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What you may have missed...

Story By Ty Johnson | photos By Staff

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ince classes ended in May, the University’s iconic building has been struck by lightning, the chancellor and provost have resigned, a student made construction barrels come alive and an ongoing investigation into the former first lady has brought nation-wide scrutiny to N.C. State’s campus.

Let Technician recap a summer that has been dominated by controversy, resignations, alleged terrorism as you return to campus.

Bell tower struck by Lightning: May 5

During a thunderstorm, lightning struck the University’s Memorial Bell Tower, knocking off a corner of the structure. Renovations restored the missing pieces of the World War I memorial.

OBama Returns To raleigh: July 29

President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting at Broughton High School as part of his health care reform series of speeches.

Check out a slideshow at technicianonline.com!

HIllsborough Construction causes issues:

Student Creates monster:

Students Accused of Terrorism:

All summer long

With renovations on Hillsborough Street beginning in May, the entire summer was dominated by traffic headaches for patrons and empty stores for business owners.

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A history student creates art from Hillsborough Street construction.

July 27

Two students charged with conspiracy to murder abroad in Homeland Security investigation of a Triangle terrorist ring.

For stories, see pages 13 & 14.

Read Technician later this week for more!

For story, see page 11.

Monster creator Charged:

June 10 Police arrest Joseph Carnevale and charge him with destruction of property and larceny. Triangle community calls for charges to be dropped.

Easley Says she’ll contest firing:

May 21

After controversy surrounding her hiring led to the resignations of Board of Trustee Chair McQueen Campbell, Provost Larry Nielsen, and Chancellor James Oblinger, Mary Easley will contest Interim Chancellor James Woodward’s decision to terminate her contract.

For story, see page 11.

Check out Technician later this week for a recap!

Budget forum sheds light on reductions: July 9

Administrators, including Interim Provost Warwick Arden (pictured) and Interim Chancellor James Woodward, address students faculty and staff’s questions about budget reductions.

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Best-selling author addresses freshmen Greg Mortenson challenges students to use college to change world. See page 6.

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Hillsborough renovations impact pedestrians, owners See page 13.

Defense carries on See page 18.

SPECIAL BACK TO SCHOOL HOURS: Wednesday - August 19 - 8am to 8pm Thursday - August 20 - 8am to 8pm Friday - August 21 - 8am to 6pm Saturday - August 22 - 10am to 5pm Sunday - August 23 - 1pm to 5pm

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Weather Wise Today:

Thursday Back to School Jam Harris Field, 4 to 7 p.m.

Come and Get your Rec on!

Lower Miller Fields, 5 to 8 p.m.

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University Budget Advisory Committee Holladay Hall, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Partly cloudy throughout the day with a chance of overnight isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.

Student Government Open House Witherspoon Student Center, 8 to 10 p.m.

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91 75 Isolated thunderstorms during the day turn into partly cloudy skies in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.

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87 73 Isolated thunderstorms throughout the day give way to showers in the evening. source: www.weather.com

Friday Friday Fest Lee Field, 5 to 10:30 p.m.

Twenty scoops, please photo By Tim O’Brien

Star Trek Witherspoon Student Center, 11:59 p.m.

inishing his team’s Vermonster, Eric Lumpkin, a tenor saxophonist, chugs the last of the melted ice cream at Ben and Jerrys Monday. “Figured the easiest way to finish it was to chug it,” Lumpkin, a sophomore in computer science, said. “It was actually quite enjoyable.” The $36.64 tub of 20 scoops of ice cream, gummy bears, and sprinkles was one of four polished off by the marching band’s saxophone section after convocation. Lumpkin and his team of seven finished with a time of 10 minutes and 35 seconds.

Saturday Service N.C. State Carmichael Gym, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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In the know

Friday Fest headlines country artists Josh Gracing and Chuck Wicks, along with Marcel and Johnny Orr & South Station, will bring country music to Friday Fest on Friday, August 21.

As part of Wolfpack Welcome Week, the Union Activities Board is joining with multiple on and off campus organizations to create an event filled with free food, and great

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entertainment.

Josh Gracin, who stepped into the music scene on the second season of American Idol, is known for his energetic and lively performances. Chuck Wicks started in music and was most recently featured on Dancing with the Stars alongside his real-life girlfriend and dance partner Julianne Hough.

Both Gracin and Wicks are known for their energetic concerts and music.

Students must present their student IDs to pick up their free tickets from Ticket Central in

Tally Student Center. The general public can purchase tickets for $25.

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Confucious Institute celebrates diversity The Confucius Institute, whose goal on campus is to enhance intercultural understanding on campus, will present “Talking Tiger to Hip Hop” on Saturday, August 22, as an International Welcome event.

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The program will showcase China’s ancient shadow puppetry art mixed with modern Hip-Hop signing and dancing.

Students are encouraged to bring friends to this free event, which will begin in Stewart Theater at 7:30 p.m.

The Confucius Institute will continue to sponsor meetings and events throughout the year to increase awareness of Chinese language and cultural issues and how they relate to the current business world.

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News

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Commercial to cause re-route of Textiles students Shooting of new advertisement will impede Centennial Campus students’ walk to first day of class Ty Johnson Editor-in-Chief

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Dean of the College of Design, Marva Malecha, speaks to students about the how the college is dealing with the budget cuts asked of them over the summer. The University asked Malecha and his staff to cut $4,000 from their already tightened budget. “We are under enrolled instead over,” Malecha said.

College of Design adapts to budget cuts, merges majors Industrial and Graphic design become one Amber Kenney

The only academic change made under the new system is the inclusion of ‘cross-over Industrial and graphic design classes.’ Malecha explained programs will link under com- that many design classes within different departments were mon department In a meeting held Tuesday, focusing on the same core valAugust 18, Marvin Malecha, ues, so the idea to merge those the dean of the College of De- classes would cut costs.

Students expressed consign, explained to students the merging of the graphic and cerns regarding the availabilindustrial design departments ity of physical resources with increased class sizes, none of into one. which were A f te r a lentertained luding to turby the Dean. moil within “Our probthe Univerlem is found sity, Malecha with underverified that enrollment, budget cuts n o t o v e r,” were the reahe said. “If son for the we run into marriage of problems, we the two dewill find a sopartments. lution to enThe College sure you have of Design had Drew Brisley, a sophomore in the resources to plan for up industrial design you need.” to an $ 870 The College thousand loss in funding, which was a chal- of Design cut back on spending lenge for the administrators, by reconfiguring administrative positions instead of cutting Malecha said.

“We handled it like design- into student resources, Maleers would,” he said. “We asked cha said.

Malecha explains to students the basic questions over again, ‘what can we improve?’ We had that decisions made regarding reconfigurations make a difto design a new system.”

“I know they have the best ference now, and in the future.

“We want to make this exinterests of the students in mind, so I’m not worried, but perience now, excellent. That’s I definitely am anxious,” Drew why we made the cuts we did,” Brisley, a sophomore in indus- he said. “You are here at a great time, but we also are looking trial design, said.

Addressing student concern, three to five years ahead.”

When students questioned Malecha was quick to tell students there will be no changes why they were left out of the to the degrees they receive. decision process concerning “Degree titles hold, we are not budget cuts, Malecha said there changing that,” he said. “We was still time.

“The plan we have now allows are simply bringing them under for manipulation and change, one umbrella.”

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“We asked the basic questions over again, ‘what can we improve?’

We had to design a new system.”

Core Values of the College of Design included in cross-over classes • • • • • • • • •

Community engagement History, theory, criticism Professional Culture Environmental wellbeing Critical thinking Diversity and culture Research Information media Aesthetics and material culture Source: Marvin Malecha, College of Design Dean

so students can still have an impact,” he said. Malecha said he would be open to host multiple Dinner with the Dean events, instead of one annual event, to increase student involvement.

The dinner is a meal where students can speak with the Dean about any issues and concerns they might have within the college.

Malecha insists the college is excited about the year to come. “We have a wonderful faculty, and great students. So we have had come challenges, so what?” he said. “I’m actually excited about the prospects.”

Engin Kapkin, a master’s student in industrial design, expressed his curiosity regarding the merge. “Classes won’t change, so I’m not worried. I just hope to see how things will go,” he said.

The bridge near the College of Textiles will be closed to pedestrian traffic at 8:30 a.m. today as Creative Services and the University’s communications department approved the use of the bridge to produce a commercial.

Creative Services Interim Director Stephanie Hlavin said the commercial is a part of the University’s branding campaign and will debut during the ESPN broadcast of the football team’s September 3 contest against South Carolina.

Hlavin said the branding project, which introduced the Red Means Go campaign last year, was founded to help increase the University’s exposure.

“What we determined was that we didn’t really have a brand,” Hlavin said. “People didn’t know what was going on with N.C. State.”

The decision to film the commercial during the first day of classes was one that couldn’t be avoided, Hlavin said.

“It was timing,” Hlavin said.

“There are numerous elements that have to be coordinated. It’s not ideal, it’s how the schedule worked out.”

Hlavin said she had also received calls about how closing off the bridge would affect students and professors on their way to class, but said using the bridge was a joint decision of

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citizens, not just individuals who can achieve a successful professional life. We must offer them a broad educational experience. It is critical that they are exposed and educated in the humanities, the performing arts and the visual arts being a critical part of that.”

Black Sharrits, a physics and math double major, supports Woodward’s ideas of a wellrounded educational experience.

“Theatre for me is a hobby,”

the director of the commercial, Creative Services, the University’s communication department and an agency her team is working with.

“It was a collective decision with us and the director that it’s a visually striking location on campus,” Hlavin said. “It worked well with what we were trying to get out with the script.

It wasn’t an arbitrary choosing of the bridge.”

She said her department understands the commercial will inconvenience students, but said there weren’t any other viable options that would allow the commercial to be filmed on deadline and under budget.

“We’re sensitive to the fact that it’s the first day of classes,” Hlavin said. “It would have been great if it was the day before [classes began]–we even looked at the weekend. We tried to do our best to avoid it being this day, the first day of classes. There are a lot of factors–it’s hard to understand if you don’t understand the process. It takes a long time to get things done.”

Hlavin said no students were involved in the decision-making process, though she said Student Body President Jim Ceresnak attended a branding meeting at one point during the summer. She said she hopes students will see the inconvenience as minor in the face of creating a good spot for the University on national television.

As far as the September 3 deadline is concerned, Hlavin said these types of projects can’t be planned too far in advance, and also said it couldn’t be done during the summer because not enough students were on campus to film. The

production involves casting students to appear in the commercial.

“You can’t plan these things so far out,” Hlavin said.

The 2009 football schedule was released by the ACC February 12.

Jessica Kvantas, a sophomore in fashion and textile management, said she wasn’t informed about the bridge closing and would need to wake up earlier to make it to her classes on time.

“I’m already commuting which means I’ll have to leave even earlier now because it’s going to take even longer to get to my class now.” Kvantas said.

“I’m guessing I’m just going to have to walk a block over or something and walk around, I don’t really know.”

Kvantas said she would have been even more upset had she arrived without knowing of the change, since she likely would have been late for her first day of class, but said she was “annoyed” because no one from the University notified her of the closing. Though it will only affect a minority of the student population, she said it would have been better for students to have been a part of the decision making process or at least notified of the closing.

“It only really affects the students in Textiles, which isn’t that many compared to the rest of the school, but no one’s really going to know about it,” she said. “Students weren’t even involved in it. It would be nice to have more input on that.”

Sharrits said. “It’s just a different way of thinking. I tend to get so caught up in being a physics major and having to think mathematically. Being able to exercise my creative side augments creative, outside-thebox thinking really well.”

Sharrits, who is also an actor with University Theatre, is excited to have a stage to practice on.

“Rehearsing on a stage that you are going to be performing on is one of the best things for the rehearsal process,” Sharrits said. “Before, we were rehearsing in a small classroom that we had to tape out where the stage

was and opening night was always weird, but now we’re acting on the stage and so you can envision it a lot better–what it’s going to be like and how it’s going to feel.”

Stafford said he wanted to encourage students to visit Thompson and its theatre and craft areas.

“If you have not been inside you [should] see all those things today and understand why I am so excited about the way this building looks,” Stafford said.

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Overcoming our failures the facts:

A barrage of bad publicity and rotten experiences — notably the Mary Easley scandal and the budget crisis — engulfed the University over the summer. Several of its top administrators left in the midst of an excruciating budget crisis. NCSU’s reputation is heavily tarnished and could use some polishing.

Our Opinion:

Last year was not the University’s best, but we have an opportunity to overcome those failures and move forward.

The summer is over and thus, for better or for worse, we usher in another year at N.C. State. Hopefully it will provide a fresh start and bring an end to our year of misery.

This past year, the University community experienced some of its darker moments. The scandal and negative publicity surrounding the hiring and subsequent firing of Mary Easley left a dark cloud hovering over the University.

The black eyes from the media, on a local and national level, concerning the Free Expression Tunnel had just begun to heal when the Easley sinking ship once again left the University in peril.

The Easley scandal consumed the University and turned it into a tragically humorous series of firings and federal subpoenas.

In its wake, the scandal

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swept away Chancellor James Oblinger, Provost Larry Nielsen and Chairman of the Board of Trustees McQueen Campbell, leaving the University in crisis during a painful budget cut.

The 8-percent budget cut will directly affect every student this year. Unlike past cuts, $42.5 million cannot be easily removed from the budget without a direct academic impact. Faculty members, especially adjunct faculty, have been released and the University’s total number of class sections and seats have fallen dramatically.

Students are returning to larger classes and smaller support staffs for their academic endeavors. In no uncertain

terms, NCSU is a different university.

Effectively, the degrees we’re trying to earn have already been dragged through the mud to a point beyond recognition.

The only good press the University received recently, the infamous Barrel Monster, was deemed defamation. The irony is typical of the University’s recent experiences and speaks to the nature of its rut.

Despite the negative publicity, there is an opportunity here for students and administrators to come together and set the University’s path straight ­— let’s put us back on the autobahn of innovation.

The hope for the University doesn’t have to lie on the backs

of Russell Wilson and the football team — we have so much to offer.

The administration and Chancellor Jim Woodward must look forward, but also remember to steward this year’s students. We have a chance to do better, and we must.

Convocation speaker Greg Mortenson, author of “Three Cups of Tea” and founder of Pennies for Peace, provided words of advice for the University’s incoming freshmen.

In light of recent events, some of them are quite poignant for the audiences at NCSU, “embrace failure and use failure to achieve success.”

Strive to overcome the failures and achieve success this year.

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s you picked up today’s print edition, I’m sure some of you noticed it fit into your hands a little easier than it has before.

I would love to say we at Technician did it so your paper is easier to hide in your textbooks during class, but that would be a lie.

The truth is t he newspaper business is changing, and to cut down Ty Johnson on pro ducEditor-in- Chief tion costs, our printer has reduced our page width.

We’ll likely never get back the half-inch our paper lost, but, if this summer is any indication, even as our margins shrink, journalism has never been more important.

In mid-May when The News & Observer first reported there was fishy business going on between former Gov. Mike Easley, his wife and Board of Trustees chairman McQueen Campbell, it was because a watchdog journalist fought his way through the fabrications and red tape to find the truth.

The controversy’s connection to the University notwithstanding, the press’ pursuit of truth helped expose the injustices that had been hidden since Easley’s term expired – and that’s exactly what we at Technician want to do. Sort of.

Technician is here for you, the reader. This shrinking page is your forum, your sounding board, your megaphone.

So when the lines at CarterFinley are too long or you get hit in the head playing disc golf because some punks didn’t yell fore, or your degree curriculum is changing and you don’t know why – tell us about it, we’ll look into it.

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Sometimes you’re just complaining (you should have ducked from the Frisbee), but if it holds water, you can bet we’ll rush to find out why things aren’t the way they should be.

Beyond trying to diversify our content, we want to alter the ways you can access it this semester.

We’ll be experimenting with social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to give you more opportunities to let us know what you want from your student newspaper.

We’ll continue working to get you the news as quickly and as accurately as possible through our online edition, because when you pull out your laptop during a lecture we want to be the site you visit to find out what’s up on campus.

But we can’t do it without you.

So e-mail us, call us and visit us. We’d love to know what you think – from when we use the wrong your/you’re to when we actually do something right (it could happen.)

And beyond that, we can definitely use your help up in the office, too.

Come on up to the third floor of Witherspoon and see how it works. Maybe you’re interested in journalism, maybe you just want to watch us struggle, but if nothing else you’ll get to watch how a bunch of crazy college kids push our procrastination and poise to the limit while juggling classes, debt and (sometimes) a social life.

So even though these pages are shrinking, don’t fret, we definitely have room for another staff member.

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“I came to RecFest so we can see new people and old friends, and for the free stuff. It’s a fun thing to do.”

Freshmen make the first week of school so much better.

Roseanne Thomas junior, history

Phil Hursey, senior in biochemistry

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s undergraduates, our minds are our tools. We need to learn to use them in order to do our work.

To start with, psychologists Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris, in their book “Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me,” think cognitive dissonance is to blame for the failJake Goldbas ure to perform work.

Staff columnist Cognitive dissonance is the resolving nature of brains. When we are conflicted between two thoughts, our minds resolve much stronger toward the idea we choose.

For example, say I have two conflicting thoughts, “I have to do my homework,” and, “I want to play computer games.” If I end up playing computer games, cognitive dissonance theory states that I am going to justify the playing action more because I had to fight for it.

It is easy to trick myself into thinking I am doing more work than I actually am. Worse, self-delusion is easier than persuading anyone else. This is because what I report to myself is a large part of anything that I can know about myself.

Therefore, the clear answer is to work to justify actions before I do them, instead of the other way around.

In light of this, Professor of Rhetoric Jason Ingram explained why Francis Bacon in the 17th century said that rhetoric is the application of imagination to the will. When I am at the dining hall and I want a doughnut but I know it will make me fat, I use my imagination of the negative consequences not to eat the doughnut.

We shou ld use our imaginations to influence our decisions.

Bacon’s rhetoric is similar to a contemporary article by Stephen Wray from Newsweek last year. According to studies, if I think about concrete aspects of a task, I am closer to physically doing that task (read: less likely to procrastinate). In one of the studies, people assigned to tasks such as opening a bank account were asked to consider the kind of carpeting and what it would be like to go up to the bank teller. Whereas the other group was asked to consider more abstract thoughts like what banking is, the first group was more likely to do its task.

Use cognitive dissonance theory to be more aware about

what you are doing and what you want to do. If I want to have better grades, great, but cognitive dissonance theory can at least help me own up to that. This theory helps in understanding why people end up justifying seemingly worse behaviors.

Rhetoric, as self-persuasion by using imagination, can help the formation of better choices in the first place.

Finally, imagining material aspects of tasks, such as being in the library or studying the books, brings a person physically closer to doing that task.

When you do your work, life gets better now and also in the long term.

“We should use our imaginations to influence our decisions.”

“I wanted to get in shape.”

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“Because I come from Paris and I’m here for four days, and I wanted to do everything.”

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“Mainly because so many of my friends decided to come. It’s also boring otherwise.”

Send Jake your thoughts on cognitive dissonance to letters@technicianonline. com.

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Best-selling author addresses freshmen Greg Mortenson challenges Students to use college to change world Chris Frederick Staff Writer

A record 3,500 attendees filled the seats in the RBC center to participate in the sixth annual Welcome Week Convocation.

The event, targeted towards incoming freshmen, gave students to the opportunity to gather free gifts and information that incoming freshman can use to help in their transition to college.

“It’s good to come out here and play some games and meet people,” Thomas Belandger, a freshman in computer engineering, said. “It was also pretty cool to get all the free stuff.”

The festivities began at 7:00 p.m. with a pep rally and games for students on the floor of the RBC center.

Keynote speaker and best-selling author Greg Mortenson addressed the crowd, discussing the impact of promoting peace to remote areas of the world through education. Mortenson, who used his best selling book “Three Cups of Tea” as a guide to his speech, discussed his journey and efforts to bring education to the Middle Eastern regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“The speaker conveyed his point on education really well,” Greg Geesaman, a freshman in engineering, said. “The way he helped so many people through the things he did was pretty amazing.”

Mortenson challenged the incoming freshmen to use college, not only to achieve monetary success, but as an opportunity to change the world as a whole.

Motrenson commended the University on its public service

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Kimberly Zapko, freshman in textiles and Hannah Wrenn, freshman in textiles, go down low as part of a team building dance for Playfair before Convocation in the RBC Center Tuesday.

efforts with Stop Hunger Now, incoming freshmen to learn the and organization where students importance of turning failure come out and bag food to be sent into success. “Embrace failures don’t fear it,” a rou nd t he Mortenson globe to fight said. world hunger.

The speaker “The speakused a variety er was great of pic t u re s in motivating from his book not only the students but Thomas Belandger, a freshman in a nd quot e s computer engineering f rom iconic parents as well figures in hison the importory. tance of public “The speech was really good,” service,” Dave Marsico, a parent Angelica Davis, a freshman at the event, said.

Mortenson encouraged the in math education, said. “The

“It was pretty cool to get all the free stuff.”

quotes and pictures from the book helped make the speech informative.”

In his closing remarks Mortenson dared the incoming freshmen to make a difference in their post-college world, stating that the only hope for peace in the future is literacy and education.

“I really agreed with him when he said education is the best thing the U.S. can offer to the world right now,” Meredith Brown, a freshman in biology, said.

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New start of move-in draws Students say they enjoy smaller crowds during extended move-in Tyler Everett Deputy Sports Editor

Last year, only 980 students moved in on Friday and 2,857 moved in on Saturday–and students like Isaac Kichak said they struggled to fight crowds while settling in to the residence halls.

“It was pretty difficult because everyone was pulling up to the entrance where you unload [at the same time,]” Kichak, a sophomore in chemical engineering ,said. “And everyone was trying to get up and down the stairs at the same time, so it was just overcrowded. The roads where most of the dorms are were also really busy the whole time.”

With about 8,000 students moving into the residence halls and on-campus apartments, University Housing officials made the decision to allow move-in begin on Friday this year. Susan Grant, director of University Housing, said the department made the change to comply with the countless requests her department received asking for move-in to start Friday instead of Saturday.

“More and more people wanted to have some time and parents were willing to take that time off work,” Grant said. “We had so many requests to move in on Friday, we thought, we don’t need to go through the process of granting a request, we should just move [the first day of regular move-in] back [to Friday].”

Kyle Jones, a freshman in parks, recreation and tourism, said his move into Tucker Friday afternoon was relatively easy.

“There are going to be a lot more people [moving in] today,” Jones said. “So it was nice having everything in early on Friday.”

The decision to start move in a day earlier also seems to have been beneficial to resident advisers, said Tim Gubitz, a resident advisor in Tucker.

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After a container falls off a hand truck, Aaron Luck, freshman in political science, picks up his items from the sidewalk along Cates Avenue as it rains on Friday with his mom, Barbie Hawby. Luck was moving into Turlington Residence Hall but had parked on the other side of Bragaw due to congestion. “I’m a little pissed off we had to walk so far,” Luck said. This year was the first year that students were allowed to move in Friday without having to pay extra.

Gubitz, a senior in electrical engineering, said 12 of his 40 residents moved in Friday.

“Everything was smooth and it gave everyone a chance to get their stuff straight,” Gubitz said.

“It has been a steady stream, so that’s better than having five people standing at your door all try-

ing to get in at once.”

After 1,838 students settled in Friday, there were fewer students left to move in Saturday.

Jackson Yuen, a freshman in First Year College who moved in Saturday morning, said the amount of people moving in came as a pleasant

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surprise.

“I didn’t expect such a small amount of people,” Yuen said.

Gubitz, the only problem was a lack of activity in the dorm

Record number of residents return to on-campus living Students return to on-campus housing to stay connected to the people around them Amber Kenney Deputy News Editor

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Chelsea Schwabe, a sophomore in communication, ties her curtains into a knot to finish up decorating her dorm in Turlington Residence Hall.

Going up the stairs in Owen, John Woodhouse, sophomore in business, guides a futon box with Daniel Bacigalupo, junior in computer engineering.

Wolfpack Movers recruit, assist residents Student organizations assist incoming students move-in to on campus housing Jen Hankin Deputy Sports Editor

Surrounded by a sea of red and white, new and returning students received help from a large collection of Wolfpack Movers, made up from members of several student organizations to assist with campus move-in to university housing on Saturday.

Greek Life was one of the largest organizations represented, sporting a ‘Go Greek’ T-shirt. According to Alpha Delta Pi member Madison Bissette her reasons for getting involved with move-in were to help with recruitment as well as provide a service for the community.

“We just moved someone in and it only took one trip to move her in,” Bissette, sophomore in biology, said. “If we help out a lot, it will help with recruitment — some girls who wouldn’t rush might because of our efforts.”

Jesse Lyons, a representative from Kappa Alpha Order fraternity headquarters also helped move students into their new dorms.

“KA is returning to campus for the first time in six years,” Lyons said.

“We are trying to reach new, incoming freshmen as well as helping represent Greek Life. The stress is really off the parents and the students since we have

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so many people helping out.”

Besides Greek Life, organizations such as Campus Crusade, Club Rugby, Crew Club, Grace Church and Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship helped students and their parents move in.

Crew coach Will White, senior in physiology, said he was eager to help spread the word about crew during move-in.

“It a great way to meet freshman — a lot of kids don’t know that we have a crew team,” White said.

“We have several people helping with boxes and walking around the dorms handing out flyers and talking to kids about crew.”

According to White, several organizations were not given the opportunity to set up information booths during orientation sessions and are using Saturday to recruit.

Reformed University Fellowship students also were a part of Wolfpack Movers. They weren’t around to recruit but rather to benefit incoming students.

“We just wanted to be of service to the campus,” Gerald Kimahi, senior in electrical engineering, said. “I thoroughly enjoy it and it’s a good workout too.”

Throughout Saturday the pace of incoming students remained steady, according to Josh Rauschet, a member of Grace Church.

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Marguerite LaRonde, freshman in chemical engineering, accepts her keys and check-in forms from her Lee Residence Hall Resident Adviser, Erica Sickelbaugh, senior in biology and microbiology, Friday, August 14.

According to Susan Grant, director of University Housing, a record number of students renewed their housing contracts this year, and students cite different reasons for choosing to return to on-campus housing.

Dylan Page, a sophomore in food science, said he has many reasons for living on campus again.

“I enjoy the proximity to all of my classes,” he said. “I can use the Wolfline to get around campus, and everything is convenient.”

Past experience also made the move-in process easier, Page said.

He took advantage of the new housing policy that extended move-in to include Friday to avoid the majority of commotion during move-in weekend.

While returning students have more knowledge about the moving in, Page said his biggest reason for living on campus again was the people.

“Not only is it about the proximity to classes, but it gives me a better chance to meet new people,” he said.

Josh Kerley, a sophomore in civil engineering, agrees that the people are a major factor when deciding to live on campus for an additional year.

“The Quad isn’t just a place to live, it is a great community because it is more defined by the people that are around you.” Kerley said.

Kerley said he found his first year on campus enjoyable, so he is serving as an Honors Village Fellow for this year so he can give back to the area where he lives.

“I enjoyed living in the Quad last year, and being an Honors Village Fellow allows me to help the new freshman connect with other people that have similar interests.” He said.

According to Kerley, Honors Village Fellows use groups known as “family clusters” to help new students get acquainted with the new college setting.

Kerley said he’s eager for the year to begin so he can work with his new colleagues.

“I am looking forward to this upcoming year, because I enjoy working with the other fellows,” Kerley said.

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Renovation reactions mostly positive SUMMER RESIDENCE HALL RENOVATIONS:

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Brent Daino, a sophomore in Chemical Engineering, receives help from Greek life while moving into North Hall Saturday.

North residents return amidst street construction Students say renovations to street will cause headaches, won’t pose serious problems Ty Johnson Editor-in-Chief

Construction crews and cranes were among those greeting residents of North Residence Hall this weekend as renovations to Hillsborough Street continued while students moved into their dorms.

North residents said the construction would impact their ability to get around since the dorm is separated from main ca mpus by Hi l lsboroug h Street, but did not anticipate the construction would be a significant issue.

“It’s just a hassle more than a problem,” Casey Helms, a sophomore in Spanish, said Saturday between shuttling boxes up to her room.

Helms’ only concern was

about noise, since she chose his belongings into North, and North partly because of its iso- said she’s not too concerned lation from the rest of campus, about increased danger because though she said nights would of the construction.

“There’s always danger but I probably be quiet since construction would be done for hope he’s responsible enough that he would get out of the the day.

Brent Daino, a sophomore in way,” she said.

She said while construction chemical engineering, also said he chose North for the quieter could have impacted the trip to the dorm, surroundbecause they ings, though arrived early he said the Saturday, only issue he about 9 a.m., would have there was relw it h conatively light struction on Brent Daino, a sophomore in traffic.

Hillsborchemical engineering, on the “I d id n’t ough would implications construction will e ven k now be waking up have on his walk to class t here was earlier. construction “It’s not a unti l I got straight shot walking to classes,” Daino said. here. Because we came here “With just two lanes now going early enough it wasn’t an isback and forth it’s going to be a sue,” Darlene said. “I’m sure later in the day it will get more lot harder to jaywalk.”

Daino’s mother, Darlene Dai- crowded.”

Darlene Myers, who was no, was on campus as he moved

“It’s going to be a lot harder to jaywalk.”

helping her daughter Shannon Myers, a sophomore in biology, move in Saturday, said she couldn’t really anticipate how the construction would impact Shannon’s ability to cross the street, but said it made it difficult for her to get to the dorm initially, as she found she couldn’t turn left onto Hillsborough near the Bell Tower and had to circle in a parking area.

“It was a little bit confusing coming in today,” Darlene said.

Helms said the construction would also impact her ability to get around, but said she would only be traveling west on Hillsborough Street on certain Saturdays this fall.

“It will be annoying,” she said. “But the only time I’ll be going that way will be going to a football game.”

This summer University Bragaw: Furniture, lighting and plumbing Housing was busy doing renoNorth: Roof and plumbing vations. A coat of paint here, Syme and Welch: Fire escapes furniture there and even some and furniture new plumbing — University Tucker. Owen and Metcalf: Housing spread out over camFurniture pus this summer renovating or replacing aging buildings and SOURCE: UNIVERSITY HOUSING furniture.

With the start of a new semester upon us once again, there are many different stu- upgrades to its plumbing and dent impressions of the chang- roof; and the north side of Bragaw Hall was retrofitted es across campus.

Tan Tran, a resident advisor with new lighting, plumbing in Metcalf Residence Hall and and furniture.

Susan Grant, director of Unijunior in aerospace engineerversity Housing, lived in ing, was very the hall last excited about year and was the improvepleased with ments from the new beds the sumthe dorm reDirector of University Housing mer and the ceived. He Susan Grant on move-in move-in said they are weekend weekend. comfortable ‘This is the a nd “ver y easy to assemble and disas- best time of the year,” she said.

The improvements were a semble.”

Tra n’s sentiments were contributing factor to a noshared by Emma Nelli, a fresh- table rise in housing renewals man in business management, this year. More than 45 percent who said she was very happy of this year’s residents lived in with her new home on the 5th University Housing last year — floor of Bragaw Residence Hall. an increase of almost 3 percent Speaking of the new beds, she over the previous year’s retention. said, “I like them.”

Lindsey Johns, resident diNew beds in Bragaw and Metcalf Halls are now easy to rector of North and Watauga loft, creating extra living space and graduate student in higher in some of campus’s smaller education administration, was happy with the improvements rooms.

Six dorms got upgrades over to North Hall. “It makes it look the summer. Tucker and Owen a lot nicer,” she said.

North Hall had 30 percent Residence Halls received new dressers and desks; Gold and of its students return from last Welch Residence Halls re- year despite the construction ceived upgraded fire escapes; on Hillsborough Street.

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“This is the best time of the year,”

Resident parking issues go relatively unnoticed Kate Shefte Sports Editor

Many parents of collegebound teenagers dread saying good-bye to their children as they move away from home for the first time. On a campus of 33,000 – 8,000 of which live on campus – finding a parking spot close anywhere near their child’s dorm can be a source of trepidation as well.

Thoug h t raf f ic sna rled around Dan Allen Drive for most of the afternoon on Friday as several thousand students took advantage of the newly instated early move-in and streets such as Cates Avenue were blocked off, Saturday morning move-ins went off without a hitch.

Tom Kendig, director of transportation on campus, watched his handiwork from his bicycle on Thurman Drive.

N.C. State Campus Police chief Tom Younce, who stood watch on a Segway next to him, “came out to observe” as well.

“This is very similar to how we’ve operated it over several years now, except the one change was we moved in about 50 percent of the folks yesterday,” Kendig said.

Mike Weber, who moved his son Kyle, a freshman in first year college, into his dorm on central campus, said he was shocked at how efficiently Transportation handled the busy day.

“I thought it would be mobbed, Weber sa id. “I thought there was going to be gridlocked traffic and wall-towall people and cars, but I was amazed that there was nobody really here. There were two

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spots [next to each other] when I parked.”

The Weber men beat the afternoon rush and parked around 9 a.m. Signs indicated that each space was allowed to be occupied for 45 minutes, but Weber said he didn’t need even close to that to move all of Kyle’s things up to his room.

“There were plenty of people here to help and I had a dolly cart, which helped a lot, and we got it all up in one trip,” Weber said. “We spent the last 40 minutes organizing everything.”

Kendig said most of the staff N.C. State Transportation employs to administer parking tickets was otherwise engaged this weekend, blocking off lots set aside for move-in and directing traffic at major intersections.

“It seems to be going very smoothly right now and that’s a very good sign,” Kendig said with a laugh. “Talk to me again at 1 o’clock and we’ll see how it is.”

However, 1 o’clock came and went without incident. Traffic in Harris Lot, which is smaller than most parking lost and contains few spaces despite its proximity to three of the largest dorms on campus, was flowing freely.

Jaclin Goldsmith, a freshman in business management, and her parents came down from New York to move her things into Metcalf. They split the move-in between two days, traveling back and forth from a hotel, and Goldsmith said traffic was far worse on Friday.

“It was more crowded yesterday,” Goldsmith said. “We couldn’t really pull in. There was a line to pull up and they

closed it off for a while. We had to park all the way down in the Dan Allen Deck and walk up.”

Kendig said campus staff and older students with permits that don’t go into effect until Wednesday were displeased with the temporary changes.

“It went as well as can be expected,” Kendig said.

“The problem with Friday was the employees are still on campus and we had to work around them. That’s a little bit of a challenge.”

In order to make room for those moving in, employees and upperclassmen were directed to other lots, such as West Lot behind Lee Hall, the Dan Allen Deck and Fraternity Court, which is across Western Boulevard.

“The staff was allowed to park in their regular spaces [Friday],” Kendig said. “If this push for having more people come in on Friday continues, we may have to re-think that.”

Kendig and his staff will discuss how they may improve the experience next year in a meeting after the weekend finishes. He expects to make changes, especially if move-in continues to be spread over several days.

“We do a big de-briefing after the event with all the staff and we’ll do that with this one and see how it goes,” Kendig said. “We’ll make some adjustments for that I’m sure.”

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April Hardy, property security officer with transportation, sits at the intersection of Cates and Dan Allen Saturday, August 15, 2009. Hardy said, “Today wasn’t that bad, yesterday was the worst.”

Housing’s extra day of move-in serves as traffic decongestant Brent Kitchen Staff Writer

The first official day of move in was Friday not Saturday this year, and students say campus was not as clogged with traffic Saturday.

“Today wasn’t that bad,” April Hardy, a property security officer with Transportation, said. “[Friday] was the worst.”

This was the first year that regular move in began on Friday, and most of the traffic problems occured during the first rush back.

“I guess everybody thought the same way — we want to beat everybody else, beat the traffic,” Hardy said.

The roads were well marked, and Transportation staff was stationed along all the streets around the dorms.

“We just asked people [for directions] so we didn’t have to use the signs,” Caitlin Alberts, a freshman in FYC, said.

However, the help could not prevent all potential problems.

“My dad turned down the wrong street and ended going the wrong way,” freshman in FYC Lisa Dickson said. “But it was his fault because he didn’t want to use the map.”

The congestion was also reduced by fast move in times.

Members of Greek Life, and other student organizations were at the dorms to help unload cars, as well as to recruit new students.

Alberts said the help was great.

I didn’t even have to carry anything,” Alberts said.

“There must have been 15 people helping unload,” Mike Alberts, Caitlin Alberts’s father, said.

Jessie Lyons traveled from Lexington, Virginia to help with move in and recruit for Kappa Alpha Order.

“I’ve got six guys here that all work for Kappa Alpha Order,”

Lyons said. “We don’t have any students because we haven’t recruited anybody yet, but that’s what we’re doing this fall.”

All the help and the reduced number of students moving in on Saturday because of early move in and Friday move in has made everyone’s work easier.

“It’s been slower today, so its really been a breeze getting everybody in,” Lyons said.

“Nobody’s been complaining — everybody’s been in a good mood.”

This relaxed environment is helping freshmen, as well as returning students to have a good start to the school year, according to Lyons.

“Move in has been great,” she said. “[I’ve seen] a lot of excited freshmen, happy parents. It’s been fun.”

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Legacy Luncheon connects past and present ANNUAL EVENT ALLOWS UNDERGRADUATES, ALUMNI TO UNITE THROUGH FOOD, FUN Jake Goldbas Staff Writer

It wasn’t just another luncheon on move-in day. It was a chance for alumni who have children attending the University to take a break from move-in day and celebrate a family tradition of attending State. “[The luncheon is] a nice thing that they do, and it’s a nice break from moving in,” Terri Howell, a 1987 graduate in business management, said.

Howell, her husband Bryan and their son, incoming freshman Hampton, who will major in chemical and biomedical engineering said the luncheon is reassuring to parents and that the deans and administrators who attended showed they cared and respected the transition process.

Lennie Barton, associate vice chancellor for alumni relations, said he sat at the Legacy Luncheon four years ago with his son. He said the Wolfpack family is proud of its 175,000 living alumni and that the school is especially supportive of the former students.

“This is one of the best things our association does,” Barton said.

Adam Compton, last year’s senior class president and Students Today Alumni Tomorrow leader, encouraged students to be active, go to class and find their roles at school.

“Remember why you are here,” he said to the incoming students and their parents at the luncheon where more than 600 were gathered. “And do not hesitate to ask for help.”

Chancellor James Woodward spoke specifically to the parents when he said, “we will not let you down.”

He said students had made the right choice and emphasized that students should go out and meet other freshmen because the people that they meet in the next week could become lifetime friends. Woodward said this is certainly one of the most exciting times and students should not be too shy to go to newcomers who are sitting by themselves. He said they should invite them

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Matt Coco, freshman in biochemistry, embraces his mother, Brooke Coco, a 1978 N.C. State graduate, during the Legacy Luncheon on Saturday at Harris Field. During the ceremony parents placed a “Legacy Pin” on their incoming student’s shirt indicating they are from a legacy family. “We’re leaving him without a car and going on vacation,” she said.

into the Wolfpack family.

Tyler Corbitt, an incoming freshman in engineering whose grandfather graduated in 1976, said it was a fun event and the food was great.

Tyler’s father Chris, who graduated in 1976 with a degree in geology, said is a wonderful tradition

to bring back alumni and he and his son share something special. His other son will attend UNC-Chapel Hill in the fall.

Daniel Pickard of Hillsborough was delighted that his daughter picked the school without his persuasion.

“It has grown. I’m very happy.” Pickhard said he was happy to see that the school has changed with the times for the better.

New leadership Housing pushes sustainability village set to make an Impact Tim O’Brien Staff Writer

VILLAGE WILL BUILD ACADEMIC CONNECTIONS Paul McCauley Senior Staff Columnist

After a year of planning, the new Impact Leadership Village on the third and fourth floors of Bowen Residence Hall will kick off its program Sunday afternoon.

Annie Kehoe, residence director for Central Campus, said students in the new village will have some additions to their move-in programming, which includes taking a leadership practices inventory, a talk from State House Representative Deborah Ross and a ropes course Monday sponsored by Campus Recreation.

Kehoe said recruitment for the new program focused on freshmen and sophomores.

Housing posted bulletins around campus and used the Housing Application Renewal Process system to inform returning students about the new village, and the General Shelton Leadership Center helped recruit incoming high school students.

Most of the residents on the two floors are members, but the few who are not will be given more information about the village and the opportunity to get involved with the program, Kehoe said.

Ebony Ebron, assistant director for Central Campus housing and the driving force behind the ILV, said the village really focuses on students being today’s leaders on campus and dealing with current issues on the local, state, national and global levels.

Regarding the creation and rationale for the new village, Ebron said, “I love leadership ... knowing that part of the Student Affairs division’s objectives is to facilitate development of leadership skills.”

Students in the ILV do not have any required academic coursework, but Ebron said

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The opportunity to live with and develop a close community with other students who have a passion for leadership.

Retreats and field trips with leadership and service focus.

Opportunity to develop leadership skills and discover personal strengths.

The opportunity to engage and network with community leaders.

Interdisciplinary introduction to the changing paradigms of leadership, learning and service.

Invitations to the Wachovia Executive Lecture Series, featuring top executives of leading companies.

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the program is in contact with various academic departments across multiple disciplines and is looking at courses emphasizing leadership to offer students in the new village.

Alma Buljina, senior in psychology and a resident adviser for the ILV, said her background as a resident adviser built her interest in leadership programs. She said, “When they asked me, I couldn’t picture myself not doing Impact.”

Buljina said the village will still have all the typical activities and requirements all other residents have to take care of, but most will have a leadership or service-based element.

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Construction of University Housing’s renovation project in Bragaw Hall is complete, making it the largest residential building in the U.S. lit with LED technology.

Environmental sustainability was a major focus of the project, which retrofitted the 1958 building with technology conserving water and energy.

“We’re the largest single user of water in Raleigh,” Barry Olson, associate director of facilities for University Housing, said. “With aerators on sinks, low-flow shower heads and low-flow toilets, we will reduce water consumption by 40 percent.”

Housing is on its way to achieving that goal. Crews

have already replaced half of pared to 128 with the original the 3,000 toilets and all shower fluorescent fixtures. Olson said the changes will save a quarterheads and faucets.

Electrical efficiency is also million dollars over 25 years.

Olson encouraged students to a focus of renovations around campus. Tucker and Owen become involved to limit their have a new program called resource consumption. Beyond PackPulse, which monitors the usual steps like turning off t he w ate r real-time when brushenergy usage ing t heir and displays teeth, Olson it around the encourages halls and onstudents line. to u nplug “We want power strips to reduce at night and electricf i le work ity use and Barry Olson, associate director of orders for save energy facilities for University Housing items li ke costs,” Stelea k s t hat phen Roller, a senior in computer science, may go unnoticed.

“The average student comes said.

“It helps students be smart to campus with 13 plug-in about energy usage,” Olson items,” Olson said, adding that each item sucks power like a said.

The LED lights in Bragaw vampire.

Students can also get innow consume 33 watts, com-

“The average student comes to campus with 13 plug-in items.”

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volved by requesting infrared occupancy sensors for light switches to automatically turn off lights when not in use.

E.S. King offers alternative housing Jane Moon Deputy Features Editor

As approximately 8,000 students scrambled to move into residence halls this weekend, one part of campus managed to stay apart from the frenzy.

Almost everyone in E.S. King Village, an apartment complex run by University Housing, is already settled in and doing everyday activities, such as hanging laundry on a clothesline or reading on a park bench.

“We don’t have traditional move-in because it’s year round process. We’re more lease-based. People can move in any time of the year,” University Housing coordinator for student apartments Arthur Sweeney said.

Something that also sets it apart from traditional student housing is the bulk of the residents are graduate students and students with families, even though students of all ages are welcome, according to Sweeney.

Tim Blair, associate director of University housing, said one of its residents

came back to school after her you for the future because children graduated from high wherever you go, you’re not going to work with just locals. school.

The affiliation with the Uni- You will be working on an inversity combined with the ben- ternational level.”

Tetteh also said being an RA efit of its privacy lends itself to ethnic diversity, as well as age in E.S. King Village is differdiversity, as several graduate ent than working with 18- and students want to have their 19-year-olds because they also own apartment while still be- has to know how to cater to people of all ages, from chiling able to be on campus.

“It’s daunting when you come dren to middle-age students.

“We have over from anchildren’s other country programs if you don’t satisfy goals k now t he of commuarea or who nity, but we the landlords a lso have are, but here programs for you k now adults, marthe landlord ried couples,“ and trust it.

Arthur Sweeny, University What better Housing coordinator for student Tetteh said.

Sweeney la nd lord is apartments said because there than the E.S. King University?”

Village is a family friendly enSweeney said.

Isaac Tetteh, who is starting vironment, their RAs have to his third year as aresident ad- think differently than those visor in E.S. King Village, said in other halls and create prohe enjoys living there because grams to entertain the students it provides a rare opportunity that live there as well as their for him to interact with people children.

Even though most of the from different cultures.

“It’s exciting to be here in a students that live in E. S. Kin multicultural environment,” Village lead different lives, they Tetteh said. “The different still manage to stay a part of people and cultures prepare campus.

“What better landlord is there than the University?”

E.S. KING QUICK FACTS • •

E.S. King consists of 17 buildings with 295 apartments The development is named for Edward S. King, general secretary of the YMCA and an advocate of housing for married students from 1919 to 1959 SOURCE: UNIVERSITY HOUSING

“We’re pretty well-connected to campus,” Sweeney said.

“Residents may have to work a little harder to get connected to campus, but sometimes there are students who live in the center of campus who have that problem.”

Residents of E.S. King Village aren’t limited to the amenities of the other on-campus students. The apartment complex has its own amenities, including a tennis court, a basketball court, a volleyball court, a soccer field, a playground, outdoor grills and students can also rent a plot of a garden to plant their own fruits and vegetables.

“I just came here two weeks ago, and I like it because it’s quiet. I enjoy the garden,” Zhiong Wang, a graduate student in biology, said.

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Extra move-in day impacts RAs RESIDENT ADVISORS SAY EXTRA DAY MAKES THEIR JOBS EASIER

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For residence hall advisers, changes in move-in meant less stress and more flexibility. Not all agreed the change to allow move in before Saturday were necessary. Ryan Hodgin, a sophomore in civil engineering, is a new RA this year. He said shifting the move-in dates was unnecessary because only three residents on his floor to check in.

“It was a little skewed,” Hodgin said. “If there was more of an average number then it might have been easier, but with only three it seemed kind of useless with me because three people on a different day would actually be easier.“ On the flip side, Hodgin said, the shift does give parents and students more flexibility and options to move in.

RAs like Brian Riley, a senior in computer science and a returning RA, said they think that the shift in the move-in weekend is less beneficial for the parents.

“Everybody on a Friday is working and they can’t get their kids here necessarily,” Riley said.

According to Kate Jansen, a returning RA, the decision to shift the move-in days was based on logistics.

“Through the information they gathered last year, more residents were coming in to check-in on Friday and Saturday versus the Saturday and Sunday schedule we had,” Jansen said. “They decided it would be more beneficial if they moved the check-in during Friday and Saturday because more people come.

On the student side of the

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Resident advisor John Stevens, a junior in science education, helps Anirudh Kota, sophomore in chemical engineering, fill out his paper work to receive his room key in Metcalf Hall Saturday.

move-in, students say they enjoyed move-in thus far.

Alex Overbay, a freshman in First Year College, moved in Friday afternoon.

“I knew it was going to be hectic and I knew it was going to be kind of crazy, everyone moving in and setting everything up,” Overbay said. “Surprisingly, it didn’t take as long as I thought it was, and overall it wasn’t bad at all.”

According to Susan Grant, the director of University Housing, the role of the RA is to help students, especially the first year students, get connected and network on campus.

The most important part of the first year student’s life is the first six weeks, they need feel confident about getting around and the need to feel confident about meeting people in order to be successful and to reach their goals,” Grant said.

Students have the opportu-

nity to move in during Friday and Saturday instead of the old check-in time of Saturday and Sunday, and the RAs will be available to guide them.

Michael Ruggiero, a sophomore in nuclear engineering, said he has wanted to be an RA since his leadership experiences in high school.

“I kind of wanted to do it since high school since I was the captain of the field and track team and stuff… and it felt good to help out one of the new kids, and then someone was like hey you could do that in college as an RA,” Ruggiero said.

Other students like Joshua Kirby, a freshman in forest management, who moved in Friday afternoon, said he thought it was going to be hectic with people crowding the parking lot and hallways.

According to Kirby, it ended up being a bit hectic but not

BY THE NUMBERS New RAs 117 Returning RAs 88 New RA compensation package: $1,500 for the year, meal value of $975/ semester, ResNet costs and local phone service Returning RA compensation package: $1,700 for the year, meal value of $975/semester, ResNet costs and local phone service SOURCE: SUSAN GRANT

like it would be compared to Saturday. Kirby did find that his RA was helpful.

“He was pretty good like he got my keys pretty quickly so I can move in,” Kirby said.

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Progress Energy shut off power TIMELINE: to parts of Hillsborough Street Saturday morning due to the 5:59 a.m. : Power goes out Hillsborough Street Improve- 8:55 a.m. : Power returns ment project, which impacted 10:00 a.m. : Normal business resumes some businesses along the street.

SOURCE: PROGRESS ENERGY The disruption was a result of necessary upgrades to the power distribution system.

Part of the beautification project involves placing the electric lines underground, the upgrade was necessary to prepare for that step.

The outage affected businesses occupying several blocks in the area surrounding the intersection of Horne and Hillsborough Streets, including Global Village Organic Coffee, GoPaks Bazaar and Jasmin Mediterranean Bistro.

Mike Ritchey, owner of Global Village, said Progress Energy notified the businesses of the outage in the early morning hours and told them it would be off until noon.

Ritchey says the outage had a serious economic effect on what should have been a “very heavy morning.”

“They thought they were doing us a favor,” Ritchey said.

The “favor” turned out to be a very pricy one for the businesses affected. Ritchey said his business lost the potential for hundreds of dollars of business.

“I sent 37 people down to Bruegger’s Bagels,” Ritchey said of his lost revenue opportunities.

He said the first day of move-in — with many parents looking for something to do —was not the ideal time to perform the work.

“This could have been done on a Sunday morning,” Ritchey said.

Jeff Brooks, spokesman with Progress Energy, said, “[Progress Energy] take[s] a lot of factors into consideration” when the work is performed.

He said Progress Energy values these businesses and worked hard to cause the least amount of disruption whilst maintaining the safety of its workers and cooperating with the general contractor.

At least one business was worried about losing its food. Ritchey said Jasmin Mediterranean Bistro brought in a generator to protect its food during the outage.

The work was finished at 10 a.m., but the damage was already done for some of the businesses. Businesses like Global Village require a significant amount of start-up time.

“I’ve got to plan for it to be an off day,” Ritchey said.

Several patrons were seen waiting outside GoPaks Bazaar at 10:30 a.m., upset about the closing. When the owner finally opened the door, the customers greeted him with a barrage of angry complaints.

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Technician

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 • page 11

Officials cut ribbon on building

Monster defines summer

Thompson to host performing arts theatres, crafts shop

Kate Shefte

Amber Kenney Deputy News Editor

A grand opening ceremony marked the successful completion of Thompson Hall Monday after two years of construction.

The University began discussing necessary renovations in 2000, “when the building was a mere 75 years old”, according to Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Alex Miller.

The former gymnasium now houses two state-of-the-art theatres as well as craft studios, classroom spaces and lobbies.

“I have seen a lot of important changes in this building, but none that would come even close to what we have done in the last several years here. We have truly transformed this building,” Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford said.

“The transformation is amazing, just amazing,” one of the program’s music directors, Julie Florin, said. “The studio theatre is a real theatre now, instead of just lost space. Thompson just had its problems.”

Laura-Nelle Parnell, a senior in political science, entertained those taking self-guided tours with songs from “Cabaret” and other musicals in her first performance in Thompson on piano along with Florin.

“I have never done a show here, so I am very excited to have my last year in Thompson–It’s lovely. The acoustics are great and now maybe more people will come to shows now that we have this wonderful new theatre,” Parnell said.

Stressing the importance of such events, Woodward dis-

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In the Thompson Hall Crafts Center, Karen Hemphill, non-degree student, asks Kristen Van Ormer, junior in chemical engineering, about what plan she would fall into. There are three types of plans available to patrons of the Crafts Center, with a tier that allows community members to use the facilities too.

cussed in his speech the necessity of preservation as “all activities, sanctioned and unsanctioned, all created memories and all contributed to the history of this institution.”

“Too often cities and universities tear down the old in order to build the new,” Woodward said. “It happens on a university campus, especially one that is growing like North Carolina State, but every time we do that we lose a part of history. We need to maintain and nurture and preserve the history of our university.”

Furthermore, the preservation of Thompson and such buildings helps to bridge together past, present, and future students enhancing the feeling of community at the university, according to Woodward.

“We need to ensure that when students come, as 4,800 freshmen did this weekend, they immediately get a sense of

Dreier Carr/Technician ARchive photo

Apex Steel employees Emanuel Tabron, Richard Menard, Juan Chavez, and Timothy Parrish work on the main theater seats in the Thompson Theater renovation Friday, August 22. “

the history of the university, the contributions that many, many have made prior to them.

They need to know that they are indeed coming to a family that started many years ago, in fact, 120 years ago this month,” Woodward said.

Additionally, Woodward ad-

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dressed the University’s role in the student’s life.

“We are an institution that educates–that means we are obligated to help students learn to be productive, engaged, and happy

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Sports Editor

In the midst of several embarrassing incidents at N.C. State in the summer of 2009, one event gave Raleigh dwellers something to laugh about. Joe Carnevale, a 21-year-old rising senior in history, assembled a sculpture that has become recognizable all over the country.

Carnevale took several traffic barrels from the construction area on Hillsborough Street and screwed them together in his apartment before transporting them to campus in pieces. He assembled them in a ditch beside Caldwell Hall before dragging it the finished sculpture into the street. The final product was an angry orange barrel man that directed traffic with a severely pointed finger — for less than a day before Raleigh police officers took it apart and confiscated it. “[When I was creating] the Barrel Monster, I actually had people watching me do it,” Carnevale told Technician in July. “They didn’t try and stop me or call the cops or anything.

Most people like it, so they don’t give me any trouble.”

One group that didn’t find it quite so amusing was the Raleigh police department.

Carnevale was charged June 10 with destruction of property along with larceny for stealing construction barrels belonging to Hamlett Associates — which said it was grateful for the publicity the stunt brought it and expressed interest in obtaining a copy to put outside its headquarters.

I didn’t really think the cops would come after me for it,” Carnevale told Technician. “I guess it was one overzealous cop that decided to make a big thing out of it, even though the owners of the barrels didn’t even want to press charges.”

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Soon after Carnevale’s arrest, hundreds of his supporters joined Facebook groups entitled “Art isn’t a crime!’ and ‘Don’t charge Joseph Carnevale,’ the latter of which has reached over 7,266 supporters. 600 members joined in the first 24 hours. The Barrel Monster’s fan page carries over 12,000 fans, several of which have uploaded photoshopped images of the Barrel Monster doing everything from lifting an American flag at Iwo Jima to taking on Godzilla.

His work drew international acclaim and the story was picked up by many major news outlets. A picture of the Barrel Monster and a description of Carnevale’s exploits were recently featured on Time.com’s top 10 guerrilla artists in history. “The Barrel Monster lore has reached everywhere,” Carnevale said. “My relatives and friends learned of it from both national and local news and over the internet in places like Arizona, Australia, New York, and England.”

Regardless, Carnevale was sentenced to 50 hours of community service July 21. District Judge Vince Rozier of Wake County deferred judgment against Carnevale until Oct. 30. If he completes the sentence, the judge will dismiss all charges at that time.

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Features

Technician

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 • page 13

Renovations impact pedestrians, owners Phase 1B of Hillsborough street renovation project

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Ron Anderson, an employee of Hamlett Associates, works outside on Hillsborough Street Tuesday.

Traffic patterns change with project Transportation advises students not to drive on Hillsborough Street Sarah Ewald Staff Writer

Construction orange may be the new Wolfpack Red. Or at least a person driving down Hillsborough Street in the midst of the renovations could be fooled into thinking that.

Students moving in over the weekend garnered the full extent of the Hillsborough Street project, though not because they drove through it.

“We directed people to go through Western Boulevard,” Carl McGill, special events coordinator for Transportation, said.

McGill said there were no problems with move-in.

And the project, which the City of Raleigh is taking on, is definitely something the University supports, Christine Klein, information and communications specialist for Transportation, said.

Klein said people should be prepared for unforeseen things to happen when dealing with a project of this scope and magnitude.

She also said a system has been put in place to ensure open and easy communication among all facets of the project.

“We’re all in the loop with the City of Raleigh,” Klein said, citing Transportation and Facilities as two departments that participate in regular contact.

courtesy city of raleigh

Timeline of the Hillsborough street project phases Phase III – June 2010-September 2010 Roundabouts/Medians/Oberlin

Phase I – May 2009-January 2010 Water/Sewer/Utilities/Streetscape

Phase II – January 2010-June 2010 Business North Side Streetscape Improvements

Phase IV – June 2010-September 2010 Finishing Touches - Landscaping/Signage/ Watauga Drive Closure Source: Cameron Smith, associate director of construction management, Capital Management Project

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With construction on Hillsborough Street, some business owners say they are forced to fight for customers even more, others disagree Justin Carrington Staff Writer

Traffic cones. Barricades surrounded by dirt. Seemingly endless traffic congestion. As of the last few months, these are all things that have managed to become synonymous with Hillsborough Street on campus. Consequently, some owners say their businesses on the street have taken a major hit in this already-dwindling economy.

Jon Choi, owner of Andy’s Wings & Burgers, is one of them.

“I’ve only been here for about three weeks, so I have no clue about what’s happened before,” Choi said. “I was told this place was a really busy place, but I know there’s been a drop in

sales over the past few months.” the one that has served as a Despite Choi’s brief time on thoroughfare for people to get Hillsborough Street, he said he downtown, he said.

However, Keit h Getchhas vivid memories from his frequent trips to Hillsborough ell, general manager of Two Street in past years — and how Guys Restaurant, remembers those memories contrast with a Hillsborough Street that stark realities of the present students’ parents might too remember: one that came to time.

“Last August, I would stop be known as the staple of the by and it was really busy,” University.

Getchell Choi said. said he be“Phones l ieves t he were off the construchook, and t i on m a y now they’re bring this not rea l ly back. ring ing at “We’re all.” t r y i ng to Although Jon Choi, Andy’s Wings & Burgers g ive stuChoi anticiowner dents a pates things re a son to getting better with students’ arrival on come to Hillsborough Street,” campus, he acknowledges that Getchell said. “Western Bouconstruction has dealt many levard wasn’t the standard for problems for his business over N.C. State back in the day. It the past few weeks — particu- was Hillsborough Street. A lot of people from past generalarly traffic.

The Hillsborough Street that Choi and others know is STREET continued page 14

“Phones were off the hook, and now they’re not really ringing at all.”

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Technician Phase Timeline

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Hillsborough construction blocks access to Hillsborough Street throughout the day and night, limiting student access to the shops and restaraunts.

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An employee of Hamlett Associates stands outside on Hillsborough Street Tuesday afternoon holding a sign.

STREET

Road to Gardner Street.

“I’m hoping that the construction helps foot traffic,” continued from page 13 Getchell said. “I know that tions actually grew up coming there’s a lot of competition outto restaurants on Hillsborough side of Hillsborough Street, and that’s one of the reasons I think Street.”

The purpose behind the Hill- they’re doing the project.”

However, the construction sborough Street Improvement Project, which has been a goal for Getchell has a positive.

“What I’ve found is that since of city residents and leaders for years, is to not only revitalize the construction has been gothe street, but to also make ing on, we’ve had more people coming in Hillsbor— even over ough Street the summer safer for — because those who people are use it. not willing The $9.92 n_09_0057_nc001.indd _r01 to jump in million t heir ca rs project will a nd f ig ht transform t h e t r a ft he st reet fic,” Getchto a t wol a ne road Phil Olson, Gumby’s shift manager e l l s a i d .

“Instead, separated they’re by a median.

The project will also offer the coming across the street.”

Like Getchell, Phil Olson, addition of two roundabouts, as well as some sprucing up of a shift manager at Gumby’s the streetscape from Pullen Pizza, said he believes that the

“When the college students are here and the bars are running, everything’s OK.”

project will ultimately prove to be a good idea. He also said students will play a vital role in determining the success of many businesses.

“When the college students are here and the bars are running, everything’s OK,” Olson said. “As long as they’ve got a sidewalk to walk on, I think we’ll be OK.”

Businesses on Hillsborough got their first glimpse of this during student move-in this past weekend.

Despite the fact that Progress Energy shut off power along Hillsborough Street as a part of the improvement project, businesses such as Getchell’s still saw an increase in business from past weeks.

“We look forward to move in weekend because we know that it’s the start of a new season,” Getchell said.

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and second phases will focus on the south and north sides of Hillsborough, respectively. continued from page 13 The third phase tackles roundThe University’s Transpor- abouts, medians and Oberlin tation Department uses the Street. The fourth phase covTransit Visualization System ers landscaping and signage, as to spread news. The TVS shows well as the Watauga Club Drive each bus along its route, with closure.

Smith said the project might colored balloons representing be finished closer to October the buses.

Klein said she finds out about 2010 because construction is any changes that will occur ap- a little behind since it’s a very proximately a week in advance complex project.

The company tends to work and implements them into the on several areas at once, allowdaily routes.

“With the TVS, there’s a ing for greater f lexibility for space for announcements for completion.

“If they hit a snag in one area, things that affect the Wolfline.

It’s beneficial to keep routes they’ll go work in another,” running on time,” Klein said. Smith said.

Most of the setbacks are The project has impacted various Wolf line exits and due to underground utilities, entrances onto Hillsborough, termed “unforeseeable condisuch as the bus-only street near tions.”

The company found utilities Founder’s Hall.

Klein said the best way for they didn’t know about previstudents to keep up with the ously and had to regroup, he changes is to join the Trans- said.

Smith said it will not be as portation and Wolf line listeasy for ser vs v ia students the Transto wa l k portation around Web site. along Camerthe street on Smith since works portions for t he Cameron Smith, associate director of of sideUniverCapital Management walks s it y a s have t he a sbeen dug sociate director of capital project up. Sidewalks along the south management. For the Hill- side of the street are dug up sborough Street project, his now, while sidewalks along position is that of liaison the north side will be dug up between the City and the next year.

“There will be multiple University.

“I go to the weekly con- temporary crosswalks at mulstruction meetings, and tiple locations,” Smith said. coordinate logistics as it These temporary crosswalks impacts campus,” Smith said in reference to his job. won’t have the pedestrian pushThis includes tasks such as button, so students will have modifying parking lots or to cross Hillsborough Street at their own risk. The areas will uncovering utility lines.

The multi-phase project have high visibility denoted by began in May 2009 and is paint and ramps.

Shifting around the crossscheduled for completion in September 2010. The first walks has not occurred on a

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Phase 1 – NCSU South Side, Water/Sewer/Utilities/ Streetscape (May 2009 – January 2010) Construction began May 20 on the south side of Hillsborough Street with the replacement of the water and sewer lines. An underground “duct bank” will be created under the sidewalk or parking lane, in order to house these lines. Street paving, sidewalk construction, and the installation of streetscape elements will also follow, as well as the construction of the roundabout being inserted on the southeast corner of Hillsborough and Pullen streets .

Phase 2 – Business North Side, Streetscape Improvements (January 2010 – June 2010) After most of the utility upgrades have been completed, sidewalk and streetscape construction will begin. The completed portion of the Pullen Extension will open to Oberlin for access to Ferndell Street, while construction of the extension is being completed. As crews work to construct the Oberlin/ Pullen roundabout, work will also be done to improve the condition of the sidewalks and entrances near the Oberlin parking lot and Groveland Avenue.

Phase 3 – Oberlin, Roundabouts/Medians (June 2010 – September 2010) This phase marks the completion of the project, as the construction of the roundabout islands and brick medians along the center of Hillsborough Street begin.

Much of the emphasis will be refocused on work “between the curbs.”

Phase 4 – Finishing Touches As a part of the final phase, the small segment of Watauga Club Drive that intersects with Hillsborough Street across from Sadlack’s will be closed. Final measures will also include the completion of landscaping for the corridor and sign installation.

SOURCE: “Community Workshop and Construction Update” (City of Raleigh, Hillsborough Street Partnership, Kimley-Horn and Associates).

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regular basis but takes place between one to three months.

“The City will communicate with us when the shifts occur,” Smith said.

Aside from merely being patient and planning on taking extra time, Klein advised students to do one thing.

“If you can, don’t drive down Hillsborough. Take Western Boulevard or Clark Avenue,” Klein said.

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Technician

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 • page 15

50 pieces of advice freshmen should follow C ollege graduates look back and tend to say that there are things they wish they knew when they first started college. The Technician senior staff decided to impart some of these tips to the incoming freshmen.

1. Don’t look like a freshman by looking for a

6. Join organizations that compliment your

map on your way to class — ask someone for directions and make a friend!

major.

2. Get as much free food and as many free

million clubs or activities— pick a couple that really interest you and go with that.

T-shirts as you can in the first week of school — have a contest with your roommate!

3. Meet your suitemates/hall mates.

7. On that same token, don’t go joining a

11. Go to more sporting events that aren’t just football and basketball. The other athletes are part of the Pack too!

16. Tune your radio to 88.1 WKNC

8. Don’t wear Carolina or Duke apparel.

9. Get a tour of the Bell Tower before you

13. Make every attempt to befriend your RA.

18. Try a different flavor Cookout milkshake

graduate.

14. Go talk to your professors during office

5. Take advantage of the services on campus

10. Make sure you have the drop dates for

hours — it makes them think you care about the class (even though you probably don’t.)

21.

classes memorized.

Run the Krispy Kreme Challenge.

23.

You’ll have a transcript to remember your grades so focus on making memories that matter.

get caught drinking 24. Don’t underage.

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Wolfline bus. Those are exit-only. Along the same lines, don’t test the theory, “if you get hit by a Wolfline, you’ll get free tuition.�

12. Find your passion, or whatever gets you going, and quick — there is nothing like getting into something, and realizing you should have done it sooner.

4. Explore Raleigh. (i.e. health center, gym, legal services).

15. Don’t try to get on the back door of a

Spray paint the Free Expression Tunnel.

25. Be poor and enjoy it.

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17.Support Hillsborough Street businesses. every time you go.

19. Eat at the dining halls.

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Don’t go to sleep after we beat Carolina – go to the Bell Tower.

let any- 27.

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in the library overnight at 29. Stay least once.

Watch your step on the bricks — they jump out at you some times and they’re slippery when wet.

you’re buying your T-shirts, you’re not working 30. Ifhard enough.

31. Four years is just a guideline.

37. Master meal equivalencies and you will

43. Just get on the 440 loop – you’ll get there

48. Go see the Hurricanes at the RBC Center

32. The only thing to fear is expulsion itself.

find joy.

eventually.

38. Eat the N.C. State ice cream.

44. Don’t buy your books before the first day

at least once. We’re lucky to have a professional sports team in the area.

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of class.

but don’t have anyone to go with, go anyway.

You never know who you’ll meet there, and you can never have too many friends.

45. Make your dorm room homey.

33. Take random PE classes.

We have so many of them! Just make them credit-only.

34. Fight the man, but be creative.

35. Drink Red Bull. You won’t regret it.

36. Learn how to tailgate properly, and that

40. Go to the State Fair.

usually involves beer, BBQ or Bojangles’ chicken. KFC is right out. If you buy KFC for a tailgate outside Carter-Finley Stadium, you are a Yankee and should be run out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered.

41. Play video games until everyone else goes to sleep. This is when homework time begins.

42. Campout won’t be as cold as you think it will be.

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While sliding down an obstacle course at Rec Fest, Allison Cicero and Christie Holmes, freshmen in First Year College, compete to finish first. Cicero said her favorite part was going through the tubes.

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Lavenia Lipford, junior in industrial engineering, rides on a bungee swing at Rec Fest.

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students, according to Gustavo Arevalo, the student director of fitness.

“We [have] a whole bunch of fitness classes for free in the afternoons and mornings,” Arevalo, a senior in parks and recreation, said. “One of our newest is a spinning class in our new room with about 20 brand-new bikes.”

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Peter Koutroumpis, assistant director of special events for Campus Recreation, stands in front of the line at RecFest and tells everyone to wait patiently for the field to open.

but you get priority scheduling and the top officials we have.”

In a year with severe budget cuts and a declining job market, Campus Rec has managed to still thrive, according to Koutroumpis.

“We really haven’t been affected directly with budget cuts,” Koutroumpis said. “We generate our budgets with student fees and we program accordingly. We are trying to do much more with less.”

Intramural sports has also made another change that excites many of its employees — the addition of a new elite league for students who want to take their play to the next level, according to Travis Wilborn, the student director of officials for intramural sports.

“We have an elite league for flag football and soccer,” Wilborn, a sophomore in nuclear engineering said. “This league is for the ones who really want to play competitively. It will cost $75,

By doing more with less, Campus Rec has been able to hire more and create more job opportunities for students, according to Arevalo.

“When I started here, I started going to all the fitness classes and then I starting teaching some and it just snowballed from there,” Arevalo said. “There are a lot of jobs for students available, and Campus Rec does a good job of working around your schedule.”

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Manning and Maddox, but said Maddox is the first stringer at this point.

“Terrell [Manning] has a lot of natural ability, is a tough guy and he can run. Maddox did a good job for us a year ago, and he’s more physical and understands the game. That year of experience is going to be a big plus for him now as he gets ready to play,” McCollum said.

“Dwayne [Maddox] is number one and Terrell [Manning] is number two, but there is an open competition at that position and Terrell has just got to get caught up with understanding everything.”

And while Irving will not be stuffing running backs or picking off passes, McCollum said his presence as a leader will still be felt and said redshirt senior linebacker Ray Michel will also provide leadership both on and off the field.

“Nate [Irving] will always stay involved and keep his eye on them and that is invaluable.

Nate’s number one because of his character and what he stands for and those guys look up to him,” McCollum said.

“Ray [Michel] is a good leader because he understands the defense and what has to happen. He is a very positive guy with everybody in that [locker] room and he is great for the young guys.”

With so much confidence in Maddox’s ability, Young said the defense’s goal, even without Irving, remains domination.

“We expect to penetrate, come out and set the tone, and be a very dominating defense,” Young said.

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Sports Dugas’ hatter leads Pack over VMI in exhibition Senior Chantalle Dugas scored three second half goals against VMI in an exhibition match at Dail Soccer Stadium Friday night, carrying the Pack to a 7-0 win in head coach Steve Springthorpe’s first game behind the bench for N.C. State. Dugas scored three times in an 18-minute span of the second half and Kara Baldy, Alex Baerger, Paige Dugal and Tanya Cain also added goals.

Football players on award watch lists Wolfpack quarterback Russell Wilson and defensive end Willie Young added to their list of preseason honors this week. Wilson was named to the ‘watch’ list for the Maxwell Award while Young is on the list for the Bednarik Trophy.

Kicker Josh Czajkowski, halfback Jamelle Eugene and center Ted Larsen are also on watch lists for positional awards.

Men’s swimming adds Monteiro to roster Swimming and diving head coach Brooks Teal announced the addition of prospect Facundo Monteiro to his team last week. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monteiro is a national champion in the 200-meter backstroke, and won a Buenos Aires title in the 100-meter backstroke.

He will join the team in time for the upcoming 2009-10 season. The Pack will kick off its season against Duke and Maryland on Oct. 24 in College Park, Md.

Golfers finish second, third at Canadian Men’s Amateur Incoming freshman Mitch Sutton finished second and rising junior Matt Hill placed third in the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship last weekend. Sutton f inished second to Cam Burke, who captured his second straight championship. Sutton birdied four of the final holes in the final round and finished at 12-under, one stroke out of first place. After leading in the first round, Hill–who was named ACC Male Athlete of the Year earlier in August–finished in a tie for third at 5-under.

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Defense carries on Dwayne Maddox leading competition for linebacker spot vacated by injured star Nate Irving

ving’s season months before it was scheduled to begin and intensified the competition between Manning and Maddox.

Both players played high school football in North Carolina and came to N.C. State last year with Tyler Everett high expectations after the compleDeputy Sports Editor tion of all-state seasons as seniors Despite the uncertainty sur- in high school. Manning was more rounding his replacement, the sought-after, as the 219 tackles he Wolfpack defense seems confident compiled during his senior season in the abilities of the two lineback- were reason enough for Rivals.com ers, sophomore Dwayne Maddox to call him the third best player in and redshirt freshman Terrell Man- the state. ning, who are vying to fill the void He then redshirted his freshleft in the wake of the season-end- man year while recovering from ing injuries a knee injury, Nate Ir v ing while Maddox suffered in a star ted four car wreck in games and June. gained experi“I am going ence. Maddox to be quite said this made honest — I am him a different Willie Young, a redshirt senior as confident player than he defensive end as when Nate was a year ago.

[Irving] was “I am pretty here,” Willie confident this Young, a redshirt senior defensive year. Last year I was, as they say, end, said. “If everyone around a young pup coming in,” Maddox Dwayne [Maddox] is doing their said. “I didn’t know the plays that job, you won’t even know [the in- well so I was basically just out there jury to Irving] happened.” running around. It was very valuIrving, who led the defense with able because game experience with four interceptions and finished your team depending on you gives third with 84 tackles despite miss- you confidence and composure for ing almost a third of the season, was the next year.” widely expected to have another allLinebacker coach Andy McColconference caliber season after his lum expressed confidence in both breakout campaign a year ago, but the car accident in June ended IrIRVING continued page 17

“I am as confident as when Nate [Irving] was here.”

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Star basketball recruit Lorenzo Brown is found to be academically ineligable and will head to Hargrave Military Academy for 2009-2010.

Lonnie Poole holds its grand opening.

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Campus Rec to launch new clubs, fitness programs Even with budget cuts, Campus Rec continues to grow Jen Hankin Deputy Sports Editor

On Sunday af ternoo, RecFest— a sprawling festival on Lower Miller Fields that included food, games and free swag — introduced new and returning students to all the new services and opportunities Campus Recreation has to offer.

According to Peter Koutroumpis, the assistant director of special events, RecFest is the one of the most popular events for the start of the semester.

“We tried to make it the biggest we have ever had to kick off the school year,” Koutroumpis said. “We always have similar activities, but this year we have added the Carolina Hurricanes, Downtown Raleigh Lights, and more food venders with lots of food for everyone.”

One of RecFest’s main goals is to inform students of what’s new with Campus Recreation.

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BassPack w ins nationa l championship at Under Armour CF National Championship in Little Rock, Ark. Senior Will White and Junior Chris Wood brought back the team’s 2nd national championship in 3 years.

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Pack linevacker Nate Irving is involved in a one-car accident while traveling through Johnston County back to Raleigh. It is later announced that he will likely sit out the entire season while nursing various injuries.

Matt Hill wins a National Championship.

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Linebacker Nate Irving celebrates the Pack’s victory over Virginia on Saturday, October 27, 2007.

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Baseball finishes disappointing season 25-31 overall and 10-20 in the ACC and fails to qualify for the playoffs.

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It has added several new clubs, in addition to new fitness classes and new leagues within intramural sports.

Club sports have continued to grow, now containing over 50 clubs, and has introduced six new ones. One of the most talked about new club sports involves skateboarding.

“Skateboarding is going to be really big this year. We have over 100 people registered,” Kriss Lans, a freshman in management and club sports student director, said. “Since all our sports are run by students,

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

For more info check out: http://ncsu.edu/stud_affairs/ campus_rec/ Upcoming dates: • Job Fair: Wednesday, Aug. 19th: 4 to 5 p.m., Carmichael Recreation Center, Play Zone, 1st Floor

we are hiring a few people within club sports.”

Fitness classes have also continued to evolve. Campus

Upcoming events: • Free cycling demos will be held on Wed., Aug. 19 from noon to 1 p.m. , Thurs., Aug. 20 from 8 to 9 a.m. and Fri., Aug. 21 from 3-4 pm.

• Registration for IM Flag football and tennis is now open

Recreation has added many new and different classes for

SPECIAL BACK TO SCHOOL HOURS: Wednesday - August 19 - 8am to 8pm Thursday - August 20 - 8am to 8pm Friday - August 21 - 8am to 6pm Saturday - August 22 - 10am to 5pm Sunday - August 23 - 1pm to 5pm

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