their ac-tions. Right now, one of the advantages that Tuffy’s own-ers have is their relative ano-nymity and isolation.

Tuffy’s owners declined comment on this story and

said they wish to remain anonymous for safety reasons. However, Tuffy’s family did authorize their neighbors to speak on their behalf. Like Tuffy’s owners, the neighbor also wanted to remain anony-mous due to the nature of the threat.

“There is a strong belief that the poisonings–not just this one that resulted in the death of Blaze and Nusia, but the earlier poi-sonings–were motivated by the fact that these dogs are relatives of Tuffy,” the neighbor said. “If this is the case, it is very disturb-ing to know that Tuffy might be the next and ultimate target.”

Bannow said he will continue to breed tamas-kans and promote the breed. He said when Tuffy returns to the public eye this fall, he said he hopes all members of the Wolf-pack Nation see why he is so passionate about the animals.

“I hope that when [fans] see Tuffy, they will feel immense pride, and I hope too that they appre-ciate Tuffy’s family and what they do,” Tuffy’s neighbor said. “The ef-fort and the energy that [Tuffy’s family] put forth in order for Tuffy to be there is incredible, and I hope fans appreciate that and understand that Tuffy is not a mascot in a cage...that Tuffy is always a fam-ily pet first.”

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other heroes don’t be-come playable until the last two missions of the game.

Further, the one hero who does show up early, Superman, steals the show from Batman. Though it’s fun to play as the flying, invulnerable Man of Steel, it seems a bit wrong for the title character to be over-shadowed so fully.

Still, these are minor problems in an otherwise amazing game. If you’ve never been a big fan of Batman or this particular series of games, then odds are you won’t enjoy Lego Batman 2: DC Superhe-roes. However, those who try it out will find them-selves playing the best Lego game Traveler’s Tales has ever made.

data in real time. When-ever a book is checked out, the data gets streamed into the game, and the obstacle change based on the types of books.

The inspiration behind the idea of NOL came from the designers and staff of James B. Hunt Library itself. They en-couraged the students to design the game with the Hunt library’s core mission–the pursuit of knowledge at the heart of Centennial Campus–in mind.

The result of the fin-ished project has led to positive outcomes for many of the students in-volved, according to Ma.

“On the day of our game showcase, a lot of game companies came,” Ma said. “It’s a great op-portunity for all of us. I believe this might be the coolest thing I will ever put on my resume... for now.”

point, but looking at my younger children coming to college, it will be some-thing we’re going to worry about.”

Alex Parker, a sopho-more in Spanish educa-tion and president of the Students for Barack Obama chapter at N.C. State, said he is attend-ing college using student loans and hopes Price will

lobby on his behalf.“I have a Stafford student

loan along with a Teach-ing Fellows loan I already have,” Parker said. “When I graduate, I’m going to have a teacher’s salary, and if we don’t keep the interest rate low, it’s going to be dire for me and everyone I’ve talked to around campus.”

Price spoke on other issues related to the affordability of education in North Carolina. Price directed several of those remarks toward the state leg-islature, urging the General Assembly to step up their

actions.“This is our crown jewel,

our pride and joy—an educa-tional system to lead and de-velop—[but] these new rep-resentatives on Jones Street seem not to have read that memo,” Price said. “I think we need to get a hold of this at the state level and give our state-level institutions the kind of support they need.”

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Students connect to the world abroad

Patty Suarez, an incoming freshman, browses through information on an iPad at the Study Abroad booth during the orientation information fair Tuesday, June 26, 2012. When asked about her future plans to study abroad, Suarez replied “I want to study abroad, like, now”.

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The Title IX legacy continues at N.C. State

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N.C. State selects first-ever Hall of Fame class

Seven highly accomplished athletes and three revered coaches make up the inaugural class of the N.C. State Athletics Hall of Fame, director of athletics Deborah A. Yow announced on Tuesday. Led by a number of the best players ever to represent the Wolfpack in men’s and women’s basketball, football, women’s track and field/cross country and men’s soccer, it also includes the transformational coaches of Everett Case, Jim Valvano and Kay Yow. Five of the seven athletes are North Carolina natives.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

NAME SPORT YEARS

Genia Beasley W. Basketball 1977-1980

Ted Brown M. Football 1975-1978

Everett Case * M. Basketball 1946-1964

Roman Gabriel M. Football 1958-1961

Tab Ramos M. Soccer 1984-1987

Jim Ritcher M. Football 1976-1979

Julie Shea W. Crosscountry 1977-1980

David Thompson M. Basketball 1972-1975

Jim Valvano * M. Basketball 1980-1990

Kay Yow * W. Basketball 1975-2009

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Brown has meniscus repaired

N.C. State junior guard Lorenzo Brown underwent knee surgery on Tuesday, which revealed a tear in the lateral meniscus. Team surgeon, Dr. Robert Wyker, repaired the injury. Brown is expected to miss two to four weeks of summer workouts, but his playing status for the Wolfpack’s exhibition tour of Spain in August remains questionable.


Austin, Ogburn, and Williams make All-ACC Academics

N.C. State baseball placed Brett Austin, Ethan Ogburn, and Vance Williams on the All-ACC Academic team, announced Tuesday by the conference office. Williams represents one of six All-ACC Academic team honorees that also earned a mention as Capital One Academic All-District. Austin makes the squad in his freshman season, one of eight first-year players on the list. Both Williams and Ogburn make their second career appearances on the team. To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career.


Recruiting class ranked higher than 2012 campaign.

Jonathan StoutStaff Writer

After being ranked the No. 53 re-cruiting class in 2012 the Wolfpack has a solid group of freshmen com-mits who have raised the ranking to No. 44 going into the 2013 season.

Jerod Fernandez, a junior at Lake Mary High School finished his ju-nior season with 99 tackles and one forced fumble. He was also recorded running a 4.6 40-yard dash. Fernan-dez, 6’0”, 210, is listed at outside linebacker. His speed and ability to be involved in every play makes

him an exciting player to keep your eye on for the rest of his Wolfpack career.

Ford Howell, a junior at Memphis University School recorded 62 tack-les last season at inside linebacker, averaging 5.2 per game. Howell and Fernandez both have potential to crack the starting lineup, due to the uncertainty at linebacker this sea-son due to the departures of Audie Cole and Terrell Manning.

Davie County High School prod-uct Cole Blankenship is an offensive guard, listed at 6’3”, 285. Blanken-ship has good size for an underclass-man but will need to spend time in the weight room off the field to find playing time among an offensive

line made up of all upperclassmen. With the exception of one starter, all are listed at over 300 pounds.

Florida nat ive Da’Wan Hunte, l isted at corner-back, is 5’10”, 180 and a senior at Mi-ami Central High School. He will add to an already solid defensive recruit-ing class. Hunte recorded 87 tack-les, recovered two fumbles and picked off two passes during his junior sea-son. With C.J. Wilson graduating and the prospect of David Amerson

leaving for the NFL draft, Hunte could find himself in situation to earn a starting spot or, like many

underclassmen, he may find playing time on the special teams unit.

Marcus Edmond played quar ter-back, wide receiver, running back and defensive back in high school. Ed-mond, who is a junior attending Lower Richland

High School, is listed at 6’0” and an “athlete.” Considered one of the top prospects in South Carolina, Ed-

mond will probably see more time at either wide receiver or defensive back. His speed and size makes him a candidate for both, listed at 6’0” and clocked at running the 40-yard dash in 4.6 seconds.

Dawka Nichols, one of two North Carolina natives, is in his junior season at Richmond Senior High School. Nichols a tailback listed at 5’10”, 180, rushed for more than 900 yards, recorded 19 touchdowns. With senior James Washington re-turning and the emergence of soph-omore Tony Creecy, Nichols may find time with the special teams

.unit returning punts or kick-offs with his elusiveness.

Football recruiting class rank rises with defensive standouts

DID YOU KNOW?300,000 females played high school

sports before Title IX was enacted and now 3 million young women will play high school sports.

Four decades after legislation passes, Wolfpack women have made an impact on and off the playing field.

Sean FairholmSports Editor

For the die-hard fan of high school and collegiate athletics, Title IX has a significance that is difficult to put into words. Putting its records and numbers on display, however, is what turns the heads of those who don’t spend time around the arena of sports.

On June 23 of 1972, President Richard Nixon signed off on a portion of that year’s Education Amendment stating that no person shall be denied participation in, the benefits of, or be subjected to

discrimination under any educa-tion program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. Cele-brating 40 years of bringing greater gender equality to high school and collegiate sports, Title IX’s numbers remain jaw-dropping. Even in 1978, massive changes occurred with the percentage of girls playing team sports jumping from four percent to 25 percent. Aside from getting to participate in athletic programs that didn’t always exist, women have also benefited in life; Title IX is re-sponsible for 40 percent of the rise in employment for 25-to-34-year-old women and has been associated with a 7 percent decline in obesity for women in their late 30s and early 40s who were affected by the law.

At N.C. State, Title IX has helped in creating and maintaining 11 women varsity programs. Here is a

look at some of the Wolfpack pro-grams that have been aided since the portion of the amendment’s inception.

GYMNASTICS: Since the 1980s, State Gymnastics has taken off under the watchful eye of Mark Stevenson, the only coach in program history. Through 32 seasons, Stevenson has guided the Wolfpack to five conference championships along with making NCSU a school rou-tinely seen in the nation’s top-25 teams. As one of the most attended non-revenue sports, the program has ranked in the top-20 nation-ally the last six years with several season averages over 2,000 people per meet. Gymnastics is commonly considered one of NCSU’s brightest athletic programs with over 90 dif-ferent gymnasts have been named to

the ACC academic honor roll since 1984. With more scholarships avail-able, Stevenson has made a point to recruit gymnasts with outstanding marks in the classroom.

GOLF: Despite only being reinstat-ed as a varsity sports in 2000, coach Page Marsh has ignited the women’s golf program in her 12 seasons of work. On the course, the Wolfpack has five top-four finishes in the ACC Championship and recently became ranked for the first time in school history. 2012 was a special year for NCSU, as it ended up being the best season in program history; State notched three team wins, sopho-more Brittany Marchand became the winningest golfer the program has ever seen, and the Pack finished No. 13 out of 24 teams at its first ever NCAA Championship. In addition

to the success on the course, three players (Marchand, Amanda Baker, and Ana Menendez) received All-ACC Academic honors.

SOFTBALL: Being built from the ground up starting in 2002, the first women’s fastpitch softball team at N.C. State has already col-lected ACC Championships in both regular-season and tournament play. Lisa Navas, the only coach in State’s history until her dismissal last Wednesday, also got the Softball program to the NCAA Tournament on two occasions and was the 2006 ACC Coach of the Year. State also produced three All-ACC Academic selections (Emily Weiman, Kirsten Grant, Morgan Peeler) in the 2012 conference academic honor roll and consistently has several players on the list each year.

WOMEN’S VARSITY TEAMS THAT BEGAN AFTER TITLE IX:Basketball - 1974Volleyball - 1975Gymnastics - 1981Golf - 1980 to 1986, 2000Fastpitch Softball - 2002


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