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Students join in political rally Students traveled to Washington D.C. this Saturday for Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Staff Writer
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with a broad array of students,” DiSciullo said. Jennifer Rosen, the associate director of admissions with University of Richmond School of Law will also be attending the law school fair. “About half of every class at the University Of Richmond School Of Law is comprised of out-ofstate individuals and many who attended schools in North Carolina -- often N.C. State, UNC and Duke,” Rosen said. The University Of Richmond School Of Law often sends an important decision make in the ad-
University leaders are looking to revamp the college advising system, especially as more budget cuts loom on the horizon. John Ambrose, interim dean of Undergraduate Academic Programs, says that advising is a major issue that requires a more centralized approach. N.C. State is unique from peer institutions like Penn State and Cornell in that students are admitted to a program, rather than the University, Ambrose said. “At our peer institutions, students enter as freshmen and are admitted into specific programs later. Even in Chapel Hill, you go as a freshman,” he said. The problem becomes more pronounced when students transfer within the University. “Advising is a major problem because of intra-campus transfers. We need a more centralized approach for the students to get rid of the stigma that they are undecided,” Ambrose said. Explaining the current University set up, Ambrose said that the University has both professional as well as academic advisers to cater to the needs of the students. Academic advisers are faculty who double up as advisers, and are more aware of student opportunities from a graduation and employment perspective. Students who have decided on a major are assigned academic advisers who can help them towards their graduation. Professional advisers, on the other hand, advise students who wish to transfer or are in undesignated programs, such as the First Year College. Students who come in undecided and take professional advising help transfer less than students entering in academic programs. “Students that are admitted directly into a program often change their major two to three times before graduation. Students in First Year College, on the other hand, rarely change their major,” Ambrose said. “Even if they don’t have a permanent choice, they still know their options.” The College of Management and FYC are the only two colleges on campus that have professional advisers for their students. “We have seven advisers who are professionally trained in counseling students. They are only advisers, who are experienced in advising before they are hired, and not faculty,” Erin Dixon, director of undergraduate programs for the college of management, said. “We’ve one of the highest retention-in-graduation rates among all colleges, so I think this is proof that having a professional advising system is beneficial,” she added. Despite the college’s success, the student-to-adviser ratio remains at roughly five times the norm of 80100 students per adviser, as laid out by the National Association of Academic Advisors. Student leaders worry that advising issues will worsen as the University faces budget cuts. Taylor Hiott, academics commission chair in Student Government, said advising is a prominent issue that comes up year after year. “With budget cuts, advising is one of the first things that get affected,” Hiott said. “We will try and prevent advising from getting cut. We’re going to put full force on it.”
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Citizens hold signs on the National Mall in Washington D.C., for the Rally to Restore Sanity. Many people brought signs addressing their own agenda’s to the Rally.
“I was expecting it to be mostly young people,” Galloway said. “The crowd was pretty evenly distributed between really young people, people our age, and all the way up to senior citizens. Most of them in funny costumes or with slogans painted on signs,” Galloway said. Countless signs, from serious to comical, displayed slogans like “fear everything” and “I like my tea party
with sugar, not hate.” “All of the signs were relatively humorous, clever or oftentimes both. None were especially politically motivated or malicious; mostly just sane,” Galloway said. Stewart and Colbert, along with some accomplices, performed comedy skits for the crowd. “Stephen Colbert stayed in character the whole time, which was expected.
He and Stewart both had a lot of witty banter, ranging from jokes about Facebook to the mass media,” Galloway said. Most of the rally was about entertainment and having fun. Ozzy Ozbourne, Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock performed. One of the more ridiculous skits involved a giant
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Throwing back a bottle of Landshark, Ian Staten, a senior in biological sciences, sits in Katmandu with a group of his friends during the Haunted Hillsborough Hike Saturday. Staten also went to Sylvia’s Pizza and enjoyed a house party after the hike.
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Law schools coming to campus Tuesday Deputy News Editor
Students interested in applying to law school are invited to attend the University’s 9th annual inter-institutional law school fair on Tuesday in Talley Student Center. The event is being organized by CHASS and will take place in the Talley Student Center Ballroom. There will be information sessions about writing personal statements and financing law school. Information ses-
sions will start at 10 a.m. and the fair itself begins at 12:30 p.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. According to Mary Tetro, coordinator of pre-law services, the fair is important to prospective law school students and typically brings students from each of N.C. State’s 10 undergraduate colleges. “Our event brings people from every college on campus and the surrounding RDU area. Since the attendance of law schools at local fairs has dropped in the past few years, we are always putting N.C. State in a better light when we have a larger number of students at our event,” Tetro said. There are 90 different schools from across the United States that are at-
tending the law school fair this year. “The event at N.C. State set the benchmark for the state from its inception as an open and welcoming event,” Tetro said. “What this means is we have always invited all those interested in applying to law school from the University, the surrounding schools and the RDU area as well as further.” Issa DiSciullo, assistant dean of admissions at Drexel Law will be attending the law school fair on Tuesday. She said she has enjoyed the law school fair in the past. “I have always enjoyed my visit to the N.C. State law fair because it allows me to share information about the law school search and application
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When James Galloway planned to attend the rally, he expected to be among his peers. But when the sophomore in environmental technology arrived Saturday to an estimated crowd of 200,000 people, he was surprised at what he found. “I wanted to be a part of something that was about sanity and goodwill as opposed to anger,” Galloway said. The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, held by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, began at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The event started at noon Saturday, but hundreds of people camped out all night in hopes of getting a spot near the stage. Once it reached noon, the crowd enjoyed a live performance from the Roots. The hosts from Mythbusters, a popular show on Discovery Channel, came out to speak with the crowd after the Roots ended their set. They cracked jokes about various things, including the science involved in such a large crowd and the hosts of the rally itself. The duo also managed to start a massive wave throughout the crowd. “The crowd was extraordinary. I had never seen so many people in my life. The streets weren’t officially closed, but it may as well have been because there were people lined up from sidewalk to sidewalk,” Galloway said. Every race, age and ethnicity seemed to be represented throughout the mass of people, Galloway said.
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