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NC Senate offers plan to reduce corporate income taxes
The North Carolina Senate introduced an economic development plan that would lower corporate income taxes to make North Carolina attractive to more businesses. The Berger plan, named after Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, would lower corporate income taxes from 5 percent down to 4 percent in 2016 and down to 3 percent in 2017. The plan would remove income taxes entirely for some large corporations. The bill would change the taxing system to a “single sales factor,” which means companies would only be subject to taxes on what they sell in the state. Companies will be exempt from the income tax if they don’t sell any of their products or services in North Carolina. SOURCE: WRAL
France considers ban on overly skinny models
France’s Parliament debated legislation Tuesday that would ban the use of anorexic models in the fashion industry. The legislation would require modeling agencies to have medical certificate verifying each model’s body mass index is at least 18. In addition, models would have to receive checkups regularly. Breaking the law would make agencies subject to fines of up to 75,000 euros, about $80,968, or potential prison time. Additionally, the legislation would ban websites found to be glorifying anorexia and other eating disorders. SOURCE: NPR
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Millionaire arrest shows possible link to missing NCSU student
The arrest of millionaire Robert Durst is raising questions about a potential link to Kristen Modafferi, an NC State student who disappeared in 1997. While taking summer classes at the University of California at Berkley, Modafferi disappeared and was never found. Police investigated a suspect in the case who dressed in drag, according to New York Daily News. Durst, the 71-year-old heir to a New York real estate empire, has admitted to dismembering his neighbor’s body and disposing of it in a waterway and is known to dress in drag. Durst’s lawyer denied any connection to the case. Durst remains in custody in New Orleans after being arrested over the weekend. SOURCE: ABC 11
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referral centers provide or refer for abortion, emergency contraception or prenatal care. The bill also asks that a disclaimer be added to the Student Health Center website that specifies all consultations, materials and referrals shall provide comprehensive, non-directive and medically accurate health care information, including the full-range of reproductive health care options available to the patient,
NC State’s Counseling Center has created a new coordinator position to aid students who have survived or been accused of acts of interpersonal violence. The position, which was filled by Melissa Babb in mid-December, was created to provide a direct contact within the department for information and material related to interpersonal violence, or IPV. “My primary responsibility is to be the person who can provide direct counseling and therapy to IPV survivors,” Babb said. “In addition to that, I also provide training to staff to make sure that everybody is on the same page with how we treat survivors and the accused.” Acts of IPV include stalking, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and sexual violence, according to Babb. Babb said this position will help establish consistency in how faculty, staff members and campus police address the safety of survivors. Monica Osburn, director of the Counseling Center, said that while this position is new, the services that are provided to students involved in incidents of IPV have always been available. “We have always had this service here at the center, we are just organizing and leading it differently,” Osburn said. “This position is about helping all of the information get to the Counseling Center and having one direct contact for IPV.”
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Student Senate President Cody Long, a sophomore studying history, leads Wednesday night’s Senate meeting. Long advised senators to do thorough research before drafting pieces of legislation and putting them up for a vote on the Senate floor.
Crisis pregnancy center bill heads back to committee Ian Grice Staff Writer
A bill in Student Government, which strongly recommended that the Student Health Center adopt a referral policy to ensure students who are pregnant receive comprehensive, non-directive and medically accurate healthcare information and counseling, was sent back to committee on Wednesday to be further
deliberated. The bill asked that all advertising within and materials distributed by the Health Center include a disclaimer that states whether the referral center has a licensed medical provider on staff. It would also require the NC State Women’s and Student Health Center to encourage women who are or may be pregnant to consult with a licensed provider and indicate whether
Professor offers new, interactive take on famous art depictions Carolyn Thompson Staff Writer
Using the interactive technology in Hunt Library’s game lab, Marc Russo, an assistant professor of Art + Design, presented his reimagination of the signs of the apocalypse and connected video art and Renaissance paintings Wednesday evening. Nearly 70 students visited Centennial Campus’ game lab at Hunt Library to listen to Russo discuss his computer-animated project in which he reimagined the famous artistic depiction of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse appear in the Book of Revelation and in most instances, the four riders are seen as symbolizing conquest, war, famine and death. Russo analyzed how the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have been artistically depicted countless times since they were introduced as a symbol in the first century. His personal interpretation of the Four Horseman was one of silence, decay, consumption and death. He said he wanted to use the old imagery of the horseman and bring them into the modern age through digital animation. The project featured four large panels of animations that were
interactive. When touched, the animation on that panel would go to another sequence. Russo started off the presentation with some background on the creation of the Four Horseman animations. The project took Russo 13 months to create and he went through the processes of storyboarding, modeling, texturing, animatics, Polish animation rendering and sound. “Ever y thing you see from those worlds had to be built from scratch,” Russo said. The inspiration behind his project first came from Marvel Comics. In a comic called “X-Factor,” the villain is named Apocalypse and has four horsemen. Another inspiration includes heavy metal, namely Metallica and “The Four Horsemen” song. Russo said he decided to take the labels for the four panels out so that the audience had more room to form their own story and interpretations about the animations. Students have had varied responses, with a common belief that the project looked disturbing but was thought provoking. “This pretty much blew me away. Just seeing this was so different from what you would think of as animation and with film, so it’s definitely a big inspiration for me to join the program, because I’m a grad student in the Art +
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Redshirt senior guard Ralston Turner shoots the ball during the second round game of the ACC Tournament against Pittsburgh at the Greensboro Coliseum March 11. The Wolfpack defeated the Panthers, 81-70.