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Egypt holds its first free election in 30 years, but some wonder if “free” equals “fair.”
Jessie HalpernNews Editor
Egypt is in the midst of holding its first free election after 30 years under an oppressive regime, led by Hosni Mubarak.
Akram Khater, director of the N.C. State Middle East studies program, said this election has the potential to change the face of the Middle East.
“The example of fair and free elec-tions is an incredible new step and sets a tone. It applies pressure on other countries that don’t have elec-tions or have rigged ones,” Khater said.
Under the authoritarian rule of Mubarak, Egypt’s elections sup-pressed the voice of the Egyptian people, automatically re-electing the leader many feared. It was not until Jan. 25, 2011 that the people spoke up with protests that were heard worldwide.
During the first day of upheaval of what became the Arab Spring, thousands of people who showed up to demand Mubarak’s regime be removed flooded Tahrir Square. Just one week later, millions chris-tened the location a s “L i b e r at ion Square,” according to Khater.
“Those incredibly courageous men and women, elderly and children, peo-ple from all walks of life, who risked their own lives—it is they who opened up the possibil-ity of the free elections we are seeing now,” Khater said.
The elections began on May 23, with two candidates in the running. Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq share only one quality: They are running for president. Aside from that, the two candidates could
not be more different. Morsi is run-ning as a representative of the Mus-lim Brotherhood, an organization standing on the platform of socially conservative values and economic freedom. Ahmed Shafiq was Prime Minister of Egypt under Mubarak’s regime. Khater said those who vote
for Shafiq will vote for security and safety in the country.
“The candi-d ate s re f lec t t wo d i f ferent trends amongst Egyptians,” K h at e r s a id . “We mustn’t be
too quick to discount that whoever wins will indeed shape the direction of the country itself.”
Khater said there is no doubt these elections will change Egypt’s history as a whole.
“This is the first time that Egyp-tians can freely go to the polls and vote for the person they think will
be the best leader,” Khater said.While these elections are free,
some don’t agree they are fair.Daniel Zaki, senior in engineer-
ing, said local Arab news is depict-ing a different story of the elections.
“They’ve released a bunch of people from prison to go vote in the elections just because they are Muslim and will vote for Shafiq,” Zaki said. “Technically it’s free, but it’s still a very biased election.”
Zaki, whose family is Egyptian, is not pleased with either candidate.
“They’re both pretty different, but I don’t like either,” Zaki said. “It is what it is. There’s nothing you can really do.”
In Zaki’s opinion, if Morsi wins the Muslim Brotherhood is going to “turn the country upside-down,” though he feels Morsi is still the lesser of “two evils.”
Salma Ibrahim, senior in math-ematics, said Shafiq shouldn’t be a “scary” candidate just because of his association with Mubarak’s regime.
“I think he’s learned a lesson from
what went wrong with Mubarak,” Ibrahim said.
She isn’t the only one. Karim Gha-nem, senior in biological sciences, is voting for Shafiq.
“I have dual citizenship, and I’m voting for Shafiq,” Ghanem said. “Either way, both candidates are pretty good, though. I’m glad to see these elections come from the revo-lution and all the people who died.”
Despite opinions on the candi-dates themselves, the fact remains: The 2012 presidential elections in Egypt are changing the history of the Middle East.
“Each country is individual, so you can’t generalize and say how long the Middle East will take to change as a whole,” Khater said. “Change depends upon the type of government and resources avail-able to that country’s government, as well as the education of the popu-lation. “
Khater said countries like Saudi
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What do New York and North Carolina have in common? Their prosecution of teenagers as adults.
Laura WilkinsonDeputy News Editor
North Carolina accompanies New York as one of two states that still automatically prosecute all 16- and 17-year-olds in the adult court system without re-gard to the type of crime the teen is charged with. A bill in the N.C. legislature is hoping to change the law so no one under 18 could be prosecuted as an adult for nonviolent misdemeanors.
Brandy Bynum, a spokes-person for Action for Children N.C., said 80 percent of 16- and 17-year-olds who find themselves in trouble with the law are in-volved in minor, misdemeanor-level offenses.
“These minor offenses have permanent marks on these young peoples’ criminal re-cords. When they go on to apply to higher education or employ-ment, even housing, that mark
on their record could bar them from those opportunities,” Bynum said. “We as an organization obviously think that is bad public policy on the part of our state.”
Teresa Shirley, an advocate for the Raise the Age issue and a mother personally affected by the current law, said the law doesn’t make sense because an offense as small as litter-ing could end up following a teen for the rest of his or her life.
“In North Carolina, a judge has the ability to try a young person as young as 13 in the adult system, if they wish. But if you have a 16-year-old who commits a misdemeanor, they’re automatically put into the adult system and there’s no way to put them back into the juvenile sys-tem,” Shirley said.
Shirley, a mother of three, said she did not know about the law until her daughter got into a pushing match at school one day. The incident ended with her daughter handcuffed in a police car on the way to the county jail to sit in a holding cell with adult offenders.
“[The law] discriminates against
An N.C. State team competed in a regional challenge to encourage environmental responsibility.
Lindsey RosenbaumDeputy News Editor
Fostering a push for environ-mental responsibility on cam-pus, the University sent a team to compete in the ACC Clean Energy Challenge, in an effort to foster research, development and innovation.
The ACC Clean Energy Chal-lenge is a competition sponsored by the United States Department of Energy. Here on campus, the Office of Technology Transfer’s new venture service division organizes participation in the challenge. While the final goal is to start a green business, the competition is divided up into smaller challenges centered on understanding the green move-ment and its applications.
Thomas Miller, senior vice provost for academic outreach and entrepreneurship, said the regional challenges are occur-ring across the country. “The goal is to stimulate student in-novation and entrepreneurship in the area of clean energy,” Miller said.
For each regional compe-tition, the winning team is awarded $100,000 to be used in the creation of their own clean energy business.
The participants in the chal-lenge consist of all ACC schools and a few others who accept invitations to attend. In the inaugural challenge held at the University of Maryland, nearly all invited schools were in at-tendance.
Teams were paired off against each other in a type of bracket format. Dreier Carr, recent graduate in electrical engineer-ing and computer engineering, was part of N.C. State’s team.
“The initial round was one between all of the teams from a particular school, and there were probably 10 teams from the Uni-versity,” Carr said. “The first ap-plication was a summary report one to three pages long of a re-view and a video pitching an idea or product, conceptual or busi-ness orientated, that conveyed the goal of clean energy.” Carr’s team, GEMS, created a green energy management system, where they infused electronic intelligence into electrical sock-ets. “The goal of the GEMS is to monitor and control power be-ing used around the house.”Carr said. “You can log onto a com-puter and see household usage of energy, or the energy usage of a singular appliance.”
GEMS came in second place for the University, but the team sent to Maryland, PowerUp, made it to the semi-f inals, known as the “Elite 8+2.” They did not, however, make it to the “Final 4.” The teams competing in the “Final 4” will be compet-ing for the prize money. The challenge teams began preparing for the competition in January, according to Wade Fulghum,
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UPI/AHMED JOMAAEgyptian woman casts her vote at a polling station in Zakazik, Egypt, 50 miles north of Cairo, May 23. Egyptians went to the polls on Wednesday morning to elect a new president after the fall of ex-President Hosni Mubarak last year.
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Nicole Russ, senior in zoology, works on a fish bowl for her summer ceramics class. Russ decided to emphasizing etchings she had made earlier by painting them in with liquid rust. Each student get to make
5 pieces of pottery in the class offered over the summer. Despite having to work a lot outside of class hours, Russ said, “More people should take this class, it is really cool. Its difficult and a lot of work, but its definitely fun.”
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for Shafiq.”Karim Ghahem, senior in
biological sciences
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removal of the regime there.Egypt’s free election is sig-
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“I don’t think Egypt will ever truly be free,” Zaki said. “It hasn’t been democratic in a long time, and I don’t think it ever will be.”
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young people in our state. It’s like a scarlet letter. You can get some of the charges expunged in some cases, but that’s costly,” Shirley said. “You have a lot of minority children who are being affected by this and also children who have some type of behav-ioral issue‚ who tend to get into a little more trouble. It’s really handicapping these kids in their future.”
Bynum said the law has been in place in North Carol ina since 1919, though several attempts have been made in the past to raise the age at which misdemeanor offend-ers under 18 are charged as adults. According to Bynum, kids know right from wrong,but make impulsive decisions. She wants them to be able to learn from their mistakes.
“We’re not saying let these kids off scot-free,
but we are saying at least give them a chance to turn them-selves around in the system that is appropriate for them,” Bynum said. “We want them to become taxpayers and not tax-burdens. This is some-thing that affects all of us.”
Shirley agrees the conse-quences of an arrest record for a 16- or 17-year-old could be devastating for their fu-ture.
“We’re choosing the most expensive way with the worst possible outcome for these kids, when we’re supposed to be thinking of the kids first and foremost,” Shirley said. “They’re kind of getting lost in this whole system because we’re not stopping and asking ‘wait, what’s this going to do to this kid on down the line?’”
Katelyn Long, who gradu-ated from N.C. State this May with degrees in criminology and international studies, said she is in favor of the bill.
“Trying 16- and 17- year- olds in a juvenile court is best for all sides, I believe, and I was somewhat surprised that it was not already the case,”
Long said. “Teenagers that age, and even older, are still in the stage where they make stupid mistakes, are heav-ily influenced by their peers and are just often rebellious. Trying misdemeanors in ju-venile court offers them a bet-ter chance of realizing their mistakes and a better support system for moving beyond those mistakes.”
Long said youth can get lost in the adult court system, which is already strained be-yond capacity. The juvenile system requires involvement from the family and contin-ued education, and can pro-vide counseling and rehabili-tation opportunities.
An adult criminal record, even for a misdemeanor, would have a damaging effect on a teen’s ability to increase their potential in the higher education system or in the job market, according to Long.
“A record can be especially harmful to college applicants who come from underprivi-leged backgrounds and don’t have the extracurricular ex-periences or persuasive refer-
ences that can overshadow a misdemeanor conviction. If the young ‘criminal’ can find an employer to take a chance on him/her, it is often an un-derpaying position with little room for growth,”Long said.
Long said these teens are also often stigmatized by the community and don’t have the same opportunities as those who were able to go through the juvenile system in order to succeed and pro-vide for themselves and their families.
If passed, the bill currently making its way through the legislature would require a four-year planning period with an incremental phase-in approach. The bill would only affect misdemeanors. All felonies and traffic vio-lations would remain in the adult court system.
assistant director in eco-nomic development for the University.
“On Jan. 27, we orga-nized an initial meeting for potential teams to discuss the ACC Clean Energy Challenge rules, requirements, and dead-lines,” Fulghum said. “[We discussed] assisting any N.C. State teams by
providing links with our sup-port networks across campus and to external partners we thought might bring value to the table.”
Students were invited to create teams and join in on the challenge through certain departments and student or-ganizations. Opportunities for joining were also adver-tised through the University’s Sustainability Office and the Solar Center.
“We had five teams show up at that meeting,” Fulghum
said. “Three additional teams joined later as they learned about the competition.”
The University of Mary-land’s Technology Enterprise Institute proposed the idea of regional competitions that would mimic the design of the athletic conference, ac-cording to Miller.
The idea was well received and granted funding for the next three years.
Due to the short amount of time allotted for preparations for the challenge, there was
a small window of time for recruitment into the team. As such, there was a limited amount of outreach to other environmental organizations on campus. Miller hopes this changes for next year.
This upcoming year, the Universities of the Triangle and Wake Forest have the honor of jointly hosting the ACC Clean Energy Challenge Finals.
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EGYPTcontinued from page 1 RAISE
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A GLIMPSE OF MODERN EGYPT• May 2012 - First free presidential
elections held in Egypt• Nov. 2011 - First parliamentary election in
over 20 years • April 2011 - Mubarak and sons arrested;
verdict expected June 2, 2012• Feb. 2011 - Egyptian military takes control
of the country after Mubarak flees Cairo• Jan. 2011 - Protest begins in hopes of
overthrowing Mubarak’s rule• Oct. 1981 - Feb. 2011 Hosni Mubarak
takes power in Egypt
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North Carolina is one of two states that al-lows 16 and 17-year-
olds to be sent to adult court for crimes, regardless of se-verity. Being tried as an adult does not give juvenile offend-ers a chance to be properly rehabilitated in the juvenile system. Instead, teenagers who are convicted are often grouped with hardened crim-inals in adult prisons. Treat-ing teenagers as adults for minor crimes does not give them a chance to be produc-tive citizens later in life.
Sending teenage offend-ers to the juvenile system has benefits for the state as a whole. According to a cost-benefit analysis published by the Vera Institute of Justice, “the policy change will gener-ate $97.9 million in long-term benefits per annual cohort of youth aged 16 and 17.” The benefits will be realized over a period of 35 years and come from increased lifetime earn-ings. Investing in our youth will simultaneously decrease crime rates while providing local economies with more
productive citizens.The analysis found the
costs to be $70.9 million per year, but the investment will generate $123.1 million in re-occurring benefits to youth, victims and taxpayers.
Initially, North Carolina taxpayers will incur costs so that the courts can become more suited to handle juve-nile cases, but this should be seen as an investment in re-building our troubled youth.
Studies in the analysis indicate teens who are put through the juvenile system re-offend at lower rates. The Charlotte Observer cites a similar study which says there is as much as a 33 percent reduction in re-arrest rates. Juvenile systems simply offer youth with age-appropriate programs.
The teenage years, which peak at 16 and 17, are ro-manticized as “rebellious“ years. Clearly, committing crimes is not a healthy form of rebellion, but we should al-low teenagers to learn lessons from their actions, rather than using those actions to
define them for the rest of their lives. Taxpayers already spend enough on keeping criminals in prison. Raising the age will, over time, allow taxpayer money to be put to better use. Putting money into educating our youth, rather than punishing them, seems like the better invest-ment.
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THE FACTS:N.C. legislators proposed raising the age to try teenagers as adults to 18 for non-serious offensesOUR OPINION:Raising the age will benefit the youth because it allows them to learn from their mistakes rather than being defined by them.
Rebuild, rather than label troubled youth
BY CHARLIE HARLESS
Do you think we should have universal
healthcare?
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“I see healthcare as an inalienable right, so those who can’t provide for themselves shouldn’t have to suffer because of lack of education or resources.”Jordan McIntyresenior, aerospace engineering
“Yes, people should share the same opportunities.”
Tina Wangsophomore, statistics
This is what’s sexy in media.Rachel Jordan, junior in architecture
America: Land of equality. Unless you’re sick.When I think of the
phrase “American health care system,” I picture wads of my precious
money melting and dripping through my despairing fingers into a pool of doctors and surgeons swimming around in the carefree joys of monetary success.
I’m sure not every person in the United States shares my exact view—that would be too convenient—but I can guarantee that a large portion of our country visual-izes something similar, perhaps with fewer adjectives.
Health care is such a necessity for human beings (as the number one thing that stops life is death), yet our country has not been able to figure out how to provide health care efficiently to all U.S. citizens.
Currently, U.S. health care is run through private insurance companies, and it is not mandatory for all citizens to have an insur-ance plan, which often leads to huge debts for citizens who couldn’t afford insurance in the first place. Many people think uni-versal health care means a socialist state in which the government controls all medical institutions.
However, there are multiple ways to at-
tain universal health care, one of which is the aforementioned government control of medical institutions. If implemented well, this policy has the potential to be very suc-cessful.
In England, the health of citizens is entire-ly dealt with through the government. Any citizen, no matter what social or economic status, can have an appointment to see a doctor without having to pay anything. All procedures and visits are free for the patient.
Although this type of universal health care may be minimally slower in scheduling timely appointments, the wonderful moral stability of knowing every citizen can attain high-quality health care makes up for it.
If government-run health care is not for you, there are still other methods better than our expensive and exclusive excuse for a heath care system. In Switzerland, heath care is entirely run by private insur-ance companies.
However, unlike our system, Swiss citi-zens are required to purchase an insurance plan (this is the point where I’ll subtly add that Switzerland runs a system similar to the proposed Obamacare plan).
Even with the requirement that everyone has an insurance plan, Switzerland is still
spending less money on health care than the United States. Thus, this leaves us with the problem of how to proceed with our inefficient health care system.
For me, I have dual English citizenship, so if I am ever in need of a non-immediate sur-gery, given the outrageous prices of medical procedures in America I would probably be able to save money by buying a round-trip ticket to England and receiving free medi-cal care there (although this would be ethi-cally frowned upon). As for the rest of you, I hope you’re all at least somewhat aware that how our country is currently running concerning health care is comparable to making a cheese sandwich with peanut butter and jelly: It just doesn’t work.
So, whether you favor a government-run health care system or a private insurance health care system, it doesn’t matter, just as long as we acknowledge that the current way of functioning, is, in fact, not functioning.
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Education vs. SchoolingMark Twain once said that he “never let his schooling interfere with his education.” Unfortunately, the distinction between the two is not as self-evident as Mr. Twain might have perceived. So what precisely is the difference? Well, rhetorically speaking, I see school and education as analogous to nationalism and patriotism. Nationalism is the unhealthy love of one’s government; patriotism is the healthy love of one’s land and people. As far as I
can tell, schooling is a necessary evil which, like government, can be used to achieve both individual and common good. The University, as an institution, has attempted to employ schooling as a means to achieve education. But how successful it has been, I am not sure. I do know that somewhere in the course of history we have lost our way. Perhaps it is because the ends of school have shifted from education to employment. In any case, the opportunity cost of college has crowded out the economic benefit. This is evident by the amount of student debt still owed by elderly Americans. Recent reports from Equifax show individuals 50 and older have $135 billion in student loan debt and those 60 and older have $36 billion. Is a college degree worth de-facto indentured servitude? I don’t think so. In the meantime, I will continue to let my education interfere with my schooling. Matt Albritton senior in history
Sending papers home for parent’s reviewWe’re in college right? Somehow we got here, whether it was
our SAT scores, our grades, our essays or some combination of the above. We got here, not our parents. But sure, our parents helped us along the way. Of course they did. They helped us study, they read our papers and helped us get where were are today. However, there comes a point when we as young people need to stand on our own feet. At some point we need to stop leaning on our parents. I have a major problem with students emailing their papers to their parents and having them reading over them. Your parents may work in the field or they may be professional writers. Regardless, as students, we have to learn to make our own mistakes. We have to learn these lessons for ourselves. Are we going to send journal articles to our parents to have them read before they’re published?I think that there comes a time when we need to be able to read and edit our own papers or have friends or our professors look over them.
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Deep inside the Cerrejón Coal Mine in northern Co-lumbia lay a sleeping giant for 60 million years.
That is, until it was uncov-ered in 2006 by Edwin Ca-dena, a young Smithsonian employee.
One of the dinosaurs’ successors, alongside giant reptiles with names like Ti-tanoboa, lay Carbonemys, a turtle the size of a Smart car.
Bound by the new-species code of silence prior to pub-lishing this month, Cadena, now a PhD student in marine, earth and atmospheric sci-ences, can finally talk about his discovery and the 50 mil-lion year gap in South Ameri-can history it helps bridge.
Cadena fell in love with paleontology growing up in a popular Columbian fossil town. His passion for turtles be ga n i n 2004 after f inding a 140 million y e a r o l d “beautiful turtle” and becoming intrigued by the infor-mation gap on Sout h American tropical turtles.
“So that was kind of like, oh my God, this is kind of like a neat field, to do things that no one else has done before,” Cadena said.
One of the big reasons for
that information gap is scien-tists have avoided the tropics because the dense vegetation is not very conducive to dig-ging for fossils.
But under that vegetation often lies one of today’s most popular energy resources: coal.
“The mines are t he best place to g o b e -cause they are always opening new rock, new lay-ers of rock every day,” Cadena
said.That is what Cadena did
as a Smithsonian employee out of college. Cadena found a rich supply of fossils in the Cerrejón coal mine, many from the Palaeocene period,
just after the dinosaurs.“For the first time we are
showing those fossils to the world,” Cadena said.
Among those fossils found was the massive turtle, Car-bonemys.
Its skull is the size of a foot-ball and the shell is just un-der six feet long (taller than Cadena). But add the tail and the head and you reach Smart car size.
According to Daniel Ksep-ka, researcher in marine, earth and atmospheric sci-ences, the omnivorous crea-ture is a relative of the side-necked turtles (bends neck into shell instead of retracting it like local box turtles) of the Southern Hemisphere.
It may have even eaten small crocodiles, according to Cadena, because of the strength of its mouth bones.
“When you grow so fast and you grow so big, you need to have that diet that is basi-
cally rich in protein,” he said.That being said, it wasn’t
necessarily a ferocious preda-tor.
“It’s not going to be that different than something like a snapping turtle,” Ksepka, also a paleontologist with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, said. “It’s more of a kind of sit and wait predator.”
But the true value of Car-bonemys and his coal-mine companions is the insight they give to 50 million years of South American tropics.
“Before the Cerrejón fos-sils, we didn’t know anything about what kind of animals and plants lived in the tropics of South America just after the extinction of dinosaurs,” Cadena said.
Carbonemys is especially noteworthy.
“One of the really inter-
Men in Black 3’s straightforward plot still provides room for fun scenes and witty dialogue.
Jordan Alsaqa Associate Features Editor
“Men in Black 3” had a fair amount of hype to live up to. Not only has it been a full decade since the last sequel was released, but the film also features Will Smith’s return to the big screen after a four year absence. As a result, it’s a nice surprise that MIB3 has as much quality as it does.
This isn’t to say that MIB3 is a great film, but strong performances from the main cast help make this a fun addition to the summer’s lineup of pop-corn blockbusters.
The film picks up with Agents J and K (Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones respectively) ten years after the events of the previous film. While the agents have remained partners fighting against alien crime, J feels he still doesn’t know K very well.
Before the two can work out their issues, Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clem-ent), an old enemy of K’s, breaks out of prison and travels back in time to kill K as a young man and al-low his race to destroy Earth. Agent J must also travel back to 1969 to save not only his partner, but
the whole world.The plot of MIB3 is rela-
tively straightforward, but it provides a strong backbone for a lot of fun scenes. Some of the best parts of the Men in Black films involve the idea of aliens secretly living among us, and that continues here. Shots of Lady Gaga in the present and the idea that Andy Warhol was actually an agent of the Men in Black provide great moments.
Beyond the smaller mo-ments, though, the cast re-ally sells the film. Smith slides back into the role of Agent J with ease, reminding view-ers how charming his unique style of sarcasm is and pro-viding a likable protagonist.
Equally impressive is Josh Brolin, who plays the young Agent K. Brolin was given the heavy task of emulating the mannerisms and style of Tommy Lee Jones, and he knocks it out of the park. From the deadpan delivery of lines to the stern, judgmental stare, Brolin manages to nail every facet of Jones’ perfor-mance, while also bringing a unique spin to the role.
With such strong person-alities filling the movie, it’s just a shame that the plot it-self isn’t more exciting. This is the third movie where it’s come down to J and K to save the world from an alien as-sault. While it makes sense given the nature of the series, it would still be nice to see a bit more variety.
This is made worse by a tru-ly awful ending that betrays a lot of the characterization between J and K we’ve seen so far. The big reveal about
A fun ride back in time
CONTRIBUTED BY EDWIN CANDEAEdwin Cadena, PhD student in marine, earth and atmospheric sciences, discovered the new species in 2006 in a coal mine in his native Columbia. The shell of Carbonemys is just under 6 feet long, making it as large as a smart car with head and tail.
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On the weekend of May 25, droves of living, breathing cartoon and video game
characters filled the streets of downtown Raleigh.
This scene has become an annual event every time the Animazement convention opens in Raleigh. Members
of the Triangle Area Anime Society at N.C. State started a 36-hour Japanese cartoon marathon in 1997. What started as a small gathering has since blossomed
into an event at t rac t ing thousands of fans of anime, video games and almost every aspect of what is now known
as otaku, or geek culture.Some of this year’s activities
included attending informative panels on TV shows and comic book series, gaming tournaments, meeting famous voice actors and musicians, and -most prominently- participating in the hobby of “cosplaying.”
Cosplay, a term coined by combining the words “costume”
and “play,” is a popular hobby among anime and videogame fanatics. Fans show their devotion and passion by dressing up as their favorite characters.
According to Feon Mak, a junior in biochemistry, this is one of the highlights of the Animazement event.
“The Animazement convention itself just stands out because you get Naruto walking around in the street and Sailor Moon eating Jimmy John’s, so it’s something out of ordinary,” Mak said,
referring to anime characters.This year’s Animazment convention
was Mak’s second, and the second time she participated in bringing a fantasy character to life. This year, she dressed up in a homemade costume to transform herself into Ahri, a character from the action real-time-strategy game “League of Legends.”
For many cosplayers, this practice is not just another attraction at Animazement. It is also an art form that they use to express themselves and connect with other fans.
“It’s nice to get together with other people and dress up and express yourself in a way that you wouldn’t be able to normally,” said Katie Edwards, a senior in costume design at East Carolina University and longtime cosplaye. “People pick characters based on who they relate to and who they are like. You can literally just walk up to somebody and be like, ‚ÄòHey, I don’t know you, let’s be friends.’”
According to Jeff Shu, a senior in textile technology management, feeling hesitant about publicly sharing one’s passion for cartoons and video games is not uncommon among fanatics. Consequently, the idea of an event just for fans is comforting for many attendees, as they can celebrate without fear of being stigmatized. In some ways, Animazment is also a refuge.
“It’s a time where a bunch of crazy otaku nerds can get together and feel comfortable and relate to each other. A lot of people are maybe ashamed of their hobbies‚ but at [Animazement] they can
say, ‘I like this and this and this, and no one would judge them,’” Shu said.
Mak is one such anime fan who has come to enjoy cosplaying over
the past two years.
“I’m ashamed,” Mak said. “In the real world if you walk out with five tails on your butt and you’re not wearing regular T-shirts, people assume you’re one of those crazy anime nerds.”
“ T h e r e a r e h a t e r s everywhere,” Shu said. “Granted, we don’t have one of the best stereotypes. Even in Japan, there’s this stereotypical...
otaku who’s fat, he wears glasses, he
COURTESY OF NICK FAULKNERAt the Animazement convention, anime fans dress up as their favorite anime or video game character. The “Dealer’s Room” is one attraction at Animazement and is where fans can buy various memorabilia.
Bringing fantasies to lifeBY DRESSING UP AS THEIR FAVORITE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS,
COSPLAYERS CELEBRATE THEIR PASSIONS.
STORY BY JENNIFER JUNG | PHOTOS BY CHARLIE HARLESS
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Feon Mak, a junior in biochemistry, Ahri from League of Legends
Despite a 10-year absence, Max Payne 3 proves there is still room for slow-motion firefights.
Phillip LinStaff Writer
The story in Max Payne 3 begins with the title character trying to drown out his past with alcohol. He admits that everything that transpired in his life happened a long time ago and that he should just forget about it. Similarly, it’s been more than 10 years since the last install-ment in the Max Payne series was released.
But it’s not quite time to forget about Max Payne just yet.
The last game in the Max Payne series came out in 2003. The series popularized the use of
slow motion gunfights in video games the same way the Matrix films did in Holly-wood. Much of what defined the series is still here in Max Payne 3: the slow-motion diving, gunfights, the dark and gritty atmosphere, and Max Payne’s plethora of puns. While very much o ld f a s h-ioned in its design, the game st i l l manages to hold up to and easily surpasses more recent titles that have tried to emu-late the slow motion bullet-dodging gameplay such as the decent Stranglehold and the awful Wet.
Max Payne 3 retains the classic elements of the series while adding what new tech-nology of the current console generation will allow. Gone are the old comic book panel cutscenes, but this actually helps keep a strong level of immersion for the game. The drunken anti-hero is also getting older, and he feels
it. Whether or not the game designers intended for the ef-fect, the gameplay works in tandem with the story’s nar-rative to portray the feeling of wear and tear that Max Payne is experiencing.
Payne’s age must be affect-ing his eyes because the t iny white dot serving as the tar-geting reti-cle becomes very difficult
to locate amidst the more col-orful environments. Move-ment through the battlefield also feels sluggish, and it’s quite amusing to watch Max making a graceful slow -mo-tion dive out of cover only to be interrupted by slamming into a cubicle wall.
It is in these instances that the game shows its more old -fashioned game design, but the big question hovering over this third installment is whether or not Max Payne 3 differentiates itself from more recent conventional third-person shooters we see
today.While a few recent titles
such as Vanquish try to mix things up by encouraging players to break the chest-high wall cover system con-ventions popularized by the Gears of War series, Max Payne 3 is more grounded but still requires the player to master the bullet-time mechanics. It’s not enough to trade bullets with enemies from behind cover. There are simply too many enemies and bullets to absorb before Max Payne files for early retire-ment, and diving on in slow motion is the best way to hit your enemy from an unex-pected angle without taking more shots to the torso than desired.
In addition to the game mechanics, the story and narrative of Max Payne 3 is also quite old-fashion, but to be engaging and effective regardless. It’s no surprise that Max Payne is feeling worn out after all he’s gone through and experienced, and the dark and gritty sto-ryline more than beats you
over the head with the fact.Depending on how invested
the player is in the stories, the cutscenes will either be too frequent and too long, or re-freshing breaks from all the murder and here to provide motivation and direction. Ei-ther way, there is no shortage in the number of enemies that the game throws at you, but just when the chapters start to drag on, the game throws in a vehicle section that keeps things feeling nice and fresh. The return of Max Payne is a welcome one despite the years that have passed by. Old fans should find this third install-ment a wonderful addition to the series if not the best of the three, and newcomers might just find something to like if they are willing to dive in. With a lengthy campaign and surprisingly well-crafted multiplayer, the game retains many of the gameplay and story elements that worked before but throw in new fea-tures to keep things feeling fresh.
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doesn’t leave his room and he has figurines everywhere, and he watches anime all day.”
Still, some fans face other struggles when they cosplay. This year Edwards, through her cosplay, paid tribute to one of her favorite cartoon characters, Yoko, from the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. As a character who of tent i mes wea rs particularly skimpy outfits, Edwards observed some misconceptions about her and other fans who choose to celebrate characters with similar outfits.
“There would be people that are like, ‘oh, you’re c o s pl ay i ng s ome t h i ng skimpy, you must be a slut,’” Edwards said.” And, no, I’m obviously not a slut, I just like the character. If you don’t understand the perspective of the character and why people pick the character, it can lead to conclusions based on just what the outfit is.”
However, with popular shows such as “Pokemon”, “Dragonball Z” and “Sailor Moon”, and with programs such as Toonami, anime seems to be in the process of bre a k i ng i nto t he mainstream. According to Shu, “Dragonball Z” is now a staple in the young American cartoon diet, and with the popularity of Animazement growing year by year, the otaku culture in Raleigh is maturing and expanding.
FANTASYcontinued from page 6
Max Payne drags himself back to his feet
esting things about this turtle is that it is really, really large really, really early,” Ksepka said.
The next and largest... known giant turtle spe-
cies, Stupendemys, exist-ed 7 million years ago.
“If [they are related], this indicates that large
size in this group of turtles was reached for first time 60 million years ago, and that it probably persisted until the extinction of Stupendemys in the last 5 million years,” Cadena said.
Getting the word out was a long time coming. Between transporting and preparing the large fossil at the Univer-sity of Florida, and extensive analysis and research at N.C. State and abroad, six years quickly passed.
“I went to different muse-ums around the world trying to make sure that this thing is new,” Cadena said.
Cadena said discovering fossils has always been an amazing experience and this one is special.
“To discover something [no one in the world has seen be-fore] and to be able to con-tribute [to] the understand-ing of the evolution of life and biodiversity on Earth, doesn’t have price for me.”
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why K has always been so distant to J is highly un-satisfying and needlessly sentimental.
Not even the time trav-el element does much to spice up the plot. A few jokes are made about the sixties, but overall the pe-riod feels wasted. Further,
the time travel mechanics themselves are poorly defined and seem to break their own rules at a few points in the movie.
For its flaws, though, MIB3 is still a lot of fun. The inter-actions between Smith and Brolin are strong, and the film’s humor hits more times than not. It’s just a shame that the plot couldn’t be a more fleshed out and involving ex-perience.
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N.C. State (39-17, 19-11 ACC) will host the NCAA Regional Championships for the first time since 2008 this weekend at Doak Field.
The Pack solidified the number one seed of the Regional on the strength of freshman star Trea Turner and prolific juniors Ryan Matthews and Chris Diaz.
But for as much credit as the offense receives, the men tak-ing the mound have the power to take the Wolfpack to great heights.
State’s pitching staff has been strong all year and hopes to get the best out of its starters going forward into the NCAA Tour-nament. Ace Carlos Rodon has been stellar all season, posting a record of 9-0 and an ERA of 1.67. He was awarded both the ACC Pitcher and Freshman of the Year first-team All-ACC honors and has been named a Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist for the best player in the country.
According to head coach El-liot Avent, Rodon’s last outing against UNC-Chapel Hill was among the best collegiate per-formances he’s ever witnessed. Rodon went nine innings, giv-ing up no runs while fanning 12 batters.
“I don’t really take on the pres-sure,” Rodon said. “I try to stay relaxed and calm.”
While Rodon is the leader of the pitching staff, junior Ethan Ogburn (4-3) and sophomore Anthony Tzamtzis (5-5) have played large roles for the Wolf-pack this season. Ogburn fin-ished with an opponent’s batting average of .245 while Tzamtzis held batters to an impressive .183 average; the tandem has rounded out a solid starting rotation for the Pack with an improving defense (57 double plays and a .969 fielding percentage) to back them up.
“I’ve got a great defense behind me,” Ogburn said. “I know that we’ve got four guys in the infield who can pick up anything.”
Ogburn is probable to take the mound Friday night for the team’s first game of the tourna-ment. The Pack’s opponent—
Sacred Heart (30-25, 19-12 NEC) - takes on Ogburn and State dur-ing what will be its third NCAA appearance, courtesy of winning a second consecutive automatic bid in the NEC Tournament.
If the Pioneers find the lead early on, NCSU captain and senior first basemen Andrew Ciencin is the leader the Pack trusts to encourage and dig the team out of the hole. He’s a vocal leader on the diamond, walking to the mound to calm down the pitcher or keeping the rest of the team composed when they need it. The Cranford, N.J., native said he feels that no matter what, the Pack has a chance to earn a win no matter who they play.
“When the team feels pressure, we settle down and get in a mood where we feel like we’re going to win the game,” Ciencin said.
The team Ciencin captains has been creating a buzz locally and nationally. With the excellent fresh-men class incoming this year, the big-game experience is going to boost the confidence of the under-classmen game by game and in the following years moving forward.
UNC Wilmington (38-21, 24-6 CAA) and Vanderbilt (33-26, 16-14 SEC) make up the rest of the teams in the double-elimination tourna-ment. The winner of the Raleigh Regional will take on the winner of the Gainesville Regional, hosted by the Florida Gators.
Vanderbilt will make its eleventh appearance—the Commodores’ seventh straight—in the NCAA Tournament after clinching an at-large bid by placing fourth in the SEC East. UNC Wilmington will make its fifth appearance as an automatic qualifier after being crowned CAA regular-season and tournament champions.
State has made the NCAA Region-als the past two years as the No. 3 seed but failed to advance to the second round. The last time Raleigh hosted the tournament, during the 2008 campaign, the Wolfpack ad-vanced as the top seed in its Region-al. The Pack finished 38-20 that sea-son, defeating James Madison and South Carolina before eventually succumbing to the Georgia Bulldogs in Super Regional play.
State looks determined to make
a postseason run this season, as NCSU is led by a balanced team of talented underclassmen and expe-rienced upperclassmen who know what it is like playing in the spot-light.
The Wolfpack faithful have put their team pride on full display this season, showing up in great num-bers for home games in addition to helping set a new North Carolina collegiate baseball attendance re-cord during the ACC Tournament when the Pack squared off against Carolina.
RED-N-WHITE REWIND
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANFreshman pitcher Carlos Rodon throws a pitch for a strikeout Saturday, April 28, 2012. Rodon had 12 strikeouts in the full game he pitched against the Duke Blue Devils at Doak Field at Dail Park. Rodon improved his record to 8-0 with the Wolfpack’s 8-3 win.
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Wolves of summerSTRONG PITCHING STAFF LEADS STATE INTO THIRD-EVER RALEIGH
Ready for prime time in Hollywood The closing credits have gone by for the 2011-2012 men’s golf season after failing to make it out of Regionals, but the final scene has not been filmed for sophomore Albin Choi’s season. The Toronto, Ontario, native ran circles around the Regional field with a 10-under-par performance at the University of Michigan’s home course in Ann Arbor, Mich., and he is now one of six individuals competing without any teammates in the NCAA Championships. The tournament is taking place at beautiful Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., site of the annual Los Angeles Open. In Tuesday’s first round, the four-time individual champion turned in an impressive performance with an even-par 71. Among a field of 156 talented golfers teeing it up at the famous venue, Choi found his way into a tie for 13th heading into action. Heading out late in the afternoon out west, the sophomore finished his first nine holes 1-over, which put him in a tie for 16th. Choi needs to finish in the top eight through three rounds in order to advance to the match play portion of the NCAA Championships.
Crouching Tiger, hidden WolfpackAmong the influx of news and notes coming out of the men’s basketball program, perhaps the biggest came when head coach Mark Gottfried announced the addition of 6-6 guard Ralston Turner to Pack basketball. The Muscle Shoals, Ala., native started in 59 games during his first two seasons of college basketball at LSU and should add perimeter depth to State’s backcourt starting in about a year and a half; under NCAA transfer rules, Turner cannot play until the 2013-2014 season. He has two years of eligibility remaining. Also in the spring headlines, NCSU announced a pair of opponents for neutral-site games next season. On Nov. 27, State will travel to Michigan to play the Wolverines in the 2012 ACC/Big Ten Challenge. One week later on Dec. 4, the Pack will fly out to New York City to face UConn inside of Madison Square Garden. The nightcap of the doubleheader follows Georgetown vs. Texas and is a part of the Jimmy V Classic.
Feeling like the first time
In easily one of the proudest moments to date for the Wolfpack women’s golf program, State fought its way to a tie for 13th in the NCAA Championships at the Vanderbilt’s Legends Club in Franklin, Tenn. NCSU’s best season in program history finished in style with sophomore star Brittany Marchand claiming sixth overall individually and picking up an honorable mention for the All-American team. The Canadian is the only golfer in program history to earn the honor. The stellar season featured the program’s first-ever ranking and first-ever National Championship appearance, as well as final victories over established powerhouses like Duke, Texas and Stanford. Every player will return for next season, including talented underclassmen like Augusta James, Ana Menendez and Vivian Tsui.
AFTER STRUGGLING A SEASON AGO, SOME STATE PROGRAMS HAVE TURNED THINGS AROUND
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