Technician
monday march
1
2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Chancellor’s new home welcomes students, donors New house expected to host events, improve private fundraising for university Rachel Port Staff Writer
The Board of Trustees unanimously approved the construction of a $3.5 million house overlooking Lake Raleigh for Chancellor-elect Randy Woodson at its Feb. 18 meeting. The function of this house is to provide a venue for the chancellor to entertain donors, Marvin Malecha, dean of the College of Design, said. “It will be a residence for the chancellor, but a home for the University,” he said. According to Nevin Kessler, vice chancellor for University advancement, the funds for the house came from gifts and pledges made by private donors, mostly alumni. The majority of the required funding -- $3.2 million, thus far -- has already been raised.
The University is continuing to work with donors of “in-kind” materials like gravel and bricks to raise the rest, said Kessler. According to Kessler, the Board of Trustees recognized the need for a new house six years ago. The old house on Hillsborough, though a beautiful home, has inadequate parking and space for entertaining donors. “The chancellor is the University’s chief fundraiser,” Kessler said. “His home is a special place to be invited. Public spaces like Talley [Student Center] or the [Park] Alumni Center don’t have the same significance to a donor.” According to Malecha, the house is designed to be approachable. It isn’t one big massive house, but a series of smaller buildings linked together. The architecture, though modern, is influenced by local architectural traditions and by the people who built the
new home,” Ceresnak said. University. I hope students and faculty will have The house will accommodate large groups of people but can be manipu- many opportunities to visit, Malecha lated to feel intimate, Malecha said. said. Chanel Neal, a junior in chemistry, The house will also be energy efficient said as long as the with solar panhouse isn’t fundels, a geothermal ed by student heating and coolmoney, it would ing system and, be fine with her. possibly, a windBrittany Haws, mill. a freshman in From a finanbiomedical encial standpoint, gineering, said, students aren’t “If it helps get affected by the Marvin Malecha, dean of the donors to come construction of College of Design see campus, it’s the chancellor’s probably worth new house, Jim Ceresnak, student body president, it.” Everyone did not seem happy about said. “The chancellor has expressed a the new house, though. Brittany McKinney, a freshman in desire to engage with students, so I’m sure he will welcome students into his chemical engineering, said, “They
“It will be a residence for the chancellor, but a home for the University”
should have had more info about it for students.” “I don’t think he should build a new house just for fundraising,” Yormeri Silva, a freshman in psychology, said. According to Kessler, the Chancellor’s new house will improve the effectiveness of the University’s fundraising efforts. In the next fundraising campaign, NCSU is seeking to raise more than $1.5 billion, most of which will be used to increase the University’s endowment. Kessler said the endowment will make the University more competitive because endowed scholarships and faculty positions are the primary tool used to recruit faculty and students who may be courted by other institutions.
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Andrew Henson, a senior in political science, listens to Cal Cunningham, a Democratic candidate for Richard Burr’s U.S. Senate seat, during an on-campus event for Cunningham at Park Shops Saturday. The event, which had a small crowd of about 20 people in attendance, included a speech by Cunningham and a question and answer session.
U.S. Senate candidate speaks to students about education, health care Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Cal Cunningham, came to campus to speak to a small gathering of about 20 students Saturday at Park Shops Russell Witham Executive Editor
Marion Butler was born on May 20, 1863 in Sampson County. A short 32 years later, he was elected for his first, and only, term as North Carolina’s representative to the U.S. Senate. During the century since Barber held a seat in Washington D.C. as a member of the Populist Party, the state has yet to elect such a young statesman. In fact, most of North Carolina’s senators — including some of the region’s notable names, Joseph Broughton, Jesse Helms and Elizabeth Dole — have been rather elderly. The senators from the Old North State — old being the opportune word — have conformed more to the traditional image of age and experience than to youth, like the rising stars such as Scott Brown, a Republican from Massachusetts. Cal Cunningham, a Democratic candidate for the Senate seat held by Richard Burr, a Republican, conforms more to the latter model. The 36-yearold carries himself with the stature of age and experience but walks with a spring and vivaciousness rarely seen
in North Carolina politics. A six- quality of life. And, so, money spent time marathon runner with his wife, on education is an investment in our Elizabeth, Cunningham wields a com- future.” Specifically, Cunningham spoke to manding presence with his youthful brown hair parted to the side, soft the N.C. Constitution’s mandate — Article 9, Section 9 — which requires brown eyes and athletic physique. Despite his amateur appearance, higher education to be as free as pracCunningham is hardly new to poli- ticable. “There are campus tics. He got an early obligations, there are start as student body state obligations and president at UNCthere are federal opChapel Hill in 1995, portunities for us where he received his to work on these isbachelor’s with honsues,” he said. “I’m ors in political scithe only candidate ence and philosophy. of either party in Fifteen years, two this race that has graduate degrees, a laid out, in great tour in Iraq with the Cal Cunningham, U.S. Senate depth, what I think Army Reserves and a candidate it is Washington stint in the General ought to be doing to Assembly later, Cunsupplement and encourage the efforts ningham is aiming for Capitol Hill. A small group of about 20 people on campuses like State’s.” Cunningham said he was concerned heard him present his vision for health care reform, education, the wars in about students’ abilities to effectively Iraq and Afghanistan, Social Security pay for a college education and was and the lack of bipartisan cooperation worried about the real effect it is havin Washington midday Saturday at ing on the public service opportunities students can pursue. Park Shops. “The doors to [a] university … eduBefore the start of the event, he spoke about the importance of edu- cation need to be opened for everycation to the state economy and the body so that … those who grow up in the urban areas, small towns or even nation as a whole. “I’m a firm believer that education out in rural North Carolina know that is an investment, that it pays its dividends out over the lives of citizens,” he senate continued page 3 said. “It’s not just dollars and cents, it’s
“The doors to [a] university … education need to be opened for everybody.”
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Senior guard Nikita Gartrell hugs sophmore forward Bonae Holston following the team’s game againt Georgia Tech Sunday in Reynolds Coliseum. The game was the team’s last regular season game. The 54-46 victory secured the team fifth place in the conference heading into the ACC Tournament.
For more in-depth coverage of the women’s performance on Senior Night, see the story on page 8.
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Looking back at 123 years of University history See page 6.
Wolpack squeaks by Florida International, 4-3 See page 8.
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