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Researchers in the First-Year Writing Program implemented a new flexible classroom layout which encourages alternative teaching styles and decreases costs.

The Flexible Classroom Proj-ect is a joint effort between Susan Miller-Cochran, associate profes-sor of English and the director of the First-Year Writing Program and Dana Gierdowski, a doctoral can-didate in communication, rhetoric and digital media.

The purpose of The Flexible Classroom Project is to give in-structors more flexibility, engage students more in the writing pro-cess, and lower costs, according to Gierdowski.

To accomplish these goals, proj-ect designers made furniture in the classroom mobile and eliminated in-class computers Miller-Cochran added.

“We wanted to make all of the furniture mobile so that things can be adjusted depending on the class,” Miller-Cochran said. “Instructors can arrange the classroom furniture whichever way they choose.”

The pilot classroom is Tompkins 126, which is used for English 101 classes. The classroom features moveable chairs, tables, white-boards, several LCD screens, and a wall of windows. It has been used for three semesters now.

Jenna Shouse, a freshman in first year college, was in the classroom for an English 101 class.

“I liked that we could move around the chairs and tables. It made class less stale and more in-teresting,” Shouse said.

Michael Cartwright, a sophomore in microbiology, was another stu-dent who had class in the flexible classroom.

Cartwright said the classroom helps students analyze and work with digital media.

“Overall, it was a very relevant and well-designed classroom, Cart-wright said.” It made the digital age that we live in easier to interpret because each type of media was available to work with and easily accessible through the provided technology.”

Having mobile furniture and teaching aids allows for a decen-tralization of the classroom, Miller-Cochran explained.

Laura Giovanelli, a lecturer in the First-Year Writing Program, prefers the flexible classroom for this reason.

“I don’t always have to be in the front of the classroom,” Giovanelli said. “The design breaks down the

Research leads to cutting-edge classroom

Learning about the black press Richard Owen, chair of the Louisiana Tech University journalism department, will visit campus to talk about the power and the influence of the black press. His talk will be in Tomkins G0123 at 1 p.m. today. Owens is an expert on the history that brought about African American publications, and his talk will analyze the oppressive social conditions that prompted journalists and activists to start the first black newspapers. The talk will include aspects of American history, sociology, psychology, political science and music studies.

Immigration Matters Forum comes to Centennial Campus UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State are partnering to host the Immigration Matters Forum at the James B. Hunt Library today from noon to 5 p.m. UNC-CH’s Center for International Understanding organized the lineup of speakers and presenters, which includes Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice; Anna Navarro, a CNN correspondent; and NCSU ’12 alum Saul Flores will present on his project the Walk of the Immigrants.

TEDxNCSU: right around the cornerThe world famous Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference is coming to N.C. State in local form Saturday, March 23.Named TEDx, the program was created by TED to provide TED-like conferences that are local and self-organized. N.C. State’s version of TEDx, TEDxNCSU, is in its fourth year and will be held at the James B. Hunt library on Centennial campus. Much like the original TED conferences, TEDxNCSU will feature guests addressing a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture, often through storytelling.

Ceramic research offers many benefits Ceramics are used to create a wide variety of technologies, including body armor, fuel cells, spark plugs, nuclear rods and superconductors.The process for creating high-density ceramics used to take hours, but thanks to an N.C. State professor, a method taking only seconds has been developed. The process also requires less energy. Jay Narayan, John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at N.C. State discovered a way to selectively “sinter,” or compress ceramic powder into certain shapes and published his work earlier in February.

Celebrating Brazilian culture The Office of International Services showcased Brazil Wednesday at Caldwell lounge as part of their cultural events series. The event explored Brazilian food and dance and included presentations about the country’s culture. Brazilian exchange students were on hand to help. OIS has also put on similar events focusing on India, China, South Korea, Turkey and Iran.

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An associate North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice vis-ited campus Wednesday to dis-cuss the rights that United States citizens are not using.

Mark Martin, senior associate justice of the North Carolina Su-preme Court, was a guest lecturer for a Legal and Regulatory En-vironment class in Nelson Hall Wednesday morning.

Martin focused his lecture on the idea that Americans don’t use the rights they are granted by the United States Constitu-tion, specifically concerning how trials by jury are an infrequent occurrence.

Students should participate in discussions with their peers and teachers about the Constitu-tion to preserve the current jury system, according to Martin. Students should get involved by discussing which rights should be protected and also have less apathy for issues pertaining to rights.

Martin said trials by jury are not being used as often as they once were and people are not tak-ing advantage of a jury made up of peers.

This idea is unique to the Unit-

ed States because we are the only na-tion that allows a jury made up of citizens.

“The jury system sets us apart,” Martin said. “What if you are ac-cused of a crime and one judge is in front of that court room? Think about the bias, one person is decid-ing guilt or innocence.”

Martin also said he would rather take his chances in front of jury than a judge, which is an opportu-nity only Americans have.

Martin said he’s noticed juries have been used less frequently and plea bargains are becoming the nor-mal procedure in criminal cases.

“The system is under attack and not used as often as is used to be,” Martin said. “Somebody is charged with a more serious crime but in order to not take court time...the charges are eventually resolved ad-ministratively.”

Martin also cited too few court rooms and insufficient funds to bring in jurors as reasons for a de-cline in jury trials.

Martin emphasized the jury may not exist in the future.

He said that the preservation of the jury system is in the hands of groups, like N.C. State students, that are active in the community.

Citizens should think about the future of the system before they are in situation where they will depend

on it, according to Martin.The lecture concluded with

questions from the audience that involved controversial top-ics like gay marriage and the le-galization of marijuana.

Briana Sauer, a senior in ac-counting, said Martin’s speech added a human element to the legal system because it matched a face to the North Carolina ju-diciary.

“Having him speak to us and have the potential for interac-tion humanizes it and it makes the law more tangible,” Sauer said.

NAME OF PHOTOGRAPHER/TECHNICIANMark D. Martin speaks at a Legal and Regulatory Environment class in Nelson Auditorium Feb. 27.

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Local business owners have taken to expanding their knowledge of the busi-ness world in an eight-class course on international busi-ness. The Confucius Institute opened its corporate outreach program, teaching businesses the art of doing business in China, to companies in Re-search Triangle Park last year. Companies, according to Yang Yang, a professor of the course, jumped at the op-portunity to send employees into the program.

“The companies are quite interested in how to do busi-ness in China,” Yang said.

The Confucius Institute currently offers two different courses related to business in China. One course is the corporate outreach program designed for current busi-nessmen who want to learn how to improve their aware-ness of the Chinese culture. The second option is a “Do-ing Business in China” course consisting of eight sessions of an hour and a half, once

a week. This option is for undergraduate and graduate students looking to learn the basic Chinese cultural prac-tices and history according to the Confucius Institute’s website.

Realizing it had an op-portunity to help local com-panies when it had to deny multiple businessmen access to the course, because only students were able to take it, Yang said the Confucius In-stitute started the corporate outreach program.

Ten employees from Leno-vo have registered for the course along with other com-panies’ employees, according to Yang.

“They encounter difficulty communicating with the Chinese and want to attend a class to understand how they think,” Yang said.

Businessmen look to learn about the history and culture of China to understand busi-ness in the country. Accord-ing to Yang, students learn to deal with government off icials, set up relation-ships with local businesses and understand the typical

Chinese businessman. The corporate outreach program helps increase cultural aware-ness through Chinese culture discussions, practical Chi-nese language applications and Chinese history lessons, according to the Confucius Institute’s website.

The Chinese business course and outreach program comprise about 80 percent culture and 20 percent lan-guage, Yang said. Even with a stable course curriculum, the outreach program can be more specifically designed if need be, according to the website.

The small amount of lan-guage taught in the course is mainly geared toward simple practical phrases.

“The Chinese language is very difficult to master so we teach phrases used to greet one another, show gratitude, and function in small meet-ings,” Yang said.

Most of the students or businessmen simply memo-rize simple phrases, accord-ing to Yang.

Guest lecturers also speak at the outreach program as well as the student course.

“Personal experiences re-ally attract their attention,” said Jianning Ding, a guest lecturer for the course and Chinese university lecturer. Businessmen and students have different interests in that students act like a sponge, absorbing new information, whereas businessmen already have hands-on experience and ask a lot of specific ques-tions, according to Ding, who has eight years of business ex-perience in China.

“With China being such a huge market and important trade partner, knowing how to do business in China is im-portant,” Ding said.

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Port City Java in Nelson is open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday. The store also serves coffee, speciality drinks, sandwiches and wraps.

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N.C. State’s central cam-pus is home to the Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) research shop, a 7,500 square foot research facility where discovering innovative solutions is all in a day’s work. The BAE shop creates proto-type parts and machinery for departments on campus and across the state.

The shop, originally located in Mangum Hall, was opened in 1947 and made the move to Weaver Labs in 1957. The fa-cility has produced some in-teresting creations through-out the years. Among them was a garden scooter that re-sembles a small hang glider with wheels. The scooter, designed to help farmers with disabilities move around easier, highlights the nature of the shop, which aims to provide innovative solutions for those in the agriculture business.

While the BAE shop fo-cuses on agricultural ma-chinery, they also work with other departments on cam-pus, according to BAE shop supervisor, David Buffaloe. For example, the shop created some shocking modifications to a boat for the biology de-partment. Buffaloe and his team attached tentacles to the boat that would electrocute fish. The fish would then float to the surface allowing them to be studied.

The facility also helped create a device for scoliosis patients along with the bio-medical engineering depart-ment at N.C. State. The shop used their machinery to bend a rod that matched the curve of scoliosis patients’ spines. The rod was then inserted to re-align their spines.

The BAE shop also does repairs and modifications for existing machinery, and also offers its services to the state of North Carolina and the federal government.

Buffaloe stresses the cost ef-ficiency of the facility. Many machines are bought from surplus stores for a huge dis-count. However, Buffaloe and his crew are still able to get their money’s worth, espe-cially when these machines help out other departments on campus. According to Buffaloe, his crew made a simulated river flow device for the Biology, saving the university money.

Buffaloe, who has been working with the shop for 36 years doesn’t see himself retiring anytime soon. “Peo-ple ask me, ‘why haven’t you retired,’” Buffaloe said. “My answer is ‘I’m having fun.’ We have the chance to make things that can be found on campus and across the state. It’s fascinating turning an idea into reality.”

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TYLER ANDREWS/TECHNICIANTop: A cylindrical piece of stainless steel compared to the finished part created in the Bio&Ag Research Shop for a food science lab. The specialized pieces will be used in a system to determine the coefficient of friction for wine bottle corks. Bottom Left: Materials for fabrication in the Bio&Ag Research Shop. Bottom Right: David Buffaloe, instrument shop supervisor at the Bio&Ag Research Shop.

hierarchal system.” Because the classes are so

small and the furniture is so easily moved, she would often have the students move from one LCD screen to the next to view different group projects. This creates a more intimate environment according to Giovanelli.

Giovanelli no longer teach-es in the flexible classroom, but her experiences in the room influenced the way she teaches in traditional class-rooms.

“Since I don’t have LCD screens in other classrooms, I place large pieces of paper on the walls of the classroom for students to brainstorm or work together on group proj-ects,” Giovanelli said.

The aesthetics of the room are also important to learn-ing. The large windows pro-vide a lot of natural light and the color of the room is laven-der with color coordinating

upholstery Gierdowski said. “One of the students we

surveyed commented that she didn’t feel like she was in a prison because of the win-dows and color,” Gierdowski said.

To decrease costs, comput-ers are no longer going to be provided in the classrooms.

By eliminating in-class computers, N.C. State is de-creasing the costs associated with constantly updating technology.

Miller-Cochran also ex-plained students prefer to bring their own technology regardless. A checkout system is in place to provide laptops for students who do not have their own.

In addition to saving mon-ey, allowing students to work on their own computers helps students learn to write in an environment that they can then transfer out of class, ac-cording to Miller-Cochran.

All of the instructors and students who had class in the flexible classroom completed surveys about the classroom.

Gierdowski reported that

66% of the 195 students surveyed in spring 2012 in-dicated that the design of the classroom had a positive influence on their learning.

In the same survey, 78% of students said they would prefer to have class in a flex-ible classroom than in a tra-ditional classroom.

You can read more about Gierdowski and Miller-Co-chran’s research in an article which will be published in next month’s edition of the Journal of Computers and Composition.

The Flexible Classroom Project is “important work,” according to Gierdowski, es-pecially if N.C. State wants to continue to be a leader in learning design.

“We already have great learning spaces like the Hunt Library, but we need to con-tinue to push the envelope,” Gierdowski said.

Miller-Cochran and Gier-dowski are currently devel-oping another flexible class-room in Tompkins, which should be finished in the “near future.”

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ViewpointWhile Hispanics and Latinos con-

tinue to immigrate to the United States at alarming rates, it is clear

why Spanish is the most popular foreign lan-guage at N.C. State. But with more than one billion native speakers, Mandarin Chinese far outnumbers the popularity of Spanish. And inevitably, as blasphemous as this may sound, we, Americans, must embrace the Chinese and learn the mother tongue of our biggest trade partner.

However, Evan Osnos of The New Yorker described 2012 as “the year Chinese-bashing went mainstream.”

This is partly due to TV advertisements like “The Chinese Professor” which debuted in 2010 but became well-known during the 2012 election season. The ad, set in the year 2030, features a Chinese professor who poses the question, “Why do great nations fail?” He named the U.S. as one of many fallen empires. Later in the ad he tells his students, “… we owned most of [the United States’] debt, so now they work for us.”

Citizens Against Government Waste, the sponsors of the ad, claim to be a “private, non-partisan, non-profit organization” whose mis-sion it is to “eliminate waste, mismanagement and inefficiency in the federal government.”

Though its ad may demonstrate the lobbying group’s libertarian values, the ad’s creepy mu-sic and messages of dominance have instilled fear in the American people.

A September 2012 Pew Research Center survey found that 52 percent of Americans believe China’s emergence as an economic power is a major threat to the United States. If we are so fearful of China’s dominance, we should have a greater focus on implement-ing Chinese into our lives and education.

We have taken some steps locally to increase knowledge of Mandarin Chinese. The goal of the Confucius Institute, “a coopera-tive project between the N.C. State, the Office of Chinese Language Council International and Nanjing Normal University in China,” is to sponsor Chinese programs of language and culture. It began teaching classes about the art of doing business in China to companies in

Research Triangle Park last year. One course focuses on culture while the other teaches the businessmen Chinese phrases to use in meetings.

The Chinese, in fact, want us to learn their language. A 2011 CNN story by Chris Welch

revealed that “China’s gov-ernment is sponsoring the Confucius Classroom pro-gram” which “sends teachers and money to U.S. schools to teach Chinese language and culture.”

However, some people haven’t made time to learn Chinese in fear that it will be a fad, much like Russian dur-

ing the Cold War or Japanese in the 1980s. But with the way China’s economy is growing, it doesn’t have the appearance of a fad. It’s a fact.

Not only will learning Chinese benefit our economy in the long run, but it also has short-term monetary benefits. In 2011 Welch also reported that the Gahanna-Jefferson School

District in Ohio is slated to receive “more than $1 million in federal grant money for its Chi-nese arts and education program.” Addition-ally, the Chinese government itself is giving $30,000 to the district. Learning Chinese can allow companies to more efficiently trade with one of the biggest economies on the planet. It would be idiotic to turn down selling anything to a country the size of China.

Hank Langhals, coordinator for pupil services in the Gahanna-Jefferson School District, said, “We owe it to our students so they can be a successful part of the world and China will be a major player there.”

We in Raleigh and at N.C. State should strive to be as forward-thinking as these primary education schools in Ohio, and we are glad to see the strides the Confucius Institute is making in the Triangle. Though we love our country, gone are the times of American Ex-ceptionalism. Wake up and smell the coffee (that’s not grown within the U.S.). Read a book (that could be printed on paper from Germany). In this era of globalization, any open market where we can place American products—in a responsible and respectful way—is a good market. And in China, there are literally billions of opportunities.

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Last week, Politico criticized President Obama for being a

“puppet master” of the media. According to the news outlet, the president has been among the least

coopera-tive in his-tory. His admin-istration prefers the use of so-cial media and small, easy-to-handle interviews

with local — as opposed to national — outlets.

From a public relations standpoint this seems brilliant. Journalists and public relations practi-tioners are always at odds — the journalist wants a good sto-ry while the public relations practitio-ner wants to paint a pretty picture of his orga-nization. Because most good stories are about conflict and scandal, the White House press corps will happily print any “gotcha” moments they

can snag from the president. But cynicism aside, there’s

a reason why the media is lauded as a public conscience. They ask the tough questions and point out the potential problems with the ideas of the White House, valuable information we as citizens will need to know.

Obama’s defense is that he has shelled out plenty of interviews (674 to be exact, more than any other recent president). But it’s been mostly fluff. The hosts of The View or The Tonight Show just aren’t as brutal as The New York Times (to which he has not given an interview since 2010. The Washington Post has been waiting since 2009). He can’t defend himself as “the most transparent administra-tion in history” because the information coming from the White House is mostly

PR and not journalism.

Admitted-ly, our presi-dent is not the first one to try and circumnavi-gate the me-dia. Franklin D. Roosevelt confounded reporters of

his day when he took to the radio for his fireside chats. Bill Clinton spoke directly to local news outlets (who were much more likely to

paint him in a positive light out of flattery due to the mere presence of the president) as a way to bypass the White House press corps. Obama’s actions are not new.

But this is not brilliant PR. The White House is different from most organizations in that it needs to reach every member of the United States — from the staunchest sup-porters to the harshest crit-ics. Navigating toward social media is leaving out half of our nation — the people fol-lowing Obama on Twitter are almost entirely supportive of him.

Plus, calling the media a public conscience is val-id. Obama wouldn’t have claimed that we “don’t have a spending problem” — a flatly untrue statement — in front of a harsh press. The White House needs those tough in-terviews from The New York Times or The Washington Post in order to insure it’s commu-nicating realistic sentiments.

The media is a liaison be-tween the White House and us as citizens. I encourage our president to restore the relationship between him and myself, and to be willing to answer the tough ques-tions. I like Obama. I don’t disapprove of most of his actions, but I do disapprove of his avoidance in putting them under the critical eye of mainstream media.

Tony Hankerson Jr., senior in arts application

It’s called a break for a reason

Spring Break is next week, so, in a shock-ing move, someone is

writing to tell you to enjoy the time off from school. I advise

you to spend t h e w e e k doing what-ever you’ve wa nted to do since the start of the semester. Of course that’s the obvious goal, but at t i mes you

can get caught up in assign-ments and work and let the week fly right by.

I’ll also be doing a fair bit of schoolwork myself, which is something a lot of students will face. Depending on your professors, this might mean a particularly large reading assignment or, even worse, a group project.

This is an unavoidable part of the college experience, so I’m not saying to blow off your work and snooze all nine days away. That would terrible advice and I haven’t been writing columns long enough to get away with that

sort of thing.Still, making sure to find

some time for you is im-portant. If you also work a part-time job, the week off is a great time to put in some extra hours, but find a day to relax in there somewhere.

It doesn’t even need to be that big of an activ-ity. For me, just having a couple of days to catch up on the T V shows I’ve fa l len behind on and play some video games is going to be nice. I’ll get to hang out with friends and see my family. Those are the sort of activities that can easily fit around a school load and work schedule.

The fact is that the spring semester is far stingier with its days off than the fall, which means a lot more five-day school weeks. On the one hand, this can prepare us for the standard work week once we graduate. Conversely,

doesn’t that mean we should take advantage of the free time while we still can?

The point is that the regu-larly-scheduled school days are when we are meant to be 100 percent devoted to our

academic ef-forts. Spring Break is a time to do exactly what t he n a me implies: take a break, recharge our batteries and come back fresh for the last half of the semester.

We’ve been going non-stop for almost two full months, so it’s time to treat ourselves and relax.

If nothing else, take a night and get a movie from Redbox. It takes a minimum amount of effort and you can find out why there’s so much buzz about Argo.

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learn [their]

mother tongue...”

“We’ve been

going non-stop

for almost two

full months, so

it’s time to treat

ourselves...”

“The hosts of...

The Tonight Show just aren’t

as brutal as

The New York Times...”

Put Obama back in ‘The New York Times’

Embrace, don’t fear, the Chinese

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Joseph HaveyDeputy Viewpoint Editor

BY CHRIS RUPART

Do you think learning Chinese is just as or

more important than learning any other foreign language?

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“I feel like its becoming increasingly important because China is growing so much. We have a lot of connection because their economy is growing and there becoming increasingly interdependent. ”

Holly Fergusonfreshman, human biology

“I think learning Chinese is the most important for now, because of how China is expanding.”

Kevin Gaosophomore, genetics

“It’s just as important if not more important given China’s growing power in the world. However, it’s a very difficult language to learn, more difficult than many others.”

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A Shakespearean Spring BreakFTHE FIFTHTECHNICIAN PAGE 5 • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013

But harsh, the light through yonder window breaks.It is our villain, and the dark is our hero.

Merge, fair curtains, and shield the envious sun,The brightness is terrible for everyone.

We move;O, never again, we bemoan.Glorious as night has been, the message of daylight ruins us.We swagger away, hopes of a savior consuming our thoughts..

Alas, more peril is yet to come.For this is only but our first weekly run.

V acation, vacation, where art thou vacation? We beg of you, come swiftly.

To leave, or not to leave.That, is the question.

Whether we be opulent as kings or penniless as paupers,

the musing is still present.

Should we undertake such a perilous voyage?Wrought with liquid foe and friend that can be hard to

distinguish.

Our unrest does not reach our excitement,and so we journey onward.

The Bard takes the wheel and our voyage begins...

The group shall take their revels out tonightTake heed, you nags, come not within sight

For we shall drink and sing and shoutOut partying abilities, one should not doubt

The Bard spots a lovely girl, a dancing queenWho could be looking for her king

As he leaves to try, we wish him luckKnowing from her face, she thinks he sucks

Even rejected, he continues to smileRaising his bottle and secure in his style

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DKR PART II really wanted to like The

Dark Knight Returns Part 1. I wanted a movie that would satiate my geekiness as well as give me a tool that I could use to urge some of my friends to explore the world of comic books. However, The Dark Knight Returns Part 1, while not bad, certainly let me down.

I liked The Dark Knight Re-turns, the comic book mini-series, published in 1985 by Frank Miller, upon which the movie was based. Un-fortunately, the movie veers too far from what made the comic book great to me and it is too out of touch with what many college students now expect Batman to be.

The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 tells the tale of an older and more bitter Bruce Wayne. At 55, Wayne has retired as Batman and is looking for a “good death.” However, increases in gang violence, particularly from a group calling itself “The Mutants” and the reappearance of Two Face draw Wayne back to crime-fighting as the Caped Crusader.

With a bevy of characters that seem to parody

common archetypes of me-dia personalities such as late-night talk show hosts, sensationalist newscast-ers and commentators, The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 also tries to spread the social commentary of original au-thor Frank Miller.

However, while the movie animates almost every sin-gle panel from the first half of Miller’s tale and captures Miller’s artwork very well, it fails to have the same impact as the original comic book and can’t seem to find a solu-tion to the problems of bring-ing the character of Batman from paper to film.

Batman, while he reigns as one of DC Comics’ best-known characters, is one of the most difficult to capture in a movie. He just doesn’t talk that much, and that’s the way most people know him.

In comic books, many writers have been able to get around this by writing internal dialogue. However, with no narration from Bruce Wayne, The Dark Knight Re-turns Part I would have had

to show inse-curity,

fear

and much of Wayne’s person-ality through animation or voice acting, but there seems to have been no attempt made to have done this. Conse-quently, the movie falls flat.

Still, although the film cov-ers the much weaker half of Miller’s grim Batman tale, featuring a villain with no ap-parent plan and a ridiculous outfit, it offers an adequate introduction to the Dark Knight Returns tale.

DKR PART IIPart II finishes the job —

sans stupid brute with giant metal spikes for nipples.

Although this horribly uninteresting villain was in an attempt to highlight just how weak, out-of-practice and bitter Wayne has become, the shark-toothed hulk just

doesn’t seem threatening no matter how many people he kills.

However, with villains such as Joker and Superman, The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 does not suffer from a lack of compelling foils to the Caped Crusader.

Dark Knight Re-turns Part 2 begins where Part 1 lef t of f . Bruce Wayne has returned to crime-fight-ing. Carrie Kelly accompanies him as his young sidekick, Robin. And the Mutants have splintered into various factions, some of which are calling themselves “The Sons of Batman.”

In the second part of the story, the scope broadens. Audiences see outside of Gotham, revealing that the world is just as twisted and dark outside of the city’s bor-ders as it is inside.

In the midst of a continued Cold War with the Soviet

Union, Pres-ident Ronald Reagan or-ders around t h e o n l y government-ordained superhero, Superman. Clark Kent,

swearing allegiance to the United States above all else, kills more people than the Joker in service to his coun-try, which is saying a lot given how bloodthirsty Dark Knight

Returns Part 2 portrays Joker.Although The Dark Knight

Returns Part 2 suffers from the same problems as Part 1, in that the lack of access to Bruce Wayne’s internal thoughts prevents the audi-ence from gaining a context for the superb action scenes, the villains help to make up for some of the flaws in sto-rytelling.

With standout perfor-mances from Michael Em-erson, who offers a portrayal of the Joker that almost rivals Mark Hamill’s quintessential voicing, and fluid animation, The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 is an acceptable addition to the Batman catalog.

Overall, The Dark Knight Returns is a character study worth exploring for anyone interested in Batman.

‘The Dark Knight Returns’ to mediocrityThe Dark Knight Re-turns Part 1 and Part 2Warner Bros. Animation

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“The villains help

to make up for

some of the flaws

in storytelling.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. ANIMATIONIn The Dark Knight Returns, an aged Bruce Wayne returns to the role of Batman to take on the new criminals of Gotham City.

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Jordan AlsaqaAssociate Features Editor

The fourth season of Com-munity has a different feel than the show ever did in the past. It’s important to get that out of the way up-front because it’s the ques-tion every fan has had on their mind since last May. When creator and showrun-ner Dan Harmon was fired, all anyone could think about was whether the new team of David Guarascio and Moses Port would be able to main-tain the same level of creativ-ity and dark humor.

The answer is no. Three episodes in, there are a lot of the same elements that helped turn Community into the big-gest cult hit of the past few years, but there’s a noticeable change in how the show is be-ing written and presented.

That doesn’t mean it’s sud-

denly a terrible show, though. Several writers and directors are still part of the show, peo-ple who were a part of the cre-ative process under Harmon. However, without Harmon developing the plotlines and rewriting every script, the cohesion and tightness are missing.

The premiere, which was given quite a bit of fan-fare in ad-vertisement b y N B C , featured the Greendale Seven study group returning to campus for their senior year. How-ever, to assure the group all have the same class together, Jeff (Joel McHale) has to take part in a campus-wide event known as the Hunger Deans to win spots for his friends.

Community has built a

name on the way it integrates film and television parodies seamlessly into the reality of its world, so the idea of a Hunger Games parody offered a lot of potential for a show that has sent the Greendale campus into full-scale war-fare on multiple occasions.

The problem, the first of several in the fourth season,

is that the timing just wasn’t right. T h e p r e -miere is of-ten centered on a story that features

the entire study group, set-ting up the individual char-acters and what their story arcs for the year will be.

The premiere tried to ac-complish this, but with four different storylines going on at once, it was hard to be-come invested or get a sense

of what this season will be about. Also, in trying to tell so many stories at once, the Hunger Games parody never got to develop into anything nearly as epic or creative as it could’ve been, instead amounting to Jeff occasion-ally saying he’d won another event.

The second episode fared better, but still had issues. Serving as this year’s belated Halloween episode, the study group finally visited Pierce’s (Chevy Chase) mansion in a Scooby Doo style mystery.

The bits of homage, such as rotating bookshelves and hidden passages, felt much more natural here, but there were character moments that just didn’t feel right. In some instances, characters showed clear signs of regressing, such as Annie (Alison Brie) once again harboring a crush on Jeff, feelings she seemed to

have dealt with last season.Overall, though, the first

two episodes of season four still had the general Commu-nity vibe. The third episode, the first by a new addition to the writing team, was the biggest question mark, and unfortunately, this is where things went the most off the rails.

Set at a convention for the series’ Doctor Who parody Inspector Spacetime , this episode once again had the characters all off doing their own thing and not re-ally working together to tell one or two cohesive stories. To be fair, this is a problem the show frequently had in its first season, but trying to throw parody on top of it can make for too much going on.

What really sinks the epi-sode, though, is that it’s just not funny. There are out-of-character moments, half-

baked story threads and, worst of all, jokes at the ex-pense of geek culture instead of celebrating it.

It’s a problem many shows have as the years go by. As new writers come in, the essence of what made the show work in the first place is slowly replaced by efforts to recapture the magic.

This is where the absence of Harmon is most apparent. There was always a writing team, but his involvement in the process helped define the show’s voice and helped new writers understand what made the show work.

So, yes, the show is not only different without Dan Har-mon, it’s simply not as good. There’s still humor to be had and the potential for funny episodes, but the loss of the man who spent three years defining the show is a blow it may never recover from.

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and tightness are

missing.”

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Daniel WilsonStaff Writer

Since dropping its first game against Appalachian State, the N.C. State baseball team (6-1) has exploded in its offense and dominated on the mound.

The Wolfpack utilized its skills on the diamond to propel past the New Mexico State Aggies (3-5) Wednesday afternoon at Doak Field, 9-2. State’s scored nine runs off of seven hits and three New Mexico State errors, but the team left 12 runners on base.

“We have made a lot of prog-ress since the first week,” head coach Elliott Avent said. “New Mexico State has a good baseball team, and we had to have good plate appearances today. They have a plan for every hitter, so we had to come prepared with a plan of our own.”

Senior pitcher Ethan Ogburn started on the mound for State and pitched four innings. Og-burn allowed two runs, one earned, on one hit and struck out six Aggies and walked four.

Sophomore pitcher Travis Orwig (2-0) entered the game in relief and pitched four shutout innings, earning the win. Orwig held New Mexico State to one hit and recorded three strikeouts and walked one batter.

Freshman pitcher Jon Olczak pitched a one-hit ninth inning to end the game.

“Travis Orwig was outstand-ing,” Avent said. “He turned the game for us. Travis has always been tough and competitive. He’s been ready every time we’ve called on him.”

The Pack ended the first frame with a 2-0 advantage, taking the

lead after senior designated hitter Tarran Senay drove in senior center fielder Brett Williams and sopho-more catcher Brett Austin with a one-out triple.

After allowing one run in the third and fourth inning to bring the score to 2-2, State scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth to break open the scoring. Senior left fielder Bryan Adametz opened the bottom half with a single. After sophomore third baseman Jake Armstrong walked and sophomore shortstop Trea Turner got hit by a pitch, Wil-liams slapped a single to right field, scoring Adametz and Armstrong. Austin reached base in the next at bat on a throwing error from Aggie shortstop Parker Hipp and drove in Turner. Senay grounded out to stop the Pack’s momentum.

After going three-up-three-down in the next inning, State once again returned to scoring after New Mexico State gave up an error on a hit from Armstrong, a single from Turner and three consecutive walks to Austin, Senay and sophomore right fielder Jake Fincher. Arm-strong and Turner scored to bring the score to 7-2.

After the Aggies retired the first two batters in the seventh, Arm-strong was hit by a pitch and later stole second base. Turner walked to bring Williams to the plate. The center fielder then slapped a single up the middle to score Armstrong. After a double steal from Turner and Williams, Austin walked to load the bases. However, Senay struck out looking to end the threat.

Fincher was hit by a pitch at the

beginning of the eighth inning and scored on an Adametz double.

Adametz would be left stranded on second as the next three batters struck out to end State’s offensive efforts.

Despite being held without a hit, Armstrong led the team in runs, reaching home plate three times on the day.

Williams and Senay each drove in three runs, leading the team. Williams recorded two hits and a walk in five plate appearances while Senay only had one hit and one walk in five plate appearances.

State will conclude its series with the Aggies of Texas A&M University today when the teams return to ac-tion at 3 p.m. at Doak Field.

Andrew Schuett &Will RaynorDeputy Sports Editor & Staff Writer

The N.C. State Wolfpack beat the Boston College Eagles 82-64 Wednesday night at PNC Arena, earning its second consecutive 20-win season.

“We have to show a better commitment [to defense] and I thought tonight was a good step in the right direction to us,” head coach Mark Gottfried said. “We just have to continue to focus and do the fundamental things defensively.”

Freshman guard Rodney Pur-vis led the Wolfpack with 21 points, setting a new career high.

Purvis has played well in both games this season against Boston College, scoring 19 points in the teams’ first meeting in Chestnut Hill, Mass. in January.

Purvis has endured a disap-pointing stretch of games after being held scoreless against Clemson earlier this month.

Through the last three games, Gottfried has opted for a starting lineup that has included fresh-man forward T.J. Warren, with Purvis coming off the bench.

“[Rodney] started for a lot of games and then we changed the lineup,” Gottfried said. “That’s not a fun thing to do if you’re that guy. He’s responded in a positive way. Its how life works — when you practice really hard, good things are going to happen.”

“The last few weeks have been really tough on me,” Purvis said. “Never did I get down on myself or anything. I stayed in the gym at nights and just try to stick to myself, mentally. “

The game began slowly with both teams playing stifling de-

fense. Gottfried was more animated than usual on the sideline, telling his players to fight through screens and help on defense.

“I liked the fact tonight [that] our guys were down in their stance, they were communicating, talking, mov-ing, taking away dribble penetration [and] rotating to the next shooter,” Gottfried said. “Our guys I thought were locked in pretty good defen-sively.”

The Wolfpack’s (20-8, 9-6 ACC)

hard-nosed defense eventually paid off. After going down 2-0 early, the Pack went on a 21-4 run courtesy of some excellent ball movement and selfless defense. The run was capped by a big dunk from junior forward Calvin Leslie, who was fouled on the play.

Leslie responded well from his poor showing against Carolina on Saturday, scoring 10 points and grabbing 9 rebounds.

“[Calvin] passed the ball, he re-

bounded,” Gottfried said. “Every team expects their better players to play well … we have that expecta-tion for him every night.”

Despite being down 21-6 with al-most nine minutes left in the first half, Boston College continued to fight. The Eagles (12-16, 4-11 ACC) resolve saw paid off, cutting the score to 30-27 in favor of the Wolf-pack with 30 seconds left in the half.

After a Wolfpack timeout, State ran a set play for senior forward Scott Wood to shoot a 3-pointer. Wood’s attempt was blocked, but he grabbed the loose ball and made an off-balance shot from outside the 3-point line, sending the Pack into halftime up 33-27.

The second half stayed close un-til Leslie tipped in his missed layup attempt with 14:50 left, sparking a 18-7 run for the Wolfpack. Junior guard Lorenzo Brown ran the of-fense with aplomb during this stretch, helping State pull out a 20 point lead. The Pack never looked back.

The news was not all positive for the Pack though. Brown’s ankle injury, incurred earlier this month at Virginia, flared up again. This resulted in him spending the final minutes of the game on the bench while the walk-ons finished the game, to the delight of the PNC Arena crowd.

“[Lorenzo’s] ankle was really hurting him there,” Gottfried said. “We’ve got tomorrow to rest, then we’ll take a look at it on Friday.”

Wood played a big part in the Wolfpack’s win, scoring 17 points and making five three-pointers. Wood now has 312 career three-pointers as a member of the Wolf-pack, only 10 away from tying the N.C. State record held by Rodney Monroe.

N.C. State will take on Georgia Tech Sunday at 6 p.m. in Atlanta.

Wolfpack bats past New Mexico State

Pack takes down Boston College

BASEBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Four named to All-ACC Academic Cross Country TeamsThe N.C. State cross country program placed four runners on the Men’s and Women’s All-ACC Academic Cross Country teams for the 2012 fall season as announced Wednesday by Commissioner John Swofford.To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his/her academic career.Representing the men’s team, redshirt seniors Patrick Campbell and Brian Himelrighteach received the honor for the second-straight year, while freshmen Kaitlyn Kramerand Sheridan Jordan represented the women’s team in just their first year running for the Wolfpack.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Women’s soccer inks five in 2013 recruiting classN.C. State women’s soccer coach Tim Santoro announced on Wednesday that five student-athletes have signed letters of intent to play for the Wolfpack beginning in the fall of 2013.The five-person class is comprised of Alyson Brown (Midlothian, Va.), Rachel Cox (Greensboro, N.C.), Karly Gustafson (Fayetteville, N.C.), Gladys Loyas (Goshen, N.Y.) and Jackie Stengel (Melbourne, Fla.)

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Five named on 2012 All-ACC Academic Football TeamFive members of the 2012 N.C. State football team were named to the All-ACC Academic Football squad, as announced by the league office Wednesday afternoon. The Pack’s five selections marked the second-highest total in school history and the most since 2003.Senior defensive end McKay Frandsen (Science & Technology) and graduate quarterback Mike Glennon (Master’s Program) were both named for the second straight year. Linebacker Zach Gentry (Business), wide receiver Charlie Hegedus (Undecided) and tight end Asa Watson (Communications) were also selected from NC State.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETCIS

RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANSophomore pitcher Travis Orwig pitches against New Mexico State Wednesday. Orwig pitched for four innings allowing only one run and three strikeouts in the Wolfpack’s 9-2 win over the Aggies at Doak Field at Dail Park.

JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANJunior forward C.J. Leslie boxes out the offense during the game against Boston College in PNC Arena Wednesday. The Wolfpack defeated the Eagles 82-64, for a total of 20 wins on the season.

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SaturdaySOFTBALL V. KANSASDail Softball Stadium, 4:45 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS V. WAKE FORESTWinston-Salem, N.C., noon

BASEBALL V. FLORIDA ATLANTICMyrtle Beach, S.C., 5 p.m.

SOFTBALL V. N.C. A&TDail Softball Stadium, 7 p.m.

RIFLE AT SOUTHEASTERN AIR RIFLE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPSCharleston, S.C., All day

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE