Technician - April 12, 2010

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Date For the Quake event a success N.C. State Park Scholars and College of Textiles partnered to host the Date For The Quake event Saturday Chelsey Francis Correspondent

As a part of the campus-wide Howl For Haiti relief program, Park Scholars and the College of Textiles partnered to host the Date For The Quake event Saturday in Talley Student Center Ballroom. Howl For Haiti is the campus-wide disaster relief effort started in January with the purpose of aiding Haitian earthquake victims. In a letter to the student body about Howl For Haiti, Student Body President Jim Ceresnak said, โ€œThis will be a collective effort of our entire campus community to raise funds for Stop Hunger Now, our traditional philanthropy partner that has been charged with providing immediate relief to earthquake victims.โ€ Date For the Quake included a fashion show, which was hosted by the College of Textiles; a date auction, hosted by the Park Scholars and live music. The music was provided by

Overall, Thornton and co-director three local bands, Carolina Roadkill, Sarah Linville, a junior in fashion and Arielle Bryant and Endeavour. Yesenia Perez Olmedo, a freshman textile management, were very pleased in First Year College who attended with the way the fashion show turned the fashion show, said โ€œThe fashion out. โ€œThe attendance for the Date For show was really good. I learned that N.C. State has a fashion major, which The Quake event was great,โ€ ThornI didnโ€™t know before going to the fash- ton said. โ€œWe were really happy that a lot of people attended the fashion ion show.โ€ Ashley Thornton, a junior in fash- show itself.โ€ Ceresnak, who served as the date ion and textile management and a auctioneer, said, co-director of โ€œ T he pa r t ic ithe fashion show, pants of the date said โ€œPlanning auction all had a and putting on great sense of hua fashion show mor, the people requires a lot of really seemed to people. Personlove the auction. a lly, I was in O vera l l, t his charge of chooswhole event was ing the order of great.โ€ the models, and Ashley Thornton, a junior in fashion Pattie Hofland, making sure the and textile management a junior in fashtiming was right ion and textile during the show.โ€ The designs at the fashion show management, and Rachel Conley, a ranged from everyday, ready-to-wear junior in fisheries and wildlife sciclothes and more artistic designs that ences, approached Cresenak about putting on this event. arenโ€™t for everyday wear. Cresenak said, โ€œThe big thank you Thornton said, โ€œThe designers were awesome to work with before for this event needs to go out to Rachel the show. On the day of the show, the Conley and Pattie Hofland and all the models were great and the timing was absolutely perfect.โ€ DATE continued page 3

โ€œOn the day of the show, the models were great and the timing was absolutely perfect.โ€

ROTC holds aviation training lab National Guard lends helicopters to give cadets hands on training experience Annie Albright News Editor

Army ROTC partnered with the N.C. National Guard last Friday to coordinate a hands on aviation lab for its cadets. Josh Berrian, cadet officer in charge of the aviation lab, said it gave the youngest cadets a chance to participate in a land and air simulation. โ€œOur cadre coordinated with the N.C. National Guard to get the two black hawks in for us to use,โ€ Berrian said. โ€œBasically what happened is we did a simulation of an air insertion. The MS-1 cadets were flown throughout the grounds of Dorthea Dix, where they were then presented with a movement-to-contact mission, where they faced other cadets acting as an enemy opposing force.โ€ Berrian said the cadets are grouped by year, MS-1 representing first year military science students, MS-2 representing second year and so on. The experience, he said, was mainly for the freshmen and sophomores. โ€œIt is really good hands on experience with equipment that they may be responsible for using when they graduate and get into what we call the big army, or the real army,โ€ Berrian said.

โ€œIt prepares them for future summer training, like when they go to IDAC between their junior and senior years because they will be doing a helicopter exertion into a simulated area of operations.โ€ Cadet Lieutenant, Sage Boyd, said the lab gave the opportunity for several new experiences. She said several students had never flown on a helicopter before. โ€œI remember when I first heard about it,โ€ Boyd said. โ€œI was really nervous about it because I thought it was going to be really rough in the helicopter but it was so much smoother than I thought, the landing was even smooth.โ€ Berrian said there was a lot that went into the planning. โ€œIt was kind of a tandem planning operation between myself and the bravo company cadre,โ€ Berrian said. โ€œSo we had to come up with a flight plan, different chopper lifts, and what not, to coordinate the movements between MS-1โ€™s and MS-2โ€™s.โ€ The second part of the training, he said, was a ground exercise. โ€œOnce the cadets were on the ground and they had dismounted the aircraft, I was responsible for briefing them in operations order, which essentially outlines the mission that they were about to complete,โ€ Berrian said. Planning for the lab, Berrian said,

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Revvinโ€™ up at the howlinโ€™ car and bike show

Kimberly Rochester/Technician

Greg Williams, a junior in engineering, Ray Herchenroder, an N.C. State alumnus, and Matthew Hux, a senior in mechanical engineering, watch Williamsโ€™ running engine Saturday at the Howlinโ€™ Car and Bike Show. โ€œItโ€™s a 1983 Datsun 280ZX. I drove home and picked up the car last night. I always love a car show,โ€ Williams said. This was the showโ€™s first year and was hosted by Pi Tau Sigma. โ€œN.C. State hasnโ€™t really had its own car show,โ€ Williams said.

AllCampus card to receive updates Freshmen will receive AllCampus cards with improved technology and multiple uses Chelsey Francis Correspondent

insidetechnician Students get involved in local government

N.C. General Assembly provides unique opportunities for students to get involved in government. See page 5.

State drops two of three to rival UNC

Pack suffers setback in Chapel Hill, dropping Sundayโ€™s game, 9-6. See page 10.

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A model shows off the final design of Sarah Moore, a senior in textile and apparel management, at the Date For the Quake event in Talley Ballroom Saturday. Moore had six designs featured in the fashion show portion of the event.

Incoming freshmen will be issued an updated AllCampus card that will minimize the number of cards students need to carry. Michael Smith, the AllCampus network office manager, said the new cards would increase f lexibility. โ€œThe new cards will have a magnetic strip, which will serve the same purpose as the strip on the current cards,โ€ Smith said. โ€œThis strip is used for the AllCampus account, Board Bucks and meal plans. There will also be another strip on the new cards, which will be used for the WolfCopy account.โ€ Smith said the cards would also change the way campus buildings

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are accessed. โ€œThe new cards will also have a piece of technology in them which will allow entrance into restricted areas,โ€ Smith said. โ€œThey will have the prox. card imbedded in them, which will make entrance as easy as swiping the AllCampus card.โ€ Yesenia Perez Olmedo, a freshman in First Year College, said she likes the new idea, but also has reservations. โ€œOverall, itโ€™s a good idea,โ€ she said. โ€œItโ€™s less to carry and less to worry about losing; but at the same time, if you lose that one card, youโ€™re pretty much screwed.โ€ Smith said the new card would also have additional space on it to allow for added technology. Each additional piece of technology added to the card, he said, will have to be approved by the AllCampus card committee. โ€œFor example, there could be a program added to the cards of all the students in a certain lab that need access to an expensive microscope, therefore, making access as easy as swiping the card,โ€ Smith said. An expiration date will also be in-

cluded on the new cards, Smith said. On the expiration date, he said, the AllCampus Card will stop working and a new one can be issued if it is determined the student has a continued need for the card. Deirdre Deane, sophomore in mathematics education and resident advisor, said the new card is especially good for freshmen students. โ€œThe new card is a good idea for the simple fact that it will keep everything together,โ€ Deane said. โ€œIt will be one less thing for freshmen to keep up with.โ€ Smith said it would not be necessary for current students to update their card, but that the fee for replacing new cards will be increased due to the added technology. This technology, he said, would also make the cards expensive, so the University is trying to minimize costs by not reissuing cards to all current students. โ€œThere is no need for everyone to have a new card. Your current card will work,โ€ Smith said.

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