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TECHNICIAN Raleigh, North Carolina technicianonline.com Ravi Chittilla & Mark Herring Staff Writer & Correspondent When Gov. Pat McCrory proposed his 2013-15 budget in March, his recommended $140 million cut to the UNC System sparked a debate about the role of government in public education. Though Chancellor Randy Woodson said he won’t make a final judgment of the budget until it passes the House, N.C. State is al- ready preparing to cut library services. At the height of the recession, North Carolina lawmakers cut more than $400 million from the UNC System due to reduced government revenue. In 2011, the state legislature demand- ed that N.C. State cut its budget by 15 percent. Since then, University administrators have scaled back programs, cut faculty positions, in- creased class sizes and nearly frozen faculty salaries. Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis said if he was chancellor of a UNC System school, he would find other sources of revenue to gain in- dependence from state government. Democrats in the N.C. House said the cuts are a threat to the state’s economy and warn the state is falling short of its constitutional obligation to keep education “as free as practicable.” The N.C. Senate budget will cross over to the House of Representatives May 16, and Dem- ocratic representa- tives said they fear UNC System cuts could be deeper than those pro- posed by McCrory. “[The cuts are] really even more than what they seem to be,” said Rep. Rick Glazier (D-Cumberland), who serves on the Appropriations g xm 3 Contact us at 866-857-3619 Representatives and Senators of North Carolina, Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the stu- dents, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer. Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag- nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number. You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System. We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them. Sincerely, ____________________ Cuts uncertain, NCSU prepares for worst Student group uses the power of protest Jake Moser News Editor A single person doesn’t have the ability change his or her gov- ernment, but as history shows, there is power in numbers. In 2011, Egyptian citizens overthrew their corrupt dictator after 30 years in office through the power of protest, start- ing a wave of demonstrations, civil wars and revolutions that flooded the Arab world. In 1963, more than 200,000 protesters marched on Wash- ington D.C. demanding civil and economic rights for Afri- can-Americans, leading to the signing of the Civil Rights Act. While the words of Martin Tuition increases hurt students throughout U.S. Jake Moser News Editor The cost of going to college has more than doubled over the past 30 years nationwide, but has the quali- ty of higher education followed suit? A major reason for this price in- crease is soaring national tuition rates which, on average, rose 4.8 percent this school year and 8.4 percent the year before, according to the College Board. This is not just a national prob- lem. College students around the world have protested rising college fees from Montreal, to Chile, to England. While N.C. State ranked sixth in USA Today and the Princeton Re- view’s list of best value public col- leges in 2013, the University is no exception when it comes to tuition hikes. In 2012, the UNC Board of Gover- nors approved a 9.8 percent tuition increase for in-state students at N.C. State, and Gov. Pat McCrory suggested a 12.3 percent increase for out-of-state students this past March, which was largely shot down by lawmakers on both aisles. Rising tuition is especially a con- cern for out-of-state students like Sara Kerr, a senior in science educa- tion from Bedford, Va. Kerr, who plans to remain in the state as a teacher after graduation, was born in North Carolina but is not a resident of the state. She said N.C. State makes her feel at home. Despite Kerr’s connection to the state, rising tuition has added stress to her college experience. “[Increasing tuition costs] made me rush through college so I can get out in a shorter time,” Kerr said. “I haven’t made as good of grades as I had hoped because I was trying to take 19 credit hours, and working to make sure I can pay for everything has also affected how much I can hang out with my friends.” Tsekai English, a senior in math- ematics from Cambridge, Mass. is also being pressured by tuition hikes to graduate quickly. “Graduating on time is always in the back of my mind because out-of- state tuition is so much more money and because it’s increasing more,” English said. “It really motivates me to finish my degree as fast as I can. I definitely still enjoy N.C. State, but I’m always thinking, ‘Is my finan- cial aid going to be enough? How many loans am I going to have to take out?’” The University blames a decrease in state aid over the past few years for its rising tuition, and with Gov. McCrory in office, many speculate the situation won’t get any better. Only two states in the U.S. have granted more funding to higher education in the past five years — Race to the Top sparks more debate Sara Awad Staff Writer A grand jury indicted 35 staff members from Atlanta Public Schools March 29, including former national superintendent of the year Beverly Hall, according to CNN. The staff members are charged with racketeering, theft by taking and making false statements. The scandal occurred after the state examined mysterious increases in test scores, which were allegedly due to cheating. James Martin, chemistry profes- sor and Board of Education member, said he thinks scandals like these are due to programs like Race to the Top. Funded by the 2009 Ameri- can Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Race to the Top asks states to compete for funding by improving scholastic achievement and creating plans for reform. President Barack Obama approved the program. Making education a race increases the chance schools will try to use shortcuts to show improvement, Martin said. “Anything in education if you tell CUTS continued page 2 UNION continued page 4 RACE continued page 4 TUITION continued page 2 insidetechnician viewpoint 8 features 5 classifieds 11 sports 12 Service with a smile: The Charles Lark story See page 5. Mediocrity kills the Pack See page 12. CHRIS RUPERT/TECHNICIAN Tom Ross, president of the UNC System, which manages the public universities in North Carolina, speaks in the Walnut Room of the Talley Student Center April 2, 2013. Ross spoke about Gov. 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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina

technicianonline.com

Ravi Chittilla & Mark HerringStaff Writer & Correspondent

When Gov. Pat McCrory proposed his 2013-15 budget in March, his recommended $140 million cut to the UNC System sparked a debate about the role of government in public education. Though Chancellor Randy Woodson said he won’t make a final judgment of the budget until it passes the House, N.C. State is al-ready preparing to cut library services.

At the height of the recession, North Carol ina l aw ma kers c ut more than $400 million from the UNC System due to reduced government revenue. In 2011, the state legislature demand-ed that N.C. State cut its budget by 15 percent. Since then, University administrators have scaled back programs, cut faculty positions, in-creased class sizes and nearly frozen

faculty salaries.Republican House Speaker Thom

Tillis said if he was chancellor of a UNC System school, he would find other sources of revenue to gain in-dependence from state government.

Democrats in the N.C. House said the cuts are a threat to the state’s economy and warn the state

is falling short of its constitutional obligation to keep education “as free as practicable.”

The N.C. Senate budget will cross over to the House of Representatives May 16, and Dem-ocratic representa-tives said they fear UNC System cuts could be deeper than those pro-

posed by McCrory.“[The cuts are] really even more

than what they seem to be,” said Rep. Rick Glazier (D-Cumberland), who serves on the Appropriations

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Contact us at 866-857-3619

Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the stu-dents, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag-nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them. Sincerely, ____________________

Cuts uncertain, NCSU prepares for worst Student

group uses

the power

of protest

Jake MoserNews Editor

A single person doesn’t have the ability change his or her gov-ernment, but as history shows, there is power in numbers.

In 2011, Egyptian citizens overthrew their corrupt dictator after 30 years in office through the power of protest, start-ing a wave of demonstrations, civil wars and revolutions that flooded the Arab world.

In 1963, more than 200,000 protesters marched on Wash-ington D.C. demanding civil and economic rights for Afri-can-Americans, leading to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

While the words of Martin

Tuition increases hurt students throughout U.S.Jake MoserNews Editor

The cost of going to college has more than doubled over the past 30 years nationwide, but has the quali-ty of higher education followed suit?

A major reason for this price in-crease is soaring national tuition rates which, on average, rose 4.8 percent this school year and 8.4 percent the year before, according to the College Board.

This is not just a national prob-lem. College students around the world have protested rising college fees from Montreal, to Chile, to England.

While N.C. State ranked sixth in USA Today and the Princeton Re-view’s list of best value public col-leges in 2013, the University is no exception when it comes to tuition hikes.

In 2012, the UNC Board of Gover-nors approved a 9.8 percent tuition

increase for in-state students at N.C. State, and Gov. Pat McCrory suggested a 12.3 percent increase for out-of-state students this past March, which was largely shot down by lawmakers on both aisles.

Rising tuition is especially a con-cern for out-of-state students like Sara Kerr, a senior in science educa-tion from Bedford, Va.

Kerr, who plans to remain in the state as a teacher after graduation, was born in North Carolina but is not a resident of the state. She said N.C. State makes her feel at home.

Despite Kerr’s connection to the state, rising tuition has added stress to her college experience.

“[Increasing tuition costs] made me rush through college so I can get out in a shorter time,” Kerr said. “I haven’t made as good of grades as I had hoped because I was trying to take 19 credit hours, and working to make sure I can pay for everything has also affected how much I can

hang out with my friends.”Tsekai English, a senior in math-

ematics from Cambridge, Mass. is also being pressured by tuition hikes to graduate quickly.

“Graduating on time is always in the back of my mind because out-of-state tuition is so much more money and because it’s increasing more,” English said. “It really motivates me to finish my degree as fast as I can. I definitely still enjoy N.C. State, but I’m always thinking, ‘Is my finan-cial aid going to be enough? How many loans am I going to have to take out?’”

The University blames a decrease in state aid over the past few years for its rising tuition, and with Gov. McCrory in office, many speculate the situation won’t get any better.

Only two states in the U.S. have granted more funding to higher education in the past five years —

Race to the Top sparks more debateSara AwadStaff Writer

A grand jury indicted 35 staff members from Atlanta Public Schools March 29, including former national superintendent of the year Beverly Hall, according to CNN. The staff members are charged with racketeering, theft by taking and making false statements.

The scandal occurred after the state examined mysterious increases in test scores, which were allegedly due to cheating.

James Martin, chemistry profes-sor and Board of Education member, said he thinks scandals like these are due to programs like Race to the Top. Funded by the 2009 Ameri-can Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Race to the Top asks states to

compete for funding by improving scholastic achievement and creating plans for reform. President Barack Obama approved the program.

Making education a race increases the chance schools will try to use shortcuts to show improvement, Martin said.

“Anything in education if you tell

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Service with a smile: The Charles Lark storySee page 5.

Mediocrity kills the PackSee page 12.

CHRIS RUPERT/TECHNICIANTom Ross, president of the UNC System, which manages the public universities in North Carolina, speaks in the Walnut Room of the Talley Student Center April 2, 2013. Ross spoke about Gov. Pat McCrory’s then recently proposed budget cuts.

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SIGN AND DELIVER THIS LETTER TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON YOUR OWN, OR DROP IT BY STUDENT MEDIA’S OFFICE AT 307 A WITHERSPOON STUDENT CENTER, AND THE TECHNICIAN WILL

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Taylor O’QuinnStaff Writer

Amidst government cuts to education, N.C. State has found a way to stay competi-tive and find funding.

As universities across the nation, such as Clemson University, Michigan State University and the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technol-ogy, seek private grants and partnerships to help offset drastic reductions in income, N.C. State is no exception.

Currently, 65 partners ei-ther rent office spaces or are headquartered on Centennial Campus, according to Leah Burton, director of partner-ship development on Centen-nial Campus.

“The whole idea of Centen-nial is to create a place where faculty and students can col-laborate with the government and corporations together,” Burton said.

STUDENTS AND PARTNERSHIPSThe question is of ten

asked: Are students only seeking a job through the partners on Centennial, or is academia also important to industry? Student Body President, Andy Walsh, said he hopes there’s a little bit of both.

“It’s important that the val-ues of our degrees are taken seriously,” Walsh said.

CEO of Research Triangle Park, Bob Geolas, said he be-lieves students are getting an education while also making an investment in a talent or skill that helps them in their future endeavors.

Subcommittee on Educa-tion. “I’m hearing rumors that the Senate budget will be less than the governor’s budget. That’s a rumor we don’t know. Those cuts are signif icant, but they are deeply serious in the context of the last three years of cuts. The cuts we’re talking about are not really $140 million in the grand scheme — it’s really two-thirds of a billion dollars of cuts that are now accumulating on an annual basis.”

The defense for high-quality and affordable edu-cation has attracted voices from both sides of the aisle, and some Republicans have taken issue with the magni-tude of the cuts proposed by McCrory.

Republican Sen. Tamara Barringer (Wake), who serves on the Education/Higher-Ed Committee, said she grew up in a poor house-hold and attributes her socio-economic transformation to the state’s education system. “I would not be where I am without UNC-Chapel Hill, where I was educated both at the law school and business school,” said Barringer, now a UNC-CH professor of ac-counting and legal studies. “I had a great number of rela-tives attend N.C. State and the other member institu-tions. … I really do believe I am an American success story. My first home had no indoor plumbing, and today I am a state senator. It was because of affordable educa-tion.”

Barringer is not alone in the Republican supermajority of

the North Carolina Gen-eral Assembly. At Educa-tion Day, an April 3 event that brought chancellors and lobbyists from every UNC System institu-tion together, Sen. Jeff Tarte (R-Mecklenburg)

launched a staunch defense for the university system, calling it “unequivocally our greatest asset we have in the state.”

“How can you be against education? Education is fundamental for everyone,” Tarte said. “It’s above politics. It’s not a party issue. It’s a ‘let’s educate our kids’ issue.’”

However, despite marginal Republican outcry against budget cuts to higher educa-tion, par-ty lead-ers st i l l call these cuts mi-nor. Sen. Tom Ap-odaca, a Republi-can busi-nessman from Western N.C., is among those who support the cuts.

“Let me tell you the good news: We’re not looking at severe cuts,” Apodaca said during Education Day. “I don’t know if we have any bad news. … The cuts are going to be minor compared to what they were in the past. [Overall] we like to see busi-ness principles in place and we like to see efficiency.”

Apodaca sits on the Senate Education/Higher-Ed Com-mittee and serves as co-chair of the Education/Higher-Ed Appropriations Committee, the same committee which will decide the severity of the cuts to the UNC System.

GOP senators Apodaca, Dan Soucek and Jerry Till-man, all co-chairs of the Edu-cation/Higher-Ed Appropria-tions Committee, refused to comment for this article.

The education debate has

taken on new forms of argu-mentation, and Glazier said he fears Republican attacks on education are neither con-structive nor in good taste.

“This is not a new fight, but it has taken on far more sin-ister and exponentially im-portant overtones because so much more is at stake,” Gla-zier said. “It’s one thing when the critics of public education are criticizing it to improve it, which we’ve always had, which is good. When you have critics who are seeking to undermine public educa-tion, they have a very differ-ent mission.

“When the funding deci-sions have eliminated all the extras and now we’re talk-

ing about how much of the base we’re go-i n g t o cut, those are very different discus-sions. We are fac-ing rea l questions

about the commitment of the state to the continued glob-ally competitive existence of the university system.”

Apodaca and his counter-parts are calling for more ef-ficiency, and as Tillis put it, UNC-System schools need to strive for efficiency.

“I would not say univer-sity-system schools are too dependent. We’re talking about moving the needle — in regard to state funding — a single-digit percentage point [roughly 5 percent],” Tillis said. “I don’t think we’re talk-ing much more than that.”

Many Republicans say there is still fat to cut in ad-ministrative overhead costs, but UNC System President Tom Ross argues the system cannot withstand more cuts without compromising qual-ity of education.

According to Ross, the UNC system is currently pro-

ducing 17 percent more de-grees while costing the state 17 percent less per degree.

“I believe those degrees have every bit of the ex-ac t sa me qua l it y t hat they had five years ago, if not stronger,” said Ross. The UNC System has been streamlining operations and cutting costs for the past decade, but the John Locke Foundation, a conservative think tank, stands by Mc-Crory’s budget. The founda-tion recommends for more cuts than McCrory’s budget overall, but its higher-edu-cation budget is identical to McCrory’s.

“We did cut kindergarten through 12 and Community College appropriations in our budget,” said Sarah Curry, the John Locke Foundation’s director of Fiscal Policy Stud-ies. “We didn’t touch univer-sities because of increasing tuition. But in K through 12, there are a few things we think we can go without, like trying to cut administrations or administrative waste. They can use black and white cop-ies as opposed to color cop-ies.”

But the ramifications of budget cuts to the university system may be more than changing color copies to black and white.

Sarah Timberlake, a grad-uate student in communi-cation and member of the University Library Commit-tee, said N.C. State Librar-ies is preparing for the cuts and is considering cutting student services and journal subscriptions.

“We’re preparing for a 3- to 5-percent budget cut across the University both in academic in non-academic sectors,” Timberlake said. “What this means for the li-brary is a $570,000 to more than $930,000 cut from the current operating budget.”

Timberlake said that N.C. State Libraries is ranked second-to-last in academic journal subscriptions for a library system of its size.

“To function as a library you have to have research. … We can’t cut that too much, so our commit-tee is talking about cut-ting overnight hours in the Hunt and D.H. Hill libraries,” Timberlake said. “They just can’t af-ford to have them operat-ing 24-hours/five-days-a-week right now.”

Timberlake said Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Susan Nutter has her hands tied in sticking up to the General Assem-bly. According to Tim-berlake, Nutter wants to see students fight against proposed cuts.

“Susan Nutter told me opposition has to come from the students,” Tim-berlake said. “We as stu-dents must approach this issue with urgency. Our administration is at the mercy of the legislature. We as students must re-act. This movement must come from the students; while the faculty and staff want to do everything to help, it is up to us to make a move.”

In 2001, which was the last time NCSU Libraries proposed cutting hours, 500 students participated in a sit-in at the D.H. Hill Library and then marched at midnight to the chan-cellor’s residence to de-mand that the library stay open all night. That same spring, more than 5,000 students marched to the state capitol to protest a $125 million cut to the UNC System.

As a result of student protests and public out-cry, NCSU Libraries did not cut any hours, and the state legislature declined to pass what would have been a significant cut to the UNC System.

Wyoming and North Dakota — and North Carolina has cut average spending per stu-dent in the UNC System by $1,710 since 2008, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Despite low-er funding, the UNC System

has churned out 17

percent more degrees, ac-cording to system president, Tom Ross.

The trend in North Caro-lina is to cut state funding, jack up tuition and force uni-versity system chancellors to look for funding elsewhere, usually in corporate partner-ships, alumni donations and public grants.

However, some of N.C. State’s efforts to increase tu-

ition and cost of attending the University aren’t due to a lack of aid, but rather, to fund construction projects around campus.

In 2009, the Board of Trust-ees approved a 6.5 percent tuition hike and student fee increase, and leaders of the board claimed financing the Talley Student Center reno-vations was a major reason, according to a News14 article.

This justification for more buildings instead of more faculty represents a trend in higher education, which sug-gests the quality of education isn’t increasing with the ris-ing price tag.

Instead, according to a Forbes article in August 2012, universities across the coun-try are spending this extra tu-ition money on state-of-the-art gyms and dining facilities, among other similar projects.

N.C. State is following that model, and over the past two years, the University has ren-ovated the Atrium food court and Carmichael gym.

Another problem posed by the rising cost of college is whether or not students with financial aid will be able to afford it.

The Center For College Af-fordability and Productivity released a study in 2011 say-ing that, while financial aid has increased over the years, universities tend to artifi-cially inf late tuition when more aid is available, thus “capturing” that aid for other purposes.

The CCAP study broke this concept down into an easily understandable analogy: If a good or service costs $100, and the government gives consumers a $50 subsidy, then the price of the product is cut in half, and people who previously couldn’t afford it now can. However, this idea of making the good more affordable only works if the seller doesn’t increase the price because of the subsidy. If the seller changes the price

to $150, the product doesn’t become more affordable. It only equates to more money for the seller.

The study concludes that the affordability of college h a s b e e n compro-m i s e d b y rising costs, and financial a id hasn’t been able to keep up.

Accord-ing to Krista Domnick, director of the N.C. State Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, the University actually reserved a quarter of its increased tuition revenue for students who need finan-cial aid.

“N.C. State ... has set aside a portion of the campus ini-tiated tuition increases for the purposes of f inancial aid. For example, 25 percent of the increase for 2013-14 has been set aside to provide need-based financial assis-tance to students,” Domnick said. “While the additional funding does help to offset the additional need students incur due to higher tuition rates, it does not completely compensate for it.”

As N.C. State follows the national trend of increasing education costs, the state’s university system remains a “good deal.” Only Alaska and Wyoming provide more state-government funding per university student than North Carolina does. But as the cost to attend college

increases, the socioeconomic gap widens, too. A study by Harvard University in 1995 suggests that increases in tu-ition in the 1980s and 1990s “saw the greatest widening of

the gaps in enrollment between h ig h- a nd low-income youth.”

Access to a college edu-cation goes hand-in-hand with

economic success and social mobility in the U.S. North Carolina politicians attribute the state’s transformation from a textile and agricul-tural economy into a mod-ern, high-tech economy to the state’s university system.

While state funding for higher education has suf-fered since the Great Reces-sion, the question of whether to continue austerity persists. According to a Pew Research Center poll in 2011, 57 per-cent of Americans say the higher education system in the country “fails to provide good value for the money students and their families spend,” and four-in-ten col-lege presidents agree with that statement. The question now is if North Carolinians, educators and policy makers agree as well.

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Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag-nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them. Sincerely, ____________________

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSSend all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Sam DeGrave at [email protected]

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Partnership

campuses:

helping or

hurting?

SIGN AND DELIVER THIS LETTER TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON YOUR OWN, OR DROP IT BY STUDENT MEDIA’S OFFICE AT 307 A WITHERSPOON STUDENT CENTER, AND THE TECHNICIAN WILL DELIVER IT ON YOUR BEHALF.

“This is not a new

fight, but it has taken

on far more sinister

and exponentially

important

overtones.”Rep. Rick Glazier

“ ... As the cost

to attend college

increases, the

socioeconomic

gap widens, too.”

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NewsThe goal of land-grant uni-

versities such as N.C. State is to help students find a job while gaining the experience necessary for their future career goals, according to Geolas.

“Students are very smart and very capable and they can protect themselves very well,” Geolas said.

Almost al l partner companies on Centen-nial hire stu-dent interns, provide co-ops or spon-sor projects in hopes to turn these opportuni-ties into full t i m e e m -ployment, Burton said.

Rebecca Borttoff, chief people officer for Bandwith, one of the partners located on Centennial, said students who participate in co-ops, internships, special projects and other Bandwidth student programs are most likely to be hired.

Borttoff also said students are more likely to be hired if they have demonstrated imagination, ingenuity and the ability to learn quickly and contribute.

“The reason why centen-nial started was because of the need for ongoing research with faculty and students,”

Geolas said. Partnership campuses help

the University remain promi-nent in research and job cre-ation, despite governmental cuts to education, Chancellor Randy Woodson said.

CURRENT PARTNERS Eastman Chemical, based

in Kingsport, Tenn., held their grand opening on Fri-day to celebrate their partner-ing with Centennial.

Eastman Chemical de-velops vari-ous types of polymer and sustainable products, according to Gary Luce, Eastman Chemical’s technology liaison.

Jim Rog-e r s , C E O of Eastman Chemical, said he and

his team went through a rig-orous process to select N.C. State as their partner from the top research schools across the country.

Virginia Tech, the Univer-sity of Minnesota and the University of Illinois were among the other top con-tenders competing with N.C. State, Luce said.

Luce said Eastman Chemi-cal ultimately decided to partner with N.C. State for three reasons—the people, the science and the use of innovative problem-solving skills.

“Our decision had so very much to do with what the

people at N.C. State were like to work with,” Rogers said.

Rogers sa id Eastman Chemical’s $10 million de-cision to partner with N.C. State should benefit both par-ties. Eastman Chemical will soon be offering internships and co-ops in exchange for student and faculty research and input for their company.

THE FUTURE OF CENTENNIALWhat’s next for Centenni-

al— is the university slowly privatizing and exploiting students? With a lot less funding coming from the state government, N.C. State is trying to keep costs low by looking for support from the private sector.

“We’re not privatizing, but maximizing in way of public dollars,” Burton said.

Chancellor Woodson said he has absolutely no plans to privatize the University. Woodson said he views part-nership campuses as an op-portunity to move companies and the economy forward through the University dur-ing the grand opening of the University’s new partnership with Eastman Chemical on April 18.

“The industry has discov-ered over time that there’s a lot of brainpower on cam-puses,” Gene Pinder, director of marketing for Centennial Campus, said.

Pinder said N.C. State has only “scratched the surface” of working closely with RTP and summed up the idea of a partnership campus: “It’s all about how we can all help each other.”

Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag-nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them. Sincerely, ____________________

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me it’s a race where you are going to get it done quickly, I’m going to look you in your face and tell you, ‘No, we’re

not,’ or ‘It’s not

going to be good education,’” Martin said. “You don’t race to education. Education is a slow, painfully slow process.”

Kenneth Bernstein, Daily Kos education contributor and a Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher, said he’s not happy with RTT

either.“People with no experi-

ence in education are driving policy and they cannot un-derstand what teaching and learning are,” Bernstein said.

Educators can’t reach an agreement on how RTT will affect education or how stu-

dents will fare by the time they reach college.

“Everything comes down to how it is implemented be-cause policies don’t teach,” said Natasha Ushomirsky, K-12 Senior Policy and Data Analyst for Education Trust.

RTT must remain in com-pliance with No Child Left Behind, the most recent re-authorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The 2001 act established national stan-dardized testing and higher teacher credentials.

Supporters of the act ex-pected 100 percent of stu-dents to reach proficiency in the areas of reading and math by 2014, but that goal will not likely be met.

Eighty-two percent of schools would fail under those standards, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told CNN in 2011.

Bernstein said that “NCLB was based on a false premise” and that Race to the Top is NCLB “on steroids,” worsen-ing the problem.

Ushomirsky said schools under NCLB failed to meet standards if they missed one criterion for adequate yearly progress. As a result, the gov-ernment treated the lowest performing schools just the same as it would treat schools failing by a narrow margin.

“There was no differentia-tion,” Ushomirsky said.

Many also criticize No Child Left Behind for its emphasis on standardized tests. Virginia, for example, lowered the number of cor-rect responses needed for students to pass their middle school history examination, giving off an appearance of improvement, Bernstein said. The exam, though, was not included in the adequate yearly progress calculation.

Other tactics to defy the system include not adding students—held back students or those who intended to ac-quire a GED after dropping out of high school—to the overall dropout rate, Bern-stein said. This contributed to the “Texas Miracle,” which formed the basis for NCLB after scores on Texas state tests rose, while dropouts decreased, according to CBS.

Scores rose because they were preventing certain stu-dents from taking the tests, Bernstein said.

“There needs to be [assess-ment] in education, but with the NCLB you needed to put a number to everything and so hence you get your standard-ized tests,” Martin said.

The focus on standardized tests created recognition-based learners rather than critical thinkers, Martin said.

“In principal, we want NCLB absolutely in that we want to pay attention to the learning of all children, but

narrowly def ined basics-based education is not the way to improve learning,” Martin said. “The two-fold curse of NCLB was the my-thology of the standardiza-tion – assign a number to everything and that tells you quality – and then secondly that you could do all this with existing resources, neither of which were true.”

NCLB was still a “big step forward” for students, ac-cording to Ushomirsky. The law required the nation to pay attention to outcomes and emphasized education for all groups of students for the first time. The act also made more data available for com-parisons with other parts of the world.

The problem is NCLB sets different standards for each of the 50 states, Ushomirsky said.

“Now the conversation is shifting with the Common Core State Standards,” Ush-omirsky said.

CCSS, developed by the National Governor’s Asso-ciation and the Council of Chief State School Officers, asks states to adopt the same standards across the nation. Forty-five states have fol-lowed suit.

If implemented correctly, these standards could im-prove the rigor of school cur-riculums and increase college readiness.

Luther King Jr., Mahatma Ghandi and other visionar-ies have been relegated to the history books, the spirit of activism and protest is alive, even in North Carolina.

However, activists in the state aren’t revolutionar-ies trying to stage a coup or overhaul the political system — they are students fighting back against cuts to public education.

The North Carolina Stu-dent Power Union was cre-ated by UNC System students in the summer of 2012 to organize students, promote their interests, and “take the power back from the admin-istrators and the corporate interests that they represent,” according to the group’s web-site.

The NCPSU has no formal leadership, but instead fo-cuses on the collective voice of students working together.

Hannah Allison, a graduate student in social work at N.C. State and NCSPU member, says the union’s goals revolve around student representa-tion at a state level.

“The important thing for us is forming a powerful voice for students and creating an organization that is student led and student run,” Allison said. “It’s really important for students to have representa-tion is decisions are made about their future.”

While the NCSPU is less than a year old, the group was formerly known as the North Carolina Defend Education Coalition, which defined student activism for years in the state.

The NCDEC was founded in 2010 by college students after budget cuts and tuition hikes, among other measures, were enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly and the Board of Governors.

The group organized sev-eral actions throughout the next two years, advocating equal access to public educa-tion for undocumented stu-dents, and protesting cuts to education as well as far right efforts to re-segregate Wake County schools.

Despite using peaceful methods to enact change, the

NCDEC wasn’t simply a col-lection of picketing students, casually protesting the state government.

Numerous members were arrested during a civil dis-obedience action in 2011, setting a tone of dedicated advocacy.

Perhaps the coalition’s de-fining moment came at the UNC Board of Governor’s meeting at Chapel Hill in February 2012, where the board voted to remove a tu-ition cap set in 2006.

Outside the meeting, the NCDEC along with 200 stu-dents from across the state, as well as other unions, de-manded representation.

“The constitution of North Carolina says that all political power is supposed to be used for the good of the whole, not the whims of a few,” William Baker, president of the NC-NAACP said at the protest. “When you cut budgets in the General Assembly that make education less and less something that everyone can afford...you are not governing for the good of the whole, you are undermining the consti-tution and we are going to challenge you on that.”

When the meeting started students were denied access to the BOG room and pro-tested in the lobby.

“Those seats are our seats,” and “shame on you,” students chanted.

Andrew Payne, former N.C. State student body president, was among them.

Payne, who graduated from the University with a degree in watershed hydrol-ogy in 2001 and a degree in political science in 2003, was a member of the BOG at the

time and reserved a seat at the meeting.

Payne was initially inside observing the conference but left to use the restroom. When he returned, he was barred from entering.

“I tried to get back to my seat and next thing you know, I was getting arrested,” Payne said.

Payne can’t recall what he was charged with, but it was “something along the lines of trespassing.” The charges were ultimately dropped.

“It’s odd getting arrested for trespassing at an event where you reserved a seat,” Payne said.

Eventually, the protest-ers forced their way into the meeting room and took it over, criticizing the tuition increase. They continued with their own meeting as BOG members exited.

While the BOG still voted to increase tuition (more than $7,500 over four years for N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill and hikes across the board for UNC System schools) the group says it was successful, “illustrating what an education that was run by and for the people would look like,” according to the NCSPU website.

The coalition changed their name to the NCSPU in the summer of 2012 to ref lect their new goal: To build unions of workers and students in order to give the suppressed a voice.

The decision to join forces with other activist groups is the reason the power union is effective compared to other student organizations, like Student Government, accord-ing to sophomore economics

major at UNC Charlotte, Ty-ler Copeland.

“Student Government is important, but the Student Power Union works with other organizations, like the NC-NAACP, workers unions and other student organiza-tions directly, and we’re ac-tually involved in activism,” Copeland said.

Payne, a former member of SG himself, agrees, although he “[hasn’t] really followed SG that much” since gradu-ating.

“It seems like to me the stu-dent power union people care about the issue and are will-ing to do something about it, SG would rather be a part of a social club,” Payne said. “It’s pretty sad because I haven’t heard them doing anything about the issue, especially when you pay student fees for the organization to rep-resent you and they don’t do anything about you. It seems to be a theme of governments in general.”

Recently, the NCSPU has focused on Gov. Pat McCro-ry’s proposed budget, which recommends a $138 million cut to the UNC System. They are also

The group is also a critic of McCrory’s Budget Director, Art Pope, and Republican- suggested legislature, like the Senate bill 666, which would force students to vote in their hometown.

Otherwise, their parents will forego $2,500 in tax benefits, effectively cutting

out the student vote. The power union’s efforts

to combat the budget and other proposed measures will culminate in an organized rally on Wednesday, May 1, also known as May Day or International Workers’ Day.

Unions across the world use this day to celebrate the in-ternational labor movement, where workers fought for bet-ter conditions from their em-ployers and government.

The NCPSU and other ac-tivists will meet at the N.C. State Bell Tower, march to the Civitas Institute (a conserva-tive think tank in downtown Raleigh) for a mini-rally and join with other protesters at Moore Square before finally arriving at the North Caro-lina General Assembly.

Dhruv Pathak, a fresh-man history major at UNC Greensboro, is looking for-ward to protesting the state government’s stance on higher education at the May Day rally.

“A lot of people feel like they’ve been oppressed for a long time, and they can fi-nally get together and share their beliefs,” Pathak said. “It’s empowering to feel like your voice is actually being heard.”

The group may be against heavy odds in their attempt to limit cuts to education, but they have succeeded in unlikely situations before, according to Molly Mc-Donough, a freshman in women’s and gender studies

at N.C. State and member of the NCPSU.

“This year there was a gen-eral public outcry against the idea of closing certain campuses (as recommended by Republican lawmakers),” McDonough said. “The NC-SPU played a big part in get-ting them to back off from that idea.”

This success, and the fact that students are organizing for a cause has garnered ap-preciation from N.C. State faculty, like Barbara Zelter, a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Social Work.

According to Zelter, the Student Power Union is prominent not only as a stu-dent group, but as an activist movement in general.

“The NCSPU is one of the most impressive student-led organizations I have seen since the sixties,” Zelter said. “These student leaders are serious, sacrificial and smart. They are doing some of the best organizing in the state against the current re-gressive legislature, pushing back against its anti-public education initiatives in par-ticular.”

The NCSPU have proved that students have a voice and can make a change, and although downtown Raleigh is a far cry from Tiananmen Square, the NCSPU is work-ing to ensure that voice will always be heard.

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Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag-nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them. Sincerely, ____________________

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRITTANY PETERSONYoung Chilean citizens destroy a local telephone company store. They were cleared out minutes later by police special forces using tear gas. While the majority of protesters were peaceful, a group of a few hundred people caused damage to both property and the image of the movement.

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Young LeeCorrespondent

When residents of Shelby, N.C. woke up last fall to something strange in their neighborhood, they didn’t call the Ghostbusters. They sought help from the N.C. State Cleveland County Co-operative Extension.

Hundreds of vultures de-scended upon a roughly two-block area of the small city in western North Caro-lina and terrified residents. The vultures were ready to make Shelby their new home for the colder months as part of their annual migration. Unable to shoot the federally protected turkey vultures and black vultures, which made up most of the vulture nui-sance, residents looked for other options to try to ward

off the large flying pests.Kristen Duren, senior in

the extension education program, stepped in to help rid the town of avian annoy-ances.

“My internship [with the cooperative extension de-partment] started Jan. 11 and during the second week or so we got a phone call from a resident saying she had vultures hanging out in her backyard,” Duren said. “When she called, there were about 200 of them… and she was like, ‘I don’t know what else to do and I don’t think this is safe. How do we get them to leave this area?’”

Greg Traywick, the director of the West District Cleveland extension pro-gram, brought up Shelby ’s

vulture problem during a weekly progress meeting within the department. He asked if anyone had worked with vultures in the past.

“I said I volunteered when I was little, at the [Carolina] Raptor Center and I know a couple things but not a whole lot,” Duren said. “And he goes, ‘Good you’re in charge of things.’”

With Traywick’s help, Du-ren found ways to chase the unwelcome

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Alden EarlyStaff Writer

When education leaders in North Carolina are faced with a problem, they often ask themselves, “What would Bill Friday do?”

William C. Friday, 92, died Oct. 12, 2012 at his home in Chapel Hill. Friday retired as president of the UNC Sys-tem in 1986. He attempted to establish a common bond among the public schools, colleges and universities in the state.

Perhaps the best way Friday could think to begin his jour-ney was to bind together the two most influential universi-

ties in the system: N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill.

Friday had strong ties with N.C. State and gradu-ated from State College in 1941 with a degree in textiles manufacturing.

He later earned a law de-gree from UNC-CH before serving as assistant dean of students at UNC-CH from 1948 until 1951.

Friday was officially sworn in as the UNC System presi-dent during a ceremony at Reynolds Coliseum in 1957.

“It is with you, the people of North Carolina, that I have entered into solemn com-pact today. It is to you I have pledged my mind, my heart,

my hands and my strength,” Friday said.

As UNC System president, Friday worked to expand the system from three members to its current total of 17 con-stituent institutions.

The three charter members were UNC-CH, N.C. State College and the Woman’s College of North Carolina, which is now UNC Greens-boro.

Before Friday’s tenure as president, state universities were more often combatants than companions.

Friday united schools across the state and helped

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Service with a smile: The Charles Lark storyWill E. BrooksFeatures Editor

When Charles Lark trav-eled to downtown Raleigh to grab a meal at a soup kitchen last June, he was attacked by a racist wielding a metal rod.

Despite his string of mis-fortune, Lark, who works as a cook for University Dining, has been able to maintain a positive attitude, gaining him fans from both students and staff who appreciate his cook-ing and love of life.

KICKED WHILE HE WAS DOWNWhen students leave for the

summer, many University Dining workers are forced to look for work elsewhere. It is a matter of economy — with-out students the school can’t afford workers. Last summer, Lark happened to be one of those workers.

Without a job, Lark trav-el led room-to-room. He stayed with friends most nights, but when he needed food, the ac-complished cook had to look to char-ity.

As he was l e a v i n g a soup kitchen near Moore Squ a re on June 7, a man shouted at him from the city park.

The shouting man was Jonathan Wayne Meadows, a homeless 26-year-old white man. He approached Lark, a

52-year-old black man.“First, [Meadows] came

up to me and said ‘You’re a n***** and I’m going to kill you,’” Lark said. “I said, ‘Well then shoot me.’ So he looked at me and he whipped out the pipe.

Meadows severed half of Lark’s left ear, put a lash in his head and fractured his elbow. After fighting off his attacker, Lark said he ran af-ter Meadows, who then began to shout for help.

Lark said Meadows’ girl-friend, a black woman, ap-proached him to help after the attack. An EMS vehicle took Lark to a hospital, where he got stitches for his ear in-jury. Police arrested Meadows that day. He was later convict-ed for assault and sentenced to three years in prison.

Without a job, a home or health insurance, an injured Lark had difficulty finding anyone to listen to his story.

“Nobody was able to say ‘Hey, how are you? Here’s

a helpi ng hand,’” Lark said.

Lark said he went to WRAL and ABC 11 to tell his story following the attack. Bot h s ta-t ions told h i m t h e

story, if picked up, would take 10 days to process. Neither re-ported on the attack.

“If it happened on cam-pus then it would have

been breaking news, but it happened downtown and a homeless guy hit me, and I was — not homeless, but semi-homeless — I was tran-sient, so I guess that kind of annulled it.”

PAYING IT FORWARDLark said his father would

oftentimes tell him to not get involved in anything unless he could help another human being by doing it. Lark found a way to help by returning to University Dining as a cook.

More than anything, Lark said he likes the idea that he can make a difference in a person’s day.

“I always greet [guests] with a nice ‘How do you do?’

and I smile, say, ‘Have a great day,’” Lark said. “I know it’s helping patrons, other peo-ple, other human beings.”

Taylor Cook, a sophomore in biomedical engineering, said she goes to Clark Din-ing Hall about three times a week for breakfast. Cook said she heads to the omelet sta-tion, where Lark works, dur-ing every visit for food and a conversation.

“I always get [an omelet], and they are always the best because Charles Lark makes them,” Cook said

Cook created a Facebook fan page for Lark in March. She said the idea came to her on the way back from Clark one day after being encour-

aged by Lark’s kind words and his omelet.

“He’s just so likeable, he’s just the kind of guy I could sit and talk to for hours,” Cook said.

Cook isn’t the only person who enjoys talking with Lark. Thirty-five other users liked the Facebook page to declare two things: that Charles Lark will make the best omelet you have ever eaten and that he will also make your day.

Cook said although she speaks with Lark several times a week, she wasn’t aware of the assault.

“We’ve had so many con-versations and he just doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would complain about any-

thing,” Cook said.Lark said the page flattered

him when he first heard about it.

“I think it’s great,” Lark said. “Honestly, I’m in a state of shock, I don’t know how else to say it.”

Drew Connor, a sophomore in psychology, said he typi-cally goes to Clark three times a day. He said Lark’s company isn’t the only thing that keeps him in the food line.

“I’ll come in and ask for an omelet with extra cheese and he’ll do Ricotta cheese, he’ll explain how this is better than the other way.” Connor said. “He talks about places

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FRIDAY INSTITUTEWilliam C. Friday speaks at his retirement reception. Friday retired in 1986.

Friday’s legacy grounded in education

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Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag-nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them.

Sincerely, ____________________

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he’s cooked before and he’ll tell interesting sto-ries.”

In 1989, he walked from his hometown in Brook-lyn to Washington D.C. to join tens of thousands of people in the Housing Now! march to protest the shortage of affordable housing.

In addition to cafeterias in D.C., Lark said he has also cooked in cafeterias of Daily News, in New

York, N.Y., the N.C. General Assembly and Meredith Col-lege.

Charles said he wants to continue cooking in Raleigh, but as summer approaches, Lark said he is uncertain where the next few months will bring him.

However, many students hope Lark won’t go too far.

“If everybody was like Charles Lark we would all live in a much better world,” Connor said. “A world with friendly people and good omelets.”

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establish one of the premier public education networks in the United States.

C.D. Spangler, Friday’s successor as UNC System president, said Friday will be remembered as “the most significant education leader in North Carolina of the 20th Century.”

Former Gov. Bev Perdue spoke at Friday’s memorial service in 2012.

“He simply believed in education,” Perdue said. “He

believed that for all of us, not some of us, education was the silver bullet that could change our lives. During Dr. Fri-day’s tenure, the percentage of North Carolinians with at least a bachelor’s degree tripled, because he worked on making that happen.”

Perdue said Friday’s lead-ership carried on after his retirement as UNC System president.

When faced with a $3.1 billion bond referendum in 2000, she said Friday told her to “do it for North Carolina and do it for our future.”

Friday not only trans-formed the university sys-

tem, but also his leadership contributed in the develop-ment of Research Triangle Park, revolutionizing the economy of the state, shift-ing it from a largely agricul-tural economy to a center for technology and innovation. Former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford said that Friday’s influence on the state is unmatched by any other North Carolinian.

“There’s nobody else who has impacted N.C. State over that period of time than any-body else in North Carolina,” Stafford said. “He overcame many obstacles in educa-tion in North Carolina, and

though he didn’t do it alone, he was able to rally everyone around progress.”

In a 2003 interview with N.C. State Magazine, Friday reflected on his years as UNC president, and added his ren-dition of a famous Winston Churchill line.

“Did I reach out as far as I could? Did I serve as many people as I could? Did I give back as much as I could, and did I do this with convic-tion?” Friday said. “If you can say those things, answer those things, then you’ll have made a difference in this world. I think that’s why we’re all here.”

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Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag-nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them.

Sincerely, ____________________

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Indeed, enough is enough. And no, I am not talking about the redundancy of

the letters to the North Caro-lina General Assembly, which you probably have noticed are on every page of this issue.

Don’t worry, I will

not patronize you by using this letter from the editor as a soapbox for the importance

of higher education. If you are taking the time to read Tech-nician, I’d wager you prob-ably care about education and are at least somewhat familiar with the Gov. Pat McCrory’s proposed $140 million bud-get cut to the UNC System.

That being said, what I will do is ask you to take a min-ute, if you have not done so already, and read the letter directly to the left. It was not an easy decision to run these letters on every page. How-ever, if the GA’s proposed budget cut is passed, it will

impact the entirety of Techni-cian’s readership.

For that reason, I have one last favor to ask of you. Please sign and then cut or neatly rip that letter out of the paper and bring it by the Student Media office, which is located on the third floor of Wither-spoon Student Center. From here, Technician will send every letter it receives to the legislators out to “defund” our futures.

Editorial

It has been nearly a year since North Carolin-ians passed Amend-

ment One, illegalizing not only same-sex marriage, but also prohibiting same-sex do-mestic partnerships and civil unions.

But the amendment did not pass due to a lack of effort.

“The GLBT-Community Alliance as a student orga-nization hosted numerous events on their own and in collaboration with other groups to educate individuals and to help register people to vote” Justine Hollingshead,

director of the N.C. State GLBT

Center, said. A Pack Poll released in July

found 68 percent of students who planned on voting were opposed to Amendment One. Unfortunately, Wake County was one of only eight counties to vote against the amend-ment, thus it passed with 61 percent of the vote.

While our gay marriage legislation is not receiving the national attention that the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 are, we recognize Amendment One as just as much of a constitu-tional issue.

In fact, our Amendment One bears extraordinary

resemblance to California’s Proposition 8. Both define marriage as a union solely between a man and a wom-an in their respective states. California’s legislation over-turned a previous law that said same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.

Our legislation, on the oth-er hand, only reinforced anti-gay marriage sentiments, as marriage in North Carolina was already defined as be-tween a man and a woman. Because of this, Amendment One was a slap in the face to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered North Caro-linians and their supporters.

The amendment not only violates our civil rights, but it promotes discrimination. There is no statewide law pro-tecting GLBT North Carolin-ians from being evicted from their homes or fired from their jobs. Additionally, pro-hibiting same-sex marriage also prohibits same-sex cou-ples from filing their taxes jointly.

Though Amendment One is no longer up for debate, it is important that we continue discuss it rather than simply accept it.

One way marriage equality advocates continually raise awareness is through periodi-cal events. The GLBT Center of Raleigh hosts forums, lun-cheons, book clubs and sup-port groups for the various members of the GLBT com-munity. These events are held mostly in private, but every year the center hosts Out! Ra-leigh, a free, public festival on

Fayetteville Street. This year’s festival takes place May 4 and will include live music and speakers who share their sto-ries and advocate for change.

While the GLBT Cen-ter shows support with its traditional festival, several North Carolina churches have shown their support by breaking tradition. Pullen Memorial Baptist Church on Hillsborough Street and Green Street United Meth-odist Church in Winston-Salem are advocating for gay marriage by refusing to wed heterosexual couples. By making these surprising deci-sions, these forward-thinking churches are paving the way for others.

While increasing citizen support is important in the movement toward marriage equality, government backing is also essential. Rep. Debo-rah Ross (D-Wake), who worked against Amendment

One, said, “I hope that it will be repealed, but given the makeup of the General As-sembly, I am not optimistic.”

Other members of the General Assembly are more hopeful, including Rep. Dar-ren Jackson (D-Wake).

“I do believe it will one day be repealed, but it will take a big change of representation in Raleigh to start the process to repeal,” said Jackson, who also spoke and voted against Amendment One.

Technician appreciates the efforts made by everyone, from citizens to government officials, in support of gay marriage. In concurrence with Jackson’s comments, we hope we will be there when Amendment One is finally repealed.

Though Techni-cian ’s editoria l board won’t say

it wants to see Chancellor Randy Woodson in tights, it does want him to be the hero in these economically precarious times. Amid the proposed budget cuts, tuition increases, and stag-nant funding, N.C. State’s administrators have been vocal about the challenges ahead and how they have — and will — handle them.

A LOOK BACKAdministrators have

been busy bracing their departments for the worst. As reported in the News & Observer, the College of Natural Resources has identified a potential buyer — who is yet to be named — for its 80,000-acre Hoff-mann Forest. The forest is valued between $120-150 million. The revenue from the sale would be reinvested in stocks.

Regardless of whether this is a financially, education-ally and environmentally sound decision, it shows desperation. It’s not likely CNR would sell such a mas-sive asset and resource if administrators weren’t wor-ried about future funding.

Last September, the University struck a deal with Eastman Chemical Company. The company agreed to give $10 million

in research funding in what is being called an “intellec-tual property agreement.” The chemical company will have greater control of intel-lectual property rights from research completed in the Eastman Innovation Center on Centennial Campus, ac-cording to the Triangle Busi-ness Journal, and the benefit to students will be access to new technology and industry validation.

As another example, the Poole College of Manage-ment’s BB&T Program for the Study of Free Markets and Institutions is not only a mouthful, but a means for in-doctrinating students too. Its goal, according to the PCoM website, is to “... resolve the disconnection between the perception of capitalism as an immoral economic system and the higher eco-nomic standard of living it produces.”

Economics 305, a course supported by the program, purports to help students understand how economic freedom and political free-dom are connected. On the other end of the spectrum, PCoM has yet to announce a course called “A closer look at Marxian economics.”

Finally, the Board of Trust-ees approved a $330 tuition increase effective fall 2013. In the coming five years, the increase is expected to grow to $1,168.

PREDICTIONSTechnician sees imminent

program and faculty cuts. We can expect to see more partnerships between the University (and its depart-ments) and businesses. But hopefully, administrators will keep student interests in mind while signing contracts.

But not all is doom and gloom. An administrative task force responsible for a strategic plan for 2011-2020 proposed that N.C. State hire more leading scholars and in-crease the number of tenure-track faculty. It is important that the University hires scholars in all departments, not just for engineering.

Lastly, we expect that the political ingredients in ad-ministrative decision-mak-ing bubble up and boil over, especially in the short-term. The new state government drew the eyes and ire of stu-dents and has, likely to its own chagrin, revived activ-ism. But because students are becoming more politically aware and vocal, the UNC System will likely do more lobbying in the coming year to preserve federal and state funding and keep down costs.

The next year will be an uphill battle. On second thought, textiles students — get to work on tights and a cape with an embossed “R” for “Randy.”

May Day is the real Guy Fawkes Day. Hollywood

may have attached the images of the Guy Fawkes mask and the Fifth of November to revolutionary ferment, but if any day actually stands for such a sentiment, it’s May 1, International Workers’ Day, commonly known as May Day.

May Day commemorates the Haymarket Affair of 1886 in Chicago during which po-lice opened fire on a public assembly during a general strike for the eight-hour workday after an unidenti-fied person threw a bomb at them. In the international-ly-publicized trials that fol-lowed, eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy, among whom seven were sen-tenced to death, despite over-whelming evidence that none of them could have thrown the bomb. This led to world-wide outrage from workers’ movements and promoted the Haymarket anarchists to the status of martyrs.

Soon, around the world, May Day became an occa-sion for demonstrations and strikes. To counter its popu-larity, the United States gov-ernment made May 1 “Ameri-canization Day” in 1921, and even today, May 1 is a minor legal holiday (though not a federal holiday) here under the name of “Loyalty Day.”

Thus, though May Day has its roots in the U.S., unlike

more than 80 other nations in the world, it is not an of-ficial national holiday. From the days of some of the largest May Day marches during the Great Depression, May Day had waned in significance by the start of this century. How-ever, in 2006, in what may have been the largest day of protest in U.S. history, mas-sive migrant marches on May 1 reignited the tradition. By May Day 2012, riding on the wave of the Occupy Move-ment, International Work-ers’ Day had been restored as a focal point in the struggle for the liberty and well-being of the common person.

After a May Day march in Durham last year, May Day Triangle NC is organizing a demonstration in Raleigh this year. Leaving at 4 p.m. from Moore Square, the march will go through downtown, voic-ing demands for the rights of workers, women, the GLBTQ community and immigrants, reaching the N.C. Legislature for a rally, teach-ins and mu-sic.

However, students are lead-ing the way in celebrating May Day. The North Caro-lina Student Power Union has organized a march for edu-cation from the Bell Tower which will join the general march in Moore Square.

Technician stands in soli-darity with this effort to defend our education. With a brutal budget cut of about $140 million to the UNC Sys-

tem proposed by Gov. Pat McCrory, students need to get angry. One day we may not have the luxury of a sheltered university environment, and so, out of basic self-interest, we should demand that our education not be slashed and privatized to atrophy.

Moreover, this fight is connected to many others that May Day agitates for, because of their common economic base. If we take action to defend education, we’re continuing the ethos that won us the eight-hour-working day, other employ-ee benefits and our social safety net. And fighting for any such social institution, in the end, is to the benefit of all other public services, such as education.

Standing on the gallows, in the final moments of his life, Haymarket anarchist August Spies shouted out, “There will come a day when our silence will speak louder than the voices you throttle today.” We stu-dents, though, are still in a position of power. Our voices have not been throt-tled, and there is no reason that we should be silent. Thus, we call on students to converge at the Bell Tower at 2 p.m. on May 1, and — for the love of ourselves, for the love of learning, for the love of the world — speak out loud and clear.

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A call to action for May Day

One year later, we wait for Amendment One to be repealed

Do us all a favor: Cut it out

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Sam DeGraveEditor-in-Chief

The unsigned editorials are the opinions of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and are the responsibility of the editor-in-chief.

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Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stagnant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a mat-ter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them. Sincerely, ____________________

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If you were walking down Hillsborough Street on April 20,

you may have noticed a few things. Sure, y o u m a y have noticed the leftovers on the pave-ment from a long, prior n i g h t o f partying.

However, if you made it far enough to see the Bell Tow-er, you probably would have been shocked to see a hoard of people surrounding Raleigh’s music refuge, Schoolkids Re-cords.

There are three words to ex-plain this: Record Store Day.

Record Store Day is an in-

ternational tradition that just celebrated its six-year anni-versary. It serves as a way to celebrate music with fans, artists and independently owned record stores.

Record stores all over the country host in-store con-certs and typically have the best deals of the year. If you’re a music lover, it is something that you cannot bear to miss.

The current owner and manager of the store, Stephen Judge, revealed that this year was no different. In fact 2012 was Schoolkids’ most profit-able year to date , with sales 40 percent higher than last year. Fans were so eager about the day that there was a line of them waiting for the store to open at 6 a.m.

The most impressive fans of the day were the two guys who camped outside of the store roughing a thunder-storm for the incredibly rare Dave Matthews Band box set, which Schoolkids was fortu-nate enough to have two of.

However, next year’s Re-cord Store Day will quite different from the last few because Schoolkids has been looking for a new location. During the past two years, Schoolkids has known their location will change due to a new hotel that will grace the Bell Tower’s line of vision .

Schoolkids does not know exactly where its future headquarters will be, but the desire to stay connected with the University is obvi-

ous because of the company’s history. After speaking with Judge, an alumnus, I was quickly reassured the future of Schoolkids is anything but bleak.

In fact, it seems as though the timing of this move may actually work in favor of the store because of the ambi-tious hopes of expansion. In the years to come, Judge hopes Schoolkids not only will still be the music lover’s sanctuary, but also a live-music venue with a bar.

Not only would you still be able to thumb through your favorite vinyls, but you could also listen to a great live band while sipping on a re-freshing beverage. Judge has been looking for other Hill-

sborough Street locations as well as venues in downtown Raleigh.

Schoolkids brings a very organic feel to the street. While Hillsborough Street is getting increasingly cluttered with franchises , Schoolkids, based in Raleigh, is keeping our spending local.

When you enter the store, you are suddenly confronted with posters of all of the lo-cal shows you have the op-portunity to attend. You flip through the record stacks and find albums by bands that would not be sold at Target. You talk to the employees and find out they were once or still are N.C. State students.

Schoolkids Records has been a staple of N.C. State for

almost 40 years now. It hous-es multiple different locations along Hillsborough Street. It has always had a strong tie to the University and perhaps an even stronger tie to the stu-dent population.

I know from personal ex-perience whenever a new CD is released or I have the urge to add a new record to my collection, I don’t have to look much further than Schoolkids. It has already become a local hangout for music enthusiasts. Hope-fully that will never change, no matter where it is located.

I didn’t even make it to the door of Sadlack’s Heroes before I knew I

was out of place. I’d never eaten at the tiny

red restau-rant before, but last week I joined a friend to in-vestigate the more than 30-year-old Hillsbor-ough Street

icon. We parked somewhat illegally in the back — the parking lot behind Sadlack’s almost never has open spots — and walked confidently toward the door, phones in hand and dressed in preppy colors.

We couldn’t have stood out more. As we walked through the outdoor seating section toward the entrance, I felt

the stares of several darkly clad regulars. These people had beards, and they looked rough. I quickened my pace, checked to make sure my friend hadn’t been hit by a stray dart, and went inside.

Immediately, I was hit with a strong feeling that this place had a soul. “So this is Sadlack’s,” I thought as I looked around at the eclectic haven for anything anti-mainstream. All the men had long hair, and the air smelled strongly of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

I found out that if I’d walked in at this time last year, I would have been met with a large banner appealing to people to go out and vote against Amendment One.

Indeed, the enterprise has an essence that cannot be captured by one label or flavor. Rather, it’s a unique

amalgamation of different cultural colors and spirits that somehow fits naturally into its niche on Hillsbor-ough Street, in North Caro-lina, rather than jutting out.

Our bartender stood si-lently staring into space when he wasn’t fixing someone’s drink. I’ve heard about the restaurant’s reputation plenty of times, but it appeared as if alcohol — not marijuana — was the only substance in-toxicating the people around us. Everyone was smiling, and quickly my friend and I forgot we stood out.

We ordered a basket of sweet potato fries, and after drowning them in the ac-companying apple butter, inhaled them in rapid succes-sion. I quickly concluded that Sadlack’s will never go out of business because of its food.

The next day I returned

and talked with David , one of the bartenders there. I was surprised to find that N.C. State students don’t of-ten make their way down to the restaurant. Though the next-youngest customer had at least 15 years on me, the place felt like a college bar.

Nevertheless, David said design majors are about the only college students who come to Sadlack’s — and even those aren’t that com-mon.

Af ter speaking brief ly with David, I got to meet the owner, a tiny, energetic woman named Rose. The first thing I wanted to find out was how she’d seen the restaurant change over the years, but according to her, it hasn’t. “Every day’s the same for me,” she said with a slight Midwestern accent.

However, what she has seen

change are her customers. She guided me through the punk phase of the ‘80s, the grunge phase of the ‘90s and on to hipsters today. She said that the ‘90s were her favorite years, because no one was afraid to be different.

Everyone is the same now, she said, rolling her eyes. “All the girls especially — they’ve all got such long hair.”

When I asked her what was one thing she wanted to com-municate to the N.C. State body as a whole, I thought she’d respond along the same lines as David, expressing her frustrations with the lack of student customers.

Instead, she answered with this: “Never be afraid to take a chance.”

“People live in so much fear these days,” Rose said. “Even I feel like I didn’t take enough chances.”

This is coming from a woman who bought a restau-rant without even a day’s ex-perience as a waitress. After leaving her job as a toxicol-ogy lab technician for DOW chemical, Rose moved to Ra-leigh with her husband. One year of boredom later, she bought Sadlack’s.

Now, 29 years later, Rose has to leave her street cor-ner by Dec. 31 of this year to make way for a new hotel. She doesn’t know what will happen to the restaurant — several offers in downtown Raleigh have fallen through. She’s losing hope that Sad-lack’s will continue to exist after this year.

I encourage you to visit this restaurant before it leaves Hillsborough Street. It will certainly be an unforgettable experience.

Sadlack’s: Hillsborough’s mortal hero

Schoolkids still breaking Records

Joseph HaveyStaff Columnist

Lauren NoriegaStaff Columnist

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Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Tom Apodaca see clients at Budget Cuts hair salon.Derrick Freeland, junior in social work

The future of Hillsborough StreetAn eight-story luxury hotel is going

to replace the businesses on the block of Hillsborough Street between Enterprise Street and Maiden Lane. These include Bell Tower Mart, the restaurant Sad-lack’s Heroes, art supply store Buddha’s Belly and Raleigh’s only independent record store, Schoolkids Records. N.C. State sold the plot to real estate groups Bell View Partners and The Bernstein Companies in 2011 without any ad-vance notice about the sale to the busi-nesses housed in them, and now, they have until the end of the year to clear out. We understand that the money ac-quired through the sale of the university is crucial in these dire economic times.

However, it is our viewpoint that a price tag cannot be put on culture, and that is what many of these businesses bring to us, more so than maybe anything in our vicinity. We lament this impending ousting and scarring of Hillsborough Street’s classic, distinct flavor and local economy from the N.C. State commu-nity, and possibly even Raleigh. So for the future, we urge the University to be extremely wary of selling off what makes our community special and rich in a way money cannot measure.

Apart from the two columns on this page, do check out a third one about Buddha’s Belly on www.TechnicianOn-line.com.

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Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six per-cent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 per-cent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stagnant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them. Sincerely, ____________________

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guests out of the city. “[The vultures] were com-

ing in during the day and [would] sit around for a cou-ple hours chitchatting,” Du-ren said. “Then they would go off for a while only to come back and roost, which is when they come and sleep for the night.”

Duren said the turkey vul-tures and black vultures, hail-ing from northern areas such as New York and Canada, typically migrate to southern areas such as Florida. These vultures had cut their trip short upon finding Florida-like weather in Shelby.

“Animals, just like people, can be lazy, so they think, ‘Why do I want to f ly an extra 500 miles to go down to Florida when it’s Florida weather here?’” Duren said.

Dealing with this problem was not an easy task, Duren said.

In addition to the un-nerving appearance of the large black creatures, with wings spanning up to about seven feet, many residents expressed concerns of de-preciating home values and recounted stories of vultures eating pet food and trash.

“All the feces and all the ‘yuck’ they bring increase the chance of spreading E. Coli in the area,” Duren said. “They are eating dead things so they are a hazard. Black vultures are attracted to bright shiny things and they’ll pull and pick at the shiny things. So some residents were left with leaks in their roofs.”

Although she said she was only 10 when she first started working at the Carolina Rap-tor Center, the experience equipped her with knowledge

others didn’t have.For example, although it

may be some people’s first instinct to startle the birds, according to Duren, this may be one of the worst ideas for dealing with vultures.

“You’re not supposed to scare them because they vom-it when they get scared,” Du-ren said. “That’s one of those things when you’re a kid that just gets glued in your head.”

According to Duren, one resident tried to take care of the vultures by himself — by using a flare gun.

“[He] waited until ... it was starting to become dusk and all the vultures got into the area and then he fired that flare gun,” Duren said. “In-stead of leaving, all the vul-tures proceeded to vomit on him. It’s just what [vultures] do as part of their biological mechanism. They think, ‘I’m scared. I’m going to vomit and maybe predators will eat that instead of me.’”

However, most humans don’t have a taste for vulture puke and find the experi-ence rather disgusting. Fur-thermore, vulture vomit can damage the paint on cars and houses.

After a meeting with some of the residents affected by the vulture problem, Duren created an education bro-chure and, after conducting a needs assessment, came up with a few solutions.

Under her and the exten-sion education program’s direction, residents chopped down dead trees that at-tracted the birds. She also developed another scare tac-tic—an effigy that sends the message to vultures that they were not welcome.

“[The effigy] is a vulture prop from a movie studio,” Duren said. “We put it head-down and wings out. It looks like a it’s a snared bird.”

Duren said she got the idea from U.S. Department of Ag-riculture Wildlife Biologists who have done research on vultures.

As part of the extension education program’s budget, Duren bought three vulture props and set up a loaner program allowing residents to rent out the effigies for up to two weeks before having to renew them.

“We had six residents check them out over the course of my internship and none of them really needed it for any longer than two weeks,” Du-ren said. “They all brought them back and were like, ‘that worked great. I put it up and never saw [the vultures] again.’”

There are no longer any vultures in Shelby accord-ing to Duren, but some of the vultures have moved, in smaller groups, to places around the Shelby area.

Although Duren remains on call for residents who have questions, she officially ended her relationship with the extension April 6.

Duren said she has mixed feelings about the experi-ence, especially the idea of being known as “the vulture lady,” due to national radio and television coverage, but she said she is thankful for the experience.

“This was a very unique op-portunity that I don’t think many of our seniors get a chance to have,” Duren said. “Being on national televi-sion and national radio a few times prepares you on a dif-ferent level to be an adult and having to talk to people and educate them and tell them about what you’re doing in a professional manner ... I like that I was able to do it. It was a good opportunity.”

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NATALIE CLAUNCH/TECHNICIANKristen Duren, a senior in extension education and intern at Cleveland County Cooperative Extension, works to control vulture populations in Shelby, N.C. Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures both took residence in the area and became a nuisance to residents.

Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag-nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them.

Sincerely, ____________________

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nation: “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”

His last and most memo-rable speech came just eight weeks before his death, at the inaugural Espy Awards.

Valvano said everybody should take time to laugh, to think and to cry. He also said that it is important to know

where you came from, where you are and where you want to be.

He also announced that, with ESPN’s support, he start-ed the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research, an orga-nization that has since raised more than $120 million. “Cancer can take away all my physical abilities,” Valvano said, closing his Espy Award speech. “It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my

heart and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.”

Though his body has been buried at Oakwood Cem-etery for two decades, his spirit, his enthusiasm and his never-give-up mentality has been alive ever since he stepped foot onto N.C. State’s campus.

JIMMY Vcontinued from page 12

ers – a la Virginia – and put up a fight against tough com-petition. O’Brien should have gone at least 9-3, rather than 7-5, and, honestly, he prob-ably would have kept his job. When you lose on last-second punt returns and desperation passes and lose to below av-erage teams, when Director of Athletics Debbie Yow has

set a precedent of greatness, coaches won’t survive long at N.C. State.

Fans are tired of looking up to the likes of Duke and Carolina, but if a program hasn’t “arrived” there’s no need for posting billboards or running corny introduction videos. Greatness isn’t simply handed out on a silver platter, waiting for someone to grab it. It’s earned.

A team can’t win on talent alone: There’s no “I” in team.

Whether it’s baseball, vol-leyball, cricket, basketball or football, a slogan or mindset that “you’re the best” won’t lead to “top-dog” status.

State fans are itching to reclaim titles and reach the Promised Land, but the pro-gram isn’t there—yet. It’s time will come, but it’s not “our time.”

MEDIOCREcontinued from page 12

SIGN AND DELIVER THIS LETTER TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON YOUR OWN, OR DROP IT BY STUDENT MEDIA’S OFFICE AT 307 A WITHERSPOON STUDENT CENTER, AND THE TECHNICIAN WILL DELIVER IT ON YOUR BEHALF.

Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the students, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stag-nant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them.

Sincerely, ____________________

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Daniel WilsonStaff Writer

Former men’s basketball coach Jim Valvano died April 28, 1993 af-ter a long battle with cancer. While Sunday marked the 20th anniver-sary of his death, he will always be remembered by Wolfpack fans for his life and perseverance.

After a five-year stint as the head coach for the Iona Gaels, the New York City native was hired in March of 1980 to take the reins as head of the Wolfpack.

Despite having large shoes to fill in the wake of former head coach Norm Sloan, Valvano never lost sight of his ultimate goal: winning the NCAA Championship.

Valvano envisioned this goal to the point where he would set aside one practice out of the season to cut down the net, a tournament tradi-tion.

The Rutgers alum struggled in his first year at the helm, leading the Wolfpack to a 14-13 overall re-cord and a 4-10, seventh place ACC finish.

Valvano would reach the post-season in the 1981-82 campaign as a 22-10 record gave State an NCAA bid. However, The Pack was defeated by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, put-ting Valvano’s dreams of a cham-pionship on hold.

Valvano’s team entered the 1982-83 campaign hardly a cham-pionship contender, especially since it belonged to the same con-ference as the reigning national champions, the North Carolina Tar Heels.

State entered the 1983 ACC tournament tied for third in the conference with Maryland, but with an 8-6 conference record, it was unlikely the team would receive an NCAA tour-nament bid.

“For us, it was a do-or-die ACC tournament,” former Wolf-pack guard Derrick Whit-tenberg said. “Coach made us aware that if we didn’t win at least two games, it was very possible that we would not make it to the NCAA tournament.”

It was at the tournament in Atlanta that the phrase “Cardiac Pack” was born.

The philosophy of the mantra

was simple: Survive and Advance.“It’s a simple concept really,” Val-

vano explained in his autobiography They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead. “Just win the game you play as op-posed to building toward something down the road.”

A f ter ea r n i ng comeback w i ns over Wake Forest, UNC and Virginia, Va lva no f ina l ly earned the right to cut down the nets at the ACC tourna-ment.

“Obviously we were very happy and excited, but we weren’t sur-pr i s e d ,” W h i t-tenberg said. “We had talked about being in this situation, and that makes the difference.” The Wolfpack’s shining moment came on April 4, 1983 when, af-ter surviving close calls against Pepperdine, UNLV, Virginia and Georgia, they defeated the highly praised “Phi Slamma Jamma” crew from Houston on a last-second slam dunk by Lorenzo Charles to win the NCAA Championship, 54-52. “Coach Valvano really set the focus and the tone for us,” Whittenberg said. “People are still talking about that championship 30 years ago.”

Valvano became a tournament icon, rushing up and down the court looking for someone to hug. Finally, he had his championship. Valvano continued to coach the Pack until 1990, when he was asked to resign due to multiple academic-

related allegations that forced the uni-versity to be placed on probation, bar-ring the team from the 1990 NCAA tournament.

A f ter leav i ng State’s basketball program, Valvano broadcasted for ESPN and ABC Sports and worked closely with Dick Vitale, earning the

duo’s nickname, “the Killer Vees.” Valvano worked in broadcasting

until 1992 when the former coach was diagnosed with metastatic ad-enocarcinoma, a type of skin cancer.

In the weeks leading to his death, he delivered two speeches that have defined his fight with cancer.

The first took place at Reynolds Coliseum on Feb. 21, 1993 with members of the 1983

championship team celebrating its 10th an-

niversary. “We did not think Jim

was ever going to step foot in the gym after leaving here on

such a sour note,” Whittenberg said. “For him to come back to the arena and still be a part of N.C. State, I thought that was very, very special.”

In that address, he spoke the words that would forever ring in the hearts of Wolfpack

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COUNTDOWN• 4 days until baseball takes on Presbyterian College

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N.C. State athletics during the 2012-13 season, overall, were a bust.

Basketball was ranked as high as No. 6 and football was highly

touted. To put it lightly, they both failed. Players opted to leave school early for the NFL and NBA draft, players transferred, and it sent the Wolfpack faithful into a coma.

The aura of State being a second-class program is alive and well. N.C. State sh*t is real, not just a Twitter handle.

Women’s basketball’s 2012-13 slogan, “Our Time,” was sadly mis-timed and made the program look adolescent. If it’s a team’s “time,” the team doesn’t finish with a 17-17 re-cord, 7-11 in its own conference, and its head coach doesn’t get canned at season’s end.

Better yet, “our state,” was a com-plete joke. It’s not “our state” just because the administration thinks its athletic program has “arrived” or its teams look promising on pa-per. It’s a joke, and the University is now mocked, especially in the ACC.

With arguably the most talent — and the “best” chance to win a third national championship — head coach Mark Gottfried failed to hone some of the most talent players in the country. The team didn’t even make it out of the first round of the

NCAA Tournament or break the top 25 to finish the year.

The team, ranked as high as No. 6, lost to Temple in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Players, like senior forwards Richard Howell and Scott Wood, deserved a better end to their time with the Wolfpack.

Recently transferred guard Rod-ney Purvis left the team, and all but one starter either graduated or de-

clared for the NBA Draft. One year after a Sweet-16 birth and a season with much promise, Gottfried is forced to start over.

And after six seasons and a 45-35 mediocre record, former head foot-ball coach Tom O’Brien was fired. Football’s streak against bitter rival North Carolina was snapped this season, in heartbreaking fashion.

It was time. Many felt it was

coming, especially after the loss to the Tar Heels and the unfortu-nate smackdown from Virginia on Homecoming. Once again, a team filled with talent and promise came up short.

Like with any sports team, you should take care of the bottom feed-

Remembering the legend: Jim Valvano

Representatives and Senators of North Carolina,

Enough is enough. Our University is dying. No, it is being killed — by budget cuts taking place within a systemic attack on public services. But we, the stu-dents, faculty and staff of the UNC System, will not put up with this any longer.

Sen. Tom Apodaca, if you had graduated from N.C. State when you got your bachelor’s degree, your tuition would have been six percent of what we pay today, and even adjusting for inflation, 18 percent of that. Cuts have kept faculty and staff pay nearly stagnant for years, as class sizes and contingent faculty have swelled in number.

You recently decided to eliminate North Carolina’s estate tax, which will help only 140 families in the state, while costing it more than $60 million every year. Point being, there is enough money — it’s just a matter of how you choose to use it. Right now, you’re using it to the harm of the many; the many being us, whose futures depend on the UNC System.

We demand you stop your assault on education. If you defund our universities, we will defend them.

Sincerely, ____________________

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Mediocrity kills the PackTOM O’BRIEN:Record at State: 40-35

2012-2013 record: 7-5

Preseaon rank: No. 25, according to Sports Illustrated

MARK GOTTFRIED:Record at State: 48-24

2012-2013 record: 24-11

Preseaon rank: No. 6, according to USA Today and Assoicated Press Top-25 polls

KELLIE HARPER:Record at State: 70-64

2012-2013 record: 17-17

Preseaon rank: Not ranked

RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANGreg Moore, a junior in sport management, holds his hands over his face after N.C. State fell to Temple during the second round of the NCAA Tournament at the University of Dayton Friday March 22, 2013.

Jonathan StoutSenior Staff Writer

PHOTOS BY JOHN JOYNERPHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BRYCE HART

“It cannot touch

my mind, it

cannot touch

my heart, and it

cannot touch my

soul.”Jim Valvano, former head

basketball coach

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JIMMY V continued page 11

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