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Pack-a-Thon sponsors competition for tradition ideas Winning idea may be next University tradition

Jessica NevilleStaff Writer

Pack-a-Thon, an organization that works year-round to raise money and awareness for the North Carolina Children’s Hospi-tal, is working to come up with an original idea to raise money for the Children’s Hospital that could also serve as a new University tradition.

Emily Gray, president of Pack-a-Thon, said the club sent out an e-mail to all student organizations a few weeks ago calling for original and unique tradition ideas.

“We wanted to do something different this year, something that everyone on campus could be involved in,” Gray said. “We were very pleased with the amount of responses. 40 students sent in ideas within the week the survey

was open.” Five finalists from the 40 entries

were awarded $25 gift cards. The winner of the competition received $75 and the promise that his or her idea would be implemented as a new University tradition and fundraising effort by Pack-a-Thon.

Pack-a-Thon selected May Chung, a sophomore in English secondary education, as the grand-prize winner.

Chung’s idea was to create a “giant obstacle course” around campus to include many of the University’s most popular landmarks.

“The obstacle course could include fun activities such as swimming in the Talley fountain or painting the Free Expression Tunnel,” Chung said. “It would turn out great if a lot of people participated.”

Gray said Pack-a-Thon has plans to implement Chung’s idea and incorpo-rate some of the other entries as well.

“We are going to call our event Pack Life, because we want to center the

obstacle course around the life of a N.C. State student,” Gray said. “It also stands for the Pack coming together to save the life of a child.”

Pack Life is tentatively scheduled for mid-April. Gray said registration is planned to start in late November. The fee for entering is $100 for a team of five students, with all of the proceeds

Hendley shares passion for serviceCaroline BarfieldStaff Writer

Homecoming keynote speaker Doc Hendley said he never imagined he would be back on campus to share his story of how he started ‘Wine to Water’.

But the 2004 alumnus was back in Talley Student Center Wednesday night, discussing the idea he conceived in his final semester as a way to create clean water systems in some of most impoverished countries in the world.

And today, at noon, he’ll be back on the Brickyard just as he was five years ago. Except he’ll be speaking at a rally in his honor as one of ten nationally honored “heroes” for CNN’s Hero of the Year award.

“It’s a different feeling coming back. It’s absolutely amazing and I am hon-ored. I used to be another face, anoth-er name no one knew,” Hendley said. “It’s important for people to know that there is nothing special about me- middle of the row, just average. Water is just my passion.”

Hendley traveled a lot in his early life and decided to return to college in 2004 where he bartended while finish-ing school with a public and interper-sonal communications degree.

Hendley began piecing together an idea just before he graduated. He said he was floored to discover that unclean water is the number one killer among

children in the world. Hendley said he combined the

knowledge he had from bartending with his passion of creating clean water in impoverished countries and held a wine tasting to raise money in hopes of alleviating some of the suf-fering countries experienced because of the death rate due to unclean water.

After his first wine tasting, he de-cided to give the money to Samaritan’s Purse, since they had a water program of their own and he wanted to make sure an impact was made.

According to Hendley, he told the director of Samaritan’s Purse that he wanted the money he raised to go di-rectly to the clean water project, but the request turned into an informal interview, and a few months later he found himself in Darfur.

Since that trip, he has dedicated his Kevin CooK/TeChniCian

Doc Hendley, alumnus, speaks in front of students in the Talley Student Center Ballroom Wednesday as part of the week long Homecoming celebration. “There is nothing special about me whatsoever — I’m just a regular, average, person.” Hendley, the founder of Wine to Water, said.

Create a tradition ideas:Winner: Giant Obstacle Course Runner-Ups: Bed RacePictures with AthletesInter-College CompetitionAngel Tree Bell Tower

SourCe: emily gray, preSidenT of paCK-a-Thon

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amanda WilKinS/TeChniCianBen Bingham, a senior in nuclear engineering, squirts mustard onto his Bright Leaf hotdog at “Wear red, get fed” Wednesday. “It’s exciting to see people get-ting together to support State and wearing red,” Bingham said.

Outgoing Sen. Tony Rand, who visited Student Senate last week, impacted two Student Government members well in advance of their collegiate careers

Ty JohnsonEditor-in-Chief

A week after he spoke to the Student Senate in Witherspoon Student Center, Sen. Tony Rand announced he intends to leave the State Senate.

Rand is accepting an appoint-ment from Gov. Bev Perdue to work with the state parole com-mission, according to a press re-lease from the Governor’s office. Rand will assume his new role early next year.

Rand, who represents Bladen and Cumberland county, spoke in the Student Senate Chambers Oct. 28,

discussing issues the University and state face and answering questions from student senators.

But Rand’s visit to campus last week wasn’t the first time he impacted the lives of one of the student senators. Sen. Stephen Kouba, a junior in politi-cal science, worked as a page in Rand’s office during high school and said Rand became a mentor. Kouba said he didn’t speak to Rand Wednesday, largely because he knew it would be a busy day for the outgoing senator. Kouba said he kept in touch with the senator after he left, and the two spoke regularly.

“They always say keep in touch. I decided to,” Kouba said. “I would call his office and talk to him about issues that were happening downtown. We would talk about my life and what I was planning on doing.”

According to Kouba, Rand was largely responsible for getting him involved with politics.

“[He was] instrumental in getting

me involved in a lot of things – my internship and involved in govern-ment in general, which led me here, naturally,” Kouba said.

Student Body President Jim Ceresnak worked with Rand at his

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Gov. Bev Perdue on sen. tonY rand’s aPPointment:“North Carolina is fortunate that Senator Rand decided to take this position. He, like me, cares first and foremost about protecting the public but also understands the importance of giving people a fair shot at a second chance,” said Perdue. “I don’t believe I could find a better candidate in the state or country to lead this commission.”

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Cnn Hero on tHe BriCkYard2004 alumnus Doc Hendley will be on the Brickyard today at noon for a rally in his honor to raise support for the philanthropist, who is a finalist for CNN’s Hero of the Year award.

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Pack Howl is brought to you by NC State Alumni Association and Student Government

DBRDaniel Bernard RoumainDarwin’s Meditation for the People of Lincolnfeaturing the Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra

Saturday, November 7 at 8pm | Stewart Theatre Pre-show talk with DBR & Dr. Randolph Foy, 6:45pm, Walnut Room, Talley

Haitian-American violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain – renowned for seamlessly blending funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music – returns to Center Stage. A pianist, actor, singer and violinist team with a chamber orchestra in a grandly conceived multimedia concert piece that explores the imagined dialogue between Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, two extraordinary men born within hours of each other in 1809.

This project is supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Dept of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts; the City of Raleigh, based on recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission; a grant from the Southern Arts Federation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the N.C. Arts Council; Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program; and the PTA of Hunter Elementary School.

Tickets: 919-515-1100, ncsu.edu/arts, or 2nd floor Talley

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TodayWear red, Get FedBrickyard, 11 a.m.

HanG It Up!Gregg Museum of Art & Design, noon to 8 p.m.

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pHysIcal envIronment commIttee meetInGWinslow Building, 3:30 to 5 p.m.

MoonWitherspoon Cinema, 7 to 8:40 p.m.

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Harry Potter and tHe Half Blood PrinceWitherspoon Cinema, 9 to 11:35 p.m.

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Engineering students prepare for Design Day

Testing a car-tracking GPS, Matt Miskiewcz, senior in electrical and computer engineering, and Marcus Wagnnborg, senior in electrical, computer, and aerospace engineering, work on their group’s senior design project outside Engi-neering Building II on Centennial Campus Wednesday. With Design Day just a month away, the two were working

on integrating and testing their system. “The best part is not having to sit in class, just working on a project,” Wagnnborg said. “We’re working on something we actually want to work on.”

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CoRReCTions & ClaRifiCaTionsIn Wednesday’s page 1 story, “Branch libraries attract students,” incorrectly stated approximately how many students visit the Textiles Library in a week. According to Greg Tourino, about 2,400 students come in per week.

Technician regrets the error.

Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Ty Johnson at [email protected].

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in The knoW Packabelles performs downtown

Packabelles, an all-female a-cappella group, is per-forming Friday at Lincoln Theater in downtown Ra-leigh.

The show starts at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $5 for students older than 21, $7 for stu-dents younger then 21, and $10 for general admission

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Travel opportunity hosting information sessions

The International Student Volunteers is hosting informa-tion sessions today regarding summer volunteer projects that will take students all around the world.

Students will have to op-portunity to travel to places including Australia, New Zea-land, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Thailand and Europe, with most trips lasting one month.

The trips allow students to volunteer for two weeks, fol-

lowed by two weeks of tour-ist travel in the countries.

The information sessions will be held today in the Green Room of Talley Stu-dent Center, every hour on the hour, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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going to the N.C. Children’s Hospital.

While Pack-a-Thon is optimistic about Pack Life becoming a long-lasting University tradition, some students have different ideas of what makes a tra-dition.

“It is possible to come up with an idea that would be a good tradition, but it takes some time to make a real tradition,” said Megan Sch-neider, freshman in biology and nutrition. “If Pack Life is still around by the time I

graduate, then it would really be a tradition.”

Nicholas Dippel, a junior in polymer and color chemistry, was one of the five fi-nalists for the compe-tition. His idea was to have a “bed race” where stu-dent and commu-nity mem-bers make creative race cars out of mattresses and race down a street on campus.

“A tradition happens when a group of people that share a common passion and interest

get together to ma ke a difference in t he i r com-munity,” Dip-pel said. “That cou ld def i-nitely happen w i t h t h i s idea.”

Although Dippel does not plan on organizing his event by him-

self, he hopes that other clubs will look into the possibility.

“You can Google this idea

and see how other universities and communities have had a lot of success, and fun, doing this,” Dippel said.

There were three other final-ists. Claire Duff, a sophomore in business administration, submitted an idea to give stu-dents an opportunity to take pictures with athletes, and Jo-seph Rozsa, a senior in business administration, wanted to have an inter-college competition. Accounting junior Caroline Williams’ idea was to make the Bell Tower an “angel tree” with pictures of children that students could sponsor for Christmas.

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lUIS ZAPATA/TechnIcIAnCarolyn Mabry, of Raleigh, dances to the sounds of the Raleigh Drum Circle in Pullen Park Wednesday night for Raleigh Hoop Jam. Raleigh Hoop Jam, started by Mabry, meets every Wednesday night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. during the months of April to November. She sees it as a service to the community for people to come out to enjoy hula hooping and drums. “Sometimes we have a lot of people out here,” Mabry said. She brings 40 extra hoops for people to use.

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life to providing clean water to countries that are in need of it most, which he said also tend to be countries at civil war.

After hearing his story, stu-dents, like Mackenzie Perry, a sophomore in communication, said they were inspired to make a difference.

“His story makes me want to get up and actually do some-thing — helping others is the main goal of life,” Perry said.

Hendley relayed some devas-tating statistics about how bad the water crisis is in countries like Afganistan. According to him, 1,442 coalition soldiers have been killed in the war in Afghanistan while 8,500 have died because of unclean water. Hendley said, globally, 1.1 bil-lion people lack access to clean water.

Alex Haislip, a sophomore in textiles, said the stats were shocking.

“His information was eye opening to hear about; I didn’t have any idea how bad the wa-ter crisis was,” she said.

Hendley was recently nomi-

nated as one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes and he said needs our support and the votes of ev-eryone.

According to Hendley, if Wine to Water won, it would shed light on the water crisis and the organization would be able to directly affect more than 6,000 people.

“I don’t care if they don’t sup-port me or my organization, but if they support some wa-ter organization, then we have all won,” Hendley said. “It’s about these people. Children in the world that die everyday and no one knows. If half of the students gave a few minutes to vote each day, it would make a huge impact and would re-ally put the water crisis on the map.”

Hendley said he wishes someone had told him that any person can have a huge impact on the world so long as that person has motivation.

“If you find something that motivates you that much, it doesn’t matter who you are, then you can have a huge im-pact on the world around you,” he said.

office as well, and, along with Kouba, said he felt the 11-term senator was one of the hardest working men in the state leg-islature.

Ceresnak said the Student Senate was honored to have him speak, and said it served to educate all who attended the meeting about state politics.

“It was an incredible op-portunity for anyone who was

there to get that seasoned per-spective about the challenges the state faces,” he said. “I just appreciated that he was able to provide us with that insight.”

Kouba said beyond how Rand inspired and encouraged him, he was just as valuable to the state, and that he would be missed on the Senate floor.

“Personally, I count him as a mentor first. I owe a lot to his guidance. I owe a lot to his wis-dom,” Kouba said. “The state of North Carolina suffered the loss of a great leader in the General Assembly.”

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“If Pack Life is still

around by the time

I graduate, then it

would really be a

tradition.”Megan Schneider,

freshman in biology

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Flu season is in full swing and with the presence of the particularly conta-

gious H1N1 strain, people face twice the risk. However, stu-dents can now get vaccinated against the new strain.

Considering how contagious H1N1 appears to be, students can either spend a few hours in line and get vaccinated or take the risk of missing days of classes during some of the busiest and most critical weeks of the semester. The choice is simple: get vaccinated.

Ignore the Cassandras on television questioning the ef-ficacy and safety of the vaccine. Unlike doctors at the Student Health Center, Glenn Beck and company are not licensed

medical professionals. Don’t gamble your health based on the shrill warnings of a pun-dit without a medical degree: listen to doctors and get vac-cinated.

Even if you had a suspected case of H1N1, consider getting the new vaccine and at least get the regular flu vaccine too. As the Student Health Center primarily diagnosed cases of H1N1 based on symptoms due to the unreliable lab tests on campus and difficulty in send-ing lab work off to the state laboratories for more accurate testing, you may not actually

have had the dreaded H1N1 virus.

Now is definitely not the time to take unnecessary gambles with one’s health. Classes are in the final stretch for the se-mester, as there are only a few days after Thanksgiving Break before Dead Week begins.

And the last thing any stu-dent wants to do or to worry about before final exams is cramming in an extra week of work and studying because he or she was out with the flu for a week. In this case, a few hours of prevention is worth a week of academic cures.

But don’t think that simply getting vaccinated is enough — keep on taking all the usual precautions: wash your hands, stay home if you are sick and don’t sneeze on people.

Unlike the looming threat of term papers and final exams, relief exists for students when it comes to H1N1. So take the opportunity to take one worry off your mind and get vacci-nated. Students will all have enough things to worry about as it is.

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

of the Editor-in-Chief.

Go get vaccinatedThe FacTs:The H1N1 vaccine is now out and will be available Friday in the Student Health Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is free with a student I.D.

Our OpiniOn:Students have a lot more to lose than whatever time they spend in line to get the vaccination. Now that the vaccine is available for free, students should take advantage of this opportunity.

Read now, reap later

I have been told that it is a futile to attempt to per-suade students to read

on their own for fun. Many before me have attempted and failed, and I probably

will too. I am not an expert on literature — I a m just a read-ing enthu-siast, and I strongly suggest you t a ke some time

on your own to read litera-ture for fun. Literature, by the way, does not include Harry Potter, Dan Brown or Twilight. Those are like a good popcorn movie: while loads of fun, they don’t re-ally challenge your intellect.

I understand completely, friends. It is hard to find time to read for fun between crammed class, work and club schedules. I will admit to having used SparkNotes more than once to avoid reading in high school. But since I started reading on my own, I have noticed a distinct increase in my grades. Reading mainly helps with vocabulary, memory and creativity. It’s never too late to pick up a book for pleasure.

One of my favorite things about reading is that I have the freedom to imagine how the characters and scenery look in a way that I can’t when what I am supposed to see is dictated to me by

the movie director or video game designer. Of course, the author offers descriptions, but it is still up to me to create the world from their words. A good book does help you see the world in a new way.

Convinced? If you haven’t read for pure enjoyment in a while, I have a couple of books to recommend that are a little more high-brow than the Twi-light series. First, “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy is an extremely well written novel about a man and his son try-ing to survive a f ter some sort of apoc-alypse. The book works because the dark plot and gore match perfectly with the beautiful poetic language. I strongly suggest you read the book be-fore the movie comes out on Thanksgiving (which is ironic, given the presence of cannibals in the story).

Another great read is “Rag-time” by E. L. Doctorow. It is a novel set in and around New York City during the early part of the 20th century. It tells the stories of many characters, some real historical figures and some fiction, in an attempt to capture the pulse of America, then and now. What makes the book so great are the many interesting characters and how the mood can shift from gross-out comedy to tragedy in an

instant, just like in real life. If you can’t find what you

are looking for at D. H. Hill, then you can get a member-ship with the Wake Coun-ty Public Library system. They have a great selection of titles and the Cameron Village branch is close to campus. Another great re-source is Quail Ridge Books on Wade Avenue, next to Whole Foods. Besides

their large selection, Quail Ridge regularly hosts talks and book signings featuring nationally renowned authors. They also feature authors

who are famous for other endeavors — Governor Mike Huckabee and Coach Roy Williams will be there in person in November.

But Reader’s Corner on Hillsborough is my favor-ite place to find used books of all kinds. They have an amazing selection, and their prices are half-off the cover price and lower.

Send Zakk your thoughts on reading quality literature to [email protected].

“But since I

started reading on

my own, I have

noticed a distinct

increase in my

grades.”

Zakk WhiteAssistant Viewpoint Editor

Don’t let sex crowd out individuality

Sex and individuality are magnified in college, and these issues are of concern

for us because we’re defining how we think about them, and reacting to how people think

about them. Ariel Levy’s

book “Female Chauvinist Pigs” argues p e o p l e a r e mistaking consumerism for romance. She notes that people (espe-cially college

students) are having sex and bragging about these experi-ences to the extent that these experiences become commodi-ties. She says people are mis-taking hook-ups for individu-ality and mistaking sexual pro-miscuousness for freedom. Two conflicting works comment on the identity of an individual, and these have repercussions for Levy.

I n A l -lan Bloom’s “Closing of the American Mind” he ar-gues that un-dergraduate students are trading faith in objective goodness for a kind of self-ish subjectiv-ity. Bloom wrote, “[For] the great majority of students…there is a certain rhetoric of self-fulfillment that gives a patina of glamour to this life, but they can see that there is nothing particularly noble about it. Survivalism has taken the place of heroism as the ad-mired quality.” This book rang true with many people and was a controversial bestseller in the early 1990s. Bloom’s argument was that students are giving up heroism, objectivity, belief in classical literature and science and acts of goodness all in or-der to be true to themselves.

Charles Taylor’s reaction to Bloom, “The Ethics of Authen-ticity,” argues that the belief in selfish subjectivity is actually misguided but still alludes to a greater issue. Being true to one’s self for Bloom means students are avoiding difficult or provocative works, such as nuclear physics or the works of Plato and are doing this under the pretense that they are only following their personalities.

But to Taylor, while this prob-lem might be true, it still hints at a greater call to individual-ism.

To Taylor, the issue is actually a greater one of how we assert our individual identities in the midst of these pitfalls. Taylor says, “There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imita-tion of anyone else’s. But this gives a new importance of be-ing true to myself. If I am not [true to myself in this way], I miss being true to my own originality, and that is some-thing only I can articulate and discover. In articulating it, I am also defining myself. I am realizing a potentiality that is properly my own.”

To the extent that students are accepting an “it’s all good attitude,” toward hook-ups and their sex lives, Levy, Bloom and Taylor would all agree that peo-ple shouldn’t sell themselves

s h o r t . N o one should t r e a t t h e other or the experiences we have with each other as commodities or conquests.

With both Bloom and Levy in mind, we can affirm the greater thesis given

by Taylor that to be true to ourselves is our ultimate goal. The way we can realize this is by striking down humbug when friends bring it up. If friends are talking about their latest conquest in a sexist or immature way as if the person were a commodity, then shift the conversation to something else. In this way, people who are pursuing hook-ups need to be told that what is right for them is not right for everyone. The answer to the commodifi-cation or greatness of hook-up culture is to tell people who brag about their experiences to shut up.

Send Jake your thoughts on sex and individuality to [email protected].

“No one should

treat the other or

the experiences

we have with

each other as

commodities.”

Jacob GoldbasStaff Columnist students don’t have much of a choice when it comes to construction on campus.

Mack Garrison, senior in art and design

By Andy MuSSELMAn

Have you been vaccinated against

H1N1? Why or why not?

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“I have not. I know there’s a big scare about the vaccine. I heard it’s actually making people sick. I’m also just not a fan of shots in general. I’m taking my chances.”

Taylor Lansingbiology, freshman

“no, I have not. I think a regular flu vaccine is good enough. The hysteria over H1n1 has died down quickly because it’s not exceptionally harmful when compared to the regular flu.”

Nina Polythresssophomore, wildlife sciences

“no, I’ve already been sick with the flu and fought it off.”

Bobby Turnersophomore, environmental engineering

This week’s poll question: Should marijuana be legalized in N.C.?

• yes• no• I don’t care because it doesn’t

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For almost two decades, Mariah Carey has been a consistent force in R&B/Pop music, with worldwide sales of more than 200 million copies and more number ones than any other solo artist.

The success and record-breaking achievements have made some wonder if Carey is still motivated and capable of making good music.

With Carey’s latest effort, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” she once again

proves she is able to adapt and remain relevant in an ever-changing industry, while staying true to herself.

Just 18 months ago, Carey released the underwhelming and underper-forming “E=MC2,” but she has picked herself up again, delivering one her best albums.

“Memoirs,” written and produced exclusively by Carey, Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, takes us on a musical journey through the ups and downs of love.

Together, the three manage to pro-duce a cohesive blend of the urban pop mid-tempos and ballads we have come to expect from Carey.

The album starts out with the con-frontational “Bet-cha Gon’ Know.” It’s an indication of the witty lyrical content and creative mid-tempo produc-tion heard on the album throughout.

Next is one of the two singles the album could have done without, the

horn and bass riddled “Obsessed.”

Carey claims the childish song is not about rapper Emi-nem, and while it does deliver its fair share of funny lines — example: “See right through you like you’re bathing in Windex” — the small-mindedness of it takes away its punch.

Surprisingly the other song chosen as a single, “I Want To Know What

Love Is,” falls flat, as Carey adds noth-ing of value to Foreigner’s ‘80s classic.

Moving on, “Candy Bling,” contains finger snaps and soft keys that will remind you of The-Dream’s “I Love

Your Girl.” Carey sings of

a time when love was young and pure. The lyrics are simple and gimmicky, but wasn’t ever y-thing that way back then?

As “Memoirs” continues on, Carey sh ines with some of her best ballads since “Butter-f ly,” including

“H.A.T.E.U” (Having A Typical Emo-tional Upset), “Angel’s Cry” and the stellar “Languishing.” It’s clear that Carey’s powerhouse vocals and range are still perfectly intact.

“The Impossible” sounds like a ‘90s throwback, courtesy Blackstreet

or Jodeci. Somehow Carey is able to tackle the sensual slow groove as her whispery vocals ride smoothly over the seductive beat.

The album does begin to wane with the cluttered and uninspiring “More Than Just Friends” and over-produced “Ribbon,” while the standouts on “Memoirs” are the tales of love gone awry and the anger and bitterness that ensue. The modern doo-wop Motown inspired “It’s A Wrap,” sing-along “Standing O” and the bold “Up Out My Face” all contain clever punch lines which could have been delivered by your favorite rapper.

Although not as versatile as some of her previous work, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel” is very personal and full of songs that will walk you through each phase of love.

Carey has once again proven that she is able to continuously evolve and transform, while never losing her core, which makes her imperfections perfect.

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by Kevin cooK

Have you heard of either of the Pack Howl

acts, Roman Candle or the College Humor Live Comedy Tour? Do you think these

acts are a good idea for Homecoming? Will you

be attending the concert?

“I’ve heard of the College Live Comedy Tour before. It was probably a good idea, but I won’t go unless they pay me.” Miles Smaxwellsophomore, psychology

“ I’ve never heard of either group, but I guess it was a good idea to bring them here. I will probably go.” Maia Luckingfreshman, First year college

Local band returns home for Pack HowlQ&a with

Roman Candle

“I’ve heard of them, but I haven’t seen them advertised anywhere. The comedy act was a good idea for sure. I don’t think I’ll be able to go — I have cheerleading practice.” chris crutchfieldfreshman, First year college

Technician: Hey, Skip. Any-thing keeping you busy these days besides the band?

Matheny: I’ve been inter-viewing people. I started this series on americansongwriter.com called “Drinks With” where I interview songwriters about song writing, an artist talking to artists. I’ve been do-ing Q&As with [songwriters] and I try to stay out of the way and let those guys talk.

Technician: What do you think about playing a Home-coming show and opening for a comedy tour?

Matheny: Yeah, it should be great — the only thing we would have hesitated at would be if they had wanted us to play two hours and have people slow dance or something.

Technician: It’s been three years, right, between the last al-bum [“The Wee Hours Revue”] and the newest one [“Oh Tall Tree in the Ear”]?

Matheny: Yeah, the other one came out in 2006 on V2 [Re-cords, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group].

Technician: So I want to talk a little bit about the album. You

wrote a lot of this when touring with “The Wee Hours Revue,” right?

Matheny: Yeah, we started writing it ...we’d had almost three years where we were shelved on a major label before Wee Hours came out, so we had a ton of time to write music while we were waiting for that record to come out ...Once we started to travel in support of that record, we went to England in February 2007 to play some shows and sort of stuck around and wrote in a converted horse stable in east Yorkshire. We started writing in a more or-ganized, intentional fashion on the next record, which would become “Oh Tall Tree.”

Technician: When the songs come to you, you want to get them down. Did you intend for the three-year delay?

Matheny: Three years — that’s the speed the music busi-ness runs. In 2007, V2 totally closed down as a label, which kind of left us as free agents, which is an easier thing if

you’re the White Stripes or Moby or an established name and it’s easy to find a new label. At that stage, we’d been burned by just about every label situa-tion we’d gotten into ...Holly-wood Records, and then V2 got bought by bankers and had to close down. For the most part, we just had to figure out what we wanted to do creatively and organize that ...that ’s always come first for us. And then once we had that down, then we could go and figure out the business side of it. We were looking for new management and a new lawyer and all kinds of stuff at that stage. So it was really fun to stay in England and write that way ...We were able to start writing and come back and record a little bit at home with the album sort of organized in our head. Then we all moved to Nashville, and we started to assemble a new bunch of folks to work with, started chatting with people. That kind of stuff just takes forever. Now we have a great label situation and we’ve put out three EPs and an album this year. Once you have all the connections in place and the team you like working with, you can start working quickly. So far so good with this team.

Technician: At a certain point, you must get a little jaded by the business aspect as a musician, so how do you guys define success?

Matheny: No matter what goes on, success for us is mak-ing good art — at least what we think is good art. Seeing people’s reaction to it and play-

ing live, and getting jour-nalists’ reactions to it is all a lot of fun, but on a very basic level, we have to de-cide that we like what we’re doing and then put it out. If that’s going well, then everything else is going well. The whole other side

involves money, and it’d unbe-lievably wonderful to make a

living off of what we’re do-ing.

Technician: It’s becom-ing more elusive for bands everyday, isn’t it?

Matheny: Oh my good-ness, yeah, I mean, it didn’t just start that way in the last six months or anything. We knew going into this record that we’d have to define our own version of what we want out of this before we get started. If we were looking to set some sights on money, we’d be disappointed. Sometimes, we do make a little bit of money, but you know, ev-erybody’s still got their day jobs. There’d be an-other level of success which would be, “we can quit our day jobs,” which would be great, but we’d rather kind of make the art that we want to make.

WKNC Promotions Director Kieran Moreira, also known as DJ Special K, will be in-terviewing Roman Candle Friday at 2 p.m. on his show on WKNC 88.1 FM.

Roman Candle formed in Chapel Hill in 1997, a family band in the truest sense: brothers Skip and Logan Matheny play-ing alongside Skip’s wife, Timshel. After 10 years in town,

they picked up and headed off to Nashville, TN, leaving behind their best friends and favorite restaurants. Earlier this year, the band released “Oh Tall Tree in the Ear (Thirty Tigers) after a three-

year hiatus,” to outstanding reviews: PASTE Magazine gave the effort 89 of 100 stars. WKNC General Manager Mike Alston caught up with Skip as he was readying for the trip to Raleigh to play the Pack Howl concert Friday night on Lee Field at 7 p.m.

view more t e c h n i c i a n o n l i n e . c o mTo read the full transcript of the interview, check out technicianonline.com.

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Solution to Friday’s puzzleComplete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders)contains everydigit 1 to 9.For strategies on how to solveSudoku, visitwww.sudoku.org.uk.

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“We’ll probably take our licks. We have to aim high.”

The team will open its sea-son at the Citadel in Charles-ton, S.C. Saturday and Little said he is ready to start.

“I have a personal vendetta going on,” Little said. “I feel bad for this first guy coming up. I’m not trying to throw my head up or nothing. But I’m getting down [to busi-ness] this weekend. And I want everyone on my team to have that mindset saying that they are going to kill their guy. They’re not our teammates.

“For this weekend, not only am I looking forward to a team victory, but also a moral victory for the whole team.”

Looking ahead to the sched-ule matchups, Little is already excited for a number of con-ference and non-conference opponents.

“I’ve lost four times to Steve Bell from Maryland,” Little said. “My freshman year, he beat me in the ACC championship by one point. He’s beaten me every time by one point. He’s won two ACC titles by that. It’s going to be a different story this year. I guess it’s been like a mental block; he’s one of my num-ber one people. If I can keep my weight down and stay focused, I’m going to cause some problems for everyone.”

WRESTLINGcontinued from page 8A look at previous homecoming games

FOOTBALL

Since the festivities and fanfare of Homecoming games were reinstated around the 2003 season, the Pack has seen more nail-biters than blowouts. Here is a brief summary of Pack performance in these celebrated home matches during the past decade.

“REd WoLf RISING”2003 vs. Maryland

The Pack dropped its final game of the season by a narrow margin to Maryland, 26-24. Maryland’s Nick Novak completed a field goal with 23 seconds left to spoil Pack icon Philip Rivers’ senior day and jersey retirement ceremony. However, the loss didn’t punctuate a strong season as State faced Kansas exactly a month later in the Tangerine Bowl and won, 56-26.

“dISmISS SouThERN mISS”2005 vs. southern Mississippi

The Pack successfully dismissed Southern Miss to the tune of a 21-17 win. Andre Brown, a freshman at the time, ran for 248 yards, three yards shy of tying Ted Brown’s 1977 record. Marcus Stone, who was promoted to quarterback and became just the fourth starter for the program in nine years before the Homecoming game, garnered much of the fanfare and threw the go-ahead touchdown pass to Brian Clark with 5:08 remaining in the game. State advanced to 3-4 on the season and won four of its next five games.

“opERaTIoN ToB”2008 vs. Boston College

“Operation Take Out Boston College” fell just a few seconds too short as a dramatic comeback effort was foiled and State lost, 38-31, Oct. 4, 2008. State trailed by two touchdowns twice during the game, but quarterback Russell Wilson led the charge and the Pack came back to tie it late in the fourth quarter. With 22.8 seconds remaining in the game and the win within reach, the Pack allowed Eagles quarterback Chris Crane to rush for a 13-yard touchdown, his third of the game. The Pack went on to ride a late season surge into bowl contention, and eventually to the PapaJohns.com Bowl Dec. 29.

“CRuSh ThE CavS”2007 vs. virginia

Donald Bowens recorded a career-high 11 passes for 202 yards and led the Pack over the Cavaliers, 29-24. His second touchdown reception of the evening, from Daniel Evans, put the Wolfpack ahead for good with seven and a half minutes remaining. The win snapped a nine-game ACC losing streak for the Pack, which split the final four games of the season.

“SENd ThE JaCkETS paCkING”2006 vs. georgia teCh

In the midst of a three-game losing streak, State dropped its last Homecoming game in the Chuck Amato era, 31-23, and allowed Yellow Jacket All-American Calvin Johnson to run the field. Though Amato tailor-made a defense that could handle Johnson, he and a trio of receivers abused the Pack for 10 points in the fourth quarter to seal the win. Evans, then a sophomore, had career highs in several statistical categories and State lost out.

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“dEvaSTaTE WakE”2004 vs. Wake Forest

State edged the Demon Deacons, 27-21 in overtime, after recovering from a 14-point deficit. T.A. Mclendon ran for an eight-yard touchdown after Wake missed a field goal attempt. The Pack’s top-ranked defense fell apart in the first half, but quarterback Jay Davis and his receivers were able to make up the difference in the third quarter. State led, 21-14, before Wake tied it up and forced overtime. The win brought State to 3-1 overall in the bottom-heavy 2004 schedule.

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Tyler EverettDeputy Sports Editor

After starting for Pahokee High, a football powerhouse in Florida, freshman cornerback Jarvis Byrd initially struggled to adjust to his role as a redshirt freshman not see-ing playing time in games.

“At first it was difficult because the first game of the season against South Carolina was so intense and so hyped that I had wanted to get out there and play,” Byrd said. “By me not playing and being on the side-lines like I never did during high school — I was a superstar on my team — it was something that I had to adjust to.”

Seven games into the season, coach Tom O’ Br ie n surprised Byrd with the news he would be travel-ling with the team for the Florida State game.

“To be honest, I didn’t expect to play during the Florida State game until he told me I was travelling,” Byrd said. “So I was thinking, if I’m travelling, they would not just have me travelling for no reason, so obviously they’re going to burn my redshirt.”

O’Brien said what he saw in the first action of the young corner’s career was encouraging.

“I thought he showed pretty good poise,” O’Brien said. “He wasn’t pol-ished by any stretch of the imagina-tion, but he competed. The one dig he gave a little too much cushion on the guy, but he came in and made a heck of a tackle and got the guy

down right away. And that is some-thing we need desperately out of that position.”

A number of factors, including an emphasis on the future of the sec-ondary, led to O’Brien’s decision to pull Byrd’s redshirt.

“It’s just what coach O’Brien is try-ing to do — get ready for the future,” Byrd said. “He moved Koyal George back to receiver. Then he moved Jus-tin Byers back to safety. Then with Rashard [Smith] going down, we needed some more cornerbacks to come in and step up.”

Byrd said his performance cover-ing starting junior wide receivers Owen Spencer and Jarvis Williams in practice earned him Scout Team Player of the Week for the defense

twice. More important-ly, practice tape showed his coaches enough of Byrd’s tal-ent for them to dec ide to let him showcase his skills on

Saturdays. “So the coaches just evaluated film

and saw what I was doing on scout team against our number one of-fense,” Byrd said. “They saw that I was performing good. I won Scout Team Player of the Week for two weeks, and they just decided to pull my redshirt.”

Byrd admitted he was upset when he was first told the coaches were pulling his redshirt with only five games left in the season. Even though Byrd will now have one less year of eligibility after this season than he

would have had if he kept his red-shirt, he said he understands and accepts O’Brien’s reasons for the decision.

“At first I was kind of mad,” Byrd said. “But now I real-ize that coach O’ Brien is trying to prepare for the future by letting me, Brandan Bishop and also Rashard Smith, a l l fresh-men, play. It made us closer together as one because all the freshmen who play in the second-ary, we’re all in the same room. So we watch film togeth-er and everything.”

Byrd sa id the improved future his coaches are preparing for is not so distant.

“We’re just trying to get better as a unit so in the fu-ture we can be a top defense,” Byrd said. “And I think that will come very soon.”

It might have to because Maryland will challenge Byrd and the other young players in the secondary with deep passes this week, according to O’Brien.

“Maryland wil l test him,” O’Brien said. “They like to throw the ball deep.”

COUNTDOWN• 2 days until the football team’s Homecoming game

against Maryland

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Byrd flies off sideline and into secondaryPack hockey to host UNC, retire jerseyFriday night, the club ice hockey team will retire the jersey of friend and teammate Stephen Russell prior to faceoff against UNC-Chapel Hill. The Pack lost one of its own when Russell died in a tragic accident on July 4 at Jordan Lake. The ceremony will begin at 9 p.m. followed by the 9:30 p.m. game, which is held at the RecZone off of Wake Forest Road. For more info, visit www.ncsuhockey.org

source: N.c. state club hockey team

Swimming, diving travel to Davidson this weekendThe men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will compete this weekend as they travel to Davidson Saturday. The meet will begin at noon. The men’s team is currently 2-0, 2-0 in conference and the women’s team is 3-1, 1-1 in conference.

source: N.c. state athletics

athletic schedule

TodayWOMEN’S TENNIS @ ITA NATIONAL INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPSNew Haven, Conn., all day

MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. ST. PAUL’S COLLEGE (EXH.)Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

FridayWOMEN’S TENNIS @ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA INVITATIONAL, DAY ONEChapel Hill, all day

VOLLEYBALL VS. VIRGINIA TECHReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

SaturdayFOOTBALL VS. MARYLANDCarter-Finley Stadium, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS @ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA INVITATIONAL, DAY 1Chapel Hill, all day

RIFLE @ SEARC #4Dahlonega, Ga., all day

freshman’s efforts in practice led to transition from redshirt to backup cornerback late in season

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Wrestling to open season at CitadelWith 17 freshman in tow, the wrestling team travels to Charleston, S.C.

Fidelis LusompaSenior Staff Writer

The wrestling team is looking to bounce back and claim the ACC title once again, but without NCAA champion Darrion Caldwell, who is out for the year. Last season, State fin-ished last in the ACC. How-ever, Caldwell’s national championship win at the 149-weight class, defeating Brent Metcalf of Iowa, over-shadowed the team’s record.

With Caldwell out, the Pack has only one returning senior, Taylor Cummings at the 125-weight class. Cum-mings is recovering from a wrist injury that cut his season short last year. Cum-mings expects the team will do well, despite the loss of Caldwell.

“We still have to keep our goals out of sight, but with-in reach,” Cummings said. “It’s a big loss, Darrion’s our head honcho, and he’s our guy. It’s our one spot in our lineup that we are going to just have to try and deal with.”

The team looks to re-bound from last year’s regu-

lar season record of four wins and 15 losses. Junior Darrius Little said the team learned a number of lessons from last year.

“As a team, we need to stick together more,” Little said. “Last’s year team, we had inju-ries and problems. We didn’t do as well as we thought. We had four people go to nationals. We had one guy win it. [Caldwell] set an example that it can be

done. The lesson is if you put your mind to anything, it can be done with hard work and perseverance. The work will pay off in the end.”

This year’s roster is com-prised mostly of freshman, 17 to be exact, which includes a trio of high school national champions in Andrew Tum-lin from Harrison, Oh., Dale Shull from Fort Lupton, Co., and Eloheim Palma from Cary,

N.C. who’s brother, Jainor, wrestled for State in 2004-2007.

Little said he believes the team will surprise a lot of peo-ple this year and is impressed with the freshmen so far in practice.

“We should win ACC’s this year,” Little said. “Even with a young team, these kids are great. They work hard. They don’t complain. They are men-tally more mature than most

freshman classes that come in any sport. As a freshman, you still have the big head and then you get knocked down. You realize that you have to start at the bottom of the bar-rel. Not these guys. These guys are ready to go. I can’t wait for them.”

Shull agreed with Little, say-ing having a large freshman class, in a way, is a good thing.

“It’s a lot easier adapting with people who are going through the same thing you are,” Shull said. “You can talk to the up-perclassman about stuff be-cause they’ve already been through it.”

Cummings doesn’t expect the youth to be a problem for the team.

“We’re young, but we have loads to talent. Once we get our feet wet a little bit we will be good to go,” Cumming said.

luis Zapata/techNiciaNdarius little, junior at 133 pounds, listens as steve anceravage, assistant coach, explains how to do various manuveurs on colton palmer, junior at 157 pounds, during practice Wednesday. n.c. state will wrestle against the citadel in charleston, s.c., saturday.

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coming soonFriday: Football-Friday & preview of the maryland football gameMonday: recap of volleyball game against virginia tech.Coverage of wrestling’s season opener

Quote of the day“Even with a young team, these kids are

great. They work hard.”

junior wrestler Darius Little

football

Wrestling

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photo courtesy N.c. state athletics

By the numbers: WRESTLING ROSTER

17 freshman

10 sophomores

5 juniors

2 seniors

source: N.c. state athletics