Technician
tuesday november
10 2009
Raleigh, North Carolina
Campout returns to Reynolds roots Campout for Carolina tickets brings back tradition on a day over winter break Amber Kenney Deputy News Editor
Registration for the annual Campout for tickets for the UNC-Chapel Hill basketball game opens tomorrow with a controversial date and new events planned. Arialle Crabtree, a sophomore in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the chair of the campus community committee of Student Senate, said the Campout will return to its roots by being held in front of Reynolds Coliseum. “Students were proud of the tradition of camping out in front of Reynolds, and we want to re-establish its glory,” she said. Crabtree said Student Government joined with the Union Activities Board and Campus Recreation to make this year’s event something to remember. According to Crabtree, registered campers will get free food and be able to participate in many games and activities, including a basketball tourna-
ment and corn-hole. There will also be an Ugliest UNC Fan contest with all proceeds going to the Kay Yow Memorial Fund, she said. “This is a great event that lets student have fun while supporting N.C. State and connecting with other students,” she said. Kelli Rogers, a senior in political science and student senate president, is excited about this year’s Campout. “It is going to be bigger and better then ever,” she said. “We are bringing it back to its historical roots and to the heart of N.C. State basketball.” Adam Rodgers, a sophomore in First Year College, expressed concern about the location. “It’s a cool idea, but not that many tents can fit out there,” he said. Crabtree is not worried about the space, but the date the Campout is being held has raised some questions. According to Crabtree, there was a survey advertised through Facebook and list-serves asked students to pick the best date between two. The final date chosen was Jan. 9, but classes do not start for second semester until Jan. 11.
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William Michael, a freshman in First Year College, and Joseph Thomasson, a freshman in law and justice, set up their tent before dark on Lee Field for the N.C. State vs. UNC-Chapel Hill basketball game ticket camp-out Jan. 16, 2009. “It’s not half bad considering we had no instructions,” Michael said after they were done. “We’re professional amateurs.”
Tourny lends ‘Helping Hand’ KA hosts hot dog Charity basketball tournament to raise donations for those in need Siva Ramesh Staff Writer
On Thursday, at 7 p.m. in Carmichael Gymnasium, the N.C. State chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, along with over 27 other organizations, will hold a charity basketball tournament. Called the Krimson and Kreme Hoopin’ for Hunger Basketball Tournament, its purpose is to raise money and donations of canned goods for Helping Hands Mission, a local charity, as part of their Thanksgiving food drive. As part of a tradition within Kappa Alpha Psi, “Crimson” and “Crème” are spelled with Ks. “It’s a tradition in our frat to spell everything with Ks,” said Tre McQueen, a senior in marketing and a co-organizer of the event. McQueen said the primary purpose of the event was to not only benefit the University, but to also help the local community, particularly those people who are less fortunate than others. “We decided to have an event on campus to raise money and food for families who are a little bit less fortunate,” McQueen said.
McQueen helped to organize the event with his brother, Chaz McQueen, a junior in education, Reginald Parks, a junior in sports management and Colton Palmer, a junior in communications. “We were looking for something that we could do. We’re a fraternity, and as a fraternity, we have to do different events for standards.” McQueen said. Although the idea was conceived just a month ago, the event has been well organized and planned. Parks said the process of organizing the event took about a month. “We kind of got everything together, made sure Carmichael [Gymnasium] was on board for it. We’ve been contacting all the organizations on campus to see who’d be willing to give to this cause. We contacted the [Student Media Association] and WRAL to get everybody on board who would be willing to give to the Thanksgiving Day initiative,” Parks said According to McQueen, other groups have joined in support of the tournament, including fraternities from area universities. “We’ve got Ravenscroft School. We’ve got Delta Sigma Theta from UNC. We’ve got a couple of our brothers from different chapters in the area,
like the Delta Gamma chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi [from] Shaw University, the Gamma Omega chapter from St. Augustine’s University and the Alpha Kappa chapter from North Carolina Central University and the Iota Xi chapter from Duke University,” McQueen said. Four teams will be playing in the tournament from Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha Phi Alpha, 100 Black Men of America and Psi Beta Sigma. The tournament will be set up in standard bracket form, with semi-finals and a finals game. In order to keep the audience entertained, the event will also have several games and activities, as well as a DJ and music. “We’re going to have a [basketball] dunking contest and a couple activities between the two games to keep the crowd into it. We have a DJ coming so there’s going to be music, just [to] make it a fun atmosphere for everyone,” Palmer said. The charity aspect of the tournament is still the focus of the event. Each participating organization will be asked to donate 10 canned goods and $2 for each member of
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Show will benefit alumna’s organization This spring’s Redress Raleigh proceeds will be donated to MorLove, an organization that helps orphans in Uganda Ty Johnson Editor-in-Chief
While Redress Raleigh 2010 will be moving further away from campus to Downtown Raleigh instead of happening on Hillsborough Street this year, the connection to campus will remain strong as the proceeds from the eco-friendly fashion show will continue to benefit MorLove, a philanthropic organization founded by Mor Aframian, who graduated from the College of Textiles in May. MorLove benefits Amani Baby Cottage in Jinja, Uganda, an orphanage where children aged six or younger live, most because their parents died from HIV complications. Aframian said half the children living at the cottage are HIV positive.
lunch, benefits veterans Fraternity’s first philanthropic event since return to campus will benefit Wounded Warriors
veterans and we are excited about the opportunity to give back as much as we can.” He also said the fraternity has several members who are a part of the Caroline Barfield armed forces. Staff Writer “We have members of our fraternity Today Kappa Alpha Order will host that have served in the armed forces its first philanthropic event since its but that is not the sole reason that we return to campus as members will be are holding this event,” he said. “It is selling “Hot Dogs for Heroes” in the important to raise awareness and support for our veterans and there is not a Brickyard from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Matt Korff, a sophomore in business better day to do it than Veterans day.” Korff said KA has an appreciation so administration, said KA chose to hold this event for many reasons, one being deep they plan to hold this event every its strong connection with the armed year in honor of the veterans. “KA appreciates the work the vetforces. erans have put in “KA has to protect us from strong ties to harm. The respect the military so we have for vetwe feel honored erans is tremento donate the dous,” Korff said. proceeds to vet“We want everyerans,” he said. one, not only stu“We have a n dents, to know that agreement with KA supports our some military veterans. We plan s c ho ol s t h at, to do this event evwhen they gradMatt Korff, sophomore in business ery year in honor uate, we offer administration of them.” them bids and The money i n it iate t hem right away. We do this because it is raised will go to the Wounded Warillegal for soldiers to be in a fraternal riors Project as well as Honor Flight. According to Kouba, the mission of organization.” Stephen Kouba, a junior in politi- the Wounded Warriors Project is to cal science and vice president of KA, raise awareness and enlist the public’s said the chapter decided to host the aid for the needs of severely injured hot dog lunch as the fraternity’s first service men and women. Honor Flight philanthropic event for many reasons. takes veterans to visit their respective “We recently received our pro- memorials in Washington, D.C. They visional charter status back a few also take any veterans, giving special weeks ago and this seemed very fit- consideration to veterans that have ting to honor our veterans as our first some kind of terminal illness, to visit philanthropy event,” Kouba said. “We the memorial erected in their honor. Tyler Reber, a sophomore in parks, want to show our support for veterans and we feel that this is one of the best recreation and management said the ways that we can do it. We are hum- group has high hopes for its success. “We’re hoping for a good turnout, bled and honored by the opportunity to hold this event and we look forward but we really hope we sell out of hot to generating positive support for our dogs,” Reber said.
“KA has strong ties to the military so we feel honored to donate the proceeds to veterans”
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A model strikes a pose for the fashion show, Redress, an event for Hillsborough Street Renaissance, on Mar. 14 2009. This is a piece from the line Enchanted Frocks 2009 by Kristen Martinez and Kelly Sambrick.
“[The children] don’t really have a voice of their own,” she said. “Africa, in general, is just a very poor country.” Aframian said though a lot of aid
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is sent to the continent, a focus on helping the youth population could lead to the next generation
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