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Farmer’s Market re-opens on campus Students and vendors help raise awareness about agriculture with Campus Farmer’s Market in the Brickyard.
farmer’s market near Centennial Campus. Once a week the patrons transport a selected amount of goods to campus and sell to students. The market accepts cash, credit, and debit. “The fall semester just had a lot more people. Probably because more Elise Heglar students knew about it,” Wise said. Staff Writer The College of Agriculture and Life Agriculture students are bringing Sciences is largely responsible for the the local farmer’s market straight to market and its success. It is intended to help raise awareness about the imthe University. Every Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. portance of agriculture. It is entirely to 3:00 p.m. the Brickyard will house set up by students. The University has booths from the farmer’s market. Se- no involvement in the set up of the lections including vegetables, fruits, farmer’s market on campus. “I’m sure there are a lot of students nuts, cookies, lotions, and soaps will be sold. Everything sold is home- who don’t know anything about agriculture around here. This is a good grown, homemade, and fresh. Gary Wise, the owner of his fam- chance to show them why it’s useful,” ily’s farm, and a vendor at the Campus Wise said. The people workFarmer’s Market, ing the booths ensaid N.C. State is like joy talking to the home for him. students about the “Most ever yone products, according who works at the to Wise. Various booths is related to students stop by the N.C. State. I defibooths just to chat nitely wouldn’t be Erica Akers, sophomore in and ask questions doing this for UNC; poultry science about the products. State is like home.” “I enjoy coming Wise said. The market was originally the idea out here with everyone because I enjoy of Eric Ballard, who has graduated coming back to my old campus and from the University. He started the seeing all of the students,” Wise said. In the past, the market has been program in the spring of 2009. It went over so well with the students that it met with a positive response. On the continued during the fall semester and opening day there were students who had even more success, according to purchased goods before the market the Campus Farmer’s Market website. was completely set up. The flow of Traveling is not an issue for the people who stopped by was constant workers and their products; every- throughout the day. “Students seem to like what we’re thing comes from the local Raleigh
“It’s a great way to support local agriculture. . .”
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Marc Mueller, a senior in environmental engineering, and Marie Douglas Hamm , in lifelong education sample the products from Yah’s Best Salsa at the Campus Farmer’s Market in the Brickyard on Wednesday. Yah’s Salsa is made completely by hand by the owner Paige. “I really like the how there are so many flavors and they are all so fresh.” Hamm said.
offering here. That’s really what we want,” Wise said. Students in CALS have worked hard to keep this program together for the University and to continue the work of Ballard. His original idea has grown into something that is a regular event on campus. Current agriculture students seem to be working hard to preserve the project.
Library creates new smart phone apps A mobile website and a historical tour of campus are the applications created by the library. Shivalik Daga Staff Writer
Students can see the history of the building they are going to or check to see if computers in D.H. Hill Library are open, all from a smart phone or iPod Touch. The Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), in collaboration with OIT recently launched WolfWalk, an iPhone application which enables users to explore the University campus history using a loca-
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tion-aware interface for mobile devices. WolfWalk is a historical guide to the University campus created for mobile devices. WolfWalk makes it easy for users to pull-up information and historical photos about specific sites on campus, such as Memorial Tower and the Brickyard, while touring the campus on foot. It went live this summer and has been received well. According to Tito Sierra, associate head for digital library development, it has already seen over 1100 downloads since its launch on July 1. “The iPhone application has received 10 ratings on the App Store, averaging 5 out of 5 stars,” Sierra said. It currently features 90 Campus sites and just under 600 photographs, a majority of which were drawn from the NCSU Libraries University Archives Collection. Sierra says that the digital library initiatives office is looking forward to enhancing the look and appeal of the application in the future, along with adding new themes. “For Wolf Walk, we are exploring some new ways for people to browse the historical photographs featured in WolfWalk, specifically by time period and theme,” Sierra said. Sierra said the librar y has received many requests to expand the coverage of sites covered in WolfWalk, a nd no complaints with the interface
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have surfaced yet. Digital library initiatives offices worked closely with the OIT in developing this App. “We collaborated closely with OIT staff to deploy the WolfWalk app to the App Store. OIT staff administrates the campus license, and were instrumental in helping us get the app launched,” Sierra said. Along with this, another project the library is pushing forward is the mobile website for the University libraries. It was launched in October 2009 and has seen regular updates since, with plans to add more services in the near future. “This is a mobile-optimized website to a suite of library services including catalog/article search, library hours, computer availability, webcam access, and more. With this product we tried to make it easy for users to access essential library information across a range of mobile devices,” Sierra said. The mobile website works on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, and any other mobile device that has a web browser. The site automatically detects the user’s device type and provides a format that works best for that device.” “So far this semester we have been averaging around 100 unique visits per day, and about 500 pageviews per day. We expect these metrics to increase over time as more people begin to access the Internet from their smart phones,” Sierra said. Sierra said that 4 new services were added this summer. “The NCSU Libraries Mobile project has evolved over time, and will continue to in the near future. Four services were added this summer: Find Articles, GroupFinder, Room Reservations and Reserves,” Sierra said. “We have a Mobile Applications group in the Libraries that is evaluating ideas for expanding mobile library services in the future, not limited to the mobile website.”
“It’s a great way to support local agriculture and give students a first hand look at our local farmers’ hard work. Lots of students don’t know what a farmer’s market looks like, so it’s awesome that it’s an experience being provided for everyone,” Erica Akers, a sophomore in poultry science. Students who are not affiliated with CALS stop by the booths on a regular
basis. The fruit and vegetable booth is usually the most popular. There is constantly a line for checking out. The market manages to stay busy the majority of the time, according to Wise. “This market can teach students something. I think it is definitely a good thing,” Wise said.
Sullivan Residence Hall evacuated Wednesday morning Sullivan Residence Hall was evacuated around 1 a.m., because of smoke from a cigar inside the dorm.
mate realized this and tried to put it out by wrapping it was either a paper towel or a T-shirt,” Stevenson said. The cigar created smoke when it was wrapped in the item and caused the fire alarms to be set off, according to Stevenson. Chelsey Francis “This ended up being a small thing,” Deputy News Editor Stevenson said. “It looked bad and Sullivan Residence Hall was evacu- smelled bad because of the smoke.” William Allen, a freshman in anitated around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, due to a fire alarm on the fifth mal science, said he originally thought floor, according to University officials the fire alarm was a drill. “ I ’m k i n d o f and students. shocked and worried Si x f ire t ruck s a little bit, because and an ambulance there were a lot of responded to the trucks and I thought call. According to it was a drill,” Allen William Stevenson, said. University fire marEven though Allen shal, there was powas asleep, he said he tential for this to be would rather be woa large problem, but William Stevenson, ken up and safe. it wasn’t. University fire marshal “I went to bed earAccording to ly to get a full night Stevenson, the fire alarm was caused by smoke created sleep,” Allen said. “I think it’s better from a cigar a student took into his for us to get out and figure out what happened instead of waiting to see or her room. “A student had a cigar they had been what happens. I think it’s really imsmoking that wasn’t completely put out. Apparently, the student’s roomfire continued page 3
“It looked bad and smelled bad because of the smoke.”
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