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Que Lo Que changes approach to global serviceStudent organization Que lo Que seeks to redefine global service through alternative approaches.

Joshua ChappellSenior Staff Writer

“Hey, what’s up?”This greeting, familiar in the Unit-

ed States and around the world, is the foundation for one student organiza-tion’s desire to help fight poverty in the Dominican Republic.

Que Lo Que, a fairly new student organization on campus, seeks to redefine global citizenship through asset-based community development, according to Hunter Isgrig, director of operations and a sophomore in agricultural business management.

Unlike other service organizations, Que Lo Que’s mission is not to change the society of their target nation, but instead to integrate themselves into the culture to better understand it, Isgrig said.

“We take the role as listeners in the community of the Dominican Republic and really focus on the or-ganic need of the community instead of the sometimes implied need from a non-native perspective.”

Que Lo Que organizers have worked to develop new, creative ways to provide global service, according to Isgrig.

“We have no product to offer, no great invention to end world poverty,” Isgrig said. “All we have are two eyes, two ears, and a closed mouth.”

Isgrig also said the organization does not use their own preconceived notions to help the community.

“We do not assume any need or any direct fix to an issue,” Isgrig said. “Our programs revolve around the issues voiced by the community alone, not influenced by an outside perspective.”

The organization has recent ori-gins in ShoeManity, another service-based student organization, accord-ing to Brian Gaudio, a junior in en-vironmental design in architecture.

Gaudio, who serves as president of the current organization, was in-volved with ShoeManity from its in-ception in 2008 at the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for Global Entre-peneurship.

“Our group of high school students created a way for subscribers of Run-ner’s World magazine to donate their lightly-used running shoes,” Gaudio said.

According to Gaudio, the organi-zation held its inaugural trip to the Dominican Republic last year and donated a large amount of shoes to the Dominican people.

However, after returning to the United States, Isgrig said the organi-

QUE LO QUE continuedpage2

Gov. Bev Perdue unveiled her proposed spending budget for 2011-2013 on Thursday.

Chelsey FrancisNews Editor

With a projected $2.4 billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning in July, Governor Beverly Perdue outlined her proposed $19.9 billion budget for 2011-2012 year.

Under this proposed spending plan, most of a temporary sales tax rate in-crease would remain, state parks and welcome centers would close two days each week and about 10,000 govern-ment jobs would be eliminated.

According to Perdue, she balanced 72 percent of the budget through spending cuts and the remaining 28 percent through revenue growth.

Some of the 28 percent revenue growth would be generated by the sales tax increase lawmakers approved two years ago. Although the increase is scheduled to expire this year, Perdue included a quarter-cent increase. If the quarter-cent increase is approved, the state sales tax rate would be 5.5 percent, down from the current 5.75 percent, although it would decrease to 4.75 percent if the tax increase is not approved.

TOUgh TimEs, TOUgh chOicEs:• Closingmoststateparks2daysaweek–saves$3

million.• TrimmingtheservicescoveredbyMedicaid–saves$40

million.• ReducingtheCleanWaterManagementTrustFund–

saves$50million.• ClosingtheSannanoajuvenilejusticecenter–saves

$1.4million• Reducingstatefundingtoanumberofnon-profits

PErdUE’s nEw bUdgET:Perdue’sbudget“streamlinesstategovernment,recommendsbudget-reachingconsolidationsandeliminationsandrequiressignificantcutsfromagencieswhilestillmakingcriticalinvestmentsinjobsandeducation.”• Spends11percentlesspercapitathanitdidthreeyears

ago.• Authorizesnonewdebt• Spendsone-timemoneyonone-timeexpenses.• Moststateprogramsfacebetweena7percentand15

percentreductioncomparedtolastyear’sfunding.• Allocates$150millionadditionaltostate’sRainyDay

Fund.

Source: Governor Bev Perdue

JObs and bUsinEssEs:AccordingtoPerdue,hernumberonepriorityistoincreasejobsandsupportthefullrecoveryofNorthCarolinafromthepresentglobaleconomicrecession.Perduesaidshehasproposed“criticalinvestmentsineconomicdevelopmentandjobcreationinitiatives.”• Reducingtaxburdensforcorporationsandsmall

businessesbyalmost$500million.• Loweringcorporateincometaxratefrom6.9percentto

4.9percent(lowestintheSoutheastandthirdlowestinthecountry)

• Providing$65millionunemploymentinsurancetaxcreditto135,000smallbusinesses.

• Investing$75milliontoputN.C.constructionandrepaircompaniesbacktowork.

Source: Governor Bev Perdue

EdUcaTiOn:NorthCarolinapublicschoolsenrolled5,000newstudentsinthelast2years,theuniversitysystemadded12,000andthecommunitycollegesystemgrewby52,000.AccordingtoPerdue,becausesherecognizestheimportanceofeducation,sheminimizedtheacross-the-boardcutsandfocusedonconsolidationandeliminationofprogramsthatwereunderutilizedorlow-performing.• Netreductiontoeducationagencies:

• 3.9percentforpublicschools• 4.9percentforcommunitycolleges• 6percentfortheUNCsystem

Source: Governor Bev Perdue

Source: Governor Bev Perdue

Two publications without editor candidates

Brett morriS/technicianJasmine Chadmon, junior in creative writing, explains at Thursday’s Student Media open forum why she is the perfect candidate for the position of editor of the Nubian Message. “Group cohesiveness and having a passion for journalism, as I do, will make everyone want to work hard,” Chadmon said.

Despite ample time, there were no applicants for editor positions for the The Technician or Windhover.

Alexander WoodsStaff Writer

Application deadlines for editor of the Technician and Windhover pub-lications have been extended due to lack of candidates.

With an extended submission date of Feb. 23 at noon, members of the Technician staff said they hope someone will step up to the challenge. There is no definite course of action if still no one applies, but some are beginning to think a structure change may ensue.

Technician Editor-in-Chief Aman-da Wilkins will be stepping down at the end of her term June 1 in order to focus on her studies. The early dead-line is to allow a sort of apprenticeship of the next editor in order to ease the successor into their responsibilities. Windhover Editor Mollie Mohr will graduate in May.

Student media advisor, Bradley Wil-son was stressed by the similar situ-ation last year, when no one applied for the Technician editor position. He said he wasn’t as worried this year be-cause of the quality of staff members. Wilson said it is the staff that largely dictates the difficulty of the editor’s position.

“This is a full time job, and it’s a lot of work, so it is intimidating to some people. But you are part of a team,” said Wilson. “[The applicant] has to know they aren’t out on a limb by themselves.”

As a result, Wilson said the lack of candidates stems from this level of difficulty rather than a lack of skilled students.

“This job is doable, but they have to balance wanting to have a life, school, looking for jobs and working for Stu-dent Media,” Wilson said. “So this is not because we have a weak staff.”

Paul McCauley, chair of the Stu-dent Media Board of Directors and a graduate student in sociology and anthropology, said both positions are time consuming. McCauley was Viewpoint Editor of during his un-

dergraduate degree.“For one, the editor position is a

huge time commitment,” said Mc-Cauley. “The job description is 35 hours a week, but that doesn’t even begin to cover it.”

Unlike Technician, the Wind-hover staff has never had a problem maintaining an editor, according to Wilson. The candidate that Mohr had been grooming chose at the last minute not to apply.

Wilson said he knows people will compare the situation to that of last year, but he said it does not have the

same uncertainty.“Last year’s search for an editor re-

ally stressed me out,” Wilson said. “But this year I’m a lot less stressed because we have so many talented students on staff.”

The trending lack of applicants could be due to the Technician’s abil-ity to communicate with the outside world, but not within the staff, Wilson said.

“We are really good at marketing for other clubs and activities,” Wil-son said, “but we are not so good at marketing ourselves.

Both Wilson and McCauley said the position could need some re-structuring.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if we see an alternative structure. Maybe [it’s] not a job for just one person anymore,” said McCauley.

While the job isn’t easy, Wilkins, a junior in horticultural science, said she has found her job as editor rewarding.

“It is a crash course in manage-ment and a great leadership oppor-tunity,” said Wilkins.

She did, however say that the job isn’t really about resume building and personal gain. Though people tell her it will look great on a re-sume, she says that the job is one of self sacrifice, to better the paper and to help her staff.

“If we get people to apply by the next deadline, then it’s a non-is-sue,” Wilson said.

Agromeck Editor-in-chief Susan-nah Brinkley contributed to this report.

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-zation and the people they were trying to serve.

“We went back to the draw-ing boards to evaluate our values and to see where our passions truly lie,” Isgrig said.

This is how the organi-zation developed its own unique method of serving the Dominican community.

“Que lo que,” an informal Spanish idiomatic greeting comparable to “hey, what’s up?” in English, reflects the values of the organization.

“This name means we ap-proach our programs as an equal instead of with a supe-rior hand,” Isgrig said.

According to Gaudio, Que Lo Que’s approach to service begins with understanding the culture they are trying

to serve.“Que Lo Que does not seek

to eliminate poverty, halt hunger or save the world,” Gaudio said. “We simply try to understand our world from a perspective different than our own.”

This summer, the organiza-tion plans to put those beliefs into practice by visiting the Dominican Republic with a new set of goals.

“We will live with families, share meals, and interview community members for two weeks this summer,” Gaudio said. “In those two weeks, we hope to grow as global citi-zens and be able to return to the United States ready to make change in our lives.”

Kevin Miller, a junior in business administration, echoed those sentiments and said he hopes Que Lo Que can become a staple in the Dominican Republic.

“We’d like to establish our-selves as more than a ‘one and done’ service group,” Miller said.

Miller also said the orga-nization is seeking to inspire change from within the Do-minican people.

“We will lay the founda-tion for this process by per-forming ethnographic field research to try and pinpoint what the people truly want

to improve in their commu-nity,” Miller said. “Change from them, for them. We are solely facilitators.”

For Isgrig, the issue of global service as opposed to domestic service has always been a part of his life.

“I have always faced the is-sue of why help someone in a far away country when you have the same opportunity in your backyard,” Isgrig said. “My answer to them is: “be-cause I can.”

Isgrig said the opportu-nities that have been made available to him to help a place he is truly passionate about is all the motivation and affirmation he needs.

“I have the resources to help those in far away coun-

tries that have no access to such things. The Dominican Republic is my passion and it lies deep within my heart,” Isgrig said.

Although it is currently only a student organization, Gaudio said he hopes it will transition to a 501(c)3 orga-nization in the near future.

According to Gaudio, this transition, in addition to members’ constant learn-ing, will help them accom-plish their goals by meeting the needs of the Dominican people and by impacting the Raleigh community.

“There a re s t reng t hs unique to the community of Lajas [Dominican Repub-lic] that may go overlooked in our fast-paced, American culture,” Gaudio said. “By highlighting these unique strengths in our presenta-tions in Raleigh, we will learn something from the people of Lajas and progress toward our goal of retreading global citizenship.”

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Que LO Quecontinued from page 1

courTesy oF brian gaudioMembers of service group Que Lo Que pose with locals in the Dominican Republic. The organization focuses on lending a friendly ear to natives to help fight poverty in the area.

NewsOIT held an informational session for employees to describe email transition to Google.

Shivalik DagaStaff Writer

“In short, things are in prog-ress.”

This is how Stan Martin, director of outreach, commu-nications and consulting with the Office of Information Tech-nology, chose to summarize the ongoing developments in mov-ing faculty and other staff from older IT platforms to newer email and calendar programs, including Google apps, which is currently used by students.

In an information session held for OIT staff at the D.H. Hill audito-rium Thurs-day, Martin along with a g r o u p of ot her s s p oke on three major issues cur-rently being handled by their office. The first was an overview of the imple-mentation of Google’s Postini service for antivirus, anti-spam and archiving op-erations.

Harry Nicholos, assistant di-rector for systems and hosted services, elaborated on the ad-vantages of using Postini.

“Postini has helped the Uni-versity accomplish two primary goals: unification of anti-spam and antivirus software, and the ability to archive emails for legal discovery,” Nicholos said. “A bonus to this was that people are now able to do per-sonal archiving on their own.”

Currently, about 2000 mes-sages are processed per minute by Postini, with over 15,200 under the ambit of its anti-

spam and antivirus usage. For archiving, Postini is utilized by approximately 10,200 users on campus. These archiving func-tions are only used for certain employees. Students, however, have been shifted to what Ni-cholos called “Google-ware,” accounts not covered by Postini for either security or archiving purposes.

Regarding Postini’s quar-antine services, Nicholos said emails are sent out daily with information about the past 24 hours of quarantined messages, which remain quarantined for 14 days before deletion.

Discussing some of the major concerns about Postini, Nicho-los spoke about falsely quaran-tined items, among others.

“Some of the prominent is-sues concerning Postini are

about false positive quaran-tined items, quaran-tined CC-ed (carbon copied) messages and bounc-es at t he receiver’s site,” Nich-olos said,” “Postini only quar-antines

inbound messages. Emails bouncing at the receiver’s end have nothing to do with Pos-tini.”

The second issue was with the WolfWise upgrade to Group-Wise 8. According to the OIT website, the GroupWise system, used by faculty, administration and staff offers primarily email and calendar services. This enables individual, group and resource scheduling with web access, allowing people access to calendars and other data from virtually anywhere.

Marc Cloutier, associate di-rector for unified communica-tions spoke on the upgrade,

“The GroupWise upgrade

went pretty well. It solved not all, but a lot of our problems,” Cloutier said.

WolfWise is also supported on mobile devices, and Clout-ier elaborated on the response of the upgrade for mobile users.

“For iPhone users, life is good because installation is very easy,” Cloutier said. “For Android users, it depends on what version and phone you

are using.”There are 7,004 accounts us-

ing GroupWise services at the University and use a total of 957 resource calendars and 63 GB of data.

Martin and Dan Green, di-rector of information technol-ogy, also spoke at length about the migration from the Uni-versity’s Unity email system to Google Apps.

“We’ve moved a lot of stu-dents over the past year, and they are generally very happy with Google. The Helpdesk also has positive responses re-garding this,” Martin said.

There are currently about 50,000 active accounts on Google, and the University is not going to create any more Unity accounts for students, which are used by the faculty and staff at the University.

Green added that the rough timeline for achieving this mi-gration is by this summer.

“We hope to transition all Unity accounts to Google Apps by this summer—I can’t say for sure whether it’s mid-summer, early summer or the end of summer, but it’ll be done by then.”

There are no rigid, f ixed deadlines for completing this migration, but the University has divided the process into multiple, convenient phases.

The first step in the process, of creating a migration tool has already been completed and currently migrants are allowed by invitation only.

“We are moving groups in batches, fixing and resolving issues in between. The invi-tees are developing support documentation for the migra-tion,” Green said, “This will be followed by an Opt-in period, wherein most of the documen-tation will be available and we will be asking people if they are willing to migrate to Google Apps. After they opt in, we will have them verify with their lo-cal IT support and supervisors and shift them over. This will include both groups and indi-viduals.”

After this period, the ac-counts which have not yet opted to migrate will be re-moved structurally or sched-uled to move all at once, in coordination with their local IT support.

However, Green said he hopes the majority of the us-ers will agree to shift to Google during the opt-in period, and thus reduce the hassle during transitioning between the two systems.

“We have an advantage that a lot of these people are already using their personal Gmail accounts, so they know what to expect, especially some of the essential features such as Google Docs,” Green said.

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“We’ve moved a lot

of students over the

past year, and they

are generally very

happy with Google.”Stan Martin, director of outreach, communications and consulting

with the Office of Information Technology

“We hope to transition all Unity

accounts to Google Apps by this

summer — I can’t say for sure

whether it’s mid-summer, early

summer or the end of summer, but

it’ll be done by then.”Stan Martin, director of outreach, communications and consulting with the Office of Information Technology

Lee DanieLLo/TechnicianStan Martin, director, of outreach, communications and consulting Office of Information Technology, speaks at the OIT Staff information session about updates with the Google email servers Thursday. The topics discussed included the Postini updates, WolfWise and the switch of faculty accounts to Google Apps.

OIT holds session to update employees on work ahead

Applications for Technician student newspaper and

Windhover literary and arts magazine editors have been extended until Wednesday,

Feb. 23 at noon.

Turn in cover letters, resumes and position papers to Martha Collins

in Witherspoon 321.

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VEAUx, AND AlEx SANCHEz

How powerful do you feel students’ opinions are in terms of policy

making?

{ }in your words

“Not extremely powerful, but it matters a lot.”

Katie Hammond2010 alumna, communications

“I would say it could be powerful because I can get a supportive group behind me who know how to get things done.”

Will Berriersophomore, chemical engineering

“There are good resources to put in my word and someone would listen.”

Stephen Heartfreshman, First year College

“I don’t think they listen to us, but it’s my fault. I don’t try that hard.”

Annie lassitersophomore, biology

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We will only continue to get better

what would these fellas have thought if youtold them wknC was currently up for an mtVu woodie?

Mark McLawhorn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Students don’t careThe University Student

Success Task Force Fo-rum met in Talley to

present suggestions and ideas to students this week. Student Body President Kelly Hook at-

tempted an admirable job in luring students to the forum, however from the feedback from those in attendance, there was not much prog-ress.

There are several issues

and problems surrounding the fact that Hook had to lure peo-ple to come. If luring students with pizza or scholars or hon-ors credit is the best we can do, then this is a sign of disaster. The University has historical-ly come to students regarding feedback on referenda only to have the opportunity ignored by the student body. Now, the multi-billion dollar UNC sys-tem budget shortfall does not seem to concern students or be something they feel is within their control.

Students do not seem to care about budget problems pri-marily because they feel that “budget matters are a done deal.” Students are not doing anything about the cost of their education and this sends a mes-sage that the budget cuts and tuition increases are ok with students within the UNC sys-tem. The University will con-tinue to increase tuition and

fees and students will have no choice but to pay.

Legislators continually drain from UNC system’s budget, they are also draining opportu-nities from our state. Students should care about the opportu-nities they are losing with these budget cuts. When depart-ments are cut so is research, invent ions, development improvements, loss of grant revenue and loss of scientific a nd soc ia l knowledge. For example, our Univer-sity l ibrary was once on of t he top five research l ibraries in the nat ion. When budget cuts hit many years ago, the library never recovered to its once prominent status and fails to make national rankings.

N.C. State was also once listed as a top overall engi-neering university and student continue to come here to get a engineering degree. However, Georgia Tech and Maryland currently lead ACC colleges in engineering. According to U.S. News & World Report, N.C. State only ranks 111 nationally. It is hard to say where will we rank down the road when we continue to chip away at our budget. Some professors are already saying that it will be a struggle to compete for higher rankings, standards and pres-tige, and that does not bode well for future students.

The legislature usually takes the tuition and fee increases from the UNC Board of Governors and ap-proves them without much challenge. The legislature needs show due diligence and more communication between them, individual universities and the Board of Governors. This is not to be a “dog and pony” show, but a clear understanding of

the value universi-ties add to the com-munity, state, na-tion and world. This is not the t ime to assume w h a t a Univer-

sity does, but realize what it actually does that impacts students.

This is students’ last chance to contact their state representatives to voice their opinion or ideas. What seems like a short-term fix with these budget cuts is re-ally a long-term educational disaster for their future and the legacy of our university system. Only if you

Send Sam your thoughts on why students should care to letters@technicianon-line.com.

Sam DaughtryStaff columnist

“...our University

library was once

on of the top five

research libraries

in the nation.”

Just hire a professional

Many students gradu-ate and enter an incredibly competi-

tive workforce filled with am-bitious entrepreneurs, eager to make their goods and ser-

vices stand out in a crowd. In tough economic times, often the

first thing in any business to get thrown out the window is the need to be aesthetically pleasing. What many in the business world fail to recog-nize, however, is that com-petitive markets can only be tamed through an exceptional visual presence. Owing to this, it would be wise for entrepre-neurial souls without formal training in design to hang up the keyboard and mouse and leave the design work to a pro-fessional.

With the rise of user-friend-ly programs like Microsoft Word, it seems that these days anyone thinks he or she is quali-fied to be a graphic de-signer. When these same individuals go into busi-ness, they are later startled to discover that poten-tial custom-ers remain unimpressed by a business card fashioned from a five-year old PowerPoint presen-tation. While something like a business card might not seem overly critical on the surface, having a visual presence as a company is.

This means achieving conti-nuity through any number of media, from websites to bro-chures. Even vehicle graphics and textiles should fit into the system. Without any sort of a visual identity, new companies are likely to fall into the entre-preneurial abyss like so many before them--all because of a refusal to pay a professional designer or firm a reasonable wage to create a unique system capable of differentiating an otherwise similar product or service.

If one day you find yourself working for a company in need

of the services of a profes-sional designer or firm, it is important to step back and leave it to the person you hired to invent visual solutions you seek. That is, after all, the reason you hired them. This does not mean one should simply disappear and remove oneself from the equa-tion completely. Instead, communicate with your designer and ask him why he’s making the decisions he’s making. At the end of the day, you should expect to see something that is vi-sually impressive that gives your company the look and feel you desire. Only you, as the entrepreneur or manager, know what that “feel” is.

Whether you know it or not, if you intend on one day being part of the busi-ness world, you will likely

h a v e t o le a r n to make peace with profes-sional de-sign. Even if you go t o t h e trouble of purchas-ing the en-tire Adobe Creative Suite and learning the sof t-

ware yourself, chances are what you produce will still lack that professional fla-vor needed for clients and customers to take your company seriously.

If your goal is to manage or own a business and one day prosper in the entre-preneurial world, it would be better to just focus your efforts on that rather than font choices for a website. Call a professional and ask for his business card. You will probably hold on to it because you thought it looked nice.

Send Nick your thoughts on graphic design for busi-nesses to letters@technici-anonline.com.

Nick RomanosStaff columnist

“...it is important

to step back and

leave it to the

person you hired

to invent visual

solutions

you seek.”

Dear readers,Thursday was the ap-plication deadline for

the Technician editor-in-chief position, but no one applied.

While the staff at Technician is surprised, I want to assure you that we are nowhere near where we were last year at this

time and we ask for your con-tinued support

during our search for candi-dates.

There is no danger of the paper not coming back next year. We will still be here to

deliver the news to you and there is no indication that will change. The Technician will continue to be here to serve its readers, just as we have for the past 91 years.

The staff is not revolting or publishing letters protest-ing the administration. My section editors are in healthy positions and I have a man-ageable staff. The staff is solid and continuing to grow and improve every day. From my point of view, my staff and I can only continue to get bet-ter.

Biko Tushinde, the manag-ing editor, and I are a great team and have no intention of leaving the staff. We are

here to support our staff and make sure they have the lead-ership skills to produce a suc-cessful and effective product until we pass the responsibil-ity on to the next team.

Applications for the editor-in-chief position have been extended until Wednesday, Feb. 23 and I urge all students who have a vision for the pa-per to apply. I am not going to sugarcoat the position as just “a great leadership posi-tion.” It is a tough job for a full-time student with a full course load, but myself and past editors have proven it can be done.

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Thank you for your contin-ued support of the Technician and the students who work every day to bring it to you. We look forward to our next leader and their vision for the future of the paper.

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Spotted in the BrickyardPhoto & story by megan farrell

Technician’s weekly “Spotted in the Brickyard” highlights a fashionable student found in the Brickyard. From eclectic and

vintage to classic and chic, Technician will be sure to bring you fresh looks every week.

sporting a cute, feminine look, Erin Metkowski, a freshman in elementary education, stops in the brickyard. Metkowski wore a floral print dress in cool purples, greens and blues from Forever 21 ($25) along with leggings from Ann taylor Loft ($12) and boots from Nordstrom ($125). her look was finished off with a Lucky brand crossbody bag ($190), a cuff bracelet (Forever 21, $5) and a menswear-inspired Michael Kors watch ($250). Metkowski enjoys shopping at Forever 21 and Urban outfitters. “I like floral prints,” she said, “but I don’t really have a distinct style. I just wear whatever.”

Joseph Mcrae, a sophomore in electrical engineering, stops to pose in the brickyard after leaving the Atrium. Mcrae’s outfit consisted of a black v-neck tee shirt from old Navy ($5), Gap jeans ($12) and a teal and white striped cardigan (Gap, $10). he wore black slip-on shoes (Walmart, $10), Wayfarer-style fashion glasses (Forever 21, $5.99) and a bracelet that was handmade with soda can tabs. some of his favorite stores are Gap and h&M. he also enjoys shopping at thrift stores. Mcrae cited Kanye West as a personal fashion icon and said, “My style is different. I just dress how I feel.”

Amber Johnson, a junior in polymer and color chemistry, poses outside of the Atrium. Johnson wore a fun graphic sweater from Forever 21 ($15) with a black mini skirt (h&M, $5.80). she also wore cut-out patterned tights (target, $5) and a pair of black boots (Journey’s, $70). Johnson’s outfit was accessorized with hoop earrings (Forever 21, $3), a Victoria’s secret Pink tote bag ($34) and a beautiful gold Michael Kors watch ($250). Johnson loves shopping at h&M, Urban outfitters and Nordstrom. “My style is really versatile,” she said.

The alms of an image: poverty in black and white

photos courtesy of austin simmonsAs an old man sat in Colombia, Austin Simmons, a sophomore in graphic design, photographed the simples events of life throughout his travels in Colombia and Ecuador for his collection “Persons in Pulchritude,” which reveals the positive in rather adverse situations.

photos courtesy of austin simmonsAustin Simmons, a photographer and Caldwell fellow, traveled to South America and captured images of people who would not necessarily have access to photography. His work is now featured at Vintage 21 Church’s gallery in downtown Raleigh and will remain there until the end of February.

Even in the age of digital cameras, photo access isn’t equal. Austin Simmons is changing that.

Mark HerringLife & Style Editor

Not al l stories come in black-and-white, with explicit explanations and blatant pre-sumptions. Neither do Austin Simmons’ stories, conveyed through his two-toned photos.

Simmons, a sophomore in graphic design, now has a col-lection of his photographs dis-played at Vintage 21, a church with a gallery and community center located in downtown Raleigh.

Simmons sees photography as a way to reveal the stories of the overlooked and disadvan-taged in society. His current exhibit, entitled “Persons of Pulchritude,” will be on dis-play until the end of the month.

The featured images present the weight of positive attitudes of the impoverished despite adverse living conditions. Simmons took these photos while traveling through South America during the summer with classmates in the Caldwell Fellows Program.

“I was in Medellin, Colom-bia and then in Ecuador,” Sim-mons said. “What struck me was how the people, in spite of their economic standing, ex-pressed themselves with hap-piness.”

Simmons stayed with friends native to Medellin, and dur-ing his travels he worked at a children’s home serving as an orphanage and a community center.

“The orphanage was called La Casa de Elena y Juan,” Sim-mons said, “and it was a great place to work and get great can-did shots of people.”

“Persons of Pulchritude” highlights the carpe-diem at-titudes expressed by the people that Simmons encountered and the black-and-white nature of the photos draws parallel in the ambivalence of happiness and hardship.

“I admire the mentality of many of the people that I met,” Simmons said. “If I take that mentality and apply it on my own, I think that it’s really important to make sure that you’re content and put other priorities in place. “

Visually expressing this feel-

ing was the gist of Simmons’ work. The photographer ex-plained that pictures are com-monly taken for granted in the U.S., but not everyone has this luxury.

“Walking around the city of Medellin, you don’t see a lot of people with cameras,” Sim-mons said, “but a lot of people were receptive about getting their photos taken.”

After ending his stint in Co-lumbia, Simmons continued his travels and photography as he bused 30 hours to neighbor-ing Ecuador. There, he visited the mountains and the coun-try’s eastern rainforest.

Simmons’ work portrays people who aren’t likely to be photographed under normal conditions, due to limited re-sources. However, Simmons did not limit himself to ex-pressing this for South Ameri-cans only. Not everyone can take part in photography and despite the over 30 billion shared photo albums each month on Facebook, there are many people without means to acquire their portraits.

This fact spurred Simmons to set up Help Portrait in Ra-leigh. Begun by Nashville-based photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help Portrait provides portraits for the homeless and for needy families. The event came to Raleigh last year with the help of Simmons and his friend Andrew Vanover, a ju-nior in mechanical engineer-ing.

“Help Portrait created a vi-sion and a type of structure, but from there we organized the rest,” Simmons said. “Pho-tography is just such a powerful means to reach people.”

The event, which took place at Vintage 21 on Dec. 4, was comprised of a team of 100 volunteers and over 150 indi-viduals getting their portraits.

“There was some initial criti-cism,” Simmons said. “People have argued that the physical and food needs of the home-less are much more demand-ing than for just a photograph that they can carry around. The argument is that a picture, al-though it isn’t food they can eat or a blanket that can keep you warm, is something that pro-vides a feeling that they prob-ably haven’t experienced.”

Eric Reed, a junior in civil engineering, volunteered at the event last year.

“Hope Portrait was one of the

coolest things I’ve been a part of here in Raleigh, NC,” Reed said. “I was a photographer as-sistant, helping with lighting and so forth. It was rewarding and was a good chance to love on people that don’t necessarily get much affection.”

Reed commented that images from Persons of Pulchritude show a similar feel to the works from Help Portrait.

“I remember thinking that Austin had a recognizable feel for his pictures,” Reed said.

“Image are very powerful things. When you add a face to someone’s story of feelings, it adds a lot of weight. When you see it, it makes it more powerful. It’s encouraging to see the positivity in ‘Persons of Pulchritude.’”

Kyle Jones, a sophomore in nutrition sciences, stopped by Vintage 21 during the Febru-ary’s First Friday gallery tour.

“I was really impressed with the work and it was nice to see the photos of people who don’t necessarily have access to that exposure,” Jones said.

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Bhangra dance fuses tradition and styleKanwar Johal, a sophomore in biology, practices with the Bhangra dance team at Carmichael Rec. Center. Bhangra is a style from Northwestern India and originated from celebrations of harvests.

Own a piece of history.

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ABOVE: Kanwar Johal, a sophomore in biology, practices dancing with his team members in the Carmichael Rec. Center. “ I enjoy just coming up with different ideas, mixing in Hip- Hop to make it more modern. I like to just get creative,” Johal said. The NCSU Bhangra team will be performing at Virginia Tech this weekend. BELOW: Chirag Thakkar, a senior in industrial engineering, teaches choreography to the Bhangra dance team. Bhangra is a traditional dance that comes from northern India in the state Punjab. “I started this team in 2006 with two other guys,” Thakkar said.

Story By selma abdulhai | photoS By sarah tudor

N.C. State Bhangra dance team blends contemporary with traditional.

Few people would think to blend Indian folk dance with current hip-hop grooves, but N.C. State’s Bhangra dance team has given a new twist to this very traditional Indian dance from Punjab. Customarily performed to cel-ebrate the harvest, this dance, fused with new styles and contemporary beats, has made N.C. State Bhangra truly unique.

Bhangra first came to the University in 2006 when Vinay Patel and Nishant Shah organized Indian stu-dents interested in dancing. Now, the team is comprised of 12 dancers, led by team captain Chirag Thakkar, a senior in mechanical engi-neering.

“It’s a great team with amazing dancers,” Thakkar said. “I am really confident about them.”

Thakkar’s conf idence stems from the team’s merit. They have won vari-ous prizes, including runner-up for N.C. State’s Best Dance Crew and 3rd place at a competition in Chapel Hill.

Like any other team, N.C. State Bhangra always faces heavy competition. Currently, their main competition is UNC Chapel Hill’s team, known as Bhangra Elite.

“It is fun to compete with Bhangra Elite,” Sa-loni Juneja, a dancer and senior in international studies, said. “They are our biggest competition, but it’s a healthy competition.”

The style of Bhangra the team practices stems from a northwestern Indian folk dance.

“There are eight segments of Bhangra,” Kanwar Johal, a current Bhangra dance team member and sophomore in biology, said. “Mir-za, Punjab, Dhamal, Jugai, Shike, Khande, Bedi and Fuminyaar. Each segment has its own set of dance moves.”

Although the team’s style is traditional, the dancers also inject it with a fashionable twist.

“I think they’re a great team with good tech-nique and high energy,” Karishma Desai, a soph-omore in communication media, said. “They have become more innovative now and even found a way to fuse in ‘The Dougie’ with tradi-tional Bhangra steps.”

Though the team practices to the rhythm of Punjabi folk music featuring beats from the dhol,

a large wooden drum, and from the guitar-like iktar, the Bhangra team incor-porates hip-hop beats and tracks into its routines.

However, the team still dresses in t radit iona l clothes for the dances. The women don the salwar ka-meez and head covers, while the men wear the chaadra dress, vest and pags, a In-dian turban.

Bhangra dance not only requires rigorous practice, but athletic ability as well. From drops to squats to kicks to jumps, the team

incorporates dynamic and vigorous movement into an energetic performance. Their routines, usually lasting from 6.5-7.5 minutes, remain up-beat, spirited and athletic throughout. Despite the team’s zeal, the dancers manage to pay very close attention to precision and to their forma-tions. Keeping all this together, the team can perform and more importantly, entertain.

Not limiting themselves to dance competi-tions, the team has performed at many events including weddings and cultural celebrations. They are currently preparing for an exhibition at Virginia Tech, and hope to make it to two presti-gious competitions: Elite 8, an invitational that only the top eight teams of the country attend, and to Bhangra Blow-out in D.C..

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with Bhangra Elite

[UNC’s Bhangra

team]. They are our

biggest competition,

but it’s a healthy

competition.”Saloni Juneja, senior and team member

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brent kitchen/technician archive photoFreshman on the rifle team will teller pracitces underneath historic Reynolds Coliseum oct. 19, 2009.

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to close,” Avent said. “Right now it will be the closer-by-committee type of deal is where we are. It’s whoever gets the last out is the guy that is going to close the game.”

Even though the team lost some of its big name players, Avent still believes that this team has a lot of experience, much of which was gained last year during the team’s ACC Tourna-ment run. And Avent be-lieves that experience will help translate over to this season and help the players understand what it takes to get back to where they were a year ago.

“Those guys have been through two years at N.C. State and they can tell the story to those guys that weren’t here,” Avent said. “Those guys knew the ef-fort, the hard work, the ups and downs and what it took to get to that championship game and what it meant to play in the championship game.

“So they have a memory and that memory will al-ways be etched in their mind, so when we have a two-game losing streak or heaven forbid a three-game losing streak, those guys know what it takes to turn things around and they know what we need to do to get there.”

will be neck-in-neck for the top spot in the finals, while freshman Maddy Pike’s quali-fying performance will determine whether she is seeded from sixth through eighth.

In addition to the more controlled pace, scores are frequently announced, so anyone who is able to do the math in their head can figure out how close they are to the com-petition.

Miller said he wanted to get his under-classmen ready for the nerve-wracking ex-perience.

“You’re not in your own rhythm, you’re in an externally-applied one,” Miller said. “If it doesn’t feel good, it doesn’t matter, because you have to shoot right now.”

According to Teller, all the practice in the world can’t prepare you for the toughest conditions in this cerebral sport.

“It doesn’t really simulate the nerves you’re going to have. Just thinking about it right now, I know my heart’s going to be racing,” Teller said. “It always does.”

Coach Kellie Harper and Co. pick up second conference victory with win over Virginia Tech.

Staff Report

Led by junior Bonae Holston’s 20 points and 11 rebounds, the N.C. State women’s basketball team ended its three-game losing skid with an 81-65 road victory over Virginia Tech last night in a matchup between the two bottom-feeders in the ACC standings.

Sophomore Marissa Kas-

tanek and redshirt senior Am-ber White chipped in 17 points each as the Pack improved to 11-15 overall and 2-9 in the ACC . Joi n-ing Holston, Kastanek and White in dou-ble-figures were f resh-m a n K o d y B u r k e a n d senior Brittany Strachan who finished with 11 and 10 points, respectively.

The Wolfpack got off to a blistering start, jumping out to

an early 15-4 lead less than four minutes into action. Holston did most of her damage in the

first half, fin-ishing with 14 points at inter-mission, which extended her double-figure scoring streak to 23 games.

Despite holding a firm

lead throughout the opening 20 minutes, State let the Hokies climb back into the game, al-lowing an 8-1 run before half-time to cut the Pack’s lead to

34-31. But just as it started the first half, the Wolfpack came out of the locker rooms clicking on all cylinders in the second half. A three-pointer by Stra-chan capped a 14-5 run, push-ing State’s lead to 48-36.

After the two teams traded baskets, the native of Kerners-ville, N.C., buried her second straight three-pointer to give the Pack a15-point advantage with 13:27 left to play. Virginia Tech’s Monet Tellier, who fin-ished with a career-high 23 points, did her best to keep the Hokies in the game. Tellier scored 16 straight points dur-

ing one stretch in the second half, but the Pack was able to maintain a firm lead for the remainder of the contest.

Virginia Tech (11-15 over-all, 1-10 ACC) pulled within seven points with 4:36 left to play, but it was too little, too late as the Pack went on a 12-2 run to secure its second con-ference victory of the season. Coach Kellie Harper and Co. will be back in action Monday night as the team hosts North Carolina at 7 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum.

Holston, Pack take down Virginia Tech

“. . .State let the

Hokies climb

back into

the game.”

COUNTDOWN• 21 of days until the men’s ACC Tournament kicks off

in Greensboro.

INSIDE• Page 7: A recap of the women’s basketball

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Team will need to rebound from losses of several key players from last season.

Taylor Barbour Sports Editor

Like all college sports, every season coaches have to go about signing and refilling their respective rosters after players leave early to play professional sports or graduate. Unlike pro teams, coaches can’t offer lucrative contracts to players in hopes of keep-ing them with their team for years to come.

However, this concept is what makes college ath-letics so special, especially baseball. With a much smaller roster size than football, baseball coaches have to go out and find enough talented players to field a team for an entire season. And this offseason coach Elliott Avent had a big time job this offseason as he was forced to replace his top three hitters from last season, as well as the ace of the pitching staff.

“You never replace peo-ple,” Avent said. “What you try to do is get everybody to step forward and not try to replace him but just keep getting better with the people you have. We think we have some people that have stepped up this fall and spring and we are ex-cited to see what they can do.”

Last season seniors Kyle Wilson, Drew Poulk and Dal las Poulk, had the top three averages on the team, while accounting for 191 runs and 167 RBI. So needless to say, replacing that trio of players will be a tough task for the Pack’s offense.

But there are still some offensive holdovers from last season. Juniors An-

drew Ciencin, Harold Rig-gins and Pratt Maynard have all been staples of the Pack of-fense over the last two seasons. Ciencin drove in a team-high 77 runners last year, while Rig-gins was second in the team in home runs, with 12. If all three players can continue to de-velop, along with the in-f lux of new talent, Avent believes this of fense can be one of the best in the NCAA.

“ We g o t guys that can hit,” Avent said. “We think we have as good of a hitting team as there is in the country and we are going to do what we have to do to score runs.”

One of the players Avent will be counting on is trans-fer Brett Williams. The ju-nior centerfielder from Pitt College will be given the task of replacing Kyle Wilson and has drawn lofty comparisons

by his coach, especially on the base paths.

“Brett Williams has some speed on the bases,” Avent said. “He can just drive you crazy, much like Brian Rob-erts did a few years ago when he was in this league.”

Another big question mark for the Pack t h i s s e a -son wil l be its start ing rotation. Last season, State’s week-end rotation consisted of Jake Buchan-na n, C or y

Mazzoni and Alex Sogard. But now with only Mazzoni left, younger pitchers such as sophomore Danny Healey and transfer Josh Easley will have to step up.

“I don’t think any year you can talk about question marks and be accurate when you talk about how your season is go-ing to unfold,” Avent said. “We like our staff. We think

we have plenty of depth and they are just going to have to perform like you have to do in every phase of the game. We are happy with our depth and our pitching staff.”

The back end of the pitch-ing staff will also be a work in progress, as the season goes along. Last season the Pack had five different pitchers record saves, and it seems at least for now, a closer-by-committee looks to be the solution.

“Everybody has a chance

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alex sanchez/Technician freshman forward CJ leslie attempts to steal the ball from Clemson guard Zavier anderson in the men’s basketball game at rbC Center thursday. leslie scored 18 and had 10 rebounds in the 69-61 win.

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brenT kiTchen/Technician archive phoTosophomore first baseman eyes the ball into his glove during the first inning of the team’s game against Virginia tech, May 29, 2010. the game was the second of the day for the pack. state beat the Hokies 10-9 in 10 innings to advance to the aCC Championship game sunday.

Projected lineuP• brett Williams, Cf• John gianis, rf• Pratt Maynard, dH• Harold riggins, 1b• andrew Ciencin, 3b• Chris Schaeffer, C• Tarran Senay, Lf• Matt bergquist, SS• Chris diaz, 2b

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Wolfpack holds on for win over Tigers

Practice makes perfect

coming soonMonday: Recap of the baseball team’s three-game series against Elon.Tuesday: Feature on All-American runner Ryan Hill.Wednesday: Preview on the men’s basketball team’s game against North Carolina.

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TodayBASEBALL VS. ELONDoak Field at Dail Park, 3 p.m.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSAtlanta, Ga., All Day

MEN’S DIVING AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSAtlanta, Ga., All Day

TRACK AND FIELD AT VIRGINIA TECH CHALLENGEBlacksburg, Va., All Day

SOFTBALL VS. NORTH DAKOTA STATEAthens, Ga., 9 a.m.

SOFTBALL VS. MARSHALLAthens, Ga., 11 a.m.

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Squad simulates finals competition in days leading up to SEARC competition.

Kate ShefteSenior Staff Writer

The Pack rifle team knows the odds are stacked against it to repeat as SEARC champion for the fifth straight year. After what head coach Keith Miller called a “rebuilding year,” the Pack currently sits in second place, well behind surging con-ference foe The Citadel.

Though State has dominated the SEARC for the majority of the past decade, this year’s team has been crippled by in-juries and unexpected slumps.

“It’s going to be tough to come away with this with a win,” sophomore William Teller said. “It’s not impossible, but we’ve dug our hole, and it’s going to be tough to make up for our earlier mistakes.”

In order to prepare for the tough task ahead, Miller and assistant coach Jennifer Mar-shall decided to shake up a regularly-scheduled practice on Tuesday night. Instead of rehearsing a normal qualifying round, the coaches simulated a final round for the Pack’s five top shooters.

Marshall walked down the line, alerting the shooters when their time window of 1:45 for each shot began and ended, while tabulating each shooter’s score. With only ten shots each, the Pack athletes had to make each one count.

“We want them to be com-fortable with the way it’s run, because it’s run differently from the normal matches,” Marshall said.”

This weekend, Teller and fel-low sophomore Bryan Cross

sights and sounds from the men’s basketball gameThe crowd went wild early in the game when sophomore forward Richard Howell made an unexpected three-pointer, just his second of the season. Howell finished just short of a double-double with nine points and 10 reounds.

Three-point signs shot up along with the crowd when sophomore forward Scott Wood hit his first three-pointer of the game to tie the score at 44.

Following three straight foul calls against the Pack on a single possession, the crowd begins to boo loudly after they believed the refs were missing calls on the other side of the floor.

With 33 seconds left to go, the crowd began to file out of the RBC Center as realization set in the the Pack secured its fourth conference victory of the season.

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Leslie records first career double-double in ACC play in State’s victory.

Rebecca FiorentinoStaff Writer

With thirty seconds left to go, Wolfpack fans started piling out of the RBC Center, but this time it was because State had the game in hand.

But N.C. State (14-11 overall, 4-7 ACC) did not obtain this lead against Clemson until late in the second half. With about seven minutes left to go, the Pack gained a 54-53 lead that it would not re-linquish.

Thursday night’s 69-61 victory over Clemson (17-9 overall, 6-6 ACC) marked the second con-secutive conference win for the Wolfpack and the team’s first back-to-back wins since beating Wake Forest and Elon.

Coach Sidney Lowe said he was very pleased of the way the team played Thursday night.

“It was a great ball game, I’m re-ally proud of the guys,” Lowe said. “The way they hung in there and picked up the defense, especially in the second half, it was great.”

Freshmen C.J. Leslie, Lorenzo Brown and Ryan Harrow started for the second straight contest. The freshmen trio were joined the starting lineup by Scott Wood, who finished with five points, and Tracy Smith who finished with 14 points and eight rebounds.

Leslie paced the Pack offensively in the first half, finishing the 14 points at intermission on his way to a career-best 18 points and 10 rebounds.

Lowe said Leslie’s performance in the first half energized the team.

“Leslie was outstanding and his energy was great with some big-time plays this game and last game,” Lowe said. “He’s growing and learning as a player, I like the way it’s going.”

Leslie’s fellow classmates Harrow and Brown struggled to find their shot, but were able to chip in with three points each.

Despite not starting, senior Javier Gonzalez had one of his best games since ACC play started finishing with 11 points and three assists.

According to coach Lowe, Gon-zalez’s experience proved vital to the team, along with being a key player in aiding to the victory for the Pack.

“Javi didn’t necessarily run the show, but he controlled the game,” Lowe said. “He showed his experi-ence tonight and that’s why I put him in there.”

In the Pack’s seven confer-ence games the team has been out-rebounded by its opponent each time. It was a different story against the Tigers, as the Pack finished with a 46-38 rebounding advantage.

Early in the second half, State grabbed a one-point lead over the Tigers which would remain close until seven minutes on the clock.

Junior C.J. Williams then scored his first basket of the game which started a 9-0 run and gave the Wolfpack the lead until the end of the game. Gonzalez secured the Pack’s victory by hitting five free throws in the last five minutes of the game.

N.C. State’s next game will be against Maryland held in College Park on Sunday at 5:30 p.m.

Women’s swimming and diving at ACC Championships

The N.C. State women’s swimming and diving team continued action at the ACC Championships, posting three of the season’s fastest times. The team also posted two all-time top-10 marks and one NCAA “B” cut qualifying standard. Allison Hendren’s 23.47 in the 50 freestyle was the fourth-best mark in school history, as well as the top time this season. Morgan Robertson finished behind Hendren with a 23.69 in the same event, which is the second-fastest time this season. Marifrances Henley hit the “B” cut qualifying standard in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:48. 83, which is the fastest time this season. Julianna Prim, Hendren, Robertson and Henley recorded the third-fastest time in program history in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:33.01. The Wolfpack finished Thursday tied with Clemson for eighth place with 73 points in the championships. Action will continue tomorrow as the Pack tries to make up ground on the leaders.

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