Technician
wednesday october
28 2009
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dining halls to consider takeout option University Affairs Committee reviews allowing food to be taken out of halls to reduce overcrowding
overcrowding. However, their dining halls are not open all day. They open specifically for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and their equivalency rates are lower than the University’s. Joanna Banegas “We, too, are facing the same situStaff Writer ation,” Gilmore said. “We have longThe University Affairs Commit- term plans to ease overcrowding with tee will meet today to discuss a car- new and better facilities, but we are ryout tray act that will reduce the also looking into solutions that can help students now. Takeout is a viable overcrowding in the dining halls. Jennifer Gilmore, communications option, and we are currently exploring director for Dining, said there have ways to institute a procedure that is been more requests for University well planned and sustainable.” Gilmore said takeout is a good idea Dining to develop a takeout program for customers as for the dining long as the same halls this year. meal that would The dramatic have been eaten increase of stuinside is taken dents on meal out. pla ns, which “For ma ny reached up to people, this is 8,100 students exactly what they this fall, could would do,” Gilmpossibly be why ore said. “But it students are reis also human questing takeout nature to want trays, she said. to maximize a “This drabenef it, which matic spike has can lead to variput pressure on Jennifer Gilmore, ous abuses of the our dining halls dining communications director takeout service to ac c om mo that create sigd ate st udent s adequately, particularly at peak meal nificant cost increases that must be time,” Gilmore said. “As such, it’s borne by all customers in the end.” Zach Leavitt, junior in mechanical been the first time we’ve actually had to consider offering takeout to ease engineering, said if the dining halls had takeout trays, it would reduce the pressure.” Gilmore said ECU instituted takeout 10 years ago because they hit CARRYOUT continued page 3 max capacity and needed to ease
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What do you think of having take out trays for the dining halls?
“Takeout is a viable option, and we are currently exploring ways to institute a procedure that is well planned and sustainable.”
“It would be cool to be able to eat outside or in my room, but I live off campus so it wouldn’t really affect me.” Michael Engheta sophomore, biological sciences
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Jacob Hubbard, a junior in business management, fills his small plate with a turkey burrito Monday in Fountain Dining Hall. Although he said he enjoys eating in Fountain, Hubbard was very enthusiastic about the possibility of having take-out trays in the dining halls and being able to enjoy his meal in his own room. “It would be really convenient. Sometimes I don’t have time to sit down and eat,” Hubbard said.
Ensemble entertains at Stewart
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Jason Poerschke, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, plays “Russian and Ludmilla” on his clarinet during a concert Tuesday. The wind ensemble played in Stewart Theatre to celebrate the fall season. “I really enjoy playing ‘Voodoo.’ I find it challenging but rewarding,” Poerschke said. The performance featured pieces by Daniel Bukvich, Malcolm Arnold, Mikhail Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Eric Whitacre.
James L. Oblinger is now a finalist for the post of president at New Mexico State University, according to a New Mexico State University press release. Oblinger was chancellor at N.C. State before resigning this summer in connection with a scandal James over the hiring and Oblinger pay of the former Former governor’s wife Mary Chancellor Easley — who was hired as “executive-in-residence” in 2005 and received an 88-percent salary increase, making her pay $170,000. Additionally, former Board of Trustees Chairman McQueen Campbell and former Provost Larry Nielsen resigned amid that controversy as well as controversy surrounding their obtain-
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy under questioning Caroline Barfield Staff Writer
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, the military term referring to the policy regarding gays and lesbians, may be on its way out of use, as President Barack Obama affirmed his pledge to move the armed forces toward allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military. The policy, signed in 1993 by former president Bill Clinton, was implemented as a compromise with legislature which opposed a repeal of the prior ban on gays in the military. This policy also applies to members of the University’s ROTC. Robert Rudd, a freshman in First Year College and staff sergeant, said military officials cannot ask if someone is homosexual, but if they find out otherwise, the person in question will be given a dishonorable discharge. “We can’t ask and you don’t have
Katelin Hollingsed freshman, biochemistry
Oblinger finalist for position as university president Staff Report
16-year-old policy is in motion to be banned
“I feel like I waste time eating at dining halls, it would be more convenient to be able to do takeout.”
Obama has offered no timetable or to tell us, but if we find out that you have a legal partnership with another specifics for acting on that promise. “We should not be punishing paa partner of the same sex then you will be discharged from all armed forces,” triotic Americans who have stepped forward to serve the country,” Obama Rudd said. He also said that when people find said. “We should be celebrating their out they are going to be deployed they willingness to step forward and show such courage, esare more likely to pecially when we admit or pretend are fighting two they are gay just wars.” to diverge being Mat t Wooddeployed. ward, member “People who of the gay, lesdon’t want to be bian, bisexua l deployed w i l l and transgender say they are gay,” communit y at Rudd said. the University, Controversy said that if people has risen around Matt Woodward, want to see the the level of prosophomore in sociology policy banned tection this polthey should not icy does, or does just demand it; they should help adnot, offer homosexuals. The policy, according to Rudd, is in- vocate their opinions so that change disputable since all cadets willingly can be possible. “If your senator doesn’t know what sign the policy knowing the conseyou want, how can they vote in favor quences.
“I don’t think anyone should have to hide their true self to represent, and fight for their country.”
ing political favors from the former governor Mike Easley. Oblinger was also questioned for the payout he negotiated with Nielsen after his resignation. Joining Oblinger on the list of finalists is Richard H. Herman who resigned from his post as chancellor of the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign over a scandal involving the university’s preferential admissions acceptance for “politicallyconnected” candidates. However, the New Mexico State University president search advisory committee chair, Del Archuleta, seemed to remain optimistic. “It is our belief that each finalist has a strong record of positive accomplishments and should advance to the next stage,” Archuleta said in a New Mexico State University press release. “Through the interview pro-
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What is ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’? Established under the premise of privacy, discretion and protection, the policy bans gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people from serving in the military and prevents military officials from asking interrogatory questions or pursuing investigations of soldiers suspected of being homosexuals, and any service member that openly reveals their homosexuality through words or actions is discharged from service. Source: Department of Defense Web site
of your proposed change,” Woodward said.
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