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16 2012
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Fashion Week attracts big name designers Designers and students from around the world displayed latest fashions on Centennial Campus.
Benefacting recognizes volunteer month Students compete for prizes by volunteering for a cause.
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Shawn Tompson N.C. State held its inaugural Fashion Week April 11-13, an event that combined design leaders from the industry and fashion students from around the world. Presented by the College of Textiles, Fashion Week included opening and closing ceremonies with two unique fashion shows, “AvantGarde” and “Color Fusion.” There were forums on innovation and creativity, exhibitions from faculty and students, and a marketplace with North Carolina artisans, designers and craftsmen. Along with students from the College of Textiles, students from Donghua University in China and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University participated in the event. Presenters at Fashion Week included Barry Miguel, president of 7 For All Mankind; Anastasia Charbin, fashion market director for Lectra Headquarters in France; Katrina Streiner, creative director of the Charlotte-based Belk; Darryl Carter, a nationally recognized interior designer; and professors from
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Samantha Burdett, a freshman in fashion and textile design, models an aquatically-inspired dress created by fellow freshman in fashion and textile design, Lisbeth Arias, at the closing ceremony of N.C. State’s fashion week Friday. When asked about the inspiration for her design, Arias said, “I wanted to focus on shape and form of a beta fish. I used a lot of wire and hand-cut scales.”
the London College of Fashion, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Donghua University. Carter, a speaker at the creativity forum, has been featured in several publications, including Veranda, Town and Country, Elle Décor and Architectural Digest. Carter, who redesigns houses, spoke about his process during his presentation
“The Collected Home.” “I place things in order to draw you through the house, suggesting that you explore. There needs to be a relationship between the architecture and the sense of space to be a singular experience. It’s all about innovation and maintaining the continuity of the experience,” Carter said.
Renamed endowment honors vice chancellor
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Tom Stafford, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, was surprised with the renaming of a scholarship in honor of his 41 years of service to N.C. State. Laura Wilkinson Editor-in-Chief
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According to Carter, his business focuses on creativity, passion and vision. He said it is important to understand the lifestyle and the market he’s working with, and his business works because of the partnership between his design team, his
As part of National Volunteer Month, Benefacting is hosting a contest for college students to compete against their peers by performing the most community service hours. The Benefacting Volunteer Challenge runs for the entire month of April and helps students turn their volunteer time into charitable donations. Benefacting is a nonprofit organization that launched in early 2012 for the Triangle area. Its mission is “to help those in need by empowering people to support charities through simple transactions and unselfish acts,” according to its website, benefacting.org. “With Benefacting, you can volunteer any services... from tutoring, to walking a dog to painting a room. You volunteer
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Gift Options: 1: Give online at give.ncsu.edu: Under “How should we use your gift?” choose “I would like to give to a fund not listed here.” Write Stafford Student Leadership Endowment. 2: Make checks payable to Annual Giving for NCSU: Write Stafford Student Leadership Endowment in the memo.
To commend Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford 3: Fill out a pledge form: Pledge for his many years of service with forms can be found at students. the University, Student Govncsu.edu. ernment officers renamed the Source: student government Wolfpack Student Initiative in his name. The Stafford Student Leader- we discovered the Wolfpack Stuship Scholarship, as it is now dent Initiative, and with talks with called, will be awarded to one [CSLEPS director] Mike Giancola or more students annually based and some of the former officers who on not only financial need, but started the scholarship, we began also commitment to a student to move forward on renaming it to honor Dr. Stafford,” Buddy Bryson, organization. The Wolfpack Student Ini- 2011-2012 student body treasurer, tiative was established in 2001 said. While Student Government offiby former Student Body President Harold Pettigrew, and was cers planned the renaming and reoriginally given out to those who focusing, they kept it a secret from Stafford, planning demonstrated a su r pr ise a nfinancial need. nouncement. A long w it h Accord i ng to the renaming Giancola, the ancame the refonouncement was cusing toward first planned for those involved h i s re t i rement in campus orcelebration, but ganizations, got bumped up for hoping to hontimeliness. or Staf ford ’s Lindsay Skully, “students first” Chandler Thompson, 2011-2012 2011-2012 Interphilosophy. student body president Residence Council Stafford has president, agreed ser ved the student body for 41 years and to allow Student Government offiplans to retire at the end of the cials to interrupt an IRC Memorial Bell Tower tour to surprise Stafford, semester. “The Stafford endowment who has been conducting such tours came about shortly after the for years. “We wanted to surprise Dr. Stafannouncement that Dr. Stafford would be retiring. I spoke with ford with the announcement and my adviser on what options we telling him on a Bell Tower tour had about honor Dr. Stafford and with student leaders was a prefect his 41 years of work for students fit,” Chandler Thompson, 2011and N.C. State. Upon research, 2012 student body president, said.
“...we were able to tie a couple of his passions together—the Bell Tower, students and N.C. State.”
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Tom Stafford, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, reacts to the surprise announcement of the renaming of the Wolfpack Student Initiative. Student Government officers held up signs announcing the change of the name of the scholarship before the start of a Memorial Bell Tower tour, Wednesday, March 8. The scholarship was renamed the Stafford Student Leadership Scholarship, awarded to students with financial need who are involved in a campus organization.
“He is essentially ‘the keeper of the keys’ for the Bell Tower and we were able to tie a couple of his passions together—the Bell Tower, students and N.C. State.” Wednesday, March 8, students and staff gathered in front of Holladay Hall for what seemed to be a typical Bell Tower tour. While posing for the group photo, Bryson, Thompson and Ethan Harrelson, 2011-2012 student senate president, held up signs reading “Surprise! Stafford Student Leadership Scholarship.” “[The renaming] means a lot to me personally because I admire the dedication Dr. Stafford has shown to this University. He dedicated his
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career to improving student life at N.C. State and had a lasting impact on the University and its students,” Thompson said. Bryson said Stafford is important to him because he is committed to supporting student organizations. “I think this means a lot to me personally because I have been in Student Government for three years now, and Dr. Stafford has been at every one of those meetings, most of the time to the very end—no matter how late,” Bryson said. “This just shows his continued dedication to the students of N.C. State, and I felt that we really did need to honor him in a way that reflects that.”