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Fubar ads a headache for students Alanna Howard Deputy News Editor
Students parking in West Campus lots should be wary of potential damages caused by flyers from downtown club Fubar. Phillip Christofferson, a junior in political science, was one such student who found his windshield littered with Fubar’s fliers, advertising their college night hours and drink specials. These fliers, often getting wet from the recent rainy weather, are very difficult to remove from car windshields once they are dried. “I thought it was against University policy to leave stuff on cars,” Christofferson said. “To be honest, it’s just obnoxious, and I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that.” Regardless, University policy doesn’t outright prohibit solicitation, and anyone can pick up a permit from the University to legally solicit, according to Larry Ellis, lieutenant in the public safety division of Campus Police. “Anyone who wants to solicit, or leave things on cars, et cetera, must first go through Talley and pick up a permit for solicitation,” Ellis said. According to Carey Kidd, owner of
Fubar and the Carey Kidd Entertainment Group, they no longer leave fliers on campus. “We stopped doing that several weeks ago,” Kidd said. When asked why, Kidd said it was because he and his company “weren’t allowed to do it.” But John Garrison, a junior in computer science, said he found some on his truck recently. “I’m not sure when they’re saying they stopped,” Garrison said, “But I found some on my windshield a couple weeks ago.” If students don’t find them soon after they’re left, the flier adheres to the glass and becomes hard to remove. For Garrison, the clean-up is going to take awhile. “The back peeled right off, leaving the color ad stuck,” Garrison said. “It’s hard to scrape and I’m going to have to take it and get it scrubbed off somewhere.” Christofferson said he thinks he found the one on his car soon after it was left. “I think I might have got it shortly after they put it out, because I got it off pretty easily, but I still see cars with the residue and it’s definitely going to be hard to get that off,” Christofferson said. “I know most of us that don’t have a problem getting it off will just toss it on the ground, which is bad because it creates trash. The solicitor
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Damage from an advertisement left on a car’s windshield in an RWzone parking lot. Damage like this is fairly common in parking lots near dormitories. Many advertisers, like the Fubar night club in Raleigh, print their advertisements on paper that leaves hard-to-remove residue if exposed to heat or rain.
is causing more work for University Facilities and they’re not getting business because we all think it’s obnoxious for them to do this.” According to Ellis, as long as there isn’t any damage done during clean up, there isn’t a way for students to take legal action towards the solicitor. “They can do a tort claim through Legal Affairs if there is intentional damage done, but that’s only if they
can prove there was intentional damage done,” Ellis said. “Then Legal Affairs would determine who would be responsible for the fine and the cost of removal of the problem.” According to Ellis, when Campus Police come across someone
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Freshmen friends Trinity Hampton and Emily Sinclair take off on the one mile nearly naked run outside D.H. Hill Thursday, March 31, 2011. Hampton, a biological sciences major, and Sinclair, an animal science major, stripped to their underwear to help raise clothes for charity. “The running wasn’t bad,” said Hampton after the run. “Standing around in the cold before was pretty bad though.”
New engineering courses to help U.S. military succeed Sagar Sane Staff Writer
Among other decisions made by the committee Wednesday, the University Courses and Curriculum Committee approved the addition of courses for the bachelor’s in engineering program in the Havelock area. According to David Parish, assistant dean of academic affairs for the Col-
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The College of Engineering will adopt new courses for their bachelor’s program in the Havelock area.
Recognizing the threat of climate change to current agricultural practices, the commemorative Nusbaum conference sought to create a dialogue by hosting speakers from around the country. The conference, hosted by James Moyer, department head of plant pathology, is supported by an endowment established by the late William N. Reynolds Distinguished Professor C.J. Nusbaum and his wife, Virginia. Michael Specter, an award-winning writer for the New Yorker was one of these speakers, and addressed whether it is possible to combat world hunger. “We can definitely do it; we have had this discussion since forever,
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The 2011 Nusbaum Conference focused on sustainable agriculture and scientific communication.
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Fliers stuck to West Campus cars deter students from visiting downtown club.
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lege of Engineering, reasons behind the latest course additions “Our College of Engineering offers a bachelor of science in engineering degree to residents in the Havelock area. This program basically fits perfectly for the marines stationed at Cherry Point Naval Air Station. We had proposed to have a new prefix MES, Mechanical Engineering Systems, for some of the new courses for this degree which will replace some of the existing courses offered as a part of the degree offered in Havelock area,” Parish said. “This new technical concentration for the BSE degree is an associate between mechanical and aerospace
engineering. The courses will be MES 300, 305, 401, 402, and 405.” John Ambrose, dean of the division of undergraduate academic programs, said these MES courses are developed for a specific purpose. “The MES courses are being developed to support an undergraduate degree that we maintain at Havelock as part of N.C. State’s efforts to serve the active duty military stationed in our state,” Ambrose said. Parish said addition of these courses will help the local students in the Havelock area in a number of ways.
Chancellor Randy Woodson is set to axe more administrative positions in response to looming, undetermined budget cuts. The Office of Extension, Engagement and Economic Development will lose five positions--two administrators and three support staff--under the chancellor’s realignment plan. Services the office provides won’t change, but they will be reassigned and reorganized, according to the office’s vice chancellor, James Zuiches. “My office is being closed,” said Zuiches, who recently announced his retirement. “But none of the programs themselves are being closed.” Zuiches said he did not know the exact monetary savings the closure of his office will produce. Zuiches said the chancellor will reassign the office’s economic development programs to Terri Lomax, vice chancellor for research and innovation. Programs for continuing education and the Shelton Leadership Center, however, will be reassigned to the provost’s office. Most of these programs provided by Zuiches’ office are already managed and lead by college deans, according to Zuiches. His office’s role thus far has been to serve as a central hub for the programs, along with leadership and coordination services. Through this cut, much of the office’s leadership capacity will be lost.
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$5.00 from the sale of each shirt to benefit “Origami Wishes” NC State’s campus-wide fundraising for the American Red Cross. T-shirts will be available this Friday for $10.00 each at NC State Bookstore.
“Every dean already has an associate dean responsible for extension in these programs,” Zuiches said. “So I don’t think there will be a lot of additional work on the deans.” However, Zuiches said the cut will increase the workloads of other University administrative divisions. “There will be some additional responsibility in the vice provost for research office, and there will be some additional responsibility in the provost’s office,” Zuiches said. According to the University’s website, the office has several divisions under its umbrella, and its unifying goal through those divisions is to “partner the resources of the University and communities to produce mutual benefits.” The office has had three main goals, according to Assistant Vice Chancellor Mike Davis. It has worked with students who are on scholarships, worked with work-study students and has run a yearly national leadership forum. Politicians, athletes and corporate executives have traditionally spoken at the forum, according to Davis. Davis did not say whether the forum would be cut. The Shelton Leadership Center, currently part of the extension office, awards high school seniors and N.C State students scholarships based on academic merit and community leadership. Alex Martin, a scholarship recipient and senior in business administration and international studies, said scholarships will continue to be provided. “The Shelton Leadership Center has a large endowment not dependent on state or federal funding,” Martin said. “There are a lot of corporate donors; they are very intent on keeping it alive.”
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