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9
2012
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Hondros’ lasting impression Raleigh commemorates Chris Hondros nearly a year after his death.
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Chris Hondros did whatever it took to get what he considered the best image. He cheated death countless times to capture the pictures that he thought would impact the world. Hondros, a photojournalist with Getty Images and N.C. State alum, didn’t shy from risk while on assignment. One photo in the midst of the Liberian civil war got him nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. From Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, his work made it on the covers of The Economist and Newsweek and on the front pages of The New York Times and the Washington Post. Hondros presented his humanity and conviction for people in each assignment, up until his last.
“Libya?” Greg Campbell, a journalist and friend of Hondros for 26 years, received a text message from him on March 29, 2011. “Libya?” Hondros asked in a text message. “I’m thinking this weekend, seriously.” Campbell said Hondros didn’t need to provide any further the context for the question. Campbell
worked with Hondros in Sierra Leone, where both documented the decade-long civil war—Campbell with words, Hondros with images. When Hondros brought up Libya, Campbell knew what he was up to. “I had turned down all other invitations to go to places that were much less dangerous at the time, but I don’t know why, it just seemed like good timing,” Campbell said. “Something was just compelling me
to make sure I was there.” Campbell called USA Today, asked the editor for an assignment, and without much consultation with his wife, he flew to North Africa to meet Hondros to cross into Libya to document the civil war that arose from the Arab Spring, between rebel troops and dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Campbell and Hondros spent a week together in Misrata, an anti-
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As Gov. Bev Perdue plans to step down, candidates run for N.C. Governor.
Commencement speaker gets vocal about politics, students react.
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Philip Rivers, quarterback for the NFL’s San Diego Chargers, will be N.C. State’s commencement speaker at the spring ceremony May 12. Rivers, who graduated from N.C. State in 2003 and set many athletic records as a Wolfpack football player, has also made his political stance public. “I am supporting Rick Santorum for president because of his stance on issues that attack vital Christian values our country was founded upon,” Rivers said in a statement. “No abortion, upholding traditional marriage, defending religious freedom, no euthanasia.” “Rick Santorum will also fight to create jobs and expand opportunities for all Americans. I am proud
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With Gov. Bev Perdue’s announcement not to run for reelection, the position for North Carolina’s next governor is wide open. Candidates are already contending to gain votes, through televised and other media advertisements, the gubernatorial election that will take place Nov. 6, 2012. One of these candidates is Bill Faison, a member of the Democratic Party and N.C. General Assembly. photo courtesy of bevperdue.com Faison lists the economy, edu- Beverly Perdue talks with her campaign staff in 2008 prior to the N.C. election that would eventually name her cation and technological growth governor. much better like, for instance, failas some of the biggest issues he 80,000 people newly filed for unem- nesses. “I think it’s an agenda people care ing to graduate 22 percent of our ployment. would address as governor. “I would have a program that about, and I think I would be able students from high school,” Nick A New York Times report stated that about 50 percent of college would put back to work the teach- to motivate legislators to vote with said. The majority of the candidates graduates couldn’t find work in ers, teacher’s aides and other state me on budget issues and all critical seem to agree that revitalizing their field. Graduates are begin- employees that were fired by the economic issues,” Faison said. Patrick McCrory, a member of North Carolina’s economy is the ning to take jobs that require no Republican budget,” Faison said. Making sure all high school stu- the Republican Party, also declared biggest issue on the table. college education, according to “We need to reward the producdents have technological tools such himself as runner in the election for Faison. tivity and innovation of North Car“The first focus I would have as laptops, iPads and high speed governor. Previously McCrory, who held the olina businesses and entrepreneurs, would be trying to improve the Internet is another component of position of mayor of Charlotte, was rather than giving away upfront Faison’s plan. economy and T h e m o n e y presidentially appointed to serve on cash to out-of-state corporations ofthe job marto initiate these the Homeland Security Council, fering promises,” McCrory said in a ket, so once ideas would pri- and was the Republican nominee statement on his website. “We need students actumarily come from in the last North Carolina governor to get into the energy business so ally come out we can be more energy independent taxes, but looking election in 2008. of school they Brian Nick, a spokesman for the and create a new economic engine.” into public-prican go to work Another Democratic candidate vate partnerships campaign, stated McCrory hopes to at their chosen would also be an break down the conflict that occurs on the ballot for governor is Walter profession and opt ion, Fa i son after a budget is passed and those Dalton. make a living,” According to Ford Porter, press in the education system are deemed said. Faison said. secretary for Dalton’s campaign, winners or losers. Additionally, According Bill Faison, Gubernatorial Dalton sponsored the Innovative “Pat also wants to get past the poFaison plans on to Faison, the candidate having a policy litical bickering and work with Re- Education Initiatives Act,which esEmployment Security Commission reported that would focus on redistribut- publicans and Democrats to bring tablished the state’s early college systhat 475,000 people are out of ing the tax breaks from large and about the reform necessary to ad- tem. work and last month more than wealthy corporations to small busi- dress areas where we can be doing governor continued page 3
“The first focus I would have would be trying to improve the economy and the job market.”
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Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros stands in front of a burning building while on assignment on April 18, 2011, in Misrata, Libya. Hondros, who was on assignment in Misrata, Libya, was killed on April 20, 2011 by a rocket-propelled grenade.
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Gadhafi stronghold in the beginning of the 2011 conflict. Campbell left Libya with a feeling that Hondros would make it out of Libya, like he made it out of the other conflicts he covered, unscathed. Campbell said Hondros had an expression: “Nothing happens until it happens.” Campbell returned from his travels in
The newest viral video on YouTube isn’t a dog mouthing along to a voice-over, or a preteen with a proclivity for singing about the weekdays; it’s of two diehard N.C. State fans singing about their love for the University and their less-than-kind feelings toward UNC-Chapel Hill. The rivalry between Chapel Hill and N.C. State goes back ages and, like most school rivalries, is a subject that spans the Triangle. Greg Tart graduated from Appalachian State, Rob Hall started his college career at NCSU but ended up finishing at ECU, and his older brother Marcus also completed his undergraduate degree at the University. However, their blood bleeds red, with fathers that played football for the Pack and childhoods spent in Raleigh. In 2010, the Hall brothers and Tart formed their band. The brothers were playing at a Christmas party when Tart came
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