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DAVE KUZDRALL/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVESAn estimated 5,000 marchers took Hillsborough Street by storm on their way downtown to protest possible UNC System budget cuts of $125 million on April 5, 2001. Students from other UNC System schools joined in the N.C. State effort.
Students and collective action:
Tim GorskiStaff Writer
In light of the proposed $135 million budget cuts to the UNC System, the N.C. Student Power Union, an advocacy group for North Carolina college students, is organizing two protests and an informative session about the ramifications of such dras-tic cuts.
The budget cuts, which will most likely be approved by the Republican super-majority in the North Carolina General Assem-bly, have been a trend in recent years.
Two years ago, N.C. State’s budget was cut by 15 percent due to budget cuts to the UNC System’s budget. In 2011, the system lost more than $400 million in funding.
Students and orga n i z ers at N.C. State have a history of pro-testing to let our politicians know that great cuts to the university system will not hap-pen without a fight.
Andrew Payne, a graduate of N.C. State and former president of the As-
sociation of Student Governments, commented on his recollections of student opposition to budget
cuts while he was president. In 2001, t he university sys-tem was fac-ing a proposed $125 mi l l ion worth of cuts. Within 10 days of this news, Payne sent out
a mass email to all N.C. State stu-dents, visited UNC System cam-puses and organized 5,000 person march down Hillsborough Street.
The student body president at the time, Derryl Willie, was at the march. “The University doesn’t get behind much, but when we com-bine, faculty, staff and students
“The constitution
says education
should be as free as
practicable.”Andrew Payne, NCSU alum
New SBP to improve campus communication
GREG WILSON/TECHNICIANStudent Body President elect Matthew Williams looks to make improving communication on campus his main concern when he takes office this summer.
Will E. BrooksDeputy News Editor
As Matt Williams set foot onto N.C. State’s campus less than two years ago, he recalled a longtime dream: to become the University’s student body president.
Williams thought the dream he cooked up as an elementary school student in Raleigh had been lost in his first year at North Caro-lina A&T, but he was wrong. Last Wednes-day he strolled campus as the student body’s President-elect, and he couldn’t be more eager.
“Once I actually transferred, I thought the dream was over,” Williams said. “I was like ‘You have to be here freshman year if you want to run for student body president, you have to get those connections.’”
Following Wednesday’s results, Williams sat down with one of the people he connected with — Andy Walsh — to discuss his plans for office.
“The first night after I won, me and Andy went out and talked,” Williams said. “So we started the mini-transition process.”
Williams said he will focus on commu-
nication between Student Government and all students — most importantly a comprehensive website.
“I think that’s the one thing that can be a lasting legacy for not just students now, but for students in the future to have that place where they can always know what is going on here at N.C. State,” Williams said. “We need something university-run, university-maintained, but mainly run by students.”
Williams said he intends for a universal cal-endar, University news updates and announce-ments.
A universal site for students exists, labeled “Current Students” on the University website, but is seldom updated. The goal is to make a website worthy of being the homepage for all students, Williams said.
“Now we just need to work with University Communications and make it happen,” Williams said. “The communication is not where it needs to be when it comes to letting students know ev-erything that’s going on, something like this can
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Kevin SchaeferStaff Writer
By the time you graduate, you probably will have taken at least one online course. Online courses are changing the way students learn, and conversely, the way professors teach.
Contrary to common belief, many professors enjoy working within the online current.
Lavon Page, a mathematics pro-fessor, said he enjoys teaching on-line courses because of the tools he can use.
“When I first started teaching online classes, people asked me if teaching online works as well as teaching in a classroom,” Page said. “Even 15 years ago my stock re-sponse was that there is no contest.”
WebAssign and MyMathLab offer methods different from textbooks for students to practice learning material. These programs enable professors to evaluate students’ progress and assess their skills us-ing 21st-century tactics.
“Compared to all the tools I have available to me in online teaching, if you put me in front of a class with only chalk and blackboard, I’d feel naked by comparison,” Page said.
Page said he has not had a problem with enrollment either.
“The popularity of my class went way up as soon as it was converted to an online course making heavy use of WebAssign,” Page said.
Michael Kimberley, a professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences, said that after teaching both online and standard class-room courses, he actually had a more personal experience teaching online courses.
“Personally, I feel that my online courses are actually more effective than my on-campus sections be-cause of all the email traffic that I
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Look to the past for examples of success
Theentirestudentbodyof300stu-dentsprotesttutionincreasesdur-ingtheGreatDepressionin1939.
StudentsprotesttheelectionofPresidentRichardNixonintheBrickyardin1968.
BenElling,aUNC-ChapelHillstu-dent,marchesinprotestofAmend-mentOne,Thursday,Mar.15,2012.
ErinMcDermott,asophomoreinmeteorologyandenvironmentalscience,proteststhebanongaymarriage.
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Reviving activism
MAY DAY PROTEST EVENT DETAILS • Who: N.C. Student Power Union• What: A protest of the proposed 135 million in budget cuts• Where: From the Bell Tower to the General Assembly• When: April 15, May 1
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Students learn about plans for the new Talley
Campus Enterprises hosted a Campus Block Party in the Brickyard, 1 Apr 13. In attendance was Jasmyn Hitchcock, a freshman in economics. “It’s nice to learn about the new Talley and bookstore,” Hitchcock said. The Block Party had representatives from University Dining, the Bookstore, Wolf express, The Lonnie
Poole Golf Course and others.
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TodayBEST PRACTICES FOR RECORDING WITH MEDIASITED.H. Hill Library East Wing, 12 to 1 p.m.
TomorrowWHAT’S NEW IN MOODLE 2D.H. Hill ITTC Labs 1A and 1B, 12 to 1 p.m.
SUICIDE PREVENTION WORKSHOP: MULTICULTURALISM, DIVERSITY, & SUICIDE PREVENTIONTalley Student Center Walnut Room, 12:15 to 1 p.m.
DEDICATION OF HUNT LIBRARYHunt Library, 3 to 5 p.m.
JOHN W. POPE LECTURE3400 Nelson Hall, 7:30 to 9 p.m.
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MOVIE: ZERO DARK THIRTYWitherspoon Student Cinema, 7 to 9 p.m.
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MOVIE: MAMAWitherspoon Student Cinema, 10 a.m. to 12 a.m.
FridayPOPULATION MEDICINE FORUMVeterinary School, 12:15 to 1:10 p.m.
SPRING MEETING FOR THE NC STATE BOARD OF VISITORSHunt Library, 1 to 5 p.m.
MOVIE: ZERO DARK THIRTYWitherspoon Student Cinema, 7 to 9 p.m.
NCSU CENTER STAGE PRESENTS NINETY MILES, FEATURING STEFON HARRIS, NICHOLAS PAYTON & DAVID SANCHEZTitmus Theatre - Thompson Hall, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
NCSU CHOIRS SPRING CONCERTHoly Trinity Lurtheran Evangellical Church, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE PRESENTS THE HELDI CHRONICLESKennedy-Mcllwee Studio - Thompson Hall, 7:30 p.m.
MOVIE: MAMAWitherspoon Student Cinema, 10 a.m. to 12 a.m.
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there is no limit to what we can do. This isn’t Stu-dent Government; this is students,” Willie said.
According to Payne, at the time ASG had hardly any money yet was able to get things like this done, today on the other hand, N.C. State pays about $34,000 to ASG and
doesn’t get anything done. “Its a terrible shame,” said
Payne about ASG’s lack of vigor.
Moreover, in 2001 when University of f icia ls at-tempted to reduce library hours, Willie organized a 500 person sit in at the D.H. Hill Library and a march to the chancellor’s residence. Technician reported that the protest woke up the chancel-lor, who responded along the lines, “OK, you can have your library hours,” according to
Payne. The N.C. Student Power
Union is working to continue this legacy.
The organization will host protests on April 15 and May 1 and a n infor-mative ses-sion about the effects of the cuts this Thurs-day in 214 Daniels at 6 p.m. The informative session includes free food.
Molly McDonough, fresh-man in women’s and gender studies and organizer in the N.C. Student Power Union, expressed that it is important for students to understand the effects of the budgets and to take decisive action in preventing them.
She pointed out that the upcoming increases — 5.1 percent for in-state under-grad and 3.1 percent out-of-state undergrads at NCSU next school year — are di-rectly affected by budget cuts and that certain programs programs, such as gender and
African-American studies, may face a disproportion-ate amount of cuts.
McDonough, like Payne and others, said she is ap-
palled by these sor t of cuts. She said her organi-zation would “do ev-erything [it] can to make sure
these [cuts] don’t get passed.”
Drastic cuts like these are as illogical as they are without legal precedent in North Carolina, Payne said.
“The constitution says education should be as free as practicable. We put that in the state constitution for a reason,” said Payne. “If we put it in the constitu-tion, we can’t go outside through the legislative process and not fund the university system because you are not upholding the values you have set forth.”
“...When we
combine, faculty,
staff and students
there is no limit to
what we can do.”Derryl Willie, 2001 Student Body
President
NewsPAGE 3 • TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013TECHNICIAN
Students prepare for COM WeekKatie Sanders Deputy Features Editor
Public relations stu-dents will compete in the sixth annual Wolfpack Speaks speech competi-tion as part of COM Week 2013. COM Week, April 8-12, features workshops and panels organized by the Department of Com-munication and empha-sizes skills learned in Public Relations Writing, or COM 316.
The Wolfpack Speaks competition began with minimal attendance but has become a University-wide event.
“These students are very, very serious speak-ers, and that was very evident last year,” said Dean Phillips, internship director of communica-tions and senior lecturer. “We had six speakers last year and every one of them I would rate as ex-traordinary.”
This year speakers will raise awareness on a social issue or argue for change in an aspect of audience members’ lives. The entire class created such presentations and will vote among themselves Tuesday for the top-five finalists to speak at the event.
“There’s been the full gam-bit. There have been people speaking on very serious topics and there have been people speaking on light topics,” Phillips said. “Or speakers will take a speech on a serious topic and put their personality in it.”
Depending on the final-ists, topics may include gun violence, how to help the homeless, mental health and diet and exercise, said com-munication lecturer Sherry O’Neal, who teaches COM 316.
The speeches will be given in the “pecha kucha,” or “20-by-20” format. This is a format in which people fol-low their timed slideshows, matching their timing to that of the slides.
“It’s an advanced skill be-cause you have to practice the timing of what you’re going to say while each slide is up and transitioning to the next slide,” O’Neal said.
Pecha kucha speeches have 20 slides that each stay on the screen for 20 seconds, making each speech exactly six min-utes and 40 seconds. Though it only began about 10 years ago in Japan, pecha kucha has become a popular format.
However, speakers are not judged solely on their adher-ence to the format. Judges will consider substance and style, including sources, logic and the quality of the presen-tation.
O’Neal sees the competi-tion as a way for students to gain confidence in their abili-ties by presenting in front of their peers.
Phillips echoed this senti-ment by telling the story of a very shy student that he used to teach.
“I watched him develop as a student, and he was in this class — the COM 316 class —
last year,” Phillips said. “He was selected as one of the finalists, and he just came out of his shell. He was just marvelous.”
David Young of Edward Jones Investments will be one of the judges for the compe-tition, and the company will provide cash prizes for the event. Young said he chose to support the event because of how valuable communica-tion education is to students’ future careers.
“Regardless of the type of business that you’re in and the level of management that you’re at, you are always try-ing to build bridges and help people understand what they know and what they don’t know. That becomes increas-ingly important as you prog-ress in your career,” Young said. “This is an opportunity to sharpen those skills.”
Wolfpack Speaks will take place April 9 in Burns Audi-torium, Kamphoefner Hall at 6:45 p.m.
have with my students,” Kim-berley said. “I get to know each of my online students in some personal way, whereas there are few students who I get to know personally in a big class in Witherspoon Cinema.”
Due to the structure of online courses, students are forced to establish a network of communication with their professors. Depending on course size, a student may get more or less one-on-one time with their professors.
To ensure students are keeping up with material in an online course, professors can hold them accountable through regular emails.
“For the online class, I re-quire students to email me either every week during the school year, or three times per week for summer-school classes with written evidence they are progressing through the course,” Kimberley said.
Ultimately, the advantages of distance education depend on how comfortable both teachers and students are with it. David Covington, a professor in English, said he
has slowly grown fond of the new teaching method.
“As the years have passed, our teachers have grown more and more comfortable with online delivery, and now most of us choose it when we schedule the sections,” Cov-ington said.
Many professors in differ-ent departments appreciate the accommodating aspects of online courses as they pertain to their schedules, and the structure of online and traditional courses are more alike than some might expect.
“Teachers in the Profes-sional Writing Program have the same responsibilities teaching online as they do in the classroom. The learning goals for the courses are the same, and the assignments are the same as well,” Cov-ington said.
While responsibilities vary among departments and in-dividual courses, the general principle of teaching remains the same.
“I can’t speak for teachers in other programs, but we have found online courses a very effective way to teach professional writing,” Cov-ington said.
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help take it to the next level.”Williams said he hopes to
communicate to students more through Technician, WKNC and other on-campus resources so students can hear and be heard.
“To administrators, email is their best friend. We’ve got to break out of that,” Wil-liams said.
Williams said he wants to start “Lunch With the Lead-ers,” a program where groups of students meet with Stu-dent Government leaders in the Brickyard to discuss how to tackle issues on campus within student means.
“I feel like most of the time when student leaders get to-gether now, it’s in a confer-ence room in a meeting,”
Williams said. “That’s not how stuff happens.”
Williams said he and his campaign staff began to bawl as the results came in last Wednesday. The end of the campaign was the begin-ning of a long year.
The election did not come without controversy, but Wil-liams said he made sure not to get involved on either side of Dwayne O’Rear’s Facebook controversy.
“You got a chance to see more of a candidate and [stu-dents] made their judgment off of that,” Williams said.
Regardless of the incident’s impact on the election, Wil-liams said he is ecstatic to fulfill his dream.
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The United States is the best country in the world.
I had to fight to place my fingers on the key-board throughout that first sentence. The truth
is America has fallen f rom its position o n t h e podium. I n j u s t four years, America
has dropped from first to seventh in the World Economic Forum’s com-petiveness rankings.
The United States is simply not alone at the top anymore. Other countries caught up during the re-cent recession and now compete in our global economy. And though our country has stepped down from its pedestal, our citizens are too slow to assume the new posi-tion.
During several conver-sations I have had with members of other cultures, a com-mon ste-reotype seems to surface regarding Ameri-can citizens. The be-lief is simple: Americans are lazy. Fast food en-courages this belief, but it originates from our lack of knowledge and un-willingness to learn more about other cultures and languages.
Conversely, these other cultures begin to learn our practices at an early age. While talking with a citizen from China, I learned the Chinese are taught English as early as 3 years old. From a South American, I learned the Southern Hemisphere’s education surrounding English and the United States begins at an el-ementary stage.
Although many Ameri-cans take time to under-stand another language and learn foreign cultur-al practices, stereotypes form for a reason. I am an unfortunate example of this generalization. With hardly any time spent in another country and only the necessary foreign lan-guage experience to gain entrance into college, I lack cultural awareness.
Alongside the stereotype is the country’s sense of individuality. American exceptionalism’s proper definition is that the United States is qualitatively differ-ent than other countries. But this differentiability is often misunderstood for superi-ority. The United States is an incredible country, but so are China, Brazil, South Africa, the Netherlands and many others.
The Imperial system is out of date and needs to go. As Americans, we need to stop believing we are unique and join the rest of the world by recognizing the metric sys-tem. We need to stop ignor-ing that we are only one part of a larger whole.
The United States encour-ages individuality and in-dependence in its citizens, while China encourages collectivism and the benefit of the group. Both have free-dom within their cultures and simply differ in cultural morals and values. Both are exceptional in that they are unique — but neither is bet-
ter than the other.
In 2009, President Barack Obama was quoted stat ing, “I bel ieve in American exception-alism, just as I suspect
that the Brits believe in Brit-ish exceptionalism, and the Greeks believe in Greek ex-ceptionalism.”
Obama correctly recog-nized that exceptionalism stands for uniqueness and not superiority. He under-stood the United States rep-resents an important piece in the global goal for “peace and prosperity,” but cannot achieve anything by itself.
The United States is a great country, but we are not alone. It’s time to recognize other countries and citizens for what they are, and it’s time to stop comparing them to our culture, which is unique but not the best.
In my effort to avoid criti-cism for being hypocritical, I am continuing my Spanish education from high school and am visiting Europe this summer. But if traveling to another country isn’t an op-tion for you, I challenge you to learn about a new culture through education and stop making excuses.
The knowledge you gain cannot be summed up. It can only be reflected upon — once you have it.
Standardized testing makes us dumb
The worst pa r t about pre-college school l ife was
end-of-year standardized testing. One stomach bug
i n May and sud-denly your fu-ture was ruined. Your fifth-grade self could no longer
hope to become more than a garbage person ... at least, that’s how your teachers made it seem.
Students may work hard for nine months, but ul-timately a huge percent-age of their grades is decided by end-of-year test scores. Standardized testing doesn’t benefit the students. The high-stakes, comprehensive tests pressure teachers to teach preparation for the test rather than students’ futures.
By feigning massive improvements on end-of-year test scores, former District Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools Beverly Ha l l earned $500,000 in bonuses. On Friday, Hall was charged with “racketeering, theft, inf luencing witnesses, conspiracy and making false statements,” ac-cording to The New York Times.
Prosecutors recom-mended a $7.5 million bond for Hall. If con-victed, she may face up to 45 years in prison, which is more than many first-degree murderers have faced.
Though it may seem extreme, the pressure Hall placed on teachers to cheat warrants 45 years in
prison. From 2001 to her re-tirement in 2011, Hall falsely led the 52,000 children of the district and their parents to believe they were truly im-proving.
The state report said that Hall “created a culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation, which was usually enforced on principals and teachers by some of the SRT executive di-rectors.” Because of this, the cheating went undetected for 10 years.
Thirty-four other educators were indicted along with Hall. This includes Parks Middle School Principal Christopher Waller. In Waller’s first year at Parks, 86 percent of eighth grade students scored profi-cient in math — a 62 percent increase from the prior year. The passing rate for the read-ing test rose from 35 percent to 78 percent.
The falsif ied scores in-creased so much that Parks Middle lost $750,000 in state and federal aid because it was no longer classified as a school in need of improve-ment. As argued by The New York Times, “That money could have been used to give struggling children academic support.”
Instead, the educators al-tered their students’ answers for their own self gain. After administering an end-of-year test, some teachers would sit in windowless, locked rooms and correct the wrong an-swers.
Students who grew up in this cheating environment are ill-equipped for college. Nybria Troy, a 15-year-old student from the Atlanta Public School System, told NBC she fell behind due to the cheating scandal: She currently reads at a fifth-grade level. Erroll Davis Jr., who succeeded Hall as super-intendent in July 2011, cre-ated remedial classes to help
students like Troy catch up. But remediation will not
replace 10 years of wasted education. If tested accu-rately, some students may find that their intelligence level is grades below that of their classmates.
Outside of this scandal, the bigger problem is that these tests — which have high stakes for the students, teachers and their bosses — encourage cheating. So much weight is put on comprehen-sive testing that it almost completely disregards a stu-dent’s classwork.
This can be seen in other standardized tests, like the SAT. Some students are great test-takers and score well above the SAT average, but they may not be hardworking students. Conversely, some students may be committed to learning, but are extreme-ly anxious when it comes to test-taking and score lower.
For this reason, more than 800 accredited colleges, in-cluding our neighbor, Wake Forest, do not require appli-cants to submit SAT or ACT scores. The Washington Post says these schools dropped the standardized testing requirement because “they don’t think a high-stakes test score is very revealing about a student’s abilities and find that high school grades are a more accurate reflection.”
End-of-grade testing is a good way to ensure that students across counties are learning the same topic at the same pace. However, the fact that they make up such a large portion of students’ fi-nal grades makes for a faulty education system in which we do not learn. Fifth grad-ers need to know that earning low end-of-grade scores does not mean they’ll become gar-bage people — at least, not all of them.
Megan EllisorDeputy Viewpoint Editor
American Exceptionalism
A few days ago, Technician received an anonymous note criticizing us for us-ing student fees to create “a glorified
crossword puzzle holder.” Though we don’t feel much of a need to grace this letter with a comment, we’ve decided to respond so we can clear up any future misunderstandings.
First, though we may be somewhat biased, we’d like to think that Technician is more than just lipstick on a crossword puzzle. Every day from 3 p.m. until midnight, writers, photog-raphers, editors, cartoonists and designers all collectively sweat over the next day’s paper. That’s not including the reporters that spend their time outside our Witherspoon head-
quarters chronicling the actions of g roups ranging f rom Uni-versity Dining to Gov. Pat McCrory’s ad-ministration.
Last year, after a woman was shot and killed in Cameron Village, we voiced our frustra-tion with the University’s WolfAlert system, prompting changes in communication. Good changes. But hey, we’re not taking the credit. The University probably got the idea from fill-ing in the words “FLAWED” and “SYSTEM”
i n t o “ 5 Down” and “23 Across.”
Second, a n d t h e somewhat
bigger reason behind this editorial, is that this anonymous comment is utterly unfounded. We don’t rely on student fees. Our printing and payroll costs are completely covered by the advertising revenue — which shies just short of half a million dollars, thank you very much.
Technically called the “Student Publications Fee,” the $15.50 N.C. State charges each stu-
dent does go toward Student Media. Accord-ing to a recent budget update, the fee pays for 100 percent of The Windhover, approximately 85 percent of Agromeck, 70 percent of The Nu-bian Message and 15 percent of WKNC. But Technician uses a total of $0 from fee money when it comes to paying our staff and printing N.C. State news.
So the next time you read one of our articles and happen to think, “I’m not paying for this crap.” Well . . . you’re right. You don’t give us a dime.
We could go on, but we think our cartoon sums it up...
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news
department, and is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief.
Just to clarify a few things...
Tyler GobinStaff Columnist
“American
exceptionalism
... is that the U.S.
is qualitatively
different than
other countries..”
{ }IN YOUR WORDS
BY PATRICK WHALEY
Do you think universities should be
allowed to pay revenue athletes?
“No, not particularly. Universities are meant for education.”
Martin Mondoufreshman, mechanical engineering
“There are so many athletes that don’t become professional that I would be hesitant to create that sort of dependency on that line of work that early in their career.”
Sarah Parkssophomore, art and design
“Yeah I think they should be payed, there should be some kind of way that we are paying for their education.”
Josh Smithsophomore, biomedical engineering
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Raleigh expands bike lanes
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No one likes to be pi-geonholed.
However, A f r ic a n-A m e r i c a n a u t h o r s have been pigeonholed throughout history, ac-cording to English pro-fessor John Charles Wil-liamson. And because of the way many students have come to understand African-American litera-ture, many are still at risk of pigeonholing famous African-American au-thors.
The works of many well-known African-American authors such as James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston have found their way into the curriculums of many high schools. However, it is easy for many to think these authors only wrote about the concerns of Af-rican-American life.
Even though he studied African-American litera-ture for much of his time as a graduate student, Williamson said he did not discover the “white-life” genre — stories by African-Americans with white protagonists — un-til he began research on
his dissertation. Originally about mid-20th
century African-American authors, his dissertation changed direction when he came across a reference to “white-life” novels written by authors hailed as major in-fluences in African-American literature.
“[My research] started as a question: How is it that I had been studying African-Amer-ican literature and this period and not known about these works?” Williamson said
Williamson’s research led him to publish a book in De-cember titled Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel. Williamson said that as he got further in his research, he stumbled upon other ques-tions and deep implications for present-day race relations.
In his book, Williamson addresses some of his ques-tions, including why there was a great interest in the genre among African-Amer-ican writers in the mid-20th century and whether white-life novels should be counted in African-American literary canon.
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GREG WILSON/TECHNICIANJennifer Baldwin, a bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, said the city is trying to become more bike friendly.
Will E. BrooksDeputy News Editor
Cyclists are members of the modern city. Whether it be-gan with the green movement or high obesity rates, cities — Raleigh not excluded — are accommodating to bikers.
City planners laid out a comprehensive bike plan in 2009 to accommodate for 440 miles of bike-accessible roads. The city added bike lanes and removed a few car lanes since then, but the work is not over.
Jennifer Baldwin, a bicycle and pedestrian coordinator for the City of Raleigh, was hired immediately following the plan. She helped Raleigh achieve a Bronze ranking by the League of American Bi-cyclists in 2011, and said she hopes to turn the city Silver in 2013.
Raleigh’s fast-growing pop-ulation — almost 50 percent since 2000 — creates a multi-modal puzzle. Bicycles are an increasingly important piece, according to Baldwin.
“As the population con-tinues to grow, obviously our transportation need will grow,” Baldwin said. “The more options people have, the more that can help alleviate some of the congestion issues we will be facing here in the triangle.”
Steven Goodridge, alum-nus and League of American Bicyclists certified instructor, agrees with Baldwin’s senti-ment but said some bike ac-
commodations are less than helpful.
“I think there is a lot of win-dow dressing that doesn’t do anything operationally, but there are some core improve-ments that really are good,” Goodridge said. “The things that are the most visible are not actually that useful. The things that are useful are of-ten harder to notice.”
Paint on narrow roads sel-dom helps traffic flow, and the bike lanes bordering cam-pus on Hillsborough Street are dangerous, Goodridge said.
Cutting down the num-ber of lanes is a more seri-ous solution that “changes the nature of the roadway” in many cases. A stretch of Avent Ferry Road has expe-rienced this change, as well as the stretch of Hillsborough Street between the Bell Tower and downtown.
“I’ve been riding in Raleigh for a long time and I find that, other than the rough pavement, operationally [cy-cling] usually isn’t very bad,” Goodridge said. “But some-times there are cultural prob-lems that aren’t really safety problems and often result in harassment.”
The future of cycling is of-ten defined by public percep-tion, Baldwin said.
“I think we are headed to-ward [cycling as common transportation], but it takes so much more than a city and the infrastructure. It’s a culture shift,” Baldwin said.
Two percent of Triangle-ar-ea residents use bikes as their main mode of transportation, but opinions are shifting and more people are biking.
“Harassment is going down and there is better educa-tion,” Goodridge said. “The police are becoming aware of the rights of bicyclists on the roadways and the best prac-tices for [implementation].”
According to Baldwin, this shift is occurring quicker in some parts than others.
“The bike plan itself really puts a high priority around N.C. State’s campus because that’s where most of the users are,” Baldwin said.
Counters will be placed on Hillsborough Street to gauge how much the road is being used by cyclists, Bald-win said. The road has seen re-pavement and added bike lanes since 2011.
Goodridge biked for trans-portation in Raleigh while obtaining his master’s and doctorate in electrical en-gineering during the ‘90s. Cycling was originally out of necessity.
“For me as a student, cy-cling was all about self-re-liance,” Goodridge said. “I was paying my way through school and couldn’t afford a car, so my bike was how I got around.”
Biking took Goodridge where other forms of trans-portation could not and quickly became important to him.
“I could go where buses
couldn’t go. I could go where buses couldn’t travel,” Go-odridge said.
Looking beyond environ-mental and health advan-tages of cycling, Goodridge said bike-friendly streets aid the local economy.
Employers can incentiv-ize workers with the average $20 a day they would save without a car commute, ac-cording to Goodridge. It is an advantage often overlooked that requires the cooperation
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Improv creates humor from deathKaitlin MontgomeryStaff Writer
Applause exploded from ComedyWorx as Sock Mon-key Murder Farm took the stage Friday night.
The comedic improv group consisting of a hodge-podge of different talents teased laughter from the audience as it depicted the life of a deceased character named “Laura” in its inventive style of improv called The Faux-bituary.
Sock Monkey Murder Farm uses its long form improv to celebrate the life of someone who has recently passed. With audience members of-fering details, improv per-formers celebrate the created character’s life accordingly.
“We get the suggestion of an age, gender and a ran-dom word — that’s how we make up this person,” said Alex Hofford, member of Sock Monkey Murder Farm and 2009 N.C. State gradu-ate. “Our format has molded over time, but where we’re at now is we’ll start with a wake. One person will be the ‘body,’ which is the person we’re talking about, and then the rest of the people are their friends or people who knew them.”
Currently consisting of six team members, Alex Hof-
ford, Phil Kruh, Brian Dukes, Mike Ryan, April Dudash and Ty Devries, Sock Monkey Murder Farm was the brain child of former member Jessi Nemeth.
“It was about a year ago that we got started,” Hofford said. “Jessi Nemeth, she had the idea for the team. It’s a new form and completely made up when we started it. That was kind of the big selling point for the team — a format no one had ever done before.”
The team practices a form of improv called long form that is modeled after the “Harold version.”
“It’s in sets of three,” Hof-ford said. “Each set consists of different people with a little game in between those scenes. The next three scenes have all those same people ex-cept they’re ahead in time. It’s all about remembering where you started to know when to go ahead.”
“It’s just real life with dif-ferent rules,” Devries, a se-nior in computer science and mathematics, said.
According to Hofford, re-enacting a morbid topic can hit home sometimes, espe-cially if one of the team mem-bers has experienced a loss.
“Mike and I have both ex-perienced family members passing away while we’ve been doing this,” Hofford
said. “We’ve taken parts of our own lives and put it into the shows. It makes it all feel a little more real when we’re up there.”
It’s the connection to their own lives that strengthens the bond within the team, Dudash said.
“We have this sense of fear-lessness on stage that is always coveted by improv groups,” Dudash said. “Trusting each other and having that group mind means we can have the most outrageous scenes and the most emotional char-acters . . . . We’re all imag-ining and concocting that together.”
“We’re sort of this bastard child of improv,” Ryan said. “We don’t have a coach, which is a big no-no. It’s hard for a team to develop and move forward without a coach, but the thing is we care so much about this baby we’ve created that we’re dedicated to finding ways to pump up our game and really develop as a team.”
“Your team will call you out on your mistakes,” Hofford said.
“The thing is,” Kruh said, “your mistake can always turn into something bril-liant.”
When it comes down to it, team cohesion is just one part of the puzzle, Hofford said.
“There are times where ev-erything clicks and goes to-gether,” Hofford said. “Then there are times where we’re like, wait, how did that per-son die again?”
“The devil is in the details,” Kruh said. “You’ve got to re-member so many little things. I have trouble remembering someone’s name in real life, never mind a name I learned a few seconds ago.”
According to Kruh and Hofford, the unique team name literally came off of the top of their heads.
“It was before our f irst practice,” Hofford said. “Phil had on a sock monkey beanie and someone said it probably killed eight sock monkeys to make it. I mumbled some-thing about a sock monkey murder farm and we knew right then that’s what the name would be. If you learn anything about improv and long form team names, it’s usually this serendipitous light bulb that goes off.”
Hofford attributes much of Sock Monkey Murder Farm’s success to an aspect of improv he considers to be its main rule.
“Basically it’s the phi-losophy of saying yes to everything,” Hofford said. “You’ve just got to embrace the weird.”
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of local planners.“A bike is just a very
valuable form of trans-portation,” Goodridge said.
Goodridge, a resi-dent of Cary, said he chooses to commute to Raleigh via bike, weather permitting, but realizes it isn’t al-ways realistic.
“People have differ-ent preferences at dif-ferent stages of their lives,” Goodridge said. “We as Americans re-ally value having flexi-bility in mode choice.”
Above all, biking is an important option that should be acces-sible, Baldwin said.
“It’s not whether they should choose, it’s just . . . giving [cit-izens] the option to choose,” Baldwin said.
categorized books written by African-American writers as “negro writing.” Accord-ing to Williamson, this label also came with a certain set of expectations.
“African-American litera-ture was supposed to mirror something true about black life, whereas white writers could write about art and [other topics]. They could do what artists do: create,” Wil-liamson said. “It’s a sign of the privilege of ‘Whiteness.’”
These extra-literary as-sumptions many have of African-American literature, to be socio-political, are a burden for many African-American authors even today, Williamson said.
“I think a really important question is whether we are still asking black writers to be Negro writers instead of just writers. In other words . . . are we still perpetuating this idea that African-American writers can only be experts on black life?” Williamson said.
Whi le many Afr ican-American writers embrace the socio-political analy-sis with which readers read their books, Williamson said readers should try to perceive African-American literature as nuanced and multi-di-mensional as the authors who wrote them.
And many of them have a diverse catalog of work to show.
Many African-American writers in the mid-1900s had white-life novels in their catalogs, some that have what Williamson would consider very sympathetic views of white characters — even plantation owners.
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“I argue that sympa-thetic v iews of these white characters give these authors what I call, ‘racial privacy’: the free-dom to make their race private and just be writ-ers,” Williamson said. “White writers didn’t have to worry about ra-cial privacy because they could just write and do whatever they wanted to do. African-American artists have the right to be just artists and not racial representatives.”
As a professor of African-American literature, Wil-liamson said his research also caused him to reconsider his role and the way he teaches his students.
“I’m participating in it. I’m teaching an African-Ameri-can literature survey course right now,” Williamson said. “I’m teaching no white-life novels . . . . They’re all focused on black life. So it’s very easy to participate in this assump-
tion.” Williamson said his re-
search serves as a reminder for him to remain aware of his own assumptions of the value of the literature he teaches and to avoid impos-ing inappropriate expecta-
tions on the literature. “All marginalized groups
have to deal with these extra-literary burdens,” William-son said.
This may be unfortunate for both readers and writ-ers because, as Williamson
said, books are often an ex-tension of the writer, an act of creating that transforms the writer, creating multi-dimensionality. And no one should be barred from that opportunity.
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Austin avoiding sophomore slumpJon J. McNamaraCorrespondent
If you have not been to an N.C. State baseball game this season, you may be missing out on wit-nessing some great talent for the future of N.C. State and baseball in general.
Sophomore catcher Brett Aus-tin came to State last year as one
of the top high school players in the country after a sensa-
tional career at Providence High School.
In his first season in Raleigh, Austin started
in each of his 62 appear-ances. He enjoyed a 23-
game hitting streak, the longest of the year for N.C. State, and provided the game-winning two-run single to left field in the seventh inning of State’s 3-1 win against North Carolina. He was selected in the supplemental first round – the 54th pick overall – by the San Diego Padres in the 2011 Major League Baseball draft.
Since beginning his second season with the Pack, Austin has grown into a leader on the field. Austin is batting .339 (No. 21 in the ACC), 38 hits (No. 8 in ACC), 14 doubles (No. 1 in the ACC) and 16 RBI’s.
After a tough 8-5 loss against UNC-Greensboro March 19, Technician was able to catch up with Austin about life as a stu-dent-athlete.
When did you start playing baseball?
“Ever since I could walk, prob-ably about 3 or 4 years old. I started T-ball like everyone else. Actually, my dad started throw ing to me, and he didn’t want me hitting off the tee. I started with that and worked my way up”.
What did you do differently to prep for this season versus what you were doing before college?
“Worked my butt off out at the Cape. I worked out a lot more — about every day — and tried to get in the best shape I could while I was up there . . . . I worked smarter instead of harder and worked on catching as much as I could, focusing on being the best defensive catcher. And with my swing, I tried to shorten my swing the best I could, just having a good approach and having a plan and sticking to it.”
W h a t a r e some of the challenges for you as a stu-dent athlete?
“Class, you know, it sucks. Class is class, you know? You have to get up and go to it.
You have to stay as structured as you can and as disciplined as you can. Getting up early after late games can be hard, but you’ve got to do it. It just comes with [the job].”
What does your routine for a normal game day consist of?
“Before the game I like to lis-ten to some music, get a little pumped up. I like to go out early because it takes me forever to get warmed up. I stretch a lot, go down to the cages, hit a little extra, go hit, take batting practice and stretch out again — and then it’s game time.”
Can you describe your team-mates?
“We have a good group of guys here, with a lot of talent as well.
Good freshman players too. I think the team chemistry is good. We all get along, have fun and play hard. I think it is just a great group of guys to be around.”
Other than Doak, what is your favorite ballpark to play at?
“Clemson, that environment and Florida State: Those two go hand in hand. That environment is pretty hostile. It is fun to play and you look forward to those weekend series — those two are definitely the most fun.”
Brett Austin and the Wolfpack take on East Carolina tonight in Greenville. The next home game is 6 p.m. Wednesday at Doak Field against Elon University.
BY THE NUMBERSYear Batting
AverageRBIs Runs Doubles
HS Senior (2011) .537 38 47 10
Freshman (2012) .284 37 49 17
Sophomore (2013)* .339 16 23 14**
*through 29 games** No. 1 in ACC
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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Brett Austin.
Daniel NealStaff Writer
Shaun Stevenson founded the N.C. State rowing club in 1986. Over the past 27 years, the club has experienced its share of ups and downs. The club is rebuild-ing its team and hoping to have a strong group for many seasons.
The club consists of 42 mem-bers divided between two teams, novice and varsity. First-year rowers staff the novice team while members who have par-ticipated for a year are moved up to varsity.
Sophomore Matthew Demetri-ous is the current rowing club president. The economics ma-jor is happy with the growth the club is showing.
“There is more enthusiasm than I have seen in the past two years,” Demetrious said. “Every-one is sticking with it and there aren’t many problems. Every-body seems happy.”
There is no previous experi-ence required to join. The club practices six times a week to pre-pare members for competitions, which are called regattas. The practices consist of early morn-ing land practices and afternoon water practices.
The club participates in several regattas each semester. During the fall semesters the regattas
are five kilometers in length and the boats start at separate times. In the spring, races are shortened to two kilometers and the focus is shifted to strength rather than endurance.
Most regattas take place in the southeastern part of the country — the club frequently travels to Georgia to race. The rowing club participated in three regattas this fall, at Falls Lake, Davidson College and Augusta, Ga.
The novice team has had a strong showing this year and has medaled at many events throughout the fall and spring seasons. The varsity team has competed at a higher level but has not had as many positive results.
There is one regatta left in the rowing club’s season. The team will compete in Oak Ridge, Tenn. at the SIRA Championship. The regatta will feature a high level of competi-tion and boats of four rowers instead of the traditional eight.
“On varsity it is a little tougher be-cause you have to go through trials, but we have been growing as a team recently,” Demetrious said. “This year has been a rebuilding year.”
One of the novice members is Josh Condray, a freshman double majoring in business and environ-mental technology. Condray was introduced to rowing by his older brother who rowed during his four years of college. He said the club is held together by the strong bonds the club has formed.
“The varsity [team] has been to-gether for multiple years,” Condray said. “They have known each other for a very long time and you can tell they hang out all the time beyond rowing. All the novice team seems to be feeding off of is how tight the varsity is and [how it] wants to be-come part of the big family.”
Demetrious agrees that the club
has a strong family atmosphere. Due to the intense practice schedule, the members spend a lot of time around each other.
“There is great unity, we are really just kind of a big family,” Demetri-ous said. “We all enjoy hanging out together and rowing. We just come out here because we enjoy what we are doing.”
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Club rowing rebuilds for its future on the lakes, SIRA championships
KARIN ERIKSSON/TECHNICIANThe Rowing Club at N.C. State practiced on Lake Wheeler Wednesday, 27 March 2013. The rowers from front to back are Matthew Demetrious, the president, Cory Connell, Ryan Smoker and Andrew Carlson.
Leslie and Purvis leave the PackJeniece JamisonSports Editor
Less than a week after junior guard Lorenzo Brown declared his intent to enter the 2013 Na-tional Basketball Association draft, two more members of the Pack decided to leave the pro-gram.
Junior forward Calvin Leslie announced his intent to forgo his senior year to pursue a profes-sional basketball career, while freshman guard Rodney Purvis decided to transfer out of the program.
State has lost five of its top-six players. Only freshman forward T.J. Warren remains.
Leslie announced his plans to enter the draft at a press con-ference Monday morning. Like Lorenzo Brown, he was accom-panied by his mother, Lisa Leslie, and head coach Mark Gottfried.
“It’s one of those things where you just know that it’s time,” Leslie said. “It’s time to move on and that’s what I feel like in my heart. My family feels the same way that I do.”
Gottfried described Leslie as a “misunderstood” talent, but said he has the potential for a bright future in the professional ranks.
“I’m proud of Calvin. I think he’s gotten a lot better,” Gott-fried said. “I’ve enjoyed coaching him. He’s one of those guys that I think a lot of times is misper-ceived by a lot of people.
“The general consensus is there’s no doubt that he’s going to be a good player in the NBA.”
Gottfried’s system allowed Leslie to flourish in his sopho-more and junior years with the
Pack, according to the former guard. It helped him prepare for the next level.
Despite the criti-cism Leslie endured from fans and com-mentators during his career, he said he has no regrets.
“A lot of people m y f r e s h m a n year were saying I should have went to another school, but I don’t really think back,” Leslie said. “I just keep it moving. I try not to think back. You have to learn to take what you did, live with it and
move on.”Almost four hours following
the press conference, Purvis an-nounced his inten-tion to transfer out of N.C. State via his Twitter account. He tweeted, “Tears won’t stop falling. I enjoyed every mo-ment here. I still love you guys, no matter how you may feel towards me. Thank y’all!”
Purvis started the first 23 games of the season, but was unseated by Warren in the middle of the Atlantic Coast Conference play.
Purvis averaged 8.3 points per game in 25.5 minutes of action per outing.
Gottfried now faces the challenge of retooling a program with — for now — a pair of sophomores, for-mer LSU guard Ralston Turner and Scout.com’s No. 9 recruiting class in the nation.
“We have to move on, and we’ll adapt how we play to our personnel within our system,” Gottfried said.
“What we try to do is take advan-tage of guys’ skill sets and how well they do. We tried to do that with him and Richard. Whoever that ends up being next year, we’re go-ing to do the same thing.”w
JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANJunior forward C.J. Leslie and freshman guard Rodney Purvis react to a three point field goal scored by senior guard Jay Lewis during the final home game against Wake Forest in PNC Arena Wednesday, March 7, 2013. The Wolfpack defeated the Demon Deacons, 81-66.
“...there’s no
doubt that he’s
going to be a
good player in
the NBA.”Mark Gottfried
men’s basketball head coach
TodayBASEBALL AT EAST CAROLINAGreensville, N.C., 6 p.m.
WednesdaySOFTBALL VS. CHARLOTTE Dail Softball Park, 4 p.m.
BASEBALL V. ELONDoak Field., 6 p.m.
SOFTBALL VS. CHARLOTTE Dail Softball Park, 6 p.m.
FridayTRACK AT DUKE INVITATIONAL Durham, N.C., All Day
TRACK AT FLORIDA RELAYSGainsville, Fla., All Day
SaturdayVOLLEYBALL VS. CAMPBELL @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENTDurham, 9 a.m.
VOLLEYBALL VS. LOYOLA @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENT Durham, 1 p.m.
MEN’S SOCCER VS. UCLA, 4 p.m. (exhibition)
VOLLEYBALL VS. N.C. CENTRAL @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENT Durham, 7 p.m.
SaturdayVOLLEYBALL VS. CAMPBELL @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENTDurham, 9 a.m.
VOLLEYBALL VS. LOYOLA @ N.C. CENTRAL TOURNAMENT Durham, 1 p.m.
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PACKTWEETS#
Chase Cannon @ChaseCannon10
Everyone needs to support @rpurvis_0 He’s just trying to do his thing. Best of luck to you man, glad to be your teammate this past year
Jordan Vandenberg @JPV14Wolfpack
Amazing how fast the got Kevin Ware back together, i wish him a fast recovery and as little pain as possible
C.J. Leslie @ncsu_cleslie
Thx to everyone for those who supported me had a lot of fun playing in my home town I appreciate all the love.
Mark Gottfried @Mark_Gottfried
I hope that #WPN continues to support Rodney where ever he decides to go. We wish him the best in his future endeavors.
NC State Athletics @PackAthletics
Happy April Fools’ Day! No, we won’t be replacing Mr. and Ms. Wuf with “The Big Bad Wuf”. Thanks for playing along.
NC State Football@PackFootball
New signage around Carter-Finley Stadium. #1PACK1GOAL
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