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New provost and senio
vice chancellor named
FATEN HUSNI ODEH
THE EAstT CAROLINIAN "
After a national search,
Chancellor Ballard has found
the new Provost and Senior
Vice Chancellor for Academic
and Student Affairs, Marilyn
Sheerer, Ph.D.
With a bachelor
s degree
from Bloomsburg State College
in Pennsylvania, a master
s from
Syracuse University, a Ph.D.
from Ohio University and years
of working at ECU as a professor
and chair of the Department of
Elementary and Middle Grades
Education, Sheerer has a wide
variety of experience to bring to
the position.
Ambyr Maxwell and Melissa Hege advertise for One-Stop early Voting at the Obama headquarters.
NATALIE JURGEN
THE East CAROLINIAN
One Stop Early Voting begins
today in North Carolina and
voters across Pitt County will be
able to cast their ballot at any of
the six early voting sites.
Early voting allows any reg-
istered voter to cast their ballot
in person prior to Election Day.
Also, unregistered voters can
. register and vote on site in just
one visit.
Early. voting is great because
if you vote early and your regis-
tration didn
t go through you
can register there,? said Ambyr
Maxwell, an intern at the Obama
headquarters in Greenville.
Early voting is also conve-
nient because voters have free-
dom to choose when and where
they vote and sites are typically
less crowded.
According to the Pitt County
Board of Elections, 103,664
of the 152,000 residents in Pitt
County are registered to vote,
with 18-25 year olds accounting
for 20,143 of that total. Approxi-
mately 5,002 of those 20,143
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Marilyn Sheerer is a special
person with a remarkable com-
bination of ability, enthusiasm,
experience and energy,? said
Chancellor Steve Ballard. She
is an accomplished leader who
is well known and respected
throughout North Carolina, and
she is exactly the right person
to fill this critical role at the
university.?
According to the ECU Web
site, the responsibilities of a pro-
vost are vast and include admin-
istering all academic and admin-
istrative policies and operations
of all the seven colleges and
creating additional key academic
functions and activities that sup-
port the academic demands of the
registered to vote after July 1 of
this year.
Since January 1, nearly 16 000
new voters were registered in Pitt
County, which is a significant
increase from the 93,000, regis-
tered voters during the 2004 elec-
tion, only 10,000 of which were
registered after January 1.
Everyone that has sent their
registration will be registered to
vote by the start of early voting,?
said David Davis, director of the
Pitt County Board of Elections.
The Obama Campaign for
Change in Greenville has also
been hard at work registering
voters.
Regionally, the campaign
registered 17,000 voters, 4,000 of
which were college students.
We
ve been registering
voters non-stop everyday,? said
Melissa Hege, of the Campaign
for Change. The only day we
were not allowed to was Sept. 11
because the office was closed.?
Of the six early voting sites
in Pitt County, five are located
in Greenville. The Agricultural
Extension Building located at
403 Government Circle will open
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university.
Not only do the duties of a
provost include all of the above
but it also consists-of developing
the whole student,? which is a
student that is developed aca-
demically, intellectually, socially,
professionally and culturally.
The whole student? devel-
opment is achieved through
programs, activities and func- .
tions that are made up of both
the academic and student life
on campus in which the provost
will be overseeing and working
with.
Many students would like to
see more programs at the uni-
versity that promote tolerance
among different populations.
I would like to see more
cultural studies programs at ECU
that would create understanding
and tolerance among multicul-
tural populations,? said ECU
senior Christopher Kent. This
broadened knowledge would
reduce stereotypes and preju-
dices creating the vital cultural
corporation needed in today
s
workforce.?
As ECU students and faculty
look forward to what Sheerer
has to offer as the new Provost
and Senior Vice Chancellor for
Academic and Student Affairs,
she looks forward to working
with her new title.
AILEEN DEVLIN
PROVOST page 3
Early voting kicks off
Greenville today
af Dr. Rachel Raab
returns to ECU
NATALIE JURGEN
Tue East CAROLINIAN
Dr. Rachel Raab, whose par-
: ents pioneered advanced cancer
: care in eastern North Carolina,
: is one of the newest faculty
: members in the division of hema-
: tology/oncology at the Brody
: School of Medicine at ECU.
Raab
s parents, Drs. Spen-
cer and Mary Raab, started the
: division at ECU
s new medical
school in 1977.
Raab and her husband, Dr.
: Francois Archambault, an anes-
: thesiologist,.and their 16-month-
: old son, Julien, returned to east-
: ern N.C. after she completed a
: cancer fellowship in New York.
Tt
s going well so far,? said
: Raab. It
s been a good transition
: and I
ve gotten a lot of support
from the people in my depart-,
ment.?
Like her mother, Raab spe-
cializes in breast cancer, which
: is the second leading cause of
cancer death in women after
: lung cancer, according to the
: Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
The rate of breast cancer
: among women in N.C. is approx-
: imately 110 to 119 cases for
: every 100,000 women, with
: African-American women more
likely to die from the disease than
other women.
Even though we
ve come
a long way since my parents ©
moved here in the 1970s, there
s
still a lot to be done for patients
in this area,? Raab said.
Raab was drawn to ECU by
the opportunity to sub-special-
ize in breast cancer and because
; of the chance to be a leader in
| : cancer care for a large portion
_ : of the state.
For the region, this is a
: homecoming to a community
: that raised her and is-proud
: to have her return,?
+ Adam Asch, associate director
said Dr.
NATALIE JURGEN
Tue East CAROLINIAN
Dr. Mary Nyangweso Wang-
: ila has recently joined the faculty
: at the Thomas Harriot College of
: Arts and Sciences at ECU as the
: first recipient of the J. Woolard
, : and Helen Peel Distinguished
- THE EAST CAROLINIAN
_ We've been registering voters non-stop everyday.
The only day we were not allowed to was Sept. 11
because the office was closed.?
MELISSA HEGE
OBAMA CAMPAIGN FOR CHANGE.
today and remain open until Nov.
1 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday
through Friday and 8 a.m.- 1 p.m.
on Saturdays. The Community
Schools Building located at 4561
County Home Road will be open
Monday through Friday from 8
a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturdays from 8
a.m.-1 p.m. and Sunday, Oct.
26
from | p.m.- 5 p.m. The Jaycee
Park, Center for Arts and Crafts
located at 2000 Cedar Lane will be
open Monday through Friday 11
a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturdays 8 a.m.-1
p.m. The County Office Building
located at 1717 W. 5" St. will be
open Monday through Friday
from 8 a.m.-5p.m. and Saturdays 8
a.m.-1 p.m. For ECU students, the
Newman Center, located beside
the Brewster Building, will be
open starting Oct. 24 Monday
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Check inside for an update ;
: on the current financial Cri
: SiS.
though Fridays 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and :
Saturday from 8-a.m.- 1-p.m.
All early voting sites will be and Helenk. Pectin by eretts,
open until Nov. 1.
Members of the Obama :
Campaign will be hosting a :
rally on Oct. 28 at the bottom of :
College Hill with performances : Helen K. Peel, who passed away
: in 2005, attended Louisburg
The crowd will then proceed to : : College.
by Blount Harvey and others.
the early voting site.
Also, a march will be taking :
place today from Thomas Forman :
Park on fifth and Memorial tothe : o¢ person he is. In life we tend
County Office Building on Fifth : to look for heroes ~over yonder,
: when they can be found in our
held with the NAACP and com- : own backyard. I consider Jesse
memorates the 13" anniversary : Peel a hero not only because of
: his generosity to our program, an
: act that facilitated the availability
: Of this position, but because of
: who he is as a person and the
Street at 9 a.m. The event is being
of the Million Man March.
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news @theeastcarolinian.com
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dence halls.
page 6
Resident advisors team
up to. promote World
: Health Day in the resi-
: Professorship in Religious Stud-~
: jes.
said Wangila. What
-values which I have embraced
: in my teaching and research and
: values that I hope to continue to
: promote in the classroom and the
: university in an effort to make a
difference in our communities.?
Established in 2007 by Dr.
: Jesse R. Peel, the professorship
: honors Peel
s parents J. Woolard
N.C.
J. Woolard Peel, who passed
away in 1984, was a graduate of
: North Carolina State University.
T had the privilege of meet-
ing Jesse Peel,? Wangila said. I
was most impressed by the kind
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Dr. Rachel Raab.
of ECU
s Leo W. Jenkins Cancer
Center. She brings to this job not
only her experience as an oncolo-
gist, but she knows the region
and cared enough to return with
her husband.?
Mary Raab is revered by
many of her patients and Rachel
has already seen patients her
mother treated and who remem-
ber the care they received. Her
mother, who is since retired
from the ECU faculty, still sees
patients at a Tarboro clinic.
A portrait of her husband,
who died of cancer in 1993,
hangs in the cancer center.
I really can
t even imagine
what it was like in 1977,? Rachel
said. J think they realized what
the need was here for cancer ser-
vices. They had a vision.?
Raab
s mother says she is
very proud of her daughter
s
dedication to the cause treating
and preventing breast cancer.
T think there is a need for
both their services here, and
also I think Rachel can contrib-
ute significantly to the care of
RAAB page 3
ECU professor
receives
award
I feel tremendously hon- -
:~ored,?
_} fascinates me about the position
: are the values that it embodies--
: values of diversity, social justice-
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Dr. Mary Nyangweso Wangila
values of social justice that he
embraces. From what Jesse told
me about Helen, I believe the
Peel family provides an example
to emulate in order to make this
world a better place.?
Wangila will have specific
duties as a recipient of the profes-
sorship. She will be responsible
for enhancing the offerings of
the Religious Studies program
by maintaining an active research
and teaching agenda, serving on
the Religious Studies Committee
and contributing to the Depart-
ment of Philosophy, Thomas
Harriot College of Arts and Sci-
ences and ECU. She is now the
third full-time religious studies
professor in the department.
T strongly believe in engaged
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Alleged No. 2 leader of ,
al-Qaida in Iraq killed
American soldiers killed the
alleged No. 2 leader of al-Qaida
in Irag, a Moroccan who trained
in Afghanistan, recruited foreign
fighters and ran operations in
northern Iraq where Sunni insur-
gents remain a potent threat, the
U.S. military said Wednesday.
The man, who the military
said was known as Abu Qas-
warah, died Oct. 5 during a raid
on a building in the northern city
of Mosul that served as a major
command and control location?
for the region. Four other insur-
gents were killed in the operation,
the U.S. said. The announcement
of Abu Qaswarah
s death was
withheld until Wednesday to
allow for positive identification,
the military said.
McCain seeks to revive
campaign during final
presidential debate
John McCain sought to
change the course of a campaign
moving decidedly in Barack
Obama
s direction Wednesday
night in the third and final presi-
dential debate.
With less than three weeks
until the Nov. 4 election, the
90-minute debate focusing on
the economic crisis offered the
Republican senator from Arizona
what could be one of his last big
chances to persuade voters to
give the race another look.
Polls show Obama with a
clear lead nationally and in
several key battleground states.
McCain was keenly aware of
the stakes he faced after two
debates in which supporters
suggested he was insufficiently
forceful against Obama. Over the
weekend he promised to ~ ~whip?
Obama
s you know what,? and
aides indicated McCain would
criticize Obama on tax policy.
For months, McCain and his
campaign have tried to convince
voters that Obama is an inveter-
ate tax raiser whose spending
priorities on health care and other
issues would mean higher taxes
on people of all incomes.
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WANGILA continued from 1
scholarship,? Wangila said.
Unengaged knowledge is as
good as dead. Knowledge should
seek to contribute something
to the surrounding community.
Our Religious [Studies] program
encourages scholarship that is
engaged, by exposing students
to cultures of the religions they
have studied i in a study abroad
program.?
Wangila hopes that her stu-
dents will discover an appre-
ciation for different religious
perspectives and the role religion
plays in some cultures.
Wangila came to ECU from
the University of Missouri-
Columbia. She is the author
of Female Circumcision: The
Interplay between Religion,
Gender and Culture in Kenya
(Orbis Books, 2007), as well
as many other publications in
scholarly journals and selected
book chapters.
She has served as an invited
speaker at a symposium on
Women and HIV/AIDS in
Africa? held at the University of
Illinois and as a presenter at the
American Academy of Religion
in Washington, D.C. Wangila is
a member of the African Studies
Association and the American
Academy of Religion.
Wangila received her doc-
toral and miaster of philosophy
degrees in sociology of reli-
gion from Drew University in
2004 and 2002 respectively; a
master of theology from Emory
University in 1999; a master of
-philosophy in religion from Moi
University, Eldoret, Kenya, in
1992; and her bachelor of educa-
tion from Kenyatta University,
Nairobi, Kenya, in 1988.
This writer can be contacted at
news @theeastcarolinian.com.
PROVOST cor-
tinued from 1
T am honored by the con-
fidence that Chancellor Ballard
and the university have placed
in me,? Sheerer said. "ECU has
become my home, and I am
very happy to be continuing my
service here.?
This writer can be contacted at
news@theeastcarolinian.com.
RAAB continued.
from 1
patients in this region, especially
breast cancer patients,? Dr. Mary
Raab said of her daughter and
son-in-law.
Raab has an undergraduate
degree from Vanderbilt Uni-
versity in Nashville, Tenn:, and
a medical degree from ECU.
She completed residency and
fellowship training at Albert
Einstein College of Medicine
and Montefiore Medical Center
in Bronx, N.Y.
This writer can be contacted at
news@theeastcarolinian.com.
The headline that ran on the
front page of The East Caro-
linian on Thursday, Oct. 9
was incorrect. The headline
should have read, Students
charged of assault.?
Jarmichael Harris has only
been meters bie of assault, not
Correction
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His court date is.set for
Oct. 22;
Any questions regarding
the headline can be directed
to Elise Phillips, Editor in
Chief, at editor@theeast-
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The ladies of Sigma Gamma
Rho Sorority, Inc. will be holding
a dinner plate sale on
Oct. 18 from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. at Peppermint Park on 14"
Street. The event, dubbed the
Eta Mu Plate Sale,? has been in
the works since last year.
Plates include barbeque
chicken, string beans, potatoes
and a roll. Cake and beverages
will also be served; the cost
for students is seven dollars
per plate.
All proceeds will go to com-
munity service initiatives spon-
sored by the sorority.
The Sigma Gamma Rho
organization was founded
in 1922 by seven educators
and is now an international
service sorority.
The sorority supports numer-
ous philanthropic efforts, includ-
ing Habitat for Humanity, pro-
viding educational materials
for at-risk children through a
program called OPERATION
BigBookBag and support for ~
several other national and inter-
national organizations.
Any questions about the
event should be directed to
Demetria Smith at das0726@
ecu.edu.
Questions about the Sigma
' Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. can be
found at the organization
s offi-
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Stocks plunge anew as data points to recession
AP
Investors agonizing over
a faltering economy sent the
stock market plunging all over
again Wednesday after a stream
of disheartening data convinced
Wall Street that a recession, if
not already here, is inevitable.
The market
s despair propelled
the Dow Jones industrials down
733 points to their second-larg-
est point loss ever, and the major
indexes all lost at least 7 per-
cent.
The slide meant that the Dow,
which fell 76 points on Tuesday,
has given back all but 127 points
of its record 936-point gain of
Monday, which came on opti-
mism about the banking system
in response to the government
s
plans to invest up to $250 billion
in financial institutions.
Wednesday
s sell-off began
after the government
s report that
retail sales plunged in September
by 1.2 percent " almost double
the 0.7 percent analysts expected
" made it clear that consumers
are reluctant to spend amid a
shaky economy and a punishing
stock market.
The Commerce Department
report was sobering because
consumer spending accounts
for more than two-thirds of U.S.
economic activity. The reading
came as Wall Street was refocus-
ing its attention on the faltering
economy following stepped up
government efforts to revive the
stagnant lending markets.
' Then, during the afternoon,
the release of the Beige Book,
the assessment of business con-
ditions from the Federal Reserve,
added to investors
angst. The
report found that the economy
continued to slow in the early
fall as financial and credit market
problems took a turn for the
worse. The central bank
s report
supported the market
s belief that
difficulties in obtaining loans
have choked growth in wide
swaths of the economy.
Even though the bank-
ing sector may be returning to
normal, the economy still isn
t.
' The economy continues to face
a host of other problems,? said
Doug Roberts, chief investment
strategist at ChannelCapital-
Research.com. We
re in for a
tough ride.? .
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke
offered a similar opinion, warn-
ing in a speech Wednesday that
patching up the credit markets
won
t provide an instantaneous
jolt to the economy.
Stabilization of the financial
markets is a critical first step,
but even if they stabilize as we
hope they will, broader economic
recovery will not happen right
away,? he told the Economic
Club of New York.
Analysts have warned that
the market will see continued
volatility as,it tries to recover
from the devastating losses of
the last month, including the
nearly 2,400-point plunge in the
Dow over the eight sessions that
ended Friday. Such turbulence
is typical after a huge decline,
but the market
s anxiety about
the economy. was also expected
to cause gyrations in the weeks
and months ahead.
Selling accelerated in the
last hour of trading, a common
occurrence during the eight days
of heavy declines. One reason
for the heavy selling: Mutual
funds need to unload stock to pay
. investors who are bailing out of
the market.
Investors apparently have .
come to believe that Monday
s
big rebound over the bank-
ing sector was overdone given
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/ economy.
It really doesn
t come as a
shock after Monday
s gains were,
I think, a little bit excessive,?
said Charles Norton, principal
and portfolio manager at GNI-
Capital, referring to the market
s
pullback.
He contends that the govern-
ment has taken so many steps to
help the financial system that
investors must now wait for some
of the actions to help steady the
economy.
It seems like all the tools
in the tool chest have mostly
been used now and now it
s
back to reality,? he said. We
re
still faced with the fact that the
economy is slowing and earnings
aren
t very good.?
Doubts about the economy
were already surfacing in Tues-
-day
s session, when investors
halted an early rally and began
collecting profits from stocks
big
Monday advance. Wednesday
s
data confirmed the market
s fears
that the economy is likely to
remain weak for some time, and
that corporate profits are likely
to suffer.
Mark Coffelt, portfolio man-
ager at Empiric Funds, said
moves by European and U.S.
government officials to begin
investing directly in banks are
easing worries about credit. But
the steep pullback in stocks that
began last month after the credit
markets lurched to a near stand-
still has now created worries
that consumers will spend less
after seeing the value of their
retirement accounts and other
investments drop.
Markets abhor uncertainty
and so we got a lot of that
resolved this weekend and we
got the reward Monday but now
people are saying ~OK, now what
is the economy going to do?
?
We
re definitely going to
get a slowdown from the terror
. of going through that,? Coffelt
said.
The Dow ended down 733.08,
or 7.87 percent, at 8,577.91. On
Monday, Sept. 29, the Dow had
its largest point drop 777.68.
Wednesday
s percentage drop
was the biggest since the 8.04
percent of Oct. 26, 1987, which
followed Black Monday, the Oct.
19 crash that sent the blue chips
down 22.6 percent in a single
session.
The Dow
s massive decline
Wednesday marks its 20th triple-
digit move in 23 sessions.
Broader stock indicators also
skidded. The Standard & Poor
s
500 index fell 90.17, or 9.03 per-
cent, to 907:84, and the Nasdaq
composite index fell 150.68, or
8.47 percent, to- 1,628.33.
It was the lowest close
for the Nasdaq since June 30,
2003, when the index finished at
1,622.80. The Dow and the S&P
500 are also at mid-2003 levels.
The Dow is down 39.4 per-
cent from its Oct. 9, 2007 closing
high of 14,164.53. The S&P is
down 42 percent from its high
at the same time of 1,565.15.
The Nasdaq
s record high was
5,048.62, during the dot-com
boom that swelled the index to
levels it has not come close to
regaining after the high- -tech
bubble burst.
U.S. stock market paper losses
came to $1.1 trillion Wednesday,
according to the Dow Jones
Wilshire 5000 Composite Index,
which represents nearly all stocks
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traded in America.
Wednesday
s losses came
as investors were hoping the
market would recover from
last week
s terrible run, which
erased about $2.4 trillion in
shareholder wealth and brought
the Dow to its lowest level since
April 2003. The tumble occurred
amid a seize-up in lending stem-
ming from a lack of trust among
institutions in response to the
bankruptcy of investment bank
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
and the failure of Washington
Mutual Inc., which had been the
nation
s largest thrift.
The credit markets have been
showing tentative signs of recov-
ery, though they remain strained.
The three-month Treasury bill
on Wednesday was yielding
0.20 percent, down from 0.30
percent on Tuesday. Overall,
yields remain low, showing that
demand is so high that inves-
tors are willing to earn meager
returns as long as their principal
is preserved.
The yield on the benchmark
10-year Treasury note, which
moves opposite its price, fell to
3.98 percent from 4.03 percent
late Tuesday.
About 350 stocks advanced
at the New York Stock Exchange,
while about 2,800 declined.
- Consolidated volume came to 6.4
billion shares, down from 7.97
billion traded Tuesday.
The Russell 2000 index of
smaller companies fell 52.54, or
9.47 percent, to 502.11.
Light, sweet crude fell $4.09 ©
to settle at $74.54 per barrel
on the New York Mercantile
Exchange.
In Asian trading, Hong
Kong
s Hang Seng Index lost
nearly 5 percent after rising more
than 13 percent the previous two
days. Markets in Australia, South
Korea, China, India and Singa-
pore also sank. Japan
s Nikkei
225 index, however, ended up 1.1
percent after soaring 14 percent
in the previous session.
In Europe, Britain
s FTSE
100 fell 7.08 percent, Germany
s
DAX index fell 6.49 percent,
and France
s CAC-40 fell 6.82
percent.
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Reject rage,
embrace
empiricism
Time for some raw opinion
JON DOUGHERTY
Tue East CAROLINIAN
_ | have heard a lot about rage and anger this
week. Primarily, the focus has been on a couple
of GOP rallies for John McCain recently, where
individual question askers have discussed not
necessarily the state of the nation, not necessarily
any specific issue at hand, but anger and rage at
the prospect of a Barack Obama presidency. They
claim he is not a true American, he does not love his
country; some go so far as to claim he is an enemy
saboteur, sent to lead us into despair.
This is similar to the rage expressed by Demo-
cratic supporters in 2004 at the specter of reelecting
George W. Bush after the widely acknowledged
botching of the war in Iraq. At the time, and
even to this day, some will say there are only two
explanations for Bush
s actions: either he is stupid
or evil.
The language being invoked in these types
of descriptions reviles those with different politi-
cal preferences as those interested in nothing but
personal benefit against general disarray. Both
camps must be included because it is extremists
of all types that are guilty.
We cannot have agreement as a prerequisite
for political discourse. People must come to deci-
sions with the good faith that all are interested in
a strong, prosperous future for America, whatever
their vision of what our country may be. Obama
is not a.terrorist because he knows a guy who was,
even if he worked with him. McCain is not the
same guy as Bush, even though they are of the same
party. When we begin political dialogue from the
viewpoint of all with me are good, all against me
are evil,? we leave room only for hatred and enmity,
not compromise. We are a country that was built
on the diversity of opinion, on the right to be seen
as different, but worthy.
Our political relationships to each other have
roughened within a crust of ideological partisan-
ship.
My advice, my plea to my fellow Americans,
and more narrowly, my fellow Pirates with whom
I attend class, and debate the future of the world, is
this: let your reason guide you. Allow yourself to
treat each situation dispassionately, uniquely, hold-
ing only in view the end you wish for your future
and those of your children and all the available,
empirical facts about how to get there, whether they
be to your liking or not. Allow yourself permission
to consider, perhaps even incorporate, new view-
points--based on evidence-- about how to achieve
a happy tomorrow.
Do not bind yourself to a course of action
through subscription to a gamut of political values
handed down to you by the choice of your fore-
bears or the tenets of a rigidly defined philosophy.
Believe especially in the same basic hope for the
future of those that disagree with and are different
from us. Do not allow yourself to be disillusioned
by the attempts of those with power and influence
to jade your sense of community, to deflect you
from truth, to blind you with emotional, cynical,
ideological appeals.
There can be no such thing as total agreement
amongst a population of 300 million people. In this
mix, some will be hard-liners who will not be will- |
ing to discuss or compromise their positions on any
issue. My plea to all, young and old, Republican
and Democrat, ideologues and ambivalents, is to
recognize each other as citizen and sibling, with all
futures bound together; when all realize they face
the same end as a country, they establish common
ground upon which real national community can
be built.
This writer can be contacted at
opinion@theeastcarolinian.com.
Gaming outside
of the box
JASON M. WALLACE
THE East CAROLINIAN
I have been trying to set up a game of Dungeons
and Dragons for some friends and I to play since
August. Besides taking time to learn the rules
and working around everyone
s schedule, finding
players is a tough process. It may be because they
are trying to avoid the air of cultural nerdiness that
comes with Dungeons and Dragons. It may also
be that young people
s imaginations have been
destroyed by the digital game age.
Tabletop games compared 1 to console waded
games are like an open-ended project to a set of
math problems. Tabletop games allow for players
to be creative and resourceful while video games
force players to resolve situations within a fixed
set of rules.
For those who have not experienced a game of
Dungeons and Dragons, and other similar tabletop
games, it is a popular fantasy role-playing game
run by two components. Half of the game relies
on a set of numeric rules controlled by throwing
dice. The other half relies on the imagination of
the storyteller or the dungeon master, who narrates
the fantasy-based story. A dungeon master will
describe a setting and scenario, and the characters
will work together navigating through the setting
to accomplish the objective however they see fit.
By being able to make unique choices through col-
laborating with other players, tabletop games allow
the players to be much more creative in constructing
a gaming situation that is much more eye
than a video game.
A common day video game (mainly EUS
on first-person shooters, action and role-playing
games) sets up a rendered setting, a situation and
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{ Your Procrastination Destination }
7 ee
- EVERY DAY SOME RICH DUDE DROVE BY AND
CALLED ME A BUM! YELLED AT ME'T0 GET A
JOB AND MAKE SOMETHING OF MYSELF!
The East Carolinian does not endorse statements made in Pirate Rants. Questions regard-
ing Rants can be directed to Elise Phillips, Editor in Chief, at opinion@theeastcarolinian.
com. Log onto theeastcarolinian.com to submit a Rant of your own.
Iam voting for the most attrac-
tive politicians. So, can we please
put pictures on the ballot?
Warning: Killer squirrels stalk
on campus.
To the girl on the first floor of
Fletcher: You might consider
closing your window when you
get dressed after your shower!
Lets keep supporting ECU foot-
ball; everyone has a rough stretch
every now and then ... LETS GO
PIRATES! ARRRGH!
To the guy I hook up with when
I
m drunk: I
m starting to like
you when I
m sober too, and it
scares me.
I
m sorry if you got the wrong
impression, but I really just love
scandal!
So I was trying to be festive
for Halloween and set out two
cute pumpkins outside of the
apartment, and I wake up to
find one kicked in the bushes
and the other gone. Who steals
PRPS)
Don
t piss me off...I have a cold
and I will cough and sneeze on
you!
Ultimate Frisbee is whack. Grow
some balls and play a real sport...
like rugby.
To all the students here: When
you are walking to class,
PLEASE PICK A DIRECTION
to walk in because I am tired of
zig-zagging around you.
Just wanted to let all my ECU
ladies know: Y
all lookin
good-
-keep it up!
What does lipstick have to do
with politics? Silly girls...
The 30 minutes of exercise I
do makes me feel like it
s OK
to eat half a tube of raw cookie
dough.
I wish I only had two fat rolls
instead of three ... yes, that oihoeair
be nice.
It
s sad that I
m having to base
my vote for president on which
one is the lesser of two evils. GO
OBAMA! ...I think.
To those of you who just see
ECU as a party school: Have fun
with unemployment!
_I will say paper-thin? however
many times I want until you do
come over here and do some-
thing about it. But I want to
warn you that you will be pick-
ing your face off one of these
PAPER-THIN WALLS!
Why is it that I study from 8
p.m. to 4 a.m. and still fail ey,
midterm?
I
ll be glad when the election
is over so I won't have to read
anymore misinformed political
Pirate Rants.
Why is there an ad for N.C.
State on The East Carolinian
s
Web site?
To the three freshman sorority
girls who everyone saw making
a fool of themselves downtown:
You're slutty and disgusting.
Maybe you should take control
of your lives béfore you ruin
them. Good job on choosing a
real CLASSY sorority.
Ha, ha that
s funny. I have memo-
rized all of the words to those
commercials too! -
To the girl with the mermaid
tattoo on her foot: I think you're
wonderful. :
I miss the days when boys had
cooties and girls were gross.?
The boys across the breezeway
from me: Must have made some
serious enemies. I came out of
my apartment this morning to
see a HUGE piece of poop sit-
ting outside their door. There
is NO WAY that came out of
an animal, either. It was totally
human poop..
So my. girlfriend got sick and
threw up all over my room. I now
have a red stained trail coming
from my bed going all the way
to my bathroom.
Minus your personality, you
re
actually quite perfect.
During football games we need
to have Pee Dee out there instead
of some fake Jack Sparrow.
Thank you, TEC! I only have one
class on Tuesdays and Thurs-
days and wouldn
t go if there
wasn
t a new edition to be picked
up!
Does a busted eardrum really
hurt that bad? It
s not like I
meant to do it! Quit acting like
a 5-year-old girl!
Don
t come to a class with a NO
ATTENDANCE POLICY, to sit
_ there and talk to your wannabe
boyfriend. Some of us are here
to LEARN.
I just wanted to say thank you
to the guy who brought the
WWFE into ECU Intramural
coed soccer and completely took
me out. I
m really hurt.
To the guy and girl in Umstead
on the second floor: PLEASE
close your blinds and cut off the
lights when you decide to get
a little action. Everyone in the
parking lot saw you. Thanks.
I enjoy buying a pound of blow
.. pops from the Dowdy Student
Stores!
A flying grasshopper fell into
my sub at Subway while I was
eating at the Subway store ... No,
I didn
t get a free one.
You like 4:19 better because its
almost 4:20! Best time of the
day!
I picked a major I like and will
one day be living in a cardboard
box.
Maybe we shouldn
t have a
president. We should try having
a king for four years and see how
that works out for us.
I can understand, why people
think ECU is filled with sluts,
after reading all the Pirate Rants
about women sleeping around to
get revenge!
I
m sick of taking tests on useless
information.
What happens when you die??
character for a player. The television screen dis-
plays the character
s setting and most of the time the
character itself. The story is usually set and really
inflexible. After stripping a player of all creative
control and outlook of the game, all that is left is
hours of learning complex button combinations
in order to move the character from one point to
the next to advance the in-game story to a usually
predictable, classic Hollywood movie type ending.
Because of the lack of choice in video games, I
don
t find them to be nearly as enjoyable as the
uniqueness of a tabletop game.
In the essay, Play as a Function of Toy Struc-
ture and Fantasy Predisposition,? by Mary Ann
Spencer Pulaski, she found that if children were
given minimally structured toys like paint, clay
and simple rag dolls, as compared to highly struc-
tured toys like Barbie
s and G.I. Joes, then they
had greater imaginative output. She also quoted
cognitive psychologist J.L. Singer by saying that
fantasy is a creative, cognitive skill associated with
the ability to control impulses and to delay grati-
fication.? Therefore, I feel that gamers are able to
benefit more from the opportunities to make more
creative choices with tabletop games.
I feel that tabletop games are more applicable to
real life than a video game could ever be. In Dun-
geons and Dragons, players learn to cooperate with
others at a table in order to accomplish a scenario
objective successfully. Just as in Monopoly, where
players negotiate deals for property, Dungeons and
Dragons allows a person to work with others to
advance the story of his or her life. Video games
only offer the same situation that gradually becomes
more difficult as the player moves from one level
to the next, like a person moving up the corporate
ladder at a place of employment.
This writer can be contacted at
opinion@theeastcarolinian.com.
Social security
1S not so secure
LEWIS CARROLL
THE East CAROLINIAN
Prepare to work until you die.
For anyone unaware, Social Security is a sup-
plemental retirement system that was implemented
in 1935 as part of Roosevelt
s New Deal.? The
system is funded by dedicated payroll taxes, with
the purpose of securing a threshold where anyone
who has paid into the system. However, according
to Bruce Bartlett, a senior fellow with the National
Center for Policy Analysis, by 2014 current tax
revenues will be insufficient to pay current benefits.
By 2029, the Social Security trust fund is projected
to be exhausted. Unavoidably, a change must be
implemented. That change is switching the current
Social Security system to the Cato Plan.
Demographic issues, such as longer life expec-
tancy by 12 to 15 years, and a falling fertility rate
from 3.6 children per woman to 1.9 as of 2020,
have a strong negative impact on Social Security
as well. A fertility rate of 2.1 would be needed just
to replace the existing population. Numbers alone
cannot be relied on to fix the problem, but a more
lucrative means of supplying funds. I agree with a
widely considered solution to the problem, which is
switching to a system of personal investments.
Many people think that the stock market
would simply be too risky, but that just isn
t so.
_ Throughout the last 80 years, private investments
have earned an average return of nearly 8 percent.
This period includes the Great Depression, World
War II, several smaller wars, the dot-com decline
as well as more recent problems. Workers cur-
rently can expect a return on their Social Security
taxes of 1.5 percent or less. When it comes to the
aspect of benefits, the stock market is no less risky
than politics. Congress can choose at any time to
change benefits, because retirees have no legal
right to them.
According to the Cato Plan, individuals would
be able to invest their half of payroll, which is 6.2 .
percentage points through individual accounts.
There will be a limited series of investment options,
with a life cycle fund as a default mechanism.
The remaining 6.2 percentage points will be used
to fund the transition costs, as well as survivors
benefits. Those who choose to remain in the cur-
rent Social Security system would receive whatever
level of benefits available to them with existing
levels of taxation. This system would give people
a chance to convert to a better system, while not.
excluding those resistant to change.
The time to switch from Social Security to the
Cato Plan is now. When considering risk manage-
ment and rate of returns, there is no comparison. For
every year after this one, reforming the system will
cost American taxpayers an additional $600 billion.
_ With. Social,Security running into deficits within
12 years, time is limited. We should be thinking
not only about the well-being of our parents and
ourselves, but also about beneficial systems that
can be established for our children and future
generations.
This writer can be contacted at
opinion@theeastcarolinian.com.
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Did you know?
If you are right handed, you
tend to chew your food on
your right side. If you are
left handed, you tend to chew
your food on your left side.
The Titanic was the first ship
to use the SOS signal.
The pupil of the eye expands
as much as 45 percent when
a person looks at something
pleasing.
The average person who stops
smoking requires one hour
less sleep a night.
Laughing lowers levels
of stress hormones and
strengthens the immune
system. Six-year-olds laugh
an average of 300 times a day.
Adults only laugh 15 to 100
times a day.
The roar that we hear when
we place a seashell next to
our ear is not the ocean, but
rather the sound of blood
surging through the veins in
the ear.
Dalmatians are born without
spots.
Bats always turn left when
exiting a cave.
The ~v
in the name of a
court case does not stand
for versus,? but for and?
(in civil proceedings) or
against? (in criminal
proceedings).
Men
s shirts have the buttons
on the right, but women
s
shirts have the buttons on the
left.
The owl is the only bird to
drop its upper eyelid to wink.
All other birds raise their
lower eyelids.
The reason honey is so easy
to digest: it has already been
digested by a bee before
humans eat it.
Roosters cannot crow if they
cannot extend their necks.
The color blue has a calming
effect. It causes the brain to
release calming hormones.
Every time you sneeze, some
of your brain cells die.
The verb cleave? is the
only English word with two
synonyms that are antonyms
of each other: adhere and
separate.
When you blush, the lining of :
your stomach also turns red. :
When hippos are upset, their
sweat turns red.
The first Harley Davidson
motorcycle was built in 1903
and used a tomato can for the
carburetor.
The lion that roars in the
MGM logo is named Volney. |
Google is actually the
common name for a number
with a million zeros.
Switching letters is called ©
spoonerism.? For example,
saying jag of Flapan, instead
of flag of Japan.
The attachment of the human
skin to muscles is what causes
dimples.
There are 1,792 steps to the
top of the Eiffel Tower.
The sound you hear when
you crack your knuckles is
actually the sound of nitrogen
gas bubbles bursting.
Human hair and fingernails
continue to grow after death.
It takes about 20 seconds for
_ared blood cell to circle the
whole body. .
The plastic things on the
end of shoelaces are called
aglets.?
Most soccer players run seven :
miles in a game.
The only part of the body that
has no blood supply is the
cornea of the eye. It takes in
oxygen directly from the air.
Every day 200 million
couples make love, 400,000
babies are born and 140,000
people die.
DID YOU KNOW page 9 :
SUBMITTED PHOTO | THE EAST CAROLIN IAN
Jarvis Hall, with it
s lab anxiety? board, took home first place.
Oct. 10 kicked off the annual
World Mental Health Day, a
campaign that has been running
for almost 16 years. The event,
initiated by the World Federation
for Mental Health, promotes
education for individual dis-
orders and promotes mainte-
nance for good emotional health.
World Mental Health Day is an
international educational cam-
paign that aims to extend knowl-
edge of mental health topics to
unaware people,? said Renita
Moore, a mental health outreach
specialist at the ECU Center for
Counseling and Student Devel-
opment. It is an observance that
encourages awareness, empathy
and an opportunity. for every-
~THURSDAY OCTOBER 16,2008 =
Homemade
Scottish
Shortbread
2
3
one to recognize the impact
that mental/emotional issues
have on each of our lives.?
According to the National
Institute of Mental Health,
an estimated 26.2 percent of
Americans ages 18 and older
suffer from a diagnosable
mental disorder in a given year.
Overall, this figure accounts
for 57.7 million Americans.
It is important for ECU students
to familiarize themselves with
issues concerning mental health.
and emotional wellness because
it is a part of our total wellness
and well-being as humans,?
Moore said. Often times, people
shy away from topics of mental
health because the reality is that
there is no one way of predict-
ing who will have a mental ill-
ness and when it will ~strike.?
Residence halls inform students about World Mental Health Day
ERIN EDWARDS
Tue EAsT CAROLINIAN
To observe the day, the Center for
Counseling and Student Devel-
opment spearheaded a competi-
tion between residence halls on
campus to come up with a creative,
yet informative, bulletin board.
Teams of two to four resident
advisors were instructed to create
the display based on packets con-
taining the most up-to-date infor-
mation on topics such as anxiety
and test taking anxiety, stress
management, bipolar disorder and
careers in the mental health field.
Even if one person has an. ~aha
moment or changes his or her
mind.about a topic discussed on
the board, then I consider the
contest a success,? Moore said.
Jarvis Hall took first place with
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THE EAST CAROLINIAN ¢ FEATURES
The good, the bad and the ugly
Fireproof
RJ WEBB
Tue East CAROLINIAN
Stars: |
Kirk Cameron
Synopsis:
Lt. Caleb Holt (Kirk Cam-
eron) is a firefighter who has °
been married to his wife, Cath-
erine Holt, for 10 years. Before
you know it, they start growing
apart and start divorce proceed-
ings. That is until Caleb
s father
asks him to try a 40-day experi-
ment before he gives up on his
marriage, called The Love
Dare.?
Caleb accepts the dare
hoping that it has nothing to do
with their newfound Christian
faith and the viewer watches
Caleb go through a change of
heart. In the end, he takes an old
firefighter adage of never leave
your partner behind?"which he
applies to his marriage.
The Good
If you can sit through the
first 30 minutes of the movie,
then you are in for a treat. The
dialogue gets better and the
acting improves. The viewer
is drawn in and even begins to
care about the characters. That
is exactly the recipe for a good
movie. If you are like me, you
will find the humor in the bad
acting and dialogue and actually
enjoy the movie. There are tear-
jerker moments that would make
Kirk Cameron stars as Caleb Holt, a man struggling to save his marriage
the manliest of men choke up.
The independent film
s pro-
duction budget was $500,000, :
but earned $13 million at the
box office. In order to keep
production costs down they used
church members to act as cast
and crew. Oh, and did I mention
- that Kirk Cameron also worked
for free?
The Bad
The first 30 minutes of the
movie. are almost unbéarable,
combined with bad acting on all
actor
s parts and horribly writ-
ten and performed lines. (You
get what you pay for). Sitting
there makes you wonder how
this movie even got to the big
screen. .
The Ugly
results..
fighting of the spouses? scene,
the acting seems forced and ;
unreal. Since the rating is PG : eee e i a great anes
and cussing is non-existent, itis : t al ee ~ A oak 4 ea ae
Kard'to: pull off:a good maritatey.° et, ee
fight.
Verdict
feature film. If you don
t like it,
your grandmother will.
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features@theeastcarolinian.com.
MCT
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 , 2008
MUM continued from 6
Andrea Cazon, a native of
: Bolivia, helped her mother and
her younger sister run a booth.
All of our jewelry is hand-
There are a lot of first-time : a vee eae e ecial
actors, Which yields first-time ; * Ue So en caned apace,
Whon i sagice daha which is similar to stainless
: Steel,? said Cazon.
- T feel proud about my
: customers always like what we
: do and are always complement-
: ing us. It makes me feel proud
: of my heritage and proud that
If you want a good laugh : this is my job.?
_and a good movie, go out and :
see this independently produced :
With the exception of the
weather, everything and every-
one at the Mumfest exuded a
positive attitude. Even when it
started to rain, the festival goers
were not about to leave. The rain
fell and the people kept perus-
ing booth after booth. The only
things that stopped moving were
the rides, for safety reasons.
Even Cowboy Bob stomped
through the streets on his stilts
and only stopped to have his pic-
ture taken with festival goers.
Soon the rain ceased and the
rides warmed right back up.
This writer can be contacted at
features@theeastcarolinian.com.
their anxiety lab theme.? Along
with Moore, judges included
Waz Miller of Campus Living,
: Karen Warren of Campus Well-
: ness and Shawnte
McMillan
: of Student Health Services.
: In putting up our board, we
: were trying to educate resi-
: dences on signs of anxiety,
: especially during high stress
: times during the year, with
: midterms and finals, and how
: to deal with these issues in a
: positive manner,? said Matthew
: McCarthy, a resident advisor
: in Jarvis Hall who was part of
the winning team. Even when
, WMH continued from 6
we were out there planning the
board, we had several residents
come up and have various reac-
~tions; some wanted to see it
done, some wanted to help
~and others were amazed at the
content of the bulletin board.?
Runners up included
Tyler and Fletcher Halls.
For more information on mental
health and services that ECU
provides, contact the Center for
Counseling and Student Devel-
opment at 328-6661.
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Oasis " Dig Out Your Soul,
4 out of 5
Recent years have been kind
to Oasis. They
ve never deviated
too far from what they became
famous for: guitar-heavy alterna-
tive rock. Dig Out Your Soul is no
different, as it follows the same
format with remarkable effect.
From start to finish, each song
operates as its own little world.
Rarely do the songs build to
gargantuan force; rarely do they
shift radically halfway through.
Instead, they start and end the
same way with an almost drone-
like? feel. Falling Down? may
be one of the best songs they
ve
done in years, with an underlying
" organ piece overlapped by Chris
Sharrock
s rollicking drum per-
formance. Same goes for The
Turning,? with its sonic back-
ground wails and gritty guitar.
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Ben Folds " Way to Normal,
3.5 out of 5
After several years, the piano-
rocking god has returned with a
new slew of tunes and a new
persona. Rockin
the Suburbs (his
first solo album) showed him as
the spunky nerd poking fun at
MTV-watching high school kids,
and Songs for Silverman had a
calmer, father-like tone. On Way
to Normal, Ben Folds has steeped
into the more absurd, sometimes
irrational anger at the world. The
most marked difference, though,
is the use of electronics. No track
better emphasizes that than Free
Coffee,? which is a fine track,
but being surrounded by piano-
heavy songs makes it feel out
of place. The peak of the album
is its center, the string-oriented
Cologne,? which harks back to
the days of songs like Army?
from Ben Folds
Five. This may
be a transitional period for Folds,
who, even with a less-than-
enthusiastic entry here, is always
sure to deliver a few wonderful
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monotony, which starts to sag
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s an interest-
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his solo debut, One Man Revo-
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porates far more than just his :
acoustic guitar. It
s still there : ,
: the three wise monkeys? The
baritone, but the embrace of : names of the three wise mon-
the harmonica, lively drums ; keys are: Mizaru (See no evil),
and electric guitar and bass :.
enhance the experience. The :
sound being louder may not :
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it still holds all the sincerity :
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vs. Virginia Tech
W, 27-22
vs. West Virginia
W, 24-3
at Tulane
W, 28-24
at N.C. State
L, 30-24
vs. Houston
L, 41-24
at Virginia
L, 35-20
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Oct;.18
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Nov. 2
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Nov. 8
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Nov. 15
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Nov. 22
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Nov. 28
West Virginia
Schedule
at. Mississippi
L, 41-24
vs. Rice
L, 42-35
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Pe) Hes Ot Fs
vs. Nicholls State
W, 31-10
vs. Arkansas State
W, 29-17
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W, 33-30
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L, 35-28
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Oct. 18
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Oct. 25
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Nov. 8
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Nov. 22
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Nov. 29
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THEY SAID IT
A year ago we won |
eight games in the fourth
quarter, four of them on
the last play of the game.
We've got to be able to
find a way to finish these
opportunities we
ve had
in the fourth quarter.?
-ECU coach
Skip Holtz
All the credit goes
to [Special Teams Coach]
Bob Diaco--it was his
idea--and to Scott Deke
and John Phillips for the
execution. It clearly got
us a touchdown there,
which was much more
- valuable than having
kicked a field goal.?
- Virginia coach Al
Groh on his teams
fake
field goal
We're playing at a
good level right now,
but we
re not playing at
a level high enough to
turn and be able to get
over the hump in some
of these games against
pretty stiff competition.? |
Skip Holtz
Right now, there
s a
couple of players down
after the loss and that
s
going to be any team. At
the same time, everybody
knows we're still in the
hunt for this thing.?
-ECU defensive back
Travis Simmons |
__ We're down a little
bit right now because
we're on a little losing
streak but the confidence
level is always going to
be there. We just have
to. keep our head up and
work hard out here like
we did today.?
- ECU sophomore
running back Jonathan
Williams
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
Virginia adds to ECU
s wounds
JARED JACKSON
Tue East CAROLINIAN
In college football, the
difference between. win-
ning and losing is a very
fine ling.7 =.
That
s what ECU coach
Skip Holtz said in a press
conference Monday.
The Pirates have made
the former a habit of late,
dropping a non-conference
contest 35-20 to Virginia
[3-3, 1-1 ACC] last Satur-
day in Charlottesville. The
loss is the third straight for
ECU [3-3, 1-1 Conference
USA], which was ranked
No. 14 in the nation a little
over a month ago.
The Cavs, fresh off a
31-0 mauling of Mary-
land, have looked like a
completely different team
the past two weeks since
taking a 31-3 defeat at the
hands of Duke three weeks |
ago. ECU, on the other
hand, has been plagued by
the injury bug and hasn
t
looked like its former self
since losing a heartbreaker
in overtime to N.C. State
on Sept. 20.
It was a frustrating and
disappointing loss for this
football team. I thought
the team played extremely
hard,? Holtz said of the
UVA game.
UVA owned the first
half of the contest, totaling
328 yards of offense before
intermission. Most of the
yardage came from senior
running back Cedric Peer-
man, who had touchdown
runs of 79 and 60 yards to
give Virginia a command-
ing 14-6 lead.
They have a good run-
ning back. He took advan-
tage of his blocking and
hit his edge and went
it was hard going against
him,? said ECU senior
defensive lineman Khalif
Mitchell of Peerman, who
finished with 173 rushing
yards and two touchdowns
against ECU.
Peerman wasn
t the
only one to shine in the
first half. Mikell Mitchell
~ also scored in the opening
half with a 5-yard touch-
down run, while a Marc
Verica 30-yard pass to
Kevin Ogletree concluded
the.21 point second quarter
for UVA. The Cavs took
a daunting 28-6 lead into
halftime.
We felt like if we could
get it down to a one-score
game through the third
_ quarter that we would be in
good shape,? Holtz said.
"The Pirates were able
to do just that while look-
ing like a glimpse of the
team that started the season
3-0.
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A Dwayne ,Harris 59-
yard kickoff return to open
the second half, paved the
way for a Jonathan Williams
1-yard touchdown run. Two
possessions later it was
Harris again who sparked
the Pirates, with a 52-yard
reception from quarterback
Patrick Pinkney to move
the chains downfield. Eight
plays later, ECU found the
end zone again behind a
10-yard pass from Pinkney
-to running back Brandon
Simmons to cut the deficit
to 28-20.
We just got in a rhythm
and everyone had that
motor to work harder,? said
Pinkney, of the third quar-
ter. We got in the mindset
of ~we have a chance to win
this game.
?
Pinkney was 12-of-28
on the day for 196 yards
and one touchdown. While
he was a huge part of get-
ting ECU back to within
one score early in the
fourth quarter, he also had
a huge part in the Cavs
final touchdown, which
slammed the door shut on
the Pirates.
With just over nine
minutes left in the game,
Pinkney was sacked for a
nine-yard loss and. in the
process fumbled to give
UVA the ball in prime field
position at the ECU 24.
TI thought it was a really
positive [performance]
besides the fumble,?
Pinkney said. I
m not
throwing any interceptions;
it
s just. fumbles. Some-
times you can
t help it--
you can
t see the defender-
-but it
s all about keeping
two hands on the ball and I
just got to cut the fumbles
down..:
The ECU defense was
able to contain the Cavs,
but on the fourth down,
a 12-yard fake field goal
pass from quarterback/
holder Scott Deke to tight
end John Phillips put UVA
up 35-20"which in the end
was the winning margin.
The Pirates had a solid
second half other than two
fumbles and giving up the -
touchdown on the fake
field goal. The defense,
in particular, was stellar
in the second half in only
giving up seven points and
102 total yards.
Sophomore running back
Williams was also another
bright spot for ECU. In
his first truly significant
action of the season, Wil-
liams rushed for 95 yards
and one touchdown on 19°
carries.
I was pleased with
the way John played and I
think he brings something
to the table;? Holtz said.
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game in completing 25-of-
32 passes for 216 yards and
one touchdown. .
However, while ECU
lost the game in the first
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half, the Pirates had their
chances.
We had plenty of oppor-
tunities in this game and
we just couldn
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field goals of 35 and 45
yards.
When we get down in
the red zone we have to
finish,? Pinkney said. We
have to put six on the board
because that
s the differ-
ence in the game. It
s all
about finishing the drives
that finish the game after
60 minutes.?
At the end of the day,
UVA scorched ECU for
430 total.yards while the
Pirates were only able
to muster out 285. The
Cavs also led ECU in first
downs--21-14--while the
Pirates had the ball a little
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Week eight: Ranking the Carolinas
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Record: 5-1 .
Last week: Won vs. Notre Dame, 29-24
UNC beat Notre Dame despite its best player, Brandon Tate,
not playing for most of the game. Tate hurt his knee on a punt
return in the first quarter, but fellow receiver Hakeem Nicks and
quarterback Cam Sexton willed the Heels to yet another win.
They will have to get used to playing without Tate, however,
as the senior
s career is now over with a torn MCL and ACL.
UNC will get tested now, as the ACC
s best player will be on
the sidelines watching the rest of the season. That test starts
this week with Virginia, a team we all know is hitting on all
cylinders right now,
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Record: 5-2
Last week: Won at Kentucky, 24-17
South Carolina is about as quiet as a 5-2 football team
can be. After losing to Vanderbilt and Georgia in back-to-
back weeks last month, USC has ripped off three straight
wins"including two straight SEC wins on the road. Quar-
terback Stephen Garcia led USC
s comeback win at Kentucky
despite not starting. The talented freshman replaced Chris
Smelley in the third quarter and finished the game 10-of-14
for 169 yards and one touchdown. Keeping that momentum
will be tough this week when LSU comes to town, however. The
Tigers, fresh off a beating from Florida, should be playing with
- revenge on their minds"not good, Gamecock fans.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
Record: 2-4
Record: 4-1 Last week: bye week
Last-week: Won vs. Clemson, 12-7
3 Record: 3-2
Last week: bye week
N.C. State enters the rankings this week because, well,
somebody has to be ranked. fifth. Clemson simply doesn
t
deserve any type of ranking after what happened with its
program in the last week, and ECU needs to record a win
before it creeps back in. The good news for the Wolfpack is
that they play Florida State tonight, which is still N.C. State's
Superbowl. You can expect an all-out effort from N.C. State
tonight, because the roster is still littered with enough of
Chuck Amato
s players. The bad news for N.C. State is it might
not matter, because Florida State is so much better than the
Wolfpack this year that even a maximum effort by N.C. State
will not guarantee a win.
All the talk about the Clemson-Wake Forest debacle last
Thursday has been about Tommy Bowden"and rightfully so.
The Tigers
loss was so bad that Bowden stepped down as the
head coach Monday afternoon and wide receivers coach Dabo
Swinney will be the interim coach for the rest of the season.
The Deacons
win over Clemson looks less credible now, as It
is evident that the Clemson
s players were not willing to fight
for Bowden
s job, which showed in their game against Wake.
With that said, Wake did its job and won the game. It will have
tocontinue to do that on the road now, as it plays at Maryland
and at Miami the next two weeks.
The top- -3 teams in this poll are pretty equal. There's a
pretty big drop-off after that, however. The Blue Devils had a
bye week last week, and they needed it. After getting stomped
by Georgia Tech 27-0 in its first road game of the season, Duke
will have to change its ways on the road if it wants a bowl berth
this season. After hosting Miami Saturday, the Blue Devils play
four of their final six games on the road. Given the schedule,
Duke needs to beat Miami this week, because home games
will be few and far between from here on out.
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Last-second heroics lifts Pirates
HART HOLLOMAN
THe East CAROLINIAN
The Lady Pirate soccer team
defeated conference foes Tulsa
and SMU last weekend, extend-
ing their unbeaten run to six
games. ECU (10-3-1, 5-0-1)
beat Tulsa with a last second
golden goal in double OT on
Friday and then defeated SMU
2-1 on Sunday. The Lady Pirates -
extended their conference lead
to four points over Colorado
College.
Against Tulsa, ECU domi-
nated the game unleashing 20
shots to only five for the Golden
Hurricane. But, despite the Lady
Pirates attacking verve, they
failed to find the back of the net
until, with four seconds remain-
ing on the clock, senior forward
Blair Heffner slotted home a
Nicole Moore corner kick to give
them a 1-0 victory.
It was Heffner
s fourth goal
of the season, which ties her for
the team lead with junior Alexis
Foltz.
ECU came close to scoring
numerous occasions in regular
time, putting a total of nine shots
on goal. Heffner sent a shot just
wide in the 10" minute and Foltz
rattled the woodwork in the 70",
_ but the Lady Pirates were unable
to find the back of the net. And
when it looked as though the
game would end in a scoreless
draw, Heffner beat the keeper
for her conference leading third
game-winning goal.
When asked how it felt to
tally the game winner, Heffner
said, Amazing.?
She was also pleased with
the team
s performance over the
weekend.
T think we played really
well,? the senior said. We
needed to step it up this weekend,
like always, and I think we did
that. And, I think the practices
leading up to it helped a lot.?
Sunday the Lady Pirates
faced SMU, who were in second-
to-last place in the conference.
ECU took the lead in the 37"
minute when Foltz put home a
cross from.sophomore Tricia
Tufts. The Lady Pirates doubled
that lead in the 76" minute when
freshman Amanda Malkiewicz
was put in a one-on-one with the
SMU goalkeeper by fellow fresh-
man Leah Bagonis, and placed it
in the left corner for the eventual
game-winner.
The Mustangs would pull one
THE EAST CAROLINIAN « SPORTS
back three minutes later, but then
the Lady Pirates shut up shop and -
held SMU without a shot for the
remainder of the contest to hang
on the for 2-1 victory.
Head Coach Rob Donnen-
wirth spoke about his team
s play
this weekend.
The biggest thing'I think
-we
re doing well is the energy
we play with on the field,? said
Donnenwirth. We
re play-
ing as a group really well and
making it difficult for other
teams to get in a rhythm when
they have the ball. And then
we
re doing well transitioning
into our offense and eenne
good chances.?
Donnenwirth emphasized the
word good? due to the team
s
habit of not wasting opportuni-
ties or making bad decisions.
ECU ranks last in the confer-
ence in shots per game, but is
second in the conference in shots
on goal, which points to their
solid build-up play and accurate
shooting.
I think it
s the quality of
shots that we
re creating which
has helped us out,? Donnenwirth
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
TRAVIS BARTLETT |
~Senior Blair Heffner (26) scoring the golden goal against Tulsa last Friday.
said. We are getting a lot of
clear chances instead of taking
bad shots on half-chances. In
that respect I think we
re doing
very well.?
However, Donnenwirth
stressed that while the team is
playing well, there is a lot of
soccer still to be played.
Obviously we
re ~happy
where we are this point. 5-0-1 is
very good, but we have sixteen
points in our league right now
and there
s still 15 points up for
grabs,? he said. We
re basically
just half way done with confer-
THE EAST CAROLINIAN
ence play. We
re happy where
we are right now, but we have to
stay focused and do the things we
need to do.?
The Lady Pirates have
another important home week-
end coming up. They will host
Colorado College Friday at 4
p.m. and then take on UTEP
Sunday at noon. Colorado is
second in C-USA with 12 points
and UTEP isn
t too far behind,
with 10.
This writer can be contacted at
sports@theeastcarolinian.com.
BRINK continued from 10
TRAVIS BARTLETT |. THE EAST CAROLINIAN
Pierre Bell after a fumble recovery against Houston.
our hands, and get the ball out as much as we can,?
said Simmons, a sophomore.
Memphis quarterback Arkelon Hall is making it
easier for his towering receivers. The junior ranks
fourth in C-USA passing yards and has 10 touchdowns
on the season.
For ECU, the quarterback position continues to be
an area of concern. Holtz announced on Monday that
both Patrick Pinkney and Rob Kass will see action
against Memphis.
Right now it
s very difficult to look Rob in the eye,
as much as he has played, as much experience he has
and the way he has played in his opportunities, and tell
him that he doesn
t deserve a shot,? Holtz said. I just
don
t know at this point what the rotation is going to
be, but both quarterbacks will definitely play.?
Running back is another position that has been
highly competitive this season. Last week against the
Cavaliers, sophomore Jonathan Williams took most of
the carries in his first true outing as the feature back.
Williams rushed for 96 yards and one touchdown on
19 carries.
Brandon Simmons and Norman Whitley combined
for just three carries against UVA. ~"
I
m just coming out here and working hard every-
day and trying to gain that level of respect and confi-
dence from my team and the coaches,? Williams said
of the battle at tailback. This isn
t an individual thing
right now. It
s a team thing. We
re just trying to pick
it up right now.
While the Memphis receivers attract most of the
attention, the Tigers
impressive ground game gives
coach Tommy West a balanced offense.
Memphis is third in C-USA in rushing yards and
junior running back Curtis Steele is third in the league
in rushing, behind only to Tulane
s Andre Anderson
and Southern Miss
Damion Fletcher. )
Strong safety Alton Starr and defensive tackle
Clinton McDonald lead the way for the Tigers on the
defensive side of the ball. Starr leads the team with 51
total tackles while McDonald is the team leader with
seven sacks for a team that has given up an sided 2 of
363 yards of total offense per game:
ECU will continue to attack defenses without the
services of receiver Jamar Bryant, who has been sus-
pended for the remainder of the season.
Holtz is expecting fierce competition at receiver
as well as the offensive line and secondary this week
in practice.
I certainly don
t want to call what we
re in a
~slump
because I think we
ve lost to three pretty good
football teams and we
ve been in the.games but just
haven
t been able to close the door,? said Holtz. I
think we
ve got to find people who are motivated to
go out there and play ata high level.?
If the Pirates are to rebound and give Holtz his first
conference title, this weekend
s game against Memphis
is likely a must-win.
We have to [win],? said senior defensive tackle
Khalif Mitchell. It
s part of our conference champion-
ship mission and that
s what we
re playing for now.?
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