Technician
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2011
Raleigh, North Carolina
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12 doughnuts, four miles, one great cause The seventh annual Krispy Kreme Challenge kicks off Saturday at 9 a.m.
runners must finish the race in less than one hour without regurgitating. The 12 original glazed doughnuts contain more than enough nutrients for one day: 2,400 calories, 1,200 grams of fat, 120 grams of sugar and Rebecca Fiorentino 24 grams of protein. Staff Writer Grace Butler, a sophomore in first It started off as a challenge between year college, will participate in Sat15 runners in 2004. Fast-forward sev- urday’s race for her first time and said en years later, and it is clear that what her only concern will be finishing all started off as a small fundraiser for 12 doughnuts without throwing up. “If I can put down the whole dozen, I North Carolina’s Children’s Hospital has quickly evolved into one of N.C. will definitely puke,” Butler said. “But I’m a challenger State’s most popbecause if I’m ular traditions— going to do this, the Krispy Kreme I’m going to go Challenge. The all out.” race has grown The 7,500 regin size every year istered runners since its comhad an option of mencement and participating as w i l l we lc ome said by either a casual 7, 50 0 r u nners runner, where for the seventh annual Krispy Kreme Challenge Sat- they do not have to consume all 12 doughnuts, or a challenger, where urday morning at 9 a.m. The challenge has become N.C. runners must finish all 12 doughnuts State’s newest tradition and appeared and finish the race in less than an hour on Sports Illustrated’s list of “102 to successfully complete the challenge. The challenge does not consist of More Things You Gotta Do Before You Graduate.” Runners begin at the Bell only N.C. State students. In fact there Tower, run two miles to the Krispy will be people on Hillsborough Street Kreme store on Peace Street, eat 12 from over 30 different states includoriginal glazed doughnuts, and then ing Californina, Arizona and New run two miles back to the Bell Tower. Mexico. There are also people travelTo successfully complete the race, ing from Ontario, Canada to compete
“I’m a challenger because if I’m going to do this, I’m going to go all out.”
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Rachel Wheeler, a sophomore in management, gathers boxes from a large pile into trash bags after runners left Krispy Kreme. Wheeler said she volunteered with other girls from Pi Beta Phi, “we thought it would be fun, and it was.”
in the race. Kent Margulis, who will be travelling 3,000 miles from Seattle, Wash., with his wife, discovered the Krispy Kreme Challenge using Google. “I googled ‘running and eating’ and found this race,” Margulis said. “We were totally intrigued by the spectacle of 7,500 people making a mad dash to
the local Krispy Kreme to eat a dozen donuts.” Margulis has never attempted to eat a dozen doughnuts at one time, but said he and his wife are running enthusiasts and are looking forward to coming to Raleigh. Not only will a spectator or a runner see participants throwing up ev-
erywhere, but they will also get the chance to see the various entertaining costumes. John Mills, a senior in accounting, said the people in costumes were his favorite part of the event. “My most vivid memory was the guys running in thongs,” Mills said. “One guy was even wearing a Borat swimsuit. It was gross.”
New Talley set to bring student organizations together Talley renovations are set to include extra resources for student organizations. Shivalik Daga Staff Writer
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Jeremy Schap, a junior in biomedical engineering, said he attended the College of Management Career Fair in hopes of finding a summer internship. He spoke with a representative from Cook Medical, along with many other companies.
Management Career Fair offers networking opportunities 77 companies were available for management students to meet with for job opportunities. Elise Heglar Staff Writer
Although the economy is in a slump, the Poole College of Management held their annual career fair yesterday. The fair was held at the McKimmon Center from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. At the fair, students were able to meet with 77 different companies to discuss internships and job opportunities. “We are hoping that students can obtain employment and internships at this fair. I want students to learn how to network and prepare themselves for the real workforce, and this fair can help them with that,” said Janet Rakes, the career coach for the College of Management. This fair is held twice a year. Rakes said that the fall fair is usually larger, with over 80 companies in attendance and over 700 students.
“We are really pleased with the nas as of this year, so we are really turnout. All of these companies want- looking for quality candidates and ing to participate in the fair is very the opportunity to get our name encouraging because it means more out there,” Stephens said. According to Stephens, the most employment opportunities for our important thing for students to students,” Rakes said. According to Rakes, this was the do at career fairs is to be engaging third year for the College of Manage- and enthusiastic when speaking to ment’s career fair, according to Rakes, companies. “Anytime you can get in front and a total of 443 students checked of potential into the fair at employers 1 p.m. and get some “This is one experience, of the best ways that’s a great I can think of thing. Soakon campus for ing it all in students to get and making employment c ont ac t s i s opportunities,” Jason Stephens, Total Quality Logistics important. Rakes said. sales team leader This is one of Jason Stephens, those things a sales team leader for Total Quality Logistics, said a lot where you really get out what you of companies participate in the fair to put in,” Stephens said. There was a wide variety of comget their name out in North Carolina. Companies participating in the fair panies attending the fair, including said they are looking for motivated students for job opportunities. “Our business is new to the Carolifair continued page 3
Student organizations across campus can now look forward to a larger, more functional workspace for conducting their activities in the near future. The Student Organization Resource Center plans to quadruple its current office area of 950 square feet to over 4,000 square feet as an integral part of the Talley Student Center renovation project. According to Deborah Felder, the design of the new center will take into consideration the needs of nearly 600 student organizations on campus, with an impetus on creating a “high visibility, strategically located” work area. Felder, assistant director of campus activities, said the aim of this expansion is to create a collaborative space for the growing number of various student organizations to meet and interact. “The SORC office will be situated in the center of our major departments like CSLEPS, UAB, Multicultural Student Affairs, and the Student Government, making it easy for students to interact not only with other student organizations within SORC, but with
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“This is one of those things where you really get out what you put in.”
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these departments as well,” Felder said. The new center will be a fully equipped workspace for organizations complete with two dedicated conference rooms, workspaces with increased storage facilities, cubicles and mailboxes for the organizations. It will also house open lounge spaces and will be fully equipped with printers, laptops, multimedia projectors, advertising materials, die cut machines and graphic design resources—something Felder said she hopes will draw student groups to the new building. “We want to be a magnet for student organizations,” Felder said. “The new SORC office will be a very inviting place and cater to the needs of student organizations. It will include cubicle spaces and conference rooms as well as workspaces where the students can create banners, fliers etc. ” Currently, student organizations hold their meetings in different buildings around campus in rooms that are not always permanently assigned to them, meaning the locations are subject to change. The new SORC office would provide more stability, which Rishav Dey, head of the N.C. State Quiz Bowl club, said he thinks will be greatly beneficial. “We would love to have a space where we could conduct official meetings, as it gets tough sometimes to organize
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