TECHNICIAN
tuesday september
14 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Applications for appropriations are due Sept. 23 Student Government is looking to spend more than $65,000 on new student organizations this semester.
from the Student Senate, they can file an appeal. Then the request is re-examined by the committee and resent to the Senate, according to Tucker. Rishav Dey, a freshman in aerospace engineering, was approved by the committee and could receive up Shivalik Daga to $300 for his quiz bowl club. Staff Writer “I contacted Kelly Hook, the student Student organizations have until the body president and within two days end of the month to apply for money I had her reply as well as two other from Student Government to aid in people telling me how to go about it and providing me the necessary docutheir organization. Student Senate appropriations com- ments,” Dey said. This money is distributed by checks. mittee set up by the Student Government is in charge of distributing the Apart from being registered at SORC money. Eligible organizations could and completing their events, the orreceive up to $2,000 this fall. This ganizations will be evaluated by the amount is for the fall semester only, committee at the end of the semester, but student organizations are eligible according to Tucker. “Planning events is the organizato receive fresh funding in the spring. All organizations need to be regis- tions responsibility. In order to use a facility on tered with the Stucampus, the dent Organization organization Resource Center wou ld have to be eligible to to contact the receive funding, University, and must complete and is someall their events t hing t hat using the fundevery student ing before spring Jonathan Tucker, chair of the can do. If break. Committee appropriations committee their event is members will also being hosted interview, which in a public will be conducted common area, such as Harris Field the last week of Sept. Jonathan Tucker, the chair of ap- or the Brickyard, certain permits propriations committee and Student must be granted by the SORC office,” Senate president pro tempore said he Tucker said. According to Dey, Student Governis upbeat about the process and expects a lot of new organizations to ment is helpful to organizations. “Student Government is very supcome up this fall. “We want and support new organi- portive. We have to submit yearly zations to come up. There is no limit reports, and we are responsible, but to the number of organizations we can accountable to them,” Dey said. According to Tucker, the organizahave on campus,” Tucker said. Interested organizations need to file tions will receive their first check two a request on the Student Government weeks after approval by the senate. If website by 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 23. some funds remain unused by the The committee of appropriations organization at the end of the semesincludes between 10 and 12 people ter, the organization must turn in a who will go over the requests for two receipt for that amount, and will be weeks. The selected requests will then re-issued the money next semester. be sent to the Senate which passes the bill for the funding. “Every request is looked at by the appropriations committee individually. When filing a specific Start-Up request, the maximum amount that can be requested is $300. Almost all groups who request Start Up funds, request the $300,” Tucker said. Start-Up funding is for any group that has not received appropriations money in the past, according to Stephen Kouba, Student Senate president. If any organization is dissatisfied with the funding allotted to them
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Tuffy the Tamaskan walks the sidelines at N.C. State’s opener against Western Carolina Saturday, Sept. 4. The breed name comes from the word tamaska, a North American Indian word meaning “Mighty Wolf.” Tuffy was at the season opener on a trial from RightPuppy Kennel. The trial with RightPuppy has been terminated. The Athletics Departments is hoping to have a new live mascot by the game Thursday night.
Athletics department looking for new live mascot University discontinues partnership with RightPuppy Kennel after one-game trial. Tyler Everett Sports Editor
After a one-game trial with a wolflike breed of dog as a live mascot, the athletics department has ended its partnership with a dog owned by RightPuppy Kennel in Salisbury. The University neither confirmed nor denied that allegations the National Tamaskan Club of America made against RightPuppy played a role in the decision to discontinue the partnership. But both Kevin Settineri, president of RightPuppy, and NTCA president John Bannow acknowledged the NTCA has accused RightPuppy of being a large-scale commercial dogbreeding facility, or puppy mill. Saturday at 11:08 a.m., Bannow, said he e-mailed Athletics Director Debbie Yow on behalf of his orga-
nization, the U.S affiliate of the UKbased Tamaskan Dog Register, citing concerns about the kennel’s breeding practices. He said when she responded 30 minutes later, Yow and her department had already decided to end the trial with RightPuppy. “I sent her a letter stating the particulars behind RightPuppy Kennel and how we felt RightPuppy was not a good representative of the Tamaskan dog breed due to [RightPuppy president Kevin] Settineri’s breeding practices,” Bannow said. “She said the school’s association with RightPuppy Kennel and the using of that dog as a mascot was on a trial basis and that they would no longer be doing that, that they would research other options. They mentioned nothing of my letter being a factor at all.” Chris Kingston, senior associate director of athletics, contacted Settineri at approximately 10:30 p.m. Friday night about visiting the kennel the following day. Kingston said he made the two-hour drive Saturday at around
“There is no limit to the number of organizations we can have on campus.”
noon, arriving between 2 and 2:30 p.m. to visit Settineri to inform him of the school’s decision. “We entered into an agreement and we did so responsibly because it was an agreement to use a Tamaskan for the trial,” Kingston said. “It gave us the option to use the live mascot that everyone saw at the Sept. 4 game for the remaining football games. Right up front, in the agreement, we had the ability to discontinue after the trial, which is what we did.” During the visit, Kingston offered to buy the dog, according to Settineri. However, Kingston said he was not looking to purchase a dog from RightPuppy, but that he was actually intending to try and determine the cost of such dogs. Settineri said he thinks the decision to discontinue the
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Chancellor holds court on rankings, endowment, strategic plan Interim provost premieres plan aimed at mapping N.C. State’s future.
things go smoothly. “Dr. Stafford and his crew, wearing red T-shirts, were great helping students get into residence halls and squared away,” Arden said. Often, Woodson said, the parents Chris Boucher just stood around wondering what Deputy News Editor they could do while Stafford’s staff In Titmus Theatre Monday after- handled new students’ heavy lifting noon, Chancellor Randy Woodson and logistics. Woodson said the summer hircommented on his first months in ing of Athletic office, and adDirector Debdressed the bie Yow was a University’s retremendous cent rankings in achievement, national media and it’s already polls. Woodson pay i ng d iv ithen gave the lectern to the dends. Interim Provost “Debbie Yow is Chancellor Randy Woodson Warwick Arden, doing a fantastic who rolled out a job; she’s makworking model for N.C. State’s 2010- ing sure student athletes are engaged 11 strategic plan. in athletics, but also concerned with With standing-room only capacity what happens off the field. Debbie in the theater, Woodson started by wants to see all of our athletes excel saying the weather had “been a little as students,” Woodson said. hot these last five months,” but he was The search for a permanent provost pleased with the strides the N.C. State is still moving ahead, and Woodson has made since he took the reins in said that hopefully, “that position April. will be filled in the coming weeks or Fresh off helping another wave of months.” freshman get moved in, Woodson said Woodson also addressed the recent that Vice Chancellor of Student Af- U.S. News and World Report college fairs Tom Stafford and his dedicated rankings, in which N.C. State fell from staff deserve much credit for making 83 to 111.
“I don’t think any of us were excited to see N.C. State drop out of the top 100.”
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Woodson said “I’m not a guy that manages toward rankings,” but he was not completely dismissive of the drop. “I don’t think any of us were excited to see N.C. State drop out of top 100. [The ranking] does not reflect the quality of the institution, faculty or students,” Woodson said. The report showed that as enrollment has increased, so has class size. “The faculty is not big enough for the size of the enrollment; classes are too large,”
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