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Free Expression Tunnel defaced after UNC game

JAMES COX/TECHNICIANDavid Prescott, freshman in aerospace engineering, Donald Mayo, a freshman in mechanical engineering, and Ahren Lieth, a freshman in aerospace engineering, look at the gra!tti that was painted on the Free Expression Tunnel.

Student Government, students respond to repaint the tunnel

James CoxStaff Writer

At 3:30 Sunday morning, Student Body President Jay Dawkins and Student Sen-ate President Pro Tempore Kelli Rogers began to repaint sections of the Free Ex-pression Tunnel after someone painted remarks about cancer in the tunnel.

The mural of Coach Kay Yow on the tunnel was defaced with a light blue mustache and several phrases were painted on the tunnel wall, including

“Cancer rules, f--- pink, fall forward k-o and life could be worse, you could be a cancer patient.”

Some students said they were disgust-ed by the writings.

Sam Thomas, a sophomore in com-puter science, said he didn’t have words to describe his emotions.

“This was totally uncalled for,” he said.Dawkins said the painting of the me-

morial was hurtful.Rogers said she couldn’t tell if the

author was a Carolina student, but the writer was a North Carolina fan.

However, Dawkins, a junior in engi-neering, said the acts are not represen-

tative of the entire UNC campus or fan base, but did say the actions were com-pletely uncalled for.

“The people who said these things have no class. We should encourage rivalry, but above all we are all students and people,” he said.

Thomas doesn’t think that the authors felt the same way.

“This just hits home, it’s more than racist,” he said.

Dawkins said the actions were a result of rivalry that got out of hand.

“What was said was in many ways inhuman. While rivalry is great, this just went too far,” he said.

Rogers, a junior in political science, said she didn’t re-alize how difficult it was to make the Yow mural until she had to do repairs to it, saying the people who did it the first time were amazing.

“I really wish I could make it look as pretty as it did before. It frustrates me some idiot had to mess it up,” Rogers said.

The nature of the Free Expression Tun-

nel, Rogers said, is for students to express their opinions but she said she wished things like this didn’t happen.

“There is always going to be a jerk who comes through here and write[s] offen-sive material,” she said.

Both Dawkins and Rogers advised stu-dents to do the same thing they were do-ing — paint over the offensive material with material they want to see.

The remarks written about Yow in the tunnel touched many personally on campus.

“Everyone knows someone with can-cer, I myself have seen my sister fight it tw ice. Seeing ‘cancer rules’ really hits close to home,” Dawkins said.

Throughout the repainting, students came to help after hearing the news.

“I’m glad to see N.C. State students protecting the Free

Expression Tunnel by painting over stuff they don’t like,” Rogers said.

Capt. Jon Barnwell of Campus Police declined to comment, saying issues relat-ing to the Free Expression Tunnel are a University issue.

Budget cuts at least up to a 6 percent reduction in place

Zakk WhiteCorrespondent

The Governor’s Office has put in place multiple guidelines to facilitate budget cuts across the state, including at all UNC sys-tem schools.

But the University has not decided impose a strict hiring freeze at this time.

According to a press release from Chancellor James Oblinger, the governor’s instructions in-clude a hiring freeze, but the University has been given an ex-ception for the time being. The leadership team is currently con-sidering removing that exception and institut-ing a freeze, Oblinger said in the press release, but for now the freeze is not in place.

Impos-ing a hiring freeze would not impact student organizations, such as those under the umbrella of The Center for Student Leadership, Ethics & Public Service, Vice Chancellor or Finance and Busi-ness Charles Leffler said.

“Positions that are funded by student fees and other non-ap-propriated sources would not be directly impacted,” Leffler said. “However, we are cautioning all university departments to be thoughtful in any expenditure made at this time and use good judgment regardless of funding source.”

The University has imple-mented a set of guidelines for the hiring of faculty set out by the Office of State Budget and Management to account for the ultimate goal of reducing the budget by 7 percent, the release continued.

In the meantime, the guide-lines imposed on spending re-strictions for all state appropri-ated funds to remain in effect until further notice.

According to the guidelines, the hiring of faculty positions directly related to classroom instruction is permitted (both tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty positions), using the normal approval process. The chancellor, vice chancellor or a dean have to approve any new personal service and fixed term contracts.

Additionally, Leffler said the University has a plan in place for up to a 7 percent reduction this year.

“We have been asked for 6 percent currently, slightly less than other state agencies,” Lef-fler said. “If the state requires a more than 7 percent [reduction], we may have to increase the re-strictions, but we will work to avoid additional impact on the campus units.”

Certain positions have been targeted for termination, ac-cording to the state’s rules, but specific positions have not been released at this time. Due to the challenges of budget cuts, Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Science Jeffery Braden, CHASS had to cut over one thousand class seats.

“We also froze all of our new faculty positions and were the first college to do so,” Braden

said. Braden

a l s o s a i d while the ad-ministration absorbed much of the cuts, CHASS cou ld not g ive back enough money.

“We cut as much as we could, we let some teachers go. Then we had to cancel some class sec-tions,” Braden said.

CHASS is also in the process of making permanent cuts, which Braden said will mean that many elective classes will be the first to go to ensure that classes that are required for degrees are pro-tected.

In trying to determine other ways of cutting without losing classes, Kenneth Zagacki, head of the communication depart-ment, pointed out the flexibility his department and others have when it comes to teachers.

“Our departments has had to place more graduate students in the classrooms as teachers then we have had to do in the past,” Zagacki said.

Students are already seeing the effects of the shuffling of gradu-ate students into teaching roles.

“My 400-level math class is be-ing taught by a graduate student, which is pretty unusual,” Ashley Walls, a junior in mathematics, said.

Despite the strict guidelines, economic anxiety and the pos-sibility of a hiring freeze, the Board of Governors strongly advocated the hiring of 150 ad-ditional faculty to the College of Engineering by the year 2011, according to a budget priorities recommendation made last No-vember.

Students have differing opinions regarding SBP candidate spending limits

Samuel T.O. BranchDeputy News Editor

The Student Senate has passed the embattled election reform bill, albeit with several amend-ments. The controversial deci-sion to cut spending limits was the main issue that was discussed in the Student Senate meeting last Wednesday. In the end, that section was completely elimi-nated from the bill.

According to Kenneth Webb, a

senator and the chairman of the University Affairs Committee, and the bill’s original creator, the first bill eliminated spend-ing limits for SG campaigns completely.

But whenever the bill came be-fore the Senate, that section in particular was met with opposi-tion. The majority of the Senate voted against the bill and those that voted in favor cited the dis-honesty among campaigners as a primary reason to eliminate spending limits.

Eventually, the bill made it through the Senate with several amendments made to it, most important of which was to the

spending limits decision, Webb said.

“The main thing taken out was the spending limits [section,]” Webb, a senior in computer sci-ence, said. “[The Senate] decided to leave spending limits in and to increase them.”

The bill will be enacted if Stu-dent Body President Jay Dawkins does not veto the bill.

According to Student Senate President Pro Tempore Kelli Rogers, the spending limit for Student Body President is $750 and getting smaller for lower positions.

Before the bill, the highest limit was $300 for Student Body

President. Another important change

was the possible increase of the spending limits during the actu-al campaign, according to Webb.

“All the candidates [can] agree to increase the spending limits,” he said.

This helps if the candidates feel like they need more money to help their respective campaigns, Webb said.

Student reaction to the deci-sion has varied. Robert Beasley, a freshman in biochemistry, said he thought it wasn’t necessary to make any changes.

“If people are dishonest, just improve supervision and not

increase spending,” Beasley said.

Joey Yandle, a senior in re-ligious studies, said he was happy candidates still had a ceiling on how much they could spend.

“I’m glad they still have a cap, because [if not] then some could pretty much buy the election,” Yandle said.

Yandle also said he thought the increased cap was not high enough to affect who could participate.

“It still kind of keeps every-one on a level playing field,” he said. “It wouldn’t necessar-ily hurt people.”

University could impose hiring freeze

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“What was said was in many ways inhuman. While

rivalry is great, this just went too far.”

Jay Dawkins, student body president

“We also froze all of our new faculty positions and were the first...to do so.”

Jeffery Braden, interim CHASS dean

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Ticket Central: 515.1100 ncsu.edu/arts2nd Floor, Talley Student Center

this weekFriday, Feb 6 at 8pm

Stewart TheatreBrian Brooks Moving Company

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signature, minimalist works with an unexpected but delightful

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Thursday, Feb 5 at 7pmGregg Museum of Art & DesignArtists & Objects Lecture Series:Thomas SayreArtist Thomas Sayre will speak about his site-specific earth vessels and aspen inspired paintings in conjunction with the exhibition Thomas Sayre: New Work in the Foundations Gallery.

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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

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A traditional Chinese dance

Larry Tong and a fellow student perform a traditional Chinese Lion Dance at Asia Nite on Jan. 31. Asia Nite was organized by the Asian Student Association to benefit Relaying Empowerment - Anything Can Happen, or REACH, a charity project that helps less fortunate communities across the globe by providing facilities for students to attend school.

PHOTO BY RENEE BAKER

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IN THE KNOW Great Decisions 2009 is planned for Feb. 3

The School of Public and Inter-national Affairs (SPIA) is holding the next segment of Great Deci-sions 2009 Tuesday. The For-eign Policy Association created Great Decisions to bring citizens together and discuss their opin-ions on foreign policy problems. SPIA’s program will have four different sessions, each discuss-ing current U.S. foreign policy in a different manner. Tuesday’s event will be on “Rising Powers.” Chip Poncy, the director of the Office of Strategic Policy for Ter-rorist Financing and Financial Crimes for the U.S. Treasury Department, will speak at this event. It will begin at 7 p.m. in the Withers Hall Auditorium.

SOURCE: SPIA

Henry M. Shaw lecture coming up Feb. 5

The 38th installment of the Henry M. Shaw Lecture Series will occur this Thursday. Franz-Josef Ulm, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be speak-ing. He will speak on the topic “What’s the Matter with Con-crete? A multiscale approach to the development of Sustainable Materials and Structures.” Ulm’s lecture, as part of the Henry M. Shaw series, touches on engi-neering subjects. The event itself is hosted by the Department of Civil, Construction, and Envi-ronmental Engineering. On Feb. 5, the event will begin at 1:30 p.m in room 216 of Mann Hall.

SOURCE: COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Valentines Jazz event to be held Feb. 12

The North Carolina State University Jazz Ensemble will be performing a Valentines Day-inspired event Thursday, Feb. 12. The Ensemble will perform from 7 to 9 p.m. The event will take place in the ballroom of Talley Student Center. Tickets have varying prices, $10 for the general public, $8 for senior citizens, staff and faculty, and $5 for students. To find more infor-mation regarding purchasing a ticket, call Ticket Central at 919-515-1100.

SOURCE: NCSU JAZZ ENSEMBLE

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POLICE BLOTTERJan. 294:08 A.M. | WELFARE CHECKMetcalf HallOfficer checked on welfare of stu-dent. Everything OK.

6:42 A.M. | CHECK PERSOND.H. Hill LibraryOfficers spoke with nonstudent in the area. Subject was cooperative. No formal action taken.

8:32 A.M. | HIT AND RUNDan Allen and Sullivan DriveUnits responded to hit and run traffic incident. Nonstudent was injured.

9:16 A.M. | LARCENYEngineering Building IIStaff member reported theft of iPod from office over semester break.

12:27 P.M. | LARCENYSullivan HallStudent reported bicycle stolen.

4:36 P.M. | DRUG VIOLATIONCase Athletic CenterStaff member reported suspicious incident. Investigation ongoing.

5:08 P.M. | TRAFFIC STOPSullivan Drive and Gorman StreetStudent was issued citation for speeding.

8:12 P.M. | BREAKING AND ENTERINGJackson StreetNonstudent reported vehicle had been broken into and laptop and wal-let stolen.

8:25 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS VEHICLEMethod RoadOfficer spoke with subjects preparing to skateboard and advised of Uni-versity policy. Subjects complied to leave the area.

WORLD & NATION15 people killed in !re accident in China

When a birthday party group shot off fireworks from their table in a Chi-

nese night club, the club caught fire and killed 15 people. The night club, located in Changle City in the Fujian province, was completely covered in flames soon after the blast because the fireworks set the ceiling on fire, all according to a Chinese government-run newspaper. Changle City closed all entertainment venues after the incident. 17 more people were injured in addition to those dead, and three of those are in critical condition.

Source: CNN

Four arsons occur in Pennsylvania

Authorities ruled four more fires set in Chester County, Pennsylvania to be arsons. These particular blazes

occurred between 12:45 to 7 a.m. The area, which is about 40 miles west of Philadelphia, has seen several arsons since the fall of last year. As of now, authorities put the total number of arsons at about 30. All of the arsons hold the same characteristics. How-ever, authorities don’t want to jump to conclusions, saying they cannot conclusively say whether these fires are connected. This is because the people thought to have been responsible for the fires of 2008 have been in prison since December. These new actions are either the result of a copycat or the real arson still on the loose.

SOURCE: CNN

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Saturday’s basketball game had its fair share of people paying respects to the late

coach Kay Yow, who died Jan. 24.

The crowd was filled with pink shirts, and even Roy Wil-liams, coach of UNC-Chapel Hill’s men’s basketball team, donned a pink ribbon and pink shoelaces in remembrance of coach Yow.

Yet in the aftermath of the game, someone came to cam-pus and defaced the Kay Yow mural in the Free Expression Tunnel with baby blue paint and profanity, including the phrases “Cancer rules, f*** pink and life could be worse, you could be a cancer patient.”

Students came together and painted over these messages, responding with dignity instead of retaliation.

Stay classy, Chapel Hill fans?Make no mistake — this is

not an indication that all UNC students and fans are behind this message, and we should not blame UNC for the profan-ity painted on the Yow mural.

There are also no grounds for any sort of official sanction, so advocating for police action is wasteful.

But an investigation should be made into who painted these statements, if for no other reason than making the per-son or persons apologize for the insensitive nature of their remarks.

What would be best for all is if the person(s) responsible for defacing the mural to step forward and apologize to all

parties, particularly with the controversy in November sur-rounding racial slurs written on the walls of the Free Expression Tunnel.

Cancer is a disease that brings sorrow and tragedy to many families around the world — it is certainly no laughing matter.

Painting a statement like “cancer rules” on the Free Ex-pression Tunnel, while within the laws regarding free speech, belittles the struggles of all families struggling to deal with cancer and the great efforts coach Yow made in working to-wards a cure for breast cancer.

Having a healthy rivalry between N.C. State and UNC is not a bad thing, but this is tak-ing it too far.

Students were right to come together and help repaint over the hurtful words painted on the Yow mural, and we applaud them for their actions.

Despite accusations that fans are without class, students stuck to painting over the offensive remarks instead of striking out as part of some excessive retaliation.

Students should continue to act with such dignity.

Hopefully the person(s) responsible for painting the offensive material on the Free Expression Tunnel will come forward and apologize.

Students on campus may de-mand it, but more importantly, coach Yow’s legacy deserves it.

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

editor-in-chief. THE ISSUE:An unknown party painted offensive messages on the Kay Yow mural in the Free Expression Tunnel.

OUR OPINION:This act is not representative of students at Chapel Hill, and there is no reason to blame all of them.

THE SOLUTION:Students should continue to act with class and not retaliate against UNC.

Continue to act with class!OUR VIEW"

In Kennedyesque fashion Monday, Former Presi-dent Bill Clinton gave a

powerful challenge to those who heard his speech, “What can we do as private citizens to advance the public inter-

est?”Mr.

Clinton prescribed several no-ble possi-bilities. He encour-aged the audience

to advocate for the poor, the malnourished and the envi-ronment.

Wonderful advice indeed, Mr. Clinton — your elo-quence and depth of thought never ceases to impress. Even more impressive perhaps are the hundreds of thousands of dollars you were probably paid to come speak.

Setting aside Mr. Clinton’s speaking fees, he did make a good point about advocacy.

The internet has empow-ered millions of us to become advocates. Each of us here at N.C. State has the resources, via Mr. Gore’s gracious gift, to reach millions of our peers. Take a step back and consider that WKNC can be heard live in Paris and this article could be read by someone in Mu-nich.

In Mr. Clinton’s speech, he claimed that in the last de-cade hundreds of thousands of new non-governmental organizations have developed

because of the incredible net-working power of the internet.

The evidence of non-govern-mental advocacy is everywhere and continues to grow in this increasingly internet-savvy era. Still, some of the noblest causes go unrepresented and forgotten.

This Wednesday was the Free-dom of Choice Act awareness day. If you are passionate about protecting the lives of unborn children, then sign the online petitions to voice your dissent.

Earlier this month hundreds of Facebook groups and pe-t it ions arose over the hu-manitarian crisis in Gaza. If you advocate peace, advance the cause of a rea l ist ic and lasting two state solution.

The oppres-sive authoritar-ian government of Robert Mugabe has allowed thousands of Zimbabweans to die of curable illnesses and star-vation over the last two decades. Instead of surfing Wikipedia for an hour, you could educate your-self and others with a few clicks of your mouse.

In China, the supply of baby formula to millions of young Chinese children was contami-nated by melamine, a powerful poison. In America, millions of salmonella-tainted peanut butter products were released into the food supply. If the safety of your food matters to you, then raise

hell to the Food and Drug Administration.

At NCSU, the administra-tion has spent years hiring more administrators and fewer teachers while simul-taneously pouring millions into buildings on Centen-nial Campus, which if we are lucky will be completed by the time our children are 18. If the quality of your education matters to you, speak up and find a new solution or present a different vantage point.

Internet advocacy is not a substi-tute for vol-unteering at a food bank or marching for a cause. But if noth-ing else, it is a start. The very largest oaks star t as saplings, likewise,

some of the greatest move-ments grow out of the small-est actions. One letter, one Facebook group, one pledge, one signature can actually make a difference.

In the words of Mr. Clinton, “We have a crisis of doing.” The only solution then is to “become part of a how gen-eration.”

Become the how. E-mail Russell your thoughts

on advocacy to letters@techni-cianonline.com.

Russell WithamSenior Sta! Columnist

Use the a-word — advocacy

The sign that the semester has REALLY started.

Mack Garrison, junior in design

CAMPUSFORUM! "

Column on Geithner presents bad arguments

Would someone please take the pen out of Antoinette Russell’s hand? Her article about chivalry has gotten enough attention, and for the most part, gotten what it deserved. But her article about Timothy Geithner showed her incompetence about current events. She raises the seri-ous point that Geithner did not pay $34,000 in taxes, but she fails to men-tion that he paid it back with interest —something she missed, perhaps, because of the tangled mess known as the IRS — but that’s another topic.

The real problems come when she talks about Geithner’s positions on bailouts. If you quote CNBC saying that Lehman Brothers was “the largest causality of the global credit crisis,” as they became the “largest investment bank to collapse since 1990,” would it make sense to say that his support for a bailout was a bad thing (if you believe CNBC)? No, of course not. So then, perhaps, you should point out he was the president of the NY Fed when Lehman Brothers failed instead of pointing to his reported reluctance to see Lehman fall. But no, Ms. Russell doesn’t make that connection, she makes a bumbling argument that tax dollars used to “help finance more failing businesses” distracts from the main purpose of taxes putting money in tax payers’ pockets.

I was, in fact, wondering why I had to pay any taxes. I’m glad we have such competent writers working at the Technician to inform us of these things. I’m not trying to argue that Geithner is or isn’t the man for the job or that government bailouts have or haven’t been effective. There are certainly valid and interesting sup-porting and opposing arguments for these, but I only wanted to point out that Ms. Russell doesn’t know what she’s talking about. And it doesn’t take an MBA to see that.

Jacob Burgdorfjunior, economics

Keep up good work with Daily Tar Hell

Just wanted to say thank you to all of the Technician staff for their ef-forts with the Daily Tar Hell. Please continue this tradition for many years to come.

Will Heathsenior, industrial engineering

Bookstore benefits studentsIn response to Alex Blalock’s letter, I

would like to clarify a few issues. The quote from the article said it is “the primary duty of the University to aid its students,” right? Well, the NCSU Bookstore (the main store, the North Campus shop and the Centennial store) is doing what it can. First off, the bookstore is run off a budget that is separate from the University. The bookstore makes all it’s own money, yet it is still a non-profit, who gives all

of its “profits” back to the University to redistribute to students as scholar-ship. The textbooks sold at the NCSU Bookstore are sold at a price that purely covers the cost of overhead — running the store. It only marks up its books by 20 percent, which is the cheapest campus bookstore in the state. Since the bookstore decided to only charge purely overhead, it has save students $2.7 million. Also, buy-back prices are something that the bookstore has no control over. They are nationally set, and thus we are under the rules determined by those above the University.

The letter also asks why can’t we rent books. Well, the inventory need-ed to carry the inventory for every class for every student would overfill the entire bookstore, including the merchandise portion upstairs. The bookstore also can’t rent the books due to the high concentration on the STEM fields. These fields are still actively being studied and new find-ings are being discovered, thus there are new books and new editions so frequently, that it is not economically feasible for the bookstore to provide this. If you still feel the need to rent books (which usually cost between 1/3-1/2 of the cost of the book any-way), there are private vendors such as Campusbuddy.com and Chegg.com.

Trisha Goodingjunior, zoology

Real UNC fans appalled at defacing of Yow memorial

I am a UNC-Chapel Hill student and fan. When I heard about the defacing of Kay Yow’s memorial, I was abso-lutely appalled and saddened. Yow was an inspiration and role model for all of us, not just those associated with N.C. State.

The reason I’m writing is because we’ve been hit with a barrage of in-sults and accusations blaming us for defacing the mural. If a UNC student or fan is responsible, then they are not a true Tar Heel at all, and I am deeply sorry. But, please remember that if this is so, it absolutely does not reflect the views of Carolina as a whole, and to label us as such would just be wrong. People on our campus have mourned her, too, and the actions of one person who may or may not be associated with UNC does not change that. All I’m asking is that this doesn’t become a petty rivalry where we become the scapegoat without proof. I’m sure you would want the same in a similar situation.

Rest in peace, coach.Caroline Troullissenior, public relations,

UNC-Chapel Hill

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“It was disrespectful to Kay Yow and to the NCSU community period because we are grieving for this pretty big loss. What do you expect from Carolina fans? They’re scoundrels.”

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“It was completely inappropriate for Carolina fans to disrespect a very serious issue such as Kay Yow’s death.”

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Cupcake Shoppe Bakery opened in July 2007, built on a foundation of old fam-ily recipes.

Making the CakeTom Reed arrives at the bakery at 5

a.m., five days a week to start the batter for the several hundred cupcakes needed that day. Before he begins he turns on the radio and dials it to 88.1.

“We listen to KNC every day,” the baker said.

Reed’s mornings are early, but not as early as other baking jobs he’s had. When Reed worked at another bakery in Cary, he sometimes had to be at work, making donuts for the day at midnight.

Reed said he’s happy to have traded donuts for cupcakes.

After he mixes the batter, Reed uses an ice cream scoop to place perfectly sized portions into industrial sized cupcake tins. When they’re full, the cupcakes go into a 325 degree over until they’re perfectly baked.

The cakes are only part of the equa-tion, though. Just as important is the mountain of buttercream frosting that tops each cupcake. After the cakes cool, each is topped with almost a half cup of frosting, piped on top in what Coleman calls the “signature swirl.”

Morning PrepSaturday morning, Coleman was busy

expertly piping lemon jelly into “Lemon Zinger” cupcakes while, across from her, Reed scooped batter into tins.

In the back of the kitchen stood Crys-tal Putirski, rolling out chocolate fon-dant and cutting it into ovals.

All three worked swiftly — not only were they prepping for that day, but on special orders for Super Bowl parties as well. About 40 orders for the limited-edition chocolate cupcakes with green-grass frosting had come in. Putirski’s fondant ovals, the beginnings of tiny footballs, were destined to top each one.

Holidays are another excuse for people to buy cupcakes and for Coleman to ex-periment with new flavors.

“For Christmas we did peppermint and eggnog,” she said. “For Thanksgiv-ing we did a pumpkin cupcake.”

When she opened the business, Cole-man said she expected Christmas to be her shop’s busiest season.

“We do a lot of teacher gifts and of-fice parties [for Christmas],” she said. “Christmas was busy, but Valentines day killed it.”

Cupcakes are a perfect gift because they’re “inexpensive but personal” ac-cording to Coleman. The bakery has already planned special flavors for the day — “Chocolate Truffle” and “Cham-pagne Strawberry.”

Coleman expects Feb. 14 to be even busier this year, since the holiday is on a Saturday.

“We’ll bring in extra staff,” she said.

Cupcake QuirksIn addition to holiday-themed cakes,

the bakery takes special orders for birth-days, parties and weddings. Coleman said these interactions with customers are her favorite part of the job.

“We work so closely with customers. We get to know their story,” she said.

Coleman has helped customers pro-pose to their girlfriends and helped de-sign the perfect compilation of wedding day cupcakes. But she gets some strange requests too.

“Darth Vader cupcakes — those were the strangest,” she said. The bakery also gets a lot of requests for cartoon charac-ters for children’s birthday parties.

Slightly stranger are the requests for gluten-free cupcakes. Coleman said she’d like to accommodate people with gluten allergies, but can’t find a recipe

that tastes good.“I don’t want to put something out

there that tastes bad,” she said.Then there are the orders that can’t

be avoided in an intensely competitive university city — team cupcakes. Sports fans can get cakes customized in their team’s colors. Most popular are Wolf-pack cupcakes, but Coleman said she gets orders for Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill too.

“Once we even got a request for Clem-son cupcakes, when they were playing State,” she said. “We made all these or-ange cupcakes but snuck a red Wolfpack cupcake in the box too. The customer said everyone loved it.”

And that’s just why Coleman is in the business.

She does admit that it’s hard work, though, and being surrounded by strawberry, red velvet and peanut but-

ter cupcakes all day can be wearing on the senses.

“Sometimes you leave here and all you want is salty Mexican food,” Coleman said. “But I bet not a week goes by with-out [eating] a cupcake.”

Of course Coleman, Reed, Putirski and the other Cupcake Shoppe Bakery staff can’t eat all the leftovers them-selves, so Coleman set up a partnerships with the Interfaith Food Shuttle.

“People need something sweet every now and then,” she said.

It’s a philosophy that defines the bak-ery.

“It’s fun! I have not regretted it a single day yet.”

Taste for yourself: Visit the Cupcake Shoppe Bakery’s open house Saturday Feb. 7 from noon to 5 p.m.

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SportsMcCauley one additional foul. Though the referees did not throw anyone out of the game, Williams sent Copeland to the locker room. Strangely, because Copeland was not available, Carolina’s Patrick Moody was allowed to take the free throws in his stead, a strange occurrence that could have been pivotal if the shots mattered.

In reality, however, they didn’t. Carolina out-shot the Pack 46-16 in the paint and surrendered a lead a few minutes in that it nev-er recovered. Though the team crawled within seven points of Carolina with several minutes left on the clock, a TV timeout removed every trace of momen-

tum. “We did a great job of fighting

back, but down the stretch we had a little conditioning prob-lem,” Fells said. “We’ll take it and move on.”

Tyler Hansbrough put up 31 points in his most productive game since November. N.C. State’s big men, Brandon Cost-ner and McCauley, couldn’t get it done, as Costner found him-self in foul trouble and McCauley had a poor shooting night.

Fells totaled two points in the first half but came alive for 20 in the second.

“[Fells] got us going,” Lowe said. “Our guys were playing off him. He was knocking the shots down. Our players have to un-derstand that we need to work off who is hot and getting things done. Today, that was him.”

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Track & Field teams compete in Carolina Classic in Chapel HillFreshman Tiayonna Blackmon claims 800-meter crown in second career meet

Daniel EllisDeputy Sports Editor

The track & field team traveled to Chapel Hill over the weekend to compete indoors at the Caro-lina Classic.

Several N.C. State athletes came out on top in the team’s second weekend in a row at North Carolina.

By competing in their respec-tive events, these athletes were able to prove themselves in one of the earliest meets of the in-door season.

“You’re just trying to go out there and run a good time and you want to help the team, but track & field is more of an indi-vidual race,” redshirt freshman runner Bobby Moldovan said. “You’re kind of just out there running by yourself.”

Freshman Tiayonna Blackmon placed f irst in the women’s 800-meter run with a time of 2

minutes, 17.92 seconds in only her second meet of the season.

“I was surprised, especially since I’ve only ran in a few meets so far” Blackmon said. “I’m try-ing as hard as I can to hit those [NCAA qualifying] marks”

Blackmon’s older sister, Ange-lina also claimed unofficial vic-tories in the one mile run and 3000-meter run.

“She did excellent. That’s just what is expected of her,” Tiay-onna Blackmon said of her sister. “She’s always pretty competitive in her running.”

Angelina Blackmon had to run unattached since her four years of eligibility are up for the indoor season.

Her participation in the meet last weekend was intended to keep her ready for when she returns to uniform during the outdoor season.

Aside from Angelina, State had top finishers in the 3000-meter run, with unattached runner Emily Pritt (9:56.44) and fresh-man Andie Cozzarelli (10:01.32) placing second and third, respec-tively.

“They’ve both been working hard and achieving what they set out to do,” Blackmon said.

Meanwhile, versatile athlete Mattie Bethea competed in the pentathlon, earning first place honors in the high jump with a season-high distance of 5’07.75”.

As part of the pentathlon, Bethea also participated in the shot put (third, 10.44m), long jump (third, 5.37m), 60-meter hurdles (fourth, 9.10 seconds) and 800-meter run (ninth, 2:43.60).

She finished fourth overall in the multi-faceted event with 3,521 points.

In addition, freshman Lawa-nda Henry remained perfect in five outings this season, securing the crown in the weight throw with her throw of 60’11.50” Fri-day.

Henry went on to win the shot put with a distance of 15.40m Saturday.

Sophomore Ashley Nea l also won in the triple jump on opening day with a distance of 36’09.00”.

On the men’s side, Bobby

Moldovan won the one mile run, crossing the finish line in 4:15.60.

“I wanted my time to be a little quicker,” Moldovan said. “Just because the race went out a little slow, I’m kind of pleased with where I ran.”

Moldovan’s f inish was six hundredths of a second quicker than Charlotte’s Da-kota Lowery.

“It was pretty close. He wasn’t too far behind me,” Moldovan said. “I was in about fourth with 100 meters or so to go, but then I just out-kicked everybody and pulled ahead.”

Aside from Moldovan, jumper Lamont Savage posted a distance of 7.18m in the long jump, also good for first place.

Junior Jason Jones, who finished fourth at the ACC Indoor Championships in 2008, showed off his throw-ing prowess at the meet, tak-ing titles in both the shot put (16.64m) and the weight throw (16.87m).

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cise, besting the Bulldogs and posting a season high of 48.700. Seaman scored a 9.875 to take first on the event and senior Ash-ley Shepard placed third.

Next up for the Pack is the Governor’s Cup at home against UNC, Maryland, Towson and New Hampshire Feb. 7.

Seaman has high hopes for State’s upcoming meets this

season.“I definitely think that we are a

195 team — we can do a lot better than we did [Friday],” she said. “It was a solid meet, but there are still some ups and downs that we need to fix. The skills are there. It is just a matter of coming into the competition gym and having the mindset that we are going to get it done. We have yet to do that. We have a lot more to show and a lot more to prove.”

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McCauley, Copeland scrum in final seconds of 93-76 loss

Kate ShefteSenior Staff Writer

Those who think the rivalry be-tween Tobacco Road opponents UNC and N.C. State has long since dried up might want to take a look at the tape from the end of Saturday afternoon’s game at the RBC Center.

In the waning minutes of a 93-76 win, UNC coach Roy Williams re-moved his starters from the game. Carolina senior Mike Copeland, who has played in just six games this season, went up to for a dunk with less than two seconds remaining in the game.

“They’re guys that haven’t played and want two points,” coach Sidney Lowe said. “You can’t fault a man for being in the game for 35 seconds and having a chance to score two points in an ACC game.”

The Wolfpack’s Ben McCauley took exception and pulled him to the floor. Copeland immediately grabbed his head and went after McCauley, and the referees were forced to break up the disturbance.

“It was a good foul, but I think the way he fell down … he didn’t really like that,” Wolfpack senior Courtney Fells said of Copeland. “There was no reason for a reaction like that, that’s what you have to expect. Ben did a great job of keeping his composure and not hitting him back.”

McCauley didn’t react when Cope-land came after him, saying he would have been an “idiot to take a swing” and earn a one-game suspension.

“He can do that on his own floor or whatever, but don’t come into our home building with the game over,

trying to dunk like that,” McCauley said.

In his own defense, McCauley pointed to the unwritten rules of eti-quette in college basketball, which al-low beaten teams to walk off the court

with pride still intact. “This team wouldn’t do something

like that, so why would we expect someone else to do that?” McCauley said. “When the game is over, the game is over. Let the clock run out.”

After consulting with Williams and Lowe, the referees distributed match-ing technical fouls and personal fouls to McCauley and Copeland and gave

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Top-ranked Bulldogs pound Pack in Reynolds Despite posting its highest score of the season, State loses to defending national champion

Emily Seck & Jonathan LaughrunSenior Staff Writers

The gymnastics team knew it would have to have its best meet of the season to even be competitive with No. 1 Georgia.

But despite its best score of the season, it wasn’t enough to top the 2008 national champions. The Wolfpack fell 195.000-193.150 to the Bulldogs Friday night at Reynolds Coliseum.

“I told [the team] congrat-ulations on improving over the last weekend but it still

wasn’t good enough,” coach Mark Stevenson said.

Junior Taylor Seaman and sophomore Brittney Hardiman had their best meets of the sea-son as they both earned t hei r h ig he s t a l l -around scores of t he yea r, posting a 39.275 and 38.900, re-spectively. Their s c ore s we re good enough to take second and third.

But the all-a rou nd w i n went to Geor-gia’s Courtney Kupets, a for-mer Olympian, who scored higher than 9.9 on three of her events.

State began the night on vault where the team recorded

its best score of the evening. Freshman Brooke Barr and Hardiman were the top per-formers for the Pack, placing third and fourth and scoring

9.850 and 9.825, respectively.

But State’s next rotation on bars provided several uncharacteristic mistakes, which led to a score below the Pack’s season average.

“In practice, the girls on bars never ever miss,” Barr said. “It is just a mental

game. When you get into a meet and people are watch-ing, everything changes. The bar group really has to work on getting focused and getting ready to hit.”

It didn’t get much better when State moved on to the balance beam, posting its lowest score of the evening. Freshman Jess Panza – injured during warm-ups at Michigan – was only able to compete on beam. Panza, one of the Pack’s best on the event, was still feel-ing the effects of her ankle in-jury and fell off the apparatus.

“She really wanted to go and she felt like she could, so we let her go,” Stevenson said. “The reason she missed the skill was because her push off foot was sore and it just didn’t push straight. So she ended up on the side of the beam. I think we will see her back on at least three events by [the Sweetheart [invitational].”

State ended the night on a high note with the floor exer-

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QUOTE OF THE DAY“Don’t come

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game over, trying to dunk

like that.”

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WHAT THE FANS ARE SAYING: “For him to be going up for a dunk in the !nal seconds of the game was unsportsmanlike, especially after they knew they had the game.”Katie Nehmfreshman, communications

“I can understand why he got frustrated, but on the other hand, what does it prove for him to get in a !ght?” “He got the foul, we got the technical, there was nothing left for him to prove.” Michael Trautmansophomore, communications

“Copeland didn’t really need to be going for that dunk,” Brown said. “He wanted to put up points in a big game against State, and I get that, but I thought McCauley’s response was uncalled for as well. It was an unnecessarily hard shove.” Kyle Brownsophomore, economics at UNC-Chapel Hill

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BRENT KITCHEN/TECHNICIANFreshman Brooke Barr skies during her vault routine this weekend. The Wolf-pack recorded its highest score of the season against No. 1 ranked Georgia.

“We have a lot more to show and a lot more

to prove.”

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LIFESTYLESEight is enough

The second set of octuplets ever recorded in the U.S. were born last week to a woman living in California. All eight babies are living, and seven are breathing unassisted. The woman’s mother said the woman received fertility treatments, but how she ended up with eight embryos is still unknown.

Some people, like bioethicist M. Sara Rosenthal, are questioning the ethics behind the situation.

“This is an outrageous situation that should not happen,” she said.

Doctors offered to selectively reduce the pregnancy but the woman refused.

SOURCE: CNN.COM

Touched for the very !rst time

First times are supposed to be awkward, not profitable. But 22-year-old Natalie Dylan may be depositing a $3.8 million check in her bank account soon. That is the highest bid Dylan received for her virginity, which she is auctioning off through the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada, where prostitution is legal. Dylan has not said whether or not she will accept the bid.

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Cut cals, gain memoryCan’t remember what you ate for

dinner last night? Well maybe you should be eating less. A new study’s results show that cutting calories can improve memory. The study asked 20 women to reduce calorie intake by 39 percent. Overall, their scores on memory tests rose 20 percent.

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Free drugsIf there was ever a time to quit

using brand name antibiotics and decongestants, it’s now — for those insured by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. The insurance company is waiving copays on generic prescriptions through June 30.

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Peppermint has long been a key ingredient in many can-dies and desserts, but pepper-mint also serves many medici-nal purposes. The peppermint plant contains an oil that hosts many beneficial compounds, the most important being menthol. Studies have shown that this oil is fairly effective at relieving ir-ritable bowel syndrome and ab-dominal pain, including cramp-ing, bloating and constipation. The oil blocks calcium channels, which has the effect of relax-ing the muscles on the intesti-nal walls. Peppermint can also temporarily relieve itching that insect bites cause, eczema and poison ivy rashes. Tea with pep-permint can reduce nausea and vomiting caused by pregnancy

and can be used as a mouthwash for babies with thrush (yeast in the mouth). Peppermint’s most powerful oil—menthol—has been shown to helpful in subdu-ing disease-producing bacteria, viruses and fungi. Pavel Kloucek, a scientist at the Czech Univer-sity of Life Science in Prague, has discovered two other mint families —- Mentha villosa and Faassen’s catnip -— that also have bacteria-fighting abilities. Furthermore, non-mint herb bluebeard and essential oils from horseradish, garlic, hyssop, basil, marjoram, oregano, winter sa-vory and various types of thyme showed antimicrobial activity.

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It’s everywhere — in soda, coffee, tea, energy drinks and pills. It’s easy to overlook how much caffeine people consume in everyday life. HealthNews conducted its second annual HealthSaver Caffeinated Cities survey, which ranked 20 met-ropolitan U.S. cities on overall levels of consumption, including specific categories such as cof-fee, cola, tea, sweets, pain reliev-ers, energy drinks and caffeine pills. It’s no surprise that the most popular caffeine-related product was coffee, which com-promised nearly half of the total caffeine consumption. Teas and colas took about 20 percent each while chocolate took 13 percent and pain relievers, energy drinks and caffeine pills totaled one percent each. The survey also showed that more men drank coffee than women in a 53 to 46

split. Older adults were found to drink more coffee — 54 percent between the ages of 45 and 54 — while ages 21-34 comprised only 29 percent. Also, 42 percent of those survey said coffee would be the most difficult caffeine prod-uct to give up. Cola followed at 17 percent and sweets at 16 percent. Forty percent thought of caffeine as “bad for you” and 28 percent said the stimulant is “good for you.” Though the top spot went to the Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater, Fla. area, Seattle, Wash. ranked first when bro-ken down to the coffee category alone. The survey was conducted by health care discount program HealthSaver in conjunction with Prince Market Research.

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Top caffeinated citiesColeman’s cupcakes please the palateBAKERY MAKES TREATS FOR ALL OCCASIONS

MEREDITH FAGGART/TECHNICIANA “Pretty In Pink” cupcake, a “Big Red” cupcake, and a “Brown Betty” cupcake are displayed on the counter of the Cupcake Shoppe Bakery on Glenwood Avenue.

Taylor McCuneFeatures Editor

The College of Management doesn’t offer Batter Making 101 or Frosting 205, but 2001 alumna in business Sara Coleman didn’t need a class to teach her how to turn cupcake baking into her dream job.

Coleman is the owner of the Cupcake Shoppe Bakery in downtown Raleigh, a store that deals almost exclusively in the tiny cakes.

“I just always liked sweets,” Coleman said. “Cupcakes are you own, individual dessert.”

Coleman is surrounded by the sweet treats almost every day, but she didn’t start off her

professional life as a baker. She did just what someone with a business degree is ‘supposed’ to do — she got a job in the corporate world. After a few years of working for Johnson and Johnson, Coleman decided to take the plunge and open a bakery.

She had no formal culinary training, but Coleman said that wasn’t a problem — she grew up watching her aunt make wedding cakes.

“Most of what I learned came from her,” she said.

The watch and learn method worked. The

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