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Woodson’s salary highest in system IN BRIEF Conor Kennedy

Sushi 9 promises to reopen

Sushi 9, the Western Boulevard restaurant that caught fire Friday morning, posted to Instagram that the location plans to reopen. The building sustained severe damage, though no injuries were reported. “Even after all the heartache and headache, we will be back stronger than ever before! Thank you to all the loyal customers that stood by our side since the first day!” the post read. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. SOURCE: INSTAGRAM: SUSHININE

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The UNC Board of Governors approved salary raises ranging between 8 and 19 percent for Chancellor Randy Woodson and 11 other UNC System chancellors in November. Woodson’s 13.46 percent raise will bring his base pay up $70,000 to $590,000, making him the highest paid UNC System chancellor. On top of this, Woodson has the ability to receive a yearly stipend of up to $200,000 paid for by the N.C. State

University Foundation, a nonprofit foundation closely tied to NC State. Payment of the stipend will depend on a recommendation from the Executive Committee within the Board of Trustees. The recommendation will be based on the board’s satisfaction with Woodson’s performance as well as the welfare of the University’s endowment fund among other factors. This stipend will not be automatically paid out and can vary from year to year. According to W. Louis “Lou” Bissette Jr., acting chairman of the UNC

Board of Governors, the process of creating these administrative raises began sometime last April. The Personnel and Tenure Committee within the Board of Governors determined that some UNC System chancellors were operating below the national average salaries for their positions and recommended raises in order to retain the quality administrators. SAM FELDSTEIN/TECHNICIAN “It was done in order to keep us Chancellor Randy Woodson speaks to a crowd about the achievements competitive,” Bissette said. This competition among institu- of NC State during the 2014-2015

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French film festival to kick off month-long stay on NCSU campus

UNC documentary shows other side of scandal

Bradley Bethel, a former UNC learning specialist who quit his job to pursue a counter-narrative to the Wainstein report, debuted his film, “Unverified: The Untold Story Behind the UNC Scandal,” to a select audience Friday. The film has been presented as the “other side” of the scandal, which implicates more than a decade of UNC-Chapel Hill administrators and faculty as being involved in dishonest practices regarding the grades for student-athletes, namely the widespread use of “paper classes” which were intended to boost studentathletes’ GPAs by allowing them to pass without doing collegelevel work. The film features a candid interview with former UNC Chancellor James Moeser, who was in office at a time when the number of paper classes peaked, in which he says, “It was a corruption of our higher values. These were people who were trying to help other people — people who were mostly poor, mostly black, coming from very poor households — and trying to give them a leg up.” SOURCE: THE DAILY TAR HEEL

Powerball jackpot reaches $1.3 billion

The Powerball eclipsed the $1 billion mark after no one hit the winning numbers on Saturday, causing the jackpot to roll over again. The jackpot is now the largest ever worldwide, at an estimated $1.3 billion. The previous highest mark in the United States is $656 million in 2012. Twenty-eight tickets paid off at $1 million or more on Saturday, but none matched all five numbers plus the Powerball needed to collect the full total. The winning numbers were 19, 32, 34, 57 with a Powerball of 13. The estimated cash value of the next drawing is $806 million. There is a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning the grand prize. SOURCE: ABC NEWS

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year at his annual Fall Address in the Stewart Theatre of Talley Student Union Oct. 5.

Coleen Kinen-Ferguson Staff Writer

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Atrium replaces plastic bags with paper today Megan Ellisor Managing Editor

Plastic bags will no longer be available for students to use to carry out meals from the Atrium starting today. In their place, paper bags will be available, though students are encouraged to forgo single-use bags altogether. The removal of plastic bags is the result of more than two years of collaborative work between the NC State Stewards, a student organization, and

the University Sustainability Office. The Stewards’ Waste Reduction Committee has been taking steps toward making NC State a bag-free campus since the organization was founded in fall 2013, starting with the plastic bag recycling program. The paper bags are a temporary phase as the university continues to work toward removing single-use bags altogether. “We would like to move towards re-

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NC State is one of several university campuses chosen to host the Tournees French Film Festival this year, which will run from Thursday to Feb. 11 at Witherspoon Student Cinema and the Hunt Library auditorium. All film screenings are free and open to the public. The Global Training Initiative, Cultural Exchange Network, Union Activities Board Films Committee and NCSU Libraries are presenting the festival. “The films we’ve chosen are all really different because we thought that would appeal to the most people,” said Ilin

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TOURESS SCHEDULE

TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (PG13) 6:15 p.m. | Campus Cinema @ Witherspoon Student Center

January 14 LA FRENCH / THE CONNECTION (R) 6:15 p.m. | Campus Cinema @ Witherspoon Student Center

January 28 DIPLOMATIE / DIPLOMACY (NR) 6:15 p.m. | Campus Cinema @ Witherspoon Student Center

January 16 LE ROI ET L’OISEAU / THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD (NR) 2 p.m. | Hunt Library Auditorium

February 4 TIMBUKTU (PG-13) 6:15 p.m. | Campus Cinema @ Witherspoon Student Center

January 21 DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT /

February 11 BANDE DE FILLES / GIRLHOOD (NR) 6:15 p.m. | Campus Cinema @ Witherspoon Student Center

NC State Housekeeping wins silver award Staff Report

NC State University Housekeeping was named a Silver winner in the annual Green Cleaning Award for Schools and Universities, a national competition sponsored by American School & University Magazine, the Green Cleaning Network and the Healthy Schools Campaign, in December. The award recognizes education institutions for their “healthy and sustainable approaches to cleaning to protect health without harming

the environment,” which depends on the equipment choices and cleaning methods used, according to the American School & University website. “We are proud of the success of our green cleaning program, which we started in 2008,” said Randy Reed, deputy assistant director of University Housekeeping, in a press release from NC State. “We are cleaning the campus better and healthier than ever before, and this award recognizes the daily efforts of our hardworking staff to provide a clean,

healthy and safe environment for students, staff, faculty and visitors.” Some of the practices in place at NC State are: • adopting of an on-site generation technology which converts water, electricity and a small amount of salt into an effective cleaning solution, reducing the amount of packaged chemicals shipped to and stored on campus, according to the press release. • using dispensing stations that pre-measure chemicals in order to reduce water use and ensure accu-

rate dilution, which creates nontoxic, EPA-registered disinfectant used throughout campus • using cleaning products made of at least 45 percent recycled material as well as microfiber mopping systems that reduce water usage and clean more effectively than traditional mop-and-bucket systems • the university’s nearly 300 custodians receiving monthly training on green cleaning where they learn the latest techniques and become familiar with the newest products and supplies.

FEATURES Nazaare: NC State’s Bollywood fusion dance group See page 5.

Thousands arrested in ‘Booze It and Lose It’ campaign Staff Report

SPORTS Pack drops ACC home opener See page 8.

North Carolina’s “Booze It and Lose It” campaign resulted in 260 DWI arrests in Wake County and a total of 3,074 DWI charges statewide, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Of the total charges,

2,822 were alcohol-related. Wake County led the state in DWI arrests, followed by Guilford, Mecklenburg, Cumberland and Forsyth counties. “It is our goal to reach zero fatalities on our roads in North Carolina,” said Don Nail, director of the Governor’s Highway Safety

Program, in a press release. “I am thankful of the work North Carolina’s law enforcement officers did during the holidays keeping those traveling the state’s roadways safe, averaging 128 DWI arrests per day during the ‘Booze It & Lose It’ campaign.” Nearly 350 law enforcement

agencies participated in the campaign, with 10,914 checking stations and saturation patrols located across North Carolina. The campaign ran Dec. 11 to Jan. 3 and resulted in the issuance of 105,020 traffic and criminal citations in addition to the DWI charges.


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