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Suspected killer of 3 Chapel Hill students may face death penalty
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton used a personal email account while in office to send messages to department officials, which could be a breach in the Federal Records Act. The Federal Records Act ensures all business emails are archived as a public record but does not guarantee an archive for emails sent via personal accounts. Clinton’s use of her personal email account brings about questions about her ethics and transparency, further supporting the notion that her and her husband, Bill Clinton, play by their own rules. Clinton’s aides dispute that she did anything illegal or improper by using her personal email to conduct government work, citing she was not the first secretary of state to do so. SOURCE: AP
House of Representatives approves funding for Department of Homeland Security
The House passed a bill on Tuesday that would fund the Department of Homeland Security for the remainder of the fiscal year, a decision that enraged House Republicans. The last step for the legislation is the signature of President Barack Obama. The bill prevents the shutdown of the administration and laying off of thousands of workers. The legislation does nothing to address Obama’s executive orders on immigration, which is why Republicans opposed the bill. The debate over the bill has lasted more than a week, and Speaker of the House John Boehner told his members they had run out of options to pass a bill that would rein in on the immigration executive orders. SOURCE: CNN
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Prosecutors plan to seek the death sentence for Craig Stephen Hicks, the man accused of killing Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha, all former NC State students. If Hicks is convicted of first-degree murder, Durham County District Attorney Roger Echols filed the paperwork in court that said he plans to pursue the death sentence. The families of the victims said religious discrimination was the reason their children were killed, but police say the shootings were due to a long-standing parking dispute at the apartment complex. If Hicks is convicted, a hearing on Echols’ request for the death penalty is set for next month. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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Ticket. Cyrus and Harrison both expressed enthusiasm for the continuation of the campaign, though the the extension gives them an extra day. “I’m looking forward to it. We’re still in campaign mode,” Cyrus said. “A week with good weather would be plenty. Maybe a week beforehand to prepare for the campaign and set
Beginning fall of 2015, Africana studies and women and gender studies will no longer be available for undergraduate majors at NC State. Both courses of study will become a concentration under interdisciplinary studies. The reason for this change is to consolidate a few smaller programs into a single program. The merger of the two degrees into interdisciplinary studies prevents the two majors from having to take the time and energy to defend themselves to the Board of Governors for the risk of program closure due to small numbers, according to Dean of College of Humanities and Social Sciences Jeff Braden. The UNC Board of Governors requires all universities to review programs every two years. Programs with small numbers of students and/or graduates are identified and asked to take steps to ensure they will meet system-wide productivity and enrollment standards. “The university should provide appropriate funding [and] faculty lines so we can hire for the programs and [have] time to increase our numbers,” said Smith McKoy, program director of Africana Studies. The Africana Studies program has been around since 2006. There have been 44 graduates during the past eight years, but the program
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Student body presidential candidate Khari Cyrus shakes hands with student body presidential candidate Chris Becker after Cyrus and his running mate Nate Bridgers made it to the Runoff Thursday along with Gavin Harrison and his running mate Meredith Mason in Talley Student Union Tuesday evening.
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CYRUS-BRIDGERS AND HARRISON-MASON TICKETS BUMP BECKER-ELDER FROM PRESIDENTIAL HOPES Zeke Hartner Correspondent
Although the election announcements were announced Tuesday evening, the final presidential office positions will not be known until Thursday. 4,044 students voted in the election. Gavin Harrison and Meredith Mason received 1,493 votes, or 37.95
percent of the vote . Khari Cyrus and Nate Bridgers received 1,244 votes, or 31.62 percent. Neither candidates received the 40 percent of the vote needed to win. The two tickets will be in a runoff election for the Student Body President, having bested the ticket consisting of Chris Becker and Kelly Elder, which received 1197 votes, or 30.42 percent, falling 47 votes short of the Cyrus/Bridgers
Professors study mental health, homelessness Brenden Parsons Correspondent
About 25 percent of children without homes need mental health care, according to a study conducted by NC State psychology professors and Community Action Targeting Children who are Homeless (CATCH).
Mary Haskett, a professor of psychology, and Jenna Armstrong, a psychology graduate teaching assistant, led the research in the developmental status and social-emotional functioning of homeless children in infants to children up to six years old. The purpose of the study was to under-
stand the functioning of children’s social-emotional adjustment and their functioning in language, motor and cognitive skills. “I got involved in this area of research when I was working with a local community agency that seeks to support the mental health of children who are homeless,”
Haskett said. “The incredible need was apparent, and I felt my students and I had some expertise to offer.” Haskett said she feels there has not been much of an investment in the needs of homeless families and that the public does not know much about their needs because they are of-
ten invisible to the general public. “The aim of our current work is to draw attention to this invisible population of children experiencing homelessness right here in Raleigh,” Armstrong said. “I think this is the surprising part for many people. You do not have to leave country,
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Greek Village to foster more community Dierdre An Staff Writer
With Sigma Nu and Kappa Delta moved into their new Greek houses, the rest of the planning and construction for the new Greek Village is currently underway. The original Greek Village was built in the 1960s, and since then, some of the facilities have become antiquated. “There is only so much you can do with an old shell,” said Shelly Dobek, the director of Greek Life. “The systems are quite inefficient for heat and for water, and some of the rooms are set up as quads and triples, and students really prefer singles and doubles these days, so that will be a change. They were also built with a communal style bathroom, and a lot of what is being replaced is suite style.” Greek Village, which will contain 20 new houses and provide 800 new beds to campus, will allow each chapter to design its own facility and space to meet its own needs, according to Dobek. The chapters can customize their square footage and amount of beds in the house to a size that fits
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The Delta Gamma house, set to break ground on March 22 with a fall 2016 move-in date, is one of 20 different houses in Greek Village set for renovations. NC State has allocated $12 million toward the total construction, and each chapter is able to design its own layout and aesthetics.
their chapters and also control aesthetic choices such as furniture. The outside appearance of the Greek houses will also be different.
“From a finished standpoint, we have seen with the first two houses that have opened, Kappa Delta and Sigma Nu, have great finishes so they look like a private residence versus block, con-
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