TECHNICIAN
wednesday april
14 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Studio Collective opens design studios to viewers Students interested in the arts can see what the design students have been working on this past year Adam Hughes Staff Writer
The design school will open all usually locked studios to students and the public this Friday with Studio Collective, an event that will allow design students to showcase the past year’s work. Design Council co-Presidents Zack Davenport, a sophomore in graphic design, and Dan Cox, a senior in graphic design, said the event is a good opportunity for students interested in art, whether they are in the design school or not. “Studio Collective is an event where we open up all the doors, every studio on the design campus,” Cox said. “It’s an opportunity for design students to go see what other students are doing, and for the University to see what the design students are doing.” In addition, Davenport said there
are going to be more activities than Cox said. “We’re trying to make it more of a whole University-wide coljust looking at students’ work. “We’re having an afterparty at Ji- laboration.” Davenport said he felt opening barra, a bike decorating contest, and Studio Collective free food from to the University Cooper’s,” Davwould show other enport said. students what is Cox said that going on in the going into the school of design. studios is going “I know a lot of to be an intermy friends outesting experiside of the design ence for visischool have never tors. seen what we do,” “It’s going to Davenport said. be a laid back Justin Phillips, Justin Phillips, a environment. sophomore in art and design sophomore in art It’s not just and design, said going into the studios. It’s an art exhibition,” Cox that he was excited about displaying said. “You’re seeing design work, but his work during Studio Collective it’s kind of cool because it’s in the en- and getting rid of the mystery that surrounds the design school. vironment that it’s made.” “For my studio specifically, we’re Cox said Studio Collective has been an annual event within the design doing animation. We have a projecschool for decades, but over time stu- tor in our studio, so people will get to come in and see an actual show as dent interest has subsided. “This is the first time we’ve ever well as seeing all the storyboarding,” tried to make it this big of an event,” Philips said.
“Any exposure we can get is beneficial. We’re really an isolated campus from the rest of the school.”
Amanda Hagemann, a senior in the Anni Albers Scholars Program, said she was excited to show people her work in the textile design labs during the event. “I work in the fibers lab downstairs in the basement of Leazar. It’s really cool. I want to show people the nittygritty of making stuff,” Hagemann said. Phillips said Studio Collective is a way to bridge the gap between the design school and the other colleges by displaying students’ artwork. “Any exposure we can get is beneficial. We’re really an isolated campus from the rest of the school. It’ll give us more University-wide awareness of what we do,” Phillips said. Hagemann also said that Studio Collective is a great event that serves to get students informed about the design school. “We need to educate N.C. State about what we do and how we are important,” Hagemann said. “N.C. State is not just an engineering school, or a textile school, or an agricultureschool; it’s also a design school.”
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Student Senate President Stephen Kouba stands before the podium of the Student Senate Chambers, located in Witherspoon Student Center. Kouba won the Senate President position in a landslide vote last week and officially took over the role Tuesday.
Kouba assumes Senate presidency New Senate leadership plans focus on transparency, student accessibility, campus unity
now more than ever,” he said. “We have a new administration. The school is taking a new direction which has not been determined, and it will be students who shape the next decade Nick Tran of this administration.” News Editor According to Kouba, Randy Woodson, the new chancellor, seems reStephen Kouba officially assumed ally open to working with leadership the role of president of the 90th session groups to provide a better University of Student Senate Tuesday night, tak- for the students. “The chancellor is obviously an ining over the position previously held by Kelli Rogers. Kouba will preside telligent man, really personable and easy to talk to. over his first Senate I see him remeeting tonight, ally willing to which will begin listen,” Kouba at 7:30 p.m. said. “The new Kouba said he chancellor has a very good doesn’t know outlook for the yet about the coming year and l it t l e i s s u e s for what Senate hopes to accom- Jay Dawkins, senior in civil engineering around campus and we have a plish. great cha nce “I’m really excited about the year and it should be here to bring back and push issues really good,” he said. “We have a great that may have stalled.” group of students. They’re driven, foKouba said over the course of the cused, and all excited about the new year there were many smaller issues session of Senate.” which impacted individual groups of Kouba said there is a lot of oppor- students that were overshadowed by tunity for the new session of Senate huge gorilla issues like Talley. He said to branch out to do more to represent those issues are still important. students and allow students to dictate Issues that Senate plans to address the direction of the University. in the new session include transpor“I want to push Senate to reach out tation, dining options, improving
“Kouba’s eager to make some big things and he knows what it’ll take.”
orientation, and increasing communication between colleges and campuses. “One of the biggest issues facing us is campus unity. We’ve been farmed into individual colleges and think about our departments first,” Kouba said. “We are trying to create a better sense of campus unity. We have to instill a sense of community.” The plan to address this is to begin at the deans of colleges and make sure they let incoming students know they are part of a Wolfpack nation first and foremost. This begins at orientation, which Kouba said needs a lot of work. Reaching out to students and making the resources of Student Government more available is another goal Kouba has for his term as Senate president. “I will encourage committee chairs to have meetings where students are so they can see how we work and our processes,” he said. “Have them in a formal setting, but in a formal setting outside Witherspoon. We have to increase our effort to publicize meetings,
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Riding in the Brickyard
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rwann Domalain, a junior in biomedical engineering, pedals a stationary bike in the Brickyard Tuesday as part of “Ride TZ,” a movement to raise money for the Foundation for Tomorrow. Domalain was glad to participate in riding on the stationary bike with some of his friends. “I just heard about it from some friends of mine, and I bike anyways,” Domalain said. All of the donations from the event were used to support education in Tanzania.
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