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After much speculation, Louis Jordan, the man rescued from a disabled sailboat off the North Carolina coast, responded to critics of his story Monday. In his three-paragraph statement, Jordan explained that he avoided sunburn and blisters by staying in the vessel’s cabin and that he survived by rationing food and water. Jordan was spotted by a German-flagged container ship Thursday, 66 days after sailing out of a marina in South Carolina. The members of the Coast Guard who retrieved Jordan said they were surprised by his fit appearance and overall health. SOURCE: WRAL
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ests in music, but she was truly a beautiful person,” said Yazmin Connor, a junior studying mechanical engineering, president of NSBE and a resident advisor for the engineering village. “She truly impacted everyone who she interacted with.” Megan Branch, a senior studying nutrition science, recalled her last encounter with Spurlock on the bus. “She had a very contagious smile,” Branch said. “I saw her on the bus and she seemed tired like a
After 34 years at NC State and 15 years leading what is now the College of Sciences, Daniel Solomon is stepping down from his position as dean of the college, effective July 1. “It’s time to get out of the way and make room for the next person,” Solomon said. Solomon joined NC State as head of the Department of Statistics in 1981 and will be leaving the university after having served as the dean of the College of Sciences and a professor of statistics. More than 50 students from the College of Sciences gathered on Fox Field Monday to say goodbye to Solomon, celebrating his accomplishments at the university with an evening of food and games with the dean. “He’s small in stature, but he’s got a big personality and a huge heart for the university,” said Jessica Miller, a senior studying mathematics. Most of the students in attendance know the dean personally through clubs, organizations and classes. Before working at NC State, Solomon began his career as a faculty member at Cornell University. He was hired by NC State to head of the Statistics Department, holding the position until 1993 before graduating to the position of associate dean for academic affairs. In 2013, the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences absorbed the Department of Biological Sciences to form what is now known as the College
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Bojangles may become publically owned
Charlotte-based fast-food chain Bojangles’ announced Monday that it has filed paperwork to take the company public. The company applied with the Securities and Exchange Commission to trade on the NASDAQ Index under the ticker symbol “BOJA.” If approved, shares of common stock would allow people to buy an ownership stake in the chain, which includes 622 restaurants throughout the southeast. The price range and the amount of shares to be offered have not yet been determined. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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The Wake County Board of Commissioners approved a $240,000 budget increase for Wake County’s bus and rail planning process Monday. The expanded bill, which increased the budget from $230,000 to $470,000, will pay for morei meetings, more alternative scenarios and more publications about the expansion efforts. Under the advised plan, Wake County, Triangle Transit, the city of Raleigh and the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization will each pay about $52,000. The town of Cary and NC State will pay about $20,000 each, and the RaleighDurham International Airport and the Research Triangle Foundation will pay about $5,000 each. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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Students hold a moment of silence and cherish the memories of Olivia Spurlock at the candlelight vigil held on Harris Field Monday evening. Friends and aquaintances of Spurlock shared fond memories of her at the vigil and encouraged people to reach out to those in need. Spurlock was found dead Tuesday morning. She was a sophomore studying mechanical engineering and served as a resident advisor in Sullivan Hall.
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Happy, upbeat, fun-loving. A caring friend, a fearless dancer and an amateur hairdresser for her friends. In these ways, and many more, friends of the late Olivia Spurlock lovingly described her at a candlelight vigil held Monday night to remember the student’s life. More than 130 students, friends and faculty members attended the candlelight vigil at Harris Field to
commemorate Spurlock’s life after her death last week. Spurlock was a sophomore who studied mechanical engineering and was a resident advisor at Sullivan Hall. Outside of school, she volunteered at Raleigh Girls Club and was a member of the National Society of Black Engineers. Attendees at the vigil spoke about their memories of Spurlock and the impact she made. “I watched Olivia grow. We shared the same interests, whether it be in majors or different inter-
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A district judge ruled Monday that prosecutors will be allowed seek the death penalty in their case against Craig Stephen Hicks, the man charged with killing three students in their Chapel Hill apartment over what investigators are calling a parking dispute. Police charged Hicks, 46, with three counts of firstdegree murder after he turned himself in to police for shooting and killing one NC State student and two alumni on Feb. 10. The shooting has since sparked global debate about whether the three Muslim students were killed over an ongoing parking dispute or out of hatred of the students’ religion. The victims were Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, a first-year environmental architecture student at NC State; her sister Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, a December 2014 graduate; and Yusor’s husband, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, who was a May 2013 NC State graduate and second-year student at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. In a pretrial hearing Monday, which North Carolina requires of all capital punishment cases in North Carolina, Jim Dornfried, a Durham County assistant district attorney, declared that the prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Hicks and offered Judge Orlando Hudson several reasons why the prosecution feels it is justified, according to The News & Observer. Dornfried argued capital punishment is justified because Hicks committed the homicides in the act of another felony. The nature of the shootings also played a role in the prosecution’s decision, Dornfried said. On the day of the shooting, Dornfried said Hicks retrieved a gun from his home, went to the Barakat’s
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Fabien Cousteau, an ocean explorer and environmentalist and the grandson of the famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau explains the importance of exploring the Earth’s oceans, which make up such a vast proportion of Earth’s surface, in the Talley Ballroom Monday. Cousteau gave a lecture as part of the Harrelson Lecture series discussing his journey learning about the wonders of Earth’s oceans titled “Oasis in Space: The Great Ocean Adventure,” in which he encourages people to save themselves by saving their fellow living beings in the ocean.
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Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the famous ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau and a documentary filmmaker, visited Talley Ballroom Monday afternoon to talk to more than 200 students and guests about the history and future of marine exploration. “Marine exploration is important is because the ocean connects us all,” Cousteau said. Changes in the nature of the ocean would change the nature of how we interact with the world, Cousteau said, and studying
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the ocean allows people to monitor those changes and act accordingly. “So far we have explored less than 5 percent of the billions of cubic kilometers that make up the ocean,” Cousteau said. Misinformation surrounding marine animals contributes to the widespread destruction of marine ecosystems, which prompted Cousteau to make correcting some of those misconceptions one of his top priorities. “As it stands we have lost over 90 percent of certain species of fish such as sharks,” Cousteau said. Cousteau turned to documentary filmmaking to help solve the problem of how to
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