May 21, 2015

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NC Fracking permits temporarily halted

Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens has halted the approval of gas drilling operations in North Carolina until a higher court weighs in on the legality of the appointment of several boards that manage state resources and the environment. The decision will pause the Mining and Energy Commission from approving drilling units for fracking until the state Supreme Court decides a separate case dealing with how the state panels are formed. Before the judge’s order, no drilling units had been approved. Stephens issued a preliminary mandate that stops the commission from accepting or processing applications for drilling units. He also delayed proceedings in the lawsuit filed against the state’s Mining and Energy Commission. SOURCE: WRAL

Nonprofit developer announces plans for East Raleigh project

DHIC Inc., a nonprofit developer, plans to revamp more than 19 acres of housing east of downtown, removing years of private and public investment near the College Park neighborhood. On Thursday, the public can voice its opinion on the redevelopment project at the “community design” meeting holding a “community design” meeting for its Washington Terrace plans from 6–8 p.m. at the Tarboro Road Community Center. DHIC will show early models of the redevelopment plan at the meeting. The nonprofit bought the Washington Terrace apartment complex early in 2014 and plans to build affordable housing. DHIC would demolish and rebuild the community, increasing the number of housing units. The nonprofit intends to preserve at least the current number of “affordable” units and plans to build the units to accommodate a variety of income levels. SOURCE: The News & Observer

Avett Brothers to open for the Rolling Stones

The Avett Brother’s announced on Tuesday they will be performing at NC State’s CarterFinely Stadium as the opening act for the Rolling Stones on July 1. The Concord, North Carolina natives are among a number of big-name openers to perform with the Stones’ on their 2015 Zip Code tour. Tickets for the show are still available. The majority of the available seats are in the lower section of the stadium, where tickets cost about $250 each. SOURCE: The News & Observer

U.S. Military rescuers end operations after Nepal earthquake

More than 300 U.S. Marine, Army, Air Force and Navy personnel who were involved in rescue efforts in Nepal after major earthquakes struck the country ended their operations Wednesday, officials said. The April 25 and May 12 earthquakes in Nepal killed at least 8,622 people and damaged more than 756,000 houses and properties. The U.S. military personnel assisted in search and rescue efforts in urban areas and flew relief goods to mountain villages. SOURCE: WRAL

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Supporters walk to end pancreatic cancer Rachel Smith Senior Staff Writer

Hundreds of supporters and survivors of pancreatic cancer participated in the PurpleStride 5K on NC State’s Centennial Campus Saturday morning. The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network hosted the event, and PurpleStride Raleigh-Durham raised $208,298 in funds to help provide personalized support for patients and support research grants and advocacy efforts to increase federal pancreatic cancer research funding. “I am here to continue waging hope for her,” said Lisa Allen of Greensboro as she pointed to a picture of her mother. “I lost my momma to pancreatic cancer seven years ago, and I knew that coming here and running in honor of her would be a good way to celebrate a

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Participants of Sunday’s PurpleStride 5K hold up sashes with the campaigns slogan, “Wage Hope, Fight It, End It.” Pancreatic cancer is currently the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.

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Artsplosure, the annual Raleigh arts festival, expected more than 80,000 people downtown during the 36th anniversary. Artists showcased their work and wares during the three-day festival May 15–17.

makes stops at the JC Raulston Arboretum, Brickhaven Drive, the Westgrove Towers apartment complex and the Westgrove Park-and-Ride parking lot, located just north of the Blue Ridge Road and Western Boulevard intersection. Paylor said that Route 2, the Hillsborough Shuttle, will adopt the stops at the arboretum and Brickhaven

On April 25, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck Nepal killing more than 8,000 and injuring more than 17,000. As a response to help the volunteer efforts of organizations such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, Oxfam and the International Medical Corps, The Nepalese Students’ Association at NC State set up a stand for two days, on Wednesday, April 29 and Friday, May 1, to raise awareness about the incident and encourage support. Wednesday’s fundraiser was held in front of D.H. Hill library and Hunt library. The association did not collect cash money that day but offered students the opportunity to donate to organizations online. “We had our laptops and iPads out with the links to the donation sites so that people could login and donate money to one of the organizations,” said Birendra K.C., president of the Nepalese Students’ Association and a graduate student studying parks, recreation and tourism management. “We wanted to have the fundraiser transparent because if it were cash money, we would have to give it to the organization, so we just had them look at all the links to support the effort.” The next day’s fundraiser was in the gateway in front of Engineering Building II. In addition to providing computers to donate through links, the association also collected cash that day. “Due to the weather, most of the

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Artist festival showcases skill Ian Grice Senior Staff Writer

Artsplosure, Raleigh’s arts festival, hosted hundreds of regional artists who worked alongside national artists to expose the public to an explosion of artwork that they normally wouldn’t see. More than 80,000 people were predicted to attend the arts event for its 36th anniversary. The event covered several blocks downtown with an art market, Kidsplosure, food track and live music stages. The art market had more than 180 visual arts and crafts exhibitors, with artists from across North Carolina and the United States. Stalls of artists sold everything from paintings to craft brooms.

Kidsplosure centered in Moore Square and showcased multiple interactive educational activities and entertainment for children and their parents. Some of the activities and entertainment included a chess center, a piano and a giant sand sculpture of a birdhouse castle. Specially commissioned, largescale, interactive visual art installations were placed throughout the festival. Dan Nelson’s 58 portrait sculpture titled “Points of View” drew crowds. The artwork, originally created for Grand Rapids, Michigan, revealed “meta-images” from different viewpoints and was was surrounded by crowds throughout the festival. Nelson collected emails from onlookers who wanted a similar sculpture in Raleigh.

The Student Art Exhibition showcased two- and three-dimensional art-work of Wake County public and private middle and high school students. There was live music stages on Fayetteville Street where there were ongoing performances by national and regional jazz, blues, and alternative musical acts, the majority of whom had not played in Raleigh, and emerging local and regional performers. Unique variety performers were placed around the event included aerial-ists, a puppeteer guitarist, a windup doll street performer and others. As the festival winded down, aerialist equipment toppled onto an unidentified man in the audience and was taken away in an ambulance, ac-cording to The News & Observer.

Wolfline Route 4 terminated Rachel Smith Senior Staff Writer

Zeke Hartner Correspondent

Due to poor ridership, Wolfline’s Route 4 Westgrove, as well as the Westgrove Park-and-Ride parking lot closed May 8, at the end of last semester. Kim Paylor, transit manager, said

the primary goal of NC State’s transportation office is to be as effective with the students’ dollars as possible, and the Westgrove route was not meeting this goal. “It really hasn’t been a high-performing ridership route,” Paylor said. “We’d love to adhere to every student’s request, but we can’t. We have to go with ridership majority, and we have to do what’s best economically.” Currently, the Westgrove route

Hemp support advances in North Carolina Assistant News Editor

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late Mother’s Day.” Participants of the timed run and awareness walk wore purple as well as sashes with the cam-paign’s slogan, “Wage Hope, Fight It, End It,” in honor of those who have experienced pancreat-ic cancer. “We are here to wage hope, fight it and end it,” said Stefan Chase, honored speaker and WNCN anchor. “This is what all of this is about.” Allen, who wore purple from head-to-toe, said that while it’s wonderful to see such a flood of supporters, friends and family members of those who are currently fighting the disease, she wished more survivors could be in attendance. With a five-year relative survival rate of just 7 percent, pancreatic cancer is the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.

Nepal quake garners student support

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SPORTS

Raleigh, North Carolina

The Raleigh Hemp Society made a significant step in March when the Student Senate passed the Hemp Growth and Research Act. With this bill in hand, the RHS now has leverage that it can use to show NC State administrators that the students have recognized

the benefits of hemp. The bill asks that NC State begin the process of registering with the NC Department of Agriculture to join the 19 other states (reporting on exact numbers varies) that have legalized hemp production for research in pilot programs under Section 7606 of the 2014 Farm Bill. “[Researching hemp] is not something that NC State can do

on their own, it’s something that we would have to get approved by the Department of Agriculture first,” said Zack King, president of the North Carolina Association of Student Governments who sponsored the bill. Hemp can be used in a wide range of products from clothing and medicine to a more green alternative to concrete, but though it

is legal for individual states to produce hemp for academic research, any other use of hemp still falls under the same classification with marijuana, heroin, DMT, LSD and ecstasy as part of Schedule I of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act signed into law by President Richard Nixon which still determines

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