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SEARCH ENDS: GOTTFRIED HIRED New coach has high hopes for N.C. State basketball program. Taylor Barbour
An extra day will be given to students excluded from Student Government elections to cast their votes. Brooke Wallig News Editor
After an error in the voter roll for student body elections, Student Government will hold a supplemental election Thursday for students who were left out last week. The Elections Commission learned Monday morning that more than 2,000 eligible voters were unable to cast their ballots in this year’s elections, according to Lindsey Pullum, senior in political science and chair of the commission. To correct this mistake, Pullum said the commission decided to allow these students to vote Thursday, and will add their votes to the results gathered March 29. “Part-time students will have one full day to vote in this year’s Student Government elections, where they will have the opportunity to vote for all of the candidates, and those Senate candidates in their majors,” Pullum said. “The votes from that entire day
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CALS, PAMS, CNR may face reform A task force is being formed to examine science education delivery in the three colleges.
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After weeks of speculation as to who was going to become Sidney Lowe’s successor, Athletics Director Debbie Yow and Chancellor Randy Woodson announced Tuesday night at a press conference in Vaughn Towers that former Alabama coach Mark Gottfried will be will be named the next head coach for the Pack. Gottfried has been out of coaching for the last two seasons, working as an ESPN analyst, after resigning from Alabama midway through the 20082009 season. However, the coach has a proven track record as he spent 10 full seasons with the Tide, compiling a 210-132, five NCAA Tournament appearances and one SEC title. Gottfried also went to the Tournament in two out of three years with the Murray State basketball program. “I am excited, extremely excited to be here today,” Gottfried said. “This is a great place, you have great tradition here at North Carolina State and I am very familiar with it and understand it.” And the new head coach understands the expectations that many Pack fans have for this program and the job that he is now tasked with. “I know where you want to go,” Gottfried said. “I know where you want to be. It’s to play for a National Championship and be involved with the NCAA Tournament. That is my passion.” The Gottfried hiring was announced less than 24 hours after Yow sent out a somewhat depressing e-mail to Wolfpack Club members, updating them on the coaching search. In Yow’s e-mail she talked about how a few possible coaches that didn’t work out and began used words like revival and rebuilding, referring to the basketball program. However, less than a day later Yow’s attitude seemed to have made a 180 degree turn as she feels confident that she found the right guy for the job. “Coach Gottfried has the qualities we value at State and what I call ‘the
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Mark Gottfried is formally introduced as the men’s basketball head coach while posing with Athletics Director Debbie Yow and Chancellor Randy Woodson. Gottfried was the former Alabama head coach who won an SEC Title with the team.
stuff,’” Yow said. “He is a builder of basketball programs, having led two colligate programs to national prominence including taking the University of Alabama to a No.1 national ranking. “He has a fiery attitude and a can-do spirit and that is exactly what State needs in this time in our program.” That fiery attitude was evident early on in the press conference, especially when Gottfried was asked about what he thought about having to compete against national powerhouses like Duke and North Carolina on a daily basis. “I am not backing down from anybody here. We want to win,” Gottfried said. “This is a great league and whatever those challenges or obstacles are you have to over come them. You have to beat them and be better than those obstacles. So for us, whatever the challenges may be here, you need to look them dead in the eye and say we are going to go after it.” Gottfried’s will make $1.2 million over five seasons, with a possible twoyear contract extension if he takes the
Pack to the NCAA Tournament in either of his first two seasons. Prior to the hiring, Yow and Gottfried had a relationship dating back to win Gottfried was just 18 years old playing basketball at Oral Roberts, where Yow coached women’s basketball. And both agree that it was that relationship that allowed this deal to come together so quickly. “I had difficulty believing that Mark wanted to leave broadcasting to come back into coaching. But once that become clear and a reality, I knew that I wanted to talk to him,” Yow said. “It is a tremendous advantage to me having known him since he was 18 and following his whole career.” Over the course of the search, Yow has taken a lot of flack as many rumors are flying around about her being hard to work with, but for Gottfried, it was Yow being at State that made him want to leave the sports desk behind. “I had a great job,” Gottfried said. “I was working six months a year and just calling games, so for me to leave that, it had to be right. I have had other opportunities the last two years, but
the reason that I am sitting right here today is Debbie Yow.” The 47-year-old coach was named the SEC Coach of the Year by the Associate Press in the 20032004 season after leading his team to the Elite Eight. Also, Gottfried led his team to two SEC West division titles and won the SEC Tournament once. Before arriving at Alabama, Gottfried coached at Murray State University for three seasons, becoming the first ever coach to win the Ohio Valley Conference Championship in each of his first three seasons. There he complied a 68-24 record including taking Murray State to the NCAA Tournament twice in three seasons, before taking the Alabama job. Prior to his coaching career, Gottfried played basketball first at Oral Roberts, where he was named a freshman All-American and later after transferred to Alabama. In three seasons there, he finished as the schools all-time leader in threepoint field-goal percentage.
Walking a mile without shoes Raleigh experiences being barefoot and raises a bus load of shoes for Ethiopia. Anja Davis Correspondent
The Alexander YMCA on Hillsborough Street, along with the other triangle Y’s, surpassed their goal by collecting more than an entire YMCA school bus worth of gently used shoes. N.C. State students, along with other people from around the globe, participated yesterday in TOMS One Day Without Shoes event. Participants spent the day without shoes in order to raise awareness about how important a pair of shoes is and how many people live without them. Along with One Day Without Shoes, the Alexander YMCA and other Triangle Y’s held a one-mile walk sponsored by TOMS to give locals a feel for what it is like to be shoeless. The walk, called “A Mile In Our Shoes,” was also held across America. After recent acts of teen vandalism in the triangle area, the Alexander YMCA wanted to give teens in the community an opportunity to get involved and change their image. To do so they gave the teens in their teen program the opportunity to put on the one-mile walk. Lisa Mischley, associate branch director of the Y, said being able to organize this event helped teens
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Walking barefoot down Hillsborough Street, Amanda Hemmer, senior in psychology and sociology, and Monique Sorensen, junior in psychology, walk a mile to raise awareness and support for people worldwide who can’t afford shoes. The event, called “Walk A Mile in Our Shoes,” was organized by the YMCA on Hillsborough street and in coordination with TOMS shoes.
branch out in their experiences. “This creates an opportunity for teens to get involved and learn more about something other than themselves,” Mischley said. Teen Director at the Alexander YMCA Eric Whitfield also said he “wants to show everyone that their image of teens can be changed.” While the Alexander Y was the only one to take this approach, other triangle Y’s and community members got involved by participating in the one-mile walk, buying a pair of TOMS shoes, and donating slightly used shoes. According to Whitfield, there was a massive positive response to the event from the community. “In the Triangle there’s been over
3,500 people walking with us, over 1,000 pairs of shoes donated, and 271 pairs of TOMS purchased and donated to Ethiopia,” Whitfield said. Whitfield said he was proud to say that their goals to educate the community about the unfortunate people without shoes, touch 10,000 people, and fill an entire YMCA bus with shoes were also all met. One of the perks of the event was if it was the largest event in America, TOMS would take 10 people on one of their shoe drops and let them experience putting shoes on children for the first time, according to Whitfield.
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$5.00 from the sale of each shirt to benefit “Origami Wishes” NC State’s campus-wide fundraising for the American Red Cross. T-shirts will be available this Friday for $10.00 each at NC State Bookstore.
Provost Warwick Arden has ordered a faculty-led task force to investigate the possible reorganization of three colleges within the University. The colleges of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Natural Resources, and Agriculture and Life Sciences may be reorganized based on recommendations provided by the task force with representatives from all University colleges. Ethan Harrelson, a senior in human biology and CALS senior class senator, said there is some overlap between CALS, PAMS, and CNR. “I think some programs overlap, but I think each college takes a different viewpoint or perspective on them,” Harrelson said According to Harrelson, PAMS takes a mathematical approach, CALS considers how its programs affect farmers and agricultural growth, and and CNR’s aims to improve sustainability through education and innovation. CNR’s goals overlap CALS’s the most between the three colleges. While Arden said he and Chancellor Randy Woodson currently have no intention of combining the colleges into a single entity, the task force will discuss specifically how the three colleges provide academic science programs, and how interactions between the programs can be enabled. “There is a tremendous amount to be gained by interaction between of those sciences [in PAMS, CALS, and CNR],” Arden said. However, Arden said the move to create a task force does not mean changes are not necessarily imminent. “The end result may be no change in college department or college structure at all,” Arden said. “Or it may be that that task force recommends some changes.” Although the final decision on how to handle the possible realignment will fall on Chancellor Woodson, Arden said he wants faculty to lead the discussion through the task force. “It was really important that this is a discussion that is driven largely by the faculty and that this was not something that we attempted to impose on the colleges without thorough discussion,” Arden said. The task force member list has not been finalized, although the chair of the faculty Margery Overton is slated to lead the task force, but the deans of all 10 University colleges have been asked to send Arden suggestions on faculty they believe should participate. According to Arden, CALS, PAMS, and CNR were asked to provide two to three names, while the remaining seven colleges were asked to also provide one or two possible faculty representatives. Robert Brown, dean of the College of Natural Resources, said he received word of the task force and is anticipating the task force’s proposal, which is due by this December. “The College of Natural Resources is participating fully in the designated process for reviewing the delivery of science education on campus,” Brown said. “We look forward to the [task force] committee’s report to the Chancellor in December.” If ultimately Woodson and Arden call for the combination of CALS, PAMS, and CNR, Harrelson said Student Government would fight for the colleges to remain separate if students do not want the combination to happen. “As the process [of realignment] continues, Student Government will keep an eye on out for whatever comes out of that task force,” Harrelson said. “I feel like the University has the interest of students in mind. We will definitely make sure that students have input on it.”