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monday september
27 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Shack-a-thon collects money for good cause Groups on campus spent night and day in shacks in the Brickyard to collect money for Habitat for Humanity.
logical sciences and the hundreds of other students who man the shacks day and night for a week. In the past 17 years, N.C. State’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity has hosted Shack-a-thon, the organization’s largest fundraiser. Thirty-three Mark Herring different clubs and organizations parStaff Writer ticipated in the week-long event to soHanging out at the Campus Crusade licit donations from people passing for Christ shack Thursday afternoon, through the Brickyard. “There are 17 shacks and between Ken Farnaso was only expecting to pass the time with some friends or one to four organizations per shack,” Will McGugan, president of N.C. perhaps solicit some donations. As Farnaso and his friends played State’s Habitat chapter, said. “This year, we expect w it h a g u ithat the fundraistar, an older ing will be a little man in a suit down, just because came by, lookof the economy ing a little out and some organiof place in the zations have other expanse of the events happening hobo-inspired du r i ng Sh ac kgrid of shacks. a -t h on . We ’r e He asked the shooting for about guys if he could $15,000 this time play guitar with around.” them, but only In the face of after introduc- Nate Zellmer, senior in industrial design adverse economic ing himself conditions and the as Chancellor logistical ordeal of planning around Randy Woodson. “I mean, what other person, who the “Brickyard Bubble,” Shack-a-thon holds the highest seat of office in our received a large backing by the student University, would go out and try to body. mingle with our student body?” FarThis annual event is one of the largnaso asked. est fundraising events held on camBetween the intermittent excite- pus and all the proceeds go to Habitat ment at Shack-a-thon, it was mostly for Humanity projects across Wake chill time for the sophomore in bio- County.
“We started with the shack painted Carolina blue and we gave people the chance to paint red over it.”
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After a long night at the NCSU Housing shack, Carolyn Baxter, a sophomore in electrical engineering, sleeps into the early morning, Sept. 24, 2010. Many people slept outside in the Brickyard during Shack-a-thon week, due to a lack of space inside the shacks.
“10 percent of the money goes overseas,” McGugan said. “Last year we donated a lot to Haiti. The rest of the donations go to our services locally.” Monday through Friday, volunteers camped out day and night, making sure to squeeze in as many donations
as possible. Devising clever tactics to solicit passersby, each shack attempted to make most of the students’ generosity and good will. “The Caldwell Fellows shack has been using a number of different strategies,” Nate Zellmer, a senior in
industrial design, said. “We started with the shack painted Carolina blue and we gave people the chance to paint red over it — a dollar a dip of paint.”
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Hillsborough Street Festival marks Fire Safety Month nears end reopening of historic thoroughfare With Hillsborough Street construction completed, the Live It Up festival commemorated the street’s reopening.
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Working out of a small room in the Public Safety Center, six people are so passionate about their jobs that they view students as family. These people are the deputy fire marshals and the fire marshal of the University. The Office of the University Fire Marshal is charged with making the University as safe as possible for students, faculty and staff. “Everything about this job is personal to me,” Stevenson said. “I view all the students as my sons and daughters.” To keep the University safe, the Environmental Health and Safety Center has a wide variety of tasks, according to Fire Marshal Bill Stevenson. “Originally, we started out as a fire protection service 25 years or more ago,” Stevenson said. “It started as a group of people doing inspections around campus.” The fire and life safety view of the job of the University fire marshal and deputy fire marshals has evolved over
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One of the main arteries of campus, Hillsborough Street spent many years as a tarnished mark on the campus aesthetic. But not anymore. With the construction complete, a group of non-profit organizations cooperated with the city and the University to celebrate the “reopening” of the street. On Saturday, local businesses, bands, and student organizations participated in the Live It Up on Hillsborough Street Festival to showcase the potential of the renovated street and the surrounding community. Beginning at noon, the event spread from the Wachovia bank all the way to the Chancellor’s house. On each end of the street were large stages for local bands to perform and in the middle of the festival, by Caldwell Hall was a big screen LED television for the masses to watch the victorious football game. Along the street, local vendors offered samples of their goods and student organizations manned booths to extend membership and community service. Notable additions to the festival were multiple hot dog and chicken wing-eating contests, a barbeque buffet provided by several fraternities and sororities and an Iron Chef competition with tasting and judging. The festival was the brainchild of the Legacy Event Planners, a nonprofit organization begun by N.C. State students and alumni. According to Christy Brackett, a sophomore in communications, the idea of Live It Up first came from the Hillsborough Renaissance event they organized last year. “The event didn’t flop, but it was in beginning of March and it rained,” Brackett, the organization’s program director of event planning, said. “We wanted to learn from our mistakes and make an event that was bigger
The Environmental Health and Safety Center protects the students, faculty and staff at the University.
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Tuesday: A more indepth look at the Office of the University Fire Marshal and Building Marshal Program Wednesday: Public education opportunities from the Office of the University Fire Marshal Thursday: How to react in an emergency evacuation drill Friday: Previous campus fires
time. Their job went from just room inspections to including tasks such as public education and reviewing plans for buildings on campus. “What we do is no different from the Raleigh Fire Department,” Stevenson said. “If you put everything that the Raleigh Fire Department does on a shelf, the only thing you take down that we don’t do is fire suppression.” But, the Environmental Health and Safety Center does put out small fires,
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Julia Belcher, a freshman in nutrition science, and Dylan Cawthorne, a freshman in engineering, play Just Dance for Wii in the middle of Hillsborough Street. “I felt pretty ridiculous,” Cawthorne said. “But, it’s OK. It was a lot of fun.”
and better with a lot more people involved.” The Legacy Event Planners did not have to look too far for extra support to organize the event. Jeff Murison, executive director of the Hillsborough Street Community Service Corporation, quickly partnered with the Legacy Event Planners to develop the festival. “I started the job in mid-May and shortly thereafter, I started pulling together the participants and partners to create the vision for the event,” Murison said. Another large contributor to the planning of the festival was the Hills-
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borough Street Partnership. The main intention of the event was to celebrate the richness of the community and to commemorate the bond between the University and the city. Chancellor Woodson, Mayor Meeker and the conglomerate of event planners gathered at the Bell Tower at 3 p.m. to cut the ribbon for the “reopening” of the street. George Chapman, the chair of the Hillsborough Street Partnership, was awarded the Hillsborough Street Hero Award for his
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