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SCJ plans Sunshine Week Activities Sunshine Week is a week dedicated to “educating the public about the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy.” Sunshine Week, began in 2002 by the Society of American Newspaper editors raises awareness of the importance of citizen access to governmental records and proceedings The N.C. State chapter of the Society of Collegiate Journalists will be hosting a panel discussion about Wikileaks tonight at 7 p.m. in 343 Daniels. Panelists for the discussion will be: Joseph Caddell, a N.C. State adjunct professor in history, Ann Sides, retired Counsel General, Elizabeth Spainhour, an attorney, and Mike Tadych, an attorney. The discussion will be moderated by Robert Kochersberger, a N.C. State associate professor in English. On Tuesday night, SCJ will host a movie screening of “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” at 6:30 p.m. in Caldwell G110. Senior lecturer Tom Wallis will moderate the discussion after the movie screening. Source: N.C. State Society of Collegiate Journalists
Women’s Center looking for Great Human Race participants The N.C. State Women’s Center is taking part in a friendly competition with UNCChapel Hill to help raise money for the North Carolina Coalition against Sexual Assault through this year’s Great Human Race in Durham. The race is Saturday, March 26 at 8:30am near the Durham Bull’s Stadium. The Women’s Center is looking for organizations to participate in the Great Human Race as well as raise money. For more information on NCCASA and the race, to register to run, or to make a donation, please visit http://www. active.com/donate/ghr2011/nccasa. If you have any questions, contact Carolina Alzuru at carolinaa@ncsu.edu or 919-5152012. Source: N.C. State Women’s center
On-campus housing still available
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Future Chancellor’s Liaison Meetings
*Roundtable, Wednesday 3/16, 7-8:30pm, Talley 3118 *Chancellor’s Liaison, Wednesday 3/23, 3:30-5pm, Talley 3118 Roundtable, Wednesday 3/30, 7-8:30pm, Senate Chambers Chancellor’s Liaison, Wednesday, 4/20, 3:30-5pm, Talley Walnut Room *may change Source: Olivia Desormeaux, executive assistant to the Student Body President
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New Talley aims to become student hangout. Bryan Le Correspondent
After almost two years of controversy, the renovation plans for Talley are being finalized. The design team in charge of renovating Talley has presented the project before the Campus Design Review Panel and had the plan approved, meaning it is almost ready to be made public for student examination. However, the designs are not final, and the design team wants to hear student input as they continue developing plans. According to Lisa Johnson, the N.C. State associate architect of the project, and Sumayya JonesHumienny, the project manager, the building is for students. Johnson said in student interviews, the general sentiment towards the current Talley Student Center was “There’s nothing there for me, why would I go there?” Plans to make Talley more appealing to students include a wide variety of dining options that span multiple f loors, a large, sloped green space that will provide a view of a movie screen and a late-night hangout called the Beacon. By day, the Beacon will be a dining area and by night it could possibly turn into a dance floor, a karaoke bar or a concert venue for bands. Jones-Humienny and Johnson said updates, including plan details and design graphics, would be posted on the Talley renovation website. The renovation plans also aim to make traveling to and through Talley much easier. Not only are building accesses more plentiful, but a pedestrian bridge that crosses the train tracks to the fourth floor of Talley is planned as well. “The building is intended to transform the whole campus, essentially,” Turan Duda, the lead design principal of the project and design partner of Duda/Paine Ar-
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Turan Duda discusses the design elements on the proposed renovations on Talley Student Center on Feb. 28. Duda, the lead architect of the project, hopes to create a center that students will enjoy and utilize day and night, and create a home like he remembered while at N.C. State.
many offices and a bigger ballroom chitects, said. Duda is an N.C. State alumnus who for school events. According to Duda, was working on his bachelor’s degree when the building was first constructin environmental design in architec- ed, the campus only had 14,000 students, but now the ture when Talley was building must be constructed over a able to service more Reynolds Coliseum than 34,000. parking lot in 1972. However, the renAs a student, Duda ovations have not said he recalls struggone as smoothly as gling to carry his hoped. bicycle through the The Talley redetunnels and wondersign was a subject of ing why traveling controversy in 2009, around Talley had facing opposition to be so difficult. from students. They Now he is in charge Marycobb Randall, president of were vocal about of designing the new the University Student Center their dismay, feelstudent center, comBoard of Directors ing disenfranchised ing full circle to keep because of a mandaup with the campus’ tory fee added to their tuition to cover modern needs. The new building is planned to have the cost of the renovation. Upset at the $83 hike in student fees, twice as much floor space, twice as
“When the vote was going on we were in the middle of an even worse economic downturn.”
students organized on Facebook and protested at public events. Amanda Jones Hoyle of the Triangle Business Journal reported that although more than 60 percent of students voted against the Talley renovations, the final call by administrators was to go ahead with the project. Marycobb Randall, president of the University Student Center Board of Directors and a senior in business administration, said she believes the controversy came about because students did not know what to expect from a new Talley, and the proposal came about at an inconvenient financial time. “When the vote was going on we were in the middle of an even worse economic downturn,” Randall said. “But through the past year students have learned stuff about the project,
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Cafeteria trays won’t return Water conservation benefits outweigh the trays’ usefulness.
Source: N.C. State University Housing
Accounting students in the Poole College of Management are providing free income tax preparation assistance for N.C. State University students and employees and community residents. This service is available to those with an annual household income below $49,000. Assistance will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 19 and April 16 in the college’s computing lab at 411 Nelson Hall. These students are certified to prepare federal and North Carolina state income tax returns and can help participants determine if they are qualified for Earned Income Tax Credits.
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Plans for new Talley Student Center progressing
Space is still available to live on campus for fall and spring 2012. If you forgot to register for on-campus housing or wants to make a change, space is still available in the residence halls and Wolf Village Apartments. The Housing Application Renewal Process reopens March 14 through March 16, from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each day. Students may go online and complete the HARP through the Housing Self-Service page. Specific information on how to enroll in HARP is available at www.ncsu.edu/housing. Contact the Housing Office at (919)5152440 or by email at housing@ncsu.edu, with any questions.
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Students participating in the N.C. School of Science and Math recordbreaking food drive pose on bins of food they collected. The students, along with the help of N.C. State University, Wal-Mart and the Church of Latter Day Saints, collected 559,885 pounds of food.
University helps N.C. high school break world record Durham boarding school collects over half a million pounds of food in 24-hour period. Joshua Chappell Senior Staff Writer
The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics was founded in 1980 as the nation’s first public, residential high school. On March 5, the school made another historic achievement: setting the Guinness World Record for the largest food drive in one location in a 24-hour time period. The school collected 559,885 pounds of food to benefit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. According to Sue Anne Lewis,
project coordinator, the proceeds from this event alone will feed hundreds of people in the community during the next year. “According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American eats 1,996.3 pounds of food per year,” Lewis said. “We just fed 280 people for a year.” Lewis also said the school is waiting for official approval of the record from Guinness. She said she hopes they will be in the next book of world records. “[Guinness] explicitly states that breaking a record does not guarantee that you will be in the book,” Lewis said. The only high school in the multicampus UNC System and the most recent addition to the system, NC-
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NOAA.gov, as of April 9, 2008, North Carolina had a deficit of between one and three inches of rain. Trays in Fountain, Clark and Case Justin Rose Dining Halls were huge consumers of Staff Writer water and electricity, which was used For students who remember the to heat water. According to Gilmore, trays in the dining halls and miss the removal of the trays saves the University about 210,000 gallons of water them, they aren’t coming back. a month. Since the “Cutting out trays drought in spring seemed l i ke t he 2008, N.C. State smart thing to do, has been part of and given the benea national movefits we’ve seen we’re ment to reduce glad we decided to water usage. do it,” Gilmore said. University DinGilmore also said ing has helped removing the trays c ont r i bute to has u ndoubted ly the conservation saved a considerable effort by taking amount of food as away the trays in well, though a prethe dining halls, cise f igure hasn’t according to Jennifer Gilmore, Jennifer Gilmore, Marketing and been determined. Communications Manager of “When you’re goMarketing and University Dining ing through the line, Communications you can only get so Manager of Unimuch food without a tray,” Gilmore versity Dining. The drought was a result of said. The trays are still available during North Carolina receiving only between 50 and 75 percent of the rain it normally gets. According to Trays continued page 3
“Cutting out trays seemed like the smart thing to do, and given the benefits we’ve seen we’re glad we decided to do it.”
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