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AllCampus linked to local eateries Important Information:
Melvin’s, East Village lead campaign to inform students of ability to link AllCampus cards with Wachovia accounts.
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To use this, AllCampus card must be linked to a Wachovia bank account. This is a marketing campaign lead by Melvin’s owner Alan Lovett and East Village Bar & Grill manager Jo Smith Website: ncsupackplastic.com Source: Alan Lovett, Owner of Melvin’s
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Sitting in Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches on Hillsborough Street, Amanada Etheridge, a senior in fashion and textile management, and Will Hughes, a junior in bioprocessing science, enjoy their lunch. Melvin’s Hamburgers, I Heart New York Pizza, and Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches accept AllCampus Cards linked with Wachovia accounts. “I have AllCampus, but I didn’t know it works on Hillsborough,” Hughes said.
their AllCampus cards at various dining halls, Port City Java, Taco Bell Express and other on-campus, University Dining-operated venues. Director of University Dining Randy Lait said that every year, students and merchants come to him and try to get off-campus merchants put on
the AllCampus card. “Every year, I tell them that we cannot,” Lait said. According to Lait, the University is not legally able to transfer student monies from an on-campus account to an off-campus third party. “The attorney general of North
Carolina made a ruling that said it is not appropriate for a university to take deposits and transfer them to a third party on behalf of the student; because that action essentially makes the university a bank,” said Lait. For some merchants on Hillsborough Street, this ruling does not mean that there is still no way for merchants to reach out to students. They also believe that reaching out to students will help their businesses. “The idea that [the merchants] could not be a part of what students were buying was holding Hillsborough Street business back,” said Lovett. This led Lovett, along with some other business owners on the
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Fire marshals oversee a variety of programs that decrease the risk of fires on campus. Allison Saito Staff Writer
The Office of the University Fire Marshal works to prevent fires on campus and to ensure that the University is prepared in the event of a fire. The office consists of one fire marshal, five deputy fire marshals and one safety technician. University Fire Marshal Bill Stevenson described the purpose of his office is multifold. “The biggest job is to ensure a location is safe from the perils of fire [and] that the danger to people and property is minimal,” Stevenson said. Stevenson explained that he tries to hire people who will put students and faculty first. “If we don’t put the students’ welfare and safety first, who would come here?” Stevenson said. Stevenson recognized that student cooperation enabled the fire marshals to ensure safety on campus. “I really want to give our students a lot of credit. At N.C. State, they really realize the seriousness of this,” Stevenson said. Jon Brann, a deputy fire marshal, explained how the fire marshal’s office differs from a fire department. “With the municipal department, you only deal with people at the worst. At the University, it is more of a preventive measure than the suppression and response aspect,” Brann said. Stevenson has a varied background in firefighting. “I’ve been certified in fire and EMS [emergency medical services] for 40 years. I’ve been associated with it since I was 6. I got officially in the business at 15,” Stevenson said. “I came here February of 2004.”
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Michael Sigafoos, a freshman in engineering, Aaron Picart, a freshman in graphic design, and Chris Harris, a freshman in industrial design, wait in line for tickets to the Virginia Tech football game Sept. 29. The group, which included Steven Corley, a freshman in physics, and Will Mars, a freshman in industrial design, camped out to be first in line. “It’s been a long time since State went 4-0, and coming in as a freshman it’s a big deal,” Picart said. “You don’t want to miss out on this opportunity.”
Field day aims for biofuel awareness Event part of plan to make the state a leader in biomass production. Shivalik Daga Staff Writer
The 2010 Bioenergy Field Day, an event featuring presentations by several N.C. State faculty, occurs today at the Oxford Tobacco Research Station and Biofuels Center in Oxford. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Biofuels Center of North Carolina and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services are sponsoring the event. Event registration starts at noon and speeches will begin an hour later. Roger Crickenberger, special projects manager at CALS, will kick off the event by introducing the speakers. This will be followed by six presentations on bioenergy-related issues, including discussions on biodiesel production and studies on cellulosic
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For several business owners on Hillsborough Street, the ability to link AllCampus cards to a Wachovia debit account not only means increased revenue for the businesses, but increased convenience and variety for students. Melvin’s owner Alan Lovett and East Village Grill & Bar manager Jo Smith are leading a marketing effort called Pack Plastic to inform more students that their AllCampus cards can be linked to a Wachovia debit account. According to Lovett, Pack Plastic is a program to increase awareness among students and faculty that the AllCampus card – something that every student and faculty member has – can be used as a debit card. This, according to Lovett and Smith, is the key to increasing student presence and improving the overall atmosphere on the campus’s north border. “I have worked on this street for 14 years, and I think this is probably the biggest thing that will help us be linked to N.C. State,” said Smith. Every day, many students swipe
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“CALS is helping make that a material. Field demonstrations will be carried reality by educating farmers on out in the evening. Demonstrations energy crops, providing indusinclude biomass pelleting and sor- trial partners with the technology to convert the biomass into ghum harvest and squeezing. useful fuels, and Matthew Vea l, developing outassistant profesreach activities sor and extension that engages the specialist in the public so they Department of Biounderstand the logical and Agriculpotentia l a nd tural Engineering, importance of will be speaking on renewable fuels.” the “State of N.C. Veal said that State University” as a land-grant Bioenergy Research university, one Program. of N.C. State’s Veal said that the event will be useful Matthew Veal, assistant professor prima r y misDepartment of Biological and sions is transferfor students, inAgricultural Engineering ring technology dustry and farmers and educating alike. “I would say that the highest-pri- agricultural stakeholders about ority plan is to make sure that North markets, sustainable crop producCarolina is well-positioned to become the leading biomass producer in the Southeast,” Veal said. biofuel continued page 3
“We are starting to see many early adopters produce their own energy by making biodiesel....”
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Online survey regarding fee services coming up Student Government to conduct fee services satisfaction student survey. Sagar Sane Staff Writer
Student Government will conduct an online survey on Friday and Saturday to help gather student reactions regarding University fees. “This survey, known as the Fee Services Satisfaction Survey, will help us to measure the student level of satisfaction against the current fee increase,” said Stephen Kouba, Student Senate president. “We mainly aim to judge the level of satisfaction among the students.” Until last year, if a department requested a fee increase, the survey was done on a fixed basis. “We used to ask the students if they wanted the full fee increase, half fee increase or no increase at all,” said Kouba. “For example, if the Student Health Center requested to increase the fees by $10, then our questions to the students were: Do you want $10 increase, $5 increase or no increase at all? “But now, we are planning to take all the student recommendations and use those to offer a comprehensive plan to the University fee committee,” Kouba said. Patrick Devore, chair of the Student Senate Tuition and Fees Committee, said this survey mainly aims at tuition, as well as the fee increases pertaining to: athletics, transportation, student centers operations, student health services, student legal services and campus recreation services. “There will be approximately three questions per department, which will generally ask for students opinions on the fee increase. They will be yes-no type questions and no long answers,” Devore said. “The survey will be held from Friday at 12:01 a.m. until Saturday at 11:59 p.m. this week,” Kouba said. The survey is available for all students at http://vote.ncsu.edu. Kouba said that after the survey closes, recommendations will be made to the University Fee Committee based on the student survey responses. Kouba urged all the students to vote during the survey period. “Please do vote. Students will be able to express their concerns through this survey. The more students vote, the more data we can gather, and a better recommendation can be formulated from this,” he said. Kanak Lagu, first year master’s student in computer science, said that the voting system will really help, especially for international students. “I personally think having such a voting campaign is a great opportunity for international students like me,” said Lagu. “We have to pay quite a lot for tuition and other fees, so we get a good opportunity to express our opinions through such voting and have the guarantee that our concerns will be heard.”
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